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La D=E9claration de Padou= e du Forum=20 Europ=E9en pour le Droit au Logement

Le 27 novembre 2003 =E0 Padoue les= =20 repr=E9sentants de plus de 200 organismes signataires de l'Appel se sont=20 rencontr=E9s et ils ont approuv=E9 la D=E9claration de Padoue qui a=20 =E9t=E9 pr=E9sent=E9e aux Ministres du logement de l'UE.
<= FONT=20 face=3DVerdana size=3D2>Parmi les pr=E9sents: Cesare Ottolini, Coordinateur= de HIC=20 Europe, Vincenzo Simoni, secr=E9taire national Unione Inquilini (Italie), B= eno=EEt=20 Filippi, ACDL (France), Jean Baptiste Eyraud, DAL (France), Magnus Hammar,= =20 Secr=E9taire G=E9n=E9ral de l'I.U.T (Su=E8de), don Albino Bizzotto, Bienheu= reux=20 Constructeurs de Paix, (Italie), Marina Bastianello, ARCI, (Italie),= =20 Carlos Escalantes, CENCA, (P=E9rou), Anselmo Schwertner, MNLM, (Br=E9sil), = Alliance=20 Internationale d'Habitants, R=E9seau de la V=E9n=E9tie du Travail Migrant, = Comit=E9s de=20 lutte, coop=E9ratives.

La D=E9claration de Pado= ue est une=20 base de travail commun au niveau europ=E9en.

>>> Cliquez ici pour l= ire la=20 D=E9claration de Padova et plus d'info http://www.habitants.org

>>> Cliquez ici pour p= articiper=20 au d=E9bat sur la proposition de constituer le Forum Social pour le Droit a= u=20 Logement http://www.habitants.org/agenda/iscr_form_fr.htm

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IL VERTICE DEI MINISTRI = EUROPEI=20 DELL'ALLOGGIO: INUTILE E DANNOSO

"Anche il pi=F9 ottimista sosteni= tore di=20 questo tipo di vertice =E8 rimasto deluso dai risultati dell'incontro = di=20 Padova - ha commentato Cesare Ottolini, coordinatore europeo di HIC, al ter= mine=20 della due giorni che ha visto impegnati i ministri della casa&nbs= p;di=20 25 paesi europei - il Documento finale =E8 infatti una vuota somma di = banali=20 constatazioni, mentre sulle questioni concrete regna il disaccordo: resta i= l no=20 al diritto alla casa nella Costituzione europea e il no all'utilizzo dei fo= ndi=20 strutturali per le politiche abitative.

A sottolineare l'inutilit=E0 di q= uesti=20 vertici di facciata sta l'assenza della Commissione europea e, cosa ancora = pi=F9=20 grave, l'impossibilit=E0 di stabilire un tavolo di confronto serio tra la s= ociet=E0=20 civile e i governi - ha accusato Ottolini - Infatti, a differenza=20 dell'ultimo incontro di Bruxelles dove avemmo perlomeno la possibilit=E0&nb= sp;di=20 discutere con i ministri, a Padova siamo stati costretti a una comparsata i= n=20 mezzo agli spot pubblicitari degli sponsor del meeting.

Valeva la pena sequestrare Padova= ai suoi=20 abitanti per questo teatrino che umilia e lascia senza risposte = 70=20 milioni di mal alloggiati in Europa?

Avrei preferito rimanere fuori in= strada a=20 protestare e a portare la solidariet=E0 alle persone ferite dalla forze=20 dell'ordine durante la manifestazione del giorno prima - ha sottolineato - = ma=20 non avrei potuto dire in faccia a lor signori cosa ne pensa il movimen= to=20 altermondialista per il diritto alla casa, leggendo l'Appello firmato da ol= tre=20 200 enti di 28 paesi e la Dichiarazione di Padova del Forum Europeo per il= =20 Diritto alla casa.

Come non avrei potuto manifestare= la piena=20 solidariet=E0 a Jean Bakole, di ONU-Habitat, quasi sbeffeggiato dal mi= nistro=20 italiano Martinat che, nella sostanza, gli ha detto di badare al terzo= =20 mondo perch=E9, in Europa, non ci sono problemi" ha accusato=20 Ottolini.

"Ma come si pu=F2 credere a un mi= nistro che=20 d=E0 i numeri, affermando che in Italia vi sono 1,5 milioni= =20 di case popolari quando ve n'=E8 meno della met=E0?" h= a=20 concluso Vincenzo Simoni, segretario nazionale= =20 dell'Unione Inquilini.

>>> Clicca qui per trovare la documentazione= =20 preparatoria http://mrw.wallonie.be/dgatlp/logement/logement_euro/Pages= /Reunions/padova/Main.htm

>>&= gt; Clicca=20 qui per trovare la Dichiarazione Finale del 15=B0 Incontro dei ministri eur= opei=20 dell'alloggio http://213.175.14.12/main/primo_piano/padova2003/it/home.h= tm

La Dichiarazione = di Padova=20 del Forum Europeo per il Diritto alla Casa

Il 27 novembre 2003 si s= ono riuniti=20 a Padova i rappresentanti degli oltre 200 firmatari dell'"Appello per la=20 Mobilitazione europea per il Diritto alla casa" e hanno approvato= la=20 Dichiarazione di Padova presentata ai Ministri=20 dell'alloggio dell'UE.
Tra i presenti: Cesare Ottolini, Coordinatore di= HIC=20 Europa, Vincenzo Simoni, segretario nazionale Unione Inquilini, Benoit Fili= ppi,=20 ACDL Francia, Jean Baptiste Eyraud, DAL Francia, Magnus Hammar, Segretario= =20 Generale della I.U.T., don Albino Bizzotto, Beati Costruttori di Pace, Mari= na=20 Bastianello, ARCI, Carlos Escalantes, CENCA, Per=F9, Anselmo Schwertner, MN= LM,=20 Brasile, Alleanza Internazionale di Abitanti, Rete Veneta del Lavoro Migran= te,=20 Comitati di lotta, cooperative.

La = Dichiarazione=20 di Padova =E8 una base comune di lavoro a livello=20 europeo.

>&g= t;>=20 Clicca qui per trovare la Dichiarazione di Padova e maggiori informazi= oni=20 http://www.habitants.org

>&g= t;>=20 Clicca qui per discutere sulla proposta di costituire il Foro Sociale per i= l=20 Diritto alla Casa http://www.habitants.org/agenda/iscr_form_it.htm

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------=_NextPart_000_01E6_01C3B910.6B81F480-- From editor" "Dilbert and Dan Fost: Humor in the Business Section" ______________________________________________________ by Jim Sparkman - ChronWatch - December 03, 2003 San Francisco, CA - As ChronWatch has noted on many occasions, the Business Section of the San Francisco Chronicle is a joke. It is not a funny joke like Dilbert, but a sad joke. What with anti-business types like David Lazarus and Alan Saracevic holding forth, what else could it be? On Sunday, the Chronicle editors apparently agreed with this assessment by publishing the most outrageous and preposterous business item one could imagine in a major newspaper. Dan Fost authored a piece suggesting that there is no need to worry about the poor economic climate in the Bay Area. What was his rationale? To Dan, it’s simple. The Bay Area is home to more liberal causes than any other place on earth, and Dan sees this as our economic salvation. All these non-profit outfits with a huge cause and a small budget will come together to form an economic miracle in San Francisco equal to the Silicon Valley. The best I can tell, Dan is serious, although his accompanying photo causes one to wonder. No need to sweat the problems of Levi Strauss. Who cares if Chevron moved to San Ramon. Everyone knows that Bechtel is an evil company with conservative ties, and David Lazarus has warned us that Wells Fargo is outsourcing everything, including our money. To the good Chron-types, it would be good riddance if the whole lot went away. Now, Dan promises us that ''the business of liberalism'' will rise up in an economic storm to replace them. Discard that old tie-dyed image of the Bay Area as an island of leftist politics--a place where old hippies hawk organic hemp sweaters from the backs of Volvos. Think instead of Progressive Inc.: corporate headquarters for the nation's eco-economy, a hefty portfolio pumping big bucks into the region. >From big-name nonprofit groups to businesses with a social mission, the progressive organizations of the Bay Area employ thousands of people and generate millions of dollars. Some of the best-known brands in the progressive universe have roots in the Bay Area, from the Sierra Club--the grandaddy of them all, established in 1892--to Mother Jones, Working Assets, the Rainforest Action Network, and even newer, nimbler groups like Moveon.org. In recent years, groups from the Rudolf Steiner Foundation to the Electronic Frontier Foundation have left the East Coast and put down roots in San Francisco, knowing they'll find friends here. The nine-county Bay Area plus Santa Cruz County is home to more than 9,000 nonprofit organizations, according to Census Bureau data. One-fourth of Stanford MBA graduates last year, 88 in a class of 365, also earned certificates in public/nonprofit management. A Green Festival in San Francisco last month featured 300 businesses--from solar energy to fair-trade coffee--and attracted 20,000 people. Progressive Asset Management in Oakland has about $650 million in client relationships, while San Francisco's Parnassus Investments oversees $1 billion in socially responsible mutual funds. Companies like San Francisco's Working Assets, which donates a portion of its profit to progressive causes, and Berkeley's Clif Bar, which sets high standards for sustainability in its energy bar business, top $100 million in revenue per year. Even the nonprofit Sierra Club, headquartered in San Francisco and with 700,000 members across the country, boasts a budget of $80 million. And the Bay Area's nonprofit organizations boast power beyond mere numbers. ''They're incredibly influential,''' said Jay Harris, publisher of Mother Jones, a crusading magazine produced in San Francisco by the nonprofit Foundation for National Progress. ''They move laws in Congress. They get people elected or not elected. Mother Jones' journalism has influence in the national press as a pointer to interesting topics and stories.''' Stephen Roulac, chief executive of San Rafael's Roulac Group, a global real estate advisory firm, sees the Bay Area playing a historic role in an evolving global dynamic. ''It's our view that Northern California is the epicenter of the 21st century renaissance,'' he said. ''Just as the critical parts of Italy around Florence and Venice in the 14th and 15th centuries led to major transformations in society and arts and culture, the same thing is happening in Northern California.'' Much as Silicon Valley once boasted of a tech-driven new economy that was going to flower across the world, now green-oriented advocates see the same thing happening--but in a business movement devoted to treating workers with respect and keeping the environment clean, while still making money. There is more, much more, in Dan’s rambling, nonsensical piece, but I can’t stand to write about it. Dan goes on and on about the many liberal causes without acknowledging that they are basically a drag on the economy. His item has nothing at all to do with any serious discussion about business matters. Dan lists 100 typical firms that are to form the core of this economic miracle. All totaled they may equal the economic impact of the Hooter’s at Fisherman’s Wharf, and they would be a fraction of the impact of a new Wal-Mart. Who knows what the future holds, though? If Matt Gonzalez gets elected, he will fire all of Willie Brown’s friends, and replace them with his green friends. And the ranks of the homeless will grow by leaps and bounds as the word spreads across the country. The City will enter the power business, costing a big bundle to support another bureaucracy. And hosing will be built for all the homeless. And more non-profit advocates will spring up to stoke this new green economy. The fundamental problem that Dan doesn’t realize is that all these advocacy groups are consumers of wealth. They don’t generate wealth. In fact, they spend what others generate, others like Chevron, Wells-Fargo, Bechtel, Wal-Mart, and even Hooters. source page: _______________________________________________________________ _ ©THE HOMELESS NEWS - H.C. Covington, Editor http://tinyurl.com/2yg2 From editor" Green win could have impact beyond city race _________________________________________________ By John Ritter - USA TODAY - December 02, 2003 San Francisco, CA - This unabashedly liberal city — caldron of protest, celebrator of the outlandish and the fringe — is flirting with a whole new leftist bent. A candidate from the eco-friendly, ultra-progressive Green Party is threatening what passes for political convention here with a serious run at City Hall. Shaggy-haired Matt Gonzalez, darling of the young, the hip and the non-propertied classes, is within striking distance of an upset in next Tuesday's mayoral runoff. If the 38-year-old lawyer wins, this overwhelmingly Democratic city of 791,000 would become the USA's largest to be run by a Green mayor. His opponent, socially connected entrepreneur Gavin Newsom, architect of a get-tough policy to deal with the city's perennial homeless problem, has seen his once formidable lead shrink. A poll last month by local TV station KPIX had the race a dead heat. Both men sit on the elected Board of Supervisors that governs the city. A Green victory here not only would raise the fledgling party's profile but also could hasten the defection of liberals from the Democratic Party. After the Oct. 7 election of Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, political analysts expect the state Democratic Party to move toward the political center to compete with the popular former actor and his centrist policies. That would alienate liberal Democrats and send them to the Green Party, analysts say. If enough Greens desert Democrats, Republicans could solidify their hold on the governor's office and perhaps win seats in Congress. Democrats hold a 35-20 advantage in California's congressional delegation. A Green ascendancy in California also could have national political implications. If Greens siphon off enough Democrats, Republicans could win a plurality of the statewide vote, handing California's 55 electoral votes to a GOP presidential candidate. That prospect brought out heavyweight Democrats from former vice president Al Gore to Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi, the city's congresswoman, to campaign for Newsom. President Bush all but wrote off California in 2000, and no Republican has carried the most populous state since his father in 1988. "If you really had a serious Green candidate taking votes away from a Democratic candidate, you could flip a state that's fairly liberal in a Republican direction," says Bruce Cain, a political science professor at the University of California-Berkeley. "So it would be a huge boon to the Republican Party to have the Greens thrive in California." Green Party gains exposure California is the epicenter of the USA's Green movement with more than 165,000 registered voters, just over 1% of the electorate. The party won official status to appear on the state's ballots in 1992 and gained priceless exposure in this year's campaign to recall Gov. Gray Davis when its candidate, Peter Camejo, shared debate stages with the major-party candidates. In 2000, more than 400,000 Californians, nearly 4% of the electorate, voted for Green Party presidential nominee Ralph Nader. Many resentful Democrats believe Nader won enough votes in 2000 to tip several closely contested states to Bush and deny Gore the White House. Greens push environmental responsibility, grassroots democracy, social justice and non-violence. But Gonzalez, a Democrat-turned-Green, downplays his affiliation in a bid to attract moderate Democrats. Officially, the election is non-partisan; party labels don't appear on ballots. The rest of the country would label both Newsom and Gonzalez liberal, but they part ways on many issues, including one that has bedeviled politicians here for years, the homeless. San Francisco has had one of the nation's most tolerant homeless policies, epitomized by a monthly cash payment of up to $395 for homeless singles. Newsom, a restaurant owner whose business ventures have been backed by billionaire family friend Gordon Getty, wants to replace the payments with housing, job training and other services. Fed up with panhandling, public urination and homeless camps, voters by a wide margin approved his "care not cash" measure last year, but it required Board of Supervisors approval. The board and its president, Gonzalez, rejected it. "If you look at the city in left-right terms, it's pretty evenly divided," Democratic pollster David Binder says. "So the fact that Newsom was so far ahead initially is probably more of a testament to the bump he gets out of the homeless issue." Binder thinks many liberal homeowners who otherwise would back Gonzalez lean to Newsom because they want tougher homeless policies. Says Cain: "The older established community in San Francisco is very worried about the degeneration of the quality of life in the city as a result of the homeless, the dirt, the disorder that the city seems to be in." Race is tightening Newsom, 36, is married to Kimberly Guilfoyle, the San Francisco prosecutor who won convictions last year against owners of a dog that fatally mauled a young woman inside an apartment building. He's seen as an ally of big developers who remade sections of the city with offices and commercial space during the dot-com boom. That makeover, plus skyrocketing real estate prices, has forced many middle-class families into the suburbs. Now Gonzalez counts in his base many of the young renters who surged into the city in the 1990s. A former public defender, Gonzalez would raise taxes on properties that sell for more than $2 million and transfer control of the city's electric power system to a public authority, policies Newsom blasts as fiscally irresponsible and anti-business. With backing from business and labor, Newsom has raised $3.3 million, compared with Gonzalez's $400,000. But Gonzalez benefits from an energetic core of young campaign workers. And he got a boost from an appearance by actor Martin Sheen, a liberal activist and star of NBC's The West Wing. The two supervisors beat five other candidates to set up the runoff. Newsom won 42% of the November vote to Gonzalez's 21%, but analysts say most of those who didn't vote for either now support Gonzalez. "It has definitely tightened up," says Binder, whose latest poll gives Newsom an 8-percentage point edge. "Matt's an attractive candidate, and voters like him. He's fresh, he has values he's committed to and people respect that." Newsom enjoys the support of Mayor Willie Brown, forced from office after eight years by term limits, but not the range of Brown's Democratic Party contacts. Cain says Newsom can't call on the Sacramento interest groups, party regulars and consultants who always geared up for Brown, a former speaker of the state Assembly. "Gavin doesn't have many of the advantages that Willie had when he was fighting off the left," Cain says. "So we've got someone who's not as firmly tied into the Democratic establishment fighting someone who's much more firmly tied into the alternative establishment. "That could end up making it close." USA Today source page: http://tinyurl.com/xhvi _________________________________________________________________ ©THE HOMELESS NEWS - H.C. Covington, Editor http://tinyurl.com/2yg2 From editor" SHAME OF THE CITY: The high cost of homelessness City has blinders to big picture _____________________________________________________ Kevin Fagan - San Francisco Chronicle - December 3, 2003 SHAME OF THE CITY (Fourth of a five-day series) San Francisco, CA has the nation's worst problem with hard-core homelessness. Thousands of people are without shelter, and as many as 5,000 spend virtually all their time on the street. Chronicle reporter Kevin Fagan and photographer Brant Ward spent four months among the homeless and those who deal with them. In this series, they explore how one of the nation's wealthiest and most cultured cities came to have so many people living on its streets. Drugs, alcohol and mental illness are among the troubles that keep the chronically homeless on the street. Dealing with those problems costs the city $200 million every year. Nearly half goes toward putting the homeless in jail or handling medical problems. The kindness San Francisco extends to the homeless - welfare checks and daily handouts - has combined with political gridlock to allow the problem to persist People walk past the homeless on San Francisco's streets every day. They curse, ignore, hand over spare change. They feel sorrow, guilt, rage, disgust. Social workers search out the homeless around the clock, handing out blankets and food, urging them to come into shelters and get counseling and help to find housing. But they can't force anyone to take those offers. Police move the homeless from street to jail and back again. Politicians fight over welfare checks of up to $410 a month given to the homeless -- the biggest in the state -- and come up with plans to solve the problem. Some stick, some don't. How did this happen? How did one of the most sophisticated and cultured cities in the world, come to have thousands of people existing in Dickensian wretchedness on its streets? One reason: San Francisco has become a city of political and social enablers, as psychologists would put it. There aren't enough programs or housing to help all of the 8,600 to 15,000 homeless get off the street -- and there haven't been since the crisis began in the early 1980s. Most of the chronically homeless get just enough to survive on the streets, but not enough to move into a healthier life. Over 20 years, a politically accepted, coordinated, consistent policy has never emerged to solve the city's problem with hard-core homelessness -- now the worst in the United States. The city fails to get untold millions in federal, state or private grants that other cities are able to capture because it doesn't have a comprehensive plan. "The city has no shared vision of what results it is trying to achieve, and the issue is so politically charged that its officials and administrators cannot agree on what the city is trying to do," read a scathing report issued last year by the office of the controller on San Francisco's homeless policy. The city can't even determine how many homeless people it has, the report said, or compile enough data about who they are. U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein was San Francisco mayor when the crisis surfaced. Since then, she has seen homelessness all over the nation. "We have the worst," she said. "It is so dominant when you come into the city. Every time I come into the airport, I'd say I see at least 20 homeless people just on my way to my home." Statistics show the severity. The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness estimates that 10 percent of any city's homeless population consists of the hard core -- those who chronically live on the street. In San Francisco, the hard core constitutes about 40 percent of the homeless population. San Francisco residents don't like the morass. The professionals who try to fix it don't like it. And the homeless themselves don't like it. The situation evolved out of the city's liberal character and temperate weather, both of which made it attractive to drifters. A bad economy, the high cost of housing and decades-old cuts in support for the mentally ill made it worse. "We're not Calcutta, so we're not going to tolerate people dying in front of us," said Philippe Bourgois, chairman of the UCSF Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine. "They really are as desperate as they look, and a lot of them are kept alive by our sandwiches, the tents and blankets we give them, the dollar we hand out now and then." But that will never be enough to solve the problem, he said. The only solution is providing the homeless with "supportive housing," meaning a room and enough on-site counseling to cure the substance abuse, mental illness or joblessness that rendered them homeless in the first place. Barring that, "we've really got a stupid system for dealing with them," Bourgois said. "It's like we're forced to enable them." Tourists are shocked, and the businesspeople who serve them are confounded. Mary Concannon and Michael Mee, visiting from Ireland in July, were panhandled six times in six blocks on their way to shop for baskets at Pearl Art and Craft Supply near Sixth and Market streets. They also watched crack cocaine dealers hawking and smoking drugs in the open. "Oh, my gosh, it's so amazing,'' said a shaken Concannon. "Isn't there something anyone can do?" John Marks, president of the San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau, said there is no way to quantify how much encounters like that hurt business downtown. "But to me, it is the single sore spot we have for our residents and visitors. ... This has just gotten so out of hand." Outgoing Mayor Willie Brown is leaving office after eight years frustrated about the stubbornness of the crisis in his streets, even though the city spent more money on homelessness and created more supportive housing than ever during his administration. "San Francisco cannot solve the state's mental health crisis, or the nation's poverty crisis, alone," Brown said in a statement to The Chronicle. "As long as we remain the only city in Northern California truly committed to addressing homelessness, we will continue to be the beacon in the fog, and we will continue to see homeless people on our streets. "No one mayor, no one city, can change that alone." Social workers know the system isn't working, and they feel helpless. "Everyone seems to be involved in the homeless situation for their own benefit, especially the politicians," said Willie Hall, who as a director at the downtown McMillan Drop-In Center for the homeless sees it all. "If they really cared, they'd make something happen that would last. "But everyone is just lost in their own inaction, their own inability to get things done. It's ridiculous." The homeless are not on the sidewalk because they like a hardy and free outdoor life, says Dr. Barry Zevin. He is medical director of the San Francisco Department of Health's Tom Waddell Health Center, which treats 10,000 homeless patients every year. "I get a little angry at the impression that somehow it's comfortable to be homeless on the street, that some of them like it out there," he said. "But it's miserable. "Some people think tough love would do it. But it's more complex than that." Zevin, who has worked intently with the chronically homeless for 13 years, said he is sure their plight can be improved. Some already pull themselves up from the depths, he said, applying what he calls the "cliche rule of thirds" -- that one-third of the patients he sees can be helped by him, one-third will stay the same or help themselves and one-third will get worse or die. The Coalition on Homelessness, the city's foremost advocacy group for indigents, vociferously defends their right to stay outside if they want to -- but also has few illusions. "Nobody wants to be out there, not really," said Chance Martin, editor of the coalition-sponsored Street Sheet homeless newspaper. "But what can they do, with things the way they are? It's gotten so bad, we measure success in not dying next week, then maybe by getting off the street, then last of all getting a job and staying inside." The key is addressing problems that hobble the homeless, the vast majority of whom are drug addicts or mentally ill. But the reality in San Francisco is that the city's inadequate treatment system leaves most homeless people bouncing in and out of housing, rehabilitation, hospitals or jails. Seventy-three-year-old Jack, who like many homeless people wouldn't give his last name, illustrates the point. In an alcoholic stupor, he lay in his own excrement on a sidewalk near Union Square one hot day in June, mumbling to himself. Tourists and workers walked past, hands covering their noses. About an hour after he collapsed, Jack was picked up by Ben Glendenning in his Mobile Assistance Patrol van. MAP is a city program that helps the homeless, and shopkeepers had called the agency. Glendenning recognized Jack as he pulled up: "A frequent flier," he sighed. He put on surgical gloves, gently lifted Jack up under the armpits and helped him walk to the back of the van, where he laid down with a groan. As the van headed to the hospital, Jack said he liked being outdoors. "I gotta be my own man," he mumbled. In the 15 minutes it took to get to San Francisco General Hospital, Jack sobered up enough so that he was able to walk alone to the emergency room. There, he stood swaying in line, waiting for a nurse. "How come they don't have a real place for me to stay anywhere?" he mused in a voice still thick with booze. "I'd love a real bed." Glendenning shook his head as he watched Jack in line. "It breaks your heart," he said. "I'm picking up guys like Jack, and old ladies, all the time, people 70 years old who should be home with their grandkids. "They pass out on the sidewalk downtown, I bring them here to get cleaned up, and a couple days later they're right back where I found them." Jack spent several hours at the hospital. Nurses cleaned him up and deloused him. Then he was released back to the street. Police officers are just as frustrated as social workers. Their main tools for managing the homeless are issuing vagrancy tickets to people "encamping" on the street (occupying a space without permission), or asking them to move -- unless the person is threatening or commits a crime. Then he or she can be arrested. Homeless people also can be arrested if they don't show up for their court date to answer the vagrancy charge, or if several such tickets stack up. Last year, 2,324 "encamping" citations were handed out -- in many cases, multiple tickets to the same person. Some 237 people were sent to court -- representing 1,048 of the tickets -- but there they were either sent to counselors or were sentenced to no more than a couple of weeks in jail, according to the district attorney's office. The maximum sentence is six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. Virtually all the city's 800 annual busts of the homeless for possessing drug paraphernalia -- the second most common ticket -- result in the offender being sent to a rehab program. The city's policy for years has been to emphasize treatment over incarceration, recognizing -- as have experts around the country -- that simply jailing the homeless doesn't cure them of addiction. But the strategy is inefficient, said Alissa Riker, jail services program director for the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice. The residential rehab slots often require weeks on a waiting list, which means weeks on the street without help. What help there is in the meantime comes from drop-in clinics -- which again leave the homeless back on the street with insufficient support. Cops who deal with the homeless say treating the underlying social problems is essential. And they know that won't happen effectively enough without more programs. "All we can do anymore, really, is move them around from place to place," said police Sgt. Joe Garrity of the Tenderloin Station. "I hardly ever even arrest them anymore. It doesn't do much good." Sgt. Steve Balma, whose Southern Station arrests more homeless on "encamping" tickets than any other, says he has found that most of the hard core won't seek any help unless they are forced to -- so he keeps trying to push the tide. "What else can we do? We can't just wave the white flag here,'' he said. "The only way this person is going to get help is to put them into the system. We do them a favor by arresting them. We are the only outreach workers on the street, really. We give them a chance to hook up with something." The Coalition on Homelessness just released a survey of 300 substance abusers showing that most wanted rehabilitation. But they failed to get it because the programs were too hard to get into quickly, and they weren't given enough help to keep from relapsing. The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice's Homeless Release Project, which diverts homeless inmates to rehab services, is an example of how this cycle can be broken. It's just not big enough. Of the 136 indigents it placed into intensive drug rehab, health care and counseling from July 2002 through June 2003, 97 percent did not re-offend. But the criminal justice center estimates about a third of the inmates in the county jail at any given time are homeless. (There are 50,000 bookings each year, but officials cannot say how many people that represents, since many are repeat offenders.) Not all inmates need the drug rehab the criminal justice center offers, but they need a lot of other counseling services to get stable. They aren't getting them. "The frustrating thing is you know what the solutions are, but there just aren't enough resources," said director Riker. "The reality is that the criminal justice system is not the place to address this -- and it's a lot more expensive to keep someone in a cell than in housing. "But instead of getting enough money, what we often get is new and different ways to arrest homeless people (such as the city's new panhandling law). Gee, that helps a lot, eh? Not at all." The hard-core homeless are so ubiquitous and so woven into the city's everyday life that it can seem that the rest of the citizenry hardly notices them except to step around them or hand out change. But they do. "On one hand, I've learned to walk right by them, right through the crowds," said downtown publishing manager Jeff Wyneken, shortly after strolling, seemingly unaware, past two drunks asleep in puddles of their own urine on Market Street. "But it doesn't mean I don't care." He has merely learned not to react. "You never really, truly ignore them, do you?" Wyneken said. "When you do this day after day, you get an accumulated sense that something is wrong. You can't avoid it." Several blocks down Market Street, between two pillars near the Transbay Terminal, 60-year-old Rick Roberts was shivering in his blanket on top of a piece of cardboard, even though it was a hot summer evening. He and the small group he huddles with stay so quiet, day after day, that the people working nearby tolerate them. Nobody working nearby had any idea that Roberts was bleeding out of his mouth, nose and anus. "They're people, too," said Katherine Nedd, a receptionist at Chiro Medical Group, against whose building Roberts sleeps. She gives Roberts' little group a smile when she walks by, sometimes some extra food if she has it. "You have to find a way to get along with them, because they're not going away, so we just let them be." San Francisco Chronicle source page: http://tinyurl.com/xhwm _________________________________________________________________ ©THE HOMELESS NEWS - H.C. Covington, Editor http://tinyurl.com/2yg2 From HC Covington" Idaho starts tracking homeless _____________________________________________________ Anna Rau - KTVB 7 TV News - December 2, 2003 Idaho is just the 2nd state in the nation to start tracking its homeless population. Thirty-nine homeless shelters and outreach programs are now keeping records of who visits their agencies and uses their services. That’s because about two years ago, U.S. Lawmakers told the department of housing and urban development they want to know where millions of dollars for the homeless are going and if that money is helping. The Boise Rescue Mission along with two others in the area serve 14 thousand meals a month but until now no one could be sure if the homeless who lay their heads here, were also visiting other shelters. "We can see who has been given what and who else has been given what so we don't duplicate services." Douglas Segali with the Boise Rescue Mission said. Douglas Segali is the Guest Services Director at the Boise Rescue Mission. He says the new computer system known as ServicePoint keeps track of what they give to each homeless person, and what other agencies have given that person too. "A sleeping bag, you may think it's nothing but that's pretty big item here for the homeless and if you find that he's got a sleeping bag over here and there's another one over there, and they got a third one over there, you're not taking care of your resources, and you're not being responsible." "It is all a process of accountability." Julie Williams with Idaho Housing and Finance Association said. The Idaho Housing and Finance Association. The non-profit organization spent the last year and a half getting the program running in Idaho. "It's a way to determine how many people really need the services and how well the money is being utilized and stretched to cover the needs." Williams said. But Grant Program Manager Earl Cook says the tracking system goes beyond accountability, it's actually helping agencies get more money for the homeless. "It really is useful in being able to document and justify the need for additional resources." Earl Cook with Idaho Housing and Finance Association said. Cook says some shelters have already started using the numbers they've gathered to apply for extra grants. Segali says even though the rescue mission doesn't receive HUD money, they're using the new computer system in the hopes of helping homeless all across Idaho. "I think it's very important because we can serve the homeless better." Segali said. The Rescue Mission stressed that all the information the organization gathers is voluntary and confidential. The state must have all those numbers compiled in a final annual report to congress by September of 2004. KTVB 7 TV News source page: http://tinyurl.com/xi1b _________________________________________________________________ ©THE HOMELESS NEWS - H.C. Covington, Editor http://tinyurl.com/2yg2 From editor" Vouching for those in need ___________________________________________________ By Staff Writers - News 8 Austin - December 02, 2003 Austin, TX - A new program will soon help Austin's needy get everyday necessities we sometimes take for granted. The hungry gather around a Mobile Loaves & Fishes catering truck Mobile Loaves and Fishes will pass out vouchers good for nontaxable, non-tobacco and non-alcohol items at participating retailers. With a catering truck MLF spends seven days a week giving all it can to the hungry. They venture out into the streets to offer the poor a warm meal, with a little dignity on the side. "The catering trucks go out on the streets of Austin and soon to be San Antonio every single night of the week each equipped with 75 meals to serve the homeless and the working poor," said Alan Graham, the founder and president of MLF. But this week, the group is offering an alternative way to help. Mobile Loaves and Fishes Shares is a new voucher program. On Wednesday the group will mail out $5,000 worth of vouchers to about a thousand different charitable groups and eventually, to those they serve. "The greatest gift in the world is the ability to be able to give," Graham said. MLF vouchers The vouchers are essentially an alternative to cash. They're good for things like food, clothing and medicine – not alcohol or tobacco. "The biggest fear of people letting go of their cash is probably that their cash may be used for alcohol, drugs or tobacco products. What people want to do is provide food and other essential human needs," Graham said. The vouchers can be redeemed at 50 different stores representing seven different businesses such as Walgreens, Goodwill even the Hickory Street Bar and Grill. "We're right in the middle of downtown, so we see a lot of homeless people and we feed a lot of homeless people with or without the voucher program," said Fred Nelson, owner of the grill. Nelson was one of the first retailers to get on board. "I think his program is a good way to provide them something worthwhile, that they don't have to be out on the street begging for it," Nelson said. WATCH THE VIDEO In need of vouchers The vouchers are redeemable for food and medicine. The vouchers should start circulating in the streets sometime next week. "We need more participating merchants, particularly grocery stores … We need people and organizations likes religious organizations and the nonprofits that are interested in distributing the vouchers … We need [people] willing to purchase these vouchers and distribute them to the people that have a need," said Alan Graham, of MLF. For more information contact Mobile Loaves and Fishes at (512) 328-7299. WEAN 8 News Channel source page: http://tinyurl.com/xi1q _________________________________________________________________ ©THE HOMELESS NEWS - H.C. Covington, Editor http://tinyurl.com/2yg2 From HC Covington" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0414_01C3B991.A4776370 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit T H E - H O M E L E S S - N E W S SAMPLE - Special Announcement Version - Digest 586 H. C. 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Framingham, MA - Framingham Daily News Tribune - December 02, 2003 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HomelessNews/message/6220 7. Little Rock, AR - Identity Revealed of Murdered Homeless Man - KATV 7 TV News - December 01, 2003 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HomelessNews/message/6221 8. San Francisco, CA - SF Homeless Population Mapped Out by Neighborhood - CBS 5 TV News - December 01, 2003 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HomelessNews/message/6222 9. Atlanta, GA - 2003 Tri-J Homeless Census and Survey Released - December 02, 2003 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HomelessNews/message/6223 10. San Francisco, CA - SHAME OF THE CITY 'WE'RE TOGETHER' - San Francisco Chronicle - December 1, 2003 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HomelessNews/message/6224 11. Portland, OR - City-county effort tackles chronic homelessness - The Portland Tribune - Dec 2, 2003 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HomelessNews/message/6225 12. Greensburg, IN - Outreach reaches out for help - Greensburg Daily News - December 03, 2003 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HomelessNews/message/6226 13. Minneapolis, MN - Decision on Lydia House upheld - Minneapolis Star Tribune - December 3, 2003 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HomelessNews/message/6227 14. Dallas, TX - Interfaith chief's experience fosters empathy for homeless - Dallas Morning News - December 2, 2003 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HomelessNews/message/6228 15. Boise, Idaho - Idaho starts tracking homeless - KTVB 7 TV News - December 2, 2003 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HomelessNews/message/6229 16. San Francisco, CA - 'Drunk Tank' Helps Ease SF ER Crunch - CBS 5 TV News - December 02, 2003 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HomelessNews/message/6230 17. Washington, DC - Keeping Christmas 2003 - Townhall News - December 1, 2003 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HomelessNews/message/6231 18. San Francisco, CA - "Dilbert and Dan Fost: Humor in the Business Section" - ChronWatch - December 03, 2003 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HomelessNews/message/6232 19. San Francisco, CA - Green win could have impact beyond city race - USA TODAY - December 02, 2003 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HomelessNews/message/6233 20. Minneapolis, MN - Decision on Lydia House upheld - Minneapolis Star Tribune - December 3, 2003 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HomelessNews/message/6234 21. RALEIGH, N.C. - Statewide Effort Kicks Off To Find Solutions To Homelessness - WRAL 5 TV News - December 2, 2003 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HomelessNews/message/6235 22. THE BRONX, NY - In Depth: Homeless shelters - NBC 12 TV News - December 01, 2003 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HomelessNews/message/6236 23. MONTPELIER, VT - Study finds one in six children in poverty - Times Argus - December 2, 2003 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HomelessNews/message/6237 24. San Francisco, CA - SHAME OF THE CITY: The high cost of homelessness - San Francisco Chronicle - December 3, 2003 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HomelessNews/message/6238 25. Austin, TX -Vouching for those in need - News 8 Austin - December 02, 2003 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HomelessNews/message/6239 Articles source page: http://tinyurl.com/2yq6 _________________________________________________________________ ©THE HOMELESS NEWS - H.C. Covington, Editor http://tinyurl.com/2yg2 A free applied research site compiling published and broadcast news on the 'Life Disaster' that is called "Homelessness" within the United States. To become a subscriber or a member send a blank email to: HomelessNews-subscribe@egroups.com WebSite: http://egroups.com/groups/HomelessNews To Subscribe: HomelessNews-subscribe@egroups.com To Unsubscribe: HomelessNews-unsubscribe@egroups.com To Post message: HomelessNews@egroups.com H. C. [Sonny] Covington, Editor hcc@icanamerica.org I C A N ! 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------=_NextPart_000_0414_01C3B991.A4776370-- From paula_95814@yahoo.com Wed Dec 3 23:43:38 2003 From: paula_95814@yahoo.com (paula farrell) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 15:43:38 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Hpn] 2nd? Annual HPN Christmas Song Parody challenge? Message-ID: <20031203234338.31150.qmail@web10902.mail.yahoo.com> --0-770357603-1070495018=:31139 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii We got a few good homeless X-mas songs last year, which I will try to find in one of my megabytes of files, compile and add to this season's collection. If you got some more homeless songs, I would love to be able to sing them. I wrote a song for a rally coming up soon at Board of Sups. We have an inclusionary housing policy that requires about 15% of new housing developments to include affordable rentals. The developers are trying to make a deal where they can meet their requirements by buying and dedicating land outside their development, to be built by someone else. I think the theme will be "dirt don't = housing". Also we have winter shelter that closes every spring leaving people to sleep outdoors all but a few months, which is illegal to do in Sac. [To the tune of We Wish You A Merry Christmas] [chorus] We wish for affordable housing We wish for affordable housing We wish for affordable housing And shelter all year In - clu - sion - ary Policy's good When developers build it In the same neighborhood [repeat chorus] Plagurized by Paula --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now --0-770357603-1070495018=:31139 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
We got a few good homeless X-mas songs last year, which I will try to find in one of my megabytes of files, compile and add to this season's collection. If you got some more homeless songs, I would love to be able to sing them.

