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Sep 20, 2009 7:48 am US/Eastern

Hill District Tent City Takes Shape Before Summit

Reporting
Ralph Iannotti
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ― On the eve of a march in the city's Hill District to focus on the plight of the unemployed, a tent city is starting to take shape in a vacant lot on Wylie Avenue, adjacent to the Monumental Baptist Church.

Several tents were set up this afternoon, and they will remain up until after the G-20 Summit comes to an end next Friday.

Among the early arrivals today was a group of school bus drivers from Boston, represented by the United Steelworkers Union.

Frantz Mendes, the President of Local 8751 of the Bus Drivers Union told KDKA-TV, "hopefully, those [individuals] who have the power to create jobs, will take this [demonstration] as an urgency to create jobs for the people."

Sunday afternoon's march will start near the Monumental Church and end up about three quarters of a mile away with a rally at Freedom Corner.

Organizer Larry Holmes says even though the nation's overall economy is getting better, there's a fear now that we could be seeing what he called "a permanent, high unemployment economy."

According to Holmes, Sunday's protest is open to everyone - not just the people who don't have jobs - because in reality, no one is ever immune from becoming unemployed.

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