Wed Mar 4, 2015 - 12 Noon - About the next SF Homeless Town Hall Meeting and Our Local People's Known Solutions We Created Together Already
Here's a few of the Solutions our local people already know about and have proven before this round of upscaled, bankster driven gentrifiers and carpet baggers and showman came to town 'to help us'... hahahahah..... they need some serious educating.
Our people with creativity and resourcefulness and almost NO MONEY have always been able to create ways to keep ourselves self, productive, housed and employed with ideas that money can't create. Need and 'living it' creates the solutions our community has used for many decades.
THE PROBLEM THAT KEEPS US DOWN ARE THE CORRUPTION, PROFITEERING AND LACK OF SAFE COMPETENT STAFF IN EXISTING PROGRAMS TO MAKE THEM WORK.
IMPORTED 'PROGRAMS' TOO OFTEN PROVIDE INCOME AND MEET THE NEEDS OF THE ELITE BANKERS, DEVELOPERS, ET AL, WHO TARGET LAND - SEE WHO'S ON IT AND THEN INVENT CLEVER WAYS TO GET FOLKS TO MOVE AWAY TO OTHER PLACES.
THE ALSO DESTROY LOCAL GRASS ROOTS PROGRAMS WE LOVE THAT ALREADY WORK.
MOST OF OUR HOMELESS CHALLENGES ARE NOT WITH SOLUTIONS OR IDEAS. IT'S ABOUT POLITICS.
And OUR PEOPLE created world class models and Shelter Standards of Care Laws which are both world class models ON OUR OWN WITH LOCALS.
With Eric and trusted members of his SF HOT Team along WITH OUR HOMELESS created the SF P.O.W.E.R. Program (which had 75% success rate getting most chronic homeless off streets and into housing AND productive work of their own choosing in 11 to 22 weeks at one tenth of the cost of all other programs to date) without telling any of the participants what to do or say or act.
We accepted them, as they were, where they were and met their needs by empowering them to think for themselves, eat nutritious food, organic stir fries, smoothies and safe places to be, every day.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT was another solution that came from our local people. See Link Below.
We NEED THE SYSTEM to FUND OUR IDEAS THAT WE KNOW ALREADY WORK - NOT REPLACING THEM WITH OUTSIDERS (as how the bayview community teams were shut down by some 'non-profit' that thinks they can do what they did better, or something... big mistake...) WHO HAVE NEVER SUFFERED OR BEEN DOWN AND OUT IN OUR CITY BEFORE. OUR PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DECADES AHEAD OF THE MIDWEST AND EAST COAST UNTIL RECENTLY...
We NEED THE SYSTEM to FUND OUR IDEAS THAT WE KNOW ALREADY WORK - NOT REPLACING THEM WITH OUTSIDERS (as how the bayview community teams were shut down by some 'non-profit' that thinks they can do what they did better, or something... big mistake...) WHO HAVE NEVER SUFFERED OR BEEN DOWN AND OUT IN OUR CITY BEFORE. OUR PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DECADES AHEAD OF THE MIDWEST AND EAST COAST UNTIL RECENTLY...
WE'RE SLIDING BACKWARDS IN FOR PROFIT GENTRIFIED IGNORANCE ON THE PART OF FOLKS NOT FROM HERE.
We know how deadly our shelters and streets can be, as they're filled with abuses, upscaled jerks who lack compassion, humanity and understanding of real life, meaning the life that 80% of us suffer at the hands of folks in power who abuse trust and take their angers and hatred out on our homeless, elderly, vets and disabled, every day.
BOTH are examples of OUR OWN PEOPLE being able to get out of being homeless without being shoved into 'pre-packaged' Corporatized Programs that are expensive, give profits to others from outside our homeless community which don't work here.
So, we're ramping up to start the Eric Bayer Foundation of Hope, which along with other projects will ensure that if new programs come into being that we don't like or want (i.g. that take away local resources and cash flows), we won't lose out because this Foundation will be here this year. Here to always serve and meet the needs of our people as they are and where they are with unconditional love, understanding and compassion that money and material objects can't buy or compare to.
We know how deadly our shelters and streets can be, as they're filled with abuses, upscaled jerks who lack compassion, humanity and understanding of real life, meaning the life that 80% of us suffer at the hands of folks in power who abuse trust and take their angers and hatred out on our homeless, elderly, vets and disabled, every day.
BOTH are examples of OUR OWN PEOPLE being able to get out of being homeless without being shoved into 'pre-packaged' Corporatized Programs that are expensive, give profits to others from outside our homeless community which don't work here.
So, we're ramping up to start the Eric Bayer Foundation of Hope, which along with other projects will ensure that if new programs come into being that we don't like or want (i.g. that take away local resources and cash flows), we won't lose out because this Foundation will be here this year. Here to always serve and meet the needs of our people as they are and where they are with unconditional love, understanding and compassion that money and material objects can't buy or compare to.
