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Speaker 1: I've been in unsecure housing for a year and a half.

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Speaker 1: it's absolutely unacceptable that they're leaving these vacant when they're

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Speaker 1: support the reclaimers here. This is an excellent point because

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Speaker 1: What do you think if you hear people will say

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Speaker 1: So here in the studios it's Benito, and translating it's Martha, Benito.

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Speaker 1: How long have you been u house tngo. He's been

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Speaker 1: did you become a house whenando canando minimo perro jane

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Speaker 1: perro ja milinko la rena. You're gonna put the pado,

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Speaker 1: Benito said, he's been working thirty four years here and

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Speaker 1: And it's been fourteen years down he's still now even worse.

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Speaker 1: They say NOCCA Homeless discuss us. So for Benito, he

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Speaker 1: found out about this movement, he thought it was important

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Speaker 1: to be supportive of it. Uh. He's one of the

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Speaker 1: reclaimers because he feels it's unjust that there's a three

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Speaker 1: houses for every homeless person and we're able to house

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Speaker 1: them if we really wanted to as a state as

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Speaker 1: a government, and this is not happening. So to him,

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00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: it's important to bring justice into his own hands as

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00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 1: a community and reclaim these homes. You know, Augustine says,

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00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: and unjust law is not really allow at all. Three

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00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 1: people a day die and houselessness. So when he says

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00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: the three homes for for every house person, I watch

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00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 1: us to think on that, because there is ways that

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Speaker 1: we can help the un house community. We don't have

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Speaker 1: to shelter our way out of it, and we definitely

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Speaker 1: don't have to rest our way out of it. So

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Speaker 1: one of the things I also want to ask you

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Speaker 1: is you are an older man. Do you have health issues?

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00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 1: Because some people said, well, why don't you just find

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Speaker 1: a better job see Bios Condido. You know, you know

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Speaker 1: stamranquilamenteert Miano Leto and you to Mian Alice Alice Condi.

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00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 1: He says that a lot of people are afraid of

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Speaker 1: people that are homeless. And for him, he's a senior

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Speaker 1: and he has diabetes as well, and with this health

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00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 1: issue is really difficult also to be unhoused. He says

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Speaker 1: that the neighbors don't let him. He lives. He also

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00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: lives with the high amount of stress because he can't

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00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 1: be relaxed and himself in the van he was actually

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00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 1: cultivating plants on top of his roof in the van.

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Speaker 1: But when people, the neighbors and people around saw him

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Speaker 1: watering the plants, they called the police on him. So

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00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 1: he can't be himself. He can't you grow anything. He

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00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 1: can't even live in peace at all, and in this

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00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: high amount of stress. With diabetes, it's really problematic as well.

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00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 1: I too have diabetes, and I can tell you that

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Speaker 1: that absolutely because I live in the park and I

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Speaker 1: know that the stresses of the police and things like that,

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Speaker 1: and that makes my blood pressure go up and all

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00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 1: those other health issues that fall into it. I notice

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00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: here that you guys have self quarantine. How are you

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00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 1: guys dealing with the coronavirus? Scared Bueno del coronavirus is

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Speaker 1: Buena caro, political terminal, the Plitico po Yo competition on

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Speaker 1: reclamator A creme and copar lass. He has Pero noe

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Speaker 1: soon cream and national question, the Hosticia per Quo, Cremenesta

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Speaker 1: and Contunu and les corporation. He lost politicals per Quest

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Speaker 1: Contuno criminal Aluna Association, the Litosa Perque Less Corporation, Pagan's

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Speaker 1: Campaign's politicas. He levels politicals and asked faboration aus So Benito,

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00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: saying is that he wanted to speak more about why

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00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 1: he's reclaiming, and he says it's important to point out

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00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 1: that he's not breaking any law, and this is unjust

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00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 1: that the politicians and corporations there, they work together often,

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00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: and he just wants justice because he knows that they

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00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: work together to make things worse for us sometimes st

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00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: they form a delinquent association. The very true. Do you

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00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 1: guys have any concerns about the coronavirus at all? See

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Speaker 1: coronavirus is Momento and Viner and solo personas and para.

