Rough HUFF “Loosey Goosey” Agenda Suggestions 11-21-24
Agenda Summary so far: Council & Supes Graham Discussion—Last Sunday…Athena’s Asks Update…HUFF on Instagram: huff_santacruz LOOK IT OVER…People’s Food Food Tent Sundays: 1-3 PM Hiway 1 & River…Further work by Gaia and others on seeking a Monitoring Group for a HUFF Sweep/Raid Record…Follow-Up for PRA for cop confiscation of bicycles…James-in-the Rain’s Report…Possible sign-up’s for regular tasks..Thomas’s Tip Sheet…Report on the campus crackdown: No Campus TRO…volunteer to connect with other cities… Other Stuff & More details below Items marked with * are also priority announcements.
Items followed by underlined on-line links can be viewed “at home” or “in the library”. Many items are really reminders of where we’d be going if and when we find the person power, time, interest, and resources. We are gathering information and evidence to challenge the Dominant (False) Narrative. Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them.
Top of the Agenda (Quick Announcements)
++++ Athena’s Friday 4-6 Potluck for People’s Food Tent Sub Rosa Tomorrow
++++ Update on the Proposed On-Line Documentation of Anti-Homeless Incidents ++++ Berkeley Where Do We Go? Updates from Andrea Hansen on Where Do We Go Berkeley facebook page.
++++ Thanksgiving Meal 11-3 Vets Hall Thursday 11-28 846 Front St.; Next HUFF meeting?
++++ Meeting etiquette: raise hands, stacker, time keeper
++++ Old Street Spirits available. Street Sheet copies available on line at https://www.streetsheet.org/read-our-full-issues/ Hard Copies of both also available at 903 Pacific and at the Food Not Bombs Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock—ask Drew Street Spirit and Street Sheet are both looking for local stories.
++++ Saturday Nov. 16 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.
++++ U.S. Out: Thursdays 3:30 to 4:30 pm Morrisey Blvd overpass over hiway 1
++++ U.S. Out: Tuesdays 4-5 at Mission & Laurel at base of UCSC with banners/signs 415-954-2763
++++ Update on Protest Chevron’s fueling genocide in Gaza + Tue and Th protests last week?
++++ Rain or showers predicted for Friday 11-22 through Friday 11-29 for next week.
++++ The usual crowded often full non-emergency winter shelter when temps drop below 38 degrees or two days rain run by “People First” + Brent’s Warming Wednesdays 12-3 PM at 150 Felker St.
Standard Stuff: Regular Check-In’s
++++ Passarounds: Vallejo Handouts: TBA
++++ Street Reports: Threats of Sweeps? Posted Notices? Uncomfortable encounters
++++ Seeking Info & Contacts: Tabling at Funding Matters [FM]/Soup Kitchen
++++ Solidarity with Resistance to On-Campus Repression of Encampments & Protest
++++ Election Impacts on Homeless
++++ Morrison letter; Keeley proposed letter
++++ Vallejo: Background from 2021: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homelessness-wasted-millions-empty-hotel-rooms-police-evictions/ Eviction Sweeps in November 2024: https://www.vallejosun.com/state-local-agencies-remove-long-running-vallejo-homeless-encampment/ Chatting with the Sweepster Boss: https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2024/10/31/conversations-with-the-city-manager-homelessness-in-vallejo/ Vallejo’s Homeless File a Lawsuit: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homeless-union-members-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-encampment-eviction/
++++ Vasalia’s excuse for sweeps ?: https://fresnoalliance.com/visalia-confronts-homelessness/
++++ Fresno: Way More Arrests than Treatment https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article293730944.html
++++ San Rafael: Lawsuit forces token costly tent program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uppRbWhhvEI
Possible Action Items
++++ Scheduling and strategy for confronting officials at Public events ++++ Volunteer for connecting with Vasalia, Fresno, Vallejo, San Rafael activists
++++ 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”)
++++ Spying Back on Surveillance Camera Location yet (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)
++++ Tracking court cases?
++++ Armory/1220 Expedition to check out Athena’s Asks; any new info? ++++ Exposing MC 6.36 and other sweep pretexts: Documenting the Deception
Setting Up Signposts to Stop the Nasty New Narrative/Tasks in Search of Takers
++++ Stop the War Against the Poor Sweeps/Raids + Gaza Genocide Lanyards?
++++ New Strategies for Documenting Property Loss: Case #, Receipts, Audio recordings
++++ WARMING CENTER OPENINGS?
++++ Focused Demands? (Stop the Sweeps, Reapportion funding to service existing camps; Walk-in Shelter)
++++ 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:
To hear the shows go to https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html Very brief Descriptive Summary of Last Week’s Archived Net Shows–
November 14th : https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-thursday-november-14th-2024-show-flashes-back-to-may-5th-2017-with-the-lone-spanger-of-austin-txs-challenge-homeless-paper-judy-schaul-steve-pleich-rick-coral-s/
November 17th: TBA
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