FRSC 6 PM Show Today is Pre-Recorded But New 6 PM at freakradio.org

Today’s Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show will feature Tales of Terror from Freedom SleepOut #85, a Preview of Keith McHenry’s Activist Presentation tomorrow at the Resource Center for Non-Violence at 6 :30 PM, and Mission Street Crackdown on the Homeless at Safeway, Ferrell’s, and 7-11…and more!

HUFF may pour over Public Records at 11 AM tomorrow Sub Rosa Cafe Wednesday 3-8-17

Having received copies of all claim forms received by the City in the last year, HUFF will scour the records for signs of fishy police and bureaucratic bumbusting as well as consider complaints about shitty shower facilities for those outside and rumors of police overkill on Pacific Avenue Tuesday 3 PM in front of New Leaf.  Not to mention devising new schemes of holding police agencies and the city manager accountable for enabling the threat of mounting terrorism against both documented and undocumented homeless community.

We got coffee.  We even have cups.   If the Sub Rosa is closed, check for a sign on the front gate as to our new (temporarly) location.

 

Beating Back the Local Trumpskees in Progressive Clothing–Freedom SleepOut #87

Showing Contempt for Local Trumpite Sleeping Ban Enforcement—-

Freedom SleepOut #87


Date
Tuesday March 07 Time 4:00 PM – 9:00 AM

Location Details Again Besieging the Balmy Bigots at City Hall–809 Center St.—in the City Hall Courtyard both there and on the sidewalk. Sleeping bags, blankets, cameras, and hot soup are our weapons. From Tuesday afternoon through mid-morning Wednesday. Help needed posting videos on line to showcase the antics of the Sleepbuster Scalawags who stalk Freedom Sleepers by night and by day.

Event Type Protest

Organizer/Author Keith McHenry (story by Norse)

Email keith [at] foodnotbombs.net

Phone 575-770–3377

HYPOTHERMIA PAYBACK HITS ELDERLY DISABLED HOMELESS MAN
Freedom Sleeper activists reported last week learning of the death of local homeless man Michael Meers, disabled with a foot injury.

Warming Center founder Brent Adams noted “On our coldest night of the year, he showed up with no shoes and soiled pants…We changed his clothes, offered personal care and gave him a coat and layers of clothes. He didn’t want the women’s rain boots we had given him – even though they fit him. He slept well that night. [At other times Meers]…rested in doorways and behind buildings. limited and painful gate….[The night Meers died] we were [open and] at a remote location. [Even though] I did a shuttle sweep of downtown that night – I didn’t find him.”

Freedom Sleeper activist Abbi Samuels has announced they will be having a memorial for him.

WINTER SHELTER CUTS TRANSPORT FOR DISABLED?
Adams notes further that “the AFC [Association of Faith Communities] Winter Shelter has been refusing people with physical challenges like Micheal’s. They’ve even stopped using the handicap accessible lift on their shuttle bus.”

In order for folks to use the 110 spaces [for an unhoused population of 1000-2000 in the City], they must walk out to the edge of town past the Tannery on Highway 9 by 4 PM in the afternoon. The program refuses to allow people to go directly to the downtown Salvation Army shelter where worker Steve Pleich has attempted to move the “intake facility” from its distant and difficult-for-disabled-to-access location.

BATHROOM BAN STILL ON?
Brent also noted that the Warming Center has been “hosting people who’ve been relieving themselves in their pants for several days.” There is no indication that the City staff has opened the City Council Courtyard “park” bathrooms during the night or even in a timely manner during the day, a concern that Freedom Sleepers brought directly to the staff at a prior Freedom SleepOut

FOOD NOT BOMBS ORGANIZING EVENT AND PRESENTATION……………….

FRIDAY MARCH 10 at 6:30 pm
Keith McHenry has announced he’ll be speaking at the Resource Center for Non-Violence in an organizational and educational meeting for activists at 612 Ocean St. The theme of the talk will be “Taking Direct Action To Resist Fascism”.

Food Not Bombs has been regularly feeding Freedom Sleepers Tuesday evening as well as providing hot vegan food to all comers outside the main post office on Saturday and Sunday 4-6 PM. It is currently resisting an attempt by right-wing residents to drive them away. Sign their petition at https://www.change.org/p/support-the-right-of-food-not-bombs-to-share-free-food-info-and-ideas-in-public-spaces-in-sc/ .

Story at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/03/02/18796921.php [“Anti-homeless group tries to drive Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs out of sight”]

The Homeless (Lack of) Services Center [HLOSC} continue to refuse to open its meals to the community as Food Not Bombs, Calvary Episcopal, the St. Francis Soup Kitchen and other groups do.

New public records, secured by Councilmember Chris Krohn, show collusion between the SCPD, Harvey West Businesses, and City Parking Boss Marlin Granlund to ban all parking on Coral St. and other nearby streets, requiring disabled folks to park blocks away from to the HLOSC to use the limited services they still provide.

NO RECORDS YET FROM THE SCPD; CLAIM FORMS STILL CENSORED FROM COUNCIL AGENDA
Police are still withholding witness accounts and the D.A.’s investigation into SCPD Officer Eric Bailey’s gundown of Sean Arlt last October. Councilmember Krohn has not publicly demanded these records be released, as earlier records were of the Officer Conor Carey’s killing of “Happy” John Dine in 1997
see “Unasked Questions, Foregone Conclusions” at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/076.Unasked%20Questions,%20Forgone%20Conclusions=1-98.pdf
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http://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/077.Happy%20John%20Dine‘s%20Death=1-98.pdf
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http://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/078.John%20Dine‘s%20Death%20(cont.)=1-98.pdf

Nor has there been a response to records of communications between the SCPD and the Department Homeland Security/Immigration and Customs Enforcement to resolve the contradictory stories of Chief Kevin Vogel and Spokesperson Schwab of the DHS.

On the upside, City Hall has released records of all claims against the City filed in the last year. An activist requested that pending claims be placed on the City Council in the original form presented by those claiming damages against the city for abusive or negligent behavior. City Administrator Bren Lehr has so far declined to do this, concealing contact information–which prevents the public from giving meaningful testimony at the Closed session which precedes City Council. This is particularly important in cases of police violence–which often gets little if any coverage in the local media.

1984 READING PROMPTS ACTIVIST RESPONSE
George Orwell’s warning novel 1984 got a public reading at the Bookshop Santa Cruz, owned and run by the Coonerty family, that has long excluded key Sleeping Ban opponents. The store owners have targeted Freedom Sleep supporters Becky Johnson, Robert Norse, and a slew of others who’ve denounced Neal and Ryan Coonerty for their political actions as Councilmembers creating anti-homeless city policy.

Last week, the Bookshop Coonerty featured an exclusionary reading of Orwell’s grim warning against political repression. (See http://goodtimes.sc/cover-stories/orwell-1984-trump/ )

Activists responded with an informational flyer outlining the various law and practices developed in Santa Cruz in significant part with Coonerty leadership or support and the general silence of the “progressive” community.

Catching Up on Free Radio Santa Cruz–Today’s Long Winding Show 9:30 AM- 2:30 PM on freakradio.org

The Sunday March 5th 2017 Show features lots of commentary and babble about the most recent Santa Cruz City Council meeting—with its toothless “Sanctuary” Ordinance against Trump’s Expansion of Obama’s Toxic Deportation practices, interviews from the street aplenty, review of SCPD police violence, and an interview with Councilmember Chris Krohn at his pre-Council Tuesday meeting.

If you wish to revisit any part of the show or missed it, it will be archived at http://radiolibre.org/brb/brb170305.mp3

Free Radio Off The Air, but On the Stream: Conversation with Councilmember Krohn on Today’s Show

Free Radio Santa Cruz is now without a studio.  $500 to anyone who gives us a tip leading to a year long lease of a 10 X 10 space.  We need access to internet and electricity as well as a bathroom.  We will pay the rent.

Robert Norse’s Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides will air a bit of Krohn’s 9 AM Morning Chat With the Public, held every other Tuesday at the Cafe Pergolesi.  Norse narrates and criticizes.   6 PM at freakradio.org, archived at http://radiolibre.org/brb/brb170302.mp3


HUFF hangs tough, huddling around the Sub Rosa coffeepot 11 AM Wednesday March 1, 2017

On the agenda:  Report on last night’s SCPD-managed City Council meeting and Mayor Chase’s Muzzling of Krohn in the Weak Sanctuary Ordinance Deliberation; Flood Follies and Landlord Retaliation; Updates from MHCAN, Free Radio Santa Cruz, and other activistas, Reported Hypothermia Death of Mistfall Mike, Tenttheft in Cold Weather–the Lethal Shenanagans of the Parks and Rec Rangers; Lobo’s Plan to Save Survival Gear With HUFF stencils; and more….