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Downtown Ordinances Now Easily Available
Four PDFs, one for each page of the downtown ordinances flyer that Robert Norse has been passing out to educate people for the past several years....
Posted: Tue, Feb 13, 2007 9:07pm PST
Camp Quixote Supporters To Call Free Radio Tonight (2/8)
Homeless activists and their supporters have responded to the anti-homeless Pedestrian Obstruction Law (Olympia Washington's latest version of the Santa Cruz Downtown Ordinances) with civil disobedience. On February 1st they created a homeless-run encampment--Camp Quixote. Ray, an Olympia activist, will call in tonight around 6:15 PM on Free Radio Santa Cruz at 101.1 FM (www.freakradio.org) to educate, agitate, and organize....
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 12:37pm PST
Confronting the Coonerty in his Lair: Another Protest at B.S. Santa Cruz
1-3 PM Today (Friday February 2nd) A Gathering in the "Free Speech Zone" Outside Vice-Mayor Coonerty's Bookshop Santa Cruz Asking for Answers to Simple Questions About Homeless Survival Shelter and Public Access to Information: Get Fed (Thanks to Jumbogumbo Joe Schult'z Vegan Yumyums), Have Fun, Sing & Sign Petitions! Help the Vice-Mayor hear the voice of those his cops are harassing....
Posted: Fri, Feb 2, 2007 8:32am PST
First Thoughts Toward Homeless Resistance
Originally a comment on an earlier article about City Council's throwing $700 Gs at Dannette Shoemaker's Parks and Recreation anti-homeless policing, I think Tim's thoughts on what homeless people and their housed supporters can do this winter to resist the War Against the Poor are worth a separate posting and may spark some interesting discussion....
Posted: Sat, Jan 20, 2007 9:06pm PST
More Police Punishing the Poor in the Pogonip
City Council is posed to rubberstamp another police state expansion of power giving NIMBY (Not-in-my-backyard) bureaucrats a green light, funds, and weapons against the poor....
Posted: Tue, Jan 9, 2007 1:58am PST
Week of Winter Woe
Protests, meals, meetings, phone numbers, and other tools of transformation in the next few days for any and all who want them.
As the weather goes from cold to sub-freezing. With "shelter space" available for less than 10% of the Santa Cruz City homeless....
Posted: Tue, Dec 19, 2006 1:09pm PST
Bigotry on Parade: Scotts Valley City Council Passes Camping Ban
Scotts Valley City Council Chambers at 1 Civic Center Drive, Scotts Valley (off Scotts Valley Drive)....
Event Date: Wed, Dec 20, 2006 6:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Dec 18, 2006 3:40pm PST
Thaw Out the Snowman
333 Church St. (across from City Hall parking lot and several hundred feet down from the Civic Auditorium)...
Event Date: Fri, Dec 22, 2006 12:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Dec 18, 2006 2:20pm PST
Thaw Out the Snowman: Demo and Meal Noon at City Attorney's Friday the 22nd
Gather and gobble at 333 Church St. Friday noon in front of the City Attorney's office (across from the City Council parking lot and down from the Civic Auditorium). The goal: to ask Barisone to recommend what the LA City Attorney and Police Chief have done--suspend sleeping ban tickets so people can sleep safely in some part of the city....
Posted: Mon, Dec 18, 2006 2:13pm PST
Food Not Bombs Founder on Santa Cruz Free Radio Sunday (not Monday)
Keith McHenry, co-Founder of the international Food Not Bombs movement will be a guest on The Wake Up Call at 8:30 AM on Sunday December 17th at 101.1 FM (also streaming at www.freakradio.org and archived at www.huffsantacruz.org under Bathrobespierre's Broadsides.
The show will air Sunday (not Monday) December 17....
Posted: Fri, Dec 15, 2006 10:25am PST
Keith McHenry on Free Radio Santa Cruz This Sunday
Free Radio Santa Cruz 101.1 FM (www.freakradio.org); the interview will also be archived at www.huffsantacruz.org . Call-in number: 831-427-3772....
Event Date: Sun, Dec 17, 2006 8:30am PST
Posted: Wed, Dec 13, 2006 11:14pm PST
The L.A. Struggle Over the pro-homeless Jones decision and its implications for Santa Cruz
L.A. writer Gregory Afghani will call in to Free Radio Santa Cruz Thursday December 14 at 7 PM. to discuss the L.A. homeless situation in the wake of the key 9th Federal Circuit Court Jones decision last April, overturning the L.A. Sleeping Ban with significant implications for Santa Cruz and cities in 9 other Western states....
Posted: Wed, Dec 13, 2006 10:40pm PST
Humanity for Homeless Food Program and Festivities
In front of New Leaf Market Monday the 18th between 6:00 and 8:00pm or longer....
Event Date: Mon, Dec 18, 2006 6:00pm PST
Posted: Sat, Dec 9, 2006 1:12pm PST
Santa Cruz More Reactionary Than L.A. Towards Homeless?
HUFF sent the following letter, drafted by Becky Johnson, to Vice-Mayor Ryan Coonerty. The letter seeks to understand why Santa Cruz declines to abide by the 9th Federal Court of Appeals decision in the Jones case. The Court found that LAPD action criminalizing the L.A. homeless for sleeping at night on Skid Row was "cruel and unusual punishment ."...
Posted: Wed, Dec 6, 2006 12:54am PST
Chow Down with the City Clownsil Tonight!
Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium 307 Church St. (across from City Council chambers at City Hall, kitty korner from the Public Library main branch)...
Event Date: Tue, Nov 28, 2006 8:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Nov 28, 2006 3:39pm PST
An Open Letter to Vice-Mayor Emily Reilly
I wrote the following e-mail to Emily Reilly after running into her old campaign promise to the Green Party made in the fall of 2000. I read her statement aloud to her 24-hour City Council answering machine (423-5022). Maybe others might speak with her too....
Posted: Tue, Nov 21, 2006 8:03pm PST
LULU Carpenters Protest / Boycott
On November 10, 2006, members of HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship and Freedom) tabled near LULU carpenters due to an incident with Shane Maxfield, a terminally ill man, verbally threatened and abused by the owner Manthri Srinath....
Posted: Thu, Nov 16, 2006 8:58am PST
Sleeping Ban Petitioning and Boycott Bigotry Tabling Downtown
On the sidewalk near Lulu Carpenters in Santa Cruz (1545 Pacific Ave.)...
Event Date: Fri, Nov 17, 2006 4:30pm PST
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2006 10:19pm PST
Boycott Bigotry Demo at Lulu Carpenters 4 PM Today (11/10)
The rain-postponed demonstration at Lulu Carpenters (1545 Pacific Ave. in downtown Santa Cruz) will take place this afternoon at 4 PM. Bigotry-free coffee will be available on the sidewalk for early-bird protesters....
Posted: Fri, Nov 10, 2006 10:44am PST
Attorney Ben Rice Updates the Medical Marijuana Scene in Santa Cruz on FRSC tonight 7 PM. (11/8)
Roger Mentch's attorney and local anti-Drug War activist Ben Rice will give updates tonight (Thursday November 8th) at 7 PM on Free Radio Santa Cruz (101.1 FM, www.freakradio.org).
Call in at 831-427-3772 with questions and comments....
Posted: Thu, Nov 9, 2006 1:26pm PST