Monthly Archives: December 2023

Brave chilly wet weather to talk back–HUFF meets again today Thursday December 7th at Sub Rosa Cafe next to the Bike Church at 703 Pacific

Posted on by

HUFF Agenda Prospects 12-07-23      

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

  ++++  Hand-outs: Next new Street Sheet in hard copy mid-Dec  go on line to www.streetsheet.org after 12-15    

  ++++  Passarounds: TBA 

  ++++  Follow-Up on HUFF Notes:1 day a year pet care and more! 

  ++++  HUFF Notes & Announcements:TBA  

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

  ++++  Homeless Housing Now Memorial:  Thursday December 21 10 AM Civic
  ++++  Protest Targets for Winter Shelter/Stop the Sweeps:  UN Human Rights DaySunday Dec 10th ….Tuesday last City Council meeting Dec 12th…City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission…OVO Connection 

  ++++  City Council likely vote on Automatic License Plate Scanners 

  ++++  Local ACLU awards December 9th 1-4 PM RCNV 612 Ocean for Reggie Meisler, Gail Newell, and Stan/Carli Stevens  Anti-police militarization speakers; John Lindsay-Poland https://santacruzcommunitycalendar.org/CAL/R31693/ 

  ++++  Local Legislative Antics—Report from those who went or watched 

  ++++  Cooper Camp Destruction Last Monday: Eviction Notices Cites MC 6.36 

  ++++  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    

 ++++   Landlord Tally of Rents vs. Costs: Notes from Darius  

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

  ++++  Local Anti-War Action:  Info?  Ocean & Water St. Saturday picketing (?) 

  ++++  Pet vaccinations, microchips, supplies: Fri Dec 15 10 AM-2 PM Parking Lot across from 115 Coral St. 


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

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday December 3, 2023 show features local politco and activist Steve Pleich on the Civil Grand Jury and more…plus a Flashback to April 25, 2004 with many call-in’s, Tad from Arcata, Grandma Murphy from Santa Ana and more.

Posted on by

The current events section of the Sunday December 3, 2023 show (File 1 in the archives) includes:

The Flashback to April 25, 2004 includes:

  • Grandma Lee Murphy from Santa Anna, CA  on Housing Discrimination
  • Escalating war in Iraq: Report from Peace Between Peoples Mediators there
  • Organizer Fred Geiger on Clearview Court, Rent Control, and Santa Cruzans for Responsible Planning opposition to Home Depot development, challenged by Paul Marcelin Sampson
  • Homeless marksman Tad from Arcata, CA on repression of food distribution in city parks tadspeace@yahoo.com 
  • Activist James Nay on being attacked by sheriffs in Felton Faire
  • Ray the Hairdresser’s account of hyperactive CSO officer Pam Bachtel
  • Call-in’s: Neal from anti-war Capitola 13, poet Christopher Robin on Bill of Rights Defense Committee, and more
  • Jim of Area 420 in San Jose on distribution of marijuana there
  • [2-24-94] Clearview Court resident at City Council Maxima Sanchez breaks down in tears

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday November 30, 2023 show is a Flashback to May 15, 2003 featuring a soft interview with then-Sheriff Mark Tracy; the City’s (non) response to Bush II’s brutal war on the Iraqi people, and more

Posted on by

The November 30, 2023 show is a Flashback to May 15, 2003.  It includes:

  • [Musical interludes with the Jus’ Kiddin’ Santa Cruz street-banned band]
  • Jeffrey Gale joins Bathrobespierre as co-host
  • Gale interviews then-Sheriff Mark Tracy questioning his policy around sex offenders, bed space for drug and alcohol rehab, and more
  • Bathrobespierre questions Tracy on preferential treatment given to medical marijuana provider WAMM to the detriment of the majority of medical marijuana users as well as the proposed ID cards for medical marijuana legal immunity
  • Critique of the B interview
  • City Council’s latest show meeting—inadequate movement on ADU’s and denouncing Bush’s Iraqi invasion
  • Discussion of Recent issues:  P & R underling Mia Duckette’s assaulting and jailing  of Beggerbacker Becky for chalking “End the Sleeping Ban”ish slogans on the curb in erasible chalk; New Leaf sidewalk seizure; Pacific Trading Company no-sit railing creation in collusion with SCPD; Mayor Emily Reilly’s token anti-war effort; 
  • Jhond Golder banned from government buildings in pursuit of public records and local court “justice”.