Likely rain at HUFF Thursday 3-13; we meet indoors at Sub Rosa 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church

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Agenda Suggestions for HUFF 3-13-25

Http web addresses are for background reading or listening.   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.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them. AGENDA SUBJECT TO CHANGE; Bring your own items.                                        

Top of the Agenda (+ Quick Announcements):  If you have action items, bring them to the top.

++++   Possible Handouts or Handouts:  Agenda Suggestions; more TBA; Passarounds: Fremont news and lawsuit; Funding Matters Public Event 3-30

++++   Evan Morrison Postponement to 2 PM 3-20:  Questions and Next Steps

++++   Street and sweep reports from the last week;

++++   Fremont lawsuit:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZtMM4ZMlNEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT_d9BFEzYA

++++   Resolution of HUFF support for Fremont houseless, UCSC protesters, and Gaza victims

++++   Rain Th, F, Sun,.  Emergency Shelter in Santa Cruz? HUFF resolution that Warm-and-Dry Centers be Open or Parking Garage Trespass Laws Not Be Enforced

++++   Court and Jail reports:  Jessie in jail (response?); Justin’s current charges; Others in court, at parole hearings, 5150ed

++++   Reports from Students for Justice in Palestine and on-campus protests & Moss Landing 8 a.m. Thur 3-13 Protest

++++   Shitty Council and Stupervipers Reports from 3-11 

++++   Tips for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Revelations

++++   Info and policy changes wanted from Evan Morrison; Reggie’s Public Records Act on this week’s ticket-and-tow pressure:

++++   Proposed statement anticipating protest actions against proposed U.S. war to back renewed Gaza genocide/ethnic cleansing: Vigil Against Wars Abroad and at Home?

++++   Impact of Moss Landing Fire on Those Outside—Follow-Up?

++++   Norse’s Downtown Ordinance & Camping Ban Update: Any Help?++++   Wes White’s Monterey County Videos of Folks Outside:  John Doe13K You-Tube channel

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

++++   Following up on Google number  216-8238 with regular report provide  Gaia/Reggie Update

++++   New Street Spirits  and Street Sheets available   Likely next week. Available on line at https://thestreetspirit.org/search-our-archive/  Hard Copies of earlier issues may be available at 903 Pacific and at the Food Not Bombs Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock—ask Drew    Contact Street Spirit and Street Sheet to submit local stories & news accounts

++++   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)
++++   https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ypAexFGyrU_kCoM3dByRDDrobyR9H8wA/viewLatest SC Free Guide  (Correction & updates needed)

++++   PeopleFirst:  Rules and procedures written? Waiting list length for 1220 River St., 115 Coral St., or People’s First RV and Armory Programs on the SC Free Guide?  Request public guidelines.

++++   SHOC (Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee)’s newspaper Homeward—archives: https://sxacshoc.org/homeward/

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

++++   Resources:  https://www.fremontforeveryone.com/;   https://endhomelessness.org/resource/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights/

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides March 9, 2025, show features chatter around the Town Clock and Flashbacks to February 2, 1996 and February 5, 1996–Dan Hopkins & Robbie Berlin

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The March 9, 2025 show includes:

The Flashback to February 2, 1996 includes:  [some audio distortion]

  • Non-human homeless creatures and bench removal on Pacific Ave.
  • Battlin’ Bob Lamonica pushes for a pedestrian mall
  • Dragonsheart Dan and Bathrobespierre Robert discuss Dan’s appeal of the Community House trailer project sell-out.
  • Struggling for hot water at Santa Barbara Armory Winter Shelter 1992

The Flashback to February 5, 1996 includes:

  • Updates on Community House, Coral St., County Curfew,  & more
  • Phil Free and later Bob Lamonica—critique last FRSC meeting
  • San Jose Curfew chatter; Trial of Robbie Berlin for Marijuana cultivation
  • “Religious views of Rastafarians ruled valid in marijuana trial”—Examiner story
  • In-studio guest Robbie Berlin, slated for trial later this month
  • Jury Nullification its history and use in Berlin’s medical marijuana case 
  • Becky Johnson & streetsters on the S.C. County Curfew & civil rights

