Monthly Archives: August 2025

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides August 3, 2025 show features interview with California Homeless Union contact Alicia Kuhl on social services and myths + a Flashback to November 29, 2015 covering Freedom Sleepout #20

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The August 3, 2025 show includes:

  • [at various points throughout] Lesser known tunes by Tart-and-Toxic Tom Lehrer
  • Dormant Santa Cruz Homeless Union activist on her shelter assistance experience
  • S.J. Mercury News:  “Millbrae, city with 22 homeless residents, bans encampments“
  • “Redwood City Prohibits Camping; Council Okays Law That Levels Misdemeanor charges after two written charges to leave”
  • HUFF [7-31]Advocates Athena, Troy and others on the S.C. Coral street sweeps
  • “Backstory” Brent Adams gives a Felker St. report,  his new Art & Rebellion group, and the City’s progress in homeless shelter/housing

The Flashback to November 29, 2015 includes:

  • Bathrobespierre’s critical City Council’s passage of Richelle Noroyan’s attack on RV residents; continuing harassment of his recording Council meetings
  • Voices from and description at Freedom Sleepout #20 

Year-delayed Dashcam Video showed the Chicago 16-shot Murder of Laquan McDonald –Santa Cruz Racist Parallels

Outrage at Security Guard escalation and harassment; Police replace guards in rain, steal Artist Michael’s property.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides July 31, 2025 show is a Flashback to September 20, 2015 featuring voices from Freedom Sleepout #10 and a Council Candidate forum from October 1988

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The July 31, 2025 show is a Flashback to September 20, 2015. 

It includes:

  • Last of the live in-studio FRSC broadcasts
  • Charles and Andrea Wilson from Monterey Protests against the Alvarado Sitting Band
  • Bathrobespierre discussing events at Freedom SleepOut #10—the security guard assault and police arrest of Christina Barnes, Brent’s disruption, and more.
  • Battlin’ Bob Lamonica on the Posner-Lane Proposed Homeless Camping Site Search and the History of FRSC, the anti-RV situation.
  • Dangerous John Thielking on Eugene City Council—Speak out on overturning Camping Ban, phony decorum issues (the Clapping & Sign Ban), Smoking Ban
  • Flashback to October 1988, a panel discussion between Ed Porter, Ray Grueneich, Jane Baer,and Charles Grey on the Camping Ban
  • Freedom SleepOut #10: Security Guards and Police Assemble, Bathrobespierre comments
  • Freedom Sleeper General Assembly
  • Backtalk Brent Adams’ Suggestions on Effective Protest—Pro and Con; Bathrobespierre, Rabbi Phil, Steve Argue, Zav, Louise,
  • Making Contact: the Prison Journey of Kevin Tindell

HUFF meets to mumble, muse, and munch on July 31st 1:30-3:30 PM Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church. Join us.

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RUF Agenda Suggestions at HUFF 7-31-25


Top of the Agenda

++++   Review Agenda (questions, additions)

++++   Flag Possible Action Items. 

++++   Possible Handouts: Agenda, Older 216 Flyers;   Passarounds:  HUFF Notes, Trump’s Anti-Homeless Proclamation

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

++++   Laura C’s report on Dylan Verner-Crist’s ACLU Update (if available)++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’s

++++   Federal and State Policing updates

++++   Protests/Gatherings Throughout the Last Week & Upcoming (e.g.Renter Union Launch, Indivisible Good Trouble protests)

++++   Various 216-8239 Flyers Prospect Meeting Report; Reggie, Athena, Venus Spread Sheet Updates or Phone Connects

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) 

Thursday July 31  Food Not Bombs meeting 5-6 PM  El Rio Mobile Home Community RoomSaturday August 2  11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-war  “Free Palestine”
Saturday August 2 2 PM – 4 PM  SURF (Showing Up for Racial Justice) meeting at London Nelson Community Center (possible Dem Party event)

Saturday August 2 and Sunday August 3rd 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.

