HUFF catches a breath 1:30 PM- 3:30 PM Thursday August 20 at its new meeting spot–in the Abbott’s Square Courtyard behind the Museum of Art & History at 706 Front St. Prep Protest for the Coonerty Homeless Clean-Out Laws 8/22 at Noon 1520 Pacific Ave

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Ruf and Partial HUFF AGENDA 8-20  2026

More complete agenda available at the meeting.* indicates fairly new additionsIN BRIEF:  HUFF Passarounds…MC 13…*dated SC Free Guide …* MHCAN Action Committee Update …*9-20  3 PM   Behav. Health Meet….Street Reports….* Fencing Follow-Up…*Keith’s August  22nd anti-bigot anti-Coonerty protest… Mime Troupe Wreckage audio archive & HUFF meeting still not posted…Athena/HUFF Supes 2024 Victory on Sheriff Procedure/Athena’s possible return…*Our recent departure from Sub Rosa…Shitty Council Meets August 25… ….Legislative Updates….Middle East War & Non-Protest Report… SCHU Update/Future Support for Plaintiff tabling…Shigella, Sun Shower Update…Last Sunday’s show…[No shit Survival Shitter Spotlight]… Live Oak Landing Update?… Morrison/People Someday Update?…. MHCAN stall/Psych Deportations update …Hobo Jim’s Cabrillo College Update… [No update on collating citations/Reggie M. Update/216-8239 Meisler update]  …Jail, Court ….Equal Rights for Every Neighbor Report… new Wes White posting/phone call… Clear and cooler (high 60s) likely thru the week..

FREE EVENTS         (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying)

Anytime on line  Free Radio-on-the-net Archived Shows at https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html(Sunday shows have recent material; Thursday shows are Flashbacks)

Thur Aug 20 1:30-3:30 PM  HUFF meets at Abbott’s Square on Cooper St. between Front and Pacific in the back.  Bring your own snacks.                            *3-5 PM SC County Behavioral Health Advisory Board (formerly the Mental Health Advisory Board) at Health Services Agency, 1400 Emeline St, Conf Rooms 206-7           

5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meets El Rio Mobile Home Park Community Room, end of N. Pacific Street            

6 PM or shortly thereafter:  Latest Net Free Radio Archive posted at https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.htmlClick on top of the list show in two or more parts to hear some history and a little news             *Late Thursday night or early Friday Santa Cruz Shitty Council agenda available on line at https://ecm.cityofsantacruz.com/OnBaseAgendaOnline/Meetings/Search?dropid=4&mtids=103%2C104%2C105%2C106

Fri Aug 21   10:30 PM – noon  Homeless Persons Legal Assistance [HPLA]  may be available at 903 Pacific Steve Pleich  call before hand  at 466-6078 or peek in at 903 Pacific (UN Association)                        

2PM-?  till food gone  Boulder Creek  13080 Hwy 9 between Jenna Sue’s Cafe and the taqueria
                        4-6 PM   Free Food Church FELTON 4-6+pm  Hallcrest Vineyards, 379 Felton Empire Rd. Felton

Sat Aug 22   11 AM – 12:30 PM Anti-war picket and honk-in  Ocean and Water St.  703 Pacific  Dems and Repubs still dance on the edge of world wide nuclear war.  When prices sky rocket, protests may explode.

Sat Aug 22  & Sun Aug 23  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal main Post Office;Street Sheets & Street Spirits available to read or sell;   also register your opinion and experience about shelter, services, and justice in Santa Cruz:  get or leave off a form with Drew or other FNB folks   check  Bulletin Board for posting notices;  Look for possible plaintiff tabling for Fight Back lawsuit against Sweeps…

Sun Aug 23   10:30-12:30  PM  People’s Aid : Solidarity/Services at Green Gate on Golf Club Drive. Possibly Solar Showers in action.

Mon Aug 24 10:30 PM – 12:30 PM  More MaybeBaby HPLA Help (see Aug 2 above—call Pleich at 466-6078 to confirm)(let us know if you get help—no reports so far)

*Tues Aug 25 6-7:30 PM Funding Matters lived Experience Advisory Group—Curtis Reliford, authr of “Madness to Surrender” and Tony Del Zompo, author of”5150: a Manic Depressive Adventure”  Registration requested.                        Aug 25 thru Thurs Aug 27  10 AM until the food’s gone   Bread & Roses chowdown at Dragons Head bridge on the levee, in San Lorenzo Park and across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot

Wed  Aug 26  10:30 AM – 12:30 PM  more ?? Legalish Help  (see above)             3:30 PM  Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless Red Church  Cedar & Lincoln Sts. Red Church building  Call Alicia for exact location 431-7766               

Thur Aug 20  1:30 PM – 3:30 PM  Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom   Back of the Museum of Art & History [MAH} at Abbott’s Square.  Go to  705 Front St.  Walk thru the MAH entrance.  HUFF is at the pavilion in the back.

