Monthly Archives: August 2025

HUFF cools it with calm but chaotic colloquy at the usual 703 Pacific (Sub Rosa Cafe) 1:30-3:30 PM next to the Bike Church

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Agenda Suggestions for HUFF 8-28-25

For those wearied or impatient with the repeated Agenda, most of them except those flagged as action or discussion items might be limited to 1 minute presentation unless the group wants more info.  This is also a rough draft with additional items to be added at the Thursday [8-28] meeting]


Top of the Agenda

++++   Reports on Current Projects; Time Available for next week;  Needs and Wants

++++   Follow-Up on Last Week’s Projects

++++   Flag Possible Action Items. 

++++   Handouts: Agenda, TBA;   Passarounds HUFF Notes, Gaza Petition         Available on Request:  Shelter/Sweep Questionaire

++++   This Morning’s Coral Crackdown (if anyone went) & Pajaro Demolition

++++   MHCAN Closure—Response?

++++   Successful Protest at Tuesday’s Board of Supervipers; Follow-Up++++   Wednesday’s Keeley Backslapping Affair

++++   Other Protests: 8-14 Thur Red Line on Beach; 8-20

++++   Other Street & sweep reports from the last week
++++   Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters

++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’s

++++   Federal and State Policing updates

++++   Meetings Upcoming

++++   216-8239 Sick Sweeps and Property Seizure Reports Accumulation

++++   Clanging pots and pans rally against U.S. Funding Gaza Starvation and Local Unhoused Refugee Harassment

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet]

Thursday August 28  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room

Saturday August 30 11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-war  All Out for Palestine: Gaza is Starving   Palestine Justice Coalition           Summer Show Fund-raiser for Palestine 5 PM-9 PM Barrios Unidos   1817 Soquel Ave.  Could be free.

Saturday August 30 and Sunday August 31 noon-3 PM FNB gathering and meal Town Clock; Street Spirits available; leave off or pick up polling sheets with Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices.

Monday September 1   8:30 AM- 11 AM   “Workers Over Billionaires” Protest  13190 CA-9, Boulder Creek    

Monday September 1 Noon-2:30  PM Barbecue & Fish fry  sc vets Hall  746 Front St.More events   T B A

More check-in’s + Info

++++    Info Tabling:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested…Poll for Armory

++++    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.

++++    Temperate cloudy weather for the next week (says on-line weather report)

++++   Tips & Lifelessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Sagacity

++++   Reggie & Gaia’s report on Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”: Volunteers?  

++++   Laura C.: legislative updates

++++   Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces?  Small Claims Court? 

++++   (if by popular demand) Wes White’s phone report on Pajaro Camp DemolitionNew Media Stories  : Next week perhaps

Old Standbyes

++++   Hard Copies of Street Spirit 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).    Pick up or leave off Armory polls with Drew as well.

++++   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

++++    Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K” 

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides August 24, 2025 show features activist power at the Stupervipers; commentary from McHenry and White+ a Flashback to September 2, 2012 with Pastor Steve de Garbres DeFields, SC 11 trial struggle, & PeaceCamp 2010 Aftermath

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The August 24, 2025 show includes:

  • Audio for Western Region Advocacy Project (WRAP)’s 20th Anniversary birthday celebration with Paul Boden, Monica–Disability Rights Advocate, Philippine activist Kersten, Poor Magazine Poets, L.A.s General Doegun, Adam of LACAN, all in video at   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60HWb2mOdlw&t=239s
  • [Throughout] recent stark musical cries against U.S./Israeli genocide by singer David Rovics from his recent additions at https://drovics.podbean.com/e/songs-for-gaza/
  • “Whip Back the Wicked” Wes White’s California Homeless Union update prioritizing 8-25 Pajaro Camp Demolition
  • “Katzenjammer” Keith on his recent arrest at the Parking Garage groundbreaking 8-20
  • Making Contact addenda: “Cleaner” War with Drones
  • “Free the Land” show with a Peace Camp 2010 Flashback

The Flashback to September 2, 2012 includes:

  • Pastor Steve de DeFields Gambrel Circle Church update
  • Dialogue with Fresno-based Mathew Embri
  • 8-2 Surfer David, Mel Nunez, James, Santo—street interviews
  • 8-3 SC11 Protest March with Bi-Polar Bear (aka Dreamcatcher), Jack Cole
  • 80’s Mime Troupe songs from Fact Wino v. Armageddon Man
  • “Ground Zero” Gary, “Lighthouse” Linda, and Norse on their upcoming trials  
  • Menace of the City’s P&R “Access and Use” Chapter (MC 13.04)
  • Skidmark Bob from Copwatch and Free Radio to P&R employee
  • Occupy Roxanne of the Food Justice Coalition

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides August 21, 2025 show is a Flashback to August 21, 2012 featuring Jen Waller and Tom Henze Traveling Resistance Supporters, More on the Court Struggle Defending the S.C. 11 and bits from Lighthouse Linda, Dead-on David & More

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The August 21, 2025 show is a Flashback to August 21, 2025. 

