The June 5, 2025 show is a Flashback to October 18, 2012. 

It includes:

• [throughout] Topical songs by Jim Hende
• Pre-election update on a dark election with sad predictions
• Lawrence (aka “Blue”) nabbed for sleeping in a bush.
• RR “my existence is Resistance” anonymous but anomalous
• Beggarbacker Becky reviews her protest against the RCNV at the Grange Hall.
• Lighthouse Linda contrasts 1980’s anti-homeless police activity with current 2012 cop capers.

The June 1, 2025 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes: 

• More musical history from David Rovics [throughout]
• “Hand-in-Hand: What if We Responded to Homelessness like to Hurricane Helene”  https://slingshotcollective.org/issue-142spring-2025/
• “Trump Never Wanted a Deal with South Africa: He Wanted a Humiliation” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/opinion/trump-ramaphosa-meeting-south-africa.html
• Shelter shuffle for Kelly & John with a pepper spray chaser; polling the poor outside
• A Look Back with Fascist-Fighter Phil Baer; Dogtrainer Scott with Dogpal Betsy ticketed
• Downtoearth Drew’s FNB report
• Troubleshooter Troy’s account of the aftermath of the Tannery sweep
  

The Flashback to June 24, 2012 includes:

• Protests against the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) “unprivileged enemy belligerent” (aka “unlawful combatant”) establish indefinite detention.
• Santa Cruz Eleven [SC11] Update
• FRSC’s Embri & Bathrobespierre on Mayor Don Lane’s conflict of interest  https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/01/18832005.php 
• Lawrence’s account of exclusion from various meals and services
• More from NDAA protest; Amelia, Casey, Dennis E., Summerluv, Aldo, Dennis #2, Angel, Susan, Brent, 
• Berkeley City Council—Public Testimony on Anti-Homeless Sitting Ban
• [6-18-12] Todd and John seek Red Church housing for the night
• Poet Julia Vinograd recites poems with punch.
• Smooth-tongued Steve Pleich on unconstitutional city curfews

The May 29^th Show is a Flashback to May 31, 2012. 

It includes:

• Bathrobespierre Robert’s Santa Cruz & Ashland, OR update & some political history
• Kerith Axton phones in “Exclusion Zone” fight in Ashland, OR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBEzUldvo1o
• Axton on the Ashland fight around the Nudity Ban and Protest Strategies
• Santa Cruz political prisoner Ground Zero Gary Johnson on the phone. 
• Christienne of Avatar Imports on the Downtown “Vagrant” Scene
• Casey Livingood’s Report on the “new” Homeless [Lack of] Services Center

The May 25, 2025 show includes: 

• https://fresnoalliance.com/fresno-fails-to-follow-through-on-no-camping-arrest-2/
• [5-19]  Robin Lopez at the sidewalk Monday Musical Meet on Pacific Ave on Armory abuses under earlier Salvation Army management; Another reports thefts there and being excluded after he filed a report; Darleen, Texas, Jaya, and Mell give their views
• Wes White on the homeless video selection on  his John Doe13K you-tube channel
• Stutters from Soupstock at San Lorenzo Park: Robert (“the Hero”) Woodleaf on his Section 8 search; Keith McHenry’s (yet another) History of Food Not Bombs; Skip, Isaac Collins, Billy Joe Carpenter, Laura Zucker, Jimmy Two Guns, and more

The Flashback to May 15, 2016 includes: 

• “Vanish the Vendors” ordinance at City Council—Scott Collins as staff presenter
• 1 1/2 hours of Bathrobespierre deconstructing Collins’ claims
• Deconstructing the Collins/Council defense of the “move-along” law
• The Pleich Posture on the darkening Downtown Ordinances
• Keith McHenry ‘s report from Freedom SleepOut #44 
• A lookback at the 2002 De Anza Manufactured Homes Rent Control Demolition
• San Lorenzo Park Police Predators: Bernie Sanders supporters Chris and Dan comment
• Candelight Kim Argula on Food Not Bombs
• Vendorlaw Talk and Commentary on Pacific Ave’s Blue Boxes with Sam, Dan the poet/typist, Gena the Host Boss and more
• Selection from The Grapes of Wrath audio
• Hour of Slack

The May 22, 2025 show is a Flashback to April 14, 2016. 

It includes:

• “Katzenjammer” Keith’s jail call, held for creating additional public spaces downtown
• Keith’s report on jail conditions, and the Bezore memorial and history
• City Council’s 4-12-2016 rubberstamping of the vending and panhandling ordinances
• Phil Ochs in song and story on his early musical history [at various points throughout]
• “Question-Ready” Coral Brune on Art Censorship of Lisa and Mathew’s nude sculpture  https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-silas-8372074b
• Ben from Portland facing police threats for vending outside the blue bracketed pens
• Street jeweler James with art that attracted an “undesirable” crowd & cop attention
• Nicolas Bulach giving a Cannabis Cultivation County C-4 Committee update

The May 18 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:

• [round and about the show] Songs and Commentary from David Rovics in his musical history of the world (2013-2016)
• [4-26-2025] Meta on garbagecan gourmet
•     Scott McCurah on police beating, crow feeding, his vehicular living, & cop theft
•     Devon Bryant on massive tent evictions slated for The Tannery survival camp group.
•     Laura David, 25-year resident, returns to Santa Cruz.
•     JZ, recently released from Drug Prohibition Crime, and pissed about it.
•     Keith McHenry on Rose, the Sandwich Lady, memorial, and all-around newsish
• [4-24] HUFF initial chaotic cacophony on dealing with Shelter Mellowman Morrison
• [5-17] Dawnlight Drew’s Food Not Bombs update
•      Recently returned & wheelchair-wheeling Rhonda comparing 3 years ago & now.
•      Shawn on Monterey City’s newest survival sleeper elimination law

The Flashback to July 18, 2004 includes: (first hour is very low volume, needs earphones)

• Milvia in wheelchair with her bedding and wardrobe
• Crossroads Chris Brozda on recent jailing, psychiatric imprisonment, & forced drugging.
• Scott and Lea applaud the SAFE singers; the Hefner sisters sing on;
• Chief PD Glen Mower on the Santa Barbara on the vehicular habitation struggle.
• Dorey & caregiver Moses on the threat to evict her for medical marijuana use.
• Santa Barbara’s “‘Nuf Said” Nancy McCradie of HOW [Homes on Wheels]
• “Dangerous John T” ‘s Mumia Update
• San Jose cop Michael Walker shooting of Rudy Cardenas: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/san-jose-agent-absolved-in-killing-narcotics-2588604.php
• Rise in cop Taser use.
• SAFE #23, Pacific Ave. Drummers, and Pat on police intimidation
• last June City Council meeting—Becky and Bathrobespierre confronted Kennedy & Rotkin
• Bob Fitch evicts Indymedia from Resource Center for Non-Violence Broadway Office

The May 15, 2025 show is a Flashback to July 10, 2005. 

It includes: 

• Mike reports being struck by cop in San Lorenzo Park; “Crazy” Mary spends 5 days in jail on Open Container warrant; Jeremy searched by hostile cops on Hippie Corner; other reports from Hawk, Micah P., Drummer Bob.
• More music and reports from SAFE event #74
• Human Rights Organization [HRO] and Brown Berets grill Councilmember Tony Madrigal in a long interview.
• [6-26] Brown Beret & Copwatch activists Frances & Felipe
• Pebbles Trippet, “pariah in Ukiah”, with June 23rd Lockyer opinion restricting cities from increasing grass penalties beyond Prop. 215.
• Dennis the Bard on police assaulting his flute duet.
• Producer and co-worker Becky Johnson & critics on her censorship complaints & exclusion from FRSC and Santa Cruz Indymedia.

The May 11, 2025 show includes:

+++  “Scope it Out” Scott fleshes out gloomy prospects at Tuesday’s S.C. Shitty Council

+++   [throughout] David Rovics “A [Musical] History of the World” 2011-2013

+++   Scott reviews the Downtown Expansion Plan as B-South of Laurel under cover.

+++   Phone interview with HUFFster “Tough Haul” Troy, the ordeal of S.C. outside living.

+++   Mid-April Food Not Bombs [FNB] interviews: Louisa Carolli on forced drugging in Santa Cruz. “Still Standing” Stephanie Ross on dangerous fungus among those outside….Smiley Big returns to the area looking for more activist opportunities: “No Cages, Please!” Jay speaks up…

+++    [5-5-25]  Visionsong Valerie strums and sings; Karefree Kelly, Midtown Madeleine.

