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Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday February 29, 2024 show is a Flashback to September 7, 1997 featuring Bathrobespierre’s First “Leaning” ticket, Berkeley’s “Cornerstone” Carol Denney, & “Wild Will” Hastings + more

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The February 29, 2024 show is a Flashback to September 7, 1997 and it includes:

  • [throughout] Various musical selections from the Marat/Sade theater piece
  • Garland and Whitney on vehicle seizure at an alcohol checkpoint in San Mateo County—a possible Driving While Black stop
  • Bathrobespierre Robert’s first “Leaning” citation from Officer David LaFaver
  • Matt. Dan, Jacob, and Robecca on various unwarranted police intrusions
  • Larry Turnell on anti-homeless Sitting Ban in Santa Barbara and other obscenities
  • Karen Gillette’s Homeless Community Resource Center banning people from eating at the Free Meal
  • Santa Barbara’s Legal Defense Center attorney “Wild Will” Hasting on the City’s general sleeping ban excepting 5 parcels
  • “Cornerstone” Carol Denney on phony “blocking a sign”, “standing in the roadway” tickets and a Council vote on pepper spray use.

HUFF huddles from wet weather February 29th Thursday at its new time 1:30 – 3:30 PM at the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific smack dab next to the Bike Church

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HUFF Proposed Agenda Prospects 2-29-24  

Tentatively…. but subject to change by those participating… 

                                      Top of the Agenda

  ++++  Agenda Adds; Questions; Procedures 

  ++++  Street & Court reports Beach, Parking Lots, Pogonip, Library, Levee Warnings, Sweeps, & Tickets

  ++++  Major choice of focus in the meeting.  Proposed prep or actions.

++++  Possibilities for Protest: Survival Camp Sweeps; 5150 Seizures—Helga’s Seizure (see last BB show at;  Tier 2 RV Investigation; Tent Seizure Accounts; Property Reclaiming Fantasy or Reality? ; Armory/Coral St. & “Warming Shelter” “improvements”; bathroom/portapotty expansion/potable water for survival campsites; street newsletter; poverty pimpery connections & auditing; Local Petitioning against new Criminalize Homeless initiatives

  ++++  Less Likely but More Immediate Protest Targets for Winter Shelter/Stop the Sweeps/Raids: City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission…Demands?  

  ++++  Recent Key Issues requiring research:  5150 Protections; Shelter Demands, Tier 2

                                      Procedures and Other

 ++++   Agenda Additions, Announcements. Passarounds, New Time End 

 ++++   Hand-outs if needed: Street Sheets,  Tier 2 Maps,  Tuesday Protest Flyer

 ++++   Information gathering and sharing: any focus for action.? 

 ++++   Followed by short briefings on other agenda items, time allowing

 ++++  Timekeeper (10 minutes per item)  Hand-raisin’ rules, Chair rotation

 ++++  PassArounds: Pro-police power propaganda: 

                                  Announcements & Follow-Ups

  ++++  Rain on the roofless:  Thursday through SundayShowers coming up Monday the 26th https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/Santa+Cruz+CA?canonicalCityId=131bf60c3314f0c9a7f93012276b6e7ed19334d3a6509eb32227b9e9a13de6bc

  ++++   Last City Council Protest & Report organized in four days

  ++++   Camp Removal Resistance Prep:  Contact Group Expansion

  ++++   UCSC Update  HUFF recruitment flyer (Absentee Report)

  ++++   Monday Sacramento March 16 noon-2 p.m.

  ++++   Evolving Door protests: update if any

                                   If enough time and desire

 ++++  Possible phone contacts: Des of Fresno; Reggie on RVs, Maleah on UCSC; Keith on Sacramento Protest Caravans

 ++++  As ever, Unverified: new SC Free Guides for San Lorenzo Valley https://santacruzfreeguide.org/static/pdfs/SLV070123_eng.pdf

https://santacruzfreeguide.org/static/pdfs/foodMealProgramsEngEsp.pdf

  ++++  Pro-Palestinian-Homeless Alliance for next protest; contact?

