Peace with Justice Pantry - FREE Market

The Peace with Justice Pantry has a big food give away every Thursday from the parking lot of the Venice United Methodist Church.

Man Pepper Sprayed on Venice Beach while hand cu...

Reactionary Hate Venice OPD Election

Video of Venice Neighborhood Watch person and the LAPD blocking the entrance when the Venice NYMBY Neighborhood Council voted to remove homeless people living in RVs. What is Next? A vote to incinerate the ones left on the street!http://la.indymedia.org/news/2009/02/224966.php

No OPDs in Venice! The People Don't Want Them.

The Los Angeles City Council person for Venice passed a law that is meant to remove people who live in vehicles from an area - it is called Overnight Parking Districts or the OPD law. It is a permit parking system that restricts parking only between the hours of 2 - 6am. This law will be used, similar to other laws, to drive out the poor and the homeless from Venice and away from the essencial services that exist in Venice.Most people who live in Venice do not want OPDs, but that does not seem...

Thursday Food Give Away with Venice Food Not Bom...

Keith McHenry, original Food Not Bombs co-founder, visited our regular Thursday food give away and stopped for a photo op between Karin, Peggy, and Pati (poor Calvin is never in the pictures cause he is always taking the photos!) The Thursday food give away is a joint effort between Venice Food Not Bombs and the Venice United Methodist Church Peace and Justice Pantry. Talk about truck loads of food!

Venice BOE OPD Hearing - Scene 1

On June 26, 2008, an independent contractor hired by the Los Angeles City Bureau of Engineering held a hearing in Venice, which is part of the Coastal Development Permit process for installing Overnight Permit [parking] Districts (OPD)s in the Venice coastal zone.These OPDs are permit parking systems good only between 2 and 6AM and are specifically being used to remove homeless people living in vehicles out of Venice. Only those people who fit into the City's narrow definition of "resident" wi...

Reactionary Anti-Homeless

A spontaneous interview of a man who is not well informed regarding the lack of affordable housing, the need for a better healthcare system, growing economic injustice, the need for more emergency services and how these things all directly affect homelessness in our community - a man who thinks that homeless people are "riff raff" and that they are just "beating the system by sleeping in the park."He approached us while we were documenting how a man living homeless in Venice was arrested and t...

Venice Food Not Bombs vs City of Los Angeles

Activists struggle to save the Venice Free Speech Zone.