200 Street People Protest Conference on Homeless
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PHILADELPHIA — About 200 street people upstaged a national conference on the homeless Friday by storming into a fashionable downtown hotel, demanding jobs and housing. The street people occupied the lobby of the Philadelphia Centre Hotel, chanting “jobs, housing and human needs” for several minutes before security guards escorted them outside, officials said.
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