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01.14.21

Denver, CO. SWEEPS update week of Jan 11-15, 2021

This week the City of Denver conducted two SWEEPS (traumatic displacements of residents). Tuesday January 12th the City SWEPT approximately 15 residents from 600 S. Cherokee near Santa Fe and Iowa. Here is a picture of a perfectly good Vespa being trashed by city workers.

At W. Wesley and Galapago near Santa Fe the City […]

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01.11.21

Denver, CO. SWEEPS This Week 1/12+1/13

W. Wesley and Galapago near Santa Fe is scheduled for a sweep on Wednesday January 13th. Watch below

 

TWO sweeps are scheduled for next week.

1600 S. Cherokee near Santa Fe and Iowa is scheduled for Tuesday, January 12th.
W. Wesley and Galapago near Santa Fe is scheduled for a sweep on Wednesday January 13th. […]

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01.11.21

Novato, CA. Violent Attacks on Unhoused People in Novato Spur Camp-In Protest at City Hall Today

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Novato CA – A week after a person was caught on camera slashing tents in a Novato homeless encampment, unhoused community members and supporting activists are camping outside of Novato City Hall and displaying 6 slashed tents that were destroyed at Camp Ambition. 

Police are refusing to […]

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01.7.21

Denver, CO. SWEEPS update

Yesterday morning, once again, our city’s DDPHE, DOTI, EHS, DFD, and DPD were out traumatically displacing our unhoused community members. Fencing went up YESTERDAY around 4:30pm. Approximately 20 Denver residents were traumatically displaced by the very people charged with serving and protecting them.

This morning at 11th and Acoma fencing went up at 5am. Approximately […]

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WRAP is leading a national campaign to Stop the Sweeps evictions of unhoused people. Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) are a driving force behind sweeps. | Translocal action research to Stop the Sweeps » Radical Housing Journal via @Radical_Housing

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This Update reports on ongoing action research spearheaded by the Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP), a US coa...

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Joe Biden was sworn in on Wednesday as the 46th president of the United States, capping a winding political career and marking the beginning of a new administration.

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Biden sworn in as nation's 46th president

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"There aren't a lot of places in the city and this does provide a certain amount of shelter and structure that could keep people warm in a camping environment." |Ashland Mayor throws support behind housing initiative led by local activist group https://ktvl.com/news/local/ashland-mayor-throws-support-behind-housing-initiative-led-by-local-activist-group

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If you don't want people sleeping outside give them a place to live. Give them a place with a door that locks and a roof over their head." | Homeless People, Advocates Set Up Protest Camp In Downtown Ashland

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Homeless People, Advocates Set Up Protest Camp In Downtown Ashland

A small group of homeless people and advocates is camping in a little-used parking structure near the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in downtown Ashland.

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