Poor People's Campaign

Neighbors helping neighbors—to break into vacant houses
By: Madeleine Baran
TC Daily Planet
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/article/2009/02/13/neighbors-helping-neighb...

Poverty rights activists broke into at least a dozen vacant Minneapolis buildings this week and helped homeless families move in.

“This is the modern underground railroad,” said Cheri Honkala, National Organizer for the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, the group organizing the “takeovers.”