Share: Mayor Karen Bass announced a new initiative that will rely on private donations to help provide homes for LA’s unhoused. While this sounds good, it’s unclear if this will be a step in the right direction. What else could be done for the unhoused crisis? On paper, it’s great seeing Mayor Bass have such ambition in announcing her plan considering how bad the homeless situation is. Proposing a new bill or adjusting the system for more benefits would honestly be a better solution than …
The state of homelessness at PCC
Share: The PCC Police Department (PCCPD) receives daily and continuous reports from students and staff of transients on campus taunting students with objects, setting up camp in the library, showering in the locker rooms and sleeping in the elevators prompting responding officers to escort them off campus. Follow:
Pro/Con: Starbucks pulls the plug on patrons
Share: Starbucks began removing outlets in stores this past March in an effort to reduce transient traffic as well as Wi-Fi squatters, what are your thoughts on this move and is it effective? Follow:
PCC’s sustainability seeks a step-up
Share: As climate change continues to affect the world with rising temperatures, increasing sea levels, and unusual heat waves, PCC looks to reduce their carbon footprint and increase methods of sustainability, but their print remains. Follow:
Political Dissident: Food assistance bias is unhealthy
Share: “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”- Frederick Douglass Follow:
When helping the homeless, ‘Give with Confidence’
Share: “It is just a piece of the puzzle,” said PCC computer graphic design professor Jerry Graves, talking about new street signs he made with his students. The signs reads, “Give with Confidence. Homes for the homeless” and lists the website for the Real Change Movement. Follow: