VENICE FOOD NOT BOMBS vs CITY OF LOS ANGELES |
MICHEAL ZINZIN |
A new report on homeless deaths, "Dying Without Digity." from the National Coalition for the Homeless This report is an investigation into homeless deaths in Los Angeles County between January, 2000 and May, 2007, based on statistics provided by the Los Angeles County Coroner's office. Homelessness in Los Angeles: Los Angeles has the disgrace of being the homeless capital of the United States...It is a disgrace that such a small percentage of the homeless population in LA is sheltered. |
Read February Free Venice Beachhead Article on Page 3 |
Read the LA Times Article LATimes Link |
LAMC 80.69.4 is the new Oversize Vehicle Permit Law, which the City Council claims is for removing the "blight" of oversize vehicles being stored on city streets. Yet there already is a law for vehicles illegally stored on city streets! It is |
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Justice Committee Member Complains to Coastal Commission: |
City of Santa Monica State of California (under construction) |
The Overnight Parking District Committee of the Venice Neighborhood Council is the Council's main source for public support for these Parking Districts in Venice. See who signed this petition: Rose Ave Developer |
Venice Gentrification H-Bomb --To Poor, Rainbows, Travelers and the Arts: L.A. City's Newest Plan Will Kick Everybody Living in Vehicles Out of Venice Beach Article by Venice Artist Posted to Indymedia |
Please write: to Oppose anti-homeless laws! |
The Argonaut News Paper is a Marina Del Rey based newspaper dominated by real estate advertising. This article was kept on their web site as a "Top Story" due to the amount of on-line comments: Venice: Residents say RVs parking overnight are turning some areas into a campground If the link gets lost, click here: |
LAMC 80.54 is a Los Angeles City Law that originated in Venice and it creates Overnight Parking Districts, which is a Permit System for so-called residents being used to remove the 100 or so people living in vehicles out of Venice! The Four Districts in the picture Cover Most of the Venice Coastal Zone AND Council District 11 could be Spending $70-$90 Thousand Dollars of the Venice Surplus Property Fund for the Coastal Permits! |
To report violations of civil and human rights in Venice or Santa Monica, you can email: justicecommittee@fastmail.fm When describing an incident, provide as much detail and basic facts as possible. Make sure you write down the facts: date and time, location with street names, print names and contact information of witnesses, print number on police car and descriptions or names of police officers or city employees, and provide any paperwork when possible. Provide a copy of the ticket and any pictures attached as pdf or jpg files whenever possible. Our Incident Report |
View the above photo albums or watch: taken by members of the Justice Committee Featured in the LA Times, CNN, Associated Press, etc |
JUSTICE COMMITTEE & MEDIA GROUP The Justice Committee strives to document violations of human and civil rights and to work on specific justice projects with groups or individuals willing to actively participate in an effort to achieve peace and justice in the community. The Media Group recognizes the need to communicate through multiple forms of media in order to keep the community and others informed about justice issues. |
View the above photo albums or watch: taken by members of the Justice Committee Featured in the LA Times, CNN, Associated Press, etc |
Justice Committee Member bios: Cavlin E. Moss has been active in the struggle for human rights for well over 20 years. He is a founding member of the Venice/Santa Monica Food Not Bombs and of the Venice Justice Committee. He was a Vietnam era anti-war activist who refused induction into the US military and was a conscientious objector. He, himself, was homeless in the Venice/Santa Monica area for over ten years while fighting for the rights of the homeless. Peggy Lee Kennedy - also a member of Venice Food Not Bombs and the Justice Committee - is a third generation Venice resident whose mother, Marvena Kennedy, was on the Venice Town Council in the 1970's. Peggy has carried on a family tradition of standing up for human and civil rights and she is deeply concerned with the consequences of gentrification. Peggy holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Information's Systems with a minor in Women's Studies from Loyola Marymount University and worked as a single mother for most of her adult life. Both Peggy and Calvin have been trained in Formal Consensus and hold certificates as Trainers of Formal Consensus - taught by C.T. Lawrence Butler, the inventor of Formal Consensus and original co-founder of Food Not Bombs. |
