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DESCRIPTION:This Monday at 9 am the Police will be raiding the homes in the Pogonip and 
 likely using Bulldozers to "clean" (damage) the land. I ask comrades to 
 show up at 8:30 at the Green Gate at the top of Golf Club Dr off of River 
 St. \n\nPogonip Forest is a beautiful home to all sorts of plants, animals, 
 and humans. Many Homeless people make homes and communities in the Pogonip. 
 Several folks are forced to move into the Pogonip because there are no safe 
 areas in town. The levy by the San Lorenzo river or Coral St by the 
 Homeless shelter are heavily policed and routinely ticketed for impending 
 police raid/sweep if personal property is not moved. \n\nThis summer of 
 property destruction and forced displacement has been especially brutal as 
 Police raids of encampments have intensified here and across the country. 
 Gavin Newsom made executive order 7/25/24 calling for crack down on 
 encampments across the state, emboldening cops to be more aggressive. 
 \n\nThere is not enough safe shelter and some have valid reasons for why 
 they cannot accept temp shelter such as pets, partners, sleep disorders, 
 immunocompromised, etc. There is no where safe to live outdoors with out 
 the threat of Police raids and bulldozers. There is no where to store their 
 survival items and personal belongings during the encampment clean up, so 
 often people lose everything. Even though California civil code  § 2080 et 
 seq. mandates storage of items for 90 days, the Police act with out 
 accountability and destroy these people's lives. \n\nForced Displacement 
 and property destruction is traumatizing to anyone, but especially harmful 
 and pernicious to the large percent of the homeless population who are 
 disabled. \n\nShort Intro to what happens at Police sweep of a Homeless 
 Encampment\n\n-----Many cop cars and 8 or more cops will be there. They 
 will likely put up yellow caution/crime tape and threaten to arrest you if 
 you cross it, but as long as you stay on the right side of the tape you are 
 gonna be just fine. If you get there after the cops do sometimes it is very 
 difficult to get anywhere near the people being swept. \n\n-----parks 
 officers and/or city hired worker will use large equipment including 
 sometimes Bulldozers and massive trash trucks to systematically remove all 
 of the property and survival equipment that has yet to been moved by 
 Monday. \n------------they are supposed to keep valuable items for storage 
 and retrieval for 90 days\n--------------------they rarely do this, and we 
 need to try to hold them accountable to this state law\n\n-----It is a very 
 traumatic event for the homeless people. By witnessing it, it my be 
 traumatizing for you. It is important to come with the understanding that 
 these sweeps cause emotional and physical harm to the people. \n\nWhat can 
 an Outsider do to Help?\n\n----- FILM!!!! pointing your camera at police 
 officers is always helpful. Email me any material. Always ask consent of 
 people before filming them. Cops do not count as people. Ask for their 
 badge number and name on camera. \n\n----- Advocate! often police will not 
 listen to the homeless person when they ask for their stuff to be stored, 
 ask to retrieve items from behind the tape, ask for a moment to calm down 
 their animal or themselves etc. Then the dum8as$ pigs will listen to some 
 random outsider who simply continues to parrot and repeat the homeless 
 person's asks at the pigs. \n\n-----Carry Things! Sometimes people need 
 help lifting and carrying items. Partnering up with someone by asking how 
 you can help them is a great way to start helping. Introduce yourself> I 
 like to say "Hi Im Athena, I am not with the city I am just a friend. How 
 can I Help you"\n\n----- Attach Signs and Inform of Rights!! I will be 
 there with these little signs that say "Survival Equipment! Valuable 
 Property" that we can attach to things with safety pins. The hope is this 
 makes it easier to demand storage and retrieval of these items. Its 
 important we explain to folks that they have the right to demand their 
 property is stored as well as ask for a Case Number and Receipt of seized 
 property.  \n\n\nThank you for reading this far. Email me to get involved 
 with stopping the sweeps, homeless advocacy, and heckling the Mayor to do 
 better for our homeless neighbors. \n\nAthena, member of HUFF: Homeless 
 United for Friendship and Freedom\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/26/18868249.php
SUMMARY:Police Raid of Encampment In Pogonip, Santa Cruz
LOCATION:Pogonip Forest In Santa Cruz. Park on River St and walk up Golf Club drive 
 all the way up to the green gate entrance to Pogonip. 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/26/18868249.php
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