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Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides July 31, 2025 show is a Flashback to September 20, 2015 featuring voices from Freedom Sleepout #10 and a Council Candidate forum from October 1988

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The July 31, 2025 show is a Flashback to September 20, 2015. 

It includes:

  • Last of the live in-studio FRSC broadcasts
  • Charles and Andrea Wilson from Monterey Protests against the Alvarado Sitting Band
  • Bathrobespierre discussing events at Freedom SleepOut #10—the security guard assault and police arrest of Christina Barnes, Brent’s disruption, and more.
  • Battlin’ Bob Lamonica on the Posner-Lane Proposed Homeless Camping Site Search and the History of FRSC, the anti-RV situation.
  • Dangerous John Thielking on Eugene City Council—Speak out on overturning Camping Ban, phony decorum issues (the Clapping & Sign Ban), Smoking Ban
  • Flashback to October 1988, a panel discussion between Ed Porter, Ray Grueneich, Jane Baer,and Charles Grey on the Camping Ban
  • Freedom SleepOut #10: Security Guards and Police Assemble, Bathrobespierre comments
  • Freedom Sleeper General Assembly
  • Backtalk Brent Adams’ Suggestions on Effective Protest—Pro and Con; Bathrobespierre, Rabbi Phil, Steve Argue, Zav, Louise,
  • Making Contact: the Prison Journey of Kevin Tindell

HUFF meets to mumble, muse, and munch on July 31st 1:30-3:30 PM Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church. Join us.

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RUF Agenda Suggestions at HUFF 7-31-25


Top of the Agenda

++++   Review Agenda (questions, additions)

++++   Flag Possible Action Items. 

++++   Possible Handouts: Agenda, Older 216 Flyers;   Passarounds:  HUFF Notes, Trump’s Anti-Homeless Proclamation

++++   Street & sweep reports from the last week
++++   Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters

++++   Laura C’s report on Dylan Verner-Crist’s ACLU Update (if available)++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’s

++++   Federal and State Policing updates

++++   Protests/Gatherings Throughout the Last Week & Upcoming (e.g.Renter Union Launch, Indivisible Good Trouble protests)

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

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) 

Thursday July 31  Food Not Bombs meeting 5-6 PM  El Rio Mobile Home Community RoomSaturday August 2  11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-war  “Free Palestine”
Saturday August 2 2 PM – 4 PM  SURF (Showing Up for Racial Justice) meeting at London Nelson Community Center (possible Dem Party event)

Saturday August 2 and Sunday August 3rd noon-3 PM FNB gathering and meal Town Clock; Street Spirits available; leave off or pick up polling sheets with Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices.

Saturday August 2  & Sunday August 3rd  2 PM BERKELEY S.F. Mime Troupe’s DESOLATION in Live Oak Park Shattuck Ave. & Berryman St.

Sunday  August 3 noon Memorial Remembrance of Rev. Phil Posner noon-1 PM El Rio Mobile Home Community Room

More check-in’s

++++    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.

++++    Weather warming up  mid-70s thru next weekhttps://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? 

Mostly New Stories

++++ San Francisco bans homeless people from living in RVs with new parking limit https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-homeless-rv-ban-parking-290eaeb7e6b03e43e866e5b1b914da3b

++++  Love Is The Drug – Interview with Heather Edney / Santa Cruz Needle Exchange Programhttps://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/07/18/18878096.php

++++    New Category Added for 311 “Homeless Calls”  https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20250730/281595246587829
++++    https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-02/uc-bans-israel-boycotts-bds-student-governement-trump-pressure

++++    https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/07/18/the-bench-bandits-speak-in-the-war-over-street-furniture-sf-needs-to-sit-down-and-relax/

++++    https://sfist.com/2025/07/07/sf-city-hall-not-at-all-pleased-with-those-guerilla-benches-that-some-renegades-placed-at-bench-less-muni-stops/

++++    S.F. Settles suit over sweeping encampments  https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20250725/281479282461240

Old Standbys

++++   No new Street Spirits available in hard copy.   Current Street Sheet stories available on line https//www.streetsheet.org/ . Hard Copies of June & July 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 27, 2025 show features current gloomy mainstream news, a few Town Clock chuckles, A Phil Posner obit, & more + a Flashback to October 19, 2003 on CPS abuses, street performer pushback, and De Anza sell-out

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The July 27, 2025 show (the current segment) includes:

  • [at odd intervals throughout] David Rovics https://www.davidrovics.com/palestine/ “One Year On: The Apocalypse in Review” Episode 3
  • Bathrobespierre reads and comments on mainstream stories:

    ++ Dan Walters: “Governor  [Newsom] Bullies the Cities and Counties Like Trump Does the States”                        

++ ACLU notes a court decision challenges police use of “Qualified Immunity”           

++ Trump’s Executive Edict “Ending Crime and Disorder on American Streets”                        

++ “Courts, Cops in Deadly Chase: Cops Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity”;  “The Controversy Over Qualified Immunity”           

++  San Jose’s Columbus Park: Homeless Dig-In to Protect  Community.

