Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides November 6, 2025 show is a Flashback to 11-18-2012 with studio guest Bill Adansky, homeless activist Lighthouse Linda Lemaster, Battleweary Bob Patton, Sweet Strummer Sue, and more…

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The November 6, 2025 show is a Flashback to November 18, 2012. 

It includes:

  • [around the show] music from Next to Normal
  • Co-hosts, also guests, Bill Adamsky & Danny Bishop: “No lying down” bus bench near CVS; “drinking, smoking, and being me” tickets
  • Around Ronee Currey & Scott’s Sunday Sidewalk “Beanies and Burritos” meal:  Witnesses Malcolm X & others reporting on an attack on Lee
  • Escalating attacks on the music-making Susan; Joe’s bad time in San Bernadino; Void, Nova, Lloyd, and Tobey on Cops beating Wolf; busker Chris sings “Know Your Roots to Your Boots”; Donna Lynn Johnson left her bad “Paul’s Apartment” group to come here;
  • Battleready Bob Patton’s update for homeless Vets

HUFF bids farewell to the fall and slips on raincoats for next week at the Nov 6th 1:30-3:30 PM Sub Rose Cafe meeting next to the Bike Church at 703 Pacific Ave.

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Ruf Agenda Suggestions for HUFF meeting 11-6-25

Most of these items involve brief reports and check in’s.  If we flag an item for action or discussion, more talk—particularly if it’s time sensitive  We hope to maintain the real narrative not the rosy one falsely presented by the City/County staff and politicians.   Additional items may be added at the meeting. 


Top of the Agenda  (Flag Items Requiring Immediate Planning and/or Action)

++++   Reports on Current Projects; Time Available for next week;  Needs and Wants

++++   Follow-Up on Last Week’s Projects:  Ben’s Food Solution; Thomas’s “Rest is Resistance” book discussion; Halloween Copwatch

++++   Continuing Issues: Funding Matters March Shutdown; MHCAN Closure

++++   RV current ordinance and follow-up?  John Do’s ACLU letter; the current law + practice?

++++   Past week’s protest reports

++++   Proposals:  Showing of Hometown Homeless at Sub Rosa in anti-Shutdown Protest; Revival of Homeless Union Organizing Against 3 Times A Week Sweeps:; Regular Flyering at Armory pick-up, Coral St., Tracks, “No Kings” & other Rally Organizing

++++   Fencing and Boulders—Anti-Homeless Architecture

++++   Alternate Events to the Tuesday 11-11 Shitty Council meeting

++++   Handouts: Agenda, TBA;   Passarounds HUFF Notes    Available on Request:  Questionnaires for Shelter Poll

Regular Reports

++++   Street Sweeps in Last Week and Coming Up

++++   Upcoming Shitty Council meeting report;
++++   Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters

++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’s++++   SCPD and Sheriff Reports

++++   Meetings/Events  of Interest Upcoming?

++++   216-8239 Property Seizure Reports Accumulation + FNB Poll Report: Still fishing for updates.

++++   Clanging pots and pans rally against U.S. Funding Gaza Starvation and Local Unhoused Refugee Harassment

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet]

Thursday Nov 6  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room, end of N. Pacific Ave. the SNAP crisis

Friday  Nov 6  ??? Time & Action Uncertain   Visit to Panetta Office to demand ending U.S. funding for Bombing of Gaza Santa Cruz District Office   701 Ocean Street   Room 318C

Saturday Nov 8  11 AM- 12:30  PM Israel with American Bombs bombs and shoots up the Ceasefire– Ocean & Water End the War  Weekly   Palestine Justice Coalition

Saturday Nov 8 and Sunday Nov 9  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; older Street Spirits available; leave off or pick up polling sheets with Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices; NEW STREET SPIRIT AND STREE SHEETS AVAILABLE

Monday Nov 10 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM  another indivisible Civil Right  Protest Against the Trump Regime (but add Newsom, Keeley, and Kramer) Ocean and Water Sts.

Monday Nov 10  6 PM 150 Felker St.  possible Art and Rebellion meeting.  Contact Brent at 588-9892

More check-in’s + Info+Possible Individual action

++++    Info Tabling:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested…Poll for Armory

++++    Armory complaints to (408) 761-9930 as well as evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or  peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699

++++   Wednesday November 12-Monday November 17:  Rain and Showers

++++   Any help for Tips & Lifelessons to buff up Thomas’s Tipzine?

