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POPSThanksgiving Suspends Chronicle’s Homeless-Bashing It’s a two-decade old tradition: come Thanksgiving, the Chronicle starts trying to create reader sympathy for the Bay Area’s low-income residents. After spending the first eleven months of the year opposing laws to protect the poor, the Chronicle spends the last month seeking public donations to assist this vulnerable population.
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POPSEnd the Santa Cruz Sleeping Ban - open letter to council laws the criminalize poverty go against the very ideas this nation was founded upon. Remember, Poverty was illegal from the Country we fled. Remember debtors prison from 4th grade history? Please help us and call our City Council or e-mail them. If you call ask for the voice mail box for the entire City council. Visit Indybay.org or humanityforhomeless.blogspot.com to watch the first public debate regarding this issue. 831-420-5020
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POPSSleep is a human right! This is a very interesting blog following the travels and challenges of a homeless man and his fight for the right to sleep.
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POPSHomeless portrayed in negative light This is a letter to the editor in Santa Cruz, after a small group of Homeless had a protest against the nighttime sleeping ban. Days later the City hall was vandalized and the local media blamed the protesters, although they had no wittinesses, or information to lead them to that conclusion. The comments mentioned have been seen as a rising national trend.
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POPSCraig Canada fights for the right to sleep while fighting to survive Craig Canada won what we had thought was a historic victory in the Santa Cruz courts this summer around the Sleeping Ban. Judge Denine Guy of Department One found him not guilty on four charges of illegal sleeping (sleeping on public property after 11 PM at night) because Canada was a medical marijuana user. It was originally determined that all six elements of the necessity defense were met, and found Canada not guilty. The city attorney’s office and SCPD nonetheless continued to harass Canada and moved to prosecute him for two more sleep-crime citations, even though Guy had thrown out the four mentioned above.
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POPSBook written by the homeless - Underbelly. I have not read the book to have an opinion but I like the idea. I hope it shows how diverse the homeless are rather then only showing the seedier sides of life on the street. We would find the same in many homes. I am glad he is against Anti-Homeless laws, such as banning feeding human beings. I will be buying a copy!
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POPSStuck on skid row The lawsuit that stops the cops from rousting people from sleeping on public property, if there is no shelter available at the time -- is called the Jones' Decision. The 9th Circuit Cort of appeals. found it cruel and unusual punishment to cite some one for sleeping if there is no legal shelter available.
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POPSIs Tocoma's Homeless crackdown a solution? I would love to hear from others who live in this area, particularly the homeless. If your interested in poverty issues, read the whole article. Often when anti poverty laws are passed, like sleeping bans, move along laws, the City will offer up some poor solution to go along with it, such as Fresno destroying camps and property for hundreds and offering to build 44 tool sheds without water or electricity. Poverty needs to be seen. We should not hide it, or push it away. We need real solutions like real affordable housing.
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POPSAsbury Park homeless shelter shuts its doors
"40-bed facility was too large, city zoners say. However, of the 40 beds in the new Jersey Shore Rescue Center, 27 were for men who could stay up to 10 nights but would have to leave the mission during the day. Ten beds were for those men who committed to join the mission's gospel rescue program, usually alcohol or drug rehabilitation that would last 9 to 12 months. Those individuals would be allowed to stay on the premises during the day. Three beds were for staff members. Officials also feared there could be up to 985 homeless men without a day program cycled through the city each year." A comment that caught my interest. "I can't believe that AP has closed down the Mission shelter. It was a place for the homeless population to sleep, out of the cold and the rain, and they are JUST HOUSING THE HOMELESS PEOPLE WHO ARE ALREADY AROUND! The only other shelter for single adults in Monmouth County is at Ft. Monmouth. This shelter is nowhere near large enough for the great need for h
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POPSHomeless legal clinic in New York City Additional info from really good site! Note: we are not attorneys and we are not qualified to give you in-depth legal advice. We also cannot give you referrals or speak to you about legal issues that are outside the issues that the clinic addresses, like benefits or immigration issues that are not related to police harassment or civil rights.
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POPSOrlando's rep: Anti-homeless -- and ineffective? You can go to jail for starving your dog. You can also go to jail for feeding another human being. Cities across the nation are passing anti-homeless laws. These laws are often demoralizing, cruel and unconstitutional.
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POPSHUFF (Homeless United for Friendship and Freedom) HANG WITH THE HUFFSTERS - We meet Wednesday mornings in the Cafe American in the basement of the county building at 701 Ocean St. in Santa Cruz or (if we're not there) in the breezeway between the courthouse and the County Building, 701 Ocean St., Santa Cruz, CA 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m., next to the coffee cart. Bring warm clothing and blankets for winter meetings. Free coffee!!! BATHROBESPIERRE'S BROADSIDES on Free Radio Santa Cruz The indomitable and irascible Robert Norse hosts in studio guests, on-the-street interviews with the houseless, and listener call in's at (831) 427-FRSC or 427-3772 or can log on to the chatroom at www.pagesincolor.com. Phone the HUFF voicemail at 423-4833 if you want to be a guest or have comments. Broadcast Schedule Thursdays from 6-8 p.m. and Sundays from 9:30 a.m to 1:00 p.m. at freakradio.org. Free Radio Santa Cruz is also reportedly picked up by pirate broadcasters and relayed at 101.1 FM. Listen to Bathrobespierre's Broadsides, now archived on
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POPSCriminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America More of the main article - my grandmother, an Irish immigrant, teenage mother and battered woman in pre-New Deal patriarchal America; my mother, a mixed-race child surrendered to foster care and survivor of abuse who tried for many years to escape her childhood torture until one day the struggle became too great; and finally me, a daughter raised by a poor single mother who lived "one paycheck away from homelessness" until finally there was no longer a paycheck to keep us housed. A daughter whose duty it was to keep my family alive by any means necessary. A daughter who was home-schooled in the School of Hard Knocks. But this is not a rant about what I didn't have (typical school-system education, traditional family structure, material wealth). I will forever be grateful to my mother for giving me the best life she could, for giving me strength, intuition, art, her trust and, above all, the intellectual means to understand my situation and develop a pedagogy of poverty.
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POPSWe Accuse the U.S. Government of Causing a Homeless Epidemic Poverty is not a crime. On November 14, in front of the Federal Building, the Western Regional Advocacy Project's report, "Without Housing," was publicly released. The report was released in seven cities across the country, including Seattle, Washington, Los Angeles, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. The speakers, who came from a Bay Area-wide coalition of poverty justice organizers including The Coalition on Homelessness, POOR Magazine, Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency and the American Friends Service Committee, reiterated the need for systemic change to end homelessness. The report includes many harsh statistics on the cuts in federal funding for affordable housing and its direct connection to the rise in homelessness all over the nation WRAP's new report is a call to action by a group of people who are directly affected by federal and local policies on poverty and homelessness, and who are taking charge to affect those policies. As Paul Boden, executive director of WRAP, s
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POPSHuman Rights Organization Oct 23 07 Santa Cruz City Council will be voting on expansion of the parking lot paranoia law to all public parking lots downtown. The ordinance makes it illegal to be in the lot for more then 15 minutes, 30 if your disabled -- car or not. No reading while wife shops. This law removes rights inherent to the idea of public space. You can still reach them - (831) 420-5020 e-mail: citycouncil@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us tell them to vote no on the 15 minute parking lot ordinance. We don't need new laws. Public nuisance and other such laws cover everything the police need. We shall no longer tolerate such laws targeting land owned by the very people who will get tickets, the public.
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