Welcome To Your Occupy SF @ Justin Hermann Plaza 2011 !

Starting in 2006, a Yahoo Group was started to create a loose unofficial coalition of concerned & compassionate individuals; social justice groups; loyal city, state & unionized workers; shelter & social program staff (from all walks of life); investigative journalists; progressive media; city committees; select politicians & public health leaders TOGETHER ignited a major push for Reforms in our Citys Homeless Shelters; Housing Programs; SRO (single room occupancy) Hotels; and city, state and federal agencies which all failed to protect our most vulnerable residents. THE PROBLEM TRUTH WAS WELL HIDDEN FROM YOU ALL ! Whistleblowers were constantly being assaulted; denied services by the major shelter providers as they fought to expose major abuse, corruption, assault, rape, food theft, intentional food poisoning, human trafficking, poverty pimping, embezzlement & crack smoking staff on the payroll of our citys coffers on contracts to non-profit churches & community groups. Hundreds of millions of dollars went into a system where some 15,000 to 20,000 people had been recycled for more than a decade with near zero oversight or awareness on the part of the general public and NP Donors who never knew.
YOU DONATED & FUNDED MILLIONS IN A SYSTEM WITH ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY/OVERSIGHT In 2000, our shelters had gang thugs running them the people who designed the million dollar systems to take care of our Most Vulnerable Residents failed to include Uniform Hiring Standards they decided to make the lowest threshold possible for hiring so, they all got tax credits for hiring recently released Felons to take care of rooms full of people already traumatized and suffering from abuse and trauma. TRAUMATIZED CONVICTS HIRED TO MONITOR AND BE ROLE MODELS FOR THE TRAUMATIZED Large percent of the staff hired were illiterate; without social skills or a proven record (a year?) of good behavior outside prisons we know they were abused at; and will repeat abuse they suffered for years in prison - upon anyone who appears to be weak or easy to prey upon in shelters. Until ALL prisons are reformed by people like Honorable Tom Ammiano to insure our prisoners come out as sociable, well taken care of humans; we cannot allow them to fail; reoffend or harm our shelter or program residents & staff. When angry men come out of state prisons, they

lack discipline & social skills to deal with people, let alone the mentally ill, elderly, vets and people on big pharma meds. (Billions to Big Pharma in SF) THEY NEED OUR HELP! THEY ARE 99% ! THESE SHELTERS WERE CRIME ZONES MAKING THOUSANDS BY THEFT & EXTORTION Staff & Management at the 3 or 4 largest city contracted shelter systems were abuse, assault and premature death zones. They were selling pillows, blankets, beds and cocaine for cash. Guns in their belts and bags of powder on the counters. Most premium food, blankets, sleeping bags, clothes routinely stolen by staff; sold at 4 distribution points in Tenderloin & Fillmore Districts. MSC South Shelter at 5th & Bryant had an industrial kitchen in the basement used to cook up meth at night. Staff there (who today, still work in other shelters here) used to rent 3 or 4 vans (20 40 passengers) to take shelter residents to pick up monthly SSI Checks. Then theyd drop them off in the Bayview next to gangs for few minutes; thugs would crowd around them; then staff drives back around- offer to give ride back to shelter for half their SSI checks. THE COMING TOGETHER OF ALL ALLIED & OPPOSING FORCES ONTO ONE WEB SITE James the Advocate interviewed over 1,200 residents & staff inside these systems that have caused millions of dollars in costs for emergency response, trauma, disease, violence only due to lack of oversight inside a totally corrupted group of rotating staff who would get fired from one site and go work at another, the next day. Based on those interviews, its estimated that over 12,000 residents were shuffled from program to program to make numbers for funding, but yet, noone ever really got out unless they died prematurely, which happened a lot. Life Expectancy ran about 40. 6 years of age in our systems or 20 years less than Normal Life Expectancy. In essence, we funded Harm Creating Death Machines which robbed our communities of millions of dollars, thousands of lives and 20 years off of everyones life. Not to mention the harm caused by thousands of underfed, sleep deprived homeless & shelter residents forced by starvation & desperation to beat, rob & steal to get what our systems were supposedly already providing them. One massive fraud. GOOD RESIDENTS, ANONYMOUSLY STAFF & INSIDERS ALL BANDED TOGETHER IN SOLIDARITY -

After James the Advocate, James the Black Militant & their cohorts suffered assault by staff; theft, threats, injuries & denial of services there (after exposing food theft at Episcopal Community Services Next Door Shelter) they got smart and set up a series of Anonymous Web Sites to expose all the wrongdoings of ANY person, place, policy or practice which harms any of our homeless, elderly, vets or good locals to the entire world. The first site was The SFHomeless Yahoo Group. Log on codes were distributed to a dozen trusted locals, as admins & moderators. Today, after 4 years, we have 170 solid members there. Weve had over 50,000 Page Views of your published stories. People who care & people with some power were targeted for inclusion into a single site or hub to post selected rumors, tips, facts, complaints, best practices, investigations, support building and issue discussions all on the same table for all to see; to take any action necessary to seek out truth & dislodge sources of harm inside every agency, non-profit, office, street, alley, caf, program, shelter here, and as a world model for all.

Every known social justice group (i.e. Southern Poverty Law Center), legal experts, homeless groups, health experts, city, state & federal oversight & watchdog groups and local media like:

SFHomeless.Net (Revival Ministries), Southern Poverty Law Center for example. The SF Shelter Monitoring Committee; Local Homeless Coordinating Board, Project Homeless Connect; Original Members of the SF Homeless Coalition (Willie Warren), The Coalition on Homelessness SF, National Archdioceses - Boards of Major Churches (who run our homeless & housing services Food Stamp Investigators (to nail JP Morgan for retailers charging illegal Sales Tax & Processing Fees on EBT Food Stamp Cards), SF Homeless Outreach & Department of Public Healths Dr. Deborah Borne (our Joan of Arc) SFBGs Amanda Witherell who went undercover to support Standards of Care with facts. KALWs Allison Budner who interviewed our Angel Eric Bayer (available on CD). Our Hero Shane Bauer, who wrote factual homeless articles as independent journalist with integrity before he got stuck in Iran as a political pawn.

All invited to The Anonymous SFHomeless sites (i.g. SFHomeless Yahoo Group, SFHomeless on Facebook; NowPublic.com; Flickr.com; Groupspaces.com), so we could put an end to the lies and get down to business - together, as one big family. The family of the Elite 500 Families and all ex-government workers, spies, intelligence sources & citizen journalists all joined the group. Hundreds of photos of rotten meals, stories of intentional food poisoning at Next Door Shelter by a thug Staff Cook who was raping women there, selling drugs to multiple gangs & selling $10,000 in food out the back door in 2007, some Subway Sandwich Shops & pizza shops limiting hours & charging illegal Sales Tax, Kroger Foods charged families illegal sales tax on Food Stamps for over a decade! Police & Staff abuse, embezzlement by Shelter Directors, rape, murder, mayhem. We even caught DPW staff on video spraying chemicals on our sleep deprived homeless at the library and at civic center plaza. One advocate, Tom Piccarello contacted SF Bay Guardian and The Friends of the SF Public Library to build a Free Library inside the Next Door Shelter and didnt cost a dime! Our cook replaced the poisoner cook (who died at the Cadillac Hotel of an overdose of cyanide) and started serving Shrimp Scampi in butter sauce. Another SFPOWER grad cooks at Glide, with love. Just this year, we caught 3 burly cops being nice to a middle east refugee laying on sidewalk. Moments later, a short, tattooed female cop in the Mission, starting beating on him violently, until one of our street teams intervened. We caught store owners beating up transgenders and teenagers, as police officers REFUSED to take reports and ridiculed the victims and backed up the cruel store owners in the mission and polk districts. One shelter had black water cascading into the middle of their basement dining room for years which came from bad sidewalks, streets and ceiling above.

