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