here we sit by a poluted river in MA giving the homeless a voice

[Jeffersons Ghost]

My homeless friend said the river used to be a different color every day. It's kind of a nice looking river now; but it smells a bit. It's called the Nashua River in MA. There's no industry now. It's all in China. This area used to be a magnate for plastic production. The PCBs are still here. How will the Gulf be later?

He sleeps in the woods near here. We're his only voice. We just bumped into two freshly homeless women. No one will help them. One has kids. These aren't typical street people, so they don't fit in with the typical homeless crowd.

When you get to that point as a society, what kind of society do we have?

[Jeffersons Ghost]

1. kick it for the homeless

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. As a mother, I can't imagine the fear I would experience being homeless with kids. :^( It's

shameful the way this country lets people fall through the cracks.

[thereismore]

5. I know that fear, and I am a man. nt

[bobbolink]

11. Please see reply # 10

And, yes, it is stark terror.

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. I didn't have any during my brief time teaching, but I know other teachers who did. I heard

some heartbreaking stories about how school was the only safe place they had. :(

[bobbolink]

13. I'm glad ,,(?) you mentioned that..... it is sooo wrong!

In the first place, teachers end up having to buy supplies out of their own pockets, which is wrong, wrong, wrong, then they are saddled with kids who don't have a home, and they are supposed to provide for those kids, and find a way to help them learn?

It is so wrong that the mind just boggles!

All this crap about how we value education, then we treat our teachers so poorly. It's beyond sick!

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. It's very frustrating. :^( Individuals can do their best to help kids and what they do is great but

it takes a larger system to really make a huge difference, and as you said our system is clearly broken.

[bobbolink]

16. Most teachers are very dedicated, and have given everything they possibly could for the good of the

kids.

The time will come (probably sooner rather than later now), that most give up in frustration, out of powerlessness.

The kids, especially the poor kids, are the ones--again--who will suffer.

I really do wonder what it will take to get to outrage.

[Angry Dragon]

3. You have a society of greed

If you do not have money or can not help someone make more, you must not have any value.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

15. disposable people

[Jeffersons Ghost]

4. thanks for your support of homeless vets DU friends

[Dystopian]

6. KandR

I remember that river....I was born in that city.
I remember the plastic factories.
How can this be? Women, women with children? No one will help them?
This post brought me to tears...
Too close to home...in more ways than one.
I feel so helpless...We all do when we are barely making it ourselves.

Thank you for being there for them.
Thank you for being you~


peace~

[Jeffersons Ghost]

8. we thank you for raising conciseness

[bobbolink]

10. 1.65 MILLION Homeless School Children in the US.

Not infants.

Not toddlers.

School-age children.

One. Point. Sixty-Five. Million. In. The. US.

[Forkboy]

7. K&R

[Jeffersons Ghost]

9. when the wind is wrong you can still smell it here