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When cops steal your property, document to fight back!

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  • Taking officers to Small Claims Court for loss of your property is one way of challenging City misconduct against those living outside.  Success if by no means certain, but to begin the process requires clear and accurate information.
  • Reggie of HUFF has set up a number to report (1) police raids being threatened by notice or verbal warning, (2) property taken in the raids, (3) your contact information so we can get in touch with you for more details.  831-216-8239
  • You needn’t give a legal name.  Simply call yourself what you want.  Leave a contact number and brief statement.  We’ll get back to y ou.
  • If you’ve been badly treated by one of the well-funded service agencies (Housing Matters, the Armory/Look-Out, 1220 River St., Jeremy Leonard etc.), the intake gatekeeper let us know.   If you’ve been well treated, also let us know.             
  • If you want this kept private, say so.  If you want others to know, say so.  We would also like to publicize abuses with your permission.
  • We can also help you file a Claim Against the City  (must be done within 6 months of the abusive action). 
  • More cop accountability in Court means less abuse to those surviving outside.

               Flyer by Norse of  HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) 831-423-4833 www.huffsantacruz.org 309 Cedar PMB #14B  S.C. 1-1-25    

When cops steal your property, document to fight back!

  • Taking officers to Small Claims Court for loss of your property is one way of challenging City misconduct against those living outside.  Success if by no means certain, but to begin the process requires clear and accurate information.
  • Reggie of HUFF has set up a number to report (1) police raids being threatened by notice or verbal warning, (2) property taken in the raids, (3) your contact information so we can get in touch with you for more details.  831-216-8239
  • You needn’t give a legal name.  Simply call yourself what you want.  Leave a contact number and brief statement.  We’ll get back to y ou.
  • If you’ve been badly treated by one of the well-funded service agencies (Housing Matters, the Armory/Look-Out, 1220 River St., Jeremy Leonard etc.), the intake gatekeeper let us know.   If you’ve been well treated, also let us know.     
  • If you want this kept private, say so.  If you want others to know, say so.  We would also like to publicize abuses with your permission.
  • We can also help you file a Claim Against the City  (must be done within 6 months of the abusive action). 
  • More cop accountability in Court means less abuse to those surviving outside.

            Flyer by Norse of  HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) 831-423-4833 www.huffsantacruz.org 309 Cedar PMB #14B  S.C. 1-1-25

HUFF boots out the Old Year 1:30 PM- 3:30 PM Thursday December 26 at the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific Ave. next to the Bike Church

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Rough HUFF Loose Cannon Suggestions & Reminders 12-26-24           Underlined  links are for background reading.   Many others 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) Narrative.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them.

These Thursday ” Loose Cannon”  meetings are run by Athena (with occasional gavel pounding from Robert).  This is a rough agenda.  The final version will be passed around at the meeting along with carrots, cookies, coffee, and chaotic catcalls.                                                             

Top of the Agenda (Quick Announcements)

++++   Passarounds:  Homeless Dead, Recent Flyers, Possible Indybay Story,

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

++++   Google number to report for filing raids, property loss, other abuses  216-8238
++++   Additions and Suggestions for Thomas’s Tips:  Ruf Copy for Next Meeting?

++++   Possible Armory Revisit; Dreamcatcher visit

++++   Berkeley Where Do We Go?  Any Updates?

++++   New Years Eve Copwatch?  Beware the Triple Fine Zones.

++++   Reports from the Homeless Memorials, Xmas Day Meals

++++   Sweep reports from Coral St., under the Soquel Bridge, along Coral St., at Library, and elsewhere…?

++++   New Street Spirits not yet available.  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  Contact Street Spirit and Street Sheet to submit  local stories & news accounts or post on www.indybay.org/santacruz . 