++++   Past homeless citation record of the last year: Reggie & Gaia need help to show Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”

++++   Laura C.: legislative updates—state, local, and federal: the closing federal/state/local fist.

++++   Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces?  Small Claims Court? 

New-ish Stories  (TBA)

Old Standbyes 

++++   Street Spirit archives on line: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22&sort=-date

++++    Recent stories on a variety of unhoused issues:   https://invisiblepeople.tv/   

++++    Overview: https://endhomelessness.org/resource/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights

++++    Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K” 

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides November 2, 2025 show features Marijuana and Guns; Pro-Zionist San Jose State University attack on Prof Sang Hea Kil+ a Nov 4, 2012 Flashback with extensive election coverage by guests Scott Graham and Steve Pleich

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The November 2, 2025 show includes: 

The Flashback to November 4, 2012 includes:

  • “Scope It Out” Scott Graham and ‘Troublesome’ Thomas Leavitt on the rigged California electoral system
  • Scott critiques Shitty Council candidates, denounces Micah Posner, & supports “Smooth-Tongued’ Steve.  Lighthouse Linda Lemaster responds by phone.
  • Testimony at the Norse vs. the Mayors civil trial (also known as the “Heil Krohn!”, the “Mock-Nazi Salute, or the “City Council Repression” case).
  • Meaningless versus real reforms at the former Citizens Police Review Board
  • Shitty Council Candidate Steve Pleich’s  platform presented in-studio
  • Lighthouse Linda on her “illegal lodging” trial now in court  https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/11/02/18725008.php?show_comments=1#18725174
  • “Making Contact” show on Student Strikes Around the World: Students in Quebec, Chile, and Puerto Rico
  • The Culture War & the Widespread Use of Profanity
  • “Law and Disorder” : Alfred McCoy: Torture and Impunity—the U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides October 30, 2025 show is a Flashback to June 18, 2002 and June 20, 2002 starring the Santa Barbara Sleepwalkers and much more

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The  Flashback to June 18, 2002 includes the last half of that show:

  • (very low sound) Santa Monica “half an hour to move” law for vehicular sleepers, the new attack of food servers there, & the McMannus Sacramento necessity defense victory, standing up to L.A. Sports Bar discrimination against the homeless with activist David Busch
  •  S.J. Mercury News 8-13-02  “British Try Instant Penalties”: Immediate curbside fines in London for fireworks, false police reports, trespass & other “crimes”
  • Involuntary drugging, “needles on wheels”, 7th Ave. dumping in Santa Cruz, and more about Psychiatric Slavery in Santa Cruz
  • Bill McMannus’s Sacramento victory using the necessity defense; tent camps still under threat in Placer County.
  • Vacationer Sally slept scared in her car cause campgrounds full; one paycheck away from the street.
  • Bathrobespierre gives a Chalkcrime update

The October 30, 2025 show also contains the full June 20, 2002 Flashback including: 

  • [6-16-02] Petitioning Justin Boyar, Mike C, Tasmanian,  reports on recent cop crackdown on Pacific and Soquel
  • At Camp Hope table: Bobby Woodside; Potters Hand soup table with Pastor Dennis Adams
  • “Nuff Said” Nancy McCradie, Caleb Dunn, Robin Cobb, Susan Dunn Cobb: Right to Sleep-walkers up from Santa Barbara
  • Food Not Bombs activist on the FNB diet ; Green party sellout in Arcata on homeless issues
  • Susan Dunn’s homeless music

As the chill deepens, HUFF keeps warm 1:30-3:30 PM Thursday at the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church

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Agenda Suggestions for HUFF meeting 10-30-25

Most of these items involve brief reports and check in’s.  If we flag an item for action or discussion, more talk—particularly if it’s time sensitive  We hope to maintain the real narrative not the rosy one falsely presented by the City/County staff and politicians.   Additional items may be added at the meeting. 


Top of the Agenda

++++   Reports on Current Projects; Time Available for next week;  Needs and Wants

++++   Follow-Up on Last Week’s Projects

++++   Hot Issues: Funding Matters March Shutdown; MHCAN Closure

++++   Flag New Possible Action Items Requiring Immediate Planning and/or Action

++++   RV victory and follow-up?

