Monthly Archives: September 2024

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday, September 26, 2024 show Flashes back to September 20, 2012 featuring Bathrobespierre’s Election Eve Commentary, Micah Posner, and more–more or less

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The September 26, 2024 show is a Flashback to September 20, 2012. 

It includes: 

HUFF along with the HUFFsters Thursday September 26th 1:30-3:30 PM at 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church–“Looser” Meeting Led by Athena

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HUFF RUF “Loose Cannons” Agenda Suggestions 9-26-24  

These are Robert’s suggestions for Agenda; Athena will provide her own list of topics.  Members are encouraged to raise their own issues.

         Top of the Agenda

++++  New  Stories on www.thestreetspirit.org & https://www.streetsheet.org/

++++   Anti-War Thursdays 3:30-4:30 pm banner Hiway 1 & Morrisey overpass (?)

++++   Saturday   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.

++++   Warm & Warner & no rain predicted for next week; low 70s on 9-26 ++++   Armory Visit Update Audio and/or Discussion

++++   Funding Matters Correspondence from Louis Powell and Don Lane ++++   Damage Claims of Troy and Andrew; City Council Reports

++++   Public Records and Law on Disruptions

             Standard Stuff: Procedures and Preliminaries  

++++   Passarounds:  TBA   Handouts: FM Questions; Agenda  

++++   Street Reports  

++++   Fresno, Oakland, and Fremont Encampment Sweeps:  https://fresnoland.org/2022/08/29/republish-a-fresnoland-story-for-free-heres-how/https://gvwire.com/2024/09/23/fresnos-anti-camping-ordinance-goes-into-effect-city-says-it-will-prioritize-treatment-first/https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2024/09/24/return-public-spaces-to-the-public-oakland-mayor-thao-orders-city-to-ramp-up-homeless-sweeps/https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/09/23/fremont-could-ramp-up-sweeps-on-homeless-encampments-ban-camping-and-overnight-parking/  

++++   Strategies for Resistance: Tabling at Funding Matters [FM]/Soup Kitchen  

++++    Solidarity with Resistance to On-Campus Repression of Encampments & Protest     

                 Reporting Back

 ++++   St. George & Rentish Control Update:  Item #30 on 9-10 Shitty Council  ++++   San Francisco Cover-Up of Property Destruction: https://www.streetsheet.org/resolution-on-seizure-of-homeless-peoples-property-in-the-works/  

++++   Preliminary refutation of excuses used to destroy survival encampments locally such as the Camping Services and Standards Ordinance (“the Camping Ban”)                        

Closer Inspection: Gathering Info

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

++++   Outstanding threats of upcoming raids?   Any posted notices of impending raids on existing camps?  Any court cases coming up?  

++++   Examining MC 6.36 more closely—the Camping (Standards and Services Ordinance)  Ban.                                           

Possible Topics for Future Discussion

++++  Stop the War Against the Poor Sweeps/Raids + Gaza Genocide Lanyards?

++++  New  Strategies for Documenting Property Loss:  Case #, Receipts, Audio recordings

++++  Cooling Center when extreme heat threatens?  Emergency gathering location

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

++++  Govt. Reports:  (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board)

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

++++  Future Targets:    City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission Office… City Hall…​Emeline/TelcCare/Supes   

++++   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/09/09/18869216.php   Civil Rights Groups Sue UCSC for Unlawful Campus Bans and Response to Student Protests https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2024/09/09/final_2024.09.03_ucsc_exclusion_notice_complaint-final.pdf                                   

Archived Net-Show Access: to read summaries of the shows:

Summary of September 19th  netshow:  TBA    

Summary of September 22nd   netshow   TBA

More Resources & News

https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homeless-union-members-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-encampment-eviction/  Recent lawsuit by California Homeless Union against Sweeps

https://thestreetspirit.org/2023/02/07/berkeley-94700/   The Poor Tour & First They Came for the Homeless

