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DESCRIPTION:Private Warming Center activists, using the shelter of churches, try to do 
 the job that City authorities refuse to do--ensure basic survival shelter 
 for unhoused folks.  Meanwhile, the Freedom Sleepers begin their 28th 
 Tuesday of Sleeping Out, outside City Hall. \n\nLong-time local activist 
 Steve Schnaar hit the hammer on the head when he wrote " the [City] Council 
 unanimously voted for the City to collaborate with the Warming Center 
 program.... [T]his decision by the Council is really a very small offer: 
 the use of a City building only if no church spaces are available, and only 
 for a maximum of five nights this winter...."\n\n"[T]he same Council also 
 voted to increase punishments for sleeping in parks, as well as making it 
 illegal to sleep in large vehicles."\n\n"...[T]he City kicks them while 
 they're down, sending police to raid their camps, increasing penalties for 
 the “crime” of sleeping outside, and outlawing large vehicles that many 
 people use for shelter."\n\n"Even with respect to daytime, waking life, the 
 City continually restricts the use of public space by homeless people 
 downtown, and has even condoned brazen police violence against the homeless 
 (i.e. the inaction by the City after a SCPD officer was caught on film 
 slamming a hand-cuffed Richard Hardy face-first into the curb)."\n\nSee 
 "MLK Day Challenge to City Council to End Homeless Repression" at 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/01/18/18781957.php for the rest of 
 Schaar's letter.\n\nThere will also reportedly be a Warming Center offered 
 Tuesday night with pick-up's at the Pearl Alley area behind Joe's Pizza 
 from 7 - 10 PM, spearheaded by Brent Adams and Steve Pleich.  
 \n\nOrganizers "Tussle with Terror" Toby Nixon and "Push Back" Pat Colby 
 haven't advised me what kind of midnight refreshments will survive the 
 storm at the Sleep-Out.  But Jumbogumbo Joe Schultz is likely to come 
 through with something hot and life-giving.  \n\nPleich also passes on word 
 from Eureka of an Emergency Shelter Declaration 
 (http://eureka.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=567&meta_id=31263 
 ) and wonders why Santa Cruz continues to ignore the crisis.\n\nFor more 
 photos and homeless info go to: 
 https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=Freedom%20Sleepers \n\nFor 
 background and some initial links see "Freedom SleepOut #27 To Follow First 
 2016 Council 
 Meeting"https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/01/11/18781690.php\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/01/18/18781969.php
SUMMARY:Storms Over Santa Cruz: Freedom SleepOut #28 at City Hall
LOCATION:809 Center St.--in front of City Hall and the cover of the porches of 
 adjacent buildings in the wake of a heavy rainstorm.   Some will be 
 spending the night on the cold concrete of the nearby sidewalks supporting 
 survival rights for homeless people on the streets of Santa Cruz.\nover the 
 harassment of First Alarm Security thugs and other "law and order" 
 homeless-o-phobes.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/01/18/18781969.php
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