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To report violations of civil and human rights in Venice or Santa Monica, you can email: justicecommittee@fastmail.fm When describing an incident, provide as much detail and basic facts as possible. Make sure you write down the facts: date and time, location with street names, print names and contact information of witnesses, print number on police car and descriptions or names of police officers or city employees, and provide any paperwork when possible. Provide a copy of the ticket and any pictures attached as pdf or jpg files whenever possible. Our Incident Report |
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LAMC 80.54 is a Los Angeles City Law that originated in Venice and it creates Overnight Parking Districts, which is a Permit System for so-called residents being used to remove the 100 or so people living in vehicles out of Venice! The Four Districts in the picture Cover Most of the Venice Coastal Zone AND Council District 11 could be Spending $70-$90 Thousand Dollars of the Venice Surplus Property Fund for the Coastal Permits! |
The Argonaut News Paper is a Marina Del Rey based newspaper dominated by real estate advertising. This article was kept on their web site as a "Top Story" due to the amount of on-line comments: Venice: Residents say RVs parking overnight are turning some areas into a campground If the link gets lost, click here: |
Please write: to Oppose anti-homeless laws! |
Venice Gentrification H-Bomb --To Poor, Rainbows, Travelers and the Arts: L.A. City's Newest Plan Will Kick Everybody Living in Vehicles Out of Venice Beach Article by Venice Artist Posted to Indymedia |
Map of four Overnight Parkiing Districts in Venice: OPD 520, OPD 521, OPD 522, OPD 523 |
Links to Anti-Homeless Reactionary Groups in Venice: |
The Overnight Parking District Committee of the Venice Neighborhood Council is the Council's main source for public support for these Parking Districts in Venice. See who signed this petition: Rose Ave Developer |
City of Santa Monica State of California (under construction) |
Justice Committee Member Complains to Coastal Commission: |
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LAMC 80.69.4 is the new Oversize Vehicle Permit Law, which the City Council claims is for removing the "blight" of oversize vehicles being stored on city streets. Yet there already is a law for vehicles illegally stored on city streets! It is |
The Los Angeles City Council has now created a new kind of Permit Parking District that restricts the use of public streets only to certain vehicles and certain people during night time hours in the city of Los Angeles. It is now operating as a pilot program, one in Council District 11 near the VA and the other in San Pedro. |
Read the LA Times Article LATimes Link |
Read February Free Venice Beachhead Article on Page 3 |
A new report on homeless deaths, "Dying Without Digity." from the National Coalition for the Homeless This report is an investigation into homeless deaths in Los Angeles County between January, 2000 and May, 2007, based on statistics provided by the Los Angeles County Coroner's office. Homelessness in Los Angeles: Los Angeles has the disgrace of being the homeless capital of the United States...It is a disgrace that such a small percentage of the homeless population in LA is sheltered. |
Class Action Lawsuit Settlement Helps Venice Homeless! Carol Sobel, President of the Los Angeles National Lawyer's Guild, settled a class action lawsuit in favor of Venice homeless people whose property was seized by the Los Angeles Police and other City employees, without warrant, and then destroyed during a homeless sweep that took place back in September 2004 - just before Labor Day. Sobel waived her legal fees, increasing the total cash settlement available to homeless people, and the cash was dispersed the first week of February 2007! The case, Noe v. the City of Los Angeles, was partly based on written and videotaped statements from twenty-two people directly affected by the sweep along with videotape and still picture evidence of ten or more dumpsters full of the homeless people's belongings found in Westchester (three towns south of Venice) and documented by Calvin E Moss and Peggy Lee Kennedy of Venice Food Not Bombs and the Venice Justice Committee. |
Also, and very significantly, Attorney Carol Sobel of the National Lawyer's Guild cared enough to follow through with a lawsuit providing cash settlements to Venice homeless people, which helped move some into housing situations and improved their living conditions. The settlement further included an order regarding removal of property if not abandoned and property must now be held for ninety days. Common sense, the constitution, and the State of California seem to all say we are supposed to be protected from the police seizing our property without a warrant or probable cause. Legally and morally, Police should not seize and destroy property in order to rid an area of it's homeless population. Such is the situation, though, in Venice Beach, California. |
The Constitution of the United States of America Bill of Rights, Amendment IV |