Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides May 11, 2025 show features “Scope-It-Out” Scott Graham on Tuesday’s Shitty Council Meeting+ a Flashback to September 5, 2005 on the Medical Marijuana struggle

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The May 11, 2025 show includes:

+++  “Scope it Out” Scott fleshes out gloomy prospects at Tuesday’s S.C. Shitty Council

+++   [throughout] David Rovics “A [Musical] History of the World” 2011-2013

+++   Scott reviews the Downtown Expansion Plan as B-South of Laurel under cover.

+++   Phone interview with HUFFster “Tough Haul” Troy, the ordeal of S.C. outside living.

+++   Mid-April Food Not Bombs [FNB] interviews: Louisa Carolli on forced drugging in Santa Cruz. “Still Standing” Stephanie Ross on dangerous fungus among those outside….Smiley Big returns to the area looking for more activist opportunities: “No Cages, Please!” Jay speaks up…

+++    [5-5-25]  Visionsong Valerie strums and sings; Karefree Kelly, Midtown Madeleine.

+++    Billy Quealy on the Housing Struggle and Shitty Sheltering

+++    “Katzenjammer” Keith on FNB‘s financial problems in a wide-ranging rant.

The Flashback to September 5, 2005 includes:

+++  Christine of San Jose’s Area 420 working on guidelines, ID cards, but opening dispensary?

+++  Bathrobespierre and Troublesome Thomas Leavitt interview columnist and music critic Bruce Bratton and his establishment and alternative media days.

+++  Earthmommer and Lighthouse Linda fire questions at Bratton, while he describes his dismissal from Sentinel and Metro

+++   Bratton on Public Access and the Beach Boardwalk; Bathrobespierre critiques Bratton’s media silence on homeless and poverty issues, who pleads ignorance on those issues.

+++   “Lighthouse” Linda on her shelter priorities on the 1999-2000 Homeless Issues Task Force

+++   SAFE event #83 interviews with Hot Rod John Rapport, “Green Man”, Dan Hemmingway, Don Filano, Jennifer Lawson, Thomas Robb in the specifics of police harassment

+++    LisaMolyneux on her about-to-open medical marijuana club Greenway 

+++    “Dangerous” John Thielking reads HRO [Human Rights Organization] correspondence to and from Mayor Mike Rotkin.

+++    Ukiah’s Pebbles Trippet joins Bratton in denunciation of the Red Cross in the Hurricane Katrina crisis in New Orleans

+++    “Visionsong” Valerie asks about Katrina style suffering in Santa Cruz.

+++    Criticism of Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods.  

+++    “Road Scholar” (aka Gregarious Greg) and Leavitt on high rents also trap houseless here.

+++     Counterpunch stories on the U.S. Iraqi occupation