Occupy4Homeless: Christmas break and HOW YOU CAN HELP

Following the 31st City of Sydney Council Raid Occupy Sydney have been slow rebuilding. Is this a sign of imminent defeat? Few thought we would survive this long. Occupy Sydney caution that you should not write #occupy4homeless off just yet: "we have work to do."
  "Christmas and the holiday season are almost upon us

an early view #occupy4homeless

and as the decorations go up in a vulgar homage to the success of commercial advertising , every year more families join the valley of broken dreams as financial stress and human nature collide leaving in their wake a legacy of another broken family.
BLANKETS AND CLOTHES CAN ALWAYS BE DROPPED IN 24 hours a day: Cnr Martin Place & Elizabeth St

" #Occupy4Homeless "

  Because most of the Poverty Industry shut down at this critical time of year, Occupy Sydney vow to maintain Australia's only 24-7 Homeless Resource even more. For us it is not because we can but we must because we are needed more than ever. 

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St George Bank:BSB 112-879 Acc 431 666 171(thank you)

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Regular : $20.00 AUD - monthly Gold : $20.00 AUD - monthly Platinum : $50.00 AUD - monthly Annual : $500.00 AUD - yearly

  As with most Homeless communities, the Sydney Homeless Community is littered with the carnage of

economic chaos. Broken people; some of whom will never fully recover. More begin their experience of homelessness or marginalisation in the coming six weeks than at any time of year. Some will not see the financial cliff coming. Being told your job is over the week before Christmas is nobody's idea of fun. Those who find their holiday pay, superannuation and severance allowances have been chewed up as the company goes into liquidation wake up to the cold hard reality that the dream holiday they planned with family has turned into the nightmare that ripped the family apart ...despite everyone doing no wrong. 
Join our Supply Team here 
At Occupy Sydney we challenge a system which allows Corporations to treat workers as human garbage. It would be absolutely and utterly remiss of us not to help mitigate the collateral damage from the very system we critique. Occupy Sydney believe not simply in protesting whats wrong or proclaiming whats right but proactively working to mitigate the problems. Especially in a City of Sydney's affluence, Homeless people deserve the option to be able to eat when they are hungry-not when someone elses clock says they should. 
Volunteers welcome to join #occupy4homeless
 Please EMAIL US HERE or see the team at Cnr Martin Place and Elizabeth St Sydney 2000.
  Our research continuing from decades of earlier initiatives shows that almost $1billion annually is spent by Federal Government Nationally in the name of Homeless people. Once-were-Charities-today's Corporations at the forefront of wageslavery and undermining workers rights collect millions more. Homeless people have at best token input as to how that

funding is expended. The result is that the call for more funding is ever present. The "service providers" assets grow. The bureaucracy grows. The ministries grow. And the problem grows too. I'm sorry there's something fundamentally wrong with that picture and here at Occupy Sydney we've already pressed the reset button. 

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INFO: PHONE 0410 722 000

23rd City of Sydney Council of Thieves Attack on Occupy Sydney 24-7 Homeless Resource

  At 8am today(24-10-2013) the City of Sydney Council of Thieves carried out their 23rd Att

When on Nov 7 2011 we said "Occupy Sydney back to Stay
we absolutely meant it"

ack on the 24-7 Homeless Site at the corner of Elizabeth St and Martin Place. 

•  Council staff member David asked that we "not make it personal" as his children were seeing it on Facebook. We suggest that this Council Worker cease and desist from carrying out the illegal orders of his bosses-and that they stop carrying out the desires of their Corporate masters and START LISTENING TO THEIR VOTERS.
• Council Staff member David stated that "we should keep it cleaner." Perhaps a fair request but for the fact that Council Steal our brooms dustpans bins rubbish bags. Occupiers and our Homeless community do everything we can to keep the area as clean as possible.
• On Council's apparent offer of negotiations, we are fair and reasonable people. The basis for negotiations will be for a) Council to cease and desist their theft of our resources.b) Council to make good all damage and removals costs including de-contamination they have done to resources previously taken. c) That Occupy Sydney 24-7 Homeless Hungry and Cold Peoples Resource remain at the current site near the corner of Elizabeth St and Martin Place AND continue to operate 24 hours a day AND continue to serve freshly cooked nutritious food to those who cannot afford it.
• Occupy Sydney's Position is Clear. The Council has no powers to prevent anybody giving away food. Occupy Sydney participants have (with one exception) NOT been served with ANY notice-a time sensitive requirement under the legislation which City of Sydney purports to enact. The Fact that after 23 Attacks not one Charge or violation notice has been issued invites the inference and empowers the assertion that THE COUNCIL KNOW THEIR ACTIONS ARE ILLEGAL but choose to use public resources to carry out illegal bullying attacks on a peaceful protest and homeless service in support of some Councillors desires.
• Council had ample time PRIOR to initiating attacks to negotiate and did not do so or make any attempt.
• Should Council wish to enter into discussions, Mayor Clover Moore AND Councillor Christine Forster are welcome to call (0410722000) and make an appointment so that PUBLIC and TRANSPARENT Negotiations can take place at the Occupy Sydney site. Other Council Officers welcome but negotiations solely with the instigators. 

 

We Must Win the City of Sydney's undeclared War on the Homeless

because multi level Government (in collusion with NGOs and their peak bodies) constructed options of Coercing Homeless People into "Jail you pay for" monetisation industries OR Starvation are NOT options of the Homeless Communitys choosing.They do not empower homeless people and do NOT remove them from the cycle of marginalisation.

