The July 27th, 2023 show includes Flashback…

…Selections from the April 27^th show including
++++ Julio Sanchez on no shelter here; “Whatever” (aka David Darnoll) on harassed under bridge for sleeping; Sabrina & family on police tickets for sleeping;
++++ Bathrobespierre Robert and Beggarbacker Becky profile City Council’s arbitrary, authoritarian, and alternate-fact approach to the public;                     

++++ Becky on Beatings of homeless folks like Stephen Dawson & Brad Mills and SCPD blockade against contacting the victims                     

++++ Interview with Lee Apartments manager Julie Constanza Gomez in the Mercy Charities Housing Dolphin-Lee scandal.                     

++++ Conservative business community activist Mike Schmidt on his plea to Mayor Keith Sugar
….Selections from the April 30^th show including                   

++++  “Dead-On” David Silva’s step up of the Sleep Fast Campaign calling for phone-in’s during Sleepy Time to Council at home                    ++++   4-3-98:  Controversy at Ali Baba’s Cafe, Sidewalk Chalk, & Disturbing the Peace—James Nay & Scarecrow Report                   

++++   Nay describes peaceful sitting-on-the-floor Council protest to Mercury News Reporter John Woolfolk                   

++++   Sleeping Ban Table Interviews: Cassandra Fox, Michael Tomasi defender, Michael and Morena, and more             

++++   Woodsy Sleeping Then and Now
++++    4-29-98:  Chamber of Commerce Mike Schmidt phone update supports suspension of Sleeping Ban on outskirts

The Sunday July 23^rd 2023 show includes:

• HUFF meeting of July 20th—Kazoo on FEMA storm relief mixed results for homeless
• Monica on Delaware St. ticketing of OVs
• Keith McHenry’s phone call to HUFF detailing Baba Ito’s loss of website, property, liberty, and health while forcibly medicated under City/County coercion, upcoming Hiroshima Day anti-war protest August 6^th 11 AM, Golf Club Drive car tows, 
• HUFF Resolution:  US Out of the Ukraine, stop arming Ukraine.
• Gaia (Laura Tucker)’s report on the successful but incomplete struggle to retain trailer park home in Capitola
• Wes White’s on-the-spot report on the Salinas sweeps—staving off removal for a few days.
• Pop-up Pickle pusher “Pickle Chris” on Pacific Avenue in front of New Leaf & other downtown vendors. 

Portions of the August 20^th 1998 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show include (with some audio distortion):

• TRUSC (Tenants Right Union of Santa Cruz) activist Donna Deiss on County government collusion with landlords
• Berkeley Report on conservative faction funding Sitting Ban on Telegraph Avenue—Operation AveWatch and a Protest in front of Andy Ross’s Bookstore (“Cody’s”) supporting anti-Street People protest under the guise of fighting anti-Semitism.
• Anthony Popernick of Pirate Radio in Watsonville:  Radio Watson
• Wanda Knight—Problems with the Seaside Company and Racism in Felton and the County

Portions of the August 23^rd  1998 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show include (some audio fuzzy):

• Bathrobespierre’s  Rogue’s Round-Up: Update of Police and D.A. Misconduct in Recent Police Shootings & other Local Titled Felons
• Phil Barr, Community Activist and Beach Flats Activist, on Recent Events in City Council’s 3^rd St. Realignment
• Pacific Avenue Patter: Rainbow denounces merchant harassment of disabled Jeanie; Officer Over’s Misdeeds
• Phil Free on Housing Crunch, Kitten Reynolds’ Letter, and the DTA’s “Give the Homeless a Shove not a Sheckel” Program
• More Nasty Newsbriefs from Phil Barr
• “Big Nurse” Jane Haagstrom of Berkeley’s Alta Bates Hospital on the Psychiatric Scene including Shock Therapy & Medications
  
• “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster
• “Dead On” David Silva on the Campaign against Miguel Guttierez.

The July 20, 2023 edition of Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides is a Flashback to December 2, 1999 which includes: 

       +++  In-studio guest Councilmember Chris Krohn ducking questions about whether he supports substantive action to end the Sleeping Ban and to curb police abuse 

             +++  Krohn finally cites “the homeless”, a downtown plaza, and entertainment fees, not ready to introduce rent control.

             +++  Krohn cites Council achievements:  skateboard park prep, grant seeker, tidelands acquisition prep,  

             +++  Rotkin joins Krohn in-studio:  the Shoulder Tap law:  if you ask another person to get you a beer  and you’re under 21, and they buy you a beer it’s a crime; so why make simple speech a crime? 

             +++  Bathrobespierre notes SCPD chief Belcher has presented three different laws on three different years for youth curfew, levee walking after dark, and now the shoulder tap law—all without statistics that get rubberstamped. 

