Ruf Suggestions for HUFF 5-22-25
Http web addresses are for background reading or listening. Many items are really signposts & 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) Police and City Manager Narrative. Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them. AGENDA SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Top of the Agenda (+ Quick Announcements)(a brief broad survey)
++++ Review Agenda—Flag Possible Action Items
++++ Possible Handouts: TBA Passarounds TBA
++++ Street and sweep reports from the last week;
++++ HUFF Disruption policy; Considerations, Conversations—Athena’s Proposals
++++ Court cases past and future; 5150’s
++++ Report from “The Encampments” video Last Saturday; UCSC POWWOW last Sunday.
++++ Newsom Homeless Nakba Nonsense—Our Response?
++++ Shitty Council; Stupes Report Back
++++ MHCAN Support proposals
++++ Gaia’s update on Capitola Mobile Home owners resistance to huge rent raises (Call for Update)(Solidarity Resolution)
++++ Wes White’s Salinas and State Updates
++++ Various legacy media stories: TBA
++++ Free Events (for demonstrating, organizing, leafleting, or enjoying)
Saturday May 16 11 am- 1 pm Ocean & Water anti-war picket
noon-3 Food Not Bombs Anniversary Soupstock at San Lorenzo Park
Monday May 19 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Ocean & Water Civil Rights Weekly Anti-Trump ”Indivisible” Protest
++++ Info Tabling: Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested…Poll for Armory Resident Concerns–Volunteers
++++ Armory complaints to (408) 761-9930 as well as evan@peoplefirstscc.org or peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699.
++++ 60s- 70s Thurs and thru the week; no rain…getting warmer
++++ Fremont lawsuit:https://eagleera.org/2025/04/27/california-homeless-union-and-advocates-sue-fremont-over-controversial-camping-ban/ Background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZt<<4ZMINEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT_d9BFEzYA
++++ Tips & Lifelessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Revelations
++++ Reggie & Gaia’s report on Citation for “Homeless Crime”
++++ Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces? Small Claims Court? Armory Visit?
++++ New Street Spirits and Street Sheets available. Mid-month Street Sheet stories available on line https//www.streetsheet.org/ . Hard Copies of both may be available Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock 12-3 PM—ask Drew at the Food Not Bombs Both want stories & news accounts: contact paper directly or Robert Norse (423-4833)
++++ People First Free Guides: https://peoplefirstscc.org/freeguides for S.C., Watsonville, SLV, Free Phones, Youth, Housing Waitlist, Pet Food, Addiction, Immigrant Storm Relief, SLE, Diaper Bank, and more (unchecked for usefulness)
++++ https://peoplefirstsdcc.org/freeguides SC Free Guide (Correction & updates needed) + many others
++++ SHOC (Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee)’s newspaper Homeward— https://sxacshoc.org/homeward/
++++ Street Spirit archives on line:https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22&sort=-date
++++ Recent stories on a variety of unhoused issues: https://invisiblepeople.tv/
++++ Overview: https://endhomelessness.org/resource/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights/