From wtinker@metrocast.net Tue Mar 1 00:57:37 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:57:37 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] [cathycrowenews] March Newsletter Message-ID: <005f01c51df9$a9ac22e0$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_005C_01C51DCF.C0C09710 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cathy Crowe January 2005 NewsletterIf you have any questions about the = list or any feedback for the newsletter send an email to: = crowenews@sherbourne.on.ca .=20 Cathy Crowe Newsletter No. 9, March 2005 I've been a street nurse in Toronto for 15 years. In the spring of = 2004 I received the Atkinson Economic Justice Award which permits me to = pursue, for up to three years, my passions for nursing and working on = homelessness and housing issues. In this newsletter I hope to report on = my activities, create a link to a broader group of individuals who care = about these social issues and encourage critical debate.=20 Further information about subscribing to the newsletter is found = below. I want to hear from you - about the newsletter, about things = that are happening in the homelessness sector (what a sad term!), and = about good things which will provide inspiration for all of us. *****************************************************=20 =20 FEDERAL BUDGET 2005:=20 "Zip - zero - reference to housing. Promise betrayed." This was the content of an email I received from housing advocate = Michael Shapcott at 4:23 pm on Feb. 23. At 4 pm Finance Minister Ralph = Goodale began reading the budget and the fiscal loss to one of Canada's = most needed social programs was known within minutes. I gasped when I = read Michael's message. No doubt there was a collective gasp from = housing advocates across the country. They had worked in concert and had = been relentless in their efforts to ensure that life saving housing = money would be included in this budget. The federal Liberal government's = election promise of $1.5 billion dollars for housing had been left out = of the budget.=20 After the shock - feelings of outrage, hurt, betrayal and worry. I = promised you good news in this newsletter and have none - except that I = was so enraged in the immediate days following the budget that I set = upon my oven and it received a vigorous cleaning. We must move from shock and outrage to mobilize and respond (i.e. = first mourn then organize) First the facts: The word "Housing" in the budget: Housing gets almost no mention in federal budget 2005 and it only = gets one slim reference in Finance Minister Ralph Goodale's budget = speech: "Accordingly, when our Municipal and Rural, Strategic and Border = infrastructure programs are due to expire in the normal course over the = next several years, it is our clear intention to renew and extend them = into the future. The same is true for our housing initiatives."=20 There is also a slight reference in the Aboriginal section:=20 "We will also make immediate investments in early learning, in = special education, in child and family services on reserves, and in = better housing, with a view to stimulating Aboriginal businesses and = jobs in the housing sector-all under more effective Aboriginal direction = and control." In the 400-plus page technical document that contains budgetary = details, there is also zip for housing and no reference to the Liberal = commitment to spend $1.5 billion over five years for new social housing. Making Good on Promises?=20 A theme in the federal budget 2005 is making good on promises: "Today, we build on what has gone before-and for those who will = come after-not by making promises, but by making good on promises. By = delivering on commitments." Housing advocates and homeless people have been betrayed. There = was good reason to believe we would see $1.5 billion over 5 years in = this budget. During the election, Paul Martin promised that his = government would provide $1.5 billion for social housing. (Note that = $1.5 billion over 5 years is a far cry from the 1% solution which would = equate to $2 billion per year.)=20 We were also hopeful due to what we believed were a number of = positive indications on the housing front. Prime Minister Martin's = appointment of Joe Fontana as Minister of Housing was generally seen as = a promising sign. He appeared knowledgeable and interested in housing. = While in opposition, in 1990, Martin and Fontana had written a = ground-breaking policy paper on housing. Another hopeful sign - the = federal homeless portfolio was collapsed into the new Minister's housing = portfolio. Minister Fontana made himself accessible to housing groups = across the country. Michael Shapcott and I had a very productive meeting = with the Minister in Ottawa , followed by a personal tour for the = Minister in Toronto where we showed him first hand examples of housing = projects that are paralyzed without a national program. Minister Fontana = ensured that the National Coalition on Housing and Homelessness was = formally on the agenda of last November's federal-provincial-territorial = (FPT) housing ministers meeting. Shortly after the FPT meeting the = Minister initiated what seemed to be a serious federal housing = consultation which looked at delivery methods and ways to integrate = services. In recent weeks, even more hopeful signs: a flurry of activity = in Ottawa which included Finance Minister Ralph Goodale summoning = Michael Shapcott to Ottawa and the inclusion of a number of national = housing advocates into the budget lockup.=20 Ironically, one year ago to budget day ( Feb. 23, 2004 ), Paul = Martin said in a press scrum in Montreal that his government was = committed to a new, five-year national social housing program. Here is = the exact transcript of those comments, provided by Martin's office: NEWS CONFERENCE EXCERPT: PAUL MARTIN, PRIME MINISTER=20 RE: SOCIAL HOUSING=20 QUESTION: On another subject, some of the people you met with = earlier today came out and told us that you'd mentioned to them that the = Liberal election platform would commit to a five-year plan for social = housing. I'm just wondering, is that, was that a correct assessment of = your, of your engagement and if so, are there any dollar figures = floating around in your head at this point? PAUL MARTIN (Prime Minister): The answer to both questions is = yes. QUESTION: And what would that dollar figure be sir? MARTIN: I think we'll wait for the platform. GERALD TREMBLAY (Mayor of Montreal): Okay, thank you very much. = Thank you very much. MARTIN: Can I, if that's the end. QUESTION: Can you just elaborate just a bit about the social = housing though? I mean, what, why? You talked in French about how you = were making a commitment in this regard. What, why are you concerned = about this when before, as finance minister, you cut social housing? MARTIN: No, I didn't actually. In fact, social housing was cut = before that. I, at one point, in fact wrote quite a report on social = housing. But, and we did increase the mon.(sic). The money going into = social housing has been increase over the last, over the last number, = number of years. But essentially it's, it's been done largely on an ad = hoc basis. But you know, and I think I'll say this in French and = English as we close if you don't mind. One of the important reasons for = this meeting is that our objectives are all the same. On the agenda = that the mayors had at our meeting, was social housing. And Canadians' = priorities are the same whether you're the federal government, = provincial government or, or municipal government. And the fact is = that, as the mayors have said, what we've got to do is work together to = solve these problems. You're going to have national objectives. You = can't have national objectives unless our cities and the provinces are = onside for those national objectives. So we're asked to accomplish what = we want to do. In terms of social housing, as an example, we have to = work together. And yes I did say that I believe that social housing, I = think, you know a society that can't nourish itself, that can't clothe = itself and that can't, and that can't house itself is a society that is = just simply dysfunctional. And we've got to work on that. And, and = that's what, that is a major goal for us as national government, as it = is, I believe, for both the provinces and the major cities. And that's = one of the reasons why this meeting was so important. So yes I did make = that commitment. (Translation) It's very important to recognize that if we are = going to have national objectives, such as social housing, then the only = way, as a national government, that we can attain those objectives is by = working in close partnership with the provinces and the cities and the = municipalities, small and large. And that was the purpose of our = meeting today and I think that we have made a great deal of progress. = And I would just like to thank my colleagues for their invitation. I = think it was a success. Thank you very much. (End Translation) "I think, you know a society that can't nourish itself, that can't = clothe itself and that can't, and that can't house itself is a society = that is just simply dysfunctional." Paul Martin, 2004=20 Well, we can't, can't, can't build social housing without a = program. a.. We can't promise the thousands of children (across the = country) living in overflow shelters in motels that they might soon have = a bedroom of their own without a program;=20 b.. We can't piece together the money to create a project like = the Edmund Yu Safe House in Toronto that would provide a safe haven for = people suffering from poor mental health without a program;=20 c.. We can't ensure that women, seniors, people living with = chronic disease will be able to move into new housing projects without a = program;=20 d.. We can't assure health and safety for anyone who is living = in congregate group settings like shelters. Not with the new and old = threats of tuberculosis, influenza, Norwalk virus and bedbugs, not = without a program;=20 Ontario being "played" but London , Ontario fights back! We're all familiar with the political finger-pointing when it = comes to blame, responsibility and who should pay. Each level of = government points to the other. Never has this been more evident than in = Ontario and the fight over housing dollars. Federal housing minister Joe Fontana, who is a Member of = Parliament from London, has made a series of promises about the date = when a federal-Ontario housing deal will be finalized. Ontario first = signed the federal-provincial Affordable Housing Framework Agreement in = 2001, promising to match federal housing dollars to build tens of = thousands of new homes in Ontario. Ontario signed a second, bilateral = housing deal in May of 2002, once again agreeing to match the federal = dollars. In the last provincial election, the Ontario Liberals promised = that - if elected - they would match the federal dollars and fund 20,000 = new affordable homes. To date, the federal government has promised $245 = million over five years for new affordable housing (2001), then topping = that up with an additional $100 million in 2003. That means that a = federal-Ontario housing deal - if it is finally realized - would mean = about $250 million in new federal dollars and $250 million in provincial = dollars over five years.=20 Despite the two signed agreements and many promises and = announcements, there has been no firm deal between the feds and Ontario. = Minister Fontana was appointed to cabinet in the summer of 2004. Since = November, he has been promising that there would be a federal-Ontario = deal signed within "60 to 90 days". He has made the "60 to 90 day" = promise at least three times.=20 Housing groups in London, Ontario, have started a 90-day countdown = to call the Minister on his repeated promise of a federal-Ontario deal. = The goal is to build the political pressure on the Minister to follow = through on his promise and get a deal signed. If no deal is possible = (and, after more than three years and two different governments, some = are despairing that Ontario will never honour its promises), then the = Minister should honour his pledge to bypass Ontario and provide housing = funding directly to municipalities and community-based housing groups. Minister Fontana calls.=20 Minister Fontana phoned Michael Shapcott, co-chair of the National = Housing and Homeless Network, only hours after the budget. The Minister = provided what I suppose is the official "spin" on the budget with = respect to housing: "the commitment is still strong", "one can make = additional spending in the course of the year" (implying that he didn't = necessarily have to wait until the next federal budget for new money), = that there is still $800 million in unspent housing dollars that can be = used, and that we will be consulted on the report from the federal = housing/homelessness consultation before it goes to Cabinet, and there = will likely be another meeting of the FPT in the Spring. To quote Michael Shapcott: "there is no such thing as a no money = miracle" when it comes to housing." So what to do? Action ideas.=20 I'd like to begin with a sentiment written by my daughter when she = was still in high school: "We should not be shy when demanding to be part of the = democratic process: it belongs to us as any politician or government = body: we have ourselves to blame for allowing politicians to do what = they have. Omission is submission is permission." - Idella Sturino I am encouraged that groups, such as a housing advocacy group in = South Etobicoke have already started to organize. They have initiated a = campaign to communicate their disappointment to their local MP and to = the Prime Minister. Here are a few suggestions for what you can do: 1. Let the politicians know what you think. Demand a national = housing programme. Money for social housing. Now. CLICK HERE to identify and reach your local MP.=20 You can also phone or email the Prime Minister. His email is = pm@pm.gc.ca or write or fax the Prime Minister's office at: Office of the Prime Minister 80 Wellington Street Ottawa K1A 0A2 Phone: 613-992-4211 Fax: 613-941-6900=20 2. Should your organization hold an emergency Board or Executive = meeting in order to pass a resolution or issue a communiqu=E9 describing = the impact this budget will have on your community's housing needs? 3. Are you part of a housing coalition that should spring into = action to develop a "war plan" to fight this budget decision? 4. Is your local media covering the absence of housing dollars and = what it will mean to your community? Can you contact them, can you write = letters to the editor, or opinion pieces? 5. "People taking to the streets" is important. Organize a housing = rally. Attend all future housing rallies, marches and forums. Donate to = the groups that do this work and support them. In closing, let me emphasize this last point. Major social change = has only happened when a mass of people became organized, became part of = a movement, and formed a popular movement demanding resources. Let's = make it so. Cathy With thanks to Michael Shapcott for background research. Subscribe to this newsletter I plan to publish this newsletter regularly. If you receive this = newsletter directly, then your address is already on our mailing list; = otherwise, to subscribe or unsubscribe, send a note to = crowenews@sherbourne.on.ca . For more information on my work including = this and other editions of my newsletter please visit my web page at = www.tdrc.net/cathycrowe.htm.=20 There is no charge for this newsletter. Please forward it to your = friends and others who you think may be interested in it. I value your = feedback and ideas. Please share them with me at ccrowe@sherbourne.on.ca = or c/o the Sherbourne Health Centre, 365 Bloor Street East, Suite 301, = Toronto, ON, M4W 3L4. Back to Top ^ =20 Photo: Cathy Crowe at the Federal-provincial-territorial meeting = in Gatineau with members of FRAPRU; Photo by Danielle Koyama =20 ------=_NextPart_000_005C_01C51DCF.C0C09710 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cathy Crowe January 2005 Newsletter
If you have any questions about the list = or any=20 feedback for the newsletter send an email to: crowenews@sherbourne.on.ca = .

 

Cathy Crowe Newsletter No. 9, March 2005

I've been a street nurse in Toronto for 15 = years. In the=20 spring of 2004 I received the Atkinson Economic Justice Award = which=20 permits me to pursue, for up to three years, my passions for = nursing and=20 working on homelessness and housing issues. In this newsletter I = hope to=20 report on my activities, create a link to a broader group of = individuals=20 who care about these social issues and encourage critical debate.=20

Further information about subscribing to the newsletter is = found=20 below.  I want to hear from you - about the newsletter, about = things=20 that are happening in the homelessness sector (what a sad term!), = and=20 about good things which will provide inspiration for all of = us.


***************************************************** =

FEDERAL BUDGET 2005: =

=93Zip =96 zero =96 = reference to housing.=20 Promise betrayed.=94

This was the content of an email = I received=20 from housing advocate Michael Shapcott at 4:23 pm on Feb. 23. At 4 = pm=20 Finance Minister Ralph Goodale began reading the budget and the = fiscal=20 loss to one of Canada=92s most needed social programs was known = within=20 minutes. I gasped when I read Michael=92s message. No doubt there = was a=20 collective gasp from housing advocates across the country. They = had worked=20 in concert and had been relentless in their efforts to ensure that = life=20 saving housing money would be included in this budget. The federal = Liberal=20 government=92s election promise of $1.5 billion dollars for = housing had been=20 left out of the budget.

After the shock =96 feelings of = outrage, hurt,=20 betrayal and worry. I promised you good news in this newsletter = and have=20 none =96 except that I was so enraged in the immediate days = following the=20 budget that I set upon my oven and it received a vigorous = cleaning.

We must move from shock and = outrage to=20 mobilize and respond (i.e. first mourn then organize) First the = facts:

The word =93Housing=94 = in the=20 budget:

Housing gets almost no mention = in federal=20 budget 2005 and it only gets one slim reference in Finance = Minister Ralph=20 Goodale=92s budget speech:

=93Accordingly, when our = Municipal and=20 Rural, Strategic and Border infrastructure programs are due to = expire in=20 the normal course over the next several years, it is our clear = intention=20 to renew and extend them into the future. The same is true for = our=20 housing initiatives.=94

There is also a slight reference = in the=20 Aboriginal section:

=93We will also make = immediate=20 investments in early learning, in special education, in child = and family=20 services on reserves, and in better housing, with a view to = stimulating=20 Aboriginal businesses and jobs in the housing sector=97all under = more=20 effective Aboriginal direction and = control.=94

In the 400-plus page technical = document that=20 contains budgetary details, there is also zip for housing and no = reference=20 to the Liberal commitment to spend $1.5 billion over five years = for new=20 social housing.

Making Good on Promises? =

A theme in the federal budget = 2005 is making=20 good on promises:

=93Today, we build on what = has gone=20 before=97and for those who will come after=97not by making = promises, but by=20 making good on promises. By delivering on=20 commitments.=94

Housing advocates and homeless = people have=20 been betrayed. There was good reason to believe we would see $1.5 = billion=20 over 5 years in this budget. During the election, Paul Martin = promised=20 that his government would provide $1.5 billion for social housing. = (Note=20 that $1.5 billion over 5 years is a far cry from the 1% solution = which=20 would equate to $2 billion per year.)

We were also hopeful due to what = we believed=20 were a number of positive indications on the housing front. Prime = Minister=20 Martin=92s appointment of Joe Fontana as Minister of Housing was = generally=20 seen as a promising sign. He appeared knowledgeable and interested = in=20 housing. While in opposition, in 1990, Martin and Fontana had = written a=20 ground-breaking policy paper on housing. Another hopeful sign - = the=20 federal homeless portfolio was collapsed into the new Minister=92s = housing=20 portfolio. Minister Fontana made himself accessible to housing = groups=20 across the country. Michael Shapcott and I had a very productive = meeting=20 with the Minister in Ottawa , followed by a personal tour for the = Minister=20 in Toronto where we showed him first hand examples of housing = projects=20 that are paralyzed without a national program. Minister Fontana = ensured=20 that the National Coalition on Housing and Homelessness was = formally on=20 the agenda of last November=92s federal-provincial-territorial = (FPT) housing=20 ministers meeting. Shortly after the FPT meeting the Minister = initiated=20 what seemed to be a serious federal housing consultation which = looked at=20 delivery methods and ways to integrate services. In recent weeks, = even=20 more hopeful signs: a flurry of activity in Ottawa which included = Finance=20 Minister Ralph Goodale summoning Michael Shapcott to Ottawa and = the=20 inclusion of a number of national housing advocates into the = budget=20 lockup.

Ironically, one year ago to = budget day (=20 Feb. 23, 2004 ), Paul Martin said in a press scrum in Montreal = that his=20 government was committed to a new, five-year national social = housing=20 program. Here is the exact transcript of those comments, provided = by=20 Martin=92s office:

 

NEWS CONFERENCE EXCERPT:  = PAUL=20 MARTIN, PRIME MINISTER

RE:  SOCIAL HOUSING

QUESTION: On = another=20 subject, some of the people you met with earlier today came out = and told=20 us that you=92d mentioned to them that the Liberal election = platform would=20 commit to a five-year plan for social housing.  I=92m just = wondering,=20 is that, was that a correct assessment of your, of your = engagement and=20 if so, are there any dollar figures floating around in your head = at this=20 point?

PAUL MARTIN (Prime=20 Minister): The answer to both questions is yes.

QUESTION: And = what would=20 that dollar figure be sir?

MARTIN: I = think we=92ll=20 wait for the platform.

GERALD TREMBLAY (Mayor = of=20 Montreal): Okay, thank you very much.  Thank you = very=20 much.

MARTIN: Can = I, if that=92s=20 the end=85

QUESTION: Can = you just=20 elaborate just a bit about the social housing though?  I = mean,=20 what, why?  You talked in French about how you were making = a=20 commitment in this regard.  What, why are you concerned = about this=20 when before, as finance minister, you cut social housing?

MARTIN: No, I = didn=92t=20 actually.  In fact, social housing was cut before = that.  I, at=20 one point, in fact wrote quite a report on social housing.  = But,=20 and we did increase the mon=85(sic).  The money going into = social=20 housing has been increase over the last, over the last number, = number of=20 years.  But essentially it=92s, it=92s been done largely on = an ad hoc=20 basis.  But you know, and I think I=92ll say this in French = and=20 English as we close if you don=92t mind.  One of the = important=20 reasons for this meeting is that our objectives are all the = same. =20 On the agenda that the mayors had at our meeting, was social=20 housing.  And Canadians=92 priorities are the same whether = you=92re the=20 federal government, provincial government or, or municipal=20 government.  And the fact is that, as the mayors have said, = what=20 we=92ve got to do is work together to solve these = problems.  You=92re=20 going to have national objectives. You can=92t have national = objectives=20 unless our cities and the provinces are onside for those = national=20 objectives.  So we=92re asked to accomplish what we want to = do. =20 In terms of social housing, as an example, we have to work=20 together.  And yes I did say that I believe that social = housing, I=20 think, you know a society that can=92t nourish itself, that = can=92t clothe=20 itself and that can=92t, and that can=92t house itself is a = society that is=20 just simply dysfunctional.  And we=92ve got to work on = that. =20 And, and that=92s what, that is a major goal for us as national=20 government, as it is, I believe, for both the provinces and the = major=20 cities.  And that=92s one of the reasons why this meeting = was so=20 important.  So yes I did make that commitment.

(Translation) It=92s = very important=20 to recognize that if we are going to have national objectives, = such as=20 social housing, then the only way, as a national government, = that we can=20 attain those objectives is by working in close partnership with = the=20 provinces and the cities and the municipalities, small and = large. =20 And that was the purpose of our meeting today and I think that = we have=20 made a great deal of progress.  And I would just like to = thank my=20 colleagues for their invitation.  I think it was a = success. =20 Thank you very much. (End Translation)

 

=93I think, you know a = society that=20 can=92t nourish itself, that can=92t clothe itself and that = can=92t, and that=20 can=92t house itself is a society that is just simply = dysfunctional.=94 Paul=20 Martin, 2004

Well, we can=92t, can=92t, = can=92t build social=20 housing without a program.

  • We can=92t promise the thousands of = children (across=20 the country) living in overflow shelters in motels that they = might soon=20 have a bedroom of their own without a program;
  • We can=92t piece together the money to = create a project=20 like the Edmund Yu Safe House in Toronto that would provide a = safe haven=20 for people suffering from poor mental health without a program; =
  • We can=92t ensure that women, seniors, = people living=20 with chronic disease will be able to move into new housing = projects=20 without a program;
  • We can=92t assure health and safety for = anyone who is=20 living in congregate group settings like shelters. Not with the = new and=20 old threats of tuberculosis, influenza, Norwalk virus and = bedbugs, not=20 without a program;

Ontario being = =93played=94 but=20 London , Ontario fights back!

We=92re all familiar with the = political=20 finger-pointing when it comes to blame, responsibility and who = should pay.=20 Each level of government points to the other. Never has this been = more=20 evident than in Ontario and the fight over housing dollars.

Federal housing minister Joe = Fontana, who is=20 a Member of Parliament from London, has made a series of promises = about=20 the date when a federal-Ontario housing deal will be finalized. = Ontario=20 first signed the federal-provincial Affordable Housing Framework = Agreement=20 in 2001, promising to match federal housing dollars to build tens = of=20 thousands of new homes in Ontario. Ontario signed a second, = bilateral=20 housing deal in May of 2002, once again agreeing to match the = federal=20 dollars. In the last provincial election, the Ontario Liberals = promised=20 that - if elected - they would match the federal dollars and fund = 20,000=20 new affordable homes. To date, the federal government has promised = $245=20 million over five years for new affordable housing (2001), then = topping=20 that up with an additional $100 million in 2003. That means that a = federal-Ontario housing deal - if it is finally realized - would = mean=20 about $250 million in new federal dollars and $250 million in = provincial=20 dollars over five years.

Despite the two signed agreements = and=20 many promises and announcements, there has been no firm deal = between the=20 feds and Ontario. Minister Fontana was appointed to cabinet in the = summer=20 of 2004. Since November, he has been promising that there would be = a=20 federal-Ontario deal signed within "60 to 90 days". He has made = the "60 to=20 90 day" promise at least three times.

Housing groups in = London,=20 Ontario, have started a 90-day countdown to call the Minister on = his=20 repeated promise of a federal-Ontario deal. The goal is to build = the=20 political pressure on the Minister to follow through on his = promise and=20 get a deal signed. If no deal is possible (and, after more than = three=20 years and two different governments, some are despairing that = Ontario will=20 never honour its promises), then the Minister should honour his = pledge to=20 bypass Ontario and provide housing funding directly to = municipalities and=20 community-based housing groups.

Minister Fontana calls.=20

Minister = Fontana phoned=20 Michael Shapcott, co-chair of the National Housing and Homeless = Network,=20 only hours after the budget. The Minister provided what I suppose = is the=20 official =93spin=94 on the budget with respect to housing: "the = commitment is=20 still strong", "one can make additional spending in the course of = the=20 year" (implying that he didn't necessarily have to wait until the = next=20 federal budget for new money), that there is still $800 million in = unspent=20 housing dollars that can be used, and that we will be consulted on = the=20 report from the federal housing/homelessness consultation before = it goes=20 to Cabinet, and there will likely be another meeting of the FPT in = the=20 Spring.

To quote Michael Shapcott: = =93there is no such=20 thing as a no money miracle" when it comes to housing.=94

So what to do? Action = ideas.=20

I=92d like to = begin with a=20 sentiment written by my daughter when she was still in high = school:

"We should not be shy when = demanding to be=20 part of the democratic process: it belongs to us as any = politician or=20 government body: we have ourselves to blame for allowing = politicians to=20 do what they have. Omission is submission is permission." - = Idella=20 Sturino

I am encouraged = that=20 groups, such as a housing advocacy group in South Etobicoke have = already=20 started to organize. They have initiated a campaign to communicate = their=20 disappointment to their local MP and to the Prime Minister. Here = are a few=20 suggestions for what you can do:

1. Let the politicians know what = you think.=20 Demand a national housing programme. Money for social housing. = Now.

CLICK HERE to identify and reach your local = MP.

You can also phone or email the = Prime=20 Minister. His email is pm@pm.gc.ca or write or fax the Prime = Minister=92s office=20 at:

Office of the Prime = Minister
80=20 Wellington Street
Ottawa
K1A 0A2

Phone: 613-992-4211
Fax: = 613-941-6900=20

2. Should your organization hold = an=20 emergency Board or Executive meeting in order to pass a resolution = or=20 issue a communiqu=E9 describing the impact this budget will have = on your=20 community=92s housing needs?

3. Are you part of a housing = coalition that=20 should spring into action to develop a =93war plan=94 to fight = this budget=20 decision?

4. Is your local media covering = the absence=20 of housing dollars and what it will mean to your community? Can = you=20 contact them, can you write letters to the editor, or opinion = pieces?

5. =93People taking to the = streets=94 is=20 important. Organize a housing rally. Attend all future housing = rallies,=20 marches and forums. Donate to the groups that do this work and = support=20 them.

In closing, let me emphasize = this last=20 point. Major social change has only happened when a mass of people = became=20 organized, became part of a movement, and formed a popular = movement=20 demanding resources. Let=92s make it so.

Cathy

With thanks to Michael = Shapcott for=20 background research.

 

Subscribe to this=20 newsletter

I plan to publish this = newsletter=20 regularly. If you receive this newsletter directly, then your = address is=20 already on our mailing list; otherwise, to subscribe or=20 unsubscribe, send a note to crowenews@sherbourne.on.ca = .=20 For more information on my work including this and other editions = of my=20 newsletter please visit my web page at www.tdrc.net/cathycrowe.htm.

There is no charge for this=20 newsletter.  Please forward it to your friends and others who = you=20 think may be interested in it. I value your feedback and ideas. = Please=20 share them with me at ccrowe@sherbourne.on.ca or = c/o=20 the Sherbourne Health Centre, 365 Bloor Street East, Suite 301, = Toronto,=20 ON, M4W 3L4.

