HUFF meets 10:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. + at the Sub Rosa Cafe 2-2 Thursday next to the Bike Church at 703 Pacific

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HUFF Meeting Agenda Prospects 2-2-23    

  ++++  Pass-Arounds and Hand-Outs

  ++++  Street reports

  ++++  Mountain Resource Center Protest Update 

  ++++  Recent police murders: qualified immunity; soft-pedaling defunding in local media

  ++++  Response to Felton Sheriff’s Department on Helga’s Assault

  ++++  Focus on Unreformed SCPD and SC Sheriff’s Deputy in Light of Recent Police Murders

  ++++  General Shelter Updates

  ++++  Winter Shelter in Santa Cruz Action Considering Frosty Times & No Warming Center

  ++++  Phony “No Parking” Signs in Coastal Zone: Actions and Update

  ++++  Shitty Council & Bored of Stupidvipers Meetings Reports

  ++++  Updates for SB31 and its Successor 

  ++++  Injunction Prep; Ratner/Mangler Protest Prep 

  ++++  Tabling & Follow-Up  at Clock, Pogonip, Levee:  Survival Encampment Network 

  ++++   Placeholders: Tickets, Free Guide, OVO, Mad Power

  ++++   Vigil for Manny Town Clock 2 PM Friday February 3rd

  ++++   “Long Distance Revolutionary” 7 PM Thursday Feb 2nd 

Register to attend: tinyurl.com/Mumia-film   Facebook event page: https://fb.me/e/2csABHEKn

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides today (Sunday, January 29, 2023) features the arrest of Felton activist Helga at the Mountain Resource Center; Flashback to November 11, 1999

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The January 29, 2023 Show includes:

  • Various articles covering the police murder of Tyre Nicols in Memphis
  • [1-22-23] Helga’s herstory of anti-homeless harassment at the Mountain Community Resource Center and elsewhere in Felton
  • [1-23-23] Dreamcatcher and Arnie give rosy snapshots of the Armory shelter
  • [1-23-23] Everett Trujillo’s Report Card on Sheriff and Povertypimp Behavior
  • [1-27] Helga and Bathrobespierre Shoot Questions at Deputy Jason Dune.
  • [1-28] Helga’s account of her 1 a.m. bust for videoing Everett’s false arrest.

The November 11, 1999 Flashback includes:

  • Largely Critical Phone Interview with Councilmember Chris Krohn on the Shoulder Tap law, Rent Control, the rushed Dolphin-Lee Project, Council’s stalling on an independent lawyer for the Citizens Police Review Board [CPRB]
  • Gail Levy, President of the Cabrillo Estates Mobile Home Owners Association [CEMHOA] in Capitola defending their rent control.
  • FRSC broadcaster and CEMHOA resident Merlin weighs in on the issue.
  • Van dweller Dennis Rehm, 14-times hauled to court for Sleeping Ban crime, on the Flory-Edwards-Jacobs defense and judicial collusion with police repression.
  • Catnip Kate Wells, defense attorney, advises CPRB members on the right to use lawful force to resist a false arrest.
  • Roughrider Richard Quigley on social cleansing harassment of Jerry Henry, counselor to street youth, charged with 11 non-violent misdemeanors 
  • Battling Bob Lamonica on the corrupt past of Judge Art Danner
  • Homeless recycler Verna Hernandez on City harassment of her work

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides netstreams and archives today (Thursday January 26, 2023) with a Flashback show to October 21, 1999

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The January 26 show is a Flashback  to the October 21, 1999 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show.  It includes:

  • Jeff, a White Separatist, gets grilled by pro-Mumia- abu- Jamal activists.
  • Aaron Birsch, convicted of assaulting the homeless Joe Barker, discusses his trial and the underlying charge. [Part 2 of an interview that began with the October 14, 1999 show]
  • Skidmark Bob on his encounter with the Birsch anti-Mumia group and the background of the SC-5 trial, arrested in the Kosovo anti-war protest
  • Vinnie Lombardo, aka the V man, a FRSC reporter and broadcaster, on his upcoming court hearing in the SC-5 case.
  • [Oct 10, 1999] Homeless squeegee woman “Patches” describes Bad Times at Dominican Hospital.
  • Rev. John Phillips of the Rainbow Cross Walk, going from S.C. to S.F.
  • Becky Johnson on Sgt. “Sticky Fingers” Butchie Baker’s failure to find anti-homeless assailants.
  • “City’s Take Hard Line on Homeless” by Blair Anthony Robinson and Mathew Barrows
  • Original show is at  https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/BRB%2010-21-99%20Tape%201%20side%20A.mp3   &   https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/BRB%2010-21-99%20Tape%201%20side%20B.mp3

HUFF returns to the Sub Rosa for its Thursday 10:45 AM – 1 PM (or later) meeting at the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church

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Coffee, cookies, carrots, and cantankerous conversation following up on the Mountain Community Resource protests and Santa Cruz’s failure to open Winter Shelter consistently and regularly.

