Boulder Sleep-In for Homeless Justice Saturday, June 1 1

[carolyn bninski]

WHAT: Sleep-In for Homeless Justice

 

WHEN: Saturday, June 11, 2011            

 

WHERE: Canyon and Broadway (grassy lawn along Boulder Creek west of Municipal Building), Boulder

 

Gather and Potluck @ 6 pm

 

Speakers Circle @ 7:30 pm

 

Sleepers Bivouac @ 8:30 - 9 pm*

 

Sleep is not, should not, and must not be a crime.

 

HOME is sponsoring its second public sleep-in to protest the city ordinance forbidding sleep with shelter at night. The public is invited to join together with people who are homeless to sleep in along Boulder Creek.

 

Our actions will break the law as it is currently written, and we do not know how the police will respond. They could write tickets and ask us to move along or may have some other response. Last year (May 2010) they did not ticket or disturb sleepers.

 

This protest is peaceful and nonviolent. It does not welcome drugs or alcohol and is earth friendly (leave no trace). Musical instruments, yes. 

 

 HOME , the ROCKY MOUNTAIN PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER and the AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION all believe firmly that this law violates the 6th and 8th Amendments to the US Constitution* and is a "cruel and unusual punishment" of people who do not have housing. 

 

*bivouac: to rest or assemble in a certain area