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greetings and salutations while we go about our daily lives driving in our congested highways most of us will never take a passing glance at the world that speeds by around us on our way to and from work or to the warm comfort of our homes and apartments but what if we did what might we see for commuters driving along historic hiawatha avenue in minneapolis minnesota one of the golden cities of the american midwest they will see tents hundreds of tents which are home to roughly two to three hundred homeless that is ans a vast majority of which are native american called the wall of forgotten natives this encampment represents yet another embarrassment for the united states and the country's treatment of its indigenous peoples according to statistics back from back in april of this year and up and county where the wall of forgotten natives is

located native americans make up one point one percent of hennepin county residents but sixteen percent of unsheltered homeless people as john trip at the st stephens human services told the minneapolis city council the emergency is not the camp the emergency has been going on for years the emergency is now visible. from the diseases and wars brought by early colonizers from europe to the broken treaties and outright genocide seen during the united states its expansion west word from sea to shining sea the native peoples of this land have consistently felt the darker side of us history and now with the images of standing rock still fresh in our minds this new temp city in the heart of the american midwest represents the uncomfortable truth that this tragic history may not be changing as we move into the twenty first century and start watching the hawks.

want to see the good the bad like really the truth is with. the last paper products if you like what they like you but i got. to think we. would agree that this. is. good because i. welcome everyone to watch what i rolled with and on top of the outlets and our own top of the wall us recently traveled to minneapolis and the wall of forgotten natives here is what she. hit me up list minnesota has a population of approximately four hundred twenty two thousand people with a twenty eighty nine year old project of over one and a half billion dollars with twenty four million dollars allocated for affordable

housing is comes just two years after the completion of the u.s. bank stadium the new home of the vikings football team it can comfortably sit over sixty six thousand football fans it was made possible by about three hundred fifty million dollars in the state of minnesota and approximately one hundred fifty million dollars from the city of minneapolis for the billion dollar project. yes the super bowl that was held here just last year netted the city over three hundred seventy million dollars but for the people here at the tent city known as the wall of forgotten natives they wonder where all that money could have gone. because just a mile from the billion dollar stadium is an encampment of between one hundred fifty and two hundred tents housing almost exclusively members of the indigenous peoples of minneapolis and their families in canada first came to my attention it was really through the conversations i have of my staff back in probably mid july

when there was maybe like four tents or four or five tents or early august that was really when it started to get more attention i think in the. both in the community but also within the city and the county because the tent city i think and then grew very rapidly one week or spartans next week it was you know forty towns and writes we it's kind of polyphony that but my staff has been down here doing outreach and trying to connect people to health care services and a number of things for quite a while and something we've been funded to do through the state of minnesota for over the last six or seven months and while many news reports falsely claim that the majority of the camp are people with opioid addictions that had been evicted from public housing our investigation found that only about twenty five percent of the residents are there or due to opioid addictions or drug arrests frank pair of national information coordinator for the american indian movement explains currently what's going on right here and all with. the recall of

a wall of forgotten need of just got over one hundred sixty five close to two hundred tents up and down there's three or four block area if we're not you're a couple of months bringing attention to homelessness of american indians in our own homeland this land here was look quarter where we got people out here from. from little kids. the grammars and droppers in their seventy's remember to use luckily the frankly street corridor that the encampment is in contains most of the organizations that are available to help american indians but even going a few blocks away for that house as permanent challenge which is where people like anthony st levy c.e.o. of the native american community clinic come in i formed a partnership with the red lake nation and also our partners ation called the live out the group and the three of us went into a partnership together to deliver onsite medical services because it became. fairly

evident to me and to a number of the folks that i work on my own with that is that my leaders ation that there were a number of people here who had on that made up medical and chronic medical conditions like. the open room the sorries and that several people didn't like these metaphors a. couple of other people had other conditions so really my my desire to get medical is onsite medical services were recognizing that people were not going to go even five hundred feet to the big clinic that is right at the corner or two blocks to my clinic to get medical care because. all kinds of issues raised like. the homeless and all the things that that all the things that are important to them that mean everything to them or the world or their belongings in their temple and when they would leave to go and do things like seek services either at my cleric or across the street at the outside edge and services ten people would sometimes to

