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Gerardo Gomez

Gerardo Gomez & Paul Boden

I met Paul when I was elected to the Board of Directors at the National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) when I was 20 years old.

I was with Paul at the board meeting when he suggested to have regional offices with NCH. WRAP was born from this proposal/idea.

I got more connected to WRAP through their close work with L.A. CAN in the beginning stages of WRAP and eventually became a board member. I’m proud to be a board member of WRAP.

WRAP plays a vital role (in needed change) in that they are a grassroots organization that addresses the issue from its roots. They are the only org out there that came out with a thorough report, WITHOUT HOUSING, that documents the rise of homelessness due to a lack of affordable housing building that dates back to the 70s. WRAP has spearheaded the Homeless Bill of Rights movement, the need to document the criminalization of the unhoused even in “progressive” cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles. WRAP has done the work that no non profit helping the Homeless wants to do or ignores just to maintain their relationship with the status quo.

WRAP has placed itself as a radical organization in the larger context of people’s movements. It’s unique outreach and guerilla art plays an important role to reach out to other movements to join forces with WRAP and move forward on creating a world without homelessness.

Congratulations Paul on 40 years of this amazing heartfelt work. I’ve had the privilege and honor of joining you in this work for 25 years. You are someone I am blessed to call a friend, a brother, a mentor, a visionary and overall one of the most amazing individuals I have been blessed to meet in my life. Thank you for inspiring me and many others. LOVE YOU BROTHER!

Gerardo Gomez serves on WRAP’s Board of Directors and has been doing organizing work for 25 years. He lives in LA. In college, he co-founded a service club that brought students directly to San Francisco and Berkeley and had them interact with the unhoused by providing them with hygiene kits and clothing. During his senior year, he was asked to be on the board for the National Coalition for the Homeless. In 2004, while living in Chile as a Jesuit Volunteer, he organized the 1st Homeless Candlelight Vigil in all of Chile. He has documented the Homeless World Cup in Brazil, Chile, Mexico City and Norway and written about it for the Community Connection (L.A. CAN’s street newspaper). He has been connected to WRAP and L.A. CAN since 2005. He organized Dodger baseball games as fundraisers for L.A. CAN’s Rooftop Community Garden and in September 2022 for WRAP.

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WRAP is hiring a full-time Development Director with at least 2 years of non-profit fundraising management experience. WRAP supports our core members, allies, and others by providing organizing tools and research for each to use in their campaigns fighting the criminalization of houselessness and for affordable housing. We are helping to build a regional /national movement �together and strengthen �connections of WRAP’s priorities with broader anti- racism, classism, neo-liberal capitalism, and criminalization campaigns.
Register here tinyurl.com/Mumia-film for Thursday Register here tinyurl.com/Mumia-film for Thursday night’s online screening of this moving, informative, personal, important, and artfully-made film. Cast includes Cornel West, Angela Davis, Dick Gregory, Alice Walker, Ruben ‘Hurricane’ Carter, and Amy Goodman.
Forty years ago, the federal government slashed af Forty years ago, the federal government slashed affordable housing budgets of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), marking the beginning of the contemporary crisis of homelessness. https://conta.cc/3k4mDpA
Theatre of the POOR presents CRUSHING WHEELCHAIRS Theatre of the POOR presents CRUSHING WHEELCHAIRS 
Sunday 2/12/23 4pm San Francisco 2948 16th St.
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One of the questions we asked people we love about One of the questions we asked people we love about this continuing forty-year process of addressing the root causes of homelessness in America was recognizing that our comrade Paul has also been fighting this neoliberal bullshit for forty years. In earlier emails people spoke about the importance of WRAP. Here is what some of our friends had to say about Paul’s role over the last forty years. https://conta.cc/3vbUnUx
Next Thursday, the 22nd, at 11am we are having a p Next Thursday, the 22nd, at 11am we are having a press conference as the preliminary hearings begin and need all our allies to show up and call for justice! https://conta.cc/3FyNtgH
A lot of work done addressing oppressions across t A lot of work done addressing oppressions across the country takes place in courtrooms and legislative bodies. This work is not always successful due to the fact that the oppressors are the ones making the laws. But we know you can’t fight a system if you don’t know the ins and outs of how that system works.  https://conta.cc/3VQrVDl
Join the next Public Works Committee Meeting to re Join the next Public Works Committee Meeting to reject the “safe work zone” ordinance that aims to further criminalize unhoused people and their advocates during sweeps.
Monday, 12/12 at 10:30am
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Let's Celebrate Chucho Let's Celebrate Chucho
We are raising $40,000 for WRAP’s vital work at We are raising $40,000 for WRAP’s vital work at this 40-year mark, and all donations will be matched up to $20,000 in November and December! Contribute $40, $400, $4,000 to help make sure that mass homelessness is not around another 40 years. https://conta.cc/3VAWHQ8
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