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  =20 ------=_NextPart_000_005C_01C51DCF.C0C09710-- From owaynat@comcast.net Tue Mar 1 07:06:39 2005 From: owaynat@comcast.net (owaynat@comcast.net) Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 07:06:39 +0000 Subject: [Hpn] HELP FOR THE HOMELESS,THERE AND HERE Message-ID: <030120050706.9987.4224147E000F28810000270322007507449B0E02970E9901@comcast.net> --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_9987_1109660799_0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit -------------- Original message -------------- > http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050228/clm010_1.html > > Press Release Source: The Salvation Army > > > Help For The Homeless, There and Here! A Concert for Humanity To Benefit > Salvation Army Tsunami and Area Needy Families > > Monday February 28, 2005 > > PITTSBURGH, Feb. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Late last year, flood waters ravaged > both Western Pennsylvania and South East Asia. Although the disasters were > thousands of miles apart by distance and culture, the resulting needs are > very much the same. Families are homeless both there and here, causing The > Salvation Army to juggle a very delicate balancing act, funding and > supporting both crises. > Thanks to a contingent of Pittsburgh-area musicians and community leaders, > both Tsunami victims and area homeless families will reap the benefits of a > multi-cultural, interracial, inclusive event. Slated for Tuesday, March > 15th, at Al Dowe's on 9th in downtown Pittsburgh, "Help for the Homeless, > There and Here! A Concert for Humanity" is designed to bring all races, > cultures and music types together to celebrate the unique nature within all > of us, while helping others in need. The minimum entry donation of $25 per > person will be split evenly between tsunami relief and The Salvation Army's > downtown Pittsburgh Family Crisis Center and Shelter. Checks and credit > cards will be accepted at the door. > "We were delighted when two talented local entertainers and community > leaders approached The Salvation Army and offered their skills and support," > said Lt. Colonel Joseph DeMichael, The Salvation Army's Western Pennsylvania > Divisional Leader. "Tim Stevens and Luther Dejarunett were moved by the > suffering seen in the media, immediately following the South East Asia > tsunami. But, they were also wise enough to ask The Salvation Army what type > of assistance we actually needed." DeMichael explained, "Although it's not > always a dramatic news event, there is suffering and need right here in our > own back yard on a daily basis. The 'Concert for Humanity' illustrates the > dual need for supporting our brothers and sisters overseas, without > forgetting our own, here at home." > Many people are eagerly donating their time and talents to make this > eight-hour festival come to life. From 5:00 pm until 1:00 am, the following > entertainers will be on hand to provide everything from emcee duties to top- > shelf musical entertainment: Joe Grushecky; Johnny Angel and the Halos; > Jimmy Sapienza and Five Guys Named Moe; French Burrito and the Folk Pistols; > Kenny Blake; Steve Trettle; Dwayne Dolphin; The Old School Band featuring > Luther Dejarunett and Flora Wilson; Keith Stebler; Anthony Crunk; Hakim > Rasheed; Natalie Hogan; Ken Karsh; Al Dowe and Etta Cox; Tommy Parker; Nino > Storm; Tim Jenkins; Brian Wright; Mark Strickland; Delphine Russell; Tarella > Mimidis; Salvation Army officer, Captain Lillita Davis; Walk By Faith; Tim > Stevens; Sandy Staley; Billy Mancini; Shawnee Lake; and poets KL and Ashley > Cole. Emcee duties will be handled by: former Mayor Sophie Masloff; Anji and > Brother Matt of WAMO Radio; WPXI-TV Channel 11's Darieth Chisolm; WDUQ > Radio's Tony Mowod and Bob Studebaker; KDKA-TV Channel 2's Patrice King > Brown; and Chris Moore of WQED-TV Channel 13 and KDKA Radio. Mayor Tom > Murphy will offer words of welcome and support. > Hollowood Music of McKees Rocks is graciously underwriting a wide array of > musical instruments and amplifiers. Al Dowe is donating his club, Al Dowe's > on 9th to host the event. > Funding is also being provided by "The Black and White Reunion," founded by > Tim Stevens following the death of Johnny Gammage. "We are deeply humbled by > the outreach and interest on the part of these participants," said Lt. > Colonel DeMichael. "My wife, Gladys, and I are now in our final year of > Salvation Army service. We have been continually amazed at the level of > generosity and support given to The Salvation Army by the people of Western > Pennsylvania." > Both a church and a social service organization, The Salvation Army is > active in more than 109 countries worldwide. Founded in London England in > 1865, The Salvation Army is celebrating its 125th anniversary in the United > States. The 28-county Western Pennsylvania Division serves thousands of > needy families through a wide variety of diverse support programs. Their > downtown Pittsburgh Family Crisis Center and Shelter is unique to > Southwestern Pennsylvania in that it serves the entire family. Moms, dads > and children are kept together in an apartment-like setting that provides a > complete host of counseling, medical, dental and spiritual support services. > To learn more about The Salvation Army's Western Pennsylvania Division, log > on to www.salvationarmy-wpa.org . > > > > Copyright © 2005 Yahoo! Inc. 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> http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050228/clm010_1.html
>
> Press Release Source: The Salvation Army
>
>
> Help For The Homeless, There and Here! A Concert for Humanity To Benefit
> Salvation Army Tsunami and Area Needy Families
>
> Monday February 28, 2005
>
> PITTSBURGH, Feb. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Late last year, flood waters ravaged
> both Western Pennsylvania and South East Asia. Although the disasters were
> thousands of miles apart by distance and culture, the resulting needs are
> very much the same. Families are homeless both there and here, causing The
> Salvation Army to juggle a very delicate balancing act, funding and
> supporting both crises.
> Thanks to a contingent of Pittsburgh-area musicians and community leaders,
> both Tsunami victims and area homeless families will reap the benefits of a
> multi-cultural, interracial, inclusive event. Slated for Tuesday, March
> 15th, at Al Dowe's on 9th in downtown Pittsburgh, "Help for the Homeless,
> There and Here! A Concert for Humanity" is designed to bring all races,
> cultures and music types together to celebrate the unique nature within all
> of us, while helping others in need. The minimum entry donation of $25 per
> person will be split evenly between tsunami relief and The Salvation Army's
> downtown Pittsburgh Family Crisis Center and Shelter. Checks and credit
> cards will be accepted at the door.
> "We were delighted when two talented local entertainers and community
> leaders approached The Salvation Army and offered their skills and support,"
> said Lt. Colonel Joseph DeMichael, The Salvation Army's Western Pennsylvania
> Divisional Leader. "Tim Stevens and Luther Dejarunett were moved by the
> suffering seen in the media, immediately following the South East Asia
> tsunami. But, they were also wise enough to ask The Salvation Army what type
> of assistance we actually needed." DeMichael explained, "Although it's not
> always a dramatic news event, there is suffering and need right here in our
> own back yard on a daily basis. The 'Concert for Humanity' illustrates the
> dual need for supporting our brothers and sisters overseas, without
> forgetting our own, here at home."
> Many people are eagerly donating their time and talents to make this
> eight-hour festival come to life. From 5:00 pm until 1:00 am, the following
> entertainers will be on hand to provide everything from emcee duties to top-
> shelf musical entertainment: Joe Grushecky; Johnny Angel and the Halos;
> Jimmy Sapienza and Five Guys Named Moe; French Burrito and the Folk Pistols;
> Kenny Blake; Steve Trettle; Dwayne Dolphin; The Old School Band featuring
> Luther Dejarunett and Flora Wilson; Keith Stebler; Anthony Crunk; Hakim
> Rasheed; Natalie Hogan; Ken Karsh; Al Dowe and Etta Cox; Tommy Parker; Nino
> Storm; Tim Jenkins; Brian Wright; Mark Strickland; Delphine Russell; Tarella
> Mimidis; Salvation Army officer, Captain Lillita Davis; Walk By Faith; Tim
> Stevens; Sandy Staley; Billy Mancini; Shawnee Lake; and poets KL and Ashley
> Cole. Emcee duties will be handled by: former Mayor Sophie Masloff; Anji and
> Brother Matt of WAMO Radio; WPXI-TV Channel 11's Darieth Chisolm; WDUQ
> Radio's Tony Mowod and Bob Studebaker; KDKA-TV Channel 2's Patrice King
> Brown; and Chris Moore of WQED-TV Channel 13 and KDKA Radio. Mayor Tom
> Murphy will offer words of welcome and support.
> Hollowood Music of McKees Rocks is graciously underwriting a wide array of
> musical instruments and amplifiers. Al Dowe is donating his club, Al Dowe's
> on 9th to host the event.
> Funding is also being provided by "The Black and White Reunion," founded by
> Tim Stevens following the death of Johnny Gammage. "We are deeply humbled by
> the outreach and interest on the part of these participants," said Lt.
> Colonel DeMichael. "My wife, Gladys, and I are now in our final year of
> Salvation Army service. We have been continually amazed at the level of
> generosity and support given to The Salvation Army by the people of Western
> Pennsylvania."
> Both a church and a social service organization, The Salvation Army is
> active in more than 109 countries worldwide. Founded in London England in
> 1865, The Salvation Army is celebrating its 125th anniversary in the United
> States. The 28-county Western Pennsylvania Division serves thousands of
> needy families through a wide variety of diverse support programs. Their
> downtown Pittsburgh Family Crisis Center and Shelter is unique to
> Southwestern Pennsylvania in that it serves the entire family. Moms, dads
> and children are kept together in an apartment-like setting that provides a
> complete host of counseling, medical, dental and spiritual support services.
> To learn more about The Salvation Army's Western Pennsylvania Division, log
> on to www.salvationarmy-wpa.org .
>
>
>
> Copyright © 2005 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
>
--NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_9987_1109660799_0-- From wtinker@metrocast.net Tue Mar 1 09:27:33 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 04:27:33 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Jessica Lunsford Message-ID: <002001c51e40$e5fbc5b0$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001D_01C51E16.FD0DEFF0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message -----=20 From: MMysterywoman1@aol.com=20 Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 =20 Jessica's Dad was on TV tonight pleading for help finding his missing 9 = yr old daughter ~ He asked that you take her picture and please send it = to at least one person you know to help find his little girl=20 Mon Feb 28 2005 JESSICA LUNSFORD Homosassa, Florida Weather clears as search resumes for missing 9-year-old = girl--(sunsentinel)With the full-scale search for a missing 9-year-old = girl in its fifth and possible final day, volunteers who have scoured = acres of forest and marshland expressed mounting frustration Monday that = no clues have been found. Massive search continues for Homosassa girl -- (sunsentinel) "The = information is still the same," said Ronda Hemminger Evan, a spokeswoman = for the Citrus County Sheriff's Department. "The leads that are coming = in are not generating us in any one direction. We're not getting = anything that's going to move this case forward at this time." Anyone with information about Jessica's disappearance is asked to call = 352-726-1121.=20 ------=_NextPart_000_001D_01C51E16.FD0DEFF0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
----- Original Message -----=20
From: MMysterywoman1@aol.com
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 =20
Jessica's Dad = was on TV=20 tonight pleading for help finding his missing 9 yr old daughter ~ He = asked that=20 you take her picture and please send it to at least one person you know = to help=20 find his little girl
 
 
Mon Feb 28 = 2005



JESSICA=20 LUNSFORD
Homosassa, Florida
Weather clears as search resumes for missing 9-year-old=20 girl--(sunsentinel)With the full-scale = search for a=20 missing 9-year-old girl in its fifth and possible final day, volunteers = who have=20 scoured acres of forest and marshland expressed mounting frustration = Monday that=20 no clues have been found.
Massive search continues for Homosassa = girl -- (sunsentinel) "The information is still the same," = said Ronda=20 Hemminger Evan, a spokeswoman for the Citrus County Sheriff's = Department. "The=20 leads that are coming in are not generating us in any one direction. = We're not=20 getting anything that's going to move this case forward at this = time."
Anyone=20 with information about Jessica's disappearance is asked to call = 352-726-1121.=20
 
------=_NextPart_000_001D_01C51E16.FD0DEFF0-- From wtinker@metrocast.net Tue Mar 1 09:28:32 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 04:28:32 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Jessica Lunsford Message-ID: <003201c51e41$095155c0$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_002F_01C51E17.206F66E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message -----=20 From: MMysterywoman1@aol.com=20 Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 =20 Jessica's Dad was on TV tonight pleading for help finding his missing 9 = yr old daughter ~ He asked that you take her picture and please send it = to at least one person you know to help find his little girl=20 Mon Feb 28 2005 JESSICA LUNSFORD Homosassa, Florida Weather clears as search resumes for missing 9-year-old = girl--(sunsentinel)With the full-scale search for a missing 9-year-old = girl in its fifth and possible final day, volunteers who have scoured = acres of forest and marshland expressed mounting frustration Monday that = no clues have been found. Massive search continues for Homosassa girl -- (sunsentinel) "The = information is still the same," said Ronda Hemminger Evan, a spokeswoman = for the Citrus County Sheriff's Department. "The leads that are coming = in are not generating us in any one direction. We're not getting = anything that's going to move this case forward at this time." Anyone with information about Jessica's disappearance is asked to call = 352-726-1121.=20 ------=_NextPart_000_002F_01C51E17.206F66E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
----- Original Message -----=20
From: MMysterywoman1@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005
 

 =20
Jessica's Dad = was on TV=20 tonight pleading for help finding his missing 9 yr old daughter ~ He = asked that=20 you take her picture and please send it to at least one person you know = to help=20 find his little girl
 
 
Mon Feb 28 = 2005



JESSICA=20 LUNSFORD
Homosassa, Florida
Weather clears as search resumes for missing 9-year-old=20 girl--(sunsentinel)With the full-scale = search for a=20 missing 9-year-old girl in its fifth and possible final day, volunteers = who have=20 scoured acres of forest and marshland expressed mounting frustration = Monday that=20 no clues have been found.
Massive search continues for Homosassa = girl -- (sunsentinel) "The information is still the same," = said Ronda=20 Hemminger Evan, a spokeswoman for the Citrus County Sheriff's = Department. "The=20 leads that are coming in are not generating us in any one direction. = We're not=20 getting anything that's going to move this case forward at this = time."
Anyone=20 with information about Jessica's disappearance is asked to call = 352-726-1121.=20
 
------=_NextPart_000_002F_01C51E17.206F66E0-- From wtinker@metrocast.net Wed Mar 2 05:07:31 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 00:07:31 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] New Hampshire Counted Homeless In Schools, Shelters On Same Day Message-ID: <005201c51ee5$bd15be30$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> http://www.boston.com/ New Hampshire counted homeless in schools, shelters on same day By Katharine Webster, Associated Press Writer February 28, 2005 CONCORD, N.H. -- In one 24-hour period shortly after a major snowstorm, state officials and outreach workers did a census of homeless people living in shelters or with other families, those with no roof over their heads, and homeless schoolchildren. It was the first time separate counts by the departments of Education and Health and Human Services were performed simultaneously, from noon Jan. 25 to noon Jan. 26, said Linda Thistle Elliott, state coordinator for homeless education. New York City postponed its homeless census, scheduled for Monday night, as a snowstorm headed into the region. New Hampshire's count came two days after a weekend blizzard dumped up to 2 feet of snow on parts of the state, but Martha Young, program specialist with Health and Human Services' Office of Homeless, Housing and Transportation Services, said no one reported problems. "Our outreach workers are really used to going out in the bad weather" and, because it's a small state, they know most of the places homeless people congregate, Young said Monday. "I can see that in (New York) it would be a problem, because if you're an outreach worker trying to get people who are out on the street that day, they're not going to be there." Preliminary results for New Hampshire's school count found 976 pupils were known to be homeless, said Thistle Elliott. Every school administrative unit must have at least one homeless coordinator who keeps tabs on homeless pupils. Of the total, 640 were living in "doubled-up" situations, staying temporarily with family members or friends; 125 were in shelters; 96 were in hotels or motels; 14 were "unsheltered," usually meaning they were living in a car; and 62 were reported as living in "other" situations, possibly campgrounds or vacant buildings. The living circumstances of 35 were unknown. More than half the total -- 512 -- were in kindergarten through fifth grade, while 211 were in grades six through eight. About 219 high school students were reported as homeless, but homeless youths in that age group, whether in or out of school, are "very, very hard to identify," Thistle Elliott said. "Nationwide, we know this is underreported," she said. "Runaways or throwaways are likely to be very secretive about their living situation because they're without a guardian. ... They're likely to house-surf or live in their cars." Usually, homeless children in eighth grade or younger are with their parents, and if they are in shelters, contact between their parents and the school system is mandatory, she said. But the state does not have any shelters for high school age teens who are on their own, she said. Results haven't been tabulated yet for the survey by the Office of Homeless, Housing and Transportation Services, Young said. Final numbers are expected within the next few weeks. Last year, outreach workers, shelters and social service agencies counted 1,081 homeless people, including children, statewide on Feb. 19, she said. The numbers are hard to compare year to year, however, because the state keeps refining its survey, asking new questions and reaching out to more social service providers, interfaith organizations, shelters and soup kitchens, Young said. This year, for the first time, the state will break the count down into people who have some form of temporary shelter and those who are "unsheltered," she said. © 2005 The New York Times Company From wtinker@metrocast.net Sun Mar 6 01:56:39 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 20:56:39 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Venice Beach Lottery Message-ID: <003601c521ef$bcc69b40$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0033_01C521C5.D3CCDEA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Mayor Hahn; I am an immigrant from (once) Communist Hungary to Los Angeles. I moved = here in 1979. One of the joyous experiences I cherish is the atmosphere = of the Venice Beach Boradwalk where anyone used to be able to perform = and or vend withouth being bothered by the government. This nation was = established to preserve people's rights, including free trade. =20 While I lived in Commnunist Hungary, citizens of Hungary had to sell = western goods on the black market, these sales usually took place in = park settings. The vendor's lottery of Venice Beach reminds me of the = Communist Government's crackdown on black marketeers in Communist = Hungary. Venice has been a "free" community for a long time, let it live = according to its own traditions, and let people freely perform and vend = on the boardwalk. Lifetime registration seems absurd, what if on some spontaneous Sundays, = I, as a resident of Los Angeles wish to vend my artwork maybe four or = five times over a 10 year period. Why should I as a free citizen of the = USA have to register, pay, have my picture taken, and wear a badge. I prefer freedom! Please, say no to the Vendors'/Performers' Lottery; and forward this to = the City Council! Sincerely; Balazs Schreil, M.A. - Citizen of the "Land of the Free" as in Thomas = Jeffersons' "Land of the Free" ------=_NextPart_000_0033_01C521C5.D3CCDEA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 

Dear Mayor Hahn;
 
I am an immigrant from (once) Communist = Hungary to=20 Los Angeles.  I moved here in 1979.  One of the joyous = experiences I=20 cherish is the atmosphere of the Venice Beach Boradwalk where anyone = used to be=20 able to perform and or vend withouth being bothered by the = government. =20 This nation was established to preserve people's rights, including free=20 trade.  
 
While I lived in Commnunist Hungary, = citizens of=20 Hungary had to sell western goods on the black market, these sales = usually took=20 place in park settings.  The vendor's lottery of Venice Beach = reminds me of=20 the Communist Government's crackdown on black marketeers in Communist=20 Hungary.
 
Venice has been a "free" community for = a long time,=20 let it live according to its own traditions, and let people freely = perform and=20 vend on the boardwalk.
 
Lifetime registration seems absurd, = what if=20 on some spontaneous Sundays, I, as a resident of Los Angeles wish = to vend=20 my artwork maybe four or five times over a 10 year period.  Why = should I as=20 a free citizen of the USA have to register, pay, have my picture taken, = and wear=20 a badge.
 
I prefer freedom!
 
Please, say no to the = Vendors'/Performers' Lottery;=20 and forward this to the City Council!
 
Sincerely;
 
Balazs Schreil, M.A. - Citizen of the = "Land of the=20 Free" as in Thomas Jeffersons' "Land of the=20 Free"
------=_NextPart_000_0033_01C521C5.D3CCDEA0-- From wtinker@metrocast.net Sun Mar 6 01:57:09 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 20:57:09 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Venice Beach Lottery Message-ID: <004b01c521ef$ce8bb590$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0048_01C521C5.E59B6ED0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Mayor Hahn; I am an immigrant from (once) Communist Hungary to Los Angeles. I moved = here in 1979. One of the joyous experiences I cherish is the atmosphere = of the Venice Beach Boradwalk where anyone used to be able to perform = and or vend withouth being bothered by the government. This nation was = established to preserve people's rights, including free trade. =20 While I lived in Commnunist Hungary, citizens of Hungary had to sell = western goods on the black market, these sales usually took place in = park settings. The vendor's lottery of Venice Beach reminds me of the = Communist Government's crackdown on black marketeers in Communist = Hungary. Venice has been a "free" community for a long time, let it live = according to its own traditions, and let people freely perform and vend = on the boardwalk. Lifetime registration seems absurd, what if on some spontaneous Sundays, = I, as a resident of Los Angeles wish to vend my artwork maybe four or = five times over a 10 year period. Why should I as a free citizen of the = USA have to register, pay, have my picture taken, and wear a badge. I prefer freedom! Please, say no to the Vendors'/Performers' Lottery; and forward this to = the City Council! Sincerely; Balazs Schreil, M.A. - Citizen of the "Land of the Free" as in Thomas = Jeffersons' "Land of the Free" ------=_NextPart_000_0048_01C521C5.E59B6ED0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 

Dear Mayor Hahn;
 
I am an immigrant from (once) Communist = Hungary to=20 Los Angeles.  I moved here in 1979.  One of the joyous = experiences I=20 cherish is the atmosphere of the Venice Beach Boradwalk where anyone = used to be=20 able to perform and or vend withouth being bothered by the = government. =20 This nation was established to preserve people's rights, including free=20 trade.  
 
While I lived in Commnunist Hungary, = citizens of=20 Hungary had to sell western goods on the black market, these sales = usually took=20 place in park settings.  The vendor's lottery of Venice Beach = reminds me of=20 the Communist Government's crackdown on black marketeers in Communist=20 Hungary.
 
Venice has been a "free" community for = a long time,=20 let it live according to its own traditions, and let people freely = perform and=20 vend on the boardwalk.
 
Lifetime registration seems absurd, = what if=20 on some spontaneous Sundays, I, as a resident of Los Angeles wish = to vend=20 my artwork maybe four or five times over a 10 year period.  Why = should I as=20 a free citizen of the USA have to register, pay, have my picture taken, = and wear=20 a badge.
 
I prefer freedom!
 
Please, say no to the = Vendors'/Performers' Lottery;=20 and forward this to the City Council!
 
Sincerely;
 
Balazs Schreil, M.A. - Citizen of the = "Land of the=20 Free" as in Thomas Jeffersons' "Land of the=20 Free"
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= ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01C52236.97EC20A0-- From wtinker@metrocast.net Sun Mar 6 16:19:42 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:19:42 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] From Homeless To Harvard Message-ID: <016b01c52268$4d7084d0$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0167_01C5223E.6489DB00 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0168_01C5223E.6489DB00" ------=_NextPart_001_0168_01C5223E.6489DB00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable SouthBendTribune.com: From 'Homeless to Harvard' =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 March 6, 2005=20 From 'Homeless to Harvard' Speaker shares story of her life with Culver students. By SHARON GARDNER Tribune Correspondent=20 From left, Ana Tosi and Meredith Kohr listen to Liz = Murray answer questions Saturday from students at Culver Academies after = her keynote speech at the annual Celebration of Women.=20 Tribune Photo/REBECCA BELLING =20 CULVER -- Liz Murray grew up in a filthy hovel in the Bronx, = the child of drug-addicted parents. Through her teenage years she was = homeless on the streets of New York. Murray is now 24 and a student at Columbia University, after = transferring from Harvard University. On Saturday, she spoke to hundreds of young women at Culver = Academies as the keynote speaker for Culver's Celebration of Women. Murray's life story was the subject of a 2003 Emmy-nominated = Lifetime movie titled "Homeless to Harvard." And being published this = year are her memoirs, "Breaking Night." Murray described her parents as "hippies" who began using = drugs in the 1970s, believing it was just a "weekend, party thing." = Instead, she said, "It landed them a full-blown drug addiction." Murray said there was often nothing for her and her older = sister to eat in the apartment. She said that at dinner time they would = often walk around the apartment building sniffing at doors, to see where = the best smells were located. They would knock and eat with another = family. "Once or twice," Murray said of her and her sister, "we = split a tube of toothpaste." "The first of the month was a holiday, and the mailman was = Santa Claus," Murray told the students, because that was when the = welfare check was delivered. She explained the whole family would go together to cash the = check, and she and her sister would get Happy Meals. Then the two girls = would wait outside the building her parents would enter to buy their = drugs. Maybe $20 or $30 would be spent on groceries, on the way back to = the apartment. "My parents seem like villains," Murray acknowledged, but = she emphasized she does not see them in that light. "I felt very loved = by my parents." "Addiction is a disease," she continued. "They tried to be = other people, but the drugs took them away from who they wanted to be. = They didn't have more to give. I couldn't get mad at them because they = seemed to be suffering." At age 13, after living in a group home, she discovered her = mom had AIDS. Her mom died when Murray was 16. The death, Murray said, was = a wake-up call. "I saw these broken adults around me," said Murray. "Maybe, = if I didn't take charge of my life, I would become one of them. ... I = had nothing and became terrified, and this fear drove me back to = school." Murray then made a critical decision. She wanted to graduate = from high school, but she had only one credit to her name, and that, she = said, had been given out of sympathy. Having interviewed at five schools and been rejected from = them all, Murray stood on a street corner in New York City and argued = with herself about whether she should take the money in her pocket and = go have pizza with her friends, or whether she should use it to take the = train to one more school. She got on the train. She went to one more interview at an alternative school. = After telling her life story to the teacher who interviewed her, Murray = was accepted into the Humanities Preparatory School. Through independent study, Murray was able to complete her = high school education in two years and graduate second in her class. = Then she applied for a college scholarship sponsored by the New York = Times. For part of the scholarship application, Murray had to = explain what obstacles she had overcome to get to this point in her = life. She not only won the scholarship to Harvard, the Times also = published her story. Since then, she has had the movie made about her life; she = has spoken to groups numbering in the thousands (once just before = Mikhail Gorbachev took the stage); she won Oprah Winfrey's first = "Chutzpah" award; and she is continuing her education at Columbia = University in New York City. When Murray took questions from the students, the first one = she was asked concerned her father. Murray explained she left Harvard and began attending = Columbia so that she could be closer to her father, whom she said is now = HIV positive and suffers from various illnesses. Murray pays for an = apartment below her own, for her father, who has been drug-free for the = past five or six years, and takes care of him. The student wanted to know how Murray could make that = sacrifice after the way her parents had raised her and her sister. "Love is the answer. That's the sound bite," Murray = answered, but added, "I understand people have problems. I'm capable of = taking care of my dad. I make a good living now. People go to anger = because they feel powerless." The message Murray said she wanted to leave with the = students was all about them. "You have a precious window of time when you can direct your = life to a place that will really lead you to your dreams," she told = them. "This time is for you. What you do or don't do sticks to you. This = time is for you," she repeated. "Be honest with yourself." =20 Copyright =A9 1994-2005 South Bend Tribune =20 ------=_NextPart_001_0168_01C5223E.6489DB00 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable SouthBendTribune.com: From 'Homeless to = Harvard'
 

 
 
 


March 6, = 2005

From 'Homeless to=20 Harvard'

Speaker shares = story of her=20 life with Culver students.

By = SHARON=20 GARDNER
Tribune Correspondent=20

3D"" From left, Ana Tosi and Meredith Kohr = listen to Liz=20 Murray answer questions Saturday from students at = Culver=20 Academies after her keynote speech at the annual = Celebration=20 of Women.=20

Tribune Photo/REBECCA = BELLING

CULVER -- Liz Murray grew up in a filthy hovel in the = Bronx, the=20 child of drug-addicted parents. Through her teenage years = she was=20 homeless on the streets of New York.

Murray is now 24 and a student at Columbia University, = after=20 transferring from Harvard University.

On Saturday, she spoke to hundreds of young women at = Culver=20 Academies as the keynote speaker for Culver's Celebration of = Women.

Murray's life story was the subject of a 2003 = Emmy-nominated=20 Lifetime movie titled "Homeless to Harvard." And being = published=20 this year are her memoirs, "Breaking Night."

Murray described her parents as "hippies" who began using = drugs=20 in the 1970s, believing it was just a "weekend, party = thing."=20 Instead, she said, "It landed them a full-blown drug = addiction."

Murray said there was often nothing for her and her older = sister=20 to eat in the apartment. She said that at dinner time they = would=20 often walk around the apartment building sniffing at doors, = to see=20 where the best smells were located. They would knock and eat = with=20 another family.

"Once or twice," Murray said of her and her sister, "we = split a=20 tube of toothpaste."

"The first of the month was a holiday, and the mailman = was Santa=20 Claus," Murray told the students, because that was when the = welfare=20 check was delivered.

She explained the whole family would go together to cash = the=20 check, and she and her sister would get Happy Meals. Then = the two=20 girls would wait outside the building her parents would = enter to buy=20 their drugs. Maybe $20 or $30 would be spent on groceries, = on the=20 way back to the apartment.

"My parents seem like villains," Murray acknowledged, but = she=20 emphasized she does not see them in that light. "I felt very = loved=20 by my parents."

"Addiction is a disease," she continued. "They tried to = be other=20 people, but the drugs took them away from who they wanted to = be.=20 They didn't have more to give. I couldn't get mad at them = because=20 they seemed to be suffering."

At age 13, after living in a group home, she discovered = her mom=20 had AIDS.

Her mom died when Murray was 16. The death, Murray said, = was a=20 wake-up call.

"I saw these broken adults around me," said Murray. = "Maybe, if I=20 didn't take charge of my life, I would become one of them. = ... I had=20 nothing and became terrified, and this fear drove me back to = school."

Murray then made a critical decision. She wanted to = graduate from=20 high school, but she had only one credit to her name, and = that, she=20 said, had been given out of sympathy.

Having interviewed at five schools and been rejected from = them=20 all, Murray stood on a street corner in New York City and = argued=20 with herself about whether she should take the money in her = pocket=20 and go have pizza with her friends, or whether she should = use it to=20 take the train to one more school.

She got on the train.

She went to one more interview at an alternative school. = After=20 telling her life story to the teacher who interviewed her, = Murray=20 was accepted into the Humanities Preparatory School.

Through independent study, Murray was able to complete = her high=20 school education in two years and graduate second in her = class. Then=20 she applied for a college scholarship sponsored by the New = York=20 Times.

For part of the scholarship application, Murray had to = explain=20 what obstacles she had overcome to get to this point in her = life.=20 She not only won the scholarship to Harvard, the Times also=20 published her story.

Since then, she has had the movie made about her life; = she has=20 spoken to groups numbering in the thousands (once just = before=20 Mikhail Gorbachev took the stage); she won Oprah Winfrey's = first=20 "Chutzpah" award; and she is continuing her education at = Columbia=20 University in New York City.

When Murray took questions from the students, the first = one she=20 was asked concerned her father.

Murray explained she left Harvard and began attending = Columbia so=20 that she could be closer to her father, whom she said is now = HIV=20 positive and suffers from various illnesses. Murray pays for = an=20 apartment below her own, for her father, who has been = drug-free for=20 the past five or six years, and takes care of him.

