THE SHOW ARCHIVED AT http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html & accessible at your convenience.
LAST Reminder Time  If you haven’t already done so and want to continue receiving this HUFF e-mail notice of shows and other homeless activist updates, please respond to rnorse3@hotmail.com to keep them coming.


PHONE LINE ACCESS if we find a studio space we can rent around Santa Cruz.  Doesn’t have to be big.  10′ X 10′ will do, indoors or outdoors (we can build a shack if you supply the space).  Just needs electricity and internet access.  Phone tips into 831-423-4833.  Reward for finding a space for a year $300.

RADIO ACCESS means access to a tall tree or rooftop where we can place the antenna (or a key to the County Building attic).   In Covid-19 times, particularly important and helpful to those in vehicles or computerless outside so the community can speak its voice.

Phone in or e-mail us (rnorse3@hotmail.com)

Norse’s Notes

A reported death from overdose from the Benchlands City-County campground, reportedly only accessible by van in the distant Delaveaga area.  “Camp Freedom” adjacent to the Lawn Bowling court above the Benchlands has reportedly grown to 100 tents expanding to the Duck Pond stage and even adjacent to the children’s playground but still lacks potable water and adequate sanitary facilities.  Park bathrooms still closed and locked.   No invitation to use the County building bathrooms during the day.   Adding insult to injury, the County has set up a series of fences around “its property” adjacent to the park and the Lawn Bowling court.

As the rains pour down, there is no word of supplies, portapotties, trash pick-up’s (except by generous private folks), or–most importantly–a place to go when the rains hit from the many fenced-off tents along hiway 1 next to the ironically named Housing Matters  (more accurate title: Funding Matters) sign seeking more donations for the do-little Coral St. complex. 

Some NOMAD [Needs Oriented Movement Assistance and De-escalation] workers are discussing support action for refugee campgrounds appearing at Harvey West and elsewhere. In the past NOMAD assisted survival campers move when Nature or City Mangler Martin Bernal issues new deportation edicts or when real flooding threatened homeless encampments.   The reality of increasingly cold Winter nights still hasn’t stirred warm-and-cozy City and County bureaucrats to set up Warming Areas much less Winter Shelter–with Footbridge Services activist Brent Adams, struggling to make his storage, shelter, laundry, and shower services scale-able upwards to accommodate the growing needs of those outside.

City Council’s lead Uncle Tom Justin Cummings & and his go-to Big Daddy Supervisor Ryan Coonerty have done nothing to open walk-in emergency Winter Shelter as temperatures drop.  Nothing was done at the 12-8 Shitty Council Agenda on that subject.   With the exploding number of deaths and hospitalizations by COVID-19 [over 50 on 12-12], there is no reported effort to move those in the many unhealthy congregate shelters (Veteran’s Hall, Laurel St., Paul Lee, Armory) to single room protection.

Neither City nor County has offered an accurate and up to date accounting of their outlays from Project Roomkey and Project Housekey funds.   It took many months for now-dead disabled elder Bob Rees to find a temporary shelter with shelters full and waiting lists long.  And word has not reached us that either City or County have applied for expanded Newsom’s Project funds.  While the delay in scheduled evictions from motels is a positive sign (forced on the authorities by the escalating hospitalization and death rate), it doesn’t protect those stuck outside while buildings remain vacant.

The Beach St. ban on Latinx vendors continues–unless they have brick and mortar businesses, of course.

City Council newbies Sonja Brunner and Shebreh Kalatari-Johnson have been seated and the Council scurried to its warm homes for the winter until second Tuesday in January (and then only “accessible” through the faulty Zoom process).  The Deborah Elston Volunteer Homeless Harassment squad (under Chief Mills authority) continues to harass vehicular moms and activists like SC Homeless Union activist Alicia Kuhl. 

NOMAD continues to plan meetings and stay active to provide emergency moving assistance to unhoused folks facing natural and SCPD-created emergencies.      Call 226-998 for more information.

ON TODAY’S 12-13-20  BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES SHOW

XXX  David Rovics vs. Establishment Media on Barricades Defending Portland’s Red House

XXX  HUFF [Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom] thinktanking from its last[12-9] meeting: Discussing Civil Disobedience–If Vacant Buildings are the Crime, how do we end this criminal behavior?

XXX  HUFF musings:  Harvey West? The Sports Arena?  UCSC Campus?  Santa Cruz Refuge for Unhoused Refugees–or the next Autonomous Zone?

XXX  “Whip ’em Into Shape” Wes White fields skepticism from Bathrobespierre Robert Norse on hopes for the incoming Salinas City Council, reports on sweep monitoring and resistance by a coalition of homeless defenders.

