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7-Day Food Stamp Challenge
251,060 people living in Sacramento County are considered food insecure. With the cost of living and unemployment, more and more people do not know where their next meal will come from. Sacramento Hunger Coalition issued a challenge to our community to try to … Continue reading
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World Courts of Women
The World Courts of Women was held in Oakland, California at Laney College from May 10 – 13, where women and men came together for four days to testify and pass judgement on poverty and the perpetrators of poverty and … Continue reading
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Bi-National Efforts to Fight for Our Rights to Exist
From Union Square in New York to Union Square in San Francisco, local actions occurred on April 1st to commemorate the beginning of a bi-national campaign to protect our right to exist. Yes, it is illegal for some people to … Continue reading
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CalWorks Rally Leads to Success!
Members of Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee, Safe Ground and Women’s Empowerment showed up at the California State Capitol this past Wednesday to speak out against Governor Brown’s proposed cuts to CalWorks. He was proposing cuts that would total $946 million while … Continue reading
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Poverty Simulation
Step Up, associated with Catholic Charities, held a Poverty Simulation on February 22 at the Cathedral downtown Sacramento. Legislative staff, service providers and other mostly middle class individuals came to learn what its like to experience poverty by role playing … Continue reading
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UN Special Rapporteur calls Sacramento to Task: Give homeless right to sanitation and water!
Catarina de Albuquerque, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation, visited Sacramento on a fact finding mission in February 2011 investigating access to water and sanitation. This visit was part of a … Continue reading
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A long overdue first blog post
So much is happening with Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee and Safe Ground Sacramento, and has been happening for several years. I hope I will find time to document actions and progress forward. Next event is on Tuesday, February 7. Catarina … Continue reading
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