Why Homelessness Is Becoming an Occupy Wall Street Issue
Submitted on October 24, 2011
By Barbara Ehrenreich - October 24, 2011
What occupiers from all walks of life are discovering...is that to be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born “illegals,” facing prohibitions on the most basic activities of survival. They are not supposed to soil public space with their urine, their feces, or their exhausted bodies. Nor are they supposed to spoil the landscape with their unusual wardrobe choices or body odors. They are, in fact, supposed to die, and preferably to do so without leaving a corpse for the dwindling public sector to transport, process, and burn.
