From sciww Fri Jul 15 21:26:07 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id OAA02993; Fri, 15 Jul 1994 14:26:06 -0700 From: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) Message-Id: <199407152126.OAA02993@wps.com> Subject: Next IWW meeting (fwd) To: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 14:26:06 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 782 Status: OR Forwarded message: From sciww Wed Jul 13 03:32:13 1994 From: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) Message-Id: <199407130331.UAA07278@wps.com> Subject: Next IWW meeting To: f4716@deeptht.armory.com Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 20:31:52 -0700 (PDT) Cc: aeon@cruzio.com, newt@armory.com, sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 339 Hi, Fellow Workers, The next branch meeting of the IWW will be on Sunday, July 24 at Maile's house, which is located at 518 Soquel #2 (upstairs). It is a big pink Victorian house behind Mission Printers near Soquel & Ocean, near Taqueria Vallarta. Maile can be reached at our branch e-mail account, sciww@fido.wps.com. In soli, Vad. From vad Fri Jul 22 17:24:05 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id KAA07706; Fri, 22 Jul 1994 10:24:04 -0700 From: vad (Crys-Vad Hyphus) Message-Id: <199407221724.KAA07706@wps.com> Subject: To: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1994 10:24:04 -0700 (PDT) Cc: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2027 Status: OR hi deke, chris the time bomb went off on wednesday; he had robert f. in a choke hold. that is the underlying reason the meeting was cancelled. kim did it unilaterally. i found out from running into kim, bob, robert f. & tim shortly after finding the note cancelling the meeting. chris was at the big squeeze when i arrived to find the note, and he said "they're probably meeting somewhere else; oh yes they're clever..." oh, that we could be so together... FNB got kicked out of israel's; ty "had had enough," so don't blame FW israel. the costs of not dealing are coming due, i'm afraid. this on the heels of an unfortunate incident that happened while i was away. it appears that someone arranged a video night at campbell street & didn't check with anyone; the house had plans that night and they got screwed. i don't think there's much lingering anger; the free food benefits are too significant there. still, there's some damage control to be done. meanwhile, the priority for the next SCGMB meeting is going to be to get more people involved. Right now tai, maile, & myself have been left holding the bag for both the assembly & the action. Tai has been focusing on assembly & show logistics, and Maile & I are focusing on refocusing the community against the camping ban. Maile scheduled a Coalition meeting for this saturday, since conveniently the city council will be considering amendments to the sitting ban this next tuesday evening. we're facing a cost overrun of about $125 between the $522 we said we'd ask for and what we need, based on tai's revised calculations. i think we got it covered in any event, but the harsh reality is that we have to succeed in getting more people contributing in every way or the three of us holding the bag and you will be killing ourselves putting together something surely credible but not nearly as fabulous as we would like. anyway, we'll be taking you up on your offer to help in every way we can, i expect. i am yours for the revolution, vad. From deke Fri Jul 22 17:39:06 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id KAA07822; Fri, 22 Jul 1994 10:39:06 -0700 From: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Message-Id: <199407221739.KAA07822@wps.com> Subject: Re: the pony of our discontent To: vad@fido.wps.com (Crys-Vad Hyphus) Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1994 10:39:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <199407221724.KAA07706@wps.com> from "Crys-Vad Hyphus" at Jul 22, 94 10:24:04 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1017 Status: OR Yikes, whatta mess! I had no idea it had been that long since the stall got shoveled out. Shit's even worse when it's rancid... I've been illin' the last coupla days, so watch out for cold/flu-like symptoms. Lotsa gnarly hack-up-type shit. Everyone's system's trying to clean out. Sharing is caring, eh? How's Sean, BTW? It's been a hard week, even for Jupiter (and he's way huger than average...) I will see y'all soon. Hang in there, comrade. Also, I got the assembly registration form in the mail yesterday, along w/ election results sent out by our fearful leader, GST Rush. Not a word from him lately. Now I'm gonna make some GMB-meeting-type calls. ANYway, that registration forms is possibly the most radical document I've ever seen come outta Our Little Kitty. I got really excited, and tried to call each # on it (well, you three's at least)-- only reached Tai. It made me feel *really* good, an unlikely event yesterday afternoon... In Solidarity, I remain Yours for the Revolution, --Deke From sciww Fri Jul 22 22:15:36 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id PAA09769; Fri, 22 Jul 1994 15:15:35 -0700 From: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) Message-Id: <199407222215.PAA09769@wps.com> Subject: Re: test