The Sunday August 25, 2024 show includes: (The audio incorrectly dates the show as April, but it’s August as written on the blog”)

• “Rough but Ready” Reggie Meisler’s Latest Update: Criticism of Housing Matters [HM], the recent protests against its pro-sweep policies, and the Tuesday August 27th Forum
• [throughout] Contemporary Phil Ochs memorial singer Zachary Stevenson…more of his stuff at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ituMorhb9pA
• HM and the stats showing increased drug fatalities following police sweeps destroying homeless communities.
• Speculation about the impact of changed management at the Overlook, the Armory, & the Tier 3 RV Program.
• City Council’s Tuesday move to increase street-sweeping disguised as “cleaning” as an anti-homeless measure.
• [8-19-24] Another in a series of Monday afternoon protests at Hiway 9 and 1 demanding HM start serving the majority homeless community, reform its stockade-style pro-police policies, treat clients as people, and stop encouraging the sweeps.
• California Homeless Union activist Wes White updates Sacramento Camp Compassion and introduces Emery, Harvard researcher.
• Erin from Auburn Tent City, HM evictee’s wait on their waiting list, 
• Keith McHenry examines Mayor Fred Keeley’s claims on reduced Santa Cruz homelessness & HM CEO Phil Kramer removing homeless camps.
• Lucy, a veteran of SCPD and UCSC police abuse in the campus Gaza protests, joins the homeless struggle.

The March 15, 2008 Flashback includes:

• [Selections from Young Frankenstein—the Musical throughout]
• Copwatching & recording a stop of Peter Ziegler by Officer Aldritch
• In studio guest Craig Canada describes his upset loud response to being thrown out into the rain by cops; harassment for outdoor marijuana medication
• Judith Scheer Berkeley Daily Planet on assault of Code Pink antiwar activists there; audio of Lois Atkinson, Berkeley activist there + visiting Santa Cruz activists
• Michael Diehl on Berkeley cops new citing only if outside sleepers refuse an available shelter bed.
• Mike Laselle arrested and beaten bloody by SCPD in a cop car outside the Asti [2-7]
• [3-12] Stefanie’s advice for cops who demand babies stop crying.
• “Dangerous John” T. on the San Jose trial of James Vivian ticketed for violating park closing hours when the park was open.
• Fresno report from Rhodes of bulldozers destroying campsites.
• Dino calls from Eugene, OR supporting Ron Paul
• [3-13] J.P. Freeman on cop theft of his raincoat right before the rain.
• Winter Soldier Hearings 3-14 – 3-16 excerpts

The Thursday August 22, 2024 show is a Flashback to August 14, 2014 which includes:

• Election events [2014] with Laney Sherman, Bruce Van Allen, a forum, Board of Stupes with Pleich of the ACLU proposing a night-time moratorium on the Sleeping Ban  https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/08/16/18760128.php  [Upcoming Events and Unanswered Questions Flyer for Candidates & Public”]
• Update for the Santa Cruz 11 [Final Four still being falsely prosecuted for the peaceful 3-day occupation of the 75 River St. vacant bank building]
• [8-13-14] Ranger gives citation and stay-away to an “alcohol in the park” offense; Corinna repeatedly cited for “survival sleeping” by the same cop
• Announcement and Discussion of Repeated Protests against Israeli attacks planned
• Doc Mike presents audio of Isabel Brena’s story of police harassment for displaying art downtown with her little girl with permit, surrounded by 7 cops; witness Briana Brewer’s account of SCPD Barnett’s ticketing.
• [8-10-14] Grant Wilson on successful flight to stop the SC Parks and Rec from revoking a permit customarily given to the S.F. Mime Troupe to play in San Lorenzo Park
• [8-11]  Sarah on Sanctuary City; Bathrobespierre critiques Deputy Chief Clark’s”Crime Wave in the Pogonip”

The Sunday August 18, 2024 show includes:

• Athena’s futile search at SCPD HQ for property taken by Police and Public Works in the Golf Club Drive sweep
• [at intervals throughout] Historical human rights songs by David Rovics
• “Scope It Out” Scott Graham’s continuing analysis of the June Santa Cruz City Council’s agenda
• Macklemore’s “Anthem for Gaza is a Rarity of Protest Song in an Era of Apolitical Music”
• [8-12 a.m.] Melinda at Coral St on the morning after police threats emptied the area; Eric Lopez on the homeless scene; More Accounts from Demon and others
• [8-12 p.m.] Wes White on the purpose of the weekly Hiway 1 & Hiway 9 “Stop the Sweeps” Protest reports on Sacramento & else; Alan Fisher reports on the week long vigil outside the offices of Rep Panetta the previous week; Foodfinder Drew reports on the impact of Sweeps on the Food Not Bombs family.
• “Let it Loose” Laura Chatham on the “Stop the Sweeps” letter to the Mental Health Advisory Board
• Julia: anti-genocide activist speaks up for street rights for those who live there.
• Rovics sings and plays for the Sweep Stopper protesters and describes his recent works and struggles
• [8-16] Wes White’s report from Sacramento’s struggling Camp Resolution and elsewhere around the state.
• Kim Iverson Interviews Keith McHenry [“We’re being duped about the Homelessness Crisis: the Dark Truth behind the Clean-up Efforts”.  For the short version go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avZZTAfUr44.  Longer video version also available at https://rumble.com/v5b863f-were-being-duped-about-the-homelessness-crisis-the-dark-truth-behind-the-cl.html 

The Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides August 15, 2024 show is a Flashback to February 10, 2011. 

It includes:

• [throughout] old songs by Laura Nyro; Smooth-tongued Steve Pleich co-hosting
• [12-31-10]  New Year’s Eve chat with “Naughty Santa”, Baltimore, Dreamcatcher, and more
• Phone interview with Dan McMullan, Berkeley Director of People Outside Project on how police disabled him in People’s Park, the pro-Business “Hosts”, the punk promises of Governor Brown, & updates on shelter beds, and the “Free Box”
• Comparing Berkeley and Santa Cruz protests linking local business discrimination and foreign war support
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTCr3dtDv1o “Ron Paul, Ralph Nader, agree on Progressive-Libertarian Alliance”
• Lighthouse Linda Lemaster on the new homeless census and new court “security” system
• Controversy at the Red Church: “Violence” Claims There

The Sunday August 11, 2024 show includes:

• https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/30/us/los-angeles-homeless-newsom.html 
• https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/us/newsom-homeless-los-angeles.html
• Rovics:  “My Daughter” 
• Keith McHenry on Counterspin: https://fair.org/home/the-problem-is-theres-no-place-for-anyone-to-go/
• https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/us/newsom-homeless-los-angeles.html 
• Rovics:  “Who Will Tell the People?” song and radio station KPFA reformer defense
• “Scope it Out ” Scott Graham’s Critical analysis of the June Santa Cruz City Council Agendas: 6-11 #21.1 Internal Expansion of SCPD; Eureka-Arcata gentrification report
• Rovics:  “Today in Yemen” (some years old)
• Graham denounces Council’s 6-11 #20 banning gas-powered leaf blowers exempting govt. leaf blowers; #10 $4.3 million for Evan Morrison’s People First Armory program but who’s getting paid what to do what?, #11 $500,000 to Community Bridges for mandatory bus transportation (those with jobs excepted)
• Rovics: “Butcher for Hire” (Police Boss John Timeney)
• [8-4]  Voices from Sunday’s Food Not Bombs Feed: Bill A, Otter,
• [8-4]  Heather MacCauley on Tent Removal near the Town Clock; Keith on 8-5 protest, Cooper’s instructive rage, “Tough Road” Thomas 
• Rovics: “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy”
• [8-5]  4^th Funding Matters [FM] [aka Housing Matters or HM] protest at Hiway 1 and 9: Reggie Meisler: “Sweeps Kill” + RV Update
• Rovics: “Lola Aglialoro”
• More “Funding Matters” protest voices: Alicia Kuhl, Bathrobespierre Robert, Mental Health Advisory Board’s letter urging police cutback and better training to the Board of Supervisors
• Manny on his homeless days, personal contact with Funding Matters boss Phil Kramer when he was teaching
• Rovics: “The Progressive Zionist”
• Peter Pan, Thomas—on the local impact of SCOTUS’s overturning of Johnson v. Grants Pass
• “One of Us”, a badly paid FM worker, on his time there
• Rovics: “A Song for Aaron Bushnell”
• Testimony passed along in FM from a current worker there​

