1 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:10,160 Speaker 1: When we last met, we were talking about how the 2 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: evil overlords and emperors were planning to make the poor 3 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:17,279 Speaker 1: suffer more. In order to keep the poor from revolting. 4 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 1: They use a propaganda machine. They applauded first responders as 5 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 1: if they were doing a selfless job, but in reality, 6 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 1: mostly the black and brown people were in poor economic 7 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 1: straits and were compelled with houselessness or death. The leaders 8 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:38,879 Speaker 1: gave a weak rent absolution to keep some of the 9 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 1: on housed at bay. They also use them as agents 10 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 1: to fight for poor unhoused people at poor people so 11 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: they won't rebel too loudly. They also hid from their 12 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 1: subjects too. So here we are at the top of 13 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: the month where may first rent was due. People are scared, 14 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:04,679 Speaker 1: angry and restless. But out of this uncertainty, he rolls 15 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:09,040 Speaker 1: emerge and we would hear their stories and how all 16 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 1: of this ties together. This is theo Henderson from Wiediana House. 17 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: This is Sunday, as you can hear the cars honking. 18 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 1: This is a second phase, a hotel now hospitals. So 19 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: I'm going to have Albert Carrado to give us a 20 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:31,759 Speaker 1: little insight on what's going on. What's going on? Well, 21 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:34,479 Speaker 1: This is i'd say probably the third or fourth time 22 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 1: we've hit Garcetti's house, and each time, you know, we 23 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:40,679 Speaker 1: we thought he was going to actually do something worthwhile 24 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:42,959 Speaker 1: and maybe try to build some goodwill amongst the people. 25 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:45,479 Speaker 1: I'd be very easy to do right now, to build 26 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 1: some goodwill, you know, by doing even anything slightly right 27 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 1: because you know, obviously we're going through the COVID crisis 28 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 1: and he hasn't done anything, and he has the power 29 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 1: to commandeer all the hotel rooms in the city because 30 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 1: right now, tour is not Tourism is not a thing. 31 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: And you know obviously you know he's a part owner 32 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: of a hotel as well. But he went on Twitter 33 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 1: and you know, pleaded with hotel owner Stove. And when 34 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:09,919 Speaker 1: he has the power to actually force them to do it, 35 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: why do you think he's pleading with it? It's all attactic, 36 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:14,920 Speaker 1: isn't it. I mean, then that way he you know, 37 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: it removes some culpability from him because most people don't 38 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 1: know that he has the power to do that. So 39 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 1: he it looks like he tried to do the right 40 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,359 Speaker 1: thing and now he gets to pass the buck onto, 41 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:27,360 Speaker 1: you know, to the hotel. But didn't he say that 42 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 1: he was going to command their hotels already. I mean, 43 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 1: you know, there's there's rumors there's I think knew some 44 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 1: what he'd got, like eleven thousand or something like that. 45 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:38,799 Speaker 1: But I mean there's there's sixty thousand in Los Angeles alone, 46 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 1: and that's the conservative estimate. So even if you do 47 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 1: one thousand, two thousand, some people say it's a step 48 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: in the right direction, that doesn't work. We're living in 49 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 1: a time where homelessness is not just the problem, it's 50 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 1: exacerbated by this very daintiest thing. And as we know, 51 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:57,919 Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen was introduced to the young house community 52 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: by house people, right. It was all from people who 53 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 1: went to travel, who did things. Unhoused people do not 54 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,359 Speaker 1: have the news to do that. And so now there's 55 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: this weird thing going that like, oh, how most people 56 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: are spreading coronavirus and it's just not the case. It's 57 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 1: not the case at all. Excellent point, more people house 58 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:18,639 Speaker 1: have the coronavirus in on the house. Is anything else 59 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:20,960 Speaker 1: you want to add? I just you know, if you're 60 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: pissed like we are, come join us. We're called the 61 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: People's City Council. Look us up. We're on Twitter. We 62 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 1: post stuff a lot, and we're gonna try to make 63 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 1: this a weekly happening until things get solved, and we're 64 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 1: gonna hit Garcetti, and we're gonna hit every single city 65 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: council member, all fifteen of them, because they're all culpable 66 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: and just as much as Garcetti. Thank you. This is 67 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: THEO Henderson from Wadian House and here you have it 68 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 1: here we're live at the heart of the protest hotels 69 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 1: not hospitals. This is THEO Henderson from weedy On House. 70 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: I'm here in the studios live and at five I 71 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:57,560 Speaker 1: chould say, in the heart of Mayor Eric Garcetti's home. 72 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 1: Thank you. Someone just thanks me for my podcast. Thank you. 73 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: So I'm going to give a few observations from two 74 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 1: dynamic people from the no Olympics. And we have street 75 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 1: watches yet, right, Let's see what you got Joanna, what 76 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: you got here? So we're here in front of Mayor 77 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: Garcetti's house as he delivers his state of the city address. 78 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 1: We're masked up. Most participants are in their cars participating 79 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 1: in it through car protests. As you can hear my 80 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 1: car overheats recently. So we're on foot right. We've seen 81 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 1: some really beautiful signs, obviously pretty heavy police presence to 82 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:37,920 Speaker 1: protect that property, and the mayor got a lot of 83 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 1: media too, a lot of public support, a lot of 84 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 1: cries of m capitalism. We're out here demanding a cancelation 85 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:49,040 Speaker 1: of rent, a sea shore of evictions, and an opening 86 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 1: up of hotel rooms across the city. There's actually ninety 87 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 1: seven thousand hotel rooms in La County and a lot 88 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:58,279 Speaker 1: of those are sitting vacant as people lose their jobs. 89 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 1: So we're at here demanding that those get opened up 90 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 1: for all the unhoused neighbors out there. Oh cool, I 91 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 1: see a link between people that are in the house, 92 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:08,039 Speaker 1: that are on their way maybe out on the street, 93 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: and people on the street. Am I incorrect with that? 94 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 1: You're absolutely on the ball, And I think a lot 95 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:17,039 Speaker 1: of our work within Streetwatch has been kind of dissolving 96 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 