Looks like another HUFF hoedown at the Sub Rosa with a focus on the ongoing Community Campout, which is informally slated to kick off another Sunday night at City Hall (or perhaps a mystery spot TBA!). Reports will be coming on the latest ticketeer-monitors who are talleying up the many anti-homeless P & R cites for the last few months. We’ll be discussing daytime actions at City Hall to hold the City accountable and expose ongoing anti-homeless schemes–like the “No Parking for the Poor” program near the now closed-to-the-general-
Devoted HUFFsters have been gathering P & R info around Stay-Away’s and harassment infraction tickets; the immiseration scene downtown and around the town has increased with the shutting down of services at Coral St., Campout #2 is coming up this Sunday at the Main Post Office. Discussion coming up of what to do to pry loose important information from the City Staff. Non-lethal forms of protest to draw attention without resulting necessarily in tickets. Talk and maybe some action…along with cups of coffee and the occasional crunchable.
HUFF will be chatting and chugging about the implications of the one-night sleepout, homeless participation and expectations, closing in on City Council staff to get hard answers, and documenting hard data on recent homelessness citations (currently gathering dust at City Hall). Rumor is there’ll be coffee available.
Looming is the “Homeless Lives Matter” Community Camp kickoff on July 4th 6:30PM on the sidewalk next to the main Post Office. Paul Lee loft closed “for a week” yesterday. As did meals and presumably showers, shitter, and laundry for the “not in programs” homeless. No budget yet or other clear answers. What will HUFF’s role be in this “rolling campout”? Chat, scheme, organize!
Front and center on the HUFF agenda is the “Homeless Lives Matter” Cafe HUFF breakfast slated for Thursday 6-25 at 10 AM at the corner of hiway 9 and hiway 1. Last week, CHP and SCPD ganged up on the oatmeal cookers–we’ll see what’s on the menu for this Thursday. Updates on the City Council and Board of Supes meeting, today’s Sin Barras monthly demo against Solitary Confinement, and what the Good Times left out of the expose on Deputy Chief Steve Clark. check it out.
HUFF: Lots of activist talk about the June28 CampOut coming up–which should take up a chunk of the meeting; we’ll be looking for clearer info on the Homeless (Lack of) Services Budget, the Fate of the 24 Hour Parking Ban near Coral St., and organizing for the Emergency Breakfast Thursday at Hiway 1 and 9 as well as the Project Pollinate Duck Pond Event This Saturday. Join the gang! Coffee should stimulate the proceedings!
HUFF will go through its usual shit (hopefully with more bathrooms on the way) at the usual place (Sub Rosa), but we haven’t secured clear indication that they’ll be open. If not, come to the Cafe Pergolesi.
On the HUFF agenda: City Council budget aftermath and County budget upcoming…The Encampment Proposal of FNB/Camp of Last Resort/& Other Activists…New police records on contracts they have…In Search of Cell Phones, Our Own Media, and Streetwatch!…with coffee and crunchables!
They called for an Emergency Preparations to provide survival alternatives the July 1st Shutdown of Services–ending Meal, Mail, Shower, and Laundry Services.
This meeting is a follow-up to the Sunday meeting to firm up plans for a significant and sustained response to the shutdown of services to the general unhoused population here.
HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom)–which normally meets at the Sub Rosa during this time will be joining this meeting and hold its regular meeting afterwards.
If the Sub Rosa is closed, we’ll meet at the Cafe Perglesi.
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