             +++   Former juvenile court worker Mike Smith expressed concern about possibility of youth getting a record; Krohn notes can’t youth be sent to juvenile hall if already on probation; what if parents not home?; target adult suppliers not the youth; law a move-along, stay-away ordinance from cops and merchants 

             +++   Video broadcaster Becky Johnson vs. former Mayor Mike Rotkin: businesses seeking to expand stay-away orders 

             +++   Jeff’s report from the WTO protests in Seattle 

             +++   “Scope it Out” Scott fears harsher punishment for poor kids than rich ones under Shoulder Tap 

             +++   Eric Stewart notes being targeted by folks in a vehicle and facing other anti-homeless attacks.

     The July 20, 2023 edition of Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides is a Flashback to December 2, 1999 which includes:        

+++  In-studio guest Councilmember Chris Krohn ducking questions about whether he supports substantive action to end the Sleeping Ban and to curb police abuse               

+++  Krohn finally cites “the homeless”, a downtown plaza, and entertainment fees, not ready to introduce rent control.
+++  Krohn cites Council achievements:  skateboard park prep, grant seeker, tidelands acquisition prep,                

+++  Rotkin joins Krohn in-studio:  the Shoulder Tap law:  if you ask another person to get you a beer  and you’re under 21, and they buy you a beer it’s a crime; so why make simple speech a crime?               

+++  Bathrobespierre notes SCPD chief Belcher has presented three different laws on three different years for youth curfew, levee walking after dark, and now the shoulder tap law—all without statistics that get rubberstamped.             

+++   Former juvenile court worker Mike Smith expressed concern about possibility of youth getting a record; Krohn notes can’t youth be sent to juvenile hall if already on probation; what if parents not home?; target adult suppliers not the youth; law a move-along, stay-away ordinance from cops and merchants             

+++   Video broadcaster Becky Johnson vs. former Mayor Mike Rotkin, businesses seeking to expand stay-away orders             

+++   Jeff’s report from the WTO protests in Seattle             

+++   “Scope it Out” Scott fears harsher punishment for poor kids than rich ones under Shoulder Tap             

+++   Eric Stewart notes being targeted by folks in a vehicle and facing other anti-homeless attacks 

The Sunday July 16, 2023 edition of Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides includes:       

+++  https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/scotland-decriminalize-drugs-uk-government-100887678

+++  Dreamcatcher’s latest adventures: bike transfers, overdoses, new Armory residence, and more
+++   Vicki and Nicola on the police assault against Vicki next to the Dregs/Munch cafe             

+++   Pacific Avenue Snapshots:  Tamarack Drum Meditator, Bhakta—Swami on the Sidewalk      

+++   “Ready to Roll” Reggie Meisler plotting pushback against the OVO (Oversized Vehicle Ordinance)

Also included:  Flashback to partial section of Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides January 2, 2000
+++   “Maryland Latest to Rethink Bootcamps” for Juvenile Offenders
+++   UCSC Camping Criminal Brian; Richard Williams on Homeless Families; Tess Armello—memories of brothers assaulted by deputies; Rolland on rousted alcoholics on beach; Panhandler on the Pavement   

+++   Barricaded rooftop band-sters hold off the coppers           

+++   Jaywalking tickets on Pacific Avenue—Mark & Sonny Harper Report             

+++   Sufferin’ Bob’s New Year’s Eve Copwatch Report             

+++   Homeless Issues Task Force [HITF]’s on Mayor Sugar’s Refusal to Put Sleeping Ban on the Agenda December 7^th              

+++   Beggarbacker Becky on the Homeless Deaths for 1999—first annual list 18 deaths since Jan 1999

             
Additionally: Flashback to partial section of Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides January 6, 2000            

+++    Scott Clod on Officer Over’s attempt to steal homeless backpacks    +++    “Scope it Out” Scott denouncing Broadway-Brommer Bike Path as Cop Surveillance Device
+++    Tracy D’Angelis on  New Year’s Eve Copwatch & Steadfast Steve Argue in Jail           

+++    Eichorn Case and the Necessity Defense in Homeless Cases            +++    Homeless Services Center Director and HITF Vice-Chair Ken Cole outspokenly critical of ordinances used to harass the homeless            +++    Rough-tongued Roxanne Acqusitepache on shadow mayor Beiers strategy to make the new Council impotent on homeless issues            +++    Friendly-to-a-Fault Fred Geiger on labor, Beach Flats, and transportation issues 

The July 13, 2023 edition of Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides includes parts of two earlier shows.
The first Flashback is from Sunday December 26, 1999 and includes:

• Cleveland’s commercial crackdown artists go after their homeless population.
• “Camper” discusses lean panhandling days in Santa Cruz.
• Pied Piper Steve Sullivan rhapsodizes on various civic matters.
  
• [12-5-1999] “Tuf to be tender” Laura Tucker on an earlier assault
• [12-1-1999] “Bedrock” David Beauvais, Berkeley Civil Rights attorney discusses his defense of the Explicit Players, a nude performing group.
• Talking with the Telegraph Ave. Sit criminals of Berkeley
• Poet Julia Vinograd talks election disappointment and unlooses some poetry.

