The December 28, 2023 show is a Flashback to the October 6, 2016 show.  It includes: 

• Part 2 of Beggerbacker Johnson’s account of the “Criminal Chalking” case  (related material at https://www.counterpunch.org/2003/02/22/hopscotch-rebellion/)
• Palo Malo of the Cannabis Activists Alliance on County marijuana restriction efforts and Prop. 64 (failed) Legalization for Recreation; dangers of state regs eliminating collective garden option under 1996’s medical marijuana Prop 215
• [10-5] Silva critiques the ACLU Forum on Houselessness as a political candidate booster and a guy selling a book. 
• Steve Pleich, master of ceremonies, gets Bathrobespierre’s critique, announces the forum.
• Wes White, Monterey County Homeless Union,  on the Salinas scene.
• Mike Rhodes, author of Dispatches from the War Zone, and how he got involved in Fresno.

HUFF Agenda Prospects 12-28-23       

  ++++  Priorities, Placeholder Run-through & Hand-Outs , Passarounds    

  ++++  Hand-outs: TBA  

  ++++  Street reports; As ever…Beach, Parking Lots, Pogonip, Library, Levee  

  ++++  Homeless Memorial on line: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/12/27/18861406.php  

Tick-Tock: Token Tidbits in the Winter War on the Homeless 

  ++++  HUFF Notes & Announcements:TBA   

  ++++  Possible phone contacts: Reggie M’s Latest Oversized Vehicle Report; Marin’s Robbie Powelson on Camp Integrity in San Rafael. 

  ++++  Protest Targets for Winter Shelter/Stop the Sweeps: City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission…  

  ++++  City Council refusal to meet for December Gaza ceasefire resolution 

  ++++  Homeless Persons Legal Assistance Project 10-noon  except M,Tu, W, F at UN HQ with blue banner in window at 903 Pacific Ave.  Civil Grand Jury     

  ++++  Alicia Kuhl: OVO update/support for possible protests as well as point-in-time count outcome; Kuhl’s concerns.  

  ++++  Local Anti-War Action:  Ocean/Water St. Saturday picketing 10 am-noon  

  ++++  Confronting Gaza Homelessness—What can Santa Cruzans do?

  ++++  Oakland clears out anchor-outs creating more rough sleepers \https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/12/21/oakland-police-clear-abandoned-boats-anchor-outs-warned-to-leave-estuary/ 

   ++++ Serf City Times resumes 12-29 https://serf-city-times.constantcontactsites.com 

   ++++  Placeholder followup—study groups:  student anti-war contacts, Darius rental follow-up, Psych rights subcommittee; ticket documenting/public records act request filing  

TO HEAR THE BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES NET-RADIO SHOW:               

          Anytime after 6 PM Thursday and 9:30 AM Sunday for the latest show, go to: http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  Click on the Latest Show  of the date you want              

The Sunday December 24, 2023 show includes:

• Stan Freberg’s “Green Xmas” of 1950s vintage (also available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5IXlfJSEi4)
• [12-12] More futile voices asking for even a semblance of symbolic justice and sanity (i.e. a Gaza ceasefire demand) from the Santa Cruz Shitty Council—which preferred to leave on vacation as the ethnic cleansing/genocide escalated.
• [12-21] Alicia Kuhl of the Santa Cruz County Homeless Advocates on the Homeless Death situation this year 
• [12-21] Some of the names of the Homeless Dead read at the Town Clock Memorial in the late afternoon
• A Red Xmas Carol radio play by the S.F. Mime Troupe
• [12-18]  Ceci in the remains of Berkeley’s People’s Park on the recent eviction efforts there.
• Berkeleyside article on the 8^th and Harrison encampment struggle: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/12/22/west-berkeley-homeless-encampment-8th-harrison-closure 
  
• Street Sheet: COH vs. S.F. the fight to enforce the Injunction protecting those outside: http://www.streetsheet.org/coalition-on-homelessness-et-al-vs-san-francisco-lawyers-make-the-case-for-stopping-sweeps/
• Still more eloquent unheard voices at the Santa Cruz Shitty Council pleading for a response during the Oral Communications period