I wrote a song for a rally coming up soon at Board of Sups. We have an inclusionary housing policy that requires about 15% of new housing developments to include affordable rentals. The developers are trying to make a deal where they can meet their requirements by buying and dedicating land outside their development, to be built by someone else. I think the theme will be "dirt don't = housing". Also we have winter shelter that closes every spring leaving people to sleep outdoors all but a few months, which is illegal to do in Sac.

[To the tune of We Wish You A Merry Christmas]

[chorus]

We wish for affordable housing

We wish for affordable housing

We wish for affordable housing

And shelter all year

In - clu - sion - ary

Policy's good

When developers build it

In the same neighborhood

[repeat chorus]

Plagurized by Paula
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Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now --0-770357603-1070495018=:31139-- From becky_johnson@sbcglobal.net Thu Dec 4 03:17:21 2003 From: becky_johnson@sbcglobal.net (Becky A Johnson) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 19:17:21 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Hpn] 2nd? Annual HPN Christmas Song Parody challenge? In-Reply-To: <20031203234338.31150.qmail@web10902.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20031204031721.34539.qmail@web80210.mail.yahoo.com> --0-974287706-1070507841=:30682 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Paula, Here is one we update every year to accomodate the new mayor. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen but not in Santa Cruz Mayor Kennedy has a Sleeping Ban he'll cite you if you snooze And if you're warm beneath your quilts your blankets you shall lose Bad tidings, not comfort or joy Comfort or joy Bad tidings, not comfort or joy --- Becky Johnson paula farrell wrote: We got a few good homeless X-mas songs last year, which I will try to find in one of my megabytes of files, compile and add to this season's collection. If you got some more homeless songs, I would love to be able to sing them. I wrote a song for a rally coming up soon at Board of Sups. We have an inclusionary housing policy that requires about 15% of new housing developments to include affordable rentals. The developers are trying to make a deal where they can meet their requirements by buying and dedicating land outside their development, to be built by someone else. I think the theme will be "dirt don't = housing". Also we have winter shelter that closes every spring leaving people to sleep outdoors all but a few months, which is illegal to do in Sac. [To the tune of We Wish You A Merry Christmas] [chorus] We wish for affordable housing We wish for affordable housing We wish for affordable housing And shelter all year In - clu - sion - ary Policy's good When developers build it In the same neighborhood [repeat chorus] Plagurized by Paula --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now --0-974287706-1070507841=:30682 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Paula,

Here is one we update every year to accomodate the new mayor.

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

but not in Santa Cruz

Mayor Kennedy has a Sleeping Ban

he'll cite you if you snooze

And if you're warm beneath your quilts

your blankets you shall lose

Bad tidings, not comfort or joy

Comfort or joy

Bad tidings, not comfort or joy

--- Becky Johnson

paula farrell <paula_95814@yahoo.com> wrote:

We got a few good homeless X-mas songs last year, which I will try to find in one of my megabytes of files, compile and add to this season's collection. If you got some more homeless songs, I would love to be able to sing them.

I wrote a song for a rally coming up soon at Board of Sups. We have an inclusionary housing policy that requires about 15% of new housing developments to include affordable rentals. The developers are trying to make a deal where they can meet their requirements by buying and dedicating land outside their development, to be built by someone else. I think the theme will be "dirt don't = housing". Also we have winter shelter that closes every spring leaving people to sleep outdoors all but a few months, which is illegal to do in Sac.

[To the tune of We Wish You A Merry Christmas]

[chorus]

We wish for affordable housing

We wish for affordable housing

We wish for affordable housing

And shelter all year

In - clu - sion - ary

Policy's good

When developers build it

In the same neighborhood

[repeat chorus]

Plagurized by Paula

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--0-974287706-1070507841=:30682-- From paula_95814@yahoo.com Sat Dec 6 23:20:01 2003 From: paula_95814@yahoo.com (paula farrell) Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 15:20:01 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Hpn] Service reluctant Message-ID: <20031206232002.99675.qmail@web10907.mail.yahoo.com> --0-996978955-1070752801=:99383 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii The terms 'chronic' and 'service resistant' have been around for awhile referring to people who have experienced homelessness for extended periods. At the homelessness board I'm on, 'service reluctant' has started being used. Paula --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing --0-996978955-1070752801=:99383 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
The terms 'chronic' and 'service resistant' have been around for awhile referring to people who have experienced homelessness for extended periods. At the homelessness board I'm on, 'service reluctant' has started being used.

Paula
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New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing --0-996978955-1070752801=:99383-- From HC Covington" Carlsbad council considers park as temporary shelter for farm workers _______________________________________________________ By Elena Gaona - Union Tribune - December 4, 2003 CARLSBAD – Dragged into the project by community activists, the city is considering a public park as the site of a temporary shelter for homeless migrant farm workers. City Council members this week asked supporters about the city's liability and cost for a shelter for farm workers at Veterans Memorial Park. Although council members were adamant that they prefer the shelter be built on private property, some said yesterday that they would consider the park site if it won't add costs to Carlsbad, which has suffered from state budget cuts. City leaders said they would not dip into general funds to build or operate the shelter but are exploring the consequences of using city land for it. The shift in position among council members, who had planned for the city to have a passive role in making the shelter a reality, encourages those who say the city has gone too long without a solution for its hundreds of homeless farm workers. "We're very hopeful," said Carlsbad attorney Mike Wischkaemper, who leads a coalition of about 30 city residents and business and civic leaders with hundreds of supporters, who asked the City Council to consider the park site. City Attorney Ron Ball and other legal consultants will brief the council on liabilities when the conversation on the shelter continues Tuesday. Council members generally agree that the city's role is not that of housing developer. Other homeless people in the city also need help, and the city is not building a shelter for them, Mayor Bud Lewis said. But with farm workers' makeshift camps torn down by the city each winter, the need for housing for the farm workers became very visible last year. Finding a place for a new shelter has been elusive, however, and Veterans Memorial Park was among eight sites recently rejected by a task force. Carlsbad purchased the park in the early 1980s and does not plan to develop it for about seven more years, city officials said. Farm worker housing supporters said the spot is perfect for a temporary shelter because the park is secluded among canyons, near farming fields, away from houses, city-owned and not developed. City leaders say farm worker housing will not be needed in seven to 10 years because local farms will give way to development. If the council approves the plan next week, the nonprofit developer Community Housing Works of Escondido will apply for $1.2 million in grants from the California Rural Communities Assistance Corp. to build a 128-bed shelter on the city property. But Councilman Matt Hall said the city could face a multimillion-dollar liability if the project is built at the park. Since the shelter would be removed in a few years, the city might have to pay anyone living there for removing them from their homes, according to state and federal laws. Those costs could climb to more than $5 million, council members said. Council members also fear that even if the shelter is built by someone else, the city might end up paying some operating costs, and that is unacceptable, Councilman Mark Packard said. But proponents of the city park site argue that the shelter is possible if Carlsbad's leaders and residents work together. Wischkaemper said his coalition, which includes attorneys and advocates, hopes to gain conditional approval for the park site Tuesday. "There's no guarantee this project is going to work," Wischkaemper said. "But we have to give it our best effort." Elena Gaona: (760) 476-8239; elena.gaona@uniontrib.com source page: http://tinyurl.com/xsxu _________________________________________________________________ ©THE HOMELESS NEWS - H.C. Covington, Editor http://tinyurl.com/2yg2 From wtinker@metrocast.net Sun Dec 7 18:52:56 2003 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 13:52:56 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Shelter moves to a new bulding Message-ID: <03ab01c3bcf3$55a69080$b6fe05cf@nlt7ygq1d6zs21> Shelter makes 'cheery' move New building has twice the room for Boulder homeless By Berny Morson, Rocky Mountain News December 6, 2003 BOULDER - An army of volunteers today will move the local homeless shelter into a $5.6 million building with sunshine yellow walls and picture windows. "It's as cheery as you can get in a homeless shelter," Jennifer Hughes, the shelter's development director, said Friday. The opening ends a bitter struggle over where to put a replacement for the present shelter, a rundown former motel in a neighborhood of body shops and industrial buildings on Boulder's north side. Neighborhood opposition killed a plan to put the shelter in a former sorority house near the University of Colorado. The new building is two blocks north of the old one, next to a topless "gentleman's club" and the last stop for several RTD bus routes. The sorority house "would have been more convenient for our residents," said Greg Harms, the shelter director. "But we ended up in a nicer building . . . It's made for us." The two-story building sleeps 160, twice as many as the old facility. It features spacious bedrooms, a big kitchen with shiny new refrigerators and hot tables and a dining room that seats 45. Through the picture windows, residents will see a panorama of mountain and plain behind the body shops. The long, thin dormitories at the old shelter were created by knocking out walls between the motel rooms. Bunks are crammed so closely together that residents must turn sideways to get in, and the top bunks are inches from the ceiling. Like homeless people everywhere, many of those who stay at the Boulder shelter have drug or alcohol problems, or they are mentally ill. The new shelter has twice as much space for counselors, plus rooms for dental and medical examinations. A man waiting to spend a night at the old shelter for the last time Friday said he's seen the new facility from the outside. "It looks like it will be kind of nice," he said. He had all of his possessions in a back pack. His teeth and fingers were stained red from the Fireballs he was sucking. "I go by Noname," he said. In addition to not being able to recall his name, he can't remember where he's from or how long he's been on the street. "Sometimes I think, all my life. All I know is, it seems like it's all a dream to me," Noname said. Noname said he doesn't want counseling. He's sought help in the past, but it did no good. "They just let me go like I am, so I don't think I'm going to seek help any more," he said. "I don't suspect I need it." "That's mighty nice of them to help folks out," he said of the new shelter. On the other hand, he was happy with the old shelter, too. "We make it work out," he said. Volunteers have been moving equipment to the new location all week. After breakfast today, about 100 people will make the final hauls in time to open for dinner. Win Franklin showed up to help Friday, along with Bertha, his baby blue 1961 Ford F-100 pickup. "They needed extra hands and they needed another truck," said Franklin, a longtime financial contributor to the shelter. "It's about time," Franklin said of the new building. "The people who live there are sure going to appreciate it." morsonb@RockyMountainNews.com or 303-892-5072 From RRTroxell@aol.com Mon Dec 8 02:46:27 2003 From: RRTroxell@aol.com (RRTroxell@aol.com) Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 21:46:27 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Hpn] Universal Living Wage Warriors! Message-ID: <129.36d5f302.2d054003@aol.com> --Boundary_(ID_16RUQXgSMZukHG/Qlp4itg) Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Endorsement # 1,000! Global Exchange has become the 1000th organization to endorse the Universal=20 Living Wage Campaign! We launched our campaign on April 15, 2001 when using existing government=20 guidelines, we devised a single national formula designed to fix the Federal= =20 Minimum Wage. Among our most recent endorsers are:=A0 C Van R Automotive, Students for a N= ew=20 Democracy, STAND, United for a Fair Economy, The Labor Council for Latin=20 American Advancement- (a national endorsement), and the Oklahoma=A0 Federati= on of=20 Teachers Local 2309 AFT. All of our endorsers share the belief that anyone working a 40 hour week=20 should at least be able to afford basic housing wherever that work is done=20 throughout the US. We now have supporting groups and businesses in every state...three times=20 over.=A0 Our next immediate goal is to muster four then five such organizati= ons in=20 each state and then coordinate our efforts.=A0 We continue to build our base= and=20 get the word out.=A0 We have sample letters, editorials, signs, bumper=20 stickers, etc. in our campaign kit.=A0 E-mail us for a kit and watch the Wha= t's New=20 button on our website at www.UniversalLivingWage.org.=A0 Please stay engaged= .=A0=20 Please encourage another group to endorse the campaign.=A0=20 Together, we can turn this ship. Richard R. Troxell --Boundary_(ID_16RUQXgSMZukHG/Qlp4itg) Content-type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Endorsement # 1,000!

