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DHOL Weekly Updates and Main Meeting 9/21

September 21, 2016 by Jonathan Leave a Comment

SUPPORT DHOL AND OUR HOUSELESS COMMUNITY!
This is the launch of TWO wish lists/fundraisers to help our houseless community! We are collecting survival gear to make sure our community without housing is safe, secure, and comfortable as best as possible, but especially to keep folks warm during the winter. And we are collecting technology gear to more effectively document the sweeps and mistreatment of people without housing, as well as, to strengthen our media capabilities and create a more sustainable and accessible Get Loud Media Platform.
Some of those items include…
Tents, Sleeping Bags, Backpacks…Compact Video Cameras, Memory Cards…
See the full wish list here https://denverhomelessoutloud.org/2016/09/19/support-dhol-and-our-unhoused-community/ and spread the word!
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WRAP Needs your support!
For the past three years WRAP member organizations in California, Colorado and Oregon have fought to get our Homeless Bill of Rights – Right to Rest Act legislation introduced and heard in our respective state legislatures.
We are incredibly proud to announce that in 2017 our bill will be running in all three states simultaneously!! This is truly unprecedented.
A sweeping indictment against enforcement of local laws that clearly are (and historically have) been used to remove “certain” people from local communities. Now more than ever we REALLY need your support!!
https://wraphome.org/2016/09/09/show-pride-support-human-rights/
Rent Control Action September 22!
The People of Colorado are Declaring a Housing State of Emergency: We Demand Rent Control!
Our cities, suburbs, and even rural areas are experiencing a housing crisis. Rent control is illegal on a state-wide level and rising costs are one of the top reasons for displacement and lose of housing.
Residents of communities in Westminster, Aurora, Arvada, Commerce City, Thornton, Denver and more are coming together to demand that the governor and legislators work to overturn the ban on rent control and prioritize anti-displacement strategies. We will be standing in solidarity and partnership with Right to the City’s Homes For All Campaign on this National Day of Action for Renters and Housing. Actions will be taking place in over 40 cities across the nation on this day.
Community members will share their stories during a vigil that will be held in front of the state capitol to commemorate all the families and communities  that have been evicted, displaced, or forced to become homeless during this crisis.
Date: September 22nd
Time: 6:30 PM
Location: We will start at the City and County Building of Denver and end on the steps of the Capitol
Please Join us in this Fight to Take Back Our Cities!
Our Rights on the Block event last Thursday, organized by people living on this block by Samaritan house together with DHOL, brought together about 100 people living outside in this area to learn about the actual laws (as opposed to those named by cops), what is happening with the lawsuit, our rights to film cops, and do some clean up along the block.
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Denver Homeless Out Loud Main Meeting
Join us for our weekly main DHOL meeting this Wednesday 9/21 4:45-7pm
at Our DHOL office space is at 2260 California St Denver CO, 80205! (The cool purple building on Park Avenue and California – shared with Centro Humanitario)
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Working Group Meeting Times
Tiny Homes:
Meets every Tuesday 5pm whole group at the DHOL office
Get Loud:
Meets Tuesdays and Fridays 1pm-3pm at the DHOL office
Homeless Bill of Rights:
Meets every Wednesday at 2:30pm at the DHOL office
Urban Rest Stops:
Next meeting tbd
Contact us at info@denverhomelessoutloud.org or 720-940-5291

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WRAP has the power of collective mobilization whil WRAP has the power of collective mobilization while remaining accountable to the realities of local communities. By bringing together some of the fiercest organizations fighting homelessness, for 21 years WRAP has developed a unique structure that combines documented street outreach, movement building, and national policy work, helping us bridge the local-national divisions that have hindered homeless organizing for the last four decades.
 #HousekeysNotSweeps #HousekeysNotHandcuffs #WeWillNotDisappear
Check out WRAP sweeps handout to learn the truth d Check out WRAP sweeps handout to learn the truth directly from the streets on the impact of sweeps! 

WRAP members continue to fight sweeps in their communities through utilizing documented street outreach to dispel stereotypes on what a “sweep” actually is. 

Sweeps fracture communities, displace people, & damage physical and mental health. 

When asked, what alternatives/services were people offered? 88% were not offered any services and 74% had all of their belongings thrown away at the sweep. Sweeps are not a solution to addressing homelessness but rather another phase in the cycle of homelessness! 