1: that binary between housing and house and highlighting how the 97 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 1: system we live under actually forces working class people out 98 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:25,920 Speaker 1: of their homes most of the time. So as we're 99 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: destroying the stigmas that we often hear about homeless people 100 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:33,719 Speaker 1: and unhoused populations, we're also reminding people that any of 101 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 1: us as tenants could easily become on house ourselves. We're 102 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: definitely one paycheck away. Since paychecks have stopped coming in 103 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:44,160 Speaker 1: for a lot of folks, we're demanding their renty stop too. Yeah, 104 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 1: it's David. We've interviewed before, so tell me what's your 105 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 1: take on this. I think this is great. You know, 106 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:53,159 Speaker 1: they call it the People's City Council because our actual 107 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: city council can't get anything done in the way of 108 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,720 Speaker 1: protecting tenants, our neighbors who live outside, the people who 109 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:03,160 Speaker 1: are vulnerable during this crisis, who aren't getting a paycheck 110 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:05,719 Speaker 1: right now, or who don't have the luxury to work 111 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 1: from home. It's obviously a majority of us, and we 112 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:11,720 Speaker 1: got people crowd the streets here because if they can't 113 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 1: do anything in the actual city council, then the People's 114 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,840 Speaker 1: City Council is going to have their say too. Even 115 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 1: after twelve hour sessions, they can't do the things that 116 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 1: people are demanding here. That's what we're out here for. 117 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 1: Thank you very much, David. You hit the nail on 118 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 1: the head. Let me mingle around to see if I 119 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 1: can get some other takes, But thank you very much, guys. Okay, 120 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:35,680 Speaker 1: let's start it for the talk. This is Deol Henderson 121 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 1: from Weedian House. Tell me what's going on. So we're 122 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:42,279 Speaker 1: here at Maray Garcetti's home to demand no three things, 123 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 1: no wreck, no eviction, and no vacancy. We're in the 124 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:48,839 Speaker 1: middle of a pandemic. Sixty thousand people un housed in 125 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 1: Los Angeles exposed to a pandemic, and there are tens 126 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:57,919 Speaker 1: of thousands of empty hotels across LA in downtown. The 127 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 1: city gave developers about one billion dollars and subsidies to 128 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:04,799 Speaker 1: complete their projects, and yet they sit vacant. Mary Garceti 129 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 1: collects a six digit salary, but people who aren't working 130 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 1: are unable to pay rent, and so they have to 131 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 1: make a choice between paying rent or paying food. So 132 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 1: we need rent forgiveness for April, rent forgiveness for May 133 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 1: as long as these for as long as they stay 134 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: at home owners are happening, That's what we need. We 135 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:26,280 Speaker 1: need rent forgiveness. So how do you think Mayor Garciti 136 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: is handling the response? Total? Failure? Total? I mean they've 137 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: done half measures that should have before the pandemic would 138 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 1: have been great, you know, but now in a pandemic, 139 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 1: they're not meeting the challenge. I would love Garsetti and 140 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 1: all the city pascil members to not take a paycheck 141 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 1: to understand what it's like for the average Angelino who 142 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 1: has to make that choice between food and rent, because 143 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 1: they have the choice people have to make. People aren't 144 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: paying rent because they're lazy. People aren't paying rent because 145 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 1: they don't want to. They're paying rent because they're not working. 146 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 1: There's no income, and who's gonna, you know, a thousand 147 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: dollars stimulus check. I mean, come on, so people are 148 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 1: making that choice. I would love to see some leadership 149 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:18,559 Speaker 1: from Garcetti. Stop collecting a paycheck, also of the city 150 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 1: Council Mitchel Ferrell, stop collecting a paycheck and you know, 151 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 1: keep it that way until you actually make some progress 152 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 1: for real tenants. I noticed that there's a police present, 153 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 1: a lot of police presidence. What's going on. I've heard 154 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,360 Speaker 1: them citing people for beeping. Yeah, they are signing people 155 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:37,720 Speaker 1: for excessive honking whatever that means. People are just exercising 156 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 1: their First Amendment rights. And we had a couple of 157 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:46,439 Speaker 1: members who were detained handcuffed for again being on a 158 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 1: bullhorn and expressing their their First Amendment right to speech. 159 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 1: That's unbelievable. And they are stating that you have to 160 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:56,080 Speaker 1: keep moving or they're going to side and arrest you. 161 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 1: Or is that true. Yes, that's right. You have to 162 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 1: keep moving or they will cite you, will hank a 163 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 1: few and cite you. So this is this is, this 164 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:08,320 Speaker 1: is America. So wake up, folks, It's time to smash 165 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 1: the system. It's not working and it took a pandemic 166 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:14,040 Speaker 1: to wake a lot of people up. I agree completely 167 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: as an unhouse member myself, this has been a kind 168 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 1: of message I've been saying for twenty or thirty years 169 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:21,199 Speaker 1: by now saying the same thing, this is not going 170 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:23,319 Speaker 1: to work. But now we're here and a lot of 171 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:26,360 Speaker 1: people are who had maybe figure wagged that the lot 172 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 1: of the unhoused community are now seeing that it doesn't 173 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 1: take personal choice. You're not a loser or a person 174 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 1: that has bad decisions. A pandemic has wiped us all 175 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 1: into the same boat. So exactly, this is a pandemic 176 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 1: that's affecting everybody except maybe the one percent. Yeah, but 177 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:46,199 Speaker 1: this is affecting everybody, And I think this is the 178 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: right political moment to really analyze what is going on. 179 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 1: Really does this system really work? I know there are 180 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 1: a bunch there are millions of Evangelinos who pay sixty 181 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 1: five percent of their income and rent. Now think about that, 182 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 1: most there ain't gonna goes to rent. I mean, just 183 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 1: does not make any sense to not regulate that. That's 184 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 1: the very true. Trenny dad from La Tennising, And thank 185 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 1: you for taking me through this. And I'm gonna follow 186 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:13,080 Speaker 1: along and will around and see what else I can 187 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:22,800 Speaker 1: find out. Thank you very much. Can you trump? What 188 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 1: the hell? What's going on? There? Three cars getting pulled 189 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:28,679 Speaker 1: over for getting up for beeping. They're getting beeping tickets. 