i ended up joining the games and so for near i got into my addiction my addiction landed me in front of a judge. because you're doing robberies he said you have to go to state prison so the serious sin is me to an eighteen year state prison. when i was doing my time in prison and i became really more radical i was in the revolutionary before i got out you know i promised all of that when i get out i would give back. growing up in my life so when i got out the first thing i did was i came back to ski a role. so one day to bicycle security goes from the biggest improvement different color suburbia shirts had this woman twisted a home up in the air and there was about to break the woman on so i say what are you doing man this little woman cohen goes you crazy because like a shattuck she got by i say so you go to break girl and she got

a pipe and i am so the lady was demanding i know my bag i know why because i don't use i lighter right so she tried to run a few mobile up her head to learn to go i said milliner go so they let it go and she opened up her hand it was a night light or so i told myself when i was a homeless in medicine that we don't but it's preferred i'm still a general so i tell myself i've got to go get me some soldiers while i'm you know walking around here to talk to one of my friends and he told me man you need to go to l.a. can they do that kind of stuff. and so from him witnessing an injustice a day later he's. going to be leadership development classes and now three years later he's our lead human rights were going to his or my job is to is to keep trying to wake up the messes you know and keep you know exploited you know stay with the system is doing. it right now my personal hero and i think all of us will stay on the toast of time general. and the reason i admire him so much as the

reason i admire so many people down. here is really somebody who grew up here and i'm now spends all his energy very sick were trying to from the rights of other folks down here. general did nine years in state pain six of those nine years were done in solitary confinement. is the individual that if you listen to the policy makers if you listen to people with money and wealth and power there's no real. you know he's a career criminal. i guess you would have said the same thing about malcolm. x. he was a career criminal and now he's on a postage stamp. basically. maybe even. a smile. came from

saul was going oh no next would really help me. through today the reason why i get up and go do what i do every day you know when i go work for you but oh yeah that's me. as first responders to emergency calls the skid row fire has been busiest in north america. back in the mid seventy's the city made a policy that skid row would be a contained preserved area much like an indian reservation or where the unwashed wanted would be contained literally. for humanitarian reasons that it would be easier to. keep people. that was. one of the other important things to understand.

is that it's not primarily a homeless population and people tend to think it is and it's really critical people understand that because if you think of skid row is primarily a homeless population that's one set of issues with one set of solutions then you build large shelters and if you do it the way some people at city hall would like and. that's not what skid row is skid row is principally endangered low income residential community in the fifty blocks of skid row there are sixty five what we call single room occupancy housing with a. just housing people in the area would have nowhere to go who in the private or the public sector builds housing for a single adult whose total income is a two hundred twenty three dollars generally check. the majority of people whose community is zero and serves our social security by gee all their stories and we call this community our whole we do just what we can afford. you know we have to go to a community redevelopment agency moratoriums that stop to do immediate conversion of

low income housing units into condos in los. we lost a thousand units in about three or four year period from about two thousand to two thousand and four. it took the city a long time to respond with a moratorium on losing that housing gentrification to. which new people come in and they have higher incomes. and the economic gloom the older people were forced to leave. and all these uptown or some want to come and have their sort of disneyland manhattan experience they have other options to other communities they can go to but the poor skid row really have no other housing anywhere at all almost any one would say if you've got to be crazy why would you save skid row what is the possible value of saving skid row if you think about it but if thousands of people on main street lose their housing that's thousands of people for whom the city will have to build a massive and costly shelter system and makes far more sense to preserve the

housing the poor living and let the poor continue. so makes good economic sense not just good social and moral sense for the city to in fact preserve the housing that's in the skid row area. there are a lot of empty lost in the area the city could convert that into housing for anyone who crossed about sixteen to twenty four thousand dollars a year to have someone. supportive housing them housing with the services that help them stay in that house i thought he five percent of your attention right. but compares to anywhere from forty five thousand to one hundred thousand dollars a year people through the emergency room for trails the court system and so on. this is a famous and truly a street but if you're just dream is fine because you know. we're. the only. thing back up in the tree behind me getting there they are

what we're there so i want to hear. that. they can have a little canceling if they never knew that. there were three here who feel for. this year's and reasonable things that they do down here there harass people. topple over you know stop

