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Gay Shame Marchs Against Newsom's Prop N in the Marina District
Around 6PM on Friday October 25th about 300 protesters ( organized by the group Gay Shame)gathered in the Marina district to protest Gavin Newsom and proposition N (which takes money away from the homeless and is being used by Newsom to drum up support from the business community for a run for mayor in 2003)
"Care not Cash"/Prop N is a disgusting and offensive proposition being pushed by the notoriously anti-homeless Supervisor Gavin Newsom. "Care not Cash" would slash GA workers' benefits from $395/month to a pitiful $59/month while guaranteeing absolutely NO new services to people who are poor and homeless in San Francisco. This would decrease GA workers' pay to less than $2.00 an hour while they are expected to continue playing an exhaustive game of trying to find decent, affordable housing and services in a city where they simply do not exist. This is simply a bullshit scheme being supported by wealthy business people and corporations in San Francisco that is being used to criminalize people who are poor and homeless. It's time that rich San Franciscans stop viewing themselves as victims of homelessness. The problem with homelessness is not that the wealthy have to see people sleeping outside and be asked ! for money while walking down the street. The problem is that people are not being offered the decent housing, services, treatment, and respect that they need and deserve.
Read more about proposition N:
http://www.sfbg.com/36/51/x_oped.html
http://nomorehomelessness.org/
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/10/1537466.php
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/08/143032_comment.php
Read more about Gavin Newsom:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/10/1537554.php
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/10/1537687_comment.php#1538660
Read more about Gay Shame on their website
http://www.gayshamesfbay.org/home.htm
Read more about proposition N:
http://www.sfbg.com/36/51/x_oped.html
http://nomorehomelessness.org/
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/10/1537466.php
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/08/143032_comment.php
Read more about Gavin Newsom:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/10/1537554.php
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/10/1537687_comment.php#1538660
Read more about Gay Shame on their website
http://www.gayshamesfbay.org/home.htm
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These are some of the most orginal props, slogans, and the best people . . . excellent work!!!!!
Those pictures tell it all. The protesters are a bunch of whacked out liberals. The so-called Newsome Goons are real people.
The girl in the first couple of photos looks like she spent quite a bit on her costume, wig, makeup, jewelry, and glitter. None of it was necessary - she could have easily bought a meal for several homeless people instead of spending the money friviously on shock value beauty aids. Why does she consider her appearance more important than feeding the homeless?
The girl in the first couple of photos looks like she spent quite a bit on her costume, wig, makeup, jewelry, and glitter. None of it was necessary - she could have easily bought a meal for several homeless people instead of spending the money friviously on shock value beauty aids. Why does she consider her appearance more important than feeding the homeless?
The girl in the first couple of photos looks like she spent quite a bit on her costume, wig, makeup, jewelry, and glitter. None of it was necessary - she could have easily bought a meal for several homeless people instead of spending the money friviously on shock value beauty aids. Why does she consider her appearance more important than feeding the homeless?
The girl in the first couple of photos looks like she spent quite a bit on her costume, wig, makeup, jewelry, and glitter. None of it was necessary - she could have easily bought a meal for several homeless people instead of spending the money friviously on shock value beauty aids. Why does she consider her appearance more important than feeding the homeless?
First up when Marie Antoinette said "Let them eat cake" the cake she was refering to was "bread", not cake as we know it. You would at least think these fags could get that right.
Next what's to keep these twinkies from rounding up the homeless men and keeping them at their homes? Chances are many of the homeless men are anal virgins which should please these fags to no end. Just think of all the kinky shit these people would do just to have a meal and a place to sleep. And don't think for a moment these twinkies wouldn't have them bending over and sucking dick in any number of positions.
Next what's to keep these twinkies from rounding up the homeless men and keeping them at their homes? Chances are many of the homeless men are anal virgins which should please these fags to no end. Just think of all the kinky shit these people would do just to have a meal and a place to sleep. And don't think for a moment these twinkies wouldn't have them bending over and sucking dick in any number of positions.
SAN FRANCISCO VOTERS WILL DECIDE NEXT WEEK WHETHER TO CUT OFF MOST CASH WELFARE GRANTS TO THE HOMELESS.
POLITICAL EDITOR HANK PLANTE HAS THE RESULTS OF OUR HIDDEN CAMERA INVESTIGATION INTO WHERE THE CASH GOES.
IT'S LIKE THIS ON THE THE FIRST AND FIFTEENTH OF THE MONTH.
THE LINES ARE LONG, PEOPLE ARE ANXIOUS, EAGER TO GET INSIDE. IT'S PAY DAY, AS THEY CALL IT. THE DAY WHEN GENERAL ASSISTANCE, OR G.A., IS DOLED OUT. COLD CASH. ANYWHERE FROM 320 TO 395 DOLLARS EVERY MONTH IN SAN FRANCISCO. BUT DOES THIS SIMPLY ENCOURAGE THIS. AND THIS. AND THIS?
A 5 INVESTIGATES PRODUCER AND PHOTOGRAPHER HIT THE STREETS, ARMED WITH HIDDEN CAMERAS, TO FIND OUT. IT'S 10:30 IN THE MORNING WHEN THIS WOMAN GETS HER MONEY. WHERE DOES SHE GO? SHE GETS HER MORNING COFFEE. BUT IT'S LACED WITH KAHLUA.
THIS WOMAN APPEARS SO ANXIOUS TO GET HER CASH THAT SHE DOES A KIND OF NERVOUS DANCE. BUT THERE'S SOMETHING SHE WANTS MORE THAN CASH AND APPARENTLY, THIS MAN HAS IT. WATCH AS SHE GIVES HIM THE MONEY, THEN PUTS WHAT ANY COP WILL TELL YOU IS CRACK COCAINE IN HER MOUTH FOR SAFEKEEPING.
OVER AND OVER OUR HIDDEN CAMERAS WITNESSED PEOPLE USING THEIR G.A. MONEY TO BUY DRUGS AND ALCOHOL.
