CONSCIENCE AND ACTION meets 10 AM 11-7 at the Sub Rosa to finalize Community Survival Camp in for 4 PM Thursday November 15th when the River Street Campground Closes

ISSUES
  • Report of the Location Committee on Primary and Follow-Up Locations
  • Flyer distribution for the November 15 Community Survival Campground
  • Outreach to unhoused folks regarding the Campground Protest; Poll Results
  • Expanded endorsements for the Campground Action
  • Possible legal ramifications of the Campground Action
  • Speakers, Music, and Additional Aspects to the Action
  • Bathroom Barricade:  Report on new P & R Boss Tony Elliot –Next Steps in the Struggle for Safe Shitting:  

                     +++ Linking the Bathroom Struggle with the Campground Action

                     +++ “Get Into the Bathroom Free” Codes Distributed to the Rabble
                   +++ Awaiting P & R Justification for Closing the San Lorenzo Bathrooms
                     +++ Confronting the New City Council Winners
                     +++ Dialogue with Tony Elliot on Free Radio Santa Cruz 6:30 PM Thursday 11-8 at www.freakradio.org .
  • Join the 4 PM Nov 15th Campground Expedition in front of the main Post Office
  • 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 freakradio.org every Thursday 6-8 PM, Sundays 9:30 AM- 3 PM
  •   Hear archived shows at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .

Vote for the Best Spot to Camp as City Council Abandons the Homeless Camp November 15th

Polling Folks Outside for November 15th
by Robert Norse (rnorse3 [at] hotmail.com)
Tuesday Nov 6th, 2018 9:06 AM
This poll was distributed yesterday at the Red Church meal and will be made available to unhoused (and housed) folks throughout the City to provide input for the march on November 15th to begin at the Town Clock and lead to a Campsite.
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You may also e-mail your vote to rnorse3 [at] hotmail.com or leave it at the Food Not Bombs literature table Sat/Sun 4-6 PM just outside the main Post Office fence or at the Sub Rosa Cafe at 703 Pacific Ave. when it’s open.

More info at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/11/01/18818652.php (“More Fences, More Tickets, Less Winter Shelter, More Cruelty”)

Even more info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/10/24/18818475.php (“Campground Crisis As Winter Approaches”)

§History of the Campground Controversy

by Robert Norse Tuesday Nov 6th, 2018 9:06 AM
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A detailed account of the last year’s slitherings of the City Council and staff to present the illusion of shelter which actually covers only a small fraction of those outside in Santa Cruz. And even less this winter than last winter.
TO DOWNLOAD THESE FLYERS AND MAKE COMMENTS,

Sunday 11-04-18 9:30 AM-3 PM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides: The Yes on M Street Protest Against Landlord Darius Mohsenin; Differing Views on “Lesser Evil Voting”, & Chatter from the Sidewalk

  • Katzenjammer Keith McHenry’s Friendship-not-Fences Update
  • Barks, Bellows, and Backstory on the latest anti-homeless establishment antics from Streetlife Savvy Voices of Joey, Jerry, George, Andrew, Tim, Lee, and more…
  • Pacific Grove palaver on tiny Safe Parking Zones for vehicle home folks there
  • Sacramento slickster Supervisor scrambles to find ways around the Martin v. Boise civil rights decision
  • Takin’ to the Streets to Fight for Measure M and Proposition 10: Rent Control and Just Eviction Protection
  • Tau, Zav, and other Students United with Renters Confront “Racist Slumlord” Darius Mohsenin
  • “Lesser-Evil” Voting–Pro and Con:  Full Articles at https://www.counterpunch.org/.../a-less-long-and-rambling-response-to-lesser -evil-voting/ .
Grains of Gold from Jemstone Julie of RV Fulltimers

 Streams at freakradio.org and broadcasts at 101.3 FM if and when a new transmitter site appears.

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

Tonight’s Bathrobespiere’s Broadsides show airs tonight (11-1) at 6 PM at www.freakradio.org: Flashback to February 12, 2006

We still offer a reward of $300 for info leading to a 10′ X 10′ studio space with bathroom, internet, and electrical access–either indoors or out (we’ll build a structure).  Help us so we can help you!

Tonight’s show streams at freakradio.org and archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html
Latest Show – 11/01/2018  Thursday, November 1, 2018 – Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides.”

A delay in resolving technical problems (now resolved) means we’ll be flashing back after a brief introduction to February 16, 2006 which includes:
  • The aftermath of the Spygate scandal involving SCPD’s then-Deputy Chief Kevin Vogel and his rubberstamping of political surveillance of the First Night DIY march of two months before.
  • Caustic deconstruction of Public Police Oversight Auditor Bob Arenson’s report critiqueing the SCPD’s spy activities–Arenson’s one public positive action in supposedly monitoring SCPD misbehavior.
The ultimate outcome:  Vogel was not punished but rewarded for his airbrushing of the situation and then, typically, appointed Police Chief.  He later “retired” under a cloud of scandal for having secretly kept an ICE agent in the police station and colluded with a February 2017 ICE raid. 

COMING UP TOMORROW AND THE NEXT DAY:
  • Tonight 6-9 PM  Restorative Justice Panel at the Resource Center for Non-Violence 612 Ocean St.
  • Friday 5:30 PM-7PM   March Against Racist Landlords   Town Clock
  • Saturday noon-3 PM   Really FREE Market   Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific Ave.