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Poor Los Angelenos fight gentrification and police abuse.

By David Wagner

Linda Valverde was an insurance administrator for 20 years. She never expected to live in Los Angeles' Skid Row. Neither did Michelle Autry, a dancer and writer who grew up in Los Angeles and Sacramento, Calif., and speaks five languages. Joe Thomas, a Vietnam War veteran [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    it’s sad to know that such places exist.

    United States Posted by Sammy Hamps on Jul 26, 2009 at 3:04 PM

    Yea i agree that we all need room. But humans are taking too much room. There no space for animals…

    This kind of places are all over the world. rich people get the room.

    Croatia (Hrvatska) Posted by Mislav Bajic on Jul 30, 2009 at 9:37 AM

    More on Mayor Villaraigosa’s vicious war on the poor and the homeless. SCI is a key component in Villaraigosa and company’s distopian vision of a city comprised of lofts, charter schools, and NO urban farms.

    Here’s my piece in Counterpunch on SCI published several years ago: http://bit.ly/4rVBID

    Also be on the lookout for an upcoming, groundbreaking documentary by filmmaker Earnest Savage about the nickel (skid row), SCI, and how developers and the business community are waging ongoing brutal decimation of society’s most vulnerable and needy.

    Graffiti on the Patras’ parking lot wall in Barrio Echo Parque: “Gentrification is Genocide!”

    United States Posted by Robert D. Skeels on Jan 13, 2010 at 9:46 AM
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