Monthly Archives: November 2025

Wet, weary, wise, and, wordy, HUFF meets more briefly 1:45 PM- 3 PM Thursday November 20 at the Sub Rosa Cafe, 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church

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Agenda Suggestions for HUFF meeting 11-20-25

Most of these items are brief reports and check in’s.  If you flag an item for action or discussion, more talk—particularly if it’s needs immediate action.   We hope to expose the real narrative not the rosy one falsely presented by the City/County staff, politicians, and profiteering non-profits.  The point is to speak truth to those in power & the community.   Additional items may be added at the meeting. 


Top of the Agenda  (Flag Items Requiring Immediate Planning and/or Action or add your own)

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

++++   Follow-Up on Last Week’s Projects:  Ben’s Featherfluff Solution; Thomas’s “Rest is Resistance” book discussion; Roach’s In Home Services Advisory Commission

++++   Continuing Issues: Funding Matters Shutdown; MHCAN Closure

++++   Street Reports

++++   RV current ordinance and follow-up? Supes report?  John Do’s ACLU letter; the current law + practice?

++++   Past week’s protest reports if any

++++   Future Prospects:  Showing of Hometown Homeless at Sub Rosa in anti-Shutdown Protest; Revival of Homeless Union Organizing Against Coral St. Sweeps:; Regular Flyering at Armory pick-up, Coral St., Tracks, “No Kings” & other Rally Organizing for 216-8239 Call-in’s

++++   Fencing and Boulders—Anti-Homeless Architecture Updates

++++   Reports from the Shitty Council meeting on Flex Surveillance & Other Issues

++++   Updates on UCSC and Starbucks Strikes; UCSC lawsuit and trials supporting Free Speech and No Genocide in Gaza trials.

++++   Handouts: Agenda, TBA;   Passarounds HUFF Notes    Available on Request:  Questionnaires for Shelter Poll

Regular Reports

++++   Street Sweeps in Last Week and Coming Up
++++   Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters

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

++++   SCPD and Sheriff Reports

++++   Meetings/Events  of Interest Upcoming?

++++   216-8239 Property Seizure Reports Accumulation + FNB Poll Report: Still fishing for updates.

++++   Clanging pots against Taxes for Gaza Starvation & Local Unhoused Refugee Harassment

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

Thursday Nov 20  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room, end of N. Pacific Ave.

Friday  Nov 21  ??? Time & Action Uncertain   Visit to Panetta Office to demand ending U.S. funding for Bombing of Gaza Santa Cruz District Office   701 Ocean  Room 318C

Friday Nov. 21  5:30 PM – 8:30 PM  Vigil/Ritual  Resource Center for Nonviolence  612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz

Friday Nov 21 4:15 PM – 7;15 PM Free Food Church East Zayante Rd. and Sylvan Way in Zayante near the school bus stop–rain or shine

Saturday Nov 22  11 AM- 12:30  PM Protest Israel with American Bombs bombing in the Phony Ceasefire+ U.S. occupation troops for Trump’s 10 Point Plan– Ocean & Water End the War  Weekly Signs and Shouts  Palestine Justice Coalition

Saturday Nov 22 2 PM  “Rest is Resistance” street huddle and book reading at the dinosaur statue across from the Post Office downtown

Saturday Nov 22 and Sunday Nov 23  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; older Street Spirits available; leave off or pick up accounts of shelter and police abuse from Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices

Saturday Nov 22 and Sunday Nov 23  afternoon  San Lorenzo Park Featherflock Food Distribution

Saturday Nov 22, 2025  1PM – 3PM  Boycott Chevron!  via Palestine Solidarity Central Coast  Chevron on Soquel/Ocean (404 Soquel Ave), SC

Sunday Nov 23  10-12 PM  People’s Aide : Solidarity with and Services for those in danger of being swept at the Green Gate on Gulf Club Drive.

