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SUPPORT NEEDED: Housing & Dignity Village Slated for Eviction TOMORROW, Dec. 5th!
"Nowhere Else to Go": Housing and Dignity Village Encampment & Service Center Led by Unhoused Women of Color Faces Eviction
Oakland, CA – The City of Oakland has posted an eviction notice at Housing and Dignity Village (HDV), an encampment that shelters 13 unhoused Oakland residents of color in deep East Oakland. The encampment has also provided an array of services to more than 200 housed and unhoused residents of the Brookfield neighborhood.
The eviction is scheduled to occur on Wednesday, December 5th at 7:30 a.m., at South Elmhurst Avenue and Edes Avenue. Housed and unhoused supporters from all over Oakland will be standing in solidarity with HDV on Wednesday as they demand the City upgrade, not evict, the encampment.
Six HDV residents are currently plaintiffs in an ongoing civil rights lawsuit against the City of Oakland, and were recently denied a preliminary injunction against eviction. Their lawsuit, Miralle vs. City of Oakland, argues that the City's practice of forced evictions violates their Eighth Amendment rights. They cite Martin vs. Boise, a recent ruling that unhoused people who are staying on public land when shelter is unavailable should not be criminalized. In his denial of the preliminary injunction, the presiding judge Hon. Haywood Gilliam, Jr. accepted the City's false claims that HDV residents were offered shelter but refused, and that the City does not criminalize unhoused people for being on public land, overlooking dozens of sworn testimonies by unhoused Oakland residents.
"The shelter offered by the City is absolutely inadequate," said HDV resident and leader Yana Johnson. "In Oakland, there are 460 shelter beds total available for over 9,000 unsheltered people on any given night. These 460 shelter beds do not serve women with children, people with pets, or any working person who has night shifts. Under this criteria, a majority of residents of HDV are totally excluded from shelters, which are often only available for one night."
Six plaintiffs and seven residents, accompanied by legal observers, will document where exactly the city plans on "housing" them for the still-ongoing civil rights lawsuit.
Residents and plaintiffs also cite a new civil rights violation through this eviction: a silencing of the well-organized camp's First Amendment rights.
"We are getting shut down because we are outspoken advocates," said Needa Bee, a primary plaintiff in Miralle and founder of The Village. "This is a political decision to silence residents, who are advocates not just for themselves but for all unhoused people in Oakland. We are being targeted by City officials for our political engagement. (This is) not a health and safety decision. Meanwhile encampments throughout Oakland are in crisis – neglected and ignored."
Advocates for HDV are calling on supporters to contact Mayor Libby Schaaf, Assistant to City Administrator Joe DeVries, and Council Member At-Large Rebecca Kaplan, via phone and email to stop this unjustifiable, cruel and unusual eviction. Supporters should ask the City to instead follow the recommendations put forth by the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Leilani Farha, for local governments to upgrade and support, rather than criminalize and evict encampments:
Attempting to discourage residents from remaining in informal settlements or encampments by denying access to water, sanitation and health services and other basic necessities, as has been witnessed by the Special Rapporteur in San Francisco and Oakland, California, United States of America, constitutes cruel and inhuman treatment and is a violation of multiple human rights, including the rights to life, housing, health and water and sanitation. [Para 46, emph. added]
Libby Schaff – Mayor – (510) 238-3141 – LSchaaf@oaklandnet.com / Officeofthemayor@oaklandnet.com
Joe deVries – Assistant to the City Administrator – (510) 238-3083 – JDeVries@oaklandca.gov
Rebecca Kaplan – Council Rep. at Large – (510) 238-7008 – Atlarge@oaklandnet.com
Candice Elder, Founder and Executive Director, The East Oakland Collective
candice@eastoaklandcollective.com
NEW VIDEO: https://vimeo.com/304196572
For photos and videos, see https://thevillageinoakland.org/photo-video-gallery/
About The Village:
The Village began as a grassroots movement in December of 2016, creating autonomous encampments on public and private land in Oakland, and providing the basic needs and rights of housing, food, provisions, healing, and dignity to those who have been displaced by gentrification . A diversity of tactics is necessary to reach our goals in the current political, economic and historic moment: . direct action and policy reform; adverse possession and purchasing lands; reparations and self-determination; services for the unsheltered and self-governance of the unsheltered. Learn more at https://thevillageinoakland.org.
About The East Oakland Collective:
The East Oakland Collective (EOC) is a member-based community organizing group invested in serving the communities of deep East Oakland by working towards racial and economic equity. With programming in civic engagement and leadership, economic empowerment and homeless services and solutions, we help amplify underserved communities from the ground up. We are committed to driving impact in the landscape, politics and economic climate of deep East Oakland. Learn more at http://www.eastoaklandcollective.com.
United Nations Reports
U.N. REPORT OF THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON ADEQUATE HOUSING AS A COMPONENT OF THE RIGHT TO AN ADEQUATE STANDARD OF LIVING, AND ON THE RIGHT TO NON-DISCRIMINATION IN THIS CONTEXT
Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms . Note by the Secretary-General. The Secretary-General has the honour to transmit to the General Assembly the report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context, Leilani Farha, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 15/8 and 34/9. Read the Full Report
U.N. REPORT OF THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON EXTREME POVERTY AND HUMAN RIGHTS ON HIS MISSION TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2018
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development. 68 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development. The Right to Rest Act introduced in California, Colorado and Oregon is an example of the type of legislative approach needed to shift from the criminal justice response to a human rights-centred response to homelessness. Read the Full Report
United Nations Visit To Oakland Homeless Encampments
Bay Area Curbside Communities Respond To UN Special Report On Homelessness Naming Oakland, San Francisco As Human Rights Violators
When and Where:
Tuesday, October 23rd
Oakland City Hall Amphitheater
Frank Ogawa Plaza
On October 19th, the United Nations Special Rapporteur to the Right to Adequate Housing, Lelani Farha, released her new report documenting the "global scandal" of homeless encampments. In January of 2017, Farha spent time in the San Francisco Bay Area and Southern California to meet with unhoused residents and housed advocates and described the conditions as "cruel and inhumane". The only U.S. cities explicitly called out for violations in the UN's report on global homelessness are San Francisco and Oakland.