message (fwd) To: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1994 15:15:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 434 Status: OR Forwarded message: From sciww Tue Jul 26 21:35:46 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id OAA07352; Tue, 26 Jul 1994 14:35:33 -0700 From: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) Message-Id: <199407262135.OAA07352@wps.com> Subject: elm files To: aeon@cruzio.com Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 14:35:32 -0700 (PDT) Cc: f4713@deeptht.armory.com, newt@armory.com, sciww (Santa Cruz IWW), deke (Deke Motif Nihilson), vad (Crys-Vad Hyphus) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2407 Status: OR hi josh, and interested fellow workers, vad here... incoming mailto the scgmb's account, sciww@fido.wps.com, is currently being filed in 9 files within the "Mail" directory in our home directory. incoming messages can be saved in these files with elm by using the s)ave command from the menu. at the "save to folder:" prompt, type the name of the file preceeded by an "=" sign. use the "?" to get help from elm at this point, or "man elm" from the shell prompt for more info. the current files are: 1-union: anything received from the 1-union mailing list. bacorr: anything received from the Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights, as well as any clinic-defense related e-mail. cdp: anything received on laws & struggles related to the criminalization of the poor, Coalition to Decriminalize Poverty, etc. Some food not bombs material that deals with greater issues, like the keith mc henry trials can be included here, though food not bombs has its own file as well. cwsc: anything related to Class War-Santa Cruz and Love & Rage. fnb: Food Not Bombs. anything received for food not bombs, including all dialogue between food not bombs members. iww: internal discussion & mail received from Wobblies. iww.news: anything recieved via the IWW newsgroup, as well as any replies & related discussion to anything received. received: any mail that has been read will be saved here if one leaves elm with the q)uit rather than the e(x)it command and one answeres (y)es to the question "move read mail to received folder." it is a holding place for recent mail before filing (which needs to be cleaned out as of this writing). songs: lyrics to political songs. these categories are not exhaustive, & more may need to be created. they can be accessed by elm with the (c)hange folder command. for example, to look at the fnb file, type "c" and then type "=fnb" at the prompt. incoming mail should probably be left around for a few days in either the incoming or received files before deletion, and probably shouldn't be filed until they've moved into the received folder, so things don't get filed twice. creating a personal file for each user may be useful too. anyway, we should keep in touch while we try to get a workable procedure so things don't get too chaotic. in soli, vad. From sciww@ucscb.UCSC.EDU Mon Aug 1 05:25:01 1994 Received: from toad.com by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id WAA00463; Sun, 31 Jul 1994 22:24:59 -0700 Received: from ucscb.UCSC.EDU by toad.com id AA05578; Sun, 31 Jul 94 22:15:38 PDT Received: by ucscb.UCSC.EDU (5.65/1.34) id AA16032; Sun, 31 Jul 94 22:12:23 -0700 Date: Sun, 31 Jul 94 22:12:23 -0700 From: sciww@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Santa Cruz IWW) Message-Id: <9408010512.AA16032@ucscb.UCSC.EDU> To: deke@fido.wps.com Subject: getting onto wps.com Cc: sciww@fido.wps.com Status: OR hi deke, vad here; it's sunday night, at 9:53 and each of my attempts to telnet to wps.com has resulted in a "Connection timed out" message, so i haven't got any of my most recent mail. i just thought someone in the office there should know that this is happening. anyway, not to complain... i'm going to try get something off about bacorr from some of the e-mail. i'll send it off to tom burghardt for input when it's done. i can't start on it now cuz i can't get on to my account where it's all saved. yours for the revolution, vad. From sciww Fri Jul 15 21:27:28 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id OAA03013; Fri, 15 Jul 1994 14:27:27 -0700 From: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) Message-Id: <199407152127.OAA03013@wps.com> Subject: food not kkkops! (fwd) To: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 14:27:27 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2588 Status: OR Forwarded message: From deke Wed Jul 13 18:08:25 1994 From: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Message-Id: <199407131808.LAA12259@wps.com> Subject: food not kkkops! (fwd) To: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW), vad (Crys-Vad Hyphus) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1994 11:08:25 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2176 Forwarded message: From 73174.77@compuserve.com Wed Jul 13 17:58:11 1994 Date: 13 Jul 94 13:53:00 EDT From: Fred Chase <73174.77@compuserve.com> To: Deke Subject: food not kkkops! Message-ID: <940713175300_73174.77_DHI123-1@CompuServe.COM> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: +Postage Due+food not kkkops! Date: 13-Jul-94 at 12:00 From: THE ANARCHO-CYNICALIST SPLEEN SQUEEGIE, INTERNET:JHEATHCO@ucs.indiana.edu To: Fred Chase,73174,77 Sender: cspplist@weber.ucsd.edu Received: from weber.ucsd.edu by arl-img-2.compuserve.com (8.6.4/5.940406sam) id LAA23650; Wed, 13 Jul 1994 11:57:41 -0400 Received: from weber.ucsd.edu (buserver@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by weber.ucsd.