Global Exchange has become the 1000th organization to endorse the Universal=20= Living Wage Campaign!

We launched our campaign on April 15, 2001 when using existing government gu= idelines, we devised a single national formula designed to fix the Federal M= inimum Wage.

Among our most recent endorsers are:=A0 C Van R Automotive, Students for a N= ew Democracy, STAND, United for a Fair Economy, The Labor Council for Latin=20= American Advancement- (a national endorsement), and the Oklahoma=A0 Federati= on of Teachers Local 2309 AFT.

All of our endorsers share the belief that anyone working a 40 hour week sho= uld at least be able to afford basic housing wherever that work is done thro= ughout the US.

We now have supporting groups and businesses in every state...three times ov= er.=A0 Our next immediate goal is to muster four then five such organization= s in each state and then coordinate our efforts.=A0 We continue to build our= base and get the word out.=A0 We have sample letters, editorials, signs, bu= mper stickers, etc. in our campaign kit.=A0 E-mail us for a kit and watch th= e What's New button on our website at www.UniversalLivingWage.org.=A0 Please= stay engaged.=A0 Please encourage another group to endorse the campaign.= =A0

Together, we can turn this ship.

Richard R. Troxell

= --Boundary_(ID_16RUQXgSMZukHG/Qlp4itg)-- From wtinker@metrocast.net Mon Dec 8 03:14:04 2003 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 22:14:04 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Message from the front lines Message-ID: <019101c3bd39$55f91a80$b6fe05cf@nlt7ygq1d6zs21> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_018E_01C3BD0F.6D0418D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message -----=20 From: chance martin=20 Dear Bill, The revolution has started here in San Francisco.=20 Go to this page, and read everything on it (including my own "get out = the vote" magnum opus): http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/id287.htm I guess the whole world's watching this campaign. Le Monde, the London = Globe, Time, and the nice young man from the Christian Science Monitor = who interviewed me. I've talked to so many reporters that I don't what = to say anymore that isn't some campaign message statement.=20 Bottom line: we are going to win. That also means the machine dems are = going to try to tamper with the election...guaranteed. Remember, we've = had "irregularities" in at least three elections under Willie Brown, the = most notable being some 40 ballot boxes found floating in the bay by the = Coast Guard in the election we had for Brown's initiative to build Pac = Bell ballpark.=20 We've organized precinct captains and poll monitors for all 533 polling = places in the city, so they ain't going to have an easy time of it. The = only real edge that rat-fuck Newsom has is the absentee ballots -- = because Newsom's been running for three years now (when he started the = Care Not Cash shit) while Matt's been in the race only four months. Anyway, read the article. And please post this to all those lists, too. = I would, but your email is the only one I have in my yahoo address book. Another world IS possible, Bill. And this campaign is the living proof. peace, chance ------=_NextPart_000_018E_01C3BD0F.6D0418D0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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From: chance=20 martin

Dear Bill,

The revolution has started here in San Francisco.

Go to this page, and read everything on it (including my own "get = out the=20 vote" magnum opus):

http://www.sanfran= ciscosentinel.com/id287.htm

I guess the whole world's watching this campaign. Le Monde, the = London=20 Globe, Time, and the nice young man from the Christian Science Monitor = who=20 interviewed me. I've talked to so many reporters that I don't what to = say=20 anymore that isn't some campaign message statement.

Bottom line: we are going to win. That also means the machine dems = are=20 going to try to tamper with the election...guaranteed. Remember, we've = had=20 "irregularities" in at least three elections under Willie Brown, the = most=20 notable being some 40 ballot boxes found floating in the bay by the = Coast Guard=20 in the election we had for Brown's initiative to build Pac Bell=20 ballpark.

We've organized precinct captains and poll monitors for all 533 = polling=20 places in the city, so they ain't going to have an easy time of it. The = only=20 real edge that rat-fuck Newsom has is the absentee ballots = -- because=20 Newsom's been running for three years now (when he started the Care Not = Cash=20 shit) while Matt's been in the race only four months.

Anyway, read the article. And = please post this to all=20 those lists, too. I would, but your email is the only one I have in my = yahoo=20 address book.

Another world IS possible, Bill. And this campaign is the living=20 proof.

peace,

chance

------=_NextPart_000_018E_01C3BD0F.6D0418D0-- From worldhome@thesociety.net Mon Dec 8 10:50:08 2003 From: worldhome@thesociety.net (Harmony Kieding) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 02:50:08 -0800 Subject: [Hpn] Message from the front lines Message-ID: <3fd45760.644.0@lookscool.com> Way to go, Chance!! You go, guy!!! :-) :-) :-) I've bookmarked the link to Matt Gonzalez' site and will be passing it along and linking to it whenever and wherever I can. It was such a relief to hear someone who's running for office address the real problems behind homelessness that I started crying. Now go get in there and WIN:-) Harmony > > > > > > > > > >

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From: title=chance_martin@yahoo.com >href="mailto:chance_martin@yahoo.com">chance >martin
>

>

>
>
Dear Bill,
>

>
The revolution has started here in San Francisco.
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>
Go to this page, and read everything on it (including my own "get >out the >vote" magnum opus):
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href="http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/id287.htm">http://www.sanfran>ciscosentinel.com/id287.htm
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I guess the whole world's watching this campaign. Le Monde, the >London >Globe, Time, and the nice young man from the Christian Science Monitor >who >interviewed me. I've talked to so many reporters that I don't what to >say >anymore that isn't some campaign message statement.
>

>
Bottom line: we are going to win. That also means the machine dems >are >going to try to tamper with the election...guaranteed. Remember, we've >had >"irregularities" in at least three elections under Willie Brown, the >most >notable being some 40 ballot boxes found floating in the bay by the >Coast Guard >in the election we had for Brown's initiative to build Pac Bell >ballpark.
>

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We've organized precinct captains and poll monitors for all 533 >polling >places in the city, so they ain't going to have an easy time of it. The >only >real edge that rat-fuck Newsom has is the absentee ballots >-- because >Newsom's been running for three years now (when he started the Care Not >Cash >shit) while Matt's been in the race only four months.
>

