1 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:04,880 Speaker 1: Close your eyes and let this poem wash over your consciousness. 2 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:11,879 Speaker 1: What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up 3 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:17,159 Speaker 1: like a raisin in the sun, or fester like a 4 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 1: sore and then run? Does it think like rotten meat 5 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 1: or crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet. Maybe 6 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 1: it's just sag like a heavy load. Or does it explode? 7 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 1: The unhoused population has exploded and is growing, with over 8 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: seventy thousand unhoused people. Instead of meeting this crisis with 9 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 1: compassion and financial resources, the city, the city council, city attorney, 10 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 1: law enforcement, nimbies, and Business Improvement district around Los Angeles 11 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:18,839 Speaker 1: and beyond have exploded with violence, criminalization, harassment, and more 12 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 1: punitative laws against the unhoused. What happens to a dream deferred? 13 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:30,679 Speaker 1: Langston Hughes, a Harlem Renaissance poet, asked an indifferent, violent, cruel, evil, 14 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 1: and legally putitative society in the nineteen twenties and thirties. 15 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 1: In twenty twenty, we asked the same question with the 16 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:42,400 Speaker 1: houseless community and the question. In this episode of Weezian House, 17 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 1: we hear the sore festering account from how Self Made. 18 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 1: There's a document and I realized that it was written 19 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 1: a long long time ago, and maybe not by the 20 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 1: best of mind. But as we stand right now, it's 21 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:58,639 Speaker 1: all we've got. And this document has in it certain 22 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 1: inalienable rights. If you learn your constitution, you can do 23 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:08,359 Speaker 1: so much, and you're rights that are guaranteed in that 24 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 1: constitution do not evaporate when you become unhoused. Just because 25 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,080 Speaker 1: you don't have an address don't mean you're not human. 26 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 1: The stinking accounts from an howd veteran Papa Smurve and 27 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 1: y'all out here in Hollywood, California, I don't care what 28 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 1: you say. It still gets cold by six point thirty 29 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 1: with no sun out here. By nine o'clock you're freezing. 30 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 1: Add so you get sick, yeah, and then you have 31 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 1: to deal with living with the flu for a week 32 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 1: in your tent. It's horrible. It's horrible. And the heavy 33 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 1: load of life of less and mad dogs, triumphs and travails. 34 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:45,079 Speaker 1: It is tough to take care of somebody who has 35 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 1: cancer or any kind of disease on the street because 36 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 1: we don't have like amenities, you know, we don't have 37 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 1: a bathroom, we don't have a doctor, we don't have 38 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 1: anything that we can, you know, So I'm kind of 39 00:02:56,160 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: doing this, you know, with God and kick naturally, and said, 40 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 1: it's so tough because we are exhausted, date in and 41 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,679 Speaker 1: date out from the relentlessness of everyone else, on top 42 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:08,799 Speaker 1: of our own problem, on top of being out here. 43 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 1: I hope this episode brings about an explosion, a positive 44 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: change for our unhoused guest and for all of the 45 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: unhoused community. We cannot succumb to the destructive and harmful 46 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 1: narrative of the good, worthy unhoused people versus the ones 47 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 1: that don't want help and deserve to be criminalized. On House, 48 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 1: even in the houseless community, we hear this poison like 49 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 1: the Surpy suite, in like sin Hughes poem, we hear 50 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 1: this position if it's poison, if you will, in order 51 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 1: to justify or to blanket a certain camaraderie with certain 52 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 1: business owners to curry favor, we must strive for balance 53 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 1: of fact and truth and above all, compassion and the 54 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 1: resurgence of our humanity For people in a vulnerable position, 55 00:03:54,160 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 1: Please listen, learn and help your fellow men. On House 56 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:21,040 Speaker 1: News two on housemen died from exposure in Denver, Colorado, 57 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:23,679 Speaker 1: A total of sixteen deaths in the city. Denver Police 58 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:26,479 Speaker 1: Commander Aaron Sanchez says one of the men died near 59 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 1: a bus stop on Brighton Boulevard, the second on the 60 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:32,239 Speaker 1: sidewalk in the twenty one hundred block of California Street. 61 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: New York City solution is to criminalize and sadistically cause 62 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 1: more suffering to the house. MTA removes us back from 63 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 1: the benches of subway stations to stop the in house 64 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:49,160 Speaker 1: from sleeping. An agency spokeperson said it has an impact 65 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 1: and improvement in safety and comfort, not looking at in 66 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:55,680 Speaker 1: house people as uncomfortable, improve cleanliness because on house people 67 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: are dirty, we won't provide showers. We will always stand 68 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: up for the subway riding public, not the unhoused, as 69 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:04,160 Speaker 1: we work to keep stations safe, clean and orderly. As 70 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:08,160 Speaker 1: an afterthought, they have convinced service resistant and two thousand 71 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,840 Speaker 1: and eight hundred unhoused people to accept social services. House 72 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:15,479 Speaker 1: subway rider says the unhoused population needs to be dealt 73 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:17,599 Speaker 1: with if it keeps them from sleeping on the benches, 74 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 1: says fine with me. Regular people want to sit on 75 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: the bench and rest their legs after a long day. 76 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 1: Salvatore Palmer says removing the back of a bench is 77 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: a small sacrifice for a better subway platform for everyone else. 78 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 1: James K, fifty year old houseless man says the shelters 79 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: are hard for some people. These are some mean folks 80 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:40,480 Speaker 1: and tough guys. They don't let you sleep on the 81 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:50,839 Speaker 1: train anymore, but you have to sleep somewhere in Park 82 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 1: Lunton Street. David Ware, fifty three years old, a house resident, 83 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 1: has admitted to pouring fuel on an unhoused man in 84 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:01,239 Speaker 1: the street before setting him a fire. At four fifteen 85 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:05,920 Speaker 1: February seventeen, twenty twenty, were sprayed a flammable liquid from 86 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:08,680 Speaker 1: a bottle over it a houseless man who was sitting 87 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 1: outside a fast food restaurant. He used a lighter to 88 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:20,679 Speaker 1: ignite their celerant. A security officer in Santa Cruz, California 89 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:26,160 Speaker 1: has houseless advocates upset belittling the unhoused. A security officer 90 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: from MCM Diversified has used YouTube to document his interactions 91 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:34,479 Speaker 1: with the unhoused. He says, this goes on YouTube for 92 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 1: public shaming. So you can learn your lessons. You can 93 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 1: get a better life like everybody else, get jobs, pay taxes. 94 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: The Guard uploaded fifteen videos to his YouTube page entitled 95 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: working class person, Unhoused Californians win new protection and Caltrans settlement. 96 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 1: Caltrans will pay two million dollars for destroying unhow people's 97 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 1: belongings and modify its procedures for sweeps of encampments. A 98 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:08,080 Speaker 1: lawsuit was filed in twenty sixteen on behalf of houseless 99 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 1: Californians who challenged the destruction of their property, including food, clothing, 100 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 1: medical supplies, and family heirlooms, between December twenty fourteen and 101 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: October twenty nineteen. Legal director Elisa Della Piano says the 102 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 1: Fourth Amendment protects all of us against the unjust seizure 103 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 1: of our belongings, not just people who are housed. ULCERA Newman, 104 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 1: supervising attorney of the East Bay Community Law Center, said, 105 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 1: for years we heard complaints of people who told us 106 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:41,680 Speaker 1: they had to stand by helplessly while cal Tran's crewed 107 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 1: through belongings they treasured and the trash compacting garbage trucks. 