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Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday, November 28th 2024, show Flashes back to November 18, 2012 with extensive street interviews concluding with Lighthouse Linda Lemaster’s phony Illegal Lodging charge

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The November 28, 2024 show is a Flashback to November 18, 2012

which includes:

  • [Next to Normal musical selections throughout the show]
  • Danny Bishop, street doctor: anti-homeless rules and architecture on buses; keep solidarity with comrades
  • [9-24-12] Red Church Interviews: Lito on City workers stealing and burning his drums; Red, Jennifers, Bullfeathers
  • Pac Avenue Renee & Scott dole out burritos meals and worldly wisdom; Reported attack on Lee; Sweetstring Sue on her amplified music ticket; brutal police stop of son Joe and father;  
  • Void, Nevin, Faden, and Toby on Halloween police excessive force
  • Toby’s H.D. Camera stalking cops on Halloween and seeking copwatchers to document Encampment Raids
  • White cops (Officer Warren) with cars blocking the street stopping a black guy for a bike without a light.
  • Mayor Gone Lame’s non-discussion of the Homeless [Lack of] Services Center & Special City Council meeting
  • Community complaint Calls to HUFF
  • “Battle Weary” Bob Patton on the Vets Hall struggle; others on the Sleeping Ban, new library exclusion rules
  • Jo Ann of Dream Time Designs jewelry, 
  • “Lighthouse” Linda, disabled mom and activist, on the Association of Faith Communities-style “services” list and also charged facing a year in jail for  “unlawful lodging’ for caretaking for a sick peaceful protester on the steps of the courthouse at night. 
  • https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/01/15/18730225.php  “Convicted of “Unlawful Lodging,” Homeless Advocate Linda Lemaster Hopes to Abolish 647(e)”
  • Brianna, Chief Blind Bullfeathers, Danny Fernandez on Pacific Street “Ticket Alert!” scene
  • Sara, Neal, and Katie from Twin Lakes Church on their 3rd visit downtown
  • “Dead on” David Silva, “Silver-tongued” Steve Pleich, “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson and Bathrobespierre Robert discuss Lemaster trial as well as the paid shysters…
  • Phil praises the 180/180 program.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday Nov. 24, 2024 show features a tumble of HUFF voices at a segment of its 11-21-24 meeting & Flashbacks to May 6 and May 10, 2001 Jan Curry and “Catnip” Kate Wells

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The Sunday November 24, 2024 show includes:

  • HUFF Hooplah: Segments of last Thursday’s 11-21 meeting including People’s Aid potluck and ongoing weekend lunches 1:30-3 at Hiways 1 and 9; ongoing protests against the Gaza genocide; street reports
  • Mystical mumblings from Dylan Van Buren and a steady Food Not Bombs update from Dawnbreaker Drew

The Flashback to May 6, 2002 and May 10, 2002 includes (some out of order): [Go to https://huffsantacruz.org/archive01.html to hear the original uncut shows]

