(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) Activists in Seattle planned an RV “park in” to obstruct the Democrat-run city’s attempts to clear homeless encampments before the MLB All-Star game on July 11.
The city of Seattle gave notices to homeless residents living in RVs parked around the T-Mobile Park baseball stadium, requesting them to relocate their belongings before the game. The SODO neighborhood in Seattle has struggled with crime, drug dealing and waste caused by RV encampments in recent years. Seattle officials estimated that there were 449 RV encampments in the city, with 118 of them located in the SODO neighborhood in 2022.
In response, activists distributed flyers to the homeless, encouraging them to move back to the SODO neighborhood the night before the game when parking rules lapse, thwarting the city’s attempt to clear out homeless encampments in the area, the Daily Caller reported.
“They’ve been pushing us around for months hoping to clear us out of sight for the MLB All-Star game on July 11. Let’s make sure all their work was for nothing!” the flyer read. “Just imagine when the tailgaters and rich assholes show up for the big game they’re going to find exactly what the city worked to hard to prevent: us!”
Activists will start a protest on July 10 by providing all-day assistance, coffee and food. They will then move RVs to the SODO neighborhood around midnight, where there are no parking zones, and host a party starting at 1 a.m. according to the flyer, distributed by Sweepless In Seattle, a local homeless activist group.
Sweepless in Seattle stated on its website they are “a new collective of unhoused people who have been subject to relentless sweeps,” adding to the pressure was the incoming MLB All-Star Game.
“The city is more than capable of producing these necessary solutions for people and make that caring vision a reality, especially with the $2m it pocketed directly from the MLB to help host the event,” the organization also noted in a video.
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