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Salvation City: Kroger Workers Take a Stand Alternative Health-4 #69 MAY 1992 FREE Haitian Nightmare-6 BULK RATE U.SPOSTAGE PAID Tent City Tales-7 ANN ARBOR, Ml Old Time Music-1 PERMIT NO. 736 Community Events-12 ANN ARBOR'S ALTERNATIVE NEWSMONTHLY Editor's Note: Why would anyone want to camp out on the COWMIWIY SHOWS SUPPOBT comer of Main and Ann Streets in downtown Ann Arbor? The truth is that the 30-35 residents of this tent city would rather be somewhere Kroger nicer. And they'd rather not be camping. "Salvation City" occupies a vacant lot which used to be the site Workers of the Salvation Army Thrift Store. Tlie comer lot is now owned by the county and was serving as a park. With 10 Take A camping tents, one large mess tent, and a port-a-john, it is now the location of one of the city's most ambitious and visible protests in Salvation City residents Rhonda Sweed and Alexis Wilson Stand recent memory. By Phillis Engelbert Salvation City was organized by the Homeless Union (HU) Kroger workers" have now weathered over two weeks of and the Homeless Action picketing in the late-April cold and rain. They've gone with- Committee (HAC). With out paychecks and have repelled Kroger management's union- a one-month permit in Salvation City: busting tactics. hand, organizers on United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Locals April 15 erected a main 876 and 539 have been on strike since April 13 at 64 south- tent and held a rally eastern Michigan stores, including six Ann Arbor stores. which about 100 people They're driven by the belief that they're fighting for what attended. they deserve, and are spurred on by an outpouring of commu- Salvation City's Sign of the Times nity support. So far they've succeeded in significantly slow- residents range in age ing down Kroger's sales. from a 17-year-old to a It was apparent, in talking with strikers on the picket line, senior citizen. And, Interviews and Photos by Ted Sylvester that they feel that Kroger has left them no option but to strike. according to organizer Donna (only first names are being used at the strikers' re- Sister Charlie Long, quest), for instance, has been working at Kroger for five about two-thirds are Rhonda Sweed, a member of the Homeless Union and years. She is a department head, in charge of the salad bar. She men. the Homeless Action Committee, is one of the organizers makes $6.61 an hour and has nine people working under her. After considering the of Salvation City. She has been homeless for about a year. For Donna, the strike is not about a wage increase. She first two weeks of local says she is lucky that her husband has a well-paying job, media coverage of A graduate of Beecher High School in Mt. Morris, Mich., which offsets her own low pay. She says she is mainly on Salvation City, Sweed is 30 years old and has four children. She has been strike to support her crew. Many of those working under her AGENDA felt that a resident of Salvation City since April 15. are single parents and can't make ends meet on $5.3I/hour. people needed to hear But health care, says Donna, is really at the crux of the matter. from residents of the tent city—in their own Normally a full-time store employee qualifies for health words— what life is like AGENDA: Where were you living before AGENDA: Where are your four children? coverage after one year. However, a loophole in the contract on the street, without a Salvation City? Sweed: They are with my mother in Flint. I does not include salad bar workers in the medical plan. home. Sweed: I was at the Ann Arbor Shelter on have a 13-, 11-, 10-, and 9-year-old. I was "These people make $5.31 an hour. If they're sick one week West Huron for about two months. My last strung out on drugs for three years. I lost my and in the hospital, those three years of wages are down the The following interviews children due to the fact that I was so strung tubes. That's why I'm on the picket lines," said Donna with Rhonda Sweed, stable living situation was in Flint about a Koran Boze, and Dave year ago. You see, I'm a rehabilitated drug out, I attempted suicide. I turned over full In the strike's first week, Donna was assaulted by a Hackstadt are not meant user. I'm self-rehabilitated. Tin a mother of custody to my mother voluntarily. At first strikebreaker. He shouted obscenities at her, picked her up by to be representative of four so I wanted to better myself for my kids she said she would never take them. But her coat, and threw her against the wall (for which she is all homeless people. and