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Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides July 20, 2025 show features recent articles on police WRAP pain compliance, HUFF street updates, and a Flashback to October 23, 1997 on the South Spit Jetty Deportation & much more

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The July 20, 2025 show includes:

The Flashback to October 23, 1997 includes:

  • [throughout] “Factwino vs. Armageddon Man” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i3A1rpPiMA  by SF Mime Troupe 1982
  • S.C. Councilmember Kennedy’s earlier progressive days
  • “Dead On” David Silva’s update on the 2nd Sleeping Ban Initiative, his lawsuit stemming from Sgt. Crane’s assault on David Silva, and S.C. rent control strategy
  • “The Thin Blue Line: Stolen Lives Project Shines a Long Overdue Spotlight on Police Brutality”—Crabtree’s killing of Gerald Hall
  • Skidmark Bob’s report on his First Panhandling ticket and SCPD’s Bayani harassing Needle Exchange
  • The City’s Panhandling Ordinance
  • Eureka’s Board of Supervisors Using County Health Officer Ann Lindsay to destroy the South Spit Jetty Homeless Survival Encampment
  • Phone Interview with Father Eric Duff on the Jetty Sweep and Arrests
  • Julia Vinograd “For the Young Man who Died of AIDs” and other poems from her Eye of the Hand audio tape  https://archive.org/details/1996-cassette-o-eye-of-the-hand-by-julia-vinograd
  • [10-21-97] “Cornerstone” Carol Denney on the Berkeley 10-20 City Council on letting the BPD use Pepper-Spray
  • Mini-Flashback to Spring 1991—Council considers a Plan to Drive Away Homeless Protesters from the Town Clock by Making it a Park with Closing Hours, Kennedy opposed
  • A Snippet from Uncle Dennis Davie’s “From the Cream to the Dregs” intro

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides July 17, 2025 show is a Flashback to Oct 23, 1997 with in-studio Tenants Union activist Marco and speeches from the March to the Santa Cruz Jail on Police Accountability Day

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The current show may be available on the net around or after 6 PM with techie assistance.  However it will definitely be on the archives after 6 PM at  https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html.  

Once available on the archive, it should be downloadable in two sequential sections.

The content of the show will be likely be further summarized, described,  and posted soon at https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/category/huff-communications/

HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) continues to meet regularly on Thursdays 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM at the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church.  

HUFFing Again in the Summer Cool Thursday July 17, 2025 1:30-3:30 PM Sub Rose Cafe 703 Pacific (adjacent to the Bike Church)

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Suggestions for HUFF 7-17-25

Http web addresses are for background reading or listening.   Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them.  Out of exhaustion, frustration, or the call of Mother Nature, breaks may be called.  The chair may be rotated if folks want.  If the Agenda looks familiar and unduly repetitive, some of it is for the benefit of new folks or returning ones. Athena or another volunteer may make a record of announcements given early in the meeting so those late to the meeting can be advised. 

Many items are really signposts & reminders of where we’d be going if and when we find the person power, time, interest, and resources.  Gathering information and evidence can help challenge the Dominant (False) Police and City Manager Narrative.  Documenting and complainant numbers are repeated for convenience.  Remember that folks—unhoused and unhoused—coming to the meeting may have bought into bad narratives.  The focus on our meetings are ending discrimination against folks outside by research, exposure, and direct action—as far as we have resources.  

                                           
Top of the Agenda

++++   Review Agenda (questions, additions)

++++   Flag Possible Action Items: Sweep Notices at Coral, more TBA

++++   Possible Handouts: Agenda, Poll/Flyer,  Passarounds HUFF Notes, more likely TBA

++++   Street & sweep reports from the last week
++++   People First poll update: Convenient times for Water St. bridge polling, Flyer  distribution for documenting deadly police actions

++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’s

++++   Federal and State Policing updates

Quicker CHECK-Ins, ANNOUNCEMENTS, and REPORTS

++++   Protests or Gatherings Throughout the Last Week & Upcoming

++++   HUFF Mental Health Advisory Board Resolution Follow-Up

++++   Various 216-8239 Flyers Prospect Meeting Report; Reggie, Athena, Venus Spread Sheet Updates or Phone Connects

++++   Gaia’s update on Capitola Mobile Home owners resistance to huge rent raises (Call for Update) (Solidarity Resolution)

Free Events (for demonstrating, organizing, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [See passaround for details]

