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DESCRIPTION:Proposition L is for Legalized Lies and Liars \n\nPoverty Scholars, 
 Advocates, legislators and community members tell the truth about a rarely 
 spoken about ballot proposition which will incarcerate people for the sole 
 act of being poor.\n\nWhat: Prop L Press conference and Truth 
 Commission\n\nWhere: In Front of San Francisco City Hall\n\nWhen: 9:00 am 
 Monday, October 27th\n \n“No matter how many times you put me in jail for 
 being homeless, my family and I will still be homeless”, said Teresa 
 Zamora, mother of three, who has been cited for sleeping in her car with 
 her family and under Prop L’s Community Justice Court(CJC) will face more 
 citations, court dates and arrests.\n\nPopularly referred to as a "Poverty 
 Court" , the  Community Justice Center is modeled after the notoriously 
 cruel  mid-manhatten court.  This NY court targets poor people in an area  
 where the largest and richest corporate headquarters are towering  above, 
 and who get free labor as an added bonus.  The only poor faces  to be seen 
 in mid-manhatten today are sweeping the streets as a  "community service" 
 for the crime of being too poor to afford a place  to live.\n\n"Proposition 
 L’s CJC is another manifestation of the criminalization of poverty and 
 poor people of color that was tried out in New York under Giuliani as a way 
 to penalize people for the sole act of being poor,” said Lisa 
 Gray-Garcia, author of Criminal of Poverty, Growing Up Homeless in America, 
 and Executive Director of POOR Magazine\n\nIt is a crime to be poor in the 
 US. Sleeping outside or in a vehicle, soliciting employment, convening in a 
 public space and/or suffering in public from a mental illness are citable 
 offenses. This results in more and more poor families, youth, elders and 
 adults in this country facing police harassment, abuse and even 
 incarceration for living in poverty. Proposition L’s CJC will use 2.5 
 million dollars of a cash strapped City budget adjudicating crimes of 
 poverty.\n\nThis SF version of the court would need at least 4 - 8 new 
 deputies, a  judge, sheriff transportation to and from jail, court 
 reporter, and of  course a lease on an expensive new building.  All within 
 walking  distance of the existing court house at 850 Bryant.  And on top of 
 the many specialized courts and under utilized community courts that 
 already exist.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/10/24/18546201.php
SUMMARY:Proposition L is for Legalized Lies and Liars - Prop L Press Conference
LOCATION:In Front of San Francisco City Hall
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/10/24/18546201.php
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