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DESCRIPTION:Join us at the 89th Freedom Sleepers Sleep-out at Santa Cruz City Hall 
 \n\nThe Freedom Sleepers will be sleeping out at City Hall once again this 
 Tuesday, March 21, 2017. We will provide free food and sleep out against 
 the sleeping ban where unsheltered people are woken and often ticketed by 
 the police and rangers. Our homeless friends suffer from official 
 disrespect and dehumanization every day. The emergency shelter was closed 
 in July 2015.  Homeless people in Santa Cruz have slept more than 600 
 nights since the Emergency Shelter was closed. \n\nThis is the text of the 
 poster distributed at the Freedom Sleepers. Please come by and get your 
 copy.\n\nFirst they came for the homeless, and I did not speak out 
 —
Because I was not homeless.
\nThen they came for the Mexicans, and 
 I did not speak out — 
Because I was not a Mexican.
\nThen they came 
 for the Muslims, and I did not speak out — 
Because I was not a 
 Muslim.
\nThen they came for me —
and there was no one left to speak 
 for me. \n\nBased on poem by German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller 
 (1892–1984). Niemöller was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen and Dachau 
 concentration camps from 1937 to 1945. Once freed he regretted he had not 
 done more to speak out against the Nazis. \n\nUnder this era of Trump the 
 dehumanization of our homeless neighbors is more dangerous than ever. The 
 Nazi law against homelessness where vagrancy, begging, prostitution, and 
 "work-shyness" (arbeitsscheu), was classified "asocial behavior" as 
 punishable by confinement to concentration camps. Individuals deemed 
 "asocial" had to wear the black triangle. Many black triangle prisoners 
 were either mentally disabled or mentally ill. The homeless were also 
 included, as were alcoholics, the habitually "work-shy" or unemployed, 
 prostitutes, and others including draft resisters and pacifists.\n\nOne of 
 those who passed away on the streets of Santa Cruz was our friend Micheal 
 Mears died of hypothermia on February 17, 2017 in Santa Cruz.\n\n\nMemorial 
 Service for Michael Mears\nTuesday, April 11, 2017\n5:30 PM\nSanta Cruz 
 City Hall\n809 Center St, Santa Cruz, California \n\n\nAlso please join us 
 again this Saturday, March 25th at 3 PM. at the Downtown Post Office to 
 protest the Anti-homeless Fence. Bring signs, coats, shoes, toys, ribbons, 
 toothpaste and toothbrushes, books and anything beautiful or any other 
 helpful item.\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/03/20/18797563.php
SUMMARY:The 89th Freedom Sleepers Sleep-out at Santa Cruz City Hall
LOCATION:The Freedom Sleepers will be sleeping out at City Hall once again this 
 Tuesday, March 21, 2017. We will provide free food and sleep out against 
 the sleeping ban where unsheltered people are woken and often ticketed by 
 the police and rangers.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/03/20/18797563.php
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