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10th Annual Homelessness Marathon to Air Tuesday on Free Radio Santa Cruz
As it usually does, Free Radio Santa Cruz (101.1 FM, http://www.freakradio.org) will air--broadcast conditions willng--the 10th Annual Homelessness Marathon from 4 PM Tuesday February 20th to 6 AM Wednesday February 21st.
The show will preempt the regular programming. It is, like my twice-weekly Bathrobespierre's Broadsides show, a call-in show. Call-in numbers will be announced on the air.
Last month Marathon mainstay Jeremy Alderson visited Santa Cruz to check out the crackdown against our own homeless community (which has intensified exponentially since then). Becky Johnson and I are returning the favor by going to Fresno to host an hour of the 14-hour marathon.
Legal action in federal court in Fresno--like in Los Angeles--has been remarkably successful in forcing a change in city policy towards the right of homeless people to shelter themselves (see City of Fresno Cleans up Homeless Encampment http://indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/18/ 18365205.php). "Clean Up" means that Fresno actually helped the homeless encampment dispose of its trash, unlike Santa Cruz's policy of treating downtown homeless people like trash and giving ranger Wallace free rein to destroy homeless posessions.
We hope to bring back from Fresno some tips, contacts, and spirit to help further our own planned lawsuit against the Sleeping Ban in Santa Cruz. (As a sidenote, I'll be taking the Santa Cruz City Council into trial in federal court at the end of March for false arrests connected with peace and homeless advocacy--more on this later)
More info about the struggles to set up the Homelessnes Marathon in Fresno can be found in the February 2007 (hard to find) issue of Street Spirit, in the main branch of the Public library, but not yet on line at http://www.thestreetspirit.org .
Another recent story on indybay can be found at http://indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/08/18359646.php
Tune in, call in, and bring justice to Santa Cruz !
More contacts:
- Jeremy Weir Alderson, Director, Homelessness Marathon, 607-546-2084,
radio [at] lightlink.com
- Mike Rhodes, Editor, Community Alliance, 559-978-4502
mikerhodes&comcast.net
http://www.homelessnessmarathon.org
Last month Marathon mainstay Jeremy Alderson visited Santa Cruz to check out the crackdown against our own homeless community (which has intensified exponentially since then). Becky Johnson and I are returning the favor by going to Fresno to host an hour of the 14-hour marathon.
Legal action in federal court in Fresno--like in Los Angeles--has been remarkably successful in forcing a change in city policy towards the right of homeless people to shelter themselves (see City of Fresno Cleans up Homeless Encampment http://indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/18/ 18365205.php). "Clean Up" means that Fresno actually helped the homeless encampment dispose of its trash, unlike Santa Cruz's policy of treating downtown homeless people like trash and giving ranger Wallace free rein to destroy homeless posessions.
We hope to bring back from Fresno some tips, contacts, and spirit to help further our own planned lawsuit against the Sleeping Ban in Santa Cruz. (As a sidenote, I'll be taking the Santa Cruz City Council into trial in federal court at the end of March for false arrests connected with peace and homeless advocacy--more on this later)
More info about the struggles to set up the Homelessnes Marathon in Fresno can be found in the February 2007 (hard to find) issue of Street Spirit, in the main branch of the Public library, but not yet on line at http://www.thestreetspirit.org .
Another recent story on indybay can be found at http://indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/08/18359646.php
Tune in, call in, and bring justice to Santa Cruz !
More contacts:
- Jeremy Weir Alderson, Director, Homelessness Marathon, 607-546-2084,
radio [at] lightlink.com
- Mike Rhodes, Editor, Community Alliance, 559-978-4502
mikerhodes&comcast.net
http://www.homelessnessmarathon.org
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The distribution of pocket cameras, the entrance of out-of-town lawyers, and success in a subsequent federal lawsuit has prompted a palpable change in Fresno policy towards the homeless, where, Mike Rhodes tells me, there is no sleeping ban. Folks there sleep in the parks at night and vacate at dawn.
The official city position on seizing and destroying homeless property (under injunction now from a federal court) also appears to be changing.
The following front-page story in the Fresno Bee gives the official spin:
Help for Fresno's homeless
Mayor Alan Autry and several local leaders are trying fresh approaches.
By Matt Leedy / The Fresno Bee02/19/07 05:11:25
The city of Fresno has taken a beating recently for its efforts to clear the homeless from downtown. Now Mayor Alan Autry and several local leaders say they'll try a different tack.
Autry hopes to win state and federal money to help the mentally ill who live on Fresno's streets. He also wants to expand a program that puts formerly homeless people to work downtown.
Leaders at both of the city's major shelters -- the Fresno Rescue Mission and Poverello House -- are considering expansion plans. And developer Tom Richards, who is working on the nearby Chinatown redevelopment project, says he will help.
Richards says people could be reluctant to visit his new housing developments, stores, offices and restaurants unless more is done to solve the homeless problem.
Recent discussion about Fresno's homeless has been fueled, in part, by criticism heaped on the city by a federal judge and some national advocates, including one who is coming to town Tuesday to broadcast a national radio show.
The city has been blasted -- and sued by a handful of homeless -- for its former practice of throwing away people's belongings during raids on ramshackle encampments beneath freeway overpasses on downtown's borders.
Autry says the sweeps will continue, but the city will follow a court order not to discard personal property.
THE STORY, WITH PHOTOS, CONTINUES AT: http://www.fresnobee.com/263/story/30704.html
The official city position on seizing and destroying homeless property (under injunction now from a federal court) also appears to be changing.
The following front-page story in the Fresno Bee gives the official spin:
Help for Fresno's homeless
Mayor Alan Autry and several local leaders are trying fresh approaches.
By Matt Leedy / The Fresno Bee02/19/07 05:11:25
The city of Fresno has taken a beating recently for its efforts to clear the homeless from downtown. Now Mayor Alan Autry and several local leaders say they'll try a different tack.
Autry hopes to win state and federal money to help the mentally ill who live on Fresno's streets. He also wants to expand a program that puts formerly homeless people to work downtown.
Leaders at both of the city's major shelters -- the Fresno Rescue Mission and Poverello House -- are considering expansion plans. And developer Tom Richards, who is working on the nearby Chinatown redevelopment project, says he will help.
Richards says people could be reluctant to visit his new housing developments, stores, offices and restaurants unless more is done to solve the homeless problem.
Recent discussion about Fresno's homeless has been fueled, in part, by criticism heaped on the city by a federal judge and some national advocates, including one who is coming to town Tuesday to broadcast a national radio show.
The city has been blasted -- and sued by a handful of homeless -- for its former practice of throwing away people's belongings during raids on ramshackle encampments beneath freeway overpasses on downtown's borders.
Autry says the sweeps will continue, but the city will follow a court order not to discard personal property.
THE STORY, WITH PHOTOS, CONTINUES AT: http://www.fresnobee.com/263/story/30704.html
I posted the above audio file here because I was having tech difficulties doing it on a new post. I will starting a new post of the audio of the entire event now, in chapters. I will post a link here when I get the thread started. Its worth listening to if you missed it on air.
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