my family. I visited here in '88 and Ann when she saw how severe my problem was, pressing charges). She believes he was hired by the company Tliey are the stories of Arbor gave me a chance to be myself in a she took them all so they wouldn't be sepa- to provoke a fight on the picket line. The picketers, who are three individuals, each positive manner. And I like Ann Arbor so I rated. So she kept them to keep us together. carefully instructed not to respond to violence with violence, with their own unique came back to get back that self esteem I once merely approached the scab and stood there. She said that her circumstances, hopes had. I started finding it in the Homeless AGENDA: You're ^//"-rehabilitated. How assailant now enters work through the back door. Despite that and dreams. Union, talking amongst people who were in long have you been clean? incident, Donna remains committed. She said, "We'll stay the same situation I was in. Sweed: I've been clean for a year. out here as long as it takes. We're giving a message to the (see "SALVATION CITY" page 7) (see "KROGER STRIKE" page 10) 2—AGENDA—MAY 1992 FHC Founding Member. Call 994-3426 or pus. The goal of the summit is to establish a Landlords Who Discriminate write P.O. Box 7825, Ann Arbor MI, 48107. plan of action for the coming year that ad- Beware—The Fair Housing Center dresses housing, health care, welfare, hunger etcetera and other issues affecting poor people. There is Here! Fund Drive Continues to Save will also be a focus on youth and senior The Fair Housing Center (FHC) works Political Prisoner's Life Dear Readers: AGENDA is for greater enforcementof lawsagainst hous- Mumia Abu-Jamal is a political prisoner citizens. The weekend will consist of speak- interested in receiving items from ers, plenaries and workshops on topics such ing discrimination. The Center offers testing currently on death row in the U.S. As a you for etcetera. Press clippings, services when people call with discrimina- teenager, Jamal was a member of the Black as "Building the Movement in Michigan," press releases, summaries of local "The Recall Engler Campaign," "The War tion complaints—testing provides support- Panther Party. He later went on to become events and any other ideas or ing evidence for use in the courtroom. Test- president of the Philadelphia chapter of the Against Genocide—Welfare Rights and suggestions are welcome. Prison Issues," and "Collective Action Strat- ing evidence is the most effective way to turn National Association of Black Journalists. In Just mail them to: a discrimination complaint into a winnable his position as a journalist, he was a rare news egies." The registration fee is a sliding scale Etcetera Editor, AGENDA, from 0-S20. For more information or to reg- lawsuit for enforcement of the law and dam- media friend of the MOVE organization. 220 S. Main St., ages for the complainants. FHC's first case, ister, contact the Baker Mandela Center at Jamal, who was found bleeding from a Ann Arbor, Ml 48104 936-1809. a racial discrimination suit against an gunshot in the stomach at the shooting scene, Ypsilanti Township landlord, ended in an was accused of killing a Philadelphia cop. out-of-court settlement of $15,000 awarded His conviction rested on a number of ques- Free HIV (AIDS) Antibody Testing Prisoners' Rights Groups Target to the plaintiffs. Volunteers are needed to tionable factors. For instance, Jamal is tall Free, anonymous and confidential HIV Control Units help gatherevidence of discrimination (train- and thin and wears his hair in dreadlocks, counseling and testing is available at the The Chicago-based Committee to End ing is provided). For $25 you can become an while an eyewitness described the gunman as Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinic, The Marion Lockdown and a number of heavy-set with an Afro hairstyle. The eyewit- Washtenaw County Public Health Division, other groups have scheduled protests in 17 ness who testified that Jamal killed the cop 555 Towner in Ypsilanti, 484-6760. Appoint- different cities against control unit prisons. was a prostitute who had several charges ments are scheduled three weeks in advance Typically, control units keep prisoners locked against her dismissed in exchange for her (call Monday mornings) for their three test- in their cells for 23 hours per day. Some AGENDA testimony. And the gun which killed the cop ing times: Monday and Wednesday morn- experimental varieties use isolation or sen- Ann Arbor's Alternative Newsrnonthfy was never found.
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