- Opening Up the Louden Nelson Bathrooms:https://www.indybay.org/
newsitems/2019/09/03/18825952. php
- Live-ish Phone Interview with Rough Racking of Raphael Sonnenfeld of the CACH
- Relief or Runaround? Stopping Section 8 Discrimination…?
https://www.mercurynews.com/
2019/09/03/thousands-of- california-renters-with- section-8-vouchers-cant-use- them-what-lawmakers-are-doing- about-it
Bad Times in the Big Town: Peggy Lee Kennedy Reports on New Sleeping Ban Plans from the L.A. City Council
Author Archives: huffsantacruz
Keeping Up the Pressure: Open the Bathrooms ! 2:30 PM Sunday September 8th San Lorenzo Park
We will be flyering and inviting folks to join future events prior to and after the the Mime Troupe performance.
The issue: reopening the Louden Nelson bathrooms. (See “Demonstrators Keep the Restrooms Open at Louden Nelson Center” at https://www.indybay.org/
Santa Cruz City Council has ducked the issue of reopening the Louden Nelson bathrooms and passed it to their talk shop, the CACH (Community Advisory Committee on Homelessness). At their Tuesday meeting, they avoided any action on the issue in spite of the City Council’s direction.
Digesting the Two Protests at 1220 River and Louden Nelson– 11 AM Sub Rosa at 703 Pacific, followed by the woeful warriors of HUFF Wednesday September 4th !
CONSCIENCE AND ACTION IDEAS 9-4-19
Note: Agenda Ideas are simply suggestions and subject to change and addition from anyone in the group. They cover a wide range of possibilities.
- Announcements: Choice of Action Items; Timekeeper & Time Limits; Vibes Guy
- Louden Nelson Bathroom Protest Success: 8-27 Council Implications; Upcoming Council Meeting; Glover Pre-Meet Friday 5:30 PM
- Continuing the Posner Organizing Efforts along with Homeless Union organizing
- 1220 Protest Aftermath and Campground Organizing
- Any City Council Issues to be Raised for Agenda or Plans for September 10th?
- Ross Lawsuit and Union Organizing Report: Phone a Cop Proposal
- FREE Mime Troupe Show Sat & Sun Sept 7-8 2:30 PM San Lorenzo Park “Treasure Island” Union Table Organizing There?
For HUFFsters
- Announcements: Including Brief Summaries of Agenda Items
- Further Action on C & A Items
- Street and Campground Report
- August 29th Monterey Court Hearing 1200 Aguajito Rd for Salinas Injunction Against Cop Harassment at Sherwood Park 1:30 PM
- Chief Mills Latest Responses on Choke-Holds, Rape Kits, and the SCPD Bathroom
- Updates: Stepping Up in Santa Cruz Poverty Pimp PR Checking: Eli and Laura Report; Helping Homeless Union Tabling
- End of Recycling Report
- Public Records Updates: Bathroom Data–Norse and Colby’s Data Some at https://cityofsantacruz.
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End Bathroom Banditry! Restore Community Access to the Louden Nelson Bathrooms: Direct Action Protest Tomorrow 1:30 PM Tuesday September 3
Direct Action Protest
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
1:30 PM
301 Center St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
• Parks and Recreation [P&R] Supervisor Iseth Rae continues to
keep the public Louden Nelson bathrooms closed to all but “program
participants”.
• Her boss P&R Director Tony Elliot, his boss City Manager
Martin Bernal, and the City Council majority, headed by Vice-Mayor
Justin Cummings continue to deny the elderly, the ill, the disabled, the
homeless, and the general toilets, reversing decades of free access.
• Public Records show no documentation justifying the year-long
closure other than the usual vandalism caused by an increase in use.
This was prompted by the closure of homeless facilities and Bernal’s
institutional failure to provide more bathrooms city-wide.
• Activists from Conscience and Action, Homeless United for
Friendship & Freedom, Food Not Bombs, the California Homeless Union and
other groups are continuing the Freedom Sleepers “Give a Shit” campaign
from 2017, demanding decent and fair bathroom access.
