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Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 1-3-21 show streams 9:30 AM at freakradio.org and archived at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html Another San Lorenzo Park special with additional reports from Watsonville and the DSA

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Detailed description of the show (below) and also of prior shows available at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/  (search for “Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides”)

ON THE TODAY’S 1-3-21 SHOW :

Momentary Victory at San Lorenzo Park 

xxx  “All Speed Ahead” Alicia Kuhl on the Temporary Restraining Order laid down December 20th by Federal Magistrate (Check out http://apps.cand.uscourts.gov/CEO/cfd.aspx?71bw and click on “View Scheduling Notes” presumably on Wednesday 1-6, day of the hearing)


xxx  Bathrobespierre rails against the FAQ 12-24–an anonymous Response by some City Official to Community Outrage against the police actions destroying tents and seizing property in the park (Go to https://patch.com/california/santacruz/temporary-phased-closure-san-lorenzo-park-santa-cruz-frequently-asked-questions?  for the full nausea-packed experience)


xxx Day after the Police Raid, Day before the TRO 12-29 Interviews with Prism, Frank, Aaron Miller, and others.

xxx “Can’t Keep Me” Keith McHenry talks about his jailing and release on 12-29

xxx  Pajaro Valley perspective–“Walk with the Weary” Wes White and “Agents of Change” activist Nick review the wreckage & renaissance of Pajaro valley poor people displaced in the latest sweep.


xxx  “Legaleyes” Laura Reports on the Last Democratic Socialists of America ZOOM meeting

xxx  Garrett Stevens on the ground at San Lorenzo Park (12-29)


xxx  Contrasting Views on the Park Resistance from Armando and Pan


xxx  Former Santa Cruz Eleven Activists Brent Adams and Becky Johnson Exchange Notes on the San Lorenzo Situation

xxx  1-2 Update in the Park–Chatting with Raymond–rifling through the dumpster wreckage

xxx  1-2 Castiron Cooper and Toughtalking Tony from their still-standing Camp

xxx  1-2 Grapevine Greg B. Visits San Lorenzo from the County Armory Camp

xxx  1-2 Klatching at the Comrade Cafe with Donnie and others cooking chow in the rain


xxx  12-28  Back to the Monday Stand-off: a full hour of Community members holding police at bay on the sidewalk and demanding answers (but getting none)

xxx  12-28 Interviews with Denise Elerick of Harm Reduction Coalition and Sara Ringler

[Huff] Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 12-31-20 show archived at https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/1%20FRSC%2012-24-20.mp3 12-31-20 reviewing Events of Monday the 28th in San Lorenzo Park

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ON THE 12-31 SHOW :

Many Moments at 2nd “Move ‘Em Out Monday” at San Lorenzo Park

xxx  Former Clownsil member Micah Posner at the Barricades


xxx  Pensive Pete Shanks Chats with Us


xxx  Pan, aka “Pussy” the Persistent, a Park resident, gives background.


xxx  Barbara of WILPF  Risks Arrest and Infection to Support the Park Defenders


xxx  Nick and the Wes White’s Salinas Union of the Homeless Contingent Make the Journey

xxx  Jailfreed Joshua Rios Praises the Occupation

xxx  Police Create Tumult in the Park

xxx  “Panicfree” Pan & Others Address the Cops Blocking the Dakota Street


xxx  Another Black Victim of White Police: Columbus cop Adam Coy kills Andre Hill, holding a cellphone. https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Police-didn-t-help-Andre-Hill-for-5-minutes-after-15838717.php


More Park Interviews on Sunday’s show!

HUFF begins at 11 AM at the Sub Rosa, then likely, moves to San Lorenzo Park in Solidarity with Community Defenders there Wednesday December 30

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Agenda Prospects
             Report and Reprise of Outreach Tabling Downtown Last Weekend
          Protest History–Looking Back and Adding Things Up
​          San Lorenzo Struggle–Update and Prospects–Regular HUFF presence there?
          Civil Resistance in BernalLand–Tips for Dealing with Andy Mills men-in-arms
          Rising Deaths COVID complications–and Police Defiance:  What is to be Done
         Status of Roomkey/Housekey/Winter Shelter Deficiencies as Christmas Creeps By: Raising a Ruckus for Housing TakeOvers?
         Strategies for Proceeding with Small Numbers in an Ebb Tide Time for Protests


bundle up warm for a nippy day, get warmer with tea or coffee compliments of jovial Jacin, heat up with a possible solidarity field trip to the San Lorenzo Stand-Fast Scene.

