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POPShttp://www.infowars.com/?p=81 Interesting site and interview with Willie Nelson. Some 9/11 conspiracy stuff, but it is something that I believe still needs looking at. Willie "How naive are we?"
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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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POPSBathrobesPierre's Broadsides live Interview with Canadian Homeless Activist This Sunday 9:00am to 1:30 am Dec 9th. Listen at www.freakradio.org 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. 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 previous Bathrobespierre's Broadsides, now archived online! Visit http://sleepinghumanrights.blogspot.com/ to learn about the trials and tribulations going on in Canada now. Ancient Clown - "It's not about me...As the Fight for Humanity continues with abuse, lies and cover-ups, while people look the other way...giving their power to the abuser's...I shall STAND against it." A video on a homeless encampment with police interaction in Canada can be watched here - http://www.loveandfearlessness.com/tc_vid_7.html
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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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POPSPublic Access TV Comes to Fresno - But Only if YOU Act Now Every City should have public access TV. In Santa Cruz, it is pivotal in our community. Shows brought by regular citizens instead of glossed up news about celebrities. If you cant get Community based then go Pirate Radio! (Which I know Mike Rhodes is considering.
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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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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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