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Anyway, read the article. And >please post this to all >those lists, too. I would, but your email is the only one I have in my >yahoo >address book.
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Another world IS possible, Bill. And this campaign is the living >proof.
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peace,
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chance
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> > > > _______________________________________________________________ Get Your Lifetime, Free Web Address at http://www.lookscool.com From gbacque@colosseum.com Mon Dec 8 11:06:41 2003 From: gbacque@colosseum.com (Graeme Bacque) Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 06:06:41 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] What child is this who begs outside? Message-ID: <3FD45B41.9070703@colosseum.com> http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1070840411021&call_pageid=968350130169&col=969483202845 December 8, 2003 01:00 AM The Toronto Star What child is this who begs outside? JOE FIORITO Two kids, cold and tired, with one cardboard sign. "Traveling home to sick mother. Please spare change (or smokes)." I, in a hurry, glanced at them. She was tiny and pretty and sad. He was too young to have nothing left to lose. They were panning near the Winter Garden Theatre. The sign looked like a con. I kept walking. But the message crept up on me one word at a time. We all yearn for home. My mom's not well; whose isn't? My boy used to have that look on his face. Asking for smokes? That's cheeky and realistic. If it was a con, it was worth a buck. "Nice sign," I said with a wink. I flipped a dollar in the air. It landed in her paper cup. She, wide-eyed, hugged her knees and said, "It's true. My mother has MS. She's in Kelowna. I called her. She told me I was worthless on the phone. She said I was a piece of spit when I asked if I could go home." Good one; ratchets up the sympathy. But if that's what your mom thinks, why bother going home? She said, "I'm gonna prove to her that I'm her daughter and I love her. I'd prefer me to take care of her than someone else." Who would make that up? The boy spoke then. He said, "They're your parents. No matter what they do to us, we got to love them." His name is Wayne. Hers is Kaylee. She's 17. He's 24. So why aren't they in school? Wayne said, "I been out of school since I was 8. I did some schooling in group homes. My parents kicked me out." And Kaylee ran away. I noticed a deep cut on Wayne's lower lip. He said, "I had $160 in my pocket. I was up at Yonge and College trying to pan out the money for the bus fare. Three guys came up with a pit bull. They told me to get off the street. One guy kicked me in the face. They took the money." Kaylee said, "The dog was at face level with me. It lunged forward but the guy pulled his dog back, or else ..." She meant, or else her face would be a mess. I said, "Quite a story. And you could be making the whole thing up." I expected teenaged outrage. Kaylee said flatly, "I wish we were making it up." -------------------------- `Three guys came up with a pit bull. They told me to get off the street. One guy kicked me in the face.' There was something else in her tone of voice. I asked her if she was in trouble. She said, "I have warrants out on me for B and Es, theft over, theft under; mostly for breaches, because I haven't been living at home." ------------------------- What's she doing stealing? "Mostly it's for money. I never had money." Wayne added, "I just come out of jail. I was in for two years." He hesitated. I thought, here's where the con gets upped. "I did home invasions with some Asian guys." I drew back. He said, "I didn't hurt people. Mostly it was the ones with the guns who did the violence." Yeah, sure; whatever. I kept listening. He pointed to his cut lip. "I guess this is payback. What goes around comes around." You can make up any kind of story about how bad you are. You can't make up a cut like that. They said they lived in the Don Valley. They said it was warm there, except when it got wet. They said they get cleaned up at a shelter now and then. "We go to Knox. They give us food, clothing, a shower. They have bowling, three lanes. They give out free hair cuts and clean clothes." I couldn't tell what was real any more. Kaylee: "I can't go back to school without an address." Wayne: "I want a job. I put in a lot of applications to pick garbage. I don't even have enough education for that." Kaylee: "There's a lot of people on the street who don't need to panhandle." Wayne: "You're either doing crime to stay alive, or you're homeless and panhandling and being bothered by the cops. I understand their point. There's aggressive panhandlers." Kaylee: "There's people who say to me I'm not homeless because I have a clean jacket. Just because I'm homeless doesn't mean I can't be clean. The only reason I got this jacket is some guy gave it to me a couple of weeks ago." They said the mugging meant they were starting from scratch. They were hoping to raise enough to go to Kelowna for Christmas. And if and when they got there, they were going to see Kaylee's mother. How's it going so far? "Not too good." How much is bus fare? "I dunno, more than $500." If they can't raise the money in time for Christmas? Wayne shrugged. "I know a guy. He runs a male escort service. I could go do some things I really don't want to do." I don't think he made that up. I wished them luck. I was running late. I had to go. If it was a con, it was worth a buck. If it wasn't a con, it was worth a lot more. Joe Fiorito usually appears Monday, Wednesday and Friday. E-mail: jfiorito@thestar.ca From worldhome@thesociety.net Mon Dec 8 11:43:56 2003 From: worldhome@thesociety.net (Harmony Kieding) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 03:43:56 -0800 Subject: [Hpn] Americans abroad taking action Message-ID: <3fd463fc.59c.0@lookscool.com> Hi all, First of all, I want to say that this is very definitely NOT off the topic of homelessness. As Americans abroad are seeing the Bush Madministration gutting one domestic program after another while stripping the Constitution and Bill of Rights, we are getting alarmed. First of all: Cost of War http://costofwar.com/ Cost of the War in Iraq (at the exact time I'm posting this): $89,084,748,072 Compare to the cost of: Pre-School; 8,996,491 additional children could attend a year of Head Start Kids Health: 27.274,000+ children could be given health care for a year Public Education 1,200,000+ school teachers could be hired for a year College Scholarships 1,614,000+ scholarships could be given Public Housing 909,037 additional units of affordable housing could be built American Voices Abroad http://www.americanvoicesabroad.net/cgi-bin/berlin "American Voices Abroad - Berlin was founded in February 2003 in opposition to the Iraq War. After many months of anti-war activity, “American Voices Abroad – Berlin” was incorporated. We continue to oppose the occupation of Iraq, the doctrine of preventive war, and the repressive policies of the Bush administration, as embodied in the Patriot Act." Expats Against Bush http://expatsagainstbush.typepad.com/ Expats Against Bush Norway http://expatsagainstbush.typepad.com/norway/ Words to close this post with: It's winter time. Hypothermia time. And the last time I saw my country was as a homeless person- a homeless person flying overseas to live in another country, taking three small pieces of luggage with me. That was in 1999. If I were to fly back to my country today (that is, assuming some financial miracle happened that would give me enough for the plane ticket).. I STILL WOULD BE HOMELESS. Maybe a few friends on this list would let me couch-surf:-) but the bottom line is that it is impossible for me to forget the reality of how it is to be homeless in the US. And from what I hear, that reality has gotten far worse. Harmony I believe in my friends and their work, and in the work we are doing together. Listing their sites (one of mine is included) should not be taken to mean they necessarily agree with what I've posted just now, so reserve any mudslinging for yours truly:-) American Homeless Land Model http://www.dreamwater.org/biz/kenchurchill/index.html WorldHome http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/7076/causesindex.html Disabled, Displaced and Human Rights http://www.pagerealm.com/wtinker/index.html Bridget Reilly http://www.geocities.com/reillybridget/ NorseHorse's Home Turf http://nht.blogspot.com/ Dignity Village http://www.outofthedoorways.org/ Welcome to Name My Stuff http://www.geocities.com/jos_reyn/ STREETNEWS http://hometown.aol.com/streetnews143/Streetnews.htm and many more!!! Here's to ALL of us. _______________________________________________________________ Get Your Lifetime, Free Web Address at http://www.lookscool.com From wtinker@metrocast.net Tue Dec 9 11:12:02 2003 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (wtinker@metrocast.net) Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 03:12:02 -0800 Subject: [Hpn] Seattletimes.com: Village for homeless at crossroads Message-ID: <200312091112.hB9BC2T08133@stone.seatimes.com> This message was sent to you by wtinker@metrocast.net, as a service of The Seattle Times (http://www.seattletimes.com). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Village for homeless at crossroads Full story: http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=homeless09&date=20031209 By Sarah Linn The Associated Press PORTLAND — On a one-acre patch of asphalt near the airport, about 80 homeless people are living in shelters slapped together out of scavenged planks, plastic, plasterboard and cardboard. But this is no ordinary shantytown. Dignity Village, as it is called, is an unusual social experiment: a government-sanctioned encampment for the homeless. Besides holding a city lease, it has its own government, maintains a Web site and operates as a nonprofit corporation. Residents get free legal advice from local lawyers, medical aid from a homeless shelter and financial support from a national network of charitable donors. "There really isn't another model in the country that is as well-organized as Dignity Village," said Donald Whitehead, executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless in Washington, D.C. "It's pretty revolutionary." Two years after it was built, though, Dignity Village has reached a crossroads. Its most recent lease expired at the end of October, and residents have asked the city to extend their stay for up to 10 years. They also have requested that the city stop charging rent for the site and make thousands of dollars in improvements at the location. The request has set off a debate among city officials over whether to sink money into the project or end the experiment and encourage homeless people to go to shelters instead. Some officials say shelters do a better job of providing health and job services. "The shelter system is more successful and more compassionate," said Michael Harrison, aide to Jim Francesconi, one of four city commissioners. "Before the city invests more money into Dignity Village, we should know that there are actual people that have been helped." Dignity Village's leaders say they have demonstrated they are helping the homeless. Benjamin Howard, a homeless man who serves as Dignity Village's fire chief, said it is a place people can develop a sense of stability, start looking for work and move into low-income housing. About 200 have taken that step in the past two years, he said. Portland has about 2,000 homeless people, and 20 homeless shelters run by the city and private organizations. Other cities generally do not tolerate large-scale encampments of homeless people. In October, Seattle cracked down on "The Jungle," a homeless camp in the woods. In Anchorage, authorities cleared out about 50 sites in May because of the danger posed by the homeless people's campfires. Michael Stoops, director of community organizing for the National Coalition for the Homeless, said he thinks Dignity Village is the nation's only camp for the homeless that is officially supported by a city government. Homeless people set up the encampment in September 2001 and won permission from the City Council. Dignity Village pays the city more than $20,000 a year for rent, water and garbage pickup, with most of the money coming from donations. It has rudimentary utilities, including portable toilets and electricity provided by a windmill. "It's a good resource that's helped a lot of vulnerable and lost people get back on their feet," said City Commissioner Erik Sten, one of Dignity Village's biggest supporters. But he said a 10-year extension may be too long and the city should not pick up all the costs the residents have requested for safety and sewage improvements. Many homeless people prefer Dignity Village to shelters because it offers self-government and more freedom. Unlike shelters, it has no curfew. It is governed by four board officers, who handle administrative concerns, and 11 council members, who manage day-to-day operations. Residents who become violent or disrespectful or use drugs or alcohol are given 24 hours outside of Dignity Village to cool off. Repeat offenders can be expelled. "We've never had a rape here. We've never had a murder," said village Chairman Jack Tafari. "If a girl goes 'peep,' there's 12 big, hairy guys there in a second." Villagers are required to contribute to the camp's upkeep, either through chores or by working outside Dignity Village. "This is not Utopia," Howard said. "It's not where I really want to be. But it's better than a lot of places I've been in." Cat Spry, 17, lives at Dignity Village with her mother and father. Spry is working to get her high-school diploma. "My options were the street or the village," she said. "And thank God the village was there." ========================== ADVERTISEMENT ============================= If you can do it, watch it, eat it, buy it, or live it in the Pacific Northwest, you'll find it at NWsource.com ====================================================================== TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE SEATTLE TIMES PRINT EDITION Call (206) 464-2121 or 1-800-542-0820, or go to https://read.nwsource.com/subscribe/times/ HOW TO ADVERTISE WITH THE SEATTLE TIMES COMPANY ONLINE For information on advertising in this e-mail newsletter, or other online marketing platforms with The Seattle Times Company, call (206) 464-2361 or e-mail websales@seattletimes.com TO ADVERTISE IN THE SEATTLE TIMES PRINT EDITION Please go to http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/contactus/adsales for information. ====================================================================== For news updates throughout the day, visit http://www.seattletimes.com ====================================================================== Copyright (c) 2003 The Seattle Times Company www.seattletimes.com Your Life. Your Times. From wtinker@metrocast.net Tue Dec 9 11:14:34 2003 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (wtinker@metrocast.net) Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 03:14:34 -0800 Subject: [Hpn] Seattletimes.com: Greens may get first major mayoral win Message-ID: <200312091114.hB9BEYm18878@cyan.seatimes.com> This message was sent to you by wtinker@metrocast.net, as a service of The Seattle Times (http://www.seattletimes.com). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Greens may get first major mayoral win Full story: http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=greenie09&date=20031209 By Mark Sappenfield The Christian Science Monitor SAN FRANCISCO — David Taylor makes a clear distinction: Working as a volunteer on Matt Gonzalez's campaign for mayor is the first time he has been involved in electoral politics. Street politics, however, are a different matter. The spiky-haired Webmaster by day, insurgent by night, ticks off his impressive résumé of revolt: the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle, the marches against the World Bank in Washington and the San Francisco anti-war demonstrations that shut down the city. In the Gonzalez campaign, though, Taylor for the first time sees a way to express his disgust with the political machine and the corrupting influence of money, not through disturbance, but through the political system itself. "We're seeing an opportunity when many people can overcome their cynicism," he said. It is a notion that has fueled the improbable success of Gonzalez's bid to become the first Green Party mayor of a major U.S. city. Yet it also echoes far beyond California's "left coast." Gonzalez's rise from a distant second place behind Democrat Gavin Newsom in last month's mayoral election to a virtual dead heat in today's runoff could easily be dismissed as pure San Francisco. In this campaign, where poetry readings double as political rallies and get-out-the-vote drives involve fire engines converted into mobile dance floors, Gonzalez has cast himself as the shepherd of the disillusioned and disenfranchised. Newsom, 36, and Gonzalez, 38, are both on the city's Board of Supervisors, where Gonzalez also serves as president. The two are competing to succeed Mayor Willie Brown, 69, who cannot run again after eight years in office. But there are deeper forces at work, too, experts said, forces that echo some of the ones reshaping national politics. There are as many differences between Gonzalez and presidential candidate Howard Dean as there are similarities. But like Dean, Gonzalez has positioned himself as the true liberal at a time the Democratic Party, in his opinion, has strayed from its working-class ideals into moderation. And like Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, he has wrapped himself in the mantle of the outsider beholden more to principle than to campaign pocketbook. "There are forces at work finding voices in all these different campaigns," said Richard DeLeon, a historian at San Francisco State University. "It has a real populist streak to it ... and locally, it translates into a fight against a political machinery run by elites." The political machine is seen as the work of Brown, who many feel set up a system built on cronyism, patronage and corruption. Newsom, Gonzalez's Democratic challenger, has plenty of his own people, too. To his supporters, Newsom is a realist who is confronting the homeless problem and realizes San Francisco cannot alienate its business community by saddling it with taxes for costly social programs. That doesn't make for terribly good poetry, though, and San Francisco's grass-roots democracy can take some peculiar forms. In the past week, various San Franciscans have held "Get Lit (as in literary) for Matt" events with local authors, yoga classes where proceeds go to the Gonzalez campaign and a city motorcycle ride to support him. At a "Poets for Matt" event, beat poets broke into the staccato rhythms of anti-war invectives while New Age hippies strummed folk ballads on beat-up guitars. In other cities, perhaps, these might simply be events on the cultural fringe. Here, they touch the bohemian heart of the city itself, and Gonzalez has struck a chord. "It's a groovy happening with a purpose," said campaign spokesman Ross Mirkarimi. Much of Gonzalez's success has come by creating a stark contrast between himself and the high-society Newsom. Gonzalez is the floppy-haired, slump-shouldered champion of the counterculture. He led the charge for the city's new $8.50 minimum wage. He shares an apartment. He doesn't own a car. That's the essence of his campaign: a regular guy trying to take back government for regular people. When he stops by the poetry reading, he tells the standing-room-only crowd in a small college theater, "It's about who gets access and who doesn't. They're scared, not of a Green being elected mayor but of an honest person being elected mayor." That Gonzalez is a member of the Green Party seems secondary, at best. Part of that is because San Francisco mayoral races are, technically, nonpartisan. But it is also obvious that party affiliation doesn't mean much in San Francisco anymore. No one at the poetry reading denounces Democrats. It's the machine they rage against, and in San Francisco, Democrats happen to be the machine. It's the sense that "Democrats are too comfortable with power," said DeLeon, the historian. The Greens are casting "the Democratic Party back to its roots." Yet the race and party affiliation do mean something to national Democrats. San Francisco is the hometown of Sen. Dianne Feinstein and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. For years, it has been perhaps the most reliably Democratic major city in the country. If Newsom were to lose the seat, it would be a major embarrassment to the Democrats. To avoid that, the party last week sent former Vice President Al Gore to bolster Newsom; last night, former President Clinton flew in to energize the campaign. But to some San Francisco liberals, Gonzalez represents a choice the Democrats haven't given them for years. "San Francisco has an opportunity to stand up and stem a tide of neoconservatism," said Taylor, the Gonzalez volunteer. "For a lot of us, it's a symbol of resisting." 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From wtinker@metrocast.net Mon Dec 8 13:16:55 2003 From: wtinker@metrocast.net (William Charles Tinker) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 08:16:55 -0500 Subject: [Hpn] Nimby Report Message-ID: <000501c3bd8d$8e8030b0$b6fe05cf@nlt7ygq1d6zs21> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C3BD63.A4B96010 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0002_01C3BD63.A4B96010" ------=_NextPart_001_0002_01C3BD63.A4B96010 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable National Low Income Housing Coalition: The NIMBY Report Home Search=20 The NIMBY Report =20 =20 on the continuing struggle=20 for inclusive communities =20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----- NIMBY -- Not In My Back Yard -- has become the symbol for the = neighborhoods to exclude certain people because they are homeless, poor, = disabled, or because of their race or ethnicity.=20 The NIMBY Report supports inclusive communities by sharing news of the = NIMBY syndrome and efforts to overcome it. Published for nearly 10 years = by the American Friends Service Committee, it is now published by the = National Low Income Housing Coalition, in collaboration with the = Building Better Communities Network.=20 The NIMBY Report is distributed monthly as a supplement to NLIHC's = Memo to Members. Semi-annual issue reports are also published.=20 Semi-annual Reports=20 a.. Fall 2002: Using Civil Rights Laws to Advance Affordable Housing = (in Adobe Acrobat format)=20 b.. Spring 2002: The Olmstead Factor: Integrating Housing for People = with Disabilities (in Adobe Acrobat format)=20 c.. Fall 2001: Does Design Make A Difference? (in Adobe Acrobat = format)=20 d.. Spring 2001: Smart Growth & Affordable Housing (in Adobe Acrobat = format)=20 Monthly Newsletters=20 a.. November, 2003=20 INDIANA: Opposition to Affordable Housing Thought to be Racially = Tinged=20 MARYLAND: Neighbors (and Elected Official) Make it Clear They Do = Not Want Transitional Housing=20 SHORT ITEMS=20 Massachusetts Legislature Considers Bill to Weaken "Anti-Snob = Zoning" Law=20 Napa County (CA) Pays Cities to Assume Affordable Housing = Burden b.. October, 2003=20 NEW YORK: Advocates Claim Discrimination in Closure of Veterans = Home=20 ARIZONA: In the Face of Community Opposition, City Council Says = Recovery Home Can Stay=20 ALABAMA: Opposition to Foster Home for People with Mental = Illnesses is "the Worst Kind of Discrimination"=20 SOUTH DAKOTA: Rural NIMBYism Can be Potent Too=20 WEST VIRGINIA: Editorial Voices: An Occasional Feature of the = NIMBY Report (Reprinted with Permission of the Charleston (WV) Gazette)=20 SHORT ITEM c.. September, 2003=20 TEXAS: Settlement Releases Dallas from Desegregation Order=20 CONNECTICUT: State Supreme Court Exempts Public Housing From = Strict Zoning Notice Requirements d.. August, 2003=20 ARIZONA: "Bittersweet Victory" in Group Home Conflict=20 NEW JERSEY: State Enforces Ban on Section 8 Discrimination=20 FLORIDA: Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place in Key West=20 SHORT ITEMS=20 Small California City Approves Mental Health Rehabilitation = Center=20 Victory in Lexington, Kentucky=20 Resources You Can Use e.. July, 2003=20 CALIFORNIA: No Welcome for Farmworker Housing=20 VIRGINIA: City Manager Nixes Tax Credit Renovation of Three = Apartment Complexes=20 GEORGIA: DOJ Prevails in Discrimination Case=20 SHORT ITEMS=20 Inclusionary Zoning Taking off in CA=20 Raleigh (NC) Aims to Deconcentrate Low-Cost Housing RESOURCES YOU CAN USE f.. June, 2003=20 CALIFORNIA: Despite 1,400 Opposition Signatures, Transitional = Housing Project Prevails=20 DELAWARE: DE County Sued for Intentionally Blocking Group Home=20 CONNECTICUT: CT Housing Finance Authority Accused of Promoting = Segregation g.. May, 2003=20 MASSACHUSETTS: Will Anti-Snob Zoning Statute Survive?=20 ILLINOIS: Judge Condemns City's Campaign Against Recovery Homes=20 TEXAS: "We Take Uncertainty out of the Process": Austin Stares = Down NIMBYism=20 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Federal Court Decision Finds City Law and = Agency Actions Discriminatory=20 Resources You Can Use: American Planning Association Report = Highlights Need for "Political Will" h.. April, 2003=20 TEXAS: Community Opposition from Houston's Communities of Color=20 CALIFORNIA: Opponents in Auburn Using the Funding "Hook"=20 NORTH CAROLINA: Charlotte Observer Calls Upon City Council to = Study Inclusionary Zoning=20 SHORT ITEMS=20 "Progressive" City of Alexandria Pulls in the Welcome Mat i.. March, 2003=20 California: Steinberg Proposes Aggressive "Fair Share" Legislation = Pennsylvania: Congressman Calls for Section 8 Moratorium in = Northeast Philadelphia=20 Short Items=20 Cincinnati Takes Steps to Become Less Segregated=20 California City Residents Chafe at Court-Ordered Affordable = Housing=20 Maryland Shelter Finding No Room for the Inn=20 Massachusetts Governor Wants to Rethink "Anti-Snob" Zoning=20 Palo Alto Unanimously Approves Homeless Center j.. February, 2003=20 NORTH CAROLINA:Overcoming NIMBY Opposition=20 CONNECTICUT: Federal Court Says New London Intentionally = Discriminated in Denying Permit=20 MINNESOTA: Supported Housing Prevails in State Court; Judge = Upholds Right to Live in "Residence of Their Choice"=20 SHORT ITEMS=20 Buckeye Case Argued in Supreme Court=20 Pathways Settles its Case After Favorable Ruling from Federal = Trial Court k.. January, 2003=20 ARIZONA: State Court Finds "Senior Housing" Community Violates = Fair Housing Act=20 TEXAS: Affordable Multi-Family Housing Moves Forward Despite = Opposition=20 NEW JERSEY: Township to Oust Group Home=20 SHORT ITEMS=20 New York=20 Major New Article on NIMBYism Published l.. December, 2002=20 North Carolina: Community Threatens to Impose Limitations on Group = Homes=20 New York: Queens Neighborhood Resists Foster Care Group Home=20 Short Items:=20 Department of Justice Files Complaints in Idaho and = Pennsylvania=20 California: Santa Monica Adopts Ordinances to Discourage the = Homeless=20 Census Bureau Names Most Segregated Cities=20 Oregon: Sale of State Psychiatric Hospital Site Makes = Integrated Housing Possible m.. November, 2002=20 California: Low-Income Community Opposition to Affordable Housing=20 Minnesota: State Court Judge Promotes Community Integration for = People with Mental Illnesses=20 Texas: Developer Threads the NIMBY Needle to Gain Community = Acceptance=20 Short Item:=20 Connecticut: Lawsuit Alleges Racial Bias in Exercise of = Eminent Domain n.. October, 2002=20 Massachusetts: Department of Justice Sues Agawam Over Farm Worker = Housing=20 Illinois: Plan Commission Approves Zoning Amendment Providing for = "Senior Only" Housing=20 Connecticut: Disability Services Agency Sues City Over = Discriminatory Zoning Decision=20 Short Items:=20 New York: "Most Integrated Setting" Now Required by State Law o.. September, 2002=20 Florida: Department of Justice "Concerns" Persuades Boca Raton to = Rethink "Sober Home" Policy=20 Minnesota: U.S. Attorney Files Suit Against Developer Over = Accessibility=20 Short Items:=20 Illinois: Evanston Proposes Stronger "Source of Income" = Protection in Local Fair Housing Law=20 Minnesota: Minneapolis Public Housing Residents Respond with = Mixed Satisfaction to New Housing Opportunities=20 New York: Settlement in Long-Running Housing Case p.. August, 2002=20 California: Most Bay Area Municipalities Fail on Housing Crisis = Report Card=20 New Jersey: State Supreme Court Poised to Strengthen "Mount = Laurel" Fair Share Obligation=20 Texas: Public Housing Debate Continues In Fort Worth=20 Short Items:=20 National: Habitat for Humanity and Mental Health Advocacy Groups = to Partner=20 New York: Homeless Advocacy Group Not So Welcome in Lower = Manhattan q.. July, 2002=20 Ohio: Buckeye Case Going Up to the Supreme Court=20 New Jersey: Court Voids Local Moratorium on Rental Housing = Conversions=20 Virginia: Neighborhoods on Edge About Alexandria's Effort to = Disperse Public Housing=20 Short Items:=20 Breaking News: Rich Communities Aren't Very Diverse=20 Ohio City Pulls the Welcome Mat Out From Under Tenants r.. June, 2002=20 Texas: Ft. Worth Up in Arms About Affordable Housing=20 District of Columbia: D.C. Revokes Permits for New Youth Shelter=20 California: Plan for Complying with Court-Ordered Affordable = Housing Brings Out the Neighbors=20 Short Items:=20 Florida: Judge Orders Daytona Beach to Stop Interfering with = Recovery Group Home=20 Minnesota: Churches Defeat NIMBY Suit Filed by Neighbors=20 Virginia: Arlington County Proposes Eminent Domain to Preserve = Affordable Housing s.. May, 2002=20 North Carolina: Some in Business Community Oppose City Loan for = SRO=20 California: Court Takes City of Stockton to Task for Treatment of = Residential Hotels=20 North Carolina: "Now They're Asking Us to Come Into Their = Neighborhood" t.. April, 2002=20 Ohio: Community Notification Is a Two-Edged Sword=20 New York: Town Agrees to Host Homeless in Exchange for Cash=20 Maine: Scattered Site Housing Gaining Neighborhood Acceptance=20 Ohio: Church-Sponsored Homes for Seniors Opposed=20 Short Items:=20 San Diego Budgets for Integration=20 Ohio Proposed Ordinance to inspect and register rental = properties u.. March, 2002=20 Stockton, Calfornia: Low-Income Residents Sue Over Redevelopment = and Displacement=20 Howard County, Maryland: NIMBYism as "Road Rage": Nation's Seventh = Richest County Opposes Everything in Sight=20 Minneapolis, Minnesota: Neighbors Ratchet Up Opposition to = Church-Sponsored Supportive Housing=20 Short Items:=20 Montgomery County, Maryland: Identifying County Land for = Affordable Housing=20 Backsliding in New Jersey?=20 A Bold Promise in Scotland v.. February, 2002=20 Connecticut: Court Finds City Action Discriminatory Against = Recovery Group Home=20 Washington, D.C.: City Council Adopts Legislation Prohibiting = Section 8 Discrimination=20 Idaho: Developer Required to Build New Accessible Housing=20 Short Items:=20 Maine Governor, Housing Advocates and Developers Push Anti-Snob = Zoning Bill=20 NIMBY Myth about Rental Housing and School Aged Children = Rebuffed=20 New Article on Community Engagement Strategies=20 Report Finds Rights New York City Commission Ineffective in = Fighting Discrimination w.. January, 2002=20 Maryland: Jury Awards Damages Against Town for Discriminating = Against People with Mental Illnesses=20 Colorado: Networking and Alliance Building Overcome Community = Opposition=20 New York: Religious Freedom Arguments Used to Preserve Homeless = Services x.. December, 2001=20 Georgia: Department of Justice Sues City for Blocking Access to = Low Income Housing Tax Credits=20 Florida: Community Opposition May Nix Project Financed with = Tax-Exempt Bonds=20 Minnesota: St. Paul Proposes One-Year Moratorium on Development of = Housing for People with Disabilities=20 Resources You Can Use y.. November, 2001=20 Ohio: Persistence --and a Few Good Fair Housing Lawyers-Overcome = City Resistance=20 Illinois: Village of River Forest Zones Out the Middle Class=20 Minnesota: Conversion of Nursing Home to Supportive Housing Raises = Ire of Neighbors=20 Editorial Support for Community Acceptance: With Affordable Homes, = Islip Overcomes NIMBYism=20 Resources You Can Use z.. October, 2001=20 Ohio: Moving to Opportunity or Cleansing the City of the Poor?=20 Georgia: City Uses Eminent Domain Power to Stop Mental Health = Consolidation=20 Washington, DC: Girls and Boys Town Sues to Secure Building = Permits=20 Resources You Can Use aa.. September, 2001=20 Fall River, Massachusetts: If You Tear It Down, They Won't Come=20 Fairfax, Virginia: County Sues Its Own Board of Zoning Appeals = Over Group Recovery Home=20 Hawthorne, New Jersey: Twenty-Eight Affordable Townhouses In Limbo ab.. August, 2001=20 Olathe, Kansas: Federal Court Ruling Threatens Youth Group Homes=20 District of Columbia: City Considers New Strategy for Correctional = Halfway Houses=20 Toronto, Canada: Greyhound Therapy for Homeless People or Ticket = to a New Life?=20 Montgomery County, Maryland: County Proposes to Revise Land-Use = Rules=20 Resources You Can Use ac.. July, 2001=20 Columbus, Ohio: New Apartments in Columbus, Ohio=20 Memphis, Tennessee; Amherst, New York and Framingham, = Massachusetts: "Protecting the Neighborhood" Against Affordable, = Multifamily Housing=20 Food for Thought: An Occasional Feature of The NIMBY Report: = Allowing Localities and Developers to "Buy Out" of Affordable Housing = Obligations Will Perpetuate Segregation and Undermine Future Efforts ad.. June, 2001=20 Massachusetts: Anti-Snob Zoning Law Comes Up Short; Opponents Seek = to Weaken it Further=20 Washington, D.C.: Permanent Housing for Formerly Homeless Men = Encounters Community Resistance=20 San Francisco: Board of Supervisors Increases Leverage of = Neighborhood Opponents=20 Food for Thought: An Occasional Feature of The NIMBY Report: Does = the Nation's Love Affair with Home Ownership Ensure that NIMBYism will = Increase? ae.. May, 2001=20 Westchester County, New York: Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?=20 Colorado Springs, Colorado: Child Welfare Agency Co-opts NIMBYism=20 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Boston Globe Praises Inclusive Housing=20 Resources You Can Use af.. April, 2001=20 Smart Growth and Affordable Housing ag.. March, 2001=20 Boston, Massachusetts: Pine Street Inn Campaigns for Community = Acceptance=20 Nelson, British Columbia: Overcoming NIMBY for Mental Health = Consumers=20 Eugene, Oregon: Whiteaker IMBY (In My Backyard!) = Neighborhood-Based Low-Cost Housing and Services Planning=20 Tools You Can Use ah.. February, 2001=20 Ohio: Research Provides Community Outreach Strategy For Low Income = Housing=20 Newark, Delaware: Community Opposes Opening of Residential School = for Children with Disabilities=20 Minneapolis, Minnesota: Using Local Comprehensive Plans to Avoid = Community Opposition=20 Orland, California: "Spot Moratorium" Puts Tax Credit-Funded Farm = Worker Housing at Risk ai.. January, 2001=20 Minneapolis, Minnesota: Study Demonstrates That Affordable Housing = Doesn't Hurt Nearby Home Values=20 Tacoma, Washington: "Fair Share" Activists Hold New Social = Services Programs Hostage=20 Greenwich, Connecticut: Wealthy Community Rises Up Against = Community Housing for People with Mental Disabilities aj.. December, 2000=20 Dallas, Texas: "Fiscal Zoning" Struck Down in Texas=20 Telluride, Colorado: Colorado Supreme Court Strikes Down = Affordability Measure=20 Louisiana, New Jersey, Illinois: Communities Rise Up Against = Senior Housing ak.. November, 2000=20 Salt Lake City, Utah: Litigation and Grassroots Advocacy to = Promote Affordable Housing=20 Yonkers, New York: Public Housing Does Not Diminish Property = Values=20 Worcester, Maryland: A Second Chance for Victory Prior issues of the monthly NIMBY report may be found on the Building = Better Communities Network website www.bettercommunities.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------- Back to NLIHC Homepage. -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------- National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC)=20 1012 Fourteenth Street NW, Suite 610, Washington, D.C. 20005=20 202/662-1530; Fax 202/393-1973; info@nlihc.org=20 Homepage: http://www.nlihc.org/=20 Current Memo to Members: http://www.nlihc.org/current.htm=20 Join NLIHC: https://www.nlihc.org/about/join.htm=20 Page =A92003 National Low Income Housing Coalition =20 ------=_NextPart_001_0002_01C3BD63.A4B96010 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable National Low Income Housing Coalition: The NIMBY = Report

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for inclusive = communities

NIMBY -- Not In My Back Yard -- has become the symbol for = the=20 neighborhoods to exclude certain people because they are homeless, = poor,=20 disabled, or because of their race or ethnicity.=20
The NIMBY Report supports inclusive communities by sharing = news of=20 the NIMBY syndrome and efforts to overcome it. Published for nearly 10 = years=20 by the American Friends Service Committee, it is now published by the = National=20 Low Income Housing Coalition, in collaboration with the Building Better Communities=20 Network.=20
The NIMBY Report is distributed monthly as a supplement to = NLIHC=92s=20 Memo to Members. Semi-annual issue reports are also published.=20
Semi-annual Reports=20

Fall 2002: Using Civil Rights = Laws to=20 Advance Affordable Housing (in Adobe Acrobat format)=20
Spring 2002: The Olmstead = Factor:=20 Integrating Housing for People with Disabilities (in Adobe = Acrobat=20 format)=20
Fall 2001: Does Design Make A=20 Difference? (in Adobe Acrobat format)=20
Spring 2001: Smart Growth = &=20 Affordable Housing (in Adobe Acrobat format)
Monthly Newsletters=20

November, 2003=20
INDIANA: Opposition to Affordable Housing Thought to be=20 Racially Tinged
MARYLAND: Neighbors (and Elected = Official) Make=20 it Clear They Do Not Want Transitional Housing
SHORT = ITEMS=20
     Massachusetts Legislature Considers = Bill to=20 Weaken =93Anti-Snob Zoning=94 Law
     = Napa County=20 (CA) Pays Cities to Assume Affordable Housing Burden

October, 2003=20
NEW YORK: Advocates Claim Discrimination in Closure of = Veterans=20 Home
ARIZONA: In the Face of Community Opposition, City = Council=20 Says Recovery Home Can Stay
ALABAMA: Opposition to = Foster Home=20 for People with Mental Illnesses is "the Worst Kind of = Discrimination"=20
SOUTH DAKOTA: Rural NIMBYism Can be Potent Too =
WEST=20 VIRGINIA: Editorial Voices: An Occasional Feature of the NIMBY = Report=20 (Reprinted with Permission of the Charleston (WV) Gazette) =
SHORT=20 ITEM

September, 2003=20
TEXAS: Settlement Releases Dallas from Desegregation = Order=20
CONNECTICUT: State Supreme Court Exempts Public Housing = From=20 Strict Zoning Notice Requirements

August, 2003=20
ARIZONA: =93Bittersweet Victory=94 in Group Home Conflict =
NEW JERSEY: State Enforces Ban on Section 8 = Discrimination=20
FLORIDA: Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place in Key = West=20
SHORT ITEMS
     Small = California City=20 Approves Mental Health Rehabilitation Center =
    =20 Victory in Lexington, Kentucky
     = Resources You=20 Can Use

July, 2003=20
CALIFORNIA: No Welcome for Farmworker Housing=20
VIRGINIA: City Manager Nixes Tax Credit Renovation of = Three=20 Apartment Complexes
GEORGIA: DOJ Prevails in = Discrimination=20 Case
SHORT ITEMS=20
Inclusionary Zoning Taking off in CA
Raleigh (NC) Aims to=20 Deconcentrate Low-Cost Housing
RESOURCES YOU CAN = USE

June, 2003=20
CALIFORNIA: Despite 1,400 Opposition Signatures, = Transitional=20 Housing Project Prevails
DELAWARE: DE County Sued for=20 Intentionally Blocking Group Home
CONNECTICUT: CT = Housing=20 Finance Authority Accused of Promoting Segregation

May, 2003=20
MASSACHUSETTS: Will Anti-Snob Zoning Statute Survive?=20
ILLINOIS: Judge Condemns City=92s Campaign Against = Recovery Homes=20
TEXAS: =93We Take Uncertainty out of the = Process=94: Austin=20 Stares Down NIMBYism
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Federal = Court=20 Decision Finds City Law and Agency Actions Discriminatory =
Resources=20 You Can Use: American Planning Association Report Highlights = Need for=20 =93Political Will=94

April, 2003=20
TEXAS: Community Opposition from Houston=92s Communities = of Color=20
CALIFORNIA: Opponents in Auburn Using the Funding = =93Hook=94=20
NORTH CAROLINA: Charlotte Observer Calls Upon City = Council to=20 Study Inclusionary Zoning
SHORT ITEMS=20
        =93Progressive=94 = City of=20 Alexandria Pulls in the Welcome Mat

March, 2003=20
California: Steinberg Proposes Aggressive =93Fair = Share=94=20 Legislation
Pennsylvania: Congressman Calls for Section = 8=20 Moratorium in Northeast Philadelphia
Short Items=20
   Cincinnati Takes Steps to Become Less Segregated=20
   California City Residents Chafe at Court-Ordered=20 Affordable Housing
   Maryland Shelter Finding No = Room for=20 the Inn
   Massachusetts Governor Wants to Rethink=20 =93Anti-Snob=94 Zoning
   Palo Alto Unanimously = Approves=20 Homeless Center

February, 2003=20
NORTH CAROLINA:Overcoming NIMBY Opposition=20
CONNECTICUT: Federal Court Says New London = Intentionally=20 Discriminated in Denying Permit
MINNESOTA: Supported = Housing=20 Prevails in State Court; Judge Upholds Right to Live in = =93Residence of=20 Their Choice=94
SHORT ITEMS =
     Buckeye=20 Case Argued in Supreme Court
     Pathways = Settles=20 its Case After Favorable Ruling from Federal Trial Court

January, 2003=20
ARIZONA: State Court Finds =93Senior Housing=94 Community = Violates=20 Fair Housing Act
TEXAS: Affordable Multi-Family Housing = Moves=20 Forward Despite Opposition
NEW JERSEY: Township to Oust = Group=20 Home
SHORT ITEMS=20
New York
Major New Article on NIMBYism Published

December, 2002=20
North Carolina: Community Threatens to Impose Limitations = on=20 Group Homes
New York: Queens Neighborhood Resists = Foster Care=20 Group Home
Short Items:
     = Department=20 of Justice Files Complaints in Idaho and Pennsylvania=20
     California: Santa Monica Adopts = Ordinances to=20 Discourage the Homeless
     Census Bureau = Names=20 Most Segregated Cities
     Oregon: Sale = of State=20 Psychiatric Hospital Site Makes Integrated Housing Possible

