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POPSArmy Recruiters Caught lying on tape! This site has many videos of real recruiters lying directly to potential recruits, having them fake diplomas, offering to give them immigration status for family, telling them how to beat drug tests. So much for dignity, truth an honor. This exact same thing happened to me when i was younger during non-war times. I even signed up but refused to give the final pledge. Thats the point of no return. I was threatened with jail etc. But walked away. Not much can be clipped from this site, but it is well worth the visit.
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POPSPublic parking paranoia law used to disperse drummers and Food Not Bombs The Drum circle they speak of has been going on for over 10 years in the same place. Its where Food Not Bombs was feeding. They were drove away on two occasions, so were not present at this particular incident. Basically the Santa Cruz PD was successful in running of a peaceful group that was feeding the hungry on public property. This law means I cant wait in my car as a friend shops, even know I am disabled and often need to rest in my car. This law is aimed at the poor who often use the overhangs to get out of the rain. There has been no horrible acts of violence to spawn this law, which the local ACLU is against, but doing nothing about. It is another loss of our commons, that have been traditionally used hroughout history by the poor and homeless.
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POPSTaser time on America's public lands With taser deaths on the rise. Its important to note that the forest service often are in charge of taking down homeless encampments and citing the homeless for camping or sleeping at night. Here in Santa Cruz, Ranger john Wallace has given more Sleep Crime tickets then all the City police officers combined. He now has a force of officers. They do not need Taser guns to do their job. The Police have killed people in jails, on the street and recently in the airport in Canada using a taser gun on a tired polish immigrant after he waited 10 hours with no translator after a 15 hour flight. These are OUR public lands, and OUR money being used to police them.
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POPSMore Attacks Being Planned Against Wild Buffalo in Montana he agencies are also prepared to heavily haze, capture and slaughter buffalo this year based on Yellowstone's estimate of 4,700 individual buffalos. Though Yellowstone biologists have stated time and again that the Park could sustain well over 5,000 buffalo, the Interagency Bison Management Plan's politically derived population cap for wild buffalo living in Yellowstone is 3,000. Based on this, the agencies could capture and kill upwards of 1,700 buffalo.
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POPSLakota Sioux Indians Declare Sovereign Nation Status Its good to see this happening. I suggest people e-mail The Department of interior. They have been referred to them. See -- http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Lakota_activists_declare_secession_from_US ) People should write, call, and e-mail. They DESERVE our support. Mailing Address: Department of the Interior 1849 C Street, N.W. Washington DC 20240 Phone: 202-208-3100
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POPSSanta Cruz Sleeping Ban Debate Rages In subsequent stories--the Sentinel highlighted graffitists who painted “F#ck the Sleeping Ban” on City Hall. In their on-line forum subsequently, the bigots that rule over the Sentinel forums offered up solutions from lining up the homeless to be shot, pesticiding them, and returning to the “troll busting 80’s”. As Bob Patton of the Human Rights Organization wrote in response, “The South will not rise again.” The continued flow of money and consumerism has become more important then human life or the basic rights we are all supposed to equally share in, or so it seems from the perspective of those that run our city. Every time we allow a right to be taken away from any class of people we are destroying our own rights. By allowing the government to make and keep such laws we only open the door for more.
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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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POPSPRN in ‘World of Pain’… Videos Click om source for videos. As a chronic pain patient, this is very important to me. Untreated pain can be far worse then the medicines currently available and vilified in the media. It is a human right to be treated for pain compassionately and effectively.
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POPS Santa Cruz Sleeping Ban Debate Videos
Click on "Clipped From" link for videos at top of this Clip. People in violation of these laws face $92 tickets, despite our Vice Mayors confusion. According to reports, tickets can be dismissed from court because the city of Santa Cruz does not offer any legal sleeping option for people who do not have a legal place to sleep. Although the tickets may be dismissed in court, rangers and police regularly destroy or confiscate items belonging to homeless people, wake them up while sleeping, harass them and drag them through a revolving-door court system. You have to have the proper letter, walk to the shelter and hope the right person is there. It is not a solution with any dignity or compassion. These laws are demoralizing, unethical and unconstitutional in nature. I have never seen this type of dialog happen in Santa Cruz, I hope to see more of it in the future. Vice Mayor Ryan Coonerty came across as a representative of business, with no real compassion for the plight of people in pov
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POPSSanta Cruz passes Parking Lot Paranoia Expansion Law This law may sound like no big deal, but think about you, like I was last week not feeling like shopping with your significant other and choose to wait in the car, as I did. After 15 minutes, this public space that you technically own, along with the rest of the public, is off limits to you. You are not allowed to be in your car, 30 min if disabled. This is aimed at the homeless, despite the lack of evidence for any violent crime happening there, it was a place people could get out of the rain using the overhangs, the homeless. Call the City Council (831) 420-5020 City of Santa Cruz: City Council www.ci.santa-cruz.ca.us 809 Center St # 10 Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Get directions
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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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