She states that while the existence of "informal settlements" are human rights violations due to local government's lack of will to provide permanent housing to all residents, these encampments are also people's assertion to their denied human right of housing. She declares curbside communities are acts of resilience, resourcefulness and ingenuity in the face of dire circumstances. Rather than criminalize or ignore these settlements, until permanent housing can be offered to all, it is the duty of local governments not to evict curbside communities but to upgrade them and residents of these encampments should participate in all areas of the upgrading, including sanitation, clean water, food services and support services.
Homeless leaders and advocates in San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland hosted Ms. Farha, including Coalition on Homelessness, Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP), The East Oakland Collective, The Village/Feed The People, and First They Came For The Homeless. Ms. Farha was able to hear and speak directly with people living in encampments and on our streets about the oppression, hatred and police violence they experience everyday. Representatives from these organizations, curbside leaders who are survivors of continued human rights abuses at the hands of government agencies, as well as legal advocates from Ella Baker Center For Human Rights and the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute will be speaking a Tuesday's Press Conference.
In Ms. Farha's report she frames the encampments and street dwelling in the United States under the same vein as the informal settlements around the world. Finding that "the scope and severity of the living conditions in informal settlements make this one of the most pervasive violations of human rights globally," states the report. The Oakland conditions of discrimination and harassment of encampment residents and punitive denials of access to basic services constitute "cruel and inhuman treatment and is a violation of multiple human rights…Such punitive policies must be prohibited in law and immediately ceased."
This assertion falls in line with the 9th Circuit Courts Sept 4th decision that criminalization of homelessness violates curbside communities' 8th amendment rights and constitutes as cruel and unusual punishment.
"The Report of the Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing As a Component of the Right to an Adequate Standard of Living, and on the Right to Non-Discrimination in this Context" is being presented at the United Nation's office in New York on October 19th. In solidarity with this presentation at the UN, events are planned in New York City; Denver, Colorado, and Oakland, CA October 23.
Writing in support of WRAPs Right to Rest acts in California, Colorado, and Oregon, the Rapporteur summed up her visit in California:
"In my capacity as the UN Rapporteur on Housing, I visited California and saw firsthand the human right violations being experienced by people who are homeless. They are the victims of failed policies—not the perpetrators of crime. The state of California must take action to remedy the criminalization of rest…While I toured encampments and drop-in facilities serving homeless people, the community repeatedly expressed that they simply wanted to be treated as human beings. It is dehumanizing, demoralizing, and unjust to criminalize hundreds of thousands of people due to their housing status."
The report concludes with step by step recommendations to enhance the lives of over 800 million people around the world who live in informal settlements and inhumane conditions concluding:
"That truth is that by any measure — moral, political or legal — it is unacceptable for people to be forced to live this way. Refusing to accept the unacceptable is where we must begin. All actors must mobilize within a shared human rights paradigm around the imperative of upgrading all informal settlements by 2030."
The UN Press release on the report can be found here: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=23737&LangID=E
The report can be found here:
Bay Area PRESS CONTACTS:
Paul Boden, Executive Director, Western Regional Advocacy Project
415-621-2533 pboden@wraphome.org
Candice Elder, Executive Director, The East Oakland Collective
510.326.2486, Candice@eastoaklandcollective.com
Needa Bee, Founder & Lead Organizer, The Village; Program Director Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
510-355-7010, maowunyo@gmail.com
Mike Zint, First They Came For The Homeless
mzint04@gmail.com
City Council to Vote on Oakland Shelter Crisis Ordinance
Oakland City Council To Reinstate An Expanded Shelter Crisis Ordinance Addressing The Homeless State of Emergency
"The Village" Immediate Solution Model Protected Under Ordinance, City Owned Lands Potentially In The Future of The Community Led Response
Oakland, CA – At 5pm on Tuesday, September 19, 2017 Oakland City Council will deliberate whether or not to reinstate a second California Shelter Crisis Ordinance. The ordinance declares that restrictions around housing codes will be lifted. "The provisions of any state or local regulatory statute, regulation or ordinance prescribing standards of housing, health or safety shall be suspended to the extent that strict compliance would in anyway prevent, hinder or delay the mitigation of the efforts of the shelter crisis," the California ordinance states.
In other words, housing that would otherwise be deemed illegal like tents and non-code compliant shelters would be allowed in designated sites to alleviate the homeless state of emergency. If passed this modified ordinance will also include private as well as public lands. And the declaration will be sanctioned for the maximum time of two years.
In December 2015 the City Council declared a shelter crisis for January 2016-2017. However the declaration was not backed up with a plan or funding and nothing happened to address the state of emergency. In fact the crisis worsened.
On January 20, 2017 a group of Oakland residents – both housed and unhoused – reclaimed Marcus Garvey Park on Martin Luther King Jr. and 36th to build homes and services for Oakland's unhoused residents. The direct action was called The Village, and the organizers stood on a moral compass as well as several laws, including the shelter crisis ordinance, to proclaim their unorthodox method necessary and legal.