other things which is a big traumatic event to somebody who's almost certainly it's made october the temperature during the day is around in the fifty's but it does get down into the thirty's at night which is why the plan right now is to move the people that are currently living at the wall of forgotten natives across the street to a location behind me which is owned by the red lake nation now eventually there's going to be affordable housing for these people on that one. well many on the ground feel that the city's goal of getting everyone at the encampment into permanent housing by december is lofty at best james alan cross the founder of maidens against heroin who's been overseeing the camp and explains why i think it's going to go well in the over a year i think that the first process of it get him over to their center over there the road like for to but we're also going to have people that don't want to be in or the rules are perfectly aware that we're going to continue to talk with this city hall so the mayor and everybody else in the hierarchy are about by the place where we're going to have these relatives and i know they don't want to hear. from

any coming here to be with their people said you sleeping in cars or under bridges is a step up and give them a sense of community that isn't always possible when suffering from homelessness especially when you're a member of an oppressed people but as thomas anderson told me it's not about. the wall of forgotten natives is all of us i think that. the police brutality obviously the lack of understanding of when people need help in healing they look at people as less and when it comes to you know nonviolent drug offenses that are policies that statutes that are not law. people are just dismissed they use the word crazy the is the word mentally ill they use the words of labeling to where they can dismiss things and all that's their problem that's not our problem that's not our children that their children when they're like i said all four of those directions all all all directions all nations all conscious that he being a life you know is

a home and dock us it means we're all related we're all relative. that's powerful that's powerful and you know you were there tavern and describable the more i mean there's like kids there there's elderly people there were no homes no to go to and yet you see you know police cameras were generators but i saw like open fire for some things like that like they grab they they're not allowed anything you know i'm . i mean well the one thing is we saw you know fire was there there had been one of the small fires that we saw somebody driving by had been concerned called them and there's been a small fire but it was put out that is one of the issues is that they're not allowed to have generators which could be a much safer way of keeping people warmer or running things that they're not a lap so it puts them in a position of having to burn wood for heat and as you said it just gets harder and harder as as time goes on and it's only going to get colder being from the midwest i can tell you as you know you know it's only going to get colder every day it's

node the day before we had gotten there i mean it melted but as they said most of these tents and. structures are not going to withstand even the snow that comes in a window in minnesota winter so that is one of the reasons of trying to at least get a large group of people over across the street to that spot but that the red lake nation which is that first they have to demolish the buildings on it they have to clear it off and then what they're going to do is put three or so large thema like trailers we're not talking about a camper trailer start with very large trailers they have about fifty beds each but they're heated the downside to that is there's little to no privacy and these there are sort of bunk beds and all of that. you have a lot of people probably aren't going to want to be in that situation it's much like a shelter but it's a better situation for a lot of people because they'll be with people they they know and that's that's the one. move that's being made one group about twelve people have been county i

believe had given them. a four plex so twelve people got a home this week and that's kind of where it is it's housing is the biggest one i mean you're surrounded down there by by large highrises that have immigrant housing and yet they're still waiting for their affordable housing has recovered the bodies and we do think that. everyone deserves houser together not to do it in. no no what's amazing to me is that. oh it was amazing to me what you're saying is that like these people deserve homes just as much as anyone else those because it's like they're the indigenous people here and you know that's what's incredible i mean the the a median income according to u.s. census data twenty fifteen was the average white minnesota household tickled sixty seven thousand dollars a year while american indian households make thirty six thousand dollars a year that's ridiculous it's a problem that could have been prevented you know with a little pre-planning right and not from pre-planning i mean it can be done which

is what you can see through those high rises and they say we know you can build down here you know you can do it and that's what's really the tough part of saying you know they see that there's you know there's a lot of immigrant housing which is great and there's a spot for native american heritage but that takes federal funding there isn't the state and the local the county either don't have enough or aren't willing to give up enough money to just fund that on which means you need to have federal funding and look the median home purchase price in the city of minneapolis is about two hundred fifty seven thousand dollars which is about like i think almost thirty thirty some odd percent above the national average the average cost of living in minneapolis went up five percent and the average cost of a two bedroom apartment in the city of minneapolis for rent is sixteen hundred dollars so you're looking at people who aren't even making minimum wage and these are people that address this so they can't vote and it's just an ongoing thing which is why we're going to there's a lot more to tell about this story and we'll have stories every day and be sharing as this story develops this is