++++   Saturday Dec 28  11 AM-12:30 PM Ocean and Water  Israeli butchery and aggression now expanded to Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, West Bank, and Gaza Support BDS locally. No more tax dollars for Israel. End the occupation and the apartheid system. Free all hostages and prisoners. 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    

++++  Possible rain prospects Thursday, 12-26, Friday 12-27, and Sunday 12-29

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

++++  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 (UNVERIFIED)
++++   Santa Cruz Free Guide UPDATED!  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ypAexFGyrU_kCoM3dByRDDrobyR9H8wA/viewUNV

++++  No rules or procedures posted for 1220 River St., 115 Coral St., or People’s First RV and Armory Programs.

=========================RESOURCES AND PROSPECTS——————————————————————————-                                        Standard Stuff: Regular Check-In’s 

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

++++    Seeking Info & Contacts: Tabling Prospects for [FM]/Soup Kitchen/ Outside Salva Army Breakfast/Emeline/Court 

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

++++    Napa: https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/napa-clearing-homeless-encampment-moving-residents-to-new-area/                                       

Older Stories for Ambitious Readers with access to Computers 

++++   Fremont Fascism: https://tricityvoice.com/new-housing-ordinance-causes-rift-in-fremont/ 

++++   San Francisco:  https://www.streetsheet.org/vehicle-residents-succeed-in-appealing-overnight-rv-ban/    

++++   Fresno:  https://fresnoalliance.com/fresno-a-cruel-and-unusual-city/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/

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

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

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

Possible Future Action Items

++++   Scheduling and strategy for confronting officials at Public events 

++++   Next Shitty Council meeting—Tuesday, January 14, 2025 

++++   Volunteer for connecting with  Visalia, 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?                                 

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)

++++  PovertyPimp Palaces Incidents (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MH CAN, Grey Bears, FNB, )

++++  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 Protestshttps://www.indybay.org/uploads/2024/09/09/final_2024.09.03_ucsc_exclusion_notice_complaint-final.pdf                                 

Archived Net-Show Access and older Rough Agendas:

To read summaries of the shows and past rough agendas go to: https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/To hear the shows go to https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.htmlSpecific shows TBA                                        

Still Older  Resources & News

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday December 22, 2024 show features a Dreamcatcher update plus the latest HUFF meeting and a Flashback to September 11, 2005 with Medical Marijuana reports from Lisa Molyneux & Andrea Tishler +street interviews aplenty

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The Sunday December 22, 2024 show includes:

  • https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2024/12/04/watsonville-commission-overrides-appeal-of-downtown-homeless-micro-village-plan/
  • [periodically throughout] Dylanesque songs by Jesse Welles
  • Most of the December 19hop-a-long HUFF meeting:
  •       +++  Call 831-216-8239 to record incidents of anti-homeless abuse and hold government thugs and poverty pimps accountable.
  •       +++  Rockhardo reports on being assaulted in his camp
  •       +++  Law-watcher Laura reviews Troy Mason’s Small Claims Court hearing 
  •       +++  Prep for Trustseeder Thomas’s truthful Tips for those outside
  • Hawk on the recent police “safety” break-up of his campsite
  • Dreamcatcher’s positive look at the Armory long-term shelter

The Flashback to September 11, 2005 includes:

  •  [9-2]  Tom Hatch busted for medicinal marijuana;
  • Bus Driver Ari on Mayor Rotkin’s “Two Hats”.
  • Tina of San Jose’s area420 on lack of marijuana outreach
  • SLV student Chris at 18 is anti-Iraq war
  • [9-3] Blueshirt Bully P. Bechtel Bombards Bicyclists
  • “Scope it Out” Scott on Sleazy Developer behavior
  • Jeremy the Jeremy on Bench Removal near Union Grove
  • Eli Williams—the street singer and pro-Iraqi war soldier
  • [9-9]  Parolee & S.C. suspect Mad Mike the Wonder Dog’s prison tour
  • Street eyes: Michael of Catalyst, Visionsong Valerie
  • Benchsitter beggar David Loftstead on S. California
  • Merryweather Mike’s stylings
  • Lean on phony probation jailing
  • Lisa Molyneux on imminent opening of Greenway
  • “Dangerous” John T. of the Human Rights Organization
  • Upcoming City Council in View: BB’s report
  • Skidmark Bob on New Orleans; Pat Kittle on crappy homeless campsites; Visionsing counters
  • Andrea Tishler on allowing S.C. adults to use grass
  • Bad Cop, No Doughnut weekly show for 9-5-05

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday, December 19th 2024, show Flashes back to September 15, 2005 featuring Richard Quigley, rights-for-the-road-ster, and the SAFE singers

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The December 19, 2024 show flashes back to September 15, 2005 and includes:

  • San Lorenzo Park housed neighbors on Dakota Street demand class cleansing of the park at night in speeches to City Council.
  • Roughrider Richard Quigley denounces Karen Hibble, “unelected queen of Aptos”, and the attacks on Jerry Henry, street pastor to the youth at Rancho Del Mar.
  • Quigley’s biker court battle with the many riding-with-a-non-regulation helmet tickets.
  • SAFE singers versus acrylic painter with toxic materials
  • Very Brief Brozda update on his electoral campaign

HUFF provides Xmas cheer and bad news at its Thursday December 19th 1:30-3:30 PM Meeting at the Sub Rosa 703 Pacific next to the beloved Bike Church

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HUFF Ruf Agenda & Resources Suggestions 12-19-24

Lots of “Homeless” labeled events coming up this week in the usual performative rush to avoid guilty feelings in the Xmas season.

Items followed by underlined on-line links are for on-line and background reading.   Many others 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) Narrative.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them.                                      

Top of the Agenda (Quick Announcements)

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

++++   Google number to report for filing raids, property loss, other abuses  216-8239
++++   Additions and Suggestions for Thomas’s Tips:  Ruf Copy for Next Meeting?

++++   Berkeley Where Do We Go?  Any Updates?

++++   Reports on the sweeps at Coral St., under the Soquel Bridge, along Coral St., at Library, and elsewhere…?

++++   New Street Spirits available.  Also 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  Contact Street Spirit and Street Sheet to submit  local stories & news accounts or post on www.indybay.org/santacruz . 

++++   Friday Dec. 20 City’s Memorial: 10- 11:30 AM Portuguese Hall 216 Harvey West Park #2136  Info: Joey 454-2080

++++   Friday Dec. 20 6 PM—10 PM  Rumored party open to all at London Nelson Ctr.

++++   Saturday Dec. 21 HUFF/Union/FNB Memorial  4 PM Town Clock (rain predicted, bundle up_

++++   Wednesday December 25 Xmas meal 11 AM-2 PM  Vets Hall

++++   Saturday Dec 21  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    

++++  Chilly rain possible Saturday 12-21 and Wednesday 12-25 (Merry Xmas to water-soaked refugees!)

++++  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.

++++   On-Line Santa Cruz Free Guide outdated https://hacosantacruz.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/FreeGuide.pdf                                        

Standard Stuff: Regular Check-In’s  

++++   Passarounds:  Vallejo Handouts: City’s Memorial Notice, Outdated “Free” Guide, recent HUFF flyers+ more  

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

++++    Seeking Info & Contacts: Tabling Prospects for [FM]/Soup Kitchen/ Outside Salva Army Breakfast/Emeline/Court  

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

++++    Napa: https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/napa-clearing-homeless-encampment-moving-residents-to-new-area/   

     Older Stores for Ambitious Readers with access to Computers  

++++   San Francisco:  https://www.streetsheet.org/vehicle-residents-succeed-in-appealing-overnight-rv-ban/    

++++   Fresno:  https://fresnoalliance.com/fresno-a-cruel-and-unusual-city/ 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/

++++     Visalia’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 Future Action Items

++++   Scheduling and strategy for confronting officials at Public events  ++++   Next Shitty Council meeting—Tuesday, December 10th  

++++   Volunteer for connecting with  Visalia, 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 and older Rough Agendas: To read summaries of the shows and past rough agendas go to: https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/ To hear the shows go to https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html                                        

Still Older  Resources & News

Protest and Informational Tabling Today 2 -3 PM (Thursday December 17) at 115 Coral in front of the “Funding Matters” (Housing Matters) Entrance

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Finding Out the Facts of Recent Harassment Against the Homeless: 

Holding Hasslers Against the Homeless Accountable

HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) will be setting up an information gathering table that also provides updates on upcoming events in the Coral St. area.

