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Colorado Right to Rest! What it is - What you can do #1

This is the time to educate yourself on what the right to rest is and what you can do to be part of the movement to make the right to rest reality. Over the next couple weeks we will send out a serious of emails with information about this bill answering questions like "What does this bill do and not do?", "Why do we have mass homelessness?", "What has the response been to mass homelessness?", "How do laws against survival effect people?", "How is this connected to other struggles?", and "What can we do?".  We hope you can take the time to read these materials as we send them out and get ready to bring the Right to Rest to the legislators of Colorado this 2018!!

What does the Colorado Right to Rest bill do and not do?

Well... this is the bill as introduced. Read it. (Note: the language will change a bit but it is the same core and rights which will be protected)
The Bill 18-1067

Here is the basics... We sure as heck work on addressing the causes of homelessness and the solution to homelessness (aka housing!) but this bill is about our survival and rights right now on the streets.
R2R half sheet

So does this bill mean that people can throw trash about and block the sidewalk? NO!
R2R does and does not

There is a longer FAQ and a ton more resources on the site. Read them!
More resources

Los Angeles Community Action Network (LACAN)
Alternative State of the Union Press Conference

Watch Full Confrence >>>>>

Please join us February 23-25 for a special Skid Row Downtown Women's Action Coalition production of the Vagina Monologues!

All proceeds will go toward DWAC and their programs to better serve and advocate for/with homeless and extremely low-income women in Skid Row!

For more information or to purchase tickets contact Ari at 213.228.0024 or ari@cangress.org

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Join St. Mary's Center Oakland "Rise Up" Friday, March 15th 2018

RSVP to Janny Castillo jcastillo@stmaryscenter.org or call 510 923-9600 x234

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Street Sheet - Publication by Coalition On Homelessness San Francisco

FIGHT ALONGSIDE HOMELESS WOMEN

Read stories from homeless and formerly homeless women about surviving on the streets and in shelters, including speeches given at the San Francisco Women's March.

Architecture Designed to Keep Homeless People Away 

Last December, the San Francisco Department of Public Works placed boulders at the site of a tent settlement near Cesar Chavez Street and Potrero Avenue to prevent homeless people
from putting up tents

This latest development in the City’s attempts of removing encampments drew media attention and criticism from homeless advocates, including comparison to a London apartment building with 17-inch long spikes embedded in the pavement by the building’s alcove.

In 2016, an area beneath a San Diego highway overpass was strewn with jagged rocks creating enough of an obstacle for people trying to lie down, but apparently still passable for baseball fans to go to nearby Petco Field for the MLB All-Star Game.

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