Sunday 9-30-18 9:30 AM-3 PM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides: Busqueing for Bathrooms and Flashing Back to the Final 1998 Cover-Up of the Police Murder of Happy John Dine

Streams at freakradio.org and broadcasts at 101.3 FM  

Archives today at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.htm

CURRENT EVENTS
  • Researching the Riverstreet (“Boneyard Barbed Wire”) Campground with the Joyful Heart Swami
  • Righteous Voices from RV Dwellers in the Media
  • Louden Nelson Lavatory Liberators at City Hall Last Tuesday including Micah and Phil Posner, Bob Lamonica, Ursula Reid, Becky Johnson, Dennis Etler, Steve Pleich, James Weller, Louise Drummond, Coral Brune, Wes White, Keith McHenry, Bill, Troy, and “A Guy Who Needs a Toilet”.
  • City Council Oral Communication CrapQuesters
  • Cries and Cackles from the Food Not Bombs Scene
  • Songster David Rovics Sings “If You Go to Santa Cruz”


FLASHBACK TO January 16, 1998
  • Bathrobespierre Robert, the V-Man, Battling Bob Lamonica and Others Review the Citizens Police RahRah Board’s Exoneration of the SCPD Shooter in the Happy John Dine Slaying of November 1997
  • Roughrider Richard Quigley Blasts Back at Bigotry at the Rancho Del Mar Shopping Center
  • Bathrobespierre Relives his Fifteen Minutes of Fame on New York TV


COMING UP:

TUESDAY OCTOBER 2ND  1 pm  
Starting at the City Council Courtyard outside City Hall
and Parading to the Louden Nelson Center at 301 Ocean
In Search of a People’s Potty!
Food, Music, and Raucous Merriment!
…hunting, grunting, and stunting…
to unlock the Louden Nelson Bathrooms!

Demand that P & R Supervisor Rai Reopen the Restrooms !
LET OUR PEOPLE PEE !

Bathrooms, Winter Survival & Community Caring
Confronting Locked Lavatories and Malign Minds

Tonight 9-27-18 at 6 PM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides on Free Radio Santa Cruz at 101.3 FM

The show also streams tonight at 6 p.m. at freakradio.org.  It will archive later today under Lost Shows on the HUFF website at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html.   Look for “Latest Show – 9/27/2018  Thursday, September 27, 2018 – Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides.” 

On the show:

Rumblings from “Jewel in the Rough” Julie’s Justice-Seeking Journey:

NO HUFF MEETING TODAY Conscience and Action today (9-26) reviews the 9-25 Protest and Council Non-Response, Preps for Rovics Concert Tonight at Louden Nelson. Meeting at 11 AM Sub Rosa Cafe-HUFFsters welcome

HUFF [Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom] will meet Wednesday, 10-3 11 AM at the Sub Rosa next to the Bike Church.   Conscience and Action  will be meeting today at the Sub Rosa at 11 AM.

Possible action items:

  • Hard Cop, Soft Cop Approach to new P & R Boss Tony Elliot
  • Rovics Concert “Get Into the Bathroom Free” Tickets Expanded for Future Action
  • Sending P & R E-Mails and Ursula’s “Vanishing Vandalism” Analysis to City Council, Media, and Community.
  • Pressing Council Candidate’s PDC Forum-Announced Support for Bathroom Opening
  • Street Theater and/or Radio Play by Nutcracker Nick
  • Local ACLU’s Latest Appeal
  • Public Protests and Education Regarding Candidate/Official 24-Hour Accessibility
  • More Mid-Summer Sidewalk Tabling, Senior Citizen Organizing, & Bathroom Bravado at Public Forums
  • An Action Around City Council’s Concealed Winter Shelter Shutdown, Back Off from the CarPark and the Implications of the Boise Court of Appeals Decision here.
  • Reviewing the Candidate Cavalcade for Shitty Council: Two Proposed Homeless Forums by Councilmember Krohn versus Warming Center’s Brent Adams
  • Individual visits asking to use the Louden Nelson bathroom, then filing complaints.
                      

  •   Support the Downtown Santa Cruz Bathroom Task Force, Food Not Bombs,  the Warming Center’s 24 Hour Storage Program, HUFF, Conscience and Action, Monterey County Homeless Advocates, and other activists in documenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.
  •  Check out Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz  on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HomelessOutsideSantaCruz/ for updates.
  •   Read Updates and Post Them on Santa Cruz Indymedia at https://www.indybay.org/santa-cruz/
  •   Back up homeless efforts to organize either in protest or to demand adequate and accessible facilities.
  •   Exchange information with other supporters there to generate more communication and better solutions in the future.
  •   Listen in to Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides at 101.3 FM and freakradio.org every Thursday 6-8 PM, Sundays 9:30 AM- 3 PM
  •   Hear archived shows at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

Sunday 9-23-18 9:30 AM-3 PM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides: An Hour with Sandy Brown and Flashback to November 2, 1997–Authorities Crush Eureka’s South Spit Jetty Homeless Encampment

Streams at freakradio.org and broadcasts at 101.3 FM  

Archives today at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.htm

CURRENT EVENTS
  • Part 2 of City Clownsil Candidate Cavalcade at the People’s Democratic Club
  • Bathrobespierre Robert Grills Councilwoman Sandy Brown
  • Cries and Cackles from the Food Not Bombs Scene
  • Other tidbits of truth wedged here and there



FLASHBACK TO November 2, 1997
  • Cornerstone Carol Denney covers Berkeley City Council’s OK of Police Pepper Spray
  • Beggarbacker Becky Johnson and Dead-On David Silva Critique the Council’s Social Service Committee
  • South Spit Jetty Homeless in Eureka: Bathrobespierre Cross Examines the Bureaucrat and Supports the Victims


COMING UP:

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 25TH  4 pm  
Outside City Council Chambers at 809 Center St.:
Food, Music, and Raucous Merriment!
…even an open City Hall bathroom for the afternoon!….

Demand that City Manager Martin Bernal Unlock the Louden Nelson Community Center Bathrooms !

Bathrooms, Winter Survival and Community Caring—A Rally—Join Us!

Tonight 9-20-18 at 6 PM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides on Free Radio Santa Cruz at 101.3 FM

The show also streams tonight at 6 p.m. at freakradio.org
It will archive in the near future under Lost Shows on the HUFF website at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html.  
Look for “Latest Show – 9/20/2018  Thursday, September 20, 2018 – Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides.” 

On the show:

  • San Jose Rent Profiteer Resister Jim Vivian Pleads for Help in Court 9-26
  • Rants from Red Church and a Free-Spirited Former Free Radio Broadcaster
  • Shitty Council Candidates from the Democratic People’s Club Forum Answer Questions on Rent Control and the Boise Decision–Part One.
  • Scattered Songs from Roy Zimmerman
Rumblings from “Jewel in the Rough” Julie’s Justice-Seeking Journey:

HUFF preps for September 25 Bathrooms, Winter Survival, and Community Caring Rally at the time and place; 11 AM SubRosa Cafe Wednesday 9-19-18

HUFF [Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom] will meet Wednesday, 9-19 11 AM at the Sub Rosa next to the Bike Church.  

Conscience and Action  will be meeting there at 10:30 AM to firm up plans for the September 25 “Bring Back the Louden Nelson Bathrooms” rally at City Hall (4 PM).

Possible action items:

  • Support for the Conscience & Action rally, including follow-up and lead-up actions such as knockin on Tony Elliot’s door (the new P & R czar).
  • 9th Circuit Federal Court Decision may institute Right to Rest and Sleep in Santa Cruz: Updates from Candidates Forums, Mills, and elsewhere
  • Independent HUFF strategy for shifting the dialogue from Token Winter Shelter to Broad Support for Homeless Encampments
  • More Mid-Summer Sidewalk Tabling, Senior Citizen Organizing, & Bathroom Bravado at Public Forums
  • Publicizing City Council’s Concealed Winter Shelter Shutdown and the Implications of the Boise Court of Appeals Decision here.
  • Rise of the new Salinas RV Camp.
  • Charting Legislative Mischief:  AB2178 to Restrict Charitable Food Giveaways, AB 1040 to “conservatorship” troublesome homeless
  • Updates on Library Burial in the New Parking Garage Plan: Implications for Folks Outside; 4:30 PM  Save the Farmer’s Market  Rally?
  • Reviewing the Candidate Cavalcade for Shitty Council: Two Proposed Homeless Forums by Councilmember Krohn versus Warming Center’s Brent Adams
  • Speakers for the September 25th Rally?  Individual visits asking to use the Louden Nelson bathroom, then filing complaints.
 Gems from Journeywise Julie:
  •   Support the Downtown Santa Cruz Bathroom Task Force, Food Not Bombs,  the Warming Center’s 24 Hour Storage Program, HUFF, Conscience and Action, Monterey County Homeless Advocates, and other activists in documenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.
  •  Check out Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz  on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HomelessOutsideSantaCruz/ for updates.
  •   Read Updates and Post Them on Santa Cruz Indymedia at https://www.indybay.org/santa-cruz/
  •   Back up homeless efforts to organize either in protest or to demand adequate and accessible facilities.
  •   Exchange information with other supporters there to generate more communication and better solutions in the future.
  •   Listen in to Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides at 101.3 FM and freakradio.org every Thursday 6-8 PM, Sundays 9:30 AM- 3 PM
  •   Hear archived shows at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .

Silence in the Santa Cruz Police Department in the Wake of the Boise “No Shelter For All Means No Sleeping Ban For Any” Decision

Police Chief Andy Mills announced at the City Council’s August 20th Public Safety Committee meeting that though Sleeping Ban citations have dropped over the winter, citations for “trespass”–in essence, falling asleep in parks, the Pogonip, and on public property declared “closed” at night (such as City Hall) have increased.  

See Jessica York’s Sentinel story at: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/general-news/20180821/crime-declines-despite-safety-concerns-in-santa-cruz

More recently, she collaborated in a story on the Boise 9th Circuit Court decision–which directly impacts Santa Cruz: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/social-affairs/20180910/santa-cruz-may-update-homeless-no-camping-law-in-wake-of-federal-ruling .  

To hear the audio of Chief Mills testimony before the Public Safety Committee, go to http://scsire.cityofsantacruz.com/sirepub_PSCom/mtgviewer.aspx?meetid=1124&doctype=AGENDA  (about an hour into the audio file).


There is currently no  walk-in homeless emergency shelter.  I’ve been told that even the River St. mini-shelter’s waiting list at Coral St. is closed.  Even when open, beds available to those not sent by County Mental Health are a grand total of 3.  So the so-called “safety valve” that allows people to sign up for the River St. or Paul Lee loft shelters and then get sleeping ban tickets dismissed if ticketed on nights when on the list no longer operates.


And the City has no Winter Shelter program planned at the scale of last year, simply an expansion of current Paul Lee and River St. Campground’s programs which require a “pathway to housing”, have full waiting lists, or both.


So what’s up, Chief Mills.   Feel free to e-mail Andy with your own inquiry at amills@cityofsantacruz.com .


I and Freedom Sleeper activist Abbi Samuels asked Mills about this continued harassment and ticketing of homeless folks.   Particularly now that the City’s police are legally vulnerable to lawsuit because of the Boise decision.

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/09/16/18817548.php

Sunday 9-16-18 9:30 AM-3 PM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides

Streams at freakradio.org and broadcasts at 101.3 FM  

Archives today or tomorrow at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

CURRENT EVENTS
  • Norse’s Notes on Various City Vicissitudes, Candidate Forums, etc.
  • Interviews with Citizen City Council Candidate Watchers
  • Bubbles and Babbles from the Food Not Bombs Front
  • Library Laments–City Council Votes to Bury the Bookkeepers
  • Bits on the Boise Decision
  • Move the Farmer’s Market–Will the Vendors Play Follow The Leader?

FLASHBACK TO March 16, 2014

                  *** destruction of SRO’s, homeless camps, and other survival venues for the poor and homeless; 

                  *** LA ACLU fight in Santa Barbara against RV harassment;
                  *** falling away of human rights activists and rise of social service bureaucrats;
                   *** talking homeless issues to death;
                   *** mental health bureaucrat incompetence and dumping the homeless out of jail at night 7 miles away;
                   *** liberals not conservatives the main problem;
                   *** last resort shelter becomes recovery program requiring “participation”
                   *** large numbers or activist confrontation not endless dialogue is what works;
                    *** Library and State State street scene;
  • Lighthouse Linda reports on her Exploring Homelessness Together group
  • Scarfseller Kate update
  • Activist Dennis E. on protest in China
  •  Brian pans First Alarm’s “Big John”
  •  Complete flashback at http://radiolibre.org/brb/brb140302.mp3

UPDATES FROM “JEWEL IN THE ROUGH” JULIE

Tonight 9-13-18 at 6 PM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides on Free Radio Santa Cruz at 101.3 FM

The show also streams tonight at 6 p.m. at freakradio.org.  It will archive in the near future under Lost Shows on the HUFF website at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html.   Look for “Latest Show – 9/13/2018  Thursday, September 13, 2018 – Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides.” 

On the show:

  • Katzenjammer Keith McHenry reports on the upcoming Rovics benefit, the last Council meeting, the likely FNB-hostile state law, and more!
  • City Council Shanagans from Last Tuesday–Repressive Recording Restrictions, the Nora Hochman arrest, Backtalking Landlord Enabling
  • Red Church Rumblings

Rumblings from Bathrobespierre Robert’s Netsurfing: