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Carolyn Epple posted an update in the group
Dorothy Day WG 1 year, 2 months ago D.Day meets tomorrow 4.2.12 1-3 p.m. PJC
Agenda
April 2, 2012 A Proposed Agenda
PJC membership call – Carl
Updates:
-Food – coordination with FNB and providing help
-Brochure (include in mention of food at our meetings?)
-Flashnap
-Petition
-Research on City Council members – on whom do we focus?April 7, 2012
-Table (reserved from PJC) transport -Record testimonies?
-D.Day brochure copies -Staffing and a chair
-Petitions and clipboards and pens -Tent and banner
-D.Day sign up sheet -Donation can for OSR
-Bubbles and other fun things to draw people -Symbolic Flashnap?
-Signmaking (one idea – small signs to go around people’s necks with Legalize Sleep)Upcoming
Outreach with petitions Outreach with brochures
Flashnap and CD training on 4/15
City Council Agenda – start flashnaps before or after that? If after, do we want to send a letter to the City Council beforehand so they know why people might be getting cited?)For future weeks, return to plotting out long, intermediate and short term goals, and tactics as summarized below (based on all of our ideas from planning sessions):
Short-term:
Get on City Council Agenda
Large Contingent for big actions – May 1 coming up
Know your rights cards for shelter-displaced
Training in organizing petitioning, civil disobedience, etc for everyone
Daily hot meal
Doing own media – people telling storiesIntermediate
Stop enforcement of anti-sleeping laws
Redistribute bucks from enforcement to fund land, tent city with member-owned spacesLong term
Permanent housing for all with dignity in Sonoma County
Change stigma of mental disabilities and folks who are shelter-displacedTactics
Education: Leafletting, testimonies, research with facts, i.e., #beds vs. #w/o perm. shelter
Immediate needs: food, shelter/services, i.e, through churches
Power: Flashnaps, Sitting @City Council w/placards
