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years old and i'm homeless in new york city since 2008 there is a r.'s a dollar there are. going to have a lot of that to us is the dollar subject on a good day at the big $300.00 but this is a sea of up in 18 hours straight up and down up and down on my feet. oh. arbet i'm just. a music teacher. of geology so. i smoke 60 cigarettes a day. a crisis or. i'm in the forces troops but suit up of the system that is all about profit to me it is human nature.
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coming from a family of 8 and poverty when i was going to school i used to have to wear 2 to have pants to walk to hold one pair of pants i was poor i was so poor that i wanted to dig myself out of out of the hole of poverty you know i wanted to make a better life for myself i didn't like qualities. i hate appalling i made a vow to must have them i ever got to the place where i can make some money interest whale i would do that.
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it was on this whole these are the numbers is going to be in the as many. different people who are here for different reasons. lost a job. whatever the excuse is they come down here to get themselves a job. i think the fundamental problem that we all face and then whatever situation the pharmacist's alike are felt like a community like a lot like a family a lack of support around you.
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say listen a lot like a lot of other american cities. in some ways it's so very segregated. got a lot of people that it's not enough to pay for a place to live. poor poor neighborhoods. all the areas that we go to where a lot of people almost stay. this used to be that they almost can't appear. out of the city the city toward. a few people that have their tents caught on fire and. let's do it. i wish there were a better word. being home us because i think that's not the only problem that some
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people have. whether you have a home or you're not there are nice people and sweet people and where they have a home where you are there are jerks and there are people that are. aggressive whether you have a home or you're not you still people still like the same. cause . all over. cars in the jungle carts. and you have rice and. chicken the rice much special bowls. but i usually eat pizza because the dollar slices to the cheap i don't see a lot of stuff. like the limit of rice writes the fiber as an older guy you know it would be sweet i need that kind of food to eat. my
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on the internet and. we have all the sounds. for. i think i've ever. felt that. i was volunteering with a group that had food drugs and eyes i jumped in and started volunteering at a table and taking care of my jeans stuff a friend of mine here in st louis had a salon and she gave me some really expensive shampoo and it was like you know $40.00 a bottle. i gave it to this gentleman and i said here this is
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a really expensive shampoo and he said thank you but i got i don't know where to use it and it was just so embarrassed and ashamed that i was so excited about passing out shampoo to someone but i didn't think that far enough that they would have nowhere to use that and so i got to thinking that if we make food trucks and you know for put kitchens inside of a truck why can't we put showers inside of a truck and kind of started the whole process from there that they could see you couldn't see again. but about a week. ago if. melcombe excusing the many protesters on the streets of america speaking about the media he once said that if you are no skillful it could have you anything to people being oppressed and loving the people doing the oppressing but what does that distinction
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mean in today's us as it. is you'll be a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe from. tyson. nation will community. are you going the right way or are you being led so. direct. what is true watch is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a maybe in the shallows. drew
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on all. gets crazy no. been a real good shots to begin murders controls all life. becomes are in the last community young people are deciding if they want to not like their parents not like them liberals. the blacks are always drug school again you always have problems but you are going to focus a lot it's the most ubiquitous known out there most police departments use it almost every stores in the school that they could get their hands on in common with them 24 hours. through it teaching these kids a bio racism about police brutality taking cried i'm very dark these kids are a part of all history.
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when i was 10 years old i discovered i could seen a little bit and didn't know harmony so some guys in a neighborhood told me how to harmonize and we formed a group one brother 9 a couple more guys got up in and we did the local talent shows in the schools and in the my. clubs in memphis. lose a local star talent you know in the in the city of memphis. the only song everybody else is stuff you know the guys who already had records that were so good and missing their stuff you know so today went out to come out and
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work so hard so they gave us the 1st segment of the hour and we said we got. to step in you know movie saw and just lived in fear. and then i would do all the easier songs impossible. to say something like the songs all heard. oh listen to c.d.'s and use. them somebody needs to be able to pay the price in that you know you really are being. i have people. coming on top of the hour right now caught up in playing the. galloping very tough time trying. to keep the sunni muslims from. going to. the problem.
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movie and also we serve about $180.00 all every single night we just need a place to sleep. every single bed in this room that currently has a pillow on it is actually a physical person who has reserved this bed tonight so as you can see we really are almost completely full. on the breakfast rescue mission is 139 years old so there were actually quite a few homeless individuals in philadelphia at the time it was even way before the great depression yet there was
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a very large homeless at the deck in philadelphia. we don't perceive any government funding so that means that we're completely independent of the strings that would come along with accepting any money from the government. we do this because we don't necessarily want the strings but also if there is giant budget cuts that like there were a few years ago we actually don't. affected because we have our entire revenue stream from individuals who are donating us money instead of. through something that is so easily attained changeable like. policy. so in the past few years in america we've had quite a difficult time with passing our budget that means that we've actually had
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be you know i live on the street do a lot of history she said you know all. the drama all so much to see which. is very much in the right choice to give people wall street because at some point you have to help people help themselves. a lot of it is just the unfortunate fact that most people in philadelphia are only about 2 paychecks away from homelessness so that means you don't have a job for 4 weeks and then all of a sudden you're going to be homeless because you are literally living from paycheck to paycheck. that next job in order to continue paying rent and if you don't pay
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rent then you will be evicted. from my perspective i really believe that the root of homelessness in philadelphia is the fact that. there is a very high population below the poverty line. a lot of people if you lose 2 paychecks and that's not going to be a big deal. in philadelphia that is an extremely big deal for about 40 percent of the population. anyone can become homeless a lot of people become homeless because of some sort of catastrophic event in their life maybe the medical bill was just too high or a fire in their house maybe
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a divorce or something like that could potentially cause homelessness. in the world where the more of a local boy. are you know the sad dollar there are of that so i wrote the board over where child custody. i was born versus movies or college graduates. have to master is it a bachelor's degree. restaurant is a school. i was embarrassed of the 7 c.e.o.'s of my wife. ex-military. my wife passed in the breast cancer at 2006 a part of me died with her.
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i got very lonely started voices started committing suicide except. for genes using drugs or a jelly basis. developed a very bad drug habit it's a problem. behind. but i'm not sick enough for them that's all for what. the drug told whereas don't want me because of my mental interestedly i see while. well of
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course a lot of it actually become extremely violent when i have to be. don't want to get my life back together i'm tired of the on the street i've been doing this over a long time i don't really want to help i had a lot of suicide attempts and get. back to god well that's a charge them all aspects of god. i'm trying to be the best person i can be a 2nd at a time david tom said it was decent of you and. sometimes i mess up on the mistakes you know why i need help and i don't want to go by myself our shop most of mossad's i have tried i understand what they're going through and i can make their life a little bit more comfortable become the face of the homeless and have a platform in the fullest for the homeless and then let them know then that is really all selfies left a selfish thing because it's really not about me anymore it's all about you know
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are not go away who will not die quietly. real the hard work we do is the truth. we're told the civil unrest in the united states and beyond is about systemic racism we're told western institutions and values are inherently fun and wrong. neither really explain the real evidence of social breakdown but is really in play here is an ideology an ideology the demands of some submission.
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the. they were going underground as derek chervin charged with the murder of george floyd that sparked uprisings across the western world makes his 1st appearance at a court in minneapolis this on the 52nd anniversary of the london arrest of james earl ray guilty of the assassination of dr martin luther king jr which catalyzed the greatest wave of social unrest in the united states since the civil war coming up in the show as protesters in the u.s. and u.k. call for the new liberal governments to tackle the roots of systemic injustice just big issue found a lot but how bored.
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