Join Us and our 50+ sponsors here in Sacramento to Raise the Demand for real HOUSING NOW! Stop the sweeps! No more death in the streets! No forced internment of the unhoused! Bringing Unity in Community! We all have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Homelessness affects us all until we come together to create realistic solutions we will continue to struggle as a community! Time to rise up as a community. It is time for a freedom ride! Bring your unique ideas, interests, tables, canopies, unity, and join us at this free event! Freedom Ride Sponsors
The Homeless Freedom Ride, to unite the unhoused across California to reveal the truth about homelessness statewide
Our fight is for massive funding of actual housing, not forced internment camps, temporary or congregant shelters, police and other law enforcement sweeps, criminalization, and abandonment of people in dire poverty!!
The California Poor People’s Campaign is teaming up with the California Homeless Union for The Homeless Freedom Ride, to unite the unhoused across California to reveal the truth about homelessness statewide.
Mission and Purpose of the Homeless Freedom Ride
Shine a light on the truth about homelessness statewide and change the narrative through local speak-outs, protests and rallies, community and media events, truth commissions to UNITE THE UNHOUSED across California.
- Establish new Homeless Union locals; Connect with housing/homeless rights organizations, community groups, churches, trade unions and other low-income/no-income worker’s groups.
- Provide political and legal training to the unhoused; assistance in organizing, fortifying, and defending encampments and the rights of housing in shelters, hotels and on the streets.
- To Raise and Demand for real HOUSING NOW! Stop the sweeps! No more deaths in the streets! No forced internment of the unhoused!
The California Homeless Union and the California Poor People’s Campaign are hosting a “Homeless Freedom Ride: Freedom from Homelessness! Freedom from Poverty! Housing NOW!!” After a 3-week journey by bus, car, boat, and on foot, we will converge on Sacramento during the Labor Day Weekend:
- Saturday, September 4, 2021 –Free Community Festival and Strategic Planning Session, from 11 AM-5 PM at 195 Jibboom Street in Sacramento, CA 95811
Background The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival has picked up this unfinished work of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from Alaska to Arkansas, the Bronx to the border, people are coming together to confront the interlocking evils of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism. The Poor People’s Campaign understands that as a nation the U.S. is at a critical juncture – that it needs a movement that will shift the moral narrative, impact policies and elections at every level of government, and build lasting power for poor and impacted people.
California Poor People’s Campaign: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/californiappc
Background – For seven years, the California Homeless Union, with thousands of unhoused members in over 15 cities and small towns, has been organizing to resist these attacks-in the camps, in the courts, and in the consciousness of the public. Our fight is for actual housing, against forced internment in congregant shelters, locked-down, government-controlled “safe ground” and criminalization of the homeless. The National Union of the Homeless was re-established in 2019 with founding members from the original Union which once had 35,000 members. Since the re-establishment of the National Union of the Homeless Thousands of poor and unhoused are organizing at the forefront for housing now, Stop the sweeps, homeless not helpless, nothing about us without us, and no more death on our streets.
California Homeless Union: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/sacramento.homeless.union/
–Crystal Sanchez
(916)495-9026
sacramento.homeless.union@gmail.com
Organizations-
Sacramento Homeless Union – PresidentSAC S.O.U.P- CO Founder- PresidentNational Homeless Union Executive Board member, Western Regional Director
The National Poor Peoples’ Campaign Sacramento Chapter
