Occupy Santa Ana

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7nd5x/anarchists-are-building-diy-heaters-to-keep-unhoused-people-warm

Anarchists are Building DIY Heaters to Keep Unhoused People Warm Open-source blueprints are inspiring activists to distribute tent-safe heaters that can be built for as little as $7.

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, also known as the CARES Act, is a stimulus package passed by Congress to help municipalities pay for expenses which arise out of the COVID-19 pandemic. In allocating CARES Act funds, OC leaders have spent more on the sheriff than on public health workers. Orange County received $554 million in CARES Act funds; $93 million went to payroll at the Sheriff’s Department, while $58 million was spent on Health Care Agency employees. Yet people inside OC jails say none of the sheriff’s funding has done anything to improve the dire situation in the jails.

Orange County has not been transparent about CARES Act spending. It was recently discovered Orange County officials secretly signed contracts dispensing hundreds of thousands of tax-paying dollars from the CARES budget to hire a PR firm. At least $93 million of the pandemic relief funds were spent on Sheriff’s Department costs by the end of October. The county claimed that the funding was given to the sheriff to cover costs ranging from public safety payroll, to adding shields and barriers for social distancing at facilities, to buying cold meals for incarcerated people to allow social distancing. Yet people inside have no opportunity to social distance according to an ongoing lawsuit brought by the ACLU alleging dangerous and inhumane conditions during COVID-19.

Voice of OC has been holding it down covering is crucial stories throughout the pandemic. Support independent media and donate five dollars, skip your coffee for a day and keep the only independent media outlet in orange county left, alive.

Fortenbach and Ozeki: Video Visitation in Orange County Jails is Possible and Necessary Individuals living inside Orange County jails have not seen their families for almost a year as all in person visits were cut off at the start of the pandemic. The

Various images from Occupy Santa Ana, Fall of 2011 - 2012.

These images were mysteriously deleted from the page so we are reposting.
All images by Steady Jenny
on TW, IG, & FB