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Of Bans and Bookshops - An Open Letter An open letter to Ryan Coonerty and Bookshop Santa Cruz management in response to their banning of Becky Johnson and Bernard Klitzner from Bookshop Santa Cruz....
Posted: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 1:08am PDT
Downtown Commission Hears SCPD "Ban Public Assemblies in Parking Lots" Law 809 Center St. Santa Cruz City Hall Council Chambers...
Event Date: Thu, Sep 27, 2007 8:30am PDT
Posted: Wed, Sep 26, 2007 10:23pm PDT
A Torturous Tale of Seeking Public Records from the SCPD This is the saga of the struggle to get police records and the kind of bureaucratic resistance you can find there. I'm still trying to decipher the records I did get in order to get some sense of the accuracy of Zach Friend's comments about the City Hall Sleep Out in early August....
Posted: Sun, Sep 23, 2007 12:18am PDT
Boycotting Bigotry at the BS SantaCruz Joins the Parade! The traditional "Call to Coonerty" tabling in front of the Bookshop SantaCruz will move to San Lorenzo Park this Sunday in order to intersect the incoming Mayor (Ryan Coonerty) and his progressive supporters. Join us at the Saturn Cafe at 1:15 PM as we march with the distinguished and tuneful Trash Orchestra over to San Lorenzo benchlands to set up!
We'd also love some folks to table and give out fliers to the masses!...
Posted: Fri, Sep 21, 2007 11:22am PDT
Zooming At You: Public Assembly Ban in City Parking Lots: 8:30 AM City Hall 9-27 
The Downtown Commission will be on the business end of staff and police "persuaders" come next Thursday September 27th, when the SCPD returns with thin stats to push through the Coonerty "Parking Lot Panic" Law. Listed below are the phone numbers of Downtown Commission members (City Hall doesn't have their e-mails for some reason). Call them and tell them to vote no or at least wait until we can get more public records....
Posted: Fri, Sep 21, 2007 10:33am PDT
Potty Talk Bookshop SantaCruz Owner, Former Mayor, and Current Supervisor Neal Coonerty made some comments about vandalism, his bookshop, and homeless rights advocates Becky Johnson and Robert Norse on-line as a response to a Sentinel story about grafitti painted on City Hall yesterday. The Sentinel deleted the comment (as well as at least 25 others). I saved the webpage, yesterday, however--and here it is!...
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 12:51pm PDT
Brief Interview with Councilmember Tony Madrigal on Free Radio Santa Cruz (audio/mpeg 4.7MB) Tony Madrigal calls in en route to work to discuss the SCPD and Sentinel brouhaha over his comment at City Council mentioning an incident he witnessed last Halloween during the massive police presence which suggested the possibility of racial profiling going on. He voted against the "Triple Fine Zones" for Halloween recommended the by the police department at City Council last Tuesday....
Posted: Sun, Sep 16, 2007 1:24pm PDT
The Coonerty Watch Continues: Upchucky Updates Constitutional purists will gather again outside 1520 Pacific Sunday September 16 at 2 PM to debate Constitutional Lawyer, Vice-Mayor, Aspiring Mayor-to-Be, and Bookshop Impressario Ryan Coonerty. The topic: Is the City's Municipal Code 6.36.010a, (banning sleep outside or in vehicles after 11 PM at night) simply an unconstitutional nightmare from which we'll awaken soon? A clerical error? A misplaced police department wet dream? Join us to probe these mysteries. Warning: Vice-Mayor Coon...
Posted: Sat, Sep 15, 2007 11:41pm PDT
Superintendant Hammack Stonewalls on RV Ban in Coastal Parking Lots I received complaints that Donna Deiss and Shane Maxfield were being driven out of Parking Lot A near Lighthouse Field by Chief Ranger John Wallace. Wallace has posted "no RV" signs there reportedly and may be e-mailing me his own response to be posted. After an informal phone call to Steve Hammack, in response to which Steve was friendly but unresponsive, I made several formal Public Records Act requests. The results I reprint below....
Posted: Wed, Sep 12, 2007 9:22pm PDT
Mayor Bails Out Again; Homeless to Catch Her at City Council 7 PM Tuesday at City Hall Canceling her second appointment with them without notice, and refusing to meet with them for the third time, Santa Cruz Mayor Emily Reilly frustrated four homeless people who'd scheduled appointments with the Mayor's staff at City Hall a week before....
Posted: Mon, Sep 10, 2007 12:04pm PDT
Calling on Vice-Mayor Coonerty at the Bookshop Sunday 2 PM 9-9-07--the Protest Continues We press on with the campaign to contact the inaccessible Vice-Mayor Ryan Coonerty, manager/worker at the Bookshop. We'll urge shoppers to talk with Coonerty, suggesting their dollars will go elsewhere if he continues to back laws that criminalize the poor, like the City's Sleeping Ban. We'll also be signing up volunteers, seeking donations for the lawsuit against the Sleeping Ban, looking for plaintiffs, and encouraging folks to attend City Council meeting this coming Tuesday at 7 PM. 1520...