 The Occupy Sydney 24-7 Homeless Hungry and Cold Peoples Resource is THE ONLY PLACE IN AUSTRALIA where homeless or marginalised people can get FREE HOT FOOD DRINKS and blankets 24 hours a day.

Yesterday the City of Sydney Council carried out their 9th Attack on The Occupy Sydney 24-7 Homeless Hungry and Cold Peoples Resource, this time stealing virtually all food and equipment.

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 Occupy Sydney are again rebuilding and calling on the public and supporters to continue to support the only place in Australia where Homeless people can get Hot Food Coffee and blankets 24 hours a Day in The City of Sydney Council's undeclared War on the Homeless. 

• The City of Sydney have no Court orders to enforce.They have not issued infringement notices.There have been no charges. In our view this is because City of Sydney know that any recourse by them to legal process will fail dismally.
• The City of Sydney had not once objected to Occupy Sydney's presence protesting in Martin Place until we started the 24-7 Homeless Hungry and Cold Peoples Resource in April 2013. The Service enables Homeless people the choice to not engage with the City of Sydney or its Poverty Industry Partners who monetise Homeless People. 
• The City has NOT made adequate provision to house low income workers. It should be a civic responsibility to house all workers in its area affordably. Corporations operating from the City of Sydney CBD are massive contributors to marginalisation because they seek to take a greater share of the Country's wealth for themselves leaving less for others. What they call smart business is in fact Corporate Greed. They should not be insulated from seeing the results of their self serving handiwork.
• The City has for decades had a Homelessness Unit whose role has become to Collude with the Poverty Industry to shepherd Homeless people into "JAIL YOU PAY FOR" accommodation. Despite paying rent ,tenants are NOT free to come and go 24 hours a day (Vinnies Matthew Talbot, Salvos Foster House, Mission Australia Campbell House) and are in some examples subjected to Gestapo style unannounced room searches (Salvos Foster House). The City Council and its alliance partners consider homelessness not a problem but a commodity to be monetised. As the nett worth of Poverty Industry Operatives has increased, Homeless numbers (despite City of Sydneys fake Homeless Count) have risen and the call for more funding is always heard. If there has been a 30% decrease in Sydney City Homelessness as The City insists, why isnt there a call for a 30% decrease in funding? 
• The City of Sydney partners leverage the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program and other  taxpayer funded structures to Rent Private Market Properties and allow tenants to pay subsidised rents.This is excellent news for Property Svpeculators, bad news for Home buyers and renters as it Drives both Private Residential Rental and Purchase costs higher, adding to the affordability crisis.
•   The Occupy Sydney Homeless Hungry and Cold Peoples Resource is Australia's only 24-7 place for Homeless and Hungry People to have access to Hot Food Hot drinks and blankets. With over $700million of Federal Funding at their disposal via The Road Home alone one might have thought one of the plethora of NGOs looting the government purse might have thought to do what Occupy Sydney have done.
• We are 100% supported by the Public. We do not receive support from Oz Harvest or other Charity or Government organisations.The small funding we get is 100% crowd sourced -public and supporter gifts, and used to buy gas,Coffee Cutlery and other Consumables. 
• We are at once a Political Protest opposing Corporate Greed and a Proactivist Community supporting Homeless and at risk of Homeless people with FREE FOOD HOT DRINKS BLANKETS and CLOTHES,
• Do you think Homeless and Hungry People deserve a 24-7 place to eat when they are hungry or get a hot cup of tea or coffee when they are cold and not when someone elses clock says they should?
• Do you think the Occupy Sydney 24-7 Homeless Hungry and Cold Peoples Resource, The Only Place In Australia where homeless people can get Hot Food 24 Hours a day should stay??

Occupy Sydney provide Australia's First 24-7 Homeless Resources

Occupy Sydney

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OCCUPATION: Cnr Martin Pl & Elizabeth St Sydney

Postal: Occupy Sydney 56a Martin Pl Sydney NSW 2000 Australia

<!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]-->News From The Occupation:

17 June 2013

Australia's First 24 -7 Homeless & Hungry Resource Centre

  Despite National annual expenditure by Federal State and Local Body Governments in the name of Homeless People

Occupy Sydney Homeless Resources 24-7

we have yet to identify another service where Homeless People can simply walk up and get free unconditional food drinks blankets and clothes- essential items when one is homeless and freezing at 2am on a Sunday Morning.

 The Occupy Sydney Homeless and Hungry Resource Centre now opens 24 hours

A day 7 days a week serving hot food providing free clothes blankets and sleeping bags when available. The Kitchen has in the last two weeks provided over 5000 individual services. About 600 kilograms of food was disbursed just over the last weekend.About 320 Blankets or sleeping bags have passed through the Centre along with at least 1000kgs of good quality clothes.

 The Resource Centre is 100% funded by public donations which can be made at the site or by calling/texting 0410722000 24 hours a day. 

HOW YOU CAN HELP

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 We and our homeless community friends are deeply indebted to the generosity and kindness of the many members of the public and Occupy Sydney Supporters who have and continue to support this vital community service.

   The City of Sydney is being asked by opportunist Councillor Christine Forster (sister of Federal Liberal/Coalition leader Tony Abbott MHR) to evict Occupy Sydney. Photos of her being interviewed by media nearby give the strong impression that she has seen the Homeless Resource Centre which shares the Occupy Sydney Protest site. While the councillor mistakenly describes the Protest site/Homeless Service facility as a camp, the Councillor does draw attention to the fact that there is in fact no Camping site for Homeless and Transient people in Sydney -and perhaps there should be. This will doubtless be part of the discussion at the Meeting at Occupy this Saturday (22 June) from 2pm which will informally discuss Homelessness solutions .