it was more like skid row as we identify old drunks old drunks on the street. it used to look terrible he told chris incarnation of drunks. and when it was really safe because they were not very aggressive now we have young strong crack addicts who are many times are willing to take a chance at rolling stone to get their money to get some work crack it's a different addition. there's always been efforts to get rid of skid row in their war and for people who are unable to live in the world and they move good move to try to move here again and again but just moved into a different area when big money developers began to revitalize downtown the flop houses got new neighbors and pan houses and high end lofts. there are not many places where the gap between rich and poor is a striking as it is here. literally there is just

a block or two separating those two things and i cruising where there's muscles are pretty close to the site so it's tough for to really get over to some skid row this is the new or through my still to. back you were to drop it people didn't come down to see and it don't tell you this while the heroin addicts leo you know all this is dirt fields and burn barrels and they will cut your throat down to your people become past main street you doing dishes call the pit spec down. the people are told a different sort of a whole new generation. it's good rosenau just same potential real estate story of a ground floor it's clear that people are interested not much interest on the people who are on the ground everyone who lands on skid row has a story to tell about how they got there for many it's the last stop after losing everything for some the fall especially term aspect. my life you know prior to

coming to skate road was. in some ways like most people in other ways it was a little bit different you know i i was born in compton grew up there with five brothers and sisters lost my dad when i was three my mom when i was fourteen at that point i moved out to california and i was an athlete in high school and d.c. student started smoking weed you know in high school at the age of fourteen after my mom passed away yet and still you know i was good enough athletically to earn a full scholarship to university iowa state university where i was a national champion and track and field and also was able to go and qualify for the olympic games in eighty four where i actually competed i want to so medal so at eighteen years old you know obviously going into the olympics a year out of high school was very exciting i had a lot of emotion going. you know one nine hundred eighty eight i started to experiment with the drugs they ended up you know getting involved with cocaine and

i freebasing cocaine and that was the beginning of a twenty year journey for me as an addict i had lost everything i had lost my shoe contract i had lost my house i had lost all the financial means that i. was really on the street. sleeping on the street for the first time and actually laying down on the sidewalk you know in trying to close your eyes and next to go to sleep when you're outdoors those are the things as an addict that most people don't really talk about so the first time i came down to skid row i was pretty much horrified. and i was amazed at the number of the military down here i was amazed and where some of the people had come from. the midnight mission first opened its doors and nine hundred fourteen cents and thousands have passed through it's drug and alcohol treatment program. two hundred

forty four men occupy this space here at the mission and we're going to go and see where i got my humble beginnings in recovery this is the residence when you first come into the midnight mission everyone that comes in has to come through this dormitory first. so this was my big c three up and you can see this in the this is just the way it was when i when i got here i did a lot of soul searching in this period right here i had to make up my mind whether or not i was going to try to stay sober what the program was for me what i was really doing here you know at forty one years old what are you going to do i mean at that point for me it was either you go forward you know what the other lifestyle or you try to pull back and do something different. any time you you for. all from grace so you fall from some lofty heights if you want to use that word. it's

humbling. the area has always attracted outsiders. some stay for a. while others never. olson but everybody calls me bam bam i'm a punky ex new yorker my story starts way back when i was a kid unfortunately. nursery school would beat my teacher with a chair i was thrown out of every school ever went to i've been seeing elucidating and hearing voices ever since i was a kid again. bipolar schizoaffective i have anti-social personality disorder of p.t.s.d. i have intimate rage just sort of major nightmare disorder i also have a gender identity disorder where i'm taking hormones for a transgender issue for sexual reassignment to get marilyn down the color of their good spot to some of the best era when it's. cracked up bad it we'd mans our next

block. hollowing most two years ago it's only to be two years for me so i spent a good two years down. the job they got ever do again i think i commit suicide next time for. being so nasty horrible and everything's over the place it makes you you know makes you want to do something with your life size doing this because this is really rough to do this and i went to the service i got from out of the service for bad conduct one thing is really stinks the fact it doesn't rain here doesn't wash the urine in the pool the way it's a smell just gets worse and worse i beat up my mother and my sisters and i took my kid and by losing my kid and everything else i really really really were smart and i was when i first became homeless because i couldn't rationally. deal with where my life had gone i've been electrician for all these years are always

