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DESCRIPTION:CITY COUNCIL WITH NO VANISH THE VENDORS LAW\nHigh-visibility Homeless 
 Highlander Keith McHenry says he'll be setting up a literature and 
 petitioning table at City Hall at noon. \n\nItem #22 on the Afternoon 
 Agenda--coming up sometime between 3:30 and 4:30 (perhaps) is the "Vanish 
 the Vendors" Law.  It severely restricts tabling and performance space for 
 all non-commercial purposes downtown. \n\nIt reduces the number of spaces 
 from the 63 promised by staff when Councilwoman Comstock's original "sweep 
 away the homeless clutter" law was passed in 2013. Now the staff report 
 suggests 25 will be the limit allowed. \n\nThe law bans dogs at tables. It 
 BANS ALL VENDING AND OTHER SERVICES (such as massaging, hair wrapping, 
 fortune telling, etc.). Not only selling, but distribution for donation, or 
 display. \n\nStaff report, proposed law, current law, and 
 correspondence--go to 
 http://scsire.cityofsantacruz.com/sirepub/mtgviewer.aspx?meetid=712&doctype=AGENDA 
 .  Then click on item #22.\n\n\nEXEMPTIONS BUT FOR FOOD NOT BOMBS 
 ?\nExempted are explicitly political buttons, literature, etc., or 
 vendor-created books, audio, video, recordings, and paintings. This 
 exemption was required by a federal court decision [Reno v. Sparks] years 
 ago, though ignored by the SCPD demanding that writers, painters, and 
 singers not charge for their own work.  Such exemptions will only be in 
 force for tabling in the 25 areas.\n\nInstead of specifying where one can 
 set up tables ("display devices"), it leaves this decision to future action 
 by City Council. For the past two years, staff made the decisions behind 
 closed doors, without public input, showing a, rigid and gentrified 
 aesthetic hostile to street culture. \n\nDepending on where the backroom 
 big boys decide to set up the "exempt" zones, Food Not Bombs sidewalk meals 
 COULD BE CURTAILED OR SIMPLY BANNED.  Staff bureaucrats will decide where 
 the 25 exempt zones will be located.  Heading this group is Assistant to 
 the Assistant City Manager  Scott Collins, who refused to retract 
 “Freedom Sleepers leave a mess” false claims months ago, and then took 
 Keith to court for publicly denouncing him.\n\nE-mail citycouncil [at] 
 cityofsantacruz.com with your reaction to this latest "Roust the Riffraff" 
 law. And then start thinking of ways to resist it, since the outcome is 
 likely a done deal. \n\nWhy address profound income inequality, no rent 
 control and renter protection, and the most elementary survival rights for 
 those without shelter?  Instead weeks after the Winter Armory Shelter has 
 closed with 100 of 1000--2000 houseless on the street, City Council will be 
 further researching "Tiny Homes" instead of designating emergency 
 campgrounds as nearby San Jose's City Council has moved to do.\n\n\nCHRIS 
 BEZORE MEMORIAL \nThe memorial for Wheelchair Chris is to begin around 4 
 PM. See 
 http://www.facebook.com/events/803713033091146/permalink/808009502661499/ 
 for more background. \n\nFurther background: 
 http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2016/03/28/chrisx_bezore_s_death.pdf 
 \n\n\nSLEEP-OUT TO SPEND A 40TH NIGHT \nSleepcrime after 11 PM still being 
 a $158 crime in Santa Cruz, the few, the hardy, the hopeful will be on the 
 sidewalk just outside the Forbidden Zone (our own "public" grounds at City 
 Hall). Likely to be coffee and some munchables--though don't expect 
 banquet-level cuisine. \n\nTroublemaker Toby--on survival vacation will be 
 available Wednesday morning for input and outburst at the Sub Rosa Cafe 
 (703 Pacific) at 10 AM where he will scheme with others on the future of 
 the Freedom Sleepers. \n\nThe regular HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship 
 & Freedom) meeting willl begin at 11 AM. Free coffee for those with the 
 stomach for it. \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/04/11/18785162.php
SUMMARY:Wheelchair Chris Memorial, Council's "Vanish the Vendors" Law, and Freedom Sleep-Out #40
LOCATION:Creepy Ole City Hall and Its Surrounding Grounds and Sidewalks\nand at 
 times in the cold chambers of the Council Meeting area as well. 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/04/11/18785162.php
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