Tonight’s show follows up on anti-homeless, anti-Muslim discrimination in Santa Cruz at a local motel, clips from a 1988 City Council candidate forum, Troublemaker Toby Nixon from Freedom SleepOut #38…and more.
The show broadcasts at 101.3 FM and streams on the internet at freakradio.org at 6-8 PM (March 31). It will archive at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/
On the agenda: Post-meeting tabling for the “Give a Shit” campaign to open the City Hall Bathrooms at Night, the Latest from the Salinas Struggle to Save the Chinatown Encampment, Wheelchair Chris Memorial on the Horizon for next Tuesday; Food and Sleep Reports from Freedom SleepOut #38; Public Be Damned!–Exclusion at the City Funded “Visitor’s Bathroom” at Bookshop Coonerty…and more!
Coffee and other questionables will also be available.
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| Title: | BBQ with the Banbusters: Freedom Sleep-Out #38 Sizzles Into Sight |
| START DATE: | Tuesday March 29 |
| TIME: | 5:00 PM – 5:00 AM |
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| In the supposedly public area outside City Hall near the Center St. sidewalk across from the main library. | |
| Event Type: | Protest |
| Contact Name | Toby Nixon (posted by Norse) |
| Email Address | tobynixon [at] gms.com |
| Phone Number | 408-582-4152 |
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| LESS CHATTER, MORE EATS There won’t be another City Council conclave of creepies until April 12th (two weeks from Tuesday). But homeless folks have to sleep every night and continue to receive $158 citations. To bolster weary spirits and nagging appetites, Freedom Sleepers (mainly Toby, Zav, and Pat) have arranged for a barbeque as dusk falls. Bring some food to cook if you’re able. Troublemaker Toby Nixon claims to be a serviceable chef. MORE MEETINGS, MORE TALK The notables conferring are apparently building on hopes that Councilmember David (“no sleep for the homeless”) Terrazas’s proposed “Homeless Study Task Force” to be proposed April 12 is actually more than smoke, mirror, chatter, and pretense. City Council stonewallers created an earlier Homeless Issues Task Force, which came up with all kinds of good recommendations–including the most obvious: repeal the Camping Ordinance until there is adequate shelter. Read it and weep at http://sccounty01.co.santa- It seems a little disingenuous to hook up with a “blame the County” initiative from “shift the responsibility” Terrazas when it’s the City that has the most repressive anti-homeless laws (all of which he voted for). OTHER EFFORTS Other cities like San Jose and Sacramento–under street and legal protest pressure– are seriously considering open air encampments. Salinas activists continue to fight the demolition of the Chinatown encampment (half swept away). Supporter are encouraged to join a nightly protest encampment outside City Hall at 200 Lincoln St. Salinas officials councilmembers themselves have decriminalized nighttime sleeping (even camping with tents), though they’ve harshened the ban against setting down homeless property. ANOTHER CASUALTY OF SANTA CRUZ CRUELTY Activist Abbi Samuels has released a report of her research into Chris’s death, which append to this calendar entry. The absurdly short amount of time when property reclamation fro the anti-homeless sweeps is permitted has never been adequately explained but seems yet another kick in the face to homeless folks with the usual “get out” message. GIVE A SHIT INITIATIVE STILL A PRESSING ISSUE HUFFsters who are still conscious will get together at 11 AM at the Sub Rosa at 703 Pacific to sip coffee and brood over the night’s events. |
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Coming Up on this edition of Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides: Interview with Alene Smith, “Dangerous” John and “Do or Die” David Silva on the Louis La Fortune Memorial, Randy Girard on River St. Shelter vs. the Winter Armory Shelter, Hope for the Homeless on the West Side says “Shout it Out” Sharon, Andy Carcello blasts the Homeless (Lack of) Services Center, Interviews with Salinas activist and mayoral candidate Amit Pandya, and Assemblyman Louis Alejo, “Punch Back” Paul Cook–the Boxing Lawyer on his latest victory in Baldwin Park, and the struggle for justice in Salinas’s Chinatown Nighttime Campout at City Hall & Daytime Defense of Chinatown continues.
The show broadcasts at 101.3 FM, streams on the internet at freakradio.org at 6 PM tonight (March 24). It will archive at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/
Coming up for discussion and action: Solidarity with the new Freedom Campers at Salinas City Hall, which began tonight; Salinas’s Jose Castenada–a Councilmember worth noting; Give A Shit!–Organizing and Marching to Open Up the City Hall Bathrooms, Freedom SleepOut #37 Update, and more… All between free cups of coffee, spats, snarls, and smiles.