108 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: Sometimes people with disabilities were giving only a few minutes 109 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: to move everything they wanted to say. We hope with 110 00:07:51,640 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 1: this settlement those days are over. In other news, more 111 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 1: than one in three Californians fear becoming houseless. One in 112 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 1: four Californians feel that they or a family member could 113 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 1: actually become unhoused, according to the USC Price School of 114 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 1: Public Policy and the USC's Schwarzenegger Institute for States and 115 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 1: Global Policy. Doctor Gary Painter weighs in saying it shouldn't 116 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 1: be surprising because there are over one point three million 117 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 1: households in California paying more than half their income as rent. 118 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 1: We saw that thirty seven point five percent of voters 119 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 1: are afraid that they are either themselves or someone in 120 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:39,200 Speaker 1: their family could become houseless. Voters' attitude shows a mixture 121 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 1: of compassion and enforcement. Twenty eight percent favor and enforcement 122 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 1: first approach, while fifty percent support if no housing and 123 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:50,720 Speaker 1: no other options available, have family stayed with their children, 124 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 1: sixty five percent support housing. Understanding that economic factors and 125 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:59,440 Speaker 1: forces are driving first time houselessness actually does change how 126 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:21,800 Speaker 1: people think think about the problem. Good afternoon, This is 127 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:26,080 Speaker 1: Theodore Henderson from weizy on House. I'm currently in Hollywood, California. 128 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:29,960 Speaker 1: I'm talking to a disabled and housed person about the 129 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:33,200 Speaker 1: challenges that goes on here with Detective Daney and other 130 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 1: police officers targeting disabled unhoused people by forcing their tents 131 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 1: down due to medical issues that they need the tense up. 132 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:43,320 Speaker 1: It is a very warm, seventy and above kind of 133 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:47,560 Speaker 1: day and on house people, like house people, need shelter. However, 134 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 1: due to Newery Martinez's war on the Young House and 135 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 1: the anti hont House ciniment here in Hollywood, California, they 136 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 1: have been pushing to terrorize unhouse people. One must ask 137 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:01,560 Speaker 1: the question what causes people to hate poor people so 138 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 1: much that they will make them suffer. They cannot abide 139 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:07,680 Speaker 1: by people having just survived. They don't want to see it. 140 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,439 Speaker 1: They claim to be Christians, they claim to be taxpayers, 141 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 1: they claim to be anything but a decent human being 142 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 1: in order to get supportive housing. So in the studios 143 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:19,439 Speaker 1: we have How And I was just mentioning that I'm 144 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:21,560 Speaker 1: so excited. We've been trying to meet up for some 145 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 1: time and as now it's like it's finally here. So 146 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 1: welcome to weed the in house studios. So give us 147 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 1: a little introduction. Hey, I'm How. I've been un housed 148 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 1: in the Hollywood area for a little more than a year, 149 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:42,199 Speaker 1: profoundly disabled from birth genetic problems wheelchair bound living in a 150 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 1: a tent with my caregiver in Central Hollywood. You stated 151 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 1: that you are a wheelchair bound like many of the 152 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:50,439 Speaker 1: in house like in other places it's such as Echo 153 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:54,920 Speaker 1: Park and Chatsworth and North Hollywood. You need certain accommodations 154 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 1: because the nineteen sixty five Disability Act clarifies that. Unfortunately, 155 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 1: and they have during Marchidas who is trying to break 156 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:04,720 Speaker 1: the law. You need to be able to do some 157 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 1: things because you don't have a house or the appropriate 158 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 1: place to be able to do certain things. What do 159 00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:12,960 Speaker 1: you do? How do you take care of yourself? As 160 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 1: far as bathroom facilities, we use a bucket and trash bags, 161 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:22,679 Speaker 1: and normally sanitation comes through every day and picks it up. 162 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:26,080 Speaker 1: We leave trash in a specific spot, they come get it, 163 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 1: We break down and they move along. Has the police 164 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 1: been around to barbarie or have a conversation with you? 165 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:38,760 Speaker 1: Almost daily we argue about my constitutional right to shelter, life, 166 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 1: liberty and pursuit of happiness, and to be secure in 167 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:45,439 Speaker 1: my person's properties and papers, et cetera, et cetera, not 168 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 1: to mention my ada rights, which the EIGHTA states that 169 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:51,600 Speaker 1: it matters of housing. All reasonable accommodations that could be 170 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:55,680 Speaker 1: made should be made. My ten is my housing at 171 00:11:55,720 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 1: the moment, So your municipal code is bong. According to 172 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 1: federal law, I have a right to survive. I agree. 173 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 1: So I understand you informed me last week that they 174 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 1: were threatening to arrest you, or tell us a little bit. 175 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 1: What happened that brought up to that. Last week was 176 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:19,559 Speaker 1: a street cleaning day, and I'm supposed to completely break 177 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 1: down to Zero's and move my camp so that they 178 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 1: can allegedly powerwash, sweep and spray bleached water. How were 179 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 1: you able to do that? And you're in a wheelchair 180 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:32,400 Speaker 1: and you're able to move well. I do have a 181 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 1: caregiver and he does ninety nine percent of the work. 182 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:44,959 Speaker 1: I do all of the arguing. So okay, So the 183 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,719 Speaker 1: police came over, and what what happened? I refused to 184 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 1: get out my tent. I invoked several of my constitutional rights. 185 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:56,720 Speaker 1: They threatened to cut me out of my tent, threatened 186 00:12:56,760 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 1: to destroy my property, kidnap me, and take me to jail. Okay, 187 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:03,920 Speaker 1: you know what police officers that did this, because that 188 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:08,959 Speaker 1: was Detective Gaming Shannon Gaby. I'm surprised because Steve Lopez 189 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: makes her out to be some kind of saying person 190 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:16,679 Speaker 1: that is resourceful, kind and capacity. I make no unsubstantiated claims. 191 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 1: All of my interactions with police are recorded and uploaded 192 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 1: to YouTube. Immediately check me out. Tell us how did 193 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:30,440 Speaker 1: you become a house? I'm originally from Tennessee. I am 194 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:35,319 Speaker 1: also transgender. And you know, if you're from the Southeast 195 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 1: and you do not fall into all four categories of rich, white, 196 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 1: heterosexual and cisgender, you are a problem to be eradicated. 197 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 1: As soon as my transition became a parent, my landlord's 198 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:52,240 Speaker 1: made up some really bad things, but it was a 199 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 1: civil case. I wasn't afforded as a lawyer. I did 200 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:57,520 Speaker 1: some slick talking and got out from under it without 201 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 1: an eviction on my record, but still ended up unhoused. 202 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 1: What pronole genders you use? He him his? So how 203 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:08,760 Speaker 1: did you just decide to come to California if you 204 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:12,679 Speaker 1: was in Tennessee? That actually was funny. My caregiver and 205 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: I was my significant other. We've been together for seven years. 206 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 1: We finally realized that that unhoused was going to be 207 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 1: a thing, and we started out thinking we were going 208 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 1: to go to Denver, but even before that, I'm like 209 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:28,760 Speaker 1: thinking about what we're gonna do, and I have no 210 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:32,960 Speaker 1: idea and under my breath kind of not even thinking 211 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 1: about it, not being serious. I just like, let's go 212 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 1: to a legal state and live in the car. And 213 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 1: my partner caregiver from across the one bedroom apartment we had, 214 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:47,000 Speaker 1: was let's do it. It's like cool. So we started 215 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 1: out thinking about Denver, but it was September. We had 216 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 1: to be out of the apartment by September, and Denver 217 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 1: base of the mountains my bones wintertime, ten no. And 218 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 1: then it was Santa Monica. We ended up in Saying 219 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 1: Monica for about a month, and then we were in 220 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 1: Venice for a couple of weeks and that didn't end 221 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:07,160 Speaker 1: well either. And then I had an appointment a d 222 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 1: LGBT and we found a tech row not far away. 223 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 1: I have the question, so, how was it to be 224 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 1: housed in Santa Monica? Is it a little kinder uhish? 225 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:19,880 Speaker 1: I can't really say. I was looking at it through 226 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 1: very naive odds at the time. I'm gonna say we 227 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 1: never went hungry, but apparently there were some people who 228 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 1: would take pictures of us in our sleep on Muscle 229 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 1: Beach and send them to the cops. That's just a 230 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 1: certing news. I have had a conversation and I want 231 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 1: your perspective on I was having a conversation with the 232 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 1: photographer who stated that there was a picture of a 233 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 1: gentleman that was in a compromising position, and he stated, 234 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 1: as a journalist, their responsibility is to record it. There's 235 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 1: no such thing as inappropriate journalists. And I wanted your perspective. 