{"id":2417,"date":"2016-04-26T13:21:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T13:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/?p=2417"},"modified":"2016-04-26T13:21:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T13:21:02","slug":"sleepers-and-gardeners-unite-freedom-sleepout-42-on-april-26th-at-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/sleepers-and-gardeners-unite-freedom-sleepout-42-on-april-26th-at-city-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleepers and Gardeners Unite? Freedom SleepOut #42 on April 26th at City Hall."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Support Beach Flats Garden Defenders Then Defend the Right to Sleep– Freedom SleepOut #42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date<\/strong><\/td>\nTuesday April 26<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time<\/strong><\/td>\n5:00 PM<\/span><\/span> – 5:00 AM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location Details<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Outside, Inside, and Outside City Council at Church and Center across from the Main Library in Downtown Santa Cruz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Event Type<\/strong><\/td>\nProtest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Contact Name<\/strong><\/td>\nToby Nixon (post by Norse)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Email Address<\/strong><\/td>\ntobynixon [at] gms.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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BEACH FLATS GARDEN FIGHT-BACK? <\/span>
\n<\/span> The 7 PM Session of the City Council will \u201cconsider\u201d a Beach Flats Garden Update and Recommendations with a motion to accept the staff\u2019s sell-out of 1\/3rd of the Garden and direct them to continue to \u201cwork on\u201d a long-term plan\u2014as they\u2019ve colluded in bulldozing 1\/3rd of the garden in collusion with the Seaside Company. <\/span>
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\n<\/span> An earlier meeting at 1:30<\/span><\/span> at closed session involving negotiating the lease for the Garden with the Seaside Company smooth-and-slippery City Manager Martin Bernal is a more likely plae where the real action will happen. The main part of the session is closed to the public (go figure!). However, there is an \u201copen interval\u201d at 1:30<\/span><\/span> for public comment which can be attended, though it\u2019s not clear whether advocates for the garden will be there in any numbers. <\/span>
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\n<\/span> At prior meetings Beach Flats supporters have rolled in in record numbers and then rolled out\u2014letting Council and the slimy staff proceed along its sell-out path. <\/span>
\n<\/span> Councilmember Posner has circulated a constituent letter [relevant parts of which are attached below] noting he plans an eminent domain motion with the City forcing the Seaside Company to sell the Garden (over the recommendation of the City\u2019s staff, of course). <\/span>
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\n<\/span> Those interested in Metro cutbacks and hiway widening giveaways might also be interested in checking out item #21 on the afternoon agenda. <\/span>
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\n<\/span> IGNORING HOMELESS ISSUES BY \u201cSTUDYING\u201d THEM <\/span>
\n<\/span> Unmentioned by Posner is item #20 the \u201cHomeless Coordinated Non-Response\u201d (actually titled \u201cResponse\u201d\u2014but that\u2019s false advertising). <\/span>
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\n<\/span> This is a phony face-saving proposal to \u201cstudy\u201d a Homeless Task Force proposal and to shift responsibility for the City\u2019s punitive laws to the County. It\u2019s the latest non-action taken in response to the crisis faced by the unhoused community (and so to the trembling NIMBY and merchant communities fearful of their visible presence). <\/span>
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\n<\/span> The crisis: the Winter Armory Shelter closed earlier this month and with it the end of all walk-up emergency shelter for the spring, summer, and fall for the City\u2019s 1000-2000 folks outside. Instead of putting on the agenda proposals for safe places to sleep proposed by Phil Posner and Steve Pleich (a very limited proposal), the staff is doing cosmetic cover by proposing more \u201cdirection\u201d and consideration of a joint City-County Task Force to restudy the obvious. <\/span>
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\n<\/span> EARLIER RELEVANT PROPOSALS IGNORED <\/span>
\n<\/span> See the clear proposals of the former Homeless Issues Task Force at <\/span>http:\/\/sccounty01.co.santa-cruz.ca.us\/bds\/Govstream\/BDSvData\/non_legacy\/agendas\/2000\/20000502\/PDF\/020.pdf<\/a><\/span> which include, of course, ending the Camping Ban. <\/span>
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\n<\/span> HUFF described that Task Force as a \u201cfarce\u201d 16 years ago because its intent and effect was to divert then-powerful activist energy. Its ultimate proposals, though, were good ones\u2014largely ignored by City Councils since in favor of punitive police funding. Such diverting is actually unnecessary now that Don Lane’s “troops” have all disappeared over the hills or into focus groups and Posner has remained silent. <\/span>
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\n<\/span> Still the 2000 Homeless Issues Task Force report contains many relevant and powerful suggestions which need to be actively advanced, not ignored with the same ground being \u201cstudied\u201d again. <\/span>
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\n<\/span> DEFENDING THE ARTISTS AND RECLAIMING PUBLIC SPACE ON PACIFIC <\/span>
\n<\/span> Meanwhile downtown HUFF set up its protest table right next to artists Alex Skelton and Joff Jones\u2014who continue to refuse to be \u201cblue boxed\u201d on Pacific Avenue and refuse to \u201cmove along\u201d. Their court cases come up in May. See \u201cPacific Avenue Santa Cruz: The Joff Jones and Alex Skelton Report on Freedom in the USA\u201d at <\/span>http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2016\/04\/25\/18785582.php<\/a><\/span>
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\n<\/span> City Council\u2019s \u201cVaporize the Vendors\u201d law will not be coming up until the first meeting in May. Will the courageous action of Alex and Joff and others like them make the Council\u2019s threats a laughing stock? <\/span>
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\n<\/span> ESTABLISHING SLEEP SPACE ON THE SIDEWALK AND THE BRICKS <\/span>
\n<\/span> Freedom Sleepers #42 will continue to have Troublemaker Toby livestreaming any untoward police and security thug behavior Tuesday<\/span><\/span> night. Limited quantities of food and drink are likely. <\/span>
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\n<\/span> Toby will meet with interested activists at 10 AM<\/span><\/span> Wednesday<\/span><\/span> morning at the Sub Rosa to review the night’s events and strategize for the night ahead. The regular HUFF meeting will be at 11 AM<\/span><\/span> there as usual. <\/span>
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\n<\/span> Though citations have reportedly been given in the last week around the library building, Freedom Sleepers on Tuesday<\/span><\/span> have been pointedly ignored by the armed Ticketeers. <\/span>
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\n<\/span> Contact HUFF at 831-423-4833<\/a> if you wish to join, organize, or support protests. <\/span>
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\n<\/span> For more info on the Freedom Sleepers, go to: <\/span>http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/freedomsleepers\/<\/a><\/span> and\/or <\/span>http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/top\/?q=AAA%20Freedom%20Sleepers<\/a><\/span>
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\nLEAVE COMMENTS AT <\/span>https:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2016\/04\/25\/18785621.php<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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