It includes:

  • [throughout] Jen Walker’s political music from “Broken Down”]
  • “Backstory” Brent Adams—his video journal you-tube posting “What Are You Doing Here?”—Inside Occupy Santa Cruz:  https://www.youtube.com/watchv=8iyK7Nx1Wtc&t=34s
  • [8-19] Jen Walker and Tom Hintze, hosted at Attorney and House-arrested Ed Frey’s place on a city-to-city tour with legal & jail training against police repression of Occupy.
  • Bathrobespierre and Brent recall details of the final repression of the Benchlands
  • Questions and reports from the Frey Forum by many voices.
  • Lighthouse Linda on ways to break down institutional police walls
  • CAO Susan Muriello’s Courthouse curfew and Downtown Ordinance talk.
  • Jen and Tom report on their visits to Occupy’s across the country.
  • Making Contact: Can Law Enforcement Unions Change?

Hot weather or not, HUFF’s “Loose Cannons” meeting fires away 1:30 PM- 3:30 PM Thursday August 21 at the Sub Rosa Care, 703 Pacific, next to the Bike Church

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RUF Agenda Suggestions for HUFF 8-21-25

For those wearied or impatient with the repeated Agenda, most of them except those flagged as action or discussion items might be limited to 1 minute presentation unless the group wants more info.


Top of the Agenda

++++   Reports on Current Projects; Time Available for next week;  Needs and Wants

++++   Follow-Up on Last Week’s Projects

++++   Flag Possible Action Items.

++++   Possible Handouts: Agenda, Revised Poll/Flyer, 216 Flyers, Vehicular  Crunching Flyer.   Passarounds HUFF Notes, Gaza Petition  Available on Request:  Shelter/Sweep Questionaire

++++   This Morning’s Coral Crackdown (if anyone went)

++++   Successful Protest at Tuesday’s Board of Supervipers; Follow-Up++++   Wednesday’s Keeley Backslapping Affair

++++   Other Protests: 8-14 Thur Red Line on Beach; 8-20

++++   Other Street & sweep reports from the last week
++++   Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters

++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’s

++++   Federal and State Policing updates

++++   Meetings Upcoming

++++   216-8239 Sick Sweeps and Property Seizure Reports Accumulation

++++   Clanging pots and pans rally against U.S. Funding Gaza Starvation and Local Unhoused Refugee Harassment

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet]

Thursday August 21  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room

Saturday August 23  11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-war  “Free Palestine”Summer Show Fund-raiser for Palestine 5 PM-9 PM Barrios Unidos   1817 Soquel Ave.  Could be free.

Saturday August 24 and Sunday August 25 noon-3 PM FNB gathering and meal Town Clock; Street Spirits available; leave off or pick up polling sheets with Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices.More events   T B A

More check-in’s + Info

++++    Info Tabling:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested…Poll for Armory

++++    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.

++++    Temperate cloudy weather for the next week (says on-line weather report)

++++   Tips & Lifelessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Sagacity

++++   Reggie & Gaia’s report on Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”: Volunteers?  

++++   Laura C.: legislative updates

++++   Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces?  Small Claims Court? 

New Stories  : Next week perhaps

++++    “Santa Cruz County proposal could allow the destruction of homeless RVs” at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/18/18879067.php?show_comments=1#18879071

Old Standbyes

++++   Hard Copies of Street Spirit 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).    Pick up or leave off Armory polls with Drew as well.

++++   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

++++    Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K” 

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides August 17, 2025 show features quasi-establishment reports from D.C. on Trump’s anti-homeless war+ a Flashback to March 5, 2017 with Candlelight Kim, Freedom Sleepout 86, and lots more

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The August 17, 2025 show includes 

  • Furious Facebook posting:  Alicia Kuhl outraged irony; Tyler, Sonya, and Wes chime in.
  • [throughout] David Rovics’ enraged response to the U.S. armed Gaza slaughter
  • Alternate media on Trump’s planned D.C. raids against the vulnerable homeless
  • 2 Logans and Shawn interviews in the aftermath of today’s earlier Coral Street sweeps
  • [8-9 & 8-16]  Dedicated Drew on the weekend Food Not Bombs 3-hour meal
  • Sean reports on this year’s Rainbow Gathering
  • Lighthouse Linda Lemaster on elder life and discrimination in the S.C. outskirts
  • HUFFster Athena reports on “at least the 5th[successive] weekly Coral St. sweep” in front of the Housing Matters [aka “Funding Matters”] poverty-industrial complex.
  • Frequently seized “Danger” describes the SCPD routine.

