Rosa ramirez is an active member of Camden Churches Organised for People (CCOP), a large and powerful civic group in Camden, New Jersey. She complains that rubbish is not collected. She worries about drug dealers hanging out on street corners and in the city's many abandoned buildings. But when her daughter, who lives in the suburbs, begs her to leave, Ms Ramirez replies, "How can I leave? Camden needs me." It does. Not enough people care about this city of 79,000 people that lies in the shadow of Philadelphia.
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