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.

A country is never richer than its poorest poor....

East 100th Street....late 60`s by Bruce Davidson

Motherhood....

California 1936....

 Migrant families looking for work in the pea fields. 

Drought refugees....

"Penniless Oklahomans camped along highway. Came seven months ago. Can't make it. Want to go back. Ate up our car. Ate up our tent. Living like hogs. California 1936". 

In Library of Congress

Hauling water....

Children of migratory workers, American River camp, San Joaquin Valley, California,1936. 

The true face of fascism....

Portugal during the year of 1945.  Upper class "ladies" distribute food and goods to families in need. The elevated platform (balcony) and the needs for spectators, are there to complete the humiliation of the poor.

How long...?

photo: Reuters

Tourists traveling to the moon....

..20 million at risk of starvation

The farewell address....

The Tenderloin in San Francisco

..was another chapter in the great tradition of bla bla bla !

The first presidential debate....

September 26, 2016

In the major cities in the US one can see men and women living in the streets in the most miserable and humiliating conditions. Not an important issue for these candidates....

The forgotten poverty.....

Göteborg, Första Långgatan, 1915

In the year of 1915, many children in Sweden did not have shoes to wear. Today, we consume like the resources of our planet are infinite, and poverty....is other peoples problem.