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday September 22, 2024 show features Carol Denney, Censorship & Housing Protests, and a Flashback to April 13, 2003 with an anti-war debate between Mike Rotkin & Joe Williams with public commentary

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The Sunday September 22, 2024 show includes: 

  • Bathrobespierre presents protest news and upcoming events including next Tuesday’s S.C. Shitty Council agenda
  • “Scope it out” Scott Graham’s caustic comments on the Council’s agenda.
  • [9-15] Voices from Food Not Bombs: Joel Lewis RV dweller; Shutterbug Chip Shauer on comfortable outdoor living
  • [9-15] Tabling on Censorship at the Bookshop Coonerty with Sherrill Bennett, Keith McHenry, and author Leon Canarow at thevaccinemyth.com 
  • [9-16] Protest and Exclusion at Funding Matters Groundbreaking Ceremony with “Act Up” Athena, Bathrobespierre Robert, Lewis Powell, “Cast a Wide Net” Coral and various security guards.
  • [9-21] “Cornerstone” Carol Denney on the Berkeley Badlands.

The Flashback to April 13, 2003 includes:

  • [4-8-03] RCNV Protest against Military Job Fair at Stevenson College Dining Hall at UCSC
  • Representative Sam Farr—Bane or Boon to the Peace Movement: Joe Williams v. Mike Rotkin​

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday, September 19, 2024 show Flashes back to June 29, 2006 featuring Craig Canada on trials of a homeless marijuana medicine user, community activist Wes Modes on police spying non-guidelines, and more

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The September 19, 2024 show is a Flashback to June 29, 2006. 

It features:

  • In-studio interview and co-host Craig Canada, a homeless medical marijuana patient Craig Canada (palmspringsbum.com) on banning from the Homeless (Lack of) Services Center and Greenway (a medical marijuana club)  http://palmspringsbum.org/blog/2006/07/ive-had-it/
  • Analysis of SCPD Spygate Scandal of December 2005; Phone interview with activist Rico Thunder (Wes Modes)
  • https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/24/18291005.php?show_comments=1#18291968 (“Activists Disengage from City Police Spying Process”
  • Berkeley poet Julia Vinograd reads “Bread Bust, “”The Son of War, ” & “People’s Park Free Box”
  • Jamie Clark on his court experience for a $130 bike ticket from SCPD SCO Pam Bechtel
  • Crow advised tourists parking in the garage to obey the 15 minute loitering limit or else.

HUFF cools it at the Sub Rosa Cafe (or in the Courtyard) today Thursday September 19 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM at 703 Pacific Ave. next to ye olde bike churche

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HUFF RUF Agenda Suggestions 9-19-24  

        Top of the Agenda

++++  New  Stories on www.thestreetspirit.org & https://www.streetsheet.org/

++++   Thursdays from 3:30 to 4:30 pm  at the Morrisey Blvd overpass over hiway 1

++++   Saturday   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.

++++   Cool & cloudy & no rain predicted for next week; cool on 9-19

++++   Armory Visit Update Audio & Coral St. Protest Assessment

++++   Public Records and Law on Disruptions: Update  Clip:  https://youtube.com/shorts/xcktk7yEOpk?si=5seSwhqRwf4P53A4; Check Sunday 9-22 for audio & beyond ahttps://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  & https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/category/huff-communications/                                             

Standard Stuff: Procedures and Preliminaries  

++++   Passarounds & Handouts  TBA  

++++   Street Reports  

++++   Tabling at Funding Matters [FM]/Soup Kitchen  

++++   Prospects for Dialogue at the FM Board of Directors meeting 12-4 9-20  ++++    PR for FM: Tuesday, September 24th| 6 to 8 pm  Capitola Library  2005 Wharf Road  

++++     Escalating creation of foreign homelessness in Gaza and Ukraine as well as Santa Cruz raids on survival encampments may be a way of uniting with other protests such as Hiroshima events and week long vigil against Pinetta’s pro-genocide posture.                                                         

