Monthly Archives: September 2019

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides radio show streams today (9-29-19) at 9:30AM at www.freakradio.org: Mega-Flashback to March 19, 2006 Covering the Anti-Homeless Parking Lot Panic Law Creating “Trespass” on Public Property During Public Hours

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AVAILABLE FOR YOU…

Free Radio Santa Cruz stands ready to dole out $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).  We’re also seeking a transmitter space where we can put up an antenna–a backyard, a multistory home, a high tree–help us spread the word.   Help us so we can help you!


Tonight’s show streams at freakradio.org and archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

Today’s current show had to be postponed because of illness.  Sorry, folks.

For another round of Mayor Watkins’ “Fill Up the Time With Staff Chatter Until We Can Get rid of the Progressive Majority” Filler, check out the City Council’s jerky video of their last Council meeting–Mayor Watkin’s Latest Attack on Councilmembers Glover and Krohn at http://scsire.cityofsantacruz.com/sirepub/mtgviewer.aspx?meetid=1175&doctype=AGENDA the 7 PM session.



Flashing Back to March 19, 2006
  •    Combined Wake-Up Call and Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Show 
  •   10-Minute Parking Lot Trespass Law—which is now the 15 Minute law with a $250 fine
  •   Commission for the Prevention of Violence Against Women[CPVAW] unprotects homeless women
  •   Special Rush Meeting of the Downtown Commission [DC] hustles through Mayor Mathews’ Repressive Agenda
  •   CPVAW 3-1-06 Hearing Part 2: with Sheila Coonerty and other not-so-notable notables
  •   Sidewalk Interviews: 3-17-06: “Host” Harassment and Selective Enforcement
  •   Death Toll in Iraq
  •   Callers A-Plenty Including “Battling” Bob Lamonica, Human Rights Organization’s Bob Patton, Acid-tongued Andrea, and others
  •   Co-Host Craig Canada—Street Survival as an Unhoused Medical Cannabis User
  •   More DC Rush Meeting
  •   Bench Removal Report
  •   The show is also archived at http://radiolibre.org/brb/brb060319.mp3

Act Locally or Regret Repeatedly (with a tip of the Hat to Joyful Eyes Julie):

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides radio show streams tonight (9-26-19) at 6 PM at www.freakradio.org:Total Flashback to September 10, 2000: Fun and Foulplay with the Police-Partial “Citizens” Police Review Board of Santa Cruz and lots more….!

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STUDIO SITE SUGGESTION?  WE GOT $300 FOR YA IF IT WORKS OUT   TRANSMITTER LOCATION?  YOU GET  HUGS, KISSES, GRATITUDE, AND A REVITALIZED LOCAL PIRATE RADIO!

$300 REWARD for info leading to a 10′ X 10′ Free Radio Santa Cruz studio space.

We need access to a bathroom, internet, and electricity.–either indoors or out (we’ll build a structure if necessary).

We’re also seeking a transmitter space where we can put up an antenna–a backyard, a multistory home, a high tree–help us spread the word.   


Tonight’s show streams at freakradio.org and archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

​Due to a disabled throat, current broadcasting will be replaced tonight by an ancient flashback…


AN ALL-FLASHBACK SHOW FROM NEARLY 20 YEARS AGO:  SEPTEMBER 10, 2000

  • V-Man & Skidmark Bob and Merlin on the Pirate Radio Scene 2000;

  • Video-Journalist Beggarbacker Becky Johnson at sometime Mayor Scott Kennedy Kickoff Rally;

  • HUFFy critique of Council Candidate Arnie Leff;

  • Bashful Bernard Klitzner on the Argue for Council Campaign;

  • Gauging and Gouging the Green Party Endorsement Process

  • Chair Arnie Leff’s Fatally Flawed Citizens Police Review Board  [CPRB];

  • Phone Chatting with the Man in the Box, Crossroads Chris Brozda;

  • Struggles with the CPRB and the illegal seizure of Jumboheart James Nay from Mayor Sugar’s City Council;

  • “Just Let Me Be” Jerry Henry versus Aptos Shopping Center;

Censored Censure Speech at City Council Last Night: HUFF Activists Gather at 11 AM Today at the Sub Rose Cafe

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Who Deserves Censure at City Council?


At the 9-24 City Council meeting, I was initially promised four minutes to give a group presentation on behalf of HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship and Freedom). Once the Censure item was tabled without public comment, Mayor Watkins cut me back to two minutes on the second related “Rose Investigation Recommendations” item. Here is the full speech she censored.
Watkin’s shutdown of my HUFF presentation was yet another in a long line of arbitrary and capricious actions targeting her critics. She let others speak pro and con on Censure issue during the “Rose Investigation” item, but cut me off from the promised time.

The substance of this speech has continuing relevance beyond the specifics of this Council meeting.

If anyone deserves Censure, it’s the Watkins-Mathews-Myers minority at Council for its lengthy history of improper sabotaging of the Progressive majority’s agenda, which I partially itemize in the speech.

Many speakers called for reconciliation, essentially denying the obvious and unavoidable class split on the Council. I believe that recognizing that division and choosing sides is a precondition to moving forward on a variety of issues that have been successfully blockaded by Watkins and her Council minority.

HUFF will be at the Sub Rosa Cafe next to the Bike Church at 703 Pacific Ave at 11 AM today.   Conscience and Action [C & A] activists and the general public are invited.  C & A co-chairs Steve Pleich and Phil Posner will not be able to make the usual C & A meeting at 11 AM meeting but HUFF activists will be there to support the meeting as usual.

The full speech is available on line at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/25/18826656.php .

Bathrobespiere’s Broadsides radio show streams today (9-22-19) at 9:30AM at www.freakradio.org: Interviews Harm Reduction Coalition’s Denise Elerick, Checking in with the Shitty Council’s 9-24 Agenda, & 1988 Flashback to the Homeless at Council

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STILL WAITING FOR A WINNER…


Free Radio Santa Cruz stands ready to dole out $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).  We’re also seeking a transmitter space where we can put up an antenna–a backyard, a multistory home, a high tree–help us spread the word.   Help us so we can help you!


Tonight’s show streams at freakradio.org and archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

On today’s show–the contemporary scene:
  • “Darklighter” Denise Elerick Reviews the Mathews-Myers 4 Sharps Containers But Mobile Needle “Ban” Coming Up on the Afternoon City Council Meeting Tuesday
  • “Hatespreader” Jeremy Hoestra Pals Up with SCPD Chief Mills–and Goes After another Homeless Sidewalk Sitter (See “Police Walk with a Vigilante” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLQ4YaJlivc
  • Tidbits from the Glover Agenda Discussion
  • Sharp-tongued Steve Pleich on the need for Narcan
  • “Obligation to Take Shelter”–a Move Towards Homeless Concentration Camps?
Flashing Back to 1988
    The last three Oral Communications of that Year: the Unhoused versus Mayors Laird and Wormhoudt

Latest local garbage

WHAT YOU CAN DO BETWEEN SHOWS:

  • E-Mail City Council regarding Agenda Item #18 (a reluctant expansion of syringe disposals with a ban on injection centers and mobile services) on the afternoon agenda; censure of Krohn and Glover on the evening agenda (item #1).
  • Document Homeless Discrimination & Sign Up for Direct Action to “Open the Bathrooms Now!” Action at San Lorenzo Benchlands at the Union of the Homeless table at the Food Not Bombs meals Saturday and Sunday 4-6 PM outside the Main Post Office.
  • Support Survival Camps & Squats as City Council Sides With “No Homeless on the Beach” Bigots & Homeless People Face Police Lies & Turn-Aways from Shelter.
  • Post Your Documentation or Pass it on to Barracuda Mama at 831-431-7766
  • Donate to Existing Homeless Encampments, NOT Poverty-Pimp Posturers– Survival Demands Blankets, Water, Tarps, Portapotties & Trash Pick-Up’s–and Deter Police Harassment by being On Call to Document It.
  • Additional Needs for Community Samaritans!–More Needs: Potable Water for Drinking and Grey Water for Washing, Laundry Access so Clothes Don’t Mildew, a Drainage System Against the Rains, More Space in Additional Spots, Monitor and Expose Cop Crackdowns
  • Support Food Not Bombs,  the Warming Center’s Day/Night Storage Program, HUFF, Conscience and Action,Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless documenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.

