Stories and
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July 2005
Street Spirit Publication
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Tony, Street Spirit Vendor for 25 Years
- Tony has been a homeless advocate since the early 1980’s. In those days the Bay Area police were especially abusive. Among other things, they would tell the homeless, regardless of color, where they could and could not sleep.
How the Alameda County Food Bank Evolved and Grew
- Alameda County Food Bank staff attended a rally on the capitol steps
in Sacramento on Hunger Action Day in May 2005. Hundreds of advocates
spoke to lawmakers about legislation that will help low-income
Californians feed their families.
The Radical Dream of a Space for All the
People - People's Park could only have been dreamed into existence
by the radical imagination and dedication of certain of Berkeley's more
rebellious and utopian residents.
CompuMentor's Jim Lynch Gives Technology to
the Poor - Bringing out-of-reach computer technology to the poor is
not an easy task in capitalist America, but efforts to do just that have
been the longstanding goal of Jim Lynch.
Helping Ease the Crisis of Hunger in Alameda County
- The Alameda County Community Food Bank, now celebrating its 20th
anniversary, has provided emergency food to low-income residents since
1985. The Food Bank, a local member of America's Second Harvest, did a
study that documented 120,000 hungry clients a month.
Rise in Hate Crimes and Violence Against the
Homeless - Washington D.C. - For the past six years, from 1999 to
2004, the National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) has tracked and
reported on a disturbing increase in crimes targeting homeless people.
These violent attacks on homeless people, one of our most vulnerable
populations, result in injury and, in many cases, death.
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