236 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 1: How did you feel they have your pictures taken while 237 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 1: you were asleep? I believe in such a thing as 238 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 1: cameran You don't want to be caught with your pay down, 239 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 1: so to speak. And I understand a journalist objectivity, but 240 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 1: also you have some humanity. Well there's a rejoinder on that. 241 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 1: It says maybe it gets to the conversation going about 242 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 1: what is humane and humanity. They probably are trying to 243 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 1: advance a perspective. What's your thoughts on that. Then you 244 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:22,680 Speaker 1: don't take pictures of someone while they're asleep. You come 245 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 1: back while they're awake, you have a conversation, you get consent, 246 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:30,240 Speaker 1: and then come back maybe at a later date, and 247 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 1: catch them sleeping at some point. You don't just came 248 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:37,360 Speaker 1: or rape somebody. Well, that's a unique way of putting 249 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 1: it because I I legitially do podcasts and I don't 250 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 1: record or interview with people without asking their permission, even 251 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 1: though because I have a responsibility because I want to 252 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 1: get the full story and they're humanism. However, I know 253 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 1: that there's been some controversy in photography because right now 254 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:56,440 Speaker 1: the city is being sued for taking picture of a 255 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 1: house person and putting it on a vigilantic group and 256 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 1: had people coming out to him. There was another controversial 257 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 1: picture where a person was taking a picture of someone 258 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:07,200 Speaker 1: when their pants were literally down and you can see 259 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 1: their buttocks showing. So what do you think if you 260 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:12,920 Speaker 1: had seen that they even though your face was covered, 261 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:15,800 Speaker 1: that it was a picture of you where your private 262 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: behind or you're behind was what that would be completely unacceptable, 263 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:22,640 Speaker 1: completely unacceptable. I go to Great Lakes to make sure 264 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:25,199 Speaker 1: I'm not exposed in such a way as would be 265 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:29,639 Speaker 1: inconvenient to anyone else, and if by some chance I 266 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:32,840 Speaker 1: were to fail at that, I don't need the entire 267 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:36,000 Speaker 1: world to know that we're a human. We make mistakes. 268 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: You don't get to take advantage of that just because 269 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:41,200 Speaker 1: you think you're better than me. I get what you're saying. 270 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:44,160 Speaker 1: I just wanted to bring because that conversation has came 271 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:46,800 Speaker 1: up and it had a lot of interesting dialogue. And 272 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:48,439 Speaker 1: I'm one that's like, you know what, I'll give it 273 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 1: a chance to have what unhoused people have to say 274 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:52,640 Speaker 1: about it, because a lot of times that they are 275 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 1: missed in the conversation. Even though the photographer was unhoused himself, 276 00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 1: he felt that it was important for him to take 277 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:03,119 Speaker 1: this shot an angle, so and it was supposed to 278 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 1: be a conversation starting what could you think that would 279 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 1: have been a better conversation point to have about the 280 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:13,480 Speaker 1: on house crisis at that point, Like I said, if 281 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:18,360 Speaker 1: you find someone that you really think their story is important, 282 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:21,640 Speaker 1: it needs to be told. You come back to them 283 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:25,000 Speaker 1: when they're awake, when they can give consent to the story. 284 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 1: To capitalize on someone else's misfortune as a humane There's 285 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:33,159 Speaker 1: a document and I realized that it was written a 286 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:35,560 Speaker 1: long long time ago, and maybe not by the best 287 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 1: of minds, but as we stand right now, it's all 288 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:42,680 Speaker 1: we've got. And this document has in it certain alienable rights. 289 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 1: If you learn your constitution, you can do so much 290 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:51,919 Speaker 1: and your rights that are guaranteed in that constitution. Do 291 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 1: not evaporate when you become unhoused. Just because you don't 292 00:18:56,720 --> 00:19:00,720 Speaker 1: have an address, don't mean you're not human. Well, another 293 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:03,400 Speaker 1: thing is I wanted to ask you, is that when 294 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 1: you came here down to Hollywood, there's the LGBQT Center. 295 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:10,040 Speaker 1: You said, so, how did you get connected with them? Well, 296 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:13,160 Speaker 1: there was another lady that moved from Tennessee that got 297 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 1: me hooked in with them. She was very forthcoming with 298 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 1: information about the LGBT Center and actually provided my first 299 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 1: interaction transportation with them. By the unhoused people that are LGBQT. 300 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:27,240 Speaker 1: Can you give the address so they can know it 301 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:29,480 Speaker 1: as well? I do not know it off the top 302 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:31,679 Speaker 1: of my head, but it's on Strader And if you 303 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:35,880 Speaker 1: have access to Google, you can google LGBT Strader and 304 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:38,760 Speaker 1: it will give you the address. Thank you. So go 305 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:41,320 Speaker 1: ahead and you say she gave you the information. Yeah, 306 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:44,679 Speaker 1: she gave me the information, actually provided my transportation to 307 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:48,840 Speaker 1: it from back to my original campsite. Let us stay 308 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:51,640 Speaker 1: with her for a little bit when we first got here. 309 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 1: But housing is slow in the wheels of bureaucracy grind 310 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 1: to a halt out here, so it didn't last long 311 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 1: and we've been out here for over a year now. 312 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:03,199 Speaker 1: So how is the housing situation? Are you do you? 313 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:05,879 Speaker 1: Are you on any list or anything for household It 314 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:09,960 Speaker 1: depends on who you talk to. I have heard different 315 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 1: things from different organizations. They design this thing to be 316 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:19,639 Speaker 1: a hopeless, void vortex of swirling mixed signals that you 317 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 1: just give up point, and that's exactly what it is. 318 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:27,359 Speaker 1: I doubt they've been prepared for an autistic kid with 319 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:32,320 Speaker 1: a special interest. My question is this, what do you 320 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:34,920 Speaker 1: think when people when they say that unhoused people are 321 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:40,159 Speaker 1: service resistant? After that statement, I am absolutely not service resistant. 322 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:46,400 Speaker 1: There are specific parameters under which I will accept services. 323 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:49,120 Speaker 1: I will not go into a shelter I have been. 324 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:52,959 Speaker 1: I have been in path Straighter shelter, and that is 325 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 1: a meth dead I refuse to be victim to secondhand 326 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:04,200 Speaker 1: smoke the person of meth smokers to non meth smokers, 327 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:07,119 Speaker 1: and that at the time I was in there was 328 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:12,240 Speaker 1: greatly disproportionate. Well maybe that was because it's a recovery 329 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:15,080 Speaker 1: center for them first, and they would try to slap 330 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:18,120 Speaker 1: on and put everybody in that, which is another issue too. 331 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 1: That is not the way to do it. That leads 332 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:24,920 Speaker 1: to a thing called body brokering people. You're creating new 333 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:30,399 Speaker 1: addicts to run through an insurance scheme. So basically saying 334 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 1: is that they are not service resistance. They have conditions 335 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:37,080 Speaker 1: like everyone else. I've noticed that when you're looking for homes, 336 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:38,959 Speaker 1: if you don't accept one home, that doesn't mean you're 337 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:41,639 Speaker 1: home resistant. You're just trying to find out what your 338 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:44,280 Speaker 1: options that will be the best for you. Why is 339 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 1: it that people believe that on house people do not 340 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:48,639 Speaker 1: get that right? We should just take an accept everything 341 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:52,160 Speaker 1: that just given to us. So very lies another dilemma. 