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tama

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2. Funny coincidence
Sat Sep 8, 2012, 06:50 AM
Sep 2012

I was just checking out Cheri Honkala (got interested because she has Finnish surname):


Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Zucchino chronicled Cheri Honkala and the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign for six months during 1996 in his book The Myth of the Welfare Queen which include Cheri organizing 70 homeless families taking over an abandoned church, setting up another homeless encampment in an abandoned lot, and getting arrested and charged for attempting to set up a tent city in front of the Liberty Bell. Honkala faced over 10 years in prison, as local law enforcement claimed she assaulted officers, however video footage later abosolved her of any crime.

http://www.jillstein.org/cheri_honkala

Occupy homes has long history there.

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