Recent shows are archived at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

For the “Latest Show – 5/15/2022 Sunday, May 15, 2022” .
Descriptions of these shows are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/.  You can also sign up to receive advance notice of the content of the twice-weekly shows by e-mailing rnorse3@hotmail.com.

ON TODAY’S 5-15-2022 SHOW:  
     +++    Activist and Agitator Becky Johnson describes the mixed blessing and humiliation of Monterey County’s fading COVID era homeless programs
     +++    Johnson on Canadian crackdown and the COVID “emergency”      +++    Flashback descriptions for 2007
     +++    Musical musings from Leon Rosselson’s I Didn’t Mean to Do It

FLASHBACK to April 26^th 2007
     +++   Arcata Homeless Encampment Bust
     +++   Medical Marijuana Researcher and Activist Craig Canada critiques Santa Cruz then-monopoly marijuana providers Greenway and Ken Sampson’s Clubs     

+++   LAPD searches against Skid Row residents ruled unconstitutional     

+++   Part II of Cabrillo College Forum on Homelessness (for Parts 1 see April 22, 2007 show at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html#APR07 )     

+++   Berkeley Daily Planet:  Homeless Commission denounces Mayor Bates’ “Public Commons for Everyone” as an anti-homeless eviction measure     

+++   Tidbits of past tunes from the intro to Uncle Dennis’s historic From the Cream to the Dregs show.

FLASHBACK to October 18, 2007
      +++  The Free Radio Santa Cruz interview with then-Mayor Emily “Smiley” Reilly on the Parking Lot Panic law (anti-loitering law int he public parking lots).      

+++   Bathrobespierre and Scope-it-Out Scott Graham Dissect Reilley changing political path      

+++   The SCPD attack on former Councilmember Madrigal’s Racial Discrimination account; Hiding out from the “Homies for the Homeless”: Reilly’s “duck and cover” responses.
      +++   Remembering Gregarious Greg–the grinning street singer and SAFE (Society for Artistic Freedom and Expression) activist

The 5-12 show archives at https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/FRSC%204-28-22.mp3

You can scroll to find shows from the last 3 1/2 years at  http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

Descriptions of these shows are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/.  You can also sign up to receive advance notice of the content of the twice-weekly shows by e-mailing rnorse3@hotmail.com.  

The May 12 Show:

•  REPEAT May 5^th phone interview with Andrea Henson, Activist Attorney camping in solidarity with Where Do We Go Berkeley Page St. disabled residents facing harassment.
• Keith McHenry on COVID, Ukraine War, the Santa Cruz Homeless Scene & More

Recent shows are archived at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

For the “Latest Show – 5/8/2022 Sunday, May 8, 2022” .
Descriptions of these shows are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/.  You can also sign up to receive advance notice of the content of the twice-weekly shows by e-mailing rnorse3@hotmail.com.

ON TODAY’S 5-08-2022 SHOW:  
     +++    Bathrobespierre Robert and Scope-it-Out Scott painfully tread their way through the Santa Cruz City Council’s 5-10 Agenda.  Coming Up: City Mangler Huffaker’s “Progress Report” on (little to no) new shelter and storage.  He is “in the process of developing an operational plan…towards the closure of  the Benchlands in July 2022.” https://ecm.cityofsantacruz.com/OnBaseAgendaOnline/Documents/ViewDocument/Summary%20Sheet%20for%20-%20Homelessness%20Response%20Programming%20

Quarterly%20Update%20and%20Homel.pdf?meetingId=1907&documentType=Agenda&itemId=23425&publishId=31751&isSection=false [p. 12]
     +++    Bathrobespierre’s Anti-War Flyer and the HUFF resolution to support protests.
     +++    Paul Street’s Ukraine analysis: https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/06/no-proxy-war-stop-the-dying/
     +++    https://www.onthisday.com/articles/the-man-who-saved-the-world
     +++    “Criminalization of Opioid Use is a Dismal Failure” by Michael Fitzgerald
     +++    Flashback descriptions
     +++    More Musical meanderings from Ewan McColl & Peggy Seeger’s New Brixton Gazette

FLASHBACKs
     +++  Spring 1996:  Bathrobespierre interviews Free Radio Broadcaster and Mad House Exit activist John Stewart.
     +++   September 8, 2016:  Red Church Reports: Dreamcatcher, Sassin’ Susan, Bathroom Seeker Bob, Ted on RV harassment, Judicious James, Townwise Tony Mello from Fresno, hometown Jery on discriminatory favoritism for home owners.