342 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 1: One other question I have is do you have any 343 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:57,359 Speaker 1: family out here or are they in Tennessee. I have 344 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:01,600 Speaker 1: very little blood family remaining alive Summer Senisle sum are sick. 345 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,719 Speaker 1: My caregiver his family has been better to me than 346 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:06,520 Speaker 1: my own ever was, and I missed them a lot. 347 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:08,639 Speaker 1: They're back into the sea. But no, most of the 348 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 1: people that I consider family are out here. I didn't 349 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:13,639 Speaker 1: find them until I came out here. That's wonderful to say. 350 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:15,639 Speaker 1: Is there anything else would you like to add to 351 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:19,600 Speaker 1: the listeners to about the unhouse situation For people that 352 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:21,920 Speaker 1: don't know and they want to help. What's the best 353 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:26,639 Speaker 1: way for us to help you keep in touch and 354 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 1: when we put out the call for help, come I 355 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 1: interact with police almost daily, and almost daily I am 356 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:38,520 Speaker 1: under threat of kidnapping. To stop that, I need the 357 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:42,040 Speaker 1: support of the housed people in the area. If I 358 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,560 Speaker 1: put out the call for help, I need help. I'm 359 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:48,920 Speaker 1: not crying wolf. I'm trying to stand up for not 360 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:52,960 Speaker 1: just my rights, but the rights of everybody else out here. 361 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:55,960 Speaker 1: If I can use my white passing privilege to fight 362 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:59,720 Speaker 1: the fight that those who can't for any other reason, 363 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 1: let me do that, because I ain't got a whole 364 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,719 Speaker 1: lot of good years left. But I can't do it alone, 365 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:08,119 Speaker 1: and I need the support of the other housed folks 366 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:11,280 Speaker 1: in the area. If you come by my camp, you 367 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:17,120 Speaker 1: will be amazed at the cleanliness, the orderliness, the amount 368 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:21,239 Speaker 1: of art and compassion and intelligence that goes on, and 369 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:26,480 Speaker 1: kindness and kindness. I don't let anybody go hungry. And 370 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:30,360 Speaker 1: the only ones that I get particularly confrontational with are 371 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:33,200 Speaker 1: the meth addicts that come around and want to act 372 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 1: some kind of way. It's like, no, I don't do that. 373 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:39,040 Speaker 1: Go away. So there you have it. That the best 374 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:41,720 Speaker 1: way to understand. How to help them is to be 375 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:44,400 Speaker 1: as a house member in this area, is to show 376 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:46,600 Speaker 1: and be a person of your words to help out. 377 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:51,320 Speaker 1: I'm using my heterosexual privileges and my African American privilege 378 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,199 Speaker 1: to help all of the unhoused. And this is what 379 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:57,200 Speaker 1: we all as human beings do. When Doctor King said 380 00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 1: it very clearly, we are tied by a single threat 381 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,919 Speaker 1: of human destiny and it is our humanity. So this 382 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 1: is THEO Henderson we in the House and I thank 383 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,640 Speaker 1: you all for listening, and may we all again meet 384 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:34,639 Speaker 1: in the light of understanding. Thank you very much. Good morning. 385 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,200 Speaker 1: This is THEO Henderson from Weedia in the House podcast. 386 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:40,000 Speaker 1: I have two guests here today and I want to 387 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 1: share you some experiences they've had. When people hear about CPS, 388 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 1: many people hear different things, the most extreme cases of 389 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,439 Speaker 1: children being abandoned in things of that nature or hurt badly, 390 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:52,760 Speaker 1: but they don't hear about the issues from the perspective 391 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,439 Speaker 1: amount house parents and out house people that have been 392 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,960 Speaker 1: in the system will been ripped apart. So today in 393 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 1: this podcast, we're going to discuss this. We're going to 394 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 1: just talk with Black Lily and Black Wolf. Let's get 395 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,680 Speaker 1: started with Black Lily first and then we will hand 396 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,879 Speaker 1: mic over to Black Wolf. So Black Lily, welcome and 397 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,359 Speaker 1: tell us a little bit about your story. Hi, my 398 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:16,439 Speaker 1: names Black Lily. I first came out to La in 399 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 1: hopes of starting a career you know, singing, acting, you 400 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:24,440 Speaker 1: know both those actually, but then I ended up having 401 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:29,199 Speaker 1: a relationship with somebody that resulted in a pregnancy. The 402 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 1: guy left. I was put into housing programs that weren't 403 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:37,800 Speaker 1: exactly helpful. People think that, oh, just go to a shelter, 404 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 1: just go to this program over here, and they think 405 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:43,680 Speaker 1: it'll be just fine. I thought it was going to 406 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:48,359 Speaker 1: be fine. I was wrong, dead wrong. They called DCFS 407 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:51,520 Speaker 1: saying that I was leaving my daughter in the bathtub unattended. 408 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 1: This was women's care cottage, and they placed me and 409 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:59,880 Speaker 1: my daughter in an apartment that had cockroaches and two ghastly. 410 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,119 Speaker 1: And then when I tried to fix it myself and 411 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:07,280 Speaker 1: call company you get fixed, they pushed me into a 412 00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:11,920 Speaker 1: different housing program, Upward Bound House. Upward Bound House kept 413 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 1: giving my daughter water at three months and getting in 414 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:19,600 Speaker 1: the middle of breastfeeding. My daughter's doctor. He had me 415 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 1: and my daughter on a strict feeding schedule. Every two 416 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:28,040 Speaker 1: hours for breastfeeding. And one night my daughter was crying. 417 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,320 Speaker 1: She would not stop. She wouldn't sleep in the crib. 418 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:34,520 Speaker 1: Every mother knows how their child will not sleep in 419 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:37,400 Speaker 1: the crib. So what I did was I set up 420 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,159 Speaker 1: a little sleeping area. I laid down a blanket on 421 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,760 Speaker 1: the floor. I laid a little area for her to sleep, 422 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 1: and so I want to roll over on top of her, 423 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:48,919 Speaker 1: and we slept like that. She slept just fine. But 424 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:53,119 Speaker 1: once you started crying again, the police came in because 425 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:56,159 Speaker 1: apparently they were called. Uh she was only three months. 426 00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:59,240 Speaker 1: Please said there was nothing wrong, but the public health 427 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 1: nurse said, you guys, take your daughter to the hospital 428 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 1: or we're taking or she was taking a hospital. She 429 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:09,280 Speaker 1: was diagnosed with failure to thrive. I was really devastated 430 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:13,679 Speaker 1: about that. Kept blaming myself, which part of it I 431 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:18,480 Speaker 1: guess was my fault for letting everybody else parent for me. Beyea. 432 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:22,919 Speaker 1: After that, they took uh my daughter out of my 433 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:26,480 Speaker 1: physical custody. And after they took my daughter out of 434 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,920 Speaker 1: my physical custody, the housing program I was in kicked 435 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,639 Speaker 1: me out and I have been homeless ever since. I 436 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:37,399 Speaker 1: have been fighting and fighting, but my health has been declining. 437 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:43,240 Speaker 1: I'm dealing with crones which is a lifelong disorder and 438 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:46,879 Speaker 1: will never go away, and it will only get worse. 439 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 1: I really wish I had known about this diagnosis when 440 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 1: I was pregnant, honestly, but that's okay, Bye. I came 441 00:27:56,280 --> 00:28:00,679 Speaker 1: out here hoping for a career, and then when my 442 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:03,640 Speaker 1: daughter was born, I was hoping I would have her 443 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:05,919 Speaker 1: in my career. Well not in my career, but you know, 444 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:11,399 Speaker 1: doing my career with her. And that was taken away. 445 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:16,720 Speaker 1: My chance at being a mom taken away. Oh, because 446 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:21,800 Speaker 1: La thinks that, you know, I'm not a good mom. 447 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:24,760 Speaker 1: And now that I don't have my daughter and I'm 448 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,120 Speaker 1: out here on the streets now they're trying to kick 449 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:30,600 Speaker 1: the homeless out. Now I will never have the chance 450 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,879 Speaker 1: to see my daughter. I will if this thing comes 451 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,000 Speaker 1: to play. I will never have a chance to see 452 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,080 Speaker 1: my daughter. I will never have a chance to hold her. 453 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,920 Speaker 1: And not only that, I will not have a chance 454 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,640 Speaker 1: to get off the streets. I'm sorry to hear that, 455 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:50,120 Speaker 1: and it is very difficult tell us something that people 456 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:54,400 Speaker 1: misunderstand about the unhoused situation. A lot of people think 457 00:28:54,520 --> 00:29:00,480 Speaker 1: that the unhoused are all just druggies. The of them 458 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 1: just look to get high and wasted and don't really 459 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:07,640 Speaker 1: care about their life. And that's not really the case 460 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 1: some of us out here. There's some people that just 461 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:15,120 Speaker 1: gave up on life because people wouldn't help them, and 462 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 1: so the only way to get rid of that pain 463 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:22,560 Speaker 1: is through drugs. They also think that we have no life, 464 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,440 Speaker 1: that we don't know how to work, or that we 465 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:27,440 Speaker 1: don't want to work. A lot of times, it's not 466 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,120 Speaker 1: that we don't want to work, it's that we either 467 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:34,640 Speaker 1: can't or there's no work available. Thank you for your story. 