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Speaker 1: So we are concerned about the coronavirus. And we had

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Speaker 1: planned a huge rally with a lot of supporters here,

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Speaker 1: but we were we had to cancel it halfway because

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00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: we were concerned about the coronavirus. What we did suggest

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00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 1: is just maybe yes, you could come support us, but

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Speaker 1: if you feel sick or if you're vulnerable, if you

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00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 1: feel you know vulnerable such as the elderly, maybe just

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Speaker 1: stay home and support us in other ways. And I myself,

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Speaker 1: I feel in this coronavirus pandemic, it's really important for

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Speaker 1: us to have homes because that is a major health crisis.

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Speaker 1: To have this pandemic going on and having all these

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Speaker 1: homeless people on the streets. I agree, and shelters are

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Speaker 1: not the answer. One of the things I also know

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Speaker 1: about housing insecurity, and I mentioned earlier about thirty four

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00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 1: different mothers out there on the street with their kids.

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Speaker 1: There's a not only a housing insecurity, there's a food insecurity.

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Speaker 1: How are you guys dealing with about food? What can

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Speaker 1: you guys do for food? When coronavirus homeless Lee he

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Speaker 1: comes eleven as you know, a yaga. He's saying that

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Speaker 1: it's a really health hazard to have this pandemic coronavirus.

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00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 1: And then the health officials say, we have to wash

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Speaker 1: our hands often, and houseless people on the streets they

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Speaker 1: don't have anywhere to wash their hands. So we're going

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Speaker 1: to be spreading it more by having people on the streets.

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Speaker 1: I agree. Also, let's talk about because a lot of

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Speaker 1: stores have shut down. For example, the library is shut down,

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00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 1: and a lot of unhoused people go into the libraries

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00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 1: to charge your phone, clean up and be able to

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Speaker 1: keep themselves at least presentable. In the bathrooms, they have

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Speaker 1: sanitary soap that would kill most of the germs. Now

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00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 1: that that's closed, also parks are closed. The park and

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Speaker 1: I styhead is closed, and so there is like the

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Speaker 1: bathroom in security, there's no bathrooms that are open unless

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Speaker 1: you have money, and if you don't have money, then

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00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 1: you have to go and relieve yourself or the bathroom

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00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: out on the street, which is another health crisis. So

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Speaker 1: in dealing with these crises, how does it feel with

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Speaker 1: being able to to do simple things because some of

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00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 1: the stores are shut down? Are you able to have

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Speaker 1: food to eat now that you guys are in here

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Speaker 1: or what can some of the supporters do if they

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Speaker 1: cannot show up? Can they provide food to you guys

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Speaker 1: or send you things for you can eat when for

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Speaker 1: me your come. Yes, they went on some problem for Benito,

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Speaker 1: he says he's on a strict diet, so it's very little,

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Speaker 1: but for other people it is a problem. For us,

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Speaker 1: we we do want more support in any way possible. Uh, yes,

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Speaker 1: we want. We just heard that somebody is gonna bring

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00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 1: a taco truck or a talk cart. So speaking of food,

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00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 1: we have a supporter that's bringing that and so yes,

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00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 1: any any any type of support, whether it be water, food, posting,

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00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: listening to this podcast, posting on Facebook, on Instagram and

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00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:15,320
Speaker 1: keep this movement going because for me, my inspiration was

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00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 1: Moms for Housing in Oakland, and I thank them and

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00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: maybe we Benito and I and Ruby and the other

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00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 1: reclaimers can inspire other people, not only in California, but

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00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 1: in the whole country to reclaim these homes because these

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00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 1: are a community owned and we need to take power

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00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 1: into our own hands when the government's unable to do

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00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 1: it for us, find solutions for us. Well said. This

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Speaker 1: is Ceo Henderson from the Windia House. You've heard it

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00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:44,320
Speaker 1: from here and they says power can see nothing without

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Speaker 1: a demand. So thank you all for listening and make

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00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 1: we again meet in a lot of understanding. This is

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Speaker 1: the Henderson from Windy On House. You've heard the interviews

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00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: from Benito and Martha, and now we have another reclaimer, Ruby,

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00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:04,360
Speaker 1: and she's going to tell us her his story, so

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Speaker 1: I will live Mike to her. Hi, everyone, my name

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00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 1: is Ruby Gorrillo. I'm an Angelino born and raised. I'm

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Speaker 1: a parent of three ages from eight to fourteen, and

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Speaker 1: I'm just very ecstatic to be a reclaimer and be

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00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 1: part of this movement. We decided to take action in

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Speaker 1: this because the housing crisis is increasingly by the second.

