Re: Compter access for the poor

Virginia Sellner (wych@tcd.net)
Tue, 20 Jan 1998 21:26:00 -0800 

Agree with both of you.  Someday we hope to have enough computers to allow
more than two people to work on them at a time, and hopefully we will be
able to provide some internet access -- but at this time we do not have
enough funds to have extra phone lines.  In fact we have been without a
phone line since June, and are just now getting it back on -- I've had to
use my home for internet access --  Anyone know how to get some type of
funding for a project like this that might provide funds for phones and
computers?
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>>Wandering Bear,
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>>    You have a good point.  We need to figure out a way to provide the 
>>homeless with internet access, although presently any US library with 
>>adequate funds has free internet access.  But the problem is most 
>>libraries, especially metropolitan area ones, have library security who 
>>usually have nothing better to do than to try to run the homeless 
>>people, scattered about throughout every level of the library, out of 
>>the facility.  You mentioned free public computer access labs throughout 
>>the nation ... well I have seen these too, for instance when I was 
>>homeless in Gulfport, MS and San Francisco, CA, I was able to still 
>>save, print, and download (3 essentials of computering) needed materials 
>>through Partnership Assisting the Homeless (PATH) in Gulfport & GLIDE 
>>Memorial Church in downtown Tenderloin district San Francisco.  Although 
>>I never paid attention to the situation then, now as a Web Master of a 
>>homelessness site, I know that a great many homeless people out there 
>>either don't know how to hunt down the resources it takes to rise above 
>>their situation, or the location they are homeless in is resource dry, 
>>or lacking in the advertising of the availability of its resources to 
>>those who can benefit from them.  Nuff Said!
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>>Regards,
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>>Tedrico
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>>> Your right we do need to figure out a way the the poor and homeless 
>>>could get free access to computers and the internet.Possibley a series 
>>>of free public assess computer labs through out the nation.Though the 
>>>only way I can see that this would be sucessfully funded is to accept 
>>>advertizing on our network.Which dosent nessisarally make it comercial
>>>if every thing gained from advertizing is put back into the network.
>>>Wandering Bear
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>>>>I have the same problem with Western Oregon University Here in 
>>>>>Monmouth.Ive been permanatly banned from the campus for loitering 
>>with 
>>>>>out being a student.
>>>>> I was doing nothing more than useing their library computers(which 
>>>are 
>>>>>open to the public)for internet access.
>>>>> When I asked for a reason they only stated that they had complaints 
>>>>>from the students about my being on campus.
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>>>>>Wandering Bear
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>>>>Bonnie Briggs
>>>>  Hey, I hear you, WB! After I graduated from College last June, I I 
>>>>started coming in to use their computers because I don't have a 
>>>computer 
>>>>at home. I was eventually told that I couldn't come in during the day 
>>>>because I wasn't a student anymore. At first, I was only allowed to 
>>>come 
>>>>in after 5:00 pm. Then, they said that I had to buy a $25.00 Alumni 
>>>card 
>>>>and that I could only use one computer, a old computer that the 
>>College 
>>>>bought just for Alumni students. I was lucky in that I was being paid 
>>>to 
>>>>make a web page for one of my groups and I was able to buy the card. 
>>>>Otherwise, I would not have been able to access my e-mail or my web 
>>>>page. I could go to the libraries, but it is a lottery even getting on 
>>>a 
>>>>computer, and the they only give you a hour to use it. You can't do 
>>>>anything in an hour. So, you're right, "public" computers are not 
>>>really 
>>>>public. They are public only if you have money. What can we do to make 
>>>>computers more accessible to the poor and homeless? If the poor and 
>>>>homeless can't get computer skills, they're going to be left behind in 
>>>>terms of jobs. Accessiblity for all!!
>>>>Bonnie
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>>>>http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/4149
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