Thursday July 17  Food Not Bombs meeting 5-6 PM  El Rio Mobile Home Community RoomStand in Peace/Stand in Power Indivisible Anti-Trump Protests 4 – 6 PM  745 Ocean St | Mission & Laurel | Ocean & Water /41st & Capitola Rd | Soquel Dr & Porter | Soquel Dr & State Park | | Soquel Dr & Park Ave. | Hwy 9 & Graham Hill Dr                                 6:30 – 8:30 PM Live Oak Annex, Rm A, Simpkins Family Swim Center 979  17th Ave.  Stop Lithium Battery Energy Storage Panel, Q & A

Friday July 18   6:00 PM – 7:00 PM  author E.S. DeWeaver talks about abolishing prisons  Institute of the Arts and Sciences   100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz 

Saturday July 19  11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-war  “Free Palestine” pi12:00 PM – 2:00 PM   Santa Cruz County Renters Union  Launch Party of Tenant Power Zine 115 River St, Santa Cruz (next to MOBO Sushi)  Free Zine on tenant organizing/rights; bring a shirt to screen print; join the union; hang out with friends

Saturday and Sunday July 20 noon-3 PM FNB gathering and meal Town Clock; Street Spirits available; leave off polling data with Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices.

Monday July 21   4:30 PM – 5:30 PM   Ocean & Water Civil Rights Weekly Anti-Trump Dem. Party Indivisible

Thursday July 24  7 PM London Nelson Rm 3 310 Center St. 40-minute Film “Gaza: Journalists Under Fire”   about 178 journalists killed in Gaza
++++    Info Tabling:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested…Poll for Armory

++++    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.

++++    Cool weather…mid-60’s thru the next Week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT_d9BFEzYA

++++   Tips & Lifelessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Sagacity

++++   Reggie & Gaia’s report on Selective Ticketing for “Homeless Crime”: Volunteers?  

++++   Laura C.: YES on SB 634 & other legislative updates

++++   Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces?  Small Claims Court? Library Stuff

++++   New Street Spirits available.   Current Street Sheet stories available on line https//www.streetsheet.org/ . Hard Copies of Street Spirit 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).    Pick up or leave off Armory polls with Drew as well.

++++   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

++++     Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K” 

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides July 13, 2025 show features Wes White’s tireless tempo from Salinas+ a Flashbacks to July 20, 2003 w/ Nutcracker Nick Whitehead’s “Homeless in Space”, Travelin’ Tom Noddy Jugglin’ and Jailed, and street speakout

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The July 13, 2025 show includes:

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu0efhXd1nU  Theft of Personal Property Through Collaboration of State and City Entities in Salinas, CA
  • Wes White on the May Cal Trans/CHP sweeps on the Salinas tracks
  • [throughout] episode 2 of One Year On: The Apocalypse in Review by David Rovics
  • Wes on Salinas Council actions around the 2016 Flagpole Protest
  • [7-6] Abe’s report on MHCAN & other thoughts
  • Billy Joe (WAC) claims disability & religious discrimination
  • Isaac Collins (the Lyrical Eye) on expensive tows, phony racial activism at thereallyricaleye
  • Sea Otter and Cooper on People First Armory conditions

The Flashback to 7-20-03 includes:

  • Coral on the Monterey County jail
  • Tickets for Fortunetelling and Lying in the Sidewalk
  • At the TV table in front of the Pacific Trading Company; John Maurer’s tale
  • Homeless in Space–radio play by Nutcrack Nick Whitehead
  • SC Sentinel writer Dan White celebrating a year of the Downtown Ordinance Crackdown
  • Beggarbacker deconstructs Dan White’s front-page apologia
  • A Vandweller’s Lament
  • Travelin’ Tom Noddy’s Account of his “Criminal” Juggling Protest with commentary from “Jostle the Jarheads” Joe Williams​

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides July 10, 2025 show is a Flashback to July 27, 2000 with lots of calumny, cacophony, consternation, and City Council clatter around the Dolphin-Lee Mercy Charities Project giveaway

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The July 10, 2025 show is a Flashback to July 27, 2000.   

It includes:

  • “Scope it Out” Scott and Bathrobespierre Robert discuss the City Council’s giveaway of the Advisory Committee and the Relocation Committee to Mercy Charities Housing in the Dophin-Lee Project with Phil Baer speaking at City Council & other irregularities.
  • Paddy Long remembers homeless John’s death and its implications
  • More of the Council vs. the public (Roxanne, Fitzmaurice, Sugar, Baer): Inside & Out

HUFF sneers at the heat Thursday July 10, 2025 roosting at the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific Ave, next to the Bike Church 1:30-3:30 PM

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More Suggestions for “Loose Cannons” HUFF 7-10-25

Http web addresses are for background reading or listening.   Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them.  Out of exhaustion, frustration, or the call of Mother Nature, breaks may be called.  The chair may be rotated if folks want.  If the Agenda looks familiar and unduly repetitive, some of it is for the benefit of new folks or returning ones. Athena, chairing the meeting, may make a record of announcements so those late to the meeting can be advised. 

