European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday August 18, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 homeless activist plans mass protest in Santa Barbara by the los Angeles time Santa Barbara Calif. On one Side is Washingion based homeless activist Milch Snyder who promises to mount a labor Day mass demons ration of civil disobedience in the City he says is As critical to the struggle of the homeless As Selma ala., was to the civil . Snyder accuses Santa Barbara of being the worst City in the country in its treatment of the homeless and As proof Points to he municipal ordinance against overnight sleeping in Public places. Opposing him Are local merchant groups which support the Public sleep ing ban and have matched Snyder s rhetorical flourishes. George cd Liotus co founder of theold town merchants association culled Snyder the self appointed Mussolini of the  agreeing to change the Law would be like giving into Hitler he added. As the sept. 1 Holiday approaches City officials Are scrambling to avoid a confrontation that would give Santa Barbara a City of 78,000 thai depends on tourism for much of its Economy unflattering National attention. An Ordi Nance to end the sleeping ban has been drafted and the Council is scheduled to vote on it tuesday. Snyder who has earned nationwide publicity As an outspoken advocate forthe homeless and was the subject of a television biography has warned thai unless the Law is repeated he is prepare to Lead More than t ,000 homeless March ers from los Angeles to Santa Barbara to defy the Ami sleeping ban and subject themselves to mass arrest. If you were to pick one City in the country to be a Model of How not to Deal with its homeless Santa Barbara would be it Snyder said in a Telephone inter View from the Washington Headquarters of his lobbying organization the Community for creative non violence. The atmosphere and attitude o real hostility toward the homeless in Santa Barbara in  but City officials and even Santa bar Bara s homeless say that Snyder is off base. They suggest that Snyder was drawn