HUFF Meeting Agenda Prospects 1-26-23    

  ++++  Street reports 

  ++++  Mountain Resource Center Protest Follow-Up  

  ++++  Helga’s Follow-Up with Felton Outside Folks 

  ++++  Flash or Planned Protest at MCRC or Community Bridges 

  ++++  Sham Shelter Shenangans: New Stats—City & County?  

  ++++  Winter Shelter in Santa Cruz Protest Action 

  ++++  Drenching the Disabled—Parking Lots Punishments? 

  ++++  Shitty Council & Bored of Stupidvipers Meetings 

  ++++  Updates for SB31;  

  ++++  Injunction Prep; Ratner/Mangler Protest Prep 

  ++++  Tabling & Follow-Up  at Clock, Pogonip, Levee  for Lawsuit Prep Pressure and Survival Encampment Network 

  ++++   Placeholders: Tickets, Free Guide, OVO, Mad Power 

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Show 1-22-23 will be available as an archive and netcast at 9:30 AM: Follow-Up HUFF interchange on next steps after the Mountain Resource protest; Pro-Assange Belmarsh Tribunal Weighs Evidence

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On the 1-22-23 show:

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Show 1-19-23 covers the Mountain Community Resources Center protest and recent conversations at the Town Clock

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The January 19th Show includes:

  • [1-17] Titanium-tongued Tony Mendanza on recent roustabouts with law enforcement lunacy.
  • Birdsong Whitebeard on the view from the Food Not Bombs free clothing table after the rain.
  • More parking lot punishment— reports Threadbare Theodore
  • [1-18] Harvey West Hangout Report from GreyStevens, Mickie Sabzar, and Spanky.
  • [1-19] Moving on the Mountain Resource Center’s renegade roust policies: Kara, long-time Felton resident, gives her view
  • Volunteer Food Line worker Shelly’s perspective.
  • Anonymous report of a S.C. homeless death in the library
  • Perspectives on the protest: Rita, Dave, Anonymous
  • Inside the MRC in search of answers—still looking.

Stop Felton’s Mountain Community Resource Center Driving Homeless Out Into the Rain

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by Robert Norse Tue, Jan 17, 2023 11:26AM Charges of cruel, discriminatory, and unnecessary evictions of unhoused folks into survival-threatening weather at Felton’s Mountain Community Resource Center have prompted this protest. Two fliers describe the situation and ask the community to respond.

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Download PDF (431.3KB) Torrential rains and cold temperatures have made this a particularly hard weather for those surviving outside as the San Lorenzo River rises.

HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) has received repeated reports of discriminatory behavior by the management of the Mountain Community Resource Center in Felton. They include denying promised (once-a-week) shower facilities, turning those sheltered under an outdoor awning into the rain, calling sheriffs to harass otherwise peaceful homeless people, and similar actions treating the poor outside like criminals.

We will be responding to these complaints on Thursday morning to urge a change in these practices and to determine the extent of the abuses there.


Say NO to discrimination at the Mountain Resource Center at 6134 Highway 9, Contact Info: Felton, CA 95018 Phone: 831-335-6600 Parent organization: Community Bridges at 831-688-8840 & info [at] cbridges.org For more information: http://www.huffsantacruz.org§Informational Flyer by Robert Norse Tue, Jan 17, 2023 11:26AM

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Download PDF (603.7KB) Please download and distribute http://www.huffsantacruz.org
TO DOWNLOAD FLYERS GO TO https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/01/17/18853848.php .

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Show 1-15-23 features a proposed Protest Against Felton’s Mountain Resource Center in the Works. December 20, 2012 Flashback recalls 14th Homeless Memorial

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On the 1-15-2023 Show:

  • “Heartstrong” Helga has a wrangle of a conversation with Bathrobespierre Robert about recent incidents of anti-homeless discrimination at the Mountain Resources Center in Felton.
  • Looking back on the 1-10 Santa Cruz Shitty Council meeting with new 4-year Mayor “Fast Lane” Fred Keeley and his authoritarian style
  • “Scope it Out” Scott Graham reviews the Council wreckage.
  • Brief squeaks of outrage and rationality from Steve, Hector, Joyh, Sabina, and Abbi during the token 1-10 Oral Communications period
  • Silence from City Mangler Huffaker on the Shelter scandal: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/01/08/18853734.php
  • Rainy day news and blues from Katzenjammer Keith McHenry [1-11]
  • Food Not Bombs fusillades from Alice & “Grok It” Greg.
  • Preview of the Flashback from Bathrobespierre Robert