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Speaker 1: It's becoming a health hazard at this point with the

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Speaker 1: coronavirus pandemic and those of us who are at least

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00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 1: risk of being infected or whatever, we want those folks

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00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 1: to be able to come through support us in the

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00:38:55,719 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: hopes that the needier, the homeless, who don't have access

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00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 1: to medical care and don't have access to a safe

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00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 1: and stable housing follow in our footsteps and you know,

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00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: create create homes out of these vacant houses. It's ridiculous

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00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 1: that they've been vacant for decades in this community. Uh,

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Speaker 1: there's probably over one hundred vacant houses that are on

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00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 1: public land, and it is our belief that public land

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00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: should be used for public good. And we're urging the

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Speaker 1: community to be of support for us and you know,

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00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:43,919
Speaker 1: come through in any way that you possibly can. Well said,

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00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:47,319
Speaker 1: let me ask a few questions to take you back.

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00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: How long have you been unhoused? So I'm actually not unhoused.

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Speaker 1: For the last five years. I've been living in a

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Speaker 1: single unit where we share one room for a living space,

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Speaker 1: bedroom space, dining space, a small kitchen, a small bathroom

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00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 1: in one closet for five So it is really affected

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Speaker 1: us in the way that my kids are having difficulty

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00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:20,360
Speaker 1: excelling in in their academics, their gifted children, special needs children,

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Speaker 1: and it's unfair for them to be affected like this,

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Speaker 1: not only you know, physically, but mentally, you know, suffering

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Speaker 1: many mental conditions from from really being confined to these

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Speaker 1: small spaces more than a home. It feels like a prison.

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Speaker 1: Before this home though, we were homeless for six months,

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Speaker 1: so I am grateful that I have that roof over

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Speaker 1: my head, but it you know, for my family, we

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Speaker 1: really need a bigger space, and unfortunately we're living for

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Speaker 1: one income, my husband's and it's near minimum wage. So unfortunately,

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00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,879
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's out of our possibilities to rent

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00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: out a bigger apartment. That's a very good point because

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Speaker 1: you on house. It seems like our society blames the

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Speaker 1: young house and poor people for the conditions that they're in.

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Speaker 1: But instead of listening to the systematic thing, you're saying

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Speaker 1: to me that you have a place, but it's crammed

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Speaker 1: and it's affecting educational wise your children as well as

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Speaker 1: the health wise as well as they have special needs.

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Speaker 1: So for example, I have a resident that is in

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Speaker 1: stage cancer and another one that another guest that is

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Speaker 1: another guest that has HIV and she has respiratory issues.

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Speaker 1: To live like that with her eight kids would be

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Speaker 1: very difficult. So I want to know is like, how

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Speaker 1: are you able to do it? What steps? Do you

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Speaker 1: have any kind of support system to be able to

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00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 1: reclaim this house? You mean no living in this cramped home?

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Speaker 1: Oh I I don't have a big support system. My

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00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 1: kids do have mental health services that they they are

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Speaker 1: taking as well. I mean I can I can't say

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Speaker 1: much for extracurricular activities. Like I said, we we live

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00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:26,839
Speaker 1: off of one salary, so that's very difficult. I've had

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Speaker 1: in the past entities such as d CFS come through

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Speaker 1: because of what my children have said. And mind you,

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Speaker 1: it's it's things that all kids say except other kids

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Speaker 1: no not to say things in front of grown ups.