The 5-5 show archives athttps://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/FRSC%204-28-22.mp3

You can scroll to find shows from the last 3 1/2 years at  http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

Descriptions of these shows are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/.  You can also sign up to receive advance notice of the content of the twice-weekly shows by e-mailing rnorse3@hotmail.com.  

The May 5, 2022 show includes:

•  Flashback to September 10, 2015–the Rebekkah Mills account of being declared incompetent to stand trial locally in a neighborhood dispute, held in hospital and jail.
  
•  Alex and Joff–Painters displaying their art on the street–repeatedly arrested back in 2015 for violating the “display outside the boxes” marks on Pacific Avenue.
•  May 5^th phone interview with Andrea Henson, Activist Attorney camping in solidarity with Where Do We Go Berkeley Page St. disabled residents facing harassment.
  
•  Roving Salinas Activist Wes White on Carmel Crossroads “Mother’s Day” May 8^th  eviction of their encampment with info about surviving and swept camps statewide.

For the “Latest Show – 5/1/2022 Sunday, May 1, 2022” .
Descriptions of these shows are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/. 
You can also sign up to receive advance notice of the content of the twice-weekly shows by e-mailing rnorse3@hotmail.com.

ON TODAY’S 5-01-2022 SHOW:  
     +++    Bathrobespierre’s Final Denunciation of the Public Gatherings Ordinance and Council’s public-muzzling process as it sails through City Council to become available for anti-FNB use (if not sooner) on May 26th.
     +++    Text of the old and new laws at https://ecm.cityofsantacruz.com/OnBaseAgendaOnline/Documents/ViewDocument/DRAFT%20ORDINANCE%20AMENDING%20CHAPTER%2010.65%20%E2%80%93%20PUBLIC%20GATHERING%20AND%20EXPRESSION.pdf?meetingId=1898&documentType=Agenda&itemId=22691&publishId=30781&isSection=false
     +++    “Katzenjammer” Keith announces Civil Disobedience training in prep for possible crackdown on Food Not Bombs: Monday May 2^nd 6:30 PM  Resource Center for Non-Violence
     +++    Bathrobespierre Robert calls out City Mangler (“Manager”) Matt Huffaker for unconstitutional sweeps and proposed July Benchlands evictions
     +++    “Silent No More” Sola warns of public health consequences of FNB crackdown
     +++    Elisse places the feared crackdown in the broader context of local and national crisis     

+++    Former FNB worker Abbi notes she’ll join in risking arrest if and when necessary.     

+++    International chef Joe Schultz points out the absurdity of the repression and adds his name to the list of potential jailbirds.     

+++    Mayor Brunner & Mangler Huffaker’s non-response to tepid questions from Councilman Cummings.
     +++    Scope-it-Out Scott Graham critiques rushed approval of military gear for the SCPD
     +++    Musical meanderings throughout from Ewan McColl & Peggy Seeger’s New Brixton Gazette

FLASHBACK TO selections from July 27, July 31, and August 3, 2014-
     +++   Tom Quinn’s KSCO interview from earlier in July of Mad in America author Rober Whitaker on the History of Psychiatric Torture and Treatments.
     +++   Researcher, writer, and sometime Free Radio broadcaster John Malkin on ALPR’s (Automatic License Plate Readers) and his earlier research into the 1990 SCPD killing of Carlos Machado
     +++   Lawyer and activist Paul Cook on his judicial struggle against a TRO issued by Baldwin Park mayor retaliating for Cook’s exposure of his repressive and corrupt behavior
     +++   “Lighthouse” Linda LeMaster on the successful occupation and transfer of the Heiner House in 1992, formerly an SCPD office destined for destruction.
     +++   The Brody father-and-son’s struggles with the law
     +++   Early survival camper “Drop-Out” on the Cedar St. Open Air Shelter in 1995 Santa Cruz
     +++   Curtis Reliford black activists reports smoking ticket for burning sage in spiritual Native American ceremony, hassled repeated with parking citations by same cop, won 1 case, faces 4 more for “sound amplification” off his “Follow Your Heart” truck www.followyourheartactionnetwork.com)     

