'Street Seen': Belfasts own Homeless Paper

antrim | arts and media | press release Saturday October 16, 2004 17:47 by Jon Glackin - Street Seen streetseen04 at hotmail dot com 0774 327 5533

making the invisible visible

The official launch of the Belfast newspaper ‘Street Seen’ is to take place at the Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre, Donegal Street at 3.30pm this Tuesday 19th October. The paper is to be a local street paper for homeless people in Belfast and apart from advice and support for homeless people; it will cover politics, culture and many issues relevant to society. The first edition is now on the streets

The official launch of the Belfast newspaper ‘Street Seen’ is to take place at the Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre, Donegal Street at 3.30pm this Tuesday 19th October. The paper is to be a local street paper for homeless people in Belfast and apart from advice and support for homeless people; it will cover politics, culture and many issues relevant to society. The first edition is now on the streets

Jon Glackin – Coordinator of Street Seen says ‘ that this is an essential project to attempt to bring the real and growing issues of homelessness to wider society while providing a support network for those on the street’.

Davy Carlin – Editorial Committee {Street Seen} and Chair of the Anti Racism Network says’. ‘As you walk about the streets of Belfast the faces of the homeless are becoming ever younger and more numerous, it is time that those voices find a hearing and that the underlying problems that has laid to their homelessness is now prioritised and urgently addressed’

Paddy Hughes – Deputy President, Queens University Belfast says ‘It is our responsibility as students to raise awareness, not only of problems particular to students, but also those present within the wider community with the aim of effecting genuine social change. It is for that reason that I am delighted to be lending my support to ‘Street Seen’.

Terri Hooley - Editorial committee – {Street Seen} says ‘It is time that those that are on many occasions ‘invisible’ in voice, that they should now become visible and vocal with the issue of homelessness brought to the front of the agenda.. Street Seen is an initiative taken to attempt to raise the very voices of those that have been to long ignored’

mark thomas – Comedian, ‘This is an important initiative and I offer my support and hope Street Seen goes from strength to strength in bringing to light such an important issue’.

Contact the Editorial Committee of ‘Street Seen’ in the first instance for any further information.

Jon Glackin on 07743275533,
Davy Carlin on 07974632485,

Streetseen04@hotmail.com