TAPE 12
HOW DO YOU SPEND THE MONEH? I SPEND IT HOWEVER I WANT. IT'S NOBODY'S BUSINESS. DOES THTA INCLUDE DRUGS AND ALCOHOL? SURE WHY NOT?
TAPE
10:31
DR PABLO STEWART: IT IS JUST A MATCH MADE IN HELL. MONEY AND PEOPLE WITH DRUG AND ALCOHOL PROBLEMS.
+DR. PABLO STEWART IS HEAD OF PSYCHIATARY AT THE HAIGHT ASHBURY FREE CLINIC. HE'S WORKED WITH ADDICTS FOR 20 YEARS.
5:00
IT'S THE MEANS BY WHICH PEOPLE CAN BUY DRUGS AND ALCOHOL TO FUEL THEIR ILLLNESS.
JUST HOW MANY HOMELESS PEOPLE ARE ADDICTS? STEWART PUTS THE NUMBER AT 70 PERCENT IN SAN FRANCISCO. A FIGURE THAT'S IN LINE WITH ALAMEDA COUNTY AND LOS ANGELES WHERE STUDIES FOUND THAT TWO THIRDS OF ALL HOMELESS ARE ADDICTS.
STEWART FEELS SO STRONGLY ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT GIVING MONEY TO DRUG ADDICTS THAT HE'S BECOME A POLITICAL ADVOCATE FOR THE FIRST TIME.
NATS
HE'S BACKING A MEASURE THAT WOULD TAKE MOST OF THE G.A.MONEY OUT OF THE HANDS OF THE HOMELESS IN SAN FRANCISCO. IT'S CALLED "CARE NOT CASH", OR PROP N. INSTEAD OF MORE THAN 300 DOLLARS IN CASH, HOMELESS GA RECIPIENTS WOULD GET A PLACE TO STAY AND SERVICES SUCH AS DRUG TREATMENT PLUS A 59 DOLLAR A MONTH STIPEND. SUPERVISOR GAVIN NEWSOM AUTHORED THE MEASURE.
TAPE 13
59:56
IF YOU CAN CONVERT THE CASH AND CONVERT IT IN A WAY THAT PEOPLE CANNOT ACCESS THEIR DEMONS, BUT CAN ACCESS THINGS THAT WOULD TURN THEIR LIVES AROUND AS THE DOLLARS WERE INTENDED TO DO THEN I WOULD IMAGINE AT THE END OF THE DAY, NOT ONLY THEIR LIVES ARE BETTER, BUT ALL OF OUR LIVES ARE BETTER.
MOST WOULD AGREE THAT HELPING SOMEONE END UP LIKE THIS IS INHUMANE. STILL, SUPERVISOR CHRIS DALY, WHO CONSIDERS HIMSELF A HOMELESS ADVOCATE, DISMISSES "CARE NOT CASH" AS PURELY POLITICAL.
TAPE 14
26:49
IT'S GAVIN NEWSOM'S GOLDEN PATH TO ROOM 200 AT CITY HALL.
WHILE DALY BELIEVES THAT NEWSOM IS TRYING TO PARLAY "CARE NOT CASH" INTO A TRIUMPHANT BID FOR MAYOR, HE THINKS HE HAS THE ANSWER TO GETTING THE HOMELESS OFF THE STREETS.
TAPE 14
39:30
I USED TO WORK WITH A NUMBER OF FOLKS THAT HAD BEEN INJECTING HEROIN FOR DECADES AND WHAT I FOUND THAT WORKED IS THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE HEALTH WORKERS OR SOCIAL WORKERS OR OUTREACH WORKERS/ BUILD SOME TRUST UP OVER TIME. THEN WHEN THEY FEEL LIKE SOMEONE ACUTALLY CARES ABOUT THEM THEY'RE IN POSITION TO MAKE THAT DECISION TO HELP THEMSELVES/ AND TO KICK HEROIN. IT AIN'T EASY.
S/U: WHAT DALY IS DESCRIBING IS THE STATUS QUO. WHICH BY THE LOOKS OF THINGS CLEARLY IS NOT WORKING. AN ESTIMATED 6000 PEOPLE LIVE ON THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO. AND DIE HERE. SOME 500 HOMELESS PEOPLE HAVE DIED OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL OVERDOSES IN THE PAST 10 YEARS. THE LONGER THEY STAY ON THE OUTSIDE AND OUT OF TREATMENT, THE HIGHER THE BODY COUNT WILL GET. IN SF HANK PLANTE, 5 INV.
CARE NOT CASH BACKERS CLAIM IT WOULD PROVIDE SHELTER FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THEY USE DRUGS OR ALCOHOL.
NEWSOM SAYS THE CITY WOULD BULK LEASE ANOTHER THOUSAND HOTEL ROOMS TO DO SO.
TOMORROW WE SEE WHETHER WHETHER WELFARE MONEY IS A MAGNET DRAWING HOMELESS PEOPLE TO SAN FRANCISCO.
POLITICAL EDITOR HANK PLANTE HAS THE RESULTS OF OUR HIDDEN CAMERA INVESTIGATION INTO WHERE THE CASH GOES.
IT'S LIKE THIS ON THE THE FIRST AND FIFTEENTH OF THE MONTH.
THE LINES ARE LONG, PEOPLE ARE ANXIOUS, EAGER TO GET INSIDE. IT'S PAY DAY, AS THEY CALL IT. THE DAY WHEN GENERAL ASSISTANCE, OR G.A., IS DOLED OUT. COLD CASH. ANYWHERE FROM 320 TO 395 DOLLARS EVERY MONTH IN SAN FRANCISCO. BUT DOES THIS SIMPLY ENCOURAGE THIS. AND THIS. AND THIS?
A 5 INVESTIGATES PRODUCER AND PHOTOGRAPHER HIT THE STREETS, ARMED WITH HIDDEN CAMERAS, TO FIND OUT. IT'S 10:30 IN THE MORNING WHEN THIS WOMAN GETS HER MONEY. WHERE DOES SHE GO? SHE GETS HER MORNING COFFEE. BUT IT'S LACED WITH KAHLUA.