190 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:31,680 Speaker 1: I've never heard of it. This guy, this guy, this guy, 191 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 1: I didn't even hear him beep while he was driving 192 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:37,559 Speaker 1: and he got pulled over. I think he was calling 193 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: his sons. He was picking his son up. He got 194 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,199 Speaker 1: pulled over. If you're beeping, but he I saw his 195 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 1: car and he didn't beat you. Why there's breaking it 196 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:58,320 Speaker 1: up legally, they're breaking up pulling over random people up. 197 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 1: So that yeah, thank you for telling me this. I 198 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 1: didn't know that. This is the Henderson from Wheddio in 199 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:08,720 Speaker 1: the house, we're teered trying to get to make sense 200 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 1: of it. The police have used. You can't make sense 201 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: of it. They've pulled over this guy. He whatever, he 202 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:19,240 Speaker 1: knew what he was doing. He's fine right now. This 203 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:21,840 Speaker 1: man came through. I'm pretty sure he was telling his 204 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 1: son that he was gonna come pick him up, and 205 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:27,560 Speaker 1: he got pulled over for not beeping. So this is 206 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 1: one of the police's taxics to try to disrupt at 207 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 1: dismantle a organized peaceful protest. When my eyes, I haven't 208 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 1: seen any violence. I have people have been protesting, which 209 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:41,960 Speaker 1: is this constitutional right. But apparently again we weaponized the 210 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:45,680 Speaker 1: police to do the city's dirty work. This is THEO 211 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:58,319 Speaker 1: Henderson from Widia and House. More to followed. This interview 212 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 1: with Officer Garcia. Happened because I witnessed two disturbing things. One, 213 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:07,679 Speaker 1: the police were police ticketing people that were honking their 214 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:12,400 Speaker 1: horns near America Carcetti's house. And two it was two 215 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 1: of the protesters were in handcuffs and they were being 216 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:19,679 Speaker 1: cited for I guess standing on the grass or some 217 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 1: superfluous thing that was definitely honed in on for the 218 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 1: protesters because I witnessed people that were living in their 219 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 1: neighborhood stepping on the grass, standing watching and the police 220 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 1: was not targeted in and this is what the encounter revealed. 221 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 1: Do you think it's Do you think that's escalating the 222 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 1: issue by giving people tickets an officer, do you think 223 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 1: it's escalating the situation giving people to keeping tickets? There's 224 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:52,520 Speaker 1: I think there's a balance I would need to do 225 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:55,600 Speaker 1: it between the residents and a protester. So we're trying 226 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:58,680 Speaker 1: to find that netail. So giving them tickets is getting 227 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 1: the balance. That's that's still go to hear the BEV. Yeah, 228 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:05,200 Speaker 1: but also I saw the officer pick out a person 229 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:08,240 Speaker 1: that wasn't even BV. I mean, you know, I understand 230 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:11,280 Speaker 1: you know you're trying to, but that's like antagonizing the situation. 231 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:13,839 Speaker 1: Don't you think I didn't see that an event, so 232 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 1: I can't come on that that happens. So are you 233 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 1: are you for? This is a peaceful protest. I know 234 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 1: you've seen it that there's no violence here. So we're 235 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 1: here to protecting everybody's First Amendment. They didn't have that right. 236 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:29,880 Speaker 1: But I noticed that a couple of people were in 237 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 1: handcuffs because they were protesting and they were supposed to. 238 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:37,599 Speaker 1: I'm just standing standing. Isn't the fact that they're protesting. 239 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 1: It was the white sound applify sout. I'm not to know. 240 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 1: They were not arrested, they were decided for that, but 241 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 1: they were handcuffs. That's that's why it's a lot of 242 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:49,200 Speaker 1: confusion where we always see in the movies that they 243 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 1: had movies make it too different. Yeah, yeah, they were 244 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 1: actually just detained. They were never rest Oh okay, so 245 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 1: they're free. They're not in jail. Okay, because I haven't 246 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:01,760 Speaker 1: seen that. Oh okay, thank you. What's your officer? Officer 247 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 1: headgian House, I threw, I'm a journal all right now. 248 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:19,680 Speaker 1: On housed news, the unhoused community is meeting NIMBI resistance 249 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: in regards to placing them in hotels in Los Angeles, California. 250 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:31,680 Speaker 1: Researchers and advocates questioning LA's reliance on shelters. A new 251 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 1: report by Randall Kuhne states that a houseless person is 252 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:38,520 Speaker 1: twice as likely to be hospitalized with COVID nineteen and 253 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 1: our two or three times more likely to die than 254 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 1: the general population. In other news, police arrests on house 255 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 1: outreach worker in East Oakland. The police department said the 256 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:57,200 Speaker 1: unhoused person matched a description wanted in a prior shooting 257 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:04,640 Speaker 1: in Westlake MacArthur Park. An unhoused person dies during COVID 258 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 1: nineteen pandemic will shelter in place. COVID nineteen cases have 259 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 1: surged in shelters in Washington County. Two unhoused people have died, 260 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 1: one of the unhoused person who was in an UNHI 261 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 1: isolation site. In other news, judge rules that Laguna Hills 262 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 1: Hotel can be used to house the unhoused. Nimbis have 263 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 1: used sue to stop the hotel from helping be vulnerable. 264 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 1: In Dallas, Texas is the houseless shelter is evacuated after 265 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 1: thirty eight contracted COVID nineteen. One hundred and sixty four 266 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 1: more were taken by bus to a hotel. Dallas Life 267 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:48,640 Speaker 1: is a privately run shelter and they stated that after 268 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 1: a de cleaning, they will bring the unhoused back to 269 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 1: the shelter. Here are some of the cities exhibiting a 270 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 1: NIMBI stance against the housing the unhoused in shelters Laguna Wood, 271 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 1: Laguna Hills, Lawndale, and Bell Gardens, and in some parts 272 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 1: of Los Angeles as well. In other news, the city 273 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 1: of Whittier has reached a tentative agreement and the lawsuit 274 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 1: filed against them. A shelter will be built with one 275 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty nine beds in return to criminalize the 276 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 1: in house community again. Mayor Joe Vinettieri said it will 277 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:29,120 Speaker 1: be a tremendous asset that will allow us to enforce 278 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:36,320 Speaker 1: our curfew laws and our camping ordnances La City Council 279 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 1: President Neuri Martinez is blocking a union of no or 280 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:44,600 Speaker 1: low income tenants. If you would like to protest your 281 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:47,560 Speaker 1: concern and your dismay, you can reach out and let 282 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 1: her know she can't take public comment, then she has 283 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 1: no business in politics. Please call two one three four 284 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:58,080 Speaker 1: seven three seven zero zero six. Bear in mind the 285 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:02,520 Speaker 1: US Court of Appeals have rude that politicians cannot block 286 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:24,280 Speaker 1: social media. Folks, and this was a housepas, Good afternoon. 