+++   Anon protester at 8-1 Gaza protest at Town Clock notes “follow the law” protesters tried to drive her, Keith McHenry, and another journalist from the median where they were holding signs and giving out literature FOOD NOT BOMBS still meets at the Town Clock for its daily noon-3PM meal.  Ask how you can help.  WARNING:  Food Not Bombs is “illegal” in operating “without a permit” .  Resistance training for  continuing the food serving even as the police threaten arrests 6:00 PM  Monday May 2^nd at  the RCNV at 612 Ocean St.

STILL NO SANTA CRUZ HOMELESS UNION  FRIDAY 5 PM MEETINGS…unless they get new leadership volunteers.   Call 575-770-3377  or 431-7766 to learn the latest.  Volunteer–they desperately need new blood with the passion to organize!  And new leadership with the time and resources to lead.  Especially with the City Manager’s avowed threat to disperse the Benchlands camp this summer!

WE WANT OUR PHONE LINE, STUDIO, AND RADIO PRESENCE BACK!
300 BUCKS FINDERS FEE FOR A SUCCESSFUL YEAR-LONG RENTAL STUDIO LOCATION TIP.
FIND US A TREE OR BUILDING TO PLACE OUR ANTENNA & WE’LL BE BACK ON THE AIR !  CALL US WITH TIPS.
HUFF STILL MEETS EVERY THURSDAY (NEXT MEETING 5-5) TO SCHEME & STARGAZE.  COFFEE & CONTROVERSY AT THE SUB ROSA COURTYARD 11 AM-1 PM THURSDAYS NEXT TO THE BIKE CHURCH AT 703 PACIFIC AVE. 

STILL POSSIBLE: PROPOSED CITY MANAGER QUESTIONING WITH A DAILY KOFFEE KLATCH IN FRONT OF HIS OFFICE–VOLUNTEER AT 423-4833
VIEW VIDEOS FROM WES WHITE on his You-Tube channel (John Doe13K):  THEN POST SOME OF YOUR OWN ON YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA. 

OTHER OPTIONS: FACEBOOK, CALL HUFF FOR FRSC INTERVIEW, WRITE ESTABLISHMENT OR ALTERNATE MEDIA.

KEEP YOUR PHONE CHARGED AND HANDY TO RECORD UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTERS OR INCIDENTS YOU WITNESS ON YOUR PHONE PARTICULAR IF AND WHEN POLICE WARN YOU YOU’LL BE SWEPT.

TELL THE WORLD!  CALL HUFF TO BE INTERVIEWED AND “IMMORTALIZED” IN THE HUFF AUDIO ARCHIVES: Contact Bathrobespierre Robert at the HUFF line or rnorse3@hotmail.com. 

DON’T WAIT FOR THE ACLU TO TURTLEWALK INTO ACTION.   LEARN YOUR RIGHTS, USE THEM, TALK WITH OTHERS, & PUBLICIZE.

COMMENT on the Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom facebook page or at www.indybay.org/santacruz where Bathrobespierre posts occasional announcements and stories.

Netcasting at 6:00pm on freakradio.org

The 4-28 show archives athttps://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/FRSC%204-28-22.mp3

You can scroll find shows from the last 3 1/2 years at  http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

Descriptions of these shows are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/.  You can also sign up to receive advance notice of the content of the twice-weekly shows by e-mailing rnorse3@hotmail.com.  

The April 28, 2022 show includes:

•  “Run the Race” Reggie Meisler and “Bathrobespierre” Robert Norse chatting about the latest Oversized Vehicle Ordinance appeal.
  

