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Shutdown of Post Office Encampment After Denial of Portapotties & Wash Stations There Chief Mills and a dozen or more cops, rangers, and camp trashers moved on to evict and fence out the homeless tent-shelter-in-place encampment along Water St. near the Post Office. This "out of sight/out of town" policy, while claiming a public health rationale rings false given the lack of protected indoor shelter being offered in spite of the funding available....
Posted: Fri, Mar 20, 2020 7:57pm PDT
Dated Updates on the Current Homeless Crisis Some things are changing quickly. Others (sadly) not at all--such as the City's failure to provide the most elementary sanitary services such as porapotties, washing stations, and bathrooms (many of them now shutting down). The following e-mail I sent out as a replacement for my usual Wednesday HUFF meeting yesterday. Audio updates will be posted between times at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html ....
Posted: Thu, Mar 19, 2020 9:26am PDT
S.C. County Issues Shelter-in-Place with No Shelter or Facilities for Those Outside Several hours ago the County of Santa Cruz Health Services Agency followed up on actions by San Francisco, Marin, Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Mateo counties declaring much public assembly a misdemeanor. Meanwhile acting City czar Martin Bernal has declined to provide portapotties, open bathrooms, provide vacant hotel and motel rooms, or declare an eviction moratorium for folks outside and hard-pressed renters inside....
Posted: Mon, Mar 16, 2020 8:22pm PDT
Santa Cruz Homeless Union COVID-19 Relief Center 
The people living outside need our support. Please donate food, masks, hand sanitizer, blankets, tarps, tents, food handling gloves and other survival gear. Please drop by to see how you can help....
Posted: Mon, Mar 16, 2020 6:58am PDT
Santa Cruz Committee Unanimously Forwards 1st Predictive Policing Ban in US 
On March 11, the Public Safety committee of the Santa Cruz City Council unanimously recommended passage of a surveillance transparency ordinance for the City of Santa Cruz....
Posted: Sat, Mar 14, 2020 11:51am PDT
Santa Cruz County Schools to Continue to Provide Meals for Students 
Schools in Santa Cruz and Watsonville will continue to provide meals for students impacted by school closures during the week of March 16-20....
Posted: Fri, Mar 13, 2020 10:39pm PDT
Santa Cruz City Council Committee Advances Surveillance Oversight Ordinance SANTA CRUZ, March 12, 2020 – On Wednesday, the Santa Cruz Public Safety Committee voted to approve a Surveillance Technology Ordinance that would prevent the government from using any surveillance technology without public debate, clear use policies, and mechanisms of oversight and accountability. The law also prohibits government use of facial recognition, and in what would be a national first, bans government use of predictive policing technology as well....
Posted: Fri, Mar 13, 2020 9:39pm PDT
Postponement of Signature Gathering for Voter Right to Decide on Downtown Parking Garage [March 13, 2020] To help reduce the serious risk of COVID-19 spreading in our community, the Campaign for Sustainable Transportation is postponing petition signature gathering to place on the ballot Santa Cruz city voters’ right to decide on future construction of a parking garage downtown. CFST wants our community to thrive, and there is no more fundamental basis for the common good than public health. Each of us individually and all of us collectively must work to create a sustainable commu...
Posted: Fri, Mar 13, 2020 9:31pm PDT
COLA & Corona 
UCSC, like other campuses, has gone online-only to mitigate coronavirus. Rather than maintaining a physical picket, we focus our efforts on the digital picket. Our organizing will only get stronger and more creative!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 11, 2020 11:11pm PDT
A Double-Sided Flyer to City Council on the Homeless Health Crisis 
A flyer distributed at the City Council Tuesday night 3-10-20, one side by me, the other by Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry, due back in town tomorrow after three weeks away.
I touch on the futility and foolishness of missing or locked sanitary facilities; Keith proposes his own 7-point program to address the escalating health and housing crisis....
Posted: Tue, Mar 10, 2020 10:37pm PDT
Support Councilmember Glover at Santa Cruz City Council Meeting 
Council Chambers
809 Center St, Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2020 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Mar 9, 2020 6:15pm PDT
Reactionary Riptide Against Homeless Must be Stopped ! 
SCPD Chief Andy Mills and reactionaries on the City Council want to "work around" the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Martin v. Boise decision. Since they refuse to open up survival encampments or vacant public buildings, police need "tools" to drive unhoused people out of public spaces. Hence the Mills 7-Point Plan......
Posted: Mon, Mar 9, 2020 10:17am PDT
Conversations for Change: The Future of Work 
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
224 Chruch St., Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2020 5:15pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Mar 8, 2020 3:24pm PDT
CANCELED: Watsonville Youth Rally 
Watsonville Plaza
350 Main St, Watsonville...
Event Date: Wed, Apr 22, 2020 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Mar 8, 2020 11:28am PDT
POSTPONED: Speaker Series: The Edge of Extinction 
Watsonville Wetlands Watch
500 Harkins Slough Rd, Watsonville...
Event Date: Thu, Mar 19, 2020 6:30pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Mar 8, 2020 11:22am PDT
CANCELED: Drop the Charges! Pack the court for our fellow comrades! 
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Cruz
701 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Thu, Mar 19, 2020 8:30am PDT
Posted: Sun, Mar 8, 2020 11:15am PDT
Whose University? Day 18 Strike Updates at UC Santa Cruz 
For the 18th day of the strike, hundreds of graduate students, undergraduates, faculty, staff, lecturers, and others successfully closed down UCSC’s main campus for the entire working day....
Posted: Fri, Mar 6, 2020 12:35pm PST
STEM Undergraduate Town Hall 
Earth and Marine Sciences B206
UC Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Fri, Mar 6, 2020 5:15pm PST
Posted: Fri, Mar 6, 2020 11:59am PST
Huge Turnout for UC Berkeley Day of Action and Solidarity 
UC Berkeley graduate student workers, undergraduates and faculty stop work to demand COLA and reinstatement of fired UCSC workers....
Posted: Fri, Mar 6, 2020 11:44am PST
POSTPONED: What Now? A Community Response to the Climate Emergency Inner Light Ministries
5630 Soquel Dr
Soquel, CA...
Event Date: Fri, Mar 20, 2020 6:30pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Mar 5, 2020 11:17pm PST
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