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DESCRIPTION:No Home, No Justice, No Peace! \n- Care Not Cuts\n\nRally, Press 
 Conference, and Direct Action to Protest the Closure of 150 Otis Homeless 
 Shelter and Unjust Budget Cuts to Programs Serving San Francisco’s 
 Poorest People!\n\nWhen: 	Monday, June 28, 2010. 2pm\n\nWhere:      150 
 Otis St. (at Duboce St./ Mission St.)\n\nWhat:       "Direct Action to Stop 
 the Cuts" is holding a rally, press conference, and action in protest of 
 the closing of 150 Otis Homeless Shelter and Mayor Newsom’s proposed 
 budget cuts to vital poor and homeless services in San Francisco.  150 Otis 
 residents say “We refuse to let this injustice go on unnoticed and we 
 won’t go down without a fight!”  We demand more care, not cuts and more 
 affordable housing fit for human beings!  \n\nWhy:\nThere are 6,000-15,000 
 people without housing in San Francisco and less than 1,000 emergency 
 shelter beds. 300 people a year die on the streets of San Francisco due to 
 homelessness.  Yet the politicians and bureaucrats responsible for the 
 shelter system say no one will miss the 59 shelter beds when 150 Otis 
 closes:\n“We’re always looking at capacity in our shelter system 
 compared to demand.  Right now, we feel that we are meeting the need.”  
 (Daryush Kayhan, Mayor Newsom’s Homeless Policy Director, salary: > 
 $370,000/yr.)\n\nThis is an outright LIE, as anyone who has waited all 
 night for a shelter bed can tell you!  Poverty, homelessness, and 
 unemployment are skyrocketing due to the economic crisis, yet Mayor Newsom 
 is cutting the budget for San Francisco’s poorest people at a time when 
 we need these services more than ever!  \n\nMeanwhile we have the highest 
 paid police in the United States, Mayoral staff who make over $300,000 a 
 year and thousands of empty units of housing that should be turned over to 
 the homeless for shelter at little or no cost.  The SF Budget Justice 
 Coalition, Coalition on Homelessness, and Board of Supervisors have 
 proposed solutions like eliminating tax breaks and corporate welfare for 
 the rich, but the Mayor continues to ignore them and instead suggests 
 repealing rent laws making it easier for landlords to evict renters, flip 
 their houses and increase rents, causing more homelessness and poverty.  
 \n\nThe people of San Francisco have solutions and vital needs, and when 
 they are ignored by our city’s leaders, it is time to organize and take 
 direct action to win justice!  An Injury to One is an Injury to All!  
 \n\nBring a sleeping bag, either to use yourself during the CD, or to 
 donate.\n\nThere will be more actions to come! Meet us at 16th & Mission 
 St. July 19th, 5:30pm for a Housing Takeover and bring your friends!\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/06/26/18651899.php
SUMMARY:No Home, No Justice, No Peace!
LOCATION:150 Otis St. (at Duboce St./ Mission St.) San Francisco, CA 94103
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/06/26/18651899.php
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