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DESCRIPTION:Battle-hardened unhoused veterans will be braving another night of 
 bone-chilling weather to continue the community of protest started in July 
 of 2015 and held once a week every Tuesday night since 
 then.\n\nPOLITICS-AS-USUAL: NO ANSWERS, NO ACTIONS, LOTS OF SILENCE\nThe 
 incoming City Council is home warm snug in its beds.    "Liberal" newcomers 
 Sandy Brown and Chris Krohn had not a word of support to say about the 
 Freedom Sleepers long March during their mutual admiration speeches last 
 week at the last Council meeting of the year.\n\nKrohn will be interviewed 
 on Norse's show "Bathrobespierre's Broadsides" at a time to be announced.  
 \n\n\nBERKELEY "POOR TOUR" ENTERS 7TH WEEK AFTER 12 BUSTS AND AT LEAST 6 
 RELOCATIONS\n15 Hours ago the determined community at Adelaine and Oregon 
 in Berkeley were given yet another deportation notice to vacate within 24 
 hours.  \n\nInterviews with leaders Dan McMullan, Mike Lee and Mike Zint 
 (now in the hospital with pneumonia) are on line at 
 http://radiolibre.org/brb/brb161218.mp3 (1 hour and 20 minutes into the 
 file).\n\nSee also 
 http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2016-12-16/article/45238?headline=Are-the-Berkeley-raids-going-to-stop---Becky-O-Malley 
  and 
 https://www.facebook.com/pages/First-they-came-for-the-homeless/253882908111999 
 /\n\nBerkeley activists and Salinas activists have both credited the 
 Freedom Sleepers with inspiration for their current vigils.\n\n\nCLASS 
 ACTION LAWSUIT FILED\nWes White, of the Flagpole Community and the Salinas 
 Union of the Homeless met with other activists this weekend to organize a 
 broader coalition of workers, renters, disabled, and housed folks after the 
 City's October crackdown on the Flagpole Community.   That encampment, 
 backed by attorney Anthony Prince, held off the Chinatown raids for many 
 months, defeated one anti-homeless law, and are considering joining on to 
 the ACLU's state-wide lawsuit against Cal-Trans for seizing homeless 
 property.  See 
 https://www.aclunc.org/news/civil-rights-groups-sue-caltrans-stop-illegal-raids-against-california-s-homeless 
 \n\n\n\n18TH HOMELESS MEMORIAL AT HOMELESS (LACK OF) SERVICES CENTER 
 [HLOSC] DOES ANNUAL RITUAL MOURNING SESSION\n\nThe HLOSC isn't proposing, 
 backing, and organizing any real change that might impact the death rate in 
 the homeless community.  Instead, the increasingly prison-like HLOSC is 
 having another "ain't it a shame" annual ceremony reading the names of the 
 dead, lighting candles, and assembling for pious speeches.  Sort of a 
 fitting counterpoint to the large fund-raising sign on its fence that 
 borders Hiway 1--which indicates its primary priorities.\n\nUnder Executive 
 Director "Freeze Out" Phil Kramer and the "More Grants for Less Services" 
 Board of Directors, the HLOSC continues to lock out the majority of 
 homeless people from meals and shelter while funding itself for those with 
 "pathways to housing" under the current "smart solutions" mythology that 
 ignores the needs of several thousand homeless people while panhandling for 
 the few.    Security guards and police have threatened those protesting 
 abusive HLOSC behavior outside, and dispersed those sleeping in the cold at 
 the gates of the $3 million 
 "non-profit".\n\nhttps://www.santacruz.com/events/18th-annual-homeless-memorial-at-homeless-services-center-dec-20th-2016-10-00am\n\nGenerousheart 
 Joe Schultz will be providing the usual hot soup against the cold.  
 Blankets, sleeping bags, and supporters are welcome! \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/12/20/18794853.php
SUMMARY:76th Freedom Sleeper Protest is also Day of the Homeless Dead Memorial
LOCATION:Huddling with blankets on the sidewalk next to City Hall across from the 
 Main Library.   The protest will also take place under the eaves of City 
 Hall--until driven away by security thugs and SCPD "law enforcement" 
 officers forcefully dispersing peaceful protesters and denying them 
 protective shelter while providing no options--in violation of the 8th 
 Amendment.  This in near-freezing temperatures near empty "public" 
 buildings.  This happens in an area designated as a "public park" (yet 
 "closed to the public" at night).
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