• Carolyn Epple posted an update in the group Group logoDorothy 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 stories

    Intermediate
    Stop enforcement of anti-sleeping laws
    Redistribute bucks from enforcement to fund land, tent city with member-owned spaces

    Long term
    Permanent housing for all with dignity in Sonoma County
    Change stigma of mental disabilities and folks who are shelter-displaced

    Tactics
    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