November, 2002=20
California: Low-Income Community Opposition to Affordable = Housing
Minnesota: State Court Judge Promotes Community = Integration for People with Mental Illnesses
Texas: = Developer=20 Threads the NIMBY Needle to Gain Community Acceptance
Short = Item:
       Connecticut: = Lawsuit=20 Alleges Racial Bias in Exercise of Eminent Domain

October, 2002=20
Massachusetts: Department of Justice Sues Agawam Over = Farm=20 Worker Housing
Illinois: Plan Commission Approves = Zoning=20 Amendment Providing for =93Senior Only=94 Housing =
Connecticut:=20 Disability Services Agency Sues City Over Discriminatory = Zoning=20 Decision
Short Items:
    New York: = =93Most=20 Integrated Setting=94 Now Required by State Law

September, 2002=20
Florida: Department of Justice "Concerns" Persuades Boca = Raton=20 to Rethink "Sober Home" Policy
Minnesota: U.S. Attorney = Files=20 Suit Against Developer Over Accessibility
Short Items:=20
    Illinois: Evanston Proposes Stronger = "Source of=20 Income" Protection in Local Fair Housing Law =
   =20 Minnesota: Minneapolis Public Housing Residents Respond with Mixed = Satisfaction to New Housing Opportunities
    = New York:=20 Settlement in Long-Running Housing Case

August, 2002=20
California: Most Bay Area Municipalities Fail on Housing = Crisis=20 Report Card
New Jersey: State Supreme Court Poised to=20 Strengthen "Mount Laurel" Fair Share Obligation
Texas: = Public=20 Housing Debate Continues In Fort Worth
Short Items:=20
National: Habitat for Humanity and Mental Health Advocacy = Groups to=20 Partner
New York: Homeless Advocacy Group Not So Welcome in = Lower=20 Manhattan

July, 2002=20
Ohio: Buckeye Case Going Up to the Supreme Court =
New=20 Jersey: Court Voids Local Moratorium on Rental Housing = Conversions=20
Virginia: Neighborhoods on Edge About Alexandria=92s = Effort to=20 Disperse Public Housing
Short Items:=20
Breaking News: Rich Communities Aren=92t Very Diverse
Ohio = City=20 Pulls the Welcome Mat Out From Under Tenants

June, 2002=20
Texas: Ft. Worth Up in Arms About Affordable Housing=20
District of Columbia: D.C. Revokes Permits for New = Youth=20 Shelter
California: Plan for Complying with = Court-Ordered=20 Affordable Housing Brings Out the Neighbors
Short = Items:=20
Florida: Judge Orders Daytona Beach to Stop Interfering with=20 Recovery Group Home
Minnesota: Churches Defeat NIMBY Suit = Filed by=20 Neighbors
Virginia: Arlington County Proposes Eminent Domain = to=20 Preserve Affordable Housing

May, 2002=20
North Carolina: Some in Business Community Oppose City = Loan for=20 SRO
California: Court Takes City of Stockton to Task = for=20 Treatment of Residential Hotels
North Carolina: =93Now = They're=20 Asking Us to Come Into Their Neighborhood=94

April, 2002=20
Ohio: Community Notification Is a Two-Edged Sword =
New=20 York: Town Agrees to Host Homeless in Exchange for Cash =
Maine:=20 Scattered Site Housing Gaining Neighborhood Acceptance=20
Ohio: Church-Sponsored Homes for Seniors Opposed =
Short=20 Items:=20
San Diego Budgets for Integration
Ohio Proposed Ordinance = to=20 inspect and register rental properties

March, 2002=20
Stockton, Calfornia: Low-Income Residents Sue Over=20 Redevelopment and Displacement
Howard County, Maryland: = NIMBYism as =93Road Rage=94: Nation=92s Seventh Richest County = Opposes=20 Everything in Sight
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Neighbors = Ratchet=20 Up Opposition to Church-Sponsored Supportive Housing
Short=20 Items:=20
Montgomery County, Maryland: Identifying County Land for = Affordable=20 Housing
Backsliding in New Jersey?
A Bold Promise in=20 Scotland

February, 2002=20
Connecticut: Court Finds City Action Discriminatory = Against=20 Recovery Group Home
Washington, D.C.: City Council = Adopts=20 Legislation Prohibiting Section 8 Discrimination
Idaho:=20 Developer Required to Build New Accessible Housing =
Short=20 Items:=20
Maine Governor, Housing Advocates and Developers Push = Anti-Snob=20 Zoning Bill
NIMBY Myth about Rental Housing and School Aged = Children=20 Rebuffed
New Article on Community Engagement Strategies =
Report=20 Finds Rights New York City Commission Ineffective in Fighting=20 Discrimination

January, 2002=20
Maryland: Jury Awards Damages Against Town for = Discriminating=20 Against People with Mental Illnesses
Colorado: = Networking and=20 Alliance Building Overcome Community Opposition
New York:=20 Religious Freedom Arguments Used to Preserve Homeless = Services

December, 2001=20
Georgia: Department of Justice Sues City for Blocking = Access to=20 Low Income Housing Tax Credits
Florida: Community = Opposition=20 May Nix Project Financed with Tax-Exempt Bonds
Minnesota: = St.=20 Paul Proposes One-Year Moratorium on Development of Housing for = People=20 with Disabilities
Resources You Can Use

November, 2001=20
Ohio: Persistence --and a Few Good Fair Housing=20 Lawyers=96Overcome City Resistance
Illinois: Village of = River=20 Forest Zones Out the Middle Class
Minnesota: Conversion = of=20 Nursing Home to Supportive Housing Raises Ire of Neighbors=20
Editorial Support for Community Acceptance: With = Affordable=20 Homes, Islip Overcomes NIMBYism
Resources You Can = Use

October, 2001=20
Ohio: Moving to Opportunity or Cleansing the City of the = Poor?=20
Georgia: City Uses Eminent Domain Power to Stop Mental = Health=20 Consolidation
Washington, DC: Girls and Boys Town Sues = to=20 Secure Building Permits
Resources You Can Use

September, 2001=20
Fall River, Massachusetts: If You Tear It Down, They = Won't Come=20
Fairfax, Virginia: County Sues Its Own Board of Zoning = Appeals=20 Over Group Recovery Home
Hawthorne, New Jersey: = Twenty-Eight=20 Affordable Townhouses In Limbo

August, 2001=20
Olathe, Kansas: Federal Court Ruling Threatens Youth = Group=20 Homes
District of Columbia: City Considers New Strategy = for=20 Correctional Halfway Houses
Toronto, Canada: Greyhound = Therapy=20 for Homeless People or Ticket to a New Life?
Montgomery = County,=20 Maryland: County Proposes to Revise Land-Use Rules =
Resources=20 You Can Use

July, 2001=20
Columbus, Ohio: New Apartments in Columbus, Ohio=20
Memphis, Tennessee; Amherst, New York and Framingham,=20 Massachusetts: =93Protecting the Neighborhood=94 Against = Affordable,=20 Multifamily Housing
Food for Thought: An Occasional Feature = of The=20 NIMBY Report: Allowing Localities and Developers to =93Buy = Out=94 of=20 Affordable Housing Obligations Will Perpetuate Segregation and = Undermine=20 Future Efforts

June, 2001=20
Massachusetts: Anti-Snob Zoning Law Comes Up Short; = Opponents=20 Seek to Weaken it Further
Washington, D.C.: Permanent = Housing=20 for Formerly Homeless Men Encounters Community Resistance =
San=20 Francisco: Board of Supervisors Increases Leverage of = Neighborhood=20 Opponents
Food for Thought: An Occasional Feature of The = NIMBY=20 Report: Does the Nation=92s Love Affair with Home Ownership = Ensure that=20 NIMBYism will Increase?

May, 2001=20
Westchester County, New York: Do Good Fences Make Good=20 Neighbors?
Colorado Springs, Colorado: Child Welfare = Agency=20 Co-opts NIMBYism
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Boston Globe = Praises=20 Inclusive Housing
Resources You Can Use

April, 2001=20
Smart Growth and Affordable Housing

March, 2001=20
Boston, Massachusetts: Pine Street Inn Campaigns for = Community=20 Acceptance
Nelson, British Columbia: Overcoming NIMBY = for=20 Mental Health Consumers
Eugene, Oregon: Whiteaker IMBY = (In My=20 Backyard!) Neighborhood-Based Low-Cost Housing and Services = Planning=20
Tools You Can Use

February, 2001=20
Ohio: Research Provides Community Outreach Strategy For = Low=20 Income Housing
Newark, Delaware: Community Opposes = Opening of=20 Residential School for Children with Disabilities =
Minneapolis,=20 Minnesota: Using Local Comprehensive Plans to Avoid Community=20 Opposition
Orland, California: =93Spot Moratorium=94 = Puts Tax=20 Credit-Funded Farm Worker Housing at Risk

January, 2001=20
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Study Demonstrates That = Affordable=20 Housing Doesn't Hurt Nearby Home Values
Tacoma, Washington: = =93Fair Share=94 Activists Hold New Social Services Programs = Hostage=20
Greenwich, Connecticut: Wealthy Community Rises Up = Against=20 Community Housing for People with Mental Disabilities

December, 2000=20
Dallas, Texas: =93Fiscal Zoning=94 Struck Down in Texas=20
Telluride, Colorado: Colorado Supreme Court Strikes = Down=20 Affordability Measure
Louisiana, New Jersey, Illinois:=20 Communities Rise Up Against Senior Housing

November, 2000=20
Salt Lake City, Utah: Litigation and Grassroots Advocacy = to=20 Promote Affordable Housing
Yonkers, New York: Public = Housing=20 Does Not Diminish Property Values
Worcester, Maryland: = A Second=20 Chance for Victory
Prior = issues of the=20 monthly NIMBY report may be found on the Building Better Communities = Network=20 website www.bettercommunities.org

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------=_NextPart_001_0002_01C3BD63.A4B96010-- ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C3BD63.A4B96010 Content-Type: image/gif; name="line.gif" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Location: http://www.nlihc.org/nimby/line.gif R0lGODlhAgBkAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAgBkAAACDISPqcvtD6OctNrrCgA7 ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C3BD63.A4B96010-- From HC Covington" Nonprofit groups tap business-savy leaders for success Samaritan House/Safe Harbor: Measuring the outcome _________________________________________________________ By Tom Shean - The Virginian-Pilot - December 07, 2003 Virginia Beach, VA - Shortly after someone uses emergency housing provided by the Samaritan House/Safe Harbor organization, they receive a short, confidential questionnaire asking about their experience at the shelter. The Virginia Beach organization wants to know where they are headed: To permanent housing? The home of a relative? Back to the streets? Much like a business that analyzes its production and sales, this organization, which works with the homeless and victims of domestic violence, puts responses into a database and looks for trends in its delivery of service. “We want to know how we’re doing,” said Carolyn McPherson, executive director of Samaritan House/Safe Harbor since January. “I wouldn’t say that we’ve made huge leaps. What we have accomplished are improvements in staff morale and efficiency.” The competition for donations and government funding is fierce, and nonprofits are often under pressure from donors to demonstrate what they’ve achieved with the resources they’ve received. McPherson, who has a master’s degree in biostatistics and public health from the University of North Carolina, brought this focus on data-gathering from Amerigroup Corp., where she had been senior vice president for planning and development. Her work at the Virginia Beach-based provider of managed care required evaluating the health-care environments in states where Amerigroup considered doing business. “I had been in the corporate world and wanted to do something different,” McPherson said of her decision to join the Samaritan House. While serving as a volunteer last year with women and children seeking help from the organization, she realized that “we have the opportunity to directly improve their lives.” When the organization sought to fill the post of executive director, McPherson was asked if she would take it, which she did. How much of a shock was it to move from the for-profit world to a nonprofit? “I don’t think it’s as large a leap as some people suspect,’” she said. However, knowing that a person’s life could be in jeopardy because of something that the organization did or didn’t do was sobering. “That wasn’t something I had expected,” McPherson said. Meanwhile, the pressure to compensate for continued cutbacks in government funding and business contributions hasn’t eased. In September, the Samaritan House suspended an after-school tutorial program for children living in its emergency shelters because of a loss of funds. To bolster the organization’s $1.7 million annual budget, McPherson has stepped up its pursuit of non-monetary donations, including food, personal-care items and health-care services. “Fund raising is a constant, daily activity,” she said. “If I go to my dentist, I’m thinking, 'What could he do to help? We have clients who need free dental care.’” So far, her dentist hasn’t volunteered to provide free services, but he did contribute a case of rubber gloves that the Samaritan House will be able to use, McPherson said. Reach Tom Shean at 446-2379 or tom.shean@pilotonline.com The Virginian-Pilot source page: http://tinyurl.com/y8m3 _________________________________________________________________ ©THE HOMELESS NEWS - H.C. Covington, Editor http://tinyurl.com/2yg2 From HC Covington" White House Aide Angers Pagans Towey Suggests Groups Lack Concern for the Poor ________________________________________________________ By Alan Cooperman - Washington Post - December 8, 2003 Washington, DC - H. James Towey, director of the White House's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, has stirred up a pot of trouble by suggesting that pagans don't care about the poor. Wiccans, Druids and other pagans across the country, along with the Washington-based advocacy group Americans United for Separation of Church and State, are demanding an apology from Towey for his remarks in a White House-sponsored online chat Nov. 26. According to the official transcript, Towey was asked by someone in Centralia, Mo., whether pagan groups "should be given the same considerations as any other group" that applies for government funds. "I haven't run into a pagan faith-based group yet, much less a pagan group that cares for the poor!" Towey wrote. "Once you make it clear to any applicant that public money must go to public purposes and can't be used to promote ideology," he wrote, "the fringe groups lose interest. Helping the poor is tough work, and only those with loving hearts seem drawn to it." Outraged pagans have since bombarded the White House and Internet chat rooms with scores of examples of their charitable activity. Particularly common, they say, are food drives in conjunction with Pagan Pride Day celebrations from New York to Wyoming, Arkansas and Nebraska. In the past three years, Pagan Pride groups have collected 74,000 pounds of food and donated $51,000 to homeless shelters, interfaith food banks, the American Red Cross and other charities, according to the Indianapolis-based International Pagan Pride Project. In Chicago, pagans support a battered women's shelter. In Massachusetts, they have given $20,000 for children with AIDS. Towey "obviously doesn't have his finger on the pulse of the pagan community," said Fritz Waltjen, 42, of North Hollywood, Calif. "I don't think the man was being malicious. I think he was just ignorant." As retail manager of Raven's Flight -- "the only pagan book and tchotchke shop within a 20-mile radius" -- Waltjen is at the center of a West Los Angeles pagan community of about 1,000 people that collects food and personal-care items for the homeless on every one of its eight annual "sabbats," or holidays. According to one major study, Wiccans -- one of several subgroups of pagans -- made up the fastest-growing religion in the continental United States in the 1990s. The American Religious Identification Survey, based on a randomly dialed telephone survey of 50,281 households by the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, estimated that the number of Wiccans rose 17-fold, from 8,000 to 134,000, between 1990 and 2001. The survey also estimated that there are 33,000 Druids and 140,000 other pagans in 48 states. That adds up to about 300,000 people in what pagans call their "family of religious and magical paths." Contrary to stereotypes, pagans say, they do not worship Satan or cast evil spells. Although Wiccans practice witchcraft with exotic herbs, chanting and dancing, most of their rituals and beliefs -- which a federal court recognized as a religion in 1986 -- revolve around the cycles of nature, such as equinoxes and phases of the moon. Aside from a belief in magic, the witch next door is likely to hold a pretty mainstream set of concerns -- environmentalism, gender equality and compassion for the poor, said Shea Thomas, a Hyattsville lawyer who is the chairman of Open Hearth Foundation, a nonprofit group raising funds to build a pagan community center in the Washington area. Before heading President Bush's initiative to allow religious groups to compete with secular ones for government grants, Towey founded Aging With Dignity, a nonprofit organization that helps families plan for the care they want during times of serious illness. He also ran Florida's health and social services agency under then-Gov. Lawton Chiles (D) and served as counsel to Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Calls to his office for comment were returned by Claire Buchan, deputy White House press secretary. "The president believes that the faith-based initiative is an important initiative that is not about religion but is about results," she said. "Mr. Towey did not intend to convey any ill will toward anyone." Although pagans across the country have sent letters and e-mails to the White House calling Towey's remarks hateful and discriminatory, Cather Steincamp, a pagan author and activist in Richmond, said the furor has also led to "some self-criticism within our community about what we should be doing." Steincamp said he was not aware of any pagan groups that receive government funding to supply social services. "We're not eligible for that money because, in short, we haven't applied for it," he said. Thomas, of the Open Hearth Foundation, said Towey was half-right. "You will not find any pagan hospitals or universities or shelters for the homeless. Capital intensive things like that do not exist yet, partly because of our size and because we're still getting organized," he said. "But [Towey] kind of implied that we don't have a charitable heart or a charitable focus or purpose, and that's where it got insulting and inaccurate." Washington Post source page: http://tinyurl.com/y8p3 _________________________________________________________________ ©THE HOMELESS NEWS - H.C. Covington, Editor http://tinyurl.com/2yg2 From editor" Cuts spark crisis in mental health Experts see treatment void, delays _______________________________________________________ Meg Kissinger - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Dec 07, 2003 The elimination of a substantial number of hospital beds for acutely ill psychiatric patients in Milwaukee County over the past several months is creating a crisis in mental health care here, doctors, nurses and health care administrators say. ----------------- Quotable: "I wonder if we won't see more suicides." - Martha Rasmus, director of the Mental Health Association in Milwaukee County ----------------- With fewer places to go for treatment, many of the sickest patients are ending up in jail or homeless shelters, where they are unlikely to get any help, administrators at those places say. The county has cut the number of beds for patients with acute mental illness by more than half over the past 10 years, with the notion that private hospitals would care for such patients. Private hospitals have cut back, too. But in the past two months, Aurora Sinai Medical Center eliminated its 23-bed psychiatric ward. And St. Michael Hospital, which continues to administer a 23-bed psychiatric unit, stopped taking referrals of psychiatric patients who were being detained by the county on an emergency basis. That adds up to roughly 300 patients a year. Sinai administrators said reimbursement by the government for mental health care services was not enough to cover their costs. James Gresham, president of behavioral health for Covenant Healthcare, which runs St. Michael, said the decision to not take referrals from the county was both a financial one and a concern that those patients did not mix well with the hospital's current profile of patients. Patients who are involuntarily detained are, by definition, a danger to themselves or others. "The ripple effect is huge here," said County Executive Scott Walker. "The decision to abandon these patients is not made in a vacuum. We're seeing it trickle down all over the place." He predicted that some patients would go to the emergency rooms of private hospitals to receive care. Kenneth Smail, a psychologist who contracts with the county to evaluate criminal defendants on their ability to stand trial, says he has seen a steady increase over the past few years in the number of people in the jail who have significant mental illness. "Clearly, there is a link with the diminishing number of services available," Smail said. "These people don't just go away." Likewise, directors of various homeless shelters throughout Milwaukee County say they have seen a rise in the number of homeless people who are chronically and persistently mentally ill. "We are seeing it getting worse," said Holly Gardenier, executive director of the Guest House, a shelter that houses 76 men a night. Stretched thin James Hill, the interim director of behavioral health for Milwaukee County, acknowledges that the county's in-patient mental health care system is stretched seriously thin as a result of the recent cutbacks by the two private hospitals. "They can walk away, but we can't," he said. "We have a mandate to take care of those people, and we will. But it is creating a tremendous strain." Hill and others say they worry that the money needed to staff the in-patient wards at the county facility could affect the quality of care at the county's community-based mental health care facilities. "You squeeze one place, it shows up someplace else," Hill said. Doctors and nurses report that it is now typical for 30 or more patients to be housed in one of the county's psychiatric wards built to serve 24 people. With no staff added to accommodate the increase, patients are having to wait longer to be treated and are routinely dismissed before they would otherwise be in order to make room for newer patients. The wait for out-patient services is getting longer, too. "It used to be that we would release a patient with an order to go see another doctor the next day. Now, some of these appointments are six or seven weeks down the road," said Clarence Chou, medical director of the county's Child and Adolescent Treatment Center who has worked there for more than 20 years. "Sometimes, you just cross your fingers and hope for the best." Reimbursement worries Hill and others say the problem is rooted in the federal government's Medicaid system, which reimburses hospitals for the care of people without private health insurance. Typically, it costs between $600 and $800 a day to care for a psychiatric patient in a hospital. Medicaid usually covers 75% of that, Hill said. Further exacerbating the county's situation is a provision in the Medicaid law that prohibits reimbursement for patients between the ages of 21 and 64 who are treated at free-standing psychiatric hospitals such as the county's mental health complex in Wauwatosa. So the county pays all of the cost of treating those patients who do not have private health insurance. Many people with chronic and acute mental illness do not have insurance because they cannot work, Hill said. Last year, the county spent more than $1 million for acute in-patient care at the mental health complex, Walker said. The cost is expected to be substantially higher because St. Michael, which could get Medicaid reimbursement, is no longer treating patients brought in on emergency detentions. That cost will now fall to the county without any chance for reimbursement for those patients without private insurance. "This is exactly a step backwards of what we need to do," Walker said. "We had been trying to work out a deal with St. Michael to assume even more of a role in treating the county's patients. We were even talking about having some of our employees work over there. Once Aurora Sinai pulled out, we had a bad feeling that St. Michael would follow. And they did." Gresham said St. Michael is working to expand its role in treating psychiatric patients. "The issue is not between the county and private non-profit hospitals. It's between the county and the federal government on this issue of reimbursement," he said. The county has long had a philosophy of moving patients out of the most restrictive setting into a community-based program. That model is considered better therapeutically and more cost-effective. Since 1993, the county has cut the number of in-patient beds for acutely ill adults from 210 to 96. The model made sense only if there were enough beds to care for the small percentage of patients with mental illness who require acute in-patient care, said Jon Gudeman, former medical director at the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex and now director of the Center for Psychotherapy at Columbia-St. Mary's, Columbia Campus, and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Gudeman helped design the current model. But he is troubled with what he sees happening now. "We have a crisis all right," he said. "The pendulum has swung too far. We now have too few beds to effectively treat the sickest of our patients." Coordination called crucial Gudeman says there is a lack of accountability in the public health care system. "This is an extremely fragmented system, and, therefore, a number of people are falling through the cracks," he said. Hill, the interim administrator, agrees that there is not enough coordination of services. "We need to do a much better job coordinating with those who care for the incarcerated with severe and persistent mental illness," Hill said. Advocates for people with mental illness say they are concerned about the crowding and the lack of adequate hospital beds. "I wonder if we won't see more suicides," said Martha Rasmus, director of the Mental Health Association in Milwaukee County. Walker said he was trying to get together a team of administrators from various health care organizations to try to solve the crowding and a lack of services. "This is a system-wide problem, and it is going to need a system-wide solution," he said. "We can't just turn our back on these people." MEG KISSINGER mkissinger@journalsentinel.com Milwaukee Journal Sentinel source page: http://tinyurl.com/y8v9 _________________________________________________________________ ©THE HOMELESS NEWS - H.C. Covington, Editor http://tinyurl.com/2yg2 From editor" Homeless Homicide _______________________________________________________ By Staff Writers - KHNL 8 TV News - December 8, 2003 Waianae, HI - Police were on scene investigating an early Sunday morning homicide that happend on the Waianae Coast. They say it all started with an argument." Police investigators are trying to figure out what went wrong in a tent. "At about 5:50 this morning witnesses in the parking lot heard a woman scream from the beach," said Lt. Bill Kato. Shortly after, a woman staggered through a parking lot to the edge of the road, she collapsed, and died minutes later at a hospital nearby. Peggy Savella lives in a neighboring tent. She said that the woman was arguing with a man early Sunday morning . "They were grumbling about the tent, she wanted that guy to get out of the tent, but he's semi-paralyzed yeah? So he said 4 o'clock you're waking me up? Where I'm gonna sleep, on the sand?," said Savella. The aruging stopped and Peggy thought everything was fine. "I walked back to my tent then I heard the ambulance after maybe an hour, 45 minutes and then I came down and she was on the road lying down." Police believe the man stabbed the woman. Peggy knew the suspect. He lived with her family three years ago. "At that time he was okay, now since he had coma and stroke and all that - he's changed a little bit," said Savella. She wondered what happened to him. The couple had moved to the beach three days ago. Police have arrested a 39-year old male while the case remains under investigation. KHNL 8 TV News source page: http://tinyurl.com/y91q _________________________________________________________________ ©THE HOMELESS NEWS - H.C. Covington, Editor http://tinyurl.com/2yg2 From editor" Downtown children get place to play Ex-NFL star and church team up on project ________________________________________________________ By MIKE SNYDER - Houston Chronicle - December 07, 2003 Houston, TX - A preacher, a politician and a football star, joined by scores of their closest friends, joined ranks Sunday to show off a new park where children from the growing downtown residential community will soon be playing. St. John's United Methodist Church, already an important social force in eastern downtown with a ministry for the homeless and an early childhood development center, has developed a small park on its campus that will be open to children who live downtown as well as to church members. Funding for the landscaping and playground equipment was provided by Santana Dotson, who retired this year after a decade as a defensive tackle in the National Football League, and his wife, Monique Dotson. The park will be known as the Dotson Family Park. Rudy Rasmus, the church's senior pastor, said the park will fill an important need as the ranks of families living downtown continue to swell. "Their children will have a place to play right here in downtown Houston," Rasmus told a large and enthusiastic crowd of church members and well-wishers who gathered for a ceremonial ribbon-cutting. Rasmus and his wife, Juanita Campbell Rasmus, assumed leadership of the church in 1992 when flight to the suburbs had reduced its official membership to nine people. By 1999 the membership had increased to 3,600, and the Rasmuses were serving more than 6,000 meals a month to the homeless. Dotson said he joined the church in 1993. A product of Yates High School, Dotson said he always lived in Houston during the off-seasons. He spent most of his career with the Green Bay Packers and set a rookie record in 1992 by registering a sack in each of his first four games. "This is a hands-on church," Dotson said, noting that poor congregants worship every week alongside wealthy ones. "It makes you very thankful." Children living downtown need more opportunities for recreation, Dotson said, and the park will help to fill that need. "There's not a lot of parks, not a lot of outdoor structures," he said. Councilman Michael Berry said the park and the church's other social services are a good example of the power of private initiative. "We do so much more in our private sector, especially our churches, than we do in government," Berry said. Houston Chronicle source page: http://tinyurl.com/y9be _________________________________________________________________ ©THE HOMELESS NEWS - H.C. Covington, Editor http://tinyurl.com/2yg2 From HC Covington" Homeless Russians cast parliamentary ballots ______________________________________________________ By Staff Writers - Yahoo News - December 7, 2003 SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia - In a corner of Saint Petersburg immortalized by writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, homeless people strolled into polling station 74 to help choose the nation's new parliament. "It's odd, but the homeless demonstrate an exemplary sense of civic duty," said Sergei Antonov, a policeman at the booth, the only one in Russia's second city to allow homeless to vote. Three hours after the station opened, about 20 homeless people had cast their ballots for the State Duma lower house of parliament, said Valery Sokolov, an official with the Nochlega non-government organization that takes care of the homeless. "I once worked for the KGB just like (Russian President Vladimir) Putin and I voted for his party, United Russia," a bearded man told AFP Sunday. Putin, a native of Saint Petersburg, worked for the Russian secret service before hanging up his spy hat and joining the administration of former Saint Petersburg mayor Anatoly Sobchak, his university mentor. "I am for a strong state. I know the KGB men and they are good people," said another homeless man, Venyamin. "You have to vote," sighed 36-year-old Andrei. "I don't really understand why, but you have to. And I will vote for Putin's party, I don't know the others." United Russia, supported by Putin, dominated the outgoing Duma and is expected to receive a decisive majority in the new chamber. Yahoo News source page: http://tinyurl.com/y9qv _________________________________________________________________ ©THE HOMELESS NEWS - H.C. Covington, Editor http://tinyurl.com/2yg2 From HC Covington" ----- Original Message ----- From: khaki44@aol.com Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 2:56 PM Subject: Anger on the streets Washington DC has never been a good place for the homeless. Mitch Snyder tried to change things I think, but the battle destroyed him. Now they are saying the shelter might be closed. While so many buildings sit abandoned and falling apart, they let the homeless freeze on the streets. Yes, DC seems heartless when it comes to the homeless. Many of the homeless are mental patients released from the facility there with no sufficient follow up. It's overwheming. DC should be the standard others can follow, yet it seems to be one of the worst cities for the homeless. Maybe because they don't have the opportunity to vote because of circumstances? We need help here, before it gets worse. khaki44@aol.com From habitants@yahoogroups.com Mon Dec 8 22:30:56 2003 From: habitants@yahoogroups.com (International Alliance Inhabitants) Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 23:30:56 +0100 Subject: [Hpn] [habitants] Jakarta >>> INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY/SOLIDARIDAD INTERNACIONAL/SOLIDARITE INTERNATIONALE Message-ID: <00a401c3bdda$f8112820$54642697@otto> --Boundary_(ID_ythi8j9Ocs5F8gl89As5eg) Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary_(ID_5X0uKFQFCpfa3JUUB+TACA)" --Boundary_(ID_5X0uKFQFCpfa3JUUB+TACA) Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable (ENGLISH - ESPANOL - FRANCAIS) (ENGLISH) Jakarta city resumes massive evictions: request for international solidarit= y =20 Dear friends, =20 As we informed you before, the Jakarta provincial government's will to keep= harming the rights of urban poor continues to live. After stopping for a w= hile during Ramadhan, the Jakarta provincial government insists on evicting= the urban poor, which already left 15,000 people homeless: the inhabitants= living under the highway in North Jakarta, those who live in the surroundi= ng area of Ria Rio Dam in Pulo Mas, those living along the riverbanks on wh= ich the Jakarta Canal Project takes place and many others are currently in = danger. And the number of these people reach tens of thousand. The latest events showed that the rights abuse committed by the Jakarta pro= vincial government has spread outside the eviction. Even on the eve of Eid = al-Fitr (on 26 November 2003), when the moslem supposed to be free from fea= r and hold happiness, the Jakarta municipal officers of security launched t= he so-called operation of security and order, which actually means forced c= onfiscation of the means of earning of living belong to the urban poor. Whi= le they are incapable of providing jobs for the poor and the unemployed, th= ey prohibited sidewalk vendors or street vendors to earn living on the stre= ets based on the reason to beautify cities. Therefore, as an effort to resist these abuses committed by the provincial = government and give some pressure towards the central government to take fi= rmed position against these uncivilized actions, we has a mass demonstratio= n last 5th December 2003.=20 >>> In order to create more powerful actions, we welcome every support and = solidarity from international communities. We really appreciate if internat= ional communities are willing to initiate similar protest in Indonesian emb= assies in each country, so the Indonesian government and its embassies can = realize that those uncivilized actions are permissible nowhere and it is un= der international watch. We thank you for your continuos support in this campaign. Best wishes, Wardah Hafidz Urban Poor Consortium - Konsorsium Kemiskinan Kota Billy Moon Blok H-I/7 Jakarta 13450, Phone: 62 - 21 - 8642915,86902407=20 Fax: 62.21.86902408; Urban Poor Website: http://www.urbanpoor.or.id/=20 >>> Click here to find more info http://www.urbanpoor.or.id/gusur/ >>> In attach there is a sample letter you may find useful (file checked wi= th Norton antivirus update) =20 *** *** *** (ESPANOL) La ciudad de Jakarta reanuda desalojos masivos: pedido de solidaridad inter= nacional. Queridos amigos: Como les inform=E1ramos previamente, el deseo del gobierno provincial de Ja= karta de da=F1ar los derechos de los pobres urbanos contin=FAa vivo. Luego = de haber detenido los desalojos durante el per=EDdo del Ramadhan, el gobie= rno provincial de Jakarta insiste en desalojar a los pobres urbanos, pr=E1c= tica que ya ha provocado 15.000 personas sin vivienda: los habitantes que v= iven bajo las autopistas en el norte de Jakarta, los que viven en las =E1re= as aleda=F1as a la R=EDa Rio Dam en Pulo Mas, los que viven en las riberas = en donde el Proyecto del Canal de Jakarta est=E1 siendo ejecutado, y muchos= otros est=E1n ahora en peligro. Y el n=FAmero de personas llega a decenas = de miles. Los =FAltimos eventos muestran que el abuso de derecho cometido por el Gobi= erno Provincial de Jakarta ha superado a los mismos desalojos. A=FAn en la = vispera de Eid-al-Fitr (26 de noviembre) cuando los musulmanes deber=EDan s= entirse libres de peligro y felices, los oficiales de seguridad de la Munic= ipalidad de Jakarta lanzaron la llamada operaci=F3n de seguridad y orden, q= ue en realidad significa la confiscaci=F3n de los medios de vida de los pob= res urbanos. Mientras son incapaces de proveer puestos de trabajo para los = pobres y desempleados, prohiben la venta ambulante e impiden a los vendedor= es ambulantes ganarse la vida, basandose en razones de embellecimiento de l= as ciudades.=20 Consecuentemente, en un esfuerzo por resistir estos abusos cometidos por el= gobierno provincial y presionar al gobierno nacional para que tome una pos= ici=F3n firme contra estas acciones incivilizadas, hemos realizado una demo= straci=F3n masiva el 5 de diciembre de 2003.=20 >>> En orden a generar acciones mas en=E9rgicas, el apoyo y la solidaridad = de la comunidad internacional ser=E1n bienvenidos. Apreciar=EDamos realment= e si la comunidad internacional estuviera dispuesta a iniciar protestas sim= ilares en las embajadas indonesias en cada pa=EDs, de manera que el gobiern= o Indonesio entienda que estas acciones incivilizadas son ahora conocidas y= est=E1n bajo la vigilancia mundial. Les agradecemos por su continuo apoyo en esta campa=F1a. Los mejores deseos, Wardah Hafidz Consorcio de Pobres Urbanos. Konsorsium Kemiskinan Kota. Billy Moon Blok H-I/7 Jakarta 13450,=20 Tel: 62 - 21 - 8642915, 86902407 >>> Pincha aqu=ED para leer mas informaciones http://www.urbanpoor.or.id/gu= sur/ >>> En alegado encuentrais una carta de solidaridad que mandar (fichero con= trolado con Norton antivirus puesto al dia) *** *** *** (FRANCAIS) La ville de Jakarta reprend les expulsions massives: appel =E0 la solidarit= =E9 internationale=20 Chers amis,=20 comme nous vous en avions d=E9j=E0 inform=E9, le gouvernement provincial de= Jakarta continue =E0 violer le droit des habitants pauvres.=20 Apr=E8s avoir arr=EAt=E9 lors du Ramadhan, le gouvernement provincial de Ja= karta a repris sa politique d'expulsion de la pauvret=E9 urbaine, qui a d= =E9j=E0 touch=E9 15.000 sans-abri: les habitants vivants sous l'autoroute d= ans le nord de Jakarta, ceux qui habitent dans les environs du barrage de R= io de Ria =E0 Pulo Mas, ceux qui habitent le long de la rive o=F9 le projet= de canal de Jakarta est mis en oeuvre et beaucoup d'autres sont actuelleme= nt en danger.=20 Le nombre de ces personnes atteint les dizaines de millier.=20 Les derniers =E9v=E9nements ont montr=E9 que la violation des droits commis= par le gouvernement provincial de Jakarta ne s'est pas arr=EAt=E9 aux expu= lsions. M=EAme la veille de Eid al-Fitr (le 26 novembre 2003), quand le mus= ulman est suppos=E9 se sentir libre de la peur et =EAtre en =E9tat de bonhe= ur, les officiers municipaux de s=E9curit=E9 de Jakarta ont lanc=E9 la soi-= disant op=E9ration de s=E9curit=E9 et d'ordre, qui signifie en fait la conf= iscation forc=E9e des moyens de vivre des pauvres. Alors qu'ils sont sont i= ncapables de fournir du travail aux pauvres et aux sans emplois, ils ont in= terdit les vendeurs de rue en en donnant comme raison qu'il faut rendre la = ville plus belle.=20 Par cons=E9quent, nous avons organis=E9e une d=E9monstration de masse le 5 = d=E9cembre 2003 afin de r=E9sister aux abus commis par le gouvernement prov= incial et faire pression sur le gouvernement central afin qu'il prenne une = position ferme contre ces actions inhumaines.=20 >>> Afin d'augmenter la puissance des actions, nous accueillons tout soutie= n et toute solidarit=E9 des communaut=E9s internationales. Nous appr=E9cier= ions que les communaut=E9s internationales inaugurent des protestations sim= ilaires envers les ambassades Indon=E9siennes dans chaque pays, pour que le= gouvernement Indon=E9sien puisse se rendre compte que ces actions inhumain= es sont inacceptable et qu'il y a une veille au niveau international.=20 Nous vous remercions pour votre soutien continuel dans cette campagne.=20 Salutations Wardah Hafidz=20 >>> Cliquez ici pour lire plus d'info http://www.urbanpoor.or.id/gusur/ >>> En attach=E9 vous trouvez aussi une lettre de solidarit=E9 =E0 envoyer = (fichier contr=F4l=E9 avec Norton antivirus mis =E0 jour) *** *** *** -------------------------------------- International Alliance of Inhabitants (provisional) c/o Unione Inquilini via Bettella, 2/ter 35133 Padova - Italy tel. ++39 049691771 fax ++39 02700415592 e-mail: cesare.ottolini@libero.it --------------------------------------= --Boundary_(ID_5X0uKFQFCpfa3JUUB+TACA) Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable
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Jakarta city resumes massive evictions: request for=20 international solidarity

