{"id":3590,"date":"2019-02-11T16:45:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T16:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/?p=3590"},"modified":"2019-02-11T16:45:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T16:45:09","slug":"protest-and-evening-battle-likely-at-city-council-tuesday-2-12-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/protest-and-evening-battle-likely-at-city-council-tuesday-2-12-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest and Evening Battle Likely at City Council -Tuesday 2-12-19"},"content":{"rendered":"
NOTES BY NORSE:\u00a0\u00a0 This article by Councilmember Glover and attached commentary gives some important background on the evening session coming up at City Council for Tuesday night.\u00a0 A speak-out and protest outside Council chambers will begin at 6:15 PM with food supplied by Jumbogumbo Joe Schultz of India Joze.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Originally, the protest was intended to focus on continued harassment by SCPD and P & R rangers harassing and citing homeless folks in public places, with some reports that folks living in their own camps were being driven to the Ross Camp.\u00a0 Though the Ross Camp has been provided with some more (but still inadequate) facilities in the last month, it is still badly overcrowded and under severe pressure from raging neighbors.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In response, HUFF called for additional campgrounds, laundry and shower services, and the end to citations for being in a park after dark, reopening public bathrooms during the day and at night city-wide, and protecting the rights of those whose homes are their vehicles.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Councilmembers Glover and Krohn were rebuffed on rent control\/just eviction and then by the City Manager and Mayor Watkins for not putting homelessness on the last January Council meeting.\u00a0 In response, Glover mobilized his interns to propose 6 measures in consultation with homeless activists, and folks from Ross Camp and the RV community itemized in the PDF’s attached to his Indybay story\u00a0 “The Fierce Urgency of Now”.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Glover and Krohn may have a 4-person majority on City Council not just to pass the homelessness resolutions, but also to rein in Mayor “One Minute” Martine Watkins censorship proclivities which were in full foul flower at the last Council meeting.\u00a0 Speaking times were reduced to one minute, speakers were excluded, speakers were interrupted, and oral communications was crunched and contracted in her desire to “welcome” a foreign delegation from Japan.\u00a0 There was little protest if any from the “Progressives” at the January meetings.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Unless members of the audience demand it vocally, there’s no guarantee we won’t see a repeat of this disgraceful performance on February 12th.\u00a0 Folks need to come in numbers, ready to speak out, unroll sleeping bags, hold up signs, and stand their ground.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Note that there is no mention of rent control or just eviction, just a fig leaf proposal for yet another Task Force that will babble while tenants and their supporters get driven out of town.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Review Glover’s article and the attached documents.\u00a0 Check also the “Flyer for 2-10-19 City Council Protest<\/a>” which gives more details.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Come on down to City Council on Tuesday at 6:15 PM.\u00a0 Form connections with folks at the Ross Campground.\u00a0 Contact City Council by e-mail (citycouncil@cityofsantacruz.com<\/a> )or phone (831-420-5020) .\u00a0 And contact HUFF at 423-4833 or rnorse3@hotmail..com to be advised of upcoming flash protests and to resist the demolition of the Ross Campground.<\/div>\n
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The Fierce Urgency of Now<\/strong><\/div>\n
by Santa Cruz City Councilmember Drew Glover
\nFriday Feb 8th, 2019 10:45 PM <\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
This Wednesday I went to the \u201cRoss Camp\u201d with some of the interns that work with me at the Resource Center for Nonviolence to get an update on the situation and to engage people in a conversation about poverty. As we arrived we met Mel Nunez, a dedicated advocate for the poor and representative from our local faith communities. [Photo: The view of the Ross Camp from the River Street side.]<\/div>\n
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We joined him in passing out anti-microbial \u201cBombas\u201d socks, fresh apples, salad greens, spinach and water. It was almost immediately after we arrived that people began to approach us expressing their need for food, materials and clothing…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Story continues at <\/span>https:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2019\/02\/08\/18821045.php<\/span><\/a> and the comments that follow.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NOTES BY NORSE:\u00a0\u00a0 This article by Councilmember Glover and attached commentary gives some important background on the evening session coming up at City Council for Tuesday night.\u00a0 A speak-out and protest outside Council chambers will begin at 6:15 PM with … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[4,14,87],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3591,"href":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions\/3591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}