The Flashback to October 21, 2010:

• Council candidate, Camping Ban opponent, and Co-host Steve Pleich reports on Homeless [Lack of] Services Center remaining silent on hard facts of no shelter available April through October before anti-homeless folks.
• Battle-ready Bob Patton on fight to reopen the Vet’s Hall
• Drum Circle Dave on bathroom baloney downtown
• [10-15] Ray on Prop 36 Drug Diversion stumbling blocks in S.C. courts, move-along law violation
• Santa Barbara settlement ACLU in August 2009 dropping their lawsuit against the Camping Ban
• City Sleeping Ban as infraction versus state Lodging Ban discussion for S.C. protesters
• Fresno report from Mike Rhodes
• “What’s Wrong with the Sit-Lie Law [in San Francisco]?” article: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/05/us/05bcjames.html

The Thursday August 8, 2024 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show is a Flashback to August 29, 2010.  It includes:

• [8-26-2010 or so]FRSC Broadcaster and protest supporter Coral Reef & Bathrobespierre Robert give reports from Peace Camp 2010 [PC 2010] on Sgt. Harms’ SCPD arrival turning on the klieg lights harassing the activists; Onwatcher Wayne’s “tents and toilets” suggestion.
• Zachary Jeff Ryan on Sgt. Harms threats to seize his and John Valley’s property; early morning ticket’s reports on ticketing of Dianne, Todd, John Valley, Blindbear Robert Facer, and others.
• https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/29/18657054.php?show_comments=1#18657058 [“Weathering the Police Storm at City Hall“]
• [8-24-2010]  Hot day’s march from City Hall to SCPD HQ to reclaim police-stolen property: Sara & Dreamcatcher
• “Tie-’em-up” Tricia Husome, SCPD Records Withholder, threatens activists documenting the copshop visit
• “Traveler” Elisse Casby and “Active to a Fault” Activist Attorney Ed Frey in-studio guests
• Frey on the “Sinister Sidewalk Singing” charge against Blindbear for singing a political song during the day.
• Alex Bender, Ocean & others evicted from the SCPD lobby; Becky Johnson reports on the lobby lockout; more reports on the aftermath
• Bathrobespierre responds to critical media (Santa Cruz Weekly)
• Closing down the Drum-Circle-in-Flight along the levee with a “Demonstration Garden”
• Sgt. Harms debates with Bathrobespierre on “when cops can lie”.
• Another expedition to retrieve property from cop lock-up.

The Sunday August 4, 2024 show includes:

• Cavalcade of protests recent and upcoming around the Gaza genocide and the homeless removal sweeps
• Rovics in narrative and song on the exploitive relationship of Spotify with musicians like him.
• https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20240729/281685440107562 [Pre-Trial Inmates lose Minimum Wage Fight]
• [7-28] Juan on probs with Funding Matters (which calls itself “Housing Matters”)
• [7-31] Tamorack on changing Santa Cruz and successful ayahuasca therapy versus cancer
• Phone Interview with “All-In” Athena on her support and copwatching of the 7-29 Golf Club Drive sweeps
• [7-29] Sara, Pogonip resident, forced to move on but no shelter offer; Lisa & Daniel—another ousted residents.

