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Local All-Stars Help the Homeless People — Will You?

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“Silence encourages the tormentor …”

This is what happens when those in authority disparage a particular group of people. Whether they mean to or not, their public expressions of contempt and disrespect give permission, and even encouragement, to those looking for an excuse to manifest their anger and hatred in violent actions against the most vulnerable. I predict that future history books will call this the Trump Effect.

So it comes as no surprise to me that here in San Diego, we are suddenly seeing an increase in brutal attacks on people sleeping on the street. For months we have watched our police, as authority figures, acting on orders to torment those experiencing homelessness and struggling to survive on our city streets with weekly sweeps.

Talk about kicking a person when they’re down!   [Read more…]

Attacker of Four Homeless Men Found In Chula Vista …

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… Pedestrian Crossing In San Ysidro Opens This Month — With Glitches, and Sales Tax Increase for Chula Vista on November Ballot

Doug Porter has been reporting on the attack of homeless men in San Diego. Four people were assaulted in their sleep, two set on fire. Two men later died. Frank Gormlie at the OB Rag also carried the story about the assaults on Angelo De Nardo, 53, Shawn Mitchell Longley, 41, Manual Nunez Mason, 61, and a 23-year-old man (not named).

The suspect was found in Chula Vista.

Anthony Alexander Padgett, 36, has been taken into custody. He was located at Broadway and H Street. He was born in Chula Vista and reports say he has a criminal history.   [Read more…]

Dallas Chaos: 11 Police Officers Shot, Five Killed In Coordinated Attack

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Editor’s Note: According to the Dallas police press conference this morning there is only one suspect. Other arrests turned out to be in error. He has been positively identified as Micah X. Johnson, with no known associations with terrorist or Black Lives Matter.

Staff / AlterNet

Dallas police officers were ambushed by snipers on Thursday night after a peaceful protest by Black Lives Matter prompted by the killing by police of black men in the past 48 hours in Louisiana and Minnesota.

Dallas police report that 11 officers were shot and five have died. Reportedly, one civilian was also shot.   [Read more…]

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and That’s Not Funny

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A killer targeting homeless humans is likely using San Diego’s transit system to get to his “work…”

…Another human gunned down in Minneapolis for –apparently– being a scary Black person, the day after cops in Louisiana are caught trying to cover their asses following what many are calling an extra-legal execution…

…And a local Congressman is ready to shut down the government to prove his loyalty to an orange-colored racist dog posing as a presidential candidate Donald Trump.   [Read more…]

Welcome to Half Dome, Sponsored by Nike

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Instead of funding our parks, the government will now auction off naming rights to the highest corporate bidders.

By Jill Richardson / OtherWords

Imagine painstakingly making up your way up the cables of Yosemite National Park’s famous Half Dome peak — only to see swooshes and slogans encouraging you to “Just Do It.”

“Welcome to Half Dome,” a gleaming banner greets you, “sponsored by Nike.”

Unfortunately, it’s a possibility. As the coverage swells over Barack and Michelle Obama’s recent visit to Yosemite and Carlsbad Caverns, Americans are learning that national parks will now start selling naming rights.   [Read more…]

ACLU Report Details how U.S. Has Failed Deported Veterans

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July 8 action at San Diego US Border to recognize non-citizen veterans

By ACLU of California

The federal government’s failure to help naturalize immigrants serving in the U.S. military has led to the deportation of untold numbers of veterans, all of whom were entitled to become citizens because of their service, according to a report released on July 6 by the ACLU of California.

The report, “Discharged, Then Discarded,” found that deported veterans were in the U.S. legally and sustained physical wounds and emotional trauma in conflicts as far back as the war in Vietnam. Once they returned from service, however, they were subject to draconian immigration laws that reclassified many minor offenses as deportable crimes, and were effectively banished from this country.   [Read more…]

Why Governor Brown’s Housing Plan Is Bad for Planning

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By Murtaza H. Baxamusa, Ph.D., AICP / San Diego UrbDeZine

Governor Jerry Brown’s “Streamlining Affordable Housing Approvals” proposal will have far-reaching consequences on urban planning in cities and counties across California. However, there has been little discussion about the real-world consequences of this policy on the planning profession with regard to public participation.

