Community focus must shift from the prefabricated public-excluded City Council meetings to direct action and legal support to defend the many survival encampments (Meyersvilles) that have sprunt up around Santa Cruz as emergency housing. The massive street protests of last summer tore down Chief Mills fences against Food Not Bombs and the Cooper encampment next to the Post Office. But recent attempts to rouse the righteous have failed to contest the mass camp evictions of June 4th and June 21st along Highway 1.
Still, I believe it is only through such massive direct actions that there can be real changes in abusive police policy--which must begin with massive budget cuts from a violent, secretive and inbred police department to broader community-based outreach system . Story continues at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/06/21/18843369.php .
See also "Defend the Survival Camps: June 29th Rally" at https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2021/06/21/combined_stop_the_sweeps_flyer_6-21-20.pdf .
Community focus must shift from the prefabricated public-excluded City Council meetings to direct action and legal support to defend the many survival encampments (Meyersvilles) that have sprunt up around Santa Cruz as emergency housing. The massive street protests of last summer tore down Chief Mills fences against Food Not Bombs and the Cooper encampment next to the Post Office. But recent attempts to rouse the righteous have failed to contest the mass camp evictions of June 4th and June 21st along Highway 1.
Still, I believe it is only through such massive direct actions that there can be real changes in abusive police policy--which must begin with massive budget cuts from a violent, secretive and inbred police department to broader community-based outreach system . Story continues at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/06/21/18843369.php .
See also "Defend the Survival Camps: June 29th Rally" at https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2021/06/21/combined_stop_the_sweeps_flyer_6-21-20.pdf .