When the city spent $75,000 to bulldoze the highly successful solution thirteen days later, scores of Village members and supporters marched to city hall to protest the administration's inhumane, ineffective and violent response to the community driven solution.
From that city hall protest, the Homeless Advocacy Working Group (HAWG) was created made of several members and supporters of The Village. For the past 7 months HAWG has been pressuring the administration and city council to adopt several solutions including full sanitation services at all encampments; the building of a second Henry J Robinson Center, the end to human rights and constitutional rights violations, the reinstatement of the shelter crisis declaration with funding and plans to back it up, and the acceptance and support of autonomous community driven solutions like The Village.
"It's been a long, slow, uphill battle – not the urgency you would expect from government officials in a state of emergency," said Village co-founder and lead organizer Bobby Qui. "But we hope over the next several weeks to see moves within City Hall that will ensure a significant number of Oakland's homeless residents will be able to have access to the basic human right of housing in an otherwise unaccessible gentrified housing market."
Currently HAWG is lobbying to get the city to give The Village public parcels to build housing and services immediately for Oakland's homeless. On September 26th the Life Enrichment Committee will hear a report from the City Administrator's office about The Village model and the administrator's "Safe Haven" . The "Safe Haven" proposal is nothing short of The Village model modified with bureaucracy that will cost taxpayers millions of dollars.
"We are happy that the City was so inspired by our model, but their slow and money driven process will not adequately address this crisis. We believe that the City should move forward with their institutionalized version of The Village, but we also think that in the spirit and intent of the ordinance they need to embrace all solutions that come to forward. Especially no cost/low cost, community funded and led solutions," said Village co-founder and lead organizer Needa Bee.
Bee said the administration has expressed that there is a liability issue with allowing The Village to operate as well as questioned the ability of The Village to succeed.
'Under the Shelter Crisis Ordinance liability is suspended until the crisis is over. The city is suggesting that The Village does not have the professional experience to maintain this solution. These appear to be excuses to not work with the people of Oakland who have provided the city with an effective model," Bee said. "They are ignoring The Village leadership comes from the homeless non-profit sector, are homeless advocates, are grassroots organizers and nonprofit leaders, are formally and currently homeless, or former drug addicts. And not only do we have vast experience and aptitude within our organization, but we have hella heart and a deep commitment to prioritizing the victims of the city's agenda of gentrification."
ABOUT HAWG (Homeless Advocacy Working Group) –
The mission of the Homeless Advocacy Working Group is to assist in ending the disgrace of human beings sleeping on the street, in vehicles, in the open, and in unsafe shelters, and to insist, unconditionally, that "Housing is a Human Right." The Working Group demands that all persons, irrespective of their housing or economic status, must be provided with decent shelter they can afford and, at all times, must be treated with the utmost of courtesy, dignity, and respect.
ABOUT THE VILLAGE –
The Village is a network of people housed and unhoused; born and raised here and just got here, that seeks to manifest immediate solutions to Oakland's housing crisis thru a comprehensive, diverse and multifaceted humane approach that puts the voices, needs and solutions of Oakland's displaced front and center. We seek to build homes and services for Oakland's unhoused, and provide support on the path towards self-sufficiency.
For press images and video, please contact Needa Bee at (510) 355-7010 or feedthepeopleoakland@gmail.com
Or visit our Facebook page at
https://www.facebook.com/The-Village-in-Oakland-feedthepeople-731643677003021/
Posted on September 9, 2018 November 9, 2018
Weaponized Tuff Sheds
A statement from The Village & Feed the People
You are being played, Oakland.
As the City continues to push forward with a third Tuff Shed lot in the Kaiser Auditorium parking lot, we are compelled to tell you the truth of how these sites are being used politically and what they are like on the inside.
When the people of Oakland moved the City Council to unanimously pass a Shelter Crisis Declaration Oct 3, 2017 that would immediately allow emergency temporary housing and services to be created as a pathway to permanent housing in the midst of this homeless state of emergency, using sanctioned sites as a pretext for area evictions and doubling people up in uninsulated tool sheds with no running water or electricity was not what we were talking about.
CITY SANCTIONED SITES = EVICTIONS
Each time the city has sanctioned a site for outdoor emergency use, an explicit part of their plans is to evict all other camps in the area. The "Compassionate Communities" at Peralta/35th, the tentative village site at 23rd&12th Ave, the first Tuff Shed yard at 5th and Brush, the second Tuff Shed at Northgate – all included explicit directives to OPD and DPW to evict all other camps in the area no matter how many people it would displace and put into motion. Despite the City's numbers, the first Tuff Shed yard put over 100 people into motion while only providing slots for 40. The second Tuff Shed site left more than 60 people with nowhere to go. And this third Tuff Shed lot at the Kaiser parking lot is estimated to displace more than 100 people again. In each case only 40 spaces were available for temporary shelter.
In this way, these are programs more for camp suppression and eviction than providing entry to housing, herding our unhoused neighbors more out of sight away from services or driving them into a few now unsafe, filthy 'mega-camps' that these evictions are creating.
This third "ONC" ("Outdoor Navigation Center") or Tuff Shed yard is to be no different. The city has planned that all residents around the Lake Merritt area are to be evicted, easily four times the number of people that could possibly be admitted to the 40 person Tuff Shed yard. The city claims that shelters will take in the overflow. This is nonsense. If this were in any way a realistic option, those camping on the street nextdoor would already be utilizing shelter beds. The City further assumes that their approach of staggering the evictions around Lake Merritt will allow for people to smoothly exit out of the Tuff Sheds to make room for the next wave of Lake Merritt evictions to move-in voluntarily.