a huge important story and thank you so much trouble there for driven out there covering this like you said we're not going to let this one last thank you so much burden for art as we go to break court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics you've covered of facebook and twitter see our full shows of our team coming up we speak with them friends of the housing justice league on the massive income inequality that continues to grow in u.s. cities across the nation state to watch in the hall. i believe that north korea will be ready to nuclearize very soon there could be saying that only green men about some of the nuclear weapons and materials to be taken to russia and dispose of there then on the basis of mutual trust the united

states and russia could help north korea in the energy sector for example build a gas pipeline that's the railway tracks. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you that. one of the crown jewels of the american south is the beautiful and scenic atlanta georgia home to the avengers movies the n.f.l. is that lana falcons delta airlines and of course our good friends at c.n.n. according to a recent bloomberg report based on the gini coefficient as calculated by the u.s. census bureau atlanta now takes the crown as the city with the greatest income

disparity in america yes while atlanta may be home to multiple fortune five hundred companies including coca-cola the poverty rate in the city sets at about twenty four percent nearly one in four according to the census bureau in fact eighteen percent of households and atlanta make over one hundred fifty thousand dollars a year while over nine percent makes under just ten thousand a year these statistics prove that income inequality is not. just a problem contained to the west coast or new york city but is a scourge affecting all communities across the country here to help us better understand what brought the city of atlanta to the top of the income inequality list so we can better combat this epidemic as a whole it as a whole is ten friends and one of the co-founders of the housing justice league and the program director for the american friends service committee is atlanta economic justice program welcome. it's great to be on so tim while most people would assume you know the cities with the biggest income inequality would be places like new york city or los angeles you know it's kind of shocking to see you know where

i'm at the top of the stool why is this. well yeah i mean it is shocking you'd think maybe sam cisco but the reality is that large urban areas outside of the south. very and. seventy's in the eighty's when safety nets around affordable housing some of those safety nets include rent control community lead rent board just cause a vixen law mandatory inclusionary zoning for major development and a culture of community benefit agreements between major developments and the communities that they seek to extract wealth from so i land is about forty years behind the rest of the country when we talk about urban centers in addition to that we got hit very hard by the housing crisis eleven million people lost their homes

but it disproportionately affected the atlanta area and since then since two thousand and twelve ninety five percent of everything built in the city for housing is considered luxury while on top of that we lost five percent of our affordable housing stock each year since two thousand and twelve and we've had this escalation just a cascade of mega developments that have garnered some of the largest welfare checks and in atlanta history and we continue to do these mega developments that shovel tens and millions in some cases billions of dollars into corporations right out of the taxpayers' pockets. so one of on the one hand you hear reports that the economy is strong especially from the white house obviously and it makes one wonder why are we seeing such high unemployment in places like atlanta when these are home to fortune five hundred companies you've got coca-cola you've got the airlines aren't

these supposed to be these huge job creators. yeah and so i think it's important to emphasize the effect of the housing crisis on atlanta a lot of low income folks on fixed incomes actually own property. and those folks lost all of their wealth and we have some neighborhoods i think the most impacted neighborhoods and they were all pittsburgh it's right close to downtown they lost eighty six percent of their wealth and so what happened in neighborhoods like that is more than half of the properties all of a sudden are vacant now what happened in atlanta is a company called blackstone and other companies follow their lead they came in and bought tens and thousands of these bank owned vacant properties fix them up just nice enough to rent and now they're there bundling these leases and actually securitizing them and training them on wall street and so what we had here was this recovery that left a lot of people behind and folks that still have not figured out

a way to catch up in this economy and so the recovery was it's a bit of a false recovery especially around housing in atlanta you know atlanta's not the only city that's been hit with companies like blackstone that come in and buy all of their bank owned single family home stock but that happened here and so there is this artificial recovery that has left behind almost half of the city. while that's really and i think it's also it's important to note that i think while we're are under. this is really a nationwide crisis it's hitting every urban community some cities are responding better than atlanta our minimum wage is seven twenty five here so we're tone line with the federal minimum wage and so as the property values are going up as a result of grabbing all of the available housing stock the cost of living has gone

way. and wages have been stagnant for twenty years here in atlanta i mean it is impossible to survive and thrive off seven twenty five in atlanta where our median income is about sixty two thousand dollars a year you that's a great point in that's was kind of want to get to the next is when you talk about cost of living you know how much it does got to play that's playing such a huge role in you know just ever widening this income gap and ever widening the gap between rich and poor at the example because it is a very important also you know you see rents skyrocketing across u.s. cities i'm sure that ladder there you see it out in los angeles you see it even in minneapolis is you know talking about earlier you know how is that i mean look if people can't afford homes that's one thing but now people can't afford to you know read. how you can't get a job you can earn a living if you can't afford a place to live how much is that playing into this as well. i mean that's that's