Reporting Back  

++++   Watsonville Survival Camp Destruction  Salinas Bataan Park protest (7-27) update & Sacramento’s Camp Compassion  

++++   San Francisco Cover-Up of Property Destruction: https://www.streetsheet.org/resolution-on-seizure-of-homeless-peoples-property-in-the-works/  

++++   Preliminary refutation of excuses used to destroy survival encampments locally such as the Camping Services and Standards Ordinance (“the Camping Ban”)                        

Closer Inspection: Gathering Info

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

++++   Outstanding threats of upcoming raids?   Any posted notices of impending raids on existing camps?  Any court cases coming up?  

++++   Examining MC 6.36 more closely—the Camping (Standards and Services Ordinance)  Ban.                                           

Possible Topics for Future Discussion

++++  Stop the War Against the Poor Sweeps/Raids + Gaza Genocide Lanyards?

++++  New  Strategies for Documenting Property Loss:  Case #, Receipts, Audio recordings

++++  Cooling Center when extreme heat threatens?  Emergency gathering location

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

++++  Govt. Reports:  (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board)

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

++++  Future Targets:    City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission Office… City Hall…​Emeline/TelcCare/Supes   

++++   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/09/09/18869216.php   Civil Rights Groups Sue UCSC for Unlawful Campus Bans and Response to Student Protests https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2024/09/09/final_2024.09.03_ucsc_exclusion_notice_complaint-final.pdf                                   

Archived Net-Show Access: to read summaries of the shows: Summary of September 12th  netshow:     

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday, August 15, 2024 show Flashes back to February 10, 2011 featuring Steve Pleich, “Double-down” Dan McMullan of Berkeley, and Nader+ Ron Paul calling for a 3rd Party Alliance Summary of September 15th  netshow  to be posted  

More Resources & News

https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homeless-union-members-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-encampment-eviction/  Recent lawsuit by California Homeless Union against Sweeps

https://thestreetspirit.org/2023/02/07/berkeley-94700/   The Poor

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday September 15, 2024 show features Wes White’s Update, Pleas to the 9-10 S.C. Shitty Council, & HUFFster report on local Censorship Resistance + Flashback to July 7, 2002: with many Alt-Left Community Activists

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The Sunday September 15, 2024 show includes:

  • Wes “Whip ’em into Shape” White’s overview covers Salinas, Watsonville, Fresno, Sacramento and more
  • [9-10] Public voices plead and pummel back at Keeley’s Shitty Council: Ann Simenton, Athena Flannery & more
  • Councilmember Brown, “Grace and Guts” Gillian Greensite, and the Public Herd Keeley into Delaying a RubberStamp of his response to the Civil Grand Jury
  • San Jose Mercury News 9-5-24  “Police Officer Denied Qualified Immunity”
  • S.F. Chronicle 8-18-24 “Alcohol Drug Use Growing as Cause of Homeless” 
  • “TufLuv” Tucker on the latest Brave and the Free meeting on Local Censorship

The Flashback to July 7, 2002 includes:

  • Council Committee Hears Public Shout “Police Repression”, proposes Laws with greater Police Powers
  • Ed Howes Accosted in Vehicle by Shouting Cop; 
  • Reilly-Porter Subcommittee for “Dialogue” & “First Steps”: Reilly Takes Back 6 Pre-Cooked Repressive Proposals.
  • After the Meeting, “Tokin’ Tim Rinker and “Beggerbacker” Becky Johnson for political sidewalk chalking.
  • Jay Jay, former Street Spirit vendor, scared away from selling by SCPD citation, calls from jail.
  • Beggerbacker & Bathrobespierre on “Take Me to A Magistrate” defenses to chalk- & other infraction- crimes.
  • Greg Kindig of the Coalition for a Community Commons in studio in on the Reilly-Porter meetings.
  • Dirtclod, previously of Camp Paradise and the later Camp Hope; Fhar Miess, editor of The Alarm, and Tokin’ Tim reporting on the gang of Blue Badged SCPD criminal chalkers.
  • “Nuf Said” Nancy McCaradie of the Walk ‘n Rollers—doing a Sleepwalk/ride from Santa Barbara to West Sacramento​ walking for a moratorium on Sleeping bans until unsheltered have alternatives.
  • “Lighthouse” Linda on bathroom exclusion downtown

