Redding Homeless Blog

   Imagine if you will, you are heading up a facebook site seeking justice for one of the most heinous crimes ever to be covered up in Shasta County. Oh im not talking about the lynching of the Ruggles brothers or the multitude of other unsolved lynching's over the years here. I speak of the beating, torture and mutilation of a black man covered up some 23 years ago. "The mutilated body of 31 year-old Leo Coleman, Jr. of Redding, California was found hanging from a tree in the nearby town of Anderson by two teenage boys November 24, 1997. "Police reports document that Officer Ochoa received three separate ' reports from three different people on November 24, that Leo Coleman, Jr. was the victim of hanging by adherents of so-called "white pride" elements in the local community. On the day after Leo, Jr.'s death was reported, someone made a drawing of a hanging man and put it on Bobbi Culver, Leo, Jr.''s girlfriend's, front door." After re...

Would you like to draw attention to the problems homeless and poor are suffering in your area and give homeless people a voice? Would you like to help ?  What can Celebrities, Politicians, Church’s, Schools, Youth groups, Businesses and others do ? *Please SHARE this page on Facebook, Twitter, and ALL social media ! *Ask your local Television, Radio, and Newspaper's for coverage of your local Global Homeless Day events highlighting your favorite homeless cause or charity! *Get Involved ! E- Mail this page to ALL YOUR FRIENDS !  *Feel free to use the Global Homeless Day globe logo image,  Help make this yearly event a stunning compassionate success ! Promote your favorite non profit or charity or start your own grassroots  homeless charity day by volunteering and hosting   a  Global Homeless Day 5/5/2019 event ! Help Homeless Families, Children Veterans and others with a Food, Tent, and Sleeping Bag Drive Help Feed Homeless Pets Get...

In April of 2006 Loaves & Fishes, Francis House, SHOC, Homeless Advocates, and the homeless rallied at the California State Capital to urge the City, County, and State to create a Safe Ground where the homeless can camp at night. Homeless Advocates from Modesto to Redding were prepared to be arrested as it is against the law to have a sleeping bag anywhere on State Capital property as homeless advocates block the south state capital entrance  practicing non violent civil disobedience as they dare California State Highway patrol officers to arrest them ! . "The Rally at the California State Capitol for "Safe Ground," the legalization of homelessness begins at Loaves and Fishes with 300 homeless folks getting on the bus and rallying for their cause. Watch the enthusiasm build as they are dropped off at the Capitol steps!" (Part 2) Sister Libby of Sacramento Loaves and Fishes at the non violent civil disobedience rally at the Califo...