++++   Past week’s protest reports: the 4 PM Thursday’s Town Clock “People of Americas Unite!”; Saturday’s RCNV “United Against Hate Rally”; Tuesday’s United Health Care’s CEO Funding Matters tour; S.C. Shitty Council report.

++++   Proposals:  Showing of Hometown Homeless at Sub Rosa in anti-Shutdown Protest; Revival of Homeless Union Organizing Against Intensifying Sweeps: ; Intensifyied Flyering at Armory pick-up, Coral St., Tracks, “No Kings” & other Rally Organizing

++++   Handouts: Agenda, TBA;   Passarounds HUFF Notes    Available on Request:  Questionnaire

Regular Reports

++++   Street Sweeps in Last Week and Coming Up
++++   Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters

++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’s

++++   Follow up’s on Trump, Newsom, Keeley-Huffaker Edicts, and actual SCPD practices

++++   Meetings of Interest Upcoming

++++   216-8239 Property Seizure Reports Accumulation + FNB Poll Report: Still fishing for updates.

++++   Clanging pots and pans rally against U.S. Funding Gaza Starvation and Local Unhoused Refugee Harassment

Mostly Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet

Thursday Oct 30  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room, end of N. Pacific Ave. the SNAP crisis

Friday  Oct 31  6-7:30 PM  Anarchism & the Internationals in the Wild West: Deconstructing Settler Socialism  Sub Rosa Café. Book Talk + Q & A

Saturday Nov 1  11 AM- 12:30  PM Israel with American Bombs breaks the Ceasefire Ocean & Water End the War  Weekly   Palestine Justice Coalition

Saturday Nov 1 and Sunday Nov 2  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; older Street Spirits available; leave off or pick up polling sheets with Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices

Sunday Nov 2  noon-4 PM  Street Party Open Streets 358 Main St. Watsonville

Monday Nov 3 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM  Indivisible Civil Right  Protest Against the Trump Regime (but add Newsom, Keeley, and Kramer) Ocean and Water Sts.

Tuesday Nov 4  6 PM  Liberation Thru Music Sub Rosa (perhaps free if you ask)

Monday Nov 10  6 PM 150 Felker St.  possible Art and Rebellion meeting.  Contact Brent at 588-9892

More check-in’s + Info+Possible Individual action

++++    Info Tabling:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested…Poll for Armory

++++    Armory complaints to (408) 761-9930 as well as evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or  peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699

++++   Mixed sunny and cloudy into next week (rain next Wednesday November 5th)

++++   Any help for Tips & Lifelessons to buff up Thomas’s Tipzine?

++++   Past homeless citation record of the last year: Reggie & Gaia need help to show Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”

++++   Laura C.: legislative updates—state, local, and federal: the closing federal/state/local fist.

++++   Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces?  Small Claims Court? 

New-ish Stories  (TBA)

Old Standbyes 

++++   Street Spirit archives on line: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22&sort=-date

++++    Recent stories on a variety of unhoused issues:   https://invisiblepeople.tv/   

++++    Overview: https://endhomelessness.org/resource/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights

++++    Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K” 

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides October 26, 2025 show features Campfire Cooper, Mama Shannon, and other outsiders + a Sept. 9, 2012 Flashback with coverage of a Brent’s Homeless Candlelight Vigil with EyesOn Vigil Interviews

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The October 26, 2025 show includes:

  • Mercury News 10-17-25 “A No Win Situation—Homeless Dreading Gilroy Camp Closures; Officials Say Sites are Dangerous But Residents Worry About Future”
  • 10-25-25 Castaway Cooper on the police sweeping her in and out of jail
  • 10-25-25 Mama Shannon on her recent film showing; Funding Matters cruelty at Coral St. & refusal to disappear.
  • 10-25-25 Multi-task Max on the open house at the Sports Stadium
  • 10-20-25 HUFF meeting: Lawwatcher Laura Stuperviser’s report
  • More from Mama Shannon about her upcoming benefit/organizing event and problems of a straight white homeless woman
  • 10-10-25  Tim Stare on his work at Funding Matters
  • 10-14-25  Robert Jackson on his life in Watsonville until threatened and forced to leave

The Flashback to September 9, 2012 includes:

  • [9-7]   Art Friday on Pacific Ave.:  Cage’s “No Hobos” tunes; Jack Hold got “no sitting” warning from Officer Winston; 
  • [9-7]  City Hall Vigil:  John Valley in wheelchair: police theft on bathroom break; Lito picked up for 4 FTA & 9 unpaid tickets; 48 days suspended, stay-away from levee, Pac Av
  • Police Privilege and Warrior Stadium Space: Jean P, Dennis E., Bathrobespierre
  • https://beckyjohnsononewomantalking.blogspot.com/2012/09/with-name-like-north-dakota-wizards.html
  • Local protest and on-line debate about Wells Fargo banker fraud
  • City Stadium Giveaway to the “Santa Cruz Warriors” critique; More from the City Hall Vigil:  Janet O’Brien and housemates, Danny,
  • Steve Schnaar and Bathrobespierre on the SCPD’s redirecting bikes from the Bike Church to private profiteer.
  • Andrea Morgan’s street and shelter update

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides October 23, 2025 show is a Flashback to July 29, 2012 with the Berkeley Sitting Ban Debate, Ashleigh Brilliant’s 1967 songs, and plenty of by-play

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The October 23, 2025 show is a Flashback to July 29, 2012. 

It includes:

  • [throughout] Sounds from Santa Cruz singer Mike True
  • Updates state-wide on restrictions and protests in San Jose, Mountain View, and more
  • Berkeley’s Sitting Ban initiative rammed through by Mayor Bates: the Public Testimony
  • Chalkcrime in Santa Cruz and Stockton
  • Areguin’s Compassionate Sidewalks Proposal in Berkeley
  • Discussion of Ground-Zero Gary Johnson’s 2 year sentence for Sleeping on a Bench
  • Crow and Red’s Report from the Street
  • Andrew Morgan’s court and preacher discrimination at HLOSC report
  • Ashleigh Brilliant’s 1967 Haight-Ashbury songs
  • Sentinel on Take Back Santa Cruz co-founder Pamela Comstock
  • Citations and Sighs from Folks Outside

HUFF meets to crow over recent RV survival victory: come to Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM Thursday October 23

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Agenda Suggestions for HUFF meeting 10-23-25

Many of these items involve brief reports and check in’s.  If we flag an item for action or discussion, we may take longer—particularly if it’s time sensitive  We hope to maintain the real narrative not the rosy one falsely presented by the City/County staff and politicians.   Additional items may be added at the meeting. 


Top of the Agenda

++++   Reports on Current Projects; Time Available for next week;  Needs and Wants

++++   Follow-Up on Last Week’s Projects

++++   Hot Issues: Funding Matters March Shutdown; MHCAN Closure

++++   Flag New Possible Action Items Requiring Immediate Planning and/or Action

++++   RV victory and follow-up?

++++   Proposals:  Showing of Hometown Homeless at Sub Rosa in anti-Shutdown Protest; Revival of Homeless Union Organizing Against Intensifying Sweeps: Shorty and Echo’s Accounts; Intensifyied Flyering at Armory pick-up, Coral St., Tracks, “No Kings” & other Rally Organizing

++++   Handouts: Agenda, TBA;   Passarounds HUFF Notes    Available on Request:  Questionnaire

Regular Reports

++++   Street Sweeps in Last Week and Coming Up
++++   Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters

++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’s

++++   Follow up’s on Trump, Newsom, Keeley-Huffaker Edicts, and actual SCPD practices

++++   Meetings of Interest Upcoming

++++   Possible Brent Adams visit and report on Funding Matters shut down.

++++   216-8239 Property Seizure Reports Accumulation + FNB Poll Report: Updates?

++++   Clanging pots and pans rally against U.S. Funding Gaza Starvation and Local Unhoused Refugee Harassment

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet]

Thursday Oct 23  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room, end of N. Pacific Ave.               

4 PM Town Clock Heart Tribe Presents People of the Americas Unite!  Followed by $35 Vets Hall Event 6-10 PM               

11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water End the War  Weekly   Palestine Justice Coalition                    

1 PM –  4 PM Workshop RCNV 612 Ocean St. United Against Hate Week  unJudge Someone Last Reading 3:30 PM

Saturday Oct 25 and Sunday Oct 26 noon-3 PM FNB gathering and meal Town Clock; older Street Spirits available; leave off or pick up polling sheets with Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices.

