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Crossover Dreams: To the International Community on the One-Year Anniversary of the Haiti Earthquake: Just Leave Us Alone!
At a recent demonstrator against waste dumping in the community of Troutier, a Protester's sign says "Yes to Health! Yes to Education! Yes to Agriculture! No to Trash! No to Waste! No to MINUSTAH!" (Posted by Ansel Herz) Ericq Pierre ([email protected]) is a Haitian agronomist who published the following op-ed in the Haitian journal Alterpresse today https://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article10490. With his permission, we re-print it here: The anniversary of the Earthquake is in one week...

Another "Accidental" Shooting
In this case the shooter happened to be an Iraq War Veteran, which was part of the reason he was out on bail awaiting sentencing for an extremely vicious assault on a Homeless man. That was a mistake. A former soldier convicted of beating up a Homeless man has been arrested on reckless homicide and weapons charges in a woman's fatal shooting in suburban Cincinnati. Riley Feller, 25, was arrested late Thursday night in Norwood. Feller was waving a 9mm Handgun around when ...

Nagging Questions As Ted Williams Saga Unfolds
In this photo taken in late December, 2010, Ted Williams holds a sign advertising his smooth radio voice near a highway ramp in Columbus, Ohio. Why come to grips with a big, messy social problem like Homelessness? So much easier — isn’t it? — to shower job offers, cash payments and network-TV time on one Homeless guy who happens to have a really nice voice? This is perfect: the low-cost, feel-good way of addressing America’s nagging ills, just in time for the small-govern...

Homeless Man with Golden Voice is Actually a Druggie Deadbeat Dad
As usual, the Mainstream Media are a mile wide and an inch deep.  They have made a media sensation out of someone who is a despicable loser, crook and irresponsible parent.    I have not sunk to such depths as this jerk Ted Williams.  Why can’t normal people like ME, with radio experience and who needs a GOOD full-time job, get a job with the Cleveland Cavaliers?   Why does it have to be an undeserving dreg of society who deserves a “second chance&#...

Police Harassment
A clear pattern of harassment has manifested here in the Portland Metro aria. The other day a Homeless man was shot to death in a stand off between him and Police. To day I can no longer say to it was an isolated incident. For right before my eyes two Homeless men were detained with out cause. So I took out my camera and recorded the whole thing. One of the men was released right off but the other was made to sit on the wet curb for the better part of an hour. His friend came back and I asked hi...

Ted Williams: My Time with the Homeless Man with the Golden Voice
I met Ted Williams, the Homeless man with the golden voice who became a viral sensation, in a high-class dope den just before his descent into the world of Addiction. He struck me as one cool dude even back then. By Mansfield Frazier...

Fire leaves over 270 people homeless in NW China
A fire raced through hundreds of houses in a remote village in northwestern China on Sunday, leaving more than 270 people Homeless in freezing temperatures, an official said. No casualties were reported. The fire in Qawa village in Gansu province started in the morning, said a duty officer surnamed Yang at the Zhouqu county government. Yang said the villagers' houses were mostly made of wood. He said local authorities sent tents, food and blankets to the Victims to help them cope with temperatur...

Freezing weather kills 22 in India
NEAR-freezing temperatures have killed more than two dozen people in northern India in recent days despite government efforts to distribute blankets and medicines to the poor. In Uttar Pradesh, the worst-hit state, at least 22 people - many of them Homeless - died over the past three days, pushing the death toll from two weeks of seasonal cold weather to 63, a government official revealed yesterday. Uttar Pradesh is one ADVERTISEMENT of India's poorest states and nearly a fifth of its 180 mill...

Not to sound like a grump, but...
The story of the you-can't-make-this-up-named Ted Williams, the Homeless man with the golden pipes who has in just a few days gone from the street to media darlinghood, is a lovely one. But the insanity surrounding the multiple offers and the relentless media self-congratulation on giving a hidden gem the exposure warranted by a media that loves a resonant voice disguises the larger problem of Homelessness in this country. Mr. Williams, for all his golden voice, has a backstory that fits what mo...

Sour note for man with golden voice sparks
A feel-good story about a Homeless man with a radio-voice from heaven has been soured by a war of words between two American broadcast networks. Ted Williams, a former DJ who had fallen on hard times, was a roadside beggar until a video of his singing went viral, bringing him more job offers and interview requests than there are stations on the dial. Now CBS is accusing NBC of blocking a meeting it had set up with his mother, Julia, whom he had not seen for 10 years. NBC claims its rival has sab...

Gascn faulted for ending training of officers
In the wake of two police shootings of mentally disturbed men within a week, Mental Health advocates criticized San Francisco Police Chief George Gascón on Friday for cutting a program that trained officers in dealing with unstable suspects. For nine years, police officers underwent 40 hours of training apiece in how to recognize mentally ill suspects and de-escalate crises. The training was called for under a Lawsuit settlement with the family of a mentally disturbed man whom officers shot to...

Sour note for man with golden voice
A feel-good story about a Homeless man with a radio-voice from heaven has been soured by a war of words between two American broadcast networks. Ted Williams, a former DJ who had fallen on hard times, was a roadside beggar until a video of his singing went viral, bringing him more job offers and interview requests than there are stations on the dial. Now CBS is accusing NBC of blocking a meeting it had set up with his mother, Julia, whom he had not seen for 10 years. NBC claims its rival has sab...

