Dinner is shared on site at 4pm.
The war on the poor takes many forms. PEOPLE PROJECT understands that all wars are wars against the poor, the Earth, and the defenseless. The war on the poor includes lack of affordable housing, lack of access to healthcare, abuse of millions of animals in factory farms, slaughterhouses and labs, and heavy military recruitment of youth for global wars on the poor. The war on the poor includes state violence against refugees and houseless people, corporate exploitation of working people, lack of decent jobs, and the injustice of the prison industrial complex. A main focus for PEOPLE PROJECT is to stop the criminalization of houseless people. Please join us to speak out and build strength to END THE WAR ON THE POOR, however you experience it.
All photos but the last one were taken by Mark Deneen.
Do you know what to do if you’re stopped by the police? Do your children? Are you tired of your rights being violated? This workshop focuses on the law “on the street” — what your rights are and how cops try to trick you out of them. We want to share strategies to ‘survive’ police encounters.
San Francisco (Jan 19-20) En Masse for HUMAN RIGHTS!
If you are interested in going to SanFran for the gathering, party, and action- and you live north of the city- please call PARC [Peoples’ Action for Rights and Community] so we can arrange carpools and/or chartered bus rides. Some of us will be traveling, hopefully with folks from Oregon, for this important gathering and strong rally. It’s exciting to know that people will be joining together from up and down the West Coast. Please consider bringing your energy and your voice! Pass on the word- January 19th and 20th!!
PARC’s number is (707) 442-7465. PEOPLE PROJECT USES THIS PHONE NUMBER.
Check out the WRAP website (links below).
WRAP [Western Regional Advocacy Project/http://www.wraphome.org/index.php/home] invites you to join thousands of people coming to San Francisco to demand that the federal government end the national disgrace of mass homelessness with HOUSE KEYS, NOT HANDCUFFS!
The festivities will begin the night of January 19th at 7 pm at the Sub-Mission Art Space located at 2183 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA.
featuring the scorching rhythms of Grammy-nominated Fito Reinoso and Ritmo y Armonia!
The next day we will rally at 12 pm and then march to the new Federal Building to present our housing and civil rights demands to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. We will finish at Civic Center with food and music.
A detailed schedule of events will be sent shortly.
1) Immediately restore All Federal Government affordable housing program funding to comparable 1978 allocation levels. With an emphasis on HUD’s Public Housing and Project-based Sect 8, USDA new unit construction, and the National Housing Trust Fund program.
2) Enact a moratorium on the demolition, conversion or destruction of ANY publicly funded units until federal law guarantees one for one replacement at existing affordability rates.
3) Ensure adequate funding for operations of public housing to prevent unit loss, high vacancy rates, and substandard living conditions.
1) Stop police and business improvement zone programs that enforce “nuisance” or “quality of life” crimes. These programs criminalize and remove homeless, poor, people of color, and disabled members of our communities.
2) Call for DOJ to respond to LA community request for investigation of discriminatory police enforcement under the Safer Cities Initiative that targets homeless, poor, people of color and disabled community residents.
3) Ensure that the more than 914,000 homeless children in our public schools are able to stay at their “home school,” are fully integrated with their housed peers, and are provided the support they need to learn and thrive.
4) Stop any and all questions regarding a person’s immigration status when they are requesting housing, health care, emergency shelter or services.