THIS WOMAN APPEARS SO ANXIOUS TO GET HER CASH THAT SHE DOES A KIND OF NERVOUS DANCE. BUT THERE'S SOMETHING SHE WANTS MORE THAN CASH AND APPARENTLY, THIS MAN HAS IT. WATCH AS SHE GIVES HIM THE MONEY, THEN PUTS WHAT ANY COP WILL TELL YOU IS CRACK COCAINE IN HER MOUTH FOR SAFEKEEPING.
OVER AND OVER OUR HIDDEN CAMERAS WITNESSED PEOPLE USING THEIR G.A. MONEY TO BUY DRUGS AND ALCOHOL.
TAPE 12
HOW DO YOU SPEND THE MONEH? I SPEND IT HOWEVER I WANT. IT'S NOBODY'S BUSINESS. DOES THTA INCLUDE DRUGS AND ALCOHOL? SURE WHY NOT?
TAPE
10:31
DR PABLO STEWART: IT IS JUST A MATCH MADE IN HELL. MONEY AND PEOPLE WITH DRUG AND ALCOHOL PROBLEMS.
+DR. PABLO STEWART IS HEAD OF PSYCHIATARY AT THE HAIGHT ASHBURY FREE CLINIC. HE'S WORKED WITH ADDICTS FOR 20 YEARS.
5:00
IT'S THE MEANS BY WHICH PEOPLE CAN BUY DRUGS AND ALCOHOL TO FUEL THEIR ILLLNESS.
JUST HOW MANY HOMELESS PEOPLE ARE ADDICTS? STEWART PUTS THE NUMBER AT 70 PERCENT IN SAN FRANCISCO. A FIGURE THAT'S IN LINE WITH ALAMEDA COUNTY AND LOS ANGELES WHERE STUDIES FOUND THAT TWO THIRDS OF ALL HOMELESS ARE ADDICTS.
STEWART FEELS SO STRONGLY ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT GIVING MONEY TO DRUG ADDICTS THAT HE'S BECOME A POLITICAL ADVOCATE FOR THE FIRST TIME.
NATS
HE'S BACKING A MEASURE THAT WOULD TAKE MOST OF THE G.A.MONEY OUT OF THE HANDS OF THE HOMELESS IN SAN FRANCISCO. IT'S CALLED "CARE NOT CASH", OR PROP N. INSTEAD OF MORE THAN 300 DOLLARS IN CASH, HOMELESS GA RECIPIENTS WOULD GET A PLACE TO STAY AND SERVICES SUCH AS DRUG TREATMENT PLUS A 59 DOLLAR A MONTH STIPEND. SUPERVISOR GAVIN NEWSOM AUTHORED THE MEASURE.
TAPE 13
59:56
IF YOU CAN CONVERT THE CASH AND CONVERT IT IN A WAY THAT PEOPLE CANNOT ACCESS THEIR DEMONS, BUT CAN ACCESS THINGS THAT WOULD TURN THEIR LIVES AROUND AS THE DOLLARS WERE INTENDED TO DO THEN I WOULD IMAGINE AT THE END OF THE DAY, NOT ONLY THEIR LIVES ARE BETTER, BUT ALL OF OUR LIVES ARE BETTER.
MOST WOULD AGREE THAT HELPING SOMEONE END UP LIKE THIS IS INHUMANE. STILL, SUPERVISOR CHRIS DALY, WHO CONSIDERS HIMSELF A HOMELESS ADVOCATE, DISMISSES "CARE NOT CASH" AS PURELY POLITICAL.
TAPE 14
26:49
IT'S GAVIN NEWSOM'S GOLDEN PATH TO ROOM 200 AT CITY HALL.
WHILE DALY BELIEVES THAT NEWSOM IS TRYING TO PARLAY "CARE NOT CASH" INTO A TRIUMPHANT BID FOR MAYOR, HE THINKS HE HAS THE ANSWER TO GETTING THE HOMELESS OFF THE STREETS.
TAPE 14
39:30
I USED TO WORK WITH A NUMBER OF FOLKS THAT HAD BEEN INJECTING HEROIN FOR DECADES AND WHAT I FOUND THAT WORKED IS THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE HEALTH WORKERS OR SOCIAL WORKERS OR OUTREACH WORKERS/ BUILD SOME TRUST UP OVER TIME. THEN WHEN THEY FEEL LIKE SOMEONE ACUTALLY CARES ABOUT THEM THEY'RE IN POSITION TO MAKE THAT DECISION TO HELP THEMSELVES/ AND TO KICK HEROIN. IT AIN'T EASY.
S/U: WHAT DALY IS DESCRIBING IS THE STATUS QUO. WHICH BY THE LOOKS OF THINGS CLEARLY IS NOT WORKING. AN ESTIMATED 6000 PEOPLE LIVE ON THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO. AND DIE HERE. SOME 500 HOMELESS PEOPLE HAVE DIED OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL OVERDOSES IN THE PAST 10 YEARS. THE LONGER THEY STAY ON THE OUTSIDE AND OUT OF TREATMENT, THE HIGHER THE BODY COUNT WILL GET. IN SF HANK PLANTE, 5 INV.
CARE NOT CASH BACKERS CLAIM IT WOULD PROVIDE SHELTER FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THEY USE DRUGS OR ALCOHOL.
NEWSOM SAYS THE CITY WOULD BULK LEASE ANOTHER THOUSAND HOTEL ROOMS TO DO SO.
TOMORROW WE SEE WHETHER WHETHER WELFARE MONEY IS A MAGNET DRAWING HOMELESS PEOPLE TO SAN FRANCISCO.
Isnt it interesting that the corporate media tries to appear unbaised on most issues but seems to take a strong stance on homeless issues??
I guess KPIX cant be openly proWar since the left might not watch it but they figure the homeless have no voting power and nobody really cares so.....
I wonder how many "under cover" corporate reporters were pretending to be homeless. Maybe they were just watching each other smoking crack. And whats up with this guy at teh free clinic? Maybe he does have a point but why do you hear Newsom debating the coalition on the homeless rather than a real discussion between people who care about the issue? If the probelm is lump sum payments wouldnt dividing it up into several times a week payments be a better solution than cutting off all income?
