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What's Christmas without food?
A curious phenomenon occurs around this time in some of my city's poorer districts. In these places, Christmas starts earlier. Often, on a night when the rain is not merely dropping but chibbing you at an angle of 45 degrees, it's not just the orange street lights that dance in the puddles. As you look up a road lined by tenements, on either side he…
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'Occupy' camps provide for homeless
When Occupy Wall Street protesters took over two parks in Portland's soggy downtown, they pitched 300 tents and offered free food, medical care and shelter to anyone. They weren't just building, like so many of their brethren across the nation, a community to protest what they see as corporate greed. They also created an ideal place for the homeless…
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