In recent days, Hiway 1 encampments, those along the levee on River St., the library parking lot, and Wheelworks–to name only a few have–recently faced harassment or dispersal and have had their communities scattered in cold and rainy weather.

We will be also gathering accounts of the treatment of folks living outside in terms of property loss, eviction/deportation threats, denial of services from “service organizations”, and experiences on the ground and in vehicles from those who have lost shelter.

We will also be seeing suggestions of gaps, abuses, and corrective measures needed to make existing services both cost-effective, humane, and helpful. For more information: http://www.huffsantacruz.org

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/12/17/18871524.php

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday December 15, 2024 show features Reggie Meisler on the struggle to protect RVs and the future of “performance” activism & a Flashback to October 23, 2005 Micah Posner, Pebbles Trippet, Jason Pasqual and many more

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The Sunday December 15, 2024 show includes:

The Flashback to October 23, 2005 includes:

  • Shoplifting as a healthier way of life—socially and individually.
  • Iraqis support attacks on Allied troops story
  • [9-28-05]  Bike activist Micah Posner supports avoiding a fence at the Ocean View Path by removing brush cover for the homeless from East Cliff to S. Branciforte.
  • Tim O’Hearn , Union Rep for In-Home Care Workers attacks Councilmember Madrigal and Union boss Cliff Tillman
  • [10-19-05] Robert, Julie, and Ian—Tales of Police Pressure
  • Caveman on History of Afflicting the Comfortable 
  • Jason Pasquale’s Account (and Caveman’s) of his arrest
  • Andrea Meagan on Cop Beating
  • Brozda’s Latest Barnstorming and Banning
  • James Patrick Dolan 4th at SAFE
  • Pebbles Trippet of the Medical Marijuana Patients Union on a Mendicino murder trial
  • Scott on Camp Break-up; Gregarious Greg songsinging
  • Skidmark’s Pop Defect show on the City’s Swipe at Scavenging Recyclers
  • [10-16-05]  

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday, December 12th 2024, show Flashes back to October 13, 2005 featuring Metro Riders Union activist Paul Mercelin Sampson vs. Metro Driver activists

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Thursday December 12, 2024 show flashes back to October 13, 2005. 

It includes:

  • In-studio guest and Metro Bus Drivers Strike critic Paul Marcelin Sampson bat back and forth calls and opinions of the Strike.
  • SAFE singers on the loose singing and chatting
  • Augusto Sandino, Emery Ross and other callers clash with Sampson on the strike
  • Discussion of the Contract rejected
  • Andrea Morgan praises the new Greenway Medical Marijuana club
  • Richard gets ticketed for Sugar his dog after a snooze on the sidewalk

HUFF takes off on a Pressure-the-Powerful field trip to Watsonville Small Claims Court at 12:30 pm Thursday December 12th in support of Troy Mason who is seeking payback for police seizure of his survival gear

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NO REGULAR HUFF MEETING THIS WEEK   The next HUFF meeting will be Thursday December 19th 1:30 PM-3:30 PM at the Sub Rosa Cafe as usual at 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church.
Instead folks interested in joining the HUFF caravan should contact Athena at 661-621-5502.  You can also show up at the Green Gate on Golf Club Drive at the entrance to the Pogonip Thursday December 12th at 10 AM when she will be leaving with possible space in her vehicle to caravan over to Watsonville for the hearing in Small Claims Court. 
You can also join Troy Mason’s supporters in Small Claims court in Watsonville:  Dept A, 3rd floor.  The Court is at 2nd and Main, 1 2nd St.  Turn left when you get off the elevator. The parking garage is free for the 1st 2 hours, $5 for the day.  Gaia may offer caravan service if you call her before 9 a.m. on Thursday morning (Dec 12th) at 477-9017.
Those seeking Street Spirits or Street Sheets to vend should call Bathrobespierre Robert at 831-423-4833 (no texts, it’s a landline).  The latest Street Spirit is available at the Main Branch of the Public Library.  It and Street Sheet can also be found on line.