This handout is available for use! Go to bit.ly/wrapsweepszine to download. 
Learn more and connect with the nearest WRAP member and join the fight against sweeps! 

All members are tagged in the post and the list can be found on our link tree. List below:

 @coalitiononhomelessness
 @housekeysactionnetworkdenver
 @humanrighttohousingcollective
 @judismidnightdiner
 @lacanetwork_official
 @loveandjusticeinthestreets
 @unumissoula
 @streetspiritnews
Check out WRAP sweeps handout to learn the truth d Check out WRAP sweeps handout to learn the truth directly from the streets on the impact of sweeps! 

WRAP members continue to fight sweeps in their communities through utilizing documented street outreach to dispel stereotypes on what a “sweep” actually is. 

Sweeps fracture communities, displace people, & damage physical and mental health. 

When asked, what alternatives/services were people offered? 88% were not offered any services and 74% had all of their belongings thrown away at the sweep. Sweeps are not a solution to addressing homelessness but rather another phase in the cycle of homelessness! 

This handout is available for use! Go to bit.ly/wrapsweepszine to download. 
Learn more and connect with the nearest WRAP member and join the fight against sweeps! 

All members are tagged in the post and the list can be found on our link tree. List below:

 @coalitiononhomelessness
 @housekeysactionnetworkdenver
 @humanrighttohousingcollective
 @judismidnightdiner
 @lacanetwork_official
 @loveandjusticeinthestreets
 @unumissoula
 @streetspiritnews
Sweeps are a way to push people further into the m Sweeps are a way to push people further into the margins of society and out of the public eye. They are a sham response to a manufactured issue. Sweeps will never solve homelessness, instead they play into the vicious cycle of homelessness. 

Organizers keep fighting back! Our outreach to the community tells us the trends of criminalization, dehumanization, & a gap in actually moving towards viable solutions are on full display. 

Criminalization of poor and unhoused people will continue to expand so long as the reins on America’s neoliberal approach to fiscal and social policy remain untethered. 

We must seek the commonalities between our communities in order to thread the power of our organizing together! 

*Note: This is an abridged version of the full article which can be found on our blog at bit.ly/fightsweeps 

Continue to support the work of WRAP members. All members are tagged in the post and the list can be found on our link tree. List below: 

@coalitiononhomelessness
@housekeysactionnetworkdenver
@humanrighttohousingcollective
@judismidnightdiner
@lacanetwork_official
@loveandjusticeinthestreets
@unumissoula
@streetspiritnews

Donate to WRAP to support our work! Donation link can be found in our link tree!
For 21 years, we’ve worked alongside @lacanetwork_ For 21 years, we’ve worked alongside @lacanetwork_official and other local groups, with community outreach guiding all our campaigns. 

The #Right2Rest Bill was introduced in Colorado, Oregon, and California, and WRAP member groups in all three states built it together from the same outreach to our collective community. 

It lost nine times across those states. 

The point was never just the bill. The point was the movement behind it. #HousekeysNotSweeps #HousekeysNotHandcuffs #WeWillNotDisappear
As part of our 21st Anniversary Celebration, we ho As part of our 21st Anniversary Celebration, we hosted an IG Live conversation between Paul and General Dogon with @lacanetwork_official about why WRAP was created: the idea of building a broader network of community organizations down for the serious fight for dignity and respect for our communities. 

We know that our job as organizers is to connect accountable organizations and build power collectively, because that makes us all stronger, it makes us all smarter, and it gives us more skills. #WRAP21 #HousekeysNotSweeps #HousekeysNotHandcuffs
The systems are doing what they were built to do: The systems are doing what they were built to do: displace people, criminalize poverty, protect profit. WRAP + our members organize and fight for dignity and respect.

Every one of us has a role right now; If you have resources, you make space for the folks with time, skills, & energy to work that magic. Every dollar keeps us moving.

$21, $210, or $2,100...it all keeps WRAP + members in sync. Link in bio!
Every day we witness the criminalization of povert Every day we witness the criminalization of poverty and homelessness where local governments across the country unleash the force of the State against people forced to live in public space. Blaming unhoused people for the fact homelessness exists while they continue to ignore the devastation of public and affordable housing program for people.

Read our post to understand what sweeps are and how they’re used in the cycle of homelessness! #StopTheSweeps
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✨Help us raise $2,100 by the end of today! 
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We want everyone to keep celebrating with us by building, strengthening, & broadening the movement to end the criminalization of poverty & homelessness! 

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