  •  Check out The Santa Cruz Community, Santa Cruz Homeless Advocates & Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz, Monterey County Homeless Advocates, SNAIL, HEART Disabled Homeless People,  Power Surge Tenants Rights, Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance, and more on Facebook..then go out and do something!
  •   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 Thursdays 6-8 PM, Sundays 9:30 AM- 3 PM
  •   If you must, expropriate items from chain stores.  Don’t steal from vulnerable fellow homeless or local businesses!

Bathrobespiere’s Broadsides radio show streams tonight (9-19-19) at 6 PM at www.freakradio.org: “Act Don’t Agonize” Alicia Kuhl, Strident Steve Conover, “Catch Me If You Can:” Cooper, & More

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YOU GOT A TIP ABOUT A STUDIO SITE? 
WE GOT $300 FOR YA.  
YOU FIND US A TRANSMITTER TREE.  
HUGS & KISSES

$300 REWARD for info leading to a 10′ X 10′ Free Radio Santa Cruz studio space.  

We need access to a bathroom, internet, and electricity.–either indoors or out (we’ll build a structure if necessary). 

We’re also seeking a transmitter space where we can put up an antenna–a backyard, a multistory home, a high tree–help us spread the word.   


Tonight’s show streams at freakradio.org and archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  
  • Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless Activist Alicia Kuhl on the Ross Camp Lawsuit & Continuing Conditions at 1220 River St. Campground
  • Driving Homeless People Off the Beaches Into Nowhereland–Cooper’s Report
  • More…if you’re listening

New Homeless Dispersal with Beach Ban–Next Steps for Conscience & Action at 11 AM Sub Rosa at 703 Pacific, followed by HUFF Wednesday September 18th

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CONSCIENCE AND ACTION IDEAS  9-18-19

Note:  Agenda Ideas are simply suggestions and subject to change and addition from anyone in the group.  They cover a wide range of possibilities.  Bathrobespierre Robert may be absent for some of the meetings.

  • Announcements: Choice of Action Items; Timekeeper & Time Limits; Vibes Guy 
  • Reports from the Beach on the Curfew Imposition and Homeless Displacement
  • Upcoming City Council Meeting:  Glover’s 5:30 PM 9-20 Agenda Meeting
  • Keith’s Proposed “No Forced Containment Camps” Meeting & Concern
  • Any Requests for the Union of the Homeless NYC meeting?
  • Results of the Salinas Union of the Homeless Hearing
  • Laura’s Report on Shelter Calls
  • Ross Lawsuit and Union Organizing Report: Phone a Cop for Service Proposal
  • 1220 River St Camp Council, Union Critique, Media Coverage                                                                    


For HUFFsters  New Street Spirits and Street Sheets will likely be available at this meeting.

  • Announcements: Including Brief Summaries of Agenda Items
  • Further Action on C & A Items
  • Street and Campground Report

Bathrobespiere’s Broadsides radio show streams today (9-15-19) at 9:30AM at www.freakradio.org: Interviews A-Plenty with “Cornerstone” Carol Denney, “Mind over Madness” Mike Zint, “Whip ‘Em Into Shape” Wes White

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THAT SAME OLD REWARD !


Free Radio Santa Cruz stands ready to dole out $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).  We’re also seeking a transmitter space where we can put up an antenna–a backyard, a multistory home, a high tree–help us spread the word.   Help us so we can help you!


