you just take your posterboard or tag board, cut out your petal shape. cut your wire.e them together. --ry parade we work on [inaudible] he wanted to p -- you want it to pop out. you have these hard edges on it. the flowers we do softens up the edges and makes it nice. >> when you walk through the prop shop, they are working on the props. we have a sculptor shop made from papier-mache -- shop, where they make models from papier-mache. then are is a group that will put it on the forklift, surrounded with the flowers the flower department has built. i am not just working on 2019, but 2020 as well. we are two years ahead of ourselves, because there is literally so much to do. this is why i think mardi gras new orleans is the most unique cultural celebration in this country, and may be the most unique in the world. mardi gras new orleans is not commercial. it is against the law that any commercialization -- he will never see a sign that says budweiser or an attachment on a float, because that it's against the law. spectators in a mardi gras parade, people become participan

you just take your posterboard or tag board, cut out your petal shape. cut your wire.e them together. every parade we work on -- you want it to pop out. you have these hard edges on it. the flowers we do softens up the edges and makes it nice. >> when you walk through the prop shop, they are working on the props. we have a sculptor shop, where they make models from papier-mache. then are is a group that will put it on the forklift, surrounded with the flowers the flower department has built.

posting posterboard sized, "eviction notice" on the door.a brief march on l street across the capitol -- blocking traffic for a few minutes.before descending on the west steps of the capitol...its the poor people's campaign.their message: fight poverty not the poor.abdullah muhammad, alliance of californians for community empowerment "legislature seems like they're not doing the right thing to protect their constituents."the campaign -- mixing a number of statewide activists and groups to speak out in support of unions and against rent increases, low wages, and homelessness. just last week -- the legislature and governor's office announced a one-time $500 million investment to combat the homelessness crisis. abdullah muhammad "that's not even a drop in the bucket to deal with homelessness in the state of california. it's a joke."the latest adds more than 100 million more than what governor jerry brown first proposed in may on homelessness , but it is significantly less than what the senate pushed for...$5 billion over four years.bay area sta