Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides April 10, 2025 is a Flashback to January 31, 2019 when the Independent Homeless Ross Camp was in Flower with tenant activist Cynthia Berger and Homeless Union Prez Alicia Kuhl

The April 10, 2025 show is a Flashback to January 31, 2019. 

It includes:

  • Poor People’s Campaign features Tenant Activists “Rough Road” Rick, & Cynthia Berger. 
  • Red Church Renegades Sound Off: Patrick Travis, Joyful Heart, Todd J., Steve C.   
  • Ross Camp Report with “All Speed Ahead” Alica, Bathrobespierre Robert, Ernest Rosenthal, Puddentain, and the Regulator
  • https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/22/18820615.php  Police-Led MLK Day March, Lots of Smiles, Little Substance—many flyers on view

Skipped HUFF Agenda for Thursday 4-10-25 Meeting

Agenda Suggestions for HUFF 4-10-25

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.                                               
Top of the Agenda (+ Quick Announcements)(a brief broad survey)

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

++++   Follow-Up on Justin/Athena TRO/trauma suggestion; impacting demands on police,shelter policies

++++   Legislative followup on AB 750 and local Stupe/Council crapola

++++   Evan Morrison meeting report/audio; next meeting slated for end of April;  Suggest forwarding complaints to (408) 761-9930 as well as  evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or www.peoplefirstscc.org   as well as 216-8238 (Google complaint record)

++++   Resolutions around foreign and Santa Cruz refugees; use SB XXXX as a model

++++   Lookback: last weekend’s protests

++++   Updates (SJP) : Friday 4-4-25 noon gathering at base of UCSC, march to Town Clock 1 p.m.  Saturday 11 am- 1 pm Ocean & Water anti-war picket

++++   Saturday 11 AM -1 PM Ocean and Water signs and shouts against the Gaza slaughter + homeless refugee problem

++++   Any extension of fencing?

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

++++   Mid 60s today and thru the week 

++++   Fremont lawsuit: https://www.youtube.com/watchtv=RsgvH2Gu8ow    Background: http://www.youtube.com/watchv-GZtMM4ZMLNEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTd98FEzYA

++++   Flyer update for next storm/sweep.

++++   Court and Jail reports.  Others in court, at parole hearings, 5150ed

++++   Shitty Council and Stuperevipers Alert for 4-8 

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

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

++++   Resolution & HUFF support for Fremont lawsuit & UCSC protesters

++++   Proposed statement anticipating protest actions against proposed U.S. war to back renewed Gaza genocide/ethnic cleansing: Vigil Against Wars Abroad and at Home, if not previously done.

++++   San Lorenzo Creek Sweep Across Vacant Migrant Center Housing by King City  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSL7dy8FPh4

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

++++   No New Street Spirits  and Street Sheets available   Mid-month Street Sheet stories available on line at https://www.streetsheet.org/   Hard Copies of both may be available Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock 12-3 PM—ask Drew at the Food Not Bombs  Both want stories & news accounts: contact ‘em

++++   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/https://fresnoalliance.com/whats-wrong-with-fresnos-leaders/

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides April 6, 2025, show features recent police abuse articles, more Becky vs. Bathrobespierre on the Gaza Genocide, interspersed with David Rovics+ Flashbacks to January 18 and 22, 2004 on resistance & crackdown at City Council

The April 6, 2025 show includes a portion of a Flashback to January 18, 2004: 

  • Mathew Embray, Doug McGrath, Marilyn Weaver, and Bathrobespierre on the values of positively disruptive civil disobedience at City Council after Mayor Kennedy made an arrest.
  • [January 2004] Interviews with street folk: Barry, Chris, Mu & more
  • “Scope it Out” Scott on Fighting Back Against Kennedy & Rotkin
  • A Guitarron player’s account; Jason Pasqual’s latest citation; the Return of Mr. Freeze. 

The Flashback to January 22, 2004 includes:

  • Adrienne on diagnosing and treating Yuppie Personality Deficit
  • Nutcracker Nick on “A Jiggle, A Juggle” his new street play
  • Bradley of the Santa Cruz Indymedia on videoing recent events
  • Audio of Mayor arresting Norse on January 13th and discussion with Beggarbacker Becky Johnson and another visiting leftist witness

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides April 3, 2025 is a Flashback to August 2, 2012 where Homeless (Lack of) Services Center [HLOCSC] Board member and Mayor Don Lane fields questions from disability activists on the HLOSC’s misdeeds

The April 3, 2025 show is a Flashback to August 2, 2012.  It includes:

+++  Community TV talk show host Sandy Leigh (aka Spilly Chilly) on Disability Discrimination at the Homeless [Lack of] Services Center [HLOSC] 

+++   Panelist Mayor Don Lane (also Board member of HLOSC), activist Steve Pleich Homeless Persons Legal Assistance, and advocate John Colby on HLOSC abuse and neglect towards the disabled.

