Bathrobespierre’s Broadside’s Thursday, August 1, 2024 show Flashes back to June 15, 1997 featuring the fight against the Santa Barbara Sitting Ban, and struggles in Santa Monica and San Francisco

The August 1, 2024 show is a Flashback to June 15, 1997. 

It includes:

  • Jack Zedlitz discussing his court case defending against Santa Barbara’s Sit-on-the-sidewalk Ban on State St.
  • Santa Barbara attorneys Robert Landheer and Marc Chytilo on the Sitting Ban law
  • Kara Henson, Santa Barbara college student and participant in the protests against the Ban, tells how and why.
  • Santa Monica’s Jennifer Wagonner reports on open shower facilities, but cops stalking the food services
  • Santa Cruz’s Downtown Association bars activists from its subcommittee meeting
  • Report on the California Civil Rights Action Network
  • Keith McHenry on the plans for a San Francisco Presidio takeover to open up housing to the house-less.
  • June 4 S.F. Police Commission Hearings on public outrage at SFPD Mark Andiya’s murder of Aaron Williams
  • Lighthouse Linda Lemaster of Housing Now in Santa Cruz on the destruction of “welfare reform”
  • Bathrobespierre on City Council’s twists, turns, &- machinations in the last six months in “no shelter” Santa Cruz