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Who Do We Speak To When We Speak Truth To Power? Buy them stuff to give away or Venmo $$ Featured PostsĪnti-Gentrification Tagging Is An Informal Means Of Planning And Land Use Management – Used By People Excluded From Officially Sanctioned Formal Processes – Before You Tell Taggers That You Don’t Condone It Please Consider The Implications Of Your Condemnation K-Town For All Amazon Wishlist - These people work miracles every day on the streets of Los Angeles.Los Angeles Community Action Network - Showing all of us the way to the promised land.Los Angeles Catholic Worker - Dorothy Day's truth goes marching on right here in the City of Angels.Skid Row Neighborhood Council Formation Committee.Our costs are paid by a generous private grant, but these people can use your money, and lots of it, friends! ★ 2020 Sanitation sweep completion reportsĬontinue reading Huge Record Releases From Los Angeles Sanitation - Encampment Sweep Scheduling - And So On - CD13 Staffer Hector Vega Scheduled A Full-On Encampment Sweep After The City Had Announced It Was Stopping Them Due To COVID - Possibly Sacrificing Human Lives To Build Up His Favor Bank With LADOT Ticket-Fixer Freddie Nuño - And It Turns Out That LAPD Can Actually Choose Encampments To Target For Sweeps - Which Surprised Me Because Mostly People Talk As If LAPD’s Role Is Backing Up LAHSA And LA San - Not Choosing Sweep Targets - And Finally CD15 Staffers Gabriela Medina And Jacob Haik Gloat Gleefully About The Possibility Of Weaponizing Scheduled Street Resurfacing To Displace RV Dwellers During The Pandemic When It Would Probably Otherwise Be Illegal To Do So - And Whether Or Not It’s Illegal It’s Certainly Reprehensible - And More Than Reprehensible During The Pandemic → ★ Various CDs 2020 sweep scheduling emails Here are links to the new material, followed by a story or two gleaned from it.
These records reveal something I hadn’t seen before, though, which is that on its own initiative LAPD can also select encampments to be swept. 1įor the most part encampments to be swept are chosen by Council District offices, who make selections based on complaints from property owners and probably other reasons too. The records illuminate a number of important issues, not least of which has to do with the sweep selection process. There’s far, far too much information here for one post but I want to get links published because the information is essential. Over the last few days I’ve received a few massive releases of records from Los Angeles Sanitation about homeless encampment sweep authorizations.