Impromptu protest cuts in on mayor's skid row speech
OG is on the LA Times...ah yea! Go OG!
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By Duke Helfand, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
April 2, 2008
As the event wound down, the disruption finally appeared to get at Villaraigosa. Briefly acknowledging the protesters, he said: "The folks behind me, almost none of them live on skid row."
As it turned out, Villaraigosa was right. The protesters were volunteers at the Los Angeles Catholic Worker soup kitchen. Two of them live at a Catholic Worker home in Boyle Heights, another lives in West Covina. In addition to the "hippie kitchen," as the skid row site is known, the group runs a medical and dental clinic.
Their Catholic Worker protest emerged out of thin air.
After the news conference, a few longtime skid row residents condemned the dissenters, saying Villaraigosa and the city have made positive strides to reduce crime and clean up one of L.A.'s dirtiest pockets.
"You can't speak for me. I live here," Emanuel Compito, wearing a suit and a large cross, said loud enough for everyone to hear. "They're only here from 9 to 5. They're gonna go home to their nice, comfortable conditions."
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By Duke Helfand, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
April 2, 2008
As the event wound down, the disruption finally appeared to get at Villaraigosa. Briefly acknowledging the protesters, he said: "The folks behind me, almost none of them live on skid row."
As it turned out, Villaraigosa was right. The protesters were volunteers at the Los Angeles Catholic Worker soup kitchen. Two of them live at a Catholic Worker home in Boyle Heights, another lives in West Covina. In addition to the "hippie kitchen," as the skid row site is known, the group runs a medical and dental clinic.
Their Catholic Worker protest emerged out of thin air.
After the news conference, a few longtime skid row residents condemned the dissenters, saying Villaraigosa and the city have made positive strides to reduce crime and clean up one of L.A.'s dirtiest pockets.
"You can't speak for me. I live here," Emanuel Compito, wearing a suit and a large cross, said loud enough for everyone to hear. "They're only here from 9 to 5. They're gonna go home to their nice, comfortable conditions."
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