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DESCRIPTION:A march to the SCPD police station arriving shortly after noon will 
 dramatize the brutal, costly, and pointless crackdown on Peacecamp2010 
 homeless protesters "menacing" the public safety by sleeping at City Hall 
 at night.  The point is both to educate the community and the media and 
 provide a group sleeping space which is safer than the levee, the Pogonip, 
 or other spots--where it is equally illegal to sleep.  The march will 
 highlight recent police seizures of homeless protest materials and survival 
 gear and demand the return of those items. \n\n  	 March to the SCPD to 
 Retrieve Stolen Property\nOn Tuesday August 24 at 11:30 AM, the March to 
 Reclaim Homeless Dignity will assemble in front of City Hall on Center St. 
 between Locust and Church and ends at the Police Station at Center and 
 Laurel around 12:15 p.m.  Times are approximate\n\nThey Steal Our 
 Sleep...They Steal Our Survival Gear\nThey Steal Our Liberty..They Steal 
 Our Lives\n\n+++ Waiting Lists of 2-4 Weeks for Emergency Shelter\n+++ 
 Multiple Tickets and Arrests Each Night for Sleeping\n+++ Klieg Lights 
 Waking Pregnant Women After Midnight\n+++ A New City Hall “No Trespass” 
 Law to Crush Protest\n+++ Political Signs, Tables, Chairs, and Literature 
 Seized\n\nJoin Us As We Take Back Our Property!\nHelp Smash the Sleeping 
 Ban!\n\nNightly Meetings in front of City Hall 8:15 PM\n\nDon't Let Your 
 Conscience Sleep\n\n\nPolice know their citations and arrests will be 
 dismissed in court under the Necessity defense.\n\nYet each night 
 authorized by City Manager Martin Bernal and Mayor Mike Rotkin, police 
 roust pregnant women and old men who have no legal shelter.\n\nThe latest 
 tactics in sleep deprivation and homeless removal involve high intensity 
 overhead lights, and "security" guards.\n\nThe only crime happening at City 
 Hall is the conspiracy to deny poor people the right to sleep, not anywhere 
 and everywhere, but somewhere at night.\n\nIn the midst of devastating 
 depression with more and more people becoming jobless and homeless, City 
 police are trying to drive desperation out of sight.\n\nIn the last week, 
 police have escalated their assaults and threats, taking a 72-year-old 
 woman to jail, repeatedly ticketing a 9 1/2 month pregnant woman, jailing 
 another pregnant woman, initiating a smear campaign against a protester as 
 a "child molester", stealing political signs and literature as well as 
 chairs and a political table as "unclaimed property", and more...\n\nAll 
 this in a city without shelter for those outside it is ticketing.   Since 
 authorities know the necessity defense will win in court, they are creating 
 new crimes for those getting Sleepcrime citations (See "New Attack on the 
 Homeless at City Hall" at 
 http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/06/19/18651272.php).  \n\nSince 
 people MUST sleep at night, this whole "hide out or get out" strategy is a 
 Reptillian Republican gentrification smackdown designed simply to 
 intimidate the poor into abandoning their civil liberties\nto sweep poverty 
 out of sight.  So that wealthier people can pretend poverty doesn't exist.  
 At least--not here in Santa Cruz!\n\nCome join our march! Come on down to 
 Peacecamp2010 each night to reclaim the public space, reclaim the public 
 conscience, and reclaim the public purse.\n\nEarlier stories 
 at\nhttp://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/23/18656639.php\nhttp://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/22/18656536.php\n\nMore 
 contact info, video, and daily updates at 
 http://peacecamp2010.blogspot.com\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/24/18656715.php
SUMMARY:March to Demand SCPD Release Property Stolen from Homeless Protesters
LOCATION:On Tuesday August 24 at 11:30 AM, the March to Reclaim Homeless Dignity 
 will assemble in front of City Hall on Center St. between Locust and Church 
 and ends at the Police Station at Center and Laurel around 12:15 p.m.  
 Times are approximate
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/24/18656715.php
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