{"id":3836,"date":"2019-09-03T00:28:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T00:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/?p=3836"},"modified":"2019-09-03T00:28:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T00:28:39","slug":"end-bathroom-banditry-restore-community-access-to-the-louden-nelson-bathrooms-direct-action-protest-tomorrow-130-pm-tuesday-september-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/end-bathroom-banditry-restore-community-access-to-the-louden-nelson-bathrooms-direct-action-protest-tomorrow-130-pm-tuesday-september-3\/","title":{"rendered":"End Bathroom Banditry! Restore Community Access to the Louden Nelson Bathrooms: Direct Action Protest Tomorrow 1:30 PM Tuesday September 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"m_4439845192793189842appendonsend\"><\/div>\n<p>Direct Action Protest<\/p>\n<div class=\"m_4439845192793189842PlainText\">Liberate the Locked Lavatories at London Nelson (aka Louden Nelson) Center<br \/>\nTuesday, September 3, 2019<br \/>\n1:30 PM<br \/>\n301 Center St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060<\/div>\n<div class=\"m_4439845192793189842PlainText\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_4439845192793189842PlainText\">Come at 1 PM to Help Make Signs, Set-Up<\/div>\n<div class=\"m_4439845192793189842PlainText\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_4439845192793189842PlainText\">Demand Open Bathrooms !<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Parks and Recreation [P&amp;R] Supervisor Iseth Rae continues to<br \/>\nkeep the public Louden Nelson bathrooms closed to all but \u201cprogram<br \/>\nparticipants\u201d.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Her boss P&amp;R Director Tony Elliot, his boss City Manager<br \/>\nMartin Bernal, and the City Council majority, headed by Vice-Mayor<br \/>\nJustin Cummings continue to deny the elderly, the ill, the disabled, the<br \/>\nhomeless, and the general toilets, reversing decades of free access.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Public Records show no documentation justifying the year-long<br \/>\nclosure\u00a0 other than the usual vandalism caused by an increase in use.<br \/>\nThis was prompted by the closure of homeless facilities and Bernal\u2019s<br \/>\ninstitutional failure to provide more bathrooms city-wide.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Activists from Conscience and Action, Homeless United for<br \/>\nFriendship &amp; Freedom, Food Not Bombs, the California Homeless Union and<br \/>\nother groups are continuing the Freedom Sleepers \u201cGive a Shit\u201d campaign<br \/>\nfrom 2017, demanding decent and fair bathroom access.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Louden Nelson Staff claim the \u201cnearby\u201d police station<br \/>\nbathrooms are accessible; however police say they are only open when the<br \/>\nCommunity Room is in use\u2014which is irregularly.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rae additionally backs a dangerous and discriminatory<br \/>\n\u201chomeless are dangerous\u201d narrative with fences around the park, a First<br \/>\nAlarm guard, and a new set of restrictive regulations<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Appeals to Elliot, Rae, Bernal, and the City Council have been<br \/>\nshined on or ignored for over a year. Councilmember Drew Glover\u2019s direct<br \/>\nattempts to have City Council open the bathrooms have been indefinitely<br \/>\ndelayed by Mayor Watkins and Vice-Mayor Cummings.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Direct Action Protest Liberate the Locked Lavatories at London Nelson (aka Louden Nelson) Center Tuesday, September 3, 2019 1:30 PM 301 Center St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Come at 1 PM to Help Make Signs, Set-Up Demand Open Bathrooms ! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/end-bathroom-banditry-restore-community-access-to-the-louden-nelson-bathrooms-direct-action-protest-tomorrow-130-pm-tuesday-september-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3837,"href":"https:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836\/revisions\/3837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}