[Street] [Winter] Open Letter

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Fri Nov 25 11:35:30 EST 2011


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I'll note that people HAVE been turned away by police for simply
trying to donate blankets.

On 11/25/2011 11:27 AM, Katie Gradowski wrote:
> Hey Z,
> 
> I posted to winterization.   I would like to help out with this,
> but am not super familiar with the issues involved, what's been
> tried, what's explicitly been prohibited, which is mostly why I
> didn't volunteer to write it myself.    The proposal was to draft
> an open letter, passed at GA, published on the website, widely
> circulated to newspapers, about the difficulties we have had in
> winterizing the camp and ensure basic public health standards at
> dewey square.
> 
> Issues would include:  1) prohibitions on portapotties 2) no
> winterized tents 3) no pallets or insulation, as explicit concerns
> around sanitation and cold weather.
> 
> a public statement of this sort seems pretty important in combating
> the largely facetious "public safety" concerns -- especially as we
> draw closer to the December 1 deadline, when we will very much need
> public sympathy.
> 
> best, katie
> 
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Z Bowditch <zthetop at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:zthetop at yahoo.com>> wrote:
> 
> Someone in the Winterization list brought up an interesting idea: 
> There is very little press regarding the difficulties OB is facing 
> with winterization of the camps due to what amounts to a ban on
> new structures and insulation by the city.  I am currently dafting
> an open letter for consideration at GA with the following points:
> 
> -in order for OB to be successful, winterization of the camp must
> occur -without the proper spaces for gatherings and information, OB
> will become increasingly unsafe for the occupants -Organizers and
> participants want to have a safe space for OB, which includes a
> desire for everyone, young and old, to be able to stay warm at the
> camp this winter -Despite the injunction saying that the city
> cannot remove the tents, there is more than one way to make us
> leave, including forcing us to have an unsafe space -the city
> should support our efforts to keep OB a safe place
> 
> If anyone would like to add points, take stuff out, reword it, and 
> add details, I would love your help in polishing this draft before 
> bringing it to GA.
> 
> Z zthetop at yahoo.com <mailto:zthetop at yahoo.com> 
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