Tonight’s show streams at freakradio.org and archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  

On today’s show:
  • Berkeley’s Tiny Triangle Park Under Sneak Attack: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/13/18826195.php 
  • Activist Carol Denney on the Triangle Park History
  • “First They Came for the Homeless” (now called “Here/There”) Activist Mike Zint Updates Us
  • Cop Facial Recognition Software Ban Weakened in Pending Legislation
  • Carotid Blocking Chokeholds: What are the Santa Cruz Guidelines?
  • “Wake ‘Em Up” Wes White on the Good & the Bad in Friday’s Court Ruling on the Sherwood Park Plaintiffs
  • Salinas Union of the Homeless Activists Van Graham and Carry Meeks Report from the Court Catacombs
  • “Can’t Contain Us” Keith McHenry Attacks “Obligation to Accept Shelter” Chatter by Friendly Fascists
  • “Head-butter” Brent Goes Wide and Deep on Tuesday’s Main Beach Curfew Vote at City Council
  • Main Beach Interviews with Justin, Tony, Sonyo, and Jeremiah
  • One Against Six:  Glover Votes to Keep the Main Beach Open
Tips and Trips: Random Resources


WHAT YOU CAN DO BETWEEN SHOWS:

  • Document Homeless Discrimination & Sign Up for Direct Action to “Open the Bathrooms Now!” Action at San Lorenzo Benchlands at the Union of the Homeless table at the Food Not Bombs meals Saturday and Sunday 4-6 PM outside the Main Post Office.
  • Support Survival Camps & Squats as City Council Sides With “No Homeless on the Beach” Bigots & Homeless People Face Police Lies & Turn-Aways from Shelter.
  • Post Your Documentation or Pass it on to Barracuda Mama at 831-431-7766
  • Donate to Existing Homeless Encampments, NOT Poverty-Pimp Posturers– Survival Demands Blankets, Water, Tarps, Portapotties & Trash Pick-Up’s–and Deter Police Harassment by being On Call to Document It.
  • Additional Needs for Community Samaritans!–More Needs: Potable Water for Drinking and Grey Water for Washing, Laundry Access so Clothes Don’t Mildew, a Drainage System Against the Rains, More Space in Additional Spots, Monitor and Expose Cop Crackdowns
  • Support Food Not Bombs,  the Warming Center’s Day/Night Storage Program, HUFF, Conscience and Action,Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless documenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.

  •  Check out The Santa Cruz Community, Santa Cruz Homeless Advocates & Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz, Monterey County Homeless Advocates, SNAIL, HEART Disabled Homeless People,  Power Surge Tenants Rights, Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance, and more on Facebook..then go out and do something!
  •   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 Thursdays 6-8 PM, Sundays 9:30 AM- 3 PM
  •   If you must, expropriate items from chain stores.  Don’t steal from vulnerable fellow homeless or local businesses!

Bathrobespiere’s Broadsides radio show streams tonight (9-12-19) at 6 PM at www.freakradio.org: “Push Back” Pat Colby, “Bad Boy” Brent Adams, “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry, and the City-infamous Santa Cruz Shitty Council…!

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 YEP, STILL LOOKING FOR A STUDIO SITE AND A TRANSMITTER TREE.   BE THE FIRST IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD TO BE A FREE RADIO HERO !

$300 REWARD for info leading to a 10′ X 10′ Free Radio Santa Cruz studio space.  

We need access to a bathroom, internet, and electricity.–either indoors or out (we’ll build a structure if necessary). 

We’re also seeking a transmitter space where we can put up an antenna–a backyard, a multistory home, a high tree–help us spread the word.   


Tonight’s show streams at freakradio.org and archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  
  • Vandweller Pat Colby talks about Responding to the Cutback in Recycling and other Turbulent Topics
  • Day/Night Storage Maestro Brent Adams Unlooses the Thunder Around CACH Capers
  • 6 Cops to Haul Away One Pugnacious Porguguese For Shopping Cart Crime?  A Cautionary Tale from Keith
  • The Ross Camp Lawsuit’s Settlement Demands on the City Council

Done Deal Main Beach Ban–Next Steps for Conscience & Action at 11 AM Sub Rosa at 703 Pacific, followed by HUFF Wednesday September 11th

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CONSCIENCE AND ACTION IDEAS  9-11-19

Note:  Agenda Ideas are simply suggestions and subject to change and addition from anyone in the group.  They cover a wide range of possibilities.  Bathrobespierre Robert will be absent, with medical probs.