The student wanted to know how Murray could make that = sacrifice=20 after the way her parents had raised her and her sister.

"Love is the answer. That's the sound bite," Murray = answered, but=20 added, "I understand people have problems. I'm capable of = taking=20 care of my dad. I make a good living now. People go to anger = because=20 they feel powerless."

The message Murray said she wanted to leave with the = students was=20 all about them.

"You have a precious window of time when you can direct = your life=20 to a place that will really lead you to your dreams," she = told them.=20 "This time is for you. What you do or don't do sticks to = you. This=20 time is for you," she repeated. "Be honest with = yourself."


Copyright = =A9=20 1994-2005 South Bend=20 Tribune
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Charles Tinker) Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 13:43:07 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Homeless Children Turned Away Message-ID: <006001c5227c$56e9a910$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> www.news.com.au/ Homeless children 'turned away' March 07, 2005 From: AAP MORE than 200 children were turned away from homeless facilities every day because of a lack of funding, welfare groups said today. Australian Council of Social Service president Andrew McCallum warned the system was in crisis and needed more cash. "One in every 200 people in our community is homeless. Almost half of them are under the age of 25," he said. "Yet the Australian Government spends only four cents per day per Australian on services to help homeless people, leaving us with a system in crisis." Commonwealth, state and territory ministers are due to meet this week to determine the future of funding for the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP). The SAAP system gives money to organisations that provide homeless people with crisis accommodation and help them to move into a longer-term residence in the process. Welfare groups today said an increase of 35-40 per cent in funding was needed to meet levels of unmet demand. The Australian Federation of Homeless Organisations said more than 700 people were turned away from homeless assistance services every day around Australia and more than 200 of those were children. The SAAP system has been running since the mid-1980s. Copyright 2005 News Limited From wtinker@metrocast.net Mon Mar 7 09:35:39 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 04:35:39 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Students Go Homeless For 1 Day Message-ID: <005001c522f9$05fb8d20$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> www.nyunews.com/features/citylife/9096.html 03.07.2005 Students go homeless for one day by Lisa Carucci Contributing Writer About 40 NYU students will go homeless tonight. Between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m., the city's Department of Homeless Services will conduct its annual street homeless count, and for the first time NYU students will be among those counted. The students are part of a study, titled the Homeless Shadow Count, that will evaluate the methodology of the city's Homeless Outreach Population Estimate. They will pose as homeless individuals, staying awake in the cold of city streets, waiting to see if they'll be counted by HOPE enumerators. HOPE is DHS initiative. Volunteer surveyors interview men and women they find in parks, on sidewalks and in alleyways to determine the number of homeless individuals in the city. The goal of the program is to estimate how many homeless people are present in all five boroughs of New York City. This is the first year decoys have been placed in the annual count. "We feel really confident in our methodology, and at the same time, are always committed to doing things better," said Jim Anderson, DHS spokesperson. "The NYU study is another quality assurance mechanism to ensure we're producing the best results. NYU professor Beth Shinn, along with Columbia professor Kim Hopper at the Nathan Kline Institute, who both serve on the Homeless Services Advisory Board, proposed the idea of an evaluative study to the city during a recent meeting. The city accepted, offering federal funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to cover costs. "Some of us just thought it might be really interesting to try to get a handle on how well the count, in fact, captured the population it intended to capture," Shinn said. Hopper heads the plant-and-capture study, a variation of the more familiar capture-recapture method used in wildlife estimation studies. He said he plans to assemble and deploy about 150 homeless decoys throughout the five boroughs, in configurations meant to mimic the actual distribution of homeless people on the street. NYU students make up about 25 percent of that number, said Bahar Kumar, Homeless Shadow Count recruitment and logistics coordinator and a recent NYU graduate. Shinn is heading a second component of the study, which involves more NYU students surveying samples of the city's homeless community during the day on Tuesday and Wednesday. Her goal is to find out if the homeless go to certain places HOPE enumerates might have overlooked. Shinn is still recruiting unpaid volunteers for Tuesday and Wednesday's survey, and noted difficulty in getting them to sign on. Bev Brown, an NYU graduate student studying community psychology in the Steinhardt School of Education and a recruiter for the survey, said most people decline because of insecurities with speaking with the homeless. "I think if more of us recognized that we were only three or four months away from homelessness ourselves, maybe we'd be more open," Brown said. Brown emphasized that volunteers can go in pairs or even groups, and that they would spend no more than about a minute and a half speaking to the individuals. That translates to about 15 to 20 homeless people surveyed per volunteer, in about 3 hours, split between the lunch and dinner hours at various soup kitchens throughout the city. Volunteers are most needed for Brooklyn and Queens, but volunteers for other boroughs are welcome as well. Brown related with a person who told her: " 'I was really afraid to talk to the homeless, I didn't know what to expect or who I would find, and guess what I found? People.' " While Hopper is no longer actively recruiting homeless "plants" for tonight, any interested students may still contact Bahar Kumar at bahar.kumar@gmail.com to see if they might be used. Students interested in the volunteer survey for tomorrow and Wednesday should contact Bev Brown at bevwrksmrt@gmail.com or 718.923.0311. The city is no longer taking volunteer counters for tonight. "We have roughly 2,000 New Yorkers who are willing to stay up all night and to canvas their neighborhoods," said Anderson. "They want to be a part of the solution." • Copyright © 2004, Washington Square News, all rights reserved. From wtinker@metrocast.net Mon Mar 7 19:16:48 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:16:48 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] CALL IMMIGRATION: SUPPORT WENDY MAXWELL!! Message-ID: <003901c5234a$36133e30$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> ----- Original Message ----- From: To: ; Monday, March 07, 2005 TODAY - PLEASE CALL IMMIGRATION: SUPPORT WENDY MAXWELL! SUPPORT WENDY MAXWELL'S BID TO STAY IN CANADA MONDAY, MARCH 7: PHONE, FAX, EMAIL THE MINISTER OF IMMIGRATION!!! --Please take 5 minutes on Monday to contact the Minister of Immigration and urge him to allow Wendy Maxwell to remain in Canada-- READ ON! On Saturday March 5th at the International Women's Day rally at Jorgenson Hall at Ryerson University, a woman was arrested by 51 Division officers while selling cookies to raise money for CKLN Community Radio. Her crime: living in Canada with out Immigration status. Wendy Maxwell, also known as Nzinga, is now in jail at the Vanier Centre for Women in Milton. She could be deported at any time. Nzinga is a talented and strong Black Woman who is an active member of our community. Many who have met her either as a colleague, friend, or through her community work admire her tenacity and humility. These are the type of people our community needs. Born in Costa Rica, she is a woman of Jamaican descent who has had to contend with police repression, the violence of organized crime, and now the racism of Citizenship and Immigration Canada. After six productive years in Canada and continuous community involvement, she faces imminent deportation to a dangerous and uncertain future even though she has an application for landed status filed with Immigration Canada that has yet to be adjudicated. Nzinga faces serious risk if forced back to Costa Rica. She was once picked up by the Costa Rican police, well known for racially profiling Black people, and sexually assaulted by them. She also faces risk as a bisexual woman from the police, whose homophobia is well documented. One Costa Rican research group states that "lesbian women are exhaustively searched in round-ups at clubs frequented by gays and lesbians and are also subject to aggression, physical abuse and robbery by the police who, in most cases, claim they were looking for drugs". Added to this, she faces serious risk from a dangerous Costa Rican gang which she has had dealings with in the past. Given the homophobic and racist nature of the police, it is to be expected that she will not be able to obtain protection from them against this gang. Nzinga is still coping with serious Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (documented by Psychologists at the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre and other clinics) due to the abuse she experienced in Costa Rica. Sending her back will re-inflame her psychological problems and stop her healing process. Despite this, Immigration Canada determined that she would not be at risk if deported and ordered her to fly back to Costa Rica on December 1, 2003. She was forced to go "underground" and filed a humanitarian and compassionate leave application for status soon after that (in February of 2004) on the basis of risk and establishment. Nzinga has worked tirelessly in the community as a volunteer at CKLN 88.1 FM Community Radio. She has also worked with the Latin American Coalition to end Violence Against Women (now called MUJER), the Barbara Schlifer Commemorative Clinic, the Ralph Thornton Community Centre as a network administrator's assistant, the Global African Congress, and as an outreach worker with the Black Coalition for Aids Prevention (BlackCAP). Her work is also being published in "A New Look at Heterosexism and Homophobia" being put out in collaboration with the McGill University for the Canadian Aids Society. She has been employed through out her 6 years in Canada. JOIN THE STRUGGLE TO SUPPORT WENDY MAXWELL YOUR HELP IS URGENTLY NEEDED! MONDAY, MARCH 7th : CALL, FAX, OR EMAIL THE IMMIGRATION MINISTER The Minister of Immigration, Joe Volpe, has the authority to intervene in any Immigration case. Please contact his office on Monday and urge him to: * Grant WENDY MAXWELL a Temporary Resident's Permit so that she can remain in Canada legally until her Humanitarian and Compassionate Leave application for permanent resident's status is decided upon (the application was filed in February of 2004 and has been in the system for over a year now). * Release Wendy Maxwell from custody immediately If you are part of any broader organizations, please encourage them to contact the Minister as an organization in support of Wendy Maxwell. In Toronto: (416) 781-5583 (p) (416)781-5586 (f) In Ottawa: (613) 992-6361 (p) (613)992-9791 (f) Email: Minister@cic.gc.ca SIGN A PETITION SUPPORTING WENDY: http://users.resist.ca/~gidget/petition.shtml __________________________________ ocap mailing list ocap@masses.tao.ca https://masses.tao.ca/lists/listinfo/ocap From unclescam@buskers.org Mon Mar 7 19:30:06 2005 From: unclescam@buskers.org (unclescam) Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:30:06 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Hpn] CALL IMMIGRATION: SUPPORT WENDY MAXWELL!! In-Reply-To: <003901c5234a$36133e30$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> Message-ID: <20050307193006.E97A936E15@xero.web-edit.com> holy cow what bizness did she have with street gangs in costa rica? how did she and why end up in costa rica from jamaica? is she homeless or what? it's a kicker but hey life is short, perhaps the gods of patience need her to go help folks elsewhere? is fate cruel or is it me. would be nice to help everyone, wouldn't it? i'll send off some good vibrations. now how many new housed people today? i put a roofer and an old lady together. he got a crash site she gets a new roof. if it takes six months he's housed that long. he just had to promise not to drink. might work On 3/7/2005, "William Charles Tinker" wrote: > >----- Original Message ----- >From: >To: ; > >Monday, March 07, 2005 > > TODAY - PLEASE CALL IMMIGRATION: SUPPORT WENDY MAXWELL! >SUPPORT WENDY MAXWELL'S BID TO STAY IN CANADA > > MONDAY, MARCH 7: PHONE, FAX, EMAIL THE MINISTER OF IMMIGRATION!!! > > --Please take 5 minutes on Monday to contact the Minister of Immigration >and urge him to allow Wendy Maxwell to remain in Canada-- READ ON! > > On Saturday March 5th at the International Women's Day rally at Jorgenson >Hall at Ryerson University, a woman was arrested by 51 Division officers >while selling cookies to raise money for CKLN Community Radio. Her crime: >living in Canada with out Immigration status. Wendy Maxwell, also known >as Nzinga, is now in jail at the Vanier Centre for Women in Milton. She >could be deported at any time. > > Nzinga is a talented and strong Black Woman who is an active member of our >community. Many who have met her either as a colleague, friend, or through >her community work admire her tenacity and humility. These are the type of >people our community needs. Born in Costa Rica, she is a woman of >Jamaican descent who has had to contend with police repression, the >violence of organized crime, and now the racism of Citizenship and >Immigration Canada. After six productive years in Canada and continuous >community involvement, she faces imminent deportation to a dangerous and >uncertain future even though she has an application for landed status >filed with Immigration Canada that has yet to be adjudicated. > > Nzinga faces serious risk if forced back to Costa Rica. She was once >picked up by the Costa Rican police, well known for racially profiling >Black people, and sexually assaulted by them. She also faces risk as a >bisexual woman from the police, whose homophobia is well documented. One >Costa Rican research group states that "lesbian women are exhaustively >searched in round-ups at clubs frequented by gays and lesbians and are >also subject to aggression, physical abuse and robbery by the police who, >in most cases, claim they were looking for drugs". Added to this, she >faces serious risk from a dangerous Costa Rican gang which she has had >dealings with in the past. Given the homophobic and racist nature of the >police, it is to be expected that she will not be able to obtain >protection from them against this gang. Nzinga is still coping with >serious Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (documented by Psychologists at the >Toronto Rape Crisis Centre and other clinics) due to the abuse she >experienced in Costa Rica. Sending her back will re-inflame her >psychological problems and stop her healing process. > > Despite this, Immigration Canada determined that she would not be at risk >if deported and ordered her to fly back to Costa Rica on December 1, 2003. >She was forced to go "underground" and filed a humanitarian and >compassionate leave application for status soon after that (in February of >2004) on the basis of risk and establishment. > >Nzinga has worked tirelessly in the community as a volunteer at CKLN 88.1 >FM Community Radio. She has also worked with the Latin American Coalition >to end Violence Against Women (now called MUJER), the Barbara Schlifer >Commemorative Clinic, the Ralph Thornton Community Centre as a network >administrator's assistant, the Global African Congress, and as an outreach >worker with the Black Coalition for Aids Prevention (BlackCAP). Her work >is also being published in "A New Look at Heterosexism and Homophobia" >being put out in collaboration with the McGill University for the Canadian >Aids Society. She has been employed through out her 6 years in Canada. > > JOIN THE STRUGGLE TO SUPPORT WENDY MAXWELL >YOUR HELP IS URGENTLY NEEDED! > > MONDAY, MARCH 7th : CALL, FAX, OR EMAIL THE IMMIGRATION MINISTER > > The Minister of Immigration, Joe Volpe, has the authority to intervene in >any Immigration case. Please contact his office on Monday and urge him >to: > > * Grant WENDY MAXWELL a Temporary Resident's Permit so that she can remain >in Canada legally until her Humanitarian and Compassionate Leave >application for permanent resident's status is decided upon (the >application was filed in February of 2004 and has been in the system for >over a year now). > > * Release Wendy Maxwell from custody immediately > > If you are part of any broader organizations, please encourage them to >contact the Minister as an organization in support of Wendy Maxwell. > > In Toronto: (416) 781-5583 (p) (416)781-5586 (f) >In Ottawa: (613) 992-6361 (p) (613)992-9791 (f) >Email: Minister@cic.gc.ca > > SIGN A PETITION SUPPORTING WENDY: >http://users.resist.ca/~gidget/petition.shtml >__________________________________ >ocap mailing list >ocap@masses.tao.ca >https://masses.tao.ca/lists/listinfo/ocap > > > From wtinker@metrocast.net Mon Mar 7 23:59:40 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 18:59:40 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Family-dorm homeless facility opens Message-ID: <001701c52371$b9f895c0$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/news/breaking_news/11074181.htm Monday March 07, 2005 Family-dorm homeless facility opens On Friday night, Karu Bytth and her mother Annette Farina didn't think they could endure another night of being homeless. The only place they could call home was a 1982 white van that served as semi-reliable transportation and a refuge from frigid nights and safety from street crime. But Bytth, 62, received word Friday afternoon she wouldn't have to worry about which parking lot she would call home for the night. On Monday, she and her mother would be two of 60 residents to move into a new family-dorm facility erected by the Tallahassee Coalition for the Homeless and HOPE Community. Each room was decorated by a group, church or volunteers topped with gold-plated individual themes and names. Some of the rooms include a "Garden of Hope," "Tranquility," "Pink Panther" and "Omega." The ribbon-cutting ceremony attracted more than 150 supporters, sprinkled with city and county officials and volunteers, anxious to see inside. For more on this story, read tomorrow's Tallahassee Democrat. From wtinker@metrocast.net Tue Mar 8 10:19:12 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 05:19:12 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Homeless Etiquette Message-ID: <002a01c523c8$45fc6f50$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0027_01C5239E.5CFB5FB0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit www.thestar.com/ Tue. Mar. 8, 2005 Figuring out what to say when confronted with the face of poverty takes time. Toronto lesson #44: Homeless etiquette JOSE LOURENCO I'm walking quickly today, partially because the tip of my bird is so cold it's about to fly north for the winter, and partially because there's a homeless man stalking me, spitting syphilis in my face and screaming words at random, words I'm familiar with, and which can sound sexy when whispered in bed, but not at this volume or in this order. I decided long ago that the best solution for this particular type of street-dweller situation is "walk at a brisk pace." Unimpressed? Okay, what's your homeless people etiquette? I've reread Emily Post three times looking for a section on "Dealing with the Destitute" but it's just not there. It's one of those lessons my family never properly taught me, either. My mom's strategy is "give all of them money," my younger brother's is "buy them muffins." Kind, but impractical. Assessing the homeless encounter and dealing with it is something you can really only learn in the same place they sleep: on the streets. Crib sheet: The options are essentially Ignore or Engage. For the majority of us downtown, Ignore is the go-to. This is not heartless; this is an urban reality. When you're late for class or work (or distracted by strategy for tonight's rec league game), it's natural to not look anywhere but the direction you're headed. Even if you do look up, after several blocks of blankets and held-out hands, the homeless blend into the background like ninjas (instead of throwing stars and nunchakus, their weapons are puppy-dog eyes and guilt). Which brings us to Engage. Far less common, but it does happen. It's tough, because it always involves a transaction. Not just dropping a few coins into a hat, but verbal exchanges that can leave you feeling crappy that you can't do something for everybody who asks. Example: A month ago a trio of panhandlers stopped me at Queen and Beaconsfield and asked for a light. "Sorry man, I don't smoke." The leader of their crew looked me over, up and down, and replied, "You f-----' geek." Okay, I didn't feel bad then. But he's a rare one, the Jock Homeless Guy. I've yet to meet another of his breed, although I am familiar with several other groups. How do you deal with them? POLITE GUY "Excuse me sir, can you spare any change?" Whether you say yes or no, Polite Guy is all smiles, complete with a "Thank you, have a good day" chaser. You almost want to invite him to dinner. Almost. "HILARIOUS" GUY His sign reads, "Give me money for drugs" or "I'm just going to spend it on alcohol anyway." It seems clever the first time you and your friends drive in from Brampton, but you'll tire of it by your second trip to Speaker's Corner. THE ENTERTAINER She juggles, or dances, or tells a story of adventure or woe - sort of like a busker who sleeps outside and is really attached to one outfit. STANDARDS GUY My friend John once offered a homeless man seeking food-money an untouched container of chicken fried rice. Hungry Man's response? "I hate rice. I think it's disgusting." CRAZY GUY King of Tourette's hounded me, it's true, but check what happened to my friend Chris' friend Dave (who stopped to pick up coffee while out for a drive in his brand-new car) a few months back: "A tall, crazy, homeless guy walking down the street grabbed one of the lattes and, without breaking stride, slamdunked it through the open sunroof of Dave's new Mercedes, dousing the dashboard, the stereo, seats, carpet, etc. Then he turned down an alley and disappeared." The damage to the stereo and interior came to around $7,000. In retrospect, I guess being chased and told to suck, err ... rooster, isn't so bad. OLD FRIEND There's this little old man who sits outside the TD Canada Trust at College and Grace almost every day who, when you pass, emits this faint chanting/squeaking song. I've never understood a word he's said, but I've known him longer than I have most other people in this city. FAKER These are the worst. The bored kids in warm jackets and worn-once jeans who think it's rad to clown on poverty and make some change for transit so they can spend their allowances on things that matter, like Uggs and Killers tickets. "Can you spare some change?" No chance, liar. Can you spare your eyes? SAD CASE Like this bespectacled Quebecer who sat outside the Shoppers near my place for a few months, a cane in one hand and a cup in the other. His red-pen-on-cardboard sign informed passersby he had AIDS and was trying to make his way across Canada, from Montreal to Vancouver, to reunite with his mother. You have a chest full of ice cubes if that doesn't make you pause. Anyway, we see these kids and these adults out there every day, and yes, homelessness is an endemic problem fueled by a variety of social inefficiencies, system-cracks and factors too various (many of which I won't pretend to understand) to describe concisely here. But when you're cruising down the street and they're not wielding broken glass or channelling Jesus - the etiquette can be simple for handling encounters with any of the above: Voice your position. Even if it's just to say "Sorry, man." Reach José Lourenço at urban.iliad@gmail.com. Legal Notice: Copyright Toronto Star Newspapers Limited. All rights reserved. Distribution, transmission or republication of any material from www.thestar.com is strictly prohibited without the prior written permission of Toronto Star Newspapers Limited. 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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 05:54:50 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Volunteers Count Homeless On NYC Streets Message-ID: <009e01c523cd$4071e100$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> Volunteers Count Homeless on NYC Streets By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: March 8, 2005 NEW YORK (AP) -- Phillipa Taylor headed into the city's dark streets early Tuesday to look for homeless people sleeping in the same doorways and alleys she called home a decade ago. One of 2,000 volunteers who canvassed the five boroughs for the first-ever citywide homeless street count, she came across a man sleeping in a cardboard box near Union Square. ``It brings back a lot of memories,'' said Taylor, 46. Like Taylor, the volunteers searched for people sleeping beneath Manhattan's skyscrapers, as well as those bedding down underneath highway overpasses in suburban parts of Queens and Staten Island. Officials estimate there are 36,000 people sleeping in New York's homeless shelters; what they want to know is how many never make it into the shelters. City officials will use the information to create the most complete portrait ever compiled of New York's street homeless population, said Linda Gibbs, the city's Homeless Services commissioner. ``Up to this point there's been no accurate count,'' Gibbs said. ``We want to understand more about who they are and where they are.'' Taylor's neck bears a gruesome clue why some bypass the shelters. She has an eight-inch scar from being stabbed and robbed of $2.50 during her first and last night at a city shelter, she said. She eventually made her way back to school and an apartment in Harlem. Now she's working toward a master's degree in social work at Hunter College. Most of the homeless people Taylor and her team met declined help, some quietly, others with more force. One woman wearing slippers and carrying two overstuffed bags took the names of some nearby shelters, and said she might drop by. After each conversation, the volunteers counted off one more person. The city has conducted smaller counts in selected boroughs in recent years. The latest survey is a statistical extrapolation, not a census count, and the numbers won't be available for several weeks. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development this year recommended that cities around the country count their homeless. Cities that do so have a better shot at receiving federal grants, said HUD spokesman Brian Sullivan. Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington and St. Louis are among the dozens of cities doing counts this year, Sullivan said. New York volunteers fanned out in teams of four or five to check out such spots as abandoned cars, park benches and subway stations. Volunteers were trained to approach people they meet, ask if they are homeless and offer them rides to shelters. For quality control, the city sent out 150 college students -- some dressed as homeless people -- to test the survey takers' diligence. Kim Hopper, a Columbia University professor who has studied homelessness extensively, is coordinating the experiment and will later review how many of his students were found by the volunteers. Gibbs said this check on the count will address critics' complaints and increase the public's confidence in the numbers. ------ On the Net: Department of Homeless Services: http://www.nyc.gov/dhs Copyright 2005 The Associated Press From wtinker@metrocast.net Wed Mar 9 08:39:12 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 03:39:12 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Homeless Stand Ins Test City's Tally System Message-ID: <005b01c52483$783dd100$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0057_01C52459.8F597120 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0058_01C52459.8F597120" ------=_NextPart_001_0058_01C52459.8F597120 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Washington Square News =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 03.09.2005 Homeless stand-ins test city=92s tally system by Jessica Jaglois Contributing Writer =20 =20 =20 They came across Michael, 39, just after he missed curfew for the = neighborhood shelter on Monday night. As one of Manhattan's many = homeless people, he was exhausted, wandering the streets, contemplating = his next move when he was stopped by three people with clipboards and = eager pens.=20 "Do you have a moment to answer a few questions, sir?" one of them = asked. He said he did.=20 Michael has been homeless for 10 years now, he said, a downward = spiral that began with drinking and drug abuse after he dropped out of = college.=20 "I can't seem to stay sober," he said. "I can get a job, but I = can't hold it. Every time I get a little money, I want to party."=20 After a 10--minute interview, a navy--blue utility vehicle labeled = "Project Rescue Homeless Outreach" quickly whisked Michael away. The = group who interviewed Michael were counters for the Department of = Homeless Services' annual Homeless Outreach Population Estimate, a study = conducted to estimate the number of homeless people in New York City. = The survey started Monday night and will continue through today.=20 On the other side of town, NYU students were taking part in a = parallel project to assess the accuracy of the survey.=20 Between the hours of 12 a.m. and 3 a.m. Monday morning, students = slipped out of their academic roles to pose as "street people," as part = of the Homeless Shadow Count, also funded by the DHS. Their job was to = ensure that the counters were speaking with every person on the street = who could possibly be homeless.=20 "[The count] works based on two assumptions," said Beth Shin, NYU = psychology professor and co-director of the Homeless Shadow Count. "The = assumptions are that a homeless person can be counted on the streets, if = visible, [or] if they are in shelters," she said, posing as a homeless = person on the L train platform at the Union Square subway station.=20 The counters have to interview every person they see on their = designated walking paths about their living situation - whether the = person sleeps in an apartment, a shelter or on the street. They pay = special attention to parks, subway platforms and trains, especially at = the end of the line. Dozing homeless people are counted but not woken up = for questioning. If a person does not stop when asked for an interview, = counters check a box labeled "Did not respond" and move on to the next = person.=20 Students serving as decoys gathered at Palladium residence hall at = 10 p.m. yesterday to be assigned their site. Stocking caps covered their = neat hair, dingy blankets draped their shoulders, and once they were = settled in the streets, they draped themselves with newspapers and = trashbags.=20 Kalyan Neelamrajn and Joe Amick, both Wagner Graduate School of = Public Service students, were assigned locations beneath the Brooklyn = Bridge.=20 "This could either be really interesting or incredibly boring," = Neelamrajn said, before starting last night.=20 Neelamrajn said he joined the study after receiving an e-mail = through a Wagner listserv. At the first meeting, more than 30 people = showed up wanting to take part, he said.=20 Monday night's turnout was dismal. Out of 53 students who signed = up to pose as homeless people, only 14 showed up, and out of the 23 = sites designated to this one staging center, only six were occupied with = decoys.=20 At the end of the night, those who braved the three-hour stint = returned to Palladium feeling like they hadn't come close to = experiencing what it's like to be homeless in the city.=20 "I don't think that this experience could compare to the real = burdens the homeless face every day," Neelamrajn said. "The only thing I = did experience was being outside without shelter, but I had five layers = on and I ate before I left."=20 For the hundreds of thousands like Michael, the struggle is an = everyday battle - but one that still warrants hope.=20 Before driving away to escape the discomfort for at least one more = night Michael threw a last comment over his shoulder: "Who knows? Maybe = this is the night it all will change." =95=20 =20 =20 =20 =20 ------=_NextPart_001_0058_01C52459.8F597120 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Washington Square News
 
 
    



 
03.09.2005

Homeless stand-ins=20 test city=92s tally system


by Jessica Jaglois
Contributing Writer

They came=20 across Michael, 39, just after he missed curfew for the = neighborhood=20 shelter on Monday night. As one of Manhattan's many homeless = people, he=20 was exhausted, wandering the streets, contemplating his next move = when he=20 was stopped by three people with clipboards and eager pens. =

"Do=20 you have a moment to answer a few questions, sir?" one of them = asked. He=20 said he did.

Michael has been homeless for 10 years now, = he said,=20 a downward spiral that began with drinking and drug abuse after he = dropped=20 out of college.

"I can't seem to stay sober," he said. "I = can get=20 a job, but I can't hold it. Every time I get a little money, I = want to=20 party."

After a 10--minute interview, a navy--blue utility = vehicle=20 labeled "Project Rescue Homeless Outreach" quickly whisked Michael = away.=20 The group who interviewed Michael were counters for the Department = of=20 Homeless Services' annual Homeless Outreach Population Estimate, a = study=20 conducted to estimate the number of homeless people in New York = City. The=20 survey started Monday night and will continue through today. =

On=20 the other side of town, NYU students were taking part in a = parallel=20 project to assess the accuracy of the survey.

Between the = hours of=20 12 a.m. and 3 a.m. Monday morning, students slipped out of their = academic=20 roles to pose as "street people," as part of the Homeless Shadow = Count,=20 also funded by the DHS. Their job was to ensure that the counters = were=20 speaking with every person on the street who could possibly be = homeless.=20

"[The count] works based on two assumptions," said Beth = Shin, NYU=20 psychology professor and co-director of the Homeless Shadow Count. = "The=20 assumptions are that a homeless person can be counted on the = streets, if=20 visible, [or] if they are in shelters," she said, posing as a = homeless=20 person on the L train platform at the Union Square subway station. =

The counters have to interview every person they see on = their=20 designated walking paths about their living situation - whether = the person=20 sleeps in an apartment, a shelter or on the street. They pay = special=20 attention to parks, subway platforms and trains, especially at the = end of=20 the line. Dozing homeless people are counted but not woken up for=20 questioning. If a person does not stop when asked for an = interview,=20 counters check a box labeled "Did not respond" and move on to the = next=20 person.