  • Outward-bound Stan on his 7 open container tickets
  • Counselor-at-law Chris Frederickson praises S.C. detoxing facilities
  • Stephen Walton’s Letter from Jail accusing Deputy Mark Yanez of abuse following up on “Dead-on” David Silva’s claim in Street Shit Sheet #164 (https://www.huffsantacruz.org/streetsheet/street-shit-sheet-121-166%20(January%201993-2002%20and%202003%20and%202004%20and%202006%20and%202007).pdf   p. 177); Loney Burton’s account
  • “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson’s hearing challenging seizure of her food stamps because her son Alex declined to be fingerprinted.
  • Phone call from “Justman” Jim Cosner from jail in San Jose with accounts from fellow captives Steve & Dave
  • Call-in from Santa Cruz Critic Michael “Tough-tongue” Tomasi
  • S.C. City Council confidant Fred Geiger’s labor report and defense of the “progressive” Council.
  • Tree account of a SCPD Pacific Ave. police-heavy arrest of Juan
  • Union man Dan homeless with wife and dog
  • Paul Reynolds account of the Court punishment for “displaying merchandise” for hemp jewelry—Baker ticket
  • 4-29  Pac Avenue Street Scene
  • Jolly Roger Comedy Troupe: Shooting at Corporatopilis 500
  • Eleanor’s struggle with Mercy Housing against disability discrimination
  • Judith on the Mercy Charities: questionable assurances & the El Centro deal  
  • J.B. Associates corporate letter organizing tenants against local rent control
  • “Green Party” Mayor Fitzmaurice’s record violating the Green Party platform supporting the homeless right to sleep
  • Linwood makes car camping illegal.
  • Berkeley voices: poet Julia Vinograd, Bruce Duncan Tele Times edition
  • Bathrobespierre’s Updates: James Nay, Sleeping Ban history of the last year, and more
  • Special guest: Jen Curry, stopped Jan 19,2002 by SCPD’s Butchie Baker for wrong-way biking on Pacific, day before Baker dismissed bicyclist Sean Duncan’s citation for being hit by a driver
  • Curry’s account and appeal for witnesses
  • [4-5-02] John Earth: update on food services and lack of services for the poor
  • “Catnip” Kate Wells: chalking as free speech?…the Atwater decision…Capitola police’s Officer Murphy…Lori Andrus & Brian Andrus of the spring 1998 Button Street home invasion by SCPD Henig, Garrazio, and others…
  • More on the El Centro controversy by Judith
  • A second interview with Justman Jim Costner from jail

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday, November 21st 2024, show Flashes back to August 5, 1998 with Wanda Knight vs. the Seaside Company, Larry Mulligan–San Diego activist, Marksman Mark, and Jerry Henry, Street Rights Counselor

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The November 21st 2024 show is a Flashback to August 5th, 1998. 

It includes:

++++ Black mom and activist Wanda Knight and companion Jordan Koran witness Knight being forced off the Canfield Boardwalk for speaking ill of the Ku Klux Klan in a private conversation.

++++ Prospects for a full discussion of Canfield’s 3rd St. Expansion Redevelopment

++++ [8-1-98] Activist Larry Mulligan on San Diego cops rousting 240 people breaking promises

++++ Pacific Avenue cop hassles for sleeping/homeless status: Lucer, Gabriel Ryan

++++ Madcap Mark the Puppeteer hassled for using “nigger” puppets

++++ Jerry Henry, street minister and youth counselor, at “Ranco” Liquors at Aptos Rancho del Mar Shopping Center fighting harassment by Gottchalk’s, Coffee Roasting Company, to drive him away.

++++ FCC visits Pirate Radio (satire by Jolly Roger Comedy Troupe)

HUFF likely takes shelter inside the Sub Rosa Cafe at 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church Thursday November 21st 1:30-3:30 PM–Chatter, cookies, and carrots

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Rough HUFF “Loosey Goosey” Agenda Suggestions 11-21-24

Agenda Summary so far:   Council & Supes Graham Discussion—Last Sunday…Athena’s Asks Update…HUFF on Instagram: huff_santacruz LOOK IT OVER…People’s Food Food Tent  Sundays:   1-3 PM Hiway 1 & River…Further work by Gaia and others on seeking a Monitoring Group for a HUFF Sweep/Raid  Record…Follow-Up for PRA for cop confiscation of bicycles…James-in-the Rain’s Report…Possible sign-up’s for regular tasks..Thomas’s Tip Sheet…Report on the campus crackdown: No Campus TRO…volunteer to connect with other cities… Other Stuff & More details below  Items marked with * are also priority announcements.           

Items followed by underlined on-line links can be viewed “at home” or  “in the library”.   Many items  are really reminders of where we’d be going if and when we find the person power, time, interest, and resources.  We are gathering information and evidence to challenge the Dominant (False) Narrative.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them.                                      

Top of the Agenda (Quick Announcements)

++++   Athena’s Friday 4-6 Potluck for People’s Food Tent Sub Rosa Tomorrow

++++   Update on the Proposed On-Line Documentation of Anti-Homeless Incidents ++++   Berkeley Where Do We Go?  Updates from Andrea Hansen on Where Do We Go Berkeley facebook page.

