Kathy gives a little insight into the panhandling life….

Community meeting “Homeless Not Hopeless,” organized by Laura Rathbone of EqualityMovement143. Northridge, CA, July 28, 2017. Attended by representatives of non-profits, political officials, local business interests and private citizens including the homeless.

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Mike Wish, Los Angeles, 2006

“… Marx asserted, ‘They cannot represent themselves; they must be represented.’ His doubled sense of representation is a political practice; someone must speak for, stand in for, perform as, the inchoate and unformed group—not yet a class because it cannot represent itself, yet surely a class because it can be represented—to and for itself and others. If representation is crucial to class formation and expression, then class, like gender, is performative …”

                                            * Paula Rabinowitz, They Must Be Represented