To hear this show at a time of your choosing, Check Out  http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  later tonight. 

ON TODAY’S SHOW

xxx  Speakers at the “Make a Growlful Noise” Rally at City Hall in Honor of Desiree Quintero, who died after City evicted several hundred from the Ross Camp without real shelter alternatives.  https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/26/18837897.php including “Katzenjammer” Keith, an Angry Lot #27 Refugee,  “Can the Crap” Alicia Kuhl, Elisse, Distant National Homeless Union Organizer Anthony Prince, and “Ragged Tongue” Razor Ray

xxx  NOMAD (Needs Oriented Movement and Direction) activists Steven and Emi on Latest Defense of Western Avenue Unhoused in and out of Vehicles, with reports on progress feeding and defending homeless folks tenthomes in their camps under attack from the City.

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When will the Benchlands City-County campground, which many residents have found helpful, be forced to move?   Who knows?  Authorities apparently aren’t telling residents.  Same with the smaller (but still well-populated) campground above the Benchlands near the Lawn Bowling area.  There are also concerns with the Felker St. camp near the former Camp Paradise location behind the cemetery. 

Further rubberstamping of City Mangler Martin Bernal’s plan to once more fence off the Town Clock and surrounding areas to make them hostile to homeless survival campers comes before City Council Tuesday October 27th at the 2:15 PM session.  The “Bury the Library under a Parking Garage” boondoggle comes up at 7 PM.  Oral Communications on other topics not on the agenda is at 5:30 PM.  There are NO proposals on the agenda to actually provide badly-needed restroom, food, water, and charging services to the campgrounds whose presence belies the “Housing Smidgeons” sign on Hiway 1, that lie about the “success” of the former Homeless (Lack of) Services Center at 115 Coral St.
To “join” the City Council meeting by Zoom–particularly hard for those outside with limited phone resources–
Call any of these numbers If one is busy, try the next one.  1-833-548-0282 (Toll Free)   1-877-853-5247 (Toll Free)   1-888-788-0099 (Toll Free)   1-669-900-9128   1-346-248-77991-3Enter the meeting ID number: 928 2917 3723     When prompted for a Participant ID, press #.  Press *9 on your phone to “raise your hand” when the Mayor calls for public comment.DON’T EXPECT CITY COUNCIL TO RESPOND FAVORABLY TO ANY HOMELESS CIVIL RIGHTS OR EXPANDED SERVICES QUESTIONS NOR TO POLICE DEFUNDING. 

While a small number are temporarily in the safer motel shelter, most of the “sheltered” are warehoused in the unhealthy group shelters–and even those shelters are full with waiting lists.  

The Pogonip camps continue to be blocked off and bulldozed.  Those along hiway 1 continue to be starved of resources like portapotties, wash stations, and other basics.     Encampments along the San Lorenzo pathway near the Broadway bridge and along Hiway 1 at River St.  multiplied exponentially after the City and County created more refugees by displacing the larger Benchlands encampment with their own show County-run encampment there.  There are no provisions for providing decent facilities for those camps as fall turns to winter.

City Mangler Bernal’s Emergency Edict, habitually rubberstamped extends the September ban on vendors on Beach St. while the County authorities invite Boardwalk area businesses to resume their sidewalk crowd-drawing activities near the Boardwalk and unmasked tourists continue to be invited to crowd beaches, the Boardwalk, and the “no vendors allowed” sidewalks.


