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DESCRIPTION:THE VIGIL CONTINUES\nThe weekly public education and do-it-yourself safe 
 sleeping zone squad will be on the sidewalk starting around 3 PM for the 
 66th time tonight.  The vigil usually breaks up mid-morning Wednesday, 
 though watchful eyes on security thugs roaming City Hall and the library 
 are always welcome.  Food Not Bombs will be providing food, along with 
 likely soup from India Joze's kitchen, compliments of Jumbo Gumbo Joe 
 Schultz. Coffee usually appears in the morning.   \n\nSmart phones, 
 cameras, and/or video cameras are always welcome.  Donations of blankets, 
 sleeping bags, food, and friendship are also encouraged.\n\nFreedom 
 Sleepers and their supporters are invited to dose down a second time with 
 coffee and commentary at the 11 AM HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & 
 Freedom) meeting at the Sub Rosa Cafe at 703 Pacific Wednesday October 
 12.\n\n\nSIGN THIEVES ON SKATEBOARDS\nFood Not Bombs cooks report some 
 wandering skateboarders made off with the Food Not Bombs signs last 
 weekend--on two successive days.  Whether this was done to express 
 political hostility or to get tokens of FNB by admirers is unknown.  
 However the FNB gang would like the signs returned if possible.   
 \n\n\nCITY COUNCIL CLOWNERY\nLast week Mayor Mathews essentially eliminated 
 Oral Communications last meeting by moving Oral Communications from its 
 announced agenda time around 5 PM to shortly after 3 PM (when the short 
 Council meeting ended).   See 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/10/04/18791871.php .   \n\nOral 
 Communications is the only period when the public can speak on items not on 
 the official agenda.   Items that don't make the regular agenda usually 
 include almost everything relevant to houseless people such as police 
 violence, cutback in social services, discrimination by local officials and 
 businesses, laws that criminalize the poor, attacks on recyclers, selective 
 enforcement, etc.   But given the brief gasp of a period folks are allowed 
 to speak and the obliviousness of City Council, it's often unclear whether 
 speaking there (without a crowd behind you) is relevant at all.   \n\nThis 
 week's Oral Communication--if Mathews follows the procedure that defying 
 the Brown (Public Meetings) Act protections that are supposed to protect 
 the public--will be either around 5 PM or whenever the meeting ends.  So if 
 you can squeeze your remarks into the 2 minutes Mathews allows within a 
 further limited 30-minute time period for all speakers, speak on! \n\nThere 
 will be no evening session.   The afternoon session starting at 2:40 PM has 
 two items of potential interest to folks outside:  Item #16 "Tiny Houses in 
 Santa Cruz"  and #17 "21st Century Policing Task Force Recommendations" 
 reportedly involving deployment of police body cameras.  Meanwhile, 
 apparently, Council will ignore the Winter Shelter Crisis, the flood of 
 anti-homeless camping and "closed area" tickets, and past violent abuses by 
 the SCPD.  \n\nSince the Council cuts back public comment on the Consent 
 Agenda severely, these items will likely come up around 3 PM.  \n\n\nFREE 
 TENANT CLINIC/WORKSHOP ON SATURDAY\nOctober 15 at Live Oak Family Resource 
 Center on 17th Ave. near Capitola Road next to the Valero Station, 
 California Rural Legal Assistance will run a Free Clinic all day from 10 AM 
 to 6 PM.   There will also be a Tenants rights and Organizing Workshop 
 2-4:30 p.m.  Since tenants are a small step away from houselessness, and 
 the houseless are a big step away from housing, it might be a good place to 
 make connections.\n\n\nLAGUNA BEACH LAWYERS STRIKE BACK\nThe suit holds the 
 city responsible for failing to provide chronically homeless disabled 
 individuals a legal, safe place to sleep. The city’s practice of 
 providing limited shelter to the local homeless population, while citing 
 those forced to sleep outside because they can’t access the shelter 
 “discriminates against, criminalizes, and endangers disabled, homeless 
 persons and, in so doing, violates their civil rights,” the suit claims. 
 \n\nAn ACLU of Southern California report, “Nowhere to Live: The Homeless 
 Crisis in Orange County & How to End It,” found that since Orange County 
 supervisors approved a Ten-Year Plan to eradicate homelessness in 2010, the 
 homeless crisis has grown more acute. On any given night, there are over 
 4,400 people in the county sleeping on the 
 streets.\n\nhttp://www.lagunabeachindy.com/court-tentatively-grants-class-status-homeless-suit/ 
 \nhttps://www.aclusocal.org/issues/homelessness/nowhere-to-live/\nhttps://www.nlchp.org/documents/No_Safe_Place\n\n\nFOLLOW-THROUGH 
 ON LOCAL ACLU FORUM?\nThe ACLU's Forum on "Houselessness" was held to a 
 packed room last Wednesday, and featured lots of homeless input.  Many 
 spoke out angrily and eloquently about their experience around exclusions, 
 negligence, and dehumanizing treatment at the Homeless (Lack of) Services 
 Center.  The HLOSC has foreclosed walk-in shelter for another year and cut 
 meals to those not in their client-funded programs.\n\nWriter and activist 
 Mike Rhodes gave a stirring presentation of the partially successful Fresno 
 homeless struggle for rights and restitution.  There were probably more 
 houseless folks there than for any other recent political event.   
 \n\nHowever some were frustrated that no future action was clearly or 
 specifically planned.  Though the local ACLU has come out against the 
 Sleeping Ban, it has generally passed on other local civil liberties issues 
 affecting the homeless community and even those impacting renters, workers, 
 and middle-class people more broadly.  See "ACLU Chair Closes Monthly Board 
 of Directors Meeting, Homeless Issues Off the Agenda" at 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/05/21/18737162.php#18737164\n\n\nSTRUGGLES 
 APLENTY:  REPORTS FROM MARYSVILLE & BERKELEY\n\nVisible public encampments 
 either as protests or survival camps have formed in Berkeley and 
 Marysville.  Free Radio Santa Cruz covered both cities last 
 Sunday.\n\nRaelyn Butcher, who calls herself the "Homeless Mayor of 
 Marysville",  and her partner Brian declared their intention to stand their 
 ground in a threatened October 17th demolition action planned by the City 
 (Listen in at http://radiolibre.org/brb/brb161009.mp3 -- 2 hours and 36 
 minutes into the audio file).\n\n"Deadly" Dan McMullan, a disabled activist 
 and Berkeley Commissioner, has been supporting a street sleep-out in 
 Berkeley opposing the suffocation of services there along with activists 
 Mike Zint, formerly of Berkeley's Liberty City encampment, and Mike Lee, 
 radical candidate for Mayor (Listen in at 
 http://radiolibre.org/brb/brb161009.mp3 -- 42 minutes into the audio file) 
 \n\n\nPAINTERS ALEX AND JOFF GO TO TRIAL \n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/10/11/18792134.php
SUMMARY:As Weather grows Chilly, Freedom SleepOut #66 Keeps the Homeless Fires Burning
LOCATION:Concrete beddown along Center St. between Locust and Church across from the 
 Main Library
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