The January 15, 2026 show is a Flashback to June 6, 1999. 

It includes [some of the accounts are fuzzy & hard-to-hear]

• Gay Pride Day festivities and cautions: the trollbuster + Sleeping Ban Perfect Storm
• Closer look at SCPD two assaults and arrests of “Steadfast”  Steve Argue for selling Street Spirit newspaper and defending a woman and her child in a protest; deconstruction of Councilmember “Riot Act” Rotkin’s public statements on the issue.
• Terry Johnston, homeless gay man with serious HIV condition, describes how his sister lured him across the country into a coercive intervention.
• Trollbuster assaults including Joe Barker’s account of his beating.
• In-studio guest Roxanne Acquistepache, Beach Flats activist and resident, on the new City Council sell-out of residents there—extensive analysis & sharp critique
• Caller and Beach Flats resident and landlord Jane Baer on City pressure on SCAN to create the Dolphin-Lee/Mercy Housing project in the Beach Flats
• Roxanne calls for Take Back movement to restore the Beach Flats neighborhood to its residents.
• Bathrobespierre on Homeless Services Center, City Council, and Councilmember Krohn’s ducking of the Sleeping Ban issue.
• “Landfill Colony Faces Eviction”—the Albany struggle.

The January 11, 2026 show includes:

• [1-8-26] Organizer Wes White briefs HUFF activists on his upcoming Salinas 10th Anniversary of the Salinas Homeless Union and the Reactivation of the National Homeless Union particularly in California.  Agenda of the 10th Anniversary event
• [throughout] Rovics’ Ai Tsuno music and commentary
• “Homelessness: Mayor Mahan Shift of Funds from Permanent Homes to Interim Housing has Sparked Debate Among Advocates from Encampments to Temporary Shelters
• Doctor Suzie & Captain Max and the BiNobos: The Binobo Way
• https://thestreetspirit.org/2026/01/06/in-dialogue-with-osha-neumann/
• “Scope it Out” Scott Graham on the upcoming (1-13-26) Santa Cruz Shitty Council agenda
• “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster recalls her early days of homeless activism in the late 70’s—the Scotts Creek Bluff arrests and resistance
• [1-6]  “Captain America” back from Los Angeles with a report from there and here
• Risible Reflections from “Ramblin’ Jack”, the Mel-anious Marauder, Shane, Wolf, “Cover-Up” Craig.

The 1-8-26 show is a Flashback to March 25, 1999 which includes:

• Harassment and verbal abuse by a passing squad car near the Homeless [Lack of] Services Center {HLOSC}
• “Jackhammer” John Vance, Berkeley  activist and street button vendor on police crackdown in the “4th Block”
• City Council buries Sleeping Ban Reform
• V-Man’s court report and Bathrobepierre’s court advice
• Beggarbacker Becky Johnson remembers Stickman Bruce Jenkins, recently died.
• B.E. Smith’s cannabis defense strategies applied to Sleeping Ban Cases
• In Ray Acosta’s trailer with a Monterey “homeless program” report
• Bob Lamonica vs. Vinnie Lombardo: Different Roads to Breakthrough Bureaucracy
• Joseph Nasworthy and other outside voices
• Mardi Wormhaudt vetoes County Safe Sleeping Zone
• “’Nuf Said’ Nancy McCradie on the Santa Barbara Sleeping Ban

The January 4, 2026 show includes: [volume varies abruptly]

• https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/12/sb-634-new-law/
• [throughout] Commentary and song from Rovics’ AI Tsuma The Red and the Black
• Newly housed Spider struggles with neighborhood resistance
• Update: https://lookout.co/city-council-votes-to-end-santa-cruzs-contract-with-flock-safety/story
• https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/19/ceasefires-in-the-gaza-genocide-a-historical-perspective/
• New Year’s Day at the Town Clock—Sean’s Monterey report
• https://www.newsbreak.com/the-fresno-bee-1592569/4417189286934-homeless-couple-s-tragic-death-highlights-risks-of-life-on-fresno-streets
• [1-3] Homeless advocate Alicia Kuhl on gloomy cut-off of services and advice to donors
• Clock crowings from Cooper, a Drew helper, Eagle, Roach, & others

The February 4, 1999 Flashback includes:

