Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday August 11, 2024 show reviews the 4th “Stop the Sweeps” Protest & “Scope It Out” Scott’s Agenda Lookback +and a Flashback to October 21, 2010 featuring Politician Pleich on the 2010 Election

The Sunday August 11, 2024 show includes:

  • https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/30/us/los-angeles-homeless-newsom.html 
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/us/newsom-homeless-los-angeles.html
  • Rovics:  “My Daughter” 
  • Keith McHenry on Counterspin: https://fair.org/home/the-problem-is-theres-no-place-for-anyone-to-go/
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/us/newsom-homeless-los-angeles.html 
  • Rovics:  “Who Will Tell the People?” song and radio station KPFA reformer defense
  • “Scope it Out ” Scott Graham’s Critical analysis of the June Santa Cruz City Council Agendas: 6-11 #21.1 Internal Expansion of SCPD; Eureka-Arcata gentrification report
  • Rovics:  “Today in Yemen” (some years old)
  • Graham denounces Council’s 6-11 #20 banning gas-powered leaf blowers exempting govt. leaf blowers; #10 $4.3 million for Evan Morrison’s People First Armory program but who’s getting paid what to do what?, #11 $500,000 to Community Bridges for mandatory bus transportation (those with jobs excepted)
  • Rovics: “Butcher for Hire” (Police Boss John Timeney)
  • [8-4]  Voices from Sunday’s Food Not Bombs Feed: Bill A, Otter,
  • [8-4]  Heather MacCauley on Tent Removal near the Town Clock; Keith on 8-5 protest, Cooper’s instructive rage, “Tough Road” Thomas 
  • Rovics: “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy”
  • [8-5]  4th Funding Matters [FM] [aka Housing Matters or HM] protest at Hiway 1 and 9: Reggie Meisler: “Sweeps Kill” + RV Update
  • Rovics: “Lola Aglialoro”
  • More “Funding Matters” protest voices: Alicia Kuhl, Bathrobespierre Robert, Mental Health Advisory Board’s letter urging police cutback and better training to the Board of Supervisors
  • Manny on his homeless days, personal contact with Funding Matters boss Phil Kramer when he was teaching
  • Rovics: “The Progressive Zionist”
  • Peter Pan, Thomas—on the local impact of SCOTUS’s overturning of Johnson v. Grants Pass
  • “One of Us”, a badly paid FM worker, on his time there
  • Rovics: “A Song for Aaron Bushnell”
  • Testimony passed along in FM from a current worker there

The Flashback to October 21, 2010:

  • Council candidate, Camping Ban opponent, and Co-host Steve Pleich reports on Homeless [Lack of] Services Center remaining silent on hard facts of no shelter available April through October before anti-homeless folks.
  • Battle-ready Bob Patton on fight to reopen the Vet’s Hall
  • Drum Circle Dave on bathroom baloney downtown
  • [10-15] Ray on Prop 36 Drug Diversion stumbling blocks in S.C. courts, move-along law violation
  • Santa Barbara settlement ACLU in August 2009 dropping their lawsuit against the Camping Ban
  • City Sleeping Ban as infraction versus state Lodging Ban discussion for S.C. protesters
  • Fresno report from Mike Rhodes
  • “What’s Wrong with the Sit-Lie Law [in San Francisco]?” article: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/05/us/05bcjames.html