Today’s New Verse News: THE AMERICAN DREAM
by Peter R. Selover
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Has a new address it is any gas station that is open 24 hours a day that has a kind-hearted manager who at 3 in the morning is happy to let the children of homeless families who sleep in their cars every night use the bathrooms
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Editor's Note: San Francisco’s Coalition on Homelessness organizes homeless people and front line service providers to create permanent solutions to homelessness, while working to protect the human rights of those forced to remain on the streets.
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Peter R. Selover is a percussionist and writer, from Cleveland, Ohio. He has been involved in progressive politics since 1972, when as an 11-year-old he spent most of the year stuffing envelopes for Senator McGovern's presidential campaign.