Students serving as decoys gathered at Palladium = residence=20 hall at 10 p.m. yesterday to be assigned their site. Stocking caps = covered=20 their neat hair, dingy blankets draped their shoulders, and once = they were=20 settled in the streets, they draped themselves with newspapers and = trashbags.

Kalyan Neelamrajn and Joe Amick, both Wagner = Graduate=20 School of Public Service students, were assigned locations beneath = the=20 Brooklyn Bridge.

"This could either be really interesting = or=20 incredibly boring," Neelamrajn said, before starting last night.=20

Neelamrajn said he joined the study after receiving an = e-mail=20 through a Wagner listserv. At the first meeting, more than 30 = people=20 showed up wanting to take part, he said.

Monday night's = turnout=20 was dismal. Out of 53 students who signed up to pose as homeless = people,=20 only 14 showed up, and out of the 23 sites designated to this one = staging=20 center, only six were occupied with decoys.

At the end of = the=20 night, those who braved the three-hour stint returned to Palladium = feeling=20 like they hadn't come close to experiencing what it's like to be = homeless=20 in the city.

"I don't think that this experience could = compare to=20 the real burdens the homeless face every day," Neelamrajn said. = "The only=20 thing I did experience was being outside without shelter, but I = had five=20 layers on and I ate before I left."

For the hundreds of = thousands=20 like Michael, the struggle is an everyday battle - but one that = still=20 warrants hope.

Before driving away to escape the = discomfort for at=20 least one more night Michael threw a last comment over his = shoulder: "Who=20 knows? Maybe this is the night it all will change." = =95
 
------=_NextPart_001_0058_01C52459.8F597120-- ------=_NextPart_000_0057_01C52459.8F597120 Content-Type: image/gif; name="space.gif" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Location: http://www.nyunews.com/images/space.gif R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOwA= ------=_NextPart_000_0057_01C52459.8F597120-- From wtinker@metrocast.net Wed Mar 9 08:40:31 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 03:40:31 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Homeless Stand Ins Test City's Tally System Message-ID: <007301c52483$a79235e0$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_006F_01C52459.BEADD600 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0070_01C52459.BEADD600" ------=_NextPart_001_0070_01C52459.BEADD600 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Washington Square News =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 03.09.2005 Homeless stand-ins test city=92s tally system by Jessica Jaglois Contributing Writer =20 =20 =20 They came across Michael, 39, just after he missed curfew for the = neighborhood shelter on Monday night. As one of Manhattan's many = homeless people, he was exhausted, wandering the streets, contemplating = his next move when he was stopped by three people with clipboards and = eager pens.=20 "Do you have a moment to answer a few questions, sir?" one of them = asked. He said he did.=20 Michael has been homeless for 10 years now, he said, a downward = spiral that began with drinking and drug abuse after he dropped out of = college.=20 "I can't seem to stay sober," he said. "I can get a job, but I = can't hold it. Every time I get a little money, I want to party."=20 After a 10--minute interview, a navy--blue utility vehicle labeled = "Project Rescue Homeless Outreach" quickly whisked Michael away. The = group who interviewed Michael were counters for the Department of = Homeless Services' annual Homeless Outreach Population Estimate, a study = conducted to estimate the number of homeless people in New York City. = The survey started Monday night and will continue through today.=20 On the other side of town, NYU students were taking part in a = parallel project to assess the accuracy of the survey.=20 Between the hours of 12 a.m. and 3 a.m. Monday morning, students = slipped out of their academic roles to pose as "street people," as part = of the Homeless Shadow Count, also funded by the DHS. Their job was to = ensure that the counters were speaking with every person on the street = who could possibly be homeless.=20 "[The count] works based on two assumptions," said Beth Shin, NYU = psychology professor and co-director of the Homeless Shadow Count. "The = assumptions are that a homeless person can be counted on the streets, if = visible, [or] if they are in shelters," she said, posing as a homeless = person on the L train platform at the Union Square subway station.=20 The counters have to interview every person they see on their = designated walking paths about their living situation - whether the = person sleeps in an apartment, a shelter or on the street. They pay = special attention to parks, subway platforms and trains, especially at = the end of the line. Dozing homeless people are counted but not woken up = for questioning. If a person does not stop when asked for an interview, = counters check a box labeled "Did not respond" and move on to the next = person.=20 Students serving as decoys gathered at Palladium residence hall at = 10 p.m. yesterday to be assigned their site. Stocking caps covered their = neat hair, dingy blankets draped their shoulders, and once they were = settled in the streets, they draped themselves with newspapers and = trashbags.=20 Kalyan Neelamrajn and Joe Amick, both Wagner Graduate School of = Public Service students, were assigned locations beneath the Brooklyn = Bridge.=20 "This could either be really interesting or incredibly boring," = Neelamrajn said, before starting last night.=20 Neelamrajn said he joined the study after receiving an e-mail = through a Wagner listserv. At the first meeting, more than 30 people = showed up wanting to take part, he said.=20 Monday night's turnout was dismal. Out of 53 students who signed = up to pose as homeless people, only 14 showed up, and out of the 23 = sites designated to this one staging center, only six were occupied with = decoys.=20 At the end of the night, those who braved the three-hour stint = returned to Palladium feeling like they hadn't come close to = experiencing what it's like to be homeless in the city.=20 "I don't think that this experience could compare to the real = burdens the homeless face every day," Neelamrajn said. "The only thing I = did experience was being outside without shelter, but I had five layers = on and I ate before I left."=20 For the hundreds of thousands like Michael, the struggle is an = everyday battle - but one that still warrants hope.=20 Before driving away to escape the discomfort for at least one more = night Michael threw a last comment over his shoulder: "Who knows? Maybe = this is the night it all will change." =95=20 =20 =20 =20 =20 ------=_NextPart_001_0070_01C52459.BEADD600 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Washington Square News
 
 
    



 
03.09.2005

Homeless stand-ins=20 test city=92s tally system


by Jessica Jaglois
Contributing Writer

They came=20 across Michael, 39, just after he missed curfew for the = neighborhood=20 shelter on Monday night. As one of Manhattan's many homeless = people, he=20 was exhausted, wandering the streets, contemplating his next move = when he=20 was stopped by three people with clipboards and eager pens. =

"Do=20 you have a moment to answer a few questions, sir?" one of them = asked. He=20 said he did.

Michael has been homeless for 10 years now, = he said,=20 a downward spiral that began with drinking and drug abuse after he = dropped=20 out of college.

"I can't seem to stay sober," he said. "I = can get=20 a job, but I can't hold it. Every time I get a little money, I = want to=20 party."

After a 10--minute interview, a navy--blue utility = vehicle=20 labeled "Project Rescue Homeless Outreach" quickly whisked Michael = away.=20 The group who interviewed Michael were counters for the Department = of=20 Homeless Services' annual Homeless Outreach Population Estimate, a = study=20 conducted to estimate the number of homeless people in New York = City. The=20 survey started Monday night and will continue through today. =

On=20 the other side of town, NYU students were taking part in a = parallel=20 project to assess the accuracy of the survey.

Between the = hours of=20 12 a.m. and 3 a.m. Monday morning, students slipped out of their = academic=20 roles to pose as "street people," as part of the Homeless Shadow = Count,=20 also funded by the DHS. Their job was to ensure that the counters = were=20 speaking with every person on the street who could possibly be = homeless.=20

"[The count] works based on two assumptions," said Beth = Shin, NYU=20 psychology professor and co-director of the Homeless Shadow Count. = "The=20 assumptions are that a homeless person can be counted on the = streets, if=20 visible, [or] if they are in shelters," she said, posing as a = homeless=20 person on the L train platform at the Union Square subway station. =

The counters have to interview every person they see on = their=20 designated walking paths about their living situation - whether = the person=20 sleeps in an apartment, a shelter or on the street. They pay = special=20 attention to parks, subway platforms and trains, especially at the = end of=20 the line. Dozing homeless people are counted but not woken up for=20 questioning. If a person does not stop when asked for an = interview,=20 counters check a box labeled "Did not respond" and move on to the = next=20 person.

Students serving as decoys gathered at Palladium = residence=20 hall at 10 p.m. yesterday to be assigned their site. Stocking caps = covered=20 their neat hair, dingy blankets draped their shoulders, and once = they were=20 settled in the streets, they draped themselves with newspapers and = trashbags.

Kalyan Neelamrajn and Joe Amick, both Wagner = Graduate=20 School of Public Service students, were assigned locations beneath = the=20 Brooklyn Bridge.

"This could either be really interesting = or=20 incredibly boring," Neelamrajn said, before starting last night.=20

Neelamrajn said he joined the study after receiving an = e-mail=20 through a Wagner listserv. At the first meeting, more than 30 = people=20 showed up wanting to take part, he said.

Monday night's = turnout=20 was dismal. Out of 53 students who signed up to pose as homeless = people,=20 only 14 showed up, and out of the 23 sites designated to this one = staging=20 center, only six were occupied with decoys.

At the end of = the=20 night, those who braved the three-hour stint returned to Palladium = feeling=20 like they hadn't come close to experiencing what it's like to be = homeless=20 in the city.

"I don't think that this experience could = compare to=20 the real burdens the homeless face every day," Neelamrajn said. = "The only=20 thing I did experience was being outside without shelter, but I = had five=20 layers on and I ate before I left."

For the hundreds of = thousands=20 like Michael, the struggle is an everyday battle - but one that = still=20 warrants hope.

Before driving away to escape the = discomfort for at=20 least one more night Michael threw a last comment over his = shoulder: "Who=20 knows? Maybe this is the night it all will change." = =95
 
