Social Justice Conference: Imaging Change/Shaping the Future--Homelessness

The Social Justice Conference runs all day from 9 AM through 5 PM with poetry, workshops on Discrimination (Room 510), Sexual Harassment (Room 406), Environmental Justice (Room 515), Gangs(Room 506), Information as a Social Justice Issue (Room 512), Mexican Social Movements (Room 411), Military vs. Educational Spending (Room 508), Latinos Speaking Out (Room 410) in the morning. Lunch and tabling in front of the theater building at noon. Afternoon Sessions include Social Justice at Cabrillo (Room 512), Racism from Multiple Perspectives (Room 410), Tyranny and Trafficking in Southeast Asia (Room 406), Gnags (Room 506), the Hip-Hop Controversy (Room 508), Legacy of Martin Luther King,Jr. (Room 513), Women's Issues (Room 510), and

Homelessness, Room 411.

The Homelessness segment of the Conference will review the Santa Cruz City Sleeping Ban, other laws that criminalize homeless people, and an activist response to them. Speakers from HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) and the HRO (Human Rights Organization) will be present

http://www.huffsantacruz.org, http://www.humanrightsorg.org/, http://humanityforhomeless.blogspot.com/