December 19, 2007
Homeless Death Memorial
We interrupt your holiday frivolity, wild binge drinking, and high stress levels to bring you the following event:
Tomorrow night the annual Homeless Death Memorial March takes place. A Day of the Dead, if you will, for those of us who passed away this year without having a place to call home. You want more info? Here you go:
Please join us to commemorate homeless people—our friends, relatives, neighbors, acquaintances, and even some who none of us got the opportunity to know—this Thursday, December 20, at 5:30 p.m. at Civic Center Plaza. Bring a candle, if you can. If you know of any one who has passed away, please make sure that their name is included in the service by contacting San Francisco Network Ministries at 415.928.6209. [via Street Sheet]
So be sure to dress warm, grab a candle, and head down to Civic Center Plaza at 5:30 p.m. sharp on Thursday night (12/20). There, you will honor many, schmooze with a few strangers with whom you might not socialize under normal circumstances, and maybe hear a surprising story or two about someone you never really knew at all. Aw.
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"commemorating homeless people" You're kidding right? what's next, "remembrance day for the crack heads" or a "march for the gutter punks"?
But they already do. It's called "Gay Pride."
Thank you, goodnight!
Hey now.
One minor correction: It's not a march, just a memorial service. & Rob: What the Hell would be wrong about having an interfaith service commemorating those who had died while addicted to crack? It's not about glorifying anything or anybody: It's simply about remembering people in our lives who have passed away.
The trife life on these mean city streets >>> here.
PoKo - If you have to ask the question...
how many of them died last year? i'm starting to think that none of them are crazy. watch them walk around talking/yelling at themselves. if they were crazy, they'd walk into traffic or in front of trains. they never do, unfortunately.
they are all faking it!
I'll pour a Mad Dog out on the street in memory of my dead homies.
We are one bitchy heartless group, eh?
Oh sorry forgot to be PC- we are a group of individuals who are sometimes very fucking mean, me included.
I don't think the memorial is bad. It's horrible that people die on the street in front of plain view.
I just smell the undertone of "it's your fault" for not turning the entire city into BMR housing.
I can just see the "advocates" on the news right now...
The forgotten, the lonely, the poor.
Many people die on our streets ever year. I'm glad that such organizations, such as Network Ministries, acknowledge the people who are "ignored" everyday. Just because someone doesn’t have a home, doesn’t mean they shouldn't be remembered for their time here.
It’s a tragedy that many people face everyday in our city. When you find yourself sleeping on the streets after being turned away from a shelter due to full capacity, and succumb to the elements... death can happen.
Can I come and wish for the death of the crackheads who keep breaking into my car?