Boycott Bigotry Demo at Lulu Carpenters 4 PM Today (11/10)

The issues: abusive police/merchant treatment of disabled homeless AIDS patient Shane Maxwell and the general police policies routinely using selective enforcement favoring merchants over the poor (and the rest of the community).

Bring alternate cafe supplies, friends, cameras, tape recorders, and high spirits.

More info in earlier Santa Cruz Indymedia story "Santa Cruz Coffee Shop Owner At It Again" </newsitems/2006/10/15/18320439.php>
http://www.indybay.org/archives/archived_blurb_list.php?page_id=60

The following form will be available to pass on to Lulu Carpenter's owner Manthri Srinath:

A RESPECTFUL REQUEST TO THE OWNER OF LULU CARPENTER'S

Mr. Srinath:

I want to buy at local businesses that respect local people--even poor people. At cafes whose owners respect public sidewalks as places for everyone, not just those with money. Please assure me that in the future you will respect the rights of everyone. I would appreciate hearing your side of this controversy. If you have mistreated the man in question, are you willing to make some kind of restitution? Please call or e-mail me. I want to spend money here, knowing that your policy is to treat poor people decently and respect everyone's rights.

Name...............................................................Phone........................E-Mail......................


If you can't come, you might want to telephone your concerns to his cafe directly at 831-429-9804.

Other issues being raised at the HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) table include a Petition to the City Attorney demanding Santa Cruz follow the L.A. and San Diego policies of ending nighttime arrests of homeless sleepers, concerns about just eviction laws, and other issues of police/merchant harassment downtown.

There will also be discussion of what to do in the aftermath of the exposure of Santa Cruz's false progressivism in an election which rejected Measure G (raising the minimum raise to the poverty line locally).