------=_NextPart_001_0070_01C52459.BEADD600-- ------=_NextPart_000_006F_01C52459.BEADD600 Content-Type: image/gif; name="space.gif" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Location: http://www.nyunews.com/images/space.gif R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOwA= ------=_NextPart_000_006F_01C52459.BEADD600-- From wtinker@metrocast.net Wed Mar 9 15:10:15 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:10:15 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Homeless Woman In Story Found Dead Message-ID: <00a801c524ba$192d3fc0$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/ Wednesday, March 9, 2005 Homeless woman featured in newspaper photo found dead THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VANCOUVER, Wash. -- A homeless woman who was shown receiving a jacket from a passing motorist in a newspaper photograph has been found dead under a railroad overpass. The death of Lori Taalid, 43, a native of Minnesota, is being investigated as a homicide, police said Monday. Cause of death was not released. Police said a homeless man found Taalid's body Thursday beneath a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway overpass. She carried no identification, and investigators were able to identify her only on Monday through fingerprints and tattoos. On Dec. 2, shivering and holding a cardboard sign saying "homeless and hungry" by a freeway offramp, Taalid was spotted by a passing motorist, Kelly Gorby of Battle Ground. Gorby stopped, took off a blue jacket she had gotten a week earlier and gave it to the homeless woman, who shrugged off the red blanket she had been wearing, accepted the gift and raised her sign again. Gorby told Janet L. Mathews, a photographer for The Columbian who noticed and took pictures of the act of charity, that she had plenty of jackets at home. "Nobody would choose the circumstances that put her there," Gorby said. "I think, for a moment, she felt like someone cared." Taalid told Mathews she had been homeless for about a year, used several sleeping bags to keep warm and a tarpaulin to keep dry, received mail at Share House and was given food by motorists to supplement what she could afford on a disability check. Her last name was Mjor when she was born and reared in Frazee, Minn., about 50 miles east of Fargo, N.D., said her cousin, Al Schrock, a Fargo trucking company manager. She came to Vancouver with her husband and they apparently later separated, Schrock said, adding that he didn't know she was homeless. --- Information from: The Columbian, http://www.columbian.com 101 Elliott Ave. W. Seattle, WA 98119 (206) 448-8000 Home Delivery: (206) 464-2121 or (800) 542-0820 Send comments to newmedia@seattlepi.com ©1996-2005 Seattle Post-Intelligencer From wtinker@metrocast.net Wed Mar 9 17:05:49 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:05:49 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Bloodshed Feared In Malabon Squatters Area Demolition Message-ID: <000401c524ca$3e4b1970$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> www.philstar.com/philstar/News200503106302.htm Bloodshed looms in Malabon squatters' area demolition By Jerry Botial The Philippine Star 03/10/2005 A bloody confrontation is feared to erupt on privately-owned land illegally occupied by close to 4,000 families in Malabon City as their houses are set to be demolished anytime today on orders of the local court and affirmed by the Supreme Court even as all concerned await the decision of the court on a petition of the city government to maintain the status quo. The displaced families have nowhere to go in the absence of any relocation site and are determined to defend every inch of the property in question. But the landowners are just as adamant to boot them out of their property. This developed as Malabon City Mayor Canuto Oreta, in a last ditch effort to avert bloodshed, intervened in the dispute petitioning the Malabon Metropolitan Trial Court (Branch 56), to stay the demolition of the houses illegally sitting on the 5.8-hectare property owned by the Gazon family along Letre Road in Barangay Tonsuya, Malabon City. The petition, if given weight by the court, will give breathing space for the squatter families of some four months before the demolition is finally carried out. The issue further takes on a political twist, and with far ranging consequences, with the involvement of the organized Left on the case. The residents are direct beneficiaries of peace talks between the national government and the Rebolusyunaryong Partido ng Manggagawa ng Pilipinas (RPMP) and the Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade (RPA-ABB) chaired by Nilo de la Cruz held during the term of deposed President Joseph Estrada. Antonio Criss Jr., chairman of the Barangay Tonsuya and spokesperson for the residents of Kapisanang Diwa ng Maralita (KADIMA), Damayang Maralita ng Tahanan (DAMATA) and Lakas Maralita ng Tonsuya, homeowners associations along Letre Road where the property is located, said they are negotiating for expropriation of the disputed property or if this is not possible, in-city relocation would be fine by them. The group's petition for expropriation filed by the administration of former acting mayor Mark Allan Jay Yambao in 2004, had earlier been dismissed on a technicality by the Malabon RTC last Jan. 31, "for lack of interest" on the part of the city government. The STAR gathered that the court notice was received by a resigned city legal officer, and therefore an unauthorized person. The battle lines are already drawn, sources, who requested anonymity, said. "Violence and the probable loss of lives are inevitable. The court decision (on Oreta's petition) is crucial. There has been a certification of finality before the SC from the MTC. The SC order is final and executory," the source said. In an earlier interview, Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP) chairman Percival Chavez virtually said there is nothing more the settlers can do but leave. "In my 27 years in the business, I've never seen a case like this flourishing," said Chavez when asked on the likelihood that the Gozons will capitulate. Criss told The STAR it is almost certain that blood will flow if the demolition team of the landowners persist in demolishing their homes. He expressed hope it will not come to that. The court decision on the city government's petition was expected to be issued by Judge Quintin late yesterday, the city legal office told The STAR. "Sana huwag nang umabot sa ganito. Magiging madugo ito. Pero nakahanda kami," Criss told The STAR. He said he had gathered that the local sheriffs have began recruiting members of the demolition crew. Copyright© Philstar Global Corporation All Rights reserved From wtinker@metrocast.net Thu Mar 10 17:02:52 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:02:52 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] CRY FOR PEACE Message-ID: <013201c52592$ff6e0360$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_012F_01C52569.1684E890 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Folks please watch and listen to this graphic "CRY FOR PEACE" it is = powerfull!!! http://www.cryforpeace.org/media_win.htm=20 A Brother In The Struggle Bill ------=_NextPart_000_012F_01C52569.1684E890 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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A Brother In The Struggle
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------=_NextPart_000_012F_01C52569.1684E890-- From wtinker@metrocast.net Fri Mar 11 00:50:05 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:50:05 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] "In L.A., trying to keep a lid on racial strife" Message-ID: <012601c525d4$441a0ea0$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> Racial,and poverty profiling must end and these killers in blue must be tried for murder. A gun and badge does not give anyone a license to kill!!! Tink Click here to read this story online: http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0310/p03s01-ussc.html Headline: In L.A., trying to keep a lid on racial strife Byline: Daniel B. Wood Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Date: 03/10/2005 (INGLEWOOD, CALIF.)At Leimert Park, a gathering place for demonstrations and rallies in south-central Los Angeles, the thunder of djembe drums adds a dramatic accompaniment to a long queue of local protest speakers. As each steps up to a microphone planted in the grass, their words seem to ring with echoes of an earlier violent era in the battle for civil rights. "The time is now," yells one protestor to the crowd of about 350 holding placards and signs. "No more police terrorism." The occasion, a community-wide gathering to protest the killing of a 13-year-old African-American youth by Los Angeles police, has become another major flashpoint in Los Angeles race relations. For several weeks, black leaders have held meetings and marches to draw attention to the shooting as evidence that the LAPD has not budged in its decades-old culture of riding herd over ethnic residents as adversaries rather than citizens to "serve and protect." It's been more 10 years since the LAPD became the international poster child for dysfunctional policing - first in the Rodney King beating, then with two trials of O.J. Simpson. Now, the high-profile incident of Devin Brown - who was shot and killed by police when he refused orders to stop fleeing in a stolen car - once again raises the question of how much police reform, if any, has occurred since the largest riots in US history here raised public consciousness of the problem of police abuse. Despite the anger in Leimert Park, there is some consensus that much improvement has been made throughout American police departments. Yet there is also consensus that the patterns of racist behavior exhibited by police have not been adequately addressed. "You might say the policy, training, and equipment side of American policing has come a long way since Rodney King but that the human side, police interacting with residents, has come less far," says Mary Powers, director of the National Coalition on Police Accountability (NCOPA). Accomplishments include policy changes regarding how and when to use force and in what form. They also include better cultural and sensitivity training, and community-based policing. All have brought more police into direct contact with the neighborhoods they serve. In addition, more cities now have civilian committees with the leverage to formally hold police departments accountable for questionable actions. Negative perceptions persist At the same time, not enough has been accomplished to better police-community race relations, say experts. In this regard, they say, Los Angeles is a case in point for problems nationwide. "I think racism is the problem here," says Mary Alice Jones of the Congress of Racial Equality. She points out that 83 percent of LAPD officers do not live within city limits and many appear to have had little exposure to racial diversity. To her and others, the Devin Brown shooting is only one incident in a much larger pattern of negative police actions. Just four days prior to that shooting, officials here announced they would not prosecute a June incident in which a LAPD officer struck a car thief suspect 11 times with a flashlight. And in January, two white cops won a jury verdict of $2.4 million in a discrimination suit for being wrongly terminated following a 2002 beating of another black suspect. Better police training still needed But other observers say there simply has not been enough focus on police training in the specific area of emergency response. That means better understanding of the complexity of one's own reflexes and emotions when life or death decisions must be made in seconds. Here in Los Angeles, Ms. Powers and others say, there are still deeply ingrained behaviors in the "police culture" that are strong enough to survive new chiefs of police, city council changes, and turnovers of mayors and oversight boards. Codes of silence, in which police officers refuse to rat on colleagues for wrongdoing, undermine efforts to establish accountability. "You can pass all the policy guideline changes, have ... blue ribbon commissions, [but] one thing that has not changed is the fundamental core component that courses through everything involving the LAPD: the violent, confrontational mentality of the LAPD," says Earl Ofari Hutchinson, author of several books on the African-American experience in US culture. Despite widespread feelings that little improvement has been made in police-community relations here, several black leaders have defended the LAPD in the wake of the current shooting. Tangible progress noted "It is absolutely incorrect that no progress has been made within the LAPD ranks," says Bernard Parks, an African-American city council member and the former LAPD chief. "Training has evolved, cultural sensitivity has evolved, accountability and discipline have evolved. You must realize that police officers are human beings in dynamic situations that may take someone's life. If anyone thinks there is perfectionism, they are going to be disappointed." There are also African-Americans willing to point the finger at the actions of black perpetrators that have led to police confrontations. "Many in black neighborhoods ... seem to forget that in every one of these run-ins with police ... there has been at the core of the incident, an African-American breaking the law and resisting arrest," says Ted Hayes, who runs temporary housing for the homeless. NCOPA's Mary Powers and other national observers also see progress. She points to three recent examples: a change in the shooting policy for officers regarding moving cars, the use of flashlights in beating suspects, and high-speed pursuits. But many feel that an underlying culture of racism will continue to exacerbate the problem of police and community relations. "In the 1960s and '70s we were suing police departments all over the country insisting that if we changed the racial makeup of the police, we would end police brutality," says Ramona Ripston, director of the southern California chapter of ACLU. "Well, we did integrate them and guess what, it [police abuse] didn't change." She and other experts here call for more stringent policies that require police to live in the communities they serve. (c) Copyright 2005 The Christian Science Monitor. All rights reserved. Click here to email this story to a friend: http://www.csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/send-story?2005/0310/p03s01-ussc.txt From gbacque@colosseum.com Sat Mar 12 03:12:17 2005 From: gbacque@colosseum.com (Graeme Bacque) Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:12:17 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Pregnant homeless woman pinned under cop car Message-ID: <42325E11.2030700@colosseum.com> http://www.pulse24.com/News/Top_Story/20050311-002/page.asp Cruiser Crash A busy downtown intersection was closed Friday morning as police investigated a serious accident involving a police cruiser and a homeless female. The woman somehow got lodged underneath the cop car near the intersection of Queen and Church Sts. at approximately 5am. Paramedics and firefighters had to work for half an hour to release her and time was of the essence - the victim was 20 weeks pregnant. Police cordoned off the street with yellow tape as the rescue proceeded, and the street stayed closed for most of the day. Medics transported the woman to nearby St. Michael's Hospital. She was diagnosed as having a broken pelvis. It's believed she may have been sleeping under a pile of blankets when the accident occurred. The province's Special Investigations Unit is looking into what happened. March 11, 2005 -- This message is certified virus-free.. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.7.2 - Release Date: 3/11/2005 From wtinker@metrocast.net Sat Mar 12 14:52:29 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 09:52:29 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Homeless Census Will Open Doors To Federal Money Message-ID: <005801c52713$1d1626a0$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0055_01C526E9.342D0BD0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2005/March/12/local/stories/02local.htm March 12, 2005 Gail Billings, who moved here from Washington, said she could use some help with ‘the biggest challenge ... just getting a little help to get started.’ (Bill Lovejoy / Sentinel) Homeless census will open doors to federal money By BRIAN SEALS SENTINEL STAFF WRITER About 50 people are expected to hit the streets, bushes, river banks and shelters in two-person teams March 22 for the first census of the county’s homeless population in five years. Applied Survey Research has been hired by the county to perform the survey. The Watsonville-based company conducted the last count in 2000, which tallied 3,293 homeless. This census was sparked by new federal requirements for acquiring money for homeless programs. The information will be used by a team called the Homeless Action Partnership, a group comprising city and county staffers, police, churches, shelters and other organizations that work with the homeless. "It’s kind of looking at it holistically," said Teresita Hinojosa-Pereira, coordinator of the partnership. Ask the local homeless, and their challenges are sometimes the same as many who have homes here: jobs and housing. "The biggest challenge is just being able to find a job and affordable housing, just getting a little help to get started," Gail Billings said Friday as she sat in her Chevrolet station wagon. Billings said the problems are linked; getting work is difficult when you don’t have an address. Carlos Sanchez agreed. He said just finding a place to stow one’s stuff and having access to a telephone are challenges. More transitional housing to help people get on their feet is needed, he said. Hauling around a cart full of stuff and sleeping outside compounds the challenge. "You can’t get up and look for a job when you’re exhausted," Sanchez said, sitting outside the St. Francis soup kitchen. The people who benefit from social service programs are crucial to making the census a success, said Peter Connery, vice president of Applied Survey Research. "Ultimately, you’re trying to count someone who doesn’t want to be seen or who wants to be out of the limelight," he said. The search is expected to take teams to the usual haunts — the Pajaro River levee and the banks of the San Lorenzo River among them — as well as to shelters. Information from the homeless steers counters to places only those without somewhere to stay would know — abandoned buildings, cars and tucked-away places in local forests, for example. "It requires street smarts to be able to find them," Connery said. He recalled the time in 2000 when surveyors found a man who had lived behind the UC Santa Cruz campus for 15 years and was able to take them to hidden nooks and crannies where others were camping. One aim is to make people comfortable enough to ask sometimes-personal questions about health and family. "We don’t divulge specific locations," Connery said. "There’s a high degree of confidentiality." In addition to counting the homeless, the effort will also survey about 400 people about their age, gender, whether they are veterans or have children, among other factors. The census will be a statistical projection based on the actual counts performed in the field, Connery said. The count will cost $30,000, with $15,960 coming from the county and the remainder paid by the cities of Capitola, Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley and Watsonville. The information will be used to seek money that supports a range of services. This year $1.18 million in federal money was awarded to agencies in Santa Cruz County for services such as transitional housing and homeless health care, among others. Contact Brian Seals at bseals@santacruzsentinel.com. 207 Church Street, Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA (831) 423-4242 Copyright © 1999-2005 Santa Cruz Sentinel. Ottaway Newspaper, Inc. 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estimated 4,000 squatter families in Malabon City by way of virtually "pre-approving" the funding requirements for the acquisition of identified relocation sites. The STAR gathered this during the marathon hearings at the Malabon City Hall late Friday afternoon that resulted in preventing from further escalating a bloody clash that already erupted mid-morning of the same day between residents of the 5.8-hectare Gozon family-owned property in Barangay Tonsuya and the latter's demotion crew. Some 10 persons, all from the Gozon's hired crew, were injured while some 50 to 60 houses were also torn down during that confrontation. In an exclusive interview, Presidential Commission for Urban Affairs (PCUP) Percival Chavez told The STAR that his office is now focusing on fast-tracking the relocation of the affected residents considering the urgency of the particular case. With nowhere to go, the residents' maintained a hardline stance against leaving the area despite an order of the local metropolitan court and an affirmation of the same order by the Supreme Court rendering their demolition final and executory. "We are intending to open a 'special window' at the Community Mortgage Program (CMP), the fastest way we can to lock-in the land (prospective relocation site)," Chavez said. The official said this is the best way they see for the people to be able to transfer immediately. Regular processing, Chavez said, takes some three to six months. "Bawal ang mag-release ng pondo before the required procedures and requirements are complied with. This (fast-tracking) will need a special directive from PGMA. She promised (Thursday night) to attend to this. Under the law, the government is mandated to assist the underprivileged and the homeless, especially victims of demolition and eviction. This is a state obligation," Chavez said. He added that the President also asked him for the list of possible options (other resettlement sites) and their corresponding (acquisition) costs. "Tinitingnan pa natin kung may pondo," Chavez told The STAR when asked where the funding will be coming from. He clarified, however, that this did not mean there is no money for the project. He said it was a question of "which to prioritize." Chavez said the National Home Mortgage Finance Corp. (NHFMC) under the CMP program will look into the viability of the sites. He disclosed that the Gozons are still open to further negotiations. The property in question had, per the City Assessor's Office, a zonal valuation of P1,500 per square meter, but the fair market value (FMV) or the prevailing market price reportedly ranges between P20,000 to P50,000. The city government has previously admitted it has no funds for any expropriation proceedings, including that for the Gozon property. He said under the regular CMP, each family beneficiary can avail of P100,000 payable for 25 to 30 years. The negotiations between the opposing parties mediated by City Mayor Canuto Oreta and Chavez on Friday also resulted in the forging of a 10-point agreement. The agreement was signed by Oreta, Chavez, Senior Superintendent Raul Gonzales (deputy chief Northern Police District Office) for NPDO director Chief Supt. Noe Wong, Senior Superintendent Jose Teofisto (Malabon police chief), Criss, Lejun de la Cruz (Alab Katipunan) and leaders of the three homeowners associations. Among the conditions agreed upon, as shown in a copy obtained by The STAR, were that the homeowners' associations will police their ranks and abide by the agreement to start the census or verification (screening) of the list of family-beneficiaries immediately during the one-week break; the families whose houses were torn down earlier be given priority for immediate relocation; prospective transfer sites Panghulo and Dampalit be inspected by association leaders, the city government and the PCUP for viability (if habitable); the police will arrest anyone constructing a new structure in the Gozon property. The city government has since withdrawn its petition for TRO on the demolition while the Gozons had agreed to provide trucking services for the relocation of the affected families. Copyright© Philstar Global Corporation From wtinker@metrocast.net Sat Mar 12 18:02:51 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:02:51 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Stop-deportation DEMO @ VOLPE's TODAY Message-ID: <023001c5272d$b55a4210$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> New photos from yesterday -- press conference & hunger strike: http://johnb.smugmug.com/gallery/431238 New website: http://supportwendy.com SATURDAY RYERSON ACTIVITIES IN SUPPORT OF WENDY MAXWELL, CANCELLED FOR EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATION TO MINISTER OF IMMIGRATION, JOE VOLPE'S OFFICE. ***PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY*** DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE DEPORTATION OF WENDY MAXWELL Saturday March 12th Meet at 1pm Bathurst Station on the streetcar platform We'll be taking the bus north to Lawrence and Bathurst. To Joe Volpe's constituency office for 2pm On Friday March 11th Wendy's Federal court hearing to stay her deportation ended with a negative decision and now the decision to stop this deportation is in Volpe's hands. Join the Wendy Maxwell Support Committee and speakers from women's rights organizations, unions, immigrant's rights groups, the Don't Ask, Don't Tell campaign and others to demand Wendy's release and the granting of permanent residency to this highly respected and well loved community activist. This will be followed by a dinner and organizing meeting at The Imperial Pub 6pm Saturday March 12th Located on Dundas St East, just east of Yonge St Now more than ever it is crucial to make phone calls and write letters of support and letters to minister volpe. To send a letter or make a phone call to the minister go to www.supportwendy.com for more information. For more information or to make a donation contact the Wendy Maxwell Support Committee: nooneisillegal@riseup.net www.supportwendy.com From wtinker@metrocast.net Sun Mar 13 13:37:21 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:37:21 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Group Plans To Build Facility To Aid Homeless Message-ID: <003601c527d1$c8833fa0$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> www.indystar.com/ Greenwood group plans to build facility to aid homeless March 13, 2005 Greenwood -- A nonprofit organization has made helping the homeless its top priority, with long-term plans to open a facility that would provide short-term shelter and social services. "Here in Johnson County, the homeless are hidden," said Pam Leffler, president and founder of Christian Help Inc., a nonprofit organization of interdenominational Christians dedicated to helping the homeless. "They don't look like the homeless in Downtown Indianapolis. People in Johnson County don't realize homelessness is a problem." A $25,000 grant from the Indiana Youth Institute will help the organization develop a capital campaign, with the goal of opening a shelter. In addition to providing a short-term shelter, along with a food and clothing pantry, the facility would offer counseling, crisis intervention, vocational assistance and spiritual guidance. Christian Help Inc., based in Greenwood, is a little more than a year old. It receives up to four phone calls a week from people in need. Many are placed in motels and put in touch with case management services. Copyright 2005 IndyStar.com. All rights reserved From wtinker@metrocast.net Sun Mar 13 13:37:32 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:37:32 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] HOMELESS ADVOCATES WORRY ABOUT LOSING MONEY Message-ID: <003901c527d1$cecf08d0$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> www.nctimes.com/ Saturday, March 12, 2005 Homeless advocates worry about losing money under proposed federal budget By: DAVID FRIED - Staff Writer NORTH COUNTY ---- At the beginning of each year, the development coordinator at Interfaith Community Services in Escondido, Melissa Carroll, starts sending applications to North County cities in the annual competition among social service agencies for federal dollars. The coveted Community Development Block Grants ---- money distributed by the federal government to local municipalities ---- help pay for a range of social services, including programs for the homeless. But with the White House proposing major changes to how the grant program works and how much funding it will receive, Carroll, other homeless advocates and city administrators are beginning to fret about how much money will be available in years to come. "Once we get that (grant), we definitely count on that money, because it does cover a lot of things," said Carroll, whose agency received $69,000 this fiscal year from cities along the Highway 78 corridor. The federal budget proposal increases funding for some other programs to help low-income families, including those participating in the homeless program, but the benefits of those increases may not be felt much in North County, according to local city officials. Changes ahead Under the budget proposed by President Bush in January, the grant program would move from being administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has overseen the program since its inception in 1974, to the Department of Commerce. The block grants would be merged with 17 other community development initiatives to form what would be called a "Strengthening America's Communities" grant. The president's budget calls for funding the new grant with about $3.7 billion ---- $1.6 billion less than the combined amount that the 18 programs currently receive. "I think there's a very real fear (among homeless agencies)," said John Thelen, executive director of the Regional Task Force on the Homeless, a nonprofit that monitors homelessness around the county. "Cities have to pay for street repair and other things that have to come out of the same budget." "Homeless services are going to be at the bottom of the totem pole," Thelen added. The changes, if approved by Congress, would trickle down to cities and counties beginning with grants for the 2006-07 fiscal year. City administrators said it is too soon to venture a guess as to exactly what the proposed cuts will mean to their programs. "Until we see what the (new) program looks like, it's hard to do any planning," said John Lundblad, director of Oceanside's community grant program. "We know we're OK for next year, but beyond that, we're not sure." Funding cuts and the other shoe Each year, cities across the nation applyfor their slice of the HUD pie. They then divide their portion up among local social service agencies, city improvement projects and administrative programs, all aimed at helping their neediest residents. In fiscal year 2003-04, North County cities allotted an average of 9.9 percent of their federal development grants to homeless programs, while countywide, 4.5 percent of the funds went to such programs, according to statistics compiled by the Regional Task Force on the Homeless. For the current fiscal year, Escondido earmarked $20,000 for Interfaith's Genesis Program, a 34-unit apartment complex that takes in homeless families and provides counseling and other services. Escondido also dedicated $57,000 of its general funds to other shelter and food bank programs, according to city figures. Oceanside this year allotted $70,500 to homeless programs, using money from its community block grants and a federal emergency shelter fund. Vista committed $65,000 in development grants to homeless programs, including $25,000 to Operation HOPE, an emergency winter shelter the city helps organize. The county's Department of Housing and Community Development administers the federal grants for the cities of Poway, Del Mar and Solana Beach, as well as unincorporated areas. North County homeless programs that received grant money include: North County Solutions for Change, a Vista shelter for homeless families; Fraternity House, an assisted-living facility for homeless and low-income individuals suffering from HIV/AIDS; North County Food Bank, which coordinates food distribution for 26 social services agencies; and Interfaith Community Services, which uses the money for its homeless families shelter and an emergency winter shelter program. The federal grant money "is only 4 percent of our overall (Genesis) budget, but that money is tied to critical staffing for that program," Interfaith's Carroll said of the city's block grant contribution. Never a sure thing Grant funding already varies from year to year, and city administrators said the amount of money they dole out gets smaller each year, and the president's proposed budget continues that trend. But of greater consequence may be the possibility of switching which federal department oversees the grants, said Jerry Van Leeuwen, Escondido's grant director. "There's still another shoe to drop," Van Leeuwen said, noting that shifting the grants to the Commerce Department would probably mean more of an emphasis on development and less on social services. "Allocation is only half of the story." As it stands, cities may use no more than 15 percent of the grant funds to pay for social service programs, and no more than 20 percent to cover the costs of administering the funds. The remainder of the money they receive goes into capital improvement projects, such as fixing up blighted low-income neighborhoods or covering construction costs that help the needy. "(Cities) are going to have tough decisions to make," said the task force's Thelen. "We know where we stand on the homeless issue." Other resources on hand Lundblad, Oceanside's grant administrator, said his city and others have additional programs that target low-income families and other specific groups that often fall into the ranks of the homeless. Funding for those programs can be volatile as well, he said. The president's proposed budget would restore about half of the 80,000 vouchers cut this year from a federal rental assistance program called Section 8. Traditionally, the assistance program has helped low-income renters by paying some of their rental costs. The president's new plan would, instead, give municipalities a fixed amount of funds to help renters. In Southern California, where rents soar well above many other parts of the country, that could easily mean having to cut people from the Section 8 rolls, Lundblad said. That could, in turn, affect transitional housing programs such as Genesis and Solutions for Change, where many families stay while awaiting approval for Section 8. Nevertheless, the news for federal homeless and low-income aid is not entirely negative. No cuts have been proposed for home investment partnership grants, a mix of state and federal money that municipalities use to help low-income families cover down payments or other costs of purchasing a home. And the president has asked for an additional $1.2 million for a federal program that helps homeless veterans. But with the future of the tried-and-true community block grants up in the air, Carroll said she and her colleagues are looking to bolster their financial lines of defense, including courting more private donations and grants from private foundations. "We try to diversify our funding anyway so that, when government funds are cut, it doesn't hurt," Carroll said. "But we do bleed." Contact staff writer David Fried at (760) 740-5416 or dfried@nctimes.com. webmaster@nctimes.com © 1997-2005 North County Times - Lee Enterprises editor@nctimes.com From wtinker@metrocast.net Sun Mar 13 13:37:39 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:37:39 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Targeting Homeless Is Not The Answer Message-ID: <003c01c527d1$d3749c10$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> www.MySanAntonio.com/ Homeless say targeting them isn't answer 03/13/2005 Laura Jesse Express-News Staff Writer Walk into the day center at Travis Park United Methodist Church at lunchtime and utter two words - "the ordinances" - and the homeless people there begin to stir. They jump to their feet and offer their two cents on four ordinances the City Council passed last month. "Instead of persecuting the homeless they should help them," said John Rorrer, a 42-year-old homeless man who said he just wants a job. "They need to have a better solution rather than picking on (the homeless)." Beginning Wednesday, the Police Department will enforce the new ordinances, which target aggressive panhandling and behaviors typically associated with the homeless, such as sleeping and urinating in public areas. Papa Bear, who wanted to be identified only by his nickname, has lived on the streets all over North America on and off for 20 years. He didn't have much good to say about the police - or politicians - after being told he'll have to move from underneath the Commerce Street bridge outside the SAMM Shelter, the place he's called home since November. "They will come and take everything you have," Papa Bear said of the police. "I think all politicians should spend a month incognito, shed their suits, and become one of us and see how it is. See if they can survive." The ordinances specifically ban camping in public areas without permission, urinating and defecating in public, sitting on public rights of way and aggressive panhandling. Each is a Class C misdemeanor, punishable by a maximum fine of $500. As the effective date nears, there is much discussion among downtown churches, social agencies and shelters on how to disseminate information about the new laws to people who live on the streets. "From what I understand, there has not been, up to this point, any real information going out," police spokeswoman Sandy Gutierrez said. "However, I know that if officers are approached by them asking questions because they've heard about the ordinances, certainly we are giving them courtesy information." Gutierrez said a training bulletin for patrol divisions is being prepared with specific information about the language of the ordinances, what constitutes an offense and how they should be enforced. "The council asked us to proceed with caution and a heavy dose of compassion," Police Chief Albert Ortiz said. "We're trying to make ticketing a last resort. When we start enforcing, again, we want to provide information on social services." Ortiz said that in the beginning, officers will give only warnings to people they see violating the ordinances. With the opening of a new day center Monday at the SAM- Ministries emergency shelter on Commerce Street, informing homeless people of the ordinances will be easier, said Amy Phipps, vice president of development. Brochures with information about resources available through the day center could also warn clients about the new laws. "We want to make sure they are informed," Phipps said. "We just want to convey it in as simple a way as possible." Because of the lack of public restrooms and shelter space downtown, the Rev. John Flowers of Travis Park United Methodist Church said the ordinances present a justice issue. He pointed to a 10-year plan to curb chronic homelessness and hunger adopted by the council just one week before the four ordinances were adopted. That plan, crafted by a community task force led by council members Patti Radle and Julián Castro, recognized that the city has an immediate need for more public restrooms and emergency shelters. "If we're to tell people you can't do this in public, then we need to provide them options," Flowers said. "I think everybody knows not all homeless folks are going to go into a shelter. What this ordinance is doing is making sure nobody chooses the area around downtown." Flowers made the area outside his church a safe zone for the homeless, telling them, "You can sleep here, but in the morning you've got to take your house with you." He alerted police that people may sleep on church grounds and has challenged other downtown churches to do the same, but he said he "has not been encouraged by the level of cooperation so far." For people whose assets fit on their back, in a bag or in a shopping cart, the threat of fines and possibly jail time doesn't present a great consequence. "We don't have anywhere else to go," said Sheila Brown, a 62-year-old homeless woman from Houston. "I don't think that's right." One man who is no longer homeless but still has ties to people living under the bridge said some homeless people who pile up numerous citations won't mind getting arrested. "If I go to jail, what is that going to do for me?" Robert "Preacher" Alderete said as he ate a free dinner prepared and delivered by church volunteers to the area outside the SAMM Shelter. "I'm going to get a place to sleep, a shower and food. Then I'm released in a few hours and right back out here, where I can get more free food. Why not be homeless?" Instead of spending money on enforcement, the city could use it to strike at the root causes of homelessness, Flowers said. "If you have a person raging in his alcoholism, and he has $30 in one hand and a ticket for violating an ordinance in the other, he's going to take that money and buy more alcohol," he said. The only ordinance everyone seems to agree on is the one outlawing aggressive panhandling. "We're not challenging that one on the justice issue," said Flowers, who contends that most panhandlers aren't homeless people anyway. "Frankly, that's a small percentage of folks downtown." The homeless people under the bridge agree that panhandling should be done away with, especially around tourists. Papa Bear has found a way to make money without asking for handouts - he sells rolling papers by the single sheet. "You have to create your own work out here," he said. "Not all of us are thieves. These dealers come out here and sell their drugs, but no one has the papers. That's why I sell them." As he reclined on his mattress in a neat row of sleeping bags, Papa Bear sold papers to five people in less than 20 minutes. Though he usually asks for 25 cents a sheet, he'll take whatever is offered. "Hey Pops!" one young man yelled as he approached. "Can I get some papers from you? I got this lighter. See, it even works." ljesse@express-news.net www.MySanAntonio.com Portions © 2005 KENS 5 and the San Antonio Express-News. All rights reserved. From wtinker@metrocast.net Sun Mar 13 14:24:16 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 09:24:16 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] My Brother, The Homeless person Message-ID: <00b001c527d8$5645a070$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> www.thestar.com/ Mar. 11, 2005 My brother, the homeless person The calls come at all hours of the day and night. Most often collect, but not always. Sometimes there's a prim, somewhat disapproving, message which lets me know the call is collect and coming from a jail. I never know what to expect when I pick up the phone. The calm voice of a middle-aged man? His alter ego, the conspiracy theorist? Or the alcoholic who will say anything for a chance to calm his demons? My brother, my only sibling, is homeless and schizophrenic in America. His 25-plus years on the road has given me a unique perspective on the homeless debate here in Toronto. Like Toronto Star columnist Joey Slinger, who has frequently written on the homeless, I have sadly concluded that homelessness and mental illness are inextricably linked. In my brother's case, the viciousness of the disease and the capriciousness it provokes, makes it almost impossible to help him. An example: I once flew to Seattle to get his signature on papers so he could have his own bank card and I could then send him money without the hassles of a Western Union wire transfer. He refused because he saw a conspiracy behind my motives. Gary was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic in 1978. He was only 20, poised on brink of manhood, and a lifelong love of aviation had just culminated in his certification as an aircraft mechanic. With his illness, the job he had landed at O'Hare airport in Chicago evaporated, along with the rest of his life. The skies guide Gary today, causing him to beat an odd flight path between Tucson, Ariz. - where his fascination of airplanes leads him to the boneyards of moth-balled planes - and Seattle, Wash., which is home to Boeing Field and the national Museum of Flight. It was in Tucson two years ago, in the summer of 2003, that Gary almost died, not once, but twice. He had been in jail there, incarcerated on one of the dozens of petty charges he's faced over the years. The prison had released him in the early hours of morning, simply shoving him out the door with no food, no clothes and nowhere to go. As usual, we got the call. And, as usual, I had the same impossible dilemma my family faced.over the years: Did I send him money so he could have a roof over his head and food to eat, and then wait for the inevitable crisis to put him back in hospital or jail? Or try to force him to get the health care he so desperately needs - but does not want - by forcing him into an impotent and seemingly non-existent mental health-care system in Arizona? In this case, I told him to find a motel. I never send him money directly anymore (beyond what he needs immediately to eat) because he ends up drinking it away or, worse, being beaten and robbed. Gary called back a while later to say he'd found a small motel in the Howard Johnson chain where the staff didn't seem to be alarmed by his appearance or demeanour. I talked to the desk, then sent them my credit card number. My brother distinguished himself within an hour by robbing the tip jar from the front counter. But instead of calling the police, these people called us. It was the start of a summer-long relationship. The room came with a free breakfast in the morning. One of the women rummaged through the lost-and-found to pull out clothing to fit his emaciated 6-foot, 4-inch frame. Another one would invite him to share her pizza on the night shift. And she would always make an extra hot chocolate before bedtime. It was a heart-warming story but I long ago learned there are no happy endings. Gary seemed to have the run of the place and the support of its staff but he had no steady medication and no professional overseeing his mental health.He began to have breakdowns, hallucinations that would scare other guests. He would phone, making wild claims about how my wife had murdered his (non-existent) family. When he got like this, the motel staff would call 911, the hospital would hold him for a day or two, medicate him, release him and then the cycle would start again. Worst of all, as the summer wore on, he began to talk about killing himself. We returned from the wedding of Raptor basketball player Alvin Williams in Philadelphia to find my brother had been hospitalized for what the psychiatric staff deemed to be an "accidental" overdose. The diagnosis stuck despite my protestations that he had been talking about suicide and they released him. The real crisis came a week later. Gary called our house to say he was going to kill himself with a knife. While I spoke to him, my wife called the front desk on her cell phone. The woman called back a minute or so later. "It's bad news," she said. "There's blood everywhere and I don't know where he is." When the paramedics arrived, they found him in the bushes where he'd crawled off to die. "I don't know how anybody survived this," said the man on the phone. "The room is totalled. There's blood everywhere." But Gary did survive. We called the motel the next day to take responsibility for the damages. "Don't worry about it," said the manager soothingly. "It's just blood. We can clean it up." When thanked for all the care they had shown Gary, he brushed it aside. "It sounds kinda weird but, you know, it's like he's one of the family." My wife hung up. And wept at the unexpected kindness of strangers. Affordable housing is too expensive for governments to tackle alone and the private sector stands ready to help However well-intentioned, it was a kindness that was killing Gary. They gave him, literally, just enough rope to hang himself. It is a situation which I believe is played out time and again on the streets of Toronto. I see Gary in every makeshift bed and inhabited grate. I see him in the hollow eyes of those who hold their hands out for help. I see him in the screeching alcoholics who frighten passersby. I understand why people shy away. It is easier to dehumanize than to deal with the difficult person inside. Much has been written lately about Mayor David Miller's "gentle" ban on sleeping in Nathan Phillips Square. That plan, which will cost $18.4 million in its first year, will also hire six new outreach workers, add about $11.2 million to fund 1,000 new affordable housing units, and open a new emergency shelter. In response, the plan was attacked by all sides, in some cases labeled "soft" and in others, "draconian." Much of the fire was directed toward the so-called gentle nudging of the homeless from our sight. I recognize the complexity of the issue of homelessness and the need for a multi-pronged solution. It affects all of us in Toronto as a moral issue and is a direct reflection of our quality of life. One component of the solution is the creation of affordable housing supported by all levels of government. This has been a longstanding concern of my employer, the Toronto Board of Trade, and we recognize that it's too expensive for governments to tackle alone. The private sector is willing to be part of the solution but, in return, public policy must make is easier and simpler to acquire land and financing. On a personal note, I believe there must be further formal linkage between homelessness and mental illness. No amount of nudging would help my brother; he needed an outright shove. Frightened by his near-death experience, he agreed to return to Seattle where he is a familiar face to many of the mental health workers there. It hasn't been easy. Once there, tough love soon devolved to no love and he wound up in jail for a lengthy stretch. He finally ended up before a judge who simply shortened his leash. Gary is on probation. He has a caring social worker who has scrupulously managed his Social Security Disability benefits while he was away. My brother is often too sick to even pick up his own money. So now, he has his own room in a supervised hotel, and money doled out to him from a small but steady source of income. He reports to his parole officer every day. If he drinks, he's back in jail. If he takes drugs, he goes back. If he doesn't take his medications, there too, are consequences. Another dilemma. An example of the criminalization of mental illness? Yes. The only way my brother will participate in the medical programs he so desperately needs without being institutionalized or jailed? Yes. An alternative to his homelessness? Yes. Should there be a better way? Yes. Until then, I want my brother to be a criminal rather than another suicide. I want my brother to be in a supervised rooming house instead of living on the street. Part of my brother's new probation package has been his own telephone calling card and he uses it frequently, just to check in. He's calmer and, although I can't honestly say he's happy, there are days you can say he's content. And he has moments of clarity that are wrenching. My brother called one night and asked how I was doing. "I've got a cold," I said somewhat peevishly. "I haven't had one in a long time," he replied. "Well, you're not missing much." There was a beat before he spoke. "Oh," he said. "I miss plenty." It breaks my heart to think on it. But I know it to be true. Glen Grunwald is president and CEO of the Toronto Board of Trade and a former general manager of the Toronto Raptors. Legal Notice: Copyright Toronto Star Newspapers Limited. All rights reserved. From wch@vcn.com Mon Mar 14 00:27:33 2005 From: wch@vcn.com (Virginia Sellner) Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:27:33 -0700 Subject: [Hpn] March Wyoming Winds on line Message-ID: <4234DA75.2010000@vcn.com> The March edition of Wyoming Winds is now on line at: http://www.wch.vcn.com/mar05ww.htm Virginia Sellner Wyoming Coalition for the Homeless 907 Logan Avenue Cheyenne, WY 82001-5247 307-634-8499 307-634-9089 fax web page: http://www.wch.vcn.com StreetViews Index: http://www.wch.vcn.com/wchsv.htm Wyoming Winds Index: http://www.wch.vcn.com/wchwyw.htm From wtinker@metrocast.net Mon Mar 14 23:05:59 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:05:59 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Concord NH First Congregational Church Offers Hope To Homeless Message-ID: <001401c528ea$62ae1000$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> Church shelter aims to save and stabilize lives First Congregational offers hope to homeless By ERIC MOSKOWITZ Monitor staff March 14, 2005 If the Rev. David Keller didn't know what to expect when he opened an emergency cold-weather homeless shelter at the First Congregational Church last winter, he certainly didn't foresee what would happen this winter. In just a year, the shelter has gone from saving lives, a few people and a few nights at a time, to stabilizing them. That happened when the shelter switched from opening at 10 p.m. and operating only on the coldest nights to opening at 7:30 p.m., every night. With the question of survival solved, many of the homeless have been able to focus on a next step, whether that means finding work or getting medical care or seeking permanent housing, Keller said. Along the way, the number of people coming to the shelter has increased nearly tenfold. "I had no idea we'd be in it that deep," said Keller, still amazed at the evolution. He only started the shelter last winter after a chance conversation about the plight of the homeless in the cold. Now the project has gotten so big that, some nights, the South Congregational Church has assumed the spillover. "They're still getting their feet wet, which is just the way it should be," he said. After all, he added, you don't leap into something like this. He thought about that. "Well, I did," he said, sounding a bit sheepish. "I stepped into this thing without having a clue what I was getting into. But this is something that you do not enter into lightly. This is a volatile and rewarding piece of work. You don't know what's going to happen next." Next, most immediately, means winding down the shelter for the year. On March 1, it reverted to cold-weather status, opening when the temperature was expected to dip below 15 degrees. Next year, what form the shelter will take is still anybody's guess. Shelter statistics are kept in terms of bed-nights, the sum of all the beds occupied in a season. Last winter, the shelter provided 84 bed-nights. This winter, it has provided 700 and counting, said Martha Yager, project coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee, which technically runs the shelter. Yager works for the Quaker-founded service organization's economic justice project, focusing on housing policy. Through that work, she had become quite familiar with the agencies that provide direct services to the homeless and had also gotten to know many homeless people themselves. "Come December, I get really grouchy," she said. Keller happened to cross her path on a particularly bitter day in December 2003, when Yager was preoccupied with thoughts of the people she cared about who might freeze to death. "I said, 'Let me see if our church could help,'" said Keller, pastor of Concord's oldest church. After he received the go-ahead from the church's board of trustees, the shelter opened in early January 2004. It operated 38 nights. Before this winter, Keller and Yager decided to open earlier in the evening, and the church board agreed. That led to a dramatic increase in attendance, since many people last winter had already found a place on cold nights by 10 p.m., even if that place was a snow bank, Keller said. The switch to nightly operation, on the other hand, was not premeditated. During an extended cold spell earlier this year, the shelter stayed open for several weeks in a row. The improvement in the lives of shelter guests showed Keller and Yager the importance of staying open every night in February. At the same time, Keller, Yager and church secretary Sue Duckworth found themselves increasingly enmeshed in an unexpected role, helping shelter guests - those who want help; no one is pressured - navigate the social-service provider network. That's been partly a daytime role. The complexity of the system and the intricacies of filling out the needed paperwork can make seeking help discouraging or unproductive for some homeless people, Yager said. Often, guidance and a stable mailing address - in this case, the church - are the difference makers. For example, she said, people who lose their homes will lose Medicaid health benefits if their re-certification forms bounce back to the government from their last-known address. But many don't realize they can continue to receive benefits even if they don't have a home, so long as they designate someone to receive their mail, she said. At night, Yager, Keller and Donna Muir, the church's recently named interim community-outreach director, alternate being on hand to open the shelter, welcome guests and make sure things start smoothly. Volunteers, working two at a time, staff the shelter in shifts, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. and 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. About 60 volunteers rotate through the schedule, Yager said. The shelter is less formal and less regimented than most, in both operations and attitude. "We've tried not to create power differentials between our volunteer supervisors and our guests," Yager said. "We've encouraged them to think of it as a big pajama party and we're all sharing the space together. And to an amazing degree, friendships have sprung up between people, guests and volunteers." The shelter operates out of the education wing of the North Main Street church, with the classrooms converted to cot rooms at night. A room at the end of the hall serves as a lounge, with a couch, television and snack table; by day, it's the storage room for giant bagfuls of bed linens, which volunteers take home to wash. The volunteers have also brought in toothbrushes, towels, soap and other necessities, said Denise Parisi, who has found regular shelter at the church this winter. The volunteers, who often sleep on the floor, have fostered a family atmosphere, she said. "The kindness of strangers is so overwhelming," Parisi said. After 20 years of living in Concord, circumstances -"you fall on bad times, you know?"