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Sounding the Alarm
Title (Dublin Core)
Sounding the Alarm
Description (Dublin Core)
Virtual town halls educate and empower the black community during the pandemic
"In March, we began distributing food, water and face masks to unhoused people in South Sacramento and Oak Park in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. We did this as members of the Sacramento Area Black Caucus, the Sacramento Poor People’s Campaign and the Sacramento Services Not Sweeps Coalition. All three groups are focusing our collective advocacy efforts on the pandemic and how it is impacting people experiencing homelessness in our community.
What we encountered alarmed us. We saw that many of the homeless were not wearing face masks and weren’t observing social distancing. They didn’t seem to understand the danger, which was even more disturbing. When we asked, they usually replied that they didn’t have a mask or couldn’t find one."
"In March, we began distributing food, water and face masks to unhoused people in South Sacramento and Oak Park in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. We did this as members of the Sacramento Area Black Caucus, the Sacramento Poor People’s Campaign and the Sacramento Services Not Sweeps Coalition. All three groups are focusing our collective advocacy efforts on the pandemic and how it is impacting people experiencing homelessness in our community.
What we encountered alarmed us. We saw that many of the homeless were not wearing face masks and weren’t observing social distancing. They didn’t seem to understand the danger, which was even more disturbing. When we asked, they usually replied that they didn’t have a mask or couldn’t find one."
Date (Dublin Core)
May 19, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Faye Wilson Kennedy
Kevin Carter
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Erin Craft
Type (Dublin Core)
article
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
Publisher (Dublin Core)
Sacramento News and Review
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
NGOs (non-profits)
English
Community & Community Organizations
English
Public Health & Hospitals
English
Cities & Suburbs
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
Sacramento
unhoused
black community
mask
public health department
information
town hall
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
02/08/2022
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
02/08/2022
06/10/2022
Date Created (Dublin Core)
05/19/2020