However, if you ask unsheltered residents at Lake Merritt, a vast majority have no intention of moving into the Tuff Shed sites. In fact none of the Lake Merritt unsheltered residents were part of the planning process for this site. This is the same problematic procedure the other Tuff Shed sites implemented: no buy in or leadership from the people most impacted.
The city is still servicing appearances, creating photo ops for themselves and political cover for evictions more than facing the realities of our city and the homelessness crisis gripping it. And doing all this on the heels of last week's 9th Circuit Court decision in Miller vs. Boise declared it is unconstitutional for a city to criminalize, move, evict, harass or take the property of any unsheltered residents when adequate housing is unavailable.
LIFE ON THE INSIDE OF A TUFF SHED CAMP
Increased policing, poor conditions, group punishments
A testimony from a recently evicted resident of the Tuff Shed site on 5th Street (see video https://www.facebook.com/731643677003021/videos/967948560039197/) exposes inhumane and substandard living conditions that the city has applauded and promised to replicate. The Tuff Sheds themselves, with a total lack of insulation and hardly any ventilation, are not satisfactory for human beings to live in to begin with. A tiny window is the only form of lighting, leaving disabled residents struggling to get around or see what they are doing. Based on testimonies from former and current residents, both West Oakland Tuff Shed sites are run through coercion, bullying and neglecting the residents, and especially the disabled and mentally ill. Residents report that the staff has used their power to force cooperation by withholding food, donated provisions, water and electricity as forms of collective punishment – and even by resorting to violence.
Residents report that the food has made them sick, they are not allowed visitors, they have a strict curfew, have to file grievances to the very people they have issues with – making the environment feel like a prison.
SO WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
The city needs to invest and support community driven interim solutions such as The Village and stop wasting the public's precious resources on failed debacles such as the Tuff Shed encampments.
The city needs to declare a full moratorium on camp evictions.
The city needs to place its resources towards PERMANENT HOUSING for no income, low income and working class households. Stop selling public lands for "affordable", market rate and above market rate development. Stop using millions of public funds and donated resources towards temporary housing and build permanent housing now! That is the only solution to homelessness! Over the next 5 years there are more than 20,000 market rate and above market rate units slated to be built; there are just above 1,000 "affordable" units slated; there are zero working class, low income or no income units slated to be built.
If the City does not change its current course towards prioritizing money driven development, while ignoring Oakland's vibrant families and criminalizing homelessness the crisis will not be solved – rather it will get horrifically worse.
9th Circuit Court States Criminalizing Homeless Is Unconstitutional
Federal Appeals Court Upholds Right of Unsheltered to Not Be Criminalized for Sleeping in Public When There Have No Alternatives For Housing
(September 4, 2018, Boise, Idaho) – This week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed what The Village has been asserting all along: that unsheltered persons punished for sleeping outside in the absence of adequate alternatives are victims of cruel and unusual punishment. In Martin v. Boise (formerly Bell v. Boise) – a lawsuit challenging Boise, Idaho's ban on sleeping in public – the court of appeals sided with unsheltered individuals who have been criminalized under Boise's policy. The courts agreed the unsheltered residents had their 8th Amendment constitutional rights violated by the City.
The Ninth Circuit held that the United States Constitution 'prohibits the imposition of criminal penalties for sitting, sleeping, or lying outside on public property for homeless individuals who cannot obtain shelter.' This decision impacts California, Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Guam & Mariana Islands.
Two years ago, the Department of Justice recognized in this case, "[c]riminalizing public sleeping in cities with insufficient housing and support for homeless individuals does not improve public safety outcomes or reduce the factors that contribute to homelessness."
The Village has asserted this interpretation of constitutional law for the past two years as The City of Oakland's Administration repeatedly shuffles, moves, closes down and evicts dozens of encampments in Oakland.
"Not only is this practice and policy a violation of constitutional law and human rights law, its absolutely inhumane and ineffective," said The Village co-founder and lead organizer Needa Bee. "Some of our unsheltered neighbors have been unconscionably evicted three or four times in this past year since the City of Oakland adopted this practice one year ago almost to the day. How appropriate to mark the Oakland Administration's one year anniversary of their first eviction – by having the Ninth Circuit declaring it is a constitutional violation."
Homeless advocates hope the court's decision, will force bureaucrats to redirect resources towards meaningful and constitutional solutions to the problem of homelessness.
"The current Tuff Shed Camps are not the answer. Not only are we documenting numerous human rights violations, but the process in which they are created are in direct violation of the Court's ruling," said Steven Di Caprio Executive Director of Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute. "The city chose to create their Tuff Shed sites in two of the largest encampments in West Oakland – both with more than 100 residents. Yet the Tuff Sheds only temporarily house 40 people. The other 60 plus residents had their 8th Amendment constitutional rights violated when they were forced to move."
Di Caprio, Bee and other homeless advocates and unsheltered residents have referred to the Tuff Shed sites "prison camps," "torture camps," or "concentration camps." Many assert that more than the 8th Amendment is violated at the Tuff Shed sites.
"The Tuff Shed Prison Camps also violate the 4th amendment illegal search & seizure and right of privacy, the 5th Amendment right to due process, the 14th amendment right to due process and equal protection, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant Against Torture and All Forms of Cruel and Unusual Punishment,: Di Caprio said. "You can't throw someone in a prison camp and say this is housing."
