Camp on The Door Steps of The Minster

Political/ Shelter/ Human Right
Here is how the city officials in Victoria are dealing with issues of lack of housing since the officials think that they lost the court case.

The most socially mind candidates running for the elections are continuously being arrested and are now scheduled to be in court on Nov 12. Every time David Johnson is arrested and sent to jail the city keeps coming up with more mat space for people to sleep on. The two mostly mayoral candidates fail to attend community forum on homelessness or to listen to the lawyers. They claim the lawyers have crossed the by-law jurisdictions line. I think they are to familiar with this line because they them selves have been accused of crossing a similar line, called the rezoning one. Because the city official spend about 60% of their time trying to rezone something they haven't got the foggiest notion on.

Now all four candidates are going to court today to be sentence for failing to put away their homes before seven in the am. This is a court order that is being reinforced even though there is no by-law in existence since it was struck down.
So candidates are being arrested and charge on a non-existent by-law, dropped off at all candidate meeting by the police, now being charged $35.00 per person for attending an all candidates morning time breakfast and that the police are now providing the street people with wake up calls. I have been told that it could go even higher..depending on how many poor candidates they don't want in attendance. I must remember this is not an attack on the poor to keep them out.. even though they are candidates who are suppose to be invited. To find out more about the the homeless candidates have had to face please visit their website at www.electionvictoria.ca, to get the other candidates who are homeless and still for our rights.
Hey, this is happening at the Dockside Welfare Office tomorrow - Wednesday - come along from 2-2:30 or so to support if you can. ~Wendy, CCAP

HOMELESS MAKE DO BY SLEEPING OUT ON A CABINET MINISTER'S DOORSTEP

Carnegie Community Action Project
News Conference

When: Wednesday, Nov 12, 2008 2:00 p.m.
Where: Meet at the front steps of the Carnegie Centre Contact person:
Wendy Pedersen, CCAP Organizer & Researcher,

Homeless people are making do by sleeping out on a Cabinet Minister's
doorstep, but they want real housing so they can go to work.

"I want to move on from here and go to school. Indian Affairs will help me with that. But I need a place. You don't have a life when you live in a shelter. I need to cook when I need a meal and I need a shower when I need a shower. I can't find a place to live. I'm not getting anywhere here," says Kaleb Zentner, a homeless squatter at the site.

Albert John Ouimette, one of the homeless squatters who has been sleeping out for months, says, "If the janitors want to wash the floor we leave because we want to make it easy for them. We keep the place tidy. We don't cause problems here because we need to stay. The workers know who we are.
They know we got respect. But I need my own space, my own key, if I'm going to work everyday."

Come to a news conference to find out where the squatters are and more about what they need.