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NorCal Resist @norcalresist.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

“I am a concerned person calling to request the immediate release of Wilfredo Rivero. Wilfredo went to ICE today to update the agency on his new address. Attempting to comply with ICE’s rules should not lead to someone’s arrest. Thank you.”

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NorCal Resist @norcalresist.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

You can ask to speak to an enforcement field operations supervisor or the enforcement field officer on duty. 916-339-4300 or 415-365-8800 email: SanFrancisco.Outreach@ice.dhs.gov

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NorCal Resist @norcalresist.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Today, Wilfredo, a 25 year old resident of Siskiyou County, in rural Northern California, came to Sacramento (a nearly 6 hour drive!) to update his address with the ICE field office. he’s been shackled and caged and his family fears he will be deported in the next day or two.

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Tom Philp @tomfilp.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Last week, the (barely) runner-up in the Sacramento mayor's race alleged a campaign contribution offer she called a "crime," but did not say who the "donors" were. Today, in the Sacramento Bee, the reveal (of those who deny any wrongdoing). www.sacbee.com/opinion/arti...

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Flo Cofer says a campaign crime was committed. Two Sacramentans disavow wrongdoing | Opinion

Developer Paul Petrovich told the City Council he did not offer money for a vote. But Cofer’s conversation was allegedly with somebody else.

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Tom Philp @tomfilp.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Sometimes Santa will say no. An exasperated Sacramento City Council the week before Christmas refuses to guarantee another two year's pay to City Manager Howard Chan, setting up his tantrum/departure. www.sacbee.com/opinion/arti...

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Chan asked Sacramento’s City Council for one sweetener too many and got shown the door | Opinion

The Sacramento City Council Tuesday night refused to grant the city manager a contract extension, setting up a necessary departure to bring change.

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People’s Budget Sacramento @peoplesbudgetsac.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

Had an amazing day at @sac_dsa ’s #TDOV Trans Day of Visibility event. Followed by @queersportz ’s Queaster, kicking off the summer of Queer Picnics. ❤️

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People’s Budget Sacramento @peoplesbudgetsac.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

Today’s ballot drop has @flojaune.bsky.social ‘s lead increase to 6,000 over her next competitor. We love to see purple.

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People’s Budget Sacramento @peoplesbudgetsac.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

Our very own amazing mayoral candidate Dr. Flo Cofer succinctly and completely laying out the reasons for the way many view homelessness and the ways efforts have not been evidence based and the ways it can be adequately addressed by following the evidence and leading with empathy.

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Are you concerned that the perception that you are "soft" on homelessness is going to cost you this mayoral race? For example, you've mentioned that you are against sweeping homeless camps. Residents are dealing with picking up used syringes during their kids' soccer games, having their property and personal safety threatened, getting assaulted, etc etc, while the mayor's office, county and state play hot potato with people's #1 issue. How much patience are you expecting from the city of Sacramento on this sense of lack of public safety?

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thank you for asking this question! I'm combining my responses here because you both asked similar things. I hope that's okay.

I am not soft on homelessness. What I am is more concerned with effectiveness than misperceptions. I am grateful for the long form space to dispell several.

Our housing crisis is caused by at least 13 different factors. Homelessness is as complex and the causes as multifaceted as the people experie

1) The overwhelming majority of people with mental health and substance use issues are housed.

Why am I mentioning that? Because mental health and substance use have a bi-directional arrow with homelessness. They may increase the risk of homelessness, but the experience of homelessness also creates and exacerbates mental health and substance use issues.

We need only too look at the pandemic to begin to understand this. As soon as stay-at-home policies were passed -- and we were all scared for our lives and many for our livelihoods -- the sales of alcohol skyrocketed. When we are stressed we turn to substances and our mental health suffers.

2) Sacramento county went from 2500 people experiencing homelessness in 2013 to 3900 in 2019 to 9278 in 2022.

And 57% of people experiencing homelessness have at least one chronic health condition.

3) We need plans that work. Not performances and theatrics.

