Dear California Right 2 Rest Supporter

We need you to TAKE ACTION today to ensure that all Californians have the
Right 2 Rest!

Click here to email Assemblymember Tony Thurmond Distric 15 of Richmond and House Speaker Toni Atkins of San Diego to let them know their leadership for human and civil rights is needed now more than ever! We have until Friday February 27th to secure our sponsor � TAKE ACTION NOW!

Laws that segregate, that make criminals of people based on their status rather than their behavior, or that prohibit certain people's right to be in public spaces are not just sad relics from the past: Today, numerous laws infringe on poor people�s ability to exist in public space, to acquire housing, employment, and basic services, and to equal protection under the law. Our Right2Rest bill stands on the shoulders of social justice campaigns of the past to alleviate poverty and homelessness while protecting homeless and poor people from unjust laws and ensuring all people�s right to exist in public spaces. UC Berkeley's Law School recently released a new study�California's New Vagrancy Laws: The Growing Enactment and Enforcement of Anti-Homeless Laws in the Golden State" that documents the increasing criminalization of homeless people in California through local laws mimicking shameful vagrancy laws of past eras that targeted people of color, migrants, and the physically disabled. This must end now!

California WRAP members have been hitting the halls of the Capitol Building in Sacramento consistently for 3 weeks and we still have not found our champion to sponsor the Right2Rest Bill that Senator Chip Shields (and 9 co-sponsors) in Oregon and Assemblymember Salazar in Colorado have been brave enough to take on this year. California leaders are too busy or too nervous to take a stand for human and civil rights. By taking action today you will let our remaining "champions in the running" know that Californians across the state will stand with them, we just need them to take a stand with us to stop the criminalization of homelessness.

Click here to show your support!

In struggle,
Paul Boden of WRAP