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Originally Posted by footfootfoot
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Me too. Hadn't heard of it. I looked at the history, and:
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The Big Issue was launched in 1991 by Gordon Roddick and A. John Bird in response to the growing number of rough sleepers on the streets of London. Roddick, who also co-founded The Body Shop, was inspired by a newspaper called Street News, which was sold on the streets of New York. Upon his return from America he enlisted the help of Bird, who had experience in the print trade and who had himself slept rough. The two believed that the key to solving the problem of homelessness lay in helping people to help themselves, and were therefore determined to offer a legitimate alternative to begging.
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I love the term "rough sleepers." Is that a common term over there?
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Originally Posted by wolf
No money, no cigarettes, no food.
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No monkey? No cigarettes? ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH.
