A Conversation for John Bird MBE - Humanitarian and Activist

Curated 6 March 08

Post 1

Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor

smiley - modAt the age of 21 Bird was living in Edinburgh
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added "Scotland"

smiley - modBird reveals how he felt about meeting him.
He was the first person I ever
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changed the full-stop to a colon

smiley - mod<>
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after their incarceration is over.

smiley - modHalf of the sale price goes directly to the homeless people.
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removed "the"
Half of the sale price goes directly to homeless people.

smiley - modwhile offering shoppers special offers such as buy one get one free deals
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while offering shoppers special offers such as 'buy one get one free' deals

smiley - modand launched a campaign to help him get to do just that.
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and launched a campaign to help him do that.

smiley - modand had three children
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and had fathered three children

smiley - modHe was also reunited with Roddick who told him about a newspaper being sold on the streets of an America city by homeless people,
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Roddick,
American city

smiley - modhomeless people, and offered him £30,000 towards setting up a similar initiative in Britain.
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homeless people. Roddick offered Bird £30,000 towards setting up a similar initiative in Britain.

smiley - modChanged all the £ signs to &pound;

smiley - modWe said 'look
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We said: 'Look

smiley - modThe foundation also examined ways that people became homeless and tried to address these.
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The foundation also examined ways that people became homeless and tried to address these issues.

smiley - modChanged all the curly apostrophies to regular apostrophies

Added some h2g2 EGE links

GB
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Curated 6 March 08

Post 2

Opticalillusion- media mynx life would be boring without hiccups

smiley - ta GB smiley - smiley


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