  • Announcements: Choice of Action Items; Timekeeper & Time Limits; Vibes Guy 
  • Beach Campground Update
  • City Council’s Done Deal–Suggestions for Follow-Up
  • Louden Nelson Update: Building on the Same old Shit
  • Continuing the Posner Petition to Downtown Businesses Organizing Efforts along with Homeless Union organizing
  • Staff Reports for Council Agenda for 9-25–deadline Thursday
  • Ross Lawsuit and Union Organizing Report: Phone a Cop Proposal                                                                          

 

For HUFFsters

  • Announcements: Including Brief Summaries of Agenda Items
  • Further Action on C & A Items
  • Street and Campground Report
  • 9 AM September 13th Monterey Court Hearing 1200 Aguajito Rd for Salinas Injunction Against Cop Harassment at Sherwood Park Contact Robert at 423-483
  • Updates: Stepping Up in Santa Cruz Poverty Pimp PR Checking: Eli and Laura Report; Helping Homeless Union Tabling
  • End of Recycling Report
  • Public Records Updates: Bathroom Data–Norse and Colby’s Data  Some at https://cityofsantacruz.sharefile.com/d-s34d2fddbfc2468da

No Curfew Without Due Consideration: Stop Martin Bernal’s Rush to Close the Main Beach at Night

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Stop the “Hide the Poor” Beach Curfew
Open San Lorenzo & City Bathrooms at Night

ReOpen the Louden (London) Nelson Bathrooms!

  • No one, including 1000-2000 homeless folks,  have actual bathroom facilities for nighttime use (except for 3 wretched portapotties downtown)
  • Santa Cruz City Council debated then ducked the issue of reopening the Louden Nelson bathrooms & passed it to the CACH (Community Advisory Committee on Homelessness). The LN bathrooms were closed to all but “patrons” in March 2018.
  • The CACH, run by Assistant City Manager Susie O’Hara, ignored the issue,
  • CACH met at LN & scheduled months of future meetings there, a slap at homeless.
  • At Drew Glover’s regular agenda meeting 9-6, neither he nor Councilmember Krohn took action to require the reopening by agreeing to require a future agenda item on 9-10.
  • Police Chief  Mills, Parks and Rec boss Elliot, and City Manager Bernal are rushing to Council Tuesday (7:30 PM 9-10) to shut down the Main Beach & continue bathroom closure there at night.  Their staff report includes no documentation for this closure.
  • Conscience and Action, Food Not Bombs, HUFF, the California Homeless Union, and Give a Shit! volunteers directly opened Louden Nelson bathrooms recently in direct actions that they intend to repeat until the city’s potty pinchers get the message.


Sign Up For DIRECT ACTION ALERTS to restore public access.

No Curfew Without Consideration

Santa Cruz City Council Chambers

Tuesday  September 10  7:30 PM

  • Police Chief Mills, Parks and Rec boss Elliot, and City Manager Bernal want to shut down the Main Beach and continue bathroom closure there at night. 
  • As with last spring’s Depot Park plan, there has been no community outreach. 
  • The proposal supports the agenda of right-wing activist Lynn Renshaw whose letter in the Sunday Sentinel seemed to indicate advance knowledge of the proposal.
  • The Mills/Elliot Bernal staff report has zero specific documentation for this closure.
  • No hearing before the Parks and Recreation Commission—the normal procedure.
  • No hearing before the new homeless CACH Commission.
  • Vice-Mayor Justin Cummings is a fan of the CACH Commission and “more data” (i.e. staff, city, and county buy-in) when it comes to transitional encampments, bathroom closure, and police harassment of homeless.  On this homeless removal issue to be fair and consistent, he must vote to postpone unless and until data are available.
  • E-Mail jcummings@cityofsantacruz.com  citycouncil@cityofsantacruz.com
  • Be up for Direct Action to Counter Bernal’s Agenda in the days ahead


Flier by Norse of  HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) 831-423-4833   www.huffsantacruz.org     9-9-19