{"id":678,"date":"2013-01-25T23:16:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T23:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/?p=678"},"modified":"2013-01-28T23:19:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T23:19:07","slug":"indybay-censoring-homeless-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/indybay-censoring-homeless-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Indybay Censoring Homeless Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indybay.org does its own thing—I’ve complained over the years that comments should at best be put in a hidden status where they can be seen if folks want to see them.<\/p>\n

However the new HUFF blog does not censor (hopefully).\u00a0 It’s at http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/<\/wbr><\/a> .\u00a0 You, Lee, Mayor Bryant–anyone who wants to can post there (shudder).<\/p>\n

R<\/p>\n

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Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:23:48 -0800
\nFrom: walkabouting@yahoo.com<\/a>
\nSubject: Re: FNB in Santa Cruz Under Attack
\nTo: rnorse3@hotmail.com<\/a>; foodnotbombs@earthlink.net<\/a>
\nCC: becky_johnson222@hotmail.com<\/a>; lemasterhearth@hotmail.com<\/a>; jsmalkin@hotmail.com<\/a>; compassionman@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

It should be noted that the local commentary posted by local homeless is being removed from http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2013\/01\/19\/18730563.php<\/wbr><\/wbr><\/a> by the local censors (all too frequent a problem).\u00a0 The general theme being the local ‘well fed’ using the local homeless as a PR tool in a staged confrontation.\u00a0 Here is a taste…<\/div>\n
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https:\/\/twitter.com\/AuntieImperial\/status\/294501560157876225<\/wbr><\/wbr><\/a><\/div>\n
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I’m all for confronting and protesting unjust laws.\u00a0 Drawing the uninformed into conflict, not so much (see pre-OccupySantaCruz commentary for a prescient warning).\u00a0 Censorship, not at all.<\/div>\n
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G (aka https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeaceCamp2010in<\/wbr><\/a>)<\/div>\n
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From:<\/strong> Robert Norse <rnorse3@hotmail.com<\/a>>
\nTo:<\/strong> Keith McHenry <foodnotbombs@earthlink.net<\/a>>
\nSent:<\/strong> Sunday, January 20, 2013 12:38 AM
\nSubject:<\/strong> FNB in Santa Cruz Under Attack
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Keith:<\/p>\n

A police officer and his sergeant superior appeared at the main post office steps today shortly after 4 PM where Food Not Bombs was doing its weekly feeding.<\/p>\n

The officer advised the FNBers that they were “trespassing”\u00a0 (though the post office was open; people were coming in and out; the meal was set off too the side in an area not traveled by the usual customers; and FNB workers noted a previous encounter with Sgt. Azua had seemed to establish there were no violations of the law happening).\u00a0 He took a number of photos of the workers, who continued to feed people\u00a0 (30-40 people came through by my casual count in the hour or two that FNB was there).\u00a0 Santa Cruz FNB had been serving at the post office for the last month.<\/p>\n

A sergeant arriving afterwards sought names and information from the workers and stated they were “gathering evidence of trespass” at the request of the postmaster.<\/p>\n

Several of the workers were upset by this police intervention.\u00a0 A number of those served were scared or angry.\u00a0 The meal continued, but with significant consternation.<\/p>\n

The police seemed to indicate they would be returning.<\/p>\n

I would encourage you to alert other FNB activists that this is happening in Santa Cruz and they may need support against legal or extralegal police action that seems to now be on the horizon.<\/p>\n

I’ll be playing some audio of this on my radio show tomorrow between 9:30 AM and 10:30 AM at 101.3 FM, streaming at\u00a0 http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/FRSC-s47254\/<\/wbr><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 , and archived athttp:\/\/www.radiolibre.org\/brb\/brb121007.mp30120<\/wbr><\/a>.mp3<\/a> \u00a0 (about 2 1\/2 hours into the audio file).<\/p>\n

Please all in (831-427-3772<\/a>) if\u00a0 you have any suggestions any time before 1 PM PST.
\n(831-423-4833<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Thanks,\u00a0 Robert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Indybay.org does its own thing—I’ve complained over the years that comments should at best be put in a hidden status where they can be seen if folks want to see them. However the new HUFF blog does not censor (hopefully).\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,56,18],"tags":[3,91,93],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678"}],"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=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"https:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}