[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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