We currently sweep people from block-to-block -- when we want to while swearing we don't

I am not saying it is okay for people to sleep on our porches, drop needles in our parks, or expose themselves in front of our schools.

I'm saying just because white men are the most likely demographic to shoot up public places, doesn't mean we should pass policies banning all white men from public spaces. In the same way that just because someone experiencing homelessness commits a crime doesn't mean we pass a ban on all people experiencing homelessness. Especially when we know that people experiencing homelessness are far more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators.

I'm saying that there is a much more cost-effective and solution-driven way to a crisis being driven by poverty than putting people in the county jail for trespassing where they will stay for 24 hours to 10 days and then be released at 2am without so much as a transit pass.

My immediate plan is to work with each neighborhood to identify sites and establish safe ground so we have a place where people and the

It isn't either/or. It is both/and. We should do what works for all of us and makes our communities healthy, not what is expedient and harmful in the long run.

As a public health professional, I have worked with people experiencing homelessness for years. What I have learned is this: I have yet to meet a person who is truly "service resistant." Even when people say no to an offer of services, it is always more complicated than that if we take time to understand. Just like NIMBYs are often more complicated than just saying no; there are valid fears and concerns behind their position that we can address if we listen. What I learn when I take time to establish trust and show respect is that behind the no is: They're frustrated, exasperated, sick, or distrustful. Frustrated because they've been on a list for years with not reprieve. Exasperated because what we have to offer is insufficient for their needs or hard to access. Too sick to move constantly -- or have processing issues that mak

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People’s Budget Sacramento @peoplesbudgetsac.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

Please share to your friends & anyone in the city boundaries. On your stories & reach out if you feel comfortable. We need progressives in office & we have a chance to elect an amazing mayor. And along with Katie & Roger, we have a chance to change the face of this city. x.com/ourrevolutio...

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People’s Budget Sacramento @peoplesbudgetsac.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

As we spent time with these four individuals and considered our endorsement, one among them emerged from outside the usual suspects of Sacramento politics as the choice to succeed Mayor Darrell Steinberg. This change agent offers an inspired vision for Sacramento and… www.sacbee.com/opinion/arti...

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People’s Budget Sacramento @peoplesbudgetsac.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

A community member shared some videos of Phil’s supporters. It seems landlords, parking lots, vacant properties, empty buildings, and airbnb property owners…support Phil. That seems to not be in alignment with our community. Property owners and landlords,… www.instagram.com/p/C2y8dx4uza...

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People’s Budget Sacramento @peoplesbudgetsac.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Related… “Of her $174,440-plus war chest, some $141,861 of it poured in directly from voters. Many were doctors, nurses, mental health professionals and religious leaders, but the professions also veered into the arts…” The epitome of grassroots. sacramento.newsreview.com/2024/01/12/w...

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People’s Budget Sacramento @peoplesbudgetsac.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Exactly the type of leadership Sacramento deserves. The type it needs. The type that prioritizes citizens and not corporate interests. That treats every, last, one of us as a priority to ensure consensus building. Please share x.com/flo4sacramen...

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People’s Budget Sacramento @peoplesbudgetsac.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

In case you were under the mistaken impression that they cared about addressing the issue. This would do nothing to get folks housing and has everything to do with further harming our unhoused who are also “residents” (who Jennings and Guerra cynically reference as a rationale for the measure)…

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People’s Budget Sacramento @peoplesbudgetsac.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

“If you can jail us you can house us.” Simple statement. And true. Housing is far cheaper than the costs associated with jailing. Housing is more moral because it doesn’t compound traumas experienced by unhoused folks. Traumas that are often not their fault. Traumas that come from generational…

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People’s Budget Sacramento @peoplesbudgetsac.bsky.social · 20/08/2023

Recent News: The County of Sacramento BOS wants to sign residents up for a $1 billion jail expansion. At a cost of $10 million per bed. The City of Sacramento’s Law and Leg members Guerra and Kaplan, who each have accepted over $20k from landlords…don’t want to stop Tenant Harassment. Cool. 😒

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