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Speaker 1: And my child has really no no filter exactly, so

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Speaker 1: you know, he speaks his mine, he repeats what he hears,

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00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:54,800
Speaker 1: and it's it's caused us, uh for many times for

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Speaker 1: my home to come and be really observed and my

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Speaker 1: parenthood questioned, and it's just it sounds like yeah, and

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Speaker 1: I think I think with these people putting me into

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Speaker 1: a position where they I'm being told that the only

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Speaker 1: way my kids are gonna thrive is being in a

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Speaker 1: bigger space. I'm giving no other option but to do

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Speaker 1: what I'm doing now. So that's a great that's a

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00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 1: very good point because at the times I hear a

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00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 1: lot of finger wagging about poor people. What they are,

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00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 1: their choices and things, and there's no options for them,

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Speaker 1: but the reclaiming it and telling them that we have

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Speaker 1: a we should not be working ourselves to an early grave.

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Speaker 1: And secondly, we should not be punishing the children for

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Speaker 1: just being poor. That's what I'm hearing. Yeah, most definitely,

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Speaker 1: as you know, like as adults were desensitized to this.

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Speaker 1: You know, I didn't realize that my housing, my housing

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00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 1: situation was you know, part of the crisis. And you know,

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00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: the kids, the kids are not desensitized. They think, you know,

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00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:07,799
Speaker 1: living in a small space is okay because that's all

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00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:10,799
Speaker 1: they've known. So you know, they see on their way

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00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:14,279
Speaker 1: to school the sidewalks full of tents and whatnot, and

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00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 1: they wonder why these folks are unable to have an

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00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 1: actual roof over their head. And you know, we're talking

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00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:25,440
Speaker 1: about tents that have been there for years. Now. So

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00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 1: these are permanent neighbors that we have that are on house.

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Speaker 1: They don't have the mental health resources that they need.

642
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: They don't have the medical care that they need, and

643
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:42,800
Speaker 1: it's needed. We're urging our you know, representatives, whether it

644
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:46,800
Speaker 1: be council members, the mayor, the governor, everybody and anybody

645
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 1: to come through and support us with the funding that

646
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:53,760
Speaker 1: we need, not only for medical care but for housing.

647
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 1: We have the housing. We have three vacant houses for

648
00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:00,359
Speaker 1: every homeless person in the city of Los angele list.

649
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:03,759
Speaker 1: That's an outrage. I think, you know, the police, I mean,

650
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 1: I think the city council, the police are listening, but

651
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 1: they're listening to the wrong people. I hear that they are.

652
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 1: They always are trying to arrest people, criminalize them. There's

653
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 1: unhoused people that have like over twenty four tickets. They

654
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:20,600
Speaker 1: are being threatened, Like for example, I just had an

655
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 1: interview with another mother who's living with her a special

656
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 1: needs kid and her disabled husband and an RV. They

657
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 1: have came to her and threatened to say that they

658
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 1: are going to take her child to put her in

659
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 1: CPS and put it and arrest her and are disabled

660
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 1: to her husband and the council members, the mayor, and

661
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 1: they go and make these presentations to these nimbi's and

662
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 1: as if to say, seventy five over seventy five percent

663
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 1: of unhoused people are criminals. They are doing things, but

664
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 1: they're doing the wrong things. The criminalization must stop. So

665
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:57,759
Speaker 1: what are your what are your thoughts on this criminalization

666
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 1: must stop? You know, some folks are going to think

667
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 1: that what we're doing now is criminal offense. I don't

668
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 1: consider it a criminal We're just taking back what is ours.

669
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:11,280
Speaker 1: These homes have been long paid for by taxpayer money,

670
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 1: so all we are we're doing is taking it back.

671
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 1: I am fed up of, you know, our homeless community

672
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 1: being targeted constantly. They're removing their tents, tossing out what

673
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 1: few belongings they have, and just really you know, like

674
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 1: harassing them and why why because they're they're not the

675
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 1: one percent. Now we're fed up of that, and we

676
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:44,480
Speaker 1: need we're demanding that we all have the equal right

677
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:49,960
Speaker 1: to housing because it is a human right, and just

678
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 1: really like stop the criminalization of homelessness. I also sad

679
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 1: to say there is like, for example, Neuri Martinez, who's

680
00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:00,120
Speaker 1: ahead of us, has stated this very clearly if we

681
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 1: keep harassing on house people that they will have no

682
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:05,680
Speaker 1: other stuff than they will leave. The second thing is

683
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: the people that also My feor is the city attorney.

