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San Francisco Criminalized Poverty
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
22 Mar 2024
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Black Agenda Radio · San Francisco Criminalized Poverty

Jemma Decristo is a community organizer in San Francisco, where a Black mayor and other officials enact policies against the unhoused and the poor and where gentrification accelerates. Jemma joins us from San Francisco to discuss the passage of Proposition F and the criminalization of poverty and drug use.

California
poverty
Homelessness

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