California Politics HuddleCPH Daily Bulletin 9/14/2025
#SanBernardino County prioritizing outreach as #anticamping rules go into effect
My Boston‘We are done letting this happen’: Protesters demand an end to encampment sweeps in Massachusetts
#anticamping #ban
#Sweeps #are #violence
#stop #the #sweep
#BostonMA @WarmUpBoston
‘We are done letting this happen’: Protesters demand an end to encampment sweeps in Massachusetts
In below freezing temperatures, around one hundred demonstrators marched along Commonwealth Avenue early on the morning of Feb. 5 demanding an end to the sweeps of homeless encampments on state land, a practice advocates say criminalizes homelessness.
DoomsdaysCW#KleeBenally, Navajo advocate for #IndigenousPeople and #environmental causes, dies in Phoenix
Klee Benally was among the most vocal opponents of snowmaking at #ArizonaSnowbowl ski resort in #Flagstaff.
AP, January 1, 2024
PHOENIX — "Klee Benally, a Navajo man who advocated on behalf of Indigenous people and environmental causes, has died, his sister said. He was 48 years old.
"Benally died Saturday at a Phoenix hospital, Jeneda Benally said. His cause of death was not disclosed.
"Klee Benally was among the most vocal opponents of snowmaking at Arizona Snowbowl ski resort in Flagstaff. At least 13 tribes consider the mountain on public land to be sacred.
"He protested #PoliceViolence and #RacialProfiling and was among activists who gathered outside metro Phoenix’s NFL stadium in 2014 to denounce the offensive team name previously used by the franchise from Washington, D.C.
"Benally advocated for the cleanup of abandoned #mines, where #uranium ore was extracted from the Navajo Nation over decades to support U.S. #nuclear activities during the #ColdWar.
"He also spoke out against an ordinance that, in a bid to address the problem of #homelessness, had banned camping on public property in Flagstaff.
"'There is no compassionate way to enforce the #AntiCamping ordinance,' Benally said in 2018 when officials declined to alter the 2005 ordinance. 'Life is already hard enough for our unsheltered relatives on the streets.'
"Benally was also a guitarist, and played with his sister and brother in the Native American punk rock band #Blackfire."
Source:
https://www.12news.com/article/life/people/klee-benally-navajo-advocate-for-indigenous-people-and-environmental-causes-dies/75-51b35e37-1a11-4853-8e2a-320fb4da7766
#RestInPowerKleeBenally #RIPKleeBenally
NonilexIn a 6-3 ruling, the court said #homelessness is not a status protected by the #EighthAmendment’s prohibition on #CruelAndUnusual punishment, even when a community offers #NoAccess to indoor #shelter for #HomelessPeople.
So much for love thy neighbor
#law #SCOTUS #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #HumanRights #SupremeCourt #AntiCamping #laws #PublicSpace #homeless
#SCOTUS says #ban on #homeless camping does not violate #Constitution
#SupremeCourt on Fri rejected a challenge to #AntiCamping #laws allowing cities to #BanHomelessPeople from sleeping in #PublicSpace — a decision that will significantly impact how local officials address the nation’s #homeless.
#law #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #HumanRights
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/28/supreme-court-homeless-encampments-ban-ruling/