More check-in’s + Info+Possible Individual action

++++    Info Tabling:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested…Poll for Armory

++++    Armory complaints to (408) 761-9930 as well as evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or  peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699

++++   Generally sunny into next week (no predicted rain)

++++   Tips & Lifelessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Sagacity

++++   Reggie & Gaia’s report on Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”

++++   Laura C.: legislative updates—state, local, and federal

++++   Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces?  Small Claims Court? 

++++   (if by popular demand) Wes White’s phone report on Pajaro Camp Demolition

New-ish Stories (more TBA)

Video of Gaza history and anger against genocide   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4QuCN-Xq7A&t=2945s No Kings video in Watsonville: signs, speeches, and dancing   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihoFx8O2by4


Old Standbyes 

++++   Street Spirit archives on line: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22&sort=-date

++++    Recent stories on a variety of unhoused issues:   https://invisiblepeople.tv/   

++++    Overview: https://endhomelessness.org/resource/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights

++++    Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K” 

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides October 19, 2025 show features Katzenjammer Keith, Backstory Brent, Echo, and Shorty + Flashbacks to May 18 and 21, 1999

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Bathrobespierre’s Broadside’ s October 19, 2025  show features Katzenjammer Keith, Backstory Brent, Echo, and Shorty + Flashbacks to May 18 and 21, 1999

The October 19, 2025 show includes:

  • https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/11/lurie-has-a-new-plan-to-get-rvs-off-the-streets-rv-dwellers-say-its-cruel-and-ineffective/
  • [throughout] Musical advice and poetry by Jesse Wells
  • Food Not Bombs activist “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry denounces and dismisses Supervisors’ vehicle abandonment bill.
  • [10-18] “Backstory” Brent Adams “Art and Rebellion” group in dark times
  • Adams praises the shelter/housing accomplishments of Funding Matters and disses its rerouting of money from services to building and staff.
  • Refugees from the latest Coral St. Sweep: Echo Langren & Shorty-their herstorys and recent police thefts

The Flashback to May18, 1999 includes: 

  • Bathrobespierre’s Updates: the Results of the City Council’s Committee to Examine the Sleeping Ban
  • “Happy John” memorial song
  • Marco Yovina Morone of TRUSC (Tenants Rights Union of Santa Cruz) memorial
  • [5-16-99] Downtown police harassment: Ryan Dohorty’s account of Rancho Del Mar sheriff harassment; Jerry Henry’s reaction; & “Dragonsheart” Dan Hopkins
  •  Nena Ruez—Residentes Unidos meeting (low sound)
  • Robert Steffans (Slow go, pink umbrella, garbage bag prez candidate) update
  • Bathrobespirre reports on Houston TX’s overturning of its Camping Ban;

 The Flashback to May 21, 1999 includes: [last half of the show]

  • “Breezy” Bob Lamonica praises Santa Cruz and rent control
  • SCAN Housing Committee considers but ignores Dolphin Lee demolition proposal; CAB Director Paul Brindel vs. Becky Johnson with Brendel stalling a “no” recommendation to SCAN.
  • Silva’s call for last-minute petition to Vote to end the Sleeping Ban.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides October 16, 2025 show is a Flashback to May 20, 2012 with counterplay between Troublesome Thomas Leavitt and Bathrobespierre Robert with attorney David Beauvais on CPS abuses

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The October 16, 2025 show is a Flashback to May 20, 2012. 

It includes:

  •  Troublesome Thomas & Bathrobespierre Robert [BR] on the murder of the Camouflage merchant & the rousing of anti-homeless sentiment, calling for police state measures.
  • Former Homeless [Lack of] Services Center Doug Loisel’s letter on excuses to criminalize.
  • BR’s latest attempt to get Discovery documents in his SC-11 case; Gary Johnson update.
  • Singer and guitarist Elizabeth in-studio guest on her struggle to get back her child.
  • Phone interview with David Beauvais, experienced attorney against CPS abuses.
  • Beauvais and BR on the D.A.’s Rebekah Young’s immunity & SC-11 updates
  • “Dead on” David Silva on folks ousted from HLC for 15 minutes lateness, then ticketed.
  • BR interviews folks in the Homeless Connect line including Diane Gordan of PC-2010.