  ++++  Legal: https://johnsonvgrantspass.com/ https://johnsonvgrantspass.com/media/f/statement-scotus-takes-up-johnson-v-grants-pass

  ++++  Placeholder runthrough—study groups:   Rents vs. Profits—S.C. Survey, Psych rights subcommittee; ticket documenting/public records act request filing  

                 Additional Stuff

   ++++ Relatively recent Street Spirit stories on line soon after they resumed publication in February:  https://thestreetspirit.org/ as Street Spirit resumes publication after halting in June

   ++++ Older stories:  https://thestreetspirit.org/2023/11/29/wood-street-and-homefulness-liberation-together-statement-at-oakland-city-hall/  https://thestreetspirit.org/2023/10/12/berkeley-homeless-services-panel-of-experts-postpones-referral-of-good-neighbor-guidelines/

  ++++  https://www.streetsheet.org/supreme-court-will-examine-grants-pass-homelessness-case-what-will-it-mean-for-san-franciscos

  ++++  https://missionlocal.org/2024/02/homeless-sweeps-lawsuit-to-be-paused-until-after-supreme-court-ruling/

  ++++  https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20240226/281603835406458: Antioch library reopens—with guards

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96 minutes into the 2-25-24 Latest Show file is Fox’s account of psych containment in Santa Cruz

Tuesday Protest at City Hall 2 PM: No Internment Camps Nationally–Restore Survival Rights for Santa Cruz Homeless 809 Center St.

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NOTES FROM NORSE:  The Tuesday protest organized by Keith McHenry of Food Not Bombs [FNB] will reportedly be providing muffins and likely provide an outdoor forum with opportunity to speak out on local repression of those on the streets, in the shelters, and in other poverty pimpsky services.McHenry’s own perspective can be read at https://anarchistcook.blog/2024/02/17/yes-they-are-coming-for-the-homeless/ .   The flyer for the protest can be found at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/02/27/18863521.php . While the police did threaten  FNB last year when we held a protest at City Hall and prevented us from serving food, they did not interfere in the recent Gaza ceasefire sell-out at City Hall, perhaps embarrassed to bully and steal food in the presence of long lines of people waiting to talk to a deaf Council majority.   HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) is concerned with intensified local, state, and national repressive efforts to broaden police powers to criminalize homeless presence in public spaces, community survival camps under regular attack in Santa Cruz, and a growing disregard for the most basic constitutional of poor folks living outside.  Under cover of “protecting the environment”, “public safety”, and more recently “mental health”, legislators have recently added so-called CARE Courts to the “plead guilty and take your whacks” Homeless and Drug Courts  In spite of the expansion of very limited super-regulated shelters and some housing remaining from the COVID period, Santa Cruz is now harassing and ticketing those whose only home is their vehicle as well as the ground sleepers, who make up the majority of the Santa Cruz homeless.   
City Manager Matt Huffaker’s police under the direction of Police Chief Bernie Escalante drove folks out into the rain trying to take cover in parking structures and illegally used the City’s new Camping Ordinance (MC 6.36) to destroy encampments that have been regular connection points for those providing vital food, shelter supplies, human contact, and mutual support.    Portapotty facilities and wash stations previously somewhat available during the COVID period have been removed.  City workers have bulldozed campsites and seized or trashed property seized, and falsely claimed  (as they have in other cities like San Francisco) that they are providing the shelter and storage facilities required under MC 6.36. 
City Council has scheduled an abbreviated meeting starting at 2:20 p.m. with nothing on its agenda addressing these issues.   As it has with the U.S. support of the advancing genocide in Gaza, City Council has made no demand to stop govt. funding the slaughter, nor looked into its own investments in funding sources that do business with Israeli apartheid.
The protest was announced on short notice (Saturday), so HUFF has had no time to formally meet to endorse it, but I and others will be coming to it and invite you to do the same.   Hope to see you there.
Bathrobespierre Robert Norse  rnorse3@hotmail.com

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday February 25, 2024 show S.C. protests against the punishment of Julian Assange, Fox on S.C. psychiatric shenanigans & Keith on upcoming protests +a fuzzy Flashback to Nov. 16, 1995: Open-air shelter defense

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The Sunday February 25, 2024 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:

  • “Free Julian Assange” Protest at Ocean & Water (Starbucks) corner with commentary from Greg on his encounters with “the Deep State”; the 2024 progressive activist scene;
  • [Satirist and social critic Dave Lippman songs throughout the show, lifted from the internet]
  • Jillian on Snowden and other more local figures;  Drew on the “Scamdemic”
  • Wes the photojournalist: Salinas Council Vote continuing sweeps of the homeless
  • Keith distributing flyers on “First They Came for the Homeless” and the Cicero Institute/CIA conspiracy to “round ’em up”; mental health malpractice in Santa Cruz;
  • “Fox” on experiences in shrink shops, including TeleCare, Santa Cruz’s own psych holding ward and transmission belt to other “hospitals”
  • Food Not Bombs fellowship with Blue (Lawrence MacGregor) on the ups and downs of apartment life; “R” on tobacco smoking as a health benefit; Keith on organizing for a Tuesday “Fuck Your FEMA Camps” protest at City Council; Dylan on forced psychiatric “treatment” in prison

The November 16, 1995 Flashback includes: 

  • UCSC student Mike working on the history of Homeless resources
  • Louis on stays at the River St. mini-Shelter and Carota’s Jesus, Joseph, and Mary shelter
  • Dianna, the street jeweler, on a successful resolution of a dispute with Georgianna’s Cafe (then next to the Bookshop Coonerty)
  • Colorful accounts from Alex, Gypsy, Cosmo, Kelly, and Bubbles—on subjects ranging from love to rape.
  • Bathrobespierre Robert and Crossroads Chris Brozda on the Open-Air Shelter-destroying Page Smith Community House
  • Billy and Dusty on the San Francisco scene.
  • Further Flashback to January 1, 1994: Sgt. Reedy’s New Year’s Eve riot
  • Skidmark Bob and “Rolling Thunder” Mike Sheridan on cops and campgrounds.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday February 22 2024 show is a Flashback to February 27, 2003 with commentary and comments from Jeffrey Gale, James Cosner, Sophie, C.J. Stock, and others

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The Thursday February 22, 2024 show is a flashback to February 27, 2003 and includes: 

  • Co-host Jeffrey Gale gives commentary at various points
  • Cannabis activist and researcher Rosenthal flawed trial?  https://www.counterpunch.org/2003/02/26/mistrial-rosenthal-jurors-say-they-received-outside/
  • Sophie of UCSC’s Standing United for Peace discusses limited UCSC protest against the Iraqi war & other protests around town
  • Beggarbacker Becky Johnson’s chalking trial:  https://www.counterpunch.org/2003/02/22/hopscotch-rebellion/
  • Listener Benito from Germany calls in, comparing European situation on marijuana and anti-war reaction
  • Songs from C.J. Stock; Renik, sidewalk solicitor, on recent cop hassles; John Maurer; Wesley and Janet Harrison on bench removal; Gabe and Bathrobespierre exchange puns; John W on Officer Brandt; Tim W accuses Parking Enforcement of possible vandalism; 
  • “City Council Ducks War; Kennedy Ducks Subpoena; Golder Gets Banned” Flyer
  • Gale urges Tax Refusal and Sit-Down Strike against threatened Iraqi War
  • “Justman” James Cosner on Upcoming Speak-Out Against the War.

Argue away those rainyday blues: HUFF meets and mouths off Thursday 2-22-24 at 703 Pacific in the Sub Rose Cafe with coffee and consumables for all–right next to the Bike Church

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                                      Top of the Agenda

  ++++  Agenda Adds Street & Court reports Beach, Parking Lots, Pogonip, Library, Levee Warnings, Sweeps, & Tickets

  ++++  Major choice of focus in the meeting.  Proposed prep or actions.

++++  Possibilities: 5150 Seizures;  Tier 2 RV Investigation; Tent Seizure Accounts; Property Reclaiming Fantasy or Reality? ; Armory/Coral St. & “Warming Shelter” “improvements”; bathroom/portapotty expansion/potable water for survival campsites; street newsletter; poverty pimpery connections & auditing; Local Petitioning against new Criminalize Homeless initiatives

   ++++  Less Likely but More Immediate Protest Targets for Winter Shelter/Stop the Sweeps/Raids: City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission…Demands?  

                                      Procedures and Other

  ++++   Agenda Additions, Announcements. Passarounds, Hand-Outs

  ++++   Hand-outs if needed: SLV Free Guide, Tier 2 Map,

  ++++   Information gathering and sharing: any focus for action.? 

