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DESCRIPTION:Join the jovial jackboot jousters!  Come listen to music, sip cocoa, and 
 keep an eye on the big-badged bluebellies.\n\nThe new Copwatch Santa Cruz 
 Blog debuted on line at http://santacruzcopwatch.blogspot.com/ but we still 
 need lots of help updating it. Give a call to HUFF at 423-4833 if you'd 
 like to help or e-mail rnorse.\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 they can't pay. \n\nLast week's report can be 
 found at http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/08/18586995.php 
 .\n\nHomeless vets are a significant proportion of the community without 
 shelter outside. Please bring us any accounts of police harassment and 
 ticketing of local vets--or discrimination at the local Vet's 
 Building.\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 Poor, 
 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. 
 If one forms, we'll also be supporting calls for a Tent City when the 
 Armory Winter Shelter closes in several weeksl as is already happening in 
 Sacramento, Fresno, and Ontario CA.\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. 
 Please contact attorney Jonathan Gettleman at 427-2658 if you have had 
 positive experiences with Anna Richardson and Miguel deLeon, currently 
 under City Attorney attack.\n\nWe have video cameras and tape recorders; 
 bring your own as well.\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\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/08/18587042.php
SUMMARY:Copwatch Forever!
LOCATION:In front of Borders Book Store on Pacific Ave. between Soquel and Walnut 
 Sts. in downtown Santa Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/08/18587042.php
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