HUFF RUF Agenda Suggestions 9-5-24  

These are agenda suggestions and more guideposts than strict parliamentary requirements.  The agenda is also set by the participants of the meetings and a final copy will be distributed at the meeting.  

Top of the Agenda

++++   Street Spirits or Street Sheets next week.  Check on-line to read more current stories at  https://www.streetsheet.org/https://thestreetspirit.org/ ++++   Potential protest at Shitty Council 809 Center St.  1:30 p.m 9-10

++++   Thursdays 3:30 -4:30 pm (??)  at the Morrisey Blvd overpass over hiway 1

++++   Low 70s temperatures predicted for the next week; low 80s Thurs 9-5. ++++   Visiting City Mangler Matt Huffaker in his lair: possible protest

++++   Golf Club Drive Mutual Aid at the Green Gate Saturday morning?   

   Freeish Happenings:  

++++  S.F. Mime Troupe London Nelson 3 p.m. Sat 9-7, Sun 9-8 3 PM  

++++  Banned Book Protest outside Bookshop Santa Cruz Sunday 9-8  

++++  Really Really Free Market Sunday 9-8 Sub Rosa Courtyard 11 AM- 2 PM  

++++  The Brave and the Free meeting on Censorship at London Nelson 6 PM 9-9  ++++  Metro to S.C. County Fair at Watsonville Fairgrounds scmtd.com/en/countyfair 9-11 -9-13  

++++  Latino Role Models half-day conference at Cabrillo 9 am- 1p.m . Sat 9-14  

++++  Housing (Funding) Matters groundbreaking 10-11:30 AM 9-17 115B Coral                         

Standard Stuff: Procedures and Preliminaries  

++++   Passarounds & Handouts  https://www.streetsheet.org/sweeping-us-to-nowhere/;  

++++   Street Reports with focus on parking lot sleeper harassment  

++++   San Lorenzo Park Redesign Plan on Hold for Lack of Funding  

++++    MHAB Fallout : https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/08/26/18868955.php  

++++    The broader issue of the recent Coral St. and Pogonip police sweeps and sheriff/police abuses there is discussed at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/20/18868124.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  

++++   Report back from Funding Matters (aka Housing Matters) Forum & Protest;  

++++   Armory Trip Report from Robert, Reggie, and Laura’s 9-6 Visit Audio coming up on 9-1 HUFF archives at https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  

++++   Watsonville/Sacramento/Statewide Reports from Wes White  

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

++++   Lessons learned from Keeley and Kramer 7Monday Afternoon Protests  

++++   Saturday  8-3 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.

++++  New Gaza genocide protests at UCSC?                        

Closer Inspection

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

++++   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… Construction  Sites City Hall…​Emeline/TelcCare/Supes…     

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

Summary of August 15th  netshow:   https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-thursday-august-29-2024-show-flashes-back-to-april-23-1997-featuring-bill-beebee-s-f-liberation-radios-richard-edmonson-direct-action-marijuana-activist-dennis-pe/

Summary of September 1st   netshow https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-sunday-september-1-2024-show-features-act-now-worry-later-athena-at-huff-stop-sweeps-advocates-at-the-board-of-stupidvipers-bruce-mike-stefanie-more-fl/

The September 1, 2024 show includes:

• Rude voices from the HUFF [Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom] meeting of a late August meeting featuring “Act Now, Agonize Later” Athena, “Nutcracker” Nick, and others on strategies for speaking at Santa Cruz Shitty Council
• Bits from the “Stop the Sweeps” presentations of the County’s  Mental Health Advisory Board urgent “less cops, better training” advice to the Board of Stupidvipers led by “Lawseeker” Laura.
• Interviews from the 4^th August “Sweeps No More!” protest at Hiways 1 and 9 denouncing the Kramer-led Housing Matters (aka Funding Matters) from Bruce, Ocane, Magic Mike, and others
• [August 31] Old hand Steffanie and Idaho newcomers Michele and Titus assess bad times in the downtown library parking lot recently.
  

The Flashback to March 11, 2001, includes:

• “Steadfast” Steve Argue on the struggle to distribute Street Spirit, the homeless newspaper, against recurring police interference.
• Interview with Richard Edmonson, S.F. pirate radio broadcaster, and author of Rising Up: Class War in America from the Streets to the Airwaves  https://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/2001-3-reporting-from-the-center-of-the-struggle-001.pdf
• Attorney Larry Hildes, attorney for Columbus statue-smasher “Justman” Jim Cosner,  on the recent takedown in San Jose of the infamous conquistador and genocide master.
• In Studio Guests: Kiko and Veronica on a Racial Vehicular Stop
• Beggarbacker Becky and Bathrobespierre Robert scrutinize upcoming appropriations on the Shitty Council agenda; Green Party assembly resolution protecting residents of the Dolphin & Lee apartments.
• Citizen Police Review Board‘s public input on missing SCPD policy recommendations[Drug War, alcohol stings alcohol vendors surveillance, & prostitution harassment]; call for public hearings on Beach Flats crackdown, * more.

The Thursday August 29, 2024 show is a Flashback to April 23, 1997 which includes:

• In-studio guest Bill Beebee discusses his plans for a new alternative paper the Lighthouse Alternative Press 
• Phone Interview with Richard Edmonson of San Francisco Liberation Radio
• “Dead On” David Silva braves Bathrobespierre’s interruptions discussing the coming merger of Citizen’s Committee for the Homeless [CCH] and Gillette’s Homeless Community Resource Center [HCRC]
• “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson of CCH on the CCH-HCRC merger and SCPD shooting up Brian Andress’s house.
• Phone Interview with Marijuana provider, San Francisco’s Dennis Peron on his newly legal cannabis club
• Silva on the Initiative to End the Sleeping Ban & Canfield’s 3^rd Street Realignment
• “Bourgeois Bob” Lamonica on the dilemma of the property-less