談點homeless (無家可歸者/遊民/街友) 台北龍山寺.... Robin Williams等人的故事；The New Philanthropists: The New Generosity當韓弟預見新慈善家 (2007)
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The UK has the worst record in the developed world on homelessness with one in every 200 households living in emergency lodging. Why is Britain faring so much worse than other countries when it comes to tackling homelessness? https://on.ft.com/3WKtTsg
NHK Newsline 作一美國Homeless 專題。比起去年，多十幾百分點，又有drug 和搶店之問題，城市“風景”越來越不可愛。這問題很嚴峻。
Robin Williams 1500 homeless
In every movie he filmed he asked the production company to hire at least 10 homeless people. During his entire career, he helped approximately 1520 homeless.
Alongside his friends and fellow actors Billy Crystal and Whoopi Goldberg, Mr. Williams appeared in an annual series of HBO telethons for Comic Relief, a charity organization that helps homeless people and others in need.
“The Fisher King,” as a homeless man whose life has been struck by tragedy.
The UK has the worst record in the developed world on homelessness with one in every 200 households living in emergency lodging. Why is Britain faring so much worse than other countries when it comes to tackling homelessness? https://on.ft.com/3WKtTsg
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The award-winning actor and comedian spent decades working in television and film.
April 27, 2006 Robin Williams had dramatic and comedic roles in his decades of acting. He won an Academy Award for a dramatic role in “Good Will Hunting.” Peter Kramer/Getty Images
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After the In Memoriam segment, Billy Crystal offered a very touching, emotional tribute to his close friend, Robin Williams, who died two weeks ago. “He made us laugh, hard, every time we saw him,” Crystal said.
He told a couple of stories, including one time when he, Williams and Whoopi Goldberg went to Shea Stadium for a Comic Relief event. Williams wasn’t really a big baseball fan (his favorite team was “The San Franciscos”) but he got a kick out of pretending to be a baseball player from Russia.
Williams was also apparently a big presence at Crystal family functions — he bonded with older immigrant relatives “like he was one of the guys,” and make up stories about his past. “As genius as he was on stage, he was the greatest friend you could ever imagine — supportive, protective loving,” Crystal said, his voice shaking. “It’s very hard to talk about him in the past because he was so present in all of our lives.” “For almost 40 years, he was the brightest star in the comedy galaxy.”
Here’s an excerpt from the full speech as transcribed by Vulture’s Alex Jung:
Well, as genius as he was onstage, he was the greatest friend you could ever imagine: supportive, protective, loving. It’s very hard to talk about him in the past because he was so present in all of our lives. For almost 40 years, he was the brightest star in the comedy galaxy. But while some of the brightest of our celestial bodies are actually extinct now, their energy long since cooled, but miraculously, because they float in the heavens so far away from us now, their beautiful light will continue to shine on us forever. And the glow will be so bright, it’ll warm your heart, it’ll make your eyes glisten, and it’ll make you think to yourselves: Robin Williams, what a concept.
— Billy Crystal
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The New Philanthropists: The New Generosity
Charles B. Handy, Elizabeth Handy
William Heinemann, 2006 - Social Science - 200 pages
Who are the new philanthropists? And how is their philanthropy "new?"
In this inspiring book, eminent management writer and Britain's biggest business guru Charles Handy and his wife Elizabeth, a portrait photographer, have collaborated to portray a new generation of practical philanthropists--men and women who have made their own fortunes and decided to move on from financial success to try to help those in need. They are doing so not simply by giving their money away to charities and agencies but by helping actively, working on the spot with the very people who need their aid, ensuring that the initiatives are sustainable in the longer term. As in their acclaimed The New Alchemists, the Handys have both interviewed and photographed their subjects in order to tell their inspiring stories; from the Sydney restaurateur Jeff Gambin, who personally helps to cook hot and cold menus for homeless people, to Niall Mellon, a young Irish property developer who is replacing shacks in a South African township with breeze-block homes, and Sara Davenport, who sold her art gallery and set up a breast-cancer care center--the Haven Trust--to offer integrated, holistic treatment and support.
Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out yet again to his dad.
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蘇先生有轉此篇 How do you count the homeless?
http://yifertw.blogspot.tw/2013/08/homeless.html
我在那兒有些簡單的解釋和說明 它也牽涉到"可運作的定義"問題以及台北龍山寺的街友之詳細影片紀錄等等
Hanching Chung 提到... 經濟學人的這篇.剪貼在那. 主要它談的是各國界定"街友"的官方的可運作定義. 台灣的公視月前曾有詳細紀錄萬華龍山寺街友的影片--片中說警方有所有街友的詳細清冊. 而這只是台灣街友的冰山一角.....