a huge factor and i do think that. we have to look at that the housing crisis and how it was dealt with and the very folks that caused the housing crisis have figured out a way to profit off the crisis that they created through buying up all this hot housing stock and creating what some people forsee is as our next bubble around real estate is when companies like blackstone decide to dump this but i do want to make an important point here that what we're dealing with in atlanta and i think other cities as well but what we're dealing with in atlanta is not actually a crisis of economic resources. our city budget is not a random shopping list it is a list of our moral priorities and really since two thousand and twelve we continue to spin most of our extra money as a city with these men on these mega developments that basically give hundreds of millions of dollars to folks at r.t.

have so much i mean for one example is our stadium i know a lot of cities are dealing with these the economics of sports stadiums but we have one of our richest residents arthur blank who started home depot walk into the mayor's office and say hey i know no one's asking for it but i'd like to build a new giant stadium to take the place of this perfectly fine stadium and i want you to give me seven hundred million dollars to do it and so there is no public discourse the mayor just makes an announcement hey we're going to give seven hundred million dollars away to build this stadium that no one asked for so we're what we're really in a crisis we're in a crisis of political will we're a price is a crisis of moral priority if we as a city and as a country continue to prioritize those that have so much for these mega developments and the rest of us have to pay for it we will continue to widen this gap. between is it basically

a transfer of wealth from the public good into. a multi-billionaire in the case of like the falcon stadium or in atlanta right now we have another may good development that's being proposed with the cia and group out of l.a. to turn over two point five billion dollars of taxpayer money so they can build this corporate town in the middle of our city it's a real crisis of political will we are at a place in atlanta that if we reworked that budget to reflect the values of the land of the values that i believe most of our residents hold we would be we would be able to be in a position where folks had enough where we could build communities where folks can survive and thrive regardless of what their wages are i believe that we have a moral priority to make sure that folks are able to not only survive but thrive in the communities they work on work in regardless of how much their pay is so that means if we are saying minimum wage is seven twenty five we have a moral obligation to make sure that we have the ability to house those folks in

a way that they can survive and thrive and we can do it the resources aren't top stickle here it's the political will and that's the question i have for you is how did you. land or other citizens affected by the same thing as you point out this isn't just key to atlanta was affecting the entire country how sure this is how do so this is reversed this political will get it back to where. readjust our political priorities in this country so that we're not seeing income gaps of this size and wealth gaps the size. well you know we heard before that all politics are local and that's one of the one of the things that we've been doing in atlanta and you know i've seen a partners around the country doing the same thing is it is it is time for us to start looking at our city budgets as a moral document and to really look at look at our city budgets and say how how can we do better so what we're doing in atlanta is we're building up tenet associations because. same times we're developing analysis we have to base build we have to

create a base of people that care about these issues and are going to show up at the those important moments to be their city council meetings and to really get involved in the political process here so we in the last four years we've built up eleven tenet associations complexes around the city that's a voter base that is a base of folks that we can continue to grow and grow and grow and so what we need to be doing is not only coming up with smart sensible economically sane analysis our city budgets in these major projects we also have to be base building we have to be putting that analysis out to folks in order to do that. organizers around around the country have to focus on building a base of folks and so we're starting that base with the very folks that are most affected by these economic issues and that is where the low road work all the great work out there to my daughter so once again tim friends one of the co-founders of

the housing justice league program director of the american friends service committee atlanta economic justice program good big title there thank you so much tom for coming on and educating us to babies a lot of. pleasure to be here. outside of the tragedy horror and waste of tax dollars the war on drugs has also brought us some hope so we say innovative examples of human ingenuity and creativity when it comes to smuggling drugs across the border national or state and no better example of this can be found in the recent thwarted efforts of a drug trafficking ring in southern california who attempted to ship nearly ninety pounds of methamphetamines to hawaii twenty five of which is disguised as ancient five hundred year old aztec calendar stones statues and decorations nine members of a truly creative with crafts orange county drug ring were indicted by the d.a. for the shipments from the defendant facing a series of charges including conspiracy to distribute i mean imagine

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