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SANTA CRUZ, CA. — Homeless mother and president of the Santa Cruz Homeless Union, Alicia Kuhl officially officially announced her bid for Santa Cruz City Council on August 5, 2020 on the corner of Cedar and Lincoln Streets in Santa Cruz.
She plans to wage a unique campaign that will include canvassing tent to tent and vehicular home to vehicular home. Her campaign will also hold a 25-cent-a-plate fundraising dinner where no one will be turned away for lack of funds. This social distancing fundraiser will be held outside at the Santa Cruz Homeless Union COVID-19 Relief Center at Laurel and Front Streets later this month. Alicia will also be holding a weekly Zoom Town Hall on Wednesday evenings from 7 to 8 PM.
Alicia puts people before profits. She is building a coalition of businesses, homeowners, tenants, and the unhoused implementing solutions to the economic crisis.
Alicia Kuhl has bravely stood up for the rights of those living outside. She first came to prominence when she led the formation of the Ross Camp Council and was successful in delaying the eviction of over 200 people into the doorways and parks of the city by organizing a Federal Lawsuit. The suit citied the city’s violation of the 8th Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
Alicia Kuhl also spearheaded the formation of the successful homeless managed Camp Phoenix which at the time provided the only wheelchair accessible accommodations in downtown Santa Cruz for those without housing.
Alicia also initiated the Santa Cruz Homeless Union COVID-19 Relief Center on March 14, 2020, working with Food Not Bombs to provide the city’s unhoused with the only drinking water, the first reliable hand-washing station, free masks, survival gear and hot meals.
As president of the Santa Cruz Homeless Union, Alicia also led the campaign to demand the city and county comply with the CDC’s guidelines to provide hotel rooms for those without housing and called on the city and county to implement the state’s Operation Room Key.
Alicia has provided thousands of pounds of survival gear, including sleeping bags, tents, blankets, tarps and clothing during the years she has been president of the Santa Cruz Homeless Union.
She is on the executive board of the California Union of the Homeless and is a founding member of the Reestablishment of the National Union of the Homeless. She is also co-chair of the Santa Cruz chapter of the Poor People’s Campaign and was awarded the 2020 Woman of Courage Certificate from the United Nations Association of Santa Cruz
Alicia Kuhl for Santa Cruz City Council
Call 831-431-7766 or email: alicia1l@hotmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/AliciaKuhlForCityCouncil2020/
She is a liar, and has nothing to do with Food not Bombs, we do not like to associate with Racist people!