worst. back in the mid seventy's through the mid eighty's we didn't call them homeless back then we were emptying our mental hospitals by basically saying now we have them instead of help you and you can also get on disability so go forth and take care of yourself the predominant population on the row at that time and continues to date are the homeless mentally ill obviously many of them are also involved with addiction and and sometimes you can't figure out which came first and that doesn't even matter the fact is they've got melanoma serious mental. because the institutions don't exist anymore reagan closed down all those places they took all the mental people they gave it to society and then where do we go you either get committed and get locked in and smoke a cigarette three times a day and when they tell you or you sit out on the street you become homeless and

you can at least have your own life to some point. in many ways it's an open asylum for the mentally ill we don't have closed asylums anymore except for our jails in our prisons l.a. county twin towers jail is the largest mental institution in the united states. because we no longer hospital our kids are mentally ill so we criminalized because of their behavior on the streets people were really questioning me like how can you open a place just for people who are crazy isn't that really stigmatize. and i said no i think we're going to be just a. drop in center we're going to have the best food we're going to feel like a family we're going to just make it a place people want to come to. so

that people had a place to stay at night. by like two thousand and two we had one hundred employees half of them were members we also set up our own permanent housing i came in contact with some of the most beautiful people. that one could ever know we're going to go to the poor. family. you know we could. play cards to gather we sing karaoke we. deal with all types of people. first. place all types of people all types. and. people just like me depression was one of my biggest things. seven years ago i love that i was on the pill i do it in

a way every time. i have. a girl in and out around the center nurses. my body. i know my health. my body i had my breast. cancer so i'm trying to be strong and i'm trying to be you know it you know and just enjoy what i have right now what i'm doing right now is. taking care of my business no matter how much pain i'm me and i got to do.

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yesterday chinese are getting green cards in record numbers do they love you for your freedom well not exactly for according to the headline china's wealthiest citizens are fleeing to the u.s. amid corruption crackdown yes you americans should feel so insecure because apparently america is the best place to flee if you're corrupt. those homes for for sure. it wasn't couldn't get into school or didn't want to go we. can do for. stewart. to become of history should he really have. a car from home very good home. very good home but i want to live on the street. marks because that's what this is. very wise to life and people. can read right

away. bitterness where you just want everybody not just limited. to just paint. right here. those in the spring things can i was born in the trailer house over here in san pedro my father was in the service in world war two when i was released in new mexico where my grandmother was born i'm from the men of clan to region powerful clan a new mexico it and i would put four years old and gather in arkansas and i put the last twenty years in jail that's arizona. i had my first cats when i was three years old even though i've been feeding these for over five

years now i had to pay for fifty a month or kept food i couldn't go get to cheap get food that you forget that i had to pay two and three and four dollars a night for star phone containers and a body like eight dollars for just a few pills thing that struck me worst when i saw the skid row was there was no clean fresh water for the birds and kids they let caustic solutions and all kinds of poisons go and psych drugs in the waters to camps on the verge of drinking and no clean food supply for them you know by now with all the my time in here is cat food with a lot more compact the ok. kid you can't take it again say it when there's been this now this is a problem the unocal no this is no this is the one that had the signs can right here. the month kitty and it looked like a rat well this last race i got it to

a murder. so we hopefully will have wore. yellow skin we once had a lot of red in her war yeah that means anything rev moon moon . cats are going to be born now that the man with that right settles womb and finals in orlando logan pirkei and less than last night. and as a psycho a little insight when someone i don't know the son like i would like to sit around and lou let alone lay low and hear rifle rules sexually harass hold. the sex of the press. thank our don't let no stand carolyn's out psycho level or anything. let alone attack that way and our way there around here and out here so no way. to really what i meant ever does a guy was bothering her one day and i just don't like. people to take advantage of

oh people. when he was taken advantage over so i intervened and she did for good enough there she just kind of adopted me as her fiance and i've been her fiance or since that's been nine years ago we did i started to like her as a person and i start to understand her who she is right here in her. mental illness with the collection of trash she has stored just full of cash like three different ones just completely piled up there she pay every minute nothing but. but that's who she is and i take her just who for who she is it and that's why she loves me and i love her for that except different i guess that's how i get my blessings from god. you know because in the beginning was like i but i truly i would defend her with my life if you believe that i would die behind this will lead

