home up in the air right there was about to break the woman on so i say what are you doing man says let the woman go on board you crazy because i go to shattuck she got by i say so you go to break girl because you got a pipe but i am so the lady was dramatic i know my bag i know why because i don't use i lighter right so she tried to run she mobile up her head to learn to go i see my letter goes on they let it go and she opened up her hand it was a night light or so i told us of when i was a homeless in medicine that we don't but its purpose i'm still a general so i tell myself i 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 mayo you need to go to l.a. can they do that kind of still. and so from him witnessing an injustice a day later he's. gone through leadership development classes and now three years later he's our leader human rights we're going to answer my job is to is to keep trying to wake up the messes you know and keep you know exploiting you know

standing with the system is doing. it right now my personal hero and i think all. the time general. and the reason i admire him so much as the reason i admire so many people. he's really somebody who grew up here and i'm now scones are always energy basically trying to the from the rights of other folks down here. general did nine years in the state paying 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 rehabilitating. you know he's a career criminal i guess you would have said the same thing about malcolm malcolm x. that he was a career criminal and now he's on a postage stamp. date a second. and even the time of the. look in.

a smile. i saw a big picture saw what i came from saw was going on would really help me open my eyes the far post my future today the reason why i get up and go do what i do every day you know when i go to work for. as first responders to emergency calls to skid row fire station 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 a ghetto. on washington one it would be contained literally. for humanitarian reasons that it would be easier to.

keep people. in the river or. one of the other important things to understand about skid row 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 you build them out in the desert that's not what's 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 without this housing people in the area would have nowhere to go who in the private or the public sector for a single adult who's total income is a two hundred twenty three dollars. the majority of people in this community. are social security by g. all and so. we called community our whole we don't use what we can afford. you know

we have to go to a community redevelopment agency moratoriums. 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 more time. i am i'm losing that housing gentrification is the price to square which new people come in and they have higher income levels and then economically the older people are forced to leave. and all these uptown or some want to come and have their sort of disneyland manhattan experience they are. they can go to but the poor skid row really have no other housing anywhere at all almost anyone would say if you've got to be crazy why would you save skid row what is the possible values saving a skid row if you think about it by 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 live in and let the poor continue to pay their own brand 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 loss in the area the city could convert that into housing for me under. sixteen to twenty four thousand dollars a year or more and. support of housing more services. for the forty percent of your return trimmer. there were. forty four to one hundred thousand dollars a year people through the emergency room records. this is the famous surely you should read your history. there's no.

really no. good guy up in the tree line leave me get it get it they are what we're there so i want to hear. that am i doing this here they are canceling it they never knew that. every. this year's reasonable things

that they do down here they harass people. over and they'll stop saying person maybe a five times one day and this goes on all day no they just decide to see if you wear white t. shirt and shorts you can sue me though don't they are arguing so that's probable cause to be stopped which is. no where in the world is a neighbor who could not stand in the street not still not great no where but don't tell us it's the only place to keep the bit. that you keep for his neighborhood still play all day. just in the street. tail off in black large brown you can still thought well ok great can't close three kids. the plantation. for years officials turned a blind eye to skip 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 soonish it cost the city of los angeles six million dollars in its first year alone. police say for cities initiative there was launched in 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 of the ever goes 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 crimes 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 your services side to come in so hard with the enforcement without having the the enhancement piece getting the services that are necessary to make this out the community is kind of backwards if you make me get off the sidewalk where am i going to homeless where i'm going to go where my grower you know take me home. so little where do our grandkids sit here i can't stand here i can lay here so you know where you are go when you look at the kindness every area of skin and when you see the drug dealing. in life you need. prostitution train on this we have every right and every responsibility good response ability to address and i stand behind the scenes seizing the city because. 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 fascists 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 even know why we have a mayor. grew up you fools you. see quality of life and check things was a fight maybe three. police chief william bratton made his name cleaning up new york city with the controversial. crime reduction. say for seniors how to implement that same policy in his home town. the same tactics it was jones and the broken windows theory in new york right where in this very concept by

you the same way he justified new york is saying well you plan on jennifer. california but consequences are really bad devastating for hours of the people here especially people with disabilities in the first year there were. zero scenarios of the two or thirteen girls or people who were twelve citations issued most for savers or littering or jaywalking someone who under the thirty dollars for their memories over a warrant for their arrest. i marinate is joining me on certain death impartial and financial reporting

commentary contribute and much much. only on them past and. read just read by closely this is really a duration is told to lean on the signs because it is a market economy and still total budget of the european union but we are talking about is not more than one percent off the cheated to your doing it the total budget is about the size of the bunch of finland and if this is called a socialist concept then look at the size off welfare states on the national level this is totally ridiculous what's ridiculous about is that you know what those are so ridiculous about. the e.u. marching in more or less to greece and to cyprus to study tiddly socialist communist i would say to talk about reading people's private bank accounts to support the european union and this is what they're talking about people are