+++  Colby on disabled clients Meagan Andrea Morgan, Ron Skinner, both walker users, & Steve Lacelle+ others being denied or evicted from HLOSC.

+++   Bathrobespierre Robert and Lighthouse Linda on questions not askedand on Colby’s legal appeal to regulatory agencies.

+++   Pleich and Lane defensively “respond” to Colby’s specific criticisms.

+++   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/07/31/18718653.php 

+++   Summing Up: Colby’s questions remain unanswered; protests  continue.

HUFFtime again 1:30 pm-3:30 PM Thursday April 3, 2025 at the Sub Rosa Cafe/Courtyard 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church

Preliminary Agenda Suggestions for “Loose Cannons” HUFF 4-4-25

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 meeting slated for end of April;  Info and policy changes wanted?

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

++++   Low 60s today and thru the week 

++++   Fremont lawsuit:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsgvH2Gu8ow   Background:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZtMM4ZMlNEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT_d9BFEzYAApplication to Santa Cruz?

++++   HUFF study group to propose emergency actions for next storm++++   Court and Jail reports.  Others in court, at parole hearings, 5150ed

++++   Updates from Students for Justice in Palestine and on-campus protests: Friday 4-4-25 noon gathering at base of UCSC, march to Town Clock 1 p.m.  Saturday 11 am- 1 pm Town Clock

++++   Shitty Council and Stupervipers Alert for 4-8 

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

++++   Reggie and Gaia’s report on Citation for “Homeless Crime”  Phone 216-8238 to report abuses

++++   Resolution & HUFF support for Fremont lawsuit & UCSC protesters

++++   Proposed statement anticipating protest actions against proposed U.S. war to back renewed Gaza genocide/ethnic cleansing: Vigil Against Wars Abroad and at Home, if not previously done.

++++   Norse’s Downtown Ordinance & Camping Ban Update: Progress Report,  Any Help?

++++   Wes White’s Fremont Videos of Folks Outside:  Go to You-Tube then “John Doe13K”

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

++++   No New Street Spirits  and Street Sheets available   Mid-month Street Sheet stories available on line at https://www.streetsheet.org/   Hard Copies of both may be available Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock 12-3 PM—ask Drew at the Food Not Bombs  Both want stories & news accounts: contact ‘em

++++   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/https://fresnoalliance.com/whats-wrong-with-fresnos-leaders/

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides March 30, 2025, show features more Keith McHenry on anti-lithium battery protest, Becky vs. Bathrobespierre on the Gaza Genocide, Linda of King City, + a Flashback to April 11, 2010 with Travelin’ Tom Noddy

The March 30, 2025 show includes:

The Flashback to April 11, 2010 includes:

  • Troublesome Thomas and Bathrobespierre Robert discuss the City Attorney and the Sinister Singsong Sidewalk Citation case
  • Further flashback to 12-28-87 interview with Travelin’ Tom Noddy on the 1977-8 Scott Creek Bluff bust and trial
  • 3-28-10 Street Interviews with Merryweather Mike, Plantercrime Andrew, and Renee Currey of Sidewalk Beanies-and-Burritos fame
  • Voices on the air and in the news: Lighthouse Linda, WakeUpTime Wes Modes, Lighttouch Louis La Fortune.
  • Beggarbacker Becky on the aftermath of her Song trial with Ed Frey
  • Death of the Dog Ban on Pacific Avenue
  • Final words with Drum Circle Dave
  • Making Contact episode on Bankruptcy of Journalism

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides March 27, 2025 show is a Flashback to May 9, 2003 with discussion of tenant troubles, heroin use, and more from Roger Bournique, co-host Jeffrey Gale, Scott Graham, and more

The March 27, 2025 show is a Flashback to May 9, 2003. 

