The current show is now archived at https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.htmland may be streaming on the net starting at 6 p.m. 

If technical difficulties prevent that, go to the www.huffsantacruz.org website to hear it.   

If reached on the HUFF website above, the show can be downloaded in two sequential sections.

The content of the show will be further summarized and posted within a few days  at https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/category/huff-communications/

The October 20^th edition of the show includes:

• [10-16] Visiting Mutual Aid Food Tent at the Green Gate during morning camp destruction up Golf Club Drive
• [throughout]  https://soundcloud.com/davidrovics/one-year-on-the-apocalypse-in-review-podcast-special
• Chatter, castigation, and rationalizations with CSO Earl Buck on the city’s Helpful Demolitions
• Manny’s Reflections on likely lower profile future anti-Gaza genocide demonstrations at UCSC
• Legal worker Ray Glock-Grueneich’s recollections on his first days with the Scott Creek Bluff vehicular dwellers when their homes were stolen by county sheriffs.
• [10-19] Brando and Ester—distributing free phones for poor folks.
• Roger—run off from sleeping in early a.m. off church property
• David Hanson—bound for Colorado to expand free camping gear to S.C., banished from Housing Matters
• Jesus announces his coming marriage
• Roadwatcher Robert Woodleaf on landlord difficulties; William’s restless history
• “Deep” reports on the Washington Rainbow Gathering

The Flashback to June 28, 1996 includes: [sound quality varies]

• Beggarbacker Becky [BB] hosts the show with Bathrobespierre in the jail in San Francisco for serving free food
• [5-31] Court corridor discussion after the City attorney’s partial victory restricting the City Hall Sleepers Protest with an Injunction with Bathrobespierre, Wilomena Perl, attorneys David Beauvais & David Hilliard, & City Attorney John Barisone
• BB chats with jail inmate Rick on her “adopt a prisoner” proposal and jail’s expense to the taxpayer
• BB at City Council’s Social Service Committee with Kennedy, Rotkin, and Citizen’s Committee for the Homeless director Frank Pucelik
• BB interviews Homeless “Green” hyperkinetic and dyslexic 
• BB on her phone chat with homeless-hostile cartoonist Steve DeCinzo
• Mad Mike the Wonder Dog’s musical selections

The Thursday October 17^th , 2024, show is a Flashback to February 4, 2016, and thence to February 6, 2003, on the feeble afterlife of the Citizens Police Review Board & Jhond Golder vs. the Booters

• Intro to the 10-17-24 show followed by an intro to the 2-4-16 followed by the 2-6-03 show.  The initial 2024 commentary lasts about 4 minutes.  It’s followed by a 3-minute 2016 commentary which then merges into the 2003 flashback.  There is some commentary from 2016, interjected into the 2003 show.  Apologies for any confusion.  Some of the sound also requires amplifying. 
• Carol Denny’s commentary [2003] on Berkeley City Council’s rubberstamping Pepper spray use by the BPD
• Activist and single mom “Rough-Tongued” Roxanne Acquistepache is in-studio guest and co-host—with extended discussion on City Council’s guillotining of the Citizens Police Review Board [CPRB] possibly to stop a selective enforcement examination.  Rozanne on how former CPRB member Gia Grant was forced off the Board.
• Burial of Raymond Quinton shooting investigation , racial profiling, selective enforcement, use of force
• Jhond (John) Golder’s blow-by-blow struggle after police improperly towed his vehicular home. 

The current segment of the October 13, 2024 show includes:

• https://lookout.co/in-phone-seizure-and-arrest-gaza-activists-at-uc-santa-cruz-see-chilling-attack-on-free-speech/
• [throughout] David Rovics’ One Year On—the Apocolypse in Review, Episode 1: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gre8x-17032d0
• Norwalk bans new homeless services: https://www.thecentersquare.com/california/article_9ae141dc-8332-11ef-9d49-9b2ae73d35df.html
• Town Clock encounters with Daryn Carlson, Sophie, Greg, and others
• Protesters off to Jimmy Panetta demanding an end to the genocide on 10-7—Alan Fischer, Fred Geiger, Barbara Riverwomon & others  
• https://straightlinelogic.com/2024/10/13/its-so-so-bad-and-its-about-to-get-a-whole-lot-worse-by-caitlin-johnstone/
• City Scales Back Proposed Rent Control Expansion  https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20241010/281659670483492 
• Walk-the-Talk Thomas proposes a Santa Cruz Free Guide that provides streetwise advice and resources
• Asperity-proned Andrea, street newspaper vendor, back from the North, on conditions there and here.
• Ismail and Nasira—back on the streets in Santa Cruz after a long absence
• https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2024/10/07/elias-a-supreme-court-enabled-attack-on-californias-homeless/75551205007/
  
  

The Flashback to June 24, 1996 includes:

• Jailtime Host Beggarbacker Becky Johnson interviews Bathrobespierre Robert in San Francisco County Jail #8 
• Bathrobe on boycotting cities with anti-homeless laws, visiting rules at the S.F. jail, unpublished response to de Cinzo’s “rape the crank in jail” cartoon in the Metro Santa Cruz  weekly.
• Heather Hanson on the seizure of her baby from Dominican Hospital 
• Bathrobe and Becky on the criminalizing of handheld signs at S.C. City Hall, more reports from the jail
• Fellow jail inmate Frank on Bathrobe’s food crime
• B and B on police review board and city council action and inaction.

