Join Southern Nevada Advocates for Homeless People (SNAHP) for a
March to Promote Social Justice for Homeless People in Southern Nevada!
We will gather in front of the Fashion Show Mall's main entrance
on the Strip at 6:00 PM, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2006.
Signs are already made so please join us.
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Build community. Get locally involved.
There are so many issues "within" the issue of homelessness that no one can educate or explain in one note or a few notes.
It is true that there are some homeless people who cannot be helped off the streets, or have decided that that is where they would prefer to be. BUT that number is FAR less than what the majority of non-homeless people think.
The main problem we have is that we have very little or NO affordable housing. This is not just a Las Vegas problem. This is a national problem. Most advocates are in agreement that "housing first" is the best solution to ending homelessness. However, as I just stated, we have no affordable housing. That's where the government and community have to help out.
MY concern is to help folks with their basic survival needs to keep them alive until state, city, county governments can help these people off the streets. After their basic survival needs are met: food, water, medicine, coats and blankets for the COLD winter, then we help out with identification, jobs, and housing.
Individual people cannot do this alone. We need help from the private and business sectors.
Financially, many people don't realize that if the city, county, state and federal government focused more on the solutions to ending homelessness, taxpayers would be paying LESS. Right now, taxpayers are paying for the symptoms of homelessness.
Please join us. The focus of this non-violent march is to bring about awareness to our huge homeless and poverty problem in the Las Vegas valley. More and more senior citizens and victims of eminent domain and evictions to make room for more condos are very susceptible to homelessness right now.
We are reaching out to the private and business sectors to help us END homelessness in Southern Nevada.
Any donations (food, bottled water, etc.) will be greatly appreciated. Reach out to the business people you know. Please join us.
Signs will be available.
Monday, September 25, 2006
Saturday, September 23, 2006
March to Promote Social Justice
for Homeless People in Southern Nevada!
Join Southern Nevada Advocates for Homeless People (SNAHP) for a
March to Promote Social Justice for Homeless People in Southern Nevada!
We will gather in front of the Fashion Show Mall's main entrance on the Strip at 6:00 PM, Tuesday, Sept. 26.
In preparation for the march, please try to attend a sign-making session on Saturday, Sept. 23, at 5:00 PM. We will meet in front of St. Thomas Aquinas Newman Community Center at UNLV, 4765 Brussels Street (off of Tropicana and Maryland).
Link to Map:
http://tinyurl.com/gc5as
March to Promote Social Justice for Homeless People in Southern Nevada!
We will gather in front of the Fashion Show Mall's main entrance on the Strip at 6:00 PM, Tuesday, Sept. 26.
In preparation for the march, please try to attend a sign-making session on Saturday, Sept. 23, at 5:00 PM. We will meet in front of St. Thomas Aquinas Newman Community Center at UNLV, 4765 Brussels Street (off of Tropicana and Maryland).
Link to Map:
http://tinyurl.com/gc5as
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Boot the Incumbents, especially the mayor!
Mayoral election coming 2007.
I did some research on our city council. I hope I'm not posting this prematurely but... what the hey... hay?
I am not a politician. And I do not have the time, knowledge, or experience to tell you all that I know what I am talking about. And I don't.
But... the other day, Mayor Goodman commented that the mob made him rich. This made me think. He has no clue about the homeless and poverty problems that we have. So, I did a search on all the council members plus+
They all live in half million or million or multi-million dollar homes or neighborhoods.
I know that we have many wealthy philanthropists but our city council by their record always votes pro business and pro wealthy. And, always proposes and passes- unanimously against the homeless and the poor.
And not only the POOR. But against those who are poorer, ie. Pappas and others.
I say, we take a chance and boot the wealthy politicians out of office and vote for the poorest of the poor. And see if we can't do better.
I did some research on our city council. I hope I'm not posting this prematurely but... what the hey... hay?
I am not a politician. And I do not have the time, knowledge, or experience to tell you all that I know what I am talking about. And I don't.
But... the other day, Mayor Goodman commented that the mob made him rich. This made me think. He has no clue about the homeless and poverty problems that we have. So, I did a search on all the council members plus+
They all live in half million or million or multi-million dollar homes or neighborhoods.
I know that we have many wealthy philanthropists but our city council by their record always votes pro business and pro wealthy. And, always proposes and passes- unanimously against the homeless and the poor.
And not only the POOR. But against those who are poorer, ie. Pappas and others.
I say, we take a chance and boot the wealthy politicians out of office and vote for the poorest of the poor. And see if we can't do better.
Monday, September 18, 2006
Nevada Death Penalty
RENO -- A wealthy Reno businessman won't face the death penalty if convicted of killing his estranged wife and shooting the judge who was handling their divorce, prosecutors said.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Sep-13-Wed-2006/news/9617323.html
Prosecutors' decision was based on "prosecutorial discretion."
http://www.kvbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=5397995&nav=15MV
Death penalty hearing begins
Pascual Lozano was absent Tuesday as jurors began to weigh whether they should give him the death penalty for the 2002 murder of 9-year-old Genesis Gonzalez.
