Showing posts with label California. Show all posts
Showing posts with label California. Show all posts

13 Jan 2020

San Francisco, city of (no) shame....


..a common sight in the streets of SF

US most expensive city (one out of 11 000 inhabitants in SF is a billionaire). Common working people can not afford to live there anymore due to property prices, rental cost (3000 dollars/monthly for one bedroom apartment), private tourist accommodation...and so on. One of the results of such a "wealthy" city is 10 000 homeless people living in the streets due to drug-related problems, mental health problems, unemployment (or miserable salaries), and poverty. Massive cutbacks to mental health and public housing development as a result of neoliberal carcinoma, pushed the situation to a breaking point out of control. Because what you see in the streets of San Francisco, a few blocks away from the most expensive hotels, is no longer what we in Europe call poverty. What goes on in SF is a profound dehumanization of the most vulnerable.

6 Jan 2020

Same destination....


..different paths. Photo: Henry Diltz, December,17,1969

6 Feb 2018

Long before #metoo....

Tippi Hedren outside Bodega Bay

..the price of refusal was a destroyed career.

8 Nov 2017

California 1936....


 Migrant families looking for work in the pea fields. 

19 Feb 2017

Encouraging the dismantling of Europe...?


careful....there might be some other "exits" in your own backyard.

16 Nov 2016

Beer assortment indeed...!


..here at the Whole Foods Market in Sonoma

16 Oct 2016

24 Jun 2016