Our shelters were petri dishes for disease & death until all these various groups and opposing sides were joined together on anonymous web sites where noone is immune for any harm or threat they pose to any of our or residents here. Our advocates and peers have worked with our legal and legislative and even our anarchist and rabble rousers to keep pushing the rights and needs of our people most at risk to be front and center in everyones mind who cares to check it all out. This is the harsh reality which can only be changed when we all wake up and take time to research fact and take action to reduce harm and keep us all safe, as one united family, indivisible. By posting all the tips, rumors, pictures, videos and real life stories all in one place, anonymously, there was no where left to run for the wicked and the good had no excuse to not act upon the bad acts and policies which were CAUSING HARM to us all. The Solutions that came from all this complaining, investigations, reports and actions from all sides by all kinds of ways and directions, our community now has proven our ability to empower ourselves with internet tools, networking, creativity, solidarity, and objectivity at a fraction of the cost and waste that existed before 2006. In 2011, we serve gourmet food and create stipend programs and systems for tracking bad conduct of any resident, staff or city worker for all the world to see. All San Franciscans should feel proud and get involved to keep this Train of Reforms & Empowerment on the move, by waking up; thinking for yourself; doing research and meet more people, on line and in person who are doing something to help us all, in peace. ANGELS LIKE HENRY WILSON & ERIC BAYER WHO CAME, SAW, FELT COMPASSION & DEDICATED THEIR LIVES TO OUR 99% STRUGGLE, EVERY DAY! THEIR SPIRITS LIVE ON IN ALL OF OUR PEOPLE WHO ARE PAYING ATTENTION AND TAKING ACTION EVERY DAY TO HELP EACH OTHER TO SHARE & LIVE IN PEACE & GOOD HEALTH AS ONE COMMUNITY UNDIVIDED AS BROTHER & SISTER. One man of great honor named Eric Bayer came here from Hawaii for a short vacation. He started feeding our hungry homeless residents Gourmet Food on the streets and eventually started Food For Thought (who are here to serve us today!) which brings local restaurants into sponsoring donations for the Food For Thought Program. Then he became an SF HOT Team Case Manager who came to 1st Cup Friday Socials where he and his peers from SF DPH, Tom Waddell Clinic, UCSF Intern Nurses and others served us Organic Coffee, Berry Smoothies, Stir-Fry Veggies for our stomachs. For our tired feet, they gave us hot oil foot rubs & gave us a stable safe place to be, to rest, to heal, to medicate (for valid cannabis patients) and socialize in community. They took us to places like operas, baseball games, the Monterey Bay Aquarium (where our photos of sea life were chosen & published in local Monterey County Tourist Guides!) to keep us integrated with our community. Eric gave us Hope & Unconditional Love. He saw the good inside each one of us and rarely showed us anything but total respect & love. He Empowered us all by starting a revolutionary