I guess KPIX cant be openly proWar since the left might not watch it but they figure the homeless have no voting power and nobody really cares so.....
I wonder how many "under cover" corporate reporters were pretending to be homeless. Maybe they were just watching each other smoking crack. And whats up with this guy at teh free clinic? Maybe he does have a point but why do you hear Newsom debating the coalition on the homeless rather than a real discussion between people who care about the issue? If the probelm is lump sum payments wouldnt dividing it up into several times a week payments be a better solution than cutting off all income?
COMING UP, IS SAN FRANCISCO'S WELFARE SYSTEM A MAGNET FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE?
THEY SAID, HEY LET'S GO TO SAN FRANCISCO. THEY GIVE YOU A CHECK. I SAID WHY DO THEY GIVE YOU A CHECK. AND THEY SAID, BECAUSE YOU'RE HOMELESS."
WHY SOME SAY CUTTING OFF THE CASH WOULD LEAD TO EVEN MORE CRIME.
PLUS, TESTIMONY IN THE WINONA RYDER SHOPLIFTING TRIAL.
WHAT RYDER WAS CARRYING IN THE STORE THAT MADE THE STORE MANAGER SUSPICIOUS.
AND CREEPY CRAWLERS IN THE EAST BAY.
WHAT'S BRING THE TARANTULAS OUT ON MOUNT DIABLO.
"RATHER SOT TZ"
A WEEK FROM TODAY SAN FRANCISCO VOTERS WILL DECIDE WHETHER TO REDUCE CASH GRANTS TO THE HOMELESS.
SUPPORTERS OF THE PLAN SAY THE GRANTS ATTRACT HOMELESS PEOPLE TO THE CITY.
TONIGHT, POLITICAL REPORTER HANK PLANTE HAS THE RESULTS OF A HIDDEN CAMERA INVESTIGATION INTO HOW SOME OF THAT CASH GETS SPENT.
WORD IS OUT NATIONWIDE: IF YOU'RE HOMELESS, SAN FRANCISCO IS THE PLACE TO COME.
HANK 'DO YOU THINK SAN FRANCISCO IS A MAGNET BECAUSE WE PAY SO MUCH IN GA, NOT SO MUCH, BUT MORE THAN OTHER COUNTIES?
'OH HELL YES.' 58:27 I WAS IN NEB., I MET SOME GUYS ON FREIGHT TRAINS, THEY SAID HEY LETS GO TO SAN FRANCISCO, THEY GIVE YOU A CHECK. I SAID WHY DO THEY GIVE YOU A CHECK? THEY SAID WHAT, BECAUSE YOURE HOMELESS. I SAID WHAT, I DONT BELIEVE THIS.'
SO AN ESTIMATED 6 THOUSAND PEOPLE HAVE BECOME THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE FOR SO MANY SAN FRANCISCANS:
STREET PEOPLE, SO CAUGHT-UP IN DRUGS OR ALCOHOL, THAT EVEN BEING SICK ON THE STREET LIKE THIS MAN, DOESN'T STOP HIM FROM DRINKING.
AND IT'S IS FUELED BY YOUR TAX DOLLARS.
JUST MINUTES AGO, HIS BUDDY GOT HIS MONTHLY GENERAL ASSISTANCE MONEY, OR G.A. --- MORE THAN 300 DOLLARS IN CASH. AND THIS IS WHERE THEY HEADED.
AND IT WASN'T JUST THEM. OUR HIDDEN CAMERAS CAPTURED NUMEROUS PEOPLE USING THEIR GA MONEY TO BUY ALCOHOL AND DRUGS.
IN FACT, SOMETIMES WE DIDN'T EVEN NEED A HIDDEN CAMERA.
TAPE 12
HANK: YOU ALREADY GOT A BUZZ? YEAH, I GOT A LITTLE BUZZ. IN FACT I GOT A BEER RIGHT HERE. BASICALLY I JUST GOT IT.; WITH YOUR GA MONEY? OF COURSE!.
DR. PABLO STEWART, HEAD OF PSYCHIATRY AT THE HAIGHT ASHBURY FREE CLINIC, HAS BEEN TREATING THE HOMELESS FOR YEARS.
./3L26 UPWARD OF 70% OF THE PEOPLE ARE CURRENTLY SUFFERING FROM DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE/7:45 THE GOVERNMENT IF YOU WILL IS ACTING AS A CO-DEPENDANT IN THE RELATIONSHIP. IN THAT WE'RE PROVIDING PEOPLE THE MEANS TO CONTINUE THEIR USE OF DRUGS AND ALCOHOL.
SO TO END THAT CO-DEPENDENT RELATIONSHIP, SAN FRANCISCO SUPERVISOR GAVIN NEWSOM HAS PUT PROP. N ON THE BALLOT, CALLED "CARE NOT CASH," IT WOULD CUT WELFARE CHECKS TO $59 DOLLARS A MONTH, BUT PROVIDE HOUSING AND SERVICES, INCLUDING DRUG TREATMENT.
TAPE 13
21:58
I WOULD ARGUE CONTINUE TO DO WHAT YOU 'VE DONE TO GET WHAT YOU'VE GOT. AND I JUST HOPE THAT WHEN PEOPLE ARE AT THE BALLOT, THEY THINK ABOUT THAT./DO THEY WANT PEOPLE TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENTLY THAT'S WORKED IN EVERY MAJOR CITY IN THIS COUNTRY?
IN FACT MOST BAY AREA COUNTIES NOW PAY FOR SHELTER INSTEAD OF HANDING OUT LARGE CASH PAYMENTS. BESIDES SAN FRANCISCO, ONLY MARIN AND SOLANO COUNTIES STILL GIVE OUT MONEY. WHEN ALAMEDA COUNTY SWITCHED FROM CASH TO VOUCHERS, THE NUMBER OF HOMELESS ON GA DROPED FROM 33% TO 5% IN JUST 3 YEARS.
