Ruf Suggestions for “Loose Cannons” HUFF 5-15-25
Http web addresses are for background reading or listening. Many 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 and City Manager Narrative. Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them. AGENDA SUBJECT TO CHANGE; Athena will be running this “Loose Cannons” meeting with timely outbursts from me and others. A more updated series of suggestions available at the 1:30 PM meeting.
Top of the Agenda (+ Quick Announcements)(a brief broad survey)
++++ Athena’s Agenda Items and Sequence Take Priority
++++ Review Agenda—Flag Possible Action Items
++++ Possible Handouts: Agenda Suggestions; TBA Passarounds: TBA
++++ Street and sweep reports from the last week;
++++ Disruption policy
++++ Court cases past and future; 5150’s
++++ Newsom Homeless Nakba Nonsense—Our Response?
++++ City Council Report Back
++++ “Funding Matters” March “to End Homelessness” May 4 Sunday: Result?
++++ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cuRi-cblDINever Again—Moss Landing Update
++++ Gaia’s update on Capitola Mobile Home owners resistance to huge rent raises
++++ Evan Morrison Recent Correspondence; Missing Date from People First Armory
++++ Various legacy media stories: 150 Unhoused People Face Eviction from Deschutes National Foresthttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/illegal-camping-arrests-are-soaring-in-sf-what-does-it-mean-for-the-homeless-crisis/ar-AA1CUKGx Vallejo protective injunction: https//calmmatters.org/housing/homelessness2025/03/Vallejo-injunction/
++++ Free Events (for demonstrating, organizing, leafleting, or enjoying)
Thursday May 14 4-5 PM Town Clock Indivisible anti-Trump cutbacks 5 PM- ? Town Clock anti-Genocide (Nakba Day)
Saturday May 16 11 am- 1 pm Ocean & Water anti-war picket 7 PM “The Encampments” 155 S. River St. S.C. Sunday May 18 11 AM – 6 PM Kaiser Stadium S.C.
7 PM Liwanag 45 minute film at 612 Ocean St.
Monday May 19 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Ocean & Water Civil Rights Weekly
7 PM Film Life of Katharine Lee Bates
Wednesday May 21 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Weekly Town Clock
++++ Info Tabling: Saturday noon Town Clock; Friday or ? Water St. Bridge Bus Stop
++++ Follow-Up on Justin/Athena TRO/trauma suggestion?
++++ MHCAN Funding Cut Crisis and Background
++++ Legislative followup on various state bills
++++ 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;
++++ Low 70s Thurs and thru the week; no rain…getting warmer
++++ 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/watch?v=pT_d9BFEzYA
++++ Tips & Lifelessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Revelations
++++ Reggie & Gaia’s report on Citation for “Homeless Crime”
++++ Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces? Small Claims Court? Armory Visit?
++++ New Street Spirits and Street Sheets 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)
++++ 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/