The second segment is a Flashback is from Thursday December 30, 1999 and includes:

• Co-Host James “Nuts to the Knuckleheads” Nay joins Bathrobespierre reviewing an L.A. Times story from Los Angeles’ Pershing Park where Food Not Bombs food servers were getting busted.
• Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs V-Man’s story of on First Night New Year’s 1996-7 selectively targeted for open container on Pacific Ave by Officer Le Moss
• Bathrobespierre Recaps the Happy John Dine Murder and Cover-Up of November 1967 from cops to review board to City Council
• [12-14] Calling the public to call out the cops for false ticketing as in this instance Jaywalking on Pacific Avenue
• $500,000 for a Homeless Kitchen but sleeping bans and no shelter expansion as Mayor Sugar sweeps past public comments by homeless supporters in mid-winter’s last Council meeting of the year
• [October 1999 interviews] Sleep seekers fleeing police, “Black Man in America”, Officer Swanek’s prey
• [12-14] Testimony before the Closed Session of City Council on the Dolphin-Lee Project from Bathrobespierre Robert, “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster, “Rough-tongued” Roxanne Acquistepache, “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson 
• Call-in’s on the Dolphin-Lee Deal from Beach Flats landlord/resident Phil Baer & “Scope it Out” Scott Graham on City’s trading $2 million in Redevelopment money to dump hundreds of residents at the Dolphin and Lee apartments.

The July 9^th Sunday show includes:

• ACLU Chair & Community Activist Peter Geldblum’s letter to the Press-Banner challenging Scotts Valley P.D. Chief
• State court affirms (very) limited right to sue police, limiting their boundless qualified immunity in California.
• Catching up with Cooper D’Angelo—Clucking around the Clock.
• Peace Activist Laura S. calls for another anti-war rally (next protest 11 AM Thursday August 6 Hiroshima Day Town Clock)
• Kazoo Curbside Complaints—Life Downtown for a Coral St. Resident
• Roxroy on racial discrimination in “progressive” Santa Cruz
• Badinage, Blather, Bickering, and Bitter Updates at last Thursday’s HUFF meeting

Flashback repeat of the December 5^th , 1999 show gives you:

• A Vet’s judicious support for struggle to find safe spaces to sleep.
• David, five years homeless van dweller. & petition circulator, on yesterday’s abusive assault and arrest
• City Council Preview: Shoulder-tap Shenanagans and ignoring the Homeless Issues Task Force [HITF]
• Beggarbacker and Bathrobespierre discuss the Injunction banning Robert Steffan, the “slow-moving” Pink Umbrella guy, from sitting on the Bunny’s Shoes-adjacent bench
• Margaret Payne, Bunny’s Shoes Rep, defends their move to ban Steffan from the public bench next to their store.
• Caller and FRSC Broadcaster Merlin and Bathrobespierre discuss possible solutions other than banning Steffan.
• Skidmark Bob’s experiences with similar merchant abuse (Stewart Martin and the ID Building); on-street interviews on the issue.
• Interview with Charlie Stevens, the Public Defender, who defended Steffan for sleeping on the porch of the Homeless Services Center
• “Scope it Out” Scott Graham on the Almar Avenue Appeal—to ban (homeless) parking on the West side.
• Beggarbacker and Bathrobespierre demand the only Independent Investigation of police violence in the anti-bombing Kosovo demo be made public, and that folks ignore the distraction of the Citizens Police Review Board and focus on SCPD abuses directly.

Flashback repeat of the December 16^th, 1999 includes:

• “Dead-on” David Silva on police settlement requiring training, with video of Sgt. Crain explaining why he manhandled Silva, who was presenting petitions to City Council, got $20,000 (and wrote off $100,000 to get police training)
• Bathrobespierre seconds HITF‘s motion to demand suspension of Sleeping Ban-laws and that be put on the City Council agenda immediately
• Interview with Joe Barker, attacked back in April, and beaten by neo-Nazi Aaron Burch and his associates.
• Beggarbacker reports on Homeless Service Center Board refused to fund a late-night Security bus for the Armory.

Today’s July 6, 2023 Show includes:       

+++++  “Catch me Twice, Shame on Me” Keith McHenry on the International Political Scene     

+++++   A horrific report on the fate of Baba Ito—writer, healer, and Santa Cruz local—held captive in the County by the Mental Healthmongers     

+++++   “Whip ’em into Shape” Wes White on stalling the Salinas Union Pacific Homeless Sweeps     

+++++   “Mind over Master” Monica on the Oversized Vehicle scene up Delaware Roadway and the cold forgetful heart of the De Anza Coach Owners, screwed over by the same City now stealing the homes of those in RVs.     

[throughout]  Many a tune by David Rovics