Peaceful SafeGround Rally at Sacramento City Hall

A peaceful SafeGround Rally will be held at Sacramento City Hall, 915 I Street, at 10 AM on Thursday, September 10, 2009.

Dear Loaves & Fishes Supporter,

Please come to support our homeless guests. We want to resolve this crisis as quickly as possible. Thank you.

Joan Burke
Director of Advocacy
Loaves & Fishes
P O Box 2161
Sacramento CA 95812
(916) 446-0874
advocate4loaves [at] yahoo.com
http://www.sacloaves.org

Peaceful SafeGround Rally at Sacramento City Hall
10 AM on Thursday, September 10, 2009

Sacramento City Hall
915 I Street
Sacramento, 95814

Why Hasn't Sacramento Provided a Safe and Legal Place to Camp?

The number of homeless people has risen by 14% in just two years. Shelters are turning away hundreds of men, woman and children every night for lack of space. Why would we arrest people who have nowhere to go? Shouldn't the city spend its money on housing for people rather than on jails? Criminalizing homelessness is unjust and solves nothing.

Please support the more than 1,200 homeless people who will sleep outside in Sacramento tonight and every night.

Come to the SafeGround Rally this Thursday at 10 AM at City Hall.

Ask our Mayor, City Council and City Manager to act immediately to:

1. Declare a moratorium on enforcement of the anti-camping ordinance. It is unjust to cite and arrest people who have nowhere else to go..

2. Provide SafeGround, a legal campground for homeless people who have signed a pledge of no drugs, no alcohol, no violence.


Loaves & Fishes Francis House Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee
http://www.safegroundsac.org http://www.sacloaves.org


Photo: Half a dozen squad cars, a dozen officers, a police van, truck, and the CSI unit at SafeGround site to confiscate sleeping bags and tents from the homeless. Photo courtesy of Loaves and Fishes.