684
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 1: He has devoted his career in trying to criminalize and

685
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:14,560
Speaker 1: house people. Did you know that he was trying to

686
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:18,360
Speaker 1: expand on the criminal Ordinance of forty one to eighteen

687
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 1: fifty eight to eleven and he's now running for mayor.

688
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 1: Would that be the type of mayor with the housing

689
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 1: crisis that we have and the pandemic we have, would

690
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 1: that be someone that you vote for? Excuse my language,

691
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 1: but hell no. We need our elected officials to represent us,

692
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 1: for them to be people like you and I, people

693
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:47,200
Speaker 1: of color, people the ninety nine percent, and for them

694
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:51,440
Speaker 1: to really work for the people. You know, we need

695
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:54,440
Speaker 1: to start holding all these folks accountable and really pressuring

696
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:56,840
Speaker 1: every single time that we can for them to do

697
00:47:56,960 --> 00:48:00,080
Speaker 1: what is right and support the homeless community rather and

698
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 1: criminalize them. It's it's an outrage. Like I said, you know,

699
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:09,960
Speaker 1: it's the homeless community because we're poor or the at

700
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 1: risk homeless should should not be criminalized for being poor.

701
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:20,680
Speaker 1: We're constantly being labeled as lazy as drug addicts. As

702
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:26,319
Speaker 1: any Yeah, any any negative comment that you can think

703
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:29,320
Speaker 1: of or imagine. That's what we've been labeled as. And

704
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 1: that's not the case. We've just not been given the

705
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:37,680
Speaker 1: opportunity that the one percent has. We weren't given, you know,

706
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:41,360
Speaker 1: the opportunity to extend our education. We weren't given the

707
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:47,360
Speaker 1: opportunity to provide a healthy, healthy environment for our families.

708
00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 1: It took me many resources to be able to diagnose

709
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 1: my daughter with autism. You know, I reached out to

710
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 1: l a USD, I reached out to the school. I

711
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:01,320
Speaker 1: wrote a two page letter describing her behavior and my concerns.

712
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 1: And because her grades didn't demonstrate a learning disability, you know,

713
00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 1: she was totally ignored. And it's unfair for people like

714
00:49:10,560 --> 00:49:16,719
Speaker 1: my daughter and anybody else to go through this. And

715
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 1: I'm going to include myself in it. I'm disabled, I

716
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:26,759
Speaker 1: was born disabled. I suffer an invisible illness, fibromyalgia. I

717
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:30,400
Speaker 1: look completely fine, but I am always in pain. I

718
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:35,800
Speaker 1: suffer chronic fatigue. It's just it's real. And I'm tired

719
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:38,799
Speaker 1: of being harassed when I get in a disabled line

720
00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:42,320
Speaker 1: and being questioned about my disability. It's my right to

721
00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:46,680
Speaker 1: have these services, whether I whether you know that I'm

722
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 1: disabled or whether I look disabled or not, I too

723
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:52,959
Speaker 1: have invisible disabilities, and I can tell you the times

724
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:55,279
Speaker 1: that people see me, well, he looks normal and things

725
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:56,880
Speaker 1: like that, but they don't understand the pains that I

726
00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:00,160
Speaker 1: going through the complications of the illnesses I have. And

727
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 1: it's like you don't always have to have a wheelchair

728
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 1: or just be just completely broken down in the eyesight

729
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 1: of other people to have a disability. And I'm glad

730
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 1: you pointed that out. Is there anything that you want

731
00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:15,200
Speaker 1: to let the Linstens know? Is what's the best way

732
00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:17,720
Speaker 1: to help you? Because I want you have the control

733
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 1: you have the MIC. Wait, how can we help you?

