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POPSSmoking Gun Contest All you have to do is examine the following police report document and guess what we've hidden beneath the red box.
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POPSHomeland Security Drug Checkpoints in US This is interesting as they seem to be used not just for catching illegal aliens, which even if that were the case. When did Home land Security become the INS? Is there a rise of Mexican terrorist in the US I am unaware of...
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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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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 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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POPSCrippled Measure K ("Lowest Priority Enforcement Marijuana by SCPD") Measure K was supposed to make the City Cops make marijuana busts the LOWEST possible priority. A key issue to for your agenda, after demanding that the Measure K Commission's powers be restored, is to clarify exactly who gets to examine the police marijuana bust records. It seems that it's the police and city attorney rather than your commission who are making the determination, according to the third paragraph from the bottom . This seems to me to directly subvert the intention of the Initiative (even the damaged one that came out of the May Rice court settlement).
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POPSInternet radio BATHROBESPIERRE'S BROADSIDES Free Radio Santa Cruz The most independent you can get. Pirate radio station Free Radio Santa Cruz streams internet radio show BATHROBESPIERRE'S BROADSIDES. Host Robert Norse deals with Civil and human rights of the poor and un-housed. One of the the most aggressive activists in Santa Cruz since 1980 around the Sleeping Ban and other homeless rights issues. Listen over the net, call in and share your voice. This is Pirate Radio where you can say anything. Video commercial at clipped source http://www.humanityforhomeless.blogspot.com. Archives available at http://www.freakradio.org. Thursday Eve. 6:00-8:00pm Pacific Time. Sundays 9:00am-1:00pm.
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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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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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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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POPSCraig Canada - Homeless medicinal marijuana activist Craig has also fought many Sleeping Ban Tickets in the City of Santa Cruz. The court room battle was both a success for the first few tickets and then disaster when returning to court, after already successfully wining using the Necessity Defense for several tickets. The same judge screwed him in an interesting albeit taxing case for Craig. His Blog and forum is very impressive.
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POPSHomeless portrayed in negative light My letter to the editor after reading comments in the local forum offering up solutions such as pesticiding the homeless, shooting them, or encamping them etc. etc. Such bigoted comments have become common around this issue nation wide according to the National Task force to end homelessness.
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POPSRobert Norse: Police must let homeless sleep The Santa Cruz Police Department citations for sleeping have doubled in the past year. Private First Alarm Security guards roam the library and City Hall grounds, selectively targeting homeless people and threatening to arrest them for sitting on a bench at night. There is a pervasive fear and prejudice against poor shelterless people. If this were red-neck Los Angeles, San Diego or Fresno, we might not be surprised by a nighttime sleeping ban. The real surprise is that these three cities and Richmond have dumped their nighttime "sleep-crime" tickets for the poor. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in the April 2006 Jones decision required Los Angeles to stop busting the poor at night with no place to go. The other cities reacted to this court decision by calling off the armed sleep squads.
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