The Flashback to March 5, 2017 includes: 

  • Entrapment, abuse, and criminalization: Council-Cop collaboration
  • Rent stabilization in Santa Cruz?
  • Freedom Sleep Out #86: adjacent Council meeting on SCPD cop Bradley’s Arlt shooting back in October; cops withholding Officer’s Report and D.A. investigation; Viper on City tent theft
  • S.F.’s Jan Chan story—audio of video exchange
  • [2-26] Candlelight Kim’s eviction from the Homeless [Lack of] Services Center for a bite of bread; Bob Lamonica, Keith M., and a homeless library patron “suspended” for making faces at a computer screen.
  • More on the Sean Arlt killing and Chief Vogel’s apologia for ICE agent in the SCPD
  • Interview with Councilmember Chris Krohn

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides August 14, 2025 show is a Flashback to August 28, 2016 featuring a 2-hours long exchange with Backstory Brent Adams and a mini-Flashback to Beggarbacker Becky Johnson’s August 19, 2003 Erasable Political Chalking Arrest

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The August 14, 2025 show is a Flashback August 28, 2025 which includes:

  • In-studio guest Brent Adams, Warming Center founder,  critical of “alienating” activist tactics, 
  • [throughout] songs by radical political songster Ryan Harvey
  • Brent on Phil Kramer and the 180-180 Program
  • Point-in-Time count talk; Joey killing; and new Pacific Ave. ordinance.
  • Brent on Past Protest Camps
  • Flashback to Sept. 2002—Becky Johnson’s 8-19 arrest for political chalk
  • John Malkin’s show on 12-13-14, Natl Day of Protest Against Police Violence

HUFF gathers itself after Cop Coral St. Crackdown 8-14-25 at the Sub Rosa Cafe 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church

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Agenda Notions for HUFF 8-14-25
Top of the Agenda

++++   Reports on Current Projects; Time Available for next week;  Needs and Wants

++++   Flag Possible Action Items. 

++++   Possible Handouts: Agenda, Revised Poll/Flyer, 216 Flyers;   Passarounds HUFF Notes, Gaza Petition, Notice to Vacate, 209 Flyers

++++   This Morning’s Expanded Coral Crackdown; Lessons Learned: tagging, photoing, next prep?

++++   Other Street & sweep reports from the last week
++++   Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters

++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’s

++++   Federal and State Policing updates+

+++   Protests or Gatherings Throughout the Last Week & Upcoming

++++   216-8239 Sick Sweeps and Property Seizure Report Accumulation

++++   Clanging pots and pans rally against U.S. Funding Gaza Starvation and Local Unhoused Refugee Harassment

++++   Review Agenda (questions, additions)

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet]

Thursday august 14  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room6 PM  Main Beach Symbolic protest  “Let Gaza Swim : Red Line in the Sand”  See HUFF notes

Saturday august 16  11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-war  “Free Palestine”

Saturday august 16 and Sunday august 1017noon-3 PM FNB gathering and meal Town Clock; Street Spirits available; leave off or pick up polling sheets with Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices.

Monday august 11 4:30-5:30 PM ocean and Water, Indivisble “Civil Rights” group “Alligator Alcatraz—American Aschwitz

More check-in’s + Info

++++    Info Tabling:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested…Poll for Armory, 216 Distribution++++    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.

++++    Weather wanders in the 70’s—no predicted rain.

++++   Tips & Life lessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Sages

++++   Reggie & Gaia’s report on Selective Ticketing for “Homeless Crime”: Volunteers?  

++++   Laura C.: legislative updates

++++   Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces?  Small Claims Court? 

New Stories  : More TBA

++++   Documenting Destruction: Flyers Say: “End the Homeless Sweeps”    https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/04/20/18875711.php

Old Standbyes

++++   Hard Copies of Street Spirit 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).    Pick up or leave off Armory polls with Drew as well.