Empowerment Program called SFPOWER (Peer Outreach Workers Exemplifying Recovery) and asked a group of 30 of the most service resistant (aka abuse resistant) homeless to join a 12 to 20 week meager stipend program which they could Create their own Job to give back to the community or help themselves or their fellow homeless to be safer, healthier, more informed, active and productive members of our family. Some folks chose to help run a laundry service to help people who cant do laundry without support; others hated the bad acting security staff at the main library, so they put on DPH Outreach Badges and went into the restrooms & common areas to intervene to help the people who acted up; needed help or a safe place to be or clean up or sleep. 80% of the people who refused services from Authority Figures in suits or uniforms took advice from their peer outreach workers and got services from the onsite HOT Team Worker at the library. James the advocate chose to use a camera Eric purchased to do a newsletter and document all the abuses and harms to our people and city. For 12 weeks, we were treated like kings and queens with gourmet meals, mentoring on our own business plans and gave talks to agencies and groups about SFPOWER which cost a fifth of all other programs to date. The end result was 75% of the 30 original SFPOWER members got housing, vocational and permanent work after 12 to 20 weeks. The SF Main Library hired five of the Graduates as permanent employees which Library Journals around the nation wrote up as The Model (to hire former homeless peers as outreach workers inside libraries) for all libraries to follow, instead of hiring more security guards or push away the homeless, who are all former and future library patrons who just need loving approaches, not command & control tactics which always fail. James and others went on to work inside the SRO Hotels where some 30,000 to 50,000 residents are kept in largely unsafe, unsanitary, hazardous conditions, today. Still others serve our peers at 1st Cup Fridays with organic smoothies & stir fry veggies at 425 Eddy Street, where a lot of these cutting edge reforms, movements, brain storming & support building has been taking place for the past several years, now. Still, the SF HOT Team needs our help to help our homeless. We also have linked up with people doing reform in our SRO Hotels. The Mission SRO Collaborative (one of 3 major non-profit groups who check on our residents in tiny hotel rooms) with the help of Board of Supervisor Member Ross Mirkarimi and others at Dolores Street Community Services were able to get our citys 3-1-1 system to include calls about problems & issues from SRO Hotel Residents to provide registered complaint logs and sharing of data between agencies, tenants, social justice groups and landlords to save lives and reduce costs and harm to all. Last year one horrible landlords building was taken down in court action with cash awards, breaking the glass ceiling that used to hide bad landlords. The SFHomeless group, Tenants Groups & the SF Public Defenders Office and others have been tracking & exposing bad landlords, criminal police officers and managers of buildings where harm is caused. Other SFPOWER grads went to work inside our shelters and feeding kitchens to observe and protect our people from harm in tax funded systems. Still others have gone on to volunteer in stipend programs which only gives them a few hundred dollars, but makes them Eligible for Housing. Our Gourmet Food Angel Eric Bayer passed away shortly after starting up SFPOWER and a memorial was held at the Dolores Park Church where we met every Wednesday to share gourmet home cooked meals (by our own homeless pro chefs!) and hundreds came out because Eric was a friend to us all.

OUR CITYS FIRST SANCTIONED HOMELESS GARDEN COMMUNITY WAS BORN! Later, it was decided by his graduates, peers and people from Project Homeless Connect and the Hayes Valley Residents to construct our citys first homeless garden at Octavia & Lily Streets. Ahni (in pic with basket) was our first garden manager. We worked with residents, SF HOT Team, Project Homeless Connect, Recology and many others to create this delicious garden. It was dedicated to Eric Bayer, but the SFPOWER grads didnt want them to post a plaque for Eric because even this garden, as wonderful as it is, deviated from Erics total empowerment model, when several folks were hired on a grant who were not from our homeless community. Nepotism, hated by the homeless in the shelters, hit the garden. Many original members stepped back from the Octavia Garden to focus on perfecting Erics Total Empowerment Model (in which we should have hired only the homeless who were waiting to get a stipend on that garden, who had spent the year supporting it or working it to make it happen) but not try to set up another garden community. Were all very proud of that garden, but now moving forward to starting up the Eric Bayer Foundation of Hope with the help of Erics family, friends and our city who cares about our people most in need. James the Advocate is finalizing plans to provide sustainable, matching funding to support all the little people like Food Not Bombs, Homes Not Jails and many others who keep feeding and protecting our people in need, with almost no major support. Yet, they really care and feed hundreds every week. Sisters of Charity, Food For Thought and new groups all need our support. These are all groups we trust who have no hidden agendas. For More Information or to offer support, contact James the Advocate by Text or Leave a Voicemail at (415) 449-1534 or message to SFHOMELESS on Facebook. The original SFHomeless Yahoo Group, loaded with pictures & messages compiled over the past five years which exposes much of the bad food, corruption, abuse and fraud inside our Citys homeless, housing & social service industries that kept some 12,000 disabled, homeless, elderly captive in our shelters with no hope of moving on until we all banded together to expose it all and promote self empowerment models that came from the people, not the system. http://www.yahoogroups.com/SFHomeless EMAIL: SFHomeless@yahoo.com or SFHomeless@Zoho.com