The Flashback to March 5, 2015 contains:

• Food Not Bombs hassled by SCPD for its banner at the Main Post Office meal and clothing donation
• Hiway 17 blockage by UCSC students against tuition hikes and police violence
• Norse’s nettlesome local updates
• Expanded cop-initiated Stay Away orders in parks
• Col Terry Maxwell supporting the Bearcat but not the way the SCPD slipped it past City Council
• Bad Times with “Big John”, the library security guard.
• [2-26]  Street Interviews…”Lookin’ for Love”(Jay, Jack, and Mark), Oz on ticket-signing strategy, Keith M. on SCRAM (against Militarization)
• Papa John and Curtis Reliford making vehicular music on the street

The Service Providers Memorial lasted 2 ½ hours.  

A listing of the names of the dead is posted at https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2023/12/27/homeless_dead_2023_.png 

When HUFF attempted to get more information, David Davis, who seemed to be running the memorial, refused and redirected us to the County Recorder’s Office (https://www.santacruzcountyca.gov/rcd/).  See “Tick-Tock: Token Tidbits in the Winter War on the Homeless” at 

The Memorial may be further described in the Full Blog Archive on the HUFF website at https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/category/huff-communications/at a future date.  

Prior Memorials are available for the last few years at https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .  

Much early Memorials are likely available in whole or part at http://radiolibre.org/brb/ .  Click on shows at or shortly after December 21^st of the year you’re interested in.   Questions?  Feel free to call me at 831-423-4833.

The contemporary events section of the Sunday December 17, 2023 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:

• [12-13] “Cage Me Not” Cooper & Dreadeye recount the latest police seizure 
• [12-12]  Angry voices at Santa Cruz City Council’s Oral Communications denounce Israel’s merciless bombing of Israel, demand a ceasefire, and receive no assurances of action until mid-January.
• [12-16] “Scope it Out” Scott Graham deconstructs the Council’s Automatic License Reader Surveillance devices, passed at it’s 12-12 meeting and recalls an older Council’s sell-out of the rent control agreement with De Anza Mobile Home Park.
• Mike Quinn, street artist, [12-12] and Shawn the petitioner [12-13] on their recent activities
• https://www.poormagazine.org/post/camp-integrity-s-injunction-against-san-rafael-s-anti-camping-ordinance
• https://pacificsun.com/everybody-poops-yet-stingy-san-rafael-stymies-sanitation/
• https://davidrovics.blogspot.com › 2023 › 12 › from-battersea-to-burnside-bridge.html
• [12-8] Another report from a Berkeley law student watching the Gaza protests

The Flashback to the February 6, 2000 show (partial) includes:

• Food Not Bombs [FNB] Videojournalist Hugh Mejia on police backoff, international expansion, and the struggle to be heard in the courts.
• Caller Jim Smigma, upcoming City Council meeting, recent homeless deaths, discussion of Silva’s fast
• Silva’s Press Conference announcing his fast from late January
• Becky Johnson before the Board of Supervisors on Solitary Confinement, inadequate blankets, in the main jail.

The Flashback to the February 10, 2000 show includes:

• Street Light (homeless San Diego monthly) story published by Forrest Curo about police shooting of a homeless guy by Ron Sills.
• Interview with Street Spirit editor Terry Messman on the protest against Proposition E (stripping homeless folks of money and giving them housing vouchers).
• Two interviews with Kevin Clark, low-income auto rental provider at Front and Laurel, fighting City Council’s move to seize his business and turn it into a Nickelodeon parking lot.
• Challenging the Dolphin-Lee (Nueva Vista) Project at the Redevelopment Agency
• Beach Flats resident Phil Baer—dialogue on the Dophin-Lee.
• Speaking with Umbrella Man-in-a-garbage-bag outside Bunny’s Shoes on harassment by high schoolers—the Robert Stephan report.
• [12-18] Windsong Wendy caught panhandling after dark on Pacific Ave.
• Decorous Dan Hopkins on the Almar Avenue appeal—NIMBY’s seek to put up “No Parking” signs.
• Copwatcher Becky Johnson videos a “Driving While Brown” ticket.  Interview with the driver Aaron.
• Steadfast Steve Argue calls in from jail—on being beaten up by Deputy Zamora.