- led to homelessness this winter for Parisi. The shelter has been "a godsend" and "a house of rest - a house of warmth and peace." Neither Keller nor Yager are sure what will happen next year. Yager envisions the possibility of a broader faith-based shelter network in Concord, to ease some of the burden off the First Congregational Church. Keller said he will present his church board with as much information as possible. "You're looking at a very intense piece of work, and it's my belief that the church needs to hear that whole story and consider it carefully as they move toward a yes or no for next year," he said. But no matter what, he added, the need for this type of shelter in Concord is obvious - to save lives and stabilize them. Concord Monitor Online P.O. Box 1177 Concord NH 03302 Phone: 603-224-5301 E-mail: letters@concordmonitor.com From wtinker@metrocast.net Mon Mar 14 23:07:45 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:07:45 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Concord NH First Congregational Church Offers Hope To Homeless Message-ID: <002601c528ea$a24c87f0$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> Church shelter aims to save and stabilize lives First Congregational offers hope to homeless By ERIC MOSKOWITZ Monitor staff March 14, 2005 If the Rev. David Keller didn't know what to expect when he opened an emergency cold-weather homeless shelter at the First Congregational Church last winter, he certainly didn't foresee what would happen this winter. In just a year, the shelter has gone from saving lives, a few people and a few nights at a time, to stabilizing them. That happened when the shelter switched from opening at 10 p.m. and operating only on the coldest nights to opening at 7:30 p.m., every night. With the question of survival solved, many of the homeless have been able to focus on a next step, whether that means finding work or getting medical care or seeking permanent housing, Keller said. Along the way, the number of people coming to the shelter has increased nearly tenfold. "I had no idea we'd be in it that deep," said Keller, still amazed at the evolution. He only started the shelter last winter after a chance conversation about the plight of the homeless in the cold. Now the project has gotten so big that, some nights, the South Congregational Church has assumed the spillover. "They're still getting their feet wet, which is just the way it should be," he said. After all, he added, you don't leap into something like this. He thought about that. "Well, I did," he said, sounding a bit sheepish. "I stepped into this thing without having a clue what I was getting into. But this is something that you do not enter into lightly. This is a volatile and rewarding piece of work. You don't know what's going to happen next." Next, most immediately, means winding down the shelter for the year. On March 1, it reverted to cold-weather status, opening when the temperature was expected to dip below 15 degrees. Next year, what form the shelter will take is still anybody's guess. Shelter statistics are kept in terms of bed-nights, the sum of all the beds occupied in a season. Last winter, the shelter provided 84 bed-nights. This winter, it has provided 700 and counting, said Martha Yager, project coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee, which technically runs the shelter. Yager works for the Quaker-founded service organization's economic justice project, focusing on housing policy. Through that work, she had become quite familiar with the agencies that provide direct services to the homeless and had also gotten to know many homeless people themselves. "Come December, I get really grouchy," she said. Keller happened to cross her path on a particularly bitter day in December 2003, when Yager was preoccupied with thoughts of the people she cared about who might freeze to death. "I said, 'Let me see if our church could help,'" said Keller, pastor of Concord's oldest church. After he received the go-ahead from the church's board of trustees, the shelter opened in early January 2004. It operated 38 nights. Before this winter, Keller and Yager decided to open earlier in the evening, and the church board agreed. That led to a dramatic increase in attendance, since many people last winter had already found a place on cold nights by 10 p.m., even if that place was a snow bank, Keller said. The switch to nightly operation, on the other hand, was not premeditated. During an extended cold spell earlier this year, the shelter stayed open for several weeks in a row. The improvement in the lives of shelter guests showed Keller and Yager the importance of staying open every night in February. At the same time, Keller, Yager and church secretary Sue Duckworth found themselves increasingly enmeshed in an unexpected role, helping shelter guests - those who want help; no one is pressured - navigate the social-service provider network. That's been partly a daytime role. The complexity of the system and the intricacies of filling out the needed paperwork can make seeking help discouraging or unproductive for some homeless people, Yager said. Often, guidance and a stable mailing address - in this case, the church - are the difference makers. For example, she said, people who lose their homes will lose Medicaid health benefits if their re-certification forms bounce back to the government from their last-known address. But many don't realize they can continue to receive benefits even if they don't have a home, so long as they designate someone to receive their mail, she said. At night, Yager, Keller and Donna Muir, the church's recently named interim community-outreach director, alternate being on hand to open the shelter, welcome guests and make sure things start smoothly. Volunteers, working two at a time, staff the shelter in shifts, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. and 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. About 60 volunteers rotate through the schedule, Yager said. The shelter is less formal and less regimented than most, in both operations and attitude. "We've tried not to create power differentials between our volunteer supervisors and our guests," Yager said. "We've encouraged them to think of it as a big pajama party and we're all sharing the space together. And to an amazing degree, friendships have sprung up between people, guests and volunteers." The shelter operates out of the education wing of the North Main Street church, with the classrooms converted to cot rooms at night. A room at the end of the hall serves as a lounge, with a couch, television and snack table; by day, it's the storage room for giant bagfuls of bed linens, which volunteers take home to wash. The volunteers have also brought in toothbrushes, towels, soap and other necessities, said Denise Parisi, who has found regular shelter at the church this winter. The volunteers, who often sleep on the floor, have fostered a family atmosphere, she said. "The kindness of strangers is so overwhelming," Parisi said. After 20 years of living in Concord, circumstances -"you fall on bad times, you know?"- led to homelessness this winter for Parisi. The shelter has been "a godsend" and "a house of rest - a house of warmth and peace." Neither Keller nor Yager are sure what will happen next year. Yager envisions the possibility of a broader faith-based shelter network in Concord, to ease some of the burden off the First Congregational Church. Keller said he will present his church board with as much information as possible. "You're looking at a very intense piece of work, and it's my belief that the church needs to hear that whole story and consider it carefully as they move toward a yes or no for next year," he said. But no matter what, he added, the need for this type of shelter in Concord is obvious - to save lives and stabilize them. Concord Monitor Online P.O. Box 1177 Concord NH 03302 Phone: 603-224-5301 E-mail: letters@concordmonitor.com From wtinker@metrocast.net Tue Mar 15 00:01:47 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:01:47 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] U.S. Congress Mulls Cutting Food Aid To Poor Message-ID: <008401c528f2$2ea9be00$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> Saturday, March 12, 2005 Congress Mulls Cutting Food Aid to Poor by Libby Quaid WASHINGTON - Cuts in food programs for the poor are getting support in Congress as an alternative to President Bush's idea of slicing billions of dollars from the payments that go to large farm operations. Senior Republicans in both the House and Senate are open to small reductions in farm subsidies, but they adamantly oppose the deep cuts sought by Bush to hold down future federal deficits. The president wants to lower the maximum subsidies that can be collected each year by any one farm operation from $360,000 to $250,000. He also asked Congress to cut by 5 percent all farm payments, and he wants to close loopholes that enable some growers to annually collect millions of dollars in subsidies. Instead, Republican committee chairmen are looking to carve savings from nutrition and land conservation programs that are also run by the Agriculture Department. The government is projected to spend $52 billion this year on nutrition programs like food stamps, school lunches and special aid to low-income pregnant women and children. Farm subsidies will total less than half that, $24 billion. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., said the $36 billion food stamp program is a good place to look for savings. "There's not the waste, fraud and abuse in food stamps that we used to see. ... That number is down to a little over 6 percent now," he said. "But there is a way, just by utilizing the president's numbers, that we can come up with a significant number there." Bush is proposing to withdraw food stamps for certain families already receiving other government assistance. The administration estimates that plan would remove more than 300,000 people from the rolls and save $113 million annually. Chambliss said minimal changes in all three areas of agriculture spending - nutrition, farm supports and conservation - could save what's needed. "I want this to be as painless to every farmer in America as we can make it," he said. House budget writers this week reduced Agriculture Department spending for 2006 by $5.3 billion. Their counterparts in the Senate cut it by $2.8 billion. Bush's proposals would cut farm spending by $8 billion as calculated by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The House and Senate plan to vote on initial versions of the budget next week. Anti-hunger and environmental groups are worried. "Particularly in the House, the members are talking about taking all or most of it from nutrition," said Jim Weill, president of the Washington-based Food Research and Action Center. "There isn't a way to do it that doesn't hurt, because the program's very lean and doesn't give people enough anyhow. The benefits are less than people need. The program's not reaching even three-fifths of the people who are eligible. And the abuse rate is very low and is going down further." Eric Bost, the Agriculture Department's undersecretary for food, nutrition and consumer programs, told a House appropriations panel this week the programs are so efficient now it would be difficult to save money by targeting waste and fraud. Rep. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., said food stamps are vital to many Americans, "but like all government programs, there are ways to save money." Chambliss and other Republicans say they are open to modest cuts in farm programs, such as a small across-the-board cut in all payments to growers. While budget writers and lawmakers from farm states oppose the deep cuts Bush wants, they still are very much on the table. Before finalizing its budget plan, the Senate Budget Committee approved language saying Congress should follow Bush's plan for cutting the maximum payments any one farmer can receive. That would hurt cotton and rice growers in the South and California much more than wheat, soybean and corn growers in the farm belt. "This amendment just makes sense," said Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, who sponsored the measure with Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D. "Any reduction in farm spending should be achieved by better targeting farm program payments to small- and medium-sized farmers." According to Agriculture Department estimates, 78 percent of subsidies go to 8 percent of producers. There is wide support for a cap on subsidies. Both the House and Senate voted in favor of a strict $275,000 cap when lawmakers debated the 2002 farm bill. In an election-year compromise, House and Senate negotiators raised the ceiling to $360,000 and left loopholes intact. "If you took a vote tomorrow, you'd have overwhelming support for the payment limit proposal," said Scott Faber, spokesman for the group Environmental Defense. "The overwhelming majority of farmers get less than $250,000 a year." But the chairmen of the Senate and House agriculture committee are both southerners, as is the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, where the actual spending decisions will be made. The appropriations chairman in the House is a Californian. ___ On the Net: Congress: http://thomas.loc.gov © Copyrighted 1997-2005 www.commondreams.org From wtinker@metrocast.net Tue Mar 15 09:18:24 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 04:18:24 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] TransHomeless.pdf Message-ID: <005201c5293f$f04e02d0$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> Hi, I do not know if you ever got a chance to look at this or not, but this is the National Coalition on Homelessness down loadable version of "Making our Shelters Safer for Transgendered Persons." FYI Click on and copy. http://www.thetaskforce.org/downloads/TransHomeless.pdf A Brother In The Struggle Bill www.newhampshirehomeless.org From wtinker@metrocast.net Tue Mar 15 14:20:31 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:20:31 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Homeless Have Learned How To Survive On The Street Or In The Woods Message-ID: <000201c5296a$434fc2a0$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> www.news-journalonline.com/ Homeless carve out a life on the street and in the woods By MARK I. JOHNSON Staff Writer March 15, 2005 EDGEWATER -- Jim Kritchen wears his life on the street like an old suit. It is rumpled, but fits and will do until something better comes along. "I am grateful for what I got," the 50-year-old said as he prepared a fire in a concrete block pit in the middle of his wooded camp. "I have a roof over my head and a tent to keep the rain out." But don't think life on the street is easy. It can even be dangerous. Kritchen said he feared for his life after witnessing a murder in his camp. His camp mate, David Grover East, 50, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder after investigators accused him of bludgeoning John Michael Householder, 52, several times with a hatchet Feb. 23. Such tales are not unfamiliar to Lindsay Roberts, executive director of the Volusia/Flagler County Homeless Coalition. She said people living on the streets are at greater risk of violence, either as predators or prey, than those who live behind locked doors. The coalition's homeless assistance center staff members in Daytona Beach regularly see evidence of violence in the form of bruises or black eyes, she said. However, Roberts and law enforcement officials said such incidents rarely are reported. Kritchen admitted he was reluctant to report the murder in his own camp, but eventually came forward because he was scared and did not want police to think he was an accomplice. A search of newspaper archives shows there were almost a dozen violent deaths dating to 1995 involving people -- as victims or the accused -- without a permanent address, listed as transient or homeless, in Volusia County. More common, however, according to area law enforcement personnel, are minor violations such as trespassing, disorderly intoxication, public drinking or being in public areas past regular hours. Daytona Beach police Lt. Rick Myers, who also is president of the Homeless Coalition, said officers often hear stories of fights or worse but most never reach official channels because the victims do not want to file a complaint. "They do not want to interact with cops, so sometimes things happen we do not know about," he said. Roberts agrees. "The homeless survive by being invisible," she said. "They do not want to attract attention so they suffer because they do not want to run afoul of the authorities." However, Myers said the homeless population generally is no different than the rest of the community. "There are a lot of people who are homeless and nonviolent," he said. "But there is a criminal segment in the homeless society, just as there is in the regular society." Before coming to Florida, David Grover East served time in a North Carolina prison for second-degree murder in the mid-1990s. Kritchen said he knew. Kritchen, who has his own criminal past -- ranging from drug offenses to domestic battery -- according to public records, has been homeless off and on since 2001 when his fiancee died and the bank foreclosed on their Florida Shores home. For a time he lived in motels while working as a day laborer. But he said a stroke, two heart attacks and bypass surgery prevented him from keeping a job, so now he's in the woods, living off food stamps and whatever money he receives from occasional panhandling. "I might live in the woods but I eat well," he said. Advocates estimate there are 2,638 homeless people living in Volusia and Flagler counties, with the largest concentration in the Daytona Beach area. Most, according to the Homeless Coalition's Roberts, would prefer to have a permanent residence but a few, about 8 to 10 percent, choose their lives. "We call those the chronically homeless," she said. Daytona Beach police spokesman Sgt. Al Tolley said his officers call them "urban woodsmen." "The ones we find out in the woods do not want to go to shelters," he said. If they need medical attention, they will seek it out, but they do not want shelters." Kritchen's own camp was tucked into the middle of an oak hammock between West Knapp and 10th streets on Edgewater's northern border. A winding trail leads to a tarp-roofed kitchen/pantry/storage area tucked among the trees. Makeshift shelves are stocked with canned meat and vegetables. Jars of spaghetti sauce sit next to cans of pork and beans while a shallow basket hanging from a tree holds potatoes and onions. The perishables are stored out of the elements in a locked plastic bin. There is a recycled dining room table and rusted metal chairs on which to sit. Freshly raked sand, conspicuously free of trash or debris, surrounds the makeshift structure. While a few yards away, tucked under a small stand of palms, is Kritchen's one-man tent. Raymond Potts wishes he lived this well. "I sleep under the palms," he said with a sad smile. Potts, a part-time roofer, said he has been in the woods for about four months. "I used to live with my brother," he said. But a falling out prompted him to move on. "I am trying to save up enough money for a place," the 48-year-old said. "It is hard when they want you to have $1,500 just to move in." So for now, he sleeps where he can and survives, usually with the help of friends like Kritchen. "The homeless take care of their own," he said. Roberts said there aren't many alternatives for those living on the street. The Salvation Army in Daytona Beach provides the only emergency shelter in the area, Roberts said, and its 36 beds go quickly. If you don't get one of those, you are on the street, she said. Even the streets are not a sure thing. Tolley said in Daytona Beach if an officer finds a homeless camp they usually work with the property owner and move the squatters. That policy is not universal. Some agencies, including the Sheriff's Office, do not proactively patrol known homeless camps looking for problems or forcefully removing those who live there. "Ordinarily, homeless camps spring up on private property," sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson said. "In the absence of a complaint from the property owner, we have no justification for forcing the residents to move. Quite frankly, that would simply cause the problem to relocate and wouldn't accomplish anything." However, Davidson stressed that does not mean his agency ignores problems. The department takes appropriate action in those cases where a criminal offense has occurred. Davidson's counterpart in Flagler County, Debra Johnson, said her agency rarely deals with the homeless. "We don't have any services for the homeless so they do not tend to congregate here," the Sheriff's Office spokeswoman said. Kritchen has been caught in the net of trespass himself. Recently the owner of the property where he located his camp asked Edgewater authorities to move him off the land. "I had a feeling that something like this was going to happen," Kritchen said. Where will he go? Kritchen has no idea. "I just have to play it by ear," he said. mark.johnson@news-jrnl.com DID YOU KNOW? Far from being a new concern, the issue of homelessness reached the public's consciousness during the 1930s: · Many Americans lost their jobs and life savings as a result of the economic collapse known as the Great Depression. As mortgages on homes and farms were foreclosed, thousands were left homeless. Shantytowns consisting of shacks and old crates -- nicknamed "Hoovervilles" after then-President Herbert Hoover -- formed in cities across America. © 2005 News-Journal Corporation From wtinker@metrocast.net Tue Mar 15 16:10:08 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:10:08 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Poverty Quote~MLK~ Message-ID: <004c01c52979$757bb3b0$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> "It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty." Martin Luther King, Jr. From wtinker@metrocast.net Tue Mar 15 23:13:16 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:13:16 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Iraq War Vets on Anti-War Offensive~Off Topic~ Message-ID: <004e01c529b4$9197e470$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> Flash Presentation: John Cory | Tribute to the Lost and Wounded: Iraq War Second Anniversary, March 19th http://www.truthout.org/mm_01/1Tribute.swf A Brother In Peace And In Strife Bill William Charles Tinker www.newhampshirehomeless.org From wtinker@metrocast.net Wed Mar 16 08:12:31 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 03:12:31 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Alaska National Wildlife Refuge destruction vote tomorrow~OT~ Message-ID: <000701c529ff$e71acde0$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> Earlier today on the Ed Schultz show Senator Harry Reid appealed for the American people to "RISE UP" against the invasion of the the ANWR (Alaska National Wildlife Refuge) for an iffy 6 month's drop in the oil bucket. The Republican's are going to try to sneak this through TOMORROW using a budget trick tomorrow. We need you to SPEAK OUT NOW, especially if you are in Hawaii, both senators Akaka and Inouye, and also Landrieu from Louisiana http://www.usalone.com/anwr.htm This is an urgent action request. The above webpage instantly sends your personal message directly to all your members of Congress with one click. Senator Reid says they just need ONE more vote against to stop this thing. Please take action now to help win the last vote to make this a reality. From wtinker@metrocast.net Thu Mar 17 12:24:39 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:24:39 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Tent City 4 invited to new church site Message-ID: <008501c52aec$4a03d220$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> Tent City 4 invited to new church site Full story: http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=tentcity17e&date=20050317 By Rachel Tuinstra Seattle Times Eastside bureau Less than a month into Tent City 4's stay at Kirkland Congregational United Church of Christ, the homeless encampment has been invited to move to another Kirkland church whenever it needs to. Lake Washington United Methodist Church has sent Tent City 4 leaders an open invitation to move to its grounds, at 7525 132nd Ave. N.E. "Care and compassion for the poor is a biblical responsibility for people of faith," said the Rev. Jim Head-Corliss, the church's pastor. "We don't know if they have accepted our invitation, but we want them to know it is open to them at any time in the future." Head-Corliss said that many church members volunteer to cook meals at the tent city and have gotten to know the residents. The church plans to hold a community meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday to discuss the possibility of the tent city's move to the neighborhood. Tent-city residents have not yet had a chance to discuss the church's invitation, said Bruce Thomas, Tent City 4 resident and a camp adviser. "Of course we are grateful, and it would be good for everybody to know where we are going next," Thomas said. "We have not had a chance to vote on it yet." The tent city plans to stay at its current location, across from City Hall and the Kirkland Police Department, until mid-May, when its 90-day permit runs out. Rachel Tuinstra: 206-515-5637 or rtuinstra@seattletimes.com From wtinker@metrocast.net Thu Mar 17 17:37:30 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:37:30 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] {AMA} Moves To Evict Message-ID: <013201c52b17$fe7eeb60$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> http://allAfrica.com March 17, 2005 Charles Takyi-Boadu -As AMA moves for eviction The Metro Works Department (MWD) of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), is to evict all squatters behind the main Korle-Bu Polyclinic, where most of the Orderlies of the hospital live. Notices given the squatters on March 10, 2005, gave them a week's notice, which ends today, March 17th, 2005. Some of these orderlies have lived at this place for well over 20 years, without any complaint whatsoever, from any quarters. The orderlies who had bemoaned the paltry sum of ¢263,000.00 they receive as monthly salaries, see the action as a further deepening of their woes. When contacted, Mr. Thomas Agyare, the Chief Building Inspector of the Metro Works Department said the action was being undertaken as a result of the illegality of those structures. He stressed that though the land is a property of the hospital, it had no power whatsoever to put up unauthorized structures. According to him, the MWD therefore thought it prudent in the interest of law and order, to evict them. Asked why the authorities of the hospital had not been given any notification to that effect, he indicated that the hospital itself did not erect those structures and even if it did, it would amount to an illegality. He noted that the residents were living under very unhygienic conditions since the place had no toilet facilities, and they defecated anywhere. AMA, he said, would therefore move into action any time, not excluding today. Mustapha Salifu, the Public Relations Officer of the hospital, however said they had not officially received any information on the eviction, therefore would not pass any comment. The residents have appealed to both authorities of the AMA and the Chief Executive of the hospital, to consider their plight. http://allAfrica.com Copyright © 2005 Ghanaian Chronicle. All rights reserved. From wtinker@metrocast.net Fri Mar 18 11:32:17 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 06:32:17 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Opinons On Ten Year Plan To End Homelessness Message-ID: <00b601c52bae$23ca1fc0$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> www.denverpost.com/ Friday, March 18, 2005 Panel visiting shelters for opinions on homeless plan By The Denver Post Denver's Commission to End Homelessness has begun visiting the city's homeless shelters to solicit comments and opinions on its draft 10-year plan. The commission's plan, which it intends to deliver to Mayor John Hickenlooper and the City Council in May, calls for assistance programs and affordable-housing help estimated to cost several million dollars a year in city, state and federal money. The plan proposes construction of 2,493 apartments during the next 10 years to help homeless people get off the street. It also proposes expanding shelter hours, adding shelter beds and more funding for eviction assistance and first-time renters, among other things. "I like the plan, but it doesn't reach far enough," said Dwight Henson, a 43-year-old formerly homeless man who heard about the commission's plan at the St. Francis shelter Thursday. "They said 2,500 (apartments), but there's 8,500 people on the street. And we're concerned that if they get these places built, will they make homelessness illegal?" All contents Copyright 2005 The Denver Post or other copyright holders. All rights reserved. From gbacque@colosseum.com Sun Mar 20 01:23:16 2005 From: gbacque@colosseum.com (Graeme Bacque) Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 20:23:16 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Kelowna RCMP plan to seize shopping carts from homeless Message-ID: <423CD084.1070808@colosseum.com> http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/03/18/homelesscarts-050318.html Kelowna RCMP plan to seize shopping carts from homeless Last Updated Sat, 19 Mar 2005 09:39:35 EST CBC News KELOWNA, B.C. - Street people in the B.C. Interior city of Kelowna have been told by the RCMP they have until April 1 to surrender their shopping carts – or have them seized. The police said the carts, worth up to $350 each, are stolen property. They said they're simply enforcing the law after complaints by the city and the business community. But homeless people, who can often be seen trundling around Kelowna's downtown core with everything they own on the carts, said they're crucial for their survival. "These are really these people's homes. They carry their homes in their shopping carts," said Bob, who is homeless. "Then they get it taken away. Their sleeping bag is gone. Their clothes are gone. And they call us bums, right, because they took our stuff." Anti-poverty advocates accused the police of targeting the poor. Candace Sutherland of the Drop-In Centre said that if the police take away people's carts, the city should build a day-storage facility where they can store their few belongings. Michelle Rule, who is on Kelowna's committee on the homeless, said her group is working on long-term solutions, including more shelters and places for the homeless. She said they're also looking for help from the business community to acquire some warehouse space that street people could use to store their belongings safely during the day. But Rule warned that it could take some time to find a storage space and get it set up. -- This message is certified virus-free.. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.7.4 - Release Date: 3/18/2005 From wtinker@metrocast.net Sun Mar 20 12:55:12 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 07:55:12 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Empowering,Not Enabling Homeless Message-ID: <008201c52d4c$0e246dc0$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> Sun, Mar. 20, 2005 Empowering, not enabling, homeless By Bob Ray Sanders Star-Telegram Staff Writer • The Unity Park project strives to teach the area's homeless how to provide for themselves. Feeding the homeless has become the activity of choice for many churches and community groups that are eager to serve what the Bible calls "the least of these." Some days, within a few feet of each other, competing churches set up chuck-wagon-style food service around East Lancaster Avenue, often providing more food than Fort Worth's homeless people can eat in two days, much less one. It may be that the impromptu feeding programs, which temporarily satisfy a destitute person's hunger while fulfilling the church folks' need to do good, may do more to enable homelessness than to break the insidious cycle of street life. At least one man thinks he has an idea that will bring churches together in a more coordinated effort to serve the homeless while also assisting them in becoming more productive -- people who can give back to the community rather than continue taking from it. Neale Mansfield, a Euless landscaper, started a nonprofit organization several months ago that was originally intended to teach landscaping skills and gardening to disadvantaged people. It wouldn't take long, however, for his Feed by Grace ministry to become involved with the large homeless population in Fort Worth and Tarrant County. He quickly began to pull together a coalition to raise awareness of the many issues faced by those who have all but given up hope of living a normal life. Mansfield understands the street people well, in part because he has been accosted by some of the same demons as they. "Five years ago," he said, "the Lord delivered me from 25 years of substance abuse, the last six or so years of which crack was my drug of substance. "I spent tens of thousands of dollars on crack at dope houses on Terrell, Jessamine, Harvey, Hattie and other streets, just to name a few, and have a strong desire to make positive difference in those neighborhoods as well as in the lives of the shelter residents." He got in touch with a near-south-side businesswoman, Flora Brewer, who provided a small plot of land that has been developed into a park for the homeless. Across the street from the Presbyterian Night Shelter, Unity Park was officially dedicated last month as the coalition, Tarrant Area Unity in the Community, staged a large "Homeless Awareness Day." On a cool night in February, more than 200 high school students went to the site at Cedar and Presidio streets, not to hand out sandwiches and sodas, but to spend the night among the homeless. The next morning, they arose and went to work, planting shrubs and creating nine raised-bed vegetable gardens. This month, they will return to plant gardens that will be tended by the homeless. At harvest time, they will give food they raised to low-income elderly people in the neighborhood. "For years, churches have been coming down to the East Lancaster corridor on Saturdays and have been feeding the homeless," Mansfield said. "While this is very noble, when you have 20 groups feeding on a given day, the feeding frenzy becomes overkill by 10 a.m. Clothing and toiletries are also given out. "Please don't get me wrong. I'm not condemning in the least. In fact, I praise God for placing a burden for the homeless on the hearts of so many. "It's just by focusing on food and clothes all the time, we end up enabling them to remain homeless rather than empowering them to come out of homelessness. That is our mission at Unity Park." The park will give churches a place to offer their ministries -- food for the body and spirit -- and the coalition will help them coordinate their work. It will also be a place for social gatherings and recreation, along with mentoring and life-skills programs, landscape training and counseling. Mansfield is starting a 12-week work-study program in which four landscape trainees at a time can learn a trade, actually work and get paid three days of the week. It is hoped that they will move into full-time employment by the end of the experience. "All this will make these individuals marketable at the end of the 12 weeks," Mansfield said. "If they pass drug tests -- and we won't start giving them until week four or five -- show up for work every day and do X amount of volunteer hours, we will help them get a full-time job, place them in transitional homes and start a new 12 weeks with new candidates." This is an ambitious and optimistic effort, but it is a worthwhile one. If you or your organization would like to be a part of it, contact Mansfield at (817) 300-0918. Bob Ray Sanders' column appears Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays. (817) 390-7775 bobray@star-telegram.com From wtinker@metrocast.net Sun Mar 20 13:25:35 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 08:25:35 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Homeless Group Coming Into It's Own Message-ID: <012201c52d50$4c9146b0$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_011F_01C52D26.63ACE6D0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit www.tennessean.com/ Sunday, 03/20/05 Homeless group coming into its own By JAY HAMBURG Staff Writer It looks like a business workshop with lists taped to the wall, agendas ranked by urgency and people discussing rules of order, but it's a meeting of homeless and formerly homeless people in Nashville. And at the most recent meeting last week, a group of about 10 folks who gathered at the Downtown Presbyterian Church talked about becoming higher profile and better organized. That's important, they say, because as Metro begins to tackle homelessness formally as part of its 10-year plan, who better to provide expertise and critiques of proposals that will come before the Homelessness Commission? The homeless in Nashville want to show they are not merely a hard luck, scattered group with substance abuse and psychological troubles - although many do fit that description. But a small segment is emerging and organizing as something like a grass-roots political action group. The group, known as the Homeless Power Project, was founded in 2002. Led by a group of formerly homeless and working homeless, it is now coming into its own. Although there is neither a president nor an official structure, members have plans for becoming a formal, nonprofit group with a tax-exempt status later this year. That would make them one of just a handful of similar groups in the nation. ''There is a scattering of homeless people's organizations around the country run by homeless people,'' said Michael Stoops, acting executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless in Washington. ''It's something we encourage,'' Stoops said. ''If we're ever going to end homelessness, we need to get leadership among the homeless population.'' But many who work with the homeless say it takes a long time to help people out of that condition, much less to create steady leadership among those with little stability. ''God is patient,'' said John Zirker, who followed a drug addiction into several years of homelessness before gradually gaining control of his life. Zirker, who now heads a residents' group in Metro public housing, said the weekly meetings of the Power Project help him focus on the future and how he can help. He and a few others spent part of their last meeting practicing public speaking - something that doesn't come easily to those who have seen their lives unravel and have felt their spirits broken by a hopeless life on the streets. They hope, however, to challenge some of the negative stereotypes by speaking to churches, schools, civic groups and even some political gatherings. Why is it important for them to know what impression they make on others as speakers? ''Communication is the biggest tool we have,'' said David ''Cowboy'' Luttrell, who said he is living in his car while working some odd jobs in construction. ''People know about the homeless, but they don't want to look at us.'' Luttrell, who said he was a bull rider when he was younger, talks openly about how his injuries led to drinking and drugs and the loss of nearly everything he had. But slowly, he said, he has regained some balance and quit the abuse. ''We just want a little dignity,'' he said. ''We know we've got drug and alcohol problems among us. We know we're dealing with mental disturbances.'' And yet, Luttrell said, some things do get better. ''We're actually getting things done.'' Small victories With some help from Matt Leber, who heads the Nashville Peace and Justice Center and advises the Power Project on how to set goals and agendas, the group has had some successes. About a year ago, they pointed out to the Davidson County sheriff that many homeless are not trying to avoid warrants, but they can't find a way out to the general booking center in southeast Davidson County. In response, the sheriff's department opened a booking center for the homeless that operates two days a week at the Criminal Justice Center. ''It's gone really well,'' said Eric Bauder, who is manager of booking operations at the center. ''We didn't know it was a concern. But we were glad to help out.'' Members of the Homeless Power Project also have met with police recruits at the training academy and at some precincts. They even have done role-playing exercises with some, so that the homeless and the officers get a better understanding of each other. Commander Andy Garrett said his Central Precinct officers would rather take a homeless person involved in a minor infraction to a social services agency for help than to arrest the person. It saves time and keeps the police available for bigger problems. Howard Allen, one of the homeless men who met with police, said he doesn't advocate letting homeless people escape crimes. But he does advocate trying to help them out of their problems. Allen, who works part time taking care of an elderly man and for a cleaning service, said he hopes to apply for public housing soon. But he credits his religion and several social service groups with helping him slowly regain a sense of normalcy. ''Sometimes,'' Allen said, ''instead of pointing that finger at someone, you need to reach out that hand.'' Learning to speak During the public-speaking practice session, ''Cowboy'' told about the little dog he used to carry with him when he lived outside - the little dog that barked when trouble loomed. When he was really depressed and feeling ill, the dog's need to get up and eat gave him a reason to keep going. Now, though, the dog is dead and he doesn't think he should get a new one because he lives in a car. But he misses the sense of security and companionship the dog gave him. Then another man stood up, uncapped a thick-pointed marker and asked for reactions among the group, jotting comments about the speakers' styles on a big piece of white paper that was taped to the wall. The listeners praised, critiqued and talked about getting to the point quicker. They reminded Cowboy to remember to say something about the needs of all the homeless, but they said his talk was from the heart. He nodded as he sat down. Zirker reached over and tapped him. ''Hey, we'll be your dog.'' 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staff reporter March 20, 2005 Dennis Glover spreads out his pile of Metra schedules and Pace bus maps on a table in a homeless center in Wheaton. Finally, he has a lead on a job. But having lost his DuPage County home and car, Glover, 52, has to figure out how he would get to work each day. He also has to find a way to get from work to each night's shelter, which moves to a different suburban church--often to a different town--each night. After scribbling in a green pocket-sized notebook and studying the maps for an hour, he sets down his pen. "I think I can do it," he says. He'd have to leave shelters before 4 a.m. some days, trek through industrial parks and along dark highways with no sidewalks. But he would do anything to get his life back. In Chicago's suburbs, the infrastructure that supports some of the most expensive housing in the nation also presents challenges to the homeless trying to work their way back to a home. And even if they have a job--a regional homelessness survey suggests almost 45 percent of the homeless in Chicago's suburbs do--finding an affordable apartment is proving to be more difficult. In DuPage County, the National Low Income Housing Coalition estimates that a person needs to make $17.42 an hour to afford a two-bedroom apartment at fair-market rent. In Lake County, a person earning minimum wage would have to work 107 hours a week to afford a two-bedroom apartment at fair-market rent, the coalition estimates. More people are turning to shelters. Mary Gajcak, homeless continuum coordinator with the Will County Center for Community Concerns, said their shelters are seeing all-time high numbers. McHenry County's shelters serve a few hundred, but homeless advocates say they saw a 60 percent increase last year. Advocates say they struggle for recognition of the problem because the homeless blend into the suburban landscape. "In Chicago, you can see it. You are confronted with it every day. Here, you miss the person sleeping in the car," said Jack Nichols, executive director of McHenry County Public Action to Deliver Shelter, or PADS. In DuPage County, an increasing number of people are trying to make themselves invisible in a land of Lincoln Navigators and upscale coffee shops--often for 12 hours a day, between the time they leave the PADS site in the morning and travel to the next site. Maps don't reveal everything. Here, among mazes of office parks, streets that aren't pedestrian-friendly and difficult public transportation options, Glover learns which restaurant owners will let him buy a 43-cent coffee and spend a couple hours drinking it to avoid the cold. He learns the definition of "public areas" and the hours of libraries and train stations. His feet feel the mileage between shelter sites, because bus and train tickets must be conserved. Churches and synagogues in suburban PADS networks take turns hosting shelters from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. most days. Last year, DuPage provided services 339 nights; this year the goal is to offer shelter every night, said Carol Simler, executive director of DuPage PADS. In some other counties, the shelters are open only during the winter; in the summers, the homeless camp. Glover, a millwright by trade, has been at PADS steadily since about August when "alcoholism got the best of me," he said. He now attends AA regularly and sees a counselor. "I'm like a new person now; I've just got to get a new life here," he said. On a recent day, he starts early at the Lombard shelter site, trudging along the cracked shoulder of Butterfield Road as cars whiz past him in the dark. Some other homeless people have left already, headed to work. It's 21 degrees outside, 10 if you count the windchill, and the bundled men and women at the bus stop definitely do as they wait half an hour for the bus. Most of the "PAD-ites," as they call themselves, are headed to downtown Wheaton, where a PADS day center is open to everyone until 1 p.m. Thursdays only. There they may use the laundry facility, phone and showers. Glover drops a bright blue bag on the floor. Weighing about 40 pounds, it holds his remaining belongings, except for his toolbox, which a relative keeps for him. He pours a cup of coffee and checks for messages. Around him, people are reading, attending employment sessions, watching the coffeepot for the next pot to brew. After mapping his route should he get that job, Glover starts thinking about where he can get a bus pass to get to work. Advocates say that navigating communities designed for cars is a big hurdle for the homeless. In McHenry County, PADS pays $1,600 a week for a van to transport the homeless from site to site and sometimes to job interviews, Nichols said. The people having to travel from shelter to shelter seem to divide into three groups--those who are mentally ill and can't access services they need, those struggling with drug or alcohol addiction, and those here because of a layoff, divorce or unaffordable housing. Suburban networks strained The housing and economic pressures have revealed cracks in suburban networks for the poor--cracks advocates and human services officials say they are desperately trying to fill. DuPage PADS staffers recently had to direct a woman with a newborn baby to a Chicago program because they couldn't find a place for her. A church in Glen Ellyn started opening its doors Sunday afternoons because there was no place in town for the homeless to warm themselves on Sundays. Advocates say they're seeing more families and pregnant women and have no space in existing programs for them. As many children have been in the DuPage shelters in the first six months of this fiscal year as all of last year, Simler said. "We need a safety net for the people who fall through our safety nets," said Candace King, executive director of the DuPage Federation on Human Services Reform. Those falling through include people like Jennifer Marcus, a 25-year-old mother who was 7 1/2 months pregnant last month. She had been working at a Walgreens, but after her husband went to jail and her car broke down, she didn't have a way to get to work. The buses didn't run late enough for her late-night shift, and she had to quit. With no subsidized housing available, she went to the homeless shelter with 2-year-old Rebecca. "It's not easy with children. It's hard to do things like potty-train and teach them right from wrong," she said. Marcus said she gets roughly $300 a month in public aid as well as food stamps, not enough to afford an apartment. She has been homeless since October. "I don't want pity; I don't want people looking at me and thinking I'm a bad mother," she said. In the last few weeks, she has been staying with friends while awaiting her baby's birth but occasionally has been back at PADS with her daughter. King said DuPage doesn't have as many chronically homeless as more urban areas, but "we do have a lot more episodically homeless people." `Second-degree homeless' Advocates also talk about "second-degree homeless people," or people who are crowding into apartments with relatives or paying more than an affordable rent. DuPage County volunteers mobilize quickly, said Mary Ellen Durbin of the People's Resource Center, which serves low-income residents. But the needs have grown so quickly, especially among those overburdened by rental or mortgage payments, she said. Philip, 45, who asked his last name not be used, has been homeless a month. A printing pressman, he lost his job in October. He emptied his savings but wasn't able to make his mortgage payment. He's working with the PADS staff on his resume. "Being here is hard. It's depressing," he said. Housing advocates say they have a plan to create more places for the homeless, but in the meantime, many "transitional" housing programs--temporary homes for people looking for work--are full. Waiting lists for subsidized housing are closed. After a few hours at the DuPage day center, talk turns to how this group of homeless will get to the next shelter site. Today, the group is lucky--the doors to the Wheaton Metra station are open, and several head there for warmth as they wait four hours for their train. Rebecca sleeps in her stroller as her mother writes a letter nearby. Phil keeps an eye out for the police to avoid trespassing tickets. Another pregnant woman sleeps on a bench. Glover takes the train to West Chicago and sits in a restaurant sipping coffee for nearly an hour as he waits for the night's shelter to open. He walks up the dark road to the church. People who still have their cars, but not their homes, start pulling in. The line moves slowly, but finally Glover is inside. Finally, he doesn't need to pretend that he's invisible. Copyright (c) 2005, Chicago Tribune From wtinker@metrocast.net Tue Mar 22 00:11:30 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:11:30 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] ICH e-newsletter Message-ID: <004b01c52e73$b37cbb60$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0048_01C52E49.CA93A090 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ICH e-newsletter =20 The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness e-newsletter = Reporting on Innovative Solutions to End Homelessness = 03.21.05=20 =20 In this issue...=20 a.. SPECIAL EDITION: IN WASHINGTON: $1,010,000,000 ANNOUNCED = BY HUD FOR TARGETED HOMELESS ASSISTANCE=20 a.. $10 MILLION COMPETITION ANNOUNCED FOR HOUSING FOR PEOPLE = WHO ARE HOMELESS AND ADDICTED TO ALCOHOL=20 =20 Partners In a Vision =20 SPECIAL EDITION: IN WASHINGTON: $1,010,000,000 ANNOUNCED BY = HUD FOR TARGETED HOMELESS ASSISTANCE=20 =20 THIS SPECIAL EDITION of e-news highlights today's announcement by = the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) of = $1,010,000,000 in competitive homeless assistance funds in two = categories. McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants of approximately = $1 billion are available, with applications due June 10, 2005. In = addition, $10 million is available under the Housing for People who are = Homeless and Addicted to Alcohol competition for 10 2-year grants of = approximately $1 million each. Applications are due May 19, 2005. Below = are highlighted changes for 2005 which include, but are not limited to, = the following. The NOFA itself and the Questions and Answers document = should be thoroughly reviewed for details. HUD will host a Webcast on = this competition on April 7, from 11am to 2 pm EST.=20 Samaritan Housing Initiative. Formerly referred to as the = Permanent Housing Bonus, this special incentive to promote permanent = supportive housing for the chronically homeless is provided to Continuum = of Care systems that place an eligible, new permanent housing project in = the number one priority position on the priority list. If the number one = priority project qualifies as an eligible, new permanent housing project = exclusively serving the chronically homeless, then the full amount of = that project's eligible housing activities, up to a maximum 15 percent = of the Continuum of Care's preliminary pro rata need, will be added to = the pro rata need amount for the Continuum. The only eligible activities = that will be counted toward this bonus are housing activities and for = Supportive Housing Program (SHP), case management, and administration. = Applicants may use no more than 20 percent of this bonus for case = management costs. Please note: any amount of the proposed project that = exceeds the limitations described above will be applied against the pro = rata need for the Continuum of Care. For the SHP program, housing = activities are acquisition, new construction, rehabilitation, leasing of = housing and operating costs when used in connection with housing. S+C = and SRO rental assistance are defined as housing activities and are = eligible under the incentive as well. HMIS costs will be excluded from = this calculation as either a housing or supportive service cost.=20 Continuum of Care (CoC) Hold Harmless Amount. This is the total of = the one-year amount of all SHP projects eligible for renewal. A = Continuum shall receive the higher of: (1) the preliminary pro rata need = (PRN) or (2) the CoC hold harmless amount. In the past, HUD awarded a = renewal adjustment when the amount needed to fund all eligible renewals = for one year exceeded the preliminary pro rata need. An unintended = consequence of this policy resulted in CoCs having to request renewal of = projects that in their judgment did not best reflect the current needs = of the community. CoCs receiving the CoC hold harmless amount will now = have the opportunity to reallocate their PRN funds in order to create = new permanent supportive housing projects. This will provide them with = the same flexibility that CoCs without excessive SHP renewals have.=20 Participant Eligibility for Permanent Housing. The only persons = who may be served by permanent housing projects (both new and renewal) = are those who come from the streets, emergency shelters, or transitional = housing. People who are currently housed but may become homeless within = seven days, remain eligible for transitional housing and emergency = shelters.=20 Grant Terms. The grant terms for all newly proposed SHP projects = are two (2) or three (3) years. Scoring Changes. The "Housing Emphasis"' = scoring has been increased from 10 to 12 points. See Section V.A.2.a.(5) = for additional information on this subject. The "Performance = Measurement'' scoring has been increased from 5 to 8 points . The = "Leveraging Supplemental Resources'' scoring has been reduced from 13 to = 8 points.=20 Read the full announcement =20 $10 MILLION COMPETITION ANNOUNCED FOR HOUSING FOR PEOPLE WHO = ARE HOMELESS AND ADDICTED TO ALCOHOL=20 =20 ALSO announced today is a new $10 million competition for Housing = for People who are Homeless and Addicted to Alcohol. Eligible applicants = are States, local government, other government agencies, and public and = private nonprofit organizations that are part of a Continuum of Care in = jurisdictions that have at least 100 people who are chronically homeless = and unsheltered. Eligible activities are limited to leasing of housing = and limited housing search and administrative expenses. For the purpose = of this NOFA, housing activities include only leasing and housing = search.=20 The new program is designed to provide supportive housing = assistance to chronically homeless persons who have been living on the = streets for at least three hundred sixty-five (365) days over the last = five (5) years and have a long term addiction to alcohol, otherwise = known as serial inebriates. Clients served by these funds will have been = living on the streets at the time of initial contact and will have no = history of living in transitional or permanent housing over the last = five years. Grantees will partner with local law enforcement and court = systems and other relevant institutions to identify eligible clients for = this program. Grantees will demonstrate existing relationships with = service providers, including grassroots community- based organizations = including faith-based organizations, to ensure the comprehensive = supportive services needs of the clients are addressed (through other = funds). The project must be located within a Continuum of Care that has = at least 100 people who are chronically homeless and unsheltered, = according to the Continuum of Care or a recent official count.=20 It is the intent of Congress that funds awarded under this NOFA = support innovative solutions, which frequently result when local = community organizations work together. Building upon existing = collaborations, grantees are expected to work in conjunction with local = law enforcement agencies and courts, including the police department, = sheriffs department, superior court, city attorney, and/or city council, = to identify and refer eligible clients to projects funded by this = program. After clients are identified as having a long- term addiction = to alcohol and having lived on the streets for at least 365 days over = the last five years, the provider will determine, on a case-by-case = basis, if they need to be stabilized in programs (not funded through = this initiative), such as a residential treatment center, detoxification = center or other jail diversion program, for up to six months prior to = being placed into permanent supportive housing (funded through this = initiative). Following this demonstration period, funded projects may be = eligible to apply, on a competitive basis, as a renewal project through = the Continuum of Care for Supportive Housing Program-- Permanent Housing = (SHP-PH).=20 Once the grantee, working in conjunction with the relevant = supportive service providers and the homeless client, determines that = the client is ready, grant funds for this initiative may be used to = provide permanent supportive housing for the client. Up to five percent = of the funds are available for providers to help clients identify and = obtain permanent supportive housing. HUD expects that approximately half = of the projects awarded will provide grants for leasing that are = project-based projects, and the other half will provide grants that are = tenant-based projects. Comprehensive alcoholism treatment services, = along with other relevant services, must be provided in a manner deemed = appropriate by the grantee and are subject to requirements of the = Supportive Housing Program regulations and other applicable laws and = regulations. Clients must be assisted in accessing relevant mainstream = service delivery systems, Food Stamps, Supplemental Security Income = (SSI), and Medicaid, for example.=20 This program was authorized by Public Law 108-7, approved February = 20, 2003 (111 Stat. 494) as a two-year demonstration program. The = Supportive Housing Program is authorized by Title IV, Subtitle C, of the = Stewart B. McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (McKinney-Vento Act), = 42 U.S.C. 11381.=20 Read the full announcement Quick Links...=20 =20 a.. US ICH Mission a.. 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  • SPECIAL EDITION: IN = WASHINGTON:=20 $1,010,000,000 ANNOUNCED BY HUD FOR TARGETED HOMELESS = ASSISTANCE=20
  • $10 MILLION COMPETITION = ANNOUNCED FOR=20 HOUSING FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE HOMELESS AND ADDICTED TO = ALCOHOL=20