734
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 1: So we are asking the community to look us up

735
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 1: on our website, reclaiming our Homes dot org. We're also

736
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:35,279
Speaker 1: on social media Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Sign up at

737
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:37,799
Speaker 1: the very end of the page where you can sign

738
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 1: up for being part of the Rapper Response Team. Where

739
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:42,960
Speaker 1: we need folks that can come through and support us

740
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:46,160
Speaker 1: when the police show up. We don't know how they're

741
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 1: going to treat us. We need people of all colors,

742
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:55,200
Speaker 1: people of all economic statuses to come through and support

743
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:59,080
Speaker 1: us and really demonstrate to the community that everyone is

744
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:02,839
Speaker 1: on board of what we're doing. Folks that are willing

745
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:09,440
Speaker 1: to risk arrest and participate in civil disobedience, you're welcome

746
00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 1: and very much needed. Folks who just want to be

747
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:15,759
Speaker 1: part of the crowd in the rally, please come through

748
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 1: if you have any donations that you want to make,

749
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:26,440
Speaker 1: whether it be food, items, furniture, even money, any the house.

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00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:31,000
Speaker 1: This house right now doesn't have electricity, running water, it

751
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:37,640
Speaker 1: doesn't have a bathroom, so any anything, really anything, we

752
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:42,560
Speaker 1: ask and we are very grateful for anything that you

753
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:45,200
Speaker 1: guys can provide, whether it be your time, whether it

754
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 1: be a count of food, anything, anything is welcome and

755
00:51:48,800 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 1: very much appreciated. Well, there you have it. Housing is

756
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:55,640
Speaker 1: a human right. And one of the things is I

757
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:58,759
Speaker 1: admire about one of the things that has been said.

758
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:01,920
Speaker 1: If you are talking about justice and human rights and

759
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:04,880
Speaker 1: you don't step forward and put your whole body and

760
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 1: mind and soul into it, to take the word freedom

761
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 1: out of your vocabulary. This is THEO Henderson from Weedy Unhoused,

762
00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:13,320
Speaker 1: and I thank you all for listening, and maybe we

763
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 1: again meet in the light of understanding. This episode has

764
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 1: a beginning, middle, and end, not like in the traditional

765
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:31,640
Speaker 1: sense of a story or a beginning of a podcast.

766
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:36,600
Speaker 1: It has a beginning where the American people have been

767
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:40,960
Speaker 1: villainized as being the responsible for their poverty. We have

768
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:45,279
Speaker 1: punched down. We believe the lie in order for us

769
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:47,160
Speaker 1: to believe the lie that we have, the lie that

770
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 1: is capitalism. I've got mine, the hell with you, you

771
00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:54,359
Speaker 1: get yours. I had two cents and I had nothing

772
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 1: when I came to this country, and I pulled myself

773
00:52:56,719 --> 00:52:59,200
Speaker 1: up by my bootstrap. Why can't you do the same.

774
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:03,080
Speaker 1: You're unhoused is because you don't want to work hard.

775
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:07,120
Speaker 1: Your service resistant, You're a drug addict, you're mentally ill,

776
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:11,359
Speaker 1: you just don't want to work. These lies has been

777
00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:15,880
Speaker 1: passed on by the majority of society. It is aided

778
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 1: by Business Improvement District. It is aided by law enforcement.

779
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 1: It is aided by our city council members. If you

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00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:28,200
Speaker 1: don't believe me, think about this. Why is it that

781
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: eleven council members are voting to continue to criminalize and

782
00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 1: sweep unhoused people during a Corona virus pandemic. Tell me

783
00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:42,399
Speaker 1: what logical reason would you want to continue to punch

784
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:47,000
Speaker 1: down on an unhoused community. There is no logical reason

785
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 1: only unless you're deliberately trying to infect them. Let us

786
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 1: be clear, the Corona's virus did not start with unhoused people.

787
00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:59,360
Speaker 1: It started with house people. And unlike the talk that

788
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:02,200
Speaker 1: I've heard, the house people are not being quarantined or

789
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:05,200
Speaker 1: into the desert. It seems to be that it seems

790
00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:07,400
Speaker 1: to be the conversation that will be used against the

791
00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:12,880
Speaker 1: house people. Can you imagine a moment if the unhoused

792
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:15,880
Speaker 1: community had had the coronavirus and started spreading it to

793
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:20,800
Speaker 1: house people, Think of the fewer the uproar let alone.

794
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:23,640
Speaker 1: Let's look at the facts. Many times people in the

795
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 1: community go ballistic when it's suggested, not done, suggested that

796
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 1: there is a park or a building is near a school.

