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| Feed or Bleed Lynn*, 2006 The choice is clear. If I don’t eat – no one will know. If I don’t buy sanitary supplies – everyone will know. I already use $110 toward extra rent money needed, out of the $210 that I have to live on. |
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| The Right To Food Mary Jane*, 2006 If you know your Human Rights Code, you can use that, ’cause the Human Rights Code says that the government has to provide an adequate amount of money for food, clothing, and shelter. Go to the line for yourself. Get some support. And if you have to, get a lawyer, ’cause there are lawyers that will take you on. Go to them. It’s hard and sometimes you feel like crap. But you’ve got rights. You’ve got to go for it. Don’t give up. That’s the only way things are going to change. |
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| Fifty Miles Away Butterfly Russell*, 2006 These are all the things that I can get for nothing at the library—the tapes, the books, the movies. But the bus fare costs me $4.50 and I am living on a budget of $6 a day. It feels like the library might as well be fifty miles away when you don’t have enough money for bus fare to get there. I sit on the Get on the Bus Coalition. We’re trying to make some changes so that people who are on assistance will be able to get a discounted bus pass for $15. |
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Check the last pic in this group. In 2006 members of the SAPC were trying to convince the city to implement a bus pass subsidy. Now, only 5 years later and with the city enjoying a period of prosperity, town hall has discussed abandoning that small help. As stated by local pundit John Gormley regarding unions asking for a share of the city's success, why should those who didn't contribute directly to the city's wealth ask for a share. In the new "culture of privilege" only those who have earned them have rights.
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