May22012

Evict Albus Brooks from the Denver City Council for the urban camping ban

guiltysky:

Alright, let’s ignore Occupy for a moment. This is beyond that.

In case you’re wondering, basically, there’s a very privileged and rich force that wants to criminalize homelessness. How?

Shelter funding has been dramatically cut over the years in Denver. And a lot of homeless folks have nowhere else to go are forced to sleep on doorsteps, including business centers. If this ordnance passes, it will make it illegal to sleep out on the streets.  These people have NOWHERE else to go. Homeless shelters are over-crowded. Many organizations who help the homeless, including Colorado Collation for the Homeless have voiced concerns over this ordnance.

Albus Brooks is an outspoken proponent for the ordnance, putting business over people, calling himself a minister. He forgets the fact that Jesus Christ himself would advocate helping the homeless. This man and many of the Denver City Council have never talked to the homeless. Many of the homeless are veterans and have been neglected by the system. 

So please, sign and share!

(via adarkfuneral-deactivated2013011)

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December272011

DPD Attempts Eviction Day After Christmas

By AJ | December 27, 2011

Following the brutal raid last Monday (December, 19th), the Denver Police Department continues their harassment of the Occupy Denver encampment. The raid last week did away with structures (DPD has dubbed them ‘encumbrances’). Early this morning (December, 27th) at 1 a.m. the DPD arrived back at the encampment. An attempted eviction took place when officers awoke occupiers by removing their tarps that covered them from the elements, early reports allege.

In a video posted in three parts on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvY9fN7WQUk&feature=autoplay&list=PL925E6B3DE2FA2A94&lf=plpp_video&playnext=2), officers are seen refusing to identify themselves but did offer a printout of an eviction notice. The officers, however, could not (or would not) identify what exactly was an encumbrance as occupiers have been reduced to sleeping on the ground with sleeping bags and tarps for protection. No structures have been erected since the last raid.

The videos online show occupiers asking what left of their personal possessions qualified as “encumbrances.” No attempt was made by the officers to define any items as such.

This latest eviction attempt could be perceived as an attempt to outlaw being homeless, which has been constitutionally struck down. Occupiers have with them only clothes, sleeping bags and tarps – personal possessions that are allowed under the law and do not fit the definition of encumbrance. See below. Note that the definitions do not outline anything the DPD has called an encumbrance.

Definition of encumbrance, as defined by Merriam-Websters:

1) weigh down, burden

2) to impede or hamper the function or activity of : hinder

3) to burden with a legal claim (as a mortgage) 

(Also check out Occupy the Press. They are badass.)

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