‘We’re not monsters,’ just hungry, says one of the folks booted from the old Weiss Memorial Hospital parking lot

A flag of the Hawaiian Islands fluttered outside the woman's tent, set up on a patch of brown grass littered with little mounds of spent charcoal.

"We all have dreams," muttered the woman, who would only give her name as "Ashley."

Ashley hasn't been to Hawaii. On Tuesday, the only trip she was contemplating was from her patch of dried grass just east of Weiss Memorial Hospital in Uptown to — she isn't sure where.

But a flyer posted late last week let her and two dozen or so other homeless people on the land bounded by Wilson to the south, Lawrence to the north and Marine to the west that they must move. Again. They say they've been told a bird sanctuary is coming.

The way the homeless folks and their supporters see it, they are an "eyesore' that residents of a soon-to-be-built 12-story, 314-unit building would rather not see spoiling their Lake Michigan waterfront views.

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