NOTES FROM JAMES THE ADVOCATE: James the Advocate is me, James Leonard. My family moved to the SF Bay Area in the late 1970s; went to school & have worked here for decades. Ive worked at many financial institutions (BOA, Chase, Imperial Savings, Accredited Home Loans, GE Finance) & was Assistant Director of the CA State Small Business Development Center (SBDC) in Aptos, CA, at Cabrillo College restarted by Leon Panetta to help 400+ small businesses (mom & pop, too!) in Santa Cruz & Monterey Counties devastated by the affects of FEMA & the Loma Prieta Quake of 1989. Ive also owned by own business a few times now. After working with groups in Tijuana, Mexico (promoting music, art, culture & security in rural areas and helping with their annual festivals) for several years, I came to understand how the rest of the world was faring, during a decade of greedy profits from war, oil & mental health caused by man made toxins, bank fraud, war schemes & corruption. Tijuana, once a peaceful mecca for tourists, lovers, rabble rousers, poets, artists, ex-patriots; ex-intel & military from all nations used to party & live in peace, had sadly become a war zone divided by the Global Elite, Bush-PAN Election Fraud & land grabs. To date, in past five years, over 50,000 people have died in USMexico Border Zones over Elite Drug Trafficking, Drug Wars & Secret Ops by Bushs Krew. Mexico sold Voting Records to Choicepoint (aka DBT Technologies of Florida Election Fraud Fame) who gave them to the PAN Party to use to defraud the election. Against Mexican Constitution. After several happy years in Tijuana & San Diego I came home (homeless in 2006) after Enron & the War on Terror crippled cross border commerce & enabled widespread corruption in Tijuana. I was anxious to see how bad the Bush era wars had disaffected the Bay Area. Once I saw the inhumanity in our systems and got mad like distant cousins Phillip & John Burton - my role models for inspiration. I helped work on the SF Shelter Standards of Care laws during 44 meetings (over 9 months) with locals & former BOS Tom Ammianos staff to write the laws which now require things like Dignity & Respect; 2 Sheets, A Blanket & a Sealed Pillow; 8 hours lights out time; access to plug in cell phones & medical devices; increased nutritional standards & hygiene for All Shelter Residents, with Enforcement power via SF DPH to hold Shelters accountable & to save lives! Im a former Shelter Monitoring Committee Member (for ID Purposes); and work with the Mission SRO Collaborative and others to keep us all safe, every day.

A bunch of disenfranchised cannabis patients started the SF Cannabis Patients Union to unite us all - on common movements to End Prohibition & Drug Wars (which are frauds); Free our non-violent cannabis prisoners and take back all Natural & Constitutional Rights related to food, herbs and medicine from nature No Tax, No Control, No Man Made Exploitation of all peoples rights to freely access all safe gifts from Nature. 80 years ago, the Elite gave us toxins & poisons (like alcohol & tobacco) which have killed millions - took away safe, natural cannabis, which has never harmed or killed anyone. We cannot trust any monopoly or government to keep us safe with cannabis because in 80 years, they have profited from man made poisons they tax, control and regulate as we suffer, get diseases and die prematurely from, while they profit. Our local collectives and grows (including low end dispensaries recently harassed & threatened by FEDS) which we know & trust (some for over 80 years in SF, Santa Cruz & Northern Counties) grow safe, quality cannabis medication at a cost to patient of anywhere from $40 Per Ounce to $200 an ounce, depending on method of grow & rent cost to stick & mud dispensaries. Elite factions have been using seats on the SF Medical Cannabis Task Force to EXPLOIT and even intimidate our local growers and patients ( TF Members & others have stated intent to police & punish those out of town growers, delivery services in cannabis lifestyle magazines) to create monopolies. They seek to keep cannabis costs up to street prices from $200 to $400 per ounce in very expensive, capital intensive, overpriced boutique dispensaries which have more to do with Ego, Profit, Power, Control & Exploitation than they do Healing patients at lowest cost possible, which is The Intent of the People expressed in various state propositions and is the general consensus of the cannabis patients who are aware of all of this. Videos of TF Meetings on YouTube (axisoflove) bear this out. Most patients were against most of what this Task Force has done over the past year. The SF Cannabis Patients Union was started to re-stitch the fabric of support for patients being mistreated or gouged by Elite and out of state interests here to make mega-bucks on your pain, suffering and need for a plant, that is grown by many, at less than $50 per ounce without need for tax, control or regulation where there is no harm proven by any credible government agency or third party think tank or medical community, period. Our cannabis community has chosen to further our Natural Rights & Sovereignty, by preventing Exploitation of our own safe, private doctor-patient-grower relationships out of the corrupted, bloody hands of fear mongers, profiteers, mega-corporations & government who all seek to control you and profit by our medical needs and conditions. We now attend meetings at City Hall and insist that Your Public Comments are summarized and put into all official minutes & reports to keep our Board of Supervisors abreast of what YOU really think about what our committees and task forces keep publishing as our will, which lately, more often than not, their work on these public bodies has in fact, been Against Our Public Will, Intent & Interests. Many bodies have been hijacked by special interests (many from out of town) who are pushing crap into the minds of our citys leaders. Unless YOU speak up to demand