Mom's Comment: Darren Mack, white and wealthy is alleged to have murdered his wife (in front of the children?) and purposely goes and shoots a judge. No death penalty case.
Hispanic, alleged gang member, probably poor, kills a child by mistake. DEATH Penalty.
Pascual Lozano breathes a sigh of relief after a District Court jury sentenced him to life in prison with the possibility of parole Friday. Lozano was convicted on Monday of first- degree murder for the death of 9-year-old Genesis Gonzalez.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Sep-16-Sat-2006/news/9687171.html
Mom's Comment: I wonder what the outcome of Mack's trial will be.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Sep-13-Wed-2006/news/9617323.html
Prosecutors' decision was based on "prosecutorial discretion."
http://www.kvbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=5397995&nav=15MV
Death penalty hearing begins
Pascual Lozano was absent Tuesday as jurors began to weigh whether they should give him the death penalty for the 2002 murder of 9-year-old Genesis Gonzalez.
Mom's Comment: Darren Mack, white and wealthy is alleged to have murdered his wife (in front of the children?) and purposely goes and shoots a judge. No death penalty case.
Hispanic, alleged gang member, probably poor, kills a child by mistake. DEATH Penalty.
Pascual Lozano breathes a sigh of relief after a District Court jury sentenced him to life in prison with the possibility of parole Friday. Lozano was convicted on Monday of first- degree murder for the death of 9-year-old Genesis Gonzalez.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Sep-16-Sat-2006/news/9687171.html
Mom's Comment: I wonder what the outcome of Mack's trial will be.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Join Us to Organize Against Inhumane
Treatment of Homeless People in Southern Nevada
Please join us, Southern Nevada Advocates for Homeless People (SNAHP), for a meeting to plan and organize actions against inhumane treatment of homeless people.
If you are tired of the shameless, inhumane, and embarrassing punitive treatment of homeless people for being homeless, and the neglect of their survival needs by the community, its government representatives, and business sector ----
If you are somewhere between “Enough is Enough,” “It’s Time to Do Something,” and OUTRAGE ----
Then:
Southern Nevada Advocates for Homeless People (SNAHP)
call you to a homeless advocacy organizational meeting to plan our actions
To support Gail and Joe Sacco, Lyla Bartholomae, and others who feed homeless people where they are
To support the ACLU and other organizations and individuals in their lawsuits against the City of Las Vegas for its inhumane laws and police actions targeting homeless people
To support Family Promise, Poverello House, Straight from the Streets, and other organizations that house and provide care for homeless families and individuals
To protest the punitive treatment and neglect of homeless children and veterans in the Las Vegas Valley
To protest the lack of housing for homeless families and individuals in the Las Vegas Valley
To protest the outrageous attempts of government leaders to exclude and chase homeless people from our community
To demand that the Las Vegas Valley community, including its city and county governments, and its gambling and other business sectors - with the participation of state government - fulfill its moral and humane obligations to address the housing and other needs of homeless people in a fair, caring, positive, and just manner
To demand that the governments invest our taxes in housing and aiding homeless people rather than in the senseless, inhumane, futile, and unjust criminalization of homelessness
Join us for a meeting to plan our actions
at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Newman Community Center at UNLV
4765 Brussels Street, Las Vegas (see map below)
on Thursday, September 21, 2006 at 4:00 PM (Park in the lot adjoining the building)
Link to Mapquest:
Map of 4765 Brussels St
Las Vegas, NV 89119-6602, US
If you are tired of the shameless, inhumane, and embarrassing punitive treatment of homeless people for being homeless, and the neglect of their survival needs by the community, its government representatives, and business sector ----
If you are somewhere between “Enough is Enough,” “It’s Time to Do Something,” and OUTRAGE ----
Then:
call you to a homeless advocacy organizational meeting to plan our actions
To support Gail and Joe Sacco, Lyla Bartholomae, and others who feed homeless people where they are
To support the ACLU and other organizations and individuals in their lawsuits against the City of Las Vegas for its inhumane laws and police actions targeting homeless people
To support Family Promise, Poverello House, Straight from the Streets, and other organizations that house and provide care for homeless families and individuals
To protest the punitive treatment and neglect of homeless children and veterans in the Las Vegas Valley
To protest the lack of housing for homeless families and individuals in the Las Vegas Valley
To protest the outrageous attempts of government leaders to exclude and chase homeless people from our community
To demand that the Las Vegas Valley community, including its city and county governments, and its gambling and other business sectors - with the participation of state government - fulfill its moral and humane obligations to address the housing and other needs of homeless people in a fair, caring, positive, and just manner
To demand that the governments invest our taxes in housing and aiding homeless people rather than in the senseless, inhumane, futile, and unjust criminalization of homelessness
at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Newman Community Center at UNLV
4765 Brussels Street, Las Vegas (see map below)
on Thursday, September 21, 2006 at 4:00 PM (Park in the lot adjoining the building)
Link to Mapquest:
Map of 4765 Brussels St
Las Vegas, NV 89119-6602, US
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