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DESCRIPTION:CITY HALL SIDEWALK THE USUAL FREEDOM SITE\nPersistent activists with the 
 Freedom Sleepers will return this Tuesday for another night on the bricks 
 and the blacktop in front of City Hall. \n\nTheir numbers reportedly grew 
 last week to include 15 or 20 at various times throughout the night. 
 Jumbogumbo Joe Schultz provided coffee; Troublemaker Toby friend chicken; 
 and a tripled "security force" of First Alarm costumed "guards" provided 
 comic relief. \n\nNo City Council meeting slated for this week, but Keith 
 McHenry of Food Not Bombs announced he'd be there during the afternoon 
 cooking and leafleting to restore the survival rights of unhoused community 
 versus the City's anti-homeless Sleeping Ban and Park Closing laws. 
 \n\nOTHER CITIES \nMeanwhile up Eureka way, there was a mixed 
 victory--temporarily securing the rights of 11 folks outside, while 
 abandoning the majority to the threatened police sweeps. \nSee "Mixed 
 ruling: Judge prevents Eureka from evicting 11 homeless; city says plan to 
 proceed" at 
 http://www.times-standard.com/article/NJ/20160429/NEWS/160429840 \n\nIn 
 Sacramento, in the wake of a lengthy day-and-night protest/encampment at 
 City Hall, attorney Mark Merin said he was applying for permits for 
 homeless sleeping spots. This was suggested by city officials after their 
 recent trip to Seattle with its longstanding tent villages. \n\nIn Salinas, 
 Wes White and the Monterey County Homeless Advocates have spent more than a 
 month camping outside their City Hall at night, demanding abolition of the 
 anti-homeless "leave your stuff on the sidewalk, face seizure". Wes gave a 
 long update at http://radiolibre.org/brb/brb160424.mp3 (3 hours and 28 
 minutes into the audio file). \n\nSTREET ARTIST CRACKDOWN CONTINUES\nIn 
 Santa Cruz, Keith McHenry reports that street artists Alex Skelton and Joff 
 Jones were arrested and their artwork seized again---two weeks after their 
 first arrest. Their "crime" was presumably being "outside the blue 
 brackets/dots/boxes" or perhaps "declining to move-along every hour." 
 \n\nAssistant 2nd Class Scott Collins has continued to decline to meet with 
 those wanting to make suggestions and ask questions regarding the "blue 
 boxes" law—though he has responded to e-mail.  The “Vanish the 
 Vendors” laws are likely to be returning to Council on May 12th.  A 
 Public Records Act shows much communication between Collins, fellow 
 bureaucrat Julie Hendee, and various merchants downtown intent on 
 restricting if not eliminating street vendors downtown. \n\nCouncilmember 
 Micah Posner will be at the May 4th HUFF meeting at 11 AM [Sub Rosa Café, 
 703 Pacific) to discuss the issue. He has been asked to bring a copy of the 
 proposed law--created with much merchant, but little if any street 
 performer input. \n\nFreedom Sleepers will meet Wednesday morning at 10 AM 
 at the Sub Rosa to lick wounds and plot strategems.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/05/02/18785948.php
SUMMARY:Eureka Readies Homeless Removal as Santa Cruz Freedom Sleepers Gather for 43rd SleepOut
LOCATION:The event actually runs from 5 PM Tuesday to around 9 AM Wednesday at that 
 old familiar spot--the sidewalk and City Hall Courtyard across Center St. 
 from the Main Library, though many homeless sleep under the eaves of nearby 
 buildings (like the library, Civic Auditorium, and Greek Orthodox Church).  
 
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