We'll publish the Draft Plan for The Eric Bayer Foundation of Hope, in the next 90 days. Send us your ideas that Eric was working on or you think he might have supported.
We now have Premium Accounts set up on servers on Seen.Is and UnSeen.is which gives us the capacity to handle organizing peers, teams, social network hubs and global 'social justice' networks of nearly any size. This is so we can all be on the same page in secure online environments without worrying about who is really who and no personal data collecting, which has been our bad experience on Facebook.
We now have Premium Accounts set up on servers on Seen.Is and UnSeen.is which gives us the capacity to handle organizing peers, teams, social network hubs and global 'social justice' networks of nearly any size. This is so we can all be on the same page in secure online environments without worrying about who is really who and no personal data collecting, which has been our bad experience on Facebook.
It's a relief to NOT be on FB every day. Seen and Unseen have all we need to assemble massive numbers of members and groups doing work without distractions, spying and nonsense games in their way to doing right for all of our people in need here and around the globe. What you people do here is shared and copied around the world because you folks are not copers or mimics. You create using voice, art, ways of life and how we handle daily struggles and the same government-corporate corruption as others around the world.
So, refer to these links about Eric Bayer and others who have already proven we can end homelessness, but only if we STOP the influx of foreign corporations, banksters, underpaid - over charged for rent workers and STOP shuffling our people around like cattle and let them live where they wish to be in the condition they are in and give them incentives to change over time, if they can. But always keep them safe and housed, no matter who they are or what their life condition or lifestyles are.
Before next week's 'next SF Homeless Town Hall Meeting' (we've had many over decades that newcomers know little or nothing about... they think their ideas are great and 'new!' but have no appreciation of our city's and people's history in context - crucial to being part of any reasonable change is to study the past and learn why our people think and feel as they do, today... without that knowledge, it's just talkin in the breeze cause we've heard it all before.
Think about what you need and want as a homeless, poor or elderly or disabled resident of San Francisco. Talk in small groups with neighbors and peers about past and present solutions we already know of and consider typing up your ideas and thoughts and send them to us. We will include them in a summary to present at the next SF Homeless Town Hall Meeting or afterwards, depending on timing. In any event, listen to what's presented at the meeting, but make notes and do research on 'the programs' they have in mind for us.
If you feel like they aren't listening to you or anything like that, email us your thoughts and feelings about the event and the presentations made and programs presented. If you are perhaps new to San Francisco or lived in places where programs like this were happening, tell us what you know about these programs and how their clients are doing in them.
Remember these Causes of Homelessness: The unrestrained plundering of our city CAUSES HOMELESSNESS. Chase Bank's purchase of ten largest commercial buildings and subsequent 4x Jacking Up of Rent caused over 5,000 Local Businesses To Shut Down or Leave Town, along with causing 10,000 Managers, Staff to BECOME HOMELESS OR LEAVE TOWN.
Lack of good care, causes homelessness. Folks who put material objects, profits and 'getting ahead' as their priorities over the safety and well being of our locals causes homelessness. Putting developer or political or monetary needs above human rights, dignity and social justice causes homelessness. Making it easy to get man made drugs and liquor instead of cannabis for all at cost, instead - causes homelessness. Doing homeless counts in the dead of winter means we are all undercounted and being underserved, as humans in great need which can't stand as the status quo. Having four times as many amateur for profit drivers clogging out streets causes harm and kills our people and our leaders let it all happen as their pockets are filled with donations for political compaigns and secret deals for mega profit government-corporate frauds, disguised as 'safety or community programs'.
These are our realities, not some designed in an office corporate think tank by folks who have never lived in suffering conditions or seen as much abuse inside our own government, as we've all seen here over generations on the west coast.
Cheers!
J. Leonard & Peers
SF Community Advocate,
Co-Founder SFHomeless/SFAwareness Groups (c) 2007-2015
EMAIL: SFAwareness@UnSeen.Is
JOIN US: SF Awareness Group (c) 2007-2015 - https://www.seen.is/profile/2204
Links:
Eric Bayer Homeless Garden Story with KALW's Ali Budner, SF Project Homeless Connect's Judith Klain, then BOS Honorable Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, Russell Berman (Eric's partner on SF HOT) and Friends, at our Hayes Valley Garden on Octavia :
Growing community and healthy food in Hayes Valley - https://www.popuparchive.com/collections/2064/items/14015
Photo Story of Food For Thought by Ashley Harrell Dec 21, 2011: http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/1499-taking-stock
Legacy Obituary for Our Mentor and Role Model For Ending Homelessness Eric Bayer
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?n=eric-bayer&pid=138174833
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