The Public Safety [sic] Committee according to today’s Sentinel [http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_23152604/ santa-cruz-police-see-new- interest-after-hiring ] forwarded to the next City Council meeting (May 14) a law which makes criminals out of anyone lingering Continue reading
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Sip Soup as you Gag at City Council’s Study Session on Homelessness
| Title: | Sip Soup as you Gag at City Council’s Study Session on Homelessness |
| START DATE: | Tuesday April 30 |
| TIME: | 6:45 PM – 8:45 PM |
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| 809 Center St. Santa Cruz City Council Chambers | |
| Event Type: | Meeting |
| Contact Name | Robert Norse |
| Email Address | rnorse3 [at] hotmail.com |
| Phone Number | 831-423-4833 |
| Address | 309 Cedar PMB #14B Santa Cruz, CA 95060 |
| The Santa Cruz City Council has scheduled a Special “Study” Session on Homelessness.THE COUNCIL’S RECENT RECORD Hey, April Fool’s day came and went nearly a month ago! This is the Council that recently voted an Continue reading |
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Upcoming Protest of the American Psychiatric Association’s 2013 annual conference– an Occupy Psychiatry Event.
NOTE BY NORSE; A segment of the homeless population has their status dismissed and demeaned by describing them as “mentally ill” and there are currently bills pending in the state legislature to strip rights from Continue reading
Seattle Police Mock Homeless In Training Video
NOTE BY NORSE: SCPD’s increased crackdown on homeless people in the last year, its tacit participation in the destruction of Needle Exchange, the inflammatory and misleading propaganda spewed out Continue reading
City Council’s “Public Safety” Committee Meets Wednesday 5-1 at 6 PM
The “Public Safety” Update below is from the Public Safety Task Force staff, not from the Public Safety Committee. The Public Safety Committeewhich meets Wednesday at 6 PM is a standing Committee of City Council whose meetings are required to be open to the public and agendaized 72 hours in advance.It’s not clear whether the Task Force, recently Continue reading
Come Chow Down and Speak Up Tuesday 6:45 PM at Santa Cruz Homelessness “Study” Session
The Santa Cruz City Council has scheduled a Special “Study” Session on Homelessness for 7 PM at 809 Center St. (City Council Chambers) for Tuesday, March 30th. Only one day short of April Fools day.This is the Council that recently voted an Continue reading
Sacramento Tent City on the Rise
NOTE BY NORSE: Protest encampments and lawsuits in Sacramento prepared the way for this latest “sanctioned” protest. In Santa Cruz, a small protest sleep-out by a group I call the Visible Sleepers in front of the Post Office went on for four nights and seemed to establish that getting documentation that you Continue reading
Poverty Crime in Ohio…and Santa Cruz
NOTE BY NORSE: Walter Lilly called me from jail several times in the last day, and whose account I’ll be broadcasting tomorrow at 10 AM on Free Radio Santa Cruz (101.3 FM http://tunein.com/radio/FRSC-s47254/ ) His “crime” was failing to pay Sleeping Ban infractions and then being jailed under a Continue reading
Another Hate Crime in Santa Cruz
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/04/26/18735861. php
Gabriel Jumped by Homeless Haters near Cabrillo College Wednesday
by Robert Norse
Friday Apr 26th, 2013 11:50 AM
Friday Apr 26th, 2013 11:50 AM
I received a phone call yesterday from a formerly homeless man, now a Cabrillo student named Gabriel. He gave the following report of being beaten Continue reading
Redding Website for Homeless Rights on the California Bill of Rights and Fairness Act
NOTE BY NORSE: Activists may already be aware of AB 5, Assemblyman Tom Ammiano’s Homeless Bill of Rights. Here it is briefly mentioned, but I am forwarding this Redding posting, because it also gives the blog site for some homeless activists up there. I’d like to see all Continue reading