Richard Gere 'Homeless' and ignored

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RICHARD GERE INTERVIEW: "BEING 'HOMELESS' RADICALLY CHANGED MY VIEWS OF MYSELF AND SOCIETY"

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Richard Gere, Peter Mullan and Paul Bettany on why film-makers are opening their eyes to the homelessness crisis

Richard Gere is one of the most famous faces in cinema but during the making of his latest film, Time Out of Mind, in which he plays George, a homeless man living on the streets of New York, he found himself being completely ignored by passers by.

Cont: http://www.bigissue.com/features/interviews/6005/richard-gere-interview-being-homeless-radically-changed-my-views-of-myself
 
I saw that a while back, good on him.

Here's something I saw a while back too, you may have seen it, it is absolutely shocking yet very touching at the end.

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Thank you for sharing this Stephen! Wiped a tear from my eye. I wanted to slap that so called human for what he did with the chips too! Horrific.

This sort of thing is very close to my heart having been hidden homeless for 2 and a half years with my 4, and going through the whole system of this country. I hate it when others treat others like that. No one knows anyone story. It sure has hell didn't start out as a choice of life to live on the streets
 
I know KK, terrible treatment of a fellow human being. I was even more shocked at that female cop, "get a job!", what a disgrace she is, I'm not homeless and I can't even find a job right now, what chance do homeless people have?

That must have been very rough KK, hope everything is good with you and yours now. What kind of planet do we live on where people can be left homeless? I guess it's this one where sociopaths run the game. I am utterly sick of it.

 
Just watched the youtube clip you posted SJH.

What can I say...... very touching at the end, but that moron with the chips! That made me angry and that woman cop?.......

It's hard enough to get a job and even worse when you haven't got a home.

 
Can't watch anymore

Got to the lady copper and had to stop it

I was in Manchester this last weekend and they literally line the streets

I emptied my pocket after the 1st 2 and couldn't walk past the last one without saying sorry

I went to the cash point and went back and gave him £10

He said thank you so much this is me half way towards getting a warm bed for the night

It was fucking freezing and I felt so sorry for him

You can't at the end of the day help everyone even if you want to do so
 
Must admit I now give to homeless charities (only the small ones, not the big ******* charities whose chairmen take a mint out before it goes to where you think it goes) ... Good one in Brum which seems very direct.

 
My charities involve issues around homeless and the threads too. Alot of people wont give to The Big Issue people on the streets saying they are druggies. What they dont realise is the sellers are regularly randomly checked to ensure they are clean.

Plus as I said once to someone, even if they were using at least they are trying to make some money legally instead of stealing it.

NSPCC, Women's Aid, Refuge and 1 charity for abroad around abuse issues too. It's too close to my heart. When I think I can't afford it I remember what I do have.

Yes has Tubbz says I have a warm home, bed, food and much much more than a good percentage of this world.

Just watched a program on domestic abuse on the TV. It still breaks me even after all these years. This was about the women who died. Yes I know men are affected too.

I was only rehoused on the aftermath cos I had children under 18. They don't help men who are single and though single women will get more help it is really only geared towards though with children under 18. Even then it was a struggle.

It's a bloody hard word out there and many of us forget what we have got
 
One the best friends I ever had in my life he was from Belfast & an alcoholic. We went to Torquay for a long weekend camping, lads holiday on the pull and all that(sex drugs and rock and roll). We had very little money, we were young(which is crazy when you think he was an alcoholic at that age, drinking early mornings and such). At this age I never thought twice about homeless tramps on the street. But we were walking by one and my friend just went up and said "how much do you want" - I think the tramp said 20p or something like that. My mate gave him 20p - and we were skint ourselves.

This lad was hard as nails, rarely shown any soft side/caring side in his nature - he had nothing, no job, no education, fights outside the pub were his past time. But there behind all the stuff on the outside he had this caring nature. Funny how a post can bring back a memory.
 
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