Friday, August 15, 2014

Cops slash tents of homeless, St. Petersburg, FL, Jan. 22, 2007

Pinellas Hope costs $1,040 per person, per month to operate (and that's with donated food and rent-free land). Can't we do better than this?

Pinellas Hope is the city of St. Petersburg's latest attempt to "resolve" the homeless crisis. But, as with their other efforts regarding this issue, it appears that all they really want to do is rid the city of homeless people. And this time they are putting $1.3 million into another flawed and disingenuous plan. Where is all the money going?  If you'd like to help bring attention to this situation, please contactBruce@stpeteforpeace.org, or call 727-278-1547.


Picture blog of Nov. 27 vigil outside of Republican presidential debate site 
Nov 27, 2007

The city of St. Petersburg appears to be trying to hide the local homelessness issue from the CNN Republican presidential
candidate debate.On Monday, barricades were erected at the rally site and homeless people and homeless supporters were threatened with
 arrest if they did not move from the public area across from the Mahaffey theater. Leading up to the 4-day rally it was
 understood by event organizers that the public area utilized for the sleepout and associated demonstration would remai
just that - public.

In response to the question of moving the demonstrators off of the agreed upon public property three days before the debate, St. Pete Police Chief Chuck Harmon said “If anybody’s causing a confrontation it’s certainly not the
 police department
, but we’ve got a job to do and we’re going to do that". And St. Pete Mayor Rick
Baker said “To me if reflects the fact that we’re in America, we’re a free country the
ability of people to protest is a great thing.”

READ MORE: http://stpeteforpeace.org/pastevents/tentcity.html
  






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