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POPSFresno Mayor Admits City’s Homeless Plan is a Failure This article and video are worthy of reading and watching. You can stream it at the source. This is the first Mayor I have ever heard speak this way about the issue of homelessness. Good Work by Mike Rhodes who has been fighting for the rights of the poor in Fresno with great success for a long time. want to here a politician speak different, check this out.
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POPSEnd the Sleeping Ban the lawsuit begins Its time for this law to end. If you watch the debate I highly suggest you then listen to the highlights with commentary as the Mayor was wrong in nearly every fact and number he gave. Sleep is not a crime. In 2005 a man in a wheelchair died in front of our mayors house. NOT AGAIN. One of the lawyers explains the suit in a video at the source. A new site for the lawsuit.
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POPSTrash Orchestra Defends the Market Drum Circle The Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra defends the Drum Circle and Food not Bombs defying the 15 min public parking lot ordinance. The next week the cops came back and wrote up many tickets. Next week they are coming back as well as many in the community to stop this madness. Do these look like terrorists to you? This law is aimed straight at the poor. There is a law for everything that can possibly happen in a public lot.
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POPSFun Questions to ask the Cops when being harrased for sleeping. These questions come from the time tested "Know Your Rights" role playing format, pioneered by Rico Thunder and Jason, who often teach Free School classes on your rights and how to use them. They role play in uniform. Free School is a concept used in Santa Cruz for everything from learning a foreign language, to knowing how to face the cops with the knowledge of your rights. The "ask to be taken to the Magistrate" is a great tool, just not on a Friday, or you may wait in jail until Monday. Start a free School in your town.
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POPSEnd the Sleeping Ban - open letter to council We are moving to bring a lawsuit against the City of Santa Cruz to end the Sleeping Ban. The Human Rights Organization along with HUFF(Homeless United for Friendship and Freedom) and volunteers have been collecting data on tickets and destruction of property and gathering plaintiffs.
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POPSActivists Ask ACLU to Help End Sleeping Ban
The Sleeping Ban makes it illegal to sit, lie or sleep on ANY public property at night between the hours of 11:00pm to 8:00am. This applies to people in vehicles as well. You cannot even sleep on private property with permission in view , or out of view for more then three days. These are vets, kids, families, and human beings. We ask for the right not to sleep anywhere and everywhere, but somewhere. Safe Sleeping Zones for people sleeping in their cars with a code of conduct is cheaper to police and provides a safer environment. The Same can be used for people with no where to sleep. Again with strict rules about trash etc. Santa Cruz has been out of its affordable housing element for decades. People in wheel chairs cannot get into the armory, if there was a bed even available for them, We have 2000 homeless and only 160 beds on any given night. So the homeless are to stay awake all night and sleep in the day. We are loosing our humanity. 25% are vets.
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