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DESCRIPTION:The following information is from the organizers of the event:\n\nWe need 
 your visible support at Trans-E-Motion's upcoming rally on Friday, November 
 17th at 4:30pm at Fresno City Hall located at 2600 Fresno St, Fresno, CA 
 93721. Trans-E-Motion, as you may know, is a community benefit organization 
 that works to improve the lives of transgender people through support, 
 education, and advocacy in the Fresno area. We are rallying and protesting 
 the staggering number of murders and suicides of transgender people 
 annually, including local transgender residents. We are also protesting the 
 recent "No Camping Ordinance," passed by the Fresno City Council, as it 
 further criminalizes Fresno's homeless population, which includes a 
 considerable cross section of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and 
 transgender) community.\n\nPursuant of many local conservative views, this 
 ordinance generates a social climate of stigmatizing homeless individuals, 
 dehumanizing the poor, and offers no real solutions for homelessness in 
 Fresno. The local lesbian, gay, bisexual, and especially the transgender 
 community already experiences barriers when it comes to social mobility: 
 lack of access to employment, adequate health care, housing. Furthermore, 
 the LGBT community intersects with so many other demographics, whether it 
 be from a varied set of race and ethnicity, level of ability, veterans, 
 school staff and faculty, students, persons with mental illness, and 
 undocumented individuals, to name a few. This means LGBT folks are 
 interconnected with so many other communities the council claims to serve. 
 \n\nIn the past our organization, Trans-E-Motion has asked the council for 
 proclamations for our two annual events: The Transgender Day of Visibility 
 (March 31st) and The Transgender Day of Remembrance (November 20th). We 
 asked for their recognition of two days that are essential for our 
 community. During this protest, we ask for no such recognition; we no 
 longer need the trappings of "pinkwashing" and tokenism recognition that 
 has been their support in the last 5 years. We need more than for them all 
 to just to say they stand in support – we need tangible solutions to 
 institutional discrimination, and we invite you to ask for this with us. We 
 will not ask for recognition; we will be there to state our grievances and 
 we need your support in numbers to help us.\n\nDuring the Fresno City 
 Council meeting in which the ordinance was being decided on several 
 representatives of the community spoke against the ordinance, citing 
 logistical roadblocks as well as how the ordinance hurts the community, not 
 helps it. Several organizations spoke, including ours, and we were not 
 heard. Now we are asking you and your organization to join us as we make 
 our pitch a little louder through this protest; it is our hope that stating 
 our grievances in a public forum will reach the ears of the council, media, 
 and entire community. Our demands will include having a liaison between the 
 LGBT community and the council and the creation of accessible shelters that 
 are inclusive for all communities. We hope you can join us in this effort. 
 Your attendance is your support.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/11/09/18804368.php
SUMMARY:Trans people and allies unite against homeless ban!
LOCATION:Fresno City Hall located at 2600 Fresno St, Fresno, CA 93721.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/11/09/18804368.php
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