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides March 6,2025 show is a Flashback to November 13, 1997 with interviews from witnesses to Officer Connor Carey’s killing of Happy John Dine a few days before + a bonus segment of Uncle Dennis’s Thursday show

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The March 6, 2025 show is a Flashback to November 13, 1997.  It includes:

  • Extensive discussion & interviews around the slaying of Happy John Calvin Dine a few days before in downtown Santa Cruz by Officer Connor Carey.
  • FRSC’s V-Man interviews 3 witnesses immediately after the shooting
  • Caller Bob Lamonica on Unanswered Questions
  • “Dead on” David Silva’s account of a bloodied hitchhiker terrified of the police who said he saw the Dine killing.
  • Larry Redick, who says he was an across-the-street witness,  describes the  Dine killing; other reactions from Bike Jeannie, Colin, Brandon, Mike, and Mike
  • Mad Mike the Wonder Dog Balderos on D.A. and Sentinel refusing to listen 
  • “Rainbow Light” aka “Loudmouth Leith” reviews his Santa Cruz homeless civil rights history.
  • 45 Minutes of Uncle Dennis Davis’s “From the Cream to the Dregs”

Grab Umbrellas & Galoshes, Head for HUFF’s “Loose Cannons” meet-up at Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church 1:30-3:30 PM Thursday March 6, 2025

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Agenda Suggestions for “Loose Cannons” HUFF 3-6-25

Http web addresses are for background reading or listening.   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.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them. AGENDA SUBJECT TO CHANGE;  Athena will be running this “Loose Cannons” meeting with the usual outbursts from me and others.                      

Top of the Agenda (+ Quick Announcements)

++++   Possible Handouts or Handouts:  Agenda Suggestions; more TBA; Passarounds: TBA

++++   Evan Morrison Postponement to 2 PM 3-20

++++   Street and sweep reports from the last week;

++++   Rain today (3-6)  Mon,Tue,Wed, Thur.  Emergency Shelter in Santa Cruz? HUFF resolution that Warm-and-Dry Centers be Open or Parking Garage Trespass Laws Not Be Enforced

++++   Court and Jail reports:  Jessie in jail (response?); Justin’s current charges; Others in court, at parole hearings, 5150ed

++++   Updates from Students for Justice in Palestine and on-campus protests

++++   Shitty Council and Stupervipers Alert for 3-11  Rainy weather campout?

++++   Tips for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Revelations

++++   Info and policy changes wanted from Evan Morrison; his follow-up answers from last week; Preping for March 7 2 PM Visit

++++   Proposed statement anticipating protest actions against proposed U.S. war to back renewed Gaza genocide/ethnic cleansing: Vigil Against Wars Abroad and at Home?

****   Impact of Moss Landing Fire on Those Outside—Follow-Up?

++++   Norse’s Downtown Ordinance & Camping Ban Update: Any Help?++++   Wes White’s Monterey County Videos of Folks Outside:  John Doe13K You-Tube channel

++++   Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces?  Rebele Family Eviction?  Small Claims Court?  Armory Visit?

++++   Following up on Google number  216-8238 with regular report provide  Gaia/Reggie Update

++++   NO New Street Spirits  and Street Sheets available   Likely next week. Available on line at https://thestreetspirit.org/search-our-archive/  Hard Copies of earlier issues may be available at 903 Pacific and at the Food Not Bombs Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock—ask Drew    Contact Street Spirit and Street Sheet to submit local stories & news accounts

++++   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)
++++   https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ypAexFGyrU_kCoM3dByRDDrobyR9H8wA/viewLatest SC Free Guide  (Correction & updates needed)

++++   PeopleFirst:  Rules and procedures written? Waiting list length for 1220 River St., 115 Coral St., or People’s First RV and Armory Programs on the SC Free Guide?  Request public guidelines.

