"They took our last tarp and all of our blankets. I have frostbite in my hands now and I can't go to work," said Sidney, a houseless resident, recycler and RoofLESS radio reporter in Yelamu (San Francisco) who had just suffered a sweep of all his warm clothes and sleeping bag.
Across the US the people impacted first and worst by climate change, or what Dine brother Klee Benally called Climate Terrorism, are houseless people, living, hiding, surviving on Mama Earth while unhoused.
Right now, Los Angeles fires have consumed miles and miles of the county, have displaced at least 200,000 people and destroyed more than 12,000 homes and businesses including entire residential neighborhoods and so far have caused 16 fatalities.
The Veterans Affairs Medical Center "relocated" already houseless, disabled veteran residents from its community-living facility on the north campus to homelessness again.
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