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”