The homeless in Sacramento
Palash Biswas
Contact: Palash C Biswas, C/O Mrs Arati Roy, Gosto Kanan, Sodepur, Kolkata- 700110, India. Phone: 91-033-25659551
Email: alashbiswaskl@gmail.com">palashbiswaskl@gmail.com
Comment: The homeless in Sacramento are actually our domestic refugees, a reflection of the homeless in Amerika and an example of the plight of homeless refugees suffering on a global scale. We are living under an unjust fascist administration, spearheaded by Fuhrer Bush, that can spend nearly a trillion tax-dollars in Iraq-nam in the Middle East. We should be creating homes for the homeless, providing survival programs for the people and helping people to help themselves. What good is a government that does not govern wisely with compassion and help its own people survive?
The homeless will not just go away no matter where you shift them. The issues of the homeless are a harsh example of the survival issues facing millions of poor oppressed people in Amerika. Help the homeless!
For Liberty and Justice for All!
Peter S. Lopez, Humane Being
Email: sacranative@ yahoo.com
Sacramento, California
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http://cbs13. com/topstories/ local_story_ 311071305. html
Nov 7, 2007 4:03 am US/Pacific
Homeless Could Get New Home in Posh Neighborhood
(CBS) SACRAMENTO A group of homeless people evicted from a vacant lot earlier this week are being offered a new place to live.
On Monday, police began ticketing people camped out on Union Pacific property on North B Street in Sacramento.
Now, one of Sacramento's best known bail bondsmen, Leonard Padilla, is offerering to let the homeless move onto property he owns in the Natomas area. Padilla is offering 60 acres of empty land near Del Paso Road and El Centro.
The problem is that the land is in the middle of a developing community surrounded by homes and businesses. People living near by are not happpy at all with this prospect. City officials say they are looking into whether or not Padilla is breaking any City ordinances by allowing the homeless to live on this land.
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http://www.sacbee. com/city/ story/470679. html
City orders homeless to abandon tent city
By Jocelyn Wiener - jwiener@sacbee. com
Last Updated 1:48 pm PST Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Story appeared in METRO section, Page B1
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Irunmole Ibabatunde, 80, holds up a letter ordering homeless people to vacate Union Pacific railroad property near 7th and B streets in Sacramento. Advocates for the homeless say the ban on illegal camping is unfair, since affordable housing and homeless shelter space are in short supply. Paul Kitagaki Jr. / kitagaki@sacbee.">pkitagaki@sacbee. com
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Residents of an informal tent city that has cropped up on a vacant field along North B Street in recent months are packing up their campsites this weekend, saying city and railroad police have threatened them with citation and loss of their belongings if they do not leave by early Monday morning.
About 60 tents remained in the dusty Union Pacific lot Saturday morning; homeless campers said some of their neighbors already had moved on in search of new sites.
Advocates for the homeless