The introduction includes:

• a brief summary of the December 25, 2014 Flashback
• a short update on recent events
• a quick conversation with Reggie Meisler on the Coastal Commission’s hearing in Santa Cruz tomorrow and the Oversized Vehicle status.

The Flashback to December 25, 2014 includes: 

• Lane-Comstock “Performance Pens” [PP], new laws passed 11-18, going into force now severely limiting vending, sitting, sparechanging, or performing replacing the earlier Sidewalk Shrinkage laws passed in 2013 to discourage visible homeless and street person presence
• Deconstruction and detailing of the PP law
• Vice-Mayor Don Lane fields criticisms from Kate Winzell, Bathrobespierre, Alex the Artist, and others on the PP law
• “Dead-on” David Silva calls in to announce he’ll do some public sidewalk dancing to help end the Sleeping Ban
• Lengthy interview with Doug Loisel, former Executive Director of the Homeless [Lack of] Services Center, now called “Housing Matters”, discussing his work with Homeless Runaway Youth in Monterey and his memories of Santa Cruz’s homeless services.

The Sunday December 10, 2023 show features:

• “Hurricane” Helga Neibel on the recent raids along the levee path in Santa Cruz and elsewhere
• Helga on her own experiences in post-WWII Germany as a child and how she came to be a homeless activist
• https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-supervisors-ceasefire-18535295.php: Hundreds pack S.F. City hall as supervisor introduces resolution calling for case-fire in Israel-Hamas war
• “Backstory” Brent Adams: Lessons from his decade-long work providing services with the Warming Center and Footbridge Services
• “The Brave and the Free” and others protest the ACLU award to Gail Newel.
• Voices from the weekly Saturday 10 am-noon protest at Ocean and Water Sts. demanding an end to the Israeli bombing of Gaza.

The Flashback to October 10, 1994 includes: 

• “Visionsong” Valerie at the Copwatch table and other describing heavy police response to a “spitting on the sidewalk” incident.
• Federal marshals bust Free Radio Santa Cruz [FRSC] with comments from Ray Greuenich, Joe Williams, V-Man, Roxanne Acquistepache, Mark Primack, Brian Murphy, Skidmark Bob, Uncle Dennis, Becky Johnson, Valerie Christy, Lisa Braun, and Tim Rinker.
• Sheryl Koel, Supervisor of the FCC raid, fields angry questions; Mayor Scott Kennedy expresses support for FRSC; further comments by John Thielking, Augusto Sandino, Chris Krohn, and others.
• Capitola call:  Diss-ing the Deaf-to-Compassion Deputy down on dumpster-diving.
• Anderson Valley Anderson  columnist Fred Gardner on Defending Marijuana Safety and Access in the face of arrests in D.C.
• Commentary by Bathrobespierre on Ryan Coonerty’s refusal to come on the air; Nader, and other incidentals.

The December 7, 2023 show is a Flashback to July 29, 2004 including:

• Occasional tunes from Visionsong Valerie C
• [7-3-04] Pac Ave interviews: Phoenix the Harpist on harassment of CD sellers, Joe Williams on “Move Along” Threats, sign seizures, & U.S. troops in Iraq
• NYPD Officer Eduardo De La Cruz suspended for refusing to arrest a homeless man
• More street interviews from Miriam, Gustavo, Shrayah, Christopher Robin during SAFE #26 performance
• Robert Bruce Hidenberg’s ticketing while sleeping at 24-hour fitness in his car though a member
• Looney Balloony on being recently assaulted by teenage trollbusters
• Damien, Nicole, Aubrey, on the street: threats of ticketing for spitting
• Francis reporting on S.C. Shitty Councils beheading of Clearview Court and De Anza mobile home parks