Gascn faulted for ending training of officers
In the wake of two police shootings of mentally disturbed men within a week, Mental Health advocates criticized San Francisco Police Chief George Gascón on Friday for cutting a program that trained officers in dealing with unstable suspects. For nine years, police officers underwent 40 hours of training apiece in how to recognize mentally ill suspects and de-escalate crises. The training was called for under a Lawsuit settlement with the family of a mentally disturbed man whom officers shot to...

The Power Of Religion In Those Giving And Receiving Help In Haiti's Recovery
By Kim Lawton Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly Port-au-Prince, Haiti -- Driving through downtown Port-au-Prince, it can be difficult at first to see much change from a year ago, when a devastating 7.0 Earthquake devastated this impoverished Island Nation. The presidential palace is still in ruins, with thousands -- among an estimated 1 million Homeless Haitians -- living in massive Tent City across the street. Around the corner, a Tent City remains on the grounds of the destroyed Roman Catholic ...

Will Fame Hurt Ted Williams?
(CBS) A few days ago, Ted Williams was a down-on-his-luck, Homeless panhandler on the side of a Columbus, Ohio interstate highway ramp. But then a reporter who had "discovered" the "man with the velvet voice" and made a video of Williams demonstrating his golden pipes put the video online. It's lured more than 13 million hits. On Wednesday, Williams sat down for an exclusive interview on "The Early Show." The rest, as they say, is history. Williams, 53, has been flooded with job offers, voice...

Franklin Graham to Bring 'Hope' to Haiti Sunday
It's been nearly one year since a massive Earthquake killed more than a quarter of a million people in Haiti, and left nearly one million Homeless. Now, Evangelist Franklin Graham has been invited by 75 church leaders in the country to remind Haitians there is hope in God. Graham will hold a "Festival of Hope" Jan. 9 in Port-au-Prince's national Soccer stadium. He'll be joined by musician Michael W. Smith and Haitian worship leaders. More than 500 Haitian churches are working together to bring...

Deal: Snow won't stop inauguration
While visiting the Atlanta Mission Homeless facility Saturday, Gov.-elect Nathan Deal commented on the possibility of snow disrupting his inauguration Monday. Council urges Ga. grocery tax Ga. Politics news, helpful links PolitiFact Georgia » Ray McBerry: "You’ll find blacks in almost every regiment throughout the South who fought right alongside white Southerners," during the Civil War. If the snow gets bad, he said the ceremony, planned to be held outside the Capitol, ...

Cold weather kills more in northern India
A worker covers himself in fabric meant for setting up a tent as he sits on the back of a truck, surrounded by morning fog in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011. Nearly two dozen more people have died due to cold weather in northern India in recent days despite government efforts to distribute firewood and blankets to the poor. Ram Mohan Srivastav, a government official in worst-hit northern Uttar Pradesh state, said Saturday that at least 22 people had died there over the past three days...

Plaza links to the north
For ages it's been a short, dirty stretch of concrete, a wide spot in the road where 10th Street crosses the Vine Expressway. It's served mostly as a bed for the Homeless and a dump for beer cans. Today, a giant, granite foo dog guards each end of the property - transformed into an open, brightly lit plaza complete with benches and tables. The makeover was designed to turn a no-man's land into a welcoming connector, helping to join Chinatown to the fast-growing neighborhood that constitutes &quo...;

Could NYC Designate Outdoor "Booze Zones"?
Rachel Citron's flickr Public drinking has long been the final frontier for many legal NYers. Marty Markowitz doesn't see why people can't drink on their stoops, and even Mayor Bloomberg has seemed sympathetic to people who want a bottle of Red while watching the Philharmonic in the park. And yet, in this age of magical Homeless people, we still aren't allowed to chug our Four Lokos on a Park Bench in peace! Maybe we can take a page from England: police in Essex are considering creating design...

January 8: The Week in Viral Videos
From a Homeless man’s golden radio voice to the panda cow, the homophobic USS Enterprise video to a robber armed with a giant stick, watch the buzziest Viral Videos of the week....

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Ted Williams, the Homeless guy from Columbus, Ohio with a golden voice got his life changed by the Internet! A dude with a camera asked him to make good on displaying the “God Given GIft” advertised on his begging sign, and Mr. Williams, a former radio announcer whose life went sour when he turned to Alcohol and drug, delivered. The video was put on the internet, and the whole world got to listen to Ted’s talent. Within a day the Viral Video has been seen over 3 million times, ...

Selective Compassion and the Pathologies of Inequality
© Columbia Broadcasting System Ted Williams kisses his mom, Julia Williams, on The Early Show "We believe in second chances and second opportunities," declared the senior vice president for marketing from the Cleveland Cavaliers. This pronouncement accompanied the offer of an announcing job to Ted Williams, the Homeless man whose "golden" voice and impoverished visage went viral on a YouTube video. Beyond his elevation by the media to visible and viable economic status, Williams became a ...

Since When are Deadbeat Dads Pop Culture Icons?
By now you've all see the story of the Homeless guy with the great voice, Ted Williams, as he's been making the rounds on television. But for years we've been told what worthless lowlifes deadbeat fathers are. So why all of a sudden the change in attitude? Don't get me wrong, I'm all for giving people a second or third chance, but let's not overlook the fact the guy is a deadbeat who's left a trail of misery and a broken family. So before we all get all misty-eyed over his shot at redemption, ...

So Much Unseen
Before Ted Williams hit the viral big time I had the original YouTube video linked on my Facebook page, for I hoped the evolution starkly demonstrated how easy it is to apparently see and classify a Homeless person as unemployable yet be completely blind to their talents and potential. For some reason Epistemology has been branded a “ten dollar word” of intellectual nerds, but it’s simply the process of answering the question how do you know what you know? Many times the answer induces mil