797
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:39,680
Speaker 1: They lose all sense of rationale, reasoning and rhyme. They

798
00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 1: would use every reason. Think of the children, think of

799
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:46,680
Speaker 1: the old people, think of everybody but the unhoused community.

800
00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:51,200
Speaker 1: But it's interesting that the unhoused community is not telling

801
00:54:51,719 --> 00:54:54,320
Speaker 1: asking for you guys to be swept into the desert.

802
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:58,200
Speaker 1: They're not saying that, think about the children that you

803
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:01,359
Speaker 1: may be affecting, because guess what, unhoused people have children too.

804
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 1: They are not saying that they want you guys guarantying

805
00:55:04,239 --> 00:55:07,000
Speaker 1: off away from the children, and they're elderly, because they're

806
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:11,279
Speaker 1: elderly people in unhoused too. You see, when you pass

807
00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:14,359
Speaker 1: the circle of hate, you never realize that there may

808
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:18,440
Speaker 1: be a day when karma never forgets an address. We

809
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 1: have a responsibility as human beings on this planet to

810
00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:24,799
Speaker 1: be kind to one another, to treat us each other

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00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:30,040
Speaker 1: as the humane entity that we are. Because if not

812
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:34,120
Speaker 1: for me, who the eleven council members that voted for

813
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:37,880
Speaker 1: this criminalization of the unhoused and then turns around and

814
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:41,600
Speaker 1: has now this parks and recreation to have with the

815
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:46,680
Speaker 1: American Red Cross shelter facilities for unhoused people. It's partly

816
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:55,319
Speaker 1: to blame. There's no political gain to be had by

817
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:59,479
Speaker 1: trying to criminalize already a marginalized group. The unhoused people

818
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:05,360
Speaker 1: are vulnerable, skatehered, and confused by the lack of resources

819
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:09,480
Speaker 1: that they usually had barely now is completely cut off.

820
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:13,560
Speaker 1: They've already self contained themselves and the best possible way

821
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:18,240
Speaker 1: away from you, I too, standing that number. I'm definitely

822
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:20,920
Speaker 1: self quarantined because I have absolutely when I injured by

823
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:24,520
Speaker 1: an ankle and they I have no reason to want

824
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 1: to be around any house person in the hospital because basically,

825
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:31,000
Speaker 1: let's face it, you guys are the challenges or the

826
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:36,319
Speaker 1: difficulties that we will be infected by. And until then,

827
00:56:37,080 --> 00:56:41,680
Speaker 1: I want you all to remember this. As a human being,

828
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:45,040
Speaker 1: we are tied by a single garment of destiny and

829
00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:49,319
Speaker 1: our humanity or lack thereof. A couple of weeks ago,

830
00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:54,600
Speaker 1: I was in in humane infrastructures, and the inhumane infrastructure

831
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:59,680
Speaker 1: is being cracked slowly. It took a pandemic for city

832
00:56:59,719 --> 00:57:06,840
Speaker 1: count members to finally discuss resources for unhoused people. That

833
00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:13,160
Speaker 1: is a sad statement. At the top of this there

834
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 1: is a new shelter where there has police station nearby

835
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:19,240
Speaker 1: where they will have storage beds. We need to we

836
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:22,040
Speaker 1: need to re examine that kind of idea because you're

837
00:57:22,120 --> 00:57:26,360
Speaker 1: insinuating that unhoused people are criminals. There are those that

838
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 1: say that unhoused people will fight among their belongings. But

839
00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:34,800
Speaker 1: I will point to you the Australia or other places

840
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:37,760
Speaker 1: around the city where people that are housed have no

841
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:40,440
Speaker 1: earthly reason to be fighting each other but beating the

842
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:42,680
Speaker 1: hell out of each other for a roller, toilet paper.

843
00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:46,919
Speaker 1: And I don't see a police station park near their house.

