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Sacramento Tent City: The Second Great Depression?
Loaves & Fishes, the Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee, Francis House and other groups have started a "Safe Ground" campaign to make the current situation of the homeless better, according to Joan Burke of Loaves and Fishes. The homeless camp that is portrayed in the linked photos is at nearly the same spot where a giant Hooverville was located during the great depression. The camp is growing by up to 50 people per day.
Dear Friend of Loaves & Fishes,
A photographer from Getty Images, Justin Sullivan, has done a photo essay on Sacramento's Tent City. The pictures are very concrete and specific; he juxtaposes them with Depression era photos of Sacramento homeless encampments. MSNC has the photos on their website : http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29528182/displaymode/1107/s/2/
The Daily Mail in England also has a story today about the tent city using his photos: The credit crunch tent city which has returned to haunt America
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1159677/Pictured-The-credit-crunch-tent-city-returned-haunt-America.html
Loaves & Fishes, the Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee, Francis House and others have started a "Safe Ground" campaign to make the current situation better. We will need your help and will let you know how to help shortly. We're also very interested in hearing from you about whatever solutions, big or small, you have considered.
Joan Burke
Director of Advocacy
Loaves & Fishes
P O Box 2161
Sacramento, CA 96812
(916) 446-0874
advocate4loaves [at] yahoo.com
http://www.SacLoaves.org
A photographer from Getty Images, Justin Sullivan, has done a photo essay on Sacramento's Tent City. The pictures are very concrete and specific; he juxtaposes them with Depression era photos of Sacramento homeless encampments. MSNC has the photos on their website : http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29528182/displaymode/1107/s/2/
The Daily Mail in England also has a story today about the tent city using his photos: The credit crunch tent city which has returned to haunt America
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1159677/Pictured-The-credit-crunch-tent-city-returned-haunt-America.html
Loaves & Fishes, the Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee, Francis House and others have started a "Safe Ground" campaign to make the current situation better. We will need your help and will let you know how to help shortly. We're also very interested in hearing from you about whatever solutions, big or small, you have considered.
Joan Burke
Director of Advocacy
Loaves & Fishes
P O Box 2161
Sacramento, CA 96812
(916) 446-0874
advocate4loaves [at] yahoo.com
http://www.SacLoaves.org
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On the phone, my friend in Point Richmond was saying that there are burned down (arson?) houses just all over the place in Richmond. I hadn't been reading about many cases of this in the newspaper, but the Chronicle wouldn't necessarily report regional house fires.
Is this the case? There are two factors which could cause an increase in arsons in California - one would be mortgage payers or builders wishing to collect on insurance, and the second would be frustrated neighbors who don't like what is happening at a nearby vacant house a'la detroit.
Is this the case? There are two factors which could cause an increase in arsons in California - one would be mortgage payers or builders wishing to collect on insurance, and the second would be frustrated neighbors who don't like what is happening at a nearby vacant house a'la detroit.
Let's bring in those big military tents. They house dozens of people. That would be better than the random, chaotic individual tents we see in this picture.
Military tents would enable an accurate count, assure feeding is correct, offer a venue for public health, etc.
If this is truly a crisis, this is a logical solution. There will, of course, be no personal privacy or "space", but this is to be expected in this perilous times.
Military tents would enable an accurate count, assure feeding is correct, offer a venue for public health, etc.
If this is truly a crisis, this is a logical solution. There will, of course, be no personal privacy or "space", but this is to be expected in this perilous times.
This graph shows the difference - http://www.capitalismgonewild.com/2009/03/california-unemployment-surging-ahead.html
For more information:
http://www.capitalismgonewild.com
are their not hudreds of homes on the inventory of shra or I sure cal expo has horse barns that are empty and of corse the city and county is sitting on empty building , they need to take action and we need to hold them accountable what would we do if we had a flood? Iguese they reily dont have aclue do they! of course they are suffuring themselves it called furlough those poor cival servants you know, 12.5 days holidays,healhcare eyecar dental sick leavr oh and i forgot vacations ,have i forgot something!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is the same place I was born
this is the same place I was born
who do they think we are ? we the people.....we the poor.. why havent you fed the poor clothed the poor housed the poor maby they sinned and got themselves in the wilderness and the only way is to become born again start your life over from the bottem up and leave everything behind feed your sperit insted of your desires it want be easyto give up eating dead things like chicken leg vains . insted eat at joes like on the gum comics.dont worry you can lick sin open your eyes and look at the big picture what do you see thats the creator your looking at so bee carefull what you think of or do or what you eat because hes closer than that hes in youso dont do any thing that isnt holy its required of us to be perfect in order like the bird is perfect
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