Dear friends,
<= BR>As we=20 informed you before, the Jakarta provincial government's will to keep= =20 harming the rights of urban poor continues to live. After stopping for= a=20 while during Ramadhan, the Jakarta provincial government insists on evictin= g the=20 urban poor, which already left 15,000 people homeless: the inhabitants living under the highway in North Ja= karta,=20 those who live in the surrounding area of Ria Rio Dam in Pulo Mas, those li= ving=20 along the riverbanks on which the Jakarta Canal Project takes place and man= y=20 others are currently in danger. And the number of these people reach tens o= f=20 thousand.
The latest events showed that the rights abuse committed by th= e=20 Jakarta provincial government has spread outside the eviction. Even on the = eve=20 of Eid al-Fitr (on 26 November 2003), when the moslem supposed to be free f= rom=20 fear and hold happiness, the Jakarta municipal officers of security launche= d the=20 so-called operation of security and order, which actually means forced=20 confiscation of the means of earning of living belong to the urban poor. Wh= ile=20 they are incapable of providing jobs for the poor and the unemployed, they= =20 prohibited sidewalk vendors or street vendors to earn living on the streets= =20 based on the reason to beautify cities.

Therefore, as an effort = to resist=20 these abuses committed by the provincial government and give some pressure= =20 towards the central government to take firmed position against these uncivi= lized=20 actions, we has a mass demonstration last 5th December 2003.

>>> In = order to=20 create more powerful actions, we welcome every support and solidarity from= =20 international communities. We really appreciate if international communitie= s are=20 willing to initiate similar protest in Indonesian embassies in each country= , so=20 the Indonesian government and its embassies can realize that those uncivili= zed=20 actions are permissible nowhere and it is under international=20 watch.

We thank you for your co= ntinuos=20 support in this campaign.

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Best=20 wishes,

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Wardah=20 Hafidz

Urban Poor Consortium - = Konsorsium=20 Kemiskinan Kota

Billy Moon Blok H-I/7 Ja= karta=20 13450, Phone: 62 - 21 -=20 8642915,86902407
Fax: 62.21.86902408; Urban Poor Website:
http://www.urbanpoor.or.id/=20

>>> Click = here to=20 find more info http://www.urbanpoor.or.id/gusur/
>>> In att= ach there=20 is a sample letter you may find useful (file checked with Norton antivirus= =20 update)

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(ESPANOL)

=

La ciudad = de Jakarta=20 reanuda desalojos masivos: pedido de solidaridad=20 internacional.

Queridos amigos:<= /DIV>

Como les inform=E1ramos = previamente,=20 el deseo del gobierno provincial de Jakarta de da=F1ar los derechos de los = pobres=20 urbanos contin=FAa vivo. Luego de haber detenido los desalojos durant= e el=20 per=EDdo del Ramadhan, el gobierno provincial de Jakarta insiste en desaloj= ar a=20 los pobres urbanos, pr=E1ctica que ya ha provocado 15.000 personas sin vivi= enda:=20 los habitantes que viven bajo las autopistas en el norte de Jakarta, los qu= e=20 viven en las =E1reas aleda=F1as a la R=EDa Rio Dam en Pulo Mas, los que viv= en en las=20 riberas en donde el Proyecto del Canal de Jakarta est=E1 siendo ejecutado, = y=20 muchos otros est=E1n ahora en peligro. Y el n=FAmero de personas llega a de= cenas de=20 miles.
Los =FAltimos eventos muestran que el abuso de derecho cometido p= or el=20 Gobierno Provincial de Jakarta ha superado a los mismos desalojos. A=FAn en= la=20 vispera de Eid-al-Fitr (26 de noviembre) cuando los musulmanes deber=EDan s= entirse=20 libres de peligro y felices, los oficiales de seguridad de la Municipalidad= de=20 Jakarta lanzaron la llamada operaci=F3n de seguridad y orden, que en realid= ad=20 significa la confiscaci=F3n de los medios de vida de los pobres urbanos. Mi= entras=20 son incapaces de proveer puestos de trabajo para los pobres y desempleados,= =20 prohiben la venta ambulante e impiden a los vendedores ambulantes ganarse l= a=20 vida, basandose en razones de embellecimiento de las ciudades.=20
Consecuentemente, en un esfuerzo por resistir estos abusos cometidos po= r el=20 gobierno provincial y presionar al gobierno nacional para que tome una posi= ci=F3n=20 firme contra estas acciones incivilizadas, hemos realizado una demostraci= =F3n=20 masiva el 5 de diciembre de 2003.

>>> En = orden a=20 generar acciones mas en=E9rgicas, el apoyo y la solidaridad de la comunidad= =20 internacional ser=E1n bienvenidos. Apreciar=EDamos realmente si la comunidad internacional es= tuviera=20 dispuesta a iniciar protestas similares en las embajadas indonesias en cada= =20 pa=EDs, de manera que el gobierno Indonesio entienda que estas acciones=20 incivilizadas son ahora conocidas y est=E1n bajo la vigilancia=20 mundial.

Les agradecemos por su c= ontinuo=20 apoyo en esta campa=F1a.

Los mejores deseos,

Wardah Hafidz

Consorcio de Pobres = Urbanos.=20 Konsorsium Kemiskinan Kota.
Billy Moon Blok H-I/7 Jakarta 13450,
Tel= : 62=20 - 21 - 8642915, 86902407

>>> P= incha aqu=ED=20 para leer mas informaciones http://www.urbanpoor.or.id/gusur/

>>> En ale= gado=20 encuentrais una carta de solidaridad que mandar (fichero controla= do=20 con Norton antivirus puesto al dia)

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(FRANCAIS)

La ville de Jakarta reprend les expulsions massives: appel = =E0 la=20 solidarit=E9 internationale

Chers amis,

comme nous vous en avions d=E9j= =E0 inform=E9,=20 le gouvernement provincial de Jakarta continue =E0 violer le droit des habi= tants=20 pauvres.
Apr=E8s avoir arr=EAt=E9 lors du Ramadhan, le gouvernement pro= vincial de=20 Jakarta a repris sa politique d'expulsion de la pauvret=E9 urbaine, qui a d= =E9j=E0=20 touch=E9 15.000 sans-abri: les habitants vivant= s sous=20 l'autoroute dans le nord de Jakarta, ceux qui habitent dans les environs du= =20 barrage de Rio de Ria =E0 Pulo Mas, ceux qui habitent le long de la rive o= =F9 le=20 projet de canal de Jakarta est mis en oeuvre et beaucoup d'autres sont=20 actuellement en danger.
Le nombre de ces personnes atteint les dizaines= de=20 millier.
Les derniers =E9v=E9nements ont montr=E9 que la violation des = droits=20 commis par le gouvernement provincial de Jakarta ne s'est pas arr=EAt=E9 au= x=20 expulsions. M=EAme la veille de Eid al-Fitr (le 26 novembre 2003), quand le= =20 musulman est suppos=E9 se sentir libre de la peur et =EAtre en =E9tat de bo= nheur, les=20 officiers municipaux de s=E9curit=E9 de Jakarta ont lanc=E9 la soi-disant o= p=E9ration de=20 s=E9curit=E9 et d'ordre, qui signifie en fait la confiscation forc=E9e des = moyens de=20 vivre des pauvres. Alors qu'ils sont sont incapables de fournir du travail = aux=20 pauvres et aux sans emplois, ils ont interdit les vendeurs de rue en en don= nant=20 comme raison qu'il faut rendre la ville plus belle.

Par cons=E9quen= t, nous=20 avons organis=E9e une d=E9monstration de masse le 5 d=E9cembre 2003 af= in de=20 r=E9sister aux abus commis par le gouvernement provincial et faire pression= sur le=20 gouvernement central afin qu'il prenne une position ferme contre ces action= s=20 inhumaines.

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>>&g= t; Afin=20 d'augmenter la puissance des actions, nous accueillons tout soutien et tout= e=20 solidarit=E9 des communaut=E9s internationales. Nous appr=E9cierions que les communau= t=E9s=20 internationales inaugurent des protestations similaires envers les ambassad= es=20 Indon=E9siennes dans chaque pays, pour que le gouvernement Indon=E9sien pui= sse se=20 rendre compte que ces actions inhumaines sont inacceptable et qu'il y a une= =20 veille au niveau international.