ON TODAY’S 10-25-20 BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES SHOW:
XXX  Interview with Emi, unhoused protection and diplomacy, on his new organization NOMAD, planning a Felker camp weenie roast next Saturday, time and place TBA. XXX  Hard Times in L.A. https://theintercept.com/2020/10/19/homeless-los-angeles-covid-wildfires
XXX  Democrats Abandon Single “Me Too” Standard in Tara Reade Accusations against Joe Biden ( Warning–Fox News is reporting)
XXX  Benchlands Broadsides–Voices from the Lawn Bowling Adjacent Tent Encampment: Cooper, Serena, David, Dreamcatcher
XXX  “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry goes into quarantine for possible COVID-19 and subsequently announced a memorial/protest at the City Hall meeting 2 PM in honor of Desiree Quintero opposing City Manager Martin Bernal’s Executive Decrees targeting unhoused survival camps and Food Not Bombs.  https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/26/18837897.php
XXX  “Scope it Out” Scott Graham Reviews the Wretched Prospects for Tuesday’s City Council Meeting–involving Consent Item #9 (the subject of McHenry’s Tuesday protest above) and the Evening “Bury the Library Under a Multi-Storied Parking Lot” Agenda Item.
XXX   Michele Critiques the Armory Shelter XXX   “Speak Out” Satya and Some Discussion of the Anti-Maskers of Santa Cruz
XXX  John Malkin interviews Joy-and-Jubilation African-American Activist Curtis Reliford on his recent run-in with a racist roughneck XXX  Former Freedom Sleeper Phil Posner reports on his recent Bagels-on-Bikes round-the-city.

ALSO ON TODAY’S BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES SHOW: FLASHBACK NEWSBRIEFS & INTERVIEWS IN 1991
xxx  late December 1991–KDBQ’s “Liberal” Larry Johnson Interviews “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster, “Back Channel” Barnaby, and “Bathrobespierre Robert” on splits among homeless civil rightsters as well as exploding liberal stereotypes about local unhoused folks
xxx  12-18-91 UCSC Cops Assault Forest (“Elfland”) Defender and KSBW TV cameraman in peaceful protest
xxx   Spring 1991:  Bathrobespierre to KSCO’s John Muth’s Noon Balloon on Town Clock Curfew & Visionquest Homeless-Free
xxx   4-4-91 6 PM News on River St. Mini-Shelter “Controversy” as well as SCPD attack and arrest of  “Won Ton” Dave Jacob’s at the Clock, interviewing “Meandering” Mike Girth eye witness and Peace Vigil participant at the Clock against the Persian Gulf Iraqi War
xxx   4-7-91 Bathrobespierre interviews “Jet Lag” Joe Salinsky, another Peace Vigil participant on multiple SCPD abuses at the Clock
xxx   4-9-91  Muth and Bathrobespierre on “homeless out!” growth proposals by Visionquest Santa Cruz as well as Salinsky and others pressing claims against police for SCPD abuses at the Clock
          …plus Various uncut bits and clips of 1991 from the cutting room floor throughout

ON TODAY’S SHOW

xxx Activist and Shitty Council Candidate Alicia Kuhl Denounces Ongoing Police Harassment of her Vehicle/Home

xxx Blake v. Grants Pass Decision–an Introduction

xxx  HUFFsters huddle looking for the next steps–the path to peaceful resistance to police abuses

xxx  Courtroom capers–the ongoing piratical struggle of Marty Mirabel in defense of a homeless man’s vehiclehome.

xxx  Cooper and Company in the Lawn Bowling Campground Above the Benchlands

ON THE SUNDAY 10-18-20 BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES SHOW:
​    ***  Portland’s Mayoral Race (“Teargas” Teddie and Sarah Iannarone) and Police Issues there–contrasted with no positions on Police Defunding (Deafening Silence) here  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ted-wheeler-sarah-iannarone-participate-in-virtual-forum/vi-BB1a77ck
***  Vet Concerns in Santa Cruz with Robert Carrigan
***  Native American Slaughter Speeches Aplenty–Mostly on Homeless Issues–preceding the 10-12 Day March

***  Marty Mirabel (“Pirate”)–Another “Moved Along” Musician at the Boardwalk***  Huffing and harumphing from the 10-14 HUFF meeting
FLASHBACK TO THE BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES SHOW OF JULY 17, 2011
***  “Democracy”…in Santa Cruz?  A Critical Discussion including the Jail’s “Restraint” Chair***  Interview with 15-year stage hand, out of Paul Lee Loft & homeless again
***  Interviews at the Casey Livinggood’s once-monthly  “Stop the Orlando Food Busts” Meal by Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs with Charles Goodwin, “Fox”, Casey L.
***  Ed Frey’s appeal of his “Illegal Lodging” 647e conviction for a peaceful non-obstructive nighttime protest : Update
***  Mark Beckner on his indefinite ban from the Homeless (Lack of) Services Center  [now known as Housing
Matters]*** Protesters at SC City Hall “Trespass” Serving and Eating Free Food with S.C. Food Not Bombs*** Norse’s Nighttime Narrative During the July 1st City Hall Sleep-Out
***Measure K Commission–Hobbled by Vacancies, Hostile Appointments, & a Sabotaging Staffer: Last of
the Just– Former Member Anita Henry Reports on the Bankrupt Commission.
*** Craig Canada, Cannabis Champion, on the State Legislative and Initiative Activity, Media Spin, and the Vote
*** Bob Lamonika on Measure K funding and organizing & Santa Cruz history of medical marijuana
*** Norse on then-Commissioner Kim Baskett’s “Guilty” Verdict in the Sinister Street Singsong case and the Upcoming Appeal.


The show streams at www.freakradio.org   and archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .  At that archive, click on the date of the show to hear it at any time.

Summary descriptions of current and earlier shows after mid-November 2017 are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/ .  Earlier descriptions (back to 2005) are often available at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html .  A listing of where flashbacks to earlier times can be found will soon be available.

SHOW ARCHIVES AND DESCRIPTIONS

Recent Past Shows are Described at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/Recent Past Shows are Archived separately at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html
Many Pre-2017 Shows are Described at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html
Many Pre-2017 Shows are Archived at http://radiolibre.org/brb/
Archives prior to 2004 are at http://huffsantacruz.org/archivemain.html
For Flashbacks before 1995, go to http://huffsantacruz.org/radio.html and search for “Flashback”

Act Locally or Regret Later

• Vote (if you choose) for local candidates who oppose the dominant anti-homeless narrative (Alicia Kuhl was recently endorsed by HUFF), but don’t expect them to take real action which, as ever, will be coming from those outside and those who support them on the streets.
  
• Demand NO SWEEPS OF THE HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS without real justification, alternative location or shelter, and respect for the Martin v. Boise and Blake v. Grants Pass rulings, the CDC guidelines, and the City’s own spring 2019 requirements respecting the health and safety of those sheltering outside. 
• Volunteer for homeless civil rights or service programs that actually serve:  Food Not Bombs, Day/Night Storage, HUFF, SC Homeless Union, Your Allied Rapid Response (YARR), Sub Rosa Cafe and others mentioned on Instagram
• Support decent resources (portapotties, trash pick-up’s, electrical access, needle exchange, potable water) to those sheltering outside.
• Check out HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) now meeting Wednesday 11 AM in the courtyard of the Sub Rosa Cafe at 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church.
• Support Tenant Resistance against landlord pressure as unemployment compensation and federal aid remains stalled.
• No Fences on Coral St. and at the former Food Not Bombs Survival Resources Lot #27 !
  
• Call in street reports to HUFF and the Free Radio Santa Cruz netshow back at 831-423-4833; Post your video on Facebook and You-tube.  Pass on protest times and places via Instagram and Santa Cruz Indymedia.
• Follow homeless civil rights struggles in other cities on You Tube’s “John Doe13K” channel, the S.F. Coalition on Homelessness’s Street Sheet website, and Santa Cruz County Homeless Advocates facebook page.
• Join in volunteer efforts that provide real services like Footbridge Services at 150 Felker St., Food Not Bombs daily meal at Lot #22 next to the old Taco Bell at Pacific & Laurel 1-6 PM daily.
  
• Restore in-person City Council meetings and access to those in power (City Manager Bernal)
• Defund “Homeless Removal” police services and put the money in real community help
• Resist a Reactionary City Council’s gentrification drive that threatens health and traditional values.

The October 31st “Move Without Destination” Depopulation of the Benchlands comes closer.  Some activists consider assisting Brent Adams and his Day/Night Storage crew in assisting those who forced to move and acting as “diplomats” and “helpers” as police under City Mangler Martin Bernal violates Martin v. Boise “no citations without indoor shelter” ruling as well as the CDC’s “let the homeless shelter in place” guidelines.

