The Sunday December 24, 2023 show includes:
- Stan Freberg’s “Green Xmas” of 1950s vintage (also available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5IXlfJSEi4)
- [12-12] More futile voices asking for even a semblance of symbolic justice and sanity (i.e. a Gaza ceasefire demand) from the Santa Cruz Shitty Council—which preferred to leave on vacation as the ethnic cleansing/genocide escalated.
- [12-21] Alicia Kuhl of the Santa Cruz County Homeless Advocates on the Homeless Death situation this year
- [12-21] Some of the names of the Homeless Dead read at the Town Clock Memorial in the late afternoon
- A Red Xmas Carol radio play by the S.F. Mime Troupe
- [12-18] Ceci in the remains of Berkeley’s People’s Park on the recent eviction efforts there.
- Berkeleyside article on the 8th and Harrison encampment struggle: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/12/22/west-berkeley-homeless-encampment-8th-harrison-closure
- Street Sheet: COH vs. S.F. the fight to enforce the Injunction protecting those outside: http://www.streetsheet.org/coalition-on-homelessness-et-al-vs-san-francisco-lawyers-make-the-case-for-stopping-sweeps/
- Still more eloquent unheard voices at the Santa Cruz Shitty Council pleading for a response during the Oral Communications period
The Flashback to March 5, 2015 contains:
- Food Not Bombs hassled by SCPD for its banner at the Main Post Office meal and clothing donation
- Hiway 17 blockage by UCSC students against tuition hikes and police violence
- Norse’s nettlesome local updates
- Expanded cop-initiated Stay Away orders in parks
- Col Terry Maxwell supporting the Bearcat but not the way the SCPD slipped it past City Council
- Bad Times with “Big John”, the library security guard.
- [2-26] Street Interviews…”Lookin’ for Love”(Jay, Jack, and Mark), Oz on ticket-signing strategy, Keith M. on SCRAM (against Militarization)
- Papa John and Curtis Reliford making vehicular music on the street