UnSelling Mama Earth and Building A Homeless Peoples Solution to Homelessness in Tovaangar(LA)
For Immediate Release:
Contact: Carla /Aetna Street Solidarity 818-481-0753 Tiny/poormagazine (510)-435-7500
What: Homefulness Tovaangar - Poetry, Prayer, Poverty Scholarship and Intention for Radical Interdependence & ComeUnity Reparations
When: 7pm Sunday, Sept 29th
Where: Church in Ocean Park - 235 Hill Street Santa Monica
"They told me i had to move, but when I moved across the street, they said I couldn't be there either," Said Momma G, a houseless, disabled elder resident and RoofLess Radio Reporter of West LA,"They said I have to be gone by 6am," she concluded. Like so many houseless residents of LA, Momma G is disabled, neuro-divergent and an immune compromised elder. She needs healing and housing. She needs to be listened to and loved, not swept like she is trash.
Since the Grants Pass Vs Johnson Supreme Court ruling was made and the subsequent order by Governor Newsom, the mayors of towns across so-called California like Karen Bass, Sheng Tao, London Breed and Karen Bass have been waging a war against our houseless bodies. Sweeping, disappearing and arresting us to nowhere.
A Houseless/Indigenous/Disabled Comeunity from Oakland has created a viable and practicable solution to homelessness they call Homefulness- a homeless peoples solution to homelessness, and it currently houses 21 houseless elders and families in rent -free forever, healing housing Which they will be presenting and teaching on with houseless mamas, elders, youth and families from Reclaiming Our Homes and Aetna Street Solidarity at Church in Ocean Park in Santa Monica.
"Both of these powerful LA based movements of houseless comeUnities are working to build real solutions to our problems as houseless people because we know that the City and State only present more sweeps, carceral systems and never affordable housing, " said tiny Gray-Garcia, formerly houseless co-founder, author and visionary of Homefulness who was houseless, criminalized and arrested in LA as a child with her disabled mother
" Homefulness needs everyone to be involved, housed and Unhoused, privileged and poor, indigenous and settler, working together to implement radical sharing and a concept we call ComeUnity Reparations so we can together work to UnSell Mama Earth," concluded tiny
Momma G,a houseless reporter for POOR Magazine, contributed to the 2024 RoofLessRadio WeSearch report which spoke to houseless victims of violent sweeps all across California from LA to Oakland to San Francisco focused on the increasingy violent sweeps being ordered by Governor Newsom and Mayors from Los Angeles to Oakland to San Francisco to disappear our houseless bodies and lives from the public streets following the Grants Pass Vs Johnson Court Case .(WeSearch report Sweeping us to Nowhere)
"Notwithstanding the Grants Pass Ruling of denial of protection under the 8th amendment, there is the 14th Amendment, which implies a "citizen's" right to life and the material resources that guarantee life, such as food, water, shelter, and essentially all of the things that are stolen from people in these violent sweeps, as such, sweeps are not just unethical but patently unconstitutional.," said Jeremy Miller, revolutionary legal advocate with Poor Peoples Law Clinic at Homefulness/POOR Magazine in his article
POOR Magazine will also be offering a free Theatre of the POOR/Poverty Scholarship workshop with Reclaiming Our Homes and Aetna Street Solidarity for houseless poverty skolaz at El Sereno Community Garden on Saturday, Sept 28th- for more information on this please email poormag@gmail.com
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