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DESCRIPTION:BACK AGAIN FOR ROUND TEN \nIn a continuing challenge to the community to 
 support new priorities in policing and restoration of rights for the poor, 
 Freedom Sleepers will be back again with another Community Campout. 
 \n\nPUNISHMENT TO DRIVE AWAY THE PROTESTERS \nThere will be light PB and J 
 snacks at mid-evening and coffee and bagels or pastries in the morning. 
 City Manager Martin Bernal and Police Chief Kevin Vogel are likely to set 
 up their protest-punishing klieg lights, no parking zones, and harsh 
 ticketing at midnight policies. Nor have they agreed to let the public walk 
 on the grounds to view city council agendas--as required by law, or to walk 
 through along the accessways--as also mandated by law. \n\nLucero Luna, a 
 vocal Spanish-speaking worker, was roughly grabbed last week without 
 warning or charge by three police officers whose "compliance holds" left 
 bruises on her body when she was released with an 'interfering with an 
 officer" type charge three hours later. Lucero's response--she'll be back 
 Tuesday night. \n\nWHY ARE WE THERE? \nThe Freedom Sleepers goal is to both 
 change police practice, city law criminalizing homeless people at night if 
 they fall asleep after 11 PM, and a safer space for homeless people to 
 sleep. In spite of the police raids, many feel it is safer to sleep in 
 groups with housed observers and some media nearby. \n\nCity hall is a 
 place for the unhoused and the housed to meet and petition the government 
 to recognize that the right to sleep is as elementary, as attorney Ed Frey 
 once put it, as the right to breathe. \n\nNO SHELTER, NO MERCY \nThe Paul 
 Lee Loft-- closure in June essentially left no Emergency Shelter in Santa 
 Cruz. The Department of Justice has declared in an Idaho case that 
 harassing homeless people at night if there's no shelter is an 
 unconstitutional form of cruel and unusual punishment. Neither Mayor Lane, 
 nor Councilmember Posner, nor the eager "Drive the homeless RV's out of 
 town" crew that makes up the Council majority have put any remedy on the 
 agenda. \n\nMeanwhile homeless folks report getting ticketed multiple times 
 at night, even at places where they had previoulsy been left alone--such as 
 the Red Church at Lincoln and Cedar. \n\nLIVE ON THE AIR \nFree Radio Santa 
 Cruz [FRSC] broadcaster Misty-eyed Merlin and his "Idle Hands" crew will be 
 broadcasting at 101.3 FM throughout the evening playing old school rock 'n 
 roll and cracking jokes. He, Dolly, and Hans will be staying late to do a 
 blow-by-blow coverage of any police attack on the protesters--which usually 
 happens around midnight. \n\nFRSC streams at freakradio.org . You can call 
 in at 831-427-3772 or 831-469-3119. The FRSC collective is still offering a 
 $500 reward for anyone who can find them a studio space for a year. Last 
 radio broadcast will be September 21 if no one steps up. \n\nLast week's 
 sleep out is described at 
 http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/09/10/18777446.php ["9th SleepOut 
 Holds The Sidewalk..."] \n\nFor more info: follow the links at 
 http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/09/07/18777265.php ["At City Council 
 and Under the Stars, Challenge the Crackdown..."] 
 \n\nhttp://freedomsleepers.org \nhttp://huffsantacruz.org\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/09/12/18777522.php
SUMMARY:Free Radio to Cover 10th Homeless SleepOut at City Hall
LOCATION:City Hall Courtyard and then the Sidewalk at 809 Center St. next to City 
 Hall.  Parking available off of Church St. between Center and Chestnut, 
 along the library side of Center, or the Civic Center Side of Church.  
 Assuming police again put up obstructive barriors
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/09/12/18777522.php
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