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DESCRIPTION:A week after City Council enraged and disappointed a room full of 
 activists, Freedom Sleepers resume their regular weekly protest and invite 
 the disenfranchised to join them.  If supporters hold fast, there will be 
 coffee in the morning.\n\nHomeless folks at the Red Church and on Pacific 
 Avenue Monday night continued to report citations for sleeping, being 
 driven out into the rain, and regular harassment.  \n\n\nRELATED SANTA CRUZ 
 ACTIONS\nMeanwhile "Dogwood", a homeless activist seeking to generate a 
 more visible and public response, has announced a protest to begin at the 
 Town Clock at 3 PM with a march down Pacific Avenue to City Hall to join 
 the Freedom Sleepers.  See "Speak Out Against the Sleeping Ban " at 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/03/14/18784050.php \n\n"Push Back" 
 Pat Colby has announced she'll be at the police station Thursday March 17 
 at 12:30 PM to help folks reclaim their property from the police.  At 
 present, police only allow folks to pick up their seized property 12:30 
 -2:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays.   This restriction severely impacts 
 unhoused people whose survival gear is confiscated--still a grim occurrence 
 here.\n\nHUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) will be present at 
 the Project Pollinate day-long event on Saturday the 19th at San Lorenzo 
 park between 11 and 1 PM to help organize resistance to the criminalization 
 of the homeless.\n\nHUFF hopes to organize a caravan to Salinas on March 
 22nd to support the Salinas Union of the Homeless resisting the planned 
 destruction of the Chinatown encampment (see below).\nWe'll be signing up 
 people and looking for vehicles.  \n\nHUFF will also be assisting people to 
 call the River St. Shelter at 459-6644 to get on the Waiting List, which 
 immunizes those on the list for three days from camping ticket 
 prosecution.\n\nInsider, Silver-Tongued Steve Pleich's predictions of 
 higher City Council support for the right to sleep proved overly 
 optimistic. He notes that City Councilmember Micah Posner may be 
 introducing a call for City staff to find legal places to park RV's in 
 town.  Several months ago, City Council, under the leadership of 
 Councilmember Richelle Niroyan criminalized homeless RV parking at 
 night.\n\n\nSIGNS OF EARLY SPRING IN THE STRUGGLE\nSacramento activists, 
 after weeks of protest, seem much closer to forcing its local politicians 
 to legalize if not support encampments.   See "Let Sacramento’s homeless 
 have their tent city"--an editorial by the conservative Sacramento Bee at 
 http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article65032512.html\n\nIn 
 addition, Sacramento housing activist Paula Lomazzi notes on her facebook 
 page that the Justice Department is moving to block local and state fines 
 for poor people in actions arising out of the Ferguson struggle:\nSee 
 http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/14/politics/court-fines-poor-people-doj/index.html 
 \n\nIn Salinas, National Lawyers Guild attorney Anthony Prince has filed a 
 second lawsuit demanding police leave homeless property alone.  He has 
 called for making Salinas "the Selma of 2016" recalling the civil rights 
 struggles of the 60's.  \n\nSpecifically, he wants folks to stand up to a 
 scheduled police raid on the long-standing homeless encampment in Salinas's 
 Chinatown on March 23, by having a mass rally on the 22nd and sleepout 
 there.  See 
 http://www.thecalifornian.com/story/news/my-safety/2016/03/11/salinas-homeless-urged-stand-their-ground/81679316/ 
 . \n\nFor more information, contact Wes White at 831-296-0042 .  See the 
 flier below for additional details.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/03/14/18784052.php
SUMMARY:Rage Against City Council Bigotry--Freedom SleepOut #36
LOCATION:809 Center St.  Outside City Hall and City Council Offices
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/03/14/18784052.php
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