Jason Myles

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The Non Profit Industrial Complex With Kristy Lovich

We discuss the business of homelessness. Poverty pimps.

• By Jason Myles
• I discovered Kristy Lovich on Twitter calling out the non-profit world and the local politicians in here native Los Angeles. We talk about working with the unhoused, the paternalistic approach to treating unhoused people, and the law enforcements over involvement with the mentally ill. Some organizations that can use your support: Ground Game LA www.groundgamela.org/ Ktown4All ktownforall.org/ Streetwatch LA streetwatchla.com/ Services Not Sweeps servicesnotsweeps.com/ Meztli Projects www.meztliprojects.org/ Echo Park Rise Up www.instagram.com/echoparkriseup/?hl=en Mountain House: A collective that practices radical stewardship of land, relationships, and culture (on-going tent fund/unsetttling the commons) www.mountainhouse.family/ The Revolution Will Not Be Funded www.dukeupress.edu/the-revolution-…l-not-be-funded Unhousing the Poor: Interlocking Regimes of Racialized Policing Ananya Roy, UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy Terra Graziani, The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, Los Angeles Pamela Stephens, UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy Link to PDF: challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2020/08…e-poor/ The paper, prepared for The Square One Project’s Roundtable on Justice Policy, is part of the Institute’s ongoing research on racial banishment, the expulsion of Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities from our cities through criminalization, policing, and forced removal. With a focus on Los Angeles, the paper examines three regimes of racialized policing: the criminalization of the unhoused, nuisance abatement lawsuits (specifically the Citywide Nuisance Abatement Program, or CNAP), and the forfeiture of public housing. Since this is a paper written for a project concerned with the “social contract,” it concludes with a framework of rights, including “right to remain.” But as this national moment of reckoning in the United States has made vividly clear, such a right cannot be established without dismantling the role of racialized policing in maintaining propertied order. By bringing to light the many forms of spatial illegalization that are constitutive of racial banishment, the research presented in the paper makes a contribution to the ongoing work of housing justice. Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. Please support independent media and become a patron. You'll get bonus content from a lot of the shows. We're currently creating patron only content and you'll get MERCH! Become a patron: www.patreon.com/BitterLakePresents
• Tags: Cover, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Homeless, Gavin Newsom. Wildfires, Poverty, Election 2020, Los Angeles, California, Bay Area, Trump, Socialism, Cover Story, Staff Pick

THIS IS REVOLUTION podcast ep. 72 How We Overcome the Crippling Burden of Debt w/ The Debt Collective

• By Jason Myles
• We all have fell victim to it. We've had the phone calls from bill collectors, some of us may have even had wage garnishments due to our debts. It always feels like you against a powerful machine that uses your hardship, or class as money machine. I came across the Debt Collective and really believed in what they're doing. They're forming debtors unions to take the power away from these financial institutions and back into the hands of the people. From an article written by co-founder of Debt Collective Hannah Appel: "Through the threat of collective nonpayment, debtors’ unions can leverage today’s mass indebtedness. And because so much of our lives have been financialized, this potential power goes far beyond an opportunity to reduce individual indebtedness. Debtors’ unions could demand mortgage write-downs, an end to racist lending practices, a cap on ballooning adjustable interest rates, student debt discharge, truly free public education, single-payer healthcare, or an end to money bail and extractive criminal justice fees. This is the provocation around which we organize at the Debt Collective." I spoke with Hannah Appel, co-founder of Debt Collective about the different ways these institutions cripple us with debt and what we can do to collectively fight back and WIN! Hannah Appel's piece in Dissent Magazine: www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articl…debtors-union Splinter Magazine Piece about Tim Geitner and Payday Loans: splinternews.com/tim-geithner-is-…-runn-1827285288 Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1520-ca…pay-won-t-pay Debt Collective: debtcollective.org/ Thank you for taking the time to check this out, we truly appreciate you. Please support independent media and become a patron. You'll get bonus content from most of the shows, we're creating patron only programing, AND YOU'LL GET MERCH! Become a patron: www.patreon.com/BitterLakePresents
• Tags: Cover, Debt, Debt Collective, Trump, Obama, Financial Crisis, COVID-19