Sunday Nov 23  3-5 PM  Eat for the Earth Fall Feast Dinner Party  Party/Street Party  Beth Love  admin [at] eatfortheearth.org  (831) 466-3405 Seventh-Day Adventist Church  1024 Cayuga Street – Sundean Hall (in the back)  Free Food Donations Appreciated

Monday Nov 24 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM  Another Indivisible Civil Right  Protest Against the Trump Regime (but add Newsom, Keeley, Kramer & the Deadly Dems) Ocean & Water Sts.Make allies of the Dismal Democrats in the Homeless Civil Rights Struggle.

Tuesday Nov 25  2 PM  Downtown at the info booth at Soquel and Pacific  Featherflock food-and-justice project

Tuesday Nov 25 6:30 PM Resource Center for Nonviolence 612 Ocean St., S.C.  Concert/Show by author John Malk  Book release event for “Punk Spirit! – An Oral History of Punk Rock, Spirituality, and Liberation” including a full concert by Diné (Navajo) folk/indigenous/punk band Sihasin (formerly Blackfire). They’ll ask for $20.

More check-ins + Info+Possible Individual action

++++    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

++++   Showers: Thurs, and at various days in the next week—conflicting reports.  Bring garbage bags and spare headgear to donate.

++++   Any help for Tips & Lifelessons to buff up Thomas’s Tipzine?

++++   Past homeless citation record of the last year: Reggie & Gaia need help to show Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”:

++++   Laura C.: legislative updates—state, local, and federal: the closing federal/state/local fist.

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

New-ish Stories (TBA)

Old Standbyes 

++++   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 November 16, 2025 show features Fury and Foolishness at Food-Not-Bombs, Berkeley’s Chess Club Jesse on the line + Flashback to July 26, 2015 on the 2nd Freedom SleepOut at City Hall

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The November 16, 2025 show includes:

The Flashback to July 26, 2015 includes:

  • Community Camp-Out Coalition (later known as the Freedom Sleepers [FS]) had their 2nd March and Sleepout to City Hall June 19—with extensive audio.
  • Speeches and a Report on the SleepOut parade by Lucero Luna and others
  • DJ Embri on local Black Lives Matter politics; Bob L. on the “difficult job” of the SCPD.
  • 9 FS citations examined.
  • “Lighthouse” Linda  counters bigoted objections to Board of Supes  to demand housing/emergency shelter affordable for the homeless on El Rancho Drive.
  • Conversations with sleepers—both housed (Anonymous) and unhoused as the SCPD arrive
  • https://www.latimes.com/local/crime/la-me-homeless-woman-baton-20150723-story.html
  • Peek-a-boo bathroom rationale discussion
  • Interview with former Interfaith Satellite Shelter Project’s [ISSP] Dave saying that a Board member criticized the FS saying they jeopardized Council funding

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides November 13, 2025 show is a Flashback to 2-15-15 & 2-12-15 in a hodpodge of interviews and commentary with Baldwin Park attorney Paul Cook, Monterey Shelter provider Jimmy Richards, and plenty of others

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The November 13, 2025 show is a Flashback to February 15.  It includes:

  • Gong-like Hanpan performance earns a police warning, ticket, and invitation by Yahosahmay Cameron
  • Merry misdirection from M
  • Monterey shelter provider Jimmy Richards
  • Boxer and attorney Paul Cook’s victory over the Baldwin Park mayor
  • Katzenjammer Keith on “nuts and bolts” details about Food Not Bombs
  • SCPD runaround on providing Public Records on its acquisition of the Bearcat and other class and race discriminatory behavior 
  • Flo’s report on the Camp of Last Resort meeting last night

The show then also flashes to February 12, 2025.  It includes: 

  • Backdoor SCPD and City Council sneak passage of the Bearcat acquisition
  • [2-4]  Pineapple on different county treatment of Drunk Driving
  • Santa Rosa: 30 days in jail for camping tickets Joshua Covis and Porkrind the dog  
  • 7 SCPD Camping tickets in the last month for James David Langworth
  • Dancing on Curtis Reliford’s Peace Train celebrating Black History Month
  • Compassion vs. Justice?– Motivation for Homeless Activism—Norse and Doc Mike
  • Dave of Jason Hain law—San Francisco Tenant Lawyer on Tenant Defense
  • New Bail Schedule at City Council
  • Cynthia on the Monterey Homeless Shelter and Justice Situation

