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Animaniacs - No Place Like Homeless

At the time, Denver police were actively enforcing the so-called urban camping ban, a 2012 ordinance that bars people from camping on public property. The City Council had passed the ban at the urging of the Downtown Denver Partnership, a business association that manages the Downtown Business Improvement District (BID) and helped fund Lawson’s position. (A class-action lawsuit challenging the camping ban goes to trial in March. And later this year activists are hoping to get a “Right to Survive” initiative on the ballot to overturn the ban.)

Lawson chokes up as she relates this story over the phone from New Orleans, where she moved a few months ago. She goes on to recount another, about the morning a frantic woman banged on her office door at 7 am. She told Lawson that the previous night, she’d been staying with a group of people on Broadway and was awakened four times by officers shining bright lights. Each time, she said, the group relocated. Finally, she went to a secluded place to sleep. She woke up being raped.

About 5,000 people are homeless in the greater Denver area, according to the last official count, made in 2017. According to Theresa Marchetta, director of strategic communications for Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock, the city spends roughly $50 million a year on services for people experiencing homelessness, and the city’s shelters can accommodate as many as 2,000 people per night. 

Alvarado asked if she’d get him some blankets. He said he was planning to find a secluded place to sleep because he had an appointment the next morning with Denver Human Services. “I have to get a good night’s sleep and the cops are going to be bothering us all night here,” she remembers him saying.

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New Orleans, Louisiana, faced a major crisis in homelessness following Hurricane Katrina. In 2007, two years after the storm, there were more than 11,600 homeless people in the city. Since then, New Orleans stepped up its effort to tackle homelessness and has brought that number down 90 percent. Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson talks to Martha Kegel, executive director of Unity of Greater New Orleans, about what the city has done to successfully address and reduce homelessness.

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Nowhere was the tension more evident than at a neighborhood meeting Monday night. It was hosted by Project 1020, the non profit trying to open the cold weather shelter.

"Looking at your hours of operation, you're done at eight in the morning. My children are at the elementary school four blocks away at eight in the morning. I can't allow them to walk to school anymore," said Fred Schmidt.

"I worked two jobs to buy a house in this neighborhood so my kids didn't have to deal with stuff like this," said one mom who lives near the shelter said.

"They have to have a place to go, but I know what comes with it. We've got the mental health issues with some of these people, the drugs, the alcohol," said Robert Kuhn.

Amid the permit problems, the city of Olathe offered to buy the property from Project 1020. The group said that is still an option, but it would like to address neighbors' concerns and make the current location work.

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City of Olathe; PO Box 768; Olathe, KS; 66051-0768

Before dawn, people who don't have a place to call home start to arrive at the Minneapolis Central Library on Hennepin Avenue. The building's vestibule, lit in warm hues of yellow, beckons those to the confines of the entry hours before the massive building opens to the public.

“The library was truly a place I would come every day. It was a safe place; the streets are not always easy for women or for a lot of men,” Judy explained. "I was extremely scared and subsequently met people who were in the same situation I was.”

“After that first experience there, I thought if this is what being homeless is like I am going to go and jump off a bridge because it was horrible,"  he said adding that the library was a safe environment.

"I didn’t know about the homeless thing, didn’t know where to go so for the five months I was homeless, I came here every day.”

Our community is coming in and using this space and the library staff started to notice a lot of patrons coming in had a lot of social needs," she said "We have a very crowded shelter system, people sleeping on the train because shelters are full. This is a place where people can truly feel safe.”

“As the needs of our community become more complex, then you are going to expect those needs are going to come into our libraries,” she said. “We want to be a welcoming environment for all our community members for all Hennepin County residents.”

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Have you seen Maryann Wood?

Missing from San Fransisco.

A Families worst nightmare to find out there Daughter is missing.

Family was told Maryann's car was not moved since 11/28/18, parked near Whole Foods on the 200 block of Fillmore Street in San Francisco.

Her car was towed and dismantled on 1/23/19. One agency said it was sold. Documents in the car were shredded and any belongings given to the buyer/dismantler. We have no idea what was in her car.

Family know Maryann was well and safe on 9/30/18 in the Folsom area of San Francisco.

Missing Person Case number 190070331. San Francisco Police missing persons number 1-415-558-5508

 

ave you seen Mary Ann Clark?

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Investigators are asking for your help in locating Missing Person Mary Ann Clark. She was last seen on Saturday, February 9, 2019, on the 41700 block of 156th Street, Lancaster.

