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There has been no response. From: Peoples’ Action for Rights and Community Date: Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 3:05 PM Subject: Message to Dan Ice, Exec Director of Eureka Rescue Mission: November 30, 2010 To: erm.director@sbcglobal.net Greetings, My name is Verbena Lea, and I am the Executive Director of PARC [Peoples' Action for Rights and [...]

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It’s Crazy To Criminalize Homelessness Posted on December 19, 2010 by WRAP Comms WRAP has been documenting the increases of mentally ill people in local jails as a result of diminished funding for mental health treatment and housing, escalation of “nuisance crime” enforcement by police and private security, and expansion of mental health courts. The [...]

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A December 7, 2010 interview with Paul Boden, organizer with WRAP, the Western Regional Advocacy Project, about San Francisco’s Sit-Lie ordinance, & other policies across the country that criminalize the homeless and the poor. Listen to the Interview HERE National Radio Project: Productions, Distribution, Training, Community Collaborationshttp://www.radioproject.org/2010/12/paul-boden-on-sfs-sitlie-ordinance-and-the-criminalization-of-the-homelessness/

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The “soup wars” continue… If you don’t buy it, if you don’t sell it- you’re a criminal. And not everybody who eats free food is homeless. The State just wants to make sure people who are really hungry and don’t have money, can’t eat. In PEOPLE PROJECT, we say “This ain’t charity, it’s survival!” We [...]

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Sidewalks Are For The People Posted on December 19, 2010 by WRAP Comms In 2009, cops in San Francisco cited homeless people 2600 times just for being asleep That’s almost as many arrests as for all violent crimes combined. And yet late that year, the most cynical of the city’s politicians determined that what was [...]

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Did you know That the Eureka Rescue Mission… prohibits gay people from being there? Did you know that the Mission sends out spies to watch what people do when they are not at the Mission, and kicks them out if found, for instance, smoking pot? Did you know that even after Martin Cotton was beat [...]

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by Robert Norse Wednesday Dec 15th, 2010 http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/12/15/18666771.php VIDEO of Robert Norse “Nazi Salute”: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2… Today the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals granted me a new trial against the City for its actions in harassing, excluding, and arresting me for making a mock-Nazi salute at a March 2002 City Council meeting after the Mayor had [...]

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The 3 PM rally in support of the right to sleep movement was well attended. At least 100 people showed up and mingled and conversed in the plaza. (the consensus is that for every one that shows, ten more are quietly in support behind the scenes) City Council member Eric Navickas obtained a permit for [...]

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Posted on Thu, Nov. 18, 2010 By DANA DiFILIPPO Philadelphia Daily News difilid@phillynews.com 215-854-5934 THE FORECLOSURE notices have piled up, and collection agents call weekly. http://www.philly.com/dailynews/multimedia/BC679067330001.html Esther “Moya” Smith fears it won’t be long before the bank changes the locks and boots her from the redbrick rowhouse in Olney where her mother moved the brood [...]

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Reno to Order Homeless Squatters Off Streets The Reno City Council is moving to expand its ordinance keeping the homeless from sitting or sleeping on city streets. Posted: 9:44 PM Nov 17, 2010 Reporter: Ed Pearce Their address for the moment is could be any street corner near the downtown. Their home for the night [...]

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