Organizing Works Local Activists Move City Government to Open Winter Shelters During Recent Storms By Pat Raphael In 2019 the Birmingham Chapter of the NAACP announced that Angela Davis, a noted activist […]
On BackGround I’ve been on the Venice Neighborhood Council’s ad hoc Committee on Homelessness for almost three years now. I was invited to join the Committee because my frequent contributions in the […]
VNC Committee on Unhoused Neighbors Reconvenes at Venice Library By Pat Raphael On Monday, October 30th, the Venice Neighborhood Council’s Committee On Unhoused Neighbors began a new term. This was the first […]
By Pat Raphael 20 We have made it! We’ve arrived at the end of another year and none of us were taken out by our heart giving up and stopping to beat, […]
by Pat Raphael No,no, no, no, NO! This will just not do in Venice. To come into our community and murder one of our young men, then spend the next few years […]
Pat Raphael : 420wPat@gmail.com You are here. You’ve arrived at the beautiful seaside paradise of Venice, California. Only you didn’t get here by buying one of these million-dollar beach pads, in LA’s […]
By Pat Raphael It is easy to fall, fall, fall — but climbing out? that takes work and strength. The view from the bottom always present a path out, but that out […]
by Pat Raphael One great benefit to the unscheduled life of a Street Person is the hours and hours available to do whatever we choose. It seems that only a person with […]
by Pat Raphael When cooking up a bum stew, you quickly learn there has to be at least three rocks around your fire — saves your teetering meal from ending up all […]
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