This is a MIME message. If you are reading this text, you may want to consider changing to a mail reader or gateway that understands how to properly handle MIME multipart messages. --=_5A0D2279.D7B6DF3E Forwarded report on homeless people in Toronto. --=_5A0D2279.D7B6DF3E Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 23:46:49 -0800 From: "john vance" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fwd: Toronto: homeless on the move (POST fwd) >Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 22:30:01 -0800 (PST) >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Blazing Star <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (by way of [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Becky > Johnson)) >Subject: Toronto: homeless on the move (POST fwd) > >Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 23:05:27 -0500 >From: Graeme Bacque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >-------- Original Message -------- >Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 23:41:05 >From: Michael Shapcott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >The following media release has been issued by the >Toronto Disaster Relief Committee. > >---------------------- > >Toronto Disaster Relief Committee > >For immediate release > >October 26, 1998 > >Homeless speak out: October 27 at All Saints >Church Disaster vote at City Council: October 28 >at Metro Hall > >Homeless speak out: On Tuesday, October 27, at 10 >a.m. at All Saints Church (southeast corner of >Dundas and Sherbourne Streets) there will be a >speak-out by homeless people about the disaster of >homelessness. The event is sponsored by the >Toronto Disaster Relief Committee. > >Ian White, a recently homeless unemployed welder, >will begin by talking about his friend, who hanged >himself from a tree behind a local hostel on >Friday, October 23. Another man died earlier that >day in the same shelter from an overdose. Ian's >friend had also recently become homeless. Ian >helped him move his furniture and belongings from >his apartment. It was recognized that the man was >becoming seriously depressed and he was >taken to hospital. He was released back to the >hostel. > >"The hostel was no place for a man who was so >stressed," Ian said. "I feel very badly. I didn't >know this could happen. He was a nice man." The >Toronto Disaster Relief Committee has been hearing >of homeless people dying every week. Another man >hanged himself outside a shelter this past >summer. > >Disaster vote at City Council: On Wednesday, >October 28, at 10 a.m. at Metro Hall (55 John >Street) the issue of whether homelessness is a >national disaster will come before Toronto City >Council. "It's a basic human rights >issue," says Laura Cowan, Executive Director of >Street Health. "You can see notices posted in >every government building asking that people be >treated equally. If there was a flood in Toronto >and flood victims had to share the shelter with >poor people who had also lost their homes, would >government officials call an emergency and only >replace the homes of the flood victims >and leave poor people croweded in shelters and on >the streets? I hope not!" > >Homeless people will be arriving at 9 a.m. for a >breakfast and supports from across Toronto will be >arriving for the start of the City Council >meeting at 10 a.m. > >Three hundred organizations, including St. >Michael's Hospital, the Children's Aid Society of >Toronto, community health centres throughout >Canada, the Canadian Aids Society, mental health >associations and housing groups have endorsed the >call of the TDRC to have all levels of >government feed and house their people. Hundreds >and hundreds of individuals have also >signed on. > >Thousands of people are still out in the streets >and the shelters are full with the Canadian winter >approaching. The Toronto Disaster Relief >Committee is asking the question: Will Toronto >councillors decide that homeless poor people >should be treated as anyone else in Canada expects >to be treated equally in when they face injury and >death. > >For information: >Beric German (work) 416-964-2459; (home) >416-941-1667 > >------------------------------- > >Michael Shapcott >Toronto, Ontario, Canada >Tel. - 416-367-5402 >E-mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Bread Not Circuses on the web: >http://breadnotcircuses.org/ > >--------------------------------------- >GLOBAL HOMELESS NETWORK: Providing current homeless and related news, >information and announcements for nonprofit research and educational >purposes, pursuant to: > > -TITLE 17 USC SEC. 107- >http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml > > ONLINE HOMELESS COMMUNICATIONS CENTER >http://forums.delphi.com/m/main.asp?sigdir=homelessness > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com --=_5A0D2279.D7B6DF3E--
