A Publication of the Coalition on Homelessness
For Immediate Release
June 23, 2020
Press Contact:
Jennifer Friedenbach 1(415)577-9799 jfriedenbach@cohsf.org
**PRESS RELEASE***
Tenderloin Rises Up Against UC Hastings Lawsuit
Community members, students, and organizations protest the offensive move by UC Hastings to clear black and brown residents from tent encampments in middle of the pandemic
When: 3:00 pm Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
Where:
On Friday afternoon several dozen people gathered outside the unassuming Palms Motel in Oakland, CA with signs reading “Housing is a Human Right” and “Hotels Not Graves.” Inside, Stefani Echeverría-Fenn, an adjunct classics lecturer who herself was formerly homeless and has lived in the neighborhood for 11 years, has chained herself in the bathroom of a small room. She has been demanding that the City of Oakland offer hotel rooms where she has helped set up for her unhoused neighbors at the intentional encampment at 37th Street and Martin Luther King,
by Keith McHenry
“This cause is a great cause and we’re tired of being treated like dirt. We’re not, we’re human beings. We bleed just like you and we’re good people. We need a safe place and this is a safe place right here.” – Deseire Quintero
Volunteers with Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs wait outside what had been a large homeless camp that welcomed visitors for over one half year.
