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Strike Back at CEO Phil Kramer's "Housing Matters" Estates Housing Matters (more properly known as "Funding Matters")
115b Coral St.
Santa Cruz, CA...
Event Date: Tue, Sep 17, 2024 10:00am PDT
Posted: Mon, Sep 16, 2024 3:14pm PDT
A Harm Reduction Proposal for the Santa Cruz City Council not on its Agenda 
Two activists from HUFF send documentation of city police abuse in sweeping the camps of those outside and demand
changes....
Posted: Mon, Aug 26, 2024 2:54pm PDT
Protest to Oppose Newsom's "Hide Out or Get Out" Executive Order Banishing Those Outside 
Protests are continuing against the step-up in attacks on those living in survival encampments in Santa Cruz. One response to the cruel "clean-up:" operation in Pogonip last Monday (7-29) is a Protest against the cruel "Housing Matters" hoax 4-6 PM Monday August 5 on the corner of River St. and Highway 1. National groups also denounce Governor Newsom's Executive Decree....
Posted: Wed, Jul 31, 2024 9:27pm PDT
Two Flyers at the Recent Protest Against the Gaza Genocide and the S.C. Anti-Homeless Raid 
At recent protests as part of what some of us call the Vigil against Two Wars (the Gaza Genocide and the S.C. War Against the Poor), I distributed two flyers--mostly concerned with the City's ongoing camp-destroying campaign against folks living outside....
Posted: Sat, Jul 20, 2024 2:41pm PDT
Flyers Passed Out Recently at the Saturday Food Not Bombs "Soupstock" Anniversary 
These self-explanatory flyers criticize the City's #1 shelter-and-service provider, the so called "Housing Matters" which is more aptly termed :"Funding Matters" urging greater unity between oppressed workers, students, tenants, and unhoused folks....
Posted: Wed, May 29, 2024 10:52pm PDT
Tick-Tock: Token Tidbits in the Winter War on the Homeless 
Two homeless memorials were held on December 21st in Santa Cruz, one by "service providers", the other by Food Not Bombs. I reprint the flyers I distributed at these events as well as the December 25th Xmas dinner organized by Joe Schultz, Food Not Bombs, Friends of Xmas, and the inevitable Steve Pleich....
Posted: Wed, Dec 27, 2023 5:34pm PST
No War Against Refugees Here and in Gaza 
Community room of the Santa Cruz Police Department or right outside 155 Center St....
Event Date: Sat, Dec 9, 2023 9:30am PST
Posted: Fri, Dec 8, 2023 4:42pm PST
Solidarity in War Against the Poor in Santa Cruz and Gaza 
The Santa Cruz City government and the Israeli regime are both creating and criminalizing homeless refugees. This flyer--self-explanatory--was distributed at two U.S./Israel Out-of-Gaza rallies as well as at the Town Clock and downtown, among unhoused folks....
Posted: Sat, Nov 11, 2023 2:06am PST
Updated Santa Cruz Free Guide Downloadable in Hard Copy 
After an exchange of ,e-mails and phone messages, the creators of the Santa Cruz Free Guide [SCFG] released an updated edition. I reprint the hard copy sent me a week ago. The update may not be a finished one. In any case, I encourage readers to share their experience accessing these services to save weary future folks in need unnecessarily futile efforts....
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2023 9:15pm PDT
Striking Back at Brutal Bullies: Russell Files Claims Against the City 
Barton Russell Jackson recently filed two Claims against the City for sweeps resulting in property destruction and false arrest. The claims were heard behind closed doors last Tuesday. Since the City Administrator/Clerk suppressed the language of the claims, I present then here in his own words....
Posted: Wed, Sep 13, 2023 3:44pm PDT
Street Shit Sheet #172: Update the Outdated SC Free Guide ! 
