Apologies for the lack of a 1-4-24 show announcement.  

The content of the show is briefly summarized below and is archived at https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/category/huff-communications/

The show can be heard at https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .If you do, the show is in two files which should be opened separately & sequentially as usual. 

The January 4, 2024 show is a Flashback to the January 7, 2007 show with homeless material from Thomas Leavitt’s The Wake Up Call includes:

• Remembrance for attorney, activist, and homeless-supporter Paul Sanford after his death falling from a tall building
• Flashback within a flashback:  Pursued by police in an early 1990s People’s Park protest, interview with JayJay and Ute; Redtop Robert Flory on the march from Berkeley Bart through the City 
• Bathrobespierre on the subsequent history of People’s Park (1991-2007)
• May of 1996:   Interview with Berkeley attorney Larry Hildes on breaking out activist Shitkicker Sean Alemi and Sandy Ross, falsely jailed for infractions in the City Hall Sleepers Vigil of 1996; his successful fight denying Rotkin’s push for a TRO to stop the vigil on any public property;  the upcoming struggle against an attempt to ban the protest at City Hall at night
• Tenderfoot Tim Rumford introduced as co-host; 
• Fresno Freeze-out:  Scrooge-ish “Rescue Mission” boss Larry Arce tears down ornaments from homeless Xmas tree
• Activist Mike Rhodes on wheelchair bound David Hamilton who spent 7 months in jail awaiting trial for a dropped charge, now harassed for signing on a median.
• [12-14-07]  Michael Wallace, homeless driver busted for marijuana possession, mistakenly let the cop search his vehicle; Mark, nearby resident, notes less patrol cops; Paula and Yahyah make poetry outside the E-3 playhouse
• [12-31]  Clitoria Cummings & 100+ others at the DIY 2006-7 DIY parade; Cordelia, the Hugger Woman on countering Counter-Terrorist Terror and spreading the love.
• Later on New Year’s Eve—running commentary from downtown Santa Cruz
• [1-7-07]  Visionsong Valerie and Merryweather Mike on Pacific Ave. with Mac and Cheese; Kenneth A. on racist discrimination at Rebele Family Shelter for his family;
• [  ] Human Rights Organization  vet Bob Patton—Historical and International Overview
• Karen on Santa Cruz’s Measure K, making marijuana use the lowest enforcement priority

The December 31^st  show includes:

• [12-30-23] Sea Otter reports on a phone being destroyed by an officer while he was videoing what he saw as an abusive police contact downtown within the last few weeks.  Report incidents, send videos to Laura the law-watcher at 831-245-0956.
• Troy and Otter on washing/drying resources for those outside as the rains hit
• Bathrobespierre updates the HPHP analyst’s declining to provide more details about the 2023 Homeless Dead (https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/12/27/18861406.php)
• KZSC Host John Sanditch interviewing Bathrobespierre on October 25, 2017 on police directing unhoused to the San Lorenzo Benchlands

The Flashback to February 28, 2016 includes:

• Fresno journalist and activist Mike Rhodes on police brutality there and his recently published Dispatches from the War Zone.
• “Push Back” Pat Colby on the homeless right to recycle, the recent Freedom Sleepers [FS] #32 event
• Mike Boyd on his lawsuit against the taxing of medical marijuana by local authorities.
• “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry on his struggles to present documentation of apt FS clean-up to Assistant City Manager Scott Collins, activist action expanding the free speech squares on Pacific (then called the “blue boxes”), and Toby Nixon’s management of recent FS events.
• Various stories: 72 Hour Deadline Camper Crackdown in S.F.; SF police obstruction of Mario Woods assassination investigation; police shooting in Burns, OR of man reaching for a waistband;
• Flashback within a Flashback: 1989: Interview with “Backyard” Brian Staley, first man jailed extensively in the Soup Wars of Spring; 3-13-89 “Slyshoes” Sandra Lorranger, after her arrest for soup serving at the Town Clock.
• Councilmember Micah Posner grilled on the rental inspection law with few answers