287 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:27,399 Speaker 1: This is Theo Henderson from Whedian House, and I'm here 288 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 1: in the studios with a very heartbreaking story. But it 289 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:34,119 Speaker 1: needs to be heard, and I want to get the 290 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:37,080 Speaker 1: storytown to get as much help for her as possibly 291 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:41,680 Speaker 1: we can. So without furvor Ado, it's okay. If you 292 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:44,159 Speaker 1: don't use your full name or a name or a 293 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:49,480 Speaker 1: makeup name, that's fine. With me, but tell us your story. Hi. 294 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:55,479 Speaker 1: My name is Chelsea, and well right now, my story 295 00:17:55,680 --> 00:18:01,240 Speaker 1: is I was living with my now ex boyfriend and 296 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 1: he was very he was very abusive and uh, very controlling, 297 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:14,879 Speaker 1: and he pretty much wanted me to do something that 298 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,359 Speaker 1: was very, very very bad and I did not agree 299 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:21,680 Speaker 1: with it. I'm not that type of person. So he 300 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 1: pretty much took everything from me and kicked me out 301 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:32,359 Speaker 1: and left me on the street. So I was just 302 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 1: take your time. I was walking down the street to 303 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 1: use the restroom because I don't want to pee on 304 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:52,879 Speaker 1: the street, and there were two men that kind of 305 00:18:54,119 --> 00:18:58,160 Speaker 1: grabbed me. I did the best that I could fight 306 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:01,040 Speaker 1: and I didn't just let them take me. But they 307 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 1: pulled the gun out because I was fighting so aggressively, 308 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:09,960 Speaker 1: and they held a gun to my head and told 309 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:14,200 Speaker 1: me to stop fighting. And I still thought, because it's 310 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 1: like you're you're not just gonna take me, Like if 311 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:20,360 Speaker 1: I die fighting, then so be it. And so they 312 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:27,640 Speaker 1: held the gun and they assaulted me, and they took 313 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:30,879 Speaker 1: my phone and they left me in the street. So 314 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 1: I'm sorry you went through that. Yeah, did you? Was it? 315 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:39,600 Speaker 1: Was you able to get into touch with the police. 316 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 1: I did get in touch with the police. I'll have 317 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:49,120 Speaker 1: to go to the nearest gas station. And I asked 318 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:54,679 Speaker 1: them directions to get to the police station. They just 319 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:57,359 Speaker 1: told me how to get there. Because I didn't have 320 00:19:57,400 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 1: the phone, I didn't have my purse, I didn't have 321 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 1: any thing. They took everything from me. So I literally 322 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:07,680 Speaker 1: had to walk to the police station to file a report. 323 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 1: And they said that, you know, I didn't know the 324 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 1: description of the men. They were masks. They said, there's 325 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:19,200 Speaker 1: not much that they can do, but I mean, I 326 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:24,080 Speaker 1: filed a report. This is a reality for many women 327 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:28,840 Speaker 1: that have based sexual thought. There's not in the COVID nineteen. 328 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:30,879 Speaker 1: It kind of angers me because I see them are 329 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:36,119 Speaker 1: all milled around at these alpine and other shelters, but 330 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 1: they're not nowhere to be found when on the house 331 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:42,359 Speaker 1: people need them. Tell us how we met. We met 332 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:45,720 Speaker 1: at what is this? It's called a pod share, a podcher. 333 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 1: We met at a pod share. I had stayed there 334 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 1: last night. I was walking and I didn't have anywhere 335 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 1: to go, and I called PodShare and they told me, 336 00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:59,239 Speaker 1: you know, I could stay there, and I ended up 337 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:02,680 Speaker 1: staying there. I spoke to the host that's there and 338 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:05,400 Speaker 1: she was letting me know that THEO was a great 339 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:07,199 Speaker 1: person and then I should talk to him and that 340 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:11,159 Speaker 1: he could help me. So that's how we ended up meeting. 341 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:15,679 Speaker 1: And yeah, thank you for those kind worries. I got 342 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:17,960 Speaker 1: me blessing. But I don't know how to night I am. 343 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:21,200 Speaker 1: But I wanted to show this story because I want 344 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:23,119 Speaker 1: people to know this is her story. It's just like 345 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,360 Speaker 1: many other stories that I've covered that we all need help. 346 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:29,480 Speaker 1: And right now I'm part of a program. I actually 347 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 1: a campaign for hotels not hospitals, and we're trying to 348 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 1: get the inn housed to have your own place instead 349 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 1: of they don't have to go through this kind of 350 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,439 Speaker 1: this kind of fear of where they're going to be 351 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:44,879 Speaker 1: the next and will she be attacked by some other idiot. 352 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:49,359 Speaker 1: This is very important for us to understand the rapifications. 353 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 1: COVID nineteen is just one layer of it. How are 354 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:58,359 Speaker 1: you coping with COVID nineteen? It's so crazy because I 355 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,240 Speaker 1: have a place to say, so really, that's all that 356 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:04,880 Speaker 1: I'm focused on. That and making sure that I don't 357 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:08,680 Speaker 1: get sick. You ask me for a mask in the Yeah, 358 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,640 Speaker 1: I asked him for a mask because you know, I don't. 359 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:14,280 Speaker 1: I don't want to get sick. I just want to 360 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 1: make sure I'm okay. But this, this COVID nineteen, it's 361 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:22,480 Speaker 1: very serious. It's very serious. A lot of people are dying, 362 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:26,159 Speaker 1: and I just feel like it's bringing out the best 363 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:31,120 Speaker 1: and the worst in people. I think law enforcement all 364 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 1: that stuff, they don't really care. I feel like they 365 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:37,159 Speaker 1: should be putting more effort into actually helping people and 366 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:41,200 Speaker 1: not terrorizing people. Like I just I really don't understand 367 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:44,679 Speaker 1: that whole concept. What is the best way for us 368 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:48,720 Speaker 1: to help you, best way for you to help me? 369 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:58,640 Speaker 1: I mean, help me out with myself, because nobody can 370 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:04,320 Speaker 1: can handle like you. You have to do it yourself. Well, yes, 371 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:06,719 Speaker 1: but if you don't have the financial resources to do that, 372 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:09,920 Speaker 1: you're gonna need help. I have help. We all need help. 373 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 1: So how are you going to get help? Well through you, 374 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:19,879 Speaker 1: guys exactly. So like I helped with you with with 375 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,399 Speaker 1: like go oh, I'm so sorry. The government benefits. Yes, 376 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:25,960 Speaker 1: So this is what we are. We're in this together. 