Hey Everbody!

WRAP member groups from Portland, Los Angeles, Oakland, Denver, Berkeley, Sacramento, and San Francisco met up on July 22 to brainstorm the next phase of our Homeless Bill of Rights Campaign, and we also celebrated the unveiling of our new mural in the famous Clarion Alley in San Francisco’s Mission District. We’re going to have an eventful rest of the year as we ramp up our organizing, and we hope you join us!

Currently display at San Francisco Clarion Alley - California.

As a symbol of community organizing, the mural’s main figure is a woman who holds house keys and handcuffs in opposite hands, offering a choice to the viewer and society: we can support inequality and repression or we can fight for affordable housing and social justice. The woman looks to the future with a baby slung from her shoulders while masses of protestors move from the streets into her body. The woman's arms reach across two sides of the mural, one half in today's violent reality and the other in the future we want to build. Support WRAP in moving communities into this future — even $10 will help!

Artwork like this is a major part of WRAP’s organizing as organizing in itself, with great potential to shift power and put homelessness and poverty into vivid perspective. Since 2005, WRAP member groups across the West Coast have worked to eliminate the root causes of homelessness and poverty, protect human rights, and restore federal funding for affordable housing.

Some early moments in painting. Michelle Williams and Art Hazelwood

Criminalization and discriminatory policy against homeless people are reaching peak levels, and WRAP’s work in demanding justice and equality is more necessary than ever. We’ve been hard at work to lay the foundation for more focused statewide organizing campaigns in California, Colorado, and Oregon, which will let us take the fight for social justice and affordable housing to more communities and policymakers. We need your help to strengthen our movement’s work and continuing to build poor people’s power. Every little bit counts!

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WRAP'S MURAL POSTER