While a small number are temporarily in the safer motel shelter, most of the “sheltered” are warehoused in the unhealthy group shelters–and even those shelters are full with waiting lists.  

Air quality problems and high temperatures have returned with no protected areas set aside for the toxic air quality alerts, the potential smoke danger, etc. –particularly impactful of those outside, and of the broader community–given the COVID-19 pandemic.  Large publicly funded buildings like the Civic and the Stadium stand empty while encampments multiply outside the “lack of services” Housing Smidgeons Poverty Pimp Palace at 115 Coral St. with its misleading “Housing Matters” sign.  Dangerous COVID-19 vulnerable group shelters at the Vet’s Hall, Armory, “Housing Smidgeons” Paul Lee Loft, and Laurel St. continue to be the main “go to” for police” as a warehousing “alternative” when they threaten the visually “undesirable” outdoor camps being destroyed in the Pogonip, along the levee, and elsewhere.

The Pogonip camps have been blocked off and bulldozed.  Those along hiway 1 continue to be starved of resources like portapotties, wash stations, and other basics.     Encampments along the San Lorenzo pathway near the Broadway bridge and along Hiway 1 at River St.  multiplied exponentially after the City and County created more refugees by displacing the larger Benchlands encampment with their own show County-run encampment there.  There are no provisions for providing decent facilities for those camps as fall turns to winter.

No indication that “banned” vendors on Beach St. have been invited to resume their family-sustaining sidewalk businesses down near the Boardwalk, while unmasked tourists continue to be invited to crowd beaches, the Boardwalk, and the “no vendors allowed” sidewalks.

 
STILL ASKIN’….   
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ON TODAY’S SHOW

xxx  “”Declamation” Dennis Holt on Santa Cruz Days Before & During the Pandemic
xxx  “Birds-Eye” Brent Adams on Community Cooperation for Homeless Services
xxx  Assorted Updates from Emi and KeithWorkshop Organizing tomorrow (Friday October 16) on What to Do When the Coppers Crash Your Tent at the Sub Rosa Cafe (next to the Bike Church) at 703 Pacific at 7pm

OUR FAMILIAR S.O.S.   WE NEED TO GET BACK ON THE AIR AND RESTORE OUR PHONE LINE.  Phone in (423-4833) or e-mail us (rnorse3@hotmail.com) tips on where we might find a studio space and a place to put our antenna.  $300 reward for finding us the studio space.   Eternal gratitude for finding an antenna location.   Free Radio is ever-more important during the COVID crisis.

The show streams at www.freakradio.org   and archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .  At that archive, click on the date of the show to hear it at any time.

Summary descriptions of current and earlier shows after mid-November 2017 are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/ .  Earlier descriptions (back to 2005) are often available at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html .  A listing of where flashbacks to earlier times can be found will soon be available.



City Council snuck to a new day (Thursday) and time (evening) for its latest “regular” “meeting”.  Their budget hearing continued with its high militarist police budget ignoring the voices and needs of the Community regarding police defunding to preempt their violence, discrimination, homeless harassment, and overspending.   Instead, the police budget was reportedly the only department left uncut with three new “Community Service” officers added with no changes in policy or top personnel. https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2020/10/09/santa-cruz-budget-cuts-reduce-5-million-in-city-spending/ All power still in the hands of City Manager Martin Bernal with the Council an echo chamber.  More ticketing of City Council candidate and SC Homeless Union organizer Alicia Kuhl after the bigotry-based Council veto of her group’s right to park safely on Olive St. (Sandy Brown dissenting).

Ben–the man whose vehicle was seized months ago in violation of CDC “shelter-in-place” guidelines–was bailed out and is reportedly at large, surviving the latest SCPD retaliation for his determined resistance to the police sweeps that continue to cast a dark shadow along the levee. 

