It’s Sunday afternoon in Silverlake and Bruno Bruhweiler sits back on a sofa. He is in the Cafe Tropical’s meeting room situated behind its kitchen. Wearing a baseball cap and dressed in gray, his legs are crossed and his arms are spread out resting on the top of the sofa. He greets people as...
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On a typically hot July afternoon, Michael Hubman arrives at Gladys Park in his navy blue Volvo. He breaks out six gallon-sized jugs of water in a small crate and places it on a foldable cart. Before he can finish unpacking, many recognize him with a call: “Hey, water man!” Hubman can’t get the...
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The meeting began with a prayer, a simple request to end an injustice and reunite families. It was a prayer asking for the end of California’s Three Strikes law.
They are a group of people – grandmothers, brothers, sisters, mothers – who have family members serving draconian prison sentences for non-violent offenses. They are members...
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