Mary Ann is a female White 63 years-old, 5'02” tall, 110lbs, blonde hair, blue eyes, green jacket, blue jeans, has burns to her face and left hand is disfigured.

She suffers from multiple personality disorder and is forgetful.

Her loved ones have not seen or heard from her. They are very worried and asking for your help in locating her.
Anyone with information about this missing person is encouraged to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Homicide Bureau Missing Person Unit at (323) 890-5500.

If you prefer to provide information anonymously, you may call "Crime Stoppers" by dialing (800) 222-TIPS (8477), use your smartphone by downloading the “P3 Tips” Mobile APP on Google play or the Apple App Store or by using the website http://lacrimestoppers.org

Mute In the Desert

In the desert heat the migrant walks, the vigilante roams the desert and the drone sees all from above. From that view you see see hills with shades of green and brown changing shapes. Near by the jazzy mechanical beat of urban cities with a boundary

 line of farms and prisons. To you or me the sound and sights are the healing vibes of the story of life. Its a blessing we take for granted, its what we think of at those moments we rest and mediate. To those with disabilities those are not always things existing but stories from another land where Normys reside. Now consider in our midst all these years was a man named Abraham Smith. Bringing mental ill, he sometimes was with us, sometimes mind was in another realm. He had a speaking issue his whole life. In the recent years is ability to hear as well as communicate. Can you imagine not having control of your mind, losing your ability to function or to communicate was evaporating. Could you imagine the frustration, the hurt, the disappointment the helplessness. Worse off not everyone has the time, not everyone understand. Some do for that you are grateful with no way to express it other than a few words, a look, a slight wave. we learned through Helen Keller how fulfilling and wonderful life that can have when investment and community are made. That's not what went down. But the contrast gives a visual treasure chest of why Abraham Smith matters. He was mentally ill, he was mute, he was living on the streets of Tucson, sometimes he stayed with family. That day thats where they found him, where friends, family and government gathered. It was one of those harder days. The TPDs Mental Health team and the mac team was there. He left in a body bag, the family in shock began to mourn. They had warned not to send a uniform in, he had past trauma with police and that would escalate the situation. The family gave them the key hopping, praying they could deescalate the situation. That didn't happen. The name of the officers never went out, citing protection of the officers the thought of transparency not treated with sensitivity. Just as sending a uniform in was not sensitive, just as a member of the MAC Team pulling the trigger on a mentally ill mute person for not responding. What can you expect though, its hot,110 or more. You can see liquid simmer and evaporate on any surface left in the sun. The large amount of each of us that is liquid. Should we expect the same is not happening. Its an aggravated feeling, an overwhelming feeling; this heat. Where we do things quick, where the sun takes an effect on our moral, our physical bodies. We do things quicker. This way that day.

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Christopher Ray Hoffman, he was a brother, a son, a good Samaritan, a mechanic. A father, his partner , a dancer and a student. 2 people, becoming 3, working on leaving poverty for a more than welcome middle class sense of stability. They were renters. His brother had been removed by police about a month before. His brother associated with safe park. But for him, the options he had, the sidewalk was not one he wanted to experiment with. The Hoffman's as a family work hard, play hard they stand for whats right, they believe in America. They are thick skinned, rough around the edges but wholesome and caring. Christopher Ray Hoffman, was the guy on the motorcycle a week ago. Yes the one the police crashed into. His fiance now grieving, with kid to care for and two bread winners removed by police. She reconsiders whether she can still go to school being the only bread winner. The driving of the officer wasn't defensive. It wasn't sensitive to the other drivers These incidents days apart, blocks a part. A neighborhood known for poverty, working class. In area with double the police, an area patrolled by two different stations. A city with an Urban Camping ban, a county with a panhandling ordinance. Can if we cant mention police abuse, do to the sensitivity nation wide can we speak on culture insensitivity? Can you hear Kelly Thomas crying in the wind?

Arizona Does Not Protect the Poor - AZ State Attorneys Office

From Service to Homeless

From Service to Homeless: 'I'm prepared to go back on the streets. I'll have to find a place to store my stuff ... memories. There isn't anything like that out there for homeless people.'

In Defense of Marijuana: Parents of Medical Weed Patient in Prison Fear for His Life

In Defense of Marijuana: Parents of Medical Weed Patient in Prison Fear for His Life: I met Kyle Catlin almost one year ago. As I'm writing this, he sits in protective custody at the Marana Community Correctional Facility, afraid for...