Hi Everyone, We would like to encourage everyone who can attend the meeting tomorrow, Monday August 22nd and protest Tuesday August 23rd to do so.
TOMORROW'S MEETING will be held at the Berryessa Noble Branch Library at 7pm. The library conference room was unavailable, so the meeting will be conducted outdoors in front of the library entrance by the pond. We will share the latest information on the park status, share strategies for getting our message out to more districts, share with each other ideas they may have and want to share, and discuss our plan for Tuesday's protest. If anyone has anymore "No Tiny Home" yard signs, that they were unable to distribute, please bring them to the meeting tomorrow. We will make sure they get distributed.
TUESDAY'S PROTEST will be held at San Jose City Council Chambers (200 East Santa Clara Street, San Jose, 95113) at 630pm. If you have one of those awesome "NOT ON NOBLE" T-Shirts, wear it. The shirts are being noticed. At our last protest, we were censored by the Council Chambers staff by lack of video coverage. From 600pm to 645pm the video coverage was showing all of us in the audience. At about 645pm video coverage was removed from us and directed only on the city council. It appears the chamber's rules are that if any signs are raised above your head and or any clapping or cheering occurs, they will void any video coverage of the audience in attendance. So, we are encouraging on any shirt, everyone to write "NOT ON NOBLE" on a 3 inch wide, 18 inch long piece of masking tape and place the label across the back of your shirt (like when the football players have their name on the back of their jersey). This will give us exposure to the video coverage without raising our signs. The camera and the public will read our message on the back of our shirts. City council will see our shirts and signs from the front. Keep yours sign in front of you under your chin. When open forum starts the video coverage is only on the person speaking. This is when we can raise our signs above our heads 3 times together to support our neighbor speaking and sharing their heart felt message. As a reminder, we don't want to give them anymore opportunity to censor us, so don't clap or cheer, and only raise up the signs during open forum speeches. Remember to have a one and a two minute speech prepared. As always after all of our incredible neighbors have shared their speeches and the meeting/protest is concluded, exit the chambers, go to your vehicles, and do not have any conversations with any City Hall staff. Lets fill up all the seats again. Our momentum grows stronger every day.
We will see everyone on Monday for the meeting and Tuesday for the protest. Our community is united and it grows larger every day. Robert and Sandra
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Hello, I would like to start by saying that I am in full agreement that there Noble Ave site should not be the site for tiny homes. That being said, I think that it would be more meaningful to focus and emphasize that the site is in between two elementary schools and a library rather than that its a park. All of the news sites that picked up the story mentioned those aspects, and did not emphasize that its a park. I also think the council would likely be more open to us presenting solutions for alternative sites, since a viable and less controversial site will make their lives easier. I also saw someone deface one of the signs by the park with "No colored, you mean? The prejudice." Which we all know is not an accurate critique, however, it would be helpful to brand this movement as it is, which is including and promoting people of color who make up the neighborhood, and stay away from the face of the movement being white men who sound like NIMBYs.
ReplyDeleteDO NOT PLACE densely populated caged tiny home sites
ReplyDeletenear schools, parks, libraries, daycare.
San Jose City Council’s thinking:
What we have heard more than once is this: There are so many schools in San Jose, it is almost impossible not to end up with a tiny home site within a mile of a school. Essentially they tell us, “we have no choice, we are going to have to build near schools. We expect opposition, but we must make the hard decisions”
Our thinking/parents thinking:
We know a percentage of people living in these densely populated caged tiny home sites will wander onto school campuses pandering for money, using the restrooms, wandering into the cafeteria for food. -And the risk for even worse. DO NOT BUILD TINY HOME SITES NEAR ANY SCHOOL, PARK, LIBRARY, DAYCARE. DO NOT RISK THE SAFETY OF OUR CHILDREN/FAMILIES; DO NOT LOAD SCHOOL FACULTY AND PARENTS OF SCHOOL CHILDREN DOWN WITH THIS PREVENTABLE CHRONIC WORRY, CONCERN, & STRESS.
San Jose City Council’s thinking:
Look at us, tough enough to ignore your opposition and make hard decisions. Look at us, we are getting people off the streets and rescuing homeless people.
Our thinking/parents thinking:
Look at you, SJ City Council, blind and deaf to the valid concerns of your community, willing to put countless children at risk and drown parents in worry and stress. look at you, SJ City Council, willing to pay millions on top of millions placing highly dense populations of people into cages, and millions to maintain these sites. Look at you, SJ City Council.. taking up precious land space, destroying neighborhoods, parks, libraries.. indifferent to the cost, the risk, the safety factors
And look at you, SJ City Council, -should you get your way.. all that risk, land, cost, -squishing 100’s of people into cages in neighborhoods, near schools, libraries, daycare..
And another flux of homeless enters into San Jose.. now what? Now what do you do?
Keep building densely populated caged tiny home sites?
Your intentions may be good, but they are dangerously short-sighted.
What is your plan for when your plan attracts even more homeless?