Agenda Prospects for HUFF meeting 9-18-25
The purpose of the meeting is for some to share information and updates, for others to express needs, make available resources. The point is to maintain the real narrative not the one the City/County staff pumps out.
Please raise hands & look to the speaker to avoid talking over each other. For those wearied or impatient of “going through the agenda”, it’s a checklist to catch up on current happenings. I’ll limit my talk to 1 minute on each item, unless the group asks for more info.
The meeting is being recorded so that some of it may be netcast at the twice weekly net-radio show. If you do not wish to be recorded for a particular comment say so and we’ll turn off the recording.
Shows are 6-8 PM Thursdays and 9:30 AM-3 PM Sundays at https://www.freakradio.org/listen.html –click on or DSL/Cable — 128kbps stereo or go to go to https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html any time for the latest show.
Top of the Agenda
++++ Reports on Current Projects; Time Available for next week; Needs and Wants
++++ Shortened meeting today (9-18); likely pause with no meeting next week
++++ Follow-Up on Last Week’s Projects
++++ Hot Issues: MHCAN Closure Follow-Up; County RV restriction law (next meeting 9-30 9 AM Watsonville)
++++ Govt. meeting Agenda Into https://archive.org/details/ctvscc?page=3&and%5B%5D=year%3A%222025%22
++++ Flag New Possible Action Items Requiring Immediate Planning and/or Action
++++ Handouts: Agenda; Passarounds TBA 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, and Keeley-Huffaker Edicts
++++ Meetings of Interest Upcoming
++++ 216-8239 Property Seizure Reports Accumulation + FNB Poll Report: 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 Sept 18 5-6 PM Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room
Saturday Sept 20 11 AM- 12:30 PM Ocean & Water anti-war Weekly Palestine Justice Coalition Anti-Starvation Flotilla
Saturday Sept 20 and Sunday Sept 21 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; NEW Street Sheets and Street Spirits.
Monday Sept 22 4:30-5:30 PM Another Indivisible Anti-Trump 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,
++++ Cool, then weekend warm, then possible rain Tuesday (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
New-ish Stories (Newer ones may be added in Final Agenda at the Meeting)https://www.streetsheet.org/rules-of-the-road-rv-dwellers-deserve-answers-on-sfs-new-permit-program/https://www.streetsheet.org/america-the-new-banana-republic/https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/08/06/two-vallejo-lawsuits-test-legal-protections-for-unhoused-residents-post-grants-pass/https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/08/06/sfs-rv-ban-is-an-act-of-erasure-not-a-remedy/
Old Standbyes
++++ Street Spirit & Street Sheet both want local stories & news accounts: contact paper directly or Robert Norse (423-4833).
++++ Earlier Santa Cruz homeless herstory/history: Street Shit Sheet https://www.huffsantacruz.org/ssarchives.html
++++ Audio her/history—Free Radio Santa Cruz’s https://huffsantacruz.org/ Go to “Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides”
++++ Street Spirit archives on line: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22
++++ 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” for latest videos