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Homeless community finds power through microgrants
Jan. 06, 2021 at 6:00 am
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With the assistance of a microgrant and a GoFundMe campaign that has garnered thousands of dollars in donations, a pair of Santa Monica residents have partnered to literally empower the local homeless community.
The Civic Wellbeing Partners have are working through a microgrant program that was at risk of becoming obsolete when the City of Santa Monica’s Office of Civic Wellbeing closed due to COVID-19 budget cuts.
Thanks to the efforts of residents like Catalina Langen, Julie Rusk and Claire Lemoine, the program currently has 13 projects in progress around town, including the Universal Human Rights Initiative’s campaign to give portable solar-powered chargers to homeless neighbors in Santa Monica and beyond.
Several national criminal justice advocacy groups have filed a class action lawsuit against judges in the 19th Judicial District Court, alleging their bail practices discriminate against poor people.Â
The lawsuit claims hundreds of people, most of them poor, Black or both, languish in pretrial detention in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison for long periods of time simply because they cannot pay the bail that has been set as the condition for their release. This system inflicts devastating harm on people solely because of their poverty and violates the most fundamental of American axioms, the lawsuit says. That all people are equal under the law and are innocent until they are found guilty. Â