BUT OPPONENTS LIKE SUPERVISOR CHRIS DALY SAY CUTTING BACK ON WELFARE MONEY WILL INCREASE CRIME.
TAPE 14
40:32 I DON'T WANT TO SCARE ANYBODY, BUT IF YOU'RE A HEROIN ADDICT AND YOU NEED A FIX, YOU'RE GOING TO FIGURE OUT A WAY, SOME WAY OF DOING IT.
13:50
PABLO STEWART: DRUGS AND ALCOHOL CAUSE THE CRIME/SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT PEOPLE ARE BASING THE FACT THAT THEY SAY MORE CRIME WILL OCCUR BECAUSE WE'RE TAKING MONEY OUT OF PEOPLE'S HANDS. I DON'T THINK THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
IT'S A DIFFICULT PROBLEM FOR A TOLERANT CITY LIKE SAN FRANCISCO. YET MOST WOULD ADMIT THAT 15 YEARS OF TOLERANCE HAS DONE LITTLE BUT PRODUCE FILTHY ENCAMPMENTS LIKE THESE. SO PROP. N IS THE NEXT ATTEMPT.
15:40
THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE MEASURE THAT WILL HELP THE HOMLESS. I CAN GUARANTEE THAT. TO SAY THAT IT'S NOT AND FOR PEOPLE TO BE AGAINST THIS, I REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND WHERE THEY'RE COMING FROM.
SO AFTER YEARS OF FAILED PROGRAMS, IT'S NOW UP TO THE CITY'S VOTERS TO DECIDE IF THE TOUGH-LOVE APPROACH OF PROP. N SHOULD BE THE NEXT STEP.
IN SAN FRANCISCO, I'M HANK PLANTE FOR 5 INVESTIGATES.
SUPERVISOR TOM AMMIANO HAS OFFERED AN ADDITIONAL HOMELESS MEASURE ON THE BALLOT.
PROPOSITION "O" WOULD PLACE LIMITS ON THE CARE NOT CASH MEASURE.
IF NEWSOM'S MEASURE "N" PASSES, AMMIANO'S MEASURE "O" WOULD REQUIRE THE CITY TO PROVIDE MORE HOUSING AND SERVICES, AND IT CONTINUES CASH GRANTS TO HOMELESS SENIORS, PREGNANT WOMENT AND FAMILIES.
HOW DO VOTERS FEEL ABOUT THE PLAN TO CUT OFF CASH GRANTS IN FAVOR OF SERVICES?
MORE THAN 80 PERCENT OF RESPONDENTS IN OUR EXCLUSIVE EYEWITNESS NEWS POLL SAY IT'S A GOOD IDEA.
JUST 16 PERCENT SAY IT'S A BAD IDEA.
THREE PERCENT AREN'T SURE.
ANOTHER OVERWHELMING MAJORITY ALSO TOLD SURVEY USA HOMELESSNESS IS A VERY SEVERE PROBLEM IN SAN FRANCISCO.
THEY SAID, HEY LET'S GO TO SAN FRANCISCO. THEY GIVE YOU A CHECK. I SAID WHY DO THEY GIVE YOU A CHECK. AND THEY SAID, BECAUSE YOU'RE HOMELESS."
WHY SOME SAY CUTTING OFF THE CASH WOULD LEAD TO EVEN MORE CRIME.
PLUS, TESTIMONY IN THE WINONA RYDER SHOPLIFTING TRIAL.
WHAT RYDER WAS CARRYING IN THE STORE THAT MADE THE STORE MANAGER SUSPICIOUS.
AND CREEPY CRAWLERS IN THE EAST BAY.
WHAT'S BRING THE TARANTULAS OUT ON MOUNT DIABLO.
"RATHER SOT TZ"
A WEEK FROM TODAY SAN FRANCISCO VOTERS WILL DECIDE WHETHER TO REDUCE CASH GRANTS TO THE HOMELESS.
SUPPORTERS OF THE PLAN SAY THE GRANTS ATTRACT HOMELESS PEOPLE TO THE CITY.
TONIGHT, POLITICAL REPORTER HANK PLANTE HAS THE RESULTS OF A HIDDEN CAMERA INVESTIGATION INTO HOW SOME OF THAT CASH GETS SPENT.
WORD IS OUT NATIONWIDE: IF YOU'RE HOMELESS, SAN FRANCISCO IS THE PLACE TO COME.
HANK 'DO YOU THINK SAN FRANCISCO IS A MAGNET BECAUSE WE PAY SO MUCH IN GA, NOT SO MUCH, BUT MORE THAN OTHER COUNTIES?
'OH HELL YES.' 58:27 I WAS IN NEB., I MET SOME GUYS ON FREIGHT TRAINS, THEY SAID HEY LETS GO TO SAN FRANCISCO, THEY GIVE YOU A CHECK. I SAID WHY DO THEY GIVE YOU A CHECK? THEY SAID WHAT, BECAUSE YOURE HOMELESS. I SAID WHAT, I DONT BELIEVE THIS.'
SO AN ESTIMATED 6 THOUSAND PEOPLE HAVE BECOME THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE FOR SO MANY SAN FRANCISCANS:
STREET PEOPLE, SO CAUGHT-UP IN DRUGS OR ALCOHOL, THAT EVEN BEING SICK ON THE STREET LIKE THIS MAN, DOESN'T STOP HIM FROM DRINKING.
AND IT'S IS FUELED BY YOUR TAX DOLLARS.
JUST MINUTES AGO, HIS BUDDY GOT HIS MONTHLY GENERAL ASSISTANCE MONEY, OR G.A. --- MORE THAN 300 DOLLARS IN CASH. AND THIS IS WHERE THEY HEADED.
AND IT WASN'T JUST THEM. OUR HIDDEN CAMERAS CAPTURED NUMEROUS PEOPLE USING THEIR GA MONEY TO BUY ALCOHOL AND DRUGS.
IN FACT, SOMETIMES WE DIDN'T EVEN NEED A HIDDEN CAMERA.