Protest History in Santa Cruz Creating Minimal Emergency Shelter and the Beginnings of Decriminalization of those Outside

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Achievement Through Successful Protest 

Rough Draft of a History of Protest Against Sweeps and For Shelter 

  • Protest created the first Winter Shelter in 1985 at what is now Kuumbwa Jazz Center;  
  • Protest forced the City to purchase the mini-shelter at River St. in 1986;  
  • Protest pressured the opening of the River St. Annex in 1989;  
  • Protest created the Free Meal in 1989; which evolved into the Homeless Community Resources Center 1990’s; which became the Homeless Services Center in 1999;  
  • Protest embarrassed the City into expanding the Interfaith Satellite Shelter Program in the early 90’s;  
  • Protest prompted the tolerated “back 40” camping zone in 1991;  
  • Protest prompted the City to “allow” churches to have 3 cars as survival campers per night on their parking lots in 1995;  
  • Protest forced the reduction of penalties in the Sleeping Ban in 1999 and “allowed” business parking lots to allow 2 cars per night;   
  • Protest moved courts to remove Failure to Appear warrants for Sleeping Ban infractions around 2005; 
  • Protest motivated the City Attorney and a compliant City Council to create the Waiting List exception stopping the filing of camping tickets in 2010; 
  • Protest prompted the suspension of Camping Ban citations along with the Federal Courts Boise v. Martin decision (now substantively ignored by the SCPD using other ordinances to sweep people away   
  • Protest created the creation of the first Benchlands campground in 2017 (out of embarrassment in the aftermath of the Freedom Sleepers protests with the appearance of survival camps outside the Post Office).   

Protest gets the goods when City Council is frozen into a reactionary posture by right-wing pressures, staff power, and City Manager mismanagement.  It can do so again.  Particularly if joined by a legal challenge (or many legal challenges).  If you remember other instances, e-mail me at rnorse3@#hotmai.com  

Flier by Norse of HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) 831-423-4833   www.huffsantacruz.org     12-29-20 

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 12-27-20 show is archived at https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/FRSC%2012-27-20.mp3 –Extensive San Lorenzo Camp Resistance Interviews & Commentary, Flashbacks to 1993

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ALL AVAILABLE SHOWS ARE NOW ARCHIVED AT http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html & accessible at your convenience.    

ON TODAY’S 12-27-20  BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES SHOW  

XXX  12-20 More Bullhorning the Bad News at Badboy Bernal’s Suburban Hideaway–Tent City for the City Manager?


XXX  12-20 Chatting with “Comfortgiver” Cooper the Night Before the First Eviction Sweep at San Lorenzo


 XXX  12-21 Rerunning the Police Sweeps with Shara, Joy, Bird of the Rooftops, Thomas, et. al.

XXX  12-21 Mourning the Madness at the Homeless Memorial (Counting the Dead at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/21/18839046.php

XXX  12-25 Jawboning with Jimmy Two-Guns–Run Out of San Lorenzo a few days back


XXX  12-25 Christmas Day Sighs and Salutations from the Food Not Bombs meal with Julie Schaul, Garrett Stephens & More

XXX  12-26 Tabling Against Terrorism on Pacific Avenue: Talkin Tough Truths with Tony Mendanza, Zolli, Jean, and a bunch more

XXX  12-26 Update or Upchuck? –You be the Judge–with Katzenjammer Keith



FLASHBACK Flurries from 1993–
XXX  March 9, 1993 the Coonerty-Rotkin Council Locks Out Homes-Not-Jails Protesters and other Activists
XXX  October 25, 1993  Surveying the State of the Struggle at People’s Park with William Anderson and Dave Nadel


  Summary descriptions of current and earlier shows after mid-November 2017 are posted at
http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/ . 

Earlier descriptions (back to 2005) are often available at
http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html .  A listing of where flashbacks to earlier times can be
found will soon be available.     

SHOW ARCHIVES AND DESCRIPTIONS 

Recent Past Shows are Described at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/  Recent Past Shows are Archived separately at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  

Many Pre-2017 Shows are Described at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html Many Pre-2017 Shows are Archived at http://radiolibre.org/brb/ Archives prior to 2004 are at http://huffsantacruz.org/archivemain.html 

For Flashbacks before 1995, go to http://huffsantacruz.org/radio.html and search for “Flashback”     

Act Locally or Regret Later 
Demand NO SWEEPS OF THE HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS without real alternatives.