A few more blurbs from the byways along with a reprinted copy of the badly outdated Santa Cruz Free Guide on the reverse side. Guide manager Evan Morrison and his staff, have so far maintained silence around concerns that their "Guide" is leading folks to closed services, full waiting lists, and other dead ends--truly needing updating....
Posted: Wed, Sep 13, 2023 2:13pm PDT
Return of the Santa Cruz Street Shit Sheet 
Absent for nearly fifteen years, the Santa Cruz Street Shit Sheet is back with issue #170. The Shit Sheet published pretty frequently in the late 80s and early 90s, and sporadically since in the early 2000s. Whether it will continue to regularly appear is still an uncertain and open question, but here is a contemporary sample of the kind of news and views it covers....
Posted: Sat, Aug 26, 2023 9:43pm PDT
Violence, Sweeps, and Seizure--Escalating SCPD Policy 
In spite of court decisions and massive COVID-era appropriations as well as decades of protests and petitions, police have continued and seem to be escalating "drive 'em out of town" sweeps with new cruelties and illegalities. Yesterday at the Mime Troupe, I passed out a flyer denouncing unusually explicit and recent threats, seizures, and citations attacking each encampment as it arises....
Posted: Sun, Aug 20, 2023 12:16pm PDT
Mayor Keeley Targets the Homeless with Surprise Traffic Median Motion (video/mp4 165.0MB) At the March 14th meeting of the Santa Cruz City Council, Mayor Fred Keeley introduced a surprise motion targeting homeless residents who panhandle on traffic medians (watch video below). Keeley's motion was not included anywhere in the meeting's agenda packet, he spontaneously inserted it into an unrelated vote on item #15, which concerned bicycle safety improvements and the removal of automobile parking on Laurel Street. Keeley stated the motion as follows: "Add additional direction that th...
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2023 8:06am PDT
Activist Leads Fight to Stop Harassment of Vehicular Residents In an extensive and well-documented article on LookOut, activist Reggie Meisler published his research and activism to defend the rights of those in vehicles being harassed by police. Cops have been threatening and ticketing for signs not permitted by the Costal Commission....
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2023 5:00pm PST
Food Not Bombs announces Meals-at-City-Hall today after top cop bans Lot #10 serving Harsh rainy weather, the City's failure to provide adequate 24-hour Warming Center facility, and the Chief Escalante's recent ban on serving in the protected parking garage #10 have prompted the free survival food service to move to City Hall today and likely during future rainy days until reasonable alternatives are allowed....
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2023 8:56am PST
Follow-Up Protest Questions for Tuesday February 7th 11 AM 
A second protest is slated for the Mountain Community Resource Center after a woman videoing the midnight eviction of a homeless man for "trespass" was arrested, brutalized, and faces a year in jail and $1000 fine....
Posted: Sun, Feb 5, 2023 8:10pm PST
Stop Felton's Mountain Community Resource Center Driving Homeless Out Into the Rain 
Charges of cruel, discriminatory, and unnecessary evictions of unhoused folks into survival-threatening weather at Felton's Mountain Community Resource Center have prompted this protest. Two fliers describe the situation and ask the community to respond....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2023 11:26am PST
RV Human Rights Activists Challenges Santa Cruz City Police Violations Reggie Meisler, civil liberties defender of unhoused rights, is waiting for an answer to his January 9th letter to Santa Cruz City Manager Matt Huffaker, Mayor Fred Keeley, Police Chief Rudy Escalante, and the S.C. City Council. Meisler calls for Huffaker to direct his SCPD to stop harassing and uprooting those whose vehicles are their shelter by misusing the "abandoned vehicle" tagging law....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2023 7:07pm PST
Santa Cruz City Mangler Closes Civic Auditorium Shelter Yesterday, City Manager Matt Huffaker sent me his first-ever e-mail in response to my denunciation of the closing of the Civic Auditorium Emergency Shelter as torrential rains approach....
Posted: Sun, Jan 8, 2023 2:28pm PST