{"id":28124,"date":"2012-03-13T10:14:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T17:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=28124"},"modified":"2012-03-13T10:14:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T17:14:16","slug":"venice-communities-fight-gentrification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/03\/13\/venice-communities-fight-gentrification\/","title":{"rendered":"Venice Communities Fight Gentrification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-031312\/2012_03_13_venice.mp3\">this segment<\/a>  | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-031312\/2012_03_13_uprising.mp3\"> entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/venice.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Residents and activists in Venice beach say police are harassing community members and the homeless as a new wave of gentrification hits the city, best known for its eclectic beach-loving population. Last Wednesday dozens of homeless people lost their personal belongings when the Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation, in cooperation with the LA Police Department, raided a homeless encampment at Third Street between Rose and Sunset Avenues in Venice Beach. Los Angeles City Councilman Bill Rosendahl said the city was conducting a &#8220;sanitation action&#8221; that was only meant to sweep up abandoned property. The homeless disagree, and say their personal items, including prescription medications, wallets, and clothing, were indiscriminately collected and immediately dumped into garbage trucks. Adding to the outrage of the community is a feeling of betrayal, because police began directing the homeless to the Third Street encampment when the city began enforcing a no camping ordinance on the boardwalk, which displaced many homeless individuals. Venice residents from the Oakwood neighborhood and others also report an increase in community members being ticketed by police for small infractions, such as  not having the fence around a home properly painted. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUESTS: David Busch, an activist with the Spirit of Venice Coalition, Maria Fitzsimmons, and organizer with People Organized for Westside Renewal, or POWER, and Kendra Moore, a POWER leader and president of the Holiday Venice Tenant Action Committee<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.power-la.org\">www.power-la.org<\/a> for more information. There will a direct action training in relation to the Venice area activism on April 14-15, 2012. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.99spring.com\">www.99spring.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to this segment | entire program Residents and activists in Venice beach say police are harassing community members and the homeless as a new wave of gentrification hits the city, best known for its eclectic beach-loving population. Last Wednesday dozens of homeless people lost their personal belongings when the Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}