Comments on: Tent City http://susiemadrak.com/2007/12/21/11/01/tent-city/ Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:05:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: I’m With Susie: More Tent Cities To Come « Beware The Man http://susiemadrak.com/2007/12/21/11/01/tent-city/#comment-133560 I’m With Susie: More Tent Cities To Come « Beware The Man Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:19:19 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2007/12/21/11/01/tent-city/#comment-133560 [...] December 21, 2007 I’m With Susie: More Tent Cities To Come Posted by John O under Political | Tags: Economy, Suburban Guerilla, Susie Madrak, Tent cities |   As someone blessed with a very good job and benefits, I’ve been pondering on the economy a lot....  [...] [...] December 21, 2007 I’m With Susie: More Tent Cities To Come Posted by John O under Political | Tags: Economy, Suburban Guerilla, Susie Madrak, Tent cities |   As someone blessed with a very good job and benefits, I’ve been pondering on the economy a lot….  [...]

]]> By: ebw http://susiemadrak.com/2007/12/21/11/01/tent-city/#comment-133555 ebw Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:17:31 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2007/12/21/11/01/tent-city/#comment-133555 We see them in the public campgrounds, and of course from time to time we have been "them" -- Fall and Winter of '06, before a reader found Eric work, and Fall of '07, before Eric again found work. This is why we've been urging the poverty-aware candidates to include the trailer parks, the down-scale and the public and private camps. It is also why towns and counties and states that have, essentially anti-poor rules about residency at their camps (aka "parks") that force moves, should review such rules. It is also why social service provisioning, from visiting nurses to visiting certified teachers, should include camps in their service model. At present, the dominant form of social service delivered by city, county, and state government to camps is armed rangers, who primarily deliver normative conformance to roles that either stigmatize long-term needs-based campers as "heavy users" (code for camping poor) or the pretence that camp use is a vacation and/or retirement activity. We see them in the public campgrounds, and of course from time to time we have been “them” — Fall and Winter of ‘06, before a reader found Eric work, and Fall of ‘07, before Eric again found work.

This is why we’ve been urging the poverty-aware candidates to include the trailer parks, the down-scale and the public and private camps.

It is also why towns and counties and states that have, essentially anti-poor rules about residency at their camps (aka “parks”) that force moves, should review such rules.

It is also why social service provisioning, from visiting nurses to visiting certified teachers, should include camps in their service model. At present, the dominant form of social service delivered by city, county, and state government to camps is armed rangers, who primarily deliver normative conformance to roles that either stigmatize long-term needs-based campers as “heavy users” (code for camping poor) or the pretence that camp use is a vacation and/or retirement activity.

]]> By: Izquierdo http://susiemadrak.com/2007/12/21/11/01/tent-city/#comment-133547 Izquierdo Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:18:45 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2007/12/21/11/01/tent-city/#comment-133547 Should they be named after W, or after Greenspan? It's a real quandary. Should they be named after W, or after Greenspan?
It’s a real quandary.

]]> By: SloJoe http://susiemadrak.com/2007/12/21/11/01/tent-city/#comment-133545 SloJoe Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:04:43 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2007/12/21/11/01/tent-city/#comment-133545 Calling it a Hooverville is so 20th century. Dubyatown maybe? Calling it a Hooverville is so 20th century. Dubyatown maybe?

]]> By: lutton http://susiemadrak.com/2007/12/21/11/01/tent-city/#comment-133544 lutton Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:58:00 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2007/12/21/11/01/tent-city/#comment-133544 The Ghost of Tom Joad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwbPqA3QhqA The Ghost of Tom Joad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwbPqA3QhqA

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