Gina Viola

One cool way to solve homelessness that isn’t an authoritarian take over of a city is to give everyone homes

More than anything, it’s the sellouts that always sting the most. And there are just so many of you. Like LA’s tiny mosquitoes, mosquitoes were supposed to be an east coast thing. Suppose sell outs were too. And here we are.

A Mexican food station at the farmer’s market with a cardboard sign that says “free burrito and drink for homeless only”

Faith in humanity restored at the Minneapolis Farmer’s Market

Jim McDonnell as police chief and now a prosecutor as head of LAHSA. It’s so clear our DEMOCRATIC lead city’s plan for poverty is prison. When will we learn we have to stop electing democrats? We need a new attitude.

Leaving Union Station going past men’s central jail just makes my blood boil that it is STILL NOT CLOSED!!!! How many more people must die before they take action on a 5 year old decision? @lacountybos.bsky.social IM ASKING YOU!

HOW ARE PEOPLE STILL RUNNING AS DEMOCRATS!!!!!?????

Every Democrat in this photo would have you believe they’re standing up to fascism with all of their might.

Engraved line of chinese poetry captioned "Stroking the sword while lamenting the social realities" (tE 剑伤世路），engravedbyShen Qianqiu. Ming Dynasty (Fig. 14)

Who up stroking they sword while lamenting social realities

We are winning LA!!! Imma tell you that!

AI is not useful.

We respond to the acquittal of the killers of Tyre Nichols of Memphis

YouTube video by Middle Nation ICE Is the Prototype for America’s Corporate Police State

Could not have put this moment any better. How do we get folks to give up their own interests to fight against this before it's too late? And by folks, I mean white folks. THIS is the question. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKew...

HELP KTOWN VENDORS STAY SAFE ® HOME DONATE NOW to love your neighbors & help them resist ICE TAMALE BUY-OUT! LET'S GO! Venmo: @AndreinaKniss

Organizers in LA are raising money to do tamale buyouts from local tamale vendors who are unable to safely vend on the street due to ICE kidnapping vendors. The tamales will be distributed to unhoused neighbors. Please consider donating — I personally vouch for this one: venmo.com?txn=pay&audi...

Cops lie all of the time. All of the time.

there was a reason why folks demanded to abolish ICE and to defund the police.

Proving that @gavinnewsom.bsky.social is most certainly aiding these ICE raids with his state cops. He ain’t fighting Trump one bit.

Why did your police help ICE then?

@ReclaimingOurHomes #housingisahumanright TikTok video by Ginaforla

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8MgWWV4/

Elderly man builds tree house to protest eviction from state-owned home After more than five years living in a publicly owned, previously vacant duplex, Benito Flores faced down an eviction attempt Tuesday.

Reclaimer Benito Flores in the LA Times. Do not miss this story. And join us in El Sereno to see what community looks and feels like. Shame on @governor.ca.gov & MariaElena Durazo $ @habitatforhumanity.bsky.social who were able to purchase homes like this for pennies

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Green book cover for bell hooks Teaching Community A Pedagogy of Hope. Cover includes red square with gold star in the middle and the words “la estrella”

Thank you @bryantodega.bsky.social for making this flight a little sweeter with bell hooks 🙏❤️

Thank you for uplifting and joining our struggles. @poormagazine.bsky.social is what’s up! So much love for all the Povertyskolas!!!

YouTube video by Poor News Network/Prensa POBRE Reclaiming Homes resists violent #evictions #landback

Resisting more violent state sponsored evictions #ReclaimingOurHomes youtu.be/d5LbWYzIwWg?...

Pride, Prejudice, and Homelessness An open letter to religious parents who exile their LGBTQIA+ kids

This Pride Month, we Christians must reckon with one way we have caused and perpetuated the crisis of youth homelessness: by exiling our LGBTQIA+ children.

Last year, I wrote this open letter to those who do so.
I fear it's even more relevant this year.

kevinmnye.substack.com/p/pride-prej...

Agreed. My last show at the Forum felt like the order was sucking the joy out of the entire experience. Couldn’t even chat with a friend for 2 minutes without being forced back into our seats. In between acts!!!

“The HACKLA” 2 Benito Flores is being removed from the Caltrans home he wants to buy. Why is the City’s Housing Authority blocking his right to purchase the unit?

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SWEEP SUPPORT VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! Wednesday, May 28 at 7am 312 N Juanita Ave (at Beverly) in Rampart Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez signed off on another big sweep! Show up to support the unhoused folks he continues to target. Email lastreetcare@gmail.com if you can show up!

🚨URGENT SWEEP SUPPORT NEEDED!🚨
Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez and @cd13.lacity.gov are targeting this Rampart encampment with yet another sweep tomorrow morning. Show up and help the folks living there--their Councilmember certainly won't!

YouTube video by The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini) On Biden's Diagnosis

This is basically the words and take I’ve been trying to figure out how to articulate about Biden’s diagnosis. @franifio.bsky.social said it much better than I could.

when people get like "where is the American left?" I remind them whenever an effective leftist movement coalesces the state starts murdering people

I'm doubtful it's very useful to fixate on every new absurdist health official appointed by Trump and new obscene cut by RFK Jr. To effectively oppose them, we need to be loudly and clearly articulating––and implementing at state and local level, for now––an alternative, new vision for US health.

Tune in to @kpfk.bsky.social tomorrow on www.hc4us.org to hear about our delegation to Cuba. Guess what, they have healthcare and it's excellent! Only thing holding it back is the nasty US blockade!