[GPSCC-chat] Tomorrow, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2014

[Brian]

I was at The Jungle for the final eviction on Thursday.

When I got there it was still dark and a lot of people had already moved out to the sidewalk, and the police had 
placed crowd-control barricades and closed a lane on the road with orange cones.

The severe rains the two days before the eviction had surely inhibited an orderly withdrawal.  I was shocked that
residents left many hundreds of dollars worth of blue tarps for the bulldozers.

When the cleanup workers piled up the abandoned bedding, all of the mattresses were impressively dry and unstained.  
I was dismayed by the waste in the cleanup--all those tarps, all those clean mattresses, all the bicycle parts trashed.

There was a lot of stinky garbage.  It was not a healthy environment.  I'm troubled that a community of 150 to 300 
people could not arrange for a truck to haul their garbage away.

Normally homeless people try to keep their sleeping quarters out of sight.  Last fall I walked past the camp on the 
sidewalk and could see only a very few tarp shelters in the trees.  This fall there were huge garbage fields and 
conspicuous structures visible from the sidewalk.  There was a substantial hippie-aesthetic shack resembling a church, 
painted in bright colors and exhibiting many hours of craftsmanship, and there was a tree house visible to passing cars.  
My experience of the last 45 years did not make me surprised that these provocations existed, but I was surprised that 
the Jungle community did not have the good sense to abate them.

I have video of the eviction and many other events pertaining to the "two cities" phenomenon in Silicon Valley, so if
you know of anyone doing a documentary on this you should let them know about my video.  Somebody should do a 
documentary about Buena Vista.


From: STB_Discussion at googlegroups.com
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 12:27:20 -0500
Subject: Tomorrow, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2014
To: stb_discussion at googlegroups.com






Hello All, 
 
I most prob. will not be attending tomorrow's STB meeting due to a conflict 
with ACLU. 
 
I haven't seen an Agenda go out; did see Chuck's informative e-mail 
regarding the events at the Jungle eviction.  Also saw the Xmas Carols that 
Lois sent out, great stuff to sing in this season. Thanks to Chuck and 
Lois.
 
Two or Three Questions:
 
1. How many STB'rs will be attending the meeting tomorrow? 
 
2. Did you all receive the e-mail by Lynn and or me regarding Tuesday's 
Santa Clara County Board of Supervisor's meeting which was supposed to have 
the situation of the unhoused on the Agenda according to Kristina Loquist, 
Joe Simitian's Policy Aid.
 
3. Can I get an up-date from someone about the Second Reading of rescinding 
the VHO that City Council was supposed to have on it's calendar at the last CC 
meeting? Should we have a meeting some day/evening this week to bring everyone 
up to date and keep our momentum going?
 
Best regards,
 
Cybele
 
 




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