Life of Steve continued

   Steve had now taken steps to preserve his health.
    He'd met a doctor who used alternative medicine and who gave him new drugs and good advice. Steve stopped drinking and moved into social housing. He started to exercise and walked long distances.
    But then  he got walloped by two blows. The younger workers at the boiler room helped oust him. "Get rid of this old guy," the workers told the boss. "He's a pain in our behind and he can't do his job anymore,' they told the foreman. The company then laid off Steve and since they'd classified him as a parttime
 worker - for fifteen years!- he only got a small severance payment. Nor was he eligible for any pension.
     Soon trouble erupted where he lived. A small group of people from outside tried to take over the social housing complex and privatize it. They failed.
     But soon two big businessmen showed up and tried to take over the complex. Steve and only a few others in the complex stood up to these multimlionaires. Steve suspected they were going to tear down the present four storey building and replace it with a high rise place full of condominiums.
     For Steve it was a nother fight of his life. "This struggle at the building has gone on for the past ten years," he says. "But I'll tell you one thing. I'm not going to sleep in the streets."
    Meanwhile, Steve was trying to organize the workers at the part-time job he'd found after leaving the
boiler room.
   Two fights, one at home one at work. This was part of Steve's life: a never ending battle against the rich and the powerful, on behalf of the powerless.