Today's Democracy Now show had coverage on Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign. The group is taking matters into its own hands and finding housing for homeless people in foreclosed and vacant homes.
DWAYNE CUNNINGHAM: Well, it’s like this. I’ve been homeless for a while, so I’m just going to cut this short. But the home I just was blessed with by the homeless association, I couldn’t have got no better, because I’m outside of the cold, and being in the cold is not that nice. And trying to get in to talk to landowners or people who may foreclose their own homes, I can’t get in no doors. I have no numbers. I can’t get no door. So the best number I have and the best door I can walk through is this door right here....And I know it’s going to help me
More here: http://www.democracynow.org/2009/2/18/as_obama_unveils_foreclosure_plan_activists
This reminds me of the the famous song "This land is my land" which was played at the Obama inauguration ceremony by Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen. Included were lyrics that are seldom played.
There was a big ole sign there
Said "private property"
but on the other side
it didn't say nothing
That side was made for you and me
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