This week, Theo attends a mutual aid protest action demanding that DSA-endorsed Los Angeles city councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez finally repeal 41.18, legislation that enables the LAPFD to arrest the unhoused, from his district. Speaking with organizers like Gina Viola, the group speaks with Soto-Martinez directly and detail their demands to get rid of 41.18 for good.

Also: Theo interviews disabled unhoused veteran George Fleishmann, and tours the new mutual aid popup Shirley's Free Food Hub, organized by Carlos Nietos and Allison Riley.

More about the Soto-Martinez protest here: https://lataco.com/soto-martinez-41-18

More about Shirley's Free Food Hub here: https://www.instagram.com/shirleysfreefoodhub/

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As SNAP benefits continue to be rolled back and the Trump regime makes food access for the unhoused harder than ever, we need community-based solutions and ingenuity.  Enter Arnali Ray of Hollywood Food Coalition and Sara Reyes of SELAH in Northeast LA -- Theo speaks with them about how their organizations are rising to the occasion by prioritizing collaboration, ensuring unhoused people receive holistic care across mutual aid and nonprofit services, and removing ego from the equation.

Learn more about Hollywood Food Coalition:

https://www.hofoco.org/

Learn more about SELAH:

https://www.selahnhc.org/

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Everyone deserves animal companionship, but the unhoused community is too often forced to make difficult decisions to care for their pets while living in shelters or on the street. This week, Theo speaks with Jillian and Christine with nonprofit My Dog Is My Home about their important work advocating for the unhoused and their pets, from accessible veterinary care to advocacy work to allow pets in shelter systems. Also: Theo remembers community members Shirley Raines of Beauty 2 the Streetz.

Learn more about My Dog Is My Home: https://www.mydogismyhome.org/

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Theo rings in the new year by spotlighting another crucial, underreported segment of the unhoused — the Black unhoused community. We speak with Angela, Ted, and Jeremiah of the Los Angeles Black Worker Center about the crucial work, they’re doing to support Black Angelinos in not just job training and help finding housing, but political education. 

Learn more about LABWC here: 

https://linktr.ee/Labwc?utm_source=linktree_profile_share

Sign up for Ready 2 Work here: 

https://secure.everyaction.com/NJkCBf_6yk2T3m95V9lqJA2

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This week, Theo is in the field with Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid (PUMA) for their National Houseless Persons’ Memorial Day event. Organizers and neighbors gathered on December 21st, 2025, the longest night of the year, to memorialize those we lost. We also remember Cindy McAllister, Jessica 'Queen' Mendez, and Benito Flores.

Follow Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid here: 

https://www.instagram.com/palmsunhousedmutualaid/

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To close out 2025, Theo speaks with Sam Luu and Hillary Cohen of Every Day Action. We learn how they scaled their pandemic-era mutual aid effort to feed the unhoused to where they are today, continuing that work by preventing food waste on film sets and helping out-of-work film industry professionals during the ongoing labor crisis. 

Learn more about Every Day Action here: 

https://www.youreverydayaction.org/

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This week, Theo speaks with Professor Dina Gilio-Whitaker, author of the new book Who Gets to Be Indian? Ethnic Fraud, Disenrollment, and Other Difficult Conversations about Native American Identity. We also take a look at the new ghoulish policies that stand to force people into houselessness in the new year, and revisit the story of Brendan Glenn, an unhoused man killed by an LAPD officer ten years ago.

Buy Dina's book here: 

https://bookshop.org/p/books/who-gets-to-be-indian-ethnic-fraud-disenrollment-and-other-difficult-conversations-about-native-american-identity-dina-gilio-whitaker/6e5512b39cdfe3a3

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https://www.instagram.com/dinagiliowhitaker/?hl=en

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Longtime guest Caitlin Krenn returns to We the Unhoused to tell Theo about the upcoming documentary Outcast Nation: LGBTQIA. Homeless. Unseen. on PBS, along with collaborators and subjects Jen Liquori, Maddox Guerilla, and director Charlie Spickler.

Watch the documentary here starting December 6th or on your local PBS affiliate!

https://www.pbs.org/show/outcast-nation-lgbtqia-homeless-unseen-in-new-york-city/ 

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This week, Theo speaks with legendary activist and writer Dr. Gloria Browne-Marshall, author of the new book A Protest History of the United States. Dr. Browne-Marshall discusses the most effective ways to protest in the modern age, and what we can learn from the long tradition of sit-ins, street protests, and boycotts that have empowered people for centuries. Also, Theo returns to JTown Action and Solidarity in Los Angeles to speak with organizers Carlos and Zen the day that millions of Americans had SNAP benefits taken by the Trump regime.

Follow Gloria's work here: https://www.instagram.com/gbrownemarshall/?hl=en

Donate to JTown Action and Solidarity here: https://jtownaction.com/Donate

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This week, Theo heads to a protest organized by the unhoused residents of the Mountain View encampment after yet another violent sweep. Their question: why isn’t their DSA-endorsed councilperson, Eunisses Hernandez, showing up? Residents, organizers, and mutual aid workers share their perspectives. 

If you’re in LA and lost your SNAP benefits: 

https://www.instagram.com/p/DQP-y08EsjT/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Follow the All Power Free Clinic here: 

https://www.instagram.com/apfreeclinic?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

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