Is there History on Skid Row? - Los Angeles Poverty Department

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RFK in EKY, The Robert F. Kennedy Performance Project , is a series of public conversations and activities centered around the real-time, site-specific intermedia performance that recreated, on September 9th and 10th 2004, Robert Kennedy’s two-day, 200 mile “poverty tour” of southeastern Kentucky in 1968.
An Appalshop project directed by John Malpede.

Recreating Imbalance
A short description by John Malpede that describes the conceptual links between Agents & Assets and RFKinEKY.

'Findings from a Collaborative Inquiry by the Los Angeles Poverty Department and the Urban Institute': MAKING THE CASE FOR SKID ROW CULTURE

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Is There History on Skid Row?

Cartoon by Michiel Hoving
Is there history on Skid Row? Was created around the theme of the social creation and re-creation of the neighborhood in Los Angeles know as Skid Row.

We rented a store front so the performance was on view and open for the people to drop in for five minutes or four hours. All kinds of audience showed up: people sitting across the street; area workers; security guards; truck loaders / unloaders; store sales people and shop owners; yuppie loft dwellers; LAPD’s core audience; and passers by.

Skid Row cartoon by Hoving

http://www.hoving.com/umc-06.html

Skid Row Participants

Alexander the poet and Michiel Hoving cartoon http://www.hoving.com/talesoftenderloin.html TEXTS: "The further Adventures of Captain Saveahoe" by R.C. Mantley "The ‘Carceral’ City: Skid Row, Los Angeles" by Troy Ragland 'Blue Thunder' from "Olympic update: homelessness in Los Angeles" by John Malpede (1984)
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MoTo and me, we just came from Los Angeles. And on behalf of the city of Los Angeles, home of the ‘84 Olympics, and the homeless capital of America, MoTo and I have been asked by the L.A.O.O.C., (the Los Angeles Committee for the Organizing of Olympics), to travel this land during the Olympics and tell the people of our land this Olympic Update Report. And they asked us to do this. And they paid for us to do this. They gave us one-way bus tickets to travel America and come here. They gave us one way bus tickets. They paid for them. And this is called Greyhound therapy.

LAPD Interviews The Catholic Worker’s Jeff Dietrich

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My name is Kathy Shepard and this is Mr. Jeff Dietrich. Jeff Dietrich is doing a very important work in the community. I’d like to thank you first for this service. I think it’s wonderful. How long has your group been on skid row?

Jeff: The Los Angeles Catholic Worker is part of the Catholic Worker movement which was founded in 1933 by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin. So we’re part of a larger movement within the Catholic church -the lay Catholic movement- that started during the depression in 1933.

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