accurate reports go to them on what YOU THINK - the corruption & exploitation of our resources, spaces and people, will never end. This cannot stand, so we have been uniting people together to raise awareness of core values and principles of justice, equity and police powers which all result in the fact that the government has hidden (poorly) the known medical benefits and lied to you all to further alcohol & tobacco & big pharma drugs costing us billions, not including the prisons built to house all who get out of control, while using the legalized poison products of the Elite who loan us the fed notes to bankroll the incarceration of people who have caused no harm, using a natural plant which causes no harm. Its Madness. We are circling the wagons around all our Natural & Constitutional Rights to push back the Exploitation & lies for profit by uniting all of our cannabis patients, doctors, growers who we trust, who operate at true cost and have proven records clean of harm to insure our needs are put ahead of all others, in the interest of True Justice & Equity under Natural Law & Rights which are Inalienable. This is why many helped roadblock Proposition 19, Tax, Control Measure because Cannabis Causes No Harm, Thus Government Has No Legitimate State Interest to Interfere, Penalize or Criminalize That Which Helps and Does Not Cause A Great Harm. Unlike all of their other illegitimate man made products which maim & kill us by the hundreds, every day, worldwide. FOR MORE INFO ON THE SF CANNABIS PATIENTS UNION EMAIL: SFCANNABISUNION@ZOHO.COM

Examples of stories exposed together, to empower people; push back the Machines of Ignorance, Hate, Abuse, Tyranny:

SF Public Defender Jeff Adachi Exposing Police Misconduct in SRO Hotels at PNN Hosted Forum.

Statute of Honorable Phillip Burton At Fort Mason. Note in pocket says, The Only Way To Deal With The Exploiters Is to (Terrorize Them!)

At the End of The Day, OCCUPY SF & all other OCCUPIES are about Common People who Are Sick & Tired of Corrupted Elite who take All, tax all & cause us harm and losses way Beyond what they contribute back to our Peace, health, safety, security & Prosperity. We, The People, are capable of Taking Back The Natural & Constitutional & Human Rights And Powers by Standing Up & Speaking Out About the abuse of those Powers in the hands Of Elite who conned us into allowing them to Rule Us By Controlling Our Public Currencies In Secret, Without Audit or Public Oversight. The Majority of their financial schemes are all Frauds engineered with Nazi precision to take Over your land, your rights and the minds of Our children by jamming their minds with Distractions & Devices which isolate us from Our families and our social feelings like a Robot. Put down your ipods and rejoin the Human Race to save us all now & our Future. We need to free up all that helps us and put Taxes on that which harms us or our lands, Seas and air. We must mint public money In transparent systems at cost, not for profit. We need to regain our rights to have safe Spaces, food and access to nature, as we see Fit without tax, control or interference by the Exploiters & Profiteers who push us all into Poverty while they sip expensive wine in their mansions and castles enjoying their record profits from oil, banking & war. As we, by the millions, go without adequate food, water, shelter and work in every state and city in the world.