Camp Take Notice describes itself as "a grassroots tent community of homeless people currently residing in Ann Arbor, Michigan".
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- ACLU files brief requesting charges be dismissed against homeless man, AnnArbor.com, December 2009
The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan filed a friend of the court brief today, urging Ann Arbor's 15th District Court to dismiss charges against a homeless man arrested while living on public property. The brief requests the court dismiss a trespassing charge against Caleb Poirier, the leader of the homeless tent community, "Camp Take Notice," a press release said.
- The Coldest Winter: Homeless activists seek solutions, Vickie Elmer for Ann Arbor Observer, posted November 2009
"The underlying goal is to help one person at a time re-enfranchise through contributing positively to a community," says Brian Nord, a U-M grad student who's on the board of directors of MISSION (Michigan Itinerant Shelter System: Interdependent Out of Necessity), a nascent nonprofit working with Camp Take Notice. "No one has stepped up yet" to provide a legal site, Nord says, so they are regrouping in an undisclosed location and preparing for winter.
- Tent City shutdown near Ann Arbor, Fox 2 News, September 2009
- Camp Take Notice put on notice by state police, AnnArbor.com, September 2009
- Laws of Physics: Homeless Camp Moves, Ann Arbor Chronicle, September 2009
This is a story that does not yet have an end, nor will it likely ever have one. But we can write down the part we know so far, which began with a Chronicle visit to the camp behind Arborland earlier this summer, and goes through a visit from a Michigan State Trooper to the new camp location early Tuesday evening.
News references
- Take Notice%22+site:annarbor.com Camp Take Notice stories on AnnArbor.com
- Take Notice%22+site:annarborchronicle.com Camp Take Notice stories on Ann Arbor Chronicle
- Take Notice%22+site:annarborobserver.com Camp Take Notice stories on Ann Arbor Observer
- Take Notice%22+site:heritage.com Camp Take Notice stories in Heritage Media newspapers
- Take Notice%22&sa=N&tbs=nws:1,ar:1 Camp Take Notice stories in the Google News archives