It includes:

  • Roger Bournique on his landlord, local anti-Bush protest, and heroin use
  • “Scope it Out” Scott on local jail crammed with Drug war prisoners
  • Co-Host Jeffrey Gale joins the show with a national perspective
  • Court Corridors report from Referee “Meatgrinder”  Mulligan
  • Capitola City Council craziness against political protest; HUFF report
  • A bar or two of music from Uncle Dennis’s “Cream to the Dregs” show

Come in out of the rain with HUFF 1:30 PM-3:30 PM Thursday March 27 at the Sub Rosa Cafe next to the Bike Church at 703 Pacific

Agenda Suggestions for HUFF 3-27-25

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 personpower, time, interest, and resources.  We are gathering information and evidence to challenge the Dominant (False) Police and City Manager Narrative. We pose alternatives that other groups may pick up on.   Organize! If anyone has questions or action urges, please raise them. AGENDA SUBJECT TO CHANGE.  

      Top of the Agenda (+ Quick Announcements)

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

++++   Report on Evan Morrison Meeting: Immediate Shelter Shit; Blueprints for Change

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

++++   Rain on the march: Thur (3-27), Sun-Thur (3-30 – 4 -3) with colder temperatures: Action proposal protecting those seeking shelter 

++++   Funding Matters—Gala Event at Hotel Paradox 3-30 (73% chance of showers): Specific concerns about 115 Coral St.

++++   Fremont lawsuit:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZtMM4ZMlNEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT_d9BFEzYAApplication to Santa Cruz?

++++   Court and Jail reports.  Others in court, at parole hearings, 5150ed

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

++++   Shitty Council and Stupervipers Report on 3-25 Hearing

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

++++   Reggie and Gaia’s report on Citation for “Homeless Crime”  Phone Contact

++++   Resolution & HUFF support for Fremont lawsuit & UCSC protesters

++++   Proposed statement to join protest actions against proposed U.S. war to back renewed Gaza genocide/ethnic cleansing: Vigil Against War on the Poor Abroad and at Home

++++   Norse’s Downtown Ordinance & Camping Ban Update: Any Help?++++   Wes White’s Fremont Videos of Folks Outside:  Go to You-Tube then “John Doe13K”

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

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

++++   New Street Spirits  and Street Sheets may be available next week  Mid-month Street Sheets available on line at https://www.streetsheet.org/  Hard Copies of both may be available Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock 12-3 PM—ask Drew at the Food Not Bombs  Both want stories & news accounts: contact ‘em

++++   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)

++++   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 Latest Street Sheets on line: https://www.streetsheet.org/

++++   Resources:  https://www.fremontforeveryone.com/;   https://endhomelessness.org/resource/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights/https://fresnoalliance.com/whats-wrong-with-fresnos-leaders/News Affecting Homeless Protest and Survival

++++   Columbia University bans wearing face masks on campus https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-funding-trump-fa70143c715df8fd4ef337c0e1ccf872 (3-22)

++++   https://www.wusf.org/2025-03-16/u-s-deports-hundreds-of-venezuelans-to-el-salvador-despite-court-order   Deportation out of County—a homeless problem

++++   https://www.streetsheet.org/cant-get-well-in-a-cell-decarcerate-sacramento-scores-a-community-win-as-jail-expansion-is-put-on-hold/   and other recent on-line Street Sheet  stories

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides March 23, 2025 show features Keith McHenry on protests around the lithium-battery fire + a Flashback to 11-15-98 on the Sean Alemi memorial and Charles Vaughn shooting (hard to hear)

The March 23, 2025 show includes: 

The Flashback to November 15, 1998 includes (with much audio distortion):

  • Critique of the Community Homeless Resource Center
  • Attorney Catnip Kate Wells remembers activist Sean Alemi
  • His son discusses the Cop Shooting of Charles Vaughn, Sr. on a Seaside roof
  • Skidmark Bob Duran reports of Steve Argue locked down in S.C. County jail
  • Struggle to Put the Sleeping Ban up to Council Vote for Winter
  • Many street interviews throughout

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides March 20, 2025 show is a Flashback to February 15, 2004 Keith McHenry from Arizona, Julia Vinograd from Berkeley and our own Shitty Council

The March 20, 2025 show is a Flashback to February 15, 2004

and includes:

  • Bathrobespierre’s analysis of the local activist push to have protection against the Patriot Act and City Council’s refusal to enact such.
  • Testimony at Council by John Gibson of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee [BORDC], Norse of HUFF, Councilmember Kennedy, and others.
  • Phone interview with Keith McHenry on his lengthy activist history
  • “Hail Kerry, Senator Facing Both Ways,…” by Cockburn and St. Clair
  • Phone interview with Berkeley poet Julia Vinograd reading & reporting
  • Clearview Court Sell-Out
  • Pat Kittle challenges Sleeping Ban opponents to “respect the forest”