• Police “accountability” at City Council’s Task Force to [Retain] the Camping Ordinance—Deputy Chief Jeff Locke, V-Man, Becky, Bernard, and Bathrobespierre.
• Street Spirit hawker Phil on oppressive rules at the Natl Guard Armory Winter Shelter
• Territh of Feed the People on the cold crisis
• Joanna, trailer tenant & sojourner in Dominican & Harbor Hills 
• Spotlighting the Beiers Betrayal—Bathrobe & Silva on the Advisory bodies Retreat

The January 1, 2026 show is a Flashback to  the complete June 15, 2011 show which includes:

• Interviews from August 7-9, 2010 at last year’s PeaceCamp 2010: Bob with Dipshit the Dog, Crew the Lodger and Red the Lodgeress, Lighthouse Linda, Max, Curbhugger Chris
• [Throughout]“Then and Now” Reverberations from 2011 looking back on 2010 re: Sleeping Ban reforms & 2010 Court cases
• Kristian Williams  “Torture and the Logic of Domination”  Summer 2011 Slingshot
• “Congress Eyes Purse Strings Over Libya”, “Obama Wins Nobel War Prize”
• U.S. Mayor’s Resolution Against National War Spending in Iraq and Afghanistan $126 billion per year
• Comments at the Courthouse in the Petitioning to Free Ed Frey & Gary Johnson, facing 6 months in jail for Sleep Protest
• Crow’s morning vigil at Courthouse demanding Frey be released

The December 28, 2025 show includes:

• [at regular intervals throughout] https://www.davidrovics.com/  Rage Bait—A Guided Tour
• https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20251224/281642491525678  “Animal Rights Activist Released from Jail Early”
• [12-25] Xmas Day Chow Line: Diabetic Judy Moore gets sent to the back of the line; Roach rails against the slim Xmas trimmings
• [12-27] Avery Green: History of his Recovery & Shelter; Abe on Service Shrinkage through Corruption;  Chuckleworthy Chatter with Anonymous Activist; Ismail &  Nazira;
• [12-21]  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0nNbcWqN3A&t=1736s  Erasing the Homeless by Santa Cruz County, CA- Friends Who Passed Outside Memorial w Food Not Bombs: Keith and Friends read off the Homeless Dead (First Names Only, Full Names Censored by Authorities) 

The Flashback to January 28, 1999 includes: [some distortion in first half of show]

• Bathrobe’s update on the latest Task Farce to Examine the Camping Ordinance sub-committee meetings
• Oral Communications with the Task Farce: Bernard Klitzner, Peter Eberle, Kate Wells, David Silva, Linda LeMaster, Emily Riley, Paul Brindel, Robert Norse
• Becky Johnson on the Homeless Services Center Board of Directors meeting
• Controversy around Kitten Reynolds alleged snitching, surveillance, and sabotage on local homeless activists
• Silva calls for “positive” approach to upcoming Task Farce meetings
• Norse reads most of the Eichorn decision requiring courts to consider a necessity defense in Camping Ban cases

The Thursday December 25, 2025 show is a Flashback to January 24, 1999. 

It includes:

• S.F. Chronicle article 1-22-99 “Palo Alto Sets Up Cart Swap”
• Palo Alto civil right activist and KKUP broadcaster Purush Obluda Interview on proposed attack on homeless people pushing corporate shopping carts
• “Feed the People” activist Teara on her 1st S.C. sleeping ticket; 2nd hand reports of 7 with bats attacking homeless
• Terra and Bathrobespierre discuss federal court prospects around Sleeping Ban rulings & City Council’s latest
• Committee to Repeal the Sleeping Ban visits the Task Farce to Protect the Ban (aka Task Force to Examine the Camping Ordinance) featuring Vice-Chief Jeff Locke, “Sticky Fingers” Butchie Baker, & Council Cucks
• “Dead On” David Silva reports on upcoming right-wing agenda and urges sweet talk to City Council.
• Further examination of police case for retaining the Ban vs. activist urging restoration of basic right to sleep.