468 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,600 Speaker 1: We're going to take a quick break here and I 469 00:29:37,760 --> 00:30:07,680 Speaker 1: will be back. This is Ceo Henderson again from Weedy 470 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,400 Speaker 1: On House. We're out here in sunny California, in Hollywood. 471 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:14,480 Speaker 1: It's a warm day and I've noticed because I too, 472 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:17,680 Speaker 1: am disabled and for me, I noticed that when it 473 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 1: gets warm, I have to have shade because of because 474 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,720 Speaker 1: of the medication that I take, I don't get sick. 475 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:28,040 Speaker 1: So I want to interview another gentleman here that's a 476 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:34,120 Speaker 1: part of the community that's here. So introduce us to you. Hi. 477 00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:37,280 Speaker 1: I am Papa Smurf. Papa Smurf, how long have you 478 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 1: been out here. Oh about a year now? How did 479 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:44,600 Speaker 1: you become unhoused? Lost my job, moved out to sunny California? 480 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:48,840 Speaker 1: Decide why not? What did you do for a job? 481 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 1: I do actually have a job. I do work for 482 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:58,480 Speaker 1: a local cafe cookie lab place here in Hollywood. You 483 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:02,280 Speaker 1: have Kikie Lab and you're still on I am. The 484 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:08,160 Speaker 1: housing situation out here is just tremendously expensive. For a 485 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:11,680 Speaker 1: little four x four room, give or take, you're gonna 486 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:15,920 Speaker 1: pay almost one thousand dollars. And that's not counting your security, 487 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:19,320 Speaker 1: you know, turning your lights on, eating groceries every month. 488 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,440 Speaker 1: I don't make that much money no matter how much 489 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:26,160 Speaker 1: I work, So I'm stuck out here. That's horrible. My 490 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,560 Speaker 1: question for you is how is it being out here 491 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,360 Speaker 1: on the street. Our cops are not here to protect 492 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:35,120 Speaker 1: and serve. They are here to harass us. If we 493 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,840 Speaker 1: do not have our touns down by six am in 494 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:41,480 Speaker 1: the morning and it's above fifty degrees, we will get hassled. 495 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,640 Speaker 1: Okay me personally? Oh, like, do you get out at 496 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 1: the bit before seven? I don't come knocking at your 497 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,520 Speaker 1: door at six o'clock in the morning to wake you 498 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:51,560 Speaker 1: up and tell you you have to put your house down. 499 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,760 Speaker 1: This is where I sleep, this is where my belongings are. 500 00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:59,200 Speaker 1: Leave me alone. If it was all messy and disgusting 501 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:03,880 Speaker 1: and asked, then come talk to me. Otherwise, leave me alone. Okay, 502 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,040 Speaker 1: here's a good point too. You said you work. Does 503 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:10,560 Speaker 1: your shift allow you? Do you work at the evening graveyard? 504 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:12,920 Speaker 1: Or how does this work? Because if you come in, 505 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,400 Speaker 1: as if anybody else work, they want to have a 506 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,120 Speaker 1: good rest, and it sayesn't seem like you were able 507 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:22,160 Speaker 1: to get that. Well, I work Fridays and Saturdays from 508 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:25,440 Speaker 1: ten am till about six pm, so you know, I 509 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,640 Speaker 1: can get my rest, but it's still not a whole 510 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:32,600 Speaker 1: lot because you can't put you ten up before nine pm. Okay, 511 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,360 Speaker 1: and y'all out here in Hollywood, California, I don't care 512 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,040 Speaker 1: what you say. It still gets cold by six point 513 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 1: thirty with no sun out here. By nine o'clock, you're 514 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,760 Speaker 1: freezing to death. So you get sick, you know, and 515 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:45,440 Speaker 1: then you have to deal with living with the flu 516 00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:48,440 Speaker 1: for a week and your tent. It's horrible. It's horrible. 517 00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:53,080 Speaker 1: So's I'm sorry to hear that. I was going to ask, 518 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,200 Speaker 1: is there any particular police officers that focus in on 519 00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:59,200 Speaker 1: their harassment of you. Well, you got Detective Gainy who 520 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:03,200 Speaker 1: leads to harassment around here pretty much. What are some 521 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:07,320 Speaker 1: of the most outlandish examples of this kind of harassment. Okay, 522 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,560 Speaker 1: So my friend hal over here is in a wheelchair, Okay, 523 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,440 Speaker 1: has a note from the doctor that states that he 524 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:16,280 Speaker 1: has the flu that he needs to be resting. They 525 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:19,520 Speaker 1: threatened to cut the man out of his tent, pull 526 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:23,000 Speaker 1: him out, and arrest him just because he had a 527 00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,960 Speaker 1: doctor's note saying that he was sick. You know, there's 528 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,240 Speaker 1: been a lot of depths in jails what they had 529 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:30,160 Speaker 1: to happen, and they still they don't have the enough 530 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:33,440 Speaker 1: adequate medicals, personnelity to help people that are even able 531 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,240 Speaker 1: body that can walk around as well as the unhoused 532 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:39,520 Speaker 1: and have some challenges. So that's very disconcerting to hear that. 533 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:43,280 Speaker 1: Anything else. Well, when you stand here and you tell 534 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:47,040 Speaker 1: me that something is above your pay grade, that doesn't 535 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:51,480 Speaker 1: work either. I'm sorry, I'm a taxpayer. I do work, 536 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,840 Speaker 1: so I pay taxes. Do not give me the excuse 537 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:58,760 Speaker 1: that that's above your pay grade. Another thing, I am 538 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:02,160 Speaker 1: a veteran, so that means I have thought in a 539 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,760 Speaker 1: war for you're asked to be free, not for you 540 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:09,920 Speaker 1: to tell me that my constitutional rights do not matter. 541 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:14,719 Speaker 1: Sorry about the language. That just really aggravates me. And 542 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:18,400 Speaker 1: it's on YouTube. Go to YouTube and look forward officer 543 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:22,320 Speaker 1: with the ADA law check it out. Man. He says, 544 00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:25,319 Speaker 1: there is no co We do not have a constitutional 545 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:29,680 Speaker 1: right here. Please somebody do something, Well said, I wouldn't 546 00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:31,480 Speaker 1: pointing out who is that you say to you as 547 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,040 Speaker 1: a veteran, what war did you serve? I served in 548 00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:37,080 Speaker 1: desert storm? Wow, thank you for your service. You want 549 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:42,120 Speaker 1: them your support? Thank you? I said, why I'm out 550 00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:44,160 Speaker 1: here trying to get all of the stories that's necessary 551 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,560 Speaker 1: so we can have compassion and better understanding of the situation. 552 00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:49,799 Speaker 1: Is there any messages you would like to leave with 553 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,480 Speaker 1: the audience about how is the best way that we 554 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,719 Speaker 1: can help you? Yo, be a neighbor, come over and 555 00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:59,000 Speaker 1: see if we need something, ask us. We will not 556 00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:03,000 Speaker 1: bite you. We are not diseased. We are human beings 557 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:08,759 Speaker 1: just like you. Be treated respect, you get respect, just 558 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:13,840 Speaker 1: common sense. Well said. This is stel Henderson from Weedy 559 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,920 Speaker 1: on Howe's I thank you all for listening and hopefully 560 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:20,840 Speaker 1: we take an account these very same words here in Hollywood, California, 561 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,480 Speaker 1: as well as all over the world, as well as 562 00:35:23,560 --> 00:36:10,920 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles general. All right, this is Ceo Henderson 563 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:14,239 Speaker 1: from Media and House, and we're out here in sunny California, 564 00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:18,520 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, Hollywood, to be exact, And I'm interviewing a 565 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,319 Speaker 1: gentleman who is so gracious enough to give me some 566 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,600 Speaker 1: of his time. I'm going to give him a chance 567 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:27,600 Speaker 1: to tell me his story. My name's Jay. I came 568 00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:31,160 Speaker 1: out here with my husband because we were ran out 569 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:33,719 Speaker 1: of where we were. We decided if we were going 570 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:35,919 Speaker 1: to be homeless, we were going to do it where 571 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:40,360 Speaker 1: the weather was nice. And Jay, so what is your husband? 572 00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:42,760 Speaker 1: Your experience has been out here on the street, mostly 573 00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:46,640 Speaker 1: the cops harassing us, So they're not all out here 574 00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,640 Speaker 1: to serve and protect you, just to harass. Is there 575 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,239 Speaker 1: any notable incident that you would like to point out 576 00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:55,920 Speaker 1: that really got your goat or well? A lot of 577 00:36:55,960 --> 00:37:00,880 Speaker 1: our constitutional rights are being trampled all over, and not 578 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:06,160 Speaker 1: even just the ADA thing. It's everybody should be denied 579 00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:10,040 Speaker 1: their shelter. That's just how I see it. I agree. 