Monthly Archives: September 2021

HUFF MOVES BACK TO THE SUB-ROSA CAFE 11 AM Thursday September 30th at 903 Pacific Ave.

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Thoughts for an Agenda Prospects  for Thursday’s (9-30) Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom Meeting
 ​Diminished numbers of participants may make us reduce meeting frequency to twice a month rather than weekly.   We’ll also consider moving the day and perhaps the time of the HUFFmeet.   Come and weigh in if you’re interested. 

  Latest Broodworthy Topics –     

+++ October 4th Benchlands Relocation/Eviction Notices
     +++  Rumors of the Identity of the new Santa Cruz City Mangler
     +++ Results of the September 28th Supervisors Meeting and Upcoming October 2nd Meet
     +++ Prospects for United Front to Support Homeless Folks in Likely Winter Relocation      

+++ Coalition and coordination prospects for West Side Cares, Sanitation for the People, SC Homeless Union      

+++ RV Power: Homestead Rights for Vehicular Dwellers in Washington State: Does it Apply Here?

Meanwhile ongoing concerns include:
         +++ Rumored Armory to be the 150 Shelter/Storage Pretext for Imposing the Harsh New Camping Ban
      +++ Updates from Chico, Novato, Sausalito, & Elsewhere on the Legal Struggles There; None Here Unfortunately
      +++ Pajaro River Sweep Report
      +++ Vaccination discrimination & Antibody testing; SB 742; ACLU Elitism on Sunday as Bellweather Shit-Liberalism

Research is needed into:
      +++ Vehicle Code Vivisection: Defanging Hobohammer SCPD’s Haebe and Dustheart Deborah Elston’s favorite tools for stealing homeless homes–the so-called 72-hour “abandoned vehicle” fraud.
      +++ Record of Failed protections against Psychiatric Deportations, the record of Reiss hearing failures, dumping and forced drugging of the  “mentally ill”.  (Free Radio show coming up on fighting forced drugging with attorney  Jim Gottstein & psych-survivor Roxanne Stewart-Johnson)

Likely to Flood the Streets & Possible Response-
      +++ End of the Rent Moratoria and Unemployment Benefits–UCSC Returns

Reports from the Roughlands-
      +++ Padre Panther on the Dakota Landing Agreement Camp (if he ever shows)
      +++ Petaluma Update  (in person or by paper      

+++ FNB/Union Report via Keith; Footbridge Services Info from Brent
      +++ Possible Updates from Benchlands Jeremy and Other Residents
      +++ Latest on the Pledge to Defend the Benchlands

Santa Cruz Homeless Union and Coalition to Defend the Benchlands Still Meets 5 PM Friday 10-1 October Street Sheet and Street Spirit newspapers not yet available but likely next week.

Sunday 9-26-21 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show airs and archives 9 a.m. October 4th: Vegetation or Homeless Removal from the Riverside? Packed Flashback to June 24, 2007

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ON THE 9-26-21 SHORT SHOW:  
      +++   Mealmaker McHenry meanders through breaking events and advises caution and vigilance as the October 4th Eviction-from-the-River deadline approaches
      +++ Washington state State Supreme Court rules vehicles can be a ‘homestead’: https://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=slVhHLaTkT8

FLASHBACK TO THE  June 24, 2007 SHOW which includes:
       ****  Remembering HUFF activist James Ross and his work fighting for the rights of the poor in public spaces downtown.  “Troublesome” Thomas Leavitt co-hosts.
       ****  Fresno Interview with Pam Kinkaid, Cynthia, Green, and Al Williams–three of the plaintiffs in the historic Kinkaid v. City of Fresno lawsuit that won $2+ million and 10 years of relief for the unhoused there       

****   Phone Interview with “Rest Tomorrow, Rise Today” Mike Rhodes, Fresno Journalist and Activist on the progress of the lawsuit & its implications for regular property theft by then-Chief Ranger John Wallace.
       ****   Long-time Berkeley Artist, Attorney, and Copwatcher Osha Neumann on the Police, People’s Park, and the People’s Resistance.
       ****   “Tenderfoot” Tim Rumford Relief Co-Host.  Threader of the Legal Labyrinth Jhond Golder Weighs in on the issue of Wallace’s regular property theft.       

