We're Not a Disease

Many who were displaced by the camp fire simply never recovered. Chico county's homeless population surged by 16 % after the fire, and it has not gone back down in the years since. Citizens for a safe chiko put 250 thousand dollars into a sweeping ad campaign that painted these people as vagrants and transients. In many cases, chico police confiscated and threw away donated clothing, tents and sleeping bags that had been given to paradise refugees. The story of chico has told us what happens when affluent liberal enclaves find themselves forced into this position. They cut funding to everything but cops, and use those cops to do violence to marginalized communities from the intercept. Everybody is one pay check