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If you're in the Santa Monica area, please come and give your support to the following. This is a long term action expected to last months.
------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 20:19:02 +0000 From: JENNAFER WAGGONER <refugee@gte.net> Organization: MAKING CHANGE Subject: (LA@) SM CA Protest
Side by Side, a community partnership and Homes Not Jails, Food Not Bombs
For Immediate Release-May 7, 1998
Housing Emergency in Santa Monica Spreads Santa Monica... Home of the Greedy Developers Home of the Sold Out City Council
Sleeping bag toting, banner waving Santa Monica homeless people will be converging on the lawn of:
Santa Monica City Hall 1685 Main Street at 3 p.m on Friday, May 8
-for a long-term sleep-in to demand immediate action from the City Council.
This protest joins Homeless People in San Diego who have led the way with a two month occupation of San Diego City Hall highlighting the disasterous effects cold-wet weather shelter closures have made upon homeless people across Southern California.
We demand that each City Council member today make a firm and public pledge; that there will be no loss of affordable housing and make a statement that no woman or senior will have to be evicted onto the streets from their Section 8 apartments. Activists, homeless, housed and vulnerably housed will be staging the sleep-in as long as it takes, until that announcement is made and when the City provides an emergency increase in housing for the homeless.
Contact: Jennafer Waggoner: (310) 289-7446 David Busch: (310) 358-5916
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Side by Side, a community partnership and Homes Not Jails, Food Not Bombs
News Advisory For Immediate Release-May 7, 1998
Housing Emergency in Santa Monica Spreads Santa Monica... Home of the Greedy Developers Home of the Sold Out City Council
Home of the homeless or Home of the Heartless? Sleeping bag toting, banner waving Santa Monica homeless people will be converging on the lawn of Santa Monica City Hall 1685 Main Street at 3 p.m on Friday, May 8 for a long-term sleep-in to demand immediate action from the City Council. Santa Monica has dropped their Section 8 commitment. Santa Monica Police Officers have said, "if you don't have a house, you don't have an emergency." In Santa Monica the housed are heading for the streets. The activists are asking for immediate action for the Section 8 housing crisis and the homeless crisis of no-emergency shelter beds available during the torrential unpredictable rain downpours. This protest joins Homeless People in San Diego who have led the way with a two month occupation of San Diego City Hall highlighting the disasterous
effects cold-wet weather shelter closures have made upon homeless people
across Southern California.
California Costa-Hawkins Rent De-Control and the dissolve of Section 8 programs has increased the disaster expotentially in areas like Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Berkeley, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Sacramento, San Diego and Eureka. This last week since the closing of the emergency
rain shelter and the continuity of catastrophic rains has shown this City's Anti Poor Cadre and their silent conspiracy of criminal neglect as glaring human rights abuses.
Santa Monica City Officials have complained that their biggest fear in the last few years is that droves of homeless people would invade their city, yet the truth is that residents of Santa Monica will wake up tommorrow in fear of (not homeless people) but of Mega-Developers who are tossing poor people aside for their new Beverly Hills by the sea.
We demand that each City Council member today make a firm and public pledge; that there will be no loss of affordable housing and make a statement that no woman or senior will have to be evicted onto the streets from their Section 8 apartments. Activists, homeless, housed and vulnerably housed will be staging the sleep-in as long as it takes, until that announcement is made and when the City provides an emergency increase in housing for the homeless. Our hope is that the City Council
doesn't now pre-empt Senior Citizens in defense of their Section 8 Housing for endless discussions on dog parks; as they have done to kill actions for emergency homeless housing in the past six months.
Contact: Jennafer Waggoner: (310) 289-7446 David Busch: (310) 358-5916
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Aho Mitakuye Oyasin For All of my Relatives,
Jennafer Waggoner Editor Making Change... a community human rights newspaper empowering the poor and unhoused with an income and a voice. P.O. Box 3622, Santa Monica, CA 90408 (310) 289-7446 refugee@gte.net
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