The July 9th Sunday show includes:
- ACLU Chair & Community Activist Peter Geldblum’s letter to the Press-Banner challenging Scotts Valley P.D. Chief
- State court affirms (very) limited right to sue police, limiting their boundless qualified immunity in California.
- Catching up with Cooper D’Angelo—Clucking around the Clock.
- Peace Activist Laura S. calls for another anti-war rally (next protest 11 AM Thursday August 6 Hiroshima Day Town Clock)
- Kazoo Curbside Complaints—Life Downtown for a Coral St. Resident
- Roxroy on racial discrimination in “progressive” Santa Cruz
- Badinage, Blather, Bickering, and Bitter Updates at last Thursday’s HUFF meeting
Flashback repeat of the December 5th , 1999 show gives you:
- A Vet’s judicious support for struggle to find safe spaces to sleep.
- David, five years homeless van dweller. & petition circulator, on yesterday’s abusive assault and arrest
- City Council Preview: Shoulder-tap Shenanagans and ignoring the Homeless Issues Task Force [HITF]
- Beggarbacker and Bathrobespierre discuss the Injunction banning Robert Steffan, the “slow-moving” Pink Umbrella guy, from sitting on the Bunny’s Shoes-adjacent bench
- Margaret Payne, Bunny’s Shoes Rep, defends their move to ban Steffan from the public bench next to their store.
- Caller and FRSC Broadcaster Merlin and Bathrobespierre discuss possible solutions other than banning Steffan.
- Skidmark Bob’s experiences with similar merchant abuse (Stewart Martin and the ID Building); on-street interviews on the issue.
- Interview with Charlie Stevens, the Public Defender, who defended Steffan for sleeping on the porch of the Homeless Services Center
- “Scope it Out” Scott Graham on the Almar Avenue Appeal—to ban (homeless) parking on the West side.
- Beggarbacker and Bathrobespierre demand the only Independent Investigation of police violence in the anti-bombing Kosovo demo be made public, and that folks ignore the distraction of the Citizens Police Review Board and focus on SCPD abuses directly.
Flashback repeat of the December 16th, 1999 includes:
- “Dead-on” David Silva on police settlement requiring training, with video of Sgt. Crain explaining why he manhandled Silva, who was presenting petitions to City Council, got $20,000 (and wrote off $100,000 to get police training)
- Bathrobespierre seconds HITF‘s motion to demand suspension of Sleeping Ban-laws and that be put on the City Council agenda immediately
- Interview with Joe Barker, attacked back in April, and beaten by neo-Nazi Aaron Burch and his associates.
- Beggarbacker reports on Homeless Service Center Board refused to fund a late-night Security bus for the Armory.