•  Another police killing: https://nypost.com/2022/04/13/video-shows-michigan-cop-fatally-shooting-black-man/
• Town Clock Talk at Food Not Bombs with travelers Raymond and J.P. Galvin
• Working out disputes in a broader struggle with Keith, Sammy, and Joe
  
•  Mountain View RV-dwellers face continued struggle: https://www.losaltosonline.com/news/mountain-view-s-vehicle-dwellers-face-uncertainty-city-faces-lawsuit/article_a80a5fd0-c023-11ec-afce-1b3672b98537.html

HUFF show archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html . 
For the “Latest Show – 4/24/2022 Sunday, April 24, 2022” .
Descriptions of these shows are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/. 
You can also sign up to receive advance notice of the content of the twice-weekly shows by e-mailing rnorse3@hotmail.com.

ON TODAY’S 4-24-2022 SHOW:  
     +++    Memories of Cheri Petersen, Outspoken Homeless Activist
     +++    Musical moments from Tom Paxton’s “Bulletin…We Interrupt this Record…”
     +++    Canadian authorities arrest and jail Artur Pawelowski for feeding homeless people contravening restrictive Public Assembly laws      +++    Beggarbacker Becky Johnson analyzes the Pawelowski punishment     

+++    Scope-it-Out Scott Graham Critiques the Latest S.C. City Council Agenda

FLASHBACK TO October 12, 2017     

+++   Remembering Indigenous Slaughter Day (aka “Columbus Day”)      +++   Randy Rainbow’s Musical Musings     

+++   Guv Brown Vetoes State Beach Smoking Ban: Homeless Implications     

+++   Medical Marijuana Dispensary Ban at City of Livermore
+++   Santa Cruz City Council Limits Recreational Marijuana Outlets      +++   Berkeley Poet Julia Vinograd Reads from her new book Detours      +++   Oakland Media and Mayor visit one of 100 under-the-freeway camps     

+++   Tough Luck “Tuf Sheds” in Oakland     

+++   Robin and Jay at the “Here and There” self-run Berkeley encampment.

Technical Problems may require listening to the show on the archives–see below.

The 4-21 show archives athttp://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html where you can scroll down to find shows from the last 3 1/2 years.
Descriptions of these shows are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/.  You can also sign up to receive advance notice of the content of the twice-weekly shows by e-mailing rnorse3@hotmail.com.  

The April 14, 2022 show includes:

•  “Backstory” Brent and “Bathrobespierre Robert” Exchange Words on the Latest City Council and City Manager Idiocies
  
•  Homeless Housing Operation Blocked in Oakland
  
•  K’aun Green Shot Four Times: Fuck Up or Cover UP?
  
•  Dark Day for Press Freedom:  https://thedissenter.org/british-court-sends-order-for-assange-extradition-to-home-office-for-approval/

HUFF show archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html . 
For the “Latest Show – 4/17/2022 Sunday, April 17, 2022” .
Scroll down for more info on earlier shows.

ON TODAY’S 4-17 SHOW:  
      +++  “Beggerbacker” Becky Johnson more updates and opinions from Seaside, CA
      +++    Reports on Sausalito’s Marinship Survival Camper’s Recent TRO Victory Defending his Cats against Official Cruelty:  https://pacificsun.com/encampment-resident-wins-legal-fight-against-sausalito/
      +++    Talk at the Clock: Steve on the FNB stewardship job; Andrea on selling Street Spirit, the homeless newspaper; Q.Z. on MHCAN; Noel’s quick beach report; Joseph Taylor III seeking Section 8, Jed-I on emerging from a head crisis
     +++   Inspiring But Futile Oral Communications to the “Zoomed” Celluloid City Council on April 12 with Serg, Bathrobespierre, Reggie, Joy, Gillian, and Julie
      +++   “Whip ’em Into Shape” Wes White’s Fresno Report   

  
FLASHBACK to October 17, 1996 :
+++  “Ringo” on Felonious Sitting-on-the-bike-rack citation      

+++  Texas Chris “Advised” to Leave Santa Cruz
+++  Mark’s Advice for Homeless New Arrivals
+++ “Rock Star” on Host Hostility, putting up the Money Mask, Vigilante Threats and More      

+++  “Lighthouse” Linda recounts Host Harassment; Bathrobespierre on Mall Mental Health worker Dennis Johnson      

+++    “Way Back” Bert Glick on “Community House” Screw-Up’s       +++     Steve & Raymond get “generous” tickets from Sleep Patrolsters
+++      Julia Vinograd’s Eye of the Hand poetry      

+++      Critique of the Do-Nothing Citizen’s Police Review Board       +++      Gideon and “Peppertongue” Pat report Zanotto’s Food Stamp Denial

+++      Memorial for Martin Estrada’s October 1^st Murder under the Soquel Bridge with Beggerbacker Becky, Dragonsheart Dan, Judgement Day John, Justman Jim, & Others.