++++   SHOC (Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee)’s newspaper Homeward—archives: https://sxacshoc.org/homeward/

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

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides March 2, 2025, show features interviews with Becky Johnson and Grasshopper and Flashbacks to March 15, 1997 and April 13, 1997–Life amidst the SCPD on Pacific Avenue

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The March 2, 2025 show includes: 

The Flashback to March 15, 1997 includes:

  • A Cluster of Voices: Carrie, Rolling Thunder Sheridan, Baba Ito, John Earth, Long Distance Lee, 
  • Update on City Council Lock Down Chain Gang Trial
  • Travelin’ Tom Noddy on the Chaz trial for sitting on the base of the Scribner statue (hard to hear in part)
  • Stan Freberg’s Tom Jefferson v. Ben Franklin from his U.S.A. album
  • 3-10 Speakers at the Palo Alto City Council opposing the Sit-Lie law—which passed
  • Bathrobespierre vs. Councilmember Scott Kennedy on the Sleeping Ban

The Flashback to April 13, 1997 includes: 

  • Berkeley Street Poet Julia Vinograd recites “The Sparechanger Came from Outer Space”
  • Keith McHenry on SFPD cop Mark Andiya—killer of Aaron Williams in 1995
  • Panhandler and poet Jim, Street Spirit vendor, Trisha, unlucky Lucky’s shopping cart user, 
  • Skidmark Bob “trains” the cops on 1st Amendment and Needle Exchange
  • Steve McWilliams of the Pikes Peak Hemp Coalition

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides February 27, 2025, show is a Flashback to March 19, 2015 with Berkeley musician and activist “Cornerstone” Carol Denney and street crafter voices from Santa Cruz’s Pacific Avenue against the police crackdown

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The February 27, 2025 show is a Flashback to March 19, 2015. 

It includes:

  • “Cornerstone” Carol Denney on Berkeley City Council’s latest anti-homeless bad law proposals; her TwitWhit parodies (https://archive.org/details/@twit_wit), the SLAPP lawsuit against her, & more
  • Long-since “Gone Lame” Mayor Don Lane rejected demand to seek out and provide access to his and other Council members e-mail records regarding public issues when sent to private addresses
  • Street voices including Jason in a Blanket, Bumblebee the jeweler woman, Wayne on Joe’s Pizza shift to anti-homeless policies; Craftsman Jaya headed for trial for public display for sale on Pacific Avenue
  • Kevin Robinson’s music and Chris’s EightsizeClaws  group

HUFF bathes in sunshine before next week’s rains Thursday 2-27-25 1:30 PM-3:30 PM at the Sub Rosa 703 Pacific next to the beloved but underfunded Bike Church

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Ruf  HUFF Agenda Ideas for 2-27-25

Underlined  links are for background reading or listening.   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.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them. AGENDA SUBJECT TO CHANGE                                      

Top of the Agenda (+ Quick Announcements)

++++   Handouts:  Agenda.  Passarounds: Morrison Questions Seeking Answers

++++   Court Reports on Keith, Justin, Jessi

++++   Street and sweep reports from the last week;

++++   Updates from Students for Justice in Palestine and on-campus protests

++++   Any follow-up’s on P.I.T. (Point in Time) Count, Media, Pressuring Strategies.

++++   Weather Showers & cold predicted: Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed

++++   Shitty Council and Stupervipers reports from Tuesday

++++   Tips from an Urban Nomad           +

+++   Additions and Suggestions for Thomas’s TipZine

++++   Housing Matters  (aka Funding Matters [FM]) events coming up:            ++++   Getting homeless free comped tickets

++++   Morrison’s slate 3-7 visit: Questions & Answers

++++   Audio: https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/1%20FRSC%202-16-25.mp3Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMbK8Zj9ZE8

++++   Proposed statement anticipating protest actions against proposed U.S. war to deport Gazans and occupy Gaza as U.S. territory: Vigil Against Wars Abroad and at Home?

