Suggestions for HUFF 6-12-25 “Loose Cannons” Meeting
Http web addresses are for background reading or listening. Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them. Out of exhaustion, frustration, or the call of Mother Nature, breaks may be called. The chair may be rotated if folks want.
If the Agenda looks familiar and unduly repetitive, some of it is for the benefit of new folks or returning ones. Many items are really signposts & reminders of where we’d be going if and when we find the person power, time, interest, and resources.
We are gathering information and evidence to challenge the Dominant (False) Police and City Manager Narrative. Documenting and complainant numbers are repeated for convenience. Athena runs the meeting.
Top of the Agenda
++++ Review Agenda (questions, additions)
++++ Athena’s proposed smooth meeting suggestions
++++ Flag Possible Action Items: Sweep Notices; Key Upcoming Events
++++ Possible Handouts: Agenda, Shelter Rule Reform History Passarounds Fresno Update, San Jose Mayor’s Mayhem Ideas
++++ Street & sweep reports from the last week
++++ Laura C report on Armory/Overlook bullying block
++++ HUFF Disruption policy; Athena’s Proposals–Update
++++ June 19th HUFF meeting—moved or deferred?
++++ Court cases past and future; 5150’sQuicker CHECK-Ins, ANNOUNCEMENTS, and REPORTS
++++ Protests or Gatherings Throughout the Last Week: Wednesday’s Town Clock Anti-INS Rally; Meliah et. al. films
++++ Newsom Homeless Nakba Nonsense—Our Response?
++++ Shitty Council & Board of Stupes reports from 6-10.
++++ Various 216-8239 Flyers Prospects; Reggie & Gaia Updates or Phone Connects
++++ MHCAN Support aftermath
++++ Gaia’s update on Capitola Mobile Home owners resistance to huge rent raises (Call for Update)(Solidarity Resolution)
++++ Wes White’s Salinas and State Updates (archived athttp://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/1%20FRSC%206-8-25.mp3 (55 minutes into the file)
++++ Various legacy media stories: TBA
++++ Free Events (for demonstrating, organizing, leafleting, or enjoying) [More TBA]
Friday June 13 4:30 PM- 5:30 PM Ocean & Water Fight VA/Medicaid Cuts Indivisible
Saturday June 14 11 AM- 12:30 PM Ocean & Water anti-war “Free Palestine” picket
Monday June 9 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Ocean & Water Civil Rights Weekly Anti-Trump Dem. Party Indivisible
++++ 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.
++++ No Rain…low 70s thru the next Week. Fremont lawsuit:https://eagleera.org/2025/04/27/california-homeless-union-and-advocates-sue-fremont-over-controversial-camping-ban/ Background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZt<<4ZMINEhttps://www.youtube.com/watc?v=pT_d9BFEzYAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT_d9BFEzYA
++++ Tips & Lifelessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Sagacity
++++ Reggie & Gaia’s report on Selective Ticketing for “Homeless Crime”: Volunteers?
++++ Laura C.: YES on SB 634 & other legislative updates
++++ Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces? Small Claims Court? Library Stuff
++++ New Street Spirits and Street Sheets will be available. Mid-month Street Sheet stories available on line https//www.streetsheet.org/ . Hard Copies of both often available at Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock 12-3 PM—ask Drew at the Food Not Bombs Both want stories & news accounts: contact paper directly or Robert Norse (423-4833)
++++ People First Free Guides: https://peoplefirstscc.org/freeguides for S.C., Watsonville, SLV, Free Phones, Youth, Housing Waitlist, Pet Food, Addiction, Immigrant Storm Relief, SLE, Diaper Bank, and more (unchecked for usefulness) (Warning: entries not verified)
++++ https://peoplefirstsdcc.org/freeguides SC Free Guide (Correction & updates needed) + many others
++++ SHOC (Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee)’s newspaper Homeward— https://sxacshoc.org/homeward/
++++ 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