The show has four sequential segments: two for recent events & two for the flashback.

HUFF INSTAGRAM NOW FEATURES IRREGULAR ANNOUNCEMENTS OF PROTESTS, STREET REPORTS, AND OPINION AT huff_santacruz.  

HUFF supports People’s Food Tent Saturdays and Sundays 9 AM -11 at green gate on Golf Club Drive and 1 PM- 3 pm at Hiway 9 and Hiway 1.  

The Thursday October 10, 2024 show is a Flashback to November 5, 2015. 

It includes:

+++  Dead but not forgotten Berkeley poet Julia Vinograd reading some of her unpublished stuff

+++  Alex and Joff, street painters, contest the “only legal to display art within the small blue boxes on Pacific Ave.”…Keith of Food Not Bombs critiques the blue boxes.

+++  Amy challenges illegal eviction searches

+++  Michael Diehl, top-hatted Berkeley homeless activist and organizer, gives a report.

+++  City Council capers and analysis:  David Silva, Nate Kennedy, Bathrobespierre, Jim Weller, and more.

The Sunday October 6, 2024 show includes:

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/federal-court-ruling-halts-s-f-ankle-monitoring-program/ar-AA1ruJH8
• https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/10/04/berkeleys-homeless-protest-sweep-policy/
• https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/10/04/protesters-set-up-camp-outside-old-city-hall-oppose-berkeleys-new-homeless-policy
• https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20240920/281599540894818   City Expands Ban Aimed at Poor, Homeless
• https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/10/04/skeptics-challenge-pandemic-policy-at-stanford-symposium/
• https://davisvanguard.org/2024/09/1st-amendment-group-objects-to-government-officials-preventing-journalists-from-covering-california-homeless-encampment-sweeps/
• https://kobi5.com/news/local-news/dro-claims-grants-pass-treatment-of-disabled-unhoused-residents-is-illegal-251928/
• https://www.kptv.com/2024/10/01/clackamas-homeless-encampment-cleared-after-years-long-efforts-city-services-capacity/
• https://fresnoalliance.com/hated-just-for-being-homeless/? 
• https://fresnoland.org/2024/09/13/homeless-encampment/

The Flashback to August 23, 2015 includes:

• Analysis of upcoming City Council meeting on Poverty Pimp appropriations, street vending restrictions, and more
• Freedomland, by the S.F. Mime Troupe (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1m0MCuWkuo)
• Quietism after brief anti-Bearcat protests; SCPD critique
• Noah on SCPD crackdown on visual artists Alex Skelton and Joff Jones
• Andrea Morgan: three tickets this week for the Walkerwoman.
• “Oakland Police Screen Footage of Fatal Events”
• San Jose (three SJPD shootings in two days)–San Jose Mercury News editorial about “how to regain trust in police”
• Cannabis Advocates Alliance fighting SC Board of Supervisors C-4 repressive with Beggarbacker Becky Johnson’s report on marijuana cultivation.
• Bathrobespierre and Beggarbacker discussion Freedom Sleeper #6 protest and Shitter Shenanagans
• Hugo, 3-year veteran of the Mime Troupe,  grilled on a variety of questions.
• Red Church Roundsides:Larry Brookside, sleeping in a huddle, ticketed, and run off
• Silver-tongued Steve Pleich, ACLU mini-potentate, buffs up the latest meeting
• Southern California Calvin on the state of vehicular resident (in)security down there
• Conversation with 1^st Alarm Security Guard at Freedom SleepOut #6
• https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/21/18776461.php   Attendance Doubles at Sixth City Hall Sleepout
•  “Never Let Your Government Tell You Who Your Enemies Are”  https://substack.com/@caitlinjohnstone/note/c-71544259

The October 3^rd 2024 show is a Flashback to August 13, 2015. 

