Santa Love in Downtown Santa Cruz

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Date:

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Time:

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Event Type:

Other

Organizer/Author:

Brent

Location Details:

Pacific Ave at Soquel (New Leaf), Santa Cruz, CA

Several Santas will be downtown offering loving Santa hugs, hot cocoa and cookies and warm clothing to passersby. He will offer love to everyone but especially those who seem to need it the most. He will be profiling people seeking just those Santa Love-needy folks and then doling out the love. There will be several elves ladling cocoa and offering cookies, wool mittens and warm clothing.

The dichotomy is that it is illegal to sleep outside (tickets are plentiful) and rangers trash homeless' belongings when camps in wooded areas are discovered. The excessive amount of tickets written to homeless folks downtown sends the message that they are not welcome. Santa Love would like to send the message that they are welcome and loved.

We welcome you to join us at Santa Love. Please bring warm clothes, wool mittens, warm socks, lots of cookies and most of all, your Santa Love.

For more information: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=3555...

Added to the calendar on Thu, Dec 17, 2009 9:11PM

§oops, I left out a passage

by Santa Love

Fri, Dec 18, 2009 2:15PM

Somehow I left out this passage when posting to Indymedia, but I have it right on Facebook. Oops, my bad. Without the first sentence the second sentence makes no sense.

"I made a visit to Santa Cruz's Homeless Resource Center and found that showers and laundry services are easily obtained shifting the focus of this event. The dichotomy is that it is illegal to sleep outside (tickets are plentiful) and rangers trash homeless' belongings when camps in wooded areas are discovered."

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