++++   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

++++    Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K” 

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides August 10, 2025 show features audio from “Can’t Keep Me Down” Clockster Cooper, Rabbi Phil Posner’s memorial, & more + a Flashback to Jan. 30, 2016/early Jan 2003 with Citizen’s Police Review Board chair Mark Halfmoon

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The August 10, 2025 show includes:

  • Retired but relevant Barbara Riverwomon on the herstory of El Rio Mobile Home park as owned by the residents, unlike the Clear Court and De Anza where rent control was sold out by the City under corporate pressure.
  • Memorial memories of Freedom Sleeperand homeless activist Phil Posner who died in May—his life described by his sons including one-time City Council member Micah Posner.
  • [throughout] Many a song against the Gaza genocide by David Rovics
  • Town Clock Tattle: [8-3] Scott on the police excuses used to seize his four vehicles. [8-2] Cooper’s report on her latest Pogonip garden; Dreadeye’s update and blessings.
  • Athena’s outspoken updates on court cases, the pisspoor Point in Time homeless count, and the 216 countering-harassment call-in number.
  • “How Did I Know?” by Katzenjammer Keith McHenry

The Flashback to January 30, 2016 includes:

  • Dialogue with a Free Radio Broadcaster, who’s also a member of WAMMM (Women and Men’s Medical Marijuana collective) on WAMMM as ordained monopoly provider.
  • Discussion of the County’s anti-homeless Camping restrictions with vehicular resident Ed Howes.
  • Bathrobespierre describes and savages City Council’s beheading and dissolution of the Citizen’s Police Review Board which had begun serious questioning of SCPD policies.
  • Mark Halfmoon, chair of the former CPRB describes slanted SCPD reports, dysfunction on the CPRB, blockage of complainant input, failure of the “backroom” auditor model.
  • Halfmoon on the unconscious institutional racist factor in Santa Cruz City Council; he proposes a voter-enacted police review process.
  • Battlin’ Bob Lamonica agrees police power needs to be seriously overseen.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides August 7, 2025 show is a Flashback to January 30, 2003 via January 7, 2016 featuring former police review reformer “Make ‘Em Accountable” Mark Halfmoon and Berkeley activist “Cornerstone” Carol Denney

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The August 7, 2025 show is a Flashback to January 30, 2003 via January 7, 2016.

It includes:

  • Dialogue with Free Radio Broadcaster Tony, also a member of WAMMM (Women and Men’s Medical Marijuana collective) on WAMMM as monopoly provider
  • Discussion of the County’s Camping restrictions with vehicular resident Ed Howes.
  • Bathrobespierre describes and savages City Council’s beheading and dissolution of the Citizens Police Review Board [CPRB].
  • Mark Halfmoon, chair of the former CPRB, on slanted SCPD reports, dysfunction on the CPRB, blockage of complainant input, failure of the auditor model as not transparent.
  • Halfmoon on the unconscious institutional racist factor in Santa Cruz City Council  and a voter-enacted police review
  • “Battlin’” Bob Lamonica agrees police power needs to be checked.

HUFF meets, mutters, and mixes 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM Thursday August 7 at Sub Rosa Cafe/Courtyard next to the Bike Church

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Suggestions for Loose Cannons Meeting at HUFF 8-07-25


Top of the Agenda

++++   Reports on Current Projects; Time Available for next week;  Needs and Wants

++++   Review Agenda (questions, additions)

++++   Flag Possible Action Items. 

++++   Possible Handouts: Agenda, Revised Poll/Flyer, 216 Flyers.   Passarounds HUFF Notes, more TBA

++++   Available: New Street Sheets and Street Spirits                                                                                                               

Check-In’s

++++   Street & sweep reports from the last week
++++   Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters

++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’s

++++   Federal and State Policing updates

++++   Protests or Gatherings Throughout the Last Week & Upcoming

++++   216-8239 Sick Sweeps and Property Seizure Report

++++   Clanging pots and pans rally against U.S. Funding Gaza Starvation and Local Unhoused Refugee Harassment

++++    Love-In with the Landlord: Greg presents Darius (again).

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet]

Thursday July 24  Food Not Bombs meeting 5-6 PM  El Rio Mobile Home Community Room

Saturday July 26  11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-war  “Free Palestine”

Saturday JULY 26 and Sunday July 27 noon-3 PM FNB gathering and meal Town Clock; Street Spirits available; leave off or pick up polling sheets with Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices.

More check-in’s

++++    Info Tabling:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested…Poll for Armory

++++    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.

++++   Weather TBA

++++   Tips & Lifelessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Sagacity

++++   Reggie & Gaia’s report on Selective Ticketing for “Homeless Crime”: Volunteers?  

++++   Laura C.: legislative updates

++++   Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces?  Small Claims Court? 

New Stories  : TBA

Old Standbyes

++++   Hard Copies of Street Spirit 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).    Pick up or leave off Armory polls with Drew as well.

++++   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

++++     Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K”