The contemporary events section of the Sunday December 17, 2023 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:
- [12-13] “Cage Me Not” Cooper & Dreadeye recount the latest police seizure
- [12-12] Angry voices at Santa Cruz City Council’s Oral Communications denounce Israel’s merciless bombing of Israel, demand a ceasefire, and receive no assurances of action until mid-January.
- [12-16] “Scope it Out” Scott Graham deconstructs the Council’s Automatic License Reader Surveillance devices, passed at it’s 12-12 meeting and recalls an older Council’s sell-out of the rent control agreement with De Anza Mobile Home Park.
- Mike Quinn, street artist, [12-12] and Shawn the petitioner [12-13] on their recent activities
- https://www.poormagazine.org/post/camp-integrity-s-injunction-against-san-rafael-s-anti-camping-ordinance
- https://pacificsun.com/everybody-poops-yet-stingy-san-rafael-stymies-sanitation/
- https://davidrovics.blogspot.com › 2023 › 12 › from-battersea-to-burnside-bridge.html
- [12-8] Another report from a Berkeley law student watching the Gaza protests
The Flashback to the February 6, 2000 show (partial) includes:
- Food Not Bombs [FNB] Videojournalist Hugh Mejia on police backoff, international expansion, and the struggle to be heard in the courts.
- Caller Jim Smigma, upcoming City Council meeting, recent homeless deaths, discussion of Silva’s fast
- Silva’s Press Conference announcing his fast from late January
- Becky Johnson before the Board of Supervisors on Solitary Confinement, inadequate blankets, in the main jail.
The Flashback to the February 10, 2000 show includes:
- Street Light (homeless San Diego monthly) story published by Forrest Curo about police shooting of a homeless guy by Ron Sills.
- Interview with Street Spirit editor Terry Messman on the protest against Proposition E (stripping homeless folks of money and giving them housing vouchers).
- Two interviews with Kevin Clark, low-income auto rental provider at Front and Laurel, fighting City Council’s move to seize his business and turn it into a Nickelodeon parking lot.
- Challenging the Dolphin-Lee (Nueva Vista) Project at the Redevelopment Agency
- Beach Flats resident Phil Baer—dialogue on the Dophin-Lee.
- Speaking with Umbrella Man-in-a-garbage-bag outside Bunny’s Shoes on harassment by high schoolers—the Robert Stephan report.
- [12-18] Windsong Wendy caught panhandling after dark on Pacific Ave.
- Decorous Dan Hopkins on the Almar Avenue appeal—NIMBY’s seek to put up “No Parking” signs.
- Copwatcher Becky Johnson videos a “Driving While Brown” ticket. Interview with the driver Aaron.
- Steadfast Steve Argue calls in from jail—on being beaten up by Deputy Zamora.