Currently the Administration is planning to create a new Tuff Shed site in the Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium Parking Lot to house 40 people that live around Lake Merritt. To date at least 150 people live in tents or handmade structures around Lake Merritt. The City plans on beginning to evict these unhoused residents in the next week. When the City shut down the encampments surrounding the Brush Street and Northgate Tuff Shed sites, several of the residents went to The Village seeking sanctuary.
"We already were beyond capacity with the six encampments the Administration herded onto the land. But we did not turn anyone away. Because were else will they go? Will Libby's Administration continue her legacy of violating the human rights and constitutional rights of Oakland's most vulnerable residents?" asked Bobby Qui Building Lead & Organizer for The Village. "We hope not. What really needs to happen is The City needs to stop selling public property for market and above market rate development and start building housing that those of us who have been gentrified can afford. Getting unsheltered people into housing is a win-win approach. It benefits those without shelter and the communities that are impacted by neighbors living in public spaces. And it costs so much less than criminalizing the unsheltered."through the criminal justice system."
In March 2018 The Village learned they would be evicted from the land the City offered them months before for a scheduled CalTrans bridge retrofit. CalTrans was unaware that the Administration had offered The Village the parcel or that six encampments had been herded onto the land. The Village continues to demand land that Oakland City Council instructed the Administration to lease the grassroots movement. Eviction on The Village and retrofitting process is scheduled for November 2018. The City Hall rumor mill has told Bee that the City will charge The Village for trespassing and allow CalTrans to bulldoze the shelter and facilities they have built.
"Let's see if we get the land to move on, or if the City Administration gets a lawsuit," Bee said. "The Ninth Circuit has declared as long as there is no option of sleeping indoors, the government cannot criminalize curbside communities for sleeping outdoors, on public property, on the false premise they had a choice in the matter. Where will the residents at e12th & 23rd go in November? Where will the 150 unsheltered residents around the Lake go when they are evicted?"
Contact: Needa Bee
maowunyo@gmail.com
Posted on April 9, 2018 November 9, 2018
What The Town Needs In A Mayor & Other Public Officials
A statement from The Village & #WeStillHere:
Oakland is our hometown. It is a city with an extraordinary past, a legacy of radical activism, and a rich, diverse culture all its own. It's the land of the Ohlone people, the birthplace of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense and Funk, the city where Bruce Lee once lived and where Cesar Chavez first started organizing. It was Tupac's spiritual home and the home of Soulbeat, Festival at the Lake, the East Bay Dragons, Everett and Jones, Flints, Ricky Henderson, Marshawn Lynch, Gary Payton, Dru Down, Too $hort, and 3XKraxy. Oakland is a community where Black, White, Asian and Pacific Islander, Native American, and LatinX people have lived together for generations.
Over the past several years Oakland has experienced a wave of gentrification and displacement characterized by skyrocketing housing prices and a rising cost of living. Many locals have been pushed out of the area, creating a huge demographic shift. The African-American population declined drastically from 48% in 1980 to 28% by 2010. Black people, Black culture, and Black communities are the underpinning of Oakland's history, culture, and identity. We must tell the truth about what is actually happening in this moment.
The consequences of gentrification have been devastating for those of us raised here. We have watched as our friends and family members have moved away. Some of our neighborhoods have become unrecognizable. We have witnessed a rise in homelessness like we have never seen. And we are experiencing the criminalization of Black and Brown people, increasingly made to feel unwelcome in our own city.
On January 20, 2017, one hundred residents – some of us housed and some of us homeless – were sick and tired of the housing crisis. City officials had disregarded 17 years of demands to address the needs of Oakland's low-income communities of color. We started a movement called The Village, and we declared ourselves ungovernable by a government that has proven to be ineffective and illegitimate – from Oakland City Hall to The White House. We began to build emergency shelters on underused, neglected lands for those who no longer had a roof in the city they called home.
We are now in urgent need of a new land site for the 'villlage' which will be displaced for construction. The City has promised to but after many months has not identified a site. There are no designated sites for the other several thousand people living on the streets either. Forcing people and camps to frequently move is a misuse of resources that causes stress and trauma. We must have more effective and respectful solutions, both for practical reasons and as a matter of racial justice. The majority of people who are homeless in Oakland are Black, which we see as the intentional result of decades of discriminatory housing policies and widespread structural racism. We insist that Black and Brown Oakland residents have a right to stay here, and to take up public space and thrive.
The right to exist in public space has increasingly been threatened, such as in April when a white woman called the police on a Black family for using a charcoal grill at Lake Merritt. Her racist actions sparked national outrage. The Oakland community and Oakland youth leaders responded with two major events, "510 Day" and "BBQ'N While Black" which drew numbers into the thousands and sent a strong message of resistance.
These movements to reclaim public space are important. But we also need to change the policies and practices that govern our community to realize our vision for an inclusive and equitable Oakland. We must fight for what will make it possible for Black people and other people of color to remain in Oakland. The identity and heart and soul of our city are on the line.
As politicians and candidates prepare for the November elections, we stand firm that we are ungovernable to those who seek to build careers, make profit or consolidate power for their personal gain. We do not endorse candidates, and have little faith in a system created off the rape, murder, theft, slavery, terror and genocide of Native Americans and stolen Africans. But we offer this guidance in the hope that whoever holds public office will work for the good of the public:
Politicians are public servants but too often they behave as public siphons, misappropriating public resources for private agendas instead of the public good. Unaccountable and non-transparent privatization of public resources is not what The Town needs.
The continued and blatant disregard of our communities' needs results in widespread human rights and civil rights abuses and is unacceptable.