Posted: Sun, Sep 9, 2007 12:58am PDT
Fall Campaign against the Sleeping Ban--Come Catch Coonerty at Bookshop Santa 1520 Pacific Avenue in front of the Bookshop Santa Cruz in downtown Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Sun, Sep 9, 2007 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Sep 8, 2007 12:11pm PDT
Rotkin Responds to the ACLU Scandal: Signature Hypocrisy of Phoney "Progressive" Politics One of the longest threads on indybay recently has been "Activists ask ACLU to Help End Sleeping Ban". The discussion there exposes and documents an important and profound hypocrisy that has been central to Santa Cruz "progressive" politics for two decades. Organizations and individuals which newcomers might think would be most "liberal", "socialist" or "progressive" are actually the opposite on local issues. I encourage folks to go to http://indybay.org/newsitems/2007/08/26/18443532.php?...
Posted: Sat, Sep 8, 2007 9:57am PDT
Law Banning Public Meetings in Parking Lots on Downtown Commission Agenda September 27th ? Downtown Commissioner Joe Ferrara (who also owns Atlantis Fantasyworld downtown) has advised me that the September 27th Downtown Commission will be facing new SCPD/Public Works proposals to shut down public parking lots to the community unless they have a bike or car (and then only for 15 minutes). We need more not less public spaces available to congregate...
Posted: Thu, Sep 6, 2007 1:50am PDT
Protest Picket Against Punitive Privilege Resumes at Bookshop Santacruz Sunday 9-2 2 PM Activists will resume their picket of Vice-Mayor Coonerty, hiding in his Bookshop Santa Cruz. Coonerty refuses to explain how and why the city police continue to arrest homeless people for sleeping when such behavior has been outlawed by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Also under investigation: Mayor Reilly's refusal to meet with homeless sleepers and Councilmember (and ACLU Board of Directors member) Rotkin's calling the cops to block a signbearer from going in to the ACLU meeting last ...
Posted: Sat, Sep 1, 2007 6:59pm PDT
Vice-Mayor Bans Activists from Bookshop Santa Cruz Becky Johnson sends Vice-Mayor Ryan Coonerty an e-mail accusing him of adopted bigoted policies such as those espoused by a Sentinel hateletter writer. Coonerty promptly responds to Johnson's inquiring letter by banning her and Bernard Klitzner, HUFF activists, from his sister's Bookshop Santa Cruz. Johnson analyzes Coonerty's response....
Posted: Sun, Aug 26, 2007 12:53pm PDT
Striking Back Against Sentinel/SCPD Smears and "Progressive" Silence on the Sleeping Ban A Public Records Act request to the SCPD on its City Hall activities during the "Respect the Constitution" Sleep-Out at City Hall last week and a Visit to the Sunday American Civil Liberties Union fundraiser in search of local civil liberties are coming up....
Posted: Thu, Aug 23, 2007 9:22am PDT
City Council Passes Resolution Preventing Vigilante Justice Against Homeless Perhaps bringing perspective on it all and praising the new Humane Ordinance was Homeless Garden Project Board Member, Mark Primack, stating, “Moderation and the hard work of coalition building are true activism, things that Argue and Norse know nothing about.”...
Posted: Tue, Aug 21, 2007 3:22pm PDT
Long-Time Santa Cruz Tenant and Homeless Activist Explains the City Hall Sleep-Out Donna Deiss lives in her RV with her partner Shane. She co-founded the Tenants Rights Union of Santa Cruz when she had housing and helped dozens of people fight unjust evictions. During the week-long Sleep-Out at City Hall she and Shane provided bathroom facilities when the City refused to open its bathrooms at night as well as coffee in the morning. She is currently organizing folks living in their vehicles. The Sentinel printd this letter on Tuesday, August 21st. Contact her at 831-325...
Posted: Tue, Aug 21, 2007 10:52am PDT
Sleep Ban Fighters Regroup after Saturday Morning Police Raid A 3 AM raid by 8-10 police officers, with a follow-up by half a dozen an hour and a half later dispersed many of the homeless people sleeping at City Hall. At least four received citations for "illegal sleeping" even though the officers had no legal place for their victims to go--in the teeth of the Los Angeles Jones decision banning nighttime ticketing of sleepers and campers there. Some of those ticketed and some of the activists announced a meeting today 2 PM at the Firefly Cafe at 131 F...
Posted: Sat, Aug 18, 2007 7:40am PDT