{"id":4503,"date":"2020-04-07T16:22:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T16:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/?p=4503"},"modified":"2020-04-07T16:22:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T16:22:03","slug":"in-search-of-action-to-open-up-safe-cdc-compliant-shelter-in-place-facilities-for-those-outside-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/in-search-of-action-to-open-up-safe-cdc-compliant-shelter-in-place-facilities-for-those-outside-now\/","title":{"rendered":"In Search of Action to Open Up Safe CDC Compliant Shelter-in-Place Facilities for Those Outside NOW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An Immodest and Long Overdue Proposal<\/strong> \nby Robert Norse (rnorse3 [at] hotmail.com<\/a>)\n
Tuesday Apr 7th, 2020 8:45 AM <\/em>\n\nPlease post your reactions to this proposed protest, which mirrors \nactions undertaken by nurses, unions, and homeless advocates in other \ncities. An earlier version of these suggestions was originally posted on\n facebook.\n\nRESTATING THE OBVIOUS
\nThe virus spreads as City Council and the Stupes continue to ignore CDC \nguidelines and hoard funding. Waiting until actual symptoms and\/or \npositive test results finally appear to open up those rooms to the \nvulnerable outside is obviously too late. We all know\n this, so do they. Time to stop knowing and bleating and start \norganizing. If Food not Bombs waited for authority approval or action, \nthere’d be substantially more hunger, illness, and hopelessness in our \ncommunity. Past time for US to act.\n

\nCITY COUNCIL TO FIDDLE TODAY AS THE CITY SICKENS
\nCity Council agenda is at \nhttp:\/\/www.cityofsantacruz.com\/…\/city…\/council-meetings<\/a>\n for the 6 PM meeting tonight. They have graciously provided their usual\n token public comment before the rubberstamping period. Phone numbers \nare \u00b7 . 1-669-900-9128 1-346-248-7799 1-301-715-8592\n
\n1-312-626-6799 1-646-558-8656 1-253-215-8782
\nIf one is busy, try the next one (sez the printed agenda on line).
\n\u00b7 Enter the meeting ID number: 379-565-623
\nWhen prompted for a Participant ID, press #.
\nPress *9 on your phone to \u201craise your hand\u201d when the Mayor calls for public comment.\n

\n” It will be your turn to speak when the Mayor unmutes you. You will \nhear an announcement that you have been unmuted. The timer will then be \nset to 2 minutes” Of course, you’ll be “allowed” to speak on two items: \nthe Election results (i.e. Real Estatesters\n recall of Krohn and Glover) (item 1) and more power to police agencies \nto shut down dissent (item 3). The comments of the vultures who are \nreplacing Glover and Krohn (Beiers and Golder) will stand unchallenged. \nAnd there will be “off topic” Oral Communications.\n

\nThe point is not that this charade has any more meaning than City \nCouncil meetings in the past (less, with the amputation of Glover and \nKrohn). But rather that this is an opportunity for us to organize and \nfocus around this basic issue: immediate provision–or\n seizure–of Motel rooms for shelter-in-place for the good not just of \nthe homeless, but for everyone.\n

\nSPEAK OUT TO ORGANIZE SAFE PROTEST
\nIn other words, speak up under items 1 and 3 to demand immediate action \nand announce protest actions–not because the Council will do anything \nother than rubberstamp the staff’s proposals, but rather to get the word\n out and encourage others who feel isolated\n to band together in solidarity.

\nUSING CARS TO PROTEST SAFELY
\nI propose a safe-and-peaceful but loud-and-prominent protest in vehicles\n focusing on the City officials with power (Bernal, Mills, Cummings, \nO’Hara) and County officials (Elissa Benson, Jessica Scheiner, and \nTatiana Brennan ) as suggested at\n\nhttps:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2020\/04\/06\/18832134.php<\/a> \n“Lobby for your Life: Suggestions from Laura”. Give the babbling \nbureaucrats and the hotel hoarders an immediate demand to act within 48 \nhours or face strong direct peaceful (and hopefully constitutionally\n protected) protests.

\nTHE CITY’S CURRENT “DIE SOONER, SAVE MONEY LATER”
\nSHELTER HUDDLED TOGETHER TOKEN ACTIONS
\nWhile we wait and worry, vulnerable asymptomatic homeless people are \nsqueezed into the Vets Hall, the Armory, and Laurel St.—all large \ncontained rooms that violate CDC guidelines. Meanwhile motel rooms and \nreal estate properties sit empty as Santa Cruz Homeless\n Union activists like Alicia Kuhl, Food Not Bombs workers like Keith \nMcHenry, and alternative social service providers like Brent Adams \nexpose the toxic absurdity of preserving privilege as the community ship\n sinks.\n

\nThe dangerous psuedo-shelter plan is happening as police, deputies, and \nsecurity thugs run homeless people out into the rain and harass \nencampments–again, violating the CDC guidelines and threatening \ncommunity health.\n

\nWaiting for this to spread as facilities are kept empty is cruel, crazy,\n and costly—to the entire Community. WE must act now to stop this by \nwhatever means are necessary.\n\n
\n\nTO COMMENT GO TO:  “An Immodest and Long Overdue Proposal<\/strong>” at\nhttps:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2020\/04\/07\/18832146.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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