Homeless Build Drug-Free Camp to Help Others Get Sober, Cops Promptly Tear it Down
Matt Agorist
TheFreeThoughtProject.com
February 3, 2017
Oakland, CA — Known as ‘The Promised Land’, a group of homeless people in Oakland sought to improve their situation by creating a camp that would foster sobriety and help people to get jobs. However, because the government constantly wages war on the people’s right to exist, this unique and inspiring place is no longer.
The Promised Land, also known as The Village, was a small camp under multiple layers of highway in a small and underused city park. Multiple homeless camps in Oakland, California are rife with heroin abuse and crime. However, the people who created this one, aimed to be different.
The camp’s organizer, Needa Bee, explained to CBS San Francisco that while only 16 people lived there, they were providing services to hundreds of other homeless people a week.
Bee was able to obtain portable toilets, hand washing stations, a hot shower, and even offered up basic medical care and food.
According to Bee, the camp had strict rules against drinking and drug use in an effort to help others get sober to get jobs. The homeless members of the camp had even begun cultivating gardens to feed themselves.
But on Thursday, all that amazing progress came to a grinding and crushing halt.
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