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Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Dateline Santa Cruz California: Alleged 'Founder' Of Reactionary Anti-Homeless Group Claims Fundraising Lead In City Council Elections
Just taking liberties with AP copy as local headlines read Pamela Comstock for Santa Cruz City Council has raised the most money ($32,000) in the local council race. Pamela Comstock has claimed to be the "Founder" of the reactionary and Fascist homeless harassment group called "Take Back Santa Cruz" although their history shows a seamier origin with a gent who had been convicted of bank fraud.:"Bakunin had little time for Marx’s disdain for the peasantry and the lumpenproletariat of the urban slums. Marx, for all his insight into the self-destructive machine of unfettered capitalism, viewed the poor as counterrevolutionaries, those least capable of revolutionary action.
Bakunin, however, saw in the “uncivilized, disinherited, and illiterate” a pool of revolutionists who would join the working class and turn on the elites who profited from their misery and enslavement.
Bakunin proved to be the more prophetic. (source)
It's all good... I'm all up to:
See:
ACLU Presentation Sept 26 2012 - Human Rights & The Homeless In Santa Cruz California
I am here speaking to you this evening because I believe the actions taken by local elected officials after an attempt to perception manage the citizens of the city and county using a deranged murderer as an 'example' of their displaced people intrinsically violates US citizens' civil rights and indeed constitutes, as a whole, as a 'campaign', of Human Rights Violations including malicious and illegitimate law enforcement, endangering the homeless further by provoking potentially violent reactionary elements of the community, and leaving the homeless without the belief they can create secure shelter for themselves... Soon to be a necessity due to the county's absolute inability to house even ten percent of their homeless at the Emergency Shelter at DeLaveaga Park on any given night of the upcoming winter.
I want to know what the ACLU intends to do about this.
What I would like to see as an end result of the ACLU's court action is a state or federal investigation into Santa Cruz law enforcement practices as they affect their homeless citizens and a "Jones"-like decision including strict oversight of the city and county's policies towards that segment of it's citizenry until it has been discerned that justice, as practiced in regard to the homeless of the area is in line with law enforcement policies as practiced in regard to their housed population.
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
Enquiring Minds: Why are there so many homeless working class and working poor people in Santa Cruz California?
"The more than 20 lots on Atkinson, and more in the surrounding neighborhood, that are identified as sites for high-density housing in the Housing Element are all located within the city boundaries.But HEY! At least Watsonville California created a housing plan, unlike the city of Santa Cruz, who have not done so since 'redevelopment' after the 1989 earthquake, and then proceeded to criminalize the victims of their own violation of state law by making an ongoing series of nuisance ordinances and selectively enforce them.
Furthermore, Assistant City Manager Marcela Tavantzis and her assistant Bradley Owen said the Housing Element was only a plan, and while the city must plan for the construction of 923 units, it did not have to build them.
“It’s not a commitment to build housing, it’s a commitment to identify where we could build housing if somebody wants do it,” [src]
For instance, Personally witnessed... continual citing of the homeless for camping (meaning simply intending to, or looking like, you're going to lay down to sleep), while allowing movie theater patrons downtown to roll out their bedding and literally sleep on the sidewalk and doorway of the theater until ten in the morning the next day while waiting for the premiere of the most recent Harry Potter movie.
Camping 'exposed to public view' is illegal, even on your own property in the city of Santa Cruz.
When I flagged a police officer down over it, he simply told me with sarcasm in his voice: I'm VERY busy right now...( from behind his 'Black Fly' sunglasses, as the electric window went up and he slowly rolled away)
In 2006, The Santa Cruz Metro ran the following article on the county's involvement in what is, at it's most basic definition, REDLINING, while the people who live and work here scrambled for a decent place to live (and the people who commute over the hill could easily afford the rent).
California Rural Legal Aid, the housing lawyers for the underclass of California had finally, after more than a decade, brought the county to 'justice'.
Santa Cruz MetroBut it's NOT over...
Columns
December 20-27, 2006
Nu-z: Santa Cruz County News Briefs
30 Acres and a Duel
If a town or county's General Plan is its local constitution, then its Housing Element may well be its Bill of Rights.
Other general plan sections describe how local traffic flows, or what facilities will serve the residents. But the housing element details a far more basic matter: who will be able to live there.
And for that reason a number of states, including California, require all local governments to turn in housing plans every few years. Plans that detail who lives there, how well they're housed, what stands in the way of housing people well and what the locality intends to do about it.
Note the first part: "who lives there." Not every community must house every possible person.
Monte Sereno, perhaps lacking farmworkers, might not need farmworker housing; Watsonville might not need to zone for megamansions. But those who are present must be adequately housed, and localities must prove it.
That's state law--a law that Santa Cruz county government has failed to follow since 1994, and in that failure, lost not only state approval for its housing element, but the chance to grab some $3 million to $4 million in housing funds, as well as disaster relief funds, every year since, as only those with certified housing elements qualify for the big bucks... [In Full]
The city of Santa Cruz planned for, and allowed building permits for, hundreds of over-priced 'luxury condos' (some with no hot tub and one parking place... ROTFL!) which, in the end, after the computer industry quasi-affluent 'wave' rolled out, were allowed to become dormitories for UCSC students (The same has happened to the two largest SRO hotels downtown as well) when it became painfully clear that no one was going to lease them and the developers threatened to sue.
Santa Cruz is not building any more of that petit-elite tickytacky now... One that was started just as the mortgage market was crashing has ended up a blighted hole-in-the-ground at the top of downtown's main street, Pacific Avenue, where a nice cobblestone plaza with small shops at it perimeter once stood (occupied)... and there's STILL no housing for the people who work and live here, and no plan for it, despite the loss of millions of dollars in federal funds, and in ongoing violation of state law.
Criminal
Fiduciary
Negligence
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