{"id":4485,"date":"2020-03-25T15:51:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T15:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/?p=4485"},"modified":"2020-03-25T15:51:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T15:51:23","slug":"huff-shifting-to-in-the-field-support-and-reporting-huff-members-aiding-food-servers-hotel-shelter-providers-as-city-leaders-lie-and-stall-no-noon-meeting-today-at-the-sub-rosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/huff-shifting-to-in-the-field-support-and-reporting-huff-members-aiding-food-servers-hotel-shelter-providers-as-city-leaders-lie-and-stall-no-noon-meeting-today-at-the-sub-rosa\/","title":{"rendered":"HUFF shifting to in-the-field support and reporting: HUFF members aiding Food Servers & Hotel Shelter Providers as City “leaders” lie and stall. NO Noon Meeting Today at the Sub Rosa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n \n \n \n As of mid-day March 24th, police chief Andy Mills posted \n“Vacate by 9 AM March 25” Notices around the Town Clock’s COVID-19 \nRelief Center, jointly staffed by\nFood Not Bombs, SC Homeless Union, HUFF, <\/em>and other community volunteers. 

\n\nThe Center has been operating 24 hours a day, serving food and \nsupplies to those outside as City Manager Bernal, Mayor Cummings, City \nPR Megaphonestress Susie O’Hara, and Police Chief Mills have continued \nto ignore, harass, and\/or misinform the community.  \n

\n\nYesterday’s “no public allowed” City Council meeting defeated two \nattempts by the dying Progressive majority to (1) call an emergency \nmeeting within 48 hours to address homeless shelter and health issues \nbeing ignored at the Tuesday Council meeting; and\n (2) strengthen and lengthen the fluffy light and unenforceable eviction\n moratorium proposed by Mayor “Can’t Help” Cummings and Vice-Mayor \n“Merry Malice” Myers.

\n\nFor the last two nights, SC Homeless Union <\/em>has taken the \nlead in distributing overnight motel vouchers paid for privately at that\n location (and last night from a parking garage).  See\nhttps:\/\/www.santacruzsentinel.com\/2020\/03\/24\/santa-cruz-homeless-activists-draw-coronavirus-shelter-battle-lines\/<\/a>\n for a slanted Sentinel take on the distribution.\n
\n\nWhile denouncing a “lack of the 6′ safe distance” at the voucher \ndistribution on 3-23 and using that as the pretext to “cease and desist”\n order the vital Town Clock support center, Mills’s police cited an \nactivist for marking out 6′ intervals on 3-24 in\n the parking garage for the 2nd voucher distribution.\nOne hypocritical hand washes the other.\n
Street Spirit\n<\/em>newspaper distribution operations are currently suspended, but the \nBerkeley vendor center is looking for ways to provide some interim \nsupport for vendors whose sales lifeline has been cut off.  When HUFF \nhears, we’ll let the few vendors we have down here\n know.\n
\n\nFrequent local updates can be found on \nFacebook under Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs, Santa Cruz County Homeless \nAdvocates, Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz, and HUFF.  As well as \noccasionally at indybay.org\/santacruz<\/a>.\n
\n\nIf anyone has seen the wandering coffee\n canister used to supply morning coffee to those outside which “walked \naway” yesterday, please ask it to come home!  \n



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