City boss Bernal seems intent on ignoring CDC guidelines and the Martin v. Boise decision regarding no homeless sweeps without homeless shelter.   While a small number are still in the safer motel shelter, most of the “sheltered” are warehoused in the unhealthy group shelters–and even those shelters are full with waiting lists.   Authorities have announced plans to disband the Benchlands County-run containment-camp that displaced the larger encampment there by October 31 with similar plans to oust those in motels.  https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2020/10/10/panetta-stone-tour-santa-cruz-homeless-encampments/


Air quality and temperature has been merciful considering there are still no protected areas set aside for the toxic air quality alerts, the potential smoke danger, and cooling functions–particularly impactful of those outside, and of the broader community–given the COVID-19 pandemic.  Large publicly funded buildings like the Civic and the Stadium stand empty while encampments multiply outside the “lack of services” Housing Smidgeons Poverty  Pimp Palace at 115 Coral St. with its misleading “Housing Matters” sign.  Dangerous COVID-19 vulnerable group shelters at the Vet’s Hall, Armory, “Housing Smidgeons” Paul Lee Loft, and Laurel St. continue to be the main “go to” for police” as a warehousing “alternative” when they threaten the visually “undesirable” outdoor camps being destroyed in the Pogonip, along the levee, and elsewhere.

The Pogonip camps have been blocked off and bulldozed.  Those along hiway 1 continue to be starved of resources like portapotties, wash stations, and other basics.     Encampments along the San Lorenzo pathway near the Broadway bridge and along Hiway 1 at River St.  multiplied exponentially after the City and County created more refugees by displacing the larger Benchlands encampment with their own show County-run encampment there.  There are no provisions for providing decent facilities for those camps as fall turns to winter.

No indication that “banned” vendors on Beach St. have been invited to resume their family-sustaining sidewalk businesses down near the Boardwalk, while unmasked tourists continue to be invited to crowd beaches, the Boardwalk, and the “no vendors allowed” sidewalks.

ON TODAY’S BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES SHOW:
​    ***  Colombus (National Slaughter Day) protest slated for 10:30 AM tomorrow 10-12 at Laurel & Pacific

***  “Food for the Famished” Keith McHenry Reviews the Latest Police Sweep Program & Voter Registration Push

***  Community Musicman Curtis Reliford Cries “Racism” on “Progressive” Santa Cruz  https://www.facebook.com/curtis.reliford.5

***  “Lord of the Lies” Deconstructs the Vice-Presidential Sound-Byte Special “Debate”  Part 2***  Pinchhitting Pitcher for the Poor and Poet Peter Marin Weighs in from Santa Barbara
***   Arduous Adventure Account from Activist-on-Wheels Alicia Kuhl
***  Punishing the Maskless with Medical Conditions: a Report from Satya Orion. https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/COVID-19/Guidance-for-Face-Coverings_06-18-2020.pdf
***  “Whip the Wicked” Wes White Calls for Help Against Salinas Sweeps Part 2
***  James Loewen Corrects a Bigot-Based Historical Record with Indigenous Slaughter (Columbus Day) upon us.  https://vimeo.com/281339140

***  “Scope it Out” Scott Graham Dissects and Discards the Latest Shitty Council Meeting
***  Aaron Hosmer’s Lonely Battle To Recover Property from Tow Company and Cops  https://www.facebook.com/aaron.hosmer.5 
*** 

SHOW ARCHIVES AND DESCRIPTIONS

Recent Past Shows are Described at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/Recent Past Shows are Archived separately at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html
Many Pre-2017 Shows are Described at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html
Many Pre-2017 Shows are Archived at http://radiolibre.org/brb/
Archives prior to 2004 are at http://huffsantacruz.org/archivemain.html
For Flashbacks before 1995, go to http://huffsantacruz.org/radio.html and search for “Flashback”

Act Locally or Regret Later

• Hit the Protest Trail Tomorrow (Monday October 12th) at Laurel and Pacific at 10:30 AM in a march to the County Building.
  
• Vote (if you choose) for local candidates who oppose the dominant anti-homeless narrative (Alicia Kuhl was recently endorsed by HUFF), but don’t expect them to take real action which, as ever, will be coming from those outside and those who support them on the streets.
  
• Demand NO SWEEPS OF THE HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS without real alternatives.  Help defend!