++++   Thanksgiving Meal 11-3 Vets Hall Thursday 11-28  846 Front St.; Next HUFF meeting?

++++   Meeting etiquette: raise hands, stacker, time keeper

++++   Old Street Spirits available.  Street Sheet copies available on line at https://www.streetsheet.org/read-our-full-issues/   Hard Copies of both also available at 903 Pacific and at the Food Not Bombs Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock—ask Drew  Street Spirit and Street Sheet are both looking for local stories. 

++++   Saturday Nov. 16  11 AM-12:30 PM Ocean and Water  Stop genocide and support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza now. No more tax dollars for Israel. End the occupation and the apartheid system. Free all hostages and prisoners. 11 am to 12:30 pm every Saturday. Help hold up banners. More info:  call Laura at 831-247-5332.

++++  U.S. Out:  Thursdays 3:30 to 4:30 pm  Morrisey Blvd overpass over hiway 1

++++  U.S. Out:  Tuesdays 4-5 at Mission & Laurel at base of UCSC with banners/signs 415-954-2763    

++++  Update on Protest Chevron’s fueling genocide in Gaza + Tue and Th protests last week?

++++   Rain or showers predicted for Friday 11-22 through Friday 11-29 for next week.

++++   The usual crowded often full non-emergency winter shelter when temps drop below 38 degrees or two days rain run by “People First” + Brent’s Warming Wednesdays 12-3 PM at 150 Felker St.  

                                       Standard Stuff: Regular Check-In’s  

++++   Passarounds:  Vallejo Handouts: TBA  

++++    Street Reports: Threats of Sweeps?  Posted Notices?  Uncomfortable encounters   

++++    Seeking Info & Contacts: Tabling at Funding Matters [FM]/Soup Kitchen  

++++    Solidarity with Resistance to On-Campus Repression of Encampments & Protest  

++++    Election Impacts on Homeless  

++++    Morrison letter; Keeley proposed letter  

++++    Vallejo: Background from 2021: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homelessness-wasted-millions-empty-hotel-rooms-police-evictions/  Eviction Sweeps in November 2024: https://www.vallejosun.com/state-local-agencies-remove-long-running-vallejo-homeless-encampment/  Chatting with the Sweepster Boss: https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2024/10/31/conversations-with-the-city-manager-homelessness-in-vallejo/   Vallejo’s Homeless File a Lawsuit: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homeless-union-members-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-encampment-eviction/

++++     Vasalia’s excuse for sweeps ?:  https://fresnoalliance.com/visalia-confronts-homelessness/

++++     Fresno: Way More Arrests than Treatment  https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article293730944.html

++++   San Rafael: Lawsuit forces token costly tent program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uppRbWhhvEI

Possible Action Items

++++   Scheduling and strategy for confronting officials at Public events ++++   Volunteer for connecting with  Vasalia, Fresno, Vallejo, San Rafael activists  

++++   San Francisco Cover-Up of Property Destruction: https://www.streetsheet.org/resolution-on-seizure-of-homeless-peoples-property-in-the-works/  

++++    Preliminary refutation of excuses used to destroy survival encampments locally such as the Camping Services and Standards Ordinance (“the Camping Ban”)                                                      

++++   Spying Back on Surveillance Camera Location yet (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)

++++  Tracking court cases?

++++  Armory/1220 Expedition to check out Athena’s Asks; any new info? ++++  Exposing MC 6.36 and other sweep pretexts: Documenting the Deception                                  

Setting Up  Signposts to Stop the Nasty New Narrative/Tasks in Search of Takers

++++  Stop the War Against the Poor Sweeps/Raids + Gaza Genocide Lanyards?

++++  New  Strategies for Documenting Property Loss:  Case #, Receipts, Audio recordings

++++  WARMING CENTER OPENINGS?

++++  Focused Demands? (Stop the Sweeps, Reapportion funding to service existing camps; Walk-in Shelter)

++++  Govt. Reports:  (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board)

++++  Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MHCAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)

++++  Future Targets:    City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission Office… City Hall…​Emeline/TelcCare/Supes   

++++   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/09/09/18869216.php   Civil Rights Groups Sue UCSC for Unlawful Campus Bans and Response to Student Protests https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2024/09/09/final_2024.09.03_ucsc_exclusion_notice_complaint-final.pdf                                 

Archived Net-Show Access: to read summaries of the shows:

To hear the shows go to https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html Very brief Descriptive Summary of Last Week’s Archived Net Shows– 

November 14th   :   https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-thursday-november-14th-2024-show-flashes-back-to-may-5th-2017-with-the-lone-spanger-of-austin-txs-challenge-homeless-paper-judy-schaul-steve-pleich-rick-coral-s/

November 17th: TBA                                         

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Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday Nov. 17, 2024 show features San Rafael’s mini-Safe Sleeping Zone; researcher Emory’s visit to 9 California Homeless Union & a Flashback to April 7, 2002 with David Busch, Kate Wells, Tom Noddy

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The Sunday Nov.17, 2024 show includes: 

The Flashback to April 7, 2002 includes:

  • Bathrobespierre on anti-homeless happenings in the local Green Party & its Homeless Working Group and Call to mobilize against City Council repression of dissent there.  
  • “Bashful” Bernard K and Bathrobespierre Robert discuss Mayor “Cave-In” Chris Krohn; Bernard urges & Bathrobespierre rejects an election run for City Council.
  • Santa Monica activist David Busch on the corporate “homeless” paper The Big Issue & Green Party sell-out
  • “Catnip” Kate Wells on her four lawsuits against Capitola cop Murphy in Federal court & other police abuse
  • Bathrobespierre on continuing weak police review, public bathroom scarcity, & upcoming Council agenda
  • “Travelin'” Tom Noddy on police behavior towards “Cosmic Chris”, the street singer.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday, November 14th 2024, show Flashes back to May 4th 2017 with The Lone Spanger of Austin TX’s Challenge homeless paper; Judy Schaul, Steve Pleich + Rick & Coral Subbing for Uncle Dennis’s Cream to the Dregs

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The November 14, 2024 show is a Flashback to May 4, 2017. 

It includes:

  • Rana-Ghana, aka A Lone Spanger, writer for Austin TX’s Challenge homeless newspaper
  • Keith McHenry & Bathrobespierre on a recent Police Review meeting involving the local ineffectual ACLU
  • Kathy on Red Church crackdown on nearby sleepers; Julie Schaul on being profiled and tailed by Trader Jo’s security snoop Bill Nash
  • “Black Students at UC Santa Cruz Protest Hostile Campus”at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/05/03/18799121.php  
  • Brian Taylor on trials of a disabled houseless person in downtown Santa Cruz; Musical Mike and Bathrobespierre at the Red Church. 
  • [5-1-24]  Claudio Martinez reporting on the Survival Sleepers on 4-20
  • 6 Squadcars and more Cops at City Hall
  • Rutabega Rick and Castaway Carol host a segment of Dennis Davie’s “From the Cream to the Dregs” show

Come indoors as the weather chills and make things hot for the shelter smashers at HUFF, meets Thursday November 14, 2024 1:30-3:30 p.m. at 703 Pacific Sub Rosa Cafe next to the Bike Church

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HUFF Ruf Agenda Suggestions 11-14-24

Agenda Summary so far:   Council & Supes Next meeting 11-19 …Athena’s Asks Update…HUFF on Instagram: huff_santacruz…People’s Food Food Tent  Sundays:   1-3 PM Hiway 1 & River…Further work by Gaia and others on seeking a Monitoring Group for a HUFF Sweep/Raid  Record…Follow-Up for PRA for cop confiscation of bicycles…Possible sign-up’s for regular tasks..Thomas’s Tip Sheet…Report on the campus crackdown…volunteer to connect with other cities… Other Stuff & More details below  Items marked with * are also priority announcements.           

Items followed by underlined links can be viewed “at home” or  “in the library”  Items on either side of this agenda can be accessed by computers though there may be pay walls.  Many items  are really reminders of where we’d be going if and when we find the person power, time, interest, and resources.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them.                                      

Top of the Agenda (Quick Announcements)

++++   Berkeley Where Do We Go?  Updates

++++   Meeting etiquette: raise hands, stacker or Athena’s rules

++++   New Street Spirits available.  Street Sheet copies available on line at https://www.streetsheet.org/read-our-full-issues/   Hard Copies of both also available at 903 Pacific and at the Food Not Bombs Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock—ask Drew  Street Spirit and Street Sheet are both looking for local stories. 

++++   Saturday Nov. 9  11 AM-12:30 PM Ocean and Water  Stop genocide and support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza now. No more tax dollars for Israel. End the occupation and the apartheid system. Free all hostages and prisoners. 11 am to 12:30 pm every Saturday. Help hold up banners. More info:  call Laura at 831-247-5332.

++++   U.S. Out:  Thursdays 3:30 to 4:30 pm  Morrisey Blvd overpass over hiway 1

++++  U.S. Out:  Tuesdays 4-5 at Mission & Lauren at base of UCSC with banners/signs  415-954-2763    

++++   Protest Chevron’s fueling genocide in Gaza Fri Nov 15th 404 Soquel 4-6 PM

++++   Cooling  today;  colder week ahead: Cloudy but no rain predicted for next week.

++++   The usual crowded often full non-emergency winter shelter when temps drop below 38 degrees or two days rain run by “People First” + Brent’s Warming Wednesdays 12-3 PM at 150 Felker St.                                        

Standard Stuff: Regular Check-In’s    

++++   Passarounds:  TBA   Handouts: TBA  

++++    Street Reports: Threats of Sweeps?  Posted Notices?  Uncomfortable encounters   

++++    Seeking Info & Contacts: Tabling at Funding Matters [FM]/Soup Kitchen  

++++    Solidarity with Resistance to On-Campus Repression of Encampments & Protest  

++++    Election Impacts on Homeless  

++++    Updates from Wes White  

++++    Vallejo: Chatting with the Sweepster Boss: https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2024/10/31/conversations-with-the-city-manager-homelessness-in-vallejo/   Vallejo’s Homeless File a Lawsuit: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homeless-union-members-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-encampment-eviction/

++++     Vasalia’s excuse for sweeps ?:  https://fresnoalliance.com/visalia-confronts-homelessness/

++++     Fresno: Way More Arrests than Treatment  https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article293730944.html

++++   San Rafael: Lawsuit forces token costly tent program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uppRbWhhvEI

Possible Action Items

++++   Scheduling and strategy for confronting officials at Public events ++++   Volunteer for monitoring Vasalia, Fresno, Vallejo, San Rafael activists ++++   San Francisco Cover-Up of Property Destruction: https://www.streetsheet.org/resolution-on-seizure-of-homeless-peoples-property-in-the-works/  

++++    Preliminary refutation of excuses used to destroy survival encampments locally such as the Camping Services and Standards Ordinance (“the Camping Ban”)                                                      

Tasks in search of Takers

++++   Spying Back on Surveillance Camera Location yet (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)

++++  Tracking court cases?

++++  Armory/1220 Expedition to check out Athena’s Asks; any new info? ++++  Exposing MC 6.36 and other sweep pretexts: Documenting the Deception                                  

Setting Up  Signposts to Stop the Nasty New Narrative

++++  Stop the War Against the Poor Sweeps/Raids + Gaza Genocide Lanyards?

++++  New  Strategies for Documenting Property Loss:  Case #, Receipts, Audio recordings

++++  Cooling Center when extreme heat threatens?  Emergency gathering location

++++  Focused Demands? (Stop the Sweeps, Reapportion funding to service existing camps)

++++  Govt. Reports:  (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board)

++++  Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MHCAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)

++++  Future Targets:    City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission Office… City Hall…​Emeline/TeleCare/Supes   

++++   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/09/09/18869216.php   Civil Rights Groups Sue UCSC for Unlawful Campus Bans and Response to Student Protests https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2024/09/09/final_2024.09.03_ucsc_exclusion_notice_complaint-final.pdf                                 

Archived Net-Show Access: to read summaries of the shows: To hear the shows go to https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html Very brief Descriptive Summary of Last Week’s Archived Net Shows– 

November 7th   :   https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-thursday-october-31st-2024-show-flashes-back-to-december-1-2016-with-keith-mchenry-on-sheriff-jim-harts-public-meeting-on-his-sheriffs-killing-luke-smith-and-more/

November 10th : https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-sunday-nov-10-2024-show-features-an-interview-with-year-long-street-spirit-editor-bradley-penner-a-flashback-to-april-16-2017-covering-the-memorial-for-michael-mear/                                        

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Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday Nov. 10, 2024 show features an interview with year-long Street Spirit editor Bradley Penner & a Flashback to April 16, 2017 covering the Memorial for Michael Mear, died outside perhaps of exposure

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The Sunday November 10, 2024 show includes:

  • Interview with 2023-2024 Street Spirit editor Bradley Penner
  • Jo’s Oral Communication Interrupted and Ignored on Toxic Anti-Homeless Sweeps outside Santa Cruz City Council
  • Noah James Phippen—ski operator—on his job and income and oppression in the system
  • Formerly homeless UCSCer and Genocide Opponent Caitlin on life as a continuing student
  • End UCSC investment in Israeli genocide and suppression of peaceful campus protest letter
  • Billi and Eddie on problems of exclusion from the Armory/LookOut and 1220 River St.

The Flashback to April 16, 2017 includes:

  • Bathroom babble from the Long Hauler at the Red Church meal
  • Many voices at the Michael Mear memorial including Abbi Samuels, Keith McHenry
  • “Silver-Tongued” Steve Pleich on past discrimination for his homeless status and the SCCCCOR [Santa Cruz County Community Coalition] scorecard for anti-racist talk without anti-racist action.
  • Survival Sleeper encampment resident Sheree Peterson and supporter Loudmouth Leith Austin speak out
  • Report from Freedom SleepOut #92
  • Carol Denney on Berkeley Mayor Areguin’s “Pathway to Housing” Hustle in Street Spirit
  • Wes White’s video on the Michael Mear memorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwLwrX-nwW8&list=PLflVaWezcvDyKx1Loo9lirtZgBW1KWBsE&index=504

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday, November 7th 2024, show Flashes back to February 16th 2017 with D.A. Jeff Rossell’s Press Conference on the SCPD’s Sean Arlt Shooting + Media locked out of SCPD Briefing

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The Thursday November 7th 2024 show is a Flashback to February 16, 2017. 

It includes:

  • Santa Cruz D.A. Jeff Rossell’s press conference about deputy behavior during the SCPD slaying of Sean Arlt
  • SCPD’s Lt. Barry and then City Manager Martin Bernal bar alternate media from entering public press conference at Police Community Room
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGnW82WWpww (“Blocked from Listening to Sean Arlt’s OIS SCPD Officers Named“)
  • https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/02/16/18796574.php
  • New obstacles to activist/media access to SCPD ticketing records around racial and class profiling.

Bundle up for cooling temperatures at the next HUFF meeting Thursday November 7th 1:30-3:30 PM at 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church

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HUFF Rough “Loose Cannons” Suggestions 11-7-24

Agenda Summary so far:   Council & Supes NO MEETINGS Next Tues …Athena’s Asks Update…HUFF on Instagram: huff_santacruz…People’s Food Food Tent 9 AM-11 AM Green Gate   1-3 PM Hiway 1 & River…Further work by Gaia and others on seeking a Monitoring Group for a HUFF Sweep/Raid  Record…Follow-Up for PRA for cop confiscation of bicycles…Possible sign-up’s for regular tasks..Thomas’s Tip Sheet…Report on the campus crackdown  Other Stuff & More details below

Items followed by underlined links can be viewed “at home” or  “in the library”  Items on either side of this agenda can be accessed by computers.  Many items  are really reminders of where we’d be going if and when we find the person power, time, interest, and resources.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them.  Athena will be running the show.                                      

Top of the Agenda (Quick Announcements)

++++   Prep for Proposed Berkeley Trip later today if Available

++++   Meeting etiquette: raise hands, stacker

++++   New Street Spirits available.  Street Sheet copies available on line at https://www.streetsheet.org/read-our-full-issues/   Hard Copies of both also available at 903 Pacific and at the Food Not Bombs Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock—ask Drew

++++   Election Results and Implications

++++   Saturday Nov. 9  11 AM-12:30 PM Ocean and Water  Stop genocide and support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza now. No more tax dollars for Israel. End the occupation and the apartheid system. Free all hostages and prisoners. 11 am to 12:30 pm every Saturday. Help hold up banners. More info:  call Laura at 831-247-5332.

++++   Thursdays 3:30 to 4:30 pm  Morrisey Blvd overpass over hiway 1

++++  Tuesdays 4-5 at Mission & Lauren at base of UCSC with banners/signs  415-954-2763    

++++   Protest Chevron’s fueling genocide in Gaza Fri Nov 15th 404 Soquel 4-6 PM

++++   Cooling  today;  cooler week ahead: Rain on Monday Nov 11th                                         Standard Stuff: Regular Check-In’s    

++++   Passarounds:  TBA   Handouts: TBA  

++++    Street Reports: Threats of Sweeps?  Posted Notices?  Uncomfortable encounters   

++++    Seeking Info & Contacts: Tabling at Funding Matters [FM]/Soup Kitchen  

++++    Solidarity with Resistance to On-Campus Repression of Encampments & Protest  

++++    Election Impacts on Homeless                                                       

Possible Action Items

++++    Scheduling and strategy for confronting officials at Public events ++++   San Francisco Cover-Up of Property Destruction: https://www.streetsheet.org/resolution-on-seizure-of-homeless-peoples-property-in-the-works/  

++++    Preliminary refutation of excuses used to destroy survival encampments locally such as the Camping Services and Standards Ordinance (“the Camping Ban”)                                                     

Tasks in search of Takers

++++   Spying Back on Surveillance Camera Location yet (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)

++++  Tracking court cases

++++  Armory/1220 Expedition to check out Athena’s Asks

++++  Exposing MC 6.36 and other sweep pretexts: Documenting the Deception                                  

Setting Up  Signposts to Stop the Nasty New Narrative

++++  Stop the War Against the Poor Sweeps/Raids + Gaza Genocide Lanyards?

++++  New  Strategies for Documenting Property Loss:  Case #, Receipts, Audio recordings

++++  Cooling Center when extreme heat threatens?  Emergency gathering location

++++  Focused Demands? (Stop the Sweeps, Reapportion funding to service existing camps)

++++  Govt. Reports:  (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board)

++++  Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MHCAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)

++++  Future Targets:    City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission Office… City Hall…​Emeline/TeleCare/Supes   

++++   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/09/09/18869216.php   Civil Rights Groups Sue UCSC for Unlawful Campus Bans and Response to Student Protests https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2024/09/09/final_2024.09.03_ucsc_exclusion_notice_complaint-final.pdf                                 

Archived Net-Show Access: to read summaries of the shows: To hear the shows go to https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

Very brief Descriptive Summary of Last Week’s Archived Net Shows–  October 31st   :   https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-thursday-october-31st-2024-show-flashes-back-to-december-1-2016-with-keith-mchenry-on-sheriff-jim-harts-public-meeting-on-his-sheriffs-killing-luke-smith-and-more/

November 3rd   TBA Coming Archived next Sunday November 10th : Interview with Street Spirit editor                                             

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