XXX   Katty Komments from Kazenjammer Keith McHenry

XXX  HUFF musings:  More on strategy and background preparatory to Campground Defense and Vacant Housing Takeovers

FLASHBACK Bits from July 1990 and thereabouts

XXX  July 16, 1990 Speak-Out and “Illegal Lodging” Sleep-Out in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza adjacent to then-Mayor Art Agnos’s City Hall in the wake of “Illegal Lodging” sweeps including poets Sarah Menefee and Jack Herschman, Oakland Union of the Homeless activists Dorothy King and Gerald, a shitload of angry service providers, and many more.

XXX  July 18, 1990 Songs and analysis of the Sleep-Out; Slogans and Shouting at a Homeless March to Agnos’s House

XXX  Clips from the Jolly Roger Comedy Troupe mocking the authoritarian NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) and its attacks on Free Radio Berkeley.

XXX  Political Prisoner and Reporter Mumia Abu Jamal in 1990 and Colin Kaepernick on Mumia in 2020.
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”

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

Reminder for those who haven’t already responded:  If you wish to continue receiving these updates and haven’t already e-mailed your interest, please send an e-mail to rnorse3@hotmail.com. 

ON TODAY’S SHOW

xxx  Christine Jacobs speaks out about an abusive police stop last month.

xxx  Kim Brown of  You-Tube’s “Burn it Down””Was Andres Guardado the Target of a Police gang initiation”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dIRW-M4A7s

xxx  Keith McHenry remembers Bob Rees, died on the streets.

xxx  Shama Sawant of Seattle on Demanding Cuts in the Budget for Police Violence  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dIRW-M4A7s (30 minutes into the video file)
(https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/28/18838692.php)

xxx  Castaway Cooper’s “Freedom Camp” Update from San Lorenzo Park

xxx  A Neighbor Ponders the Deb Elston Protests (on archives only).

THE SHOW ARCHIVED AT http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html & accessible at your convenience.
LAST Reminder Time  If you haven’t already done so and want to continue receiving this HUFF e-mail notice of shows and other homeless activist updates, please respond to rnorse3@hotmail.com to keep them coming.


PHONE LINE ACCESS if we find a studio space we can rent around Santa Cruz.  Doesn’t have to be big.  10′ X 10′ will do, indoors or outdoors (we can build a shack if you supply the space).  Just needs electricity and internet access.  Phone tips into 831-423-4833.  Reward for finding a space for a year $300.

RADIO ACCESS means access to a tall tree or rooftop where we can place the antenna (or a key to the County Building attic).   In Covid-19 times, particularly important and helpful to those in vehicles or computerless outside so the community can speak its voice.

Phone in or e-mail us (rnorse3@hotmail.com)

Norse’s Notes

No further reports from the Benchlands City-County campground moved to the distant Delaveaga area: if you’ve got any, phone ’em in.  “Camp Freedom” adjacent to the Lawn Bowling court above the Benchlands has reportedly grown to 100 tents, but still lacks potable water and adequate sanitary facilities.  Park bathrooms remain closed and locked.   No invitation to use the County building bathrooms during the day.  

No word of supplies, portapotties, trash pick-up’s (except by generous private folks), or a place to go when the rains hit from the many fenced-off tents along hiway 1 next to the humorously named Housing Matters  (actually–Funding Matters). 

No reports from NOMAD workers. In the past NOMAD assisted survival campers move when Nature or City Mangler Martin Bernal issues new deportation edicts.   The reality of increasingly cold Winter nights still hasn’t stirred warm-and-cozy City and County bureaucrats into setting up badly-needed restroom, food, water, and charging services for the overwhelming majority of those outside.

City Council’s lead Uncle Tom Justin Cummings & and his go-to Big Daddy Supervisor Ryan Coonerty have done nothing to open emergency Winter Shelter as temperatures drop.  Nothing is on the 12-8 Shitty Council Agenda on that subject, leaving Brent Adams’ expanded makeshift Warming Center likely to be overwhelmed in spite of his best efforts to maintain scalability.  With the expanding number of deaths and hospitalizations by COVID-19, there is no reported effort to move those in the many congregate shelters (Veteran’s Hall, Laurel St., Paul Lee) to single room residences.

No offered accounting of City and County outlays from Project Roomkey and Project Housekey to identify the vulnerable homeless population ignored.  And word has not reached us that either City or County have applied for expanded Newsom’s Project funds.  Some who were lucky enough or persistent enough to get a motel room do report the planned evictions have been postponed as the state has moved closer to lockdown.

Vendors are still banned on Beach St. sidewalks unless they have brick and mortar businesses, of course.

