Anaheim homeless activists who film exposing the harassment and mistreatment of the homeless as well as theft by police targeted and arrested by police. They are part of the California Homeless Bill of Rights trying to decriminalize severe poverty, which uses 22 basic human behaviors to arrest on 33 mistermeaners they zones the poor out of business areas and removes people seen as trouble makers or provocateurs. They also offer christian outreach to the homeless as part of their spirituality and activism. You may remember Anaheim not for Disney but the Case of Kelly Thomas , who was a homeless disabled man beaten to death by near by Fullerton Police on Camera, to this day no officers have been convicted.
Both Roussan Joshua Collins and Lou Noble are well known in the homeless activist community , they have continue to show the misuse of police conduct and non accountability by local government, which has continued even out of the Kelly Thomas fall out. Ron Thomas still calls for accountability and justice for his son. Meanwhile city's like Tucson where the mayor is friends with the Anthem Mayor , works to bring a 5 point urban camping ban to his area and has spent over $5 million to end a homeless protest via criminalization.
In Portland we find Ibrahim Bilal Mubarakk another homeless activist in the Portland Area. There is organizing protests over sweeps in his area. A sweep is when the local government comes with social services and law enforcement telling the homeless to move along or be arrested. The average houseless person is sleep deprived, getting less than 3 hours of sleep, is not employable for lack of hygiene opportunity and lack of storage. Reports from news agency's easily found on a google search shows housing cost less than criminalization.
But than why this writer asks is that not being done? If you speak with the mayors in each town, they are all friends. If you watch Brave New Films they show how the urban camping bans like are supported and funded by groups like ALEC, you also help lobby for the private prison industry, bail bonds industry, health care and telecommunications. They document how going after the poor and other disenfranchised Americans and even immigrants we guarantee inmates to them, and keep over 500, 000 Americans working. According to other justice reports not only are Western states facing a drought but they are facing a lack of drinkable water by 2025, as well as states like California, Arizona, Texas and Florida, will only have 1 our of 10 citizens will be able to pass a background check. Meanwhile speak with Carlos Miller with Photography Isnt a Crime or CopBlock.Org about the legal right to film the police. If people matter, government accountability matters, and reform is to made, than the 10,000 stories in street shall be told.
