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DESCRIPTION:---HUFF caroling\n---HOT nourishing VEGAN soup for free\n---COLD, HARD 
 FACTS for the public to ponder in the Christmas season\n \nEvery year, the 
 Homeless Persons Health Project issues a report documenting those who have 
 died on our streets while homeless.\n\nInclement weather, violence, 
 suicide, overdose, and disease take their toll each year. In 2008, 20 
 homeless people died on our streets.  Earlier in the day at the Homeless 
 Service Center at 115 Coral St., a 10 a.m. ceremony will mark the Homeless 
 Deaths of 2009.\n\nHUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) feels 
 the harsh laws of the City have contributed to homeless hardships and 
 violate basic human rights.\n\nThe DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION  backed ordinances 
 which expand forbidden zones.  These zones severely restrict where one may 
 sit, beg, play music for donations, or set up a political table. 
 \n\nHomeless people who are targeted for enforcement, can neither afford 
 the fines, nor fight the banishment they represent. Ill health, depression, 
 isolation and death are the result.\n\nHUFF deplores that the City of Santa 
 Cruz in conjunction with the Downtown Association, has systematically 
 destroyed the physical, mental, emotional, and social health of homeless 
 people by making the following innocent behaviors illegal:\n\n---  to 
 stand, sit, or socialize in a downtown parking lot or garage unless 
 specifically parking or retrieving a car or bike (and then only for 15 
 minutes).\n---  to sit, beg, play music for tips, or set up a political 
 table within 14"of a statue. The City setup a for-profit art gallery on 
 public property with the intent to eliminate peaceful public assembly near 
 these statues.\n---  to smoke anything on Pacific Ave, Beach St, the 
 Municipal Wharf, and the entire length of W. Cliff Drive.   Homeless people 
 report being cited selectively.\n---  to park longer than 20 minutes in the 
 3-Trees Parking Lot on W. Cliff Dr\n\n\nThe City has used public funds to 
 launch civil suits against homeless people on behalf of anti-homeless 
 downtown merchants.\n\nThe City spent over $5000 needlessly to move the 
 planter railing outward in front of the New Leaf Market in order to prevent 
 sitting.\n\nThe City has removed bench after bench so that seniors, 
 disabled folks, and poor people are unable to find a place to sit down on 
 Pacific Ave.\n\nThe City has made 95% of the Pacific Ave. sidewalks a 
 "forbidden zone" for sitting, sparechanging, tabling, or performing.  100% 
 of sidewalks in all other business districts are now forbidden 
 zones.\n\nThe City Council has bypassed both the Downtown Commission and 
 the Parks and Rec Commission to jam these anti-homeless laws through with 
 little public scrutiny and close other public spaces targeting homeless 
 survival sleeping.\n\n\nSTILL ILLEGAL AFTER ALL THESE YEARS:\n\n---  to 
 sleep at night anywhere out of doors or in a vehicle with few exceptions in 
 a city with shelter for less than 10% of its homeless population\n---  to 
 use a blanket between 11PM and 8:30AM out of doors\n---  to set up a 
 survival tent against the cold and rain on any public property.\n\nThe 
 political table HUFF will be setting up will be less than 14" from The Tom 
 Scribner Statue--and hence illegal if it weren't for the "free-speech" zone 
 located there\n\nFor more information call: (831) 423-HUFF\n\nTo get HUFF 
 e-mail, contact rnorse3@hotmail.com\n\nMore on this subject on Free Radio 
 Santa Cruz at 101.1 FM (www.freakradio.org) Sundays 9:30 AM - 1 PM, 
 Thursdays 6-8 PM.\n\nMore info on recent anti-homeless activity 
 downtown:\n\n"WARNING 
 SIGNS"\nhttp://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/12/16/18632781.php?show_comments=1#18632839\n\n"Downtown 
 Association Holiday 
 Parade"\nhttp://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/12/08/18631869.php\n\n"After 
 15 Months, Drum Circle Defenders Case 
 Resolved"\nhttp://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/12/04/18631446.php?show_comments=1#18632701\n\nJoin 
 Us Singing Out Against Stupidity on December 22nd !\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/12/19/18633184.php
SUMMARY:Unsafe to be Homeless in Santa Cruz
LOCATION:In front of Bookshop Santa Cruz at the Scribner Statue at 1520 Pacific Ave.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/12/19/18633184.php
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