TAPE 12
HANK: YOU ALREADY GOT A BUZZ? YEAH, I GOT A LITTLE BUZZ. IN FACT I GOT A BEER RIGHT HERE. BASICALLY I JUST GOT IT.; WITH YOUR GA MONEY? OF COURSE!.
DR. PABLO STEWART, HEAD OF PSYCHIATRY AT THE HAIGHT ASHBURY FREE CLINIC, HAS BEEN TREATING THE HOMELESS FOR YEARS.
./3L26 UPWARD OF 70% OF THE PEOPLE ARE CURRENTLY SUFFERING FROM DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE/7:45 THE GOVERNMENT IF YOU WILL IS ACTING AS A CO-DEPENDANT IN THE RELATIONSHIP. IN THAT WE'RE PROVIDING PEOPLE THE MEANS TO CONTINUE THEIR USE OF DRUGS AND ALCOHOL.
SO TO END THAT CO-DEPENDENT RELATIONSHIP, SAN FRANCISCO SUPERVISOR GAVIN NEWSOM HAS PUT PROP. N ON THE BALLOT, CALLED "CARE NOT CASH," IT WOULD CUT WELFARE CHECKS TO $59 DOLLARS A MONTH, BUT PROVIDE HOUSING AND SERVICES, INCLUDING DRUG TREATMENT.
TAPE 13
21:58
I WOULD ARGUE CONTINUE TO DO WHAT YOU 'VE DONE TO GET WHAT YOU'VE GOT. AND I JUST HOPE THAT WHEN PEOPLE ARE AT THE BALLOT, THEY THINK ABOUT THAT./DO THEY WANT PEOPLE TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENTLY THAT'S WORKED IN EVERY MAJOR CITY IN THIS COUNTRY?
IN FACT MOST BAY AREA COUNTIES NOW PAY FOR SHELTER INSTEAD OF HANDING OUT LARGE CASH PAYMENTS. BESIDES SAN FRANCISCO, ONLY MARIN AND SOLANO COUNTIES STILL GIVE OUT MONEY. WHEN ALAMEDA COUNTY SWITCHED FROM CASH TO VOUCHERS, THE NUMBER OF HOMELESS ON GA DROPED FROM 33% TO 5% IN JUST 3 YEARS.
BUT OPPONENTS LIKE SUPERVISOR CHRIS DALY SAY CUTTING BACK ON WELFARE MONEY WILL INCREASE CRIME.
TAPE 14
40:32 I DON'T WANT TO SCARE ANYBODY, BUT IF YOU'RE A HEROIN ADDICT AND YOU NEED A FIX, YOU'RE GOING TO FIGURE OUT A WAY, SOME WAY OF DOING IT.
13:50
PABLO STEWART: DRUGS AND ALCOHOL CAUSE THE CRIME/SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT PEOPLE ARE BASING THE FACT THAT THEY SAY MORE CRIME WILL OCCUR BECAUSE WE'RE TAKING MONEY OUT OF PEOPLE'S HANDS. I DON'T THINK THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
IT'S A DIFFICULT PROBLEM FOR A TOLERANT CITY LIKE SAN FRANCISCO. YET MOST WOULD ADMIT THAT 15 YEARS OF TOLERANCE HAS DONE LITTLE BUT PRODUCE FILTHY ENCAMPMENTS LIKE THESE. SO PROP. N IS THE NEXT ATTEMPT.
15:40
THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE MEASURE THAT WILL HELP THE HOMLESS. I CAN GUARANTEE THAT. TO SAY THAT IT'S NOT AND FOR PEOPLE TO BE AGAINST THIS, I REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND WHERE THEY'RE COMING FROM.
SO AFTER YEARS OF FAILED PROGRAMS, IT'S NOW UP TO THE CITY'S VOTERS TO DECIDE IF THE TOUGH-LOVE APPROACH OF PROP. N SHOULD BE THE NEXT STEP.
IN SAN FRANCISCO, I'M HANK PLANTE FOR 5 INVESTIGATES.
SUPERVISOR TOM AMMIANO HAS OFFERED AN ADDITIONAL HOMELESS MEASURE ON THE BALLOT.
PROPOSITION "O" WOULD PLACE LIMITS ON THE CARE NOT CASH MEASURE.
IF NEWSOM'S MEASURE "N" PASSES, AMMIANO'S MEASURE "O" WOULD REQUIRE THE CITY TO PROVIDE MORE HOUSING AND SERVICES, AND IT CONTINUES CASH GRANTS TO HOMELESS SENIORS, PREGNANT WOMENT AND FAMILIES.
HOW DO VOTERS FEEL ABOUT THE PLAN TO CUT OFF CASH GRANTS IN FAVOR OF SERVICES?
MORE THAN 80 PERCENT OF RESPONDENTS IN OUR EXCLUSIVE EYEWITNESS NEWS POLL SAY IT'S A GOOD IDEA.
JUST 16 PERCENT SAY IT'S A BAD IDEA.
THREE PERCENT AREN'T SURE.
ANOTHER OVERWHELMING MAJORITY ALSO TOLD SURVEY USA HOMELESSNESS IS A VERY SEVERE PROBLEM IN SAN FRANCISCO.
Ive seen this coverage on Yahoo's local news (they recarry KPIX news), and I'm pretty sure its the first news Ive seen by them that is SO one sided.
They managed to send "undercover" reporters to "infiltrate" the homeless and uncover their nefarious plans.
Give me a break.
SF doesnt get bellow freezing so thats a reasonable reason to come here if you are hitchiking of jumping freight trains, but there really are not that many people hitchhiking and jumping freight trains these days.
People move for alot of reason, like jobs, cheap housing etc.. but the idea that someone would move across the country to SF because there might be a $300 a month GA check defies logic.
They managed to send "undercover" reporters to "infiltrate" the homeless and uncover their nefarious plans.
Give me a break.
SF doesnt get bellow freezing so thats a reasonable reason to come here if you are hitchiking of jumping freight trains, but there really are not that many people hitchhiking and jumping freight trains these days.
