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Looking for a safe place

Submitted by Rick on Fri, 08/26/2005 - 9:39pm.

I blogged previously (here and here) about the portrayal of street people in news stories in the Daily Olympian. As I mentioned, there appeared to be a highly stereotyped view of "the homeless." I thought it might be informative to actually talk to folks on the street and hear what they had to say. Today, I had a conversation with Jonathan, a self-described "spanger" in Olympia. I asked him why there were so many folks out on the streets:

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Submitted by khaos on Sat, 08/27/2005 - 6:39pm.

i went ahead and downloaded quicktime so i could watch these vids. very good work. the video blog format is cool. the issues that homeless people are facing are not. there needs to be somewhere for people to go, how is anyone supposed to get their feet back under them without a piece of ground to stand on?

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