a person maybe a five times in one day and this goes on all day loaded just clouds. if you wear white t. shirt and shorts you're considered a good don't they are arguing so that probable cause to be stopped which is. nowhere in the world in the neighborhood could not stand the street enough to know five all the way no way ever downtown boston still in place to get to this. picture cheap court is neighborhood still quite all that. interested in street authentic but it could downtown off in black large brown you can still sidewalk little break can't close street kid is this the plantation. for years officials turned a blind eye to skate around in two thousand and six the chaos finally caught the city's attention fifteen new police officers were deployed to an area less than one

square mile in size. the safer city said the shooting cost the city of los angeles six million dollars in its first year in the. police say for cities initiative that was launched on september two thousand and six a bill on the drawing board since two thousand and two it was originally called the homeless reduction strategy that was launched with a vengeance in september of two thousand and six and there was an effort there was really chartered by mayor there were those chief bratton knows a comprehensive approach to skid row. there were going to be two problems there was going to be of a serious crackdown on what was called serious crime and skid row and then there was to be a big expansion of services. well one of those things happened and the other one didn't the city put zero dollars him to the services side to come in so hard with the enforcement without having the the enhancement piece giving the services that

are necessary to make this how community the. it's kind of backwards if you make me get off the sidewalk where i'm going to hold that's where i'm going with you till you go where my girl or you know take me home. so i know where you are going to sit here i can't stand here i can lay here so you know where you are go when you look at the crime every parent in school when you see the drug. he likes to do the prostitution and the preying on this we have every right and every responsibility givers sponsibility to address and i stand behind these safe seats in the city because i believe. that if. you think that the mayor was you know east in the way talked about safer cities you would think he was mother teresa. instead of being the most fascist democrat and

the most you know he's always allowed the fascist to take over his city administration the manhattan institute and as far as i'm concerned up from my perspective chief bratton runs this damn city and i don't know why we have a mayor. rule of new schools you. will. see quality of life and said this was the last night that many tree hill. police chief william bratton made his name cleaning up new york city with the controversial broken windows theory of crime reduction. safe for cities how to implement that same policy and he's telling. the same tactics that was shown and the broken windows theory is no you're right when i say concept by you the same way he justified new york in the same way you plan on jennifer. california but that's when things are really very devastating for hours of the people here especially

people with disabilities the first year there were. scenario i was about twelve or thirteen thousand people were twelve thousand citations issued most forsyte are supplied through literary jaywalk they are someone who under the thirty dollars. skull of a warrant for their arrest. the few. i

got a quote for you. it's pretty tough. if they were it's not story. let's get this guy like you but smear that guy stead of working for the people most issues the mainstream media were for each other bribe writers didn't find. were the good rather it was. the be. were we welcome the era nainan abby martin to be terrific hosts on the r t network. it's going to give you a different perspective give me one stock never i'll give you the information you make the decision don't worry about how breaking the sun works it's a revolution of the mind it's revolution ideas and consciousness and frustrated

with the system the an extremely public use would be described as angry i think in a strong. under single. every gives jaywalking tickets this way to get to check you for all sorts of warrants says they now say every time a change try to do something they get itchy walking stick right up the street here i've had guns put to my head by the. l.a. finest several times for smoke americal medical marijuana they have to realize well as i got his marijuana and a marijuana pipe and i got the medical marijuana card they let you go but that's you have to sit there with the hairs on your head these guys are all shaky and they got their guns to your head you're on your knee as nice with guns you had five six cars so get the guns i do i look like i got some place to hide a weapon. i remember just the sight of a pretty groovy officers walking down the street with white gloves on they walked up to a cafeteria and they to everybody go get out you know and they lined folks up against

the wall to they threw coffee all out on the street. six places and said the plane side lost something. put everything on the street civil liberties or something that belong to people who live west of main street or. beyond little tokyo or in the south park area there are no civil liberties honored at all in the skid row area and outs known by the city attorney's office it's known by the mayor it's known by everybody at city hall but nobody cares. we say with some of these people stuff i want to do our stuff in the street because the police kept blind to clean it and i threw those people stuff in the street because they were going to clean that sidewalk back and right up and that was our

blankets. and they'd been. they lost their blankets and. the place was down their line of clean sidewalk and they were. skid row is full of contradictions. it can be. frightening. but it can also be a refuge. a place to go well. find acceptance. to be free. one of the first people that i met and there was robert. soulmate. lover he became my guy. has a dream of being married to my guy i want to walk down. without you know that delusion. yes one of my greatest. people can take.

