HUFF IN BRIEF 2-5-26 Clarification and Additions…Messages…More Shannon film showing prep….Proposed Tabling?…Questions for Funding Matters… Street Reports…. Reports from anti-ICE/anti-War protest/SCHU meeting….Shitty Council and Stupe Meetings 2-10-26…Shelter Reports…Next HUFF meeting 2-12-26 …Winter Crisis: No Winter Drop-In Shelter in Rain/Warming Center: Failure to Open During Past Cold Weather…Additional Films for Hometown Homeless; Rest = Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips… Alicia ‘s new Sunday Eye on Case Workers…Salinas Surivival Camping Ban…Updates on Watsonville & S.C. Stupes’ RV Tow Bill; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Update/Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations …Jail, Courts reports? …. …Keith Update …Weather ???…Salv Army Hours?
(mostly)FREE EVENTS (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying)
Thursday Feb 5 5-6 PM Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room, end of N. Pacific Ave.
Fri Feb 6 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Panel Discussion Institute of the Arts & Sciences 100 Panetta Ave 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”
Sat 2-7 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 Impeach, Trump, Dump the Dems, anti-Venezuela, anti-ICE protest (DIY)
Sat 2-7 & Sun 2-8 noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; NEW Street Spirits & Street Sheets; leave off or pick up forms to record shelter & police abuse; Bulletin Board for posting.
Sun 2-8 10-12 PM People’s Aid : Solidarity & Services at Green Gate Golf Club Dr. 2 PM “Rest is Resistance” street huddle & book reading at the dinosaur statue or at Jamba Juice across from the Post Office downtown 4 PM Santa Cruz Homeless Union [SCHU] Workshop on Keeping Track of Case Managers Town Clock
Tues 2-3 thru Thurs 2-5 10 AM until the food’s gone Bread & Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot
Wed 2-4 3:30 PM Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless Little Red Church Cedar & Lincoln Sts. Organizing against the Services Shutdown
Sat 2-22 12:30-3 PM Showing of Hometown Homeless, Maleah’s short film at the Sub Rosa & Other Resistance films.
HUFF WISH List TASKS to Volunteer for + Possible INDIVIDUAL ACTIONS : [Call or Text 831-423-4833 if interested)
++++ VOLUNTEER work to publicize the Feb 22 Film showing to organize demands to restore and expand survival services and Stop the Sweeps
++++ ORGANIZING to pressure poverty pimps to reopen and expand survival services and stop the sweeps.
++++ 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)
[somewhat] Newer STORIES (more TBA)
++++ https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/01/19/18883100.php City of Marina Police Shoot and Kill Vehicle Driver, City Cancels MLK Celebration
++++ https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/01/21/18883217.php MCBC Calls for Transparency & Accountability Following Fatal Police Shooting of Ronald Tinsley, II
++++ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LGkeZsBR_Q Live Stream of the Saturday Salinas 10th Anniversary of the Homeless Union
++++ https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/1%20%20FRSC%201-18-26.mp3 10th Anniversary Audio + Commentary
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”
++++ Santa Cruz Fulltimers (vandwellers rights) https://www.facebook.com/groups/551244434895799