Safe Ground Sacramento
Executive Director of Safe Ground Sacramento, a nonprofit homeless advocacy group
PROFILE
Steve Watters
Guest
FROM Steve Watters
Which Way, L.A.?
UN Says Sacramento Violating Human Rights of Homeless Mayor Kevin Johnson has been warned by the United Nations that Sacramento may be violating the Declaration of Human Rights . An investigator who visited last year found that the city was evicting homeless people from "tent cities" and denying them access to safe drinking water and sanitation. We speak with a man who's taken it upon himself to haul human waste away from a tent city in plastic bags, so residents — especially women — can relieve themselves with a modicum of dignity. We also hear from a homeless advocate and from one of the organizers of the UN inspection.
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