Monthly Archives: January 2026

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides January 15, 2026 show is a Flashback to the June 6, 1999 show featuring Kosovo commentary, Roxanne Acquistepache on the “Progressive” Sell-Out of the Beach Flats, and more

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The January 15, 2026 show is a Flashback to June 6, 1999. 

It includes [some of the accounts are fuzzy & hard-to-hear]

  • Gay Pride Day festivities and cautions: the trollbuster + Sleeping Ban Perfect Storm
  • Closer look at SCPD two assaults and arrests of “Steadfast”  Steve Argue for selling Street Spirit newspaper and defending a woman and her child in a protest; deconstruction of Councilmember “Riot Act” Rotkin’s public statements on the issue.
  • Terry Johnston, homeless gay man with serious HIV condition, describes how his sister lured him across the country into a coercive intervention.
  • Trollbuster assaults including Joe Barker’s account of his beating.
  • In-studio guest Roxanne Acquistepache, Beach Flats activist and resident, on the new City Council sell-out of residents there—extensive analysis & sharp critique
  • Caller and Beach Flats resident and landlord Jane Baer on City pressure on SCAN to create the Dolphin-Lee/Mercy Housing project in the Beach Flats
  • Roxanne calls for Take Back movement to restore the Beach Flats neighborhood to its residents.
  • Bathrobespierre on Homeless Services Center, City Council, and Councilmember Krohn’s ducking of the Sleeping Ban issue.
  • “Landfill Colony Faces Eviction”—the Albany struggle.

HUFF meets 1:30 – 3:30 PM Thursday Jan 15 next to the Bike Church at the Sub Rosa Cafe: prep for the Salinas gathering of Homeless Unions this Saturday

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HUFF IN BRIEF 1-15-25   Clarification and Additions…Messages…Proposed Actions?….Shitty Council and Stupe Updates: Floc, Lithium Batteries, and Homeless Freezeout….Street Reports…ICE & Other Protests…Shelter Reports… HUFF meeting schedule…10th Homeless Union Anniversary in Salinas Sat Jan 17…Winter Crisis:  No Winter Drop-In Shelter in Rain/Warming Center: Failure to Open During Past Cold Weather…Hometown Homeless; Rest=Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips… Updates on MHCAN; Stupes’ RV Tow Bill; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations …Jail, Courts reports …. Next HUFF meeting 1-22-26…Keith Update …Mid-60’s with no rain predicted.

FREE EVENTS  (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet)   

Thursday Jan 15 1:30 PM -3:30 PM HUFF meeting planning Salinas caravan for Jan 17th 10th Anniversary meeting of Homeless Union

Thursday Jan 15  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room, end of N. Pacific Ave.

Friday Jan 16 2 PM  Protest against Venezuela War  High St. and Bay St. UCSC

Friday Jan 16 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 Jan 17  8 AM – 5 PM  10th Anniversary National Homeless Union in Salinas 1 Main St.  Likely caravan to be arranged at 1-8 HUFF meeting

Saturday Jan 17  11 AM- 12:30  PM Protest Israel with American Bombs bombing in the Phony Ceasefire+ U.S. occupation troops for Trump’s Israeli Expansion Plan– Ocean& Water End the War  Weekly Signs and Shouts  Palestine Justice Coalition Perhaps anti-Venezuela, anti-ICE protest (DIY)

Saturday Jan 17  4 PM – 7:30 PM Party/Street Party  Quaker Meeting House 226 Rooney St., S.C.Rise Up Singing New Year’s Dinner

Saturday Jan 17 and Sunday Jan 18  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; NEW Street Spirits & Street Sheets available; leave off or pick up forms to record shelter and police abuse from Drew’s substitute; Bulletin Board for posting notices.

Sunday Jan 18  10-12 PM  People’s Aide : Solidarity & Services for those outside at Green Gate Golf Club Drive.Sunday Jan 18  2 PM  “Rest is Resistance” street huddle & book reading at the dinosaur statue or at Jamba Juice across from the Post Office downtown

Monday Jan 19 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 if you can 

Monday Jan 19 5:30 PM-7:30 PM Free Film “How Long is Long Enough: Caged-for-Life Prisoners Quntos Wilson & Layla Roberts   SC Barrios Unidos 1817 S.C.

Tuesday Jan 20-thru Thursday Jan 22 10 AM until the food’s gone Bread and Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot

TASKS to Volunteer for + Possible INDIVIDUAL ACTIONS : [Call or Text 831-423-4833 if interested in any of these projects]

++++    POLLING FOR ARMORY CONDITIONS:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested

++++    TABLING AT CORAL ST. to gather reports of property taken or lost in police raids; conditions at Funding Matters (aka Housing Matters)

++++    ARMORY COMPLAINTS:  Call (408) 761-9930 as well as evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or  peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter access line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699; LET US KNOW at 216-8239 or 423-4833  if you’ve sent one and if you’ve gotten satisfaction.

++++   NEW STREET INFO for Tips & Lifelessons to buff up Thomas’s Tipzine?  Real resources for surviving on the street…Correcting false shelter/storage ‘services”

++++   COLLECTING/COLLATING TICKETS: Past homeless citation record of the last year to spot Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”

++++   FOLLOWING LEGISLATIVE ANTICS:  state, local, and federal: the closing federal/state/local fist. 

++++   EXERTING PRESSURE to establish or organize Winter Shelter/Services 

++++   SOLIDARITY IN STRUGGLE with anti-ICE, anti-genocide, anti-War, anti-gentrification, pro-tenant, anti-discrimination local protests  

++++   FOLLOWING Court cases and  supporting those held in 5150s 

++++   MHCAN reopening support? Ditto with other do-it-yourself or street level services like the Downtown Street Team, a Switchboard, etc.

++++   PREPARATION/PARTICIPATION in large protests as on Martin Luther King Day (Jan 19)

New-ish STORIES (To Be Updated)  (TBA)

++++      https://lookout.co/city-county-of-santa-cruz-formally-begins-process-to-replace-housing-matters-day-services/story

++++      https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/11/04/ninth-circuit-upholds-alfred-v-vallejo-decision-setting-legal-precedent/

OLD STANDBYES New Street Spirits and Street Sheets to sell or read available at HUFF or at the FNB meal

++++   Street Spirit archives on line: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22&sort=-date

++++   Street Sheet recent stories on line: https://www.streetsheet.org/

++++    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 January 11, 2026 show–Interviews aplenty with Lighthouse Linda, “Captain America”, “Ramblin’ Jack”, and Whipmaster Wes White

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The January 11, 2026 show includes:

  • [1-8-26] Organizer Wes White briefs HUFF activists on his upcoming Salinas 10th Anniversary of the Salinas Homeless Union and the Reactivation of the National Homeless Union particularly in California.  Agenda of the 10th Anniversary event
  • [throughout] Rovics’ Ai Tsuno music and commentary
  • “Homelessness: Mayor Mahan Shift of Funds from Permanent Homes to Interim Housing has Sparked Debate Among Advocates from Encampments to Temporary Shelters
  • Doctor Suzie & Captain Max and the BiNobos: The Binobo Way
  • https://thestreetspirit.org/2026/01/06/in-dialogue-with-osha-neumann/
  • “Scope it Out” Scott Graham on the upcoming (1-13-26) Santa Cruz Shitty Council agenda
  • “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster recalls her early days of homeless activism in the late 70’s—the Scotts Creek Bluff arrests and resistance
  • [1-6]  “Captain America” back from Los Angeles with a report from there and here
  • Risible Reflections from “Ramblin’ Jack”, the Mel-anious Marauder, Shane, Wolf, “Cover-Up” Craig.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides January 8, 2026 show is a Flashback to the complete March 25, 1999 show with interviews from Jackhammer John Vance, of Berkeley, ‘Nuf Said Nancy McCradie of Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz Streetstalkers Bob and Vinnie

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The 1-8-26 show is a Flashback to March 25, 1999 which includes:

  • Harassment and verbal abuse by a passing squad car near the Homeless [Lack of] Services Center {HLOSC}
  • “Jackhammer” John Vance, Berkeley  activist and street button vendor on police crackdown in the “4th Block”
  • City Council buries Sleeping Ban Reform
  • V-Man’s court report and Bathrobepierre’s court advice
  • Beggarbacker Becky Johnson remembers Stickman Bruce Jenkins, recently died.
  • B.E. Smith’s cannabis defense strategies applied to Sleeping Ban Cases
  • In Ray Acosta’s trailer with a Monterey “homeless program” report
  • Bob Lamonica vs. Vinnie Lombardo: Different Roads to Breakthrough Bureaucracy
  • Joseph Nasworthy and other outside voices
  • Mardi Wormhaudt vetoes County Safe Sleeping Zone
  • “’Nuf Said’ Nancy McCradie on the Santa Barbara Sleeping Ban

HUFF meets to catch its breath and the latest news 1:30 – 3:30 PM Thursday January 8, 2026 at the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church…may end early

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HUFF IN BRIEF 1-8-25   Clarification and Additions…Proposed Actions?….Street Reports…Shelter Reports… HUFF meeting schedule…10th Homeless Union Anniversary in Salinas Sat Jan 17…Winter Crisis:  No Winter Drop-In Shelter in Rain/Warming Center: Strategies…Hometown Homeless; Rest-Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips…Shitty Council meeting 1-23…Updates on MHCAN; Stupes’ RV Tow Bill; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations …Jail, Courts reports…Legislative Updates…. Next HUFF meeting 1-22-26…Keith Update…DIY New Years Eve…Sunny but chilly weather with NO rain predicted.

FREE EVENTS  (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet)   

Thursday Jan 8  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room, end of N. Pacific Ave.

Friday Jan 9:15 PM – 7;15 PM Free Food Church East Zayante Rd. and Sylvan Way in Zayante near the school bus stop—”rain or shine”

Saturday Jan 10  11 AM- 12:30  PM Protest Israel with American Bombs bombing in the Phony Ceasefire+ U.S. occupation troops for Trump’s Israeli Expansion Plan– Ocean & Water End the War  Weekly Signs and Shouts  Palestine Justice Coalition Perhaps anti-Venezuela, anti-ICE protest (DIY)

Saturday Jan 10 and Sunday Jan 11  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; NEW Street Spirits & Street Sheets available; leave off or pick up forms to record shelter and police abuse from Drew’s rep; Bulletin Board for posting notices.

Sunday Jan 11  10-12 PM  People’s Aide : Solidarity & Services for those outside at Green Gate Gulf Club Drive.

Sunday Jan 11  2 PM  “Rest is Resistance” street huddle & book reading at the dinosaur statue or at Jamba Juice across from the Post Office downtown.

Monday Jan 12 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 if you can 

Saturday Jan 17  8 AM – 5 PM  10th Anniversary National Homeless Union in Salinas 1 Main St.  Likely caravan to be arranged at 1-8 HUFF meeting.

Tasks to Volunteer for + Possible Individual action : Call or Text 831-423-4833 if interested in any of these projects

++++    POLLING FOR ARMORY CONDITIONS:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested

++++    TABLING AT CORAL ST. to gather reports of property taken or lost in police raids; conditions at Funding Matters (aka Housing Matters)

++++    ARMORY COMPLAINTS:  Call (408) 761-9930 as well as evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or  peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter access line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699; LET US KNOW at 216-8239 or 423-4833  if you’ve sent one and if you’ve gotten satisfaction.

++++   NEW STREET INFO for Tips & Lifelessons to buff up Thomas’s Tipzine?  Real resources for surviving on the street…Correcting false shelter/storage ‘services”

++++   COLLECTING/COLLATING TICKETS: Past homeless citation record of the last year to spot Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”.

++++   FOLLOWING LEGISLATIVE ANTICS:  state, local, and federal: the closing federal/state/local fist. 

++++   EXERTING PRESSURE to establish or organize Winter Shelter/Services 

++++   SOLIDARITY IN STRUGGLE with anti-ICE, anti-genocide, anti-War, anti-gentrification, pro-tenant, anti-discrimination local protests  

++++   FOLLOWING Court cases and  supporting those held in 5150s 

++++   MHCAN reopening support? Ditto with other do-it-yourself or street level services like the Downtown Street Team, a Switchboard, etc.

++++   PREPARATION/PARTICIPATION in large protests as on Martin Luther King Day (Jan 19)

New-ish Stories (To Be Updated)  (TBA)

++++      https://lookout.co/city-county-of-santa-cruz-formally-begins-process-to-replace-housing-matters-day-services/story

++++      https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/11/04/ninth-circuit-upholds-alfred-v-vallejo-decision-setting-legal-precedent/

Old Standbyes New Street Spirits and Street Sheets to sell or read available at HUFF or at the FNB meal

++++   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 January 4, 2026 show– Rainy Day Ruminations at the Town Clock plus a Flashback to February 4, 1999 chronicling the slow suffocation of Sleeping Ban Reform via City Council’s Task Force under police misinformation

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The January 4, 2026 show includes: [volume varies abruptly]

The February 4, 1999 Flashback includes:

  • Police “accountability” at City Council’s Task Force to [Retain] the Camping Ordinance—Deputy Chief Jeff Locke, V-Man, Becky, Bernard, and Bathrobespierre.
  • Street Spirit hawker Phil on oppressive rules at the Natl Guard Armory Winter Shelter
  • Territh of Feed the People on the cold crisis
  • Joanna, trailer tenant & sojourner in Dominican & Harbor Hills 
  • Spotlighting the Beiers Betrayal—Bathrobe & Silva on the Advisory bodies Retreat

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides January 1, 2026 show is a Flashback to the complete June 15, 2011 show with many interviews from Aug 8-10, 2010 during the high point of the Peace Camp 2010 protests for Blindbear Robert Facer and those outside

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The January 1, 2026 show is a Flashback to  the complete June 15, 2011 show which includes:

  • Interviews from August 7-9, 2010 at last year’s PeaceCamp 2010: Bob with Dipshit the Dog, Crew the Lodger and Red the Lodgeress, Lighthouse Linda, Max, Curbhugger Chris
  • [Throughout]“Then and Now” Reverberations from 2011 looking back on 2010 re: Sleeping Ban reforms & 2010 Court cases
  • Kristian Williams  “Torture and the Logic of Domination”  Summer 2011 Slingshot
  • “Congress Eyes Purse Strings Over Libya”, “Obama Wins Nobel War Prize”
  • U.S. Mayor’s Resolution Against National War Spending in Iraq and Afghanistan $126 billion per year
  • Comments at the Courthouse in the Petitioning to Free Ed Frey & Gary Johnson, facing 6 months in jail for Sleep Protest
  • Crow’s morning vigil at Courthouse demanding Frey be released

HUFFsters, by popular demand, will be trudging through the rain to a New Year’s Day warm-up at the Sub Rosa Cafe 1:30-3:30 PM January 1, 2026. We’re still next to the Bike Church corner of Spruce and Pacific

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HUFF  Rough Agenda for 1-1-26  

Clarification and Additions…Street Reports… Coral St. 12-30 Sweep…Street response to Stall on Homeless Services…Winter Crisis:  No Winter Drop-In Shelter/Warming Center: Strategies…”People First” Emergency Shelter–Fact or Fiction?…Hometown Homeless prior showing…Rest=Resistance & Other Reading…. Thomas’s Tips…Updates perhaps on MHCAN; Stupes’ RV Tow Bill; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations …Shelter, Courts reports …Salinas Homeless Union 10th Anniversary… New Flyer Distribution at Coral St….Vets Hall Tabling Results …Weather Update: Rain predicted Thurs, Sat, Sun, and Monday.
The actual agenda will likely include a few more items with the usual coffee/tea, cookies, carrots, and the occasional sandwich.

Don’t forget to check out the Town Clock’s New Year’s Day noon meal compliments of Jumbo-Gumbo Joe Schultz.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides December 28, 2025 show– Homeless Deaths 2025 Street Memorial and a Flashback to Jan 28, 1999 on the City Council’s Task Farce to Divert Opposition to the Sleeping Ban

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The December 28, 2025 show includes:

The Flashback to January 28, 1999 includes: [some distortion in first half of show]

  • Bathrobe’s update on the latest Task Farce to Examine the Camping Ordinance sub-committee meetings
  • Oral Communications with the Task Farce: Bernard Klitzner, Peter Eberle, Kate Wells, David Silva, Linda LeMaster, Emily Riley, Paul Brindel, Robert Norse
  • Becky Johnson on the Homeless Services Center Board of Directors meeting
  • Controversy around Kitten Reynolds alleged snitching, surveillance, and sabotage on local homeless activists
  • Silva calls for “positive” approach to upcoming Task Farce meetings
  • Norse reads most of the Eichorn decision requiring courts to consider a necessity defense in Camping Ban cases

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides December 25th, 2025 show is a Flashback to the complete January 24, 1999 show featuring the Silva, Norse, and Johnson on Council’s diversion & dissection of the Camping Ban, Perusha Obluda on Palo Alto’s Anti-Homeless laws

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The Thursday December 25, 2025 show is a Flashback to January 24, 1999. 

It includes:

  • S.F. Chronicle article 1-22-99 “Palo Alto Sets Up Cart Swap”
  • Palo Alto civil right activist and KKUP broadcaster Purush Obluda Interview on proposed attack on homeless people pushing corporate shopping carts
  • “Feed the People” activist Teara on her 1st S.C. sleeping ticket; 2nd hand reports of 7 with bats attacking homeless
  • Terra and Bathrobespierre discuss federal court prospects around Sleeping Ban rulings & City Council’s latest
  • Committee to Repeal the Sleeping Ban visits the Task Farce to Protect the Ban (aka Task Force to Examine the Camping Ordinance) featuring Vice-Chief Jeff Locke, “Sticky Fingers” Butchie Baker, & Council Cucks
  • “Dead On” David Silva reports on upcoming right-wing agenda and urges sweet talk to City Council.
  • Further examination of police case for retaining the Ban vs. activist urging restoration of basic right to sleep.