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA14969; Wed, 13 Jul 1994 08:41:18 -0700 Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1994 08:41:18 -0700 Message-Id: <199407131541.IAA14956@weber.ucsd.edu> Errors-To: triley@weber.ucsd.edu Reply-To: cspplist@weber.ucsd.edu Originator: cspplist@weber.ucsd.edu Sender: cspplist@weber.ucsd.edu Precedence: bulk From: THE ANARCHO-CYNICALIST SPLEEN SQUEEGIE To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: food not kkkops! X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0b -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas yes do keep fwding the Food Not Bombs information here. i get a lot of it on the aaa-web, but i think it is probably useful to this list as well. also, if the SF people would post some more general articles about Matrix and the overall criminalization of homelessness being spearheaded by that nazi dipshit mayor of yours, i think that would provide some good material for discussin and action! joseph average @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ ...go now ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall @ @ come upon you. Your riches are corrupted...your gold and silver is @ @ cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you... @ @ --James 5:1-6 @ @ BLOOMINGTON ANARCHIST UNION PO BOX 3207 BLOOMINGTON, IN 47402 @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ -- From sciww Wed Jul 27 10:20:59 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id DAA12164; Wed, 27 Jul 1994 03:20:59 -0700 From: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) Message-Id: <199407271020.DAA12164@wps.com> Subject: power supply, reasons, etc. To: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 03:20:58 -0700 (PDT) Cc: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1462 Status: OR hi deke, vad here; got a draft of my letter to the union off to you. maybe GST rush will get a glimpse of the fact that maybe i am an independent thinker after all when he sees this. or maybe that i'm just good at writing what *you* have to say... the power stuff got my creative juices going...i'm much happier with my conclusion now, especially since i get to be an *anarchist* for once; i've been wanting that to show a little more lately...oh but what a bizarre opportunity... i wanted to remind you about the power supply. justin said it might take a slightly larger power supply than before to run a 386. i guess tom would probably know what's needed. i'll look into that money. maile could use any fiscal help this month you may be able to muster. of course i do too, but i think she should get anything you've got to share before me, as you've already helped me. i hope to have a job soon and help her out as well as myself. i've already been feeding her with my food stamps, which are nearly gone 2 weeks before i get my next batch. i guess those calculations are about right! (thank goddess for food not bombs! it's not just for the homeless anymore...) i got a lead at a mental health center, and i intend to be just too relentlessly bothersome to these temp agencies for them to keep not providing employment services, cause kitty is so very neeeedy... anyway, i'm yours for the revolution, both internally & externally, vad. From sciww Thu Jul 28 07:58:01 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id AAA21321; Thu, 28 Jul 1994 00:58:00 -0700 From: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) Message-Id: <199407280758.AAA21321@wps.com> Subject: anti-poor laws & class struggle To: deke@fido.wps.com Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 00:57:59 -0700 (PDT) Cc: vad@fido.wps.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 8373 Status: OR Okay, here is the revised version. Feedback would be appreciated and or if you like it the way it is please distribute. -maile Santa Cruz Camping Ban/ Conduct Ordinances; The Criminalization of Dissent We of the Santa Cruz I.W.W. hold that recent attacks on poor, homeless and activist street communities are not merely the result of a local aberration. These attacks are part of a national effort to manage the radicalization and social protest of an increasing number of people experiencing poverty. A Brief Introduction Gentrification, meaning redevelopment, increasing rent, and costly 'beautification,' (efforts aimed at attracting a more upper-class tourist base) provides the backdrop and justification for intensified social control. With the creation of several new categories of petty crime, such as sitting, asking for spare change or sleeping in public, a powerful City-Business-Developer alliance is emerging to ensconce police harassment in the necessary judicial legitimation. Explicit use of selective enforcement, condoned police brutality, the absence of jury trials and the imposition of costly fines for convicted offenders are all elements of the recently re-worked public "conduct ordinances." Criminalization of the "Lifestyle Choice;" Managing Social Dissent While proponents argue that the new legislation targets behavior and not specific classes or communities of people, we of the I.W.W. maintain that the targeted "behaviors" are those which characterize certain social classes. Sitting on the sidewalk, peacefully asking for spare change, or sleeping in public are all aspects of a social condition. Yet city power players and the capitalist press have been very successful in their unrelenting portrayal of homelessness and poverty as an individual "lifestyle choice." In Santa Cruz this assertion functions as the linchpin of moral justification for ever-increasing criminalization of homelessness. We charge that it is extremely false to assert that any majority of the nation's homeless are "homeless by choice." Yet the disgust, and hatred that is exhibited towards those perceived as choosing not to participate in the current economic system seems telling. Why should the assertion that a particular "lifestyle" was chosen be valid grounds for its subsequent suppression? Perhaps because that "choice" is perceived as a tremendous threat to the current status quo in Santa Cruz, a status quo predicated upon cheap, available, very low paid labor bound to the second highest rents in the nation. What would happen if the option to avoid rent and wage slavery by sleeping outdoors were to become more desirable and/or possible for a large number of people? The bosses and landlords in town however "progressive" they may claim to be would then have to face the level to which their privileges and comfort depend on the subordination of others. Thus we assert that criminalizing a certain social condition because it is perceived as a choice, demonstrates the purposeful effort to manufacture consent and enforce bondage to the highly exploitative work/rent system. The criminalization of the "choice" not to participate in "the system," demonstrates the facist strategy of current anti-homeless campaigns; to attack, manage, regulate and ultimately destroy perceived or actual social dissent. Anti-poor Campaigns and Class Struggle The Camping Ban, the "conduct" ordinances and the surrounding neo-liberal discourse about "behavior" and 'right-to-be rich' are targeted not only at street populations but also those who are currently housed and employed. All low paid waged laborers; copy/coffee/food service workers, retail laborers, office workers, temporaries, light industry productionists etc. are essentially being warned by anti-homeless legislation to "play it safe" on the job so as not to end up on the street. The effort to stigmatize and outright vilify an economic circumstance that all waged workers must constantly struggle to avoid is a very useful strategy for keeping labor in line. In Santa Cruz a worker's existence is primarily defined by the constant struggle to maintain legal housing where over half of one's monthly wages may go towards rent. The criminalization of the condition of being unable to pay rent functions as a very real demand that workers remain ever-grateful for current employment, regardless of working conditions or pay. By securing access to a subdued and fearful service-industry work force supporters of anti-homeless legislation (almost entirely bosses) seek to simultaneously sweep the streets of the homeless while assuring that there will always be a willing employee to hold the broom. To fully accomplish this indirect threat to the working class the current pro-ordinance campaign must completely segregate those who might have common interests, such as waged workers and the unemployed, as well as different communities of homeless people. To criminalize the disenfranchised without garnering sympathy or outrage from simularly situated groups, pro-ordinance discourse has cast the homeless into two predictable categories; "hapless (passive) victims" and the 'life stylists,' the agressive, ugly, dirty and thoroughly unworthy. The "good" homeless go to the (very few) shelter spaces while the "bad" lifestylists "choose" to put their poverty in the public eye. In this way it becomes obnoxious and indeed "aggressive" merely to exist as poor, dirty ugly etc. in public. These undeserving "aggressive" poor are then found to be quite at odds with the sought after "nice-ness" of an upper-class pacific garden mall, replete with wide "unmarred" sidewalks, costly decorations, and smiling ever-replaceable service. Homelessness is then successfully re-defined as a "public nuisance" and even a danger to "public safety." This re-definition makes explicit the class assumptions at play in the current use of the word "public." It also clarifies the position that any good employee who serves "the (upper-class) public" should occupy. Divisions like these operate as an ideological stimatization and indeed a material threat against any alliance or organization between those who are currently on the streets and those who are one paycheck away. For this reason the I.W.W intends to organize right over the ruling class division of "producer" vs. "derelict." In the IWW we understand that the employed and unemployed are both a part of the same labor pool subject to the tides of the capitalist economy and other webs of exploitation regardless of whether we