If you are tired of the shameless, inhumane, and embarrassing punitive treatment of homeless people for being homeless, and the neglect of their survival needs by the community, its government representatives, and business sector ----

If you are somewhere between “Enough is Enough,” “It’s Time to Do Something,” and OUTRAGE ----

To support Gail and Joe Sacco, Lyla Bartholomae, and others who feed homeless people where they are

To support the ACLU and other organizations and individuals in their lawsuits against the City of Las Vegas for its inhumane laws and police actions targeting homeless people

To support Family Promise, Poverello House, Straight from the Streets, and other organizations that house and provide care for homeless families and individuals

To protest the punitive treatment and neglect of homeless children and veterans in the Las Vegas Valley

To protest the lack of housing for homeless families and individuals in the Las Vegas Valley

To protest the outrageous attempts of government leaders to exclude and chase homeless people from our community

To demand that the Las Vegas Valley community, including its city and county governments, and its gambling and other business sectors - with the participation of state government - fulfill its moral and humane obligations to address the housing and other needs of homeless people in a fair, caring, positive, and just manner

To demand that the governments invest our taxes in housing and aiding homeless people rather than in the senseless, inhumane, futile, and unjust criminalization of homelessness

I would like to say first of all that I do support the general idea of forming coalitions to help the homeless. I wish this group success.
However, I think it is a little unfortunate that according to this release, the group's main goals are not actually to help the homeless themselves so much as it is to help attebtion seekers like Joe and Gail Sacco- they actually got listed at the top of the release and the reasons for the group. Too bad the same organizational effort couldn't be put into actually helping the homeless, rather than helping the "advocates." Homeless people need help- they get harrassed just for being homeless and they have no resources. Joe and Gail Sacco get harrassed because they go out of their way to antagonize the police, and being white middle class folks they have thier own resources. Do they really need their own support organization?

Secondly, I think the choice of names for the group is at least a little unfortunate in that it seems to be almost stolen directly from another of the largest pre-existing community gorups in LV, that is SNAPI- the Southern Nevada Association of Pride Inc.

http://www.lasvegaspride.org/

"... being white middle class folks they have thier own resources ..."

This is true, which means that it's time for folks to SHARE those resources with the homeless and not waste time/energy arguing over a NAME. The homeless are waiting for your help ...