377 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,920 Speaker 1: It's just not we just alone in the island. This 378 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:31,879 Speaker 1: is how we help each other. Because when she asked me, 379 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 1: she I went and helped her, and I hope maybe 380 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:37,119 Speaker 1: there's going to be a time that you're going to 381 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:40,240 Speaker 1: meet someone similar to your situation, because they're out here 382 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:42,240 Speaker 1: and they're going to be probably coming go to you, 383 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 1: and I hope, I really hope that you would extend 384 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:49,159 Speaker 1: the hand to help them. Of course I would, of course, 385 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:55,440 Speaker 1: It's like why would you not, It's like being ungrateful, 386 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:58,720 Speaker 1: So of course I would help anyone if I had 387 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:02,399 Speaker 1: the resources too. Thank you for saying that. This is 388 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 1: Sto Henderson for whedi On House. Thank you for listening all, 389 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:08,760 Speaker 1: and I hope we truly meet in a light of understanding. 390 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 1: This is a beautiful, hot, sunny Sunday and it has 391 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:29,520 Speaker 1: a nice homey feel and it feels like the scenic 392 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 1: view of domestic tranquility. So I'm here, This is Steo 393 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,479 Speaker 1: Henderson from Wiedion House, and I'm doing a follow up 394 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 1: interview with one of my guests, was here, Ruby cordial 395 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,640 Speaker 1: As If you remember, in a few episodes back, we 396 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:47,240 Speaker 1: were talking about reclaiming homes. Now, why this is important 397 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:51,639 Speaker 1: today is because in COVID nineteen era, we are looking 398 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,680 Speaker 1: at keeping people shelters in place. The second thing that's 399 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:58,720 Speaker 1: going on is that the city has made tepid responses 400 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:02,679 Speaker 1: in helping people that have lost their jobs and in 401 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:06,440 Speaker 1: keeping their homes. There are evictions that are already being undergone. 402 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:09,399 Speaker 1: People are afraid because they can't pay for the rent 403 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:12,560 Speaker 1: for May. They haven't they missed April and now they 404 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,800 Speaker 1: can't make May, and then the eviction process is ongoing 405 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:20,199 Speaker 1: full bloom. The city has refused to give rit forgiveness, 406 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 1: moratorium mortgages and things like that. And I wanted to 407 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,560 Speaker 1: talk to Ruby Cardillo about her experiences and what's it 408 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 1: like for her today. Without further ado, welcome, Ruby, Thank 409 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:33,920 Speaker 1: you so much THEO for having me tell me how 410 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,800 Speaker 1: is it when remember we were going through it for 411 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:40,119 Speaker 1: the people that didn't understand why did you reclaim this house? 412 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 1: So the state of California purchased these homes in the 413 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:50,879 Speaker 1: sixties to expand the seven Time Freeway. Those plans have died, 414 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:57,240 Speaker 1: the overground and underground plans, and the state continues to 415 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:03,159 Speaker 1: work these properties. They refuse to rent out to newer tenants. 416 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:07,720 Speaker 1: And there's a thing called a Roberti law that states 417 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:12,639 Speaker 1: states that tenants would maintain the opportunity to rent at 418 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:16,360 Speaker 1: an affordable rate and that they'd be able to purchase 419 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:20,880 Speaker 1: these properties at the original purchase price. Those have been 420 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 1: empty promises the states not followed through, and we're here 421 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 1: to hold them accountable for what they said that they 422 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:31,320 Speaker 1: do and to make sure that every property that is 423 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,880 Speaker 1: sitting on public land be used for public good. We 424 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,560 Speaker 1: are very lacking, not only in housing, you know, but 425 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:42,720 Speaker 1: overall resources. So anything, I mean, vacant, vacant libraries, bring 426 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:46,680 Speaker 1: them back, vacant anything, bring them back. You know, we 427 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:51,159 Speaker 1: need everything that we possibly can get our community. The 428 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:55,600 Speaker 1: people of color are often ignored and undermined. You know, 429 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:59,639 Speaker 1: it's just it's it's unjust, and we're fed up with that. 430 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,200 Speaker 1: So we're here to make that statement. Yeah, so here's 431 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,639 Speaker 1: you made a very good point too, like people of 432 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:10,440 Speaker 1: color are impacted severely with the housing crisis, and add 433 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:13,359 Speaker 1: on to it with COVID nineteen. And also now, if 434 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,480 Speaker 1: you know, we are many of the frontline workers are 435 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:20,359 Speaker 1: people colored black and brown, our brothers and sisters, so 436 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,520 Speaker 1: they are going to be feeling the crunch more so 437 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 1: than an established let's say, for example, gentrifier that is 438 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,840 Speaker 1: living and can be able to survive this kind of crisis. 439 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 1: The second thing I want to also like to point 440 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:36,240 Speaker 1: out to you is that has noticed. When COVID nineteen 441 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:39,520 Speaker 1: hit the city, the mayor's response was supposed to be 442 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:44,119 Speaker 1: very humane and very compassionate along with the governors, and 443 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:49,000 Speaker 1: since COVID nineteen he has made tep it responses. He 444 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:53,399 Speaker 1: is basically listened to business improvement district people, police officers, 445 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:58,399 Speaker 1: people that had no stake into the situation, but to 446 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 1: just run out on the paluse people. Do you still 447 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:02,080 Speaker 1: have a lot of the at least a running around. 