++++   Impact of Moss Landing Fire FlareUp on Those Outside—Follow-Up?  Wes call.

++++   Norse: No new work—volunteers for Update of Downtown Ordinances

++++   Coalition/Contacts with anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces?++++   Following up on Google number  216-8238 with regular report provide  Gaia/Reggie Update if any

++++   Possible Small Claims Court Follow-Up 

++++   New Street Spirits  and Street Sheets available  Hard Copies may be available next week at 903 Pacific and at the Food Not Bombs Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock—ask Drew  Contact Street Spirit and Street Sheet to submit local stories & news accounts

++++   Court Updates: Jessie; Keith; Jim Vivian; new unhoused cases?

++++   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)
++++   https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ypAexFGyrU_kCoM3dByRDDrobyR9H8wA/view

Latest SC Free Guide  (Correction and checking badly needed)

++++   Shelter  Concerns:  No rules or procedures posted, no waiting list length for 1220 River St., 115 Coral St., or People’s First RV and Armory Programs on the SC Free Guide, no protection for filing complaints

++++  SHOC (Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee)’s newspaper Homeward—nearly complete archives back to the early 90’s and beyond at https://sacshoc.org/homeward/

RESOURCES AND PROSPECTS including Regular Check-In’s, Older Stores. Possible Future Action Items, Signposts Against the Nasty New Narrative, Archived Net-Show Access, Still Older Resources & News   https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/  (the full HUFF blog) .  FOR MORE DETAILS CHECK THE RESOURCES AND PROSPECTS SECTION of the HUFF agenda AT https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/huff-boots-out-the-old-year-130-pm-330-pm-thursday-december-26-at-the-sub-rosa-cafe-703-pacific-ave-next-to-the-bike-church/

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday February 23, 2025 show features People First Director Evan Morrison on the HUFF Firing Line + Flashback to mid-March 2002 with the Bathrobespierre’s silent “stop your fascism’ salute and arrest at City Council

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The Sunday February 23, 2025 Show includes:

  • High points and low points of [most of] the 2-20-25 HUFF meeting
  • [throughout] “The History of the World According to David Rovics” in the 1960s
  • “Arc of Justice” Athena announces and orchestrates Street Reports & a Coral St. Update
  • People First Director Evan Morrison gives Armory estimates and promises Armory Stats.
  • Hard questions from Gregarious Greg, Jivefree Justin, Athena, and “Where’s the Winter Shelter?” Laura for Morrison.
  • Jivefree’s account of his latest “assault” bust and upcoming jury trial
  • Sodbuster Stephen Dunifer on “Micropower Radio” here and elsewhere

The Flashback to March 17, 2002 includes: 

Analysis and context of Mayor Krohn’s arresting Bathrobespierre at the 2-15-02 City Council meeting for a nondisruptive silent mock-Nazi gesture.

2-15 Audio: Officer “Butchie” Baker & Officer Brandt’s “no charge” arrest.

Prior City Council trespasses on the rights of attendees: Bathrobespierre’ historical analysis In-studio guests “High Ground” Jerry Henry on Ali Baba’s cafe’s fascism toward street folk; Scott Rhodes on the phony “reform” of the Sleeping Ban in parks; both on repression at the Aptos Rancho Del Mar Shopping Center.

Amy Courtney, Bedsheets Bandista, on her anti-war banners at Hiway 1 overpass.

Santa Barbara’s “Nuf Said” Nancy McCradie on RV Task Force Stonewalling.

Phil Free Hostility Patrol song for Pacific Avenue.

3-2-02 “DarkWatcher” David Busch on Santa Monica’s [homeless] Sleeping Ban

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides February 20, 2025, show is a Flashback to February 14, 2010 with lots of Pac Ave. interviews and a further Flashback to Oct. 22, 1988

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The February 20, 2025 show is a Flashback to February 14, 2010. 

