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DESCRIPTION:Freedom Sleepers will again claim sidewalk sleeping space in front of City 
 Hall Tuesday night.  The activists will defy the Mathews' Council's 
 anti-homeless 11 PM- 8:30 AM Sleeping Ban still being used throughout the 
 City to harass, cite, and "move along" unhoused people in the dead of 
 night.   \n\nFood Not Bombs may be providing food support and Jumbogumbo 
 Joe Schultz coffee and soup.  \n\nVIVID COVERAGE OF PRIOR FREEDOM 
 SLEEP-OUT'S\nAlex Darocy's vivid photographic and narrative coverage of the 
 last several sleepouts can be found at 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/07/25/18789435.php ("Tuesday is 
 Still the Night to Sleep at Santa Cruz City Hall").  Darocy provides 
 regular coverage of the sleep-out's, which can be seen through searching 
 for "Darocy" on the indybay.org/santacruz website.\n\nENOUGH TREATING THE 
 UNHOUSED AS GARBAGE!\nOutspoken activist Lucero Luna was twice arrested 
 last week for a dramatic, theatrical, and vocal protest on Pacific Avenue 
 exposing and castigating the treatment of homeless people as trash in Santa 
 Cruz.  See "Houseless activist protests sleeping ban, public space 
 restrictions in Santa Cruz" at 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/07/24/18789390.php .  Luna reports 
 repeated harassment in the van she lives in and has frequently urged 
 fight-back marches downtown.\n\nAPPEAL OF NIGHTTIME RV BAN COMING UP AUGUST 
 10TH\nSanta Cruz City Council accepted misleading anecdotal testimony last 
 fall without any specific statistics around complaints of dumping, 
 view-blocking, the presence of "suspicious" vandwellers, and other more 
 hysterical claims (meth labs on wheels).   \n\nThey passed two ordinances 
 banning RV parking from 8 PM to 8 AM, denying homeless people the right to 
 get permits, and empowering the city engineer to begin eliminating 
 'oversized" parking spaces and criminalizing vehicles that use more than 
 one space.    \n\nThe Coastal Commission will hear activist Robert Norse's 
 appeal on the more limited midnight to 5 PM RV ban, intended 
 mainly--testimony from neighborhood NIMBY's made clear at the time--to 
 drive away homeless folks.  The commission will meet  Wednesday, August 10 
 at 9 AM at  the Hilton Santa Cruz/Scotts Valley at 6001 La Madrona 
 Drive.\n\n\nUPCOMING COURT TRIALS FOR ARTISTS ALEX SKELTON AND JOFF 
 JONES\nJones and Skelton have been arrested repeatedly for displaying their 
 art work outside the small and sparce "exempt zones", designated by small 
 brass discs and blue dots on the Pacific Avenue sidewalk.\n\nThe two were 
 unexpectedly acquitted last year by police powerpuffer Kim Baskett, 
 Commissioner of Dept. 10.  Now the two face four new charges of violating 
 MC SC 5.81(A)-1 (displaying art outside the blue box and/or not moving 
 every hour).  Two of these charges go to trial at 1:30 PM in the basement 
 of the County Building, adjacent to the courthouse on August 30th.\n\nThis 
 will be the first challenge to the City's recent "Vanish the Vendors" law.  
 This ban on handicraft creation, display, and sale along Pacific Avenue and 
 side streets reiterates and reinforces the reduction of 
 art/performance/tabling space which went into high great in 2013,  created 
 the "blue boxes" in 2014, and then cut their number down by half in 2016.   
 Commissioner Basket will hear the case without a jury.  The two artists 
 don't have a court appointed lawyer and haven't mentioned that any local 
 legal eagle has volunteered to help.  \n\n\nMore info on the Freedom 
 Sleepers is frequently available at 
 https://www.facebook.com/groups/freedomsleepers/ .   Donations of food, 
 blankets, sleeping bags, and energy are always welcome.\n\nThis calendar 
 event description was written by Robert Norse, who is alone responsible for 
 its content.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/07/25/18789452.php
SUMMARY:Freedom SleepOut #55 To Follow Pacific Avenue Protests
LOCATION:Using the public City Hall Courtyard until police drive the public out at 
 10 PM when sleepers will bunk down on the sidewalk.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/07/25/18789452.php
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