Oakland leaders must use the #WeStillHere Platform to guide decison-making. This will ensure that Black, Brown, immigrant, indigenous, working class, low-income, no-income, curbside and marginalized communities – the very communities that are the backbone of the innovative, soulful and resilient culture Oakland is famous for – are front and center in the policies and practices elected and appointed officials enact.
The Village stands behind the #WeStillHere Platform. We want and will fight for:
Quality low-income and no-income housing & shelter for all.
The use of public land and public resources to improve the quality of life for Oaklanders being displaced.
Equitably-resourced public schools that are relevant to students of color, which include programs that advance Black and Brown students in math and sciences, and that have supports such as restorative justice and peer counseling programs.
An end to the criminalization & mass incarceration of communities of color, and the right to have fun without being criminalized.
An investment in community-based alternatives to policing and incarceration.
Quality jobs & economic opportunity for Oakland locals.
Communities of belonging for immigrants, just immigration policies, and non-cooperation with ICE.
Access to health care, healthy living, and healthy food options for all.
The preservation and innovation of Oakland's authentic culture.
We stand for an equitable Oakland where the lives of families of color, immigrants and low-income residents are valued and protected. Gentrification threatens to erase the history, culture, and identity of Oakland in just a matter of years. Oakland is far too special of a place for this to happen. We envision an Oakland that continues to be racially diverse and rich with the tradition of activism. We want an inclusive Oakland, one which embraces the future and stays true to our past. We urge political candidates to be committed and fight for this vision.
Posted on March 21, 2018 November 9, 2018
Two Leaders & Residents From The Village Facing Trial After Self-Defense Grassroots Efforts to House the Homeless Under Constant Attack
After a year of consistent undermining of their efforts to decriminalize homelessness and spark a movement to create humane and dignified solutions to the housing and homeless crisis in Oakland, two leaders and residents of the The Village are now facing criminal charges for defending themselves and the encampment they live in under conditions created by the City Administration. Their trial starts this Friday March 16.
PRE-TRIAL PRESS CONFERENCE FOR "THE VILLAGE 2"
In front of Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse
The Village is a grassroots effort that organizes housed and unhoused residents of Oakland to provide temporary emergency shelter and support services to Oakland's homeless as a pathway towards permanent housing. The movement made headlines in January 2017 when they successfully liberated unused public lands to manifest their vision. They were bulldozed by the City Administration to tune of $75,000.
Since then, the movement has established itself as a powerful lobbying and organizing body responsible for winning over Oakland City Council to declare a shelter crisis declaration, legalize and protect the efforts of The Village and force the Mayor and her Administration to work with the group and grant them city owned or managed land to continue their mission.
But their victory has been continually undermined.
"The latest violation of our most vulnerable citizens by authorities occurred when two homeless leaders of The Village were forced to defend themselves and the encampment from an attack by a known predator," reads a statement signed by more than two dozen social justice, faith based and business organizations.
Jodie Everett is part of The Village leadership and resident who intervened when his fellow Village leader and resident Mouangjoi Tracy Saelee Edmond attempted to defend herself from being assaulted with a nail-riddled two by four. The Village believes that not only are the two defendants victims, but the person they were defending themselves and the encampment from is also a victim of the system. According to volunteers and residents, the alleged victim is in desperate need of mental health services and housing.
"There is a compassionate way to deal with our unsheltered residents, but prosecuting them in our criminal justice system is not it. We need to show empathy and make sure they all get homes, medical services, mental health services, safety and protection. We do not need to pit them against each other," reads the statement. "The issue we need to address is institutional. It is not about the two leaders who defended themselves and the encampment. It is not about the person who attacked Tracy. This should have never happened in the first place. They are all victims of an avaricious system."
The Village and its supporters are demanding all charges dropped due to consistently ineffective and inhumane homeless policies and police misconduct and mistreatment of the unhoused. The Village and supporters assert that these two leaders had to defend themselves in that moment and monies spent on criminal injustices rather than services to our city's most vulnerable is unconscionable.
And now, scheduled for November 2018, the City plans to take away the land it granted The Village five months ago to repair an overpass. The 80 people the City herded will now be forcibly displaced to rebuild the overpass that spans across the parcel. The Village is currently negotiating with City Administration for four new parcels to house all 80 residents at the current location on E. 12th Street and 23rd ave. As well as the original 16 residents who were bulldozed by the city last year. Of the 16 residents, 14 are homeless and 2 have died in the streets.
Press Contact: Kasey Brenner
kaseybrenner@gmail.com
Posted on March 7, 2018 November 9, 2018
Statement From The Village & Allies On The Constant Attempts To Undermine The Community's Efforts To Ensure The Human Right Of Housing For All
#DropTheVillageTwoCharges #HomesNotHandcuffs #HousingIsAHumanRight
(March 7, 2018 – Oakland, CA)
The Village is a people's movement to ensure the human right of adequate, dignified, temporary emergency housing as a pathway to self-sufficiency and permanent housing. There have been continuous undermining attempts to compromise The Village's progress by City of Oakland elected and appointed officials as well as law enforcement officers. The latest violation of our most vulnerable citizens by authorities occurred when two homeless leaders of The Village were forced to defend themselves and the encampment from an attack by a known predator.
Jodie Everett is part of The Village leadership and resident who intervened when his fellow Village leader and resident Mouangjoi Tracy Saelee Edmond when she attempted to defend herself from being assaulted with a nail-riddled two by four.
