Monthly Archives: February 2024

HUFF cackles and calculates Thursday February 8th at 1:30 PM- 4 PM at the faithful Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific Ave next to the Bike Church Coffee, carrots, and cookies available for all.

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HUFF Agenda Prospects 2-8-24

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

  ++++  Timekeeper (10 minutes per item)  Hand-raisin’ rules

  ++++  Hand-outs: TBA HUFF Notes & Announcements:TBA   

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

  ++++  Update on Group Encampment Removals: the New Anti-Homeless Focus

  ++++  Proposition 1 and other proposed anti-homeless laws

  ++++  Camp Removal Resistance Prep:  Gathering the Evidence Forms

  ++++  Reports from Tier 1,2,3  Parking  Reggie update:

Reggie on last Sunday’s show (72 minutes into the audio file)

++++   UCSC Update  HUFF Flyering:  HUFF recruitment flyer

  ++++  Calif Homeless Union planning Sacramento protest

  ++++  Evolving Door protests: update

   ++++  Last Day to Register to Vote: February 20, 2024 https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/statewide-elections/2022-general/votesafe-homeless.pdf

  ++++  San Mateo: Criminalization disguised as Regulation: https://sanmateocounty.granicus.com/player/clip/1355?   https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/board-approves-new-approach-encourage-unhoused-residents-illegal-encampments-accept  https://www.kalw.org/bay-area-news/2024-01-31/new-san-mateo-county-ordinance-criminalizes-sleeping-outside

  ++++  Troy’s Lawsuit Project and the Bail Situation: Update

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

  ++++  Showers coming up Saturday the 17th through Wednesday the 21st

  ++++  Possible phone contacts: Wes,;

  ++++  Jail Hunger Strike (started November 8) Jason Cortez seeks dignity from staff; fair complaint process; affordable commissary & phone; attorney confidentiality

  ++++  SC Free Guides: https://santacruzfreeguide.org/static/pdfs/SLV070123_eng.pdf

https://santacruzfreeguide.org/static/pdfs/foodMealProgramsEngEsp.pdf

  ++++  Possible Car Caravan thru S.C. Saturday 1-5 PM  Meet 1 PM Ross Parking Lot  3-5 PM Picnic at Depot Park.119 Center St.

  ++++  End the War against Gaza and the S.C. Poor Petition for Future Use

  ++++  Pro-Palestinian-Homeless Alliance for next protest; contact follow-up’s.

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

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

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

After 6 PM Thurs & 9:30 AM Sun go to http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  click on date Thursday’ show TBA …

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday February 4, 2024 show Rightheart Reggie Meisler on the Planning Commission’s latest dive up the bowels of Shitty Council+ Interviews Aplenty and a Flashback to May 11, 2017: 5-7 Protest with Survival Sleepers

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The February 4, 2024 show includes:   

  • The attack on the Martin v. Boise case via Johnson v. Grants Pass at https://johnsonvgrantspass.com/.  Various media takes by Invisible People, Vox, Vice, & USA Today.  
  • Songs snatched from David Rovics’ loaded website [throughout the show]
  • [1-31]  “Nutcracker” Nick reporting on the Harvey West Friendship Garden  Encampments
  • [1-28]  Roger Meade on his false imprisonment in S.C. County Jail for 28 days on dropped “attempted murder” charges and other police/judicial obscenities
  • [2-3]  “Right Path” Reggie Meisler on the slippery struggle with the Planning Commission’s latest attack on “oversized” RVs
  • “Rough Nights” Renter on the problems of Landlord malign neglect and the Section 8 labyrinth
  • https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/san-diego/story/2024-01-24/san-diego-settles-lawsuit-challenging-vehicle-habitation-law  
  • Merinda on good Armory conditions, and unsafety for homeless women downtown
  • Tips from Charles on negotiating police and courts in Santa Cruz
  • Paul Bernes spreading prayer and food to poor folks; Hurricane Helga blows in with blankets and out with bread. 
  • Dawnseeker Drew on Food Not Bombs on increasing crowds and more volunteers
  • Shawn says “NO on Proposition One”
  • Chitterchatter between Mello Mel and Bathrobespierre Robert

The Flashback show (May 11, 2017) includes: 