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| The City Hall Courtyard grounds, torn up and ribboned off for “replanting” with much of the rest of the area near the City Council chambers roped off to isolate protesters from their elected “representatives”. That’s until 10 PM or thereabouts when straight-out exclusion from the entire City Hall area to quash protest forces protesters onto that old cold sidewalk in their fight against the Sleeping Ban. |
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| Contact Name | Toby Nixon (posted by Norse) | ||||||
| Email Address | tobynixon [at] gms.com | ||||||
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FOOD NOT BOMBS TO PROVIDE AFTERNOON FOOD On Wednesday the 23rd at 7 AM, the Chinatown Resistance will gather at 38 Soledad St. with civil disobedience in the air to stop the massive deportation of 200-300 homeless people at what may be the largest and longest City encampment there. RECENT ALTERNATIVE MEDIA
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Coming Up on this edition of Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Multiple Interviews with Sleeping Ban victims, street performers, and protesters; an hour long special phone interview with Salinas activists including Salinas Councilmember Castenada about the March 23 resistance to the Chinatown Demolition; and more…
The show broadcasts at 101.3 FM and streams on the internet at freakradio.org at 9:30 AM today (March 20). It will archive at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/
Due to power outages and equipment problems, the usual Sunday morning Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show was not available at its usual time. The March 6 show intended for broadcast includes interviews with Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry, Berkeley singer and activist Carol Denney on the history of People’s Park, and my analysis of Lane’s Camping Ordinance amendments.
It is now available.
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| Title: | Rage Against City Council Bigotry–Freedom SleepOut #36 |
| START DATE: | Tuesday March 15 |
| TIME: | 5:00 PM – 8:00 AM Wednesday |
| Location Details: | |
| 809 Center St. Outside City Hall and City Council Offices | |
| Event Type: | Protest |
| Contact Name | Toby Nixon (posted by Norse) |
| Email Address | rnorse3 [at] hotmail.com |
| Phone Number | 408-582-4152 |
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| A week after City Council enraged and disappointed a room full of activists, Freedom Sleepers resume their regular weekly protest and invite the disenfranchised to join them. If supporters hold fast, there will be coffee in the morning.
Homeless folks at the Red Church and on Pacific Avenue Monday night continued to report citations for sleeping, being driven out into the rain, and regular harassment. RELATED SANTA CRUZ ACTIONS “Push Back” Pat Colby has announced she’ll be at the police station Thursday March 17 at 12:30 PM to help folks reclaim their property from the police. At present, police only allow folks to pick up their seized property 12:30 -2:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This restriction severely impacts unhoused people whose survival gear is confiscated–still a grim occurrence here. HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) will be present at the Project Pollinate day-long event on Saturday the 19th at San Lorenzo park between 11 and 1 PM to help organize resistance to the criminalization of the homeless. HUFF hopes to organize a caravan to Salinas on March 22nd to support the Salinas Union of the Homeless resisting the planned destruction of the Chinatown encampment (see below). HUFF will also be assisting people to call the River St. Shelter at 459-6644 to get on the Waiting List, which immunizes those on the list for three days from camping ticket prosecution. Insider, Silver-Tongued Steve Pleich’s predictions of higher City Council support for the right to sleep proved overly optimistic. He notes that City Councilmember Micah Posner may be introducing a call for City staff to find legal places to park RV’s in town. Several months ago, City Council, under the leadership of Councilmember Richelle Niroyan criminalized homeless RV parking at night. SIGNS OF EARLY SPRING IN THE STRUGGLE In addition, Sacramento housing activist Paula Lomazzi notes on her facebook page that the Justice Department is moving to block local and state fines for poor people in actions arising out of the Ferguson struggle: In Salinas, National Lawyers Guild attorney Anthony Prince has filed a second lawsuit demanding police leave homeless property alone. He has called for making Salinas “the Selma of 2016” recalling the civil rights struggles of the 60’s. Specifically, he wants folks to stand up to a scheduled police raid on the long-standing homeless encampment in Salinas’s Chinatown on March 23, by having a mass rally on the 22nd and sleepout there. See http://www.thecalifornian.com/ For more information, contact Wes White at 831-296-0042 . See the flier below for additional details. |
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