{"id":879,"date":"2013-04-09T04:35:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T04:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/?p=879"},"modified":"2013-04-18T04:39:13","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T04:39:13","slug":"sanctuary-campground-presentation-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/sanctuary-campground-presentation-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanctuary Campground Presentation Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NOTE FROM NORSE:\u00a0 Looming is the impending closing of the Winter Armory Shelter (last night April 15th) as well as the increased crackdown on homeless camps, homeless people in public spaces, and even the very limited Homeless (Lack of) Services Center (which calls itself the Homeless Services Center).\u00a0\u00a0 Various individuals and groups have been encouraging people to gather together in survival camps, set up a non-profit to find private land, engage in protest camping, or, as Brent Adams suggests below, seek to persuade the community to set up community sanctuary campgrounds.\u00a0 Brent has been holding regular meetings and notes he has been working on a video presentation.<\/p>\n

For an example of Brent’s video work, see http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2012\/07\/17\/18717690.php<\/wbr><\/wbr><\/a> .\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Brent is also a victim of malicious political prosecution as one of the last of the Santa Cruz Eleven to still face a possible four years in prison for a peaceful protest involving a three-day occupation of a long-vacant Wells Fargo Bank.<\/p>\n

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I welcome you to this exciting new conversation about homelessness in our community.<\/div>\n
The simplicity of a Sanctuary Camp and what it would mean to its residents and the greater community is easy to understate.<\/div>\n
It is true that we’re proposing a solution so obvious and so low cost that most Homeless Industry<\/div>\n
advocates completely step over it because it doesn’t serve the entrenched bureaucracy.<\/div>\n
No one would argue that homelessness is an easy problem to tackle.<\/div>\n
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There are cities like Santa Cruz all over the country that are wrestling with the very same issues and have<\/div>\n
come up with solutions that work. \u00a0 We’re happy to share those examples and “models” with you.<\/div>\n
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We’d like you to visit our working group and see what we have planned so far and we invite you to contribute yourself<\/div>\n
to a solution that is going to help hundreds if not thousands of people into the future.<\/div>\n
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It has been shown that Sanctuary Camps help people stop the nightly madness of finding a safe warm space to lay down.<\/div>\n
It is a place for them to keep their belongings safe instead of having to manage large bike trailers or backbacks as they move about. \u00a0It helps people regulate their medical and mental health programs. \u00a0It helps people focus on their drug and alcohol addictions.<\/div>\n
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All of the circumstances that create homelessness are exacerbated by the conditions of homelessness.<\/div>\n
This is the greatest feature of a safe sleeping space such as a Sanctuary Camp… \u00a0It gives people a place to BE.<\/div>\n
Most of us take that simple fact of life for granted. \u00a0Just a safe place to be.<\/div>\n
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For a Sanctuary Camp to be successful, we’ll need the support of the community.<\/div>\n
This first phase is our time to have conversations within the community.<\/div>\n
We strive for partnerships with local government, police, churches and community groups.<\/div>\n
We’ll need individual commitments of local citizens to become stake-holders who’ll help us anchor this possibility<\/div>\n
in reality.<\/div>\n
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We’re near completion of a video presentation (work-in-progress will be shown on wednesday).<\/div>\n
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Please join us every Wednesday at 6pm. \u00a0387 Coral St. Santa Cruz. \u00a0(BEHIND BUILDING- Big roll-up door)<\/div>\n
If you have problems finding the space, call 332-9040<\/div>\n
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Sincerely,<\/div>\n
Brent Adams<\/div>\n
Santa Cruz Sanctuary Camp<\/div>\n
https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/santacruzsanctuary<\/wbr><\/a><\/div>\n
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