currently have a job. Solidarity between employed and unemployed workers means the difference between an employed class with teeth, and an expendable work force easily replaced by unorganized labor. This sort of solidarity can also mean the difference between ends on, as well as those it is willing to discard. The SC Camping Ban Thus our goal in the upcoming months is the abolishment of the SC Camping Ban. Like the conduct ordinances the SC Camping Ban criminalizes homelessnes by making illegal that which largely defines it; sleeping without a shelter. This law, while older and less present in the media than the newly passed six "conduct" ordBan. Yet rather than be admonished through freedoms of speech protected under the constitution, the City Council, with the forceful backing of the Downtown Business Association and the Santa Cruz Police Department decided to pre-empt the ability to protest this particular law by criminalizing the various elements of such protest. This was accomplished with the outlawing of signs on the sidewalk after dark and the re-definition of shelter materials, backpacks or sleeping bags as obstructions or "public nuisance." While we do not intend to ignore the current "conduct" ordinances the I.W.W. would like to advocate a shift in focus and a renewal of activism aimed at the Camping Ban in particular as well as the entirety of gentrification/ social regulation underway in Santa Cruz. So lets get organized! Lets beat the bosses with a solidarity the likes of which they've never seen! A message from the Santa Cruz General Membership branch of the I.W.W. Compiled by FW Maile S.C.G.M.B POB 534 Santa Cruz, CA 95061 sciww@fido.wps.com From deke Thu Jul 28 17:44:46 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id KAA25042; Thu, 28 Jul 1994 10:44:46 -0700 From: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Message-Id: <199407281744.KAA25042@wps.com> Subject: Re: anti-poor laws & class struggle To: sciww@fido.wps.com (Santa Cruz IWW) Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 10:44:45 -0700 (PDT) Cc: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson), vad (Crys-Vad Hyphus) In-Reply-To: <199407280758.AAA21321@wps.com> from "Santa Cruz IWW" at Jul 28, 94 00:57:59 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2495 Status: OR > > Okay, here is the revised version. Feedback would be appreciated and or > if you like it the way it is please distribute. > -maile It's a bit longer, which I've (as a wordy person myself) often been advised against, but I still find it unspeakably hot. Yesss, *really*! There's a couple places towards the end, though, where it's garbled. If you fix it and send me it again, I'll gladly work it far and wide! Solidarity! --Deke Special P.S.: Oh, by the way, I've looked for Solidarity While Supplies Last, and don't seem to have it; I may have left it in S.C. Look for a folder marked "G.I.B." (that's Grand Industrial Band). It may well be in there. If you find it, please do send me a copy, and if not, lemme know and I'll look again; I know I didn't pitch it... > > Santa Cruz Camping Ban/ Conduct Ordinances; > The Criminalization > of Dissent > > For this reason the I.W.W intends to organize right over > the ruling class division of "producer" vs. "derelict." In the > IWW we understand that the employed and unemployed are both a part > of the same labor pool subject to the tides of the capitalist > economy and other webs of exploitation regardless of whether we > currently have a job. Solidarity between employed and unemployed > workers means the difference between an employed class with teeth, > and an expendable work force easily replaced by unorganized labor. > This sort of solidarity can also mean the difference between > ends on, as well as those it is willing to > discard. Last sentence. Also, first paragraph of: > > The SC Camping Ban > Thus our goal in the upcoming months is the abolishment of > the SC Camping Ban. Like the conduct ordinances the SC Camping > Ban criminalizes homelessnes by making illegal that which largely > defines it; sleeping without a shelter. This law, while older and > less present in the media than the newly passed six "conduct" > ordBan. Yet rather than be > admonished through freedoms of speech protected under the > constitution, the City Council, with the forceful backing of the > Downtown Business Association and the Santa Cruz Police Department > decided to pre-empt the ability to protest this particular law by > criminalizing the various elements of such protest. This was > accomplished with the outlawing of signs on the sidewalk after dark and > the re-definition of shelter materials, backpacks or sleeping bags as > obstructions or "public nuisance." Love Ya! --Deke From sciww Fri Jul 29 00:17:30 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id RAA27551; Thu, 28 Jul 1994 17:17:29 -0700 From: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) Message-Id: <199407290017.RAA27551@wps.com> Subject: OR (fwd) To: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 17:17:28 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1199 Status: OR Forwarded message: From mattm@nyxfer.blythe.org Thu Jul 28 16:44:14 1994 From: Matt Rothwell Message-Id: <9407281647.AA12558@nyxfer.blythe.org> Subject: OR To: sciww@fido.wps.com Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 11:47:03 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 795 Hi Comrades! Well, the new issue of Love and Rage is about to go to press next week if we can come up with some dough. We were going to print something about the 'upcoming' campaign Operation Rescue was going to have in California for a month, but seeing as how that campaign is now over, I'd like to replace what we had with a short (~150-200 word) blurb describing what happened, how they fizzled again, etc. I really need this in the next couple days and would be enormously grateful if one of you all could provide this. In other news, I'm happy to say that I'll be out there for the Assembly. That was an overwhleming vote! Great work. The promotional sheet sent out with the election results was a coup d'grace. I'm looking forward to seeing you all. Yours for Revolution, Matt M. From sciww Fri Jul 29 02:38:00 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id TAA28783; Thu, 28 Jul 1994 19:37:59 -0700 From: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) Message-Id: <199407290237.TAA28783@wps.com> Subject: anti-poor lws/class struggle-last paragraph To: deke@fido.wps.com Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 19:37:59 -0700 (PDT) Cc: vad@fido.wps.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2067 Status: OR Sorry about the garbling-this has happened with a number of long things I have tried to send out. Hope it works this time. I'm going to be making brochures of this in nice graphically pleasing column form - hopefully that will help with the wordiness... so here is the last paragraph again: The SC Camping Ban Thus our goal in the upcoming months is the abolishment of the SC Camping Ban. Like the conduct ordinances the SC Camping Ban criminalizes homelessnes by making illegal that which largely defines it; sleeping without a shelter. This law, while older and less present in the media than the newly passed six "conduct" ordinances , was the very law under contestation (via public sleeping Peace Vigil demonstrations ) when the new ordinances began to be seriously considered. The new "conduct" laws are in large part a reaction to legal protest and freedom of speech against the older more established Camping Ban. Yet rather than be admonished through freedoms of speech protected under the constitution, the City Council, with the forceful backing of the Downtown Business Association and the Santa Cruz Police Department decided to pre-empt the ability to protest this particular law by criminalizing the various elements of such protest. This was accomplished with the outlawing of signs on the sidewalk after dark and the re-definition of shelter materials , backpacks or sleeping bags as obstructions, or "public nuisance." While we do not intend to ignore the current "conduct" ordinances the IWW would like to advocate a shift in focus and a renewal of activism aimed at the Camping Ban in particular as well as the entirety of gentrification/ social regulation underway in Santa Cruz. So lets get organized! Lets beat the bosses with a solidarity the likes of which they've never seen! A message from your local General Membership Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World. Compiled by FW Maile S.C.G.M.B POB 534 Santa Cruz, CA 95061 sciww@fido.wps.com Well, okay the last series of paragraphs! love , maile From sciww Tue Jul 12 20:30:13 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id NAA04663; Tue, 12 Jul 1994 13:30:12 -0700 From: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) Message-Id: <199407122030.NAA04663@wps.com> Subject: The only S.F. FNB coverage... (fwd) To: deke@fido.wps.com Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 13:30:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1427 X-Status: Status: OR Forwarded message: From deke Tue Jul 12 18:52:32 1994 From: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Message-Id: <199407121852.LAA04109@wps.com> Subject: The only S.F. FNB coverage... To: vad (Crys-Vad Hyphus) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 11:52:30 -0700 (PDT) Cc: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW), rpaulson@ucscb.ucsc.edu X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 980 X-Status: Status: OR ...I've been able to find in the daily crapitalist press in this here town, is a sweet li'l snippet from a gawddamn Herb Caen column, appended. For yer edification, allow me to present you therewith: *****begin excerpt***** MORE COPSTUFF: Officer Siobhan McAuliffe, whose hard-boiled tactics during the "Food Not Bombs" demonstrations won her the nickname of "Jane Wayne," has a softer side. While she was patrolling Civic Center, she met the mayor's bodyguard, Officer Mike Hughes, and they are definitely an item. In fact, they spent last weekend at the Hetch Hetchy "chateau" in Yosemite, reserved for the well-connected who feed at the public trough... *****end excerpt***** Maybe they make love in the blood of miscreant performance artists. Do *you* feel kinda warm and fuzzy yet, like someone slipped meds in yer gruel? As usual, I dunno what's been on the teevees, but apparently the above is the Chronic's idea of coverage... I'd Laugh, *But*, --Deke