580 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:14,080 Speaker 1: So tell us what is the best way for us 581 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:15,680 Speaker 1: to be able to help you? What would you like 582 00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,800 Speaker 1: as if someone was asked, what would be a viable 583 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:23,320 Speaker 1: solution to help you, Well, if we weren't worried about 584 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:28,080 Speaker 1: having our things stolen every single day, we might be 585 00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:32,240 Speaker 1: able to get some things done. I've been trying to compose, 586 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:35,000 Speaker 1: either in the earlier part of spring or this summer. 587 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,720 Speaker 1: A talent show and I noticed that you played guitar. 588 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:44,279 Speaker 1: How long have you been playing guitar? Fifteen plus years? 589 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:49,840 Speaker 1: What got you into playing the guitar? There was a 590 00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:54,839 Speaker 1: music class in my high school and I decided to 591 00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,399 Speaker 1: get into that and it was a guitar class, and 592 00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:01,240 Speaker 1: I picked up the guitar and I just enjoyed it. Wow. 593 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:06,080 Speaker 1: So what's who's your favorite shredder? The King? Eric Clapton? Oh, 594 00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:10,759 Speaker 1: Eric Clafton. You don't like Jimmy Hendrix. Jimmy Hendricks is great, yes, 595 00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:17,000 Speaker 1: but Eric Clapton is the King. Okay, what's your favorite 596 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:21,920 Speaker 1: song of his? There's so many? Well, I understand, so 597 00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:25,520 Speaker 1: you like Eric Clapton? So could you do you have 598 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:29,480 Speaker 1: any special songs? Have you created or anything? I do 599 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,600 Speaker 1: have a couple of originals. Yet, would you mind playing 600 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,720 Speaker 1: just a little small snippet for the artists not really 601 00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:39,000 Speaker 1: of my originals. It's it's not really that polished yet. 602 00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:42,720 Speaker 1: Oh okay, well it's well that's understandable because I'm protective 603 00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:46,680 Speaker 1: about my unedited work as well. How long have you 604 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:51,200 Speaker 1: guys have been at this part of Hollywood? About three months. 605 00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:53,680 Speaker 1: It's been a lot of cleaning and a lot of 606 00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,640 Speaker 1: police harassment, as you said, So that's what you could 607 00:38:56,640 --> 00:39:00,200 Speaker 1: hear the police from in the background. Is it any 608 00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:04,480 Speaker 1: messages would you like to get the police to allow 609 00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:06,239 Speaker 1: you guys to have your tent up a little bit? 610 00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,520 Speaker 1: You know what would you be acceptable with that? Because 611 00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,600 Speaker 1: I'm looking at this place here and it's very clean. 612 00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:15,200 Speaker 1: I don't understand why they always say the inn house 613 00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:18,799 Speaker 1: people are just a mess. And every every encampment I've 614 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,240 Speaker 1: gone to and an interview with people, it's been clean. 615 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,560 Speaker 1: It's just like, it's just I just don't understand this 616 00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:26,799 Speaker 1: lie that they keep saying. Right, and when they do 617 00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:29,840 Speaker 1: come through and do their cleaning, they don't even clean. 618 00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:32,560 Speaker 1: They don't sweep or anything. And if we had a 619 00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:35,160 Speaker 1: broom it be cleaner than it is. So what do 620 00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:37,480 Speaker 1: they do when they come to clean? They just pick 621 00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:40,120 Speaker 1: up the trash and take up half hour to an 622 00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:44,000 Speaker 1: hour break and leave. Wow. So there you have it. 623 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,160 Speaker 1: This is Seo Henderson from Louisian House. Thank you for 624 00:39:47,239 --> 00:40:16,280 Speaker 1: listening and maybe all again meet in a light of understanding. Okay, 625 00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,680 Speaker 1: this is Theo Henderson from Median House Again. I want 626 00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:22,040 Speaker 1: to talk to two people here that are living under 627 00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:25,080 Speaker 1: a bridge and get their name and their stories. So 628 00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:27,520 Speaker 1: let's start with Leslie. How long have you been out here? 629 00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:30,720 Speaker 1: I've been out here since two thousand, out here since 630 00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:34,400 Speaker 1: twenty ten, so you've been here all close to ten years. 631 00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:36,640 Speaker 1: So how did you become a house? You said you 632 00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:39,560 Speaker 1: was an addict, right, I'm an addict from originally from 633 00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:42,200 Speaker 1: New York. My mom passed away, which was kind of 634 00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:45,240 Speaker 1: bad because my addiction that you let me called bandon 635 00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,520 Speaker 1: are and when she passed away, I didn't know what 636 00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:49,279 Speaker 1: to do. So I came out here because my daughter 637 00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:52,560 Speaker 1: has her father out here and I've been on the 638 00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:56,000 Speaker 1: streets since. So when was the first time you became 639 00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:59,839 Speaker 1: hooked on? What is your jug of choice? Well, when 640 00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:01,480 Speaker 1: I was in New York, it was a crack. I 641 00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:05,040 Speaker 1: spoke to crag Famas thirty years and I'm actually almost 642 00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:11,000 Speaker 1: fifty and out here. It's definitely custom. How is it 643 00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:13,520 Speaker 1: you said earlier, the harassment, Can you talk a little 644 00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:16,719 Speaker 1: bit about that. Yeah, everybody's not an addict. There are 645 00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:19,279 Speaker 1: a lot of people that have mental illness out here, 646 00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:23,560 Speaker 1: they disabilities, disabilities, you know, and the harassment is for that. Listen, 647 00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:25,279 Speaker 1: you know, we have our part to play with. The 648 00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:28,840 Speaker 1: trash is a big problem when you say that, Like, 649 00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,480 Speaker 1: for example, some cams don't have trash cans and they 650 00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,000 Speaker 1: ask for it and they are very neat. So that's 651 00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:36,160 Speaker 1: why is it. Do you think the city won't provide 652 00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:38,640 Speaker 1: that if they want the trash card money because it 653 00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,919 Speaker 1: takes away from the patricks of sanitation, or it puts 654 00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:43,839 Speaker 1: too much in their pockets because they're not the city 655 00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,000 Speaker 1: doesn't or the state doesn't want to pay that much 656 00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:49,040 Speaker 1: money to constantly have these cleanups the way that they do. Well, 657 00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:51,960 Speaker 1: we actually convinced them finally to give us trash cams 658 00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,680 Speaker 1: and they and they have. You know, if you want 659 00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:57,439 Speaker 1: to help homeless people who have mental disabilities, the first 660 00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:00,719 Speaker 1: way to start is not just the trash. Yeah, accommodate 661 00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:02,600 Speaker 1: us a little bit. We're willing to work with them 662 00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:04,239 Speaker 1: if they're willing to work with us, Like a porter 663 00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:09,640 Speaker 1: party or two provided provided you have like this bridge 664 00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:12,480 Speaker 1: is kind of a community, so we right, we know 665 00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,000 Speaker 1: each other here excellent, So they don't have a problem 666 00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:17,360 Speaker 1: keeping things clean over here. I don't know where anybody 667 00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:19,680 Speaker 1: else the Echo Park does other places do to say, 668 00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:22,080 Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of places that are seen but 669 00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:25,439 Speaker 1: like stuff like that. Yeah, but don't have that because 670 00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:29,280 Speaker 1: it's never gonna go away. Homelessness is forever. It's journal. 671 00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:32,160 Speaker 1: It's not gonna go away two twenty, like two twenty. 672 00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:38,759 Speaker 1: Anybody that gets caught on the street, it's getting born up. 673 00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:42,719 Speaker 1: Christ My question is this too about being on house 674 00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,560 Speaker 1: living under a bridge? Is that the fact that you 675 00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:47,560 Speaker 1: just said that you have a community. I've been to 676 00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:50,759 Speaker 1: other places where there are communities as well, and they 677 00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:53,320 Speaker 1: also have the same thing. They want port a partties, 678 00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:56,080 Speaker 1: mobile showers and if you want to work with them 679 00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:58,200 Speaker 1: that they're more than happy to work with them. But 680 00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:00,320 Speaker 1: like you say, it's like a money thing. They have 681 00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,160 Speaker 1: more money. You know, it costs three thousand dollars for 682 00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:05,560 Speaker 1: them to come and clean up all those tents and 683 00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:07,760 Speaker 1: throw it in the trash. Where a little bit cheaper 684 00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,640 Speaker 1: you get good comp started to get overtime. That so 685 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:14,279 Speaker 1: that is one of the things that it's what you 686 00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,719 Speaker 1: have to understand when they send out a care team 687 00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,359 Speaker 1: is over three thousand dollars for that to be taken 688 00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:22,200 Speaker 1: any place. Because if you're if you're a police officer 689 00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:25,920 Speaker 1: or a sanitation where they are on the clock, they 690 00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:28,839 Speaker 1: have because they're not doing it voluntarily, they're golding both 691 00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:33,920 Speaker 1: station and they respect me. It's looks, believe it or not. 692 00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:37,279 Speaker 1: What people don't seem to realize is homeless people deal 693 00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:40,160 Speaker 1: with the bulk of whatever I mean. We you have 694 00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:42,960 Speaker 1: the officers, you have fire trucks that they're supposed to 695 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:45,520 Speaker 1: be on the uplaw side and they come running by 696 00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,080 Speaker 1: reving their engines at hold hours in knight. We have 697 00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:50,759 Speaker 1: wee goal that rep their cars on hours of the night. 