December 14th, 2000- This page is started.
August 13th, 2001- Last update.
Opiniated resources for low income people in Humboldt County added to site. View via this link
Following numerous attacks on homeless and other low income residents of Humboldt County, California, both "legal" via vicious legislation and police activities, and illegal or quasi-legal via brutal physical attacks (some documented on the Humboldt Hate Crime log) this page has been established to document these activities and also includes some opinion. At this point treatment of homeless veterans is emphasized in these pages but only because it is the most repugnant in this notoriously corrupt, drug producing, community.
The Home for Homeless Veterans...that isn't
The City of Eureka, California, the county seat of Humboldt County, California obtained favored status from the U.S. Coast Guard last summer (2000) in a fanfare of fireworks and a show of American flags all over town. In the process "cleaning up the streets" of homeless people, MANY of whom are...military veterans, a large percentage of which are combat veterans with physical and emotional/mental problems...part of the sacrifice of war. When the Vietnam Veterans of California (with whom I am not connected) attempted to open a home for homeless veterans, after obtaining funding and purchasing a building suitable for the purpose they were viciously attacked and prevented from doing so by influential residents of the Eureka area surrounding the site. The appeal to the planning commission sited every technicality they could come up with and vilified the expected veteran occupants in every way possible. Following is some information on this including minutes of some of these meetings, the appeals themselves and a little video of the site and the area around it plus video of flags etc. in the stark streets of Eureka. (you need a RealMedia player for this and they are available at their website.) ..or directly:
Video
a short piece of raw video of the building and then the street it is on.
...and flags for the first anniversary on downtown streets.
Text
minutes of planning commission from July 6th, 2000 in rich text format (viewable in most text editors)
We don't have the initial appeal yet but do have supporting claims of the appellants, also in rich text format.
What can you do?
* You might drop a line to the Coast Guard Commandant, Admiral James M. Loy*
Or ..or via their 'email distribution' page.
NEW as of 8-17-2001-Sign this online version of the petition to the Coast Guard Commandant to rescind the "Official Coast Guard City" as the greatest self serving hypocrisy.
Or you can print a copy of the petition to the Coast Guard and distribute it in your locale.
Contact Mike Thompson, U.S. congressman for this district.
Contact Barbara Boxer, U.S. Senator for California.
Contact Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Senator for California.
Other examples of the moral fiber of Humboldt County
Articles on the beating death of a homeless man while he slept in his sleeping bag in Redway, a town not far south of Eureka and attempted murder of a homeless man in Arcata just north of Eureka can be found by searching the archives of the Times Standard
Some more information on this is available at The Humboldt Hate Crime log, though this has not been updated for a while and some links are now dead, the links to articles at the Eureka Times Standard in particular as they have gone to a searchable archive instead of a simple, easy to reference, chronological one.
links to newspaper articles we could find, more to come:
On planning commission meeting of Oct. 3rd, 2000
On planning commission meeting of Oct. 4th, 2000
Eureka is not the only place where there are many veterans living on the streets and hidden away in the bushes etc. and the Veteran's Administration knows this although they have very little assistance for those veterans. Generally a cup of coffee or a couple days in a shelter but rarely does a veteran actually end up with housing, with an actual apartment or house, in spite of having a gigantic budget dedicated to homeless veterans in the V.A. One possible explanation may be found in this radio interview(Real Media) with a man who succeeded in suing the Veteran's Administration and getting two V.A. attorneys locked up. Although this was for cheating veterans out of claims for disability compensation, it shows the mentality and legal standing of the VA. The interviewer is a 25 year veteran of the DEA and the attorney he interviews is credible.
Links concerning homeless veterans
Mark Heinemann's extensive list of links concerning veteran's rights.
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