Swim thru the rain to HUFF–meets Thursday November 13th 1:30 PM -3:30 PM at 703 Pacific Ave. next to the Bike Church

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Agenda Suggestions for HUFF meeting 11-13-25

Most of these items involve brief reports and check in’s.  If we flag an item for action or discussion, more talk—particularly if it’s time sensitive.   We hope to maintain the real narrative not the rosy one falsely presented by the City/County staff and politicians.  And occasionally act publicly to speak truth to those in power & the community.   Additional items may be added at the meeting. 


Top of the Agenda  (Flag Items Requiring Immediate Planning and/or Action or add your own)

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

++++   Follow-Up on Last Week’s Projects:  Ben’s Food Solution; Thomas’s “Rest is Resistance” book discussion; Roach’s In Home Services Advisory Commission

++++   Continuing Issues: Funding Matters March, now April? Shutdown; MHCAN Closure

++++   RV current ordinance and follow-up?  John Do’s ACLU letter; the current law + practice?

++++   Past week’s protest reports

++++   Future Prospects:  Showing of Hometown Homeless at Sub Rosa in anti-Shutdown Protest; Revival of Homeless Union Organizing Against 3 Times A Week Sweeps; Regular Flyering at Armory pick-up, Coral St., Tracks, “No Kings” & other Rally Organizing

++++   Fencing and Boulders—Anti-Homeless Architecture

++++   Reports from the Shitty Council meeting

++++   Updates on UCSC and Starbucks Strikes; UCSC lawsuit and trials supporting Free Speech and No Genocide in Gaza trials.

++++   Handouts: Agenda, TBA;   Passarounds HUFF Notes    Available on Request:  Questionnaires for Shelter Poll

Regular Reports

++++   Street Sweeps in Last Week and Coming Up
++++   Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters

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

++++   SCPD and Sheriff Reports

++++   Meetings/Events  of Interest Upcoming?

++++   216-8239 Property Seizure Reports Accumulation + FNB Poll  Still fishing for updates.

++++   Clanging pots against Taxes for Gaza Starvation & Local Unhoused Refugee Harassment

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

Thursday Nov 13  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room, end of N. Pacific Ave. the SNAP crisis

Friday  Nov 14  ??? Time & Action Uncertain   Visit to Panetta Office to demand ending U.S. funding for Bombing of Gaza Santa Cruz District Office   701 Ocean  Room 318C

Friday Nov. 14  2 PM until food gone  Boulder Creek  downtown on hiway 9 between Jenna Sue’s Café and the Tacqueria  Contact Jim Vivian 408-634-9749 Jim.Vivian@yahoo.com

Friday Nov 14 4:15 PM – 7:15 PM Free Food Church East Zayante Rd. and Sylvan Way in Zayante near the school bus stop  rain or shine

Saturday Nov 15  11 AM- 12:30  PM Israel with American Bombs bombs and shoots up the Ceasefire– Ocean & Water End the War  Weekly   Palestine Justice Coalition 

Saturday Nov 15 2 PM  “Rest is Resistance” street huddle and book reading at the dinosaur statue across from the Post Office downtown

Saturday Nov 15 and Sunday Nov 16  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; older Street Spirits available; leave off or pick up polling sheets with Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices;

Saturday Nov 15 4-6 PM   Film  Gaza: Doctors Under Attack  Suggested donation $20  at the Resource Center for Non-Violence perhaps free …

Sunday Nov 16  10-12 PM  People’s Aide : Solidarity with and Services for those in danger of being swept at the Green Gate on Gulf Club Drive.

Monday Nov 10 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM  Another Indivisible Civil Right  Protest Against the Trump Regime (but add Newsom, Keeley, Kramer & the Deadly Dems) Ocean & Water Sts.

