Okay, these folks are using flowery words like SF FAMILY and what
not, but remember, the man who is organizing this may mean well, but he
has not lived among us for many years and decades, as the rest of us
have, here in San Francisco.
He (Gopman) also has
admitted recent, prior bias, if not hatred or anger towards our
homeless, but now claims 'he's seen the light'.
And he may have, and he's spent some time inside homeless world, as
observer, but don't mistake that for the decades of in depth experience
that thousands of you residents have in our city, deep in homeless,
shelter, human services and city, state and county programs and
agencies, that these folks coming to us with THEIR WAYS AND IDEAS AND
THEIR SOLUTIONS do not have.
BRING WHAT YOU WANT
AND KNOW TO THE TABLE TO MAKE SURE WE GET WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW WE WANT
AND NEED, AT COST, NOT TO ENABLE MEGA PROFITS TO RUN PROGRAMS THEY LIKE
DOWN OUR THROATS, AS THEY'VE DONE FOR DECADES NOW.
BE AWARE AND DOUBLE CHECK EVERY FACT AND PERSONA AND CORPORATE OR
NON-PROFIT BACKER, SPONSOR OR PROGRAM THEY APPROACH US WITH BEFORE WE
AGREE TO ANYTHING!
And he's already linked up to
not-from-here ideas and organizations, so, this looks like they wish to
present their plans for all of us... but, we need to make sure WE, THE
PEOPLE, are the ones who present them, with what we want, where we are,
as we are... we must inform them of OUR NEEDS from our point of view
where we are at now....
They may try to get us
all to go move into some complexes they're doing with government -
private partnerships FOR PROFITS which means costs for what they
'provide' for us, will always increase, being controlled by bankster
faux market values.
The National Coalition on
Homelessness says the majority of all human service programs FAIL
because they are not created, designed, managed and operated by local
clients, themselves.
Every time out of towners or
newbies come with big programs to solve problems that locals did not
create, they fail. Meaning, they make megabucks for organizers,
managers, investors and tax agents... but over time, they fail and
collapse on the clients, then there's another crisis and more new top
down, not-from-here programs are introduced as 'the next homeless
solution'.
Okay, our teams are meeting with peers
and local groups to make sure THE PROGRAMS are to be not for profit and
are at lowest cost possible and must be owned, operated and managed by
OUR LOCAL PEOPLE and must enable us all to be where we are and stay
where we are and not be transported in and out of targeted zones for
development or condos, et cetera.
Remember, the
Elite in our city have hijacked every good program, process, campaign
and 'town hall' meetings we've had over decades, to ensure their needs
and profit motives are met, ahead of our critical human needs.
We saw that with the 'train' to reform the shelters, after we, the
people, with Eric Bayer started the SF Power Group (which got our most
hardcore folks off the streets and fully housed and employed or enrolled
in school in 11 to 20 weeks, with natural foods, self direction and at
one tenth of the cost of any other program to date with a 75% success
rate).
And again with the SF Shelter Standards of
Care Workshops and Laws that we, the people created, that The Elite
wanted to block with then Mayor Gavin Newsom's Veto, which didn't
happen. We passed that law that we wrote and both of the
'from-the-people up' campaigns became world class models.
So, we're dealing with CORPORATE TYPES who have a certain nature, no matter how much they may be changing... BE AWARE.
BE
PREPARED FOR ADD ON PROGRAMS THAT COST US MORE AND COME FROM OUTSIDE
THE MINDS OF OUR PEOPLE (i.g. Agenda 21, behavior modification, public
safety programs from New York, Sweden, et al) that DON'T work here.
Give us what we know we need and want, how we want it is how programs
work best here... we're reasonable adults capable of explaining what we
need... we don't need others telling us what we want or what they're
going to do for us...
Onward, mark this event on your calendar and organize all your groups now!
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