A Revolution We Can All Dance Too...
PUBLISHED BY WRAP MEMBERS

The Homeless Bill of Rights Campaign is kicking into high gear and we invite everyone to join in
the party!! That's right, we said party... building power, connecting our communities, showing our artistic and creative pride and learning from each other. If that ain't a freaking party nothing is! Over 100 organizations throughout the west coast (and several beyond the coast) have publicly identified their organizations as endorsers, supporters and warriors for social justice for all people.

There are a bunch of ways for everyone to plug in but one thing we are asking all the groups to do is work together to add to our National Street Outreach Fact Sheet. WRAP staff will tabulate the responses and add the results to the voices of the 1300 people we have already spoken to. We will also send you back all tabulated results, including for your community. This is not a mere exercise. Coupled with our community forums, cumulative direct feedback from poor and homeless people IS what drives the priorities of everything we do!

Check out our Fact Sheet and Outreach forms (Eng) (Esp).� WRAP has lots of experience and the forms were created through trial and error. If you can join in, let us know and Let’s Party!

Right 2 Survive Annual Pitch A Tent - Sweepless Nights
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Portland is gearing up for their annual Grand Floral parade. Sweeping, harassing and arresting houseless people seems to be a regular occurrence as summer approaches. The city has brought forth rewritten '' living and sustainability'' laws targeted directly at the houseless.

 ''Sweepless Nights'' is the theme for this years Right 2 Survive's annual Pitch A Tent Protest! Right 2 survive began; Pitch A Tent, 4 years ago to bring awareness to the city's housed and working folk, that come to camp out and watch the Rose parade, that it is illegal for houseless people to camp for survival. We learned the city buys a permit for folks to camp along parade routes anytime there is a parade. So, this is where we step forward and use this time to provide tents for the downtown houseless to have a safe place to sleep for the night. The city creates an opportunity for activist and like minded people in the community to educate Portland's housed and ignorant of the unjust, discriminatory, and oppressive laws that are approved in this city and carried out by police and private security hired from the taxes collected from the housed.

Right 2 Survive organizes educational information, food, music, media, and more, thus creating a huge block party. Last year we took up 8 1/2 whole city blocks along 4th avenue. This year we are hoping to beat that record! At 9:30 Friday morning we will march from the Right 2 Dream Too site located on NW 4th and Burnside, to where we set up the main station on SW 4th and Washington. Some of the activities to draw folks out this year include; Street theater on the HBR campaign, Shoehorn ( A one man band and tap dancer), Mic Crenshaw (activist rapper, spoken word artist),
Jeff Zucker and friends (light/fire performance artists), and ending the night B-Media Collectivo (showing their unique films). We have had many practice sessions to be able to cheer with the Radical Cheerleaders of Pdx. Whom will be waking us up with a work out of anti-discrimination
anti-oppression cheers and chants. Oh, I can't forget to mention a special guest coming to Pdx, for this event. Paul Boden, joins us from the Western Regional Advocacy Project, based in San Francisco. WRAP and it's members are working in California and Oregon to pass Houseless Bills of Rights in both states. Right 2 Survive looks forward to Paul's presents each year as he draws in the crowds with his fresh, down to earth style.