Dr. Jong Chen and Mike Williams
*****【台北最早的轉運站：萬華】#台北貧窮人的歷史
▋專訪：沐育文化 施景耀先生
▋作者：窮學盟 巫彥德
台北是一座移民的城市。你知道嗎，許多人遷移來台北的第一個落腳點，不是現在我們熟悉的台北轉運站，而是「萬華」。
今年貧窮人的台北以「轉運站」為題，萬華是台北的第一個轉運站，為此我們專訪了長期投入萬華在地文史研究與導覽的施景耀先生。
在訪談的過程中，意外看見在萬華關於貧窮人的歷史，發現移民、街友與艋舺公園之間的關係。
很多人對於萬華的印象是艋舺公園跟街友，有人說因為艋舺公園改建後，才讓街友在這裡聚集。而在民國89年改建前，艋舺公園又是什麼樣子呢？
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❝ 其實跟改建無關，街友一直都存在於萬華的歷史之中。❞
其實在公園改建成現在這個樣子以前，這裡本來就很多街友，原本有一個大市場（西山水市場）我們家就裡面賣菜。
那個時候晚上休息的時候，菜都會放在攤位，我們家怕遭小偷，家裡的人都要輪流來顧菜攤，常常晚上就是我的家人睡在菜攤上面，街友睡在菜攤下面，其實很 peace 啦，我們也不會覺得危險什麼的。
你們可能很難想像，在民國89年以前，現在所看到艋舺公園的位置，有超過500個攤販在這裡做生意。
那時候這裡是一個超級熱鬧的不夜城，24小時都有人在做生意，萬華人甚至台北人的吃喝玩樂都會來這裡。在龍山寺前的這一大塊區域裡，有人賣東西，也有人住在這裡，甚至還開了好幾間的電影院，人氣非常旺，也讓客流量非常大，比現在的西門町還要熱鬧。
而所有地方都一樣，有人流的地方，就會有人在這裡討生活。當時龍山寺還沒有圍牆，很多弱勢的人會在公園前面乞討、賣玉蘭花。
街友並不是現代才出現的事情。
清代開始萬華作為一個大的港口，這裡就有很多羅漢腳、比較弱勢的碼頭工人。有香客在龍山寺拜拜完之後，貢品就會拿給他們，所以廟旁邊都會自然的聚集弱勢的人。除了龍山寺之外，萬華的大廟像是祖師爺廟，以前都會辦「搶孤」，那時候會搭很多搶㧓的竹台，旁邊都是街友在等掉下來的祭品，在那個物資匱乏的時代，這些祭品在當時都是很難得的食物。
而西門町原本是日本人的住宅區，以日本淺草為參考規畫的娛樂鎮。日本人離開台灣時，留下很多空屋，大型建築就被軍隊或政府官員接收。小的就沒人管，直接被軍人佔據。
國民政來台的時候街友是最多的，很多是外省人，本地人也有。外省人是因為戰爭逃難，什麼都沒帶；而本地人是因為戰爭物價通膨很嚴重，經濟很差，沒有工作可以做。很多人沒地方住，就在祖師廟旁邊搭竹棚，之後才變成現在的水泥建築。
所以從以前到現在，街友都一直存在；是萬華的各種歷史因素，讓來自各方的人聚集到這裡。這也是為什麼，我覺得這不是驅趕就可以解決的問題。你趕了，還是會有很多人來到這裡，因為這裡萬華本來就是有很多貧窮與弱勢的人生活的地方。
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❝ 萬華人對於弱勢的人的包容性高，是因為自己也苦過。❞
萬華發展得早，大商人很多，像是艋舺三大姓，吳家、黃家、林家，那時候買了很多東區的土地，現在你看那些東區地王，蠻多人其實是萬華人的。當那些地區發展起來了，這些家族的後代大多數都離開萬華。所以留下來的，反而是當時比較沒有錢的人，做的都是勞力為主的工作。
那時候受到市府政策的影響，萬華是台北的糧倉，大的批發市場都在南萬華，像是環南蔬果批發市場、禽類市場，食材比較容易取得，成本也比較低，所以萬華大部份的產業都是小吃。
再加上萬華曾經是台灣最大的輕工業區，萬華車站是台北的主要貨運站，所以這邊不只有服飾商圈，還有衣服工廠。萬華的輕工業種類最完整，生活百貨什麼都有，鐘錶工廠、印刷（現在移到中和）、化工（現在移到新北市）、玻璃（現在移到新竹）、肥皂（現在移到新北市）。
當時很多人都在工廠裡面做工，收入不一定低，但是社會地位通常不高，所以大家都吃夜市跟小吃，不像現在吃餐廳，因為那時候餐廳是一種高級的東西，只有有錢人會才吃。
大家都苦過。很多人說萬華的土地會黏，因為萬華人包容跟好客。比較老的萬華人，都相對能理解其他窮困的人。我的爺爺每年會固定時間發白米賑濟貧窮家庭，奶奶會在收市時，將食物送給龍山寺前乞討的街友。
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#貧窮是都市的一部份，#而非都市的問題
由施景耀先生口述出，萬華地區關於貧窮人的歷史。從歷史中我們才得以認識，在經濟起飛的年代，不是只有錢淹腳目的大商人，更多的是生活在基層、在工廠、市場、夜市裡日夜工作的人們，但他們從未有機會進入我們所閱讀的歷史之中。
生活在更底層的街友、流離失所的難民，更是完全隱沒在整個社會的視野之中，以致於很多人會誤以為街友、貧窮的人突然出現的，而未能意識到他們其實是一直存在的。
貧窮的人與都市密不可分，都市存在，貧窮的人就存在。
重建都市裡從貧窮者角度的敘事，一直是窮學盟長期努力的目標。從貧窮經驗的角度理解，會更完整的認識我們身處的都市。
台北不應該只是成功的人，有錢人的台北，也應該是屬於基層的、貧窮人的台北。
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里爾克Rainer Maria Rilke作，方思譯，〈秋日 Autumn Day 〉從語詞窺見社會文化的變遷
方思譯里爾克〈秋日〉末段 顯然和英文翻譯有差異和誤解.
"Autumn Day" by Rainer Maria Rilke - poetry on 'The Beckoning'
Lay your long shadows on the sundials,
And over harvest piles let the winds blow.
Grant them some other southern hour,
Urge them to completion, and with power
Drive final sweetness to the heavy grape.
No home will build his weary hands,
He'll wake, read, write letters long to friends
And will the alleys up and down
Walk restlessly, when falling leaves dance.
現在無屋的人不要為他建造一座。
現在孤獨的人要長久孤獨
要醒來，誦讀，而且寫長長的信
而在荒蕪的途徑上來回
不休止的流浪當死去的葉子吹來
──里爾克作，方思譯，〈秋日〉
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