Gracias Sister Libby ~ This is great news and Lord knows we need good news in these these troubled economic times to help uplift our spirits. The basic survival needs of the people always overwhelm available resources. Plus, the homeless require a whole range of social-humane-spiritual services in order to lift them out out of homelessness, into safe homes that can be secured as sustainable sanctuaries.
Now working in an Emergency Shelter I kind of dread the coming winter of our discontent, especially if there is no Winter Overflow Shelter. All along the way we should be careful and conscientious as we strive to understand and fathom the root causes of homelessness and other widespread social problems, especially now as we are in the Great Depression of 2009. I just heard on CNN that unemployment is to get worse in the next six months.
I have always maintained that low or no self-esteem is at the root of the core issues involving homeless refugees, many of whom also suffer from forms of drug addiction, but let us not fall into co-dependency.
Many of our homeless refugees have skills, talents and qualifications that need to be channeled and directed into positive productive ways of living.
The humane quality of self-esteem is connected to self-love, self-respect and true self-confidence. With creative imagination and a humane consciousness of our infinite potential we can transform the world!
Let us work together as one people upon one planet with love, faith, understanding and compassionate action!
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Education for Liberation! Venceremos Unidos!
Peter S. Lopez ~aka Peta
Sacramento, California, Aztlan
Yahoo Email: peter.lopez51@yahoo.com
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Come Together! Join Up! Seize the Time!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Humane-Rights-Agenda/
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From: Sister Libby <srlibby@sacloaves.org>
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Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 8:15:38 AM
Subject: FW: Mayor hopeful, committed to meeting needs of city's homeless population
Feed: Sacramento Homeless
Posted on: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 2:43 PM
Author: unbound@gmail.com (Tom Armstrong)
Subject: Mayor hopeful, committed to meeting needs of city's homeless population
This morning, the Mayor held a press conference to update the public on the status of pressing homelessness issues and to reiterate his commitment to make Sacramento "a city that works for everyone," including the least fortunate, us homeless. The briefing also served to show that the mayor and parties involved in the Safe Ground movement are reconciled and expect to be working together to meet the shelter and sleeping needs of homeless Sacramentans in the face of the continuing difficult economic conditions and a coming winter that may be severe. Mayor Kevin Johnson, now in office for ten months, said that homeless people must be treated with respect and their dignity recognized and that the city must pursue a goal of ending homelessness, altogether, over time. Aside the mayor as he stood at a podium in a small room in the new building at the City Hall complex were about eight leaders involved in efforts to aid the homeless, including Sister Libby and Joan Burke of Loaves & Fishes; Gregory Bunker of Francis House; and Thomas "Hawk" Jackson Ashmore**, an able and articulate member of the homeless community.
A legal encampment for the homeless
The mayor first spoke about Stepping Stone, envisioned as a legal "transitional-housing encampment which facilitates outreach and empowers individuals to [achieve] self-sufficiency." A fifteen-person ad hoc committee, in conjunction with a staff aid, has the responsibly of finding the best components of a camp that can succeed both for homeless people and the metropolis.
The Mayor hopes to have a proposal come together soon that will "launch in October" with the manifestation of the camp coming in three to six months. A site near Bannon Street, three acres behind the VOA property there, is known to be a prime plot of ground under consideration for the camp, but the Mayor said other sites will be sought and fully evaluated in the process of creating his proposal. Shelter this winter
End Notes
In questioning from the press afterward, the Mayor said that he would love for our city to be a leader in the quest for ending homelessness, but that will not forestall the continuing need for transitional means and emergency shelters.
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