  ++++   Followed by short briefings on other agenda items, time allowing

  ++++  Timekeeper (10 minutes per item)  Hand-raisin’ rules, Chair rotation

   ++++  PassArounds: Mainstream stories

                                  Announcements & Follow-Ups

   ++++  Showers coming up Monday the 26th 

  ++++   Latest S.C. City Council and Supes meeting reports—if anyone went.

  ++++   Camp Removal Resistance Prep:  Contact Group Expansion

  ++++   UCSC Update  HUFF recruitment flyer

  ++++   Monday Sacramento 

  ++++   Evolving Door protests: update if any

                                   If enough time and desire

 ++++  Possible phone contacts: Wes, Des of Fresno

 ++++  Unverified: new SC Free Guides for San Lorenzo Valley https://santacruzfreeguide.org/static/pdfs/SLV070123_eng.pdf

https://santacruzfreeguide.org/static/pdfs/foodMealProgramsEngEsp.pdf

  ++++  Pro-Palestinian-Homeless Alliance for next protest; contact?

  ++++  Key Legal Case: https://johnsonvgrantspass.com/ https://johnsonvgrantspass.com/media/f/statement-scotus-takes-up-johnson-v-grants-pass

  ++++  Placeholder runthrough—study groups:   Rents vs. Profits—S.C. Survey, Psych rights subcommittee; ticket documenting/public records act request filing  

                 Additional Stuff

   ++++ https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition-sunday/20240218/281878713296979: Drug Screening Plan has too many questions.

  ++++  https://www.streetsheet.org/supreme-court-will-examine-grants-pass-homelessness-case-what-will-it-mean-for-san-franciscos

  ++++  Latest Street Sheet stories:  https://www.streetsheet.org/    “Survival”, “No on F; F is for Failure”, ” No on E: Endangering Accountability & Privacy:”  

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Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday February 18, 2024 show spotlights Salinas activist Wes White, Alicia Kuhl’s critique of Encompass, cops stealing tarps & blankets before a rain and a Flashback to March 6, 2005: Protest critiques and tips

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The Sunday February 18, 2024 show includes:

  • David Rovics roars out songs (lifted from you-tube) throughout.
  • “Whip ‘Em Into Shape” Wes White on the outcome of his protest arrest, police exclusion from a public event, and more
  • Bathrobespierre casts a caustic eye on the S.C. City Council’s latest grant to the SCPD for surveillance drones in spite of public opposition
  • Public comment unanimously opposing the drones and near-unanimously ignored by the City Council
  • Local activist Alicia Kuhl on her recent departure from Encompass; homeless legal battles here and elsewhere; 
  • “Take it to the Max” Troy and “Hurricane” Helga on brutal police tarp seizures along Coral St. in the rain

The Flashback to March 6, 2005 includes:

  • Peppertongue” Pat Ring recalls 1996 struggles in and out of court around the City Hall Sleepers Vigil that went on for nearly 7 months
  • UCSC activists at an anti-war forum looking for old lessons in the ongoing struggle against the Iraqi war
  • Ralph Meyberg speaking and organizing pressing for a referendum on the City Council’s Coast Hotel Project
  • Clearview Court survivor Liberty on the implications of the Coast Hotel project for residential coach owners there
  • Fighting back against the Public Comment constriction at City Council—a detailed example.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday February 15, 2024 show is a Flashback to January 9, 2005 including the voices of Roger Etcetera, Joe Williams, Jane Kyser, and many others–with music aplenty from Phil Ochs, Anne Feeney, and more

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The February 15, 2024 show is a Flashback to the Sunday January 9, 2005 show.  It includes:

  • Gloomy & gritty morning messages & intro
  • SAFE #48 [Society for Artistic Freedom of Expression, aka, Stop your Awful Foolish Enforcement or some such)– D. Roger Etcetera reporting on Animal and two homeless vets ticketed in the rain for shelter on the edge of a parking garage
  • City Council Update on the meaning of the Nazi salute (“Heil Krohn!”) court case; other “speed and ignore” Council procedures; Coast Hotel prep for fast track
  • Progress of a HUFF-motivated lawsuit against the Sleeping Ban
  • PIRC [Psychiatric Inmates Rights Collective] activist Jane Kysor on dangers of psychiatric drug compulsion for homeless 
  • Peppermint Patty on Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s silence on Iraqi war, and dark origins of psychiatry post-World War One.
  • Disabled in mobility Dan Hemmingway on forced medical treatment from paramedics, on maltreatment at Dominican Hospital
  • Jhond Golder update—banned falsely from all city offices for two years.
  • Bush’s lavish inauguration
  • Peace and Freedom candidate Joe Williams on the November 2004 election & local opposition to the Iraqi war locally
  • Bob Lamonica on American intervention abroad 
  • Music aplenty from the following show