City Council is likely to get worse with the arrival of Council newbies Sonja Brunner and Shebreh Kalatari-Johnson.  Chief Andy Mills’ home-seizures (for those in vehicles) is continuing. 

NOMAD (Needs Oriented Movement Assistance and De-escalation) continues to plan meetings and actually act to assist vehicle dwellers under police and vigilante threat from “Dirty Hands” Deb Elston’s “volunteers”.      Call 226-998 for more information.

ON TODAY’S 11-29-20 BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES SHOW

XXX  COVID-19 Cries and Conundrums–“Dangerous” John Thielking in Eugene Demands Masking, Fact-Checking on the Danish “No Clear Evidence that Masks Protest the Wearer” Study

(https://www..factcheck.org/2020/11/danish-study-doesnt-prove-masks-dont-work-against-the-coronavirus/ )

XXX  More from John Malkin’s “Refund the Community” Interview with attorneys Elizabeth Caballero and Jonathan Gettleman (full interview: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/28/18838692..php

XXX  Activist Alicia Kuhl and a Local Nurse exchange thoughts with Bathrobespiere Robert at a 12-1 Food Not Bombs  meal.

XXX  James-in-the-Sunshine gives a gloomy account of Berkeley’s latest electoral defeat.

XXX  City Council’s last “meeting” of the year with the new perps seated and no action on rent ruination and police puffery.

XXX  A Look-In at Sacramento and a Fresno report from FRSC veteran Mathew Embri

XXX  Another regular report from “Katzenjammer’ Keith McHenry

XXX  Kim Brown interviews Ricci Sergienko on police crushing L.A. housing takeover:   https://therealnews.com/obama-knows-something-about-slogans-that-disappoint-people

XXX  Jimmy Dore interviews Glenn Greenwald on media censorship.  Longer interview at https://lumpenproletariat.org/2020/11/24/tjds-glenn-greenwald-the-complete-interview/

FLASHBACK

XXX  March 1992 KZSC radio interviews Margaret Marr and John Malkin about the need for strong civilian police review in Santa Cruz in the days when that seemed to be a possible solution to police violence.

XXX  Spring 1992 Many voices at a City Council Study Session denouncing and defending the SCPD in the civilian police review board creation debate.

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 

• Demand NO SWEEPS OF THE HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS without real alternatives.  Join the groups
  listed below, and/or start your own support group to stop the continued “whack-a-mole” SCPD and Public Works “disappear the homeless” approach that now threatens their health & the broader Community’s as well.

• 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, NOMAD and others mentioned on Instagram. 
• Join Black Lives Matter protests to demand funding community aid not police force, the end of homeless
  harassment, and true community action to restore resources to all of us.

To hear this show at a time of your choosing, Check Out  http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  later tonight. 
Reminder for those who haven’t already responded:  If you wish to continue receiving these updates and haven’t already e-mailed your interest, please send an e-mail to rnorse3@hotmail.com. 

ON TODAY’S SHOW

xxx  War on RV’s in Santa Monica and Santa Cruz, but Santa Barbara fights back with a lawsuit.

xxx  Attorneys Caballero and Gettleman Expose Abusive S.C. Jail Conditions in the Death-by-Water Tamario Smith case (https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/28/18838692.php)

xxx  Castaway Cooper’s “Freedom Camp” Update from San Lorenzo Park

xxx  A Neighbor Ponders the Deb Elston Protests (on archives only).

APOLOGIES FOR A SLEEP-DEPRIVATION-INDUCED DELAY IN THE PRE-SHOW POSTING OF CONTENTS AND UPDATES.  THE NETCAST SCHEDULE OF THE SHOW IS ALSO DELAYED TODAY.

THOSE DESCRIPTIONS TO BE POSTED LATER TODAY AT http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/
THE SHOW ITSELF ARCHIVED AT http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html.
Still Another Reminder Again!  If you haven’t already done so and want to continue receiving this HUFF e-mail notice of shows and other homeless activist updates, please respond to rnorse3@hotmail.com to keep them coming.


WE WANT THAT PHONE LINE !  but it won’t happen unless we can find a studio space we can rent around Santa Cruz.  Doesn’t have to be big.  10′ X 10′ will do, indoors or outdoors (we can build a shack if you supply the space).  Just needs electricity and internet access.

AND HOW ABOUT GOING BACK ON THE RADIO?! That means simply access to a tall tree or rooftop where we can place the antenna.   In Covid-19 times, this is particularly important so the community can talk to itself without the ridiculous limitations of Zoom, etc.

Phone in (423-4833) or e-mail us (rnorse3@hotmail.com) tips on where we might find either 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.