falling over themselves democrats are falling over themselves to get into great britain because they know the rest of europe is boss. an article at business insider brags for americans who feel insecure about their country in light of china's impressive achievements it may be reassuring to know that while the chinese would rather live to the united states and stay at home yes rich 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 your corrupt. ever gives jaywalking tickets his way to get the check if it's a warrant as they now say every time a change try to do something we get itchy walking right up the street here i've had

guns put them ahead by our finest several times for smoking medical marijuana that i realized i got as marijuana and a marijuana pipe and i got the medical marijuana card to let you go but that's you have to sit there with your hands on your head these guys are all shaky and you've got their guns to your head you're on your knees with guns you had five six concert the guns on your door look like i got some place to hide a weapon. i remember just the sight of the rudy officers walking down the street with white gloves whom they walked up to a camp near you and everybody will get out you know in a line folks up against a wall they threw coffee on the street. secretly. instead they're going to play the sidewalk so we. can. put everything in 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 went through our. line to clean it and i think those people stop in the street because they were going to clean that sidewalk. back and right up and that was all of blankets on people's heads and they'd been. told they lost their blankets and. other places down their line of clean sidewalk and they were. skid row is full of contradictions. it can be violent.

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. a soulmate lover he became my guy. has a dream of being married to my guy i want to walk down. without. you know that dilys you sure. people. just get on. off the sidewalk because my days homeless people to me. and let me beg you let me lay open sleeping in your house and i have to get back. so i want to fill up do something with i'm free to do things when i heal people that i know

tonight you know can be called because you got a call to a photo of something. real right. 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'm a compliant kid but if i take a company. part fresh out the dumpster gotta love dumpster diving fire such 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 and 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 this got all my pictures my certificate to 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 was and i was to very completion for homeless court i got on 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 for as long as i was in a program the courts were cool about all the tickets and this one has a picture of my dad and is my step mom i like to feel the ocean and hotel but i don't really like their faces so i just kind of stuck a contact i turned i had a little picture in my cable that of my baby when she was a. kind of tyke she's my youngest are taxed two or three this is that because the condos this is the main house and over here would be to guest house you know why from skid row with this tent was. good wrote me and now it's in my living room and the cops can't come and tell me to pack up my time because can't check to see if i got a pop by. pipes over here i would rather have a couch and are at it in a chair and all that but then i have to sleep on the couch constantly 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. my house inside my house which is the best house in the world. it's not about what i did. it 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 reached 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. i wanted to keep getting better and i want to do things

so i'm going to therapy is the first time in my life that there will be does. i know that deep down inside there is an illness growing. going to boil over at this point i don't even realize it but i'm scared to death to find out really a lot sicker than a. scary people will always say you know what you know just go to therapy maybe talk to somebody and you hear that so much you think it but who wants it is going to go because that's all i did all my life was just how. to see maybe the web wasn't listening if skid row is a step away from the pits of pale this. thank god i'm not in here because that one little step makes a damn big difference because as they help this i have been like. yes . i'm. a little. ok

for now if they're going on carol. lee of 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 home abode liers pictures on the wall. and you know my are my friends cordless you to go who is a little boy there is no your business. and where leonidas is grown and how it's really what i think about all the time. you probably know him and. marry me now fogarty for her son. in the past to become rich. maybe sixty acres and suntech and she care our own house catches me she can

have a lot of trash. there never be fenced off from everybody and never a foreigner i go about in the. collective. stores just so she could store food for the garbus. because that makes her happy and continued it makes me continue when i see she have. jesus me this sunday. followed. me. and then. do him be. there. through. years. it's. our new view of the year. oh you walk. to me so.

danny harris is maintaining a surprise he began on skid row. 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. to try finally got her own apartment in a building with four of surfaces. she's still a member of. land was homeless for twenty four years in two thousand and eight

she moved into a lamp larch 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 tommy hayes were shot and killed inside a skid row residential hotel. he was forty nine years old old

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the european union likes to think of itself as one of the brighter and fairer parts of the world the european commission report on corruption the first of its kind betrays a very different picture in every single member country there is corruption in some cases on a massive scale so what can the e.u. teach the world how corruption. new york london. the whole world is on the. conceit of the original one a further one down the end there are further to hang up the corners that building at the end of the street another one a more transparent society gets the money or the puppet tears become we see military and state and police forces mobilized against people who blend into the city who inhabit the city the more people trust electronic devices the more defenseless they are the fear that it has

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