HUFF talks about issues 1:30 PM to 4 PM (come early, we may leave early) February 15 Thursday at the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific (next to the Bike Church)

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HUFF Agenda Prospects 2-15-24      

  ++++   Additions, Announcements. Passarounds, Hand-Outs

  ++++   Information gathering and sharing: any focus for action.? 

  ++++  Major choice of focus in the meeting.  Proposed prep or actions.

  ++++  Followed by short briefings on other agenda items, time allowing

  ++++  Timekeeper (10 minutes per item)  Hand-raisin’ rules

  ++++  Hand-outs: TBA HUFF Notes & Announcements:TBA   

  ++++  Possibilities:  Tier 2 Investigation; Tent Seizure Accounts; Property Reclaiming; Armory/Coral St. improvements; bathroom expansion; potable water; UCSC campus recruitment; street newsletter; poverty services connections; Prop 1 & Local Petitioning  other suggestions?

  ++++  Street reports; As ever…Beach, Parking Lots, Pogonip, Library, Levee  

  ++++Latest S.C. City Council and Supes meeting reports—if anyone went.

  ++++  Camp Removal Resistance Prep:  Contact Group Expansion

  ++++  UCSC Update  HUFF recruitment flyer

  ++++  Monday Sacramento protest cancelled for rain

  ++++  Evolving Door protests: update if any

   ++++  Last Day to Register to Vote: February 20, 2024 https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/statewide-elections/2022-general/votesafe-homeless.pdf

  ++++  Court Reports from anyone so involved

  ++++  Protest Targets for Winter Shelter/Stop the Sweeps/Raids: City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission…Demands?  

  ++++  Showers coming up Saturday the 17th through Wednesday the 21st

  ++++  Possible phone contacts: Wes, Des of Fresno

  ++++  Unverified: new SC Free Guides for San Lorenzo Valley https://santacruzfreeguide.org/static/pdfs/SLV070123_eng.pdf

https://santacruzfreeguide.org/static/pdfs/foodMealProgramsEngEsp.pdf

  ++++  Pro-Palestinian-Homeless Alliance for next protest; contact?

  ++++  Key Legal Case: https://johnsonvgrantspass.com/ https://johnsonvgrantspass.com/media/f/statement-scotus-takes-up-johnson-v-grants-pass

   ++++ Placeholder runthrough—study groups:  student anti-war contacts, Darius rental, Psych rights subcommittee; ticket documenting/public records act request filing  

TO HEAR THE BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES NET-RADIO SHOW: After 6 PM Thurs & 9:30 AM Sun go to http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  click on date

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday February 11, 2024 show has Helga, Kazoo, Woodleaf, Cooper, Drew, and more and a Flashback to January 29, 2017 with Nate Kennedy, Carol Denney, Pat Colby, Dan McMullen & more + Freedom SleepOut #81

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The Sunday February 11,2024 show includes:

The Flashback to January 29, 2017 includes:

  • Studio guest: origami cranescrafter Nate Kennedy—suggestions to City Council
  • “Battling Bob Lamonica vs. Bathrobespierre Robert on Councilmember Gone Lame (Don Lane) and his sorry record
  • Jah, prolific street Jeweler, on recent tickets from Park Rangers; “Pushback” Pat Colby on homeless runoff from outside the library, even during open hours.
  • “Still standing” Abbi Samuels and “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry on Food Not Bombs’s recent detente with a critic
  • “Blue: calls for cameras and witnesses for Freedom Sleepout #81
  • “Restless” Richard Lopez on local police state action around the downtown
  • Berkeley’s “Downhome” Dan MacMullan on the future of People’s Park
  • “Cornerstone” Carol Denney savages Berkeley City Council sell-outs
  • “The Sane Progressive” indicts DemParty symp Michael Moore for implicitly endorsing Bush-Obama warcrimes.