The paper may have gone weekly, but the Trib‘s coverage of homeless issues is improving. Perhaps all the reporters over there are getting a taste of what it might be like to live without an income…
“A lot of people recognize it as a civil rights issue. While it’s true that the laws impact homeless folks right now, they’re relevant to everybody. It has a significant impact on people no matter who you are. I think on a human level people will connect with that.”
“This is social cleansing, plain and simple,” Flowers said Monday. “These are economic apartheid policies which criminalize an entire class of people.”
GOOD. GOOD. GOOD. I’m excited to read what the Trib‘s notoriously tolerant readers have to say in the comments.
I’m not sure I’d really call this an improvement. I think the only reason da trib’ started giving this kind of coverage to the story is because the movement has shifted from active protest to benign letter writing. It now fits into richwhitepeople’s idea of an acceptable protest: one that won’t get anything done.
It is obvious that the above reader thinks that UPP, united Poor People are doing it the “rich, white” way. UPP members are working their asses off while trying to survive at the same time. No white, rich folks are not thinking about where they are going to sleep tonight without getting arrested.
The fact that many UPP members have college degrees and know had to fight does not quite equate being like them.
UPP has filled city council meetings, stalled the Cities budget, protested the use of deadly force, filed and won two cases with the state for gender discrimination in housing, etc.
And were doing this with no money. Just guts. What do you have?
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