Hey Occupy Oakland!
I have been occupying Oakland for 13 days with all of ya. I overheard the city is going to attempt to clear park in 2 stages. First step is to bring homeless services in and remove homeless folks without arrest. I believe their strategy is to be very careful with both homeless and folks and people with mental health challenges. It’s probably from a liability or reputation/media stand point. And perhaps a few do care? Anyway the 2nd stage will be to clear the rest of us out with most likely what they have threatened.
Makes me wonder if they are gonna do a bandaid token fix on our homeless and mentally challenged folk family in our tent city? And attempt to place them in shelters where some may not want to go because of the conditions? Unless the city is going come down with instant EBT/SSI/SECTION 8 bypass applications which would be a sustainable fix – folks are probably going to be right back where there were before. Fucked!
I think we should hold a info session for disabled/homeless/dual diagnosed/mentally challenged and street youth preparing them for what may start tomorrow with city officials coming in trying to ‘help’ them. What do they want . . . . .? I want to be an ally to what goes down 1st stage. I think this should be the main concern in the present moment. Peace 🙂
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