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1 Dec, 4 tweets, 3 min read
In the middle of a horrible and terrifying COVID spike, LA just cancelled all of its Dec 1 appointments at Union Station (one of the only transit-accessible facilities) with less than 24hrs notice because of A FILM SHOOT!! @MayorOfLA @metrolosangeles @lapublichealth WTF???!!???
Damn this blew up. Peep our soundcloud:
This is ultimately a sin of @MayorOfLA's #Garcettiville, a city that takes every opportunity to harm and endanger its most vulnerable populations. Check out tinyurl.com/garcettiville
There are protests every AM in front of Garcetti's house, led by @BLMLA to protest the awful things he's done to this city and its citizens, and to make sure this man doesn't fail his way into national office. We'll be there, every morning, alongside them. Join us. #BlockGarcetti

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16 Nov
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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
...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.
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29 Oct
We appreciate the voices on the city council who spoke up in opposition to yesterday's homeless criminalization motion. It has been a long fight to get councilmembers to acknowledge the harm caused by over-policing houseless people.
They questioned the urgency of this motion, and why that same urgency hasn't been present in efforts to house people. They acknowledged that arrests and sweeps make it harder for people to connect to the few services we do have available.
Importantly, they also acknowledged that enforcement strategies have already been tried, and they've consistently failed. We need to put real resources behind programs that work. Stop letting pilot programs languish. Stop focusing on shiny new things and get creative.
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28 Oct
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.
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
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20 Oct
Today, City Council will discuss a measure creating a partnership with St. Vincent’s Medical Center to provide services to low-income and unhoused Angelenos. This feels like a great measure and we support expanded services, but we can't ignore the troubling connections behind it. Image
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28 Feb
Good morning - we're here at the Convening on the Justice Guarantee in San Francisco, hosted by @Justice_Collab and organized by @ChatfieldKate.

Very excited for a day discussing criminalization, housing, and structural racism in the justice system. Stay tuned for highlights!
The convening is at Manny's, which offers a nicely curated collection of books in addition to some excellent grub.
Opening remarks from @ChatfieldKate. 2.2 million incarcerated people and hundreds of thousands of unhoused people need a Justice Guarantee rooted in dignity. "We must move away from the false narrative that jails and prisons are the answer."
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Our members have been calling @MitchOFarrell's office and asking important questions about the upcoming sweeps at Echo Park. We've learned that CD13 shelters are currently at capacity. Police are about to remove dozens of people from the area with no plan as to where they'll go.
When members spoke to staffers, they gave confusing and contradictory information about where to direct people. Suggested shelters were far away and inaccessible to people in the Echo Park area.
In just the past few weeks we've seen a major uptick in anti-homeless enforcement actions, and extreme confusion among the city employees doing the enforcement. The city is pushing practices that make unhoused people's lives more difficult, and they're doing it incompetently.
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