some time. just to get off the sidewalk because my days. put to me. and let me beg you let me lay open sleeping in your house and i have to get back. so i do i feel i've done some too and i'm free to do other things when i heal people that i know tonight you know can be called because you got a call to a photo of something. in real life. now i'm not on skid row anymore or caramel place it's insane and i got my section eight i'm off the street i'm sober and i made compliant people if i took a comes. over part fresh out the dumpster gotta love dumpster diving and i find such good stuff you know you forget you need these things you would never think about that you need you need the dish soap and you

just wrote spray you know cooking oil and salt and pepper and toilet paper and cleaning supplies and a broom and a hop this is my lovely walk of fame she's got all my pictures my certificates of completion this one here is a star for get from the class foundation this is a thirty day primary detox this one here i have to say i'm changed gendered which was a tough one to get and this one is and i was through completion for homeless court i got total like one hundred fifty tickets and what i had to do was go and check myself and to get at least to me this by getting into a program so if as long as i was in a program the courts were cool but all the tickets and this one has a picture of my dad as my step mom i like to feel the ocean as a hotel but i don't really like their faces so i just kind of stuck a right turn i had a little picture in my cable that of my baby when she was a. tiny little tyke she's my youngest are tax proudly two or three this is

that because he condos this is the main house and over here would be to guest house you know i was from skid row with this tent was on skid row with me and now it's in my living room and the cars. can't come and tell me to pack up my tent because can't check to see if i got a pop. pop pipes over here i would rather have a couch. and a chair or go after ten i have to sleep on the couch and there i think just fits me more because i've been in a tent for so long i don't want to forget how i got here and large this is a symbol of what i was what i could be and what i could have been and what i was this is smart house inside my house which is the best house in the world. it's not about what i did. is what the hell i'm doing. and. i'm still trying to become the best and i still can it doesn't matter.

what age they breached you know i'm still their mother now the toughest job that i have now is taking care of me. i can't come full circle because i never. had a full circle to begin. i want to keep getting better and i want to do things so i'm getting therapy is the first time in my life that there will be does. i know that deep down inside there is illness growing. boiled over at this point i'm going to realize. i'm scared to death to find out really a lot sicker than that. well that's scary people will always say you know what you know just go to therapy me talk to somebody and you hear that so much and you think it but who wants to just go and you know because that's all i did all my life which is talk. to see maybe the web was

a listen if skid row is a step away from the pits of pale thank god i'm not in here because the. one little step makes a damn big difference because this help is that they have been like. a wave. ok for now if they're going on carol. lee and this is a part of my life because she's a very special person she's very special and dear mom hard ok when you come into my little home a boat liers pitches on the wall. and you know my wife or his cordless you to go who is a little boy there is no your business. and we're living in his golden hour is really what i think about it all the time for sure probably nobody ever made. me or

me enough for her son. in the past to become rich. are beyond. maybe sixty acres and sometimes she care our own house catches me she can have it all the trash she. there never be fenced off from everybody and never a foreigner. bombing the. collective. stores just so she can store. garbus. because that makes her happy and continued it makes me continue when i see she have. jesus me this and. followed. them to. us do him be. there.

through the year. learn. yes. danny harris is maintaining a surprise he began on skid row today is an assistant coach at iowa state university and he recently got married. bam bam still lives in section eight housing. he recently reconnected with his daughter and is living with hiv. linda is singing with a gospel band she remains hopeful about her health and plans one day to marry

rather. gentle doak on continues to advocate for the homeless through his community work with l.a. can. detroit finally got her own apartment building with supportive services. she's still a member of land. land was homeless for twenty four years in two thousand and eight she moved into lamp launch she continues to feed the cats and birds of skip around every night. early on easter morning two thousand and nine. k.k. and another man named tony hayes were shot and killed inside a skid row residential hotel. he was forty nine years old old

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