448 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 1: I'm looking after you guys. Buildings. Yeah, so no, they've 449 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:09,720 Speaker 1: been pretty much gone for the last two weeks. There 450 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:14,879 Speaker 1: was an attempt to break into one of one of 451 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:21,160 Speaker 1: the reclaimed neighbor's house. There was an attempt to reclaim that. So, uh, 452 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:26,639 Speaker 1: they've been surveying that block more than than they were 453 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,040 Speaker 1: and that's to be expected, you know, on on their 454 00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:37,200 Speaker 1: pattern of behavior. But you know, they they've Caltrans did 455 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 1: reach out. They sent a letter. It was a hand 456 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:46,000 Speaker 1: delivered letter with the intercon their security, their contract security. Yeah, 457 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 1: and HP came with them to escort them. So they 458 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:55,920 Speaker 1: hand delivered those letters stating that they are aware of 459 00:28:55,960 --> 00:29:01,760 Speaker 1: our presence here and uh we are We're not lawful tenants, 460 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:05,280 Speaker 1: So please don't get comfortable and reach out to the 461 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 1: city if we need to find the affordable housing and 462 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:13,479 Speaker 1: they'll help us. But the letters come too late. You know. 463 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 1: They didn't do the things that they were supposed to 464 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:21,000 Speaker 1: do in the right timing. So we're here, and most importantly, 465 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,840 Speaker 1: if they were so concerned about helping you do the 466 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 1: right thing, they One of the things that I wanted 467 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 1: to point out is too is this has come too 468 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,760 Speaker 1: much late. If they really wanted to help, they would 469 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,320 Speaker 1: have said you please stay here temporarily and we will 470 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:36,840 Speaker 1: get you a place where you can be. We will 471 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:38,959 Speaker 1: work with you. But they're not trying to do that. 472 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,640 Speaker 1: They're just using this as a political ploy. So when 473 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:45,280 Speaker 1: when we put this pressure to them, they can say 474 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,680 Speaker 1: that they tried politically with some political compassion. I know 475 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:54,120 Speaker 1: the game very well as you do. So how are 476 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 1: you liking the house? How are you guys adjusting? We 477 00:29:56,360 --> 00:30:02,840 Speaker 1: like it very much. It's our family, our homebodies, so 478 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:06,360 Speaker 1: we're used to being indoors most of the time. It's 479 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:10,440 Speaker 1: been beautiful to have more space, to be able to 480 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:14,240 Speaker 1: move around. My kids have been running around. Uh you know, 481 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:18,080 Speaker 1: my girls take part in the gardening. The other one 482 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:22,040 Speaker 1: takes enjoys the photography social walk around the neighborhood and 483 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:26,240 Speaker 1: take pictures of the plants on those yards. Yeah, so 484 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:32,000 Speaker 1: we're enjoying the house and the community very much. That's excellent. 485 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,240 Speaker 1: It's nothing like just being able to lay your head down, 486 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:37,680 Speaker 1: go to the restroom. And I worried about some police 487 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:41,600 Speaker 1: officer or some ridiculous nimby or someone that doesn't want 488 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:44,960 Speaker 1: to unhouse people. I want, I wanted if it's okay 489 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 1: to ask you a corporate questions, Hi, let's start. What's 490 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:55,280 Speaker 1: your name? Come on, don't be fine? So how do 491 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:59,680 Speaker 1: you like the house? You hate it? Why do you 492 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:03,240 Speaker 1: hate the house? As you can see this as a 493 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:08,080 Speaker 1: moment mom and son moment. So so he hates the 494 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,400 Speaker 1: house because it's haunted. Oh really? Yeah? What kind of 495 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:16,280 Speaker 1: what kind of ghosts here? I love a good ghost story. 496 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:20,640 Speaker 1: Did you see uh, like poached eyes or anything like that? 497 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:26,800 Speaker 1: How many eyes? You have? Two eyes? What did he 498 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:31,600 Speaker 1: look like? Two persons? Really? What were they doing? They 499 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,600 Speaker 1: told you to get out of the house? What they 500 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:38,040 Speaker 1: actually they have did it with him? Okay, so, as 501 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,360 Speaker 1: you can see, as a kid, they he says he's 502 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:44,000 Speaker 1: he's not enjoying the house because of the ghost. As 503 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:48,200 Speaker 1: long as they don't take your dinner, you're okay. So 504 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:50,360 Speaker 1: one of the things I wanted to close up to 505 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,680 Speaker 1: you is like, for example, I know you've probably been 506 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:56,480 Speaker 1: seeing on the news there's a lot of people fighting 507 00:31:56,560 --> 00:32:00,480 Speaker 1: against this UH force rent and this eviction. There's over 508 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:05,320 Speaker 1: three hundred thousand people that are filing for unemployment. Their 509 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,520 Speaker 1: jobs are gone. And we've been in this road. We 510 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,120 Speaker 1: understand being in the house and housing secure and things 511 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:14,560 Speaker 1: like that, but a lot of them don't know what's 512 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:18,360 Speaker 1: ahead of them. They really believe that some of them 513 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:20,400 Speaker 1: cling to the same thing if they just get the job, 514 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,960 Speaker 1: they can get it back, or or they're not like 515 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,320 Speaker 1: the other in house people. And I'm one of the 516 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,880 Speaker 1: things I was talking to one of the classes last 517 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:31,880 Speaker 1: week in doctor Moreno's class is life Happens. And one 518 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,600 Speaker 1: thing I want you to understand that if you think 519 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,880 Speaker 1: that you are not on house because of something that 520 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:41,360 Speaker 1: you did differently than on house, I out here, you're 521 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:45,560 Speaker 1: sorely mistaken. So what things do you suggest for people 522 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,040 Speaker 1: that maybe are about to become on house? What what 523 00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:49,840 Speaker 1: suggestions would you do? Because there's going to be a 524 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:56,560 Speaker 1: lot of fear out. I would suggest that that they're 525 00:32:56,640 --> 00:33:03,000 Speaker 1: very wary and be very cautious. Use your resources wisely, 526 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:07,880 Speaker 1: whether it's whether it's savings that you may have or 527 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:11,400 Speaker 1: anything that you already have, any goods that you already 528 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:16,520 Speaker 1: actually have in your house, use them wisely because you 529 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,840 Speaker 1: don't know when you're gonna need more than what you 530 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:27,560 Speaker 1: already have. And you know, it's living under house or 531 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:34,320 Speaker 1: homeless is it's not something that you acquire. It's not 532 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,800 Speaker 1: a skill that you acquire overnight. It takes a long 533 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:41,480 Speaker 1: time to adjust. I grew up in a house with 534 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,880 Speaker 1: multiple rooms in a neighborhood where I can walk down 535 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:47,880 Speaker 1: the street, and my kids, unfortunately have not seen that. 536 00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:54,600 Speaker 1: So you know, you have to have stranger danger. And 537 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:56,560 Speaker 1: with the COVID nineteen right now, you have to make 538 00:33:56,600 --> 00:34:00,760 Speaker 1: sure that you're you're having a safe distance with folks. 