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday, September 12, 2024 show Flashes back to January 1, 1998 featuring the tension as we wait for the Happy John Dine “investigation” to conclude

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The Thursday September 12, 2024 show is a flashback to January 1, 1998.  It includes: 

  • Phone interview with Worcester, Mass. FNB’s worker Blaine cited for serving free food without a permit
  • Questions about the “Happy” John Dine killing from Battling Bob L., Hapless Harry, Tufluv Tucker,
  • Vampyre Mike Castle 12-30-97 of S.F. Examiner “The Down and Out in San Francisco”
  • Columnist Rob Anderson’s 12-24-97 column from Anderson Valley Advertiser attacks San Francisco homeless
  • New York Times: 12-30-97 “French Unemployed Seize Unemployment Offices”
  • Citizen’s Committee for the Homeless report on refusal to support Initiative Against Sleeping Ban, and possible merger with Gillette’s Homeless Community Resource Center
  • Norse critiques Sentinel’s refusal to mention Sleeping Ban Initiative, Happy John Dine killing and gives his own.
  • “Scrooges Oppose Homeless Services” by National Law Center for Homelessness and Poverty

HUFF tumbles together for another Thursday meet at the Sub Rosa Cafe/Courtyard 703 Pacific 1:30-3:30 p.m. September 12, 2024 next to the Bike Church

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HUFF RUF Loose-Goosey Loose Cannons Agenda Suggestions 9-12-24  Note: Agenda is tentative and finalized in the meeting, depending on who’s there and what priorities are decided on.  Athena runs the “Loose Cannon’s” meeting.                                                                      

Top of the Agenda

++++  New September Street Spirits & 8-15 and 9-1 Street Sheets are here!  ++++   Censorship & Banned Books Protest: Sunday 1-3 PM  9-15 Outside Bookshop Coonerty (aka Bookshop Santa Cruz

++++   Thursdays from 3:30 to 4:30 pm  at the Morrisey Blvd overpass over hiway 1

++++   Saturday   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.

++++   Cool & cloudy & no rain predicted for next week; sunnyish on 9-12 ++++   Armory Visit Update & Coral St. Protest Assessment

++++   Public Records and Disruptions: Update  

Standard Stuff: Procedures and Preliminaries  

++++   Passarounds & Handouts  TBA  

++++   Street Reports with particular focus on recent police attacks at Golf Club Drive including Bag-and-Tag follow-up.  

++++   A look back for newcomers: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/20/18868124.php  

++++   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/26/18868249.php

++++    Escalating creation of foreign homelessness in Gaza and Ukraine as well as Santa Cruz raids on survival encampments may be a way of uniting with other protests such as Hiroshima events and week long vigil against Pinetta’s pro-genocide posture.                                                         

Reporting Back  

++++   Watsonville Survival Camp Destruction  Salinas Bataan Park protest (7-27) update & Sacramento’s Camp Compassion  

++++   Preliminary analysis of excuses used to destroy survival encampments locally such as the Camping Services and Standards Ordinance (“the Camping Ban”)                                    

Closer Inspection

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

++++   Flyer suggestions for upcoming Tourist Train protest with Coral St. info.

++++   Any posted notices of impending raids on existing camps?  Any court cases coming up?

++++   Examining MC 6.36 more closely—the Camping (Standards and Services Ordinance)  Ban.                                           

Possible Topics for Future Discussion

++++  Stop the War Against the Poor Sweeps/Raids + Gaza Genocide Lanyards?

++++  New  Strategies for Documenting Property Loss:  Case #, Receipts, Audio recordings

++++  Tourist Train Strategy & Spectacle Update: Locations?

++++  Cooling Center when extreme heat threatens?  Emergency gathering location

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

++++  Govt. Reports:  (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board)

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

++++  Future Targets:    Tourist Train…City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission Office… City Hall…​Emeline/TelcCare/Supes

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday September 8, 2024 show features Homeless Dumping–the Phony Controversy, “Backstory” Brent Adams, & Deonna Dark Days+ Flashback to April 20, 2003 with Chalkcrime, Iraqi War Woes, and more

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The Sunday September 8, 2024 show includes: 

  • Athena at the 9-5 HUFF meeting describing Mayor Keeley’s  new laws being rolled through City Council on 9-10 criminalize “homeless dumping” by other cities, but not here.
  • “Scope It Out” Scott reviews the Hanover “homeless dumping” law and other City Council crapbits coming up 9-10
  • Deonna and her family’s history of moving into, out of, way out, and into housing with a positive report on the Housing Matters assistance.
  • “Backstory” Brent doubles down on seeking community ties to develop sanctuary camps.
  • “The West Truly Doesn’t See Palestinians as Humans” by Caitlin Johnstone

The Flashback to April 20, 2003 includes:

  • Court roleplaying with Tom “Rebel” Reveille, ancient pirate radioteer on need for direct action against oppressive government
  • Bathrobespierre tilts with “Battling” Bob L. on local and international issues.
  • “Treading on the Trappings of Hussein’s High Life” and other grim Bush empire adventures from L.A. Times–
  • “When Police Attack Protesters” by Will Potter (April 19, 2003 at www.counterpunch.org) 
  • Councilmember Kennedy’s Missing Anti-War Resolution
  • David Cratz (aka Johnny Smith)+ Coral Brune guests with Guns and Oil CD
  • Critics of Police Featherbedding at City Council
  • Bust for peace slogan sidewalk chalking

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday, September 5, 2024 show Flashes back to 4-1-01 and 4-5-01 featuring Jury Nullification historian Godfrey Lehman, Tenant activist Donna Deiss, Steve Argue, Skidmark Bob, and more….

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The Thursday September 5, 2024 show is a Flashback to April 1, 2001 and April 5, 2001.  The April 1, 2001 Flashback includes:

  • Sleeping Ban Struggle: Which Way Forward?  History and Controversy: Skidmark Bob & Bathrobespierre
  • Scheming with Steve: Brainstorming on New Organizing Options with Steve Argue 
  • Koffee Klatch 3 Case—Post Feb 8 Hearing​—in the studio and in the court hallways with attorney Catnip Kate
  • HUFFsters confront Officers Azua and Gunther over violence + harassment of street people

Flashback to April 5, 2001 includes: ​

  • Pedestrians and loiterers talk High rents, crowded tenancy, and corrupt police—on the sidewalk
  • Donna Deiss’s Santa Cruz Tenants Rights Union  [TRUSC] update
  • “People Living out of their Vehicles Scramble to Stay Ahead of the Law in San Francisco”–Santa Cruz parallels with “Green Party” Mayor Tim Fitzmaurice ignoring pleas to end the Sleeping Ban law here.
  • Jolly Roger Comedy Troupe’s “Berkeley Scares” Hotline
  • Bathrobespierre’s Bullhorn: Do Nothing-“Rage Against Rent” Part of the Mercy Charities Giveaway?  Update on the local Green party maintaining silence on Fitzmaurice’s anti-homeless stance violating Green platform; 
  • Street conversations between SCPD Officer Gunther, Rabbi Chaim Levin, and some street folks challenging police behavior toward chalkers
  • Tent Cities in Portland and Seattle—Updating Story Seattle Times  (3-29-01)  “A Tent City Resident Fights December Chill…Stop Nomadic Journey of the Area’s Homeless”​
  • Crystal vendor, Dragon, Paddy Long, John Earth, & other street dialogues 
  • Godfrey Lehman, author and advocate of Jury Nullification, on his books & the history