Monthly Archives: June 2024

Cool Water and Cookies at the 6-6-24 HUFF meeting at the Sub Rose Cafe Thursday June 6 1:30 PM next to the Bike Church. Main Focus–the Tourist Train Pleasing Demolition of Homeless Survival Camps on Coral St.

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HUFF Agenda Suggestions 6-6-24                             

Standard Stuff: Procedures and Preliminaries

++++   Timekeeper (10 minutes per item)  Hand-raisin’ courtesies, Chair rotation  

++++   Passarounds & Handouts: UCSC Gaza Encampment Support Resolutions  

++++   Announcements: TBA  

++++   Reviewing the Coral Street Demolitions—Tourist Train Focus  

++++   Street Reports                                               

Upcoming Events

++++    Anti-Gaza Protests: TBA

++++   Saturday  6-8  11 AM-12:30 PM Ocean and Water  Stop genocide and support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza now. No more tax dollars for Israel. End the occupation and the apartheid system. Free all hostages and prisoners. 11 am to 12:30 pm every Saturday. Help hold up banners. More info:  call Laura at 831-247-5332.

++++   Tuesday June 11 1 p.m. Santa Cruz Shitty Council Meeting City Hall 809 Center St.     

++++   Tuesday June 25 9 AM Board of Supervipers 701 Ocean St. County Building                  

Gathering Information

++++   Coral St.Update—what do they want to do in the shadow of the next sweep?

++++   Surveillance Camera Location (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)                                            

Possible Topics for Discussion

++++   Strategies for Organizing and Supporting Survival Encampments on Fern

++++   Anti-Genocide Encampment: Take them text of resolutions.

++++   Tourist Train Strategy & Spectacle

++++   Cooling Center when extreme heat threatens

++++   Specific Demands? (Stop the Sweeps, Reapportion funding to service existing camps)  

++++  Reports from gov bodies (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board)  

++++  Budget Report from Shitty Council and Stupes  

++++  Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MH CAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)   

++++ Cloudy but not rainy for the next 10 days    

 Keeping Tabs: Someday Follow-Up’s   

++++  Target Suggestions: City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission… City Hall—City Council meets Tuesday 4-30 1 p.m.  ​/Emeline/TelcCare/Supes                                                  

If enough time and desire  

++++  Possible phone contacts: Laura C. on Recent political updates and incoming videos/complaints at 245-0956; Wes White on Watsonville sweep threat; Helga on Coral St.   

++++  Pro-Palestinian-Homeless Alliance protest info: https://uscpr.org/oct-2023-protests/

++++People can’t be detained just for trying to avoid police https://www.pressreader.com/usa/marysville-appeal-democrat/20240504/281590950645117                                                

Delayed Net-Show Access May 30:  https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-thursday-may-30-2024-show-flashes-back-to-the-february-19-1996-broadcast-featuring-judgment-day-john-stuart-townwise-tony-mello-barbara-riverwomon-and-many-others-a/ June 2nd:  https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-sunday-june-2-2024-show-features-keith-mchenry-and-coral-st-refugees-a-flashback-to-june-7-1995-with-cops-busting-signs-at-city-hall-sleepers-protest-cchs-frank-pu/

++++ To View these BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES NET-RADIO SHOWs:  go to http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  click May 30th or June 2nd.            To Read descriptions of the show, click on above May 30 and June 2nd websites

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday June 2, 2024 show features Keith McHenry and Coral St. Refugees + a Flashback to June 7 1995 with cops busting signs at City Hall Sleepers Protest, CCH’s Frank Pucelik, Keith on the SF Matrix, and much more

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The Sunday June 2, 2024 show includes:

The Flashback to June 7, 1995 includes: 

  • The Flashback prerecorded because of Bathrobespierre’s sentencing hearing for serving free food without a permit in San Francisco
  • Background of the S.F. harassment of Food Not Bombs and the homeless there
  • The Santa Cruz Injunction against the City Hall Sleepers Protest Vigil:  Sunshine and Pat Ring face citation and arrest for “protruding sign”
  • [6-4-96] Discussion with Frank Pucelik of the Citizen’s Committee for the Homeless
  • Palo Alto homeless activist and KKUP broadcaster Perusha Obluda on that city’s anti-homeless “No Sitting on the Sidewalk” law
  • Keith of San Francisco’s Food Not Bombs response to Bathrobespierre’s jailing for soupcrime & other recent SF events.
  • San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness staff attorney Judy Appel on the fight against Mayor Brown’s anti-homeless Matrix program
  • Former Homeless Daycenter Duchess on attacks on homeless people

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday, May 30, 2024 show Flashes back to the February 19, 1996 broadcast featuring Judgment Day John Stuart, Townwise Tony Mello, Barbara Riverwomon, and many others as Winter Shelter was soon to shut down

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Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides’s May 30, 2024 show is a Flashback to February 19, 1996.  It includes: 

  •  Bathrobespierre Robert and guest/co-host “Judgment Day” John Stewart on Santa Cruz anti-homeless laws and policies, plus the dangers of involuntary social service “help” for the “mentally ill”; plus a crique of “Brimstone” Barbara Riverwomon’s support for Jonathan Kuzol Rachel and Her Children.
  • “Townwise” Tony Mello on the Berkeley Food Not Bombs gathering and the Fresno homeless scene.
  • Riverwomon calls in
  • Jerry of the Loose Cannon publication on government subsidizing homeowners over renters.
  • Bathrobespierre Upstart Updates from the Road and the Sidewalk