Saturday August 2  & Sunday August 3rd  2 PM BERKELEY S.F. Mime Troupe’s DESOLATION in Live Oak Park Shattuck Ave. & Berryman St.

Sunday  August 3 noon Memorial Remembrance of Rev. Phil Posner noon-1 PM El Rio Mobile Home Community Room

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 warming up  mid-70s thru next weekhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT_d9BFEzYA

++++   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.: YES on SB 634 & other legislative updates

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

Mostly New Stories

++++ San Francisco bans homeless people from living in RVs with new parking limit https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-homeless-rv-ban-parking-290eaeb7e6b03e43e866e5b1b914da3b

++++  Love Is The Drug – Interview with Heather Edney / Santa Cruz Needle Exchange Programhttps://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/07/18/18878096.php

++++    New Category Added for 311 “Homeless Calls”  https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20250730/281595246587829
++++    https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-02/uc-bans-israel-boycotts-bds-student-governement-trump-pressure

++++    https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/07/18/the-bench-bandits-speak-in-the-war-over-street-furniture-sf-needs-to-sit-down-and-relax/

++++    https://sfist.com/2025/07/07/sf-city-hall-not-at-all-pleased-with-those-guerilla-benches-that-some-renegades-placed-at-bench-less-muni-stops/

++++    S.F. Settles suit over sweeping encampments  https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20250725/281479282461240

Old Standbys

++++   No new Street Spirits available in hard copy.   Current Street Sheet stories available on line https//www.streetsheet.org/ . Hard Copies of June & July 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 July 27, 2025 show features current gloomy mainstream news, a few Town Clock chuckles, A Phil Posner obit, & more + a Flashback to October 19, 2003 on CPS abuses, street performer pushback, and De Anza sell-out

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The July 27, 2025 show (the current segment) includes:

  • [at odd intervals throughout] David Rovics https://www.davidrovics.com/palestine/ “One Year On: The Apocalypse in Review” Episode 3
  • Bathrobespierre reads and comments on mainstream stories:

    ++ Dan Walters: “Governor  [Newsom] Bullies the Cities and Counties Like Trump Does the States”                        

++ ACLU notes a court decision challenges police use of “Qualified Immunity”           

++ Trump’s Executive Edict “Ending Crime and Disorder on American Streets”                        

++ “Courts, Cops in Deadly Chase: Cops Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity”;  “The Controversy Over Qualified Immunity”           

++  San Jose’s Columbus Park: Homeless Dig-In to Protect  Community.

  • Community Activist Micah Posner’s Memorial Tribute to his father Phil Posner, former Freedom Rider and strong voice in the Freedom Sleepers (actual memorial August 3
  • [7-20] Brimstone Man’s optimistic report at the Town Clock; Cooper on her new outlaw garden; Survival Supporter “Dinners for All” Drew’s call for blankets & tents
  • [7-27] Drew on Lengthening food lines and increased criminalizations of those outside; Lyrical I on shrinking gig opportunities
  •  Summary of the 10-19-03 Flashback upcoming.

The Flashback to October 19, 2003 includes: [low volume]

  • Rough-Tongued Roxanne Acquistepache updates the struggle of Orly and Stacy Jones to retrieve their children from Foster Parent abuse
  • “Battling”Bob Lamonica details the De Anza Mobile Home Park rent control struggle and the upcoming referendum to stop the City Council’s sell-out
  • “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson analyzes MHC (the Mobile Home giant) and its attack on De Anza
  • Bathrobespierre Robert conveys attorney Will Constantine’s critical view of the City’s rent control abolition.
  • Rainbow Madonna’s Petition to legalize survival camping throughout California & Tony Kennedy Carr from San Diego
  • Peace Activist and Musician Joe Williams critiques the City’s destruction of the voluntary street performers guidelines in the modified downtown ordinances
  • “Battleready” Bob Patton reports on his Human Rights Organization, report on a Pacific Ave. fight; other voices at Soquel and Pacific.