  • Community Activist Micah Posner’s Memorial Tribute to his father Phil Posner, former Freedom Rider and strong voice in the Freedom Sleepers (actual memorial August 3
  • [7-20] Brimstone Man’s optimistic report at the Town Clock; Cooper on her new outlaw garden; Survival Supporter “Dinners for All” Drew’s call for blankets & tents
  • [7-27] Drew on Lengthening food lines and increased criminalizations of those outside; Lyrical I on shrinking gig opportunities
  •  Summary of the 10-19-03 Flashback upcoming.

The Flashback to October 19, 2003 includes: [low volume]

  • Rough-Tongued Roxanne Acquistepache updates the struggle of Orly and Stacy Jones to retrieve their children from Foster Parent abuse
  • “Battling”Bob Lamonica details the De Anza Mobile Home Park rent control struggle and the upcoming referendum to stop the City Council’s sell-out
  • “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson analyzes MHC (the Mobile Home giant) and its attack on De Anza
  • Bathrobespierre Robert conveys attorney Will Constantine’s critical view of the City’s rent control abolition.
  • Rainbow Madonna’s Petition to legalize survival camping throughout California & Tony Kennedy Carr from San Diego
  • Peace Activist and Musician Joe Williams critiques the City’s destruction of the voluntary street performers guidelines in the modified downtown ordinances
  • “Battleready” Bob Patton reports on his Human Rights Organization, report on a Pacific Ave. fight; other voices at Soquel and Pacific.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides July 24, 2025 show is a Flashback to October 26, 2003 with Rough-Tongued Roxanne Acquistepache as co-host responding to environmentalist Pat Kittle & a string of callers from near and far

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The July 24 show is a Flashback to October 26, 2003 which includes:

  • Co-host Rough Tongued Roxanne Acquistepache with Michael Stoops of the National Coalition for the Homeless of stigmatizing unhoused folks as criminals.
  • Bathrobespierre plays Councilmember and Shadow Mayor Mike Rotkin in a mock dialogue with Stoops and Roxanne throughout the show.
  • Norse’s unanswered questions for Rotkin on peacefully holding up a sign, police misconduct, the “move along” law, and other downtown ordinances.
  • Roxanne on CPS problems, the need for stronger Grand Jury surveillance.
  • Dora on her unfair arrest after domestic abuse—Roxanne & Bathrobespierre respond
  • Callers respond to Pat Kittle’s rage at Homeless survival — trashy camping in the Pogonip; many callers react to the scapegoating including Bashful Bernard, Far Away Fuller, and others.
  • Vinnie the V Man challenges the point of Bathrobespierre’s homeless; old Lady Scararms responds.
  • Callers defend homeless folks including Clatterbox Embri
  • “Scope It Out” Scott on Dora’s situation

HUFF applauds the temperate summer weather, invites shadeseekers and sunlovers alike to HUFF 703 Pacific Thursday July 24 1:30-3:30 PM next to the Bike Church

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Suggestions for the loosey-goosey cannonfire at HUFF 7-24-25


Top of the Agenda

++++   Review Agenda (questions, additions)

++++   Flag Possible Action Items 

++++   Possible Handouts: Agenda, Revised Poll/Flyer, 216 Flyers;   Passarounds HUFF Notes, Stupes HUFF Resolution

++++   Street & sweep reports from the last week
++++   Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters

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

++++   Federal and State Policing updates

++++   Protests/Gatherings Throughout the Last Week & Upcoming (e.g.Renter Union Launch, Indivisible Good Trouble protests)

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

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) 

Thursday July 24  Food Not Bombs meeting 5-6 PM  El Rio Mobile Home Community Room

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

Saturday July 26  11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-war  “Free Palestine”

Saturday JULY 26 and Sunday July 27 noon-3 PM FNB gathering and meal Town Clock; Street Spirits available; leave off or pick up polling sheets with Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices.

More check-in’s

++++    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? New Stories

++++ San Francisco bans homeless people from living in RVs with new parking limit https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-homeless-rv-ban-parking-290eaeb7e6b03e43e866e5b1b914da3b

++++  Love Is The Drug – Interview with Heather Edney / Santa Cruz Needle Exchange Programhttps://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/07/18/18878096.php

++++  Lawsuits Are Forcing Cities to Clear Homeless Encampments Even When No Shelter Existshttps://invisiblepeople.tv/lawsuits-are-forcing-cities-to-clear-homeless-encampments-even-when-no-shelter-exists/

++++   Coalition on Homelessness v. San Franciscohttps://www.streetsheet.org/coalition-on-homelessness-v-san-francisco/

++++    S.F. Settles Longstanding Homeless Lawsuit for $2.8 Millionhttps://missionlocal.org/2025/07/sf-homeless-lawsuit-settlement/Old Standbyes

++++   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 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