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Civic Action Group (CAG)Sisters’ Civic Action Group is made up of people direct experience of homelessness, working within a Civic Action framework towards solving problems that people experiencing homelessness face every day!
CAG meets the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of each month. CAG has three smaller work groups that meet weekly. Check out Sisters’ Events calendar to see everything coming up! Overturning the Anti-Camping Campaign
For the past two months, CAG members and our Community Organizer Brendan have been attending meetings at the Portland Housing Bureau dubbed the “alternatives” meeting. These meetings have been convened by Sally Erickson (Portland’s Ending Homelessness Project Manager) and have included members of faith communities, County Commissioner Kafoury’s office, Commissioner Fritz and Fish’s offices, JOIN, Street Roots, Outside In, Human Solutions, Salvation Army, Rescue Mission, Julie West, Transitions, and a number of people experiencing homelessness. The purpose of the meetings was to come up with “out-of-the-box” ideas for addressing the immediate needs for shelter coming into the winter months (dubbed the “10 minute plan”). Affordable Housing
CAG is also working on supporting efforts around affordable housing. We will be outreaching to our allies who are working on affordable housing to support their work/campaigns and to people experiencing homelessness to message around the January WRAP event in San Francisco with the goals of increasing opportunities for people experiencing homelessness and those who are trying to get/stay in affordable housing to participate in this event.
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We are currently working on a list of housed allies for this group to help in bigger events. If you wish to be involved, please contact Devin DiBernardo (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) at (503) 222-5694 extension 16, or click here to sign up for an Action Info list to keep updated on Sister’s community organizing and systemic change work. CAG Film
To document their organizing work, CAG has done some filming. Here are two short videos of Sisters’ co-founder Genny Nelson (pictured at left) discussing the beginnings of Sisters Of The Road and Community Organizing. Both videos were shot by CAG member Richard Walden. Here is video of CAG members supporting long time CAG friend Tom Hastings of the Whitefeather Catholic Worker House at a ‘Defund the War’ protest at Senator Gordon Smith’s office. Two CAG members Neil and Bruce took part, with Richard again filming. Do you have experience with homelessness?
The Civic Action Group will be holding meetings every second and fourth Saturday of the month, at Sisters Of The Road at 12:00 noon. If you have experience of homelessness, please join us! If not, please (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or call her at (503) 222-5694 extension 16 for the next meeting with open attendance.
Last updated on Jan 25, 2010 at 10:34 AM |
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