Redding Homeless Blog

Year after year, a farce of political action takes place at the Redding Martin Luther King Center. A hypocritical fallacy of local political, religious, and non profit leaders trumpeting social action, under the guise of the hopes and aspirations of Martin Luther King Jr's "beloved community" Unfortunately year after year, a beloved community that never includes Redding and Shasta Counties increasingly oppressed and criminalized homeless population.  Of course I suppose one cannot be as vocal about such a marginalized community, when one sits in a MLK Center building bought and paid for by the City of Redding some years back. The same city of Redding that fights homelessness by closing public restrooms and shutting off public drinking fountains during scorching summer days I suppose one cannot still be vocal when the very instruments of Redding homeless oppression are in attendance patting the flesh, shaking hands with those who show themselves subscribing to the id...

  One of many Sacramento River Trail homeless campers displaced today. Tammy from Redding: On Rape, Murder, Parkview "Clean Up" and Her Life on the Streets Wonderful homeless advocates protested the destruction of Redding California homeless camps today during the worst economic recession since the Great Depression .     The protest was a World Homeless Action Day 2013 event. A curiously small group of individuals attended the Community Creek Cleanup 2013 at the Sacramento River Trail, most of the work I am sure left undone.     Students from Bethel Church, Shasta and Foothill High Schools and others, the McConnell foundation, California Conservation Core, Redding Rotary, Redding Electric Utilities , R.E.U. and others destroyed homeless river trail survival camp and beautiful fishing areas during the Redding Shasta Community River Trail Clean Up 2013. Sadly at least one of these was parked there today, and M...

*UPDATE PROTEST Destruction of Redding California Homeless Camps - World Homeless Action Day Event Homeless Advocates ... PROTEST - BRING YOUR CAMERA - INVITE YOUR FRIENDS ! https://www.facebook.com/events/167654713435278/ ___________ Unfortunately it seems like homeless hatred is on the rise in Redding California and abroad.  Homeless folks are rapidly loosing their civil and constitutional rights. Police chase and evict homeless from their camps, some taking and throwing away their necessary survival gear and personal possessions in a cruel and unusual game of cat and mouse. One city   has now set up a hotline to remove homeless people from its no homeless allowed downtown business district. Local businesses and residents can report the location and offensive presence of  homeless person to police on sight making homelessness once again a crime. World Homeless Action Day is a global worldwide collaborative ef...