To join, support, or witness the Resistance to the elimination of a functioning community check in at Food Not Bombs meals or go directly to the Benchlands. You may also get more info through the Union of the Homeless at 831-431-7766. The deadline for the latest (Phase 4] eviction was reported in the Santa Cruz Sentinel as Wednesday noon October 5th (but may be October 3rd or 4th]
Bring friends, photo equipment, and vehicles if you have them to help those who wish to move, and support those who plan to stay. Or simply to show your disapproval, outrage, and/or disgust with the City’s false narrative and damaging actions.
You can hear the current show and earlier ones archived at
Http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html after 9:30 AM today. Check the “Latest” link under the Bathrobespierre’s Broadside section of www.huffsantacruz.org .
Brief written descriptions of many shows (so you know what you are getting into) are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/.
TODAY’S SHOW
Summary and Discussion of the very recent homeless lawsuit against San Francisco authorities: https://missionloca.s3.amazonaws.com/mission/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/FiledComplaint_COHvCCSF.pdf
Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fields criticism from CNN’s Michael Smerconish on Ukraine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml373MHAtXo
Good News from Grants Pass:
https://www.streetroots.org/news/2020/07/23/houseless-plaintiffs-win-lawsuit-against-grants-pass
Waters & Hedges talk Ukraine madness: https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-chris-hedges-report-podcast-with-0ba#details
RV Settlement in MV: https://www.kqed.org/news/11925199/we-are-also-worthy-of-this-place-mountain-view-rv-residents-wait-in-limbo-amid-impending-street-parking-settlement
FLASHBACK to January 31, 2010 and Further Flashback to December 1993:
+++ Rose on BART exclusion of homeless folks
+++ Younger Keith McHenry on gag order and San Francisco Board of Supervisors shenanagans
+++ Interview with Food Not Bombs’ Hugh Mejia
[1-15-2010] J.P. Freeman: the 10 p.m. Pacific Songsters
[1-16-2010] Ashley, Richard, Brian: Haight St. Report;
[1-17-2010] Ray the Raintime Panhandler; Romanoff the Blissseeker; Dreamcatcher domain; Mama Val’s Proactive Law Project; Aniie, Amalia, Emily, & the Beardman
[1-31-2010] Toughroots Tamorax on his $450 “Unreasonably Disturbing Music” Ticket
[1-25-22] Drum Circle Dialogue–Sean and Jacob
Musicians in the Rain: Ray, the Soggy Strummer, and Borders Bysitters “Cut me some Slack” Christopher Campbell on Dirty Doings at the Homeless Services Center
Eureka Reports: Tom Seaborne‘s letter to the Mayor;
[11-15-2010] Verbina and Coutney: Safe Ground Camp; Dave Berman on Camp shutdown violating rights
Santa Cruz Planning Commission sabotages Medical Marijuana Dispensary
Craig Canada on competing grass initiatives.
Anita Henry on Measure K mischief and malingering
BENCHLANDS RESISTANCE sponsered by SANTA CRUZ HOMELESS UNION, FOOD NOT BOMBS [FNB] , and HUFF may meet again at a time and place TBA. FNB [575-770-3377] may have more info.
In the past, SANTA CRUZ SHITTY COUNCIL refused to fund or even permit independent low-barrier agreement or transitional camps, nor to fund FNB or the Footbridge Services Program. In August it transferred $1 million in state funding for the Coral St. Safe Sleeping Program to “Benchlands Closure and [grass] Restoration”.
Call 575-770-3377 or 431-7766 to volunteer for the SC Homeless Union . Still needed leadership and organizing help. President Alicia Kuhl takes concerns and complaints.
Also notable: City Council’s failure to use the $14.5 million to set up survival campgrounds outside the Benchlands and support those that exist!
The City’s principal goal seems to be to provide
“show shelter” to persuade a federal court they are meeting the Martin v. Boise “no prosecutions without adequate shelter” option. Police can then restore the Sleeping/Camping Ban (MC 6.36) aka the Camping Services and Standards Ordinance and resume their “hide out or get out” policy making visible homelessness (while sleeping or resting) a crime.
They would circumvent the Martin v. Boise “no tickets without real shelter” ruling by setting aside 10 shelter spaces up at the Overlook or Armory encampments and claiming those who don’t take them are “service resistant” and so no longer protected by that ruling.
BENCHLANDS RESISTANCE sponsered by SANTA CRUZ HOMELESS UNION, FOOD NOT BOMBS [FNB] , and HUFF may meet again at a time and place TBA. Contact FNB [575-770-3377] or the Union for more info.