Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday January 5, 2025 show features Winter Woes at the Library Parking Lot and Flashbacks to June 3 and July 12, 1996–a Linda the Lark memorial and Bathrobespierre in jail

The January 5, 2025 show includes:

  • [various spots throughout]  Historical songs and commentary from A History of the World According to David Rovics beginning with “Ballad of Lachlan Macquarie”
  • “Kill the Poor 2.0” –by Bob McCloskey Community Alliance (Jan 2025)–report from Fresno, CA
  • “Jambalaya” Jaya, “Hurricane” Helga, & others at the 1-2-25 HUFF meeting on the police encampment demolition at the Library parking lot
  • Helga’s outrage and Nutcracker Nick on street and legislative solutions
  • Helga- sweep schedules and Izzy on Funding Matters (150 Coral St.) services (limited to clients)
  • Stefanie (Parking Lot resident)’s report on the recent 12-30 report
  • New Years Day at the Town Clock—report from Sasha, Izzy, and K. McHenry

The Flashback to June 3, 1996 includes:

  • Eulogy for homeless activist and heroine Linda the Lark Edwards: Flash within a Flashback to one of her last interviews May 27, 1995 on the murder of Berkeley People’s Park activist Rosebud De Novo by police
  • The Angry Stanford Reverand May 1996
  • May 16 S.F. Bathrobespierre hearing where both prosecution and defense agreed on no jail, but judge overruled both.

The Flashback to July 12, 1996 includes:

  • Host-while-Bathrobespierre-in-jail “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson interviews Deborah Johnson on her fight to reclaim 3 children
  • Johnson interviews me and prison guards from San Francisco County Jail #8