Debbie Southorn, AFSC intern, theatrically warms her hands over a fake fire pit in the Durbinville shantytown to demonstrate the threat that budget cuts could pose to basic human needs.
By Debbie Southorn, AFSC intern
From Dec. 2-6, 2012, a broad coalition of community organizations, religious leaders, and activists in Chicago served soup and bread outside the offices of Sen. Dick Durbin. The four days of bread and soup lines culminated in our construction of a shantytown coined “Durbinville,” modeled after the Hoovervilles of the Great Depression.
