The Sunday July 14, 2024 show includes:
- Announcements of pending protests against the Gaza genocide and the Santa Cruz sweeps
- An Open Letter to Governor Newsom on alternatives to the sweeps enabled by the SCOTUS’s Grants Pass decision
- https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/07/11/the-truth-lovers-prayer/
- https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/the-story/homeless-camp-case-grants-pass-oregon-supreme-court-ruling/283-2044f141-5a87-42c8-9c69-bdaedd0d01e8
- 7-9 “Homes Not Sweeps” Vigil outside S.C. Mayor “Fast Lane” Fred Keeley’s home at Market and Water
- [7-9] Wes White on Service Program ID’s in Salinas promoting police treatment of encampments; Keith McHenry’s exchange with Mayor Keeley; “Desperado in Training” praises Bathrobespierre and the protest; Lorens on squatting at Ginza; street reports from “Truthtracker” Thomas; Alex on abusive treatment at Dominican Hospital;
- “Can’t shut me down” Cooper D’Angelo’s latest update;
The Flashback to April 17, 1997 includes:
- [4-8] Public Testimony at San Jose’s City Council on its anti-homeless Sitting Ban
- [Satirical songs by Mark Levy from “Take Off Your Clothes to Those You Oppose”]
- Bathrobespierre denounces Police Chief Steve Belcher’s deep-sixing citizen Complaints by labeling them minor “Inquiries”, violating his own C-7 internal police directive as well as city and state law.
- “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry on SFPD killer cop Mark Andiya still on duty after killing blacks like Aaron Williams + other S.F. cop capers
- Vandweller Laura Tucker on the “Real Change Not Spare Change” anti-panhandling project
- Don of the 1988 Vehicular Residents Association and the fight in San Francisco for survival
- Palo Alto Human Relations Commission activist on organizing directly with a sit-in against the Sit-Lie Ordinance
The Flashback to April 20, 1997 includes:
- Bathrobespierre’s Santa Cruz Court and City Council update
- Upcoming Palo Alto Sitting Ban CD sit-in as their Sitting Ban goes into effect over a 10-block area on 4-24
- Palo Alto public comment on the Sitting Ban ordinance from January (some parts difficult to hear)
- Palo Alto City Attorney Ariel Cohen (January 1997): is the Sitting Ban anti-homeless?
- (Final March hearing) More public comment pro and con on the Ban
- Harsh San Jose Sit/Lie Ban law—Bathrobespierre’s description and Public Comment
The Flashback to May 4, 1997 includes:
- [5-1] Analysis, Aftermath, & Interviews in the wake of the “Real Change not Spare Change” [SCnRC] Press Conference
- Sacramento Homelessness and Housing Conference—Interviews with Len Ducette “Hard Times” Homeless Newspaper Vendor
- Bathrobespierre on Santa Cruz History of Local Protest and State Organization
- More street debate on the “Let Them Eat Paper” SCnRC program
- [5-4] Peppertongue Pat Ring on trial for a small sign and a “fuck you” comment to the Mayor on SCnRC