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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. September 18, 2018. UC Berkeley Report Release Homeless Exclusion Districts

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 18, 2018 What: UC Berkeley Report Release Where: 10:30am @ San Francisco City Hall. 1 Carlton B Goodlett Pl, San Francisco, CA Where: 12:00pm @ 5th and Spring St. Downtown Los Angeles, CA Where: 12:00pm @…

WRAP 2018 Plan of Work

Engage in a movement to end local governments’ abilities to create and enforce discriminatory laws by overturning laws aimed at removing poor and homeless people from public space. Fight for the Homeless Bill of Rights (HBR) Campaign in California, Colorado…

Join us Friday, July 21st – 4 pm San Francisco Civic Center

Defend Our Housing, Our Right to Exist in Our Communities & Oppose Trump’s Racist Wall Join us Friday, July 21st – 4 pm San Francisco Civic Center Homeless People’s Popular Assembly, Music by Brass Liberation Orchestra, Artwork by Poster Syndicate…

Unhoused people silenced by Oregon legislature

In an unprecedented act of disrespect, the Right To Rest Act HB – 215 will not get a chance for a hearing in Oregon this year. In spite of an unprecedented seven co-sponsors, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Representative…

WRAP Newsletter: Members kicking it! An Update on California , Colorado & Oregon !!!!

WRAP Members kicking it! In this issue: Colorado Right to Rest HB 17-1314 gets a Hearing Date , Oregon Committee chair refusing to schedule hearing for Right To Rest Act (HB 2215) , California SB 310 – the Name and …

WRAP Newsletter Take Action: California and Oregon Bills need your support!

California and Oregon Bills need your support! …

Business Interests Hold Sway on Cities’ Homeless Policies Commercial-property owners work with local officials to create and enforce new laws aimed at homeless

As U.S. cities struggle to address rising homelessness, they increasingly are turning to policies pushed by commercial-property owners that ban people from sitting or sleeping on sidewalks and begging for money. Business improvement districts—groups of commercial property owners who pool…

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Some downtown Berkeley ambassadors now have batons, pepper spray

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The new ambassadors will de-escalate criminal activity, assist with police arrests and act as a buffer for smaller crimes in downtown.

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The BIDs in los angeles are scum, are a scourge. Fight them lest they become permanent.

The S.F. Lower Polk Neighborhood and the West SOMA are models of being out there to clean but not assisting 'Sweeps", with other programs for the local businesses, and to be resource & referral/check-in, for folks who're homeless. This model however, is entirely determined by the people who happen to be on the board, and whom they hire and then monitor to be sure. Christian Martin, who ran the LPN CBD and is now in West SOMA is really good at being on our side, but get a different personality, get a totally different agenda.

It's also distasteful in the extreme how they hire stooges to do the dirty work.