Nous vous remercions pour = votre=20 soutien continuel dans cette campagne.=20

Salutations

Wardah Hafidz=20

>>> Cli= quez ici=20 pour lire plus d'info http://www.urbanpoor.or.id/gusur/

>>> En attach= =E9 vous=20 trouvez aussi une lettre de solidarit=E9 =E0 envoyer (fichier contr=F4= l=E9 avec=20 Norton antivirus mis =E0 jour)

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(provisional)
c/o Unione Inquilini
via=20 Bettella, 2/ter
35133 Padova - Italy
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The Gales Shelter and its 150 beds will close December 19th. It will become the home of the D.C. Children's Advocacy Center, but not for several months and not until massive renovations are done to the building. D.C. Council Member Jim Graham says if that's the case, then the shelter should remain open at least through the winter for the people who fill it to capacity almost every night. A new men's shelter will open on New York Avenue in Northeast, more than two miles from the Gales site. Some of the homeless say they won't go there because it's too far away from their food and medical services downtown, and they can't afford bus or taxi fare. ABC 7 TV News source page: http://tinyurl.com/yc56 _________________________________________________________________ ©THE HOMELESS NEWS - H.C. Covington, Editor http://tinyurl.com/2yg2 From HC Covington" Centre students explore poverty and homelessness ____________________________________________________ By Staff Writers - Advocate Messenger - December 08, 2003 Danville, KY - Centre College classes are known for being challenging and providing hands-on experience, and a fall-term class taught by Rick Axtell, associate professor of religion and college chaplain, exemplifies these characteristics. Axtell has been teaching "Studies in Ethics: Poverty and Homelessness" at Centre for seven years. Of the class's many requirements, one is particularly challenging to his students this semester: they were to spend one night at a Louisville homeless shelter. "I like this exercise because it gives students the opportunity to observe life in the shelters and to interview the people they meet there," Axtell said. "It's an experience that fosters greater understanding of an almost hidden part of our society." The idea arose out of Axtell's own "life-changing" experience of living for almost two years in an inner city Louisville transitional shelter as a ministry resident and case worker. Later, he was a case manager at St. Vincent de Paul's transitional shelter for men in Louisville. For 17 years, Axtell has been a member of an inner city Louisville church that ministers to homeless men and women. Throughout the fall semester, Axtell's students have spent either a Friday or Saturday night, roughly from 4 p.m. to 8 a.m., with a class partner at one of Louisville's three main shelters: Wayside Christian Mission, Salvation Army and St. Vincent de Paul. The 22 students are encouraged to interact with shelter residents and talk to them about their situation. "This assignment taught me the importance of listening," said junior Emily Green, an English major from Tullahoma, Tenn. "Once you start listening to someone, that breaks down a barrier. Everyone deserves to have the dignity of being listened to." Upon returning from their overnight visit, Axtell's students reflect on their experience in their journals. Students evaluate the experience based on what they had studied about causes of homelessness and theories of social justice. But many students also comment about how uncomfortable they initially felt walking into the shelter because of the different environment and their student-observer role. "Normally I don't have trouble talking with people, but I was unsure of how to talk to people without seeming condescending or intrusive," said senior Rachel Harrod, a religion major from Owenton. "One woman referred to herself as a guinea pig that we came to observe. But I think she appreciated us for asking her about her experience. She told us we needed to stay a week to get an accurate idea of life at the shelter." Jess Metzmeier, a senior double-major in anthropology/sociology and religion from Louisville, also found it difficult to adapt. He will enter a master's program in social work after graduation. "For the first few hours, I had no idea what was going on or where I should be," he said. "I felt like I was in a herd of cattle - quickly getting into a line whenever it formed and following even though I had no idea where I was going." Axtell intentionally drops off students down the street from the shelter so that they will walk up by themselves in order to have the experience of approaching, entering and checking in as anyone else would. Axtell spends the night in Louisville while his students are in the shelters, and eats in the soup kitchen to keep an eye on them. "I've always given students the option to call me at any time if they feel uncomfortable or unsafe and need to leave, but in all these years, I've never had a student call," he said. "The next morning when I pick them up, they're always anxious to talk about their eye-opening experience. It's an incredible learning experience for everyone involved." One student recently had an evening she won't soon forget when she stayed overnight at Wayside Christian Mission. Senior Brittany Perrin of Salem befriended a 19-year-old woman while attending the Urban Goatwalker Cafe, an open-stage coffeehouse that features artists from all walks of life, including a large number of homeless performers. While talking to a girl named LaQuisha, Perrin soon found that they shared many common interests, including plans for a career in law. "She told me she had a plan to get her life together and get out of the shelter," Perrin said. "She wanted to get her GED and eventually go to school to be a paralegal." LaQuisha impressed Perrin not only because she had similar aspirations, but also because of her compassion and cheerful spirit. "While we were at the Goatwalker, LaQuisha got into a conversation with a man who had been at Wayside for a long time but was now getting ready to move to a nursing home. He was fretful about leaving his community of friends at Wayside, and LaQuisha was so supportive and responded perfectly to ease and comfort him. I was in awe. I had no idea what to say to him, but here was this girl younger than me and without a home, and she had it more together than I did." The young women stayed up talking late into the night. "It really felt like I was with a bunch of friends in the dorms. But then I would remind myself that this wasn't a dorm; it was a homeless shelter," Perrin said. Perrin has been exchanging letters regularly with LaQuisha and has been back to visit her. As a direct result of her experience at Wayside and with LaQuisha, Perrin headed up a shoe drive to bring needed shoes to the women at Wayside. "Shoes were the No. 1 thing all of the women there are in need of," Perrin said. "People donate clothes, but they forget to donate shoes, which are really important as it turns cold." Axtell said encounters like Perrin's opens the eyes of many Centre students. "The students approach the experience wondering what they will say to homeless people. They always return having encountered people - the labels have become less important. This experience puts a face on the problem of homelessness and makes the issue less impersonal." Copyright The Advocate-Messenger 2003 source page: http://tinyurl.com/yc2k _________________________________________________________________ ©THE HOMELESS NEWS - H.C. Covington, Editor http://tinyurl.com/2yg2 From HC Covington" December 18, 2003 Simpson Housing Annual Homeless Memorial Service: Remembering Those Who Died While Homeless in 2003 5:00pm : Vigil & March from Project Offstreets/Youthlink, 41 S. 12th St. , Minneapolis , 6:00pm : Memorial Service at Simpson United Methodist Church ; 2740 1stAve. S., 7:30pm : Free community meal at Simpson Shelter. source page: http://tinyurl.com/ycxq _________________________________________________________________ ©THE HOMELESS NEWS - H.C. Covington, Editor http://tinyurl.com/2yg2 From HC Covington" Analysis: Homelessness an issue in S.F. _____________________________________________________ Hil Anderson - United Press International - Dec 08. 2003 SAN FRANCISCO, CA - The standoff over San Francisco's homeless could prove to be the deciding factor Tuesday as the Green Party reaches for its first victory in a big-city mayoral race against a Democrat who has been painted as an enemy of the poor by members of the city's sizable left-wing community. The Green Party's candidate, County Supervisor Matt Gonzalez, was locked in a tight race with Democrat Gavin Newsom on Monday as the final full day of campaigning swirled through the streets of the city under the eye of the late-arriving national media. Mayoral races in San Francisco have frequently been bruising affairs between high profile and often-colorful candidates, but the 2003 runoff between Gonzalez and Newsome poses the tantalizing prospect of a Green knocking off a candidate from one of the two major parties in a major election. Because the polls have been so tight in recent weeks, political observers have had their heads filled with pre-Christmas sugar plum visions of the Greens emerging as a force to be reckoned with in a key presidential state. Portraying Tuesday's vote as a referendum on the Greens' ascendancy to the mainstream, however, clearly overlooks the city's insular political nature. San Francisco is by far one of the nation's most beautiful and recognized city, and it is also an historic bastion of big-city Democratic loyalty that even Gonzalez hasn't cut himself off from. "I joined the Green Party because it's a party with good Democratic values," Gonzalez told San Francisco television station KTVU Monday. The city by the Bay is also a traditionally liberal city that has hosted the beatniks of North Beach, the hippies of Haight-Ashbury and the gay movement in the Castro. It is that tradition that has skewed the perceptions of San Francisco politics and has virtually cast the election in terms of class warfare when it comes down to the homeless and the city's low-income residents. The wedge issue has been the controversial "Care, Not Cash" ballot initiative that Newsom championed while on the San Francisco County Board of Supervisors and was seen as a concerted effort to run the poor out of their humble homes in one of the costliest cities in the nation. Seen through the left-shift of the political prism in San Francisco, Newsom is vilified as a pro-growth lapdog of the business community, which is allegedly bent on gentrifying the city even though the elderly, sick and blue-collar will have to be sent packing. The homeless were also seen as a target of the business community through the 2002 "Care, Not Cash," plan, which would have improved social services but cut off cash General Assistance payments to the legions of street people dug into some parts of the downtown area. The proposal was approved by the voters but later killed through court litigation, which neither solved the problem nor ended the idea of cutting off aid payments to derelicts. Newsom has listed the addressing of the homeless issue as a major plank in his economic platform aimed at drawing more businesses to town -- and San Francisco's location on a peninsula means most commercial activity is clustered in and immediately around downtown. "San Franciscans are increasingly frustrated with aggressive and improper solicitation, which threatens our safety and diminishes quality of life for everyone," Newsom said To that end, not only would the homeless be weaned rather abruptly from their monthly stipend, but they also would be prohibited from panhandling beleaguered tourists and office workers at hot spots such as freeway ramps, bus stops and automated teller machines. Violators would be subject to arrest after the appropriate warnings from the city's no-nonsense police force. Gonzalez has not forcibly challenged Newsom on the issue since being portrayed as a champion of aggressive panhandlers probably wouldn't appeal to too many voters regardless of their politics. What Gonzalez wants to do is increase, or at least to maintain, the size of San Francisco low-income housing pool. The run-down residency hotels and apartment houses began to decline during the 1990s when the high-tech boom fueled demand for office space and new upper-income housing in the venerable low-income downtown neighborhoods such the Tenderloin, South of Market, the Mission and South of Market. The San Francisco Chronicle last week endorsed Newsom both for his willingness to improve the downtown business climate and for Gonzalez's perceived lack of a solid plan for the homeless situation. "Gonzalez's own homeless proposal -- posted just recently on his campaign Web site -- reveals a hodgepodge of ideas that have been floating around City Hall for years, hardly the kind of initiative needed for the city's most obvious crisis," the newspaper concluded. But an endorsement by the Chronicle is seen by some activists as proof that Newsom is in the pocket of the business community, and that may draw suspicious San Francisco voters to the Green Party. "The greens that have held office have tried to bring ethics to city government," Gonzlez said to KTVU Monday. "I'm pleased that the electorate in San Francisco is really smart and isn't fooled." Copyright © 2001-2003 United Press International UPI source page: http://tinyurl.com/yhhw _________________________________________________________________ ©THE HOMELESS NEWS - H.C. Covington, Editor http://tinyurl.com/2yg2 From habitants@yahoogroups.com Wed Dec 10 00:40:28 2003 From: habitants@yahoogroups.com (International Alliance Inhabitants) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 01:40:28 +0100 Subject: [Hpn] [habitants] 10/12/03 Kolkhata (India) >>> Against the evictions/Contra los desalojos/Contre les expulsions Message-ID: <015001c3beb6$4648b040$32642a97@otto> ------=_NextPart_000_014A_01C3BEBE.99B75B20 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_014B_01C3BEBE.99B75B20" ------=_NextPart_001_014B_01C3BEBE.99B75B20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20=20 (ENGLISH - ESPANOL - FRANCAIS) (ENGLISH) Dear friends, I'm forwarding you (English, Espanol, Fran=E7ais) an important Appeal for A= ction coming from Kolkhata (India). This report is prepared on behalf of National Forum for Housing Rights Indi= a.=20 The Forum is a network of independent organizations in the country on housi= ng rights front that campaigns against the practice of forced evictions and= advocates the provision of residential land to the working class populatio= n in urban centers.=20 >>> The Forum recommends the readers to send large number of protest letter= s through emails and faxes on Human Rights Day to the addresses you find he= re under. Please email a copy of the protest letter to National Forum for Housing Rig= hts on rajeevjohn@vsnl.com *** *** ***=20=20=20=20 (ESPANOL) Estimados amigos: os mando un importante Llamado (English, Espanol, Fran=E7ais) procedente de= Kolhata, India. Este reporte ha sido elaborado en nombre del Foro Nacional por los Derechos= Humanos.=20 El Foro es una red de organizaciones independientes en el pa=EDs que trabaj= a por el derecho a la vivienda y en contra de la pr=E1ctica de desalojos fo= rzosos y aboga por la provisi=F3n de tierra para las clases trabajadoras en= los centros urbanos.=20 >>> El Foro recomienda a los lectores el env=EDo de cartas de protesta a tr= av=E9s de e-mail y fax aqui bajo en el D=EDa Internacional de los Derechos = Humanos.=20 Por favor env=EDen copia de las cartas de protesta al Foro Nacional por el = Derecho a la Vivienda a rajeevjohn@vsnl.com *** *** *** (FRANCAIS) Chers amis, je vous envoie un Appel (English, Espanol, Fran=E7ais) =E0 l'action en prov= enance de Kolkota (Inde). Ce rapport est pr=E9par=E9 pour le compte du Forum Indien National pour les= Droits au Logement. Le Forum est un r=E9seau d'organisations ind=E9pendant= es dans le pays en mati=E8re de droit au logement qui fait campagne contre = la pratique des expulsions forc=E9es et recommande de consacrer des terres= r=E9sidentielles pour la population des centres urbains. >>> Le Forum recommande aux lecteurs d'envoyer de nombreuses lettres de pro= testation par e-mails et fax le Jour des Droits de l'Homme aux adresses sui= vantes.=20 Envoyer une copie de votre lettre de protestation au Forum National pour le= s Droits au Logement : rajeevjohn@vsnl.com *** *** *** Ciao in solidarity, solidaridad, solidarit=E9. Cesare Ottolini ----------------------------------- International Alliance of Inhabitants (provisional) c/o Unione Inquilini via Bettella, 2/ter 35133 Padova - Italy tel. ++39 049691771 fax ++39 02700415592 e-mail: cesare.ottolini@libero.it ----------------------------------- =20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20 International Human Rights Day Issue=20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- =20=20=20=20=20 APPEAL FOR ACTION APPEAL FOR ACTION APPEAL FOR ACTION A= PPEAL FOR ACTION=20 The 10th December Carnage Kolkata Eviction on Human Rights Day =20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 Dulal Das, 48, a cart puller committed suicide hours before the eviction =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 ESPANOL La Masacre del 10 de diciembre Desalojos en Kolkata en el D=EDa de los Derechos Humanos El 10 de diciembre de 2002, cuando el mundo celebraba el D=EDa = Internacional de los Derechos Humanos, el gobierno de Bengala del Oeste est= aba desalojando brutalmente a 4000 familias. Los desalojos de Belighata ser= =E1n recordados como la Masacre del 10 de diciembre. Este hecho ser=E1 marc= ado como un monumental error en la historia de Bengala del Oeste. Hasta hoy= , a ninguna de las 4000 familias se le ha prove=EDdo de alojamiento alterna= tivo.=20 En los primeros a=F1os de la d=E9cada del 80, fue el mismo gobi= erno del Frente de Izquierda en Bengala del Oeste que provey=F3 alojamiento= alternativo a los mismos habitantes de Beliagatha en el =E1rea del canal. = Estos residentes despojados tienen sus nombres en los carnets electorales y= tarjetas de racionamiento como prueba de residencia. Esta ha sido una oper= aci=F3n conjunta ejecutada por la Corporaci=F3n Municipal de Kolkata, la Au= toridad Metropolitana de desarrollo de Kolkata, y el Departamento de Irriga= ci=F3n Estatal. La administraci=F3n estatal y la oposici=F3n estuvieron tam= bi=E9n involucradas en esta barbarie. Estos proyectos de elite han sido apo= yados por el Banco Asi=E1tico de Desarrollo y han generado miles de "sin te= cho" en la ciudad. D=EDas antes de los desalojos, las "Fuerzas de Acci=F3n R=E1pid= a" marchaban cada d=EDa armadas con sofisticado armamento amenzando a los h= abitantes a dejar la localidad. El 10 de diciembre fuerzas policiales junto= con m=E1quinas excavadoras llegaron al lugar. En un comienzo lo residentes= , espec=EDficamente las mujeres, resistieron el desalojo, pero mientras se = encontraban discutiendo con las autoridades un incendio misterioso se inici= =F3 en el lugar. Los residentes creen que esto fu=E9 el resultado de accion= es de las autoridades de manera de provocar el vaciamiento de sus viviendas= de forma de que las autoridades necesitaran menos esfuerzo para derribar l= as viviendas con las excavadoras. Los desalojos comenzaron a las 8 de la ma=F1ana del 10 de dicie= mbre de 2002. Se report=F3 que horas antes de comenzados los desalojos, un = porteador de carros, Dulal Das, 48, cometi=F3 suicidio. Sima Das, una ni=F1= a de 9 a=F1os, relat=F3a al reportero del "The Statesman" que "gente del go= bierno vino y nos amenaz=F3 con dispararnos si no dej=E1bamos la casa" Lueg= o de que toda la operaci=F3n fuera realizada, el canal de Belighata se asem= eja al predio de un crematorio en el d=EDa de los Derechos Humanos." On 10th December 2002 when the world was observing International= Human Rights Day the West Bengal Government was brutally evicting 4000 fam= ilies. Beliaghata eviction will be remembered as 10th December carnage. Thi= s incidence will be marked as a monumental mistake in the history of West B= engal. Till date none of the 4,000 families have been provided any alterna= tive accommodation.=20=20=20 In early eighties it was the same Left-Front government in West= Bengal that had provided alternative site to the same inhabitants at the B= eliaghata canal side. The dispossessed residents have their names in the el= ectoral roles and ration cards as proof of residence.=20 This was a joint operation executed by Kolkata Municipal Corpor= ation, Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority and the State Irrigation = Department. The state administration and the opposition both were involved = in this barbaric act. These elite projects have been supported by Asian Dev= elopment Bank, which has made thousands homeless in the city.=20 Days before eviction Rapid Action Force were marching each day = armed with sophisticated weapons threatening the inhabitants to leave the l= ocality. On 10th December heavy police force with bulldozers arrived. Fir= st the residents specifically women resisted the eviction, but as they wer= e busy arguing against eviction with the authorities a mysterious fire brok= e out within the locality, the residents believe that this was the handy w= ork of authorities so that all their belongings are gutted down and they wo= uld need less efforts to crush the belongings through bulldozers.=20 The eviction operation began at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, 10th Decembe= r 2002. It was reported that hours before the evictions a cart puller, Du= lal Das, 48, had committed suicide. Sima Das, a nine year old girl, told Th= e Statesman reporter, "Government people came and threatened me that they w= ould shoot us if we won't leave the house". After the entire operation was= over Beliaghata canal resembled a crematorium ground on Human Rights Day".= = =20 Following are the excerpts from the Kolkata newspapers: = =20 The Statesmen, Kolkata, 11th Dec 2002 Sima Das a nine-year-old girl child lost her father seven month= s before the Beliaghata eviction that had taken place in Kolkata-city. Thei= r mother left the home days after her father died. Sima was living alone wi= th her four younger sisters and a two-year-old brother at Beliaghata Canal = side. Sima's elder sister was working as domestic help and the house owner = would rarely allow her to visit their sisters' home... Just a day before th= e eviction at Beliaghata Canal, Sima gave her account to The Statesmen repo= rter, "Government people came with a coupon, they took my thumb impression = and threatened me that they would shoot us if we won't leave the house".The= re were around 4000 families who had rendered homeless and undergone simila= r pain, anguish and separated from family members after the Beliaghata evic= tion. These inhabitants were residing along two-kilometer stretch starting = from Orange Sura down to Ghaznavi Bridge.=20 The Telegraph, Kolkata, 12th Dec 2002 "Our own political masters have cheated us, they've exploited u= s for decades as assured vote bank. We had cast false votes, threatened vot= ers with guns and bombs and forced them to vote in their favor and also sus= tained injuries in return, but when the residents at Beliaghata needed them= most, the political leaders 've deserted us". - An angry Communist Party w= orker at Beliaghta canal.=20 The Times of India, 11th Dec 2002 Hours before the demolition a cart-puller Dulal Das (48), commi= tted suicide. His wife Lakshmi said, he ended his life because he couldn't = bear the tension to find a suitable shelter, for his nine-member family.=20 The 48 year-old, Das was struggling and was "shattered" by the = threat of eviction. Before committing suicide he told his wife, "we had no = place to go after our home is dismantled".=20 Before the eviction for last few days Das was hunting for accom= modation but couldn't find any. His wife was sleepless whole night, when sh= e woke up at 5 am on Monday morning, she found him hanging from the ceiling= . Dulal Das had voter identity card and ration card as residence proof.=20 The Statesmen, Kolkata, 11th Dec 2002 Deepa De a domestic servant was living in a small room of 6 by = 8 feet room at Beliaghata canal. A day before the eviction drive Deepa brou= ght all her belongings through the help of her three children. She thought = to spend some days at the opposite nearby footpath. But next day morning ar= med policemen rudely removed her. The mother with her three children was ev= en deprived from living at footpath after facing brutal eviction from Belia= ghata canal.=20 The Statesmen, Kolkata, 11th Dec 2002 Urmila Chowrasia, three children were preparing for final exams= . These children were unable to go for classes as they were served notice t= o vacate their homes. Nearly 80 per cent of children at Beliaghata canal si= de use to attend schools.=20 The Statesmen, Kolkata, 11th Dec 2002 A day before the eviction Sona Das, a cart puller complained, t= hose who have house or land already at places like Sundarbans or Canning ha= d already shifted, but our family will be rendered homeless?=20 The Telegraph, Kolkata, 12th Dec 2002 When nearly 200 women and children blocked the bulldozers near = the western bank of the Beliaghata canal. A widow of three children Manwara= Bidi cried, "You'll 've to crush me and my children before smashing my hou= se, where'll I stay from tomorrow?"=20 The Times of India, 10th Dec 2002 "I 've no clue where would I go with my infant kids in this col= d winter night", Mira Devi, mother of two children in tears.=20=20=20 The Times of India, 9th Dec 2002 Minati Ranjit's husband was a TB patient who couldn't go for wo= rk. Her two children were suffering from thalassaemia. Where would we go...= ?=20=20=20 The Telegraph, Kolkata, 12th Dec 2002 Ravi and Prafulla, drivers of the two bulldozers, saluted each = other by extending the giant mechanical arms towards one another, signifyin= g their job well done, in front of 25,000 homeless victims who were silentl= y watching from both sides of the canal while there homes were razed to the= ground. The eviction operation which started on 10th December ended on 11t= h December 2002 at 1.25 p.m.=20 Mayor of Kolkatta, Subrata Mukherjee, "This is undoubtedly an achievement. This place was a breeding = ground of all sorts of diseases and crime. Kolkata Municipal Corporation KM= C will take up a beautification drive along the evicted stretch of the cana= l."=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 Courtesy : The Telegraph h =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 FRANCAIS =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 Le carnage du dix d=E9cembre Expulsions =E0 Kolkota le Jour des Droits de l'Homme Le dix d=E9cembre 2002 alors que le monde c=E9l=E8brait le Jour= International des Droits de l'Homme le Gouvernement du Bengale Ouest expul= sait sauvagement 4000 familles. L'expulsion de Beliaghata est appel=E9e le = carnage du dix d=E9cembre. Ce fait sera consid=E9r=E9 comme une erreur monu= mentale dans l'histoire du Bengale Ouest. A ce jour aucune des 4000 famille= s n'a trouv=E9 d'alternative. Au d=E9but des ann=E9es 80, ce fut le m=EAme gouvernement de ga= uche du Bengale Ouest qui avait fourni un site alternatif aux habitants le = long du canal de Beliaghata. Les habitants d=E9poss=E9d=E9s ont comme preuv= e de r=E9sidence leurs cartes =E9lectorales et leurs cartes de ration. Ce fut une op=E9ration ex=E9cut=E9e en partenariat par la Kolka= ta Municipal Corporation, la Kolkata Metropolitan Developement Authority et= le State Irrigation Department. L'administration de l'Etat et l'opposition =E9taient toutes les= deux impliqu=E9es dans cet acte barbare. Ces projets =E9litistes ont =E9t= =E9 soutenus par la Banque de D=E9veloppement Asiatique, qui a fait des mil= liers de sans-abri dans la ville. Quelques jours avant l'expulsion la Force d'Action Rapide march= ait chaque jour, arm=E9e avec des armes sophistiqu=E9es, et mena=E7aient le= s habitants afin qu'ils quittent la r=E9gion. Le 10 d=E9cembre la police et= les bulldozers sont arriv=E9s. Au d=E9but les habitants et en particulier = les femmes ont r=E9sist=E9 =E0 l'expulsion, mais alors qu'ils =E9taient occ= up=E9es =E0 lutter contre l'expulsion un feu myst=E9rieux s'est propag=E9 d= ans la localit=E9. Les habitants pensent que c'est le travail des autorit= =E9s afin qu'ils aient moins de travail pour raser le site avec les bulldoz= ers. L'op=E9ration expulsion a d=E9but=E9 =E0 8 heures du matin le m= ardi 10 d=E9cembre 2002. Quelques heures auparavant un conducteur de charre= tte, Dulal Das, 48 ans, s'est suicid=E9. Sima Das, une fille de neuf ans, a= dit au journaliste du Statesman, "les gens du Gouvernement sont venus et i= ls ont menac=E9 de nous tirer dessus si nous ne quittions pas les maisons".= A la fin de l'op=E9ration le canal de Beliaghata ressemblait au sol d'un c= r=E9matorium le Jour des Droits de l'Homme". =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 -------------------------------------------------------------------- =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 This report is prepared on behalf of National Forum for Housing= Rights India. The Forum is a network of independent organizations in the c= ountry on housing rights front that campaigns against the practice of force= d evictions and advocates the provision of residential land to the working = class population in urban centers.=20 Following are the list of network organizations:=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 Campaign for Housing And Tenure Rights (CHATRI)=20 Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh) Sannihita Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh) Ashray Adhikar Abhiyan=20 New Delhi=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 Human Rights Law Network New Delhi Sajha Manch=20 New Delhi India Centre for Human Rights & Law Mumbai (Maharashtra)=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 Nivar Hakk Suraksha Samiti (NHSS)=20 Mumbai (Maharashtra) Committee for Right to Housing (CRH)=20 Mumbai (Maharashtra) Chennai Slum Dwellers Rights Movement=20 Chennai (Tamil Nadu)=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 Pennurimai Iyakkam=20 Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) Manabadhikar Suraksha Moncha (MASUM) Howrah (West Benga)l Human Rights Law Network Kolkata (West Bengal)=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 Ucchhed Birodhi Jukta Mancha=20 Kolkata (West Bengal) Jan Sanhati Kendra=20 Kolkata (West Bengal) Lawyers for Human Rights International (= LHRI) Chandigarh ( Punjab)=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 Jan Sangarsh Manch JSM=20 Ahemdabad ( Gujarat)=20 LAXMI Lucknow ( Uttar Pradesh) Vigyan Foundation Lucknow ( Uttar Pradesh)=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 Ankur Yuwa Chetana Shivir Lucknow ( Uttar Pradesh) People's Vigilance Committee on Human Rights=20 Varanasi ( Uttar Pradesh) Chattisgarh Voluntary Health Associa= tion Raipur (Chattisgarh)=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 Chattisgarh Action Research Centre Raipur (Chattisgarh) Chattisgarh Yuva Samaj Raipur ( Chattisgarh) Muskan Bhopal ( Madhya Pradesh)=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 People's Research Society Bhopal ( Madhya Pradesh) Samwad Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh) Jan Vikas Kendra Indore ( Madhya Pradesh)=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 Jhugghi Basti Sangarsh Morcha=20 Indore ( Madhya Pradesh)=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Appeal for Action We appeal to the national, international human rights bodies an= d financial institutions to respond immediately to West Bengal government a= gainst this barbaric act.=20=20 The West Bengal state should abide by international and nationa= l laws which makes mandatory to any evictees for an alternative provision. = Such policies and provisions are consistently practiced in all other states= in India.=20=20 >>> The Forum recommends the readers to send large number of pr= otest letters through emails and faxes on Human Rights Day to the following= addresses. Budhadev Bhattacharya Chief Minister,=20 Govt. of West Bengal. Writers' Buildings, Kolkata-1 Fax :- 91-33-2214 5480 Tel: 91 33 214 5555=20 Email: cm@wb.gov.in; cpimwb@cal3.vsnl.net.in; prsecycm@wb.nic.i= n=20 Ashok Bhattacharya Minister In-charge of Urban Affairs & Urban Development=20 Municipal Affairs Department,=20 Govt. of West Bengal.=20 Writers' Buildings,=20 Kolkata-1 Tel:91 33 214 5497=20 Fax : 91-33-2214 3853 Email: cpimwb@cal3.vsnl.net.in; micma@wb.gov.in Amalendu Roy=20 Minister In charge of Irrigation & Water Ways=20 Tel: 91 33 214 3612=20 Fax: 91 33 321 5210=20 Subrata Mukherjee Kolkata Municipal Corporation Tel: 91 33 244 7519=20 Fax: 91 33 2442578=20 Email: cmcmayor@vsnl.net=20 The President pressecy@alpha.nic.in; pressecy@sansad.nic.in. The Prime Minister pmosb@pmo.nic.in The National Human Rights Commission chairnhrc@nic.in; nhrc@ren.nic.in. Please email a copy of the protest letter to National Forum for= Housing Rights on rajeevjohn@vsnl.com =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 -------------------------------------------------------------------- =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 National Forum for Housing Rights, Campaign Secratariat Office:= C/o Deenbandhu, 3 Usha Nagar Main, Anapurna road, Indore - 452009, Madhya = Pradesh, Tel: 0731 278888, 2788340 website: www.nfhr.org =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 -------------------------------------------------------------------- =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20 ------=_NextPart_001_014B_01C3BEBE.99B75B20 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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(ENGLISH - ESPANOL - FRANCAIS)