+++    Billy Quealy on the Housing Struggle and Shitty Sheltering

+++    “Katzenjammer” Keith on FNB‘s financial problems in a wide-ranging rant.

The Flashback to September 5, 2005 includes:

+++  Christine of San Jose’s Area 420 working on guidelines, ID cards, but opening dispensary?

+++  Bathrobespierre and Troublesome Thomas Leavitt interview columnist and music critic Bruce Bratton and his establishment and alternative media days.

+++  Earthmommer and Lighthouse Linda fire questions at Bratton, while he describes his dismissal from Sentinel and Metro

+++   Bratton on Public Access and the Beach Boardwalk; Bathrobespierre critiques Bratton’s media silence on homeless and poverty issues, who pleads ignorance on those issues.

+++   “Lighthouse” Linda on her shelter priorities on the 1999-2000 Homeless Issues Task Force

+++   SAFE event #83 interviews with Hot Rod John Rapport, “Green Man”, Dan Hemmingway, Don Filano, Jennifer Lawson, Thomas Robb in the specifics of police harassment

+++    LisaMolyneux on her about-to-open medical marijuana club Greenway 

+++    “Dangerous” John Thielking reads HRO [Human Rights Organization] correspondence to and from Mayor Mike Rotkin.

+++    Ukiah’s Pebbles Trippet joins Bratton in denunciation of the Red Cross in the Hurricane Katrina crisis in New Orleans

+++    “Visionsong” Valerie asks about Katrina style suffering in Santa Cruz.

+++    Criticism of Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods.  

+++    “Road Scholar” (aka Gregarious Greg) and Leavitt on high rents also trap houseless here.

+++     Counterpunch stories on the U.S. Iraqi occupation

The May 8, 2025 show is a Flashback to April 9, 2000. 

It includes:

• Co-Host James Nay joins Bathrobespierre Robert throughout
• [4-5] Felton’s Happy Camper—adventures on street and shelter
• Blake Smith and Rev. Snow—both from Sacramento’s SHOC.
• Melissa Goldberg, UCSC student’s “Throwing the Homeless out of their Homes” paper
• Dead-on David Silva on futile negotiations, Green Party’s vote to join CD against City Council’s Tuesday Sleeping Ban silence, and his own Fast to end the Ban.
• Skidmark Bob’s “Skinheads with Underwear on Pacific Avenue” report
• Attorney Catnip Kate Wells on medical marijuana reform proposals + her new (soon to be zoned away) medical marijuana club; updates local homeless court cases
• Battling Bob L., Lighthouse Linda L., and “Lotta Law” Eleanor pack in updates.
• Nay on his Chalking “End the Sleeping Ban’ on the sidewalk with erasable chalk.

The May 4, 2025 show includes:

• Discussion with People’s First Director Evan Morrison regarding Armory rules and outcomes with HUFFsters.
• More musical history from David Rovics throughout
• LawWatcher Laura C. lastest report from the Board of StuporVipers to fund MHCAN even at its reduced size.
• Moments and Musings from the May 1^st Rally and March 
• San Jose Mayor Matt Mayhem Cracks Down on RV survival campers

The Flashback to December 7, 1997 includes:

• Avery’s panhandling, leaning, and sitting on cardboard ticket
• Bathrobespierre Previews 12-8 City Council, Updates the 11-12 SCPD Happy John Dine slaying, and Lang’s Levee Curfew
• Callers sound off: Phil Free & V-Man give inside info and sharp criticism of law enforcers downtown
• Pat Kittle outraged at those surviving outside demands Bathrobespierre denounce littering campers.
• Beggarbacker Becky Johnson addresses the Magnet Effect and other hostile-to-the-homeless myths.
• Chaz, aka “The Widget Man” & “Hapless Harry”, on a 7-cop cite

The Flashback to December 21, 1997 includes:

• Tenant Tips from Marco Marconi of S.C. Tenant’s Union
• Pamela Gardela’s “equal access” case after ticketed for sitting on a bus bench with a monthly bus pass.
• “Happy” John Dine case Update and caustic commentary
• Norse critic Mike Mason attacks his analysis of the “Happy John” killing on KSCO radio.