MALCOLM X: THE CONFERENCE

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Homelessness Versus Helplessness 

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Malcolm X

Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

Discussion Questions

1. What is homelessness? Why does it happen?
2. Why is it important for organizers to think about "homelessness versus helplessness" when organizing poor people?
3. Does the Clinton "end of welfare as we have known it" program end or expand homelessness?
4. Why don't people in the USA have a right to a home as suggested by President Roosevelt in his Economic Bill of Rights?
5. Will capitalism provide housing to people who can't afford to pay for it?

Additional Reading  

1. David Zucchino, Myth of the Welfare Queen (1997)
2. Elliot Liebow, Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women (1993)
3. William Wilson, When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor (1996)
4. Robert Parker, Flesh Peddlers and Warm Bodies (1994)
5. Ron Casanova, Each One, Teach One: Up and Out of Poverty (1996)
 

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