By Laura Shepard Townsend On December 11th, 2013, L.A. City Councilmember Mike Bonin stated in a letter to the Venice Neighborhood Council that he is authorizing a voluntary storage program for those […]
Emergency Services: Enabling Life
By Peggy Lee Kennedy There has been an upsurge of homeless deaths reported this winter, especially with the recent cold snap we had in November and December. There should be distress and […]
Cruel, Unnecessary, Illegal and Immoral Harassment of the Houseless by LAPD
By Brian Connely On the streets between Venice and Santa Monica, the LAPD handed out twenty $160 tickets to homeless individuals the other night. Their crime? Where they’re going to sleep that […]
50 Years After the Coup That Changed America Forever
By Jim Smith Have you heard it on the news About this fascist groove thang Evil men with racist views Spreading all across the land Don’t just sit there on your ass […]
On Being Homeless in Venice…
By Brian Connolly I’ve been supporting the rights of the un-housed as a political activist who dresses like John Lennon, pitching my tent overnight at different events, and then going back to […]
LAPD in the Spotlight for Racial Profiling
By Mark Lipman Something that the Los Angeles Police Department really doesn’t like is when the people know their rights. It was just after midnight, on the 24/25th of August, a Saturday […]
CA Prison Strike Exposes US Domestic Torture
By Anthony Castillo At the same time that mostly innocent prisoners at Guantaamo Bay are being force fed after going on hunger strikes to protest their hopeless, indefinite detentions, here in CA, prison inmates […]
PRISON NATION
By Mary Getlein Eugene Debs said it best: “While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is […]
They don’t like Cheerios: Race in America
By Ronald K. McKinley I was born, and raised in American Apartheid, in New Orleans. I was born in 1950. I still remember the “White only” signs. We were colored then; we […]
Big Boss Man vs the Indigent Children
Political Cartoon by Khalil Bendib By Eric Ahlberg Get a job. Nothing seems to disturb the gentrifiers of Venice like unemployed youth hanging out on their block. Why can’t they just get a job […]
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