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Author Archives: huffsantacruz
Homeless Protest in Concord; Disturbing Silence in Santa Cruz
NOTES BY NORSE: The obvious basic question “where are we to live?” is pointedly being ignored by the “Public Safety Citizen Task Force”, the City Council’s “Public Safety” Committee, the City Council, City Manager Continue reading
Bigots in Palo Alto Moving to Ban Vehicular Sleeping
NOTES BY NORSE: Palo Alto activists and supporters have successfully fought to retain the rights of Palo Alto vehicular dwellers to sleep in their vehicles on city streets–up to now. Stubborn activists like Tony Ciampi Continue reading
California Homeless Bill of Rights Update; local ACLU meets Monday
NOTE BY NORSE: The Santa Cruz ACLU has yet to endorse AB 5 (the California Homeless Bill of Rights) specifically, though the Northern California ACLU has).
Nor has our local ACLU called for the abolition Continue reading
Video Exposing Abuse of the Homeless Suppressed
A video of a Clean Team activist, supported by other Clean Team members, harassing, assaulting, and battering a homeless camper was posted for several days on a SC Patch article (“Fever Pitch – Interview with SC Clean Team Continue reading
Homeless Persons Bill of Rights Hits Another Assembly Committee Tomorrow (5-15)
Subject: [OSCMediaGroup] Homeless Persons Bill of Rights: Action NeededMuch support was felt at Occupy Santa Cruz’s general assembly on Sunday, April 22, 2013, for people who are homeless in Santa Cruz County.People from the Visible Sleepers’ vigil at main Post Office plaza shared their Continue reading
Sane Solutions in Seattle–How About Santa Cruz?
Study: Seattle home for alcoholics saved taxpayers $4 million
By VANESSA HO, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF
Published 10:00 pm, Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Nathaniel Porter, one of the residents of 1811 Eastlake, a home for people with chronic alcohol addiction, shows off Continue reading
Expensive First Alarm Thuggery in Santa Cruz
NOTES BY NORSE: Often harshly critical of HUFF, Razer Ray can be scathing and incisive in his analysis of homeless-targeted Continue reading
While Santa Cruz library system cracks down, North Carolina takes a different road
NOTE BY NORSE: At of the HUFF hat to John Colby for this story. What a contrast with the Santa Cruz library system. Santa Cruz County anti-homeless library policies have recently been stepped up to ban sleeping Continue reading
Public Hysteria Task Force Has 1st Meeting Tonight 6 PM Tony Hill Room Civic Auditorium SC
by Robert Norse
Tuesday May 7th, 2013 9:24 AM
Tuesday May 7th, 2013 9:24 AM
The “Public Safety” Task Force, hand-picked by Mayor Hillary Bryant, has its first meeting tonight at 6 PM in the small Tony Hill sideroom at the Civic Auditorium on Church St. across from City Council chambers. According Continue reading