• Louden Nelson Staff claim the “nearby” police station
bathrooms are accessible; however police say they are only open when the
Community Room is in use—which is irregularly.
• Rae additionally backs a dangerous and discriminatory
“homeless are dangerous” narrative with fences around the park, a First
Alarm guard, and a new set of restrictive regulations
• Appeals to Elliot, Rae, Bernal, and the City Council have been
shined on or ignored for over a year. Councilmember Drew Glover’s direct
attempts to have City Council open the bathrooms have been indefinitely
delayed by Mayor Watkins and Vice-Mayor Cummings.
Council Locks Out Elders, Disabled, and Poor from Louden Nelson Bathrooms: Protest Tomorrow 9-2 Tuesday 1:30 PM at Louden Nelson Center 301 Center St.
Mayor Watkins whittled down a long line of speakers at Oral Communications at 7 PM, a number in support of Councilmembers Krohn and Glover. Some attacked the Glover-Krohn recall, with charges the paid signature gatherers were involved. Others denounced the public smear of Glover and Krohn embodied in the months-long “investigation”. Another singled out City Manager Bernal’s latest memo of last week instructing staff not to communicate with Glover except through him and the staff heads.
Krohn attempted earlier in the day to move the Council Meeting Calendar back to its position near the end of the agenda, from which Watkins had moved it in June. His motion failed 3-4.
Neither he, Krohn, nor Brown attempted to require the Mayor to bring back survival encampments, the selective enforcement against homeless people of infractions, a public process for setting the agenda, or other matters raised months ago by Glover.
Any of these items could have been proposed for forced inclusion on the next agenda by motion and majority vote….
Bathrobespiere’s Broadsides radio show streams today (9-1-19) at 9:30AM at www.freakradio.org: Blue-Clad SCPD Bullies Hit the Post Office Sleepers, Part 2 of the River St. Campground Protest, City Council’s Shit-in-the-Bushes Solution; 1989 KZSC Flashback
- Officer Bailey and his Armed Companions Falsely Cite Steve Irving & two others at the Fence Next to the Main Post Office, then Scare Away Other Unhoused Folks at the Town Clock
- Former Ross Camp Roughrider, now Riverstreet Camp Refugee Rosemary gives Part 2 of the Protest Interview outside the closed gate at 1220 River St.
- The Watkins Treatment: More School-Marming the Public at Oral Communications 8-27
- The Public protest & the “Progressives” sell out leaving the London Nelson Lavatories locked
- RV Family Life Under Fire: Spirited Squawks from Barracuda Mama Alicia Kuhl
- Even more here and there, if you’re listening.
- A young Keith McHenry on the early days of Food Not Bombs
- Slyshoes Sandra Loranger, Soupserving Scofflaw, on the eve of her Santa Cruz trial.
Stories Local and Distant
- York Covers the Council’s Cowardly Crap-Out on the Louden Nelson bathrooms
- Reality Peeks Out from the Sentinel’s Pages: https://www.santacruzsentinel.
com/2019/08/30/santa-cruz- tourist-hot-spot-shared-with- citys-homeless-campers/ - Demanding Decency at the Salvation Army’s River St. Campground & Looking Back at the City Council’s Bathroom Babbling : https://www.indybay.org/
newsitems/2019/08/29/18825794. php - Wilderness Squatters–Wave of the Future? http://www.loe.org/shows/
segments.html?programID=03- P13-00028&segmentID=10&fbclid= IwAR08Z- TDq1C4WdyNwB24k1RJeaSgv1bE4XFu oONk4iQF-Nokrwh3ttTKzm8 - Keep an eye on the Santa Cruz Vigilantes: https://www.wweek.com/news/
courts/2019/08/29/portland- man-allegedly-set-fire-to-a- homeless-camp-after-growing- frustrated-police-wouldnt- crack-down/?
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