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    		 SPECIAL EDITION: IN WASHINGTON: $1,010,000,000 = ANNOUNCED BY=20 HUD FOR TARGETED HOMELESS ASSISTANCE

    THIS SPECIAL EDITION of e-news highlights today's = announcement=20 by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development = (HUD) of=20 $1,010,000,000 in competitive homeless assistance funds in two = categories.=20 McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants of approximately $1 = billion are=20 available, with applications due June 10, 2005. In addition, $10 = million=20 is available under the Housing for People who are Homeless and = Addicted to=20 Alcohol competition for 10 2-year grants of approximately $1 = million each.=20 Applications are due May 19, 2005. Below are highlighted changes = for 2005=20 which include, but are not limited to, the following. The NOFA = itself and=20 the Questions and Answers document should be thoroughly reviewed = for=20 details. HUD will host a Webcast on this competition on April 7, = from 11am=20 to 2 pm EST.

    Samaritan Housing Initiative. Formerly referred to as = the=20 Permanent Housing Bonus, this special incentive to promote = permanent=20 supportive housing for the chronically homeless is provided to = Continuum=20 of Care systems that place an eligible, new permanent housing = project in=20 the number one priority position on the priority list. If the = number one=20 priority project qualifies as an eligible, new permanent housing = project=20 exclusively serving the chronically homeless, then the full amount = of that=20 project's eligible housing activities, up to a maximum 15 percent = of the=20 Continuum of Care's preliminary pro rata need, will be added to = the pro=20 rata need amount for the Continuum. The only eligible activities = that will=20 be counted toward this bonus are housing activities and for = Supportive=20 Housing Program (SHP), case management, and administration. = Applicants may=20 use no more than 20 percent of this bonus for case management = costs.=20 Please note: any amount of the proposed project that exceeds the=20 limitations described above will be applied against the pro rata = need for=20 the Continuum of Care. For the SHP program, housing activities are = acquisition, new construction, rehabilitation, leasing of housing = and=20 operating costs when used in connection with housing. S+C and SRO = rental=20 assistance are defined as housing activities and are eligible = under the=20 incentive as well. HMIS costs will be excluded from this = calculation as=20 either a housing or supportive service cost.

    Continuum of Care (CoC) Hold Harmless Amount. This is = the total=20 of the one-year amount of all SHP projects eligible for renewal. A = Continuum shall receive the higher of: (1) the preliminary pro = rata need=20 (PRN) or (2) the CoC hold harmless amount. In the past, HUD = awarded a=20 renewal adjustment when the amount needed to fund all eligible = renewals=20 for one year exceeded the preliminary pro rata need. An unintended = consequence of this policy resulted in CoCs having to request = renewal of=20 projects that in their judgment did not best reflect the current = needs of=20 the community. CoCs receiving the CoC hold harmless amount will = now have=20 the opportunity to reallocate their PRN funds in order to create = new=20 permanent supportive housing projects. This will provide them with = the=20 same flexibility that CoCs without excessive SHP renewals have. =

    Participant Eligibility for Permanent Housing. The only = persons=20 who may be served by permanent housing projects (both new and = renewal) are=20 those who come from the streets, emergency shelters, or = transitional=20 housing. People who are currently housed but may become homeless = within=20 seven days, remain eligible for transitional housing and emergency = shelters.

    Grant Terms. The grant terms for all newly proposed SHP = projects=20 are two (2) or three (3) years. Scoring Changes. The = "Housing=20 Emphasis"' scoring has been increased from 10 to 12 points. See = Section=20 V.A.2.a.(5) for additional information on this subject. The = "Performance=20 Measurement'' scoring has been increased from 5 to 8 points . The=20 "Leveraging Supplemental Resources'' scoring has been reduced from = 13 to 8=20 points.

    		$10 MILLION COMPETITION ANNOUNCED FOR HOUSING FOR = PEOPLE WHO=20 ARE HOMELESS AND ADDICTED TO ALCOHOL

    ALSO announced today is a new $10 million competition for = Housing for=20 People who are Homeless and Addicted to Alcohol. Eligible = applicants are=20 States, local government, other government agencies, and public = and=20 private nonprofit organizations that are part of a Continuum of = Care in=20 jurisdictions that have at least 100 people who are chronically = homeless=20 and unsheltered. Eligible activities are limited to leasing of = housing and=20 limited housing search and administrative expenses. For the = purpose of=20 this NOFA, housing activities include only leasing and housing = search.=20

    The new program is designed to provide supportive housing = assistance to=20 chronically homeless persons who have been living on the streets = for at=20 least three hundred sixty-five (365) days over the last five (5) = years and=20 have a long term addiction to alcohol, otherwise known as serial=20 inebriates. Clients served by these funds will have been living on = the=20 streets at the time of initial contact and will have no history of = living=20 in transitional or permanent housing over the last five years. = Grantees=20 will partner with local law enforcement and court systems and = other=20 relevant institutions to identify eligible clients for this = program.=20 Grantees will demonstrate existing relationships with service = providers,=20 including grassroots community- based organizations including = faith-based=20 organizations, to ensure the comprehensive supportive services = needs of=20 the clients are addressed (through other funds). The project must = be=20 located within a Continuum of Care that has at least 100 people = who are=20 chronically homeless and unsheltered, according to the Continuum = of Care=20 or a recent official count.

    It is the intent of Congress that funds awarded under this NOFA = support=20 innovative solutions, which frequently result when local community = organizations work together. Building upon existing = collaborations,=20 grantees are expected to work in conjunction with local law = enforcement=20 agencies and courts, including the police department, sheriffs = department,=20 superior court, city attorney, and/or city council, to identify = and refer=20 eligible clients to projects funded by this program. After clients = are=20 identified as having a long- term addiction to alcohol and having = lived on=20 the streets for at least 365 days over the last five years, the = provider=20 will determine, on a case-by-case basis, if they need to be = stabilized in=20 programs (not funded through this initiative), such as a = residential=20 treatment center, detoxification center or other jail diversion = program,=20 for up to six months prior to being placed into permanent = supportive=20 housing (funded through this initiative). Following this = demonstration=20 period, funded projects may be eligible to apply, on a competitive = basis,=20 as a renewal project through the Continuum of Care for Supportive = Housing=20 Program-- Permanent Housing (SHP-PH).

    Once the grantee, working in conjunction with the relevant = supportive=20 service providers and the homeless client, determines that the = client is=20 ready, grant funds for this initiative may be used to provide = permanent=20 supportive housing for the client. Up to five percent of the funds = are=20 available for providers to help clients identify and obtain = permanent=20 supportive housing. HUD expects that approximately half of the = projects=20 awarded will provide grants for leasing that are project-based = projects,=20 and the other half will provide grants that are tenant-based = projects.=20 Comprehensive alcoholism treatment services, along with other = relevant=20 services, must be provided in a manner deemed appropriate by the = grantee=20 and are subject to requirements of the Supportive Housing Program=20 regulations and other applicable laws and regulations. Clients = must be=20 assisted in accessing relevant mainstream service delivery = systems, Food=20 Stamps, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and Medicaid, for = example.=20

    This program was authorized by Public Law 108-7, approved = February 20,=20 2003 (111 Stat. 494) as a two-year demonstration program. The = Supportive=20 Housing Program is authorized by Title IV, Subtitle C, of the = Stewart B.=20 McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (McKinney-Vento Act), 42 = U.S.C.=20 11381.