698 00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:53,239 Speaker 1: People that are drinking, throwing bottles, doing this, doing that. 699 00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:56,600 Speaker 1: So a lot of the homeless are extremely exhausted every 700 00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:59,319 Speaker 1: single day. When we're hot, we stay hot. When we're cold, 701 00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,440 Speaker 1: we stay cold because we don't get to go inside 702 00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:05,239 Speaker 1: where they get to go inside and a person circumstance, 703 00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:08,440 Speaker 1: Unfortunately people don't know because not everybody is an addict there. 704 00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:13,080 Speaker 1: It's mental dismiss So people, yeah, they don't see that, 705 00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:17,040 Speaker 1: so they You would think that the people that have 706 00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:19,080 Speaker 1: a home would be more dignified as to come out 707 00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:21,640 Speaker 1: to help, but they don't. A lot of them do 708 00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:24,520 Speaker 1: themselves come out of buildings throwing trash to make us 709 00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,640 Speaker 1: look just as worse. And a lot of people are tired. 710 00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:29,799 Speaker 1: We get so tired that we don't want to keep 711 00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:32,440 Speaker 1: it cleaning. We don't want to keep doing this and 712 00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:35,160 Speaker 1: doing that for people who don't appreciate it, even as homeless, 713 00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:38,040 Speaker 1: because we get knocked down a lot of times. Because 714 00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,919 Speaker 1: I understand you earliest mentioned that your husband is dying 715 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:45,760 Speaker 1: of cancer. My husband has stage foot pull of cancer, okay, 716 00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:48,600 Speaker 1: and so you're taking care of him, or you guys 717 00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:50,279 Speaker 1: are taking care of each other. It seems like, so 718 00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:53,120 Speaker 1: how long have you guys? How long have you guys? 719 00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:56,360 Speaker 1: Have been married? Three years? So this is one of 720 00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:58,360 Speaker 1: your support systems. I didn't get your name, Sarah, So 721 00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:01,960 Speaker 1: what's your name? I didn't doniol, but my everybody calls 722 00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:04,560 Speaker 1: me that dog over you, well, Matt dog. How long 723 00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:07,839 Speaker 1: have you been out here on the street? What year 724 00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:12,719 Speaker 1: did I grow up? I brought my I had a 725 00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:14,719 Speaker 1: house up in Hollywood. It was I blew it up 726 00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:18,640 Speaker 1: by mistake. It was done by a mistake. I was 727 00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:23,400 Speaker 1: a mess cooker as cook okay, and I blew it 728 00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:25,880 Speaker 1: up a house because of my friend mine. I know 729 00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:30,520 Speaker 1: he took off, went, I ended up one the helboys 730 00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:34,440 Speaker 1: felt and I part and it just blew up. I 731 00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:36,160 Speaker 1: have a question. It's like, I guess you stayed there. 732 00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:39,759 Speaker 1: You have stage four cancer? Where would you do you 733 00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:42,600 Speaker 1: have made? Uh? What was the legacy? Would you like 734 00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:44,640 Speaker 1: to leave? Would you have any children? The thing is this, 735 00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:48,040 Speaker 1: I know I got colon cancer. I found out. I 736 00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:51,279 Speaker 1: find out I got so much time to live. I 737 00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:55,560 Speaker 1: don't appreciate hospitals. I don't like hospitals so ever since 738 00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:57,600 Speaker 1: a can't drow up, but for me can kick me 739 00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:00,440 Speaker 1: out and I feel sick. I don't go to hustle. 740 00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:03,040 Speaker 1: My blood takes care of She shaved Mike Wegg. I 741 00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,359 Speaker 1: got a big hole there, right. She shaved my hand. 742 00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,000 Speaker 1: I was getting blood poys when I met her. She 743 00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:11,439 Speaker 1: stayed with me no matter what he ate with your hair. 744 00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:15,319 Speaker 1: She just wanted to be with me because of hers. 745 00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:18,440 Speaker 1: This is the type of love that you know, house 746 00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:20,920 Speaker 1: people can learn. She's died. I'm supposed to die. Excuse me. 747 00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:24,080 Speaker 1: I'm supposed to die before everyone, and they're all dying 748 00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:29,799 Speaker 1: before me. And it's bothered me because sometimes the pagets 749 00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:33,719 Speaker 1: so severe and it hits me all at nighttimes during 750 00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:37,880 Speaker 1: the day, but when I react with nighttime, it is 751 00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,120 Speaker 1: how are you? I'm so sorry, weird. It is tough 752 00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:43,640 Speaker 1: to take care of somebody who has cancer or any 753 00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:45,960 Speaker 1: kind of disease on the street because we don't have 754 00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:49,360 Speaker 1: like amenities, you know. We don't have a bathroom, we 755 00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:52,320 Speaker 1: don't have a doctor, we don't have anything that we 756 00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:54,600 Speaker 1: can you know. So I'm kind of doing this, you know, 757 00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:58,200 Speaker 1: with God and kick naturally. And then, like I said, 758 00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:00,560 Speaker 1: it's so tough because where you are saw us to 759 00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:03,800 Speaker 1: date in and date out from the relentlessness of everyone 760 00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:06,120 Speaker 1: else on top of our own problem, on top of 761 00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:08,399 Speaker 1: being out here. I come over here now. The thing 762 00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:12,040 Speaker 1: is about the home street. There's no unity. I've been 763 00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:14,960 Speaker 1: on the streets before other persons. I'm from Boston messages 764 00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:21,080 Speaker 1: union because nobody cares. And the reason for factors because 765 00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:26,560 Speaker 1: everybody's gotten fetol and it's eating everybody's branch up. I'm 766 00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:29,799 Speaker 1: trying to talk to these people and help them out. 767 00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:33,080 Speaker 1: I spoke weed I have medical, and it's a medical 768 00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:36,120 Speaker 1: and it's legal, but I have I get mine for 769 00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:38,920 Speaker 1: medical and mine is you know, the top of line. 770 00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:41,200 Speaker 1: But as soon as I walk out the door, I 771 00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:44,520 Speaker 1: get ask aside, but my bills. I don't have enough 772 00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:47,880 Speaker 1: on my ash aside to pay my bills. So I 773 00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:51,640 Speaker 1: understand the reason why I wanted to hear we don't 774 00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:55,080 Speaker 1: have bills. Oh, yes, we do. Exactly. I was gonna say, 775 00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:57,720 Speaker 1: you're the second person I know that it's seven thousand 776 00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:00,680 Speaker 1: dollars on my bills right now, you know, sense Holmless. 777 00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:03,200 Speaker 1: People think that we don't do anything like normal people do. Yes, 778 00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:05,360 Speaker 1: we do. We just don't have a bigger shut all 779 00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:08,680 Speaker 1: the stuff. I got a repute, but he knows us 780 00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:12,719 Speaker 1: with most reliable the bank about people. We'm old, but 781 00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:16,439 Speaker 1: we don't steal My word. Is my word that people 782 00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:22,920 Speaker 1: trust is one way to get stock, getting UNI out here, 783 00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:25,360 Speaker 1: you have to trust. Yeah, but the problem with the 784 00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:28,000 Speaker 1: unity is the dope that honestly the truth of the 785 00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:33,680 Speaker 1: matter is and community. Yeah, the crystal meth is really 786 00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:36,200 Speaker 1: you know, you have people that have mental disabilities that 787 00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:40,480 Speaker 1: are using this struggle. It is I can'tnot get because 788 00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:43,480 Speaker 1: I use meth myself. And the truth of the matter 789 00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:46,040 Speaker 1: is I stay calm, I can clean, I can focus 790 00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:48,760 Speaker 1: when I'm using as opposed to when I'm not. Unfortunately, 791 00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:51,080 Speaker 1: I wish I didn't turn my life out that way, 792 00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:53,440 Speaker 1: but that's the way my life turned out. But there 793 00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:56,520 Speaker 1: are people who can't control this type of They have 794 00:48:56,680 --> 00:48:59,160 Speaker 1: disabilities mentally, they have health issues and that you see 795 00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:01,280 Speaker 1: a lot of people that are walking around talking to themselves. 