Revolution 2.0
1960’s “Free Store” and Today’s Homeless (EP.271)
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editor: Podcast
- Duración: 0:08:53
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Introduction “If people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s gonna stop ’em.” -Yogi Berra, Baseball Hall of Fame catcher. “If people do not want to change, nobody’s going to stop ‘em.” -Will Luden, Host, Revolution 2.0™ That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode. Continuing In the 1960s in Boulder, Colorado, I was peripherally involved in a group that opened a “Free Store” in downtown Boulder. The noble, naive and unstudied motive was to provide free clothing, and eventually, medical services, to people living on the streets, as a way of changing their lives. With high hopes and the sense of being on a breakthrough, anti-capitalist mission, the store was stocked with a good starting quantity of clean, used clothing displayed on the usual retail racks and shelves. There was even a starter amount of medical supplies. The buzz started when the first street people came in. There was disappointment when the first “shoppers” took off the clothes they were wearing, dropped t