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San Diego Free Press
December 11, 2017
In December 2010 the San Diego chapter of the national Veterans For Peace organization began the Compassion Campaign — an outreach effort to help displaced homeless veterans. Ignited by conversations with many homeless veterans on the street in downtown San Diego, the chapter membershipÃâà...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
October 20, 2017
Jeeni Criscenzo, Amikas's president, said her group offered to help Lien reuse the homes this past summer. But the San Diego-based nonprofit — which is working with the city to find its own site for a tiny home development — eventually bowed out, citing concerns over whether Lien's dwellings wouldÃâà...
San Diego Free Press
July 24, 2017
President Trump has sent mixed signals on marijuana policy, saying on the campaign trail in 2016 marijuana legalization should be left to the states. Recreational marijuana is legal in eight states and Washington, D.C.. In May, while signing a bill safeguarding medical marijuana, Trump claimed heÃâà...
San Diego Free Press
August 26, 2016
The Congressional franking privilege allows taxpayer funding for incumbents to promote themselves by mail, so long as they do not solicit your vote or a donation to their campaigns. Issa's mailer didn't ask me for my money or my vote. But after a closer look I found reason enough to deny him both.
San Diego Free Press
May 26, 2016
By Jeeni Criscenzo. My Niche Logo The San Diego Point-In-Time Count is a federally mandated annual report that identifies the number of homeless individuals and families in the county on one particular day. The 2016 report, which was released at the end of April, showed less than a one percentÃâà...
San Diego Free Press
May 5, 2016
By Jeeni Criscenzo. homeless family It doesn't take the recently released Point in Time Count report to know that the number of unsheltered people in downtown San Diego is exploding. Seeing every ... Last year, I sat through months of meetings with 25 Cities Campaign to End Homelessness. Along withÃâà...
San Diego Free Press
November 19, 2015
By Jeeni Criscenzo. cutoutgirl1-300x204 It looks like the issue of homelessness will be getting some airtime during the 2016 election season in San Diego. ... Perhaps whoever wrote this plan for Hickey isn't aware that San Diego, as part of the 25 Cities Campaign to End Homelessness, has already putÃâà...
San Diego Free Press
October 16, 2015
Presenting a sexualized version of a notably unsexy disease, it mirrors other campaigns ostensibly for breast cancer awareness – from “Save the Boobies” to “Save the Ta-Tas” merchandise like t-shirts reading, “Save a life! Grope your wife!” – that focus on breasts, not the human beings who happen to beÃâà...
San Diego Free Press
September 17, 2015
By Jeeni Criscenzo. occupy san diego Four years ago today (September 17, 2011) the Occupy movement began in New York City's Zuccotti Park in Wall ... to advance the movement long after the camps in cities throughout the nation had been aggressively dismantled by an organized police campaign.
San Diego Free Press
July 1, 2015
By Jeeni Criscenzo del Rio. I had just returned from a 3-hour forum on options for housing homeless ... and all of the campaigns and goals and blah blah blah blah… you would think I could have suggested something for this woman. I flipped through my notes scribbled alongside the PowerPoint handouts,Ãâà...
