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R.T.A. said changes would be made in October and allowed us to speak at
meetings. Then a newspaper article in the Plain Dealer said they put the
changes on hold. I read one month, others read put on hold for one year. They
seemingly lied to us. They posted on their advertising spots above our seats in
a longer white ad with block print saying changes were already being made by
August 24th. So they upped the date on us and seemingly lied and are
showing no concern over our pleading and protest not to change the schedules.
It
looks like we, the people of the Greater Cleveland area, will have to do more
than a verbal protest. We will have to act on our own behalf to start getting
the word out, a boycott or sit down (sit on buses and not pay-which if the bus
drivers call R.T.A. police it will be a $250.00 fine per person). Tell everyone
to begin a poor man’s march, tell the churches in the whole greater Cleveland
area to discuss it with their people/congregation, etc. As to those who ride the
bus, who can carpool people within their church, etc. We need to discuss time of
exact boycott weeks. This is a plea to be diligent and firm at following through
with serious city wide protest and boycott. More consideration and cooperation
on the matter is deeply needed or else we are going to lose all those buses and
have fares increased and it’s going to offend a lot of us that depend on the
buses for our lives and our jobs etc. Please, the churches say church and state,
but if the churches refuse to help, then this economical cleansing is and will
be on their hands and hearts for not getting involved.
It’s
bad enough from city to city across the U.S. since 2000. They are making it
against the law to be homeless and while at the same time massively condemning
buildings and making many people homeless without city grants or deposit monies
put in place to stop the domino effect of forcing people out into the streets
and not caring about it. Individual people can be heavily fined and threatened
to be arrested if they help the homeless in certain areas.
The
homeless have asked for many years to give us more buildings and let us learn
the same trades. Learn as we go programs like Habitat for Humanity, are only
lending to rehab houses to save them and give the poor a chance to own these
houses. When Habitat for Humanity built a house on the West Side there were five
to ten youth group programs doing just that. I don’t remember the names of
each organization but they were similar to Youth Build Organizations that were
included in building the house.
So
I am pleading to the church that many of the churches quit having blinders on
and quit acting like the three monkeys displaying the I don’t see anything, I
don’t hear anything, and I don’t speak anything. I am sorry for the
harshness of my words but I don’t know what it is going to take to get the
churches to care about their cities and towns and their own people and quit
being a castle with a moat around it and get concerned on major ills of the city
and play fast and get involved and start speaking up and doing some action.
Please care. They did it down south with organized bus boycotts and we can do it
here if we put effort into it and prepare it do it right. In Jesus Christ name,
Father, GOD, Jesus Heal us and Heal Our Cities. Please do your part to help each
one of these issues. John 13:34. That we love one another in a Godly fashion as
much as possible. Please start pulling together as one body of Christ as a whole
and take on each issue and stop avoiding it any longer and involve ourselves.
Copyright Homeless
Grapevine Issue #86 in November 2008 Cleveland Ohio.