HUFF glubs in tomorrow at 10:45 AM with coffee and crunchables at the Sub Rosa Cafe on January 12th (Thursday) 2023

HUFF Agenda Prospects 1-12-23:

  ++++  Time keeper; Pass-arounds; street reports

  ++++  Sham Shelter Shenangans—the City plays possum as the disabled get drenched

  ++++  Felton Flatfoot Felonies: Helga Reports   

  ++++   Injunction Lawsuit Prerequisites: Need for warnings, notice, prior property damage, shelter exclusion, absence, or shortage

  ++++  1-11 SC Homeless Union cancelled “Community Action meeting” 5 pm  1-15-23  RCNV side room at 612 Ocean   Keith McHenry’s “Jailed for Serving Food While Ducking the Rain” Court Date Jan 30 8:30 AM

  ++++  Action? : Any ideas for action re: Moneyman Ratner or City Mangler on Winter Shelter Absence, Emergency Shelter Drenching & the pathetic soon-to-end Depot Park mini-Shelter?

  ++++  Updates: Meta, Steve C., wheelchair Steve on Shelter Shit if they or their advocates show up.

 ++++   Posting video of the Benchlands Demolition, Researching the Costs, & adding titles for infovideo  

 ++++   Tabling at Clock, Pogonip, Levee, elsewhere for Lawsuit Pressure and Survival Encampment Network

  ++++  Discussing the “What to Do when a Cop sez Move” flyer  

  ++++  Phone Contact:  Robbie Powelson’s Recent Court Hearing:  Possible Phone Update

  ++++  More phone fun: Rita of Salinas, Joy, Suzanne, Becky  

  ++++  Expanded Ukraine War with More Weapons, No Negotiations: Peace Demos 

  ++++  Benchlands phoning to follow-up contact list?  Callers still wanted.  

  ++++  Shelter copspots & wretched rules—reports?  Watchers wanted!  

  ++++  Updated SC Free Guide: www.santacruz:  Still looking for definitive answers

  ++++  Varied Strategies for Fighting Back:  (Loudmouth Tactics, Self-Starter Legal Options, Contact & Follow-Up, Community Support Gathering, Narrative Corrections Publicly); Laura & Rita:  “Know Your Rights” card progress

    ++++  RV crackdown on Delaware: Reggie M. call  

   ++++  RV Sanctuaries?  Armory, Overlook Camp, Overlook RV Camp, AFC camps: Rules & Reports    

   ++++  Possible Mad Power Committee Report (if any)Report that 5150’s now go directly to Dominican: Conservatorship C.A.R.E. courts, out-of-county deportation, inadequate Reiss protections; Carvalho update, Laura’s Update 

   ++++  Homeless Expenditure Data Cruncher Still Wanted   

USEFUL INFO 

  ++++ ” Santa Cruz City Mangler Closes Civic Auditorium Shelter” at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/01/08/18853734.php

  ++++ ” RV Human Rights Activist Challenges Santa Cruz City Police Violation” at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/01/11/18853776.php

  ++++ ” Wood Street not just an encampment” at https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20230105/281788518150472

  ++++  “Many Homeless tough out storm outside” at https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-homeless-people-tough-out-storm-outside-17695371.php

  ++++  “S.F. questions ban on clearing tent camps” at https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20230105/281586654687560

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Show 1-8-23 headlines: City Mangler closes Emergency Civic Shelter & More! Flashback features artists Alex and Joff, Nick Voliach, Carol Denney, Tom Noddy, & Keith McHenry

City Manager Matt Huffaker’s latest attack on homeless health and safety is described at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/01/08/18853734.php (Santa Cruz City Mangler Closes Civic Auditorium Closes Civic Auditorium)

The 1-8-23 Show includes:

The May 8, 2016 Flashback Show includes:

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Show 1-5-23 is mainly a Flashback from November 8, 2007

LATE FLASH:  The Civic Center Flooding and Wet Weather Emergency Pop-Up Shelter—open for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday nights—is reportedly closing down in spite of 8″ of predicted rain by Monday.  A worker reports that folks were ousted at 9 AM on the order of the new Mayor (Fred Keeley), some still unable to secure their property indoors, though staff are within denying entrance (as of 1 p.m. Saturday). 
There is no indication that the Civic will reopen as emergency shelter in time for torrential rains predicted for early next week (as well as showers through the weekend)
So, the City is spending money harassing homeless folks in the rain (see below) but refuses to extend Civic Auditorium shelter in spite of flood conditions. 
City homeless funding is still unaccounted for. 
City shelter programs are inaccessible to the majority of those outside. 
Now, as for the last few years, there has been no drop-in winter shelter as in past years.The City has refused to fund Brent Adams’ Footbridge Services—causing the only free storage program in town to shut down along with his laundry, women’s support, and other daily services.
To comment on this harsh but typical policy, contact City Mangler Matt Huffaker at mhuffaker@cityofsantacruz.com or the new Santa Cruz Mayor “Fast Lane'”Fred Keeley
at fkeeley@cityofsantacruz.com .


On the Thursday netshow described below there is also a brief interview with Arnie, a Civic Center Shelter occupant on Wednesday night, who reports he was harassed and directed to move along twice by police in the rain, and even threatened when under the parking garage shelter (“be gone by 8”).