Monday Nov 10  6 PM 150 Felker St.  possible Art and Rebellion meeting.  Contact Brent at 588-9892

Tuesday Nov 11  2 PM  Downtown at the info booth at Soquel and Pacific  Featherflock food-and-justice project

More check-in’s + Info+Possible Individual action

++++    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

++++   Showers: Thurs, Sat, Sun, and Mon—so say the weatherwizards.  Bring garbage bags and spare headgear to donate.

++++   Any help for Tips & Lifelessons to buff up Thomas’s Tipzine?

++++   Past homeless citation record of the last year: Reggie & Gaia need help to show Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”

++++   Laura C.: legislative updates—state, local, and federal: the closing federal/state/local fist.

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

New-ish Stories  (TBA)

Old Standbyes 

++++   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 November 9, 2025 show features RV resistance in San Francisco; Halloween Howdeedo in Santa Cruz; Drew & Cooper + Flashback to 6-23-02 Mike Boyd on SCPD abuse; Camp Hope Makes Its Own Way; and more

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The November 9, 2025 show includes:

The Flashback to June 23, 2002 includes: 

  • In-studio guests/hosts Carl Wilson and Dell Templeton, supporters of Camp Hope, Board Members of the Santa Cruz Service Corps [SCSC]
  • Call-in from ‘Justman’ Jim Cosner with Rock B. Sr., Russ Redner,  and others supporting the Carson City 10
  • Gypsy Lady Paula ousted from River St. mini-shelter & ticketed
  • Propertyowner Michael Boyd—searching for Public Documents to address SCPD abuse.
  • Wilson & Templeton: Why Camp Hope will drop connection with SCSC
  • Differing views on the responsibility of Tom Shaver & Paul Lee in the Camp Paradise/Camp Hope/SCSC controversy.
  • Rightwing SCPD and merchant push City Council for City Council Action Committee to Back Up Police Crackdown with “an Investigation”.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides November 6, 2025 show is a Flashback to 11-18-2012 with studio guest Bill Adansky, homeless activist Lighthouse Linda Lemaster, Battleweary Bob Patton, Sweet Strummer Sue, and more…

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The November 6, 2025 show is a Flashback to November 18, 2012. 

It includes:

  • [around the show] music from Next to Normal
  • Co-hosts, also guests, Bill Adamsky & Danny Bishop: “No lying down” bus bench near CVS; “drinking, smoking, and being me” tickets
  • Around Ronee Currey & Scott’s Sunday Sidewalk “Beanies and Burritos” meal:  Witnesses Malcolm X & others reporting on an attack on Lee
  • Escalating attacks on the music-making Susan; Joe’s bad time in San Bernadino; Void, Nova, Lloyd, and Tobey on Cops beating Wolf; busker Chris sings “Know Your Roots to Your Boots”; Donna Lynn Johnson left her bad “Paul’s Apartment” group to come here;
  • Battleready Bob Patton’s update for homeless Vets

HUFF bids farewell to the fall and slips on raincoats for next week at the Nov 6th 1:30-3:30 PM Sub Rose Cafe meeting next to the Bike Church at 703 Pacific Ave.

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Ruf Agenda Suggestions for HUFF meeting 11-6-25

Most of these items involve brief reports and check in’s.  If we flag an item for action or discussion, more talk—particularly if it’s time sensitive  We hope to maintain the real narrative not the rosy one falsely presented by the City/County staff and politicians.   Additional items may be added at the meeting. 


Top of the Agenda  (Flag Items Requiring Immediate Planning and/or Action)

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

++++   Follow-Up on Last Week’s Projects:  Ben’s Food Solution; Thomas’s “Rest is Resistance” book discussion; Halloween Copwatch

++++   Continuing Issues: Funding Matters March Shutdown; MHCAN Closure

++++   RV current ordinance and follow-up?  John Do’s ACLU letter; the current law + practice?

++++   Past week’s protest reports

++++   Proposals:  Showing of Hometown Homeless at Sub Rosa in anti-Shutdown Protest; Revival of Homeless Union Organizing Against 3 Times A Week Sweeps:; Regular Flyering at Armory pick-up, Coral St., Tracks, “No Kings” & other Rally Organizing

++++   Fencing and Boulders—Anti-Homeless Architecture

++++   Alternate Events to the Tuesday 11-11 Shitty Council meeting

++++   Handouts: Agenda, TBA;   Passarounds HUFF Notes    Available on Request:  Questionnaires for Shelter Poll

Regular Reports

++++   Street Sweeps in Last Week and Coming Up

++++   Upcoming Shitty Council meeting report;
++++   Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters

++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’s++++   SCPD and Sheriff Reports

++++   Meetings/Events  of Interest Upcoming?

++++   216-8239 Property Seizure Reports Accumulation + FNB Poll Report: Still fishing for updates.

++++   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 Nov 6  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room, end of N. Pacific Ave. the SNAP crisis

Friday  Nov 6  ??? Time & Action Uncertain   Visit to Panetta Office to demand ending U.S. funding for Bombing of Gaza Santa Cruz District Office   701 Ocean Street   Room 318C

Saturday Nov 8  11 AM- 12:30  PM Israel with American Bombs bombs and shoots up the Ceasefire– Ocean & Water End the War  Weekly   Palestine Justice Coalition

Saturday Nov 8 and Sunday Nov 9  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; older Street Spirits available; leave off or pick up polling sheets with Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices; NEW STREET SPIRIT AND STREE SHEETS AVAILABLE

Monday Nov 10 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM  another indivisible Civil Right  Protest Against the Trump Regime (but add Newsom, Keeley, and Kramer) Ocean and Water Sts.

Monday Nov 10  6 PM 150 Felker St.  possible Art and Rebellion meeting.  Contact Brent at 588-9892

More check-in’s + Info+Possible Individual action

++++    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

++++   Wednesday November 12-Monday November 17:  Rain and Showers

++++   Any help for Tips & Lifelessons to buff up Thomas’s Tipzine?

++++   Past homeless citation record of the last year: Reggie & Gaia need help to show Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”

++++   Laura C.: legislative updates—state, local, and federal: the closing federal/state/local fist.

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

New-ish Stories  (TBA)

Old Standbyes 

++++   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 November 2, 2025 show features Marijuana and Guns; Pro-Zionist San Jose State University attack on Prof Sang Hea Kil+ a Nov 4, 2012 Flashback with extensive election coverage by guests Scott Graham and Steve Pleich

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The November 2, 2025 show includes: 

The Flashback to November 4, 2012 includes:

  • “Scope It Out” Scott Graham and ‘Troublesome’ Thomas Leavitt on the rigged California electoral system
  • Scott critiques Shitty Council candidates, denounces Micah Posner, & supports “Smooth-Tongued’ Steve.  Lighthouse Linda Lemaster responds by phone.
  • Testimony at the Norse vs. the Mayors civil trial (also known as the “Heil Krohn!”, the “Mock-Nazi Salute, or the “City Council Repression” case).
  • Meaningless versus real reforms at the former Citizens Police Review Board
  • Shitty Council Candidate Steve Pleich’s  platform presented in-studio
  • Lighthouse Linda on her “illegal lodging” trial now in court  https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/11/02/18725008.php?show_comments=1#18725174
  • “Making Contact” show on Student Strikes Around the World: Students in Quebec, Chile, and Puerto Rico
  • The Culture War & the Widespread Use of Profanity
  • “Law and Disorder” : Alfred McCoy: Torture and Impunity—the U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides October 30, 2025 show is a Flashback to June 18, 2002 and June 20, 2002 starring the Santa Barbara Sleepwalkers and much more

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The  Flashback to June 18, 2002 includes the last half of that show:

  • (very low sound) Santa Monica “half an hour to move” law for vehicular sleepers, the new attack of food servers there, & the McMannus Sacramento necessity defense victory, standing up to L.A. Sports Bar discrimination against the homeless with activist David Busch
  •  S.J. Mercury News 8-13-02  “British Try Instant Penalties”: Immediate curbside fines in London for fireworks, false police reports, trespass & other “crimes”
  • Involuntary drugging, “needles on wheels”, 7th Ave. dumping in Santa Cruz, and more about Psychiatric Slavery in Santa Cruz
  • Bill McMannus’s Sacramento victory using the necessity defense; tent camps still under threat in Placer County.
  • Vacationer Sally slept scared in her car cause campgrounds full; one paycheck away from the street.
  • Bathrobespierre gives a Chalkcrime update

The October 30, 2025 show also contains the full June 20, 2002 Flashback including: 

  • [6-16-02] Petitioning Justin Boyar, Mike C, Tasmanian,  reports on recent cop crackdown on Pacific and Soquel
  • At Camp Hope table: Bobby Woodside; Potters Hand soup table with Pastor Dennis Adams
  • “Nuff Said” Nancy McCradie, Caleb Dunn, Robin Cobb, Susan Dunn Cobb: Right to Sleep-walkers up from Santa Barbara
  • Food Not Bombs activist on the FNB diet ; Green party sellout in Arcata on homeless issues
  • Susan Dunn’s homeless music

As the chill deepens, HUFF keeps warm 1:30-3:30 PM Thursday at the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church

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Agenda Suggestions for HUFF meeting 10-30-25

Most of these items involve brief reports and check in’s.  If we flag an item for action or discussion, more talk—particularly if it’s time sensitive  We hope to maintain the real narrative not the rosy one falsely presented by the City/County staff and politicians.   Additional items may be added at the meeting. 


Top of the Agenda

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

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

++++   Hot Issues: Funding Matters March Shutdown; MHCAN Closure

++++   Flag New Possible Action Items Requiring Immediate Planning and/or Action

++++   RV victory and follow-up?

++++   Past week’s protest reports: the 4 PM Thursday’s Town Clock “People of Americas Unite!”; Saturday’s RCNV “United Against Hate Rally”; Tuesday’s United Health Care’s CEO Funding Matters tour; S.C. Shitty Council report.

++++   Proposals:  Showing of Hometown Homeless at Sub Rosa in anti-Shutdown Protest; Revival of Homeless Union Organizing Against Intensifying Sweeps: ; Intensifyied Flyering at Armory pick-up, Coral St., Tracks, “No Kings” & other Rally Organizing

++++   Handouts: Agenda, TBA;   Passarounds HUFF Notes    Available on Request:  Questionnaire

Regular Reports

++++   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, Keeley-Huffaker Edicts, and actual SCPD practices

++++   Meetings of Interest Upcoming

++++   216-8239 Property Seizure Reports Accumulation + FNB Poll Report: Still fishing for updates.

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

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

Thursday Oct 30  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room, end of N. Pacific Ave. the SNAP crisis

Friday  Oct 31  6-7:30 PM  Anarchism & the Internationals in the Wild West: Deconstructing Settler Socialism  Sub Rosa Café. Book Talk + Q & A

Saturday Nov 1  11 AM- 12:30  PM Israel with American Bombs breaks the Ceasefire Ocean & Water End the War  Weekly   Palestine Justice Coalition

Saturday Nov 1 and Sunday Nov 2  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; older Street Spirits available; leave off or pick up polling sheets with Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices

Sunday Nov 2  noon-4 PM  Street Party Open Streets 358 Main St. Watsonville

Monday Nov 3 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM  Indivisible Civil Right  Protest Against the Trump Regime (but add Newsom, Keeley, and Kramer) Ocean and Water Sts.

Tuesday Nov 4  6 PM  Liberation Thru Music Sub Rosa (perhaps free if you ask)

Monday Nov 10  6 PM 150 Felker St.  possible Art and Rebellion meeting.  Contact Brent at 588-9892

More check-in’s + Info+Possible Individual action

++++    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

++++   Mixed sunny and cloudy into next week (rain next Wednesday November 5th)

++++   Any help for Tips & Lifelessons to buff up Thomas’s Tipzine?

++++   Past homeless citation record of the last year: Reggie & Gaia need help to show Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”

++++   Laura C.: legislative updates—state, local, and federal: the closing federal/state/local fist.

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

New-ish Stories  (TBA)

Old Standbyes 

++++   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”