Many items are really signposts & reminders of where we’d be going if and when we find the personpower, time, interest, and resources.  Gathering information and evidence can help challenge the Dominant (False) Police and City Manager Narrative.  Documenting and complainant numbers are repeated for convenience.                                               
Top of the Agenda

++++   Review Agenda (questions, additions)

++++   Flag Possible Action Items: Sweep Notices; Key Upcoming Events++++   Possible Handouts: Agenda +TBA  Passarounds HUFF Notes + TBA

++++   Street & sweep reports from the last week
++++   People’s First poll update

++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’s..Quicker CHECK-Ins, ANNOUNCEMENTS, and REPORTS

++++   Protests or Gatherings Throughout the Last Week

++++   Uses of HUFF Mental Health Advisory Board Resolution

++++   Various 216-8239 Flyers Prospect Meeting Report; Reggie, Athena, Venus Spread Sheet Updates or Phone Connects

++++   Gaia’s update on Capitola Mobile Home owners resistance to huge rent raises (Call for Update)(Solidarity Resolution)

++++   Various legacy media stories: TBA

++++   Free Events (for demonstrating, organizing, leafleting, polling, or enjoying)

Saturday  July 12  11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-war  “Free Palestine” picket    

Sunday July 13 4 PM   SF Mime Troupe “Disruption”  London Nelson Park                          4:30 PM – 5:30 PM   Ocean & Water Civil Rights Weekly Anti-Trump Dem. Party Another Indivisible Democratic Party organizing event

++++    Info Tabling:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested…Poll for Armory

++++    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.

++++    Still No Rain…mid-70’s 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/watc?v=pT_d9BFEzYAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT_d9BFEzYA

++++   Tips & Lifelessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Sagacity

++++   Reggie & Gaia’s report on Selective Ticketing for “Homeless Crime”: Volunteers?  

++++   Laura C.: YES on SB 634 & other legislative updates

++++   Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces?  Small Claims Court? Library Stuff

++++   New Street Spirits available.   Current Street Sheet stories available on line https//www.streetsheet.org/ . Hard Copies of Street Spirit 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).    Pick up or leave off Armory polls with Drew as well.

++++   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

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides July 6, 2025 show features Cooper (round the Clock) D’Angelo + two Flashbacks to July 3rd & 6th 2003 w/ John Gibson, Roxanne Acquistepache, Razor Ray, Sgt. Butchie Baker, and many more voices

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The July 6, 2025 show includes:

The Flashback to July 3, 2003 includes: 

  • Black grass dealer Taz Barker aka Xavier notes Sgt.Flippo banning him from downtown
  • Businesses criminalize seating spaces downtown with laws and cops
  • Why boycott bigotry at the Pacific Trading Company [PTC]
  • Troublesome Thomas Leavitt on additional avenues for pressuring the PTC
  • [7-3] PTC sidewalk interviews: Shawna, Roxanne Acquistepache
  • “Leaning on a railing” ticket at PTC for Medardo Joe to harass a sidewalk video showing
  • Razor Ray’s Court “sound amplification” ticket experience
  • Jeffrey Gale’s Redding report

The Flashback to July 6, 2003 includes:

  • Advocate for missing or unwanted services by CPS “Rough-Tongued” Roxanne 
  • John Gibson of the Santa Cruz Bill of Rights Defense Committee fighting 2001 Patriot Act
  • Reilly’s Council rushes through & ignores Kim Dowan, Sheila Coonerty, & Greg Kin

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides July 3, 2025 show is a Flashback to May 2, 1999 with Rev. Wiley Drake, Kate Wells, Julia Vinograd, Phil Baer, and Lou Rice

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The July 3, 2025 show is a Flashback to May 2, 1999. 

It includes:

  • Pastor Wiley Drake vs. Buena Park [BP] authorities; BP retaliating for Drake’s federal civil rights lawsuit seeking damages.
  • “Catnip” Kate Wells on Jerry Henry strikingly successful victory getting a restored driver’s license in the face of Sheriff Joseph Hemingway’s abusive suspension action
  • Wells on libertarian activist Richard Quigley’s struggle against Claudia Easterby’s attempt to ban Quigley from the public sidewalk in front of Gottschalks.
  • Wells on Dennis Reim’s refusal to pay a “sleeping in your camper” fine because it was an infraction and that strategy as a new effective tactic for homeless folks
  • “Saturday Night”–more poems written & read by Julia Vinograd [throughout the audio]
  • Phil Baer on Dolphin-Lee Project property acquisition and Clinton’s Yugoslavia bombing
  • “The Rambouillet Accord: A Declaration of War Disguised as a Peace Agreement” By RichardBecker
  • Interview with Lou Rice on his Fast to spotlight abuses at the Homeless [Lack of] Services Center   https://www.santacruz.com/papers/cruz/04.14.99/homeless1-9915.html

