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DESCRIPTION:Last week we were rained and winded out.  This week it looks like sunshine 
 ahead!  \n\nThe new Copwatch Santa Cruz Blog debuts on line at 
 http://santacruzcopwatch.blogspot.com/\n\nDowntown, we'll be taking  
 accounts of police behavior and videoing cops on the beat as they drive 
 poor people away and give out tickets people can't pay.\n\nHomeless vets 
 are a significant proportion of the community without shelter outside. We 
 demand an end to the obscene and murderous war abroad and the stepped-up 
 war on the poor in Santa Cruz. \n\nThis is both a budget and civil 
 liberties issue locally. Police must be discouraged from being a part of 
 the local War on the Police, and the merchant community that supports these 
 outrages confronted.\n\nThe new anti-homeless Downtown Ordinance public 
 assembly constrictions are now being enforced by police.   They criminalize 
 more than one hour's sitting on a city bench, make 3 unpaid infractions a 
 jailing misdemeanor, and expand the notorious "No Go" zones downtown for 
 sitting, sparechanging, political tabling, and street 
 performing.\n\nAnti-homeless ticketing for sleeping at night continues with 
 shelter for less than 10% of the homeless community. We'll also be 
 supporting calls for a Tent City when the Armory Winter Shelter closes in 
 mid-April and encouraging organizing in that direction.\n\nWe will also be 
 gathering accounts of harassment in hopes of joining Santa Barbara and 
 Sacramento in challenging anti-homeless Sleeping Bans.  Successful lawsuits 
 and political pressure have already ended Sleeping Bans in Fresno, San 
 Diego, Los Angeles, Laguna Beach, Richmond, and Palo Alto.\n\nWe hope to 
 encourage media to counter the City's persecution of those outside using 
 massive police overkill and a new city attorney crackdown with a civil 
 injunction  (see Sentinel smear of Anna Richardson and Miguel deLeon at 
 http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_11964700 )\n\nWe have video 
 cameras and tape recorders; bring your own as well.\n\nJumbogumbomeister 
 Joe Schultz's tasty soup may also available again, as well as Copwatch 
 Cocoa.\n\nIf you want to volunteer for Public Records Act request work and 
 other behind-the-scenes Copwatching, call 423-4833.\n\nTo help plan future 
 events, come to the Human Rights Organization meetings Saturday 3-4:30 PM 
 at the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific Ave.   Or check out HUFF (Homeless United 
 for Friendship & Freedom) at the same place Wednesdays  9:30 AM -11:30 AM.  
 \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/24/18581561.php
SUMMARY:Copwatch Again!
LOCATION:In front of Borders Book Store on Pacific Avenue near Soquel Ave.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/24/18581561.php
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