539 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:04,360 Speaker 1: It's just man, I interject here too, because here is 540 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:08,280 Speaker 1: like over thirty six police officers at eleven staff members 541 00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,680 Speaker 1: have COVID nineteen, and here's a different reality. It's because 542 00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:13,799 Speaker 1: if you're out here, or you're going to be out here, 543 00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:15,960 Speaker 1: you are not going to have the same protections of 544 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,640 Speaker 1: when you're being as a house owner. Because those same 545 00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,359 Speaker 1: homeowners that see you out there on the street, they're 546 00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:23,920 Speaker 1: going to call the police. What would you suggest how 547 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:27,720 Speaker 1: and to deal with that, Well, dealing with the police 548 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:31,759 Speaker 1: and already being homeless is already an issue. Yes, they're 549 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:35,600 Speaker 1: not going to believe that you've recently become homeless. They're 550 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,440 Speaker 1: going to believe that you have some kind of criminal background, 551 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:44,840 Speaker 1: drug use, violence, And we know that it's not the case. 552 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:47,320 Speaker 1: We know that it's not the case. It's so funny 553 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:49,600 Speaker 1: you said that because I had a very good conversation 554 00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,520 Speaker 1: with one of my friends and he took anception of 555 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,800 Speaker 1: me saying that he felt that people are picking on 556 00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:58,480 Speaker 1: house and I says, this is one of the realities 557 00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:01,480 Speaker 1: that you don't understand, is that it doesn't matter if 558 00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,000 Speaker 1: there is one bad apple, but you want to put 559 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,560 Speaker 1: to bear the weight of all unhoused people, all sixty 560 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:10,760 Speaker 1: thousand in counting, to bear the unjustness of what people 561 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:14,680 Speaker 1: have against unhoused people. And conversely, if we did the 562 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:18,120 Speaker 1: same thing to house people people bewinding how unfair that is. 563 00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:20,880 Speaker 1: So you can't do that. You can't have one or 564 00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,439 Speaker 1: the other. You have to be balanced you cannot use 565 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:27,440 Speaker 1: legislation and ordinances and laws and police to weaponize against 566 00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:32,160 Speaker 1: poor people. Love that you're mentioning poor people, because being 567 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:36,240 Speaker 1: under house is being poor people. And you're being constantly 568 00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:40,319 Speaker 1: criminalized for having your children in a small confined space. Oh, 569 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:44,600 Speaker 1: your child is misbehaving because there's no place to run. Well, 570 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:46,520 Speaker 1: this is what I can afford, and this is why 571 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:49,920 Speaker 1: I've been living this way. It's not a personal choice, 572 00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:54,280 Speaker 1: but people believe that. People say that. I had another 573 00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:57,320 Speaker 1: individual talk about it's personal choice. People could do something 574 00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:58,920 Speaker 1: that they want to do it, they can get out, 575 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:01,040 Speaker 1: you can become a millionaire and all of that. It's like, 576 00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,600 Speaker 1: if that's the case, then why are you that's living 577 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:07,160 Speaker 1: in a house. It's housing insecure, not a millionaire. It's 578 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:10,440 Speaker 1: not there's capitalism. There are winners and losers, and we 579 00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,160 Speaker 1: have to understand that not everyone is going to be 580 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:18,160 Speaker 1: successful under this capitalistic regime, and we need safeguards housing insecure. 581 00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,799 Speaker 1: Frontline workers. I'm stick and tired of seeing these ridiculous 582 00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:26,040 Speaker 1: media campaigns about honoring our first frontline responders. If we'd 583 00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:28,759 Speaker 1: really cared, we would have gave them livapool wages. We 584 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,279 Speaker 1: would have gave them the acceptable medical things that they 585 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,319 Speaker 1: needed instead of a five or ten minute video talking 586 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,560 Speaker 1: about how we just love these people. That's just it's ridiculous. 587 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:39,680 Speaker 1: You know, put the money where my mouth is and 588 00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:44,000 Speaker 1: it's and it's you know, they're being picky with the 589 00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:47,640 Speaker 1: frontline workers that they're choosing to have on that image. 590 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:52,120 Speaker 1: Who do you choose as frontline workers, grocery workers, gas 591 00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:54,719 Speaker 1: station workers. My husband works out of gas station and 592 00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,799 Speaker 1: he's risking himself every freaking day to make sure that 593 00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:01,480 Speaker 1: everybody has gas to go to work. And he's risking 594 00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:04,600 Speaker 1: our family in the process because he comes to visit 595 00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:07,080 Speaker 1: us and he comes to spend time with his children. 596 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,399 Speaker 1: And I don't know how many people he has been 597 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:14,040 Speaker 1: in contact with who may have been a carrier, an 598 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:18,040 Speaker 1: asymptomatic carrier. But here's the rough to that those people 599 00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:20,520 Speaker 1: that's getting gas. It makes maybe over one hundred thousand 600 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:24,640 Speaker 1: or these very wealthy positions. This guy, like many of 601 00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,600 Speaker 1: gas station workers, are not getting Liverpool wage for help 602 00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:31,320 Speaker 1: fair families. So miss me with that nonsensical frontline workers, 603 00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:34,040 Speaker 1: with the smiling pictures and all that, you really want 604 00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:37,520 Speaker 1: to invest into the community, then start looking into how 605 00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:42,240 Speaker 1: we pay an equity income equity, especially restaurant workers. I 606 00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:44,120 Speaker 1: went to because I go and I watch how the 607 00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:46,840 Speaker 1: restaurant workers risk their life all the time going to 608 00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:49,560 Speaker 1: places to feed you, and they're not getting these tips 609 00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:53,960 Speaker 1: on these high inflator prices that in health insurance. For 610 00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,480 Speaker 1: goodness sake, you know, we talk about health insurance. All 611 00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:02,440 Speaker 1: of these businesses that are currently on the lines right now, 612 00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:08,160 Speaker 1: grocery workers, gas station workers, food workers, none of or 613 00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:12,560 Speaker 1: at least most of them do not have healthcare options. Okay, 614 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:15,560 Speaker 1: so if they do get sick, what's going to happen. 615 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:19,640 Speaker 1: They're going to end up in align at a hospital 616 00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:22,360 Speaker 1: in order to get in, and they'll probably get sick 617 00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,879 Speaker 1: and die from just being there because they don't have 618 00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:30,759 Speaker 1: the availability that we have with telehealth and do a 619 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,120 Speaker 1: video call with our pediatrician and be like, hey, you 620 00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,759 Speaker 1: know what this is going on. We don't have that. 621 00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:38,880 Speaker 1: And you know what, right now, I'm very blessed to 622 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:42,040 Speaker 1: be able to have internet, because I have a government 623 00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:44,440 Speaker 1: phone and I don't have Internet on it, and I 624 00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:48,520 Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to have these teleconferences with the pediatrician 625 00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:52,480 Speaker 1: or with anybody for that matter, exactly. So you know 626 00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:55,880 Speaker 1: it just it comes down to like the most basic 627 00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:59,520 Speaker 1: needs right and internet right now is a basic need, 628 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,520 Speaker 1: and not everyone has it, especially at the other house, Like, 629 00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,319 Speaker 1: for example, there was a very slow time and I'm 630 00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:09,040 Speaker 1: just educating the other house with the COVID nineteen with 631 00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:12,680 Speaker 1: the giving mass sanitizers, and I was point out like, 632 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,920 Speaker 1: right now I'm running low on my medication and I'm diabetic, 633 00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,080 Speaker 1: and I'm and I am supposed to be gone and 634 00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:21,359 Speaker 1: a full workout and check out other things. The complications 635 00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:24,320 Speaker 1: are being stabbed. I can't do that, become COVID nineteen. 