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HUFF is chugging along as usual today Thursday May 14 at 1:30-3:30 PM at the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific Ave. next to the beloved Bike Church

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[** New Items on the Agenda]    HUFF IN BRIEF 5-14-26-26   …**HUFF Notes/Passarounds… Street Reports…. “Task progress”   **Wes White Phoned Report on Salinas/Gilroy[‘s Camp Hope …**Tomorrow’s Coral St. PushBack on Funding Matters [FM] ….** Recent Deaths Outside: Justin Moore, Billy …216-8239 working group…**Upcoming Homeless Candidate Forum….**Soupstock Sunday  Tabling ….++RV Status ….**SCHU Lookback: Keith Call?… MHCAN  Update … ** Mayoral Candidacy Questions–Invitation… **City Council  Meetings 5-12 …  Survival Shitter Spotlight…PovertyPimpery  Accountability? …Next Week’s Meeting …**Brnstrm Dec Trump Cuts…Toughtrail Thomas’ Sunday Reading &  Tips …**Report from Friday 5-8’s Encampment Revival Meeting….Posting at Armory bus pick-ups… collating citations/Reggie M. Update …Jail, Court   **Milkd to Warmer next week …

The 5-10-26 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show has two Flashback shows to December 31, 2000 and January 4, 2001 as well as clips from the police riot on Jan 1, 1994

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The Flashback to December 31, 2000 includes;

  •  History of Santa Cruz’s First Night on New Year’s Eve: Adrienne Boles eye-witness to 1994’s 1-1-94 police riot
  • [at various points]  On the Edge: Selections from Ewan McColl, Peggy Seeger, and Charles Roberts Radio Ballots
  • “Battling” Bob Lamonica on an impotent S.C. ACLU
  • Street Interviews with survivors of the January 1, 1994 New Year’s Eve: Lisa Gillespie, Darren W. Crow, Dave “Won Ton” Jacobs, “Red top” Robert Flory,  Victoria de la Torrey at the “SleepCrime in Progress” Vigil
  • Conflicting reports of the Pacific Ave. riot and its aftermath
  • “Shelter beds stay empty as  Homeless resist confinement” (L.A. Times  Dec. 27,1993)

The Flashback to January 4, 2001 includes:

  • Report from Steve of San Rafael near the Ritter House
  • Dallas homeless newspaper (“Endless Choices”) vendors work day
  • “Scope it Out” Scott Graham on Mercy Housing/City Council resident eviction and Fitzmaurice’s KoffeeKlatch Injunction
  • “Taken from the Streets: Freezing Weather Prompts City to Remove Homeless” in NYC
  • Harassment of Street Paper Vendors in Santa Cruz—a Lookback
  • Accomplishments in Santa Cruz based on Homeless Activism
  • Graham In-Studio; Silva on lines from Elected Forum

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 5-7-26 Show is a Flashback to April 8, 2001 with elder activist Ed Davidson, rent controlster Bob Lamonica, Attorney Ed Frey, exposing Mercy Housing and City Council capers

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The Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 5-7-26 show is a Flashback to April 8, 2001.  It includes:

  • “Battling” Bob Lamonica on Rent Control, his upcoming S.C. Hempo expo, and the fate of Hemp nationwide
  • Former Planning Director and Housing Advocate  Ed Davidson on City’s buying 211 Gault St. for Mercy Housing Corp [MHC]-run Senior Housing  and the MHC-run Rex/Dolphin/Lee
  • Attorney “eggbeater” Ed Frey defending Tenants demanding relocation funding in a Mercy Housing  Mackintosh Mobile Home Project
  • Tucson Street Newspaper Hawker banned from Medians
  • Subpoena for Mayor Tim Fitzmaurice in the Koffee Klatch TagTeam Teach In—Attorney Catnip Kate Wells’ brief

Join actions with discontented HUFF malcontents at 1:30 PM-3:30 PM at the Sub Rosa Cafe at 703 Pacific Ave concerned with ye olde Human Rights for all

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[** New Items on the Agenda]    HUFF IN BRIEF 5-7-26-26  

…**HUFF Notes/Passarounds… Street Reports…. “Task progress”**Wes White War’s Impact on Homeless View/Salinas Report …**This morning’s Coral St. PushBack on Funding Matters [FM] .. **Hobo Jim’s court ..** the Julian Moore Life & Death …FOLLOW-UP (on FM/Sweeps Contact.. List…John Doe13K Video ? KSBW Report… … 216-8239 working group…++RV Status ….SCHU Prospects… MHCAN  Update … ** Mayoral Candidacy Questions–Invitation… **City Council/Supes Meetings 5-12 (Shit-In?)…Bathroom Protest at  Shitty Council; Funding Accountability? …Next Week’s Meeting …**Brnstrm Dec Trump Cuts …FM & People First (PF) Flyer Prep w/Pub Records… …Toughtrail Thomas’ Sunday Reading &  Tips …216 Update/Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations/Reggie M. Update …Jail, Court   **Warmer, Clear, & Humid next week …


FREE EVENTS         (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying)

Thur May 7   5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meets El Rio Mobile Home Park Community Room

Fri May 8    2PM-?  till food gone  BoulderCreek  13080 Hwy 9 between Jenna Sue’s Cafe and the taqueria
       4-6 PM   Free Food Church FELTON Fridays 4-6+pm  Hallcrest Vineyards, 379 Felton Empire Rd. Felton       

5:30 – 7 PM  Class/workshop   The Revival—Lessons from the encampment  Sub Rosa Cafe

Sat May 9  11 AM – 12:30 PM Anti-war picket and honk-in  Ocean and Water St.                        

7 PM   Reel Film  at SEIU Union Hall, 517 Mission St., S.C.  ‘Power of Unions: Who Moves America”

Sat 5-9  & Sun 5-10  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal main Post Office; Street Spirits & Street Sheets; leave off or pick up forms to record shelter and police abuse; Bulletin Board for posting notices

Sun 5-10    10:30-12:30  PM  People’s Aid : Solidarity/Services for those outside Green Gate Golf Club Drive.                       

2 PM  “Rest is Resistance” street huddle & other book reading at the dinosaur statue or at Jamba Juice across from the Post Office downtown                         

7 PM  Organizing Shorts  SEIU Union Hall “How They Built a Movement”, “The Fleck Strike”” How Big Companies Explit Data Workers in Kenya”, “Supply Chain Solidarity: Lessons from the Lithium Frontlines”

Mon 5-11   6:30 PM  Barrio Book Club Pedagogy of the Oppressed 1807 Soquel Ave.

Tues 5-12 thru Thurs 5-14 10 AM until the food’s gone Bread & Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot

Wed  5-13  3:30 PM  Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless Little Red Church  Cedar & Lincoln Sts. Fireside Room

Thur 5-14 Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom   Sub Rosa Pacific & Spruce

further HUFF WISH List TASKS to Volunteer for + Possible INDIVIDUAL ACTIONS : [Call or Text 831-423-4833 if interested), Older STORIES, & Standby RESOURCES available on a longer agenda at the meeting.

The 5-3-26 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show features Alicia Kuhl on Govt.-backed Poverty-Pimp Profiteering; and a packed Flashback to January 28, 2001 Lighthouse Linda, Battling Bob, poet Julia, Katherine Rhodes, Bathrobespierre on KSCO, and more

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The May 3, 2026 edition of Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides includes:

  • Union of the Homeless activist Alicia Kuhl critiques Funding Matters (aka Housing Matters) and other poverty-pimping non-profits notorious for  service cutoffs, jail-like conditions, funding waste, and broken promises, as exemplified by the Live Oak Landing “housing”.
  • [5-2]  Anthony on Freedom encampment of 25 along Coralitos Creek in Watsonville slated for demolition May 18th  after two years there;
  • Stressed-but-standing Sammy Battle on dealing with an OD
  • Foodmeister Drew on the highs and lows of recent Food Not Bombs events
  • Honest Abe on Housing Matters hokum

    The Flashback show to January 28, 2001 includes:

  • More betrayal from the “Progressive” Majority elected in 2000
  • “Battling” Bob Lamonica discusses Rent Control in San Jose
  • Julia Vinograd’s latest from Blues for All of US.
  • Update on the Koffee Klatch 3: Banishment from all City Council buildings
  • Judge Akao Ignores the  Slapsuit
  • Applications for the Cops RahRah Board (the so-called ”Crazy Citizens Police Review Board”)
  • Rhode Island’s Katherine Rose on Police Violence at the L.A. Democratic Party’s 2000 Fixed Convention
  • Dignityville—L.A. Tent City—getting assaulted for petitioning
  • Santa Cruz City Council abuses under Emperor Tim Fitzmaurice
  • KSCO’s Steve Hartman interviews Bathrobespierre  on the Koffee Klatch

Bathrobespierre’s Broadside’ s 4-30-26 Show is a Flashback to February 8, 2001 with attorneys “Bedrock” Beauvais and “Catnip” Kate defending the Koffee Klatch 3–attacked by then-Mayor Tim Fitzmaurice for insistent lobbying for winter shelter plus more!

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Bathrobespierre’s Broadside’ s 4-30-26 Show is a Flashback to February 8, 2001 with attorneys “Bedrock” Beauvais and “Catnip” Kate defending the Koffee Klatch 3–attacked by then-Mayor Tim Fitzmaurice for insistent lobbying for winter shelter plus …

The April 30, 2026 show is a partial Flashback to February 8, 2001. 

It includes:

  • Audio from Koffee Klatch 3 in Kourt in a Slapsuit against Mayor Tim Fitzmaurice (aka Emperor Fitz)’s attack on homeless lobbyists
  • Scope it Out Scott, Beggarbacker Becky, comment on the lawsuit.
  • Robbie reports unkind cop behavior against him and his RV
  • Rough-tongued Roxanne on increased homelessness via CPS “helpfulness”
  • Bathrobespierre attempts to speak Spanish

HUFF “Loosey Goosey” meeting will relocate to the Courthouse Building today April 30th 1:30 PM at 701 Ocean. Details below.

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The HUFFmeet under the stewardship of Toughtimes Thomas and Cut-the-Crap Coral will be meeting after a solidarity showing in support of an unfairly charged student.  Details to be discussed at court—where the hearing starts as 1 p.m.  Coral can’t give an exact time, but predicts the court will adjourn at 2:30 when surviving HUFFsters will meet in the atrium area between the courts and the County building.


Coral and Thomas will make their own agenda based on the reports and wishes of those present.  Robert presents below an abbreviated (slightly) series of suggestions—which will may or may not be used at the atrium meeting.  Some of the ideas will likely reappear at the next regular Sub Rosa meeting of HUFF on May 7 at 1:30 PM.


[** New Items on the Agenda]    HUFF IN BRIEF 4-30-26   …**HUFF Notes/Passarounds… ++Street Reports…. “Task progress …Follow-Up from Coral St. .. **Hobo Jim’s court report.. …ANNOUNCEMENTS:  Possible SCHU/HUFF Mayoral Campaign panels … John Doe13K newer You-Tube Videos … … 216-8239 working group ….Case Manager Scams…Reports from City Council/Supes Meetings  4-28…FM & People First (PF) Flyer Prep to Outreach & Organize w/Pub Records… …The Will to Change & Other Reading…. …216 Update/Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; …Jail, Court dates   **Cool & Chilly next week …Bathrooms and portapotties still not available near encampments. FOR OLDER STORIES  or to VOLUNTEER contact R. Norse at 423-4833

FREE EVENTS         (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying)

Thur April 30   5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meets El Rio Mobile Home Park Community Room.

Fri May 1  noon-3 PM UCSC 250 Natural Bridges Dr., SC. May Day—Students Rise Up anti-ICE, anti-Trump maybe anti-War?  Free food.        

2pm-?till food gone  Boulder Creek  13080 Hwy 9 between Jenna Sue’s Cafe and the taqueria
       4-6 PM   Free Food Church FELTON Fridays 4-6+pm  Hallcrest Vineyards, 379 Felton Empire Rd. Felton           

5 – 7 PM Outside Jamba Juice Workers’ March thru Downtown to San Lorenzo Park

Sat 5-2    11 AM – 12:30 PM Likely Anti-war picket and honk-in especially if Dems let trump intensify the bombing, blockade, and Lebanon invasionOcean and Water St.                      

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Lompico Pond Restoration Project (LPRP) Volunteer Jim.Vivian [at] yahoo.com   408-634-9749  Lompico Pond (aka “Guacamole Pond” officially “Lake Lompico”)   11603 Lakeshore Dr. Felton near Lake Blvd                       

2 – 4:00 PM Women Warriors Panel at 100 Panetta Ave.,Institute of Arts & Sciences  against Jails and Injustice

Sat 5-2 & Sun 5-3  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal main Post Office; Street Spirits & Street Sheets; leave off or pick up forms to record shelter and police abuse; Bulletin Board for posting notices;                             

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Eating Our Way to Extincton Santa Cruz Vegan Chef Challenge Volunteers Downtown  Library 224 Church St Sun  5-3   

10:30-12:30  PM  People’s Aid : Solidarity/Services for those outside Green Gate Golf Club Drive.             

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM  Capitola Branch Library, 2005 Soquel Wharf Rd, Capitola Poetry:  SIX is for 6enocide             

2 PM  “Rest is Resistance” street huddle & book reading at the dinosaur statue or at Jamba Juice across from the Post Office downtown

Mon 5-4  4:30-5:30 PM Likely Anti-Trump perhaps Anti-War Protest—corner of Ocean and Water St. Make it an Anti-War Protest!

Tues 5-4  thru Thurs 5-6 10 AM until the food’s gone Bread & Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot

Wed  5-4  3:30 PM  Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless Little Red Church  Cedar & Lincoln Sts. Fireside Room

Thur  5-5  1:30 PM  Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom   Sub Rosa Pacific & Spruce

HUFF WISH List TASKS to Volunteer for + Possible INDIVIDUAL ACTIONS : [Call or Text 831-423-4833 if interested)

++++    ORGANIZING to pressure poverty pimps to reopen and expand survival services and stop the sweeps.

++++    POLLING RESIDENTS 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:  as Emperor Evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or  (408) 761-9930 peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter access line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699; LET US KNOW at 423-4833  if you’ve sent one and if you’ve gotten satisfaction.

…and much more.  Contact 423-4833 for a full list.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 4-26-26 Show has a HUFF chat on the Coral Street copsweep; Elizabeth & Ruby on Outreach; Councilwatcher “Scope it Out” Scott ; Gibbs in Scotts Valley; +a 2-15-01 Flashback w/ Bob Lamonica, Rose Tafoya, & Skidmark Bob

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The May 26, 2026 show includes:

  • [4-23-26] The 4-23 HUFF meeting which Tipster Thomas begins by  reporting on the aftermath of today’s police sweep of the Coral St. survival encampment.
  • Troy on the Memorial Get Together of Victims and Relatives of Victims
  • [ throughout]   Ai Tsuno and David Rovics commentary & music from “Before World War III” 
  • Elizabeth and Ruby on Coral St. canvassing the survival camp residents
  • “Scope It Out” Scott Graham on “Community Not Cages” protest in Northern California and homeless resistance in Eureka/Arcata
  • Graham deconstructs the upcoming Santa Cruz City Council meeting
  • [4-24-26]   Gibbs’ Scott Valley report on a “legal” camping area here.

  The February 15, 2001 Flashback includes:

  • “Battling” Bob Lamonica on Rent Control struggle in San Jose
  • Rose Tafoya, whose daughter a year before was police-assaulted at night in the Beach Flats
  • Silencing Silva with a Psychiatric Arrest in the summer of 2000—a discussion
  • Bathrobespierre on the S.C. City Council’s intolerance of dissent at its meetings
  • Skidmark Bob on Vice-Chief Clark’s thuggish police behavior

HUFF clusters, clucks, and connects again 1:30 – 3:30 PM Thursday April 23rd at Sub Rosa Collective 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church

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** New Items on the Agenda]    HUFF IN BRIEF 4-23-26   …**HUFF Notes/Passarounds… Street Reports…. “Task progress”**Wes White War’s Impact on Homeless View/Salinas Report …**Reports & Follow-Up from PushBack on Coral St. Closing Funding Matters [FM] .. **Hobo Jim’s court ..** Jason Moore Vigil…**More from Caretaker Kevin on necessary FM reforms…FOLLOW-UP (on FM/Sweeps Contact.. List…John Doe13K Video ? KSBW Report… … 216-8239 working group…++RV Status ….SCHU Prospects… MHCAN  Update … ** Mayoral Candidacy Questions–Invitation… **City Council/Supes Meetings 4-14…Bathroom Protest at  Shitty Council 4-28? …Leadership Update …**Brnstrm Dec Trump Cuts …FM & People First (PF) Flyer Prep w/Pub Records… …Rest = Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips …216 Update/Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations/Reggie M. Update …Jail, Court   **Clear and Chilly next week …London Nelson bathrooms and well-funded Coral St. portapotties and bathrooms still locked to those not in programs… SEE FREE EVENTS, HUFF WISHLIST, & OLDER STORIES on separate sheet

FREE EVENTS         (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying)

Thur April 23   5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meets El Rio Mobile Home Park Community Room

Fri April 24    2pm-?till food gone  Boulder Creek  13080 Hwy 9 between Jenna Sue’s Cafe and the taqueria
       4-6 PM   Free Food Church FELTON Fridays 4-6+pm  Hallcrest Vineyards, 379 Felton Empire Rd. Felton

Sat 4-25  11 AM – 12:30 PM Anti-war picket and honk-in  Ocean and Water St.                      

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Lompico Pond Restoration Project (LPRP) Volunteer Jim.Vivian [at] yahoo.com   408-634-9749  Lompico Pond (aka “Guacamole Pond” officially “Lake Lompico”)   11603 Lakeshore Dr. Felton near Lake Blvd                       

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM War of Peace? Panel Discussion   As Trump’s Phony Ceasefire and War Blockade Blasts On…Quaker Meetinghouse, 225 Rooney Avenue

Sat 4-24 & Sun 4-26  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal main Post Office; Street Spirits & Street Sheets; leave off or pick up forms to record shelter and police abuse; Bulletin Board for posting notices;                                              2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Eating Our Way to Extincton Santa Cruz Vegan Chef Challenge Volunteers Downtown  Library 224 Church St

Sun  4-26    10:30-12:30  PM  People’s Aid : Solidarity/Services for those outside Green Gate Golf Club Drive.             

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM  Capitola Branch Library, 2005 Soquel Wharf Rd, Capitola Poetry:  SIX is for 6enocide             

2 PM  “Rest is Resistance” street huddle & book reading at the dinosaur statue or at Jamba Juice across from the Post Office downtown

Mon 4-27  4:30-5:30 PM Likely Anti-Trump perhaps Anti-War Protest—corner of Ocean and Water St. Make it an Anti-War Protest!

Tues 4-28  thru Thurs 4-29 10 AM until the food’s gone Bread & Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot

Wed  4-29  3:30 PM  Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless Little Red Church  Cedar & Lincoln Sts. Fireside Room

Thur  4-30  Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom   Sub Rosa Pacific & Spruce