ACTIVISTS SAY LAW TARGETS THE HOMELESS.Byline: Rick Orlov Staff Writer A group of homeless advocates staged a demonstration Thursday in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or , protesting proposed laws they say would crack down on street people. Members of the Community Action Network, protesting in front of a Skid Row skid row a run-down area frequented by alcoholics. [Am. Culture: Misc.] See : Alcoholism Skid Row district of down-and-outs and bums. [Am. Usage: Brewer Dictionary, 1008] See : Failure park at Sixth and San Julian streets, complained about new laws scheduled to be adopted in January that make it a crime to urinate urinate /uri·nate/ (u´ri-nat) to discharge urine. u·ri·nate v. To excrete urine. urinate to void urine. or defecate def·e·cate v. To void feces from the bowels. def  e·ca tion n. in public in areas where automated toilets are provided. ``This is just an effort to make it criminal to be poor,'' said Bilal Ali of the Community Action Network. ``We think the city is just trying to pass laws against the poor.'' But Councilwoman Jan Perry, who has authored many of the laws regarding the homeless, said they are an effort to improve public health. |
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