BRING BACK OUR PHONE LINE, STUDIO CAPACITY, AND RADIO PRESENCE
300 BUCKS FINDERS FEE FOR A SUCCESSFUL YEAR-LONG RENTAL STUDIO LOCATION TIP.
FIND US A TREE OR BUILDING TO PLACE OUR ANTENNA & WE’LL BE BACK ON THE AIR !  CALL US WITH TIPS.

HUFF STILL MEETS EVERY THURSDAY (NEXT MEETING 4-21) TO SCHEME & STARGAZE.  COFFEE & CONTROVERSY AT THE SUB ROSA COURTYARD 11 AM-1 PM THURSDAYS NEXT TO THE BIKE CHURCH AT 703 PACIFIC AVE. 

STILL ON THE TABLE: PROPOSED STAFF-SCORCHING COUNCIL-CRAWL–THE PROPOSED KOFFEE KLATCH–VOLUNTEER AT 423-4833
VIEW VIDEO FROM WES WHITE on his You-Tube channel (John Doe13K):  THEN POST SOME OF YOUR OWN ON YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA. 

OTHER OPTIONS: FACEBOOK, CALL HUFF FOR FRSC INTERVIEW, WRITE ESTABLISHMENT OR ALTERNATE MEDIA.

KEEP YOUR PHONE CHARGED AND HANDY TO RECORD UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTERS OR INCIDENTS YOU WITNESS ON YOUR PHONE PARTICULAR IF AND WHEN POLICE WARN YOU YOU’LL BE SWEPT.

TELL THE WORLD!  CALL HUFF TO BE INTERVIEWED AND “IMMORTALIZED” IN THE HUFF AUDIO ARCHIVES: Contact Bathrobespierre Robert at the HUFF line or rnorse3@hotmail.com. 

DON’T WAIT FOR THE ACLU TO TURTLEWALK INTO ACTION.   LEARN YOUR RIGHTS, USE THEM, TALK WITH OTHERS, & PUBLICIZE.

COMMENT on the Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom facebook page or at www.indybay.org/santacruz where Bathrobespierre posts occasional announcements and stories.

FOOD NOT BOMBS still meets at the Town Clock for its daily noon-3PM meal.  Ask how you can help.  WARNING:  Food Not Bombs is under attack at City Council 4-12.  Item #30 proposes new and harsh restrictions on “public gatherings” targeting FNB.

SANTA CRUZ HOMELESS UNION  LIKELY WON’T RESUME FRIDAY  5 PM MEETINGS unless they get new leadership volunteers.  They haven’t met in months.    Call 575-770-3377  or 431-7766 to learn the latest.  Volunteer–they desperately need new blood with the passion to organize!  And new leadership with the time and resources to lead.  Especially with the City Manager’s avowed threat to disperse the Benchlands camp this summer!

The 4-14 show archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html where you can scroll down to find shows from the last 3 1/2 years.
Descriptions of these shows are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/.  You can also sign up to receive advance notice of the content of the twice-weekly shows by e-mailing rnorse3@hotmail.com.  

The April 14, 2022 show includes:

• https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/How-the-brutal-clearing-of-an-L-A-homeless-17057211.php
•  Zel on the 1220 River St. scene
•  Benchlands [Greg] Bengston on Life in the Lower San Lorenzo
•  Food Not Bombs clockfeeder Keith McHenry on incoming reports.
  
•  S.C. Homeless Union prez. Alicia Kuhl on her Horrific Vehicular Times with Joe Haebe  and the prospects for future Union action.