OCCUPY SANTA CRUZ has decided to begin a campaign to begin addressing the illegality of homelessness in Santa Cruz.
Among some of the steps in the future, we’ll be filing an Injunction to try to get the City to stop trashing personal property.
We’ll be talking about gathering complaints for a Class Action Law Suit of folks who’ve had their stuff confiscated and trashed
while they camped. Eventually we’ll be petitioning the City and County to have them relax enforcement of these terrible laws.
Then out there in the future, we’ll be co-creating a sanctuary camp and eventually a complete removal of these laws all together.
This all will take our collective effort. Sure there are national issues that need to be addressed but to ignore the lawlessness
and lack of human dignity that is happening in our own backyard is compassionless. We’ve decided to do something about it.
Our first step is to respond immediately to the +300 camping citations issued in the past 2 months and the nearly 150 camps destroyed.
We’re hosting a Candlelight Tent Vigil and inviting the community to join us. This will take a concerted effort and I ask that all in the
OSC media group to help with this.
We need fliers/posters distributed throughout the area. Please post the event to your facebook wall and to your other groups.
Please come to the event and bring your friends.
This is a community response to show our sadness and outrage at what the city has been doing.
Here are a few links including the event postings, fliers and posters.
Brent
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I deeply hope that together, we can exceed the sum of our parts. I hope that we will see each other as allies in our shared advocacy work. I hope that all of us will make room for other people, their ideas, their different forms of motivation, strategic aims, and tactical solutions.
Let 100 flowers bloom.–Mao
As a leaderless movement, one “slogan” (for lack of a better term) that has resonated with me has been “Speak to us, not for us”.
When I hear others speaking for me, then I conclude they do not value my voice or experience worth consideration.