First They Came for the Homeless Announced

Speakers for a New America Tour
Please join us in a California speaking tour of front line leaders in the movement to end homelessness in America. Proceeds from the Tour will benefit the People’s Tribune, in order to finance papers for homeless and other writers to distribute so they can tell their stories.
Saturday, April 22, 7pm
Luggage Store Gallery
1007 Market St [near 6th St], San Francisco
Speakers:
Mike Zint – SF/Berkeley – homeless leader from ‘OccupySF, founding member of ‘First they came for the homeless’ and the Poor Tour intentional tent community/action
Bilal Mafundi Ali – SF – People’s Commission for Justice and the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness
Silvia Hernandez – Los Angeles – homeless organizer on LA’s Skid Row
Gena Mercer – Merced – homeless organizer, Central Valley Journey for Justice
Robert Aguirre – San Jose – co-founder of the grassroots organization H.O.M.E.L.E.S.S.
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Jack Hirschman will read his powerful poem ‘Home’, written for the National Union of the Homeless