The Flashback to August 12, 2010 includes:

• [8-11-2010] P.J.  PeaceCamp 2010 [PC2010]’s new protest hub demanding decent services for those outside.
• Crow & Red, vandwellers, who displayed protest sign and cleaned up trash
• Bathrobespierre on Robert Facer’s court case: the background and basis of the months-long PC2010 Protest
• A hoarse Curbhugger Chris Doyon on the new protest spot; Channel 8 News talk with Bathrobespierre & Chris
• Wes Modes “walking in a parade without a permit” ticket [“Three Decisions in Court in the Wes Modes “Parading Without a Permit” Case“] at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/13/18656055.php
• Curbhugger’s on-the-stream Day One at City Hall for PC2010
• [8-12] “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster’s on her night at City Hall with PC2010 during the SCPD busts

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

The Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides July 28,2024 show includes:

• Protest July 29th “Police Raid of Encampment in Pognip” https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/26/18868249.php
• Activist Keith McHenry’s look back at Friday’s “It’s Already Happened Here Protest” and other protests coming up…his 10-year ban from the Galleria for attempting to enter the “It Can’t Happen Here” “public” reading.
• Other voices from the Town Clock on living outside: Russell, Cooper, Joe M., Ernestina, Mark W
• [7-21] Heron debates an anti-homeless anonymity at the 3rd  “Stop the Sweeps” [aka “Cast Out Keeleyism in Santa Cruz”]
• Occupy Santa Cruz veteran Pensky on life since 2011; Wes White on the continuing Bataan Protest in Salinas and the History of the 9-year old Flagpole Encampment at Salinas City Hall
• Brihana Joy Grey interviews Alex Karakatsanis and Kamala Harris, copaganda, and surveillance sell-out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh90PBIonbU&t=3155s

The Flashback to August 1, 2010 includes:

• [throughout]  Liberal Shop of Horrors by The Capital Steps
• [7-31-10]  Early midnight wakings, ID-ing, of PeaceCamp2010 [PC2010], the 4-month long protest that began 7-4-10 on the steps of the Courthouse & became a 24-hour encampment/safe zone with Sheriff lieutenant Fred Plagueman, “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson, “Eggbeater” Ed Frey, Razor Ray,& “Lighthouse”Linda Lemaster 
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2010/08/01/dan-ellsberg%E2%80%99s-wikileaks-wish-list/b572e498-0b00-478d-8048-c4df6f88842e/ 
• [8-1-10]  Malcolm and Margot Thornhill—frightened away from the protest by the Sheriff action; Morning-after report by Curbhugger Chris and others at the protest
• Lost street interviews:  Around Ronee Currey’s Burritos, Beanies, and Chess table on Pacific Avenue; Becka’s on sexual work and abuse among the homeless; Anna Banana Richardson, Carol Williams, Merryweather Mike, Mickey Rat, and others.
• July Oral Communications at City Council: Voices from PC2010
• Ronee at PC2010
• Attorney and activist Frey on the Robert Facer case that precipitated PC2010
• A bit of Robert Whitaker—psychiatric researcher and author of Anatomy of an Epidemic

The July 25, 2024 edition of Bathrobespierre’s Broadside is a Flashback to November 16, 2014.  It includes:

• Public  Works permit controversy against the Errett Circle Sunrise Cafe-and-Warming Center; permit parking in an attempt to exclude the pro-homeless operation
• Portion of the Chris Hedges vs. B. Traven debate on “Black Block” tactics in the Occupy Movement and Resistance Protest
• City Council cooks up a pseudo-appeal process for its police-initiated Stay-Away orders with Infraction Citations
• Street interviews: harassment cites for smoking near but not in the Metro “No Smoking’ zone; “Catch Her if you Can” Katy on inappropriate cop treatment of epilepsy
• Elm St. mission bike reg changes; Joe Traveler sings about the SCPD; discussion of the performance laws
• Monterey Charles’ homeless update
• [10-27] Vendors/performers & Vice-Mayor Don Lane in a Sidewalk Q & A: “Performance Pens” downtown
• Making Contact: Victims and Perps get together for Restorative Justice in Schools & Behind Bars