It includes:

• Co-Host Doc Mike on the Tannery residents anxiety over a recent murder with misplaced blame transforming into anti-homeless hostility.
• Discussion of Sleeping Ban court strategies and signing up for Homeless (Lack of) Services Center programs to avoid tickets in the absence of shelter.
• [8-11-2015] A tour of Freedom SleepOut #5 at outside City Council after their 8-11 meeting.
• SCPD under Sgt. Forbus demands sleepers leave in spite of the law requiring access to the posted agenda outside City Council and the right use paths through “closed” parks at night, arresting R. Norse and K. Rothwell as well as video journalist Israel Dawson.  Sleepers move to the sidewalk.
• https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/16/18776253.php (“SDPC arrest journalist and issue stay-away orders at Community Sleepout #5“
• [8-9]  Final fragments: Harpist Phoenix, an anonymous sitter, and Host harassment

The Sunday September 29, 2024 show includes:

• [throughout the show] Selections from satirist Mark Levy’s Live and Nuclear-Free
• [9-20]  HUFFster Athena reports on protesting Housing Matters at its annual picnic.
• [9-19]  Santa Barbara’s Jesse on hard survival times in the Santa Cruz Library Parking lot
• [9-22]  Sunday Interviews: Samuel Wolfe critiques the Library Lot campers, Cooper on community, Sammy’s search for Section 8 acceptance, Christopher R OKs the Armory shelter
• [9-28]  Greg—new Library lot tickets; Chatter with Captain ZigZar and Jesuslovin’ Julio​
• [9-23]  Attorney and activist Ed Frey on opening up and making government accountable
•              2^nd Stop Bookshop Santa Cruz Censorship with Rowen, Sherrell, Kathlyn, Drew, and Keith
•              Bookshop Owner expels and arrests Gadfly Gary Arnold, censoring through seizure of his literature at Bookshop’s “End Banned Books”event.

The Flashback to August 18, 2013 includes:

•  [8-9]   Cruzio Works protest for “security concerns” discrimination against Dan Madison and his disabled son.
•              Tabling at the protest: accounts from David, Marsallah, Mustayah, Shayshanwa, and Officer Azua
• [8-3]     Dreamcatcher on his disappearing possessions and other Red Church interviews with Joel Kappa, Free, car-dweller Mark,and others               Madison visits Cruzio Cafe and gets served
• “Get Honest About Our Drug Use” in 8-18 Sentinel by Tony Newman
• [8-15]   Street drummer Tamarack, John Oynahan, and again—Dreamcatcher​ Joseph & Philip in search of housing; Colin Campbell Clyde on the Mime Troupe’s Oil and Water 
• Contradictory reports on whether Homeless [Lack of] Services Center [HLOSC] is giving out “dismiss camping ticket; shelter full” receipts (originally created by HUFF).
• [8-16]  More recent Cruzio Protest: Faustus,
• Bathrobespierre bemoans planned fencing and security gate around HLOSC
• Dan Madison Interview; Walk Around Cruzio Building
• Petition signers speak up:  Deon, Mathew, Joko, Phillip, 
• Brad Kava on downsizing and layoffs at Patch news service
• [8-17] Sean, David on discrimination at the Boardwalk; report of 7 cops driving 9 away
• “Scope it Out” Scott Graham on the Dylan Graner on “needle spreading”
• “Backstory” Brent Adams on D.G., Sanctuary Village, and calling out police abuse.

The September 26, 2024 show is a Flashback to September 20, 2012. 

It includes: 

• Street artist Angela on police harassment
• St. Francis Soup Kitchen interviews: [9-19] Jesus Gutierez polling for 2^nd Harvest; Dank on Blue Badge Bullying down by the Boardwalk;
• Ted the “Sleepcrime” t-shirt fighter on right-wing radio KSCO
• City Council Election Analysis: Santa Cruz Neighbors throw a Candidate Forum at the SCPD Community Room
• “Homeless Sweepsters Have Candidate Forum at SCPD Community Room” (https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/09/18/18722013.php?show_comments=1#18722230)
• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/18/obama-appeals-ndaa-detention-law?fb=native&CMP=FBCNETTXT9038
• Phone interview with Council Candidate Micah Posner

The Sunday September 22, 2024 show includes: 

• Bathrobespierre presents protest news and upcoming events including next Tuesday’s S.C. Shitty Council agenda
• “Scope it out” Scott Graham’s caustic comments on the Council’s agenda.
• [9-15] Voices from Food Not Bombs: Joel Lewis RV dweller; Shutterbug Chip Shauer on comfortable outdoor living
• [9-15] Tabling on Censorship at the Bookshop Coonerty with Sherrill Bennett, Keith McHenry, and author Leon Canarow at thevaccinemyth.com 
• [9-16] Protest and Exclusion at Funding Matters Groundbreaking Ceremony with “Act Up” Athena, Bathrobespierre Robert, Lewis Powell, “Cast a Wide Net” Coral and various security guards.
• [9-21] “Cornerstone” Carol Denney on the Berkeley Badlands.

The Flashback to April 13, 2003 includes:

• [4-8-03] RCNV Protest against Military Job Fair at Stevenson College Dining Hall at UCSC
• Representative Sam Farr—Bane or Boon to the Peace Movement: Joe Williams v. Mike Rotkin​