People move for alot of reason, like jobs, cheap housing etc.. but the idea that someone would move across the country to SF because there might be a $300 a month GA check defies logic.
You'd think the trolls would know that using all caps makes them look like they are really desperate and must not have very good points to be trying just to shout everyone down like that. I guess they must be of substandard intellect.
actually i believe all of this person's costume was put together from bits found at thrift stores. and i know for a fact she does her share to help feed the homeless...
sorry to drop the bombshell but those you label wacked out liberals are the real people here, not Newsom's henchmen.
But thats how KPIX post their transcrips
See: http://beta.kpix.com/external/sendoff.html?http://beta.kpix.com/news/scripts/tue5pm.htm
See: http://beta.kpix.com/external/sendoff.html?http://beta.kpix.com/news/scripts/tue5pm.htm
"actually i believe all of this person's costume was put together from bits found at thrift stores."
Great. So she wasted less on un-needed plasantries than I originally thought. She still denied a couple of homeless people meals by deciding to spend the money on her appearance instead of on food for them. In other words, her make-up, jewelry, glitter and costume were more important to her than actually helping the homeless oput of her own pocket.
Yes, only people who *care* about the homeless should pay directly out of their own pocket, not society, not evenly distributed, just those people who don't support what you think is right - make them pay! Only Gaffes knows what's right!
I loved this action, BTW, and passed the url around. Excellent work!!!
I loved this action, BTW, and passed the url around. Excellent work!!!
Many people write NCH (National Coalition for the Homeless) to ask for advice about what to do when they encounter a homeless person asking for money.
The decision about whether or not to give money is an individual, personal decision. However, many people on the street -- those who are asking for money and those who are not -- are often passed by countless times as though they did not exist. Acknowledging a person's existence by looking at them is one of the most important ways to reaffirm his or her humanity at a time when homelessness seems to have stripped it away. Thus, whether or not you choose to give money, please don't look away as if the person doesn't exist.
Panhandling: A Little Understanding, an article reprinted from San Francisco's Street Sheet, provides some insight into panhandling and homelessness.
The decision about whether or not to give money is an individual, personal decision. However, many people on the street -- those who are asking for money and those who are not -- are often passed by countless times as though they did not exist. Acknowledging a person's existence by looking at them is one of the most important ways to reaffirm his or her humanity at a time when homelessness seems to have stripped it away. Thus, whether or not you choose to give money, please don't look away as if the person doesn't exist.
Panhandling: A Little Understanding, an article reprinted from San Francisco's Street Sheet, provides some insight into panhandling and homelessness.
For more information:
http://nch.ari.net/help.html
It's not the role of the government to care for the homeless. It is the responsibility of us as individuals. One reason that people don't feel the need to help the homeless is because they figure they pay their taxes and so they've meet their obligation to society. Let's take it out of the hands of government and put it into the hands of private not-for-profit organizations who can better organize and meet the needs of the homeless. Americans are more than willing to give aid and assistance to their fellow man. Anytime there is a natural disaster in this country, truckloads of materials and food collected by local communities start rolling towards the people who need help. Americans are good-hearted. Put this need into their hands and out of the hands of bureacrats who only want to be in control.
Reprinted from the December 1997 issue of Street Sheet, San Francisco's street newspaper (a project of the Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco)
I decided to write this article after being homeless
myself for a year and a half, because I learned
a few things you cannot learn without being
homeless - or at least very close to homelessness
and the lives of the people who live it.
We talk in statistics - a percentage of people get
this, a percentage of people lose that. But what
most of us do not realize is that to each person, it is
100% of their lives.
Have you ever walked by a person and been approached for money? What did you do?
Most people ignore them for whatever reason, whether they have nothing to give or they just gave to someone else, or maybe they fear the person who they feel is accosting them. Whatever the reason, the panhandler is still ignored.
Some panhandlers get angry when they get no response. This does not happen just a few times; they are ignored many times every day and many times every hour of every day. And not only are they ignored but sworn at, told angrily to get a job, to get away, told they are lazy bums, that they are trash, and looked at in disgust. These are only a few of the insults, and the milder ones at that.
Yes, the panhandlers are angry at this. But when they ask someone for help and the last person has told them that they are useless trash and spat at them, their anger comes to the surface. They do not ask angrily but get tired of being ignored. So they may yell and give back a little of that which they get every day. I do not condone these actions, but I understand them.
"What else can I do?" you ask.
I can tell you from my own personal experience being panhandled that I was never yelled at. I had heard that it happened and saw it happen to someone who was asked right after I was. I was shocked at how upset the panhandler was and how he took it out on the other guy. The man continued on down the street without looking back. The panhanlder paced a few steps before sitting on an overturned milk crate and laying his head down on his crossed arms.
"You okay?" I asked him.
Startled, he looked up.
"I saw you yell at that guy," I said. "What did he do?"
"Nothin', that's the problem. He did nothin'."
I asked what he meant and heard a story that was to be repeated to me by many people. Each person I asked told me essentially the same thing: they were ignored as if they did not exist.
A pattern began to emerge. First was the loss of work, then housing, going begging to GA (General Assistance, welfare) where they were treated like second class citizens and beggars. Not finding a bed at the shelter, they are hassled on the streets by police. Then finally they get the courage, yes I mean courage, to ask others for a little change.
A person must feel awfully low inside to have to resort to panhandling as a way of getting money for food and a place to sleep, let along clean clothes and phone change. (Bus money to look for work is about as far as GA money goes).
A person gets tired of sleeping on the streets. I know. Men are lucky to get a shelter bed once or twice a month. Women fare a little better with a couple of nights a week, but even that gets tiring. After a while you need to sleep in a real bed, have some privacy, and take a bath alone. But you do not have money for a hotel room. Where do you get the money? Your last resort, panhandling. When you begin to see what a person must go through day after day, month after month, you gain a little understanding.
But you ask what you could do.