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    ------=_NextPart_000_0048_01C52E49.CA93A090-- From janinelarose@hotmail.com Tue Mar 22 20:38:35 2005 From: janinelarose@hotmail.com (Janine Larose) Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:38:35 +0000 Subject: [Hpn] Distraceful way to trea the ill Message-ID: Follows an editorial on the situation of mentally ill in Montreal and the murder that took place last week in a rooming house where they bunk at 3 or 4 to a room. It is a regular boarding house : either that or the street. If you read French, follows an article on the same subject by one of the last research journalist we have in this city on the same subject. Disgraceful way to treat the ill The Gazette March 22, 2005 Nearly everyone whose business it is to look after the mentally ill in downtown Montreal seems to have heard reports about problems at the Centre d’hébergement Rachel in Rosemont. City of Montreal food inspectors, Montreal police, even the Health and Social Services ombudsman have variously described the 50 person residence as a filthy, unsanitary and drug-infested place to live. On March 5, resident Rollande Beaudet, 48, was found killed in her room on the ground floor of the Rosemont Blvd. Centre. Guy Lebel, 33, has been charged in connection with her death. Beaudet’s death should be the spark that lights a fire under official action. If it is simply chalked up as one more in a long list of tragedies that await those with mental illness, that is an unacceptable attitude in an outrageous situation. Even before the killing of Beaudet, questions needed answering : Why would the public curator’s office keep 20 of its charges in such a centre ? Why would hospitals and the Montreal Health Board refer people to the residence, knowing that it was dirty and possibly unsafe ? In an interview with La Presse, a former resident of the centre said he was sent there to convalesce following heart problems. He wrote to Employment Minister Michelle Courchesne describing a place where people were piled up three to four to a room; there was no sprinkler system; smoke detectors malfunctioned; there was an overpowering smell of urine; and the food often verged on inedible. The city health and social service agency said that after the death of Beaudet, it offered to provide community services to the residence owner. She is said to have ignored the offer. The Rachel centre operates – legally – without a permit or any oversight from the health department. Nor is that unusual. Most of Quebec’s 2,524 privage residences for the mentally ill, the handicapped, and those otherwise needing care, operate without so much as a permit. The government is preparing a bill to set up a system of certificates for private care residences, but only those for the elderly. As well, the certificates would be voluntary, not required. This would miss the point entirely. There is an enormous gap between society’s legitimate expectations of how its most vulnerable citizens will be treated and what is actually happening to them. When government action turned many psychiatric patients out of institutions, we were assured that this was nor merely a cost-cutting measure, but an improvement, and that money would be available for other forms of care. How is it, then, that some mentally ill people must live in what appear to be dangerous slums ? Quebec urgently needs standards, and inspectors, to provide these vulnerable people some measure of dignity. LES CENTRES D’ACCUEIL PRIVÉS SERAIENT SOMMÉS DE DÉTENIR DES CERTIFICATS DE CONFORMITÉ André Noel La Presse, 22 mars 2005 A la suite de nouvelles révélations, le ministre de la Santé, Philippe Couillard, a déclaré hier que le gouvernement pourrait obliger les centres d’accueil à détenir des certificats de conformité pour accueillir des personnes âgées ou malades. Un reportage paru dans La Presse d’hier a exposé les conditions de vie déplorables des 50 pensionnaires du Centre d’hébergement Rachel, dans le quartier montréalais de Rosemont. La plupart d’entre eux ont des problèmes psychologiques ou sont toxicomanes. Selon des témoignages, la nourriture y est insuffisante et parfois infecte. Des pensionnaires dorment sur des matelas posés à même le sol. Une visite, en novembre a convaincu la protectrice des usagers en matière de santé que les conditions y sont « épouvantables ». « Cela (le reportage) donne un éclairage qui va dans le sens des certificats obligatoires, a dit M. Couillard. Ce sont des gens extrêmement vulnérables, on en est conscients… Cela ajoute de l’eau au moulin de deux qui nous demandent d’aller un peu plus loin dans la certification. « On nous demande deux choses : d’étendre la certification, de façon plus large, à ce qui est prévu en termes d’obligation, et de couvrir plus de clientèle que les personnes âgées en perte d’autonomie (en incluant) les autres clientèles vulnérables. On étudie actuellement des scénarios qui vont dans cette direction. » Sans permis Actuellement, la majorité des 2500 résidences privées qui accueillent quelque 80 000 personnes âgées et malades fonctionnent sans permis du ministère de la Santé. Elles ont seulement besoin d’un permis municipal (notamment pour la sécurité contre les incendies) et d’un permis du ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation (pour la salubrité des aliments). Les propriétaires des établissements ne sont même pas obligés de laisser entrer les enquêteurs du Protecteur des usagers, organisme qui relève du ministère de la Santé. Le ministre Couillard a déposé un projet de loi qui prévoit des certificats de conformité, mais ceux-ci seraient facultatifs et se limiteraient aux centres pour personnes âgées. Les normes seraient définies par règlement. Protection élargie demandée Les députés de l’opposition et les représentants de plusieurs groupes et organismes – comme le Conseil es aînés et la Commission des droits de la personne – réclament que les certificats soient obligatoires. De son côté, la protectrice des usagers, Lise Denis, demande que les certificats ne couvrent pas seulement les centres pour personnes âgées, mais aussi des établissements comme le Centre Rachel. Mme Denis a nnoncé hier qu’elle effectue une seconde enquête sur ce centre à la suite des révélations de La Presse. L’enquête pourrait se révéler difficile, car même un ancien pensionnaire craint de témoigner. De son côté, un agent du Curateur public a rencontré hier des résidants, qui affirment vouloir continuer d’habiter les lieux. La cuisine serait conforme, selon une nouvelle inspection de la Ville de Montréal. Mme Denis réclame, par ailleurs, « qu’un filet de sécurité additionnel soit consenti afin de protéger davantage les clientèles vulnérables qui sont hébergées dans des résidences privées san permis ». Financement accru réclamé Des représentants de groupoes ont témoigné en commission parlementaire, la semaine dernière, pour réclamer que l’imposition de normes et de permis s’accompagne d’un financement supplémentaire. « Les OSBL (organismes à but non lucratif) d’habitation desservant des personnes à faible et modeste revenu ne peuvent refiler la facture entière aux locataires », fait valoir le Réseau québécois des OSBL d’habitation. « Le gouvernement ne doit pas seulement imposer des normes, mais doit aussi donner des moyens pour que les personnes âgées ou malades habitant dans des résidences comme les OSBL d’habitation soient mieux nourries, mieux traitées et profitent d’une surveillance 24 heures sur 24 », a dit Richard Saulnier, porte-parole du Réseau. La plupart des résidences privées – à but lucratif ou non – reçoivent très peu d’aide financière. Les services de soins à domicile se donnent parfois dans ces résidences, mais leur financement est anémique. Le gouvernement québécois consacre 94$ par année et par habitant aux soins à domicile, contre 145$ en moyenne au Canada. From wtinker@metrocast.net Wed Mar 23 00:29:44 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:29:44 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Bulldozers Destroy Last Two Squatters Homes Message-ID: <004201c52f3f$69256270$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> http://ems.gmnews.com/news/2005/0322/Front_Page/011.html March 22, 2005 Twp. bulldozes last two squatters’ homes Don’t ‘romanticize’ deplorable living conditions, official says BY COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writer The tiny blue-trimmed house in the Hopelawn woods behind Pathmark was crafted by its maker to resemble a castle — something out of a fairy tale. Despite its origins and a 13th-hour effort by various people to save it or buy it, there was no way to save the house built 17 years ago by Hopelawn squatter Pink Bellamy. Woodbridge Township bulldozers razed the final two squatters’ dwellings last Wednesday night without fanfare. “They were like thieves in the night,” said one former woods resident, who refused to give his name. “What’s the point? It’s all over now.” The township had left a notice at each of the shed-sized, squatters’ shacks in January, stating they had until March 1 to get off township property or be deemed trespassers. But Bellamy was still living in his on March 1. “See that,” he said on the first day of March, pointing to snow on the ground. “How do they expect me to move in these conditions? They gave me ’til March 15.” March 15 found Bellamy packing his belongings into milk crates but still living in the woods. “They’re not coming today,” he said. “I figure they would be, but they gave me a couple more days. I’m not going to cause no problem. I’ll just walk on out, but how the hell they can put someone out in the middle of winter …” The other five squatters who had shared the 2.3 acres of woods between New Brunswick Avenue and the Route 440 connector with Bellamy had been placed in transitional housing by that Tuesday. But Bellamy was far from alone. Some 50 feet away, Joe Hing Lowe, an artist from Cranford, sat painting Pink’s countenance. The house stood in the background of Lowe’s painting. “We’re here trying to preserve this little house on canvas,” Lowe’s wife, Darla Jung, said. “Mr. Bellamy did a magnificent job of building it. We just think it’s astounding. The artistic value of the house is so very special.” The couple read a newspaper story about Bellamy’s home and the township’s plans to knock it down. So Lowe and Jung traveled to Woodbridge, thinking they could perhaps buy the house, Jung said. She expected to find the house in a fairy tale setting, Jung said. But what she found in the woods was not what she expected. “It’s mind boggling,” she said. “This is so very sad. No human should live like this. I’m happy to hear the township is helping these people. That is so much more important than any structure or anything.” As Lowe and Jung were painting Pink, a constant stream of visitors and reporters could be seen trekking the few hundred yards between the opening in the chain link fence in the supermarket’s back corner, up a dirt hill and along the railroad tracks to Bellamy’s home. Michael Kopek, of Perth Amboy, said he had befriended Bellamy a few days before. “He’s a really friendly guy,” Kopek said. “I feel real bad for him.” Kopek carried a copy of Weird New Jersey, a collection of stories published in the late 1990s. He opened to a page that featured a story about Bellamy’s home. Bellamy had signed his name in block-like letters at the bottom of the page. “I don’t know why they don’t relocate [the house],” Kopek said. “He spent all this time building it.” Township officials decided not to relocate or sell Bellamy’s home for two reasons, Business Administrator Robert Landolfi said. “Number one, it’s not a house,” he said. “Number two, it’s irrelevant.” Bellamy’s fairy-tale castle wasn’t a house, it was a “shack,” Landolfi said. “You have to put into context what you had there. There was a great deal of squalor. Those people had physical and emotional problems. They obviously didn’t have adequate housing.” Bellamy’s home was romanticized and made into something it wasn’t, he said. Sharon Simon, who lived in Bellamy’s home for three years, disagreed. She described the inside of Bellamy’s home as “cute” and said it looked like a “doll’s house” inside and out. “There was no real structure to it,” Landolfi said. “There wasn’t any substantial framing, even if we wanted to move it. There was no foundation. It rested on top of a dirt floor.” Despite several phone calls from interested buyers, the township for philosophical reasons could not sell the home Bellamy had built with crumbled sidewalk cement and his bare hands, Landolfi said. “You can’t take his shack and remove it from the overall environment,” he said. “It glorified and romanticized the living conditions there. It was deplorable. He had no place to go to the bathroom. Where do you think he went to the bathroom?” Bellamy managed to survive 17 years in the woods without a bathroom. “That speaks to him,” Landolfi said. “Glorifying it is making it into something it’s not. Why would people want to perpetuate that? A lot of people say they want Pink’s house, but nobody said they’d take the house and Pink. Nobody wants the squatter in their back yard, but they’ll take the squatter’s hut.” Bellamy was escorted out of the woods Tuesday evening, Landolfi said at a recent Township Council meeting. The next day, he was still in the woods. Simon said she and Bellamy did not leave the woods until 10:30 Wednesday night. He is now at a local motel, but Landolfi won’t give details. The township will put Bellamy up in a motel until “all his cards are in order,” Landolfi said. Literally. A driver’s license, Social Security card and Medicare card are forthcoming for Bellamy, Landolfi said. “Pink did not accept public housing,” Landolfi said. “We’ll keep him in housing until all his credentials are in order. We can’t force him into public housing, but we can give him the opportunity to make a good decision.” Bellamy’s identification cards are due in about a week, Landolfi said. Simon was placed in senior housing two weeks ago, she said. Thursday evening, just before dusk, curiosity seekers were still coming to Hopelawn with hopes to glimpse Bellamy’s famous creation. “That’s what we came here to see,” Mike Nazzaro, of Iselin said. When all Nazzaro saw was a gaping hole where Bellamy’s house stood only hours before, he expressed disappointment. “That sucks,” he said. “I wanted to see that house. Even if I met the guy, that would’ve been cool.” Nazzaro was accompanied by his friend, Jason Thomson, also of Iselin. “If he was here for that long, why would they bother him?” Thomson asked. “Why didn’t they just leave it alone.” Last Tuesday, Bellamy had said he would wait out the winter in Woodbridge, but once the weather warmed, he was headed for Myrtle Beach, S.C. “It will be sad, but let them take it,” he said. “I look forward to the future. I got friends. I got money. I have no strings attached. I’m free as a bird.” Bellamy’s only concern he said was for his four cats. “They’re so independent,” Bellamy said. “Cats are like some people, too. They struggle to be independent. I’m pretty much like that as a person. People try to make a celebrity out of me. All I’d really like is to be left alone and get out of here.” From wtinker@metrocast.net Wed Mar 23 00:30:38 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:30:38 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Bulldozers Destroy Last Two Squatters Homes Message-ID: <004e01c52f3f$8946f0a0$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> http://ems.gmnews.com/news/2005/0322/Front_Page/011.html March 22, 2005 Twp. bulldozes last two squatters’ homes Don’t ‘romanticize’ deplorable living conditions, official says BY COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writer The tiny blue-trimmed house in the Hopelawn woods behind Pathmark was crafted by its maker to resemble a castle — something out of a fairy tale. Despite its origins and a 13th-hour effort by various people to save it or buy it, there was no way to save the house built 17 years ago by Hopelawn squatter Pink Bellamy. Woodbridge Township bulldozers razed the final two squatters’ dwellings last Wednesday night without fanfare. “They were like thieves in the night,” said one former woods resident, who refused to give his name. “What’s the point? It’s all over now.” The township had left a notice at each of the shed-sized, squatters’ shacks in January, stating they had until March 1 to get off township property or be deemed trespassers. But Bellamy was still living in his on March 1. “See that,” he said on the first day of March, pointing to snow on the ground. “How do they expect me to move in these conditions? They gave me ’til March 15.” March 15 found Bellamy packing his belongings into milk crates but still living in the woods. “They’re not coming today,” he said. “I figure they would be, but they gave me a couple more days. I’m not going to cause no problem. I’ll just walk on out, but how the hell they can put someone out in the middle of winter …” The other five squatters who had shared the 2.3 acres of woods between New Brunswick Avenue and the Route 440 connector with Bellamy had been placed in transitional housing by that Tuesday. But Bellamy was far from alone. Some 50 feet away, Joe Hing Lowe, an artist from Cranford, sat painting Pink’s countenance. The house stood in the background of Lowe’s painting. “We’re here trying to preserve this little house on canvas,” Lowe’s wife, Darla Jung, said. “Mr. Bellamy did a magnificent job of building it. We just think it’s astounding. The artistic value of the house is so very special.” The couple read a newspaper story about Bellamy’s home and the township’s plans to knock it down. So Lowe and Jung traveled to Woodbridge, thinking they could perhaps buy the house, Jung said. She expected to find the house in a fairy tale setting, Jung said. But what she found in the woods was not what she expected. “It’s mind boggling,” she said. “This is so very sad. No human should live like this. I’m happy to hear the township is helping these people. That is so much more important than any structure or anything.” As Lowe and Jung were painting Pink, a constant stream of visitors and reporters could be seen trekking the few hundred yards between the opening in the chain link fence in the supermarket’s back corner, up a dirt hill and along the railroad tracks to Bellamy’s home. Michael Kopek, of Perth Amboy, said he had befriended Bellamy a few days before. “He’s a really friendly guy,” Kopek said. “I feel real bad for him.” Kopek carried a copy of Weird New Jersey, a collection of stories published in the late 1990s. He opened to a page that featured a story about Bellamy’s home. Bellamy had signed his name in block-like letters at the bottom of the page. “I don’t know why they don’t relocate [the house],” Kopek said. “He spent all this time building it.” Township officials decided not to relocate or sell Bellamy’s home for two reasons, Business Administrator Robert Landolfi said. “Number one, it’s not a house,” he said. “Number two, it’s irrelevant.” Bellamy’s fairy-tale castle wasn’t a house, it was a “shack,” Landolfi said. “You have to put into context what you had there. There was a great deal of squalor. Those people had physical and emotional problems. They obviously didn’t have adequate housing.” Bellamy’s home was romanticized and made into something it wasn’t, he said. Sharon Simon, who lived in Bellamy’s home for three years, disagreed. She described the inside of Bellamy’s home as “cute” and said it looked like a “doll’s house” inside and out. “There was no real structure to it,” Landolfi said. “There wasn’t any substantial framing, even if we wanted to move it. There was no foundation. It rested on top of a dirt floor.” Despite several phone calls from interested buyers, the township for philosophical reasons could not sell the home Bellamy had built with crumbled sidewalk cement and his bare hands, Landolfi said. “You can’t take his shack and remove it from the overall environment,” he said. “It glorified and romanticized the living conditions there. It was deplorable. He had no place to go to the bathroom. Where do you think he went to the bathroom?” Bellamy managed to survive 17 years in the woods without a bathroom. “That speaks to him,” Landolfi said. “Glorifying it is making it into something it’s not. Why would people want to perpetuate that? A lot of people say they want Pink’s house, but nobody said they’d take the house and Pink. Nobody wants the squatter in their back yard, but they’ll take the squatter’s hut.” Bellamy was escorted out of the woods Tuesday evening, Landolfi said at a recent Township Council meeting. The next day, he was still in the woods. Simon said she and Bellamy did not leave the woods until 10:30 Wednesday night. He is now at a local motel, but Landolfi won’t give details. The township will put Bellamy up in a motel until “all his cards are in order,” Landolfi said. Literally. A driver’s license, Social Security card and Medicare card are forthcoming for Bellamy, Landolfi said. “Pink did not accept public housing,” Landolfi said. “We’ll keep him in housing until all his credentials are in order. We can’t force him into public housing, but we can give him the opportunity to make a good decision.” Bellamy’s identification cards are due in about a week, Landolfi said. Simon was placed in senior housing two weeks ago, she said. Thursday evening, just before dusk, curiosity seekers were still coming to Hopelawn with hopes to glimpse Bellamy’s famous creation. “That’s what we came here to see,” Mike Nazzaro, of Iselin said. When all Nazzaro saw was a gaping hole where Bellamy’s house stood only hours before, he expressed disappointment. “That sucks,” he said. “I wanted to see that house. Even if I met the guy, that would’ve been cool.” Nazzaro was accompanied by his friend, Jason Thomson, also of Iselin. “If he was here for that long, why would they bother him?” Thomson asked. “Why didn’t they just leave it alone.” Last Tuesday, Bellamy had said he would wait out the winter in Woodbridge, but once the weather warmed, he was headed for Myrtle Beach, S.C. “It will be sad, but let them take it,” he said. “I look forward to the future. I got friends. I got money. I have no strings attached. I’m free as a bird.” Bellamy’s only concern he said was for his four cats. “They’re so independent,” Bellamy said. “Cats are like some people, too. They struggle to be independent. I’m pretty much like that as a person. People try to make a celebrity out of me. All I’d really like is to be left alone and get out of here.” From wtinker@metrocast.net Wed Mar 23 13:38:32 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:38:32 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Dying with dignity? Sparing NH of Its Own Schiavo Case?It Is Still Euthanasia!~OFF TOPIC Message-ID: <01a201c52fad$9b2fb590$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> www.concordmonitor.com/ March 23, 2005 Simplifying end-of-life decisions Proposal allows 'do not resuscitate' card By ANNMARIE TIMMINS Monitor staff Saying they want to spare New Hampshire its own Terry Schiavo case, a group of lawmakers and health-care experts is trying to rewrite a state law to make it easier for people to decide how they want to be cared for near death. The change would also allow people, with their doctor's permission, to wear a bracelet or carry a card that indicates they do not want to be resuscitated. "This bill is not about preserving a right to living or a right to dying,"Dr. David Gilmour, a retired cardiologist from Hollis, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday. "It's about preserving the rights of an individual." Opponents argue the bill will make it easier to end a patient's life - possibly prematurely. Lisa Itse of Fremont, whose 11-year-old son has been diagnosed as brain dead since birth, said even a patient shouldn't be able to decide his own fate without court oversight. "Saying, 'I wouldn't want to live like that (in a vegetative state),'does not mean that someone wouldn't want to live," Itse said. "I'm all for living wills . . . but not without judicial review." The committee did not vote on the proposal. A House committee heard the same proposal last week but put it on hold for at least a year to allow more study. State law already allows people to write living wills and establish power of attorney in the event they become incapacitated. Current law does not currently cover "do not resuscitate" orders, although patients are asked about resuscitation prior to some medical procedures. Rep. Hilda Sokol, a Hanover Democrat, led a coalition of lawyers, doctors and advocates for the elderly, disabled and other patients who wrote the proposal heard yesterday. She said the rewritten law would make it easier for people to establish living wills and powers of attorney by simplifying confusing language, combining those two documents and easing the approval requirements. Currently the paperwork must be signed by a notary and two witnesses, which Sokol and others said can be hard to find on short notice. The proposal would require a notary or two witnesses. It would also establish a standard order opposing resuscitation that would be transferred with a patient if he was moved from one hospital to another. And the new law would protect doctors and other health-care providers who honored that order. The changes would ease the minds of patients and their family members who struggle with guilt when asked to make end-of-life decisions for loved ones, supporters said. "I think the Terry Schiavo case really emphasizes the need for people to make known their wishes either with living wills or durable powers of attorney or filling out 'do not resuscitate' forms," Sokol said. Schiavo of Florida has been in what doctors call a persistent vegetative state, surviving off a feeding tube, for nearly 15 years as her husband and her parents argue over who has the right to decide her fate. Her husband won the right to have her feeding tube removed last week, but her parents, with the help of President Bush and Congress, are appealing that decision in federal court. From wtinker@metrocast.net Wed Mar 23 20:51:48 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:51:48 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Bringing It Home Dinner Series Message-ID: <006301c52fea$21ecffc0$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0060_01C52FC0.3903E4F0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Give Us Your Poor john.mcgah@umb.edu =20 =20 =20 Open your home in support of those that have none as = part of the national Bringing it Home Dinner Series to support Give Us = Your Poor and partners. Please let us know if you are interested in = hosting a fun filled, inspiring evening. Partners at Blue Sky = collaborative will present you with all the logistics to make this a = dinner party you can truly enjoy and make it easy. The more hosts that = partake the more successful we will be to reaching our goal of $50,000. = We are also partnering with some other homeless organizations to raise = awareness and funds together nationally. For hosts in N.E., please = contact us to attend our launch event Tues. April 5, 2005, 6-8pm at = UMass Boston's Alumni Room in the new Campus Center. =20 An Invitation to Launch Party for The 2nd Annual Bringing It Home Dinner Series =20 =20 You are invited to Give Us Your Poor's Bringing It = Home Launch Party. This Launch Party on April 5th will be the KICK OFF = event for Bringing it Home. Learn how you can help Give Us Your Poor in its = mission by hosting your own house party (made easy!) Bringing It Home is = a fundraising initiative put together to raise funds and awareness for = ending homelessness by asking our supporters to host their own = fundraising house parties, and providing them with the tools to make it = easy, successful, and fun. Special guest speaker: UMass Chancellor Keith Motley When: Tuesday, April 5th, 2005 6:00 pm-8:00 pm Where: Alumni Lounge in UMass Boston's New Campus = Center overlooking Dorchester Bay(Room 2551). For directions: = http://www.umb.edu/about_umb/directions.html Please RSVP to Anna Bremner by = email(abremner@blueskycollaborative.com) or phone:(617) 731-1821 by = March 30th, 2005.=20 Please note: This reception is not a fundraiser, but a = celebration to our Kick Off fundraising initiative, no admission fee, = we just ask for your presence. =20 So put April 5th on you calendar and join us for = Cocktails and Hors d'Oeuvres, see new film footage and a way to learn = more about Give US Your Poor.=20 More information on Dinner Series at = www.giveusyourpoor.org Also learn how some Bringing It Home dinner parties = will also benefit the National Coalition for the Homeless, Friends of = Boston's Homeless, and the Homeless Coalition of Hillsborough County, = FL. 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    Open = your home in=20 support of those that have none as part of the = national=20 Bringing=20 it Home Dinner Series to support = Give Us Your=20 Poor and partners. Please let us know if you are = interested in=20 hosting a fun filled, inspiring evening. Partners = at Blue=20 Sky collaborative will present you with all the = logistics to=20 make this a dinner party you can truly enjoy and make = it=20 easy.  The more hosts that partake the more = successful we=20 will be to reaching our goal of $50,000. We are also=20 partnering with some other homeless organizations to = raise=20 awareness and funds together nationally. For hosts in = N.E.,=20 please contact us to attend our launch event = Tues.=20 April 5, 2005, 6-8pm at UMass Boston's = Alumni=20 Room in the new Campus=20 = Center.

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    ------=_NextPart_000_0060_01C52FC0.3903E4F0-- From wtinker@metrocast.net Wed Mar 23 21:55:01 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:55:01 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] URGENT: Pass This Along~OFF TOPIC Message-ID: <005401c52ff2$f6a867b0$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> "All Humanists,Advocates Activists and Empathetic Persons" It's urgent that people put pressure on Florida DCF and Jeb Bush now because they can save Terri. Bush has been contacted by a neurologist that told him she's not in a persitent vegetative state and he's going to try to do something about saving her. We need to contact DCF and Jeb Bush to urge them to take Terri into protective custody before it's too late. Jeb Bush's email addresses: jeb.bush@myflorida.com, jeb@jeb.org, bushj@eog.state.fl.us, fl_governor@myflorida.com DCF: call (850) 488-4855 dcf-osc@dcf.state.fl.us From unclescam@buskers.org Wed Mar 23 23:06:41 2005 From: unclescam@buskers.org (unclescam) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:06:41 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Hpn] URGENT: Pass This Along~OFF TOPIC In-Reply-To: <005401c52ff2$f6a867b0$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> Message-ID: <20050323230641.DBF1736D55@xero.web-edit.com> yes let the fascist's run your life completely. are you paying the bill, bill? On 3/23/2005, "William Charles Tinker" wrote: >"All Humanists,Advocates Activists and Empathetic Persons" > let us die as we wish, with the dignity of our own choosing. From wtinker@metrocast.net Fri Mar 25 18:28:45 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:28:45 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Homeless no more Message-ID: <009d01c53168$7a9ff3f0$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> Homeless man arrested with mustard and steak sauce from stolen boat www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=3125613 March 25, 2005 SANTA BARBARA, Calif. A 41-year-old homeless man was arrested for allegedly stealing a 75-foot fishing boat from Santa Barbara Harbor and abandoning it on the beach at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Donald Patrick Kelley had a jar of Grey Poupon from the boat's galley in his pocket. He was arrested a quarter-mile from where the boat "Conception" was left Wednesday on the rocky beach. The one (m) million-dollar boat was stolen early Wednesday and several other boats were damaged while the thief maneuvered out of the harbor. The boat's owner says the vessel apparently can be salvaged. Kelley was booked for investigation of grand theft of an item worth more than 100-thousand dollars--a crime that could lead to four years in prison. Police say Kelley apparently acted alone. Besides the mustard, Kelley was allegedly found with other items from the boat's galley, including a bottle of A-One steak sauce and a box of tea. (APcredit: John Palminteri, KEYT-TV, Santa Barbara) Copyright 2005 Associated Press. All rights reserved. All content © Copyright 2002 - 2005 WorldNow and KESQ. All Rights Reserved. From gbacque@colosseum.com Sat Mar 26 21:15:19 2005 From: gbacque@colosseum.com (Graeme Bacque) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:15:19 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Request for assistance Message-ID: <4245D0E7.5070309@colosseum.com> Hey all, I need to move my subscription to a new e-mail address but I don't know how that works for this list. Does anyone out there have this info? You can send it off list. Thanks in advance, Graeme -- This message is certified virus-free. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.3 - Release Date: 3/25/2005 From streetsheet@sf-homeless-coalition.org Sat Mar 26 22:25:16 2005 From: streetsheet@sf-homeless-coalition.org (chance martin) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:25:16 -0800 Subject: [Hpn] Truthout: From Hero to Homeless Message-ID: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032605Y.shtml     From Hero to Homeless     By Byron Pitts     CBS News     Friday 25 March 2005 For 25-year-old Herold Noel, this winter, like the war, has not been kind.     When "Iraqi Freedom" began, Private First Class Herold Noel was a soldier in the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division, pounding a path into Baghdad.     "I fought for this country," he said. "I shed blood for this country. I watched friends die."     And like so many, Herold Noel came home a hero, but he wound up homeless.     He started living out of the back of his jeep when most of his clothes and all of his military medals were stolen at a homeless shelter     "If ever I need to go on an interview, I got my tie, my shirt, so I keep it as clean as I can.     "For a job interview?" Pitts asked.     "Yeah."     When the war in Vietnam washed up the first wave of veterans in need of shelter -- the Department of Veteran Affairs had no homeless programs at all. While today, they offer services in every state. Still, as many as 275,000 veterans will likely sleep out in the cold tonight.     "Why weren't all the lessons of Vietnam learned this time? So there wouldn't be any homeless veterans?" Pitts wanted to know.     "Most of the veterans that we're seeing have a mental health and a substance abuse problem," said Peter Dougherty of the Department of Veterans Affairs. "Those problems are the underlying factors."     Herold was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Unemployed, married with three kids, he couldn't get a job.     "The physical war is over. The mental war has just begun," he said.     Pitts asked, "The system is better than it was during Vietnam?"     "The system is a whole lot better than it was before," Dougherty said.     "But there's a 'but' there, sounds like," Pitts noted.     "Well, the 'but' is we have to find them."     Filmmaker Dan Lohaus found them on the street and in shelters across the country. Herold Noel was one of them.     Lohaus and Pitts watched a film clip.     "This is a soldier at his breaking point?" asked Pitts.     "This is a solder at rock bottom," the filmmaker said.     "I put applications in. I did all that. They lost my application three f^&@# times!" Noel said.     This time a city housing agency has given him the runaround yet again.     "What are you telling me man? I have three kids out there man! I fought for my country man. My country shouldn't be doing this to me."     "It's terrible to know that he's not the only one crying in his car," Lohaus said.     "This may sound like an insensitive question, but why should anyone care? About Herold? About the others?" Pitts wanted to know.     "These are the folks who are protecting us and we are treating them this way, who is going to sign up? Who is going to do it next time?"     Still, Herold Noel is one of the luckier ones. Just recently an anonymous donor heard Herold's story and is paying his rent for a year. Tonight, one Iraq War veteran is off the street. But somewhere soon, another could well take his place.   ------- -- chance martin STREET SHEET A Publication of the Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco 468 Turk Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 415 / 346.3740-voice € 415 / 775.5639-fax streetsheet@sf-homeless-coalition.org http://www.sf-homeless-coalition.org From wtinker@metrocast.net Sat Mar 26 23:44:26 2005 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:44:26 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Yard Dogs Road Show - daredevils of vaudeville - National Tour Message-ID: <000701c5325d$bf29c460$30baaf41@new7fbpweklelv> ----- Original Message ----- From: "little macho" yarddogsroadshow@yahoo.com Saturday, March 26, 2005 Yard Dogs Road Show - daredevils of vaudeville - National Tour Nail your hat to your head. Hide the wine. Keep an eye on the horizon. We're a comin' That's right it's really happening: 25 shows in 35 days The YARD DOGS ROAD SHOW Daredevils of Vaudeville NATION TOUR! Sounds like this: Burlesque inspired, hair on fire, electrified cartoon music played by a well dressed jug band in a dark circus tent with a man swallowing swords and hobo rambling poetry . Oh yeah, and did I mention the dancing girls, dancing girls, dancing girls! With dj Clay on that Big Bad Bus Of Love..... Here we go....... If you don't live in these towns, please call your friends that do. March 31st Denver, Colorado Bender's Tavern 314 E. 13th Ave. 8 dollars Doors 8:30pm 303 861 7070 April 1st Denver, Colorado Bender's Tavern 314 E. 13th Ave. 10 dollars Doors 8:30pm 303 861 7070 April 2nd Lawrence, Kansas Jackpot Saloon 934 Mass. Doors 9pm 7 Dollars 785 832 1085 April 3rd St. Louis, Missouri Hi Pointe Lounge 1001 Mccausland Ave. 7 dollars Doors 7pm 314 781 4716 April 5th Columbus, Ohio Madlab 105 North Grant Ave. 10 dollars advance. 12 dollars day of show 8pm 614 470 2333 April 7th Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Lehigh University Packer Memorial Church 18 University Drive 610 758 4649 April 8th Belmar, New Jersey Coffee Blue 1000 Main St. 10 Dollars presale - 12 Dollars day of show 8pm 732 280 6000 April 9th Brooklyn, NYC Rubulad 338 Flushing Ave. 718 RUBULAD (underground event) April 10th Manhattan, NYC Knitting Factory Main Performance Space 74 Leonard St. 7 Dollars Doors 9pm 212 219 3132 April 12th Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Ulana's 205 Bainbridge St. 7 Dollars Doors 9pm 215 922 4152 April 13th Providence, Rhode Island AS220 115 Empire St. 7 dollars 9pm 401 831 9327 April 14th Baltimore, Maryland Ottobar 2549 North Howard St. 10 Dollars Doors 8pm 410 662 0069 April 15th Charlottesville, Virginia Better Than Television 106 A3 Goodman St. 7 Dollars Doors 8:30pm 434 295-0872 April 16th Asheville, North Carolina Future of Traditions 129 Roberts St. 10 Dollars Doors 8:30pm 828 232 2980 April 17th Atlanta, Georgia Shoal Creek Studio 1504 Oldfield Rd. 10 Dollars Doors 6pm Show 8pm 404 375 1736 April 18th Huntsville, Alabama Flying Monkey Arts 2211 Seminole Dr. 7 Dollars 8pm 256 489 7000 April 21st New Orleans, Louisiana Cafe Brazil 2100 Chartres St 8 dollars Doors 10pm 504 947 9386 April 24th Austin, Texas Emos 603 Red River 7 Dollars Doors 9pm Show 10pm 512 477 EMOS April 26th Tucson, Arizona Solar Culture 31 East Toole 6 dollars 9pm 520 884 0874 April 28th Flagstaff, Arizona Orpheum Theater 15 West Aspen St. 8 Dollars 8pm 928 556 1580 April 30th Yuma, Arizona Quechan Youth Cultural Festival Quechan Walking Park May 2nd Las Vegas, Nevada APP Conference Riviera Hotel and Casino May 10th San Francisco, California Great American Music Hall 859 O'Farrell St. 10 dollars Doors 8:30pm 415 885 0750 Check this out! This new motion in carnival and tease has been documented in the book Freaks and Fire: the Underground Reinvention of Circus (Soft Skull Press 2005). By J. Dee Hill with photos by Phil Hollenbeck. The Yard Dogs are in it! Jim Rose Circus is in it! The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus is in it! The Mystic Family Circus is in it! Buy the book and get the dirt FREE. See more about the book here: http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-932360-52-2 And of course more about the Yard Dogs here: http://www.eddyjoecotton.com/index_1.html For schedule with fancy pictures go here: http://www.eddyjoecotton.com/events.html the Yard Dogs Road Show A traveling exhibition of neovaudeville and sideshow entertainment. Never before seen in this part of the country. We have sword swallowers, fire eaters, black and blue burlesque and rambling hobo poetry - all animated by the live sounds of the Yard Dogs cartoon jug band. The times have demanded it and HERE it is: "The new emergence of road show nobility". Live variety entertainment delivered directly to your door. See you all on down the road Eddy Joe Cotton and the Yard Dogs From graemeb@3web.com Wed Mar 30 20:13:23 2005 From: graemeb@3web.com (Graeme Bacque) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:13:23 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Trying again - Request for assistance Message-ID: <424B0863.1020704@colosseum.com> Hey all, I need to move my subscription to a new e-mail address but I don't know how that works for this list. Does anyone out there have this info? You can send it off list. Thanks in advance, Graeme New address: graemeb@3web.com -- This message is certified virus-free. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.4 - Release Date: 3/27/2005