Victims of crime vent their frustration with the complete lack of police response during the Southern Humboldt Town Hall Meeting.  The June 26th Town Hall was organized by  Supervisor Estelle Fennell who was joined by the Garberville-Redway Chamber of Commerce, Sheriff Downey and Undersheriff Honsal.  Hundreds of locals packed into the Redway Elementary School gym to vent their frustration with the blatant lack of response to 911, Supervisor Fennell opens the meeting...

Southern Humboldt Town Hall Meeting

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A freelance journalist's compilation from September 2016- March 2017 of police negligence, collusion with vigilantes, and Human Rights abuses supported by government officials in Southern Humboldt. This testimony was requested by HHRC in their April meeting. I emailed it to the commissioners email address they requested on 4 different occasions starting the very next day. No response has been made by any commissioners, except by Chris W., the commissioner Estelle Fennel Dist. 2 Supervisor removed from his position in April 2017 for "causing friction," aka seeking to realize solutions.

Houseless in Southern Humboldt -A Compilation of Testimony Created for The Human Rights Commission

Whoever says the timber wars are over, isn't paying attention. After failing to resolve concerns from 2014, activists are back in the Mattole forest. Ama Tierney brings you the story…

Activists Erect Road Blockade in Protest of Logging in the Mattole

New data suggests Mendocino County’s housing and homelessness crisis is so severe that Mendocino has nearly double the rate of homelessness of Humboldt County, and almost five times the average rate in the state of California. Dan Young reports.

Mendo County’s homelessness rate is nearly double Humboldt’s, and five times the state average

Finding harmony and healing in our local community. Setting up social welfare support systems as if our nation was one big family. Looking at how they do that in Denmark.

Andy, Shakti, Brian Tree & Betty Chin on Harmony & Healing Show KMUD 7/25/17

Human Rights abuses are rampant in Humboldt County in the heart of the redwood forests in a region known as The Emerald Triangle. Akin to logging profiteers and gold rushers past, the recently legalized cannabis industry is booming with the seductive promise of vast work opportunity to make a livable wage (not adjusted for the cost to live in Humboldt), unlike most places in the world today. But it's far from paradise, as there is also an emergency housing crisis, no shelter, no attainable camp grounds, literally leaving many to camp or sleep in their cars just to get to their jobs. These campers suffer ongoing vigilante attack and Deputy harassment. Our government has proven itself uninterested in addressing, let alone resolving the issue. The Board of Supervisor's Human Rights Commissions openly supports vigilantes and serves the status quo, as people are suffering, dying even, and tensions are exponentially mounting between housed and unhoused members of our community. This is audio obtained in the past 8 months around this ongoing issue specifically in Southern Humboldt and Eureka, though it reflects the same issue going on around the country and around the world. These are the voices of the voiceless in my community. (see greenfuse.work for expansive coverage in our local newspaper)

Houseless in Southern Humboldt -A Compilation of Testimony Created for The Human Rights Commission

Houseless in Humboldt: Voices of The Voiceless

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