{"id":3092,"date":"2017-12-19T19:46:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T19:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/?p=3092"},"modified":"2017-12-19T19:46:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T19:46:03","slug":"no-huff-meeting-this-wednesday-next-meeting-wednesday-12-27-17-at-11-am-at-the-sub-rosa-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/no-huff-meeting-this-wednesday-next-meeting-wednesday-12-27-17-at-11-am-at-the-sub-rosa-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"NO HUFF MEETING This Wednesday Next meeting WEDNESDAY 12-27-17 at 11 AM at the Sub Rosa Cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HUFF now has meetings every other week at the same time and place, but can be contacted whenever at 831-423-HUFF.
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There are no City Council meetings (for those interested in such things) until the second Tuesday<\/span><\/span> in January.<\/span><\/div>\n

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The Annual “Homeless Memorial” will be held as usual at the Homeless (Lack of) Services Center at 115 Coral St. at 10 AM<\/span><\/span> on Wednesday 12-20-17<\/span><\/span>. \u00a0 The general public (even the general homeless!) are actually allowed in past the security guard kiosk, the gates, and presumably without ID cards. \u00a0 Just don’t try to get a meal there (showers are OK, not sure how about how much bureaucratic tape is required to use the bathroom).<\/span><\/div>\n

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So far no new storage program has been started (or even proposed) by the City after it withdrew its support for Brent Adams program, due to open on December 1st.\u00a0 Funding and land was abruptly withdrawn, reportedly because of Adams occasional candor around the insufficiency of current overfunded and servicelight programs.<\/span><\/div>\n

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San Lorenzo Campground continues as a survival campground, though shrunken in size with the eviction\/deportation\/dispersal date apparently delayed.
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HUFF is seeking volunteers to help cull through infraction citations for the last six months from the ranges and cops to check on whether Chief Mills’ officers have stopped enforcement of the Sleeping Ban at night on public property. \u00a0\u00a0 Volunteers step forward to help–and call 831-423-4833<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Please <\/span>report conditions in San Lorenzo Park<\/span><\/b>, downtown, the neighborhoods, and the parks\u00a0 where numerous nightly encampments have grown.\u00a0 If you live there, consider establishing contact with HUFF at 831-423-4833<\/a> on a regular basis to provide updates for the radio show Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides (Sundays 9:30 AM- 2:30 PM<\/span><\/span>, Thursdays 6-8 PM<\/span><\/span> at 101.3 FM and freakradio.org<\/a>).\u00a0 Fences are going up in Star of the Sea and Laurel St. parks, without significant input or approval from the Laurel St. community, anyway.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Sleeping Ban City Council’s current toleration of San Lorenzo survival activity should not be mistaken for fair and equal treatment of unhoused people in public spaces generally.\u00a0 The restrictive laws include Stay-Away’s, single vehicle parking, overnight (and in some areas 24-hour) parking bans, new fences around parks at night, abusive enforcement of Downtown Ordinances on Pacific as well as heavy and selective enforcement of the “no smoking” ordinances.
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The real reason limited camper toleration is here is police enforcement is an impossibility. \u00a0 Both in terms of economics and real-life-consequences, the plan to drive homeless folks out of sight and out of town just doesn’t work.\u00a0 As services are cut back or require “a path to housing” (vouchers, checks), folks appear on the streets, next to buildings, etc.\u00a0 Tickets in the Pogonip, along the tracks, and in the parks has caused a migration to residential neighborhoods—causing a flurry of quacking and cawing by enraged bourgeois residents. \u00a0 Police Chief Andy Mills, ever sensitive to the concerns of Downtown merchants and NIMBY residents, has triaged police services by the San Lorenzo campground coup.<\/span><\/p>\n

The San Diego ACLU (local ACLU take note!) has failed a lawsuit against anti-homeless deportation policies down there.\u00a0 See http:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/politics\/sd-me-homeless-lawsuit-20171116-story.html<\/a> .
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You can also help fight the Stay-Away orders<\/span><\/b> as they are individually levied on homeless folks; contact <\/span>Food Not Bombs\u00a0 <\/span><\/i>or <\/span>HUFF\u00a0 <\/span><\/i>(numbers below).\u00a0 Let these folks know if you or anyone you know has recently been given a Stay-Away order along with an Infraction ticket, particularly if it’s for longer than 24 hours (or 72 hours after October 12th<\/span><\/span> when the new expanded law goes into effect).\u00a0 Also report any frivolous citations (sitting, smoking in a distant and vacant area, so-called “trespass” on public property, and, of course, camping as well as the ever-popular “open container” citations).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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If meetings aren’t your thing, but you\u00a0 wish to work on Public Records,<\/span> Assist in getting interviews for Free Radio broadcasts or You-Tube Postings,<\/span><\/b> contact Bathrobespierre Robert at 831-423-4833<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Activists around<\/span> Food Not Bombs<\/span><\/i> and the Freedom Sleepers are also looking <\/span>for help gathering volunteers for the support meals on Saturday<\/span><\/span> & Sunday<\/span><\/span> as well as folks who want to help homeless harassed with citations for Being Visibly Homeless.\u00a0<\/span><\/b> Contact them at 575-770-3377<\/a>.
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Or go on line to the Facebook page of Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 FNB activists fear an upsurge of pressure against the downtown meals near the post office as follow up to the “coaxed removal” of the homeless encampment there.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Sign up to support their Emergency Response Network <\/span><\/b>by contacting them through Facebook or in person at the Saturday<\/span><\/span> and Sunday<\/span><\/span> meals.\u00a0 The idea is to quickly gather in numbers if city authorities attempt to shut down the meal.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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Brent Adams continues to post regularly on his facebook page “Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz” as well.
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