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DESCRIPTION:OccupyForum Presents. . .\n\n\nThe Western Regional Advocacy Project 
 (WRAP)\n\n"Housekeys Not Handcuffs"\n\nBecause federal responses to 
 homelessness have been so ineffective, a growing number of localities 
 "clean up the streets" to remove homeless people from public view. These 
 punitive measures involve gross human and civil rights violations.\n\nThis 
 nationwide pattern has escaped civil rights protections because these 
 ordinances are drafted very carefully to appear as if they apply equally to 
 all people. But enforcement is very much impacted by people's skin color, 
 housing, economic, and mental health status.\n\nWRAP's civil rights 
 campaign combines street outreach, documentation of civil rights 
 violations, organizing, legal defense, and direct action. None of us can do 
 this alone. We must work in solidarity with one another to defend those 
 being attacked and pressure local governments to end these discriminatory 
 programs.\n\nThe WRAP Homeless Bill of Rights Campaign (HBR) strives to 
 ensure that ALL people have the basic right to live where they choose 
 without fear of harassment and criminalization. Today, numerous laws 
 infringe on poor people's equal protection under the law.\n\nWRAP will 
 introduce legislation in California, Oregon & Colorado to overturn local 
 laws targeted to remove people from public space. Opposition from 
 corporate, political, and law enforcement forces will be strong. The base 
 of support at the local level must be extensive.\n\nThe HBR campaign is 
 more than an effort to pass state legislation. It is a way of working 
 collectively with groups possessing different talentsto address the 
 injustices that we face in our communities.\nEven if there isn't an 
 immediate victory, we are building the power to create a social justice 
 movement that will eventually enable a more decent society.\n\nLaws that 
 segregate, that make criminals of people based on their status rather than 
 their behavior, or that prohibit certain people's right to be in public 
 spaces are not just sad relics from the past: Today, numerous laws infringe 
 on poor people's ability to exist in public space, to acquire housing, 
 employment, and basic services, and to equal protection under the 
 law.\n\nOur Homeless Bill of Rights Campaign (HBR) stands on the shoulders 
 of social justice campaigns of the past to alleviate poverty and 
 homelessness while protecting homeless and poor people from unjust laws and 
 ensuring all people's right to exist in public spaces. -- 
 WRAP\n\n\nDonations to OccupyForum gratefully accepted. No one turned 
 away.\n\n\nQ&A and Announcements will follow.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/02/16/18768603.php
SUMMARY:The Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP) - Housekeys Not Handcuffs
LOCATION:Global Exchange\n2017 Mission Street\nSan Francisco, CA - 94110
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/02/16/18768603.php
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