Houseless in Paradise

The drive north along the southern California coast from L.A. to Santa Barbara is a mind-expanding passage. The concrete confines of downtown Los Angeles, where I'd spent the better part of last year relents to Pacific Ocean panoramas.

Breathing a little deeper with each mile I put...

The pressing question is what's next for the 99 percent movement? The answer is big mass protests in 2012 the likes of which the U.S. has never seen.

The Arab Spring inspired movement that expressed itself in thousands of occupation camps across the country has created a network of activists...

Forty-eight years after President Lyndon Baines Johnson handed the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. the pen he'd just used to sign the Civil Rights Act in 1964 at the White House, the Civil Rights Movement has a new infusion of tangible hope from the 99 percent in Los...

Occupation is a tactic of the 99% movement. The end of the physical Occupation at City Hall in Los Angeles was the beginning of the next phase of the Movement, the order beyond the chaos of the occupation. Though the General Assembly still convenes on the west steps of City...

The occupation at City Hall in Los Angeles can best be described in terms of digestion; the People have coughed up a big hairball on the Mayor's front lawn.

Deep in the inner sanctum of the movement among the post apocalyptic urban gorilla ravers are a core of...

The Occupy L.A. camp at City Hall in Los Angeles is in its 30th consecutive peaceful day. I moved my tent to City Hall where I'll be blogging, uploading images and video on Pavementseries.com and other sites daily.

The Occupation is a 24-hour movement. Nights are long...

After watching the media coverage of the Occupy LA movement I was disheartened. It was decidedly glib and undermined the efforts of citizens who took it upon themselves to express their constitutional rights by demonstrating.

I moved my tent to City Hall this morning and set an intention to stay...

The southern California sun shone on the steps of City Hall in Los Angeles last week illuminating the currently mercurial-agended, neo-leftist of the Occupy LA movement. Just down the street the same sun reflected off the monuments to capitalism, the skyscrapers in the financial district and lit up the human...

A sharp divide in the recent Supreme Court ruling ordering California to drastically reduce its prison population represents a deeper national division.

33,000 inmates are court-mandated to be released over the next two years. Governor Brown wants to transfer inmates to local jails but doesn't...

I took a leap back into the homeless-journalism vortex recently in my Pavement transmedia series for the LA Weekly. I went out with a camera in the pounding rain and froze my ass off for a few days with some people sleeping on the street in Sun Valley,...