Ruf Suggestions for “Loose Cannons” HUFF 5-29-25
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 ; Athena will be running this “Loose Cannons” meeting with timely outbursts from me and others. A more updated series of suggestions may be available at the1:30 PM meeting.
Top of the Agenda (+ Quick Announcements)(a brief broad survey)
++++ Review Agenda
++++ Additional Agenda Items– 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’sCHECK-Ins, ANNOUNCEMENTS, and REPORTS
++++ Protests or Gatherings Throughout the Last Week including Soupstock.
++++ Newsom Homeless Nakba Nonsense—Our Response?
++++ Shitty Council of 5-27 Report.
++++ Various 216-8239 Flyers; Reggie & Gaia Updates or Phone Connects++++ 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)
Thursday-Friday May 30-31 5:30-8:30 PM A Dawn & Two Dusks 1156 High St. Arboretum
7-9 PM ACLU Webnar 7-9 PM, “Threats to Free Speech…” https://bit.ly/ACLUSantaCruzMay29Event
Saturday 10:15 AM Main Beach Indivisible does People spellout “Resist!”
May 31 11 AM- 1 PM Ocean & Water anti-war picket
Sunday June 1 11AM-4 PM 50th Anniversary Gay Pride Parade Cathcart and Pacific
Monday May 26 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Ocean & Water Civil Rights Weekly Anti-Trump Dem. Party ”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.
++++ No Rain—Warm to Warmer thru the Week.
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 Selective Ticketing for “Homeless Crime”
++++ Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces? Small Claims Court?
++++ Next week new Street Spirits and Street Sheets may be 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) (Warning: entries not verified)
++++ 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/