However, we know the person they were defending themselves and the encampment from is also a victim of the system. He is in desperate need of mental health services and housing. There is a compassionate way to deal with our unsheltered residents, but prosecuting them in our criminal justice system is not it. We need to show empathy and make sure they all get homes, medical services, mental health services, safety and protection. We do not need to pit them against each other. The issue we need to address is institutional. It is not about the two leaders who defended themselves and the encampment. It is not about the person who attacked Tracy. This should have never happened in the first place. They are all victims of an avaricious system.
The long line of attacks on the homeless residents of Oakland and The Village began in February 2017 when Oakland City Administration spent $75,000 to bulldoze a safe, sober and organized encampment of tiny homes on neglected city land. It has continued with the City's consistent avoidance of dealing with the humanitarian crisis of homelessness in a constructive and humane manner. It escalated when Assistant to the City Administrator Joe DeVries instructed police and Public Works to herd six encampments across East Oakland and dump them onto the land the city granted the Village. This herding of unsheltered folks happened without consulting The Village. The City designated East 12 Street and 23rd Avenue as a safe haven for homeless residents that The Village autonomously manages. Yet the City Administration proceeded to create dangerous, toxic, and unstable conditions.
By refusing to provide the same city services and treatment available to all of Oaklands housed residents, including protection and other basic services, the so-called safe haven has become a nest of violence and criminal activity that has traumatized and harmed the residents of The Village and the surrounding community. The Mayor, Administration, and Oakland Police Department have been informed repeatedly about the conditions, the ongoing violence, the danger they created. They are doing nothing to address the issues they've created.
And now, scheduled for November 2018, the City plans to take away the land it granted The Village five months ago. The 80 people the City herded will now be forcibly displaced to rebuild the overpass that spans across the parcel.
It has been a long drawn out act of sabotage to the wellbeing of the residents who were corralled here. The City has undermined the efforts of the residents at The Village to maintain basic survival and improve their own livelihoods. Attempting to criminalize two of The Village leaders for having to deal with dangerous and inhumane conditions created by the Administration is the latest of the unjust and deplorable attacks.
What Mayor Libby Schaaf, Assistants to the City Administrator Christine Daniel and Joe DeVries are responsible for undermining the livelihood of residents at The Village; what the police did and what the criminal system is doing is a waste of resources. These two leaders are not people who should be charged. These two leaders had to defend themselves in that moment. Consistent ineffective and inhumane homeless policies and police misconduct mean that charges should be dropped, and services provided. Monies spent on criminal injustices rather than services to our city's most vulnerable is unconscionable. Monies spent on a corrupt police department to terrorize and harass our vulnerable curbside communities rather than permanent homes for the homeless is the sign of illegitimate leadership.
We demand these charges be dropped.
We demand the Mayor and her Administration be accountable for trying to deliberately obstruct and destroy The Village.
We demand all encampments be immediately sanctioned and provided with sanitation services, support services, security, and a pathway to permanent homes immediately.
We demand that the city give The Village four more parcels of land to accommodate and house the 80 people that have been herded onto the land we were granted during the Shelter Crisis Declaration that we will have to move from November 2018.
– The Village
– The Law Offices Of Walter Riley
– The East Oakland Collective
– The Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
– Land Action
– Design Reflux Collective
– Feed The People
– SURJ Bay Area
– Healthy Hoodz
– Young Oakland
– Coffee Not Cops
– Communities United For Restorative Youth Justice – CURY-J
– Spectrum Queer Media
– Sidewalk Rangers Defense Union
– Qal'bu Maryam Women's Mosque
-Design Action Collective
– Peacock Rebellion
– Movement Generation
– Agape Fellowship
– Ships In The Night
– Homeless Advocacy Working Group
– Do No Harm Coalition
– Catalyst Project
– Oakland SOL
– Cycles Of Change
– OneLife Institute
– Sudo Room
– Art Bison Design Coop
– Kazoo studios


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Q: What is the best way to handle date in a Rails Form Objects I'm using Form Object as described in 7 Patterns to Refactor Fat ActiveRecord Models #3 and currently I have an issue with storing date.
Here's what I've done:
class MyModelForm
  # ...

  def initialize(my_model: MyModel.new, params: {})
    @my_model, @params = my_model, params
    @my_model.date_field_on = Date.from_params @params, "date_field_on" if @params.present?
  end
end

Where Date.from_params is implemented like:
class Date
  def self.from_params(params, field_name)
    begin
      year = params["#{ field_name }(1i)"]
      month = params["#{ field_name }(2i)"]
      day = params["#{ field_name }(3i)"]

      Date.civil year.to_i, month.to_i, day.to_i if year && month && day
    rescue ArgumentError => e
      # catch that because I don't want getting error when date cannot be parsed (invalid)
    end
  end
end

I cannot just use @my_model.assign_attributes @params.slice(*ACCEPTED_ATTRIBUTES) because my params["date_field_on(<n>i)"] will be skipped and date will not be stored.
Is there a better approach to handle date fields using Form Objects?

A: As @davidfurber mentioned in comments it works great with Virtus gem.
class MyModelForm
  include Virtus

  # ...
  attribute :date_field_on, Date

  def initialize(params: {})
    @my_model.assign_attributes params
  end
end

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Preparing a Business Case
Brainy Term Papers
Discuss four different sources of finance as part of the short and long term funding requirements of companies.
Museum Assignment: Stylistic and Personal opinion on an artwork
To quote the NSW Treasury, "Preparing a rigorous business case is vital to inform Government decision makers that the proposal is necessary, consistent with government priorities, offers value for money and the nominating agency has the capacity to deliver the service delivery benefits outlined. [1]
The business case you prepare as your major assignment will have the characteristics of a business case prepared for government funding. Your proposal is different from the Treasury Guidelines in that your proposal is for a functional service (including staff) not just a capital acquisition. Note: Your assignment is a business case, not a 'Business Plan' which may be prepared for an implemented 'Business Case'.
To read the original Treasury document go to:
http://www.treasury.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/12953/tpp08-5.pdf
and retrieve NSW Treasury (2008) Guidelines for Capital Business Cases
Project Guidance: As a 'rule of thumb', 'health promotion' and 'high tech' projects such as the implementation of radiology or pathology equipment are NOT a good idea. Health promotion projects are not recommended because it is hard to identify the benefits. 'High tech' are not recommended because the costs and benefits are usually 'commercial in confidence'. However, the team to manage installed hardware is OK.
Section Headings
The business case will be built up under a number of topic areas. The Treasury Guideline headings are listed below. The content of the topic areas will be considered in turn.
Analysis of the proposal
Implementation of the proposal
The executive summary should provide a summarised coverage of:
What is the service need? How many people would benefit from the service?
Who are the key stakeholders
What are the objectives of the proposed service?
What alternatives were considered?
What are the costs to fund the proposal?
What are the key risks associated with the proposal? What may happen if the proposal is not implemented?
How will the service be managed?
What changes need to be managed to make the service function well?
Purpose of the Business Case – to propose a …..
2.3.1 What is the service need – and why?
What is wrong that needs intervention? What are the issues that impact on this need? Issues like population growth, change in demographics, in social characteristics, in technology, in public expectation and others may be explored.
Include any cross agency interaction that may be applicable.
How will the program change the situation?
What Government Policy issues does the proposal address?
2.3.2 What are the benefits of the proposal?
What are the key anticipated benefits?
Who benefits? How? When?
2.3.2 How are the stakeholders engaged with the proposal?
(Stakeholders are people who have an interest in the development. They may be the people who provide the existing service, the people who will refer patients to the service, people who will be asked to cover the default situation if the proposed service does not proceed, people who will fund the service, people who will benefit by not funding the existing service, clients/patients of the service, staff who work in the existing service, staff who may work in the new service – etc. The thing to remember is that while there may be an extensive stakeholder analysis in a real proposal, in this assignment the word limit means that there is not space for more than a very brief discussion of stakeholders.)
How have relevant stakeholders been engaged?
2.4.1 What are the objectives?
Objectives must be expressed in results logic or be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and timely.
2.4.2 What are the alternatives you have considered?
2.4.3 Identify the costs.
Costs here will include any capital costs (cars, buildings or significant equipment) as well as recurrent costs in the form budgets for salaries and wages, goods and services, replacements, maintenance and repairs.
This is a finance assignment. This costing exercise is the core of this assignment.
For your recommended service there needs to be an operational budget that looks at the line items to cover a year of operations.
Salaries and Wages (S&W)
Goods and Services (G&S)
Replacements, Maintenance and Repairs (RMR).
This budget will itemize all major expenses in the body and in the appendix it will show this budget broken up into individual items (x nurses type y at $n) but stationery will be just stationery – not every pencil.
Where there are significant capital items theses should be listed in a separate capital budget (Cars, computers, buildings and software are all examples of capital items).
For alternate options there needs only to be a major headings budget for the year.
Then as you are preparing to show a break even analysis, that is, the operational budget should be presented to show fixed costs and variable costs for the year.
Remember 'budgets' include statements of activity (which you will need in the break even analysis) as well as dollars.
2.4.4 Identify non quantifiable factors
These may include public relations, effects on the environment, on social welfare and social capital.
2.4.5 Assess the benefits
These will include benefits to individuals as well as financial returns to the organisation (if any). In a real case where there is a significant capital cost, this would include an economic analysis, but for your project it is not required.
2.4.6 Financial analysis
Calculate the breakeven activity and breakeven income for your service. If the service is delivered free of charge, estimate a dollar benefit to the recipient to use instead of a service fee. (Email the lecturer about your options for estimating income when the service is free at the point of delivery.)
2.5.1 Identify the risks of your proposal and the implicit risk if it does not occur.
2.5.2 What is the impact of these risks?
Consider the probability of the risk, the management strategies to address the risk, whether any additional costs will be incurred and whether any contingency needs to be provided to cover the risks.
2.6.1 Describe the governance arrangements for the project
2.6.2 Are there technical standards that need to be addressed? If so, how?
2.6.3 What are the key steps in implementing your proposal?
2.6.4 How will the changes from the present arrangements be managed?
2.6.5 Show how the risks identified above will be managed.
The table shows the method for the calculation of 'risk exposure'.[2]
Where the risk exposure is 'very high' there needs to be a plan to manage the risk. For your proposal the outline of the process is all that is required.
Source: NSW Treasury (2008) Guidelines for Capital Business Cases page 38
2.6.6 Identify the performance measures that will indicate success for the project?
Document the change management roles and responsibilities that must be in place for the service you propose to function effectively.
In a real implementation change management is a critical part of the implementation strategy. In this assignment the word limit means that there is not room for more than a very brief consideration of change management. None-the-less you should think about the things that need to be managed to successfully implement your proposal.
Include as appendices all calculations, tables and other evidence needed to support the proposal.
[1] NSW Treasury (2008) Guidelines for Capital Business Cases Page i, retrieved from the world wide web August 23, 2009 http://www.treasury.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/12953/tpp08-5.pdf
[2] Ibid page 38
Explain the role of ethics and corporate social responsibility in strategic planning

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