It includes:

  • [Occasional songs throughout from Visionsong Valerie Christy]
  • Further flashback to Audio from October 22, 1988—Peace and Justice activist Charles Grey on his arrest & trial for non-violent CD (Sleepcrime) challenging the Sleeping Ban sections of the Camping Ban
  • Curbhugger Chris’s Panhandler’s Lament
  • Boulder, Colorado:  boulderexpress.org on criminalizing those outside for “sheltering” with blankets
  • Reactionary Santa Cruz voices call for police enforcement of sitters, panhandlers, and street musicians
  • Moonstruck Mike, Jeremy Casmer & Drum Circle Dave weigh in on Downtown life
  • Unanswered questions for “Riot Act” Mike Rotkin on Metro Center guard power & bus user rights.
  • Sacramento report from activist attorney Mark Merin
  • Gainsville attacks food servers in Florida
  • Making Contact:  No Bucks for Banks

HUFF is at it again Thursday afternoon February 20, 2025 at the Sub Rosa Cafe as usual 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church

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“Loose Cannon” Agenda for next HUFF 2-20-25

Http web addresses are for background reading or listening.   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.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them. AGENDA SUBJECT TO CHANGE;  Athena will be running this “Loose Cannons” meeting with the usual outbursts from me and others.  Italicized items below are input from Athena.                                        

Top of the Agenda (+ Quick Announcements)

++++   Handouts:  Agenda.  Passarounds: TBA

++++   Street and sweep reports from the last week++++   Updates from Students for Justice in Palestine

++++   Preasure/media sweep

++++   Point-In-Time Count Report

++++   Winter storm Street Report

++++   Tips from an Urban Nomad

++++   Housing Matters  (aka Funding Matters [FM]) events coming up:++++   Getting homeless free comped tickets

++++   2 p.m. Scheduled visit of Evan Morrison, People First Director to HUFF

++++   Report on last Thursday’s protest of FM’s film at Rio Theater. Audio: https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/1%20FRSC%202-16-25.mp3Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMbK8Zj9ZE8

++++   Proposed statement anticipating protest actions against proposed U.S. war to deport Gazans and occupy Gaza as U.S. territory: Vigil Against Wars Abroad and at Home?

++++  Impact of Moss Landing Fire on Those Outside—Follow-Up?

++++   Norse: Working on Update of Downtown Ordinances and other Anti-Homeless Laws.

++++   Coalition/Contacts with anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces?

++++   Rebele Family Shelter’s Eviction of family with motel accommodation that ran out

++++   Response to Police Abuse: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/01/01/18871850.php

++++   Following up on Google number  216-8238 with regular report provide  Gaia/Reggie Update
++++   Additions and Suggestions for Thomas’s TipZine

++++   Possible Small Claims Court Follow-Up

++++   Court Updates: Jessie; Keith; Jim Vivian; new unhoused cases?

++++   Possible Armory Revisit; Dreamcatcher visit  Info from People First Staff?  Cat?  Avi

++++   New Street Spirits  and Street Sheets available  Hard Copies may be available at 903 Pacific and at the Food Not Bombs Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock—ask Drew  Contact Street Spirit and Street Sheet to submit local stories & news accounts

++++   Weather: no rain expected in next week.

++++   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)
++++   https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ypAexFGyrU_kCoM3dByRDDrobyR9H8wA/viewLatest SC Free Guide  (Correction and checking badly needed)

++++   Shelter  Concerns:  No rules or procedures posted, no waiting list length for 1220 River St., 115 Coral St., or People’s First RV and Armory Programs on the SC Free Guide. 

RESOURCES AND PROSPECTS including Regular Check-In’s, Older Stores. Possible Future Action Items, Signposts Against the Nasty New Narrative, Archived Net-Show Access, Still Older Resources & News  https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/  (the full HUFF blog) .  
FOR MORE DETAILS CHECK THE RESOURCES AND PROSPECTS SECTION of the HUFF agenda AT https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/huff-boots-out-the-old-year-130-pm-330-pm-thursday-december-26-at-the-sub-rosa-cafe-703-pacific-ave-next-to-the-bike-church/