++++   Berkeley Where Do We Go?  Updates from Andrea Hansen on Where Do We Go Berkeley facebook page.
POTENTIAL PROTESTS (around U.S.-funded wars in the Middle East)

++++   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 & Lauren at base of UCSC with banners/signs 415-954-2763    
Though Rain is predicted for Thursday, Saturday, and Monday, there is still no walk-in Winter Shelter in Santa Cruz.  No Emergency Shelters have been opened.


 READING MATERIALS  (Read up and shock your neighbors!)  

++++    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

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

++++   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

++++  https://www.hrw.org/report/2024/08/14/you-have-move/cruel-and-ineffective-criminalization-unhoused-people-los-angeles  The Cruel and Ineffective Crimminalizaton of Unhoused People in L.A.  Tip of the hat to Laure C for this item and the ProPublica item below

++++   https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homeless-union-members-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-encampment-eviction/  Recent lawsuit by Ca Homeless Union against Sweeps

++++   https://thestreetspirit.org/2023/02/07/berkeley-94700/   The Poor Tour & 1st  They Came for the Homeless

++++   https://www.codepublishing.com/CA/SantaCruz/#!/SantaCruz06/SantaCruz0636.html#6.36 : One of Santa Cruz’s excuses for its anti-homeless sweep/raids

++++   https://projects.propublica.org/homeless-encampment-sweeps-taken-belongings/: ProPublica’s detailed analysis of property stolen and hardships incurred nationwide

++++   https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-migrants-city-merge-new-arrivals-shelter-program-state/15450230/ : Come Freeze in Chicago This Winter! 

Archived Net-Show  (Listen up for fun and fury)

To read summaries of the shows and past rough agendas go to: https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/

Recent shows:  Sunday December 8, 2024 show features Robert Whitaker, Steve Pleich, and Scott Graham & a Flashback to September 28, 2014 with the anti-homeless electioneers getting grilled including:         https://podfollow.com/1654047988/episode/8d2a9c89f11b42e68663c98df8cb3b483d8894a2/view  Where is my Mind?: Bad Science with Robert Whitaker                                                                        “Scope It Out” Scott Graham & Bathrobespierre Robert take pot shots at the Santa Cruz Shitty Council’s 12-10-24 agenda            “Silver-Tongue” Steve Pleich sometime houseless local activist covers a wide variety of “then and now” topics

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday December 8, 2024 show features Robert Whitaker, Steve Pleich, and Scott Graham & a Flashback to September 28, 2014 with the anti-homeless electioneers getting grilled

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The December 8, 2024 show includes:

The Flashback to September 28, 2014 includes:

  • [throughout] Analysis of the proposed police-powered Stay-Away Order expansion, repression of audio recording at City Council, the Parking lot Panic law.
  • Protest, Speak-Out for the first SC Council meeting in September 2014; 
  • Update on Assistant City Manager Scott Collins’ Anti-Homeless “Mosquito” “No Loitering” shrill sound devices
  • Former Mayor Bruce Van Allen’s Kick-off Rally and other electoral speeches 
  • Vehicular habitation interviews: Graham Pruss (Road to Housing program Seattle  ), Julie Schaul, J.M. Shall, Sherry Decker, and others grahampruss@compasshousingalliance.org 
  • Julie S. on anti-homeless neighbor Pressure on Circle Church to drive away the early morning center 
  • Jerry Fall on “progress” towards a De Sal project
  • Candidate Lannie Sherman and other speakers at the rally.
  • Updates from post-Michael Brown police slaying in Ferguson, MO
  • John Crawford, black man, shot dead in Ohio Walmart: Implications in Santa Cruz; Lessons from the Benchlands SC-11 Clearing.
  • “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster on the SCPD, the proposed Homeless Bill of Rights, her “Smart Solutions to Homelessness” group and Upgrading HUFF