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144 2 minutes read Image credit: Liberation News On March 25, Los Angeles Police Department enclosed Echo Park, site of an encampment, in a metal fence and forced the remaining unhoused residents to evacuate from the park. Before this concerted effort to “sweep” Echo Park, over 200 unhoused individuals had been living in the area with over a hundred tents. While City Councilman Mitch O’Farrell called the forced removals a success, pointing to the number of unhoused people that have been offered temporary shelter, the reality is that people have been violently forced into precarious c...

It’s nine o’clock on a blazingly sunny October morning in Echo Park. A scruffy but fashionable group slowly gathers for breakfast around a table piled high with bagels. Not far away, two men put on boxing gloves and playfully begin to spar. Another is restringing a flamenco guitar on an old, cast-off sofa sitting on a grassy embankment. Any minute now, the socialists will arrive with their solar strips to charge everyone’s phones. It’s another day in the life of an unlikely homeless community that has sprung up here—not on the outskirts of this trendy Eastside neighborhood, but righ...