Gentrifuckation, An Overview: The last beachside community of color in the State of California. Yeah, whom are we going to charge for their crimes? It is a well known fact in town, […]
Venice LOVE Report: Gentrifuckation
Fighting to Make a Difference
Defense lawyer, Daniel (Danny) Brookman, has been a surfer and a Venice resident since the early 1960’s. That’s a lot of waves and lots of days as a “Venetian.” You could also […]
Ending Police Brutality
by Michael Wamback From Ferguson to Venice, police abuse of power has been a hot topic. We get upset about it, and rightly so. But where does it come from, and what […]
An Indictment on Homelessness
By Mark Lipman It is so, so easy to blame the victims. It is so easy to be self-righteous when you have a roof over your head and think that it can […]
Racism Alive and Well in Venice
By Greta Cobar In this day and age, and especially here in Venice, we would like to think that the last thing we would witness would be a socio-economic, racist hate crime. […]
Letter: LOST IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST
Dear Beachhead LOST IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST -as told to Chee Wah Wah seagull- written anonymously out of fear. I was hanging out one evening by the pagoda on Dudley […]
Huge Victory for Prisoners’ Rights in CA
By Anthony Castillo If you ever think that protests, hunger strikes, and speaking truth to power is futile — Think again. The very first article I wrote for the Beachhead (September 2013# 383) was […]
THE REAL BILL OF RIGHTS – by Marty Liboff
1. Congress shall make no law respecting an estab-lishment of religion; you must worship the Republicans or Democrats. Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or the press, or […]
The Sunshine Is Free: The Aftermath of the LAPD’s Beating of Samuel Calhoun Arrington
By Krista Schwimmer A year ago on August 7th, Samuel Calhoun Arrington, a 52 year old mentally disabled, homeless, African-American man, was sitting under his umbrella where Ocean Front Walk intersects with […]
Beachhead Interviews Cleo Battle, Sister to Samuel Calhoun Arrington
(Note: This interview was conducted on April 26, 2015) Beachhead: First of all, I would like to ask you how you think things are progressing with Samuel? Cleo Battle: In what respect? […]
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