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DESCRIPTION:September 12th - TODAY!!!\nPoor People's March For Human Rights!\nMarching 
 for safe shelter, healthcare, healthy food, and Dignity FOR ALL. \nStarts 
 10am, Eureka- 14th and Summer, next to Food For People: March together 
 through neighborhoods and to Highland Park for a noon picnic, an open speak 
 out, listening and gathering to share and to confront all aspects of 
 poverty.\n\nPeople For a Human Rights Sanctuary?\n\nWe're a group of very 
 concerned, active, and local residents who have united to address 
 consistently ignored issues of poverty, of certain chronic suffering, and 
 oppression of homeless people- that requires greater focus by everyone. 
 Each day harassed, and with another pending nightfall... the necessity to 
 rest, to sleep... and with no sanctuary.\n\nInternational Treaties, the 
 U.S. Constitution, courts at every level in this country have established 
 the obvious- that sleep is a human necessity. Also, they've established 
 that depriving someone of sleep is cruelty. However, local police, judges, 
 and the public continue to treat homeless people who must live and sleep in 
 public as if they're committing crimes. In the rare instance that a 
 homeless person has support to challenge, in the local courts, “criminal 
 charges” of sleeping, he or she wins or the case is dismissed.\n\nThe 
 public's belief that homeless people are living outside of the law hardens 
 personal prejudice and adds more conflict to a people already facing 
 painful and critical situations. Homelessness growing, no relief in sight, 
 all of us facing deeper economic woes, lost jobs, state budget cuts, 
 etc.\n\nThe illegality of local police and government practices against 
 homeless people is never mentioned in the media nor talked about by 
 officials. It is imperative that all of us who know the truth help bring it 
 to others now, so that these practices of harassment, threatening arrest, 
 physical abuse, and confiscating peoples' personal property ceases. Such 
 practices cause great stress and injury and allow prejudice to grow. 
 Criminalizing of homeless people must stop.\n\nWe have plans to create a 
 well organized and well maintained camp, a human rights sanctuary, with and 
 for homeless people- a prototype for other sanctuaries that may follow. 
 This will take skills and effort from people from all walks of life. We are 
 also being advised by competent legal support. Communities in other cities 
 are busy following this same course.\n\nTell everyone you know about the 
 March on September 12th . We are open to and encouraged by more folks who 
 would like to share ideas or get involved in any way.\n\nPEOPLE FOR A HUMAN 
 RIGHTS SANCTUARY\n(707) 442-7465,   
 444-3155\npeopleforahumanrightssanctuary@gmail.com\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/12/18621668.php
SUMMARY:Poor People's March for a Human Rights Sanctuary!!!
LOCATION:Eureka- 14th and Summer, next to Food For People: March together through 
 neighborhoods and to Highland Park
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/12/18621668.php
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