Join the Fight For Change in S.F. on January 20

by Israel Bayer · 2010-01-15 13:14:00 UTC
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Over the next week, Street Roots, the Portland, Oregon grassroots newspaper of which I am the director, and Change.org will be highlighting the adventures of community organizations from up and down the West Coast as we prepare to come together in San Francisco on January 20 with one message: housing equals opportunity.

Community groups organized by the Western Regional Advocacy Project (where I am a board member) all along the I-5 corridor from Los Angeles to Portland will be converging in downtown San Francisco on January 20th -- one year to the day that Americans were promised change by President Barack Obama during his inauguration. Our demands are complex, but the ask is simple: adequately fund local communities to put an end to the crisis we call homelessness.

Sign the petition showing your support for a people's bailout.

For more than three decades, rural communities and cities across America have struggled to solve the problem of modern day homelessness. During this time thousands of individuals experiencing homelessness have died on our streets, while many more have been criminalized, often for their very existence, and endured cruel and unusual punishment through humiliation, discrimination, violence, imprisonment and unsafe living conditions. With the recent downturn in the economy, these realities are only compounded on America's streets. It's time for change.

Here are some of those voices from the Los Angeles Community Action Network that will be attending the demonstration to demand change. Will you join us? If you can't, please pledge your support with this petition.

Israel Bayer is the Executive Director of Street Roots, a street newspaper in Portland, and the Chairperson of the North American Street Newspaper Association.
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