636 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,320 Speaker 1: And I'm afraid to go because I go in there 637 00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:28,920 Speaker 1: just for a knocka with thing, and I am I 638 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,960 Speaker 1: end up coming out there exactly. My mom is diabetic, 639 00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,160 Speaker 1: and so I know exactly what you're talking about. You know, 640 00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,359 Speaker 1: a simple cut on your hand while you're while you're 641 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,399 Speaker 1: cutting up your veggies to cook a meal that can 642 00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:47,640 Speaker 1: literally kill you. So right now with COVID, like, do 643 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,680 Speaker 1: not have any cuts exposed to anything because you don't 644 00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:54,040 Speaker 1: know what's going to happen exactly. And it's it's scary 645 00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:58,759 Speaker 1: living in that fear of I should not be near 646 00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:03,279 Speaker 1: somebody because I may be exposing myself more than more 647 00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:07,120 Speaker 1: than I should. And you know I have I have fibromyalgia, 648 00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:11,480 Speaker 1: and it's not an autoimmune disorder, but it does. It 649 00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:15,640 Speaker 1: does reflect in my physical health, my emotional health, all 650 00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:19,960 Speaker 1: the stress that is coming with not with and I 651 00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:23,319 Speaker 1: have a roof over my head, but others don't and 652 00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:27,200 Speaker 1: that worries me, and that that hurts me and my 653 00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:32,160 Speaker 1: gut just to think all the hardship that people are 654 00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:36,759 Speaker 1: going through, you know, with the rain days and not 655 00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:40,879 Speaker 1: with the heat past. You know, my physical thermostat is 656 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:44,080 Speaker 1: out of service, it doesn't work. How many people are 657 00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:46,359 Speaker 1: out there that have the same thing that I do. 658 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:48,640 Speaker 1: So here's the thing too, because we only they are 659 00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:50,919 Speaker 1: only very few cooling stations. They didn't have any enough 660 00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:54,719 Speaker 1: cooling stations prior to pre COVID nineteen. For me, it's 661 00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,319 Speaker 1: like one of the things. I have extreme thirsts because 662 00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:00,600 Speaker 1: of the COVID nineteen exactly. So here's the thing. So 663 00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:03,440 Speaker 1: imagine I'm out here at one hundred degree weather and 664 00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:06,440 Speaker 1: then I'm having to survive because there is no places 665 00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:09,279 Speaker 1: for water. This is another issue. This is why we 666 00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:12,960 Speaker 1: keep talking about hotels and not hospitals. If you continue 667 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,799 Speaker 1: to look at the bottom line, there's going to be 668 00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,600 Speaker 1: a lot of body bags, you know, you know these 669 00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:21,680 Speaker 1: are beds of body bags. What are you're going to produce? 670 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:26,480 Speaker 1: Is there anything else would you like to add? You know, 671 00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:30,080 Speaker 1: just just if you're out there and you are going 672 00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:33,080 Speaker 1: through a housing situation, reach out to your local community 673 00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:36,919 Speaker 1: group that is fighting for housing rights. We have I'm 674 00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:40,239 Speaker 1: a member of a's the Alliance of California's for Community Empowerment. 675 00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:45,720 Speaker 1: But there's other tenant unions like Los Angeles Tanning Union Stage. 676 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,600 Speaker 1: You know, do you say, all these people that are 677 00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:53,799 Speaker 1: willing to lend you some knowledge and some resources for 678 00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:57,719 Speaker 1: you to get back on your feet, and we know 679 00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:01,799 Speaker 1: that it's going to be a long run process, but 680 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:05,440 Speaker 1: you know, doing it on your own is so much 681 00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:09,000 Speaker 1: harder than you can possibly imagine. You need the help 682 00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,560 Speaker 1: of the community. You need the help of your neighbors. 683 00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:14,479 Speaker 1: You need the help of your peers. Reach out to them. 684 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,520 Speaker 1: Don't have any shame because you're not the only one 685 00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:21,160 Speaker 1: going through this world. Yes, well put, this is Ceo 686 00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:24,400 Speaker 1: Henderson from Witty at House. I thank you all for listening, 687 00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:26,880 Speaker 1: and I hope we truly meet in the light of 688 00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:39,160 Speaker 1: understanding this outro is a reflection of the frustration and 689 00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:43,240 Speaker 1: the growing alarm. The city of Wittier is agreeing to 690 00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:48,080 Speaker 1: settle with the lawyers against film attacking on house people, 691 00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:50,359 Speaker 1: but they're not doing it out of benevolence. They're doing 692 00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:53,680 Speaker 1: it out a return to trying to criminalize on house 693 00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:57,000 Speaker 1: people and the city of Los Angeles history have doing 694 00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:00,880 Speaker 1: this that we continually suit them. Lawyers that represents my 695 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,279 Speaker 1: rights as well as many others, should take pause. We 696 00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:08,080 Speaker 1: got Neuri Martinez, Job Biscano, and Mike Furier, the three 697 00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:12,080 Speaker 1: antagonists of this whole affair, willing to sit down and 698 00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:16,120 Speaker 1: pinpour more stringent effects against unhoused people. I have a 699 00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:18,879 Speaker 1: problem with that. They're not going to go and do 700 00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:22,160 Speaker 1: the right thing. We have seen this track record, So 701 00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:25,240 Speaker 1: why would we have the same anti unhoused people sitting 702 00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:27,879 Speaker 1: at the table in order for them to maybe come 703 00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:31,600 Speaker 1: to their census. Babe will not as we as an 704 00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:34,239 Speaker 1: unhoused community, we need to make our voices known and 705 00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:36,600 Speaker 1: let the lawyers that are representing us as saying in 706 00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:39,759 Speaker 1: no uncertain terms, this is not business as usual. We're 707 00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:43,080 Speaker 1: not returning back to those stringent ordinances. This is a 708 00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:45,000 Speaker 1: new time and in a new day and we're not 709 00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:47,560 Speaker 1: going to take it anymore. Are people thinking unhoused people 710 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:49,839 Speaker 1: are criminals and they deserve what they got and they 711 00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:53,040 Speaker 1: deserve police harassment. Let us send a message to them 712 00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:56,200 Speaker 1: and make sure that they understand. Yes, you represent our rights, 713 00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:58,920 Speaker 1: but we are by uncertain terms, are going to be 714 00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:01,839 Speaker 1: going back and as we say, for the same punitative 715 00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:05,400 Speaker 1: measures that we had before. This is stil Henderson and 716 00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:08,560 Speaker 1: I thank you all for listening. Maybe we again meet 717 00:44:08,600 --> 00:45:25,560 Speaker 1: in a light of understanding. Passsssssssssssssssssssss.