Homeless Front UK

Looks like Olympia, Washington's Poor Peoples Union (PPU) beat London's Homeless Front UK (HFUK) to the punch in their effort to replicate and adapt the Dignity model.

Here's the front page story from Sunday's Olympian followed by the PPU's Declaration of Victory.

Homeless Front feature in the new issue of The Pavement, London's premier homeless magazine. There's a centrespread photo and Cobbett's copy appears verbatim below:

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Homeless Front UK held its first annual general meeting on 11th January 2007 for the purpose of adopting a constitution and electing its officers.

There's a tent city meeting again at St Pancras Church Hall on Monday, 18 December, 2006, sponsored by Homeless Front UK as part of its Out of the Doorways campaign. The meeting's between 4 and 6 PM. The hall's a nice space, there will be a speaker or two, lots of hot tea, real coffee, and, as it's the season, eggnog and maybe a mince pie or two also. Everybody's welcome to come join us.

This meeting we'll be familiarizing ourselves with the DVD CD-ROM Tent City Toolkit, a multimedia grassroots primer that's jam packed with all sorts of fascinating information about the tent city model we wish to replicate and adapt. We'll also be setting up our site selection, media, and legal teams in preparation for January's direct action. Mainly, though, this meeting will be about networking with interested parties and kicking it with our friends.

Homeless Front UK's Out of the Doorways campaign kicks off officially this coming Monday, 11 December, at the St Pancras Church Hall, Lancing Street, WC1, which is conveniently located on bendy bus route #73 and just a two minute walk from Euston Station.

Our campaign kicks off at 4 PM and we hope you will join us there. There'll be lots of hot tea, real coffee, interesting speakers and people, and a full-on film crew who are filming our campaign for a sanctioned tent city for a documentary.

The church hall only holds seventy people and, as our campaign is generating considerable interest and support, it would be best to get there on time. For more information ring Lee (07815 287 847), Leeroy (07708 771 895), or Jack (07944 056 135). For information in Polish, ring Karolina (07748 839 560).

'Replicating Dignity" sees ink in issue 15 of the Pavement, the free magazine for London's homeless. Here's the text of the article:

Dignity Village, the former tent city in Portland, Oregon, is the greatest accomplishment of the American poor since Rosa Parks refused to get off the bus. It is the physical embodiment of a dream and hard work on the part of the most oppressed people in this society. Imagine a homeless community coming together with a challenge to a draconian piece of legislation, a camping ban, and living in tents on public land! Tents were a giant step up from the doorways they had been living in.

We're pleased to post playwright Helen Hill's magnificent short story "THEATER OF THE UNDETERRED" which reads like a play within a play. The story's set in Dignity Village and namechecks the original Out of the Doorways campaign that led to the birth of the Village.

THEATER OF THE UNDETERRED

This flier sees ink in this week's Big Issue interestingly entitled " A sight for sore eyes!"

Please click the link to download and print out the flier.

So people may know what we wish to replicate and adapt, check out the Dignity Proposal to the City.