Beggars on London streets -- give or not give?/Usenet thread
Tom Boland (wgcp@earthlink.net)
Thu, 22 Oct 1998 22:01:36 -0400
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The three-line URL above takes you to a discussion on Usenet entited
"Beggars on London streets -- give or not give?". The thread has had over
60 posts in the last four days, and appears in the Newsgroup
<uk.local.london>.
[I found it by typing the word "homeless" in the search line of DEJANEWS at
http://www.dejanews.com/, a superb site for researching Newsgroup posts.]
Londoners seem to have strong and varied opinions on homeless and poor
people, and on government and corporations. Many of the arguments you'll
read in this thread may well appear in the next debate your community has
about welfare. prisons, shelter siting, defacating in public or panhandling.
The bad news is that Social Darwinism did not die with the Third Reich.
The good news is that some people are arguing against it's core assumptions
- at least on the Internet, if not yet from the streets to the halls of
wealth and power.
The thread on beggars in London is worth a read, I think. Write on. -- Tom
PS: And don't forget to organize for sustainable and inclusive communities!
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