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It’s about time again…open and active weekly PEOPLE PROJECT meetings!
PEOPLE PROJECT met consistently for about 3 yrs in Arcata, but will start back up at this time in Eureka. It would be great to hear from you about what times and days you like for such gatherings/meetings.
For now, meetings will be Tuesdays at 1:30 pm [...]

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Update: Sacramento police arrest 17 at ’safe ground’ homeless camp
By Li Lou and Cynthia Hubert
llou@sacbee.com
Published: Friday, Sep. 4, 2009 – 9:05 am
Last Modified: Friday, Sep. 4, 2009 – 1:34 pm
Sacramento police arrested 17 homeless residents at their “safe ground” campsite this morning, including one advocate for the homeless.
Rev. David Moss, a Methodist Minister, [...]

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Poor Peoples’ March for Human Rights
Saturday, September 12, 2009

March For Safe Shelter, Healthy Food, HealthCare, and Dignity FOR ALL!!

March begins at 14th and Summer (near Food for People)
and ends at Highland Park (Fairfield/Glen and Highland Avenue)
March starts at 10:00am
then….
Speak-Out Celebration with food and music at NOON! at Highland Park
For more info contact:
People for a Human [...]

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HOMELESS TENT CITY!
One Hundred Homeless and Allies
Grilling Food, Playing Music, Taking Back The Land
115TH AND MADISON AVENUE
COME SHOW YOUR SUPPORT!
Bring food, hang out, share company…
At 11am EST, July 23 Picture The Homeless and allies installed a tent city
in a vacant bank-owned lot at 115th and Madison Ave. 100 people are in the
lot, enjoying corn, beans, [...]

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Safe Haven: rest for the weary
Posted in CULTURE by Heather Dillon on Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 6:00 am

For years, homeless people have been camping in vacant lots, by the railroad tracks, and in other spots around Champaign. Now, some of those people have decided to band together in community.
Although the idea of a tent [...]

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Schwarzenegger To Provide Government Camps For Homeless
Shut down and takeover of “tent cities” stokes fears of internment pretext
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Plans to shut down tent cities in California and relocate homeless people to government-run facilities have stoked fears that the move could be a pretext for a wider internment of Americans [...]

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Reno Dismantles Makeshift Homeless Encampment
By Jeff DeLong • jdelong@rgj.com • January 10, 2009
Crews on Friday dismantled a makeshift encampment set up outside
Reno’s homeless shelter on Record Street, leading to complaints by
some living there that they now have no place to go.
Beginning about 8 a.m., city workers removed tents, sleeping bags,
tarps, slabs of cardboard and other [...]

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This is about the lawsuit brought by 5 PEOPLE PROJECT folks.
If you want to skip the story before the interview, go to 10 minutes, 13 seconds.
KMUD radio, Sept 22, 2008

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Here is the full COMPLAINT, originally filed on June 6, 2008 (amended May 13, 2009), in Federal Court, San Francisco.
LAYWERS NEEDED to assist the pro se plaintiffs!
Most recent press release at top of the page
Humboldt County DA Sued by Homeless Camp Participants
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Humboldt County DA Sued by Homeless Camp Participants
On May [...]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Squiggy Rubio 707-3621486
POWER FROM THE STREETS! Culmination of PEOPLE PROJECT Human Rights Action
Arcata, California – PEOPLE PROJECT announces the culmination of their protest encampment beginning Wednesday morning with the completion of the encampment, a rally (listen to rally) and march that Wednesday afternoon, and a press conference on Thursday.
Wednesday’s rally and march, [...]

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