“DEFENSE of NECESSITY”: The BEGINNING…and It Shall Be The End! Narrative.
After May 10th, 1985, City-County shut down the Justiceville Shantytown of downtown
…Los Angeles’s Skid Row, the “Black Hole” and “Ground 0” in the National Capital of Homelessness,
…located on Gladys Street, between 5th and 6th Streets, in early Summer circa June,
…Two brave US Military Veterans and I were arrested for trespassing.
The Veterans’ names are: on your left, Wendall Grady; on your right, Walter Bannister.
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With the aid of the ACLU and a couple of other high-powered law firms, we won
…the LA Municipal Court, 12-member jury case based on what Justiceville had been espousing
…via media-covered acts of activism,
…since the January beginning of Justiveville, which was dubbed the historically unprecedented,
…the now legendary, “The Defense of Nececesity” Court Decession.
This now notorious court case is the foundation, root, base, and progenitor of the local and national
…encampment protection movements began with the LA ACLUS-led Jones and Boise Acts.
These Acts ignited what became dubbed the “Homeless Civil Rights Movement”
By the decisions of the Ninth District Court, until local, state, and federal governments
…provide adequate “beds”-housing-shelter for homeless persons, they were
…immune from law enforcement of public health and safety codes. Un-arrestible!
Violations of public health and safety codes, justified, the City-County
…shutdown and bulldozing of Justiceville.
See: “Justiceville Parts 1 & 2”, the 1988, Emmy Award-winning short Documentary
This was/is the Beginning and the End of homelessness in the USA and the world.
“Think Globally. Act Locally”