RUF Agenda Suggestions for “Loose Cannons” HUFF meeting 9-4-25
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. The point is to maintain the real narrative not the one the City/County staff claims. This is also a rough draft with additional items to be added before & at the Thursday [9-4] 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 That Require Immediate Planning and/or Action: MHCAN Closure; County RV law.
++++ Handouts: Agenda, TBA; Passarounds HUFF Notes, Gaza Petition Available on Request: Shelter/Sweep Questionnaire
++++ Street Sweeps in Last Week and Coming Up
++++ Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters
++++ Court cases past and future; 5150’s
++++ Follow up’s on Trump, Newsom, and Keeley-Huffaker Edicts
++++ Meetings of Interest Upcoming
++++ 216-8239 Property Seizure Reports Accumulation + FNB Poll Report
++++ 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 Sept 4 5-6 PM Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 5 8:30 AM- 4 PM “Know Their Names”—Honoring Martyred Gazan Children 12 PM – 1 PM Press Conference 4 PM Silent March from Ocean & Water 4:30 Town Clock Name Reading, Signs 5:15 PM Silent March 5:30 PM-7:30 PM Silent March to Cooper St. 7:30 PM- Late Evening Visual Images
Saturday sept 6 11 AM- 12:30 PM Ocean & Water anti-war All Out for Palestine: Gaza is Starving Palestine Justice Coalition
Saturday sept 6 and Sunday sept 7 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 8 4:30-5:30 PM Indivisible Protest Indivisible Civil Rights Group Corner of Ocean and Water Streets in Santa Cruz
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.
++++ Initially sunny then sunny/cloudy for the next week (says on-line weather report—good luck)
++++ Tips & Lifelessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Sagacity
++++ Reggie & Gaia’s report on Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”.
++++ Laura C.: legislative updates
++++ Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces? Small Claims Court?
++++ Attorney Kate Wells death: Check out HUFF site Descriptions or Flashbacks for more herstory
++++ (if by popular demand) Wes White’s phone report on Pajaro Camp Demolition
Old Standbyes
++++ Hard Older 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”