| Title: | Round Two–The New Anti-Homeless Laws Return for a Final Reading |
| START DATE: | Tuesday June 11 |
| TIME: | 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM |
| Location Details: | |
| City Council Chambers 809 Center St. | |
| Event Type: | Protest |
| NO LOITERING ON THE MEDIANS The anti-homeless “no loitering on the median” law is item #16 on the Afternoon Agenda for Tuesday 6-11 at 3 PM (likely to come up slightly later). This will be the second and final Continue reading |
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Author Archives: huffsantacruz
Santa Cruz and NYC–New Laws to Enforce Obedience
NOTE BY NORSE: While the below story may seem far away from “progressive” Santa Cruz, consider that tomorrow City Council will be passing a law to go into effect in a month that will make it a crime for anyone who “by his or her conduct,or by threatening, abusive, or profane language, willfully Continue reading
Judge to Rule on Motion for New Trial Friday in False Arrest by Two Mayors Case
NOTE BY NORSE: The Santa Cruz City Council’s slow but steady cutback of public comment time, public accessibility, and public accountability is something I’ve recently written about (and filed a formal Brown Act complaint against–see Mayor Cuts Off Comment in Consent Agenda Crackdown; Continue reading
Spreading Fear and Encouraging Hatred Among the Youth in Santa Cruz
NOTES BY NORSE:
The following Sentinel article is another example of the spreading misdirected “Public Safety” mythology being pushed by right-wing groups.The homeless and drug “crime” problem builds on the fantasy that there is some new major Public Safety threat. It’s actually that Continue reading
Mayor “Hackin'” Hillary Decrees New Gag Rule at Santa Cruz City Council
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Mayor Cuts Off Comment in Consent Agenda Crackdown; Brown Act Complaint Rejected
by Robert Norse ( rnorse3 [at] hotmail.com )
Saturday Jun 1st, 2013 10:49 PM
Saturday Jun 1st, 2013 10:49 PM
At Tuesday’s afternoon City Council meeting (5-28), Mayor Bryant adopted a new repressive procedure which seemed to be made up on the spot to silence Continue reading
A Modest Proposal on Homelessness
NORSE’S NOTES: Dark humor is not dead. The following letter, sent to the Sentinel for publication, was also released to me to distribute as I see fit. I haven’t heard anything back from the Public Hysteria Citizen’s Task Continue reading
Mayor’s Stacked and Packed “Public Safety Task Force” meets
| START DATE: | Wednesday May 29 |
| TIME: | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM |
| Location Details: | |
| Tony Hill Room of the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium at Church and Center Streets. | |
| Event Type: | Meeting |
| Contact Name | Scott Collins (posted by Norse) |
| Email Address | scollins [at] cityofsantacruz.org |
| Phone Number | 831-420-5030 |
| Address | 809 Center St., Santa Cruz, CA |
| The Public Hysteria Citizen Task Farce (more officially known as the Public Safety Citizen Task Force) meets every other Wednesday, starting May 29.2013 through November, from 6:00 pm – 9:00 .The draft minutes of the last Continue reading | |
For the poor, affordable housing may be a vehicle.
NOTE BY NORSE: I don’t think it requires a great deal of “research” to establish the obvious value–both to individuals trying to survive and to the broader community of vehicular residency (in the absence of truly affordable housing for poor people). When I hear the word “research” on homeless Continue reading
Palo Alto Battle on Living in Vehicles Draws Nearerrer
NOTES BY NORSE: Palo Alto City Council is moving in an eerily simultaneous way with Santa Cruz and Monterey City Councils to bring up its own anti-homeless vehicle residency ban, proposing to reverse the unusual Continue reading
Monterey Crowd Defends Homeless Rights; Council Backtracks Slightly (CORRECTED)
NOTES BY NORSE
CORRECTIONS TO AN EARLIER STORY
I reported on a Monterey City Council meeting that turned back 1 of 3 anti-homeless measures being proposed for study several days ago. There were several significant typos in the story (“11 AM” should have read Continue reading