The 8-16-26 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show features reports from Kirill, Adrian, and Keith plus Flashbacks to 9-25-97, 10-12-97, & 10-19-97 on Eureka’s South Spit Jetty evictions, Marco & Donna’s SC Tenants Union, David Silva’s Council autopsy & more

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The August 16, 2016 show includes:

The Flashback to a segment of the September 25, 1997 show includes:

  • Skidmark Bob on the Net Enforce Team’s antics with its criminal Drug War policies
  • Katzenjammer Keith San Francisco Update around upcoming Police Brutality Day (Oct.22)
  • Donna Deiss and Marco Marokee introduce the Santa Cruz Tenants Rights Union [SCTU]
  • Closed Citizens Committee for the Homeless meetings & River St. mini-Shelter evictions
  • Jim, the Street Spirit newspaper versus predatory policeman David LeFavor
  • Eureka’s South Spit Jetty (Paradise beach) scandal

The Flashback to October 12, 1997 includes:

  • “Dead-On” David Silva deconstructing the upcoming City Council meeting
  • “Cornerstone” Carol Denney on the Wherry Housing CD sit-in and arrests occupying the vacant S.F. Presidio buildings
  • Eureka’s Dr. Wendy Ringand the Bogus Health Scare to run off the homeless 

The Flashback to October 19, 1997 includes:

  • Speeches and narrative from 10-18 Police Accountability Day in S.C.—marches to copshop and then the pokey
  • Marco of SCTU on contacting those getting Unlawful Detainers
  • Dr. Ann Linzy vs. Dr. Ring in the South Spit Jetty Eviction crisis in the Health Hazard hoax
  • More Police Accountability Day march audio and commentary

Huff convenes hopefully under sunny skies Thursday August 13, 2026 1:30-3:30 PM at the outside Abbott’s Square area behind the MAH (Museum of Art & History) at 705 Front St.

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Ruf HUFF AGENDA 8-13  2026

* indicates fairly new additions

IN BRIEF:  HUFF Passarounds… …* MHCAN Action Committee Update….Street Reports….*The Monday Coral St. Sweep Updates & Fencing Follow-Up…*Keith’s August  22nd anti-bigot anti-Coonerty protest… *Mime Troupe Wreckage audio archive & HUFF meeting still not posted…Athena/HUFF Supes 2024 Victory on Sheriff Procedure/Athena’s possible return… ….Legislative Updates….Middle East War & Non-Protest Report… SCHU Update/ Support for Plaintiff tabling…Shigella, Sun Shower Update…Last Sunday’s show…[No shit Survival Shitter Spotlight]… Live Oak Landing Update… Morrison/People Someday Update?…. MHCAN stall/Psych Deportations update …Hobo Jim’s Cabrillo College Update… [No update on collating citations/Reggie M. Update/216-8239 Meisler update]  …Jail, Court ….Equal Rights for Every Neighbor Report… new Wes White posting/phone call… Clear and cooler (high 60s) likely thru the week..

FREE EVENTS         (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying)

Anytime on line  Free Radio-on-the-net Archived Shows at https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html(Sunday shows have recent material; Thursday shows are Flashbacks)

Thur Aug 13  7 -10 AM NO SCHEDULED Volunteer to Aid, Witness, Document this morning’s Coral St. sweep.  Police Threats and Fencing is deterring the restoration of community there.           

1:30-3:30 PM  HUFF meets at Abbott’s Square on Cooper St. between Front and Pacific in the back.  Bring your own snacks.           

5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meets El Rio Mobile Home Park Community Room, end of N. Pacific Street

*Late Thursday night   Sweep Support  Possible advance notice of  a round-the-bend Coral St Survival Encampment  sweep coming within the next 3-4 days  Resist Police Abuse Learn when and if.    Witness and assist Coral St Survival Encampment  Limekiln & Coral  (police raid may be threatened at 8 AM on a following day)  bring cameras, phones, friends….contact 831-423-4833 for confirmation

Fri Aug 14   10:30 PM – 12:30 PM Talk Lawfare at Homeless Persons Legal Assistance [HPLA] Shingle 903 Pacific (UN Association) with Steve Pleich call 466-6078 to confirm/contact                        

2PM-?  till food gone  BoulderCreek  13080 Hwy 9 between Jenna Sue’s Cafe and the taqueria
                       4-6 PM   Free Food Church FELTON 4-6+pm  Hallcrest Vineyards, 379 Felton Empire Rd. Felton

Sat Aug 15   11 AM – 12:30 PM Anti-war picket and honk-in  Ocean and Water St.  703 Pacific  Continued war as US war hawks refuse to withdraw from Middle East on Iran’s terms after losing the war and Demo-Republican refusal to remove Empire War Losers from power continues

Sat Aug 15  & Sun Aug 16  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal main Post Office;  NEW Street Sheets & Street Spirits; leave off or get forms for shelter and police abuse; Bulletin Board for posting notices; Hand in Shelter/Sweep reports to Drew, possible plaintiff for Fight Back lawsuit against Sweeps…possible Solar Showers for a few

Sun Aug 16   10:30-12:30  PM  People’s Aid : Solidarity/Services at Green Gate on Golf Club Drive. Possibly Solar Showers in action.

Mon Aug 17 10:30 PM – 12:30 PM  More MaybeBaby HPLA Help (see July 10th above—call Pleich at 466-6078 to confirm)(let us know if you get help—no reports so far)

*Late Monday night  Sweep Support Another possible advance notice of Coral St Survival Encampment  sweep on Thursday or thereabouts  Sign up for Signal or call 423-4833

Tues Aug 18 thru Thurs Aug 20  10 AM until the food’s gone   Bread & Roses chowdown at Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot

Wed  Aug 19  10:30 AM – 12:30 PM  more ?? Legalish Help  (see above)             3:30 PM  Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless Red Church  Cedar & Lincoln Sts. Red Church building TBA                 

Thur Aug 20  1:30 PM – 3:30 PM  Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom   Likely back of the MAH at Abbott’s Square HUFF Volunteer Options, Stories, and Resources available on larger handout at the meeting.

The 8-9-26 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show features a chilling account from activist Sean Dougherty on his citation for assisting the Coral St. survivors and a Flashback to March 18, 2012 at the start of the Occupy Santa Cruz Persecutions

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The August 9, 2026 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show features:

  • https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/07/after-nagasaki-against-the-politics-of-psychic-numbing/
  • Activist and Gaza Genocide Opponent Sean Dougherty on his Coral Street  Sweep Experience and Its Aftermath
  • [Topical political songs by David Rovics and Ai Tsumo throughout]
  • 8-8 Varied Voices at Food Not Bombs meal, some anonymous reports on shelter and services , Street Veteran Bruce, Sympathetic Steve E., Small Town Tommy
  • Coral St. report from Cooper D’Angelo and RoughRoad Russell.  A Wheelchair guy still waiting for his check

The Flashback to March 18, 2012 includes

  • “Troublesome” Thomas Leavitt and Bathrobespierre discuss the demurrer hearing of “Ground Zero” Gary Johnson
  • “Occupy” reports from San Luis Obispo, NYC’s Zocolli Park, and Santa Cruz’s Malicious Prosecutions
  • Outbursts against U.S. govt. outrages at home and abroad
  • Occupy defenders In S.F., Davis, and Santa Cruz push back.
  • Early March Foreclosure march interviews with Lawrence MacGregor (“Blue”),
  • Monday Nite Coffee House at Red Church:  Scott Galloway, Pregnant Couple Denied at Armory,
  • [2-15] Steven Samms, Street Guitarist,
  • K.C. on Johnson’s hearing
  • [2-17] Mark the metal polisher and street poet back from Portland  (facebook: Mark Sherman).
  • Dreamcatcher the nonspanger, CJ Stock, Brianna on violin, Ricardo Lopez, Eden, and office seeker Joseph Korea
  • [2-20] Hippie, Brian Parquette, Janet Loper and Tim Phipps: Armory expulsions among varied harassment incidents
  • Gary’s attorney Ed Frey on jury selection the next day
  • T on the San Quentin “Occupy the Prisons” protest
  • [2-14] Matt Nathanson of local SEIU
  • Making Contact: Nationwide Movement to “Ban the [Been Arrested?]Box”

HUFF continues to cluster at Abbott’s Square, at the back entrance to the Museum of Art and History 705 Front St.

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Ruf HUFF AGENDA 8-6  2026

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/08/05/18887831.php (“Double-Time Sweeps by SCPD–Thursday AM Threatened”)

** indicates fairly new additions

IN BRIEF:  HUFF Passarounds… **Mime Troupe Wreckage audio archive soon…**Henry’s Updates….Street Reports….**The 7-30 Coral St. Sweep Updates & Follow-Up… HUFF archive still not yet up….Legislative Updates….Middle East War & Protest Report… SCHU Update…Shigella, Sun Shower Update…Last Sunday’s show…[No shit Survival Shitter Spotlight]… Live Oak Landing Visit… Morrison/People Someday Update?…. MHCAN stall/Psych Deportations update … [No update on collating citations/Reggie M. Update/216-8239 Meisler update]  …Jail, Court ….Equal Rights for Every Neighbor Report… new Wes White posting/phone call… Clear and cooler (high 60s) likely thru the week..

FREE EVENTS         (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying)

Anytime on line  Free Radio-on-the-net Archived Shows at https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html(Sunday shows have recent material; Thursday shows are Flashbacks)

Thur Aug 6  7 -10 AM Volunteer to Aid, Witness, Document this morning’s Coral St. sweep.  More info at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/07/29/18887752.php and https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/07/24/18887646.php (Sped Up Schedule of Cop Crackdowns on Coral Street Encampment Community)           

1:30-3:30 PM  HUFF meets at Abbott’s Square on Cooper St. between Front and Pacific in the back.  Bring your own snacks.           

5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meets El Rio Mobile Home Park Community Room, end of N. Pacific Street

**Late Thursday night   Sweep Support  Possible advance notice of  a Coral St Survival Encampment  sweep coming within the next 3-4 days  Resist Police Abuse Learn when and if.    Witness and assist Coral St Survival Encampment  Limekiln & Coral  (police raid threatened at 8 AM)  bring cameras, phones, friends….contact 831-423-4833 for confirmation

Fri Aug 7   10:30 PM – 12:30 PM Talk Lawfare at Homeless Persons Legal Assistance [HPLA] Shingle 903 Pacific (UN Association) with Steve Pleichcall 466-6078 to confirm/contact                        

2PM-?  till food gone  Boulder Creek  13080 Hwy 9 between Jenna Sue’s Cafe and the taqueria
                      4-6 PM   Free Food Church FELTON 4-6+pm  Hallcrest Vineyards, 379 Felton Empire Rd. Felton

Sat Aug 8   11 AM – 12:30 PM Anti-war picket and honk-in  Ocean and Water St.  703 Pacific  Still no peace with U.S. practice of ceasefire then firing

Sat Aug 8  & Sun Aug 9 noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal main Post Office;  NEW Street Sheets & Street Spirits; leave off or get forms for shelter and police abuse; Bulletin Board for posting notices; Hand in Shelter/Sweep reports to Drew

Sun Aug 9   10:30-12:30  PM  People’s Aid : Solidarity/Services at Green Gate on Golf Club Drive. Possibly Solar Showers in action.

Mon Aug 10 10:30 PM – 12:30 PM  More Maybe HPLA Help (see July 10th above—call Pleich at 466-6078 to confirm)(let us know if you get help)

*Late Monday night  Sweep Support Another possible advance notice of Coral St Survival Encampment  sweep on Thursday or thereabouts  Sign up for Signal or call 423-4833

Tues Aug 11 thru Thurs Aug 13  10 AM until the food’s gone   Bread & Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot

Wed  Aug 12  10:30 AM – 12:30 PM  more ?? Legalish Help  (see above)             3:30 PM  Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless Red Church  Cedar & Lincoln Sts. Fireside Room                 

Thur Aug 13  1:30 PM – 3:30 PM  Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom   Location to be announced.  Likely the back of the MAH at Abbott’s Square
NEW STREET SPIRITS AND SHEETS WILL BE AVAILABLE.  AS WELL AS POLLING FORMS FOR SHELTER SURVIVABILITY.  A LONGER SERIES OF RESOURCES CAN BE HAD AT THE MEETING.

The 7-30-26 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show presents a Flashback the May 13, 1996 show with Bobby Joyce of the SF Coalition and civil rights lawsuit; Ron Howard, direction of the SC shelter program, and Keith McHenry, fighting for food server rights

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The 7-30-26 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show presents a Flashback the May 13, 1996 show with Bobby Joyce of the SF Coalition and civil rights lawsuit; Ron Howard, direction of the SC shelter program, and Keith McHenry, fighting for food server rights  

The Flashback to May 13, 1996 includes:

  • [5-3] The S.F. Coalition on Homelessness’s Bobby Joyce, lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against Mayor Jordan & Brown’s Matrix describes continued sleepcrime ticketing of homeless in a City with 11,000 to 15,000 homeless with 1200 shelter beds.
  • Bathrobespierre’s short blurbs on the City Hall Sleepout in its 76th day cop abuse all around the town.
  • [5-3] Ron Howard, Operations Manager of the Interfaith Satellite Shelter Program [ISSP] with capacity of 28 in Santa Cruz describes the current homeless  lack of shelter situation.
  • Bathrobespierre describes the then-recent conflict between the Cannabis Collective and Free Radio Santa Cruz
  • Katzenjammer Keith McHenry San Francisco update and Amnesty International’s describing a Food Not Bombs volunteer convicted of food-serving facing a 2 months jail sentence bound for jail as a potential “prisoner of conscience”.