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DESCRIPTION:CAN'T DRIVE OFF THOSE FREEDOM SLEEPERS\nFreedom Sleepers will be returning 
 Tuesday afternoon and evening as the weather turns warmer with videocam 
 capability at the ready to discourage and document abusive behavior and 
 false statements by cops and rangers--who have freely stolen homeless gear 
 and lied to protesters about their rights.\n\nPOLICE THIEVES STILL HOLD 
 HOMELESS GEAR\nHomeless survival gear has not been returned to Lawrence 
 MacGregor or Dreamcatcher--a large tent in Lawrence's case; ID, a mobile 
 carrying cart and many other items for Dreamcatcher.\n\nPHONIES PROPOSE 
 TOOTHLESS LAW WITH THEIR POLICE SHUTTING OUT THE LARGER COMMUNITY\nItem #14 
 on the Afternoon Agenda is the 2nd and Final Reading of the Sanctuary 
 Ordinance which "forbids" city employees (including police) from 
 "requesting, disclosing, or maintaining" immigration status information or 
 aiding in enforcement (with plenty of exceptions) as well as informing City 
 Council (but not the community) AFTER but not BEFORE immigration raids 
 occur.  There are no penalties for those who violate the law and no right 
 to sue the City if it acts contrary to this law.\n\nThe Council meeting 
 will again be held in the City Council chambers instead of the larger Civic 
 Auditorium--this time in mid-afternoon.  This means a large crowd of people 
 can be excluded, as happened last time with a heavy police presence and 
 folks kept out in the cold while the Council presented its fluffy 
 resolution and law as a figleaf to cover SCPD collusion with ICE/DHS 
 abuses.\n\nMEMORIAL PLANNED FOR APRIL 11TH FOR HYPOTHERMIA VICTIM AT 
 FREEDOM SLEEPOUT #92\nKeith McHenry notes "53 year-old Micheal Mear died of 
 hypothermia on February 17, 2017.  Medical staff reportedly told his sister 
 his body temperature was only 70 degrees when a motorist found him 
 unconscious on Potrero Street. He died soon after from cardiac arrest at 
 Dominican Hospital."\n  \nPhotos and commentary on Michael Randell Mear 
 June 21,1963 - February 17, 2017 at 
 https://www.facebook.com/keith.mchenry.fnb/media_set?set=a.10154959373258820.1073741880.691903819&type=3 
 \n\n"STARVE 'EM OUT OF SIGHT" BIGOTS ERECT CHAIN LINK FENCE AROUND DOWNTOWN 
 POST OFFICE\n"Protect my $140,000 condo downtown" may be the real 
 motivation for Janet Fardette's petition to drive away Food Not Bombs from 
 its Saturday and Sunday meals on the sidewalk near the main post office.   
 While Fardette's on-line petition has only cleared 100 names, McHenry's 
 counterpetition boasts of over 1000. \n\nFreedom Sleeper activists, 
 grateful for Food Not Bombs regular feedings at the Tuesday Freedom 
 SleepOuts, encourage folks to stop by the SleepOut as well as the Saturday 
 and Sunday meals outside the Post Office (4-6 PM) to sign letters to the 
 Postmaster, emphasizing the importance of the Food Not Bombs meals and 
 community gatherings.\n\nTo read more details on the Post Office's most 
 recent uglification campaign erecting a "separation fence" as well as the 
 festive community response, go to  "Anti-Homeless Fence Decorating Party"at 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/03/13/18797382.php  \n\nBerkeley and 
 San Francisco have resisted profiteering attempts to privatize local post 
 offices successfully erecting and sustaining homeless encampments in front 
 of the threatened buildings. The protests sprang from First They Came for 
 the Homeless [FTCFTH]--which evolved from the Occupy movement.  Assembling 
 and refusing to stay dispersed next to these buildings has been the tactic 
 used.   It's unclear whether Santa Cruz will adopt a similar strategy, but 
 one Berkeley activist has declared himself ready to "hop on the next bus 
 down" to support such a move.  FTCFTH has now gone two months without a 
 warning or bust after being threatened, harassed and/or attacked by police 
 more than 15 times.  \n\nCITY CLAIMS TO WANT "COMMUNITY INPUT" IN SEARCH 
 FOR NEW POLICE CHIEF\nGo and make your concerns about the SCPD's collusion 
 with ICE/DHS, its "shoot to kill" policy, its failure to hold individual 
 officers or the chief responsible for human rights abuses by attending 
 meetings:  Wednesday, March 15th in the Police Department Community Room 
 (155 Center St Santa Cruz) from 7:00-9:00pm.  and Thursday, March 16th at 
 the Beach Flats Community Center (1333 Leibrandt Ave. Santa Cruz) from 
 7:00-9:00pm. Both events will be bilingual.\n\nYou can also fill out a 
 "Community Survey" on line.\nEnglish – 
 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TM3VF99\nSpanish – 
 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/B9SXTVW \n\nIn the past, only large numbers 
 of people have gotten even a limited response from the police and their 
 politician friends as happened February 14 when shouting activists 
 disrupted a Council intent on gagging a speaker victimized by the ICE/DHS 
 raids the day before.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/03/14/18797413.php
SUMMARY:Denounce City Council's Toothless Sanctuary Law, then Join Freedom SleepOut #88
LOCATION:Join the fun in front of City Hall at 809 Center St. on the brick 
 entranceway to the "City Hall Courtyard" from Tuesday Afternoon through 
 Wednesday mid-morning.  The area was declared a "park" to give Parks and 
 Recreation Rangers power to exclude homeless folks guilty of nothing but 
 sleeping there at night in an unprecedented due process-free process on 
 pain of a year in jail.  Food and festivities will begin near (or perhaps 
 inside) City Council chambers.  The Gang of Seven will finalize an empty 
 Sanctuary law that provides no enforcement provisions, nor accountability 
 for Chief Vogel's concealment of an ICE agent for the last 8 years.   While 
 Council creates a phony "Sanctuary" for the undocumented, real sanctuary 
 for the local homeless isn't even on the table.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/03/14/18797413.php
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