****    Rumford on Pleasant Care Nursing Home abuses.       

****    Standing Up to Armed Deputies to Demand Sleeping Ban Records in the County Building.       

****    Street Interviews with Gregarious Greg & Others


TIPS FOR STUDIO SPACE?  $300 REWARD IF WE CAN RENT FOR A YEAR. 

TO REJOIN THE AIRWAVES…    POINT OUT A TALL TREE OR SECOND STORY WHERE WE CAN SET UP OUR PIRATE ANTENNA!


STILL MEETING THURSDAYS ABOVE THE BENCHLANDS– at 11 AM at the tables between the Benchlands camp and the County Building, but call the HUFF line for last-minute changes in time and location, which are increasingly likely. 

GET YOUR STORY OUT ON THE NET, contact Bathrobespierre Robert at the HUFF line (831-423-4833) or rnorse3@hotmail.com.  You can also comment on the Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom facebook page.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 9-23-21 show netcasts at freakradio.org and archives soon after 6 PM Monike Tone of Watsonville Warns of Friday Morning Sweep Coming Up

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If you wish, you can also hear this show (September 23, 2021) and other homeless civil rights shows at a time of your convenience, Click on http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .

Detailed descriptions are available at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/ soon after the show is aired or archived. 


ON THIS 9-23-21 SHOW:
Monike Tone, President of the Pajaro River Chapter of the California Homeless Union asks for help to resist tomorrow’s scheduled 8 AM sweep of the River Encampment.

Salinas County Homeless Advocate Wes White Confirms a massive sweep of the Riverbank is imminent tomorrow.


Murderous Philadelphia police attack on the MOVE collective in 1985.


“Tin Man” describes harassing police pressure in the Benchlands.

Still in the Benchlands 11 AM Thursday September 23rd at the tables between County Building and the Survival Encampment: New Move on River Encampments?

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Thoughts for an Agenda Prospects  for Thursday’s (9-23) Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom Meeting
 ​Diminishing numbers of participants and a lack of interest among San Lorenzo residents will most likely prompt a return to HUFF’s old meeting ground—the Sub Rosa–at its next get together on 9-23.  There’s also talk of reducing meeting frequency to twice a month rather than weekly.   Finally there is some interested in moving the day and perhaps the time of the HUFFmeet.   Come and weigh in if you’re interested.


  Latest Broodworthy Topics-      

+++ October Benchlands and River Eviction Notice


+++Excretia of the Special Shitty Council Meeting: A Positive HUFF Response


+++ Reports of regular police harassment in the Benchlands by top police officials (Mills & Butler)      

+++ Coalition and coordination prospects for West Side Cares, Sanitation for the People, SC Homeless Union      

+++ Homestead Rights for Vehicular Dwellers in Washington State

Meanwhile ongoing concerns include:
+++ Charting the Lack of “progress” on City shelter/storage alternatives
+++ Failure of legal support to solidify and localize Martin v. Boise protections for unhoused folks–as has been done in Novato and Chico.       +++ Lack of grass-roots S.C. Union and HUFF organizing utilizing many declarations already made by many unhoused victims      

+++ Hot weather conditions and lack of shade in the Benchlands      

+++ Fall off in on-site organization for emergency response to likely move on the Benchlands in the coming weeks (say an immediate campground established by housed volunteers): Coalition Co-ordination
+++ Vaccination discrimination & Antibody testing; SB 742

Research is needed into:
      +++ Vehicle Code Vivisection: Defanging Hobohammer SCPD’s Haebe and Dustheart Deborah Elston’s favorite tools for stealing homeless homes–the so-called 72-hour “abandoned vehicle” fraud.
      +++ Record of Failed protections against Psychiatric Deportations, the record of Reiss hearing failures, dumping and forced drugging of the  “mentally ill”.  (Free Radio show coming up on fighting forced drugging with attorney  Jim Gottstein & psych-survivor Roxanne Stewart-Johnson)

Still Awaiting Action:
      +++ Link-Up with Tenant and Student Organizations regarding the end of the Rent Moratoria and Unemployment Benefits

Reports from the Roughlands
      +++ Padre Panther on the Dakota Landing Agreement Camp (if he ever shows)
      +++ Petaluma Update  (in person or by paper)
      +++ Latest Police Actions Against the Benchlands Residents and SC Homeless Unionists
      +++ North Bay Updates:  North Bay Unhoused Movement on Facebook       +++ Latest on the Pledge to Defend the Benchlands (Sophie by phone?)


