Hey People,

Our members in California, Colorado, and Oregon are taking the initiative this fall to end the criminalization of poor and homeless people and fighting for more funding
of affordable housing.

Support WRAP Members efforts today!

It's the most important effort to address homelessness in SF history; who is with the community and who is running away?

"This is going to be a defining issue in the future of local politics, a chance for organizations, officials, and individuals to tell us which side they're on.

This fall - but also for years to come - political groups like the Tenants Union, the Harvey Milk Club, the League of Pissed Off Voters and others will be asking candidate for every office: Where are you, or where were you, on Prop. C?"

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SB10 Is Not Bail Reform - Help Us Stop It Today

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SB10 Facts:

SB10 is the product of a back room deal between legislators, judges and law enforcement officials and is being rushed through the legislature with no public debate or input.

SB10 gives judges unprecedented power to take away the freedom of ordinary Californians who have been accused but not convicted of crimes, without any due process and without any review to check their discretion.

SB10 replaces the oppressive money bail system with a system in which freedom or incarceration is decided by algorithms that assign risk scores like credit scores. These risk assessment tools are inherently biased by race and economic class.

SB10 will keep undocumented people, accused but not convicted of crimes, in custody longer and without the option of bailing out of jail quickly, exposing them to detection by ICE and subsequent deportation.

The risk levels determined by the risk assessment tools required by SB10 are not defined, meaning each local court can put as many people as they want in the high risk category that is presumed to be detained with no chance of release.

SB10 will not reduce California’s already high rate of pretrial incarceration, because the risk assessment tools can be adjusted to incarcerate as many people as the government wants to incarcerate.

Counties throughout California are expanding their jail system at an unprecedented rate. The risk assessment tools mandated by SB10 will allow courts to fill those jails with an increase in pretrial prisoners.

SB10 vastly increases spending on courts and probation departments, without saving taxpayers the cost of jailing people who have been accused but not convicted of crimes since it will not reduce pretrial incarceration rates.

SB10 will replace the bail bonds industry as an impediment to true reform with the tech industry that promotes the use of racially biased algorithmic risk assessment tools that can be used to incarcerate more people.

SB10 gives probation department powers to impose excessive conditions of release, including electronic monitoring, on people who have not been convicted of crimes.

Join us as we push back against SB 10, a bill poised to setback the movement for justice reform in CA. As groups realize the trick that's been played by legislators, judges, prosecutors and some "left" organizations the opposition pressure mounts. But there is still work to do, contact the Legislative Black Caucus http://blackcaucus.legislature.ca.gov... and tell them to OPPOSE #SB10 - contact the CA Latino Legislative Caucus http://latinocaucus.legislature.ca.go... and tell them to OPPOSE today.

Join a growing list of groups in opposition to #SB10:

Bail Project
Bend the Arc Jewish Action
Black and Pink
Brooklyn Bail Fund
California Partnership
Californians United for a Responsible Budget
Chicago Community Bail Fund
Color of Change
Colorado Freedom Fund
Critical Resistance
Denver Justice Project
Dignity and Power Now
Equal Justice Under Law
Essie Justice Group
Fair Chance Project
Human Rights Watch
Immigrant Family Defense Fund
Immigrant Legal Resource Center
Impact Fund
Indivisible CA: StateStrong
Insight Center for Community Economic Development
Just Leadership USA
JusticeLA
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
LCCR
Los Angeles Community Action Network
Media Mobilizing Project
National Center for Lesbian Rights
Richmond Community Bail Fund
Riverside All of Us or None
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
San Francisco Public Defenders
Silicon Valley De-Bug
SURJ Bay Area
The Bail Project
The California Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
The Law Foundation of Silicon Valley
Trans Latina Coalition
White People for Black Lives
Young Women's Freedom Center
Youth Justice Coalition
YWCA San Francisco & Marin
YWCA Silicon Valley

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Denver Right to Survive Initiative

Homelessness is not a Crime
As housing becomes more unattainable, we must be better neighbors to all. People are being pushed out of their homes, neighborhoods, communities, and even public spaces.

Denver must be better than this and you can help!
Vote for the Denver Right to Survive initiative in May 2019

Cities have responded to mass homelessness by passing laws that remove homeless folks from sight and mind, making it a crime for anyone to sit, sleep, or cover themselves in public spaces. Denver law, under the Unauthorized Camping Ban, makes it illegal to "use any form of protection from the elements other than your clothing."

The Right to Survive initiative will protect these rights for all people in Denver:

1. The right to rest in a non-obstructive manner in public spaces.
2. The right to shelter oneself from the elements in a non-obstructive manner in outdoor public spaces.
3. The right to eat, share, accept, or give free food in any public space where food is not prohibited.
4. The right to occupy one's own legally parked motor vehicle or occupy a legally parked motor vehicle belonging to another, with the owner's permission.
5. The right and expectation of safety and privacy of or in one's person and belongings while occupying public spaces.

Homeless people did not cause mass homelessness. Homelessness is the result of a lack of accessible housing. Mass homelessness has emerged as a result of federal policies and market reactions.

Every homeless person's story is unique. Stereo types of all homeless people as mentally ill, lazy, or drug addicted are just that: stereo types. Did you know... Nearly three out of four homeless individuals are working. The majority of people who are homeless in Denver are from here. The largest growing homeless population is families with kids. There are as many reasons for being homeless as their are homeless people. Every person deserves basic rights no matter who they are.

While there are many factors that may trigger homelessness, ultimately a lack of accessible low-income housing and a broken economy are the root of mass homelessness.

Vote for the Denver Right to Survive initiative in May 2019
and help make a Denver that values all people, regardless of wealth or poverty!

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Dear Councilman Albus Brooks - You Wanna Talk Compassion?
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Dear Councilmen Albus Brooks - Sponsor of the Survival Ban (AKA named as Camping Ban),

You wanna talk about compassion?

Let's talk about taking blankets from homeless people in freezing weather for violating the survival ban.

Let's talk about the police taking survival gear from homeless residents and having it thrown into a city trash truck to be compacted and lost forever.

Let's talk about passing a law that you sponsored in 2012 that says a homeless person can use "no form of protection from the elements other than one's clothing."

Let's talk about forcing homeless disabled seniors to "move along" while they sit in pain on the sidewalk with no where to go while waiting for the shelter to open.

Let's talk about telling homeless people they are too stupid to decide for themselves where they will be safest - facing many bad options, they make a harm reduction choice.

Let's talk about selling off public land to private developers for high end housing no homeless person can afford.

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Petition for City of Portland to Adopt a Compassionate Response to Homelessness

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We, the undersigned residents of Portland, are concerned about the crisis facing our homeless neighbors. However, we don't believe that hiring more police to target homeless people for low-level non-violent offenses is the answer to the crisis we are facing. A recent report by the Oregonian shows that the Portland Police are already arresting an astounding number of homeless people multiple times each year.

Homeless people make up less than 3 percent of the city's population, even by the largest estimates, and yet they accounted for more than half of arrests by Portland Police last year, and 86 percent of those were for low-level offenses. This kind of targeting of the homeless not only does harm to an already vulnerable population, but takes police resources away from solving and preventing violent crime and leads to mass incarceration.

We demand that Mayor Wheeler and the City Council:

• end the targeting of homeless people by the Portland Police.
• reduce the number of police and use the savings to increase access to transitional and permanent affordable housing, and mental health and addiction services.
• allow self-governing camps organized by unhoused people to address needs for shelter, community and safety.

Portlan homeless accounted for majority of police arrest in 2017, analysis finds. Read Full Report click here >>>>