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Good morning! This is @hasrra18, I'm a little sick but nevertheless getting ready to live-tweet this morning's 10am LA City Council meeting for ya!
agenda: lacity.primegov.com/Portal/Meeting…
live video:
agenda: lacity.primegov.com/Portal/Meeting…
live video:
@hasrra18 To call in & give Public Comment at Today's City Council Meeting
Dial 669-254-5252
Meeting ID 160 535 8466 #
It'll ask for an ID number- just press # again
Once admitted press *9 to speak
Dial 669-254-5252
Meeting ID 160 535 8466 #
It'll ask for an ID number- just press # again
Once admitted press *9 to speak
@hasrra18 where restaurant diners sit and eat on the very sidewalks that unhoused people get booted from
As City Council votes to resume banishing and criminalizing Unhoused folks today, ~100 ppl living in Chinatown’s El Pueblo SECZ are being traumatized by an unexpected sweep, with cops. There’re positive cases in the community here. Blood on your hands @JoeBuscaino
City sweep teams told us they were on pause due to multiple COVID-19 outbreaks at the mobile showers they drag out at during sweeps (so u can shower while the city trashes your shit). Attempts to reach @LAHomeless abt consistent, transparent messaging to residents go nowhere.
Thanks to the city’s inability to let houseless folks know with regularity when their constitutional rights are gonna be violated, we now have elderly disabled residents scrambling to save belongings in a move that normally takes hours if not the whole nite. #ServicesNotSweeps
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What’s 41.18(d)? It’s a City of LA ordinance that makes it illegal to sit, sleep, and lie down on the sidewalk in LA.
Q: Isn’t 41.18 unconstitutional?
A: Yes! Martin v Boise decided that a total ban on sitting, sleeping, and lying down is unconstitutional
What’s 41.18(d)? It’s a City of LA ordinance that makes it illegal to sit, sleep, and lie down on the sidewalk in LA.
Q: Isn’t 41.18 unconstitutional?
A: Yes! Martin v Boise decided that a total ban on sitting, sleeping, and lying down is unconstitutional
...because it violates the 8th amendment (cruel and unusual punishment). BUT cities can still impose restrictions in other ways, like restricting people from sleeping under freeway overpasses, for example. Since 41.18 is unconstitutional, LA does not enforce it.
To make 41.18 constitutional, City Council has to tweak it. That’s what @BobBlumenfield is attempting to do by repealing the current version of 41.18 and replacing it with what he believes is constitutional, making it illegal to sleep around freeways and homeless services.
For today, we won!
The majority of council did not support the motion and sent it back to committee. This fight will come back, but public pressure stopped the council from moving forward today. Jamming this through in just a few days during a busy election season failed.
The majority of council did not support the motion and sent it back to committee. This fight will come back, but public pressure stopped the council from moving forward today. Jamming this through in just a few days during a busy election season failed.
As the meeting closed, they moved to continue this discussion on November 24th, so this fight is far from over. We need to keep the pressure on council, because they will try this again in 4 weeks.
Thanks to everyone who called, emailed, and otherwise spoke out against this backwards motion. In a matter of days, the people spoke up and shut it down. Criminalization is not a solution to homelessness. #HomesNotZones #ServicesNotSweeps
Trans, disabled and unhoused resident Hal describes what its like to live in @MayorOfLA and @MitchOFarrell's harmful and costly Special Enforcement Zone in Hollywood.
These zones are a key feature of Garcettis "A Bridge Home" shelters. #HomesNotZones #DefundThePolice
These zones are a key feature of Garcettis "A Bridge Home" shelters. #HomesNotZones #DefundThePolice
The @MayorOfLA and @JoeBuscaino @PaulKrekorian @davideryu @HerbJWesson are opening more of these shelters+zones in the weeks and months ahead.
They sugarcoat these expensive police+criminalization zones with words like 'safety' and 'clean.'
Abolish them NOW. #HomesNotZones
They sugarcoat these expensive police+criminalization zones with words like 'safety' and 'clean.'
Abolish them NOW. #HomesNotZones
When @davideryu 's staff gave a presentation on his new Riverside shelter, they called it a "Services Zone" with no mention of the daily police harassment+banishment.
We've witnessed police tell young Black unhoused men to "get out of here" in these zones #HomesNotZones
We've witnessed police tell young Black unhoused men to "get out of here" in these zones #HomesNotZones
Today, June 4, LA will announce the numbers from its 2019 homelessness count. We know to expect a "double-digit increase” from the year before. After you get angry, here's how to get to work fixing a problem the city—and state—is clearly not fixing for us. la.curbed.com/2019/5/31/1864…
Sign up for @yesinmyla's training sessions that help you talk to your neighbors about housing and homelessness and show you how to organize to support projects in your community. yesinmyla.org/trainings
On Friday, June 7 at noon, @EveryoneIn_LA is holding a community conversation. Call in to get your questions answered and find out how to join collective actions being taken across the city. everyoneinla.org/community-call/