Join the groups listed below, and/or start your own support group to stop the continued “whack-a-mole” SCPD and Public Works “disappear the homeless” approach that now threatens their health & the broader Community’s as well. 

Volunteer for homeless civil rights or service programs that actually serve:  Food Not Bombs, Day/Night Storage, HUFF, SC Homeless Union, Your Allied Rapid Response (YARR), Sub Rosa Cafe, NOMAD and others mentioned on Instagram.  Join Black Lives Matter protests to demand funding community aid not police force, the end of homeless
harassment, and true community action to restore resources to all of us. 

 

Spread the Word Gather Forces Stop the San Lorenzo Evictions ! NOON tabling today in front of the Bookshop Santa Cruz

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Saturday, December 26  NOON
In front of the Bookshop Santa Cruz at 1520 Pacific Avenue
(weather and scanty pedestrian traffic may have us moving to the sidewalk in front of the main Post Office)

The abusive edicts of Martin Bernal and police chief Andrew Mills seizure of homeless survival gear on 12-21 are well-documented and well-known.

See “Santa Cruz Left: Eviction is Violence…” at https://dsasantacruz.org/articles/eviction-is-violence/?

“”Clear ’em Out” Cruelty as Usual: Deportations Slated from San Lorenzo Park” at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/21/18839039.php

“Missing Documentation on San Lorenzo Camp Extermination to Remain Missing” at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/23/18839067.php

We’ll be trying a bit of tabling, ducking the rain today, initially in front of the Bookstore Santa Cruz hopefully with some coffee to warm folks up.

We’ll be circulating a petition and a sign-up sheet for those wishing to oppose either electronically or in person the police sweeps in San Lorenzo Park.

The main problem is that police make and get paid for their time and trouble. So showing up at their scheduled time of eviction doesn’t really phase them. They just come back later when housed volunteers have gone home.

WHAT’S NEXT?
I don’t have any answers. Perhaps taking over a vacant building and defending it would be a better way to go. At least a more permanent presence could be established. And people shelter themselves against the rain and the cold in the interim.
That, of course, involves willingness to risk more likely citation and/or arrest.

Another possibility is a broader coalitions with other groups strongly opposed to government policies–some of whom we don’t agree with who are (such as the anti-shut down folks). What’s needed are the numbers that returned the anti-homeless fences at the Town Clock and Post Office back to the perps at the police station.

But folks with NOMAD, Copwatch, YAR, Food Not Bombs, the SC Homeless Union, the DSA, and other groups are increasingly active. Even Brent Adams, though he can’t resist denunciations of other activists, has posted strong videos denouncing Bernal’s actions.

For the first time, a majority of the letters hitting the reactionary Sentinel highlight Bernal’s decrees as pointless and counterproductive. The issue is finding a way to unite our power–or at least work parallel rather than at cross-purposes.

The threat of police action and the economic/health crisis prompt fear–which is contagious. But then, so can courage be–when folks begin to stand up to injustice.
For more event information: http://huffsantacruz.org
Indybay posting and comments at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/26/18839089.php

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 12-24-20 show archives at https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/1%20FRSC%2012-24-20.mp3 12-24-20 after 6 PM tonight with San Lorenzo Park-Under Siege Updates

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ON TODAY’S SHOW

xxx  “Move ’em Out” Monday at San Lorenzo
xxx  (throughout the show) The Uppity Blues Women singin’ “The Middle-Aged Blues Boogie”, “Take it On Back”, “Annie’s Blues”
xxx  Taking Loud Truths to City Mangler Martin Bernal’s Bungalow
xxx  Checking in Downtown with Visionsong Valerie
xxx  “Calm Under Fire” Cooper and “Katzenjammer” Keith Survey the Survivors in San Lorenzo

Concealing the Documentation Until It’s Too Late to Matter: The San Lorenzo Camp Scandal

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I sent the following Public Records demand to the City Administrator/Clerk on 12-17 regarding the abrupt and toxic shutdown of the San Lorenzo Campground displacing 150-200 people. I received a reply that City offices would be “closed for the holidays” until January 4th -but City Mangler Bernal has set January 6th as the date for completion of the destruction of the shelter-in-place camp.  

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/23/18839067.php

Bundle up for Some HUFF chatter– Wednesday December 23 at the Sub Rosa Courtyard next to the Bike Church 11 AM–What Can the Community Do As Martin Bernal’s Manglers Roust and Remove Camp San Lorenzo?

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Agenda Prospects
             Aftermath of the Felker St. and San Lorenzo “Phase One” Removals  Forming Phone Contact With Retreating Refugees


          Still a Rain threat for the Coral St. Kramerville (the line of tents adjacent to Phil Kramer’s Coral Street Kingdom)?


​          Salinas Shitty Council–Update From Abroad          

Report from the Home Turf of the Head Terrorist–the Brief Demos Outside City Manager Martin Bernal’s House this Weekend.


          Homeless Deaths, Freezing Times, COVID complications–and Police Defiance:  What is to be Done?


         Status of Roomkey/Housekey/Winter Shelter Deficiencies as Christmas Creeps By: Raising a Ruckus for Housing TakeOvers?


         Strategies for Proceeding with Small Numbers in an Ebb Tide Time for Protests

AND…
yet another round of propane heat from hotheart Joe Schultz, Jacin’s Special Slurpin’ Sub Rosa Coffee and Gladeyes Gloria’s inevitable veggies along with unhealthy alternatives.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides is only available today (12-20-20) at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html after 10 AM Featuring The San Lorenzo Camp Crackdown Crisis with Interviews a-plenty and Flashback to 12-9-10

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Free Radio on the Net is currently down.   To hear the show go to http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html and click on the December 20th show.


THE SHOW ARCHIVED AT http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html & accessible at your convenience.

Norse’s Notes (coming soon)

ON TODAY’S 12-20-20  BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES SHOW

XXX  HUFF [Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom] demands restoration of City Needle Exchange, opposes “shut ’em down” lawsuit.

XXX  “Katzenjammer” Keith on tomorrow’s 12-21 in-person Homeless Reading of the Dead at Laurel and Front (4 PM) ! Wednesday 12-23 5 PM on line 15th Anniversary Celebration of South Africa’s Abahlali (ShackDwellers) Movement and [WRAP] Western Regional Advocacy Project

https://zoom.us/j/4911369178One tap mobile+19294362866,,4911369178#US (NewYork)+16699006833,,4911369178#US (San Jose)Meeting ID: 491 136 9178 INFO at   https://outlook.live.com/mail/0/inbox/sxs/AQMkADAwATY0MDABLTg3NTktOTYzOC0wMAItMDAKAEYAAANEyhJMn39BTZym%2FCgwDzOWBwD3D2a4SIbaS7etEVJZqWijAAACAQwAAAACSoAkUYYIRYpxo9ipkZlaAAN7I%2BSBAAAAARIAEADAxB7bO39ES4%2FgYFwtz84i?RpsCsrfState=18243dfb-476b-7a86-fe11-c70b88b34964 

XXX  NOMAD’s Steavn gives rapid rundown on City dispersal of Felker Street Camp by the River


XXX  Infamous “Dead of Winter Deportation” Order from City Mangler Martin Bernal and Greenwasher Tony Elliot https://kion546.b-cdn.net/2020/12/Santa-Cruz-encampment-executive-order-12-17-20.pdf

XXX  Activist Alicia Kuhl’s Response to the City’s “Sanitize San Lorenzo Park” Sweeps–to Begin Tomorrow (12-22)

XXX  Shitsifter Sean and Undercover Entertainer SS opine from the Food Not Bombs chowline

XXX  “Tendentious” Thomas, “No More Nonsense” Norman, and “BetterBitter” BamBam Survey the Scene from the Levy Path

XXX  Surviving on a Boat–Marty Mirabel Update

XXX  Singin’ Through the Sadness with Sonny

XXX  Upbeat Noel vs. “Bad News” Bathrobespierre

XXX  Voices from the Threatened San Lorenzo “Freedom” Camp:  Lupe, Russell, and Angel

XXX  Backer-on-a-Bike Brent Adams on Alternatives for the Camp and Exhortations to the Absent City Council


FLASHBACK Show from December 9, 2010

XXX  Lengthy Intro on the Scene 10 years ago from your Host: Protest Updates, Shady Shit on Sheltering from City-Supported Non-Profits,

XXX  12-02-10 Many Voices on Street Song-and-Sales Scene on Pacific Avenue: Moonstruck Mike, “Righteous” Ricardo Lopez, Grumpy Bart, Duce, Jay, a former Shop Owner, and Hutch

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