HUFF takes advantage of the cooler summer weather to cower indoors anyway 1:30 -3:30 PM Thursday 7-3-25 at the Sub Rosa Cafe next to the Bike Church 703 Pacific

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RUF Suggestions for HUFF 7-3-25

Http web addresses are for background reading or listening for those with computer access.  Hard copy passarounds may cover some of the same subjects for those without.    Many agenda 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, City Manager Narrative, and the new “Normal”.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them. AGENDA SUBJECT TO CHANGE  A more updated series of suggestions may be available at the 1:30 PM meeting later today.   

                                          
Top of the Agenda (+ Quick Announcements)(a brief broad survey)

++++   Review Agenda + Additional Items

++++   Flag Possible Action Items

++++   Possible Handouts:  Agenda, Revised Shelter Poll   Passarounds TBA ++++   Street + past/uncoming sweep reports from the last week

++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’sCHECK-Ins, ANNOUNCEMENTS, and REPORTS

++++   ICE, Anti-War Protests

++++   Various 216-8239 Flyers Prospects;  Temporary Coverage of incoming reports

++++   MHCAN Concerns

++++   Projects in search of people: Shelter BusStop Watch; 216-8239 Retrieval; Landlord Profiteering Data.

++++   Gaia’s update on Capitola Mobile Home owners resistance to huge rent raises (Call for Update)(Solidarity Resolution)

++++   Various legacy media stories: https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-bans-homeless-people-renting-rvs/and more TBA

++++   Free Events (for demonstrating, organizing, leafleting, or enjoying)  

Friday, July 4  11 AM – 5 PM Indigenize Your Independence Sub Rosa Courtyard  

Saturday  July 5  11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-war  “Free Palestine” picket                                  

Noon-1 PM Downtown Library Upstairs Jazz   

Sunday July 6  2-4 PM  Henna Play  Suite 108 at the Tannery Courtyard 1060 River St.                                   

3 PM  Mystery Event RCNV 612 Ocean                   

Monday July 7 5:30 PM – 7 PM  Open Mic  Soquel Dr PM   Ocean & Water Civil Rights Weekly Anti-Trump Dem. Party Indivisible Protest                   

Tuesday, July 8  5 PM  Film: 14 Tirmeh  Sub Rosa Cafe

++++    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.

++++        Cool but not rainy thru the weekFremont 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 & other updates

++++   New Street Spirits  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

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides June 29, 2025 show features more anti-war protest chats and street candor with Joe and Abe + a Flashback to segments of the February 20th , 23rd, & 27th, 2003 shows

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The June 29, 2025 show includes:

  • Pacific Ave. dialogue with Woodwindist George Oakley at the Scribner Statue
  • Wheelchair bound Joe Watts on the SC War Against the Poor at the Town Clock Anti-War protest against the U.S. attack on Iran.
  • [throughout] Rovics “The Apocalypse in Review” in commentary and music
  • Keith’s commentary on the protest; Bathrobespierre’s view
  • Bill, Jennifer, & others speak out
  • Steve Enriquez on MHCAN; “Danger” on ditching the cops; Abe on his independent ministry; Keith Bishof on his history here

The Flashback to segments of February 20, 2003 includes:

  • [Jeffrey Gale, Co-Host) History of Rep. Farr’s non-responses to anti-war questions
  • San Francisco’s “Break Away” Anti-War March
  • Rep. Farr ducks and dodges at the Del Mar as his Democratic Party pro-war votes and silence challenged; Dialogue with Roxanne A.
  • Mayor “Smiley” Riley–restricting Public Comment Against the War & other Topics

The Flashback last 45 minutes of February 23, 2003’s show includes:

  • “Assisted Outpatient Treatment” AOT, aka “Needles on Wheels” in California (AB 1421)
  • Marvin X at Civic Center Plaza; J.D. Sparks (Sacramento Bee) “Homeless, Their Advocates March for a Place to Camp” 2-18-02
  • Nick F. in satirical vein refuses to provide bus tickets; Ray offers bolt cutters for trapped vehicles
  • City Council to vote on weak anti-war resolution, dumps action against selective enforcement. racial profiling and tightens the downtown ordinances. 
  • L.A. City Council passes stronger anti-war bill + greater efforts to seek homeless funding.

The Flashback to segments of February 27, 2003 includes: