HUFF IN BRIEF 2-12-26 Clarification and Additions…Messages…*New Items on the Agenda…More Shannon film showing prep….*Proposed Joint SCHU/HUFF Coral St.Tabling?… Council Agenda blackout and police complaint removal…Questions for Funding Matters Flyer… Street Reports…. Reports from anti-ICE/anti-War protest/SCHU meeting….Shitty Council and Stupe Meetings 2-10-26 mention…Shelter Reports…Next HUFF meeting 2-19-26 …Winter Crisis: No Winter Drop-In Shelter in Rain/Warming Center: Failure to Open During Past Cold & Current Rainy Weather (?)…Rest = Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips…Salinas Survival Camping Ban… RV Tow Bill Updates; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Update/Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations …Jail, Courts reports? …Keith Update …Weather ???…Salv Army Hours? * New item as of 2-12 agenda
(mostly)FREE EVENTS (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying)
Thursday Feb 12 5-6 PM Food Not Bombs meets El Rio Mobile Home Community Room, end of N. Pacific
*Fri Feb 13 MHCAN Reforming Zoom Call: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/71870370241?pwd=ZX1gnhqjO83pMhxBfVsQ29BhpTvHS7.1 Meeting ID: 718 7037 0241 Passcode: cHqW2w
*6-9 PM “Will You Free My Palestine?” Benefit Crafts Day at Sub Rosa Cafe *6:00 PM – 7 PM 705 Front St. Amah Matsun Honoring Our Relatives
4:15 PM – 7:15 PM Free Food Church East Zayante Rd. & Sylvan Way in Zayante near the school bus stop
Sat 2-14 11 AM- 12:30 PM Protest Israel with American Bombs bombing in the Phony Ceasefire+ U.S.-backed Israeli occupation Ocean & Water End the War
Sat 2-14 & Sun 2-15 noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; NEW Street Spirits & Street Sheets; leave off or pick up forms to record shelter and police abuse; Bulletin Board for posting notices;
*1 -4:30 PM More Amah Matsun activity The Teaching of Plants Speakers, Tea UCSC Hay Barn
Sun 2-15 10-12 PM People’s Aid : Solidarity & Services for those outside Green Gate Golf Club Drive.
2 PM “Rest is Resistance” street huddle & book reading at the dinosaur statue or at Jamba Juice across from the Post Office downtown
Tues 2-17 thru Thurs 2-19 10 AM until the food’s gone Bread & Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot Wed 2-18 3:30 PM Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless Little Red Church Cedar & Lincoln Sts. Parade Exposing Service Abuse and Corruption Prep; MHCAN reorganizing; anti-MHCAN Shutdown
Sun 2-22 12:30-3 PM Showing of Hometown Homeless, Maleah’s short film at the Sub Rosa & Other Resistance/SC Homeless Herstory films. *4 PM Santa Cruz Homeless Union [SCHU] Keeping Track of Case Management Town Clock
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 & 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)
Older STORIES
*++++ https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/01/19/18883100.php Marina Police Shoot & Kill Vehicle Driver, City Cancels MLK Fest
++++ https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/01/21/18883217.php Fatal Police Shooting of Ronald Tinsley, II
++++ https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20260204/281668261409709
++++ https://lookout.co/watsonville-city-council-moves-forward-with-changes-to-its-oversized-vehicle-ordinance/story
++++ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LGkeZsBR_Q Live Stream of 10th Anniversary of the Homeless Union
++++ https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/1%20%20FRSC%201-18-26.mp3 10th Anniversary Audio + Norse Commentary
OLD STANDBYES
New Street Spirits and Older 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