In the November 8, 2007 Flashback:

  • Bathrobespierre Robert fires “where can the homeless go during the possibly toxic Light Brown Apple Moth spraying” to then-Councilmember Tony Madrigal.  Madrigal, to his credit, was out tabling, giving out masks, and expressing public concern about the spraying (also opposed by the City Council).  However, he had no particular interest in pressing publicly for shelter from the spraying—even in the parking garages.
  • Callers express their outrage and provide updates.  Among them “Dangerous John” Thielking, Visionsong Valerie Christy, Skidmark Bob Duran, Mad but Mindful Maddison, and others.
  • President Bush’s boys defend waterboarding, a bit of its history.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Show 1-1-23 will be available as an archive at 9:30 AM: Berkeley’s Cornerstone Carol, Santa Cruz’s Katzenjammer Keith, the HUFF gang, and more!

On the 1-1-23 show: 

  • A few new laws for 2023:  https://apnews.com/article/abortion-california-law-enforcement-gavin-newsom-04d3681d700b4ee8e994d8d16b215ffa
  • “Caught but Carefree” Keith McHenry on his 12-27 “serving food out of the rain in Public parking lot #10” arrest by SCPD Officer Denise Cockrum and his subsequent powwow with Top Cop Escalante & more
  • SC Homeless Union acolyte Shane Braden (aka Casper) on police problems for doing push-up’s at the Metro
  • Roxray the Bestboy Hanton on a racially motivated stop or two and some tattoo checks by curious cops
  • Joe, Dreamcatcher, Drew, and an anonymous videoster on Cockrum’s timely handcuffing of McHenry for unauthorized use of public space in the rain.
  • Cornerstone Carol Denney on Mayor Arreguin’s betrayal of his progressive fans in the class war against the poor
  • Sharpheart Suzanne brings up the case of wheelchair Steve “exited” from Housing (Funding) Matters
  • The unexpurgated HUFF meeting from 1-1-2023 (long)

HUFF swims in tomorrow at 10:45 AM at the warm comfy and coffee-laden Sub Rosa Cafe on January 5th (Thursday) 2023

HUFF Agenda Prospects 1-5-22    

  ++++  Time keeper; Pass-arounds; street reports

  ++++  Rain reports of police action in the Parking Lots; Civic Auditorium Shelter Report 

  ++++  Felton Update: Helga     

  ++++   Updates on Injunction Lawsuit: Need for warnings, notice, prior property damage, shelter exclusion, absence, or shortage

  ++++  No indication of SC Homeless Union Return though “Community Action meeting” 5 pm  1-15-23  RCNV side room at 612 Ocean  

  ++++  Action? : Any ideas for action re: Moneyman Ratner or City Mangler on Winter Shelter Absence, given the new Civic Auditorium one-night shelter. 

  ++++  Updates from Meta, Steve C. on Slippery Shelter Shenanigans perhaps if they show up.

  ++++  Responding to and judging the McHenry Parking Garage arrest

 ++++   Posting the Benchlands Demolition, Researching the Costs, and adding it to an informational video  

 ++++   Tabling at Clock, Pogonip, Levee, elsewhere for Lawsuit Pressure  

  ++++  Discussing the “What to Do when a Cop sez Move” flyer  

  ++++  Phone Contact:  Robbie Paulson’s Recent Court Hearing:  Phone Update

  ++++  More phone fun: Rita of Salinas, Joy, Suzanne, Becky  

  ++++  Ukraine War Updates: Peace Demos 

  ++++  Benchlands follow-up contact list?  Callers still wanted.  

  ++++  Shelter shuffling—reports?  Watchers wanted!   

  ++++  Disability Rights Contacts for Lawsuit

  ++++  Updated SC Free Guide: www.santacruz:  How accurate now? 

  ++++  Varied Strategies for Fighting Back:  (Loudmouth Tactics, Self-Starter Legal Options, Contact & Follow-Up, Community Support Gathering, Narrative Corrections Publicly); Laura & Rita:  “Know Your Rights” card progress 

  ++++  New Year’s Eve Report for those on the street 

    ++++  RV crackdown on Delaware: Reggie M. call  

   ++++  Armory, Overlook Camp, Overlook RV Camp, AFC camps: Rules & Reports    

   ++++  Possible Mad Power Committee Report (if any)Report that 5150’s now go directly to Dominican: Conservatorship C.A.R.E. courts, out-of-county deportation, inadequate Reiss protections; Carvalho update,  

   ++++  Homeless Expenditure Data Cruncher Still Wanted   

USEFUL INFO 

  ++++  “Funding Matters” Homeless Memorial 2022   :  

  ++++  Town Clock- Homeless Union/Food Not Bombs Memorial 2022: 

   ++++   Most of the Last HUFF Meeting (12-29-22): https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/FRSC%201-1-23.mp3 (3 hours, 30 minutes or so into the fileP)

  ++++   Blast and Background from “Backstory” Brent Adams:  https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/1%20FRSC%2012-18-22.mp3  (31 minutes in; 105 minutes in) 

  ++++  Court implements Boise v. Martin decision in S.F. https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-could-be-banned-temporarily-from-clearing-17672846.php