Also updates from Freedom Sleep-Out #93 last week, rumors of plans to add cops at and remove benches from the library, plus tidbits and numnums of all sorts. Tune in and settle in. Then check out the Survival Sleeps who gather nightly at City Hall.
Streams at freakradio.org. Archives at http://radiolibre.org/brb/
HUFF Agenda Prospects: Recruiting Survival Sleeper Monitors at Upcoming Events, A Strategy for the Last City Council Meeting in April, Prep for the May 1st and May 9th Protests, Nightly Survival Sleeping Prospects–Expanding the Survival Sanctuary Support Network, PhoneBank Outreach to Allied Organizations, Update on the Handicraft Ban Downtown…and cups of coffee to numb the frustration.
For the last 10 nights since the Winter Shelter program ended (a month earlier than Berkeley’s or Salinas’s), some of its refugees have been camped at City Hall, spending their nights and some of their days there as well.
I’ve written a flyer or two about the issue & distributed it at “liberal” activist gatherings like the Indivisible rally Saturday. So far no Indivisible groups have expressed interest in the 1000-2000 unsheltered or protesting local Trumpism here against our own poverty refugees.
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(492.0kb)All bathrooms remained closed late at night; the City Hall bathrooms (apparently on the order of City Manager Martin Bernal) during the day as well “for vandalism” (though they seemed to work well enough when “respectable” groups were meeting in City Council chambers.
Video of the April 6th police expulsion raids is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Monterey County Union of the Homeless videographer Wes White’s video of the April 11th Memorial for Michael Mears–who reportedly died of hypothermia–is posted at https://www.facebook.com/
Freedom Sleepers will be meeting Tuesday night in front of City Hall at 7 PM to discuss preparations to support a May 9th mega-demo against the Sleeping Ban as well as support for the nightly Survival Sleepers. The meeting will follow a 6 PM meeting on the 2nd floor of the Main Public Library around the Homeless Crisis.
There will also be a free showing Wednesday April 19th up at UCSC at the Kresge Seminar Room #159. Featured will be Brent Adams’ “Out of Sight, Out of Mind”, Israel Dawson’s “Freedom Sleepers”, and Rebecca Gourevitch’s “Holding Out”.
Freedom SleepOut #93 will go from Tuesday afternoon until Wednesday morning–the public is invited to drop in, stay awhile, bring blankets, sleeping bags, and video devices to film and post what the City is seeking to hide or ignore–the abuse of homeless people at the very seat of government.
With lots of interviews from the last week including Leafblowing Away the Homeless To Prepare for the Post Office Fence, Remembering Michael Mears at his Memorial 4-11, as well as updates, groans, and other goodies in this five-hour show.
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HUFF Agenda Prospects: Wednesday 5:30 PM meeting with Freedom Sleeper Old-Timers at Rio Mobile Home Park–What’s Next?…Winds of War–Resuscitating the Vigil Against Two Wars–the Homeless at Home and the Homeless Abroad…Another Jolly City Council Meeting Ahead?…Freedom Sleeper Max Green In Court: 10 AM 4-11–a Report (Join the Freedom Sleepers to Support Max)…and whatever goes down with the free coffee…
If you miss the 9:30 AM – 3 PM broadcast today, the show will archive at http://radiolibre.org/brb/
Friday Apr 7th, 2017 8:49 AM
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(378.4kb)For broader information about protests against Trump’s Nuclear Poker escalation in Syria, see https://www.indybay.org/
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(431.0kb)Free Radio Santa Cruz was briefly back on the air, but its transmitter died. Until it’s repaired, we’re back on the stream at freakradio.org.
The latest Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show will stream as usual tonight 6-8 PM and archive http://radiolibre.org/brb/
The show reviews homeless input from the last week outside City Hall and on Pacific Avenue including Jenny, Tyler, Enrique, Esteban, Shannon, Cat Man, Shadowside Steve, Julie, Renegade Robert B., and others
with the usual pungent groans from host Robert Norse.
HUFF voted today to support a number of resolutions.