Homelessness

Occupy LA: Scenes from the New Revolution // Part 5: The Game is On

February 3, 2012

This is Part-5 of the series; The Game is On. It examines the future of the movement in Los Angeles and beyond. I spent 7 weeks in a tent at City Hall shooting a doc series as the ideological mercury congealed on the steps of just outside the Mayor’s office attracting an endless chorus of relevant [...]

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Occupy LA: Scenes from the New Revolution // Part 2: The Outliers

January 12, 2012

  Part-2 of the series addresses the voices on edge of the movement. The people who occupied City Hall who were the subject of much negative attention in the media. These are people who are relegated to the bottom of the 99% in the American class system. They embody the issues that propel the movement. [...]

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OCCUPY LA: Scenes From The New Revolution//PT-1: A Year Of Dissent

January 6, 2012

  Scenes From The new Revolution is a 5-part doc series that I wrote/directed and produced/withTakePart; the on-line aspect of  Participant Media. I spent 7 weeks in a tent at City Hall shooting as the ideological mercury congealed on the steps of just outside the Mayor’s office attracting an endless chorus of relevant causes. The series that [...]

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PAVEMENT: Hotel Hell

October 13, 2011

Podcast Powered By Podbean I met Charles Porter from United Coalition East Prevention Project when I was working on a cover story for the LA Weekly, Coming Of Age In The Mouth Of Madness. He was advocating to clean up the Ford Hotel. Now owned by SRO Housing Corp, the 25 million dollar transformation is [...]

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PAVEMENT: The Travelers

April 23, 2011

I spent some time with The Travelers at Venice beach, CA. A gang of homeless young hippy-chic, urban gorillas in camo shorts and TJ hoodies with carefully considered, naturally occurring disheveled hair dos that kids in the Palisades drop hot dollars to chemically configure. They’d all been through a lot in the first two decades [...]

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