(ENGLISH)

Dear friends,

I'm forwarding you (English, Espanol, Fran= =E7ais) an=20 important Appeal for Action coming from Kolkhata (India).

This report is pre= pared=20 on behalf of National Forum for Housing Rights India.

The Forum is a net= work of=20 independent organizations in the country on housing rights front that campa= igns=20 against the practice of forced evictions and advocates the provision of=20 residential land to the working class population in urban centers. <= /DIV>

>>>=20 The Forum recommends the readers to send large number of protest letters th= rough=20 emails and faxes on Human Rights Day to the addresses you find here=20 under.

Please email a copy of the pr= otest=20 letter to National Forum for Housing Rights on rajeevjohn@vsnl.com

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(ESPANOL)

Estimados amigos:

os mando un importante Llamado (English, E= spanol,=20 Fran=E7ais) procedente de Kolhata, India.

Este reporte ha sido elaborado en nom= bre del=20 Foro Nacional por los Derechos Humanos.
El Foro es una red de organizac= iones=20 independientes en el pa=EDs que trabaja por el derecho a la vivienda y en c= ontra=20 de la pr=E1ctica de desalojos forzosos y aboga por la provisi=F3n de tierra= para las=20 clases trabajadoras en los centros urbanos.

>>> El Foro re= comienda=20 a los lectores el env=EDo de cartas de protesta a trav=E9s de e-mail y fax = aqui bajo=20 en el D=EDa Internacional de los Derechos Humanos.=20

Por favor env=EDen copia de las carta= s de=20 protesta al Foro Nacional por el Derecho a la Vivienda a rajeevjohn@vsnl.com

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(FRANCAIS)

Chers amis,

je vous envoie un=20 Appel (English, Espanol, Fran=E7ais) =E0 l'action en provenance de&nbs= p;Kolkota=20 (Inde).

Ce rapport est pr=E9par=E9= pour le compte=20 du Forum Indien National pour les Droits au Logement. Le Forum est un r=E9s= eau=20 d'organisations ind=E9pendantes dans le pays en mati=E8re de droit au logem= ent qui=20 fait campagne contre la pratique des expulsions forc=E9es et recommande de= =20 consacrer des terres r=E9sidentielles pour la population des centres= =20 urbains.
>>> Le Forum recommande aux lecteurs d'envoyer= de=20 nombreuses lettres de protestation par e-mails et fax le Jour des Droits de= =20 l'Homme aux adresses suivantes.

Envoyer une copie de votre= lettre de=20 protestation au Forum National pour les Droits au Logement : rajeevjohn@vsnl.com

*** =20 *** ***

Ciao in solidarity, solidar= idad,=20 solidarit=E9.

Cesare=20 Ottolini

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International Alliance o= f=20 Inhabitants
(provisional)
c/o Unione Inquilini
via Bettella,=20 2/ter
35133 Padova - Italy
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International Hu= man Rights=20 Day Issue=20

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APPEAL FOR ACTION APPEAL = FOR=20 ACTION APPEAL FOR=20 ACTION APPEAL FOR=20 ACTION

The 10^th December=20 Carnage
Kolkata=20 Eviction on Human Rights Day

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Dulal Das,=20 48, a cart puller committed
suicide hours before= the=20 eviction

&nb= sp; =20 =20 =20 ESPANOL

La Masacre del 10 de=20 diciembre
Desalojos en Kolkata en el D=EDa de los Derechos=20 Humanos

El 10 de diciembre de 2002, cuando el m= undo=20 celebraba el D=EDa Internacional de los Derechos Humanos, el go= bierno=20 de Bengala del Oeste estaba desalojando brutalmente a 4000 fami= lias.=20 Los desalojos de Belighata ser=E1n recordados como la Masacre d= el 10=20 de diciembre. Este hecho ser=E1 marcado como un monumental erro= r en la=20 historia de Bengala del Oeste. Hasta hoy, a ninguna de las 4000= =20 familias se le ha prove=EDdo de alojamiento alternativo.
En= los=20 primeros a=F1os de la d=E9cada del 80, fue el mismo gobierno de= l Frente=20 de Izquierda en Bengala del Oeste que provey=F3 alojamiento=20 alternativo a los mismos habitantes de Beliagatha en el =E1rea = del=20 canal. Estos residentes despojados tienen sus nombres en los ca= rnets=20 electorales y tarjetas de racionamiento como prueba de residenc= ia.=20 Esta ha sido una operaci=F3n conjunta ejecutada por la Corporac= i=F3n=20 Municipal de Kolkata, la Autoridad Metropolitana de desarrollo = de=20 Kolkata, y el Departamento de Irrigaci=F3n Estatal. La administ= raci=F3n=20 estatal y la oposici=F3n estuvieron tambi=E9n involucradas en e= sta=20 barbarie. Estos proyectos de elite han sido apoyados por el Ban= co=20 Asi=E1tico de Desarrollo y han generado miles de =93sin techo= =94 en la=20 ciudad.
D=EDas antes de los desalojos, las =93Fuerzas de Acc= i=F3n=20 R=E1pida=94 marchaban cada d=EDa armadas con sofisticado armame= nto=20 amenzando a los habitantes a dejar la localidad. El 10 de dicie= mbre=20 fuerzas policiales junto con m=E1quinas excavadoras llegaron al= lugar.=20 En un comienzo lo residentes, espec=EDficamente las mujeres,=20 resistieron el desalojo, pero mientras se encontraban discutien= do=20 con las autoridades un incendio misterioso se inici=F3 en el lu= gar.=20 Los residentes creen que esto fu=E9 el resultado de acciones de= las=20 autoridades de manera de provocar el vaciamiento de sus viviend= as de=20 forma de que las autoridades necesitaran menos esfuerzo para=20 derribar las viviendas con las excavadoras.
Los desalojos=20 comenzaron a las 8 de la ma=F1ana del 10 de diciembre de 2002. = Se=20 report=F3 que horas antes de comenzados los desalojos, un porte= ador de=20 carros, Dulal Das, 48, cometi=F3 suicidio. Sima Das, una ni=F1a= de 9=20 a=F1os, relat=F3a al reportero del =93The Statesman=94 que =93g= ente del=20 gobierno vino y nos amenaz=F3 con dispararnos si no dej=E1bamos= la casa=94=20 Luego de que toda la operaci=F3n fuera realizada, el canal de=20 Belighata se asemeja al predio de un crematorio en el d=EDa de = los=20 Derechos Humanos.=94

On 10th December = 2002=20 when the world was observing International Human Rights Day the= West=20 Bengal Government was brutally evicting 4000 families. Beliagha= ta=20 eviction will be remembered as 10^th December carnage= .=20 This incidence will be marked as a monumental mistake in the hi= story=20 of West Bengal. = Till=20 date none of the 4,000 families have been provided any alternat= ive=20 accommodation.

In early e= ighties=20 it was the same Left-Front government in West Bengal that had=20 provided alternative site to the same inhabitants at the Beliag= hata=20 canal side. The dispossessed residents have their names in the= =20 electoral roles and ration cards as proof of residence.=20

This=20 was a joint operation executed by Kolkata Municipal Corporation= ,=20 Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority and the State Irriga= tion=20 Department. The state administration and the opposition both we= re=20 involved in this barbaric act. These elite projects have= been=20 supported by Asian Development Bank, which has made thousands=20 homeless in the city.

Days before evict= ion=20 Rapid Action Force were marching each day armed with sophistica= ted=20 weapons threatening the inhabitants to leave the locality. On 10th December heav= y=20 police force with bulldozers arrived. First the reside= nts=20 specifically women resisted the eviction, but as the= y were=20 busy arguing against eviction with the authorities a mysterious= fire=20 broke out within the locality, =20 the residents believe that this was the handy work of=20 authorities so that all their belongings are gutted down and th= ey=20 would need less efforts to crush the belongings through=20 bulldozers.

The eviction oper= ation=20 began at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, 10^th December 2002. It was reported that = hours=20 before the evictions a cart puller, Dulal Das, 48, had committe= d=20 suicide. Sima Das, a nine year old girl, told The Statesman=20 reporter, "Government people came and threatened me that they w= ould=20 shoot us if we won't leave the house". After the entire=20 operation was over Beliaghata canal resembled a crematorium gro= und=20 on Human Rights Day". = ; &n= bsp;

Following are the excerpts from the Kolkata=20 newspapers: = =20

The S= tatesmen,=20 Kolkata, 11^th Dec 2002
Sima Das a=20 nine-year-old girl child lost her father seven months before th= e=20 Beliaghata eviction that had taken place in Kolkata-city. Their= =20 mother left the home days after her father died. Sima was livin= g=20 alone with her four younger sisters and a two-year-old brother = at=20 Beliaghata Canal side. Sima's elder sister was working as domes= tic=20 help and the house owner would rarely allow her to visit their= =20 sisters' home... Just a day before= the=20 eviction at Beliaghata Canal, Sima gave her account to The Stat= esmen=20 reporter, "Government people came with a coupon, they took my t= humb=20 impression and threatened me that they would shoot us if we won= 't=20 leave the house".There were around= 4000=20 families who had rendered homeless and undergone similar pain,= =20 anguish and separated from family members after the Beliaghata= =20 eviction. These inhabitants were residing along two-kilometer=20 stretch starting from Orange Sura down to Ghaznavi Bridge.=20

The Telegraph, Kolkata, 12^th Dec=20 2002
"Our own poli= tical=20 masters have cheated us, they've exploited us for decades as as= sured=20 vote bank. We had cast false votes, threatened voters with guns= and=20 bombs and forced them to vote in their favor and also sustained= =20 injuries in return, but when the residents at Beliaghata needed= them=20 most, the political leaders 've deserted us". - An angry Commun= ist=20 Party worker at Beliaghta canal.

The T= imes of=20 India, 11^th Dec =20 2002
Hours before = the=20 demolition a cart-puller Dulal Das (48), committed suicide. His= wife=20 Lakshmi said, he ended his life because he couldn't bear the te= nsion=20 to find a suitable shelter, for his nine-member family.=20

The 48 year-old, = Das was=20 struggling and was "shattered" by the threat of eviction. Befor= e=20 committing suicide he told his wife, "we had no place to go aft= er=20 our home is dismantled".

Before the evicti= on for=20 last few days Das was hunting for accommodation but couldn't fi= nd=20 any. His wife was sleepless whole night, when she woke up at 5 = am on=20 Monday morning, she found him hanging from the ceiling. Dulal D= as=20 had voter identity card and ration card as residence proof.=20

The Statesmen, Kolkata, 11^th Dec=20 2002
Deepa De a do= mestic=20 servant was living in a small room of 6 by 8 feet room at Belia= ghata=20 canal. A day before the eviction drive Deepa brought all her=20 belongings through the help of her three children. She thought = to=20 spend some days at the opposite nearby footpath. But next day=20 morning armed policemen rudely removed her. The mother with her= =20 three children was even deprived from living at footpath after= =20 facing brutal eviction from Beliaghata canal.=20

The Statesmen, Kolkata, 11^th Dec=20 2002
Urmila Chowra= sia,=20 three children were preparing for final exams. These children w= ere=20 unable to go for classes as they were served notice to vacate t= heir=20 homes. Nearly 80 per cent of children at Beliaghata canal side = use=20 to attend schools.

The Statesmen, Kolkata, 11^th Dec=20 2002
A day before the= =20 eviction Sona Das, a cart puller complained, those who have hou= se or=20 land already at places like Sundarbans or Canning had already=20 shifted, but our family will be rendered homeless?=20

The Telegraph, Kolkata, 12^th Dec=20 2002
When nearly 2= 00=20 women and children blocked the bulldozers near the western bank= of=20 the Beliaghata canal. A widow of three children Manwara Bidi cr= ied,=20 "You'll 've to crush me and my children before smashing my hous= e,=20 where'll I stay from tomorrow?" =

The Times of India, 10^th Dec=20 2002
"I 've no clu= e where=20 would I go with my infant kids in this cold winter night", Mira= =20 Devi, mother of two children in tears. =20

The Times of India, 9^th Dec=20 2002
Minati Ranjit= 's=20 husband was a TB patient who couldn't go for work. Her two chil= dren=20 were suffering from thalassaemia. Where would we go...? =20

The Telegraph, Kolkata, 12^th Dec=20 2002
Ravi and Praf= ulla,=20 drivers of the two bulldozers, saluted each other by extending = the=20 giant mechanical arms towards one another, signifying their job= well=20 done, in front of 25,000 homeless victims who were silently wat= ching=20 from both sides of the canal while there homes were razed to th= e=20 ground. The eviction operation which started on 10^th= =20 December ended on 11^th December 2002 at 1.25 p.m.=20

Mayor of Kolkatta, Subrata=20 Mukherjee,
"This is undoubte= dly an=20 achievement. This place was a breeding ground of all sorts of=20 diseases and crime. Kolkata Municipal Corporation KMC will take= up a=20 beautification drive along the evicted stretch of the canal."=20

Courtesy=20 : The Telegraph
h

FRANCAIS

Le carnage du d= ix=20 d=E9cembre
Expulsions =E0 Kolkota le Jour des Droits de=20 l'Homme

Le dix d=E9= cembre=20 2002 alors que le monde c=E9l=E8brait le Jour International des= Droits=20 de l'Homme le Gouvernement du Bengale Ouest expulsait sauvageme= nt=20 4000 familles. L'expulsion de Beliaghata est appel=E9e le carna= ge du=20 dix d=E9cembre. Ce fait sera consid=E9r=E9 comme une erreur mon= umentale=20 dans l'histoire du Bengale Ouest. A ce jour aucune des 4000 fam= illes=20 n'a trouv=E9 d'alternative.
Au d=E9but des ann=E9es 80, ce f= ut le m=EAme=20 gouvernement de gauche du Bengale Ouest qui avait fourni un sit= e=20 alternatif aux habitants le long du canal de Beliaghata. Les=20 habitants d=E9poss=E9d=E9s ont comme preuve de r=E9sidence leur= s cartes=20 =E9lectorales et leurs cartes de ration.
Ce fut une op=E9rat= ion=20 ex=E9cut=E9e en partenariat par la Kolkata Municipal Corporatio= n, la=20 Kolkata Metropolitan Developement Authority et le State Irrigat= ion=20 Department.

L'administration de l'Etat et l'o= pposition=20 =E9taient toutes les deux impliqu=E9es dans cet acte barbare. C= es=20 projets =E9litistes ont =E9t=E9 soutenus par la Banque de D=E9v= eloppement=20 Asiatique, qui a fait des milliers de sans-abri dans la=20 ville.
Quelques jours avant l'expulsion la Force d'Action Ra= pide=20 marchait chaque jour, arm=E9e avec des armes sophistiqu=E9es, e= t=20 mena=E7aient les habitants afin qu'ils quittent la r=E9gion. Le= 10=20 d=E9cembre la police et les bulldozers sont arriv=E9s. Au d=E9b= ut les=20 habitants et en particulier les femmes ont r=E9sist=E9 =E0 l'ex= pulsion,=20 mais alors qu'ils =E9taient occup=E9es =E0 lutter contre l'expu= lsion un=20 feu myst=E9rieux s'est propag=E9 dans la localit=E9. Les habita= nts pensent=20 que c'est le travail des autorit=E9s afin qu'ils aient moins de= =20 travail pour raser le site avec les bulldozers.
L'op=E9ratio= n=20 expulsion a d=E9but=E9 =E0 8 heures du matin le mardi 10 d=E9ce= mbre 2002.=20 Quelques heures auparavant un conducteur de charrette, Dulal Da= s, 48=20 ans, s'est suicid=E9. Sima Das, une fille de neuf ans, a dit au= =20 journaliste du Statesman, "les gens du Gouvernement sont venus = et=20 ils ont menac=E9 de nous tirer dessus si nous ne quittions pas = les=20 maisons". A la fin de l'op=E9ration le canal de Beliaghata ress= emblait=20 au sol d'un cr=E9matorium le Jour des Droits de=20 l'Homme".

This report is pr= epared=20 on behalf of National Forum for Housing Rights India. The Forum= is a=20 network of independent organizations in the country on housing= =20 rights front that campaigns against the practice of forced evic= tions=20 and advocates the provision of residential land to the working = class=20 population in urban centers.

Following are the list of network organizations:= =20

Campaign for H= ousing=20 And Tenure Rights (CHATRI)
Hyderabad (Andhra=20 Pradesh)

Sannihita
Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh)<= /TD>

Ashray Adhikar= =20 Abhiyan
New Delhi

Human Rights L= aw=20 Network
New Delhi

Sajha=20 Manch
New=20 Delhi

India Centre f= or=20 Human Rights & Law
Mumbai (Maharashtra)

Nivar Hakk Sur= aksha=20 Samiti (NHSS)
Mumbai (Maharashtra) =

Committee for = Right=20 to Housing (CRH)
Mumbai (Maharashtra)

Chennai Slum D= wellers=20 Rights Movement
Chennai (Tamil=20 Nadu)

Pennurimai=20 Iyakkam
Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu)

Manabadhikar S= uraksha=20 Moncha (MASUM)
Howrah (West Benga)l

Human Rights L= aw=20 Network
Kolkata (West Bengal)

Ucchhed Birodh= i Jukta=20 Mancha
Kolkata (West Bengal)

Jan Sanhati Ke= ndra=20
Kolkata (West= =20 Bengal)

Lawyers = for=20 Human Rights International (LHRI)
Chandigar= h (=20 Punjab)

Jan Sangarsh M= anch=20 JSM
Ahemdabad ( Gujarat)

LAXMI
L= ucknow=20 ( Uttar Pradesh)

Vigyan=20 Foundation
Lucknow ( Uttar Pradesh)

Ankur Yuwa Che= tana=20 Shivir
Lucknow ( Uttar Pradesh)

People's Vigil= ance=20 Committee on Human Rights
Varanasi (= =20 Uttar Pradesh)

Chattisgarh Vo= luntary=20 Health Association
Raipur (Chattisgarh)

Chattisgarh Ac= tion=20 Research Centre
Raipur (Chattisgarh)

Chattisgarh Yu= va=20 Samaj
Raipur ( Chattisgarh)

Muskan
= Bhopal=20 ( Madhya Pradesh)

People's Resea= rch=20 Society
Bhopal ( Madhya Pradesh)

Samwad
Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh)=

Jan Vikas=20 Kendra
Indore ( Madhya Pradesh)

Jhugghi Basti= =20 Sangarsh Morcha
Indore ( Madhya Pradesh)=20

Appeal for=20 Action

We appeal to the national, intern= ational=20 human rights bodies and financial institutions to respond=20 immediately to West=20 Bengal government against this barbaric act. =20

The=20 West Bengal state = should=20 abide by international and national laws which makes mandatory = to=20 any evictees for an alternative provision. Such policies and=20 provisions are consistently practiced in all other states in=20 India.

>>>=20 The Forum recommends the readers to send large number of protes= t=20 letters through emails and faxes on Human Rights Day to the=20 following addresses.

Budhadev=20 Bhattacharya
Chief Minister,
Govt. of West=20 Bengal.
Writers' Buildings, Kolkata-1
Fax :- 91-33-2214=20 5480
Tel: 91 33 214 5555
Email: cm@wb.gov.in; cpimwb@cal3.vsnl.net.in= ;=20 prsecycm@wb.nic.in=20

Ashok=20 Bhattacharya
Minister In-charge of Urban Affairs & U= rban=20 Development
Municipal Affairs Department,=20
Govt. of West Bengal.
Writers'=20 Buildings,
Kolkata-1
Tel:91 33 214 5497=20