Santa Cruz Homeless Union and Coalition to Defend the Benchlands Still Meets 5 PM Friday 9-24 at the Tables above the Benchlands
September Street Sheet and Street Spirit newspapers still available!
Weather still variable and uncertain, come ready to bundle up or strip down.

Sunday 9-19-21 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show airs and archives 9:30 a.m. Political Hacks Fight Change in Chico; Rumbles and Rustles from Survival Encampments in Santa Cruz; Salinas Sweepsters Smash Survival Sanborn Underpass Encampments

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ON THE 9-19-21 SHOW:  
      +++   “Bathrobespierre” Robert vivisects the puffy posturings of City Homeless Czar Lee Butler as he fogs over shelter and storage issues.


      +++   Songs and Sage-ery from “Dark Times” David Rovics throughout


      +++    “Punish the Poor” Politician Chico Councilmember Sean Morgan Spits Up Smiling Savagery as the Injunction Holds in That City


      +++   Rovics’ Analysis “They’re Dirty” on the Kelly Butte Penal Pen


      +++    Chico Mayor Andrew Coolridge Defends Chico’s Continuing Attack on the Unhoused


      +++    “Whip Back the Wind” Wes White Rages at the Sanborn Underpass Sweeps


      +++    “Kitty Has Claws” Cooper on her last survival spots at Food Not Bombs      

+++     Troy Mason and John Keller report new harassment at ticketing in the Benchlands by none other than Bully Blueshirt Andy Mills.


FLASHING BACK TO THE FALL 1999 “CLUB CRUZ” TV SHOWS:​​
       ****  “Beggerbacker” Becky Johnson interviews Damian and Emily on the Santa Cruz City Council’s latest Police power-puffing “Shoulder Tap” law
       ****  “Bathrobespierre” Robert grills street Presidential contender Robert Steffan, subsequently “the Umbrella Man” or the “go slow guy”, on his struggle to gain shelter services from the Homeless (Lack of) Services Center & the City’s attempt to drive him from his bench in front of Bunny’s Shoes

TIPS FOR STUDIO SPACE?  WE REWARD YOU WITH $300 IF WE CAN RENT FOR A YEAR. 

WANT TO HEAR US BACK ON THE RADIO?  POINT OUT A TALL TREE OR SECOND STORY WHERE WE CAN SET UP OUR PIRATE ANTENNA!
STILL MEETING THURSDAYS ABOVE THE BENCHLANDS– at 11 AM at the tables between the Benchlands camp and the County Building, but call the HUFF line for last-minute changes, which are increasingly likely. 

GET YOUR STORY OUT ON THE NET, contact Bathrobespierre Robert at the HUFF line or rnorse3@hotmail.com.  You can also comment on the Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom facebook page.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 9-16-21 show netcasts at freakradio.org and archives around 6 PM THE SHOW IS ANOTHER ALL FLASHBACK to August 7, 2014 with co-hosts Pat Colbe and Doc Mike

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If you wish, you can also hear this show (September 16, 2021) and other homeless civil rights shows at a time of your convenience, Click on http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .Detailed descriptions are available at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/ soon after the show is aired or archived. 