796 00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:04,239 Speaker 1: They're completely out of their minds, and a lot of 797 00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:08,640 Speaker 1: that is because of meth. Honestly, Wow, you have given 798 00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:12,600 Speaker 1: us an education here. I wanted to ask you if 799 00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:15,400 Speaker 1: someone was to say, come to you and said, Leslie 800 00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:18,719 Speaker 1: and mad doctor, what is the best way to help you? 801 00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:24,239 Speaker 1: How can we help you? We're willing to do our 802 00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:28,440 Speaker 1: part as we are. We you know, we we we 803 00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:31,040 Speaker 1: need a place that just ende of mind. We need 804 00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:37,520 Speaker 1: a place here for us. He's disabled. I'm so stressed 805 00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:43,200 Speaker 1: though for people just wait, I give I don't care 806 00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:46,640 Speaker 1: they use but here to for uh. But I still 807 00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:49,239 Speaker 1: go back and doing the same thing. We hep all 808 00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:51,960 Speaker 1: of people. You want to know how some we canna 809 00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:57,080 Speaker 1: help those? Yeah? What do yeah? Listen to the words 810 00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:02,880 Speaker 1: if they tell you somebody they're coming as from and 811 00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:07,200 Speaker 1: we've seen we just said an interview with doctor Drew 812 00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:09,799 Speaker 1: as well, and it's the same thing as the Mount 813 00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:13,319 Speaker 1: of Nods. If everybody hears us, but they're not listening, Yes, 814 00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:16,279 Speaker 1: all right, well we're listening at weed in House. And 815 00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:19,439 Speaker 1: though doctor Drew says like the majority of unhoused people 816 00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:23,640 Speaker 1: are mentally ill on drugs, which is not true, I'm 817 00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:27,160 Speaker 1: encouraged to hear that you guys want to have some 818 00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:29,719 Speaker 1: place like I say, I will do my very best 819 00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:35,000 Speaker 1: to tell your story humanly and not take take it 820 00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:37,400 Speaker 1: and use it for us in nefarious purposes. But I 821 00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:41,400 Speaker 1: also wanted to leave you with this. The unhoused community 822 00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:44,680 Speaker 1: is like community is here and everywhere else in California, 823 00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:48,280 Speaker 1: and then in the world. I interview people from Greece, Japan. 824 00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:51,400 Speaker 1: They all have the same thing and they all are 825 00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:54,279 Speaker 1: dealing with the same challenges that the society doesn't listen 826 00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:56,560 Speaker 1: to them. So we want to make sure that they 827 00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:59,239 Speaker 1: understand that these guys want a place to stay, and 828 00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:00,719 Speaker 1: I'm going to try to see what we can do 829 00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:03,520 Speaker 1: to try to help you. This is Theodo Henderson from 830 00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:06,000 Speaker 1: Weedian House, and I thank you all for listening. And 831 00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:09,160 Speaker 1: may we again meet in a light of understanding you 832 00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:24,320 Speaker 1: guys to take you This episode couldn't be done without 833 00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:27,239 Speaker 1: the health and efforts of many. I would like to 834 00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:32,080 Speaker 1: thank our guests the Jack Period, Carlos Mietto, as well 835 00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:36,080 Speaker 1: as others like Zen and Mario, Craig Wongs from the CCD, 836 00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:45,879 Speaker 1: Democratic Socialist, Eugen, Annie Shaw, Taiji Makawara, as well as 837 00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:49,440 Speaker 1: many others that remained under scenes, Melissa who feeds for 838 00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:55,799 Speaker 1: the community, Melissa Asadero, Chaine Wynn, Mark Cordback. These people 839 00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:58,760 Speaker 1: are getting the voices out and thank you all again. 840 00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:08,839 Speaker 1: We The Young House is a podcast. We record every week. 841 00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:12,120 Speaker 1: We interview people from different places and we use our 842 00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:14,800 Speaker 1: resources in order for it to make it happen. And 843 00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:18,960 Speaker 1: up to now we've been depleting all types of energy, 844 00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:23,680 Speaker 1: time and patience to give you a quality product. Now 845 00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:26,800 Speaker 1: you will not hear our recordings in a live, quiet studio, 846 00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:28,920 Speaker 1: but what you will hear is where we meet the 847 00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:34,200 Speaker 1: clients or the listeners and the guests after these places 848 00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:36,839 Speaker 1: where they are. In order for us to continue, we're 849 00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:38,759 Speaker 1: going to need some help in order for us to 850 00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:40,840 Speaker 1: start a new project where we will have we the 851 00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:45,759 Speaker 1: Young House for people that are want to share their 852 00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:49,200 Speaker 1: stories visually, and then we're going to have a podcast 853 00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:51,960 Speaker 1: for we the Young House for Children. So in order 854 00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:53,680 Speaker 1: for this to happen, we're gonna need a lot of 855 00:52:53,719 --> 00:52:56,600 Speaker 1: help from our listeners and for people that are interested 856 00:52:56,719 --> 00:53:00,520 Speaker 1: in doing something for their community. And after this, if 857 00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:03,480 Speaker 1: you would like to contribute to this campaign, you can 858 00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:06,440 Speaker 1: contact with you in howse on Twitter. That's my thing 859 00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:09,120 Speaker 1: where I have a PayPal link and you can link 860 00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:11,359 Speaker 1: it there and you can make any donation from two 861 00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:15,719 Speaker 1: dollars to five or however he feels, but it's really appreciated. 862 00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:27,120 Speaker 1: One in four Californians believe they or a family member 863 00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:31,000 Speaker 1: can become unhoused. Prior to the housing and unhoused crises, 864 00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:34,760 Speaker 1: many people had wrote off the unhoused community as criminals 865 00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:39,320 Speaker 1: deserving nothing more but the highest contempt. Countless times have 866 00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:42,760 Speaker 1: I conversed with people who were stubborn in this belief. 867 00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:46,759 Speaker 1: Vote Twenty eight percent still believe this evil practice. More 868 00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:49,360 Speaker 1: of society is waking up to the fact that the 869 00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:53,080 Speaker 1: group of neighbors you share Mimosa's brunches with will call 870 00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:56,120 Speaker 1: their local council member and law enforcement officials if you 871 00:53:56,200 --> 00:53:58,920 Speaker 1: pitch your tent in front of their neighborhood. Despite this shift, 872 00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:02,040 Speaker 1: there's much work to be We have a pecking order 873 00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:06,239 Speaker 1: and the unhoused community with messages to exclude unworthy in 874 00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:10,360 Speaker 1: their eyes of unhoused people advocating for law enforcement to harass, 875 00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:13,560 Speaker 1: target and even kill other unworthy n house and I 876 00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:15,759 Speaker 1: say it before and I will say it again. No 877 00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:18,200 Speaker 1: matter what boat we came in on, we are in 878 00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:21,720 Speaker 1: the same boat now house and unhoused. I have reviewed 879 00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:23,960 Speaker 1: so many people out here at the un house and 880 00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:26,759 Speaker 1: they are all the warts and flaws like anybody else 881 00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:30,520 Speaker 1: that are housed. They do not deserve to be criminalized, tortured, 882 00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:34,280 Speaker 1: or harassed. Dignity is a word that's often tossed around, 883 00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:36,520 Speaker 1: but we don't understand that. But in this episode, I 884 00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:39,480 Speaker 1: hope you understood what dignity means to a member that 885 00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:42,120 Speaker 1: has staged four colon cancer. It is not the constant 886 00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:45,000 Speaker 1: threat of harassment for police local council members such as 887 00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:47,680 Speaker 1: Newery Martinez saying if we harass them enough, they will 888 00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:50,240 Speaker 1: go away. But the man is dying a very simple 889 00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:53,440 Speaker 1: dignity dignified response to him and his wife find them 890 00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:55,640 Speaker 1: a place where she can care for him and his 891 00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:59,719 Speaker 1: last and remaining time is peaceful and without stress and 892 00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:03,560 Speaker 1: our problems. I'm sure we can find it within our hearts, 893 00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:07,280 Speaker 1: our intestinal fortitude that we can do something about this crisis. 894 00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:10,600 Speaker 1: Right now, we're in a dark time in history. From 895 00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:14,040 Speaker 1: the President to our local council members. They are indifferent 896 00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:17,360 Speaker 1: to the sufferings of unhoused people, but they are receptive 897 00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:21,040 Speaker 1: to listening to the pocketbooks of the rich. When will 898 00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:24,439 Speaker 1: it end? When are we going to evict these interlopers 899 00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:27,000 Speaker 1: in our justice system? When are we going to give 900 00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:31,840 Speaker 1: the walking papers to these council members? Mitchell Pharaoh, his 901 00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:36,160 Speaker 1: election is in twenty twenty two, So we as the 902 00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:39,920 Speaker 1: house and unhoused community. It isn't very incumbitent of us 903 00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:43,040 Speaker 1: to look at this and give them their walking papers. 904 00:55:43,120 --> 00:55:46,200 Speaker 1: We cannot let this rest of society forget that they 905 00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:48,640 Speaker 1: were on the wrong side of history and they are 906 00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:53,120 Speaker 1: dangerous to our humanity. We cannot let them overshadow that. 907 00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:57,320 Speaker 1: I thank you all for listening, and maybe we again 908 00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:11,879 Speaker 1: meet in the light of understand what I had