  • Katzenjammer Keith McHenry and “Stop the Sweeps” Abbi Samuels at City Hall’s “No Penalty for Poverty” Rally with commentary buy Silver-tongued Steve Pleich
  • [5-7-17] Survival Sleeper Updates from the round-the-clock Sleepout at City Hall  from Hans and Claudia
  • [5-9-17] At the Homeless Co-ordinating Committee’s “Don’t Fence Us Out” Rally

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday February 1, 2024 show is a Flashback to September 21, 1997 featuring interviews with Eureka activists around the South Spit Jetty, Richard Quigley defending youth in Aptos + Updates from David Silva, Josh, & more

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The February 1,  2024 show is a Flashback to September 21, 1997

and includes:

  • Second-hand accounts of Shitkicker Sean Alemi’s struggles, Redtop Robert’s Success in Appeals Court, and more
  • Interviews with seeking an Injunction against City authorities seeking the dispersal of the South Spit Jetty (Paradise Beach) homeless speaks with Nancy of Love in Action, a Eureka activist.
  • Beggarbacker Becky Johnson, a dissident voice on the Citizens Committee for the Homeless critiques their latest Community House boondoggle. [interview cut off, as well as part of subsequent Quigley interview]
  • Roughrider Richard Quigley defending Jerry Henry, street preacher of human rights at the Ranch Del Mar Shopping Center
  • Green Party gadfly David Minton Silva’s SCPD-on-homeless abuse report, City Council update, and latest on the Sleeping Ban Initiative
  • Josh, tarot card reader, on police indulgence and harassment
  • Balderos released from jail after 2 months in jail without apologies, restitution, in the City Hall flooding case without PD help.
  • Updating Rev. Wiley Drake’s shelter for homeless folks punished by the Buena Park authorities.

HUFF braves heavy moisture Thursday February 1st to meet yet again at the Sub Rosa Cafe. Same new time 1:30 PM to 4 PM though it’s likely to end early at 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church

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HUFF Prelim Agenda Prospects 2-1-24

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

  ++++  Timekeeper (10 minutes per item)  Hand-raisin’ rules

  ++++  Hand-outs: TBA HUFF Notes & Announcements:TBA   

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

  ++++  Coral Street/Harvey West Musical Tents Crackdown: Next Crackdown Prep

  ++++  Depot Park Shelter Open 1 PM Wed 1-31 to noon Fri (capacity 30-50)

  ++++  UCSC Update

  ++++  Evolving Door protests: update

  ++++  Watsonville Cease-Fire shutdown; https://pajaronian.com/watsonville-council-declines-to-place-ceasefire-resolution-on-agenda/

   ++++   Last Day to Register to Vote: February 20, 2024

   ++++  Gathering the Evidence: Handout—Incoming and Outgoing  

  ++++  San Mateo: Criminalization disguised as Regulation: https://sanmateocounty.granicus.com/player/clip/1355?   https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/board-approves-new-approach-encourage-unhoused-residents-illegal-encampments-accept  https://www.kalw.org/bay-area-news/2024-01-31/new-san-mateo-county-ordinance-criminalizes-sleeping-outside

  ++++  Troy’s Lawsuit Project and the Bail Situation: In search of an attorney

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

  ++++  End the War against Gaza and the S.C. Poor Petition for Future Use

  ++++  More on Coalition on Homelessness vs. S.F. Lawsuit

  ++++  Possible phone contacts:Keith, Wes,; Reggie M’s: OVO update

  ++++  Pro-Palestinian-HomelessAlliance for next protest; contact follow-up’s.

  ++++  Jail Hunger Strike (started November 8) Jason Cortez seeks dignity from staff; fair complaint process; affordable commissary and phone; attorney confidentiality 

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

  ++++  SC Free Guides: https://santacruzfreeguide.org/static/pdfs/SLV070123_eng.pdf

https://santacruzfreeguide.org/static/pdfs/foodMealProgramsEngEsp.pdf

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

  ++++ Placeholder followup—study groups:  student anti-war contacts, Darius rental, 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 to hear.

Last Sunday’s show is described at https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-sunday-january-28-2024-show-reviews-the-citys-latest-round-of-refugee-generation-raids-at-the-gates-of-housing-matters-plus-a-flashback-to-may-13-2012-with-a-live/