844
00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:50,480
Speaker 1: So when we continue to carry on the narrative that

845
00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:53,480
Speaker 1: unhouse people who are criminally negligent, or this is a

846
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:57,280
Speaker 1: be safe and use it as a safety precaution, we

847
00:57:57,400 --> 00:58:01,000
Speaker 1: are still perpetuating insidiously. For me, if that unhoused people

848
00:58:01,080 --> 00:58:04,640
Speaker 1: are criminals and we're prone to violence, we can be

849
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:08,120
Speaker 1: safe just as safe as house members without having a

850
00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:11,120
Speaker 1: police station right next to us. We can have the

851
00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:15,360
Speaker 1: re establish the trust that the police always basically love

852
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:18,960
Speaker 1: to say that we give them a bad rep. We

853
00:58:19,040 --> 00:58:21,320
Speaker 1: can do a lot of things. The police can do

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Speaker 1: a lot of things. They can push back against the

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Speaker 1: nasty narrative that unhoused people are criminals. They can stick

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Speaker 1: a stand and says we are not going to be

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Speaker 1: part of your hate campaign against unhoused people. It is

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Speaker 1: not a crime to be unhoused and it's not a

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Speaker 1: crime to be poor. I hope this is an educational

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Speaker 1: moment for all of us in this time of need.

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Speaker 1: It is time for all of us to come together

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Speaker 1: and it costs nothing for us to be kind. This

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Speaker 1: is THEO Henderson from Weedy On House and I thank

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Speaker 1: you all for listening. May we again meet in the

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Speaker 1: light of understanding. This is my thank you section, and

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Speaker 1: many times it kind of comes very brief or long winded.

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Speaker 1: This is one of those times i'd be ate. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to be a little bit long winded because thanks

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Speaker 1: to me injuring myself recently Sunday, I have to give

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Speaker 1: a special thing to because in my restaurant owner and cook,

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Speaker 1: Michelle Lu when I got injured, she put it upon herself,

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Speaker 1: decided the coronavirus. She went and made sure daily that

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Speaker 1: I was doing okay. She fed me, she made sure

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Speaker 1: I took my medicine. She made sure that if I,

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Speaker 1: you know, I needed anything, that I was able to

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Speaker 1: be able to get the help that I need, and

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Speaker 1: she checked up on me. I also wanted to thank

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Speaker 1: Melissa Alsadero, who came in a few days ago and

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Speaker 1: brought some food. I also want to thank Jed Perriot,

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Speaker 1: who came by and gave me the most awesomest if

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Speaker 1: he's some private listening, the most awesomest PATAI don't what

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Speaker 1: restaurant he got in, but it's fair to say I'll

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Speaker 1: be asking for that again. I also want to thank

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Speaker 1: a newly editor, Carla Green. I want to thank my

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Speaker 1: existing editor that has put up with me and my

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Speaker 1: constant editing issues, Carlos Nietto. I want to thank the guests,

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Speaker 1: Ruby Cabrio, Martha Benito Flores. I wanted to thank, but

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Speaker 1: my very good activist is Joanna Swan. I also want

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Speaker 1: to thank again. A very good one is Lehanna Another Wooshoe,

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Speaker 1: a friend of mine that's in the martial art world,

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Speaker 1: Deasi Stewart, Hannah wo I also wanted to talk to

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Speaker 1: you about Jade Walk, and I want to take a

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Speaker 1: time to explain this is why this was important. During

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Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, many of house people would

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Speaker 1: go in when it's raining and on house people would

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Speaker 1: try to find places to be. So I went one

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Speaker 1: day into jade Walk because it was raining and the

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Speaker 1: restaurant at sin May was a little bit field, so

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Speaker 1: I went to try to just get something and just

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Speaker 1: stay warm. The owners there insisted that I stayed because

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Speaker 1: it was too cold, and they continually to replenish me

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Speaker 1: with hot tea in order if I can get warm.

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Speaker 1: And I want to point out is these acts of

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Speaker 1: kindness in these times a crisis that we're going to need.

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Speaker 1: The labels of housed and unhoused and housing and secure

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Speaker 1: are just that labels. If we reach a hand across

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Speaker 1: and show kindness instead of criminalization, then we won't have

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Speaker 1: to have a conversation why not all police are back?

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Speaker 1: But when we use them as a weaponization, we can

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Speaker 1: never get to that point. To be kind does it

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Speaker 1: cost you a thing? And on that note, I wanted

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Speaker 1: to thank you all for listening again and I hope

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Speaker 1: to beat you again in the light of understanding. For

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Speaker 1: episode seventeen, Stashed the bast