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NOTES BY NORSE:\u00a0 Fresno activists provide portapotty facilities and trash pick-up’s for the surviving homeless encampments, and document the City’s destructive activities–as shown below.\u00a0 They have also prompted renewed ACLU legal activity to require the City to live up to the “store, don’t destroy homeless property” order of the $2.3 million Kinkaid settlement of 2007.\u00a0\u00a0 Santa Cruz, by contrast, has no 24-hour bathroom, and its only concession to homeless (and indeed broader public) health and safety is to spend $15,000 on a segregated fenced-off portapotty (still projected with no actual facility yet set-up) on the San Lorenzo levee. \u00a0 The cost of renting a portapotty is $100 per month. \u00a0 Instead of using thr $15,000 to keep open bathrooms already there in San Lorenzo Park and the parking garages, Santa Cruz city council homeless-degraders are spending three times that amount to set up a “Security Gate” at the Homeless (Lack of) Services Center at Coral St.
\nAlso on the Council’s “harry the homeless” agenda today are measures severely reducing the public space available for street vendors, street artists, sparechangers, street performers, and political activists downtown plus further anti-smoking laws targeting homeless smoker–see “Shafting Non-Shoppers: Expanding the Destructive Downtown Ordinances”<\/strong> at https:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2013\/09\/09\/18742960.php?show_comments=1#18742963<\/wbr><\/wbr><\/a><\/p>\n

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The City of Fresno Destroyed the Only Shelter these Homeless People had<\/strong><\/div>\n
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These photos are from week 3 of the City of Fresno\u2019s demolition of homeless encampments in the downtown area. Photo below: City of Fresno workers destroy a homeless shelter on San Benito, near H street.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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While city officials claim to be on the verge of bankruptcy they did manage to find enough money to destroy the only shelter hundreds of homeless people had. The city would not help by providing drinking water, portable toilets or trash bins, but they were out in force to bulldoze tents, tarps, and wood structures built by the homeless in downtown Fresno.<\/div>\n
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\u00a7Brown Beret member Hashid Kasama observed the demolition<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
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\u00a7Bulldozers operated within a few feet of the homeless, who were trying to leave<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
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\u00a7Typical street scene today on H street<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
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\u00a7The City of Fresno Destroyed the Only Shelter these Homeless People had <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
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\u00a7Photo 6<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
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\u00a7Homeless minister Ray Polk gives religious service on H street before the destruction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
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\u00a7Most people used shopping carts to move their property<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
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\u00a7Some people just had too much stuff to move<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
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\u00a7Josh and Martha take a short break from packing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
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\u00a7Tearing into a shelter with a bulldozer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
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\u00a7Homeless people tried to save anything of value<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
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\u00a7Dignity in the midst of chaos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
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\u00a7Rounding up the homeless dogs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
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\u00a7This is just one of many dogs that were taken by the SPCA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
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