The
official launch of the Belfast newspaper Street
Seen took place at the Belfast Unemployed Resource
Centre, Donegal Street at 3.30pm this Tuesday 19th
October. The paper is to be a local street paper
for homeless people in Belfast and apart from advice
and support for homeless people; it will cover politics,
culture and many issues relevant to society. The
first edition is now on the streets, a twenty four
page publication.
Jon
Glackin – Coordinator of Street Seen,
says ‘that this is an essential project to
attempt to bring the real and growing issues of
homelessness to the wider community while providing
a support network for those on the street.’
Davy
Carlin – Street Seen Editorial Committee
and Chair of the Anti Racism Network, says ‘As
you walk about the streets of Belfast the faces
of the homeless are becoming ever younger and more
numerous, it is time that those voices find a hearing
and that the underlying problems that has laid to
their homelessness, is now prioritised and urgently
addressed.’
Paddy
Hughes – Deputy President, Queens University
Belfast, says ‘It is our responsibility as
students to raise awareness, not only of problems
particular to students, but also those present within
the wider community with the aim of effecting genuine
social change. It is for that reason that I am delighted
to be lending my support to Street Seen.’
Terri
Hooley - Street Seen Editorial committee,
says ‘It is time that those that are on many
occasions ‘invisible’ in voice, that they
should now become visible and vocal with the issue
of homelessness brought to the front of the agenda..
Street Seen is an initiative taken to attempt to
raise the very voices of those that have been to
long ignored.’
Mark
Thomas – Comedian, ‘This is an important
initiative and I offer my support and hope Street
Seen goes from strength to strength in bringing
to light such an important issue.’
Contact
the Editorial Committee of Street Seen in
the first instance for any further information.
Jon Glackin on 07743275533,
Davy Carlin on 07974632485,
Streetseen04@hotmail.com
