Doug, I don't know if this is what you were looking for, but two years ago in Moscow I did two 4 hour OST meetings where there was some involvement by homeless people, three of the 50 attendees were homeless. The theme was something like "How can homeless people, NGO's, and government work more closely together?"
Three memorable things: 1. they moved the coffee tables groaning with food to their session areas and sat around the tables! 2. for some reason they never walked up to the marketplace but otherwise butterflies and bumblebeed 3. One city official managing a municipal shelter promised right there to stop discriminating and allow homeless people who were not originally from Moscow to stay at the shelter. Photos are up on flickr I understand Larry Peterson did a fair amount of work in this area a number of years ago. Warmly, raffi p.s. Doug, your immigration OS invite is one of the most inspiring and catchy OS invites I've ever seen! Really helps one to think creatively. * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
