Homeless Grapevine
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The Homeless Grapevine was a street newspaper sold by homeless people in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It was published by the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH) from 1992 to 2009. Vendors bought the paper for 25 cents per copy and sell them for 1 dollar. The papers attempted to be a voice for the homeless and content was entirely dedicated to homeless issues, much of it written by current or former homeless.{{cite web|url=http://www.neoch.org/grapevine.htm|title=The Homeless Grapevine|work=NEOCH website|accessdate=2009-03-21 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090218151322/http://www.neoch.org/grapevine.htm |archivedate=2009-02-18}} It was a monthly magazine of 16 pages and as of 2004 had a circulation of 5,000 copies sold by 15–20 vendors.{{cite book|last=Heinz|first=Teresa L.|last2=Levinson|first2=David|title=Encyclopedia of Homelessness|publisher=SAGE|year=2004|edition=illustrated|pages=538–9|isbn=0-7619-2751-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q-PgHH8TJi8C&pg=RA1-PA538|accessdate=2009-03-21}}{{cite news|url=http://www.freetimes.com/stories/12/1/city-chatter-the-poet-and-the-homeless|title=City Chatter : The Poet And The Homeless|last=Gill|first=Michael|date=2004-04-28|work=Cleveland Free Times|id=Volume 12, Issue 1|accessdate=2009-03-21}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}} Sellers were often at The West Side Market, Public Square, E. 9th St., East 12th and Coventry.
History
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It was started in 1991 by Kent State University student Fred Maier and was originally photocopied and sold for 25 cents. In 1993 it was taken over NEOCH and its former director Bryan Gillooly, who published the first issue of the new Homeless Grapevine that spring.{{cite news|url=http://www.neoch.org/grapevinearticles/17/grapevineempowers.htm|title=The Grapevine Empowers Cleveland's Homeless|last=Taddie|first=Jean|date=August–September 1996|work=The Homeless Grapevine #17|publisher=NEOCH|accessdate=2009-03-21|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222111000/http://www.neoch.org/grapevinearticles/17/grapevineempowers.htm|archivedate=2012-02-22}}
The special issue 65(a) in May–June 2004 was entirely dedicated to Daniel Thompson, the poet laureate of Cuyahoga County, who was also a homeless advocate and had often written for the paper.
The Homeless Grapevine was listed as a "notable entry" in the 2006 Knight-Batten Awards with the comment "A pat on the back for job well done".{{cite web|url=http://www.j-lab.org/awards/category/2006_notable_entries/|title=2006 Notable Entries|work=Knight-Batten Award|publisher=American University School of Communication|accessdate=2009-03-21}} The paper won the Greater Cleveland Community Shares Social Justice Reporting Award in 2005.{{cite web|url=http://www.communityshares.org/sja/2009AwardGuidelines.doc|title=2009 Awards in Social Justice - Nomination Guidelines|publisher=Greater Cleveland Community Shares|accessdate=2009-03-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326165258/http://www.communityshares.org/sja/2009AwardGuidelines.doc|archive-date=2009-03-26|url-status=dead}}
The Homeless Grapevine was discontinued in 2009. The following year, NEOCH launched its replacement, The Cleveland Street Chronicle.{{cite web|title=Street Newspaper Archive|publisher=Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless|accessdate=October 24, 2016|url=http://www.neoch.org/street-newspaper-archive/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150419084635/http://www.neoch.org/street-newspaper-archive/|archive-date=2015-04-19|url-status=dead}}
=Legal activities=
In the mid-1990s, the city required that Grapevine sellers have a peddlers' license, costing 50 dollars. After one vendor was ticketed, the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio argued that it was a violation of the First Amendment and the charges were dropped. A lawsuitNortheast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless v. City of Cleveland, filed September 27, 1994 (N.D. Ohio). was also filed on behalf of homeless vendors and the Nation of Islam that was selling their newspaper The Final Call in public. A district court ruled with the vendors, but the Sixth Circuit Appeals Court reversed it, siding with the city.{{cite book|last=Herz|first=Rick|author2=Hagler, Tamar|title=No Homeless People Allowed: A Report on Anti-homeless Laws, Litigation and Alternatives in 49 United States Cities|publisher=DIANE Publishing / National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty|year=1994|pages=77|isbn=0-7881-1549-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H8ERA4gwdZ8C&pg=PA77|accessdate=2009-03-21}}{{cite book|last=Cunningham|first=Kelly|title=Out of Sight--Out of Mind?: A Report on Anti-Homeless Laws, Litigation and Alternatives in 50 U. S. Cities|publisher=DIANE Publishing / National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty|year=1999|pages=79|isbn=0-7881-8276-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ESQoVYYWN4C&pg=PA79|accessdate=2009-03-21}}{{cite news|url=http://www.chicagoreporter.com/index.php/c/Sidebars/d/StreetWise_Among_Best_Sellers_of_Its_Kind|title=StreetWise Among Best Sellers of Its Kind|last=Sufrin|first=Claire|work=The Chicago Reporter|accessdate=2009-03-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720155103/http://www.chicagoreporter.com/index.php/c/Sidebars/d/StreetWise_Among_Best_Sellers_of_Its_Kind|archive-date=2008-07-20|url-status=dead}}
According to ACLU representatives, the Grapevine{{'s}} coverage also played a major role in resolving another ACLU lawsuit,Clements v. City of Cleveland, filed October 4, 1994 (N.D. Ohio). which had been brought against the city for transporting homeless to isolated areas.{{cite news|url=http://www.pacificnews.org/jinn/stories/5.15/990806-papers.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000816182902/http://www.pacificnews.org/jinn/stories/5.15/990806-papers.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2000-08-16 |title=Read All About It! -- Street Papers Have the Real Story |last=Van Lier |first=Piet |date=1999-08-06 |work=Jinn Magazine Issue No. 5.15 |agency=Pacific News Service |accessdate=2009-03-21 }}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071018105614/http://www.neoch.org/grapevine.htm The Homeless Grapevine website]
- [http://homelessgrapevine.blogspot.com/ Homeless Grapevine blog]
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Category:Defunct newspapers published in Cleveland
Category:Newspapers established in 1991
Category:Newspapers disestablished in 2009