ON THIS 9-16-21 SHOW, a FLASHBACK to 8-07-14
“Pick Your Punches” Pat Colbe updates her struggle with City Attorney Barisone for a disability accommodation to the “Move Along Every Hour” law downtown and his recent phone agreement that he refuses to put on paper”Agonizer” Azua Flashback to this SCPD’s reported brutalization of Synthia Kennedy on Saturday April 10, 2010 at (http://radiolibre.org/brb/brb100415.mp3 ) where Kennedy had her hair pulled out and was smashed against the squadcar

“Jetpen” John Colbe called in to report on his phone contact with Barisone8-2 FNB

Street Interviews: Beggarbacker Becky Johnson

Wraps-smith John Ireton reports a bracelet ticket on the BoardwalkMore reports from Strummer & Treadway

Typewriter Kevin DeVane Curtailing Local Protest with the “No Median Standing” Laws

Last Days of HUFFish summers in the Benchlands 11 AM Thursday September 16th at the tables between County Building and the Survival Encampment: Farewell to Goatland?

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Thoughts for an Agenda Prospects  for Thursday’s (9-16) Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom Meeting
 ​Diminishing numbers of participants and a lack of interest among San Lorenzo residents may prompt a return to HUFF’s old meeting ground—the Sub Rosa–at its next get together on 9-23.  There’s also talk of reducing meeting frequency to twice a month rather than weekly.   Come and weigh in if you’re interested.

Meanwhile ongoing concerns include:
       +++ Reports of regular police harassment in the Benchlands by top police officials (Mills & Butler)      

+++ No relief for seizure of vehicular homes on the far-West side      

+++ Lack of “progress” on City shelter/storage alternatives as part of the intensified Camping Ban passed last spring      

+++ Failure of legal support to solidify and localize Martin v. Boise protections for unhoused folks–as has been done in Novato and Chico.       +++ Lack of grass-roots S.C. Union and HUFF organizing utilizing may declarations already made by many unhoused victims      

+++ Hot weather conditions and lack of shade in the Benchlands      

+++ Fall off in on-site organization for emergency response to likely move on the Benchlands in the coming weeks (say an immediate campground established by housed volunteers): Coalition Co-ordination
      +++ Vaccination discrimination & Antibody testing

Research is needed into:
      +++ Vehicle Code Vivisection: Defanging Hobohammer SCPD’s Haebe and Dustheart Deborah Elston’s favorite tools for stealing homeless homes–the so-called 72-hour “abandoned vehicle” fraud.
      +++ Record of Failed protections against Psychiatric Deportations, the record of Reiss hearing failures, dumping and forced drugging of the  “mentally ill”.  (Free Radio show coming up on fighting forced drugging with attorney  Jim Gottstein & psych-survivor Roxanne Stewart-Johnson)

Still Awaiting Action:
      +++ Link-Up with Tenant and Student Organizations regarding the end of the Rent Moratoria and Unemployment Benefits

Reports from the Roughlands
      +++ Padre Panther on the Dakota Landing Agreement Camp
      +++ Latest Police Actions Against the Benchlands Residents and SC Homeless Unionists
      +++ North Bay Updates:  North Bay Unhoused Movement on Facebook       +++ Latest on the Pledge to Defend the Benchlands
      +++ Miniscule report on the 9-14 Shitty Council meeting (and perhaps the Supervipers latest Tiddletattle).


September Street Sheet and Street Spirit newspapers still available!

Sunday 9-12-21 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show airs and archives 9:30 a.m. or shortly thereafter: Roars of Resistance from Keith McHenry, Carol Denney, Peggy Lee Kennedy, & More Flashback to December 10, 2009–Psychiatric Stewpot

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ON THE 9-12-21 SHOW:  
      +++   “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry talks Benchlands Defense and California Homeless Union report from the Sacramento gathering.
      +++   Musical musings from Danielle Savage throughout.
      +++    David Rovics on “What 9/11 Derailed”      

+++    “Cornerstone” Carol Denney strikes out at Berkeley “Business Interest” Politics
      +++   Catholic Worker and Street Spirit newspaper distributor J.C. Orton recounts a day in the life.
      +++    People’s Park resident Chris F. reviews the good and the bad there.
      +++    Food Not Bombs Festival with comments from “Mad Mouth” Mike, Hannah from the Sentinel, San Jose Homeless Union’s Robert Aguirre, and Sea Otter      

+++    “Pick Your Poison” Peggy Lee Kennedy of Venice, CA, gives a grim review of L.A. Sweeps mounting up as COVID “Shelter-in-Place” evaporates.
    

