Governments, media, business community and BIDs all love to talk woof about homelessness & poverty over the Holidays – while a quick review of the pieces below document the truths behind the pretense and rhetoric of compassionate oppression!!
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Los Angeles, CA. Blueprint for Displacement: Breaking Down LAPD’s Echo Park Rehabilitation After Action Report”
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Check out our zine “Blueprint for Displacement: Breaking Down LAPD’s Echo Park Rehabilitation After Action Report” created in collaboration between Stop LAPD Spying, LACAN, and Street Watch LA.
The zine centers on the year-long campaign by LAPD and several city entities to surveill, harass, and evict Echo Park Lake Residents.
The police state has no money for permanent housing, pending waves of eviction, hundreds of vacant CalTrans homes, but has 2 million for police salaries and overtime for the 3 day raid.
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Los Angeles, CA. LA CAN (Los Angeles Community Action Network) Thank you General Jeff.
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Rest In Power General Jeff
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San Francisco, CA. Call 311 about tents? Here’s what homeless people and advocates say happens
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San Francisco’s Healthy Streets Operations Center, a cross-departmental collaboration tasked with addressing tent encampments, is intended to clean up tents while offering residents services. But a report from the Coalition on Homelessness says only a minority of residents are successfully connected with services, and the practice of moving them and cleaning the street results primarily in property loss and distress.
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San Francisco, CA. Rest In Power, Brian Edwards
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We are saddened to announce one of our family members passed on November 4. Brian Edwards was loved by many, and centered his life struggling in solidarity with folks on the streets.
He worked closely with us here at the Coalition on Homelessness on human rights issues, was a member of the Shelter Monitoring Committee, spent his time as needed with Faithful Fools, Glide and Code Tenderloin, to name just a few orgs he threw down in service to ensuring folks on the streets got their needs met.
Brian was a larger than life personality, with a wicked sense of humor, sharp analysis and a nose for sniffing out injustices, which he never left alone. His biggest quality, however, was his enormous heart, which he wore unapologetically on his sleeve. His heart was so epic, it always had space to share love with his community, to make new friends and to give a hand to really anyone he happened to meet. Brian built an extensive network of relationships in the homeless community and was always the first to hear about changes to City policy. He was able to keep up with the ever-changing dynamics during the pandemic and keep both community organizations and unhoused people informed. Among his many accomplishments, Brian got the Shelter Monitoring Committee going again, ensuring countless unhoused people had access to testing and vaccines, connected countless unhoused people with vital services, staved off numerous sweeps, and most recently, garnered a number of endorsements for starting back up self-referral to shelter including from the Local Homeless Coordinating Board.
Brian is survived by loving family members including his parents, his cat Jeff, his dog Dahmer and an entire community who adored him
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MEDFORD, OR. Winter in a City where Tents are Illegal | ¿Cómo es el invierno en una ciudad en la que las casas de campaña son ilegales?
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WHAT’S WINTER LIKE IN A CITY WHERE TENTS ARE ILLEGAL?
We’re finally getting rain in Medford, Oregon, but the wet and cold weather means something different when you’re living outside. This will be the first winter since the City of Medford outlawed tents last spring, which means unhoused folks must choose between potentially lethal nights out in cold or risk 30 days in jail for using a tent. This is a brutal choice.
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Portland, OR. Holding Space for Community
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by the Systemic Change Team – Sisters Of The Road
It’s been a year of COVID restrictions, a year of having no community members in the cafe or opportunities for barter work, a year of six feet of separation, of watching people we care for living outside struggle even more to access basic hygiene services and face further discrimination at the hands of the government.
As Sister’s Systemic Change team, we reflected on what this last year has looked like for both us and community members we’re in relationship with.
We are grappling with being a barter work cafe and organizing hub that cannot offer indoor space for either of those programs safely.
We’ve had to reduce hours and close from time to time over the past year as we try to answer these questions, finding ourselves back where Sisters began–problem solving with the community one meeting at a time.
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San Francisco, CA. Check out the Poster Syndicate Exhibition at San Francisco Main Library 6th floor | 100 Larkin St.
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The exhibition at the San Francisco Public Library is up and looks great. There are over 60 posters in the show on the 6th floor of the Main Library in Civic Center.
The street side cases at the Grove Street entrance have a big display of the show. The show is up till April 17 2022. We will be having an event February 19, 2022.
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