you right here. if you. license love life is a conundrum to be good. so story and everybody down who knows that if they bother her today they're going to have to deal with me so they basically don't buy. of all. the haters she carries all the church. and she let her. richard be alone time to people off the street or why you don't or should be warned she does want to see people or understand you have to let them be who or when she's ready to go. you should want to should you have to live her litter slots or should i should even though she has little or. she needs a truly large words there were secret. even those mothers will set the money he she gave him he spent on drugs and then these people giving one drug no one else to buy more they keep psyching him. and he almost finished

a psychology course and with three years of medical school and a drop out medical school it crackle i can end up so bad commemorating and now i see him at one back to medical school even though he has pancreatic cancer which is really a sick move. he is she is a lot of ways and cause real lot of grief. and ok we know we have family how this will hang on our lives. well this is. this. i was sleeping also enjoying a blanket. real close friends. sometimes dubois's to sleep. sometimes

inside it reminds me of why the hell out of there at the age of sixteen. i try to have my so committed to a hospital because i wasn't going to acting with other people and healthy way i didn't feel connected to anything i would. feeling very depressed and. i thought wanted to save the world myself you know a headache if i go in at sixteen then i never have to come back out again but they would accept me. they would be receptive as bad place to be you know i ran away from home at seventeen years old and i actually got a job paid really in school. that married at the age of twenty one had my daughter my first daughter is twenty two then my other daughter and then my last honor. their father divorced me at that point i mean.

there was nothing healthy about. everything with the stored it. was. oh my god i don't know how i raised those three girls like that. but he said that my father passed away that hurt me really bad. everyone in my life that i cared about they're gone when that happened i came to skid row. i developed a real bad again came and came here. and i really didn't and never thought about it i just know when you are wrong doing roman doing your body spoke net so that's what i'm going to do. but him. that's what i wanted at that time and i just remember saying to myself i sit here long enough and keep doing

what to do it is going to happen because i just knew i was glad as to say enjoy it and maybe a down syndrome. road as mine. to me you say he's used down here been through most turbulent times now to . geos in this interesting history part of it is a drug addiction crack cocaine also addicted to the lifestyle of downtown where. no one judge a single. grew up in compton ride horses i would ride horses i was three years old. and people wore so they had horses in the back yard but they'd never rode i just start going to horse take them out no go but ya didn't ride to miss it you wrote it was a. challenge to ride horses i knew they had like

a four and i had a stand in to the hold oh why you like it so much what you did before i went down they they spark me yeah that's what i want to know too that i like the smell of eleven when they spark me like a baseball or to tell me i was or was. just all our horses they sparred me to sign what my dream would be to live on the ranch. we were horses. just to be around smell them walk ride a baby. teach people about. when to come the horses and believe that. i know if they get it because of the house arrest so many people you know by left are off. to get by the wall of wall people up and down a whole block and you can hardly walk up and down the street cause could be a pen pal or have everything gone are everybody's either in jail they all went to

santa monica venice or hollywood or somewhere else we don't need more channels but people mental institutions will need more doctors to come down here so the more people pass now sandwiches that's what we really need we need more understanding we need the awareness that we're not told. three. things impact our central nervous system the environment that we grow up in and that we live in our d.n.a. basically what we're born with our genes and drugs. i don't mean is the reward neurotransmitter i mean it's what you see you see and release is from our brain cells when we are sexually aroused when we smell something's good we'd like to be when and. we smoke crack the brain of a schizophrenia person untreated unmedicated is always wash with dope or made more

sold in the brain of a person that doesn't because frankly the scripts are frank brain cannot filter out the noise is the heat. the vibrations the other people talking to you it's all tuning it once so the medications that we give people for schizophrenia reduce the don't for me unfortunately they reduce it too much and they feel dead in the sun baked don't get to feel pleasure any more. these folks wake up every morning and have to face another day being a stigmatized marginal person in the world and have to make decisions about using street drugs or using for scribed drugs. street drugs or easier to get them prescribe drugs street drugs feel better prescribe drugs don't particularly feel

better in their hands everywhere is mentally ill people there's always a major because we need them there it's on medication for self medicate so be it how else would one do it what else would you do i can't even get my mobile telephone what am i supposed to give our medication so drugs superman. before i make it. for example a very good intelligence unit attached to u.k.

anti doping in london and the. whole range of different opportunities to create information and then get it from the media they have a push pull blower link people can forward and give them information to get trained of information across and bardos is actually quite complicated by what we do as in egypt intelligence function is to use a little range of sort of independent information gathering we have build relationships for example with interpol and that helps us find out where there is junk trafficking going on.

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