The December 21, 2025 show contains:

• [throughout] Rovics and Ai Tsuno Class War Zone
• [3-12-96] Unhoused protesters speak to City Council and the Community at Oral Communications at the beginning of the City Hall Sleepers Vigil
• Testimony by Dan Hopkins, Henry Kettleman, James Cosner, Tim Rinker, Chad, Sean Alemi, Ron Parker, John Stuart, Cole Larsen, Chris Brozda, Robert Norse at the 3-15 closing of the Winter Armory Shelter
• https://news.antiwar.com/2025/12/17/bill-to-block-trump-from-launching-war-with-venezuela-fails-in-the-house/
• [June 1996] Interviews and speeches at San Francisco Hall of Justice at Bathrobespierre’s Sentencing Hearing: Becky Johnson, Bob Hansen, D.A. Terrence Hallinan, Pat Carey, Bathrobespierre, Keith McHenry, Karen Parker
• [12-18-25] HUFF  meeting segment discussing protest/encampment demanding winter shelter, restored services

The Flashback April 1, 1996 show contains:

• Chat with a free knive sharpener on Pacific Ave.
• Slammersleeper Sean Alemi from Ward A in the Jail
• Robin Hood’s account of his last 3 years from Mothercare to Back Forty
• Beggarbacker Becky on the Citizens Committee [to exploit] the Homeless shutting down recording their meetings
• [3-29-96] Mall musings: Patrick criticizes Priscilla, Café Pergolesi manager for pregnancy discrimination; Bill displaying crystals & handling Hosts; Chink Bob Lee street jeweler; Sergeants Seiley and Sanderson confront man with dog on the mall; Alexa vandweller and brownie distributor busted;
• Gary Yamene, Citizens Police Review Board staffer interviewed on the Complaint Tracking Process Committee reviewing SCPD General Orders segregating and secreting complaints under an “inquiry” category.
• “Justman” Jim Cosner of the Revolutionary Coalition on the sentencing hearing of David Dumars (“B.D.”) for standing near a vandalized newsrack.
• “Dragonsheart” Dan Hopkins reports on the B.D. hearing.  Keith’s expanded FNB  report
• [4-1]  “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry on Fresno gathering of Food Not Bombs [FNB]; harassment in Whittier, NYC, Arcata; new groups in San Bernadino, San Diego, Costa Mesa; detailed San Francisco report.

The December 18, 2025 show is a Flashback to various 1991 audio recordings.

• [Spring 1991]  “Chewin’ the Fat” radio show with guests “Jetlag Joe” Salinsky, “Wonton Dave” Jacobs, Linda “the Lark” Evans on SCPD & City Council harassment of the Town Clock Peace Vigil
• [7-28-91]  Bathrobespierre and Backyard Brian get divergent accounts from activists in Berkeley about People’s Park being retaken by UCB; police harassing, citing, and arresting folks for sleeping in the park.
• [8-3-25]   “Calamity Jane” Imler and Bathrobespierre at a mass People’s Park meeting…Joseph reports on his encounter with H.S. Stern BPD $73…nighttime conversations in the Park

The December 14, 2025 show includes:

• https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/rv-dwelling-crackdown-21219247.php
• [throughout the show] Ai Tsuno & David Rovics’ Class War: A Guided Tour
• Salinas speakers on D.A. voter intimidation against renter protection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGuGOe89UZk
• Salinas videojournalist and activist Wed White on the history of the struggle for renter protection in Salinas
• White on the January 17, 2026 10-year Union of the Homeless celebration—the organizations invited.
• White on the hopes for a local support sleep-in for one of the survival encampments
• Updates from Town Clock Talk: security volunteer Steve Enriquez, percussionist Zac Alvaret, and poet Isaac Collins (“Elder Respect”).

The Flashback to October 9,1997 includes:              (volume needs boosting throughout)

• “Skidmark Bob” on dubious doings of the Drug Enforcement Team and other SCPDsters
• “Katzenjammer” Keith on renewed anti-homeless Matrix enforcement in S.F. and Police Brutality Day 10-22
• Marco Merokee and Donna Deiss of TRUSC (Tenants Rights Union of Santa Cruz)
• Bathrobespierre critiquing Citizens Committee for the Homeless’s shutdown of the “Back 40” Open-Air Shelter
• Beggarbacker Becky on River St. Shelter evictions; [9-25] Disabled panhandler Jim accosted on Pacific Ave.
• Jenny Genigan: South Spit Jetty “health hoax” against Paradise Beach survival campers upcoming 10-2 eviction

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