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TENT CITY
Recently
members of ARISE For Social Justice in Springfield Mass, created a Tent
City on the Bishops front lawn. read
more
May 26,
2004
To Arise for Social Justice and the residents of the tent city on the
St.
Michael's Cathedral lawn in Springfield, MA:
I'm writing
as the National Coordinator of the Poor People's Economic Human
Rights Campaign, a formerly homeless mother, and a veteran of numerous
tent
cities. I've been through what you're going through, and I know the
difficulty and inhumanity of not having a home. It's neither humane nor
just for you to be forced to live outdoors while buildings that could
be
used for housing lay vacant.
Your determination
to fight for your human right to housing is a fight that
inspires us. You are doing the right thing. In the coming days, we will
be
setting up a "Bushville" tent city of our own. We hope that
some of you
will be able to visit Bushville and that we can highlight the situation
you're facing in Springfield. If you document the stories of the economic
human rights violations you're experiencing, we'll do our best to let
the
nation know the plight and the fight of homeless people in Springfield.
In unity,
Cheri Honkala
National Coordinator
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