BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18782944 SEQUENCE:18909764 CREATED:20160215T053500Z DESCRIPTION:NUMBER THIRTY-TWO\nSanta Cruz's homeless population still faces tickets and stay-away orders from parks at night, harassment in public spaces and buildings during the day, and the Sleeping Ban everywhere in the City after 11 PM. In solidarity with hundreds who have no shelter, Freedom Sleepers will gather at 5 PM and through the night for the 32nd Tuesday night weekly sleep-out.\n\nLast week's Freedom SleepOut (#31) reportedly included 20 folks throughout the night.\n\nMEDIA BEGINS ON MAYOR LANE'S SLEEPING BAN REFORM\nIn today's Sunday Sentinel, David Grishaw Jones of the Peace United Church of Christ has published a strong defense of the right to sleep at night--specifically criminalized here since 1978.\nSee http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/opinion/20160213/the-rev-david-grishaw-jones-sleeping-should-not-be-against-the-law \n\nSilver-tongued Steve Pleich has written an article for the on-line Street Spirit newspaper (soon to be available in hard copy in Santa Cruz at the Sub Rosa Cafe): http://www.thestreetspirit.org/santa-cruz-activists-join-together-to-defend-right-to-sleep/ on March 8 City Council meeting with move to strike "sleep"...\n\nLobbying the Sleep-toxic City Council continues from the more rarified regions of closed liberal and religious groups. \n\nLOBBYING COMING UP\nJames Weller writes: "Don Lane says the most effective way to support his proposal (which he plans to introduce to the City Council on March 8), if you live in Santa Cruz, is to e-mail the City Council directly - citycouncil@cityofsantacruz.com. Say that Municipal Code Section 6.36 should be amended to remove from its text all references to “sleep,” “sleeping,” “sleeping bag,” “blanket,” and “bedding,” "in vehicles." "\n\nThe danger here--as with past such limited efforts--is that once Council nixes Lane's reform, "respectable" liberals will simply stay home or rely on loudly-touted but never-completed legal action when what's needed is intensified and focused protests.\n\nOTHER AVENUES\nAlso a distant possibility--a lawsuit against the ban backed by the National Law Center for Homelessness and Poverty-- still in the organizing stage. \n\nFormer liberal governor Jerry Brown has reportedly also told a local establishment liberal that he may consider the creation of safe sleeping zones supported by the California Conservation Corp.\n\nDIRECT ACTION PROSPECTS\nMore direct action by Toby Nixon and HUFF activists being done or under consideration includes free streaming police harassment of homeless sleepers, visible daytime homeless protests outside the relevant city hall offices, and ThugWatch on Pacific Avenue--housed activists monitoring the uniformed First Alarm Security "homeless watchers".\n\nSTILL MORE\nFurther postings on the 32nd Community SleepOut can be found at https://www.facebook.com/events/1679782112277618/ \n\nCheck out the great poster by Warming Center activist Brent Adams: https://www.facebook.com/santacruzsanctuary/photos/a.525272064184570.120239.525270847518025/1106964959348608/?type=3&theater\n\n\nATTACKS ON HOMELESS ELSEWHERE\nGlobal Day of Action against the Arrest of Food Not Bombs in Moscow.\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/185674255131444/ \n\nNew Salinas law attacks Chinatown homeless encampment:\nhttp://www.thecalifornian.com/story/news/my-safety/2016/02/10/salinas-amends-homeless-property-ordinance/80087978/\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1774021562832523&set=gm.1739915619572928&type=3&theater \n\nHUFF activist Robert Norse composed and posted this announcement with input from Pat Colby and Steve Pleich.\n\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/02/14/18782944.php SUMMARY:The 32nd Time: Freedom Sleeper Activists Hit City Hall Sidewalk LOCATION:Near the sacred grounds of City Hall at 809 Center St., in the courtyard until driven out at 10 PM by the anti-homeless "no public access at night" law in "progressive" Santa Cruz.\n URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/02/14/18782944.php DTSTART:20160217T010000Z DTEND:20160217T130000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR