Preliminary Suggestions for HUFF 6-5-25
Http web addresses are for background reading or listening. Many items are really signposts & 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) Police and City Manager Narrative. Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them. AGENDA SUBJECT TO CHANGE A more updated and less bulky series of suggestions may be available at the 1:30 PM meeting.
Top of the Agenda (+ Quick Announcements)(a brief broad survey)
++++ Review Agenda (questions, additions)
++++ Flag Possible Action Items
++++ Possible Handouts: TBA Passarounds TBA
++++ Street & sweep reports from the last week
++++ HUFF Disruption policy; Athena’s Proposals–Update
++++ Court cases past and future; 5150’sCHECK-Ins, ANNOUNCEMENTS, and REPORTS
++++ Protests or Gatherings Throughout the Last Week
++++ Newsom Homeless Nakba Nonsense—Our Response?
++++ Shitty Council & Board of Stupes on 6-10.
++++ Various 216-8239 Flyers Prospects; Reggie & Gaia Updates or Phone Connects
++++ MHCAN Support proposals
++++ Gaia’s update on Capitola Mobile Home owners resistance to huge rent raises (Call for Update)(Solidarity Resolution)
++++ Wes White’s Salinas and State Updates
++++ Various legacy media stories: TBA
++++ Free Events (for demonstrating, organizing, leafleting, or enjoying)
Thursday-June 5 5:30-8 PM “Violence, Terrorism, & the Left” Panel McHenry Library UCSC
Friday June 6 4:30 PM- 5:30 PM Ocean & Water Fight VA/Medicaid Cuts Indivisible
Saturday June 7 11 AM- 12:30 PM Ocean & Water anti-war “Free Palestine” picket
Sunday June 8 10:15 AM Human Banner at Main Beach (Indivisible) Monday June 9 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Ocean & Water Civil Rights Weekly Anti-Trump Dem. Party ”Indivisible” Protest
Tuesday June 10 7 PM Know Yr Rights on Zoom for upcoming June Protest. Contact santacruzaclu@gmail.com
++++ Info Tabling: Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested…Poll for Armory Resident Concerns–Volunteers
++++ 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.
++++ No Rain…mid to high 60s thru the next Week. Fremont lawsuit:https://eagleera.org/2025/04/27/california-homeless-union-and-advocates-sue-fremont-over-controversial-camping-ban/ Background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZt<<4ZMINEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT_d9BFEzYA
++++ Tips & Lifelessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Revelations
++++ Reggie & Gaia’s report on Selective Ticketing for “Homeless Crime”
++++ Laura C.: YES on SB 634
++++ Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces? Small Claims Court?
++++ New Street Spirits and Street Sheets may be available. Mid-month Street Sheet stories available on line https://www.streetsheet.org/ . Hard Copies of both may be available Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock 12-3 PM—ask Drew at the Food Not Bombs Both want stories & news accounts: contact paper directly or Robert Norse (423-4833)
++++ People First Free Guides: https://peoplefirstscc.org/freeguides for S.C., Watsonville, SLV, Free Phones, Youth, Housing Waitlist, Pet Food, Addiction, Immigrant Storm Relief, SLE, Diaper Bank, and more (unchecked for usefulness) (Warning: entries not verified)
++++ https://peoplefirstsdcc.org/freeguides SC Free Guide (Correction & updates needed) + many others
++++ SHOC (Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee)’s newspaper Homeward— https://sxacshoc.org/homeward/
++++ 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