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Proposed protest at the ACLU Travesty Sunday Afternoon
From: "Robert Norse" <rnor...@hotmail.com>
To: "HUFF yahoo groups" <huffsantac...@yahoogroups.com>
HUFFsters:

Who's interested in coming to a protest Sunday afternoon around 3 PM?
Or in supporting such a protest by making signs? We need to know this
to adequately prepare a peaceful educational protest for Sunday's
ACLU
Awards ceremony.

The local ACLU plans to present Mayor Ryan Coonerty with the 'Hammer
of Justice' award Sunday between 3 and 6 PM Aug. 24 in the La Feliz
Room of the Seymour Center at the Long Marine Laboratory, 100
Schaffer
Road.

The rationale for the ACLU's decision (made by a minority of its
members)is reportedly in praise of his constitutional law classes at
Cabrillo and UCSC.

That's the same place Councilmember (and ACLU Board member Mike
Rotkin) blocked our going in and tried to arrest HUFFsters when we
tried toenter with signs, urging the ACLU to publicly oppose the
Sleeping Ban and support the court challenge.  A year later, of
course, they've done nothing further around that issue.

On Saturday, the Human Rights Organization voted to support a
protestthere.  Bernard is organizing it.  Valerie C. has made a sign.
I'mworking on a flyer.  We'll be talking about the issue at
tomorrow'sHUFF meeting.

Becky Johnson in her brief commentarybelow outlines some of
Coonerty's
bad positions and actions.  He isalso outstandingly bad on a number
of
other issues:

an enabler of the SCPD--in its coverup of the political infiltration
several years ago of the DIY Last Night peaceful protest and the
Council's refusal to provide protections.

supported a blank check to the Parks and Recreation boss to close
down
any areas of the city under the P & R jurisdiction (which includes
the
entire Pogonip, City Hall, the library, pa without a public hearing
or
an affirmative vote from the P & R  Commission.

refused to release either his public meetings schedule or his
appointment book history of meetings with lobbyists as required by
the
California Sunshine Act.

helped to cripple the Measure K Committee, created by Initiative last
election to oversee the SCPD and ensure that marijuana busts on
private property of adults are the lowest property; still hasn't
appointed his member, leaving the position vacant.

arranged through closed door meetings with staff and conservative
Council meetings for last year's SCPD crackdown on Pacific Ave and
continues to champion further such measures in the upcoming election
under the guide of 'quality of life' and 'public safety' labels.

refuses to meet with or document is personal attacks on critics who
publicly confronted him in front of the Bookshop Santa Cruz for his
anti-homeless position.

Last year's activities are chronicled at
Activists ask ACLU to help end sleeping ban
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/ 2007/08/26/18443532.php
Rotkin Responds to the ACLU Scandal: Signature Hypocrisy of Phoney
'Progressive' Politics
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/ 2007/09/08/ 18446314.php
Kate Wells, who is on the ACLU's legal committee, but was not
consulted in the ACLU's decision to award Coonerty, will be out of
town, but has expressed amazement and outrage agt the decision.


BECKY'S CRITIQUE:

NOTETO READERS: Last year, HUFF attended the ACLU awards ceremony
only
to be refused entry because Robert Norse was carrying a sign.  Mike
Rotkin called the police and the UCSC police and the SCPD showed up.
The UCSC police sgt. informed Rotkin that carrying a sign into a
public meeting was a legal activity.  HUFF members were then allowed
toattend the event and no further incident occurred.  This year,this
event, to which the ACLU is 'inviting the public' plans to give Mayor
Ryan Coonerty and award. No doubt for his cutting public comment at
City Council meetings, banning activists from Bookshop Santa Cruz who
have been critical of his policies toward homeless people, and for
making all downtown parking lots 'notrespass zones.'   --- Becky
Johnson of HUFF


 THE SENTINEL STORY

ACLU hosts awards ceremony
found at:http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_10199162

PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ATTENDING THIS TRAVESTY.

Robert Norse

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