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DESCRIPTION:Another merry sing-along, sip-along, speakout in front of the Coonerty 
 Clan's Bookshop Santa Cruz with HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & 
 Freedom).\n\nThe expanding War Hysteria against the populations of Iraq, 
 Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and now Yemen creates more discarded homeless 
 veterans, millions of homeless refugees abroad, and billions of dollars 
 diverted from human needs to war profit and death.  HUFF has traditionally 
 urged the City\nCouncil to take more direct action such as ending city 
 investment in war profiteers, calling for immediate withdrawal of troops 
 and bases from Afghanistan and Iraq, & ending the bombing of Pakistan and 
 other foreign countries.  \n\nCarrying on in the tradition of the 12-22 
 Unsafe to Be Homeless in Santa Cruz protest, 
 [http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/12/19/18633184.php ], HUFF will 
 encourage oppostion and resistance to the anti-homeless Downtown Ordinances 
 [http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/23/18565324.php ].\n\nThese laws 
 give broad and selective powers to the SCPD, the Downtown Association's 
 "Hosts", and Chief Ranger John Wallace's "Rangers" to criminalize homeless 
 people in public spaces for innocent and frequently necessary 
 life-sustaining behavior including\n     sleeping,\n     covering up with 
 blankets,\n     setting up a tent against the weather,\n     taking shelter 
 in a parking garage,\n     sitting on down on any non-downtown sidewalk 
 near a building,\n     peacefully sparechanging in most places at most 
 time,         \n     performing for donation in most places,\n     
 politically tabling on any non-downtown city business sidewalks\n           
          and many other normal innocent behaviors.\n\n\nRecent moves to 
 constrict public space for the poor include\n\n     the new 
 public-art-for-profit statues placed up and down Pacific Avenue (illegal to 
 sit down, sparechange, politically table, or perform for donation within 
 10-14')\n\n     removal of still more public benches without public 
 hearing, notice, or record near Quiznos and elsewhere leaving no benches at 
 all on the west side of Pacific Ave. between Cathcart and Soquel Aves.\n\n  
    increased police patrols on Pacific Avenue with harassment ticketing by 
 Officers Forbus and Winston unchecked by Sgt. Harms\n\n     the "no 
 smoking" ban, expanded from parks to include Pacific Avenue and adjacent 
 streets\n\n     ignoring the recent White v. City of Sparks Federal Court 
 ruling upholding the right of visual artists to explicitly sell their 
 paintings on the sidewalk without permits 
 (http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/opinions/view_subpage.php?pk_id=0000001015)\n\n\nRecent 
 attacks on vehicular residents, whose only shelter is their car 
 include:\n\n     new 20-minute parking restrictions along Westcliffe Drive 
 near Lighthouse Field to oust the Three Tree Lot community\n\n     
 vigilante attacks on homeless campers north of Santa Cruz with rocks thrown 
 through car windows menacing families and children\n\n     retired police 
 officers joining vigilante "Take Back Santa Cruz" groups to harass those 
 sleeping in their vehicles on the West Side\n\n     slamming nails and 
 screws into tires of homeless vehicles to "send them a GET OUT" message\n\n 
     \nHUFFsters will be circulating petitions & coraling volunteers in 
 support of various positions such as:   \n\n     to support legal Tent City 
 locations where those without housing can sleep safely and band together 
 against street violence,\n\n     to oppose the City's proposed ban on new 
 medical marijuana dispensaries coming up for a vote on 1-12 at City 
 Council\n\n     to oppose Downtown Association, Santa Cruz Neighbor, and 
 "Take Back Santa Cruz" moves to discourage direct charitable food and 
 clothing donations to the poor\n\n     to show solidarity with homeless 
 activists in Fresno, San Francisco, Sacramento, Santa Barbara, and Santa 
 Monica who are backing lawsuits to end Sleeping Bans in their cities.\n\n   
   to monitor and document illegal seizure of homeless property--the 
 acknowledged city policy and ongoing practice of Chief Ranger John 
 Wallace\n\n     to end the local Drug War (especially against Marijuana) & 
 restore the Measure K protections gutted by the City in spite of the will 
 of the voters [Next Meeting Thursday 1-28 5:30 PM, City Council 
 chambers:\n\n    to urge new anti-war measures by the City Council and 
 organizing by the citizenry against the foreign wars and occupations which 
 rob the poor of resources at home, recruit them as imperial assassins 
 abroad, and kill hundreds of thousands abroad.\n\nNOTE:  Illness may force 
 a postponement of this event.  Contact 423-4833 to be sure it's going 
 forward.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/01/05/18634377.php
SUMMARY:Holiday with the HUFFsters: Renewed Vigil Against Two Wars
LOCATION:1520 Pacific Ave. on the sidewalk in front of the Bookshop Santa Cruz, run 
 by the Coonerty family.  Ryan Coonerty is the current vice-mayor
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/01/05/18634377.php
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