OCCUPY WALL STREET

[SoNotHer]

"It is illegal, in other words, to be homeless or live outdoors for any other reason. It should be noted, though, that there are no laws requiring cities to provide food, shelter, or restrooms for their indigent citizens....All over the country, in the last few years, police have moved in on the tent cities of the homeless, one by one, from Seattle to Wooster, Sacramento to Providence, in raids that often leave the former occupants without even their minimal possessions. In Chattanooga, Tennessee, last summer, a charity outreach worker explained the forcible dispersion of a local tent city by saying, “The city will not tolerate a tent city. That’s been made very clear to us. The camps have to be out of sight.”


Frightening the lines that have already been drawn. Ehrenreich is brilliant, and she's been forecasting this movement for some time with seminal works like Nickel and Dimed.



[QUOTE=Miss Tick;445066][B]Throw Them Out With the Trash: Why Homelessness Is Becoming an Occupy Wall Street Issue
by Barbara Ehrenreich

As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up..."