The reason why I was not yelled at was that I acknowledged panhandlers. I let them know I knew they existed. It was not much, just a look saying that I cannot help. I would look at them, pat my pocket, and show an empty hand, or I pointed behind me with my thumb indicating I gave what I could to the last one who asked me. Sometimes I have just said "sorry." I have also said "not this time," "I wish I could help," or "I just gave to the last guy." All of which was true; I would never lie.
When I did these small things I said a lot more than my words did. I said to them, "I acknowledge you exist, I do not look down on you, you are no less a human being than I, and I respect you as a person." All that in a gesture or a few words.
A person who is down on their luck needs a little dignity left inside. If you look, you can even see the depression in their eyes. Panhandling is their last resort as it takes the loss of a lot of self respect to do it. And courage to look someone in the face and say, "I need your help."
- Rae Chamberlain
I decided to write this article after being homeless
myself for a year and a half, because I learned
a few things you cannot learn without being
homeless - or at least very close to homelessness
and the lives of the people who live it.
We talk in statistics - a percentage of people get
this, a percentage of people lose that. But what
most of us do not realize is that to each person, it is
100% of their lives.
Have you ever walked by a person and been approached for money? What did you do?
Most people ignore them for whatever reason, whether they have nothing to give or they just gave to someone else, or maybe they fear the person who they feel is accosting them. Whatever the reason, the panhandler is still ignored.
Some panhandlers get angry when they get no response. This does not happen just a few times; they are ignored many times every day and many times every hour of every day. And not only are they ignored but sworn at, told angrily to get a job, to get away, told they are lazy bums, that they are trash, and looked at in disgust. These are only a few of the insults, and the milder ones at that.
Yes, the panhandlers are angry at this. But when they ask someone for help and the last person has told them that they are useless trash and spat at them, their anger comes to the surface. They do not ask angrily but get tired of being ignored. So they may yell and give back a little of that which they get every day. I do not condone these actions, but I understand them.
"What else can I do?" you ask.
I can tell you from my own personal experience being panhandled that I was never yelled at. I had heard that it happened and saw it happen to someone who was asked right after I was. I was shocked at how upset the panhandler was and how he took it out on the other guy. The man continued on down the street without looking back. The panhanlder paced a few steps before sitting on an overturned milk crate and laying his head down on his crossed arms.
"You okay?" I asked him.
Startled, he looked up.
"I saw you yell at that guy," I said. "What did he do?"
"Nothin', that's the problem. He did nothin'."
I asked what he meant and heard a story that was to be repeated to me by many people. Each person I asked told me essentially the same thing: they were ignored as if they did not exist.
A pattern began to emerge. First was the loss of work, then housing, going begging to GA (General Assistance, welfare) where they were treated like second class citizens and beggars. Not finding a bed at the shelter, they are hassled on the streets by police. Then finally they get the courage, yes I mean courage, to ask others for a little change.
A person must feel awfully low inside to have to resort to panhandling as a way of getting money for food and a place to sleep, let along clean clothes and phone change. (Bus money to look for work is about as far as GA money goes).
A person gets tired of sleeping on the streets. I know. Men are lucky to get a shelter bed once or twice a month. Women fare a little better with a couple of nights a week, but even that gets tiring. After a while you need to sleep in a real bed, have some privacy, and take a bath alone. But you do not have money for a hotel room. Where do you get the money? Your last resort, panhandling. When you begin to see what a person must go through day after day, month after month, you gain a little understanding.
But you ask what you could do.
The reason why I was not yelled at was that I acknowledged panhandlers. I let them know I knew they existed. It was not much, just a look saying that I cannot help. I would look at them, pat my pocket, and show an empty hand, or I pointed behind me with my thumb indicating I gave what I could to the last one who asked me. Sometimes I have just said "sorry." I have also said "not this time," "I wish I could help," or "I just gave to the last guy." All of which was true; I would never lie.
When I did these small things I said a lot more than my words did. I said to them, "I acknowledge you exist, I do not look down on you, you are no less a human being than I, and I respect you as a person." All that in a gesture or a few words.
A person who is down on their luck needs a little dignity left inside. If you look, you can even see the depression in their eyes. Panhandling is their last resort as it takes the loss of a lot of self respect to do it. And courage to look someone in the face and say, "I need your help."
- Rae Chamberlain
For more information:
http://nch.ari.net/help.html
Most people see Pan Handling in the same light as Telephone Solicitation. Just like we don’t want to get a several phone calls at home about Credit Cards, Long Distance Carriers, or making a donation, we just want to go from Point A to Point B without being hit for spare change.
some people don't like you to say 'sorry'. but yes, you should look and talk to people if you can. The thing about feeling guilty for not giving to homeless people is that it is an unavoidable fact that different classes of people don't share the same space necessarily. Homeless people who are panhandling are actually not found in the poorest neighborhoods where no one would ever have change to give them, nor can they go to wealthy neighborhoods. It makes the most sense for them to go to the poorer edge of a business district where there aren't so many single family houses or security guards, and there are a number of people passing by. Thus lower middle class people are much more likely to be walking down the street where there are homeless, than middle middle or upper class people. Should those lower middle class people feel more guilty because they had to walk by the panhandler and say no, compared to the yuppie who moved to Walnut creek in order to avoid the situation entirely, and drives by in an expensive vehicle during rare incursions into the city - even though they don't have to say 'no'.
I have just moved from Seattle, an article(10 lies of Prop n ) that I read states that my home city has insituted a simliar program. TRUE....BUT we have seen a 78 percent spike in homelessness. I use to work for the department of social services. The program put more people on the street rather than assist them. Once being part of the population that needed assistance I can whole- heartedly say that Prop N will do nothing but harm those in need and PISS OFF those who want homeless off the street because I can not say enough...You want people off the street but you are pushing a Prop that will insure MORE people are homeless. Feel free to respond I love to debat.
you have crossed that line in a rude and obnoxious manner. you have damaged one of the biggest events that gays have. and you give a laundry list of reasons as to why you did it, not unlike an adolescent school boy who is caught in a lie. you have tried to spin this in every direction, but when it comes down to it you have no excuse for your behaviors. this out burst was childish and diminishes you as a person, you have already diminished us all.
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