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Tampa's Romneyville is the new Hooverville for Republican Convention listen

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Tags: Romneyville, Hooverville, Occupy Tampa, RNC, Republican National Convention, homeless, poverty

Another activist encampment has popped up in Tampa ahead of next month’s Republican National Convention. Supporters of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign are slowly setting up a camp they’re calling Romneyville. Bruce Wright is leading the effort to make the area accessible to protesters and safe for people seeking refuge.

“A lot of the homeless community and poor people are going to be displaced and persecuted anyway during this time frame and so this is also a safe have...