FLASHING BACK TO THE 12-10-09 SHOW:​​
       ****  In-studio interview with Jenny Gomez, client advocate on the Santa Cruz Mental Health Advisory Board, whose son is trying to come off psychiatric drugs encouraging public attendance. 
       ****  & Genita Petralli, anti-psychiatry activist, Green Medicine activist, nutritional biochemist, author of Green Mental Health Care, How to Get Off and Stay off Psychiatric Drugs and founder of Shangra La Clinic
       ****   Why Santa Cruz’s failure to access alternate non-drug treatments, the dangers of psychiatric drugs, the success of state-funded alternate treatment in Sacramento?
       ****  Critique of Bob Johnson, then head of Santa Cruz Patient Services       

****  Alaska attorney & psychiatric survivor Jim Gottstein (http://www.psychrights.org ) phones in on psychiatric Medicaid fraud        ****  Critical discussion of Santa Cruz “Reiss hearings” supposedly protecting clients from forced drugging       

****  Street Interviews: early December: Anon reports rock throwers at homeless, first Smoking Ban tickets, 12-9: Drum Circle interview with Robert “Blindbear” Facer

FLASHBACKS SHOW HOW IMPORTANT A PHONE LINE IS TO CONNECT WITH THE COMMUNITY, TO DO THAT, WE REALLY NEED A CENTRAL LOCATION AND STUDIO!
       We long for studio space to restore the phone line to reopen Free Radio to the Community.  We crave tips on where to rent that spacer.  We’ll give a $300 reward if your tip lands us a year’s space. 

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 9-9-21 show netcasts at freakradio.org and archives around 6 PM THE SHOW IS ALL FLASHBACK to August 25, 2005 featuring anti-psychiatric abuse attorney Jim Gottstein

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If you wish, you can also hear this show (September 9, 2021) and other homeless civil rights shows at a time of your convenience, Click on http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .

Detailed descriptions are available at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/ soon after the show is aired or archived. 


ON THE 9-09-21 SHOW, a FLASHBACK to 8-25-05
“Crossroads” Chris Brozda, outspoken homeless advocate, calls in arrested for “disturbing the peace” while distributing his business card in an election campaign. 

Alaska anti-forced drugging attorney Jim Gottstein (psychrights.org) speaks on alternatives to overdruging in Trieste, Berne, Finland and elsewhere, outlining abuses in the psychiatric system.

Marilyn of San Diego calls in describing her son’s case held in Atascadero State Hospital.Jeff calls in from Support Coalition International  (mindfreedom.org) on falsified hospital records and how to form support networks.

Lisa Molyneux’s Santa Cruz Greenway dispendary report

Street interviews with Tiffany and Nick.

HUFF summers on in the Benchlands 11 AM Thursday September 9th at the tables between County Building and the Survival Encampment

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Preliminary and Partial Agenda Prospects  for Thursday’s (9-9) Meeting

+++ Sacramento Union of the Homeless Update from Keith or Wes       +++ Vehicle Code Vivisection: Defanging Hobohammer Haebe and Dustheart Deborah Elston’s favorite tools for stealing homeless homes
+++ Street, Park, and Camp Reports Re: Discrimination, Sweep Threats, Goat Breakthroughs, etc.      

+++ Federal Eviction Moratorium Gone; California’s Moratorium Going;  State Unemployment Benefits at Risk
+++ Panther May Report on the Dakota Landing Agreement Camp
+++ Little Bites off the Beast: Possible Projects?
+++ North Bay Updates:  North Bay Unhoused Movement on Facebook       +++ Latest on the Pledge to Defend the Benchland

+++ Coming Up on Free Radio: First Psychiatric Refugee Granted Asylum–Jim Gottstein and Roxanne Stewart-Johnson      

+++ Another Shitty Council Meeting 9-14; City Hall Bathrooms finally open; Shelters Closing      

+++ New September Street Sheet and Street Spirit newspapers available!