  • The December 20th, 2012 Flashback includes:
  • [Bits from The Capital Steps comedy troupe throughout]
  • Piercing the veil of the Poverty-pimpster and Politician-packed 14th Homeless Memorial
  • Homeless [Lack of] Service Center [HLOSC] rules
  • The names and ages of the homeless dead over the last 20 years
  • Memorial notes from a skeptical observer & interviews with: Larry Bordeau
  • Vets report
  • Mama Joy McCorkle’s “Cause of Death” poem
  • Nearly audible encomiums by Beggarbacker Becky Johnson, Dead-on David Silva, and Silver-tongued Steve Pleich
  • Fact-flee-er Phil Kramer avoids saying many actually housed by HLOSC
  • A tearful Kalalia Guard (aka “Stormy”) mourns those not mentioned
  • B. Johnson totals up the homeless death total; D. Silva on Billy’s death
  • [11-26] Red Church Ravings: Jonathan on police doubleparking
  • “Freedom” and her copwatcher report
  • Rick Stipes report on his indecent exposure & camping ticket trials
  • Mainstream media covers the Homeless Bill of Rights protest interviewing Razor Ray, Mama Shannon, Tom, Julie Schaul + family, Ralph
  • The small City of Felton has no Winter shelter and its Mountain Resource Center 6134 Hiway 9 (across from Rite-Aid) has been accused of driving people out into rainy weather during the last three weeks.  An informational flyering and protest is planned for Felton at 10 AM Thursday December 20th.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Show 1-12-23 is a Flashback from February 12, 2003 featuring the trial of Becky Johnson for political chalking on the sidewalk

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In the February 12, 2003 Flashback:

  • Street Interviews: Raymond and Samantha get accosted by Officer Brandt for Open Container and Camping; remarks about Armory Shelter living;
  • Sherry Conable’s account of musician Thomas Siles being driven away by Farmer’s Market “managers”
  • Sometime co-host Jeffrey Gale on his struggle to press Mayor Reilly to use the spacious Civic Center Auditorium for a City Council anti-war vote and to persuade conservative KSCO radio to broadcast the Council meeting on the issue.
  • “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson on her arrest with Tim Rinker for political protest with erasable chalk on the sidewalk against the anti-homeless Downtown Ordinances.  See also https://www.counterpunch.org/2003/02/22/hopscotch-rebellion/
  • Paleo-Free Radio trailblazer Trailblazer Tom Rebele offers Johnson legal support.
  • Bathrobespierre dissects the draw-and-quartering of the Citizens Police Review Board and its replacement with a coopted Police Auditor

RV Human Rights Activists Challenges Santa Cruz City Police Violations

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https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/01/11/18853776.php
by Reggie Meisler (posted by Norse) (rnorse3 [at] hotmail.com) Wed, Jan 11, 2023 7:07PM Reggie Meisler, civil liberties defender of unhoused rights, is waiting for an answer to his January 9th letter to Santa Cruz City Manager Matt Huffaker, Mayor Fred Keeley, Police Chief Rudy Escalante, and the S.C. City Council. Meisler calls for Huffaker to direct his SCPD to stop harassing and uprooting those whose vehicles are their shelter by misusing the “abandoned vehicle” tagging law. City Manager Huffaker, Chief Escalante, Mayor Keeley, and Councilmembers,

I want to bring to your attention an issue that is actively occurring, even during these extreme weather conditions, wherein unhoused folks living in vehicles are repeatedly being given “abandoned vehicle” green tags (See attached photos).

In many cases, folks are actually residing in their vehicle when the green tag is being given and have been parked in said location for less than an hour. I have been told about a couple instances wherein folks literally get out of their vehicle, mid-tag, and the police officer does not offer to rescind the green tag, claiming it was given because “someone called about your vehicle”. In many cases, when a green tag is given, the officer also draws aggressive messages on the vehicle owner’s tires, telling them to “move 1 mile”.

I understand how you could consider this to be some kind of compromise between giving into the bigoted demands of some of our most extreme anti-houseless community members, and what you may view as complete inaction on the issue of actually abandoned vehicles. I think that thought process would feel much more true to me if our officers at least investigated these “Karen calls” and erred more on the side of human survival and harm reduction.

Unfortunately, that does not seem to be the case. From my own investigation into this situation, we seem to be currently operating under a model of bigoted neighbors calling the police, and then police promptly showing up to harass our unhoused neighbors with inappropriate citations. This is a clear abuse of the law, unjustly harassing and targeting our unhoused residents; and possibly even just people with “ugly” vehicles. Given how these tags are being given out, the effort it would take to demonstrate to a court that this constitutes a lack of even-handed enforcement, would not be difficult. That’s why I’m reaching out to you, please save us the effort.

I would like to give you the opportunity to correct this behavior within the Santa Cruz Police Department before this situation escalates into some kind of legal action against the city.

Thank you,
Reggie