Simply put, the Governor wants to get rid of local discretion in the approval of multi-family residential projects. To invoke this “by-right” privilege, developers have to limit market-rate (not “affordable”) units to between 80-95 percent of their projects, build on parcels that have urban uses around them on sites zoned for residential uses, and avoid dangerous and sensitive sites where they should not be building in the first place.   [Read more…]

How to Win Workplace Equality? Invest in Neighborhoods Where Women Need It Most

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Women make up nearly half of the workforce, yet old-fashioned policies keep them unequal partners. To remedy this, we must first ensure basic opportunities—like making sure girls can get to school.

By Angela Glover Blackwell / Yes! Magazine

Shelia Williams, a single mother of five in Memphis, Tennessee, was putting herself through college when the city cut bus routes within the low-income, primarily Black neighborhood where she and her family lived. She almost failed her classes and had to derail her career goals simply because she couldn’t get to school.

Determined to finish school, Williams co-founded the Memphis Bus Riders Union, which successfully advocated to restore bus service. They did this by showing the Memphis Area Transit Authority how essential public transit routes were to opportunity for low-income residents in the city. Today, Williams is a member of the Memphis Area Transit Authority Board of Commissioners and remains an avid advocate for public transit in her city.

Williams’ case is an inspiring story, but this was a battle she shouldn’t have had to wage in the first place.   [Read more…]

[Updated] Another Homeless Human Nearly Murdered

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As Wednesday morning’s gray skies crept over the city, the San Diego Police were called to State and E Streets, where a man was fatally critically injured and set on fire. Police told NBC7 that a suspect was running from the area of the attack, near the Federal Courthouse.

Two additional assaults on persons believed to be homeless were reported Wednesday morning. These attacks come on the heels of a 24-hour spree over the holiday weekend where two people were killed and another left with serious injuries.

Just an hour after the first incident Wednesday morning, two more attacks were reported. A man sitting at the Fifth and University bus stop–where many homeless people go after being released from emergency room care– was struck by an unknown object in the back of the head. A few blocks away a man sleeping on Third Ave., not far away from Mercy Hospital was struck in the head with a rock, according to police.   [Read more…]

Surfrider Volunteers Collect 1,131 Pounds of Trash

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By Mandy Sackett / Surfrider Foundation San Diego County Chapter

Over 300 volunteers gathered at four popular beaches on July 5th to assist with the Surfrider Foundation San Diego County Chapter’s annual post-Fourth of July Morning After Mess beach series. By midday, Surfrider volunteers had recovered 1,131 pounds of trash which otherwise would have been washed into the sea where it would add to the already critical pollution problem devastating the world’s oceans.

Surfrider volunteers hosted four cleanups in collaboration with I Love a Clean San Diego and San Diego Coastkeeper from 8 a.m. to 11a.m. at the Ocean Beach Pier, Belmont Park in Mission Beach, Crystal Pier in Pacific Beach and the Oceanside Pier. These cleanup sites were chosen because of the high concentration of beachgoers and notorious reputations for post-Fourth of July trash.   [Read more…]

#ISISAttackingMuslims: Twitter Users Remind World Who Most Terror Victims Are

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“Before blaming Muslims for Isis, remember that Isis terrorist attacks [are] targeting more Muslims than any other groups.”

By Nadia Prupis / Common Dreams

In the aftermath of the that killed hundreds in Iraq over the weekend, Muslims took to social media to remind the world that the primary targets of terrorist attacks are Muslims.   [Read more…]

As Benghazi probe fizzles, recall when GOP ignored security

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By Sher Watts Spooner / Daily Kos

The latest House Benghazi committee, which Republicans hoped would sink Hillary Clinton’s presidential hopes, released its final report early—because there was nothing in it worth saving for an election eve scandal.

Rep. Trey Gowdy and his fellow Republicans stretched out the probe (the eighth such committee to investigate the attack that killed U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans) to two years and spent $7 million to try to dig up new dirt on former Secretary of State Clinton. They failed.   [Read more…]

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