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

The  Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday July 21, 2024 show includes:

•  https://www.streetsheet.org/supreme-court-allows-criminalization-of-homelessness/
• [7-15] Voices from the “Stop the Sweeps, Mayor Keeley” at the 2^nd “Just Outside Your House” protest  including Drew, Dreadeye, and other “Get a Clue, Keeley” folks
• [7-15] “Whip ’em Into Shape” Wes White on events in Oakland and Salinas
• [7-15] Peace activist Alan Fisher on the proposed and on-going “Pressure Panetta to Stop Funding Gaza Genocide” campaign followed by two anonymous angry voices
• [7-19] Keith, Hector, and Athena bullhorn and chant at the “It Has Happened Here” anti-Panetta, anti-Keeley protest at the Galleria
• Clockside cackle with Smokey the Bearita & Trailside Thomas
• Seafoam Sophie on Coral St. sweeps and sex work
  

The Flashback to November 23, 2014 includes:

• “Catch Her if you Can” Katy co-hosting with discussion of the Downtown’s DUPE [Downtown Undertaking Prohibition of Everyone] “diversion” program
• https://thestreetspirit.org/2014/08/01/lauras-law-and-the-danger-of-forced-detention/ 
• [11-21-14] Wolfie McMeyow in Berkeley and others on the protest against the UCB Tuition Hike
• Julia Vinograd reads poetry and hawks her latest Cannibal Cafe book
• Poet and activist Peter Marin on funding rides from jail, the Santa Barbara RV parking law, local work of the Committee for Social Justice, 
• Cornell West speaking at the UC Santa Cruz Occupation:  https://www.indybay.org//newsitems/2014/11/21/18764409.php
• “Spilly Chilly” aka Sandra Leigh on costly cliqueishness in the new Community TV
• Calvin’s report on the Venice Beach busts and the resistance of David Busch, Occupy Venice, and others
• UCB Occupation:  Susan K on the Protest over Tuition Hikes
• Bathrobespierre reads some Local & National News Briefs

The Thursday July 18^th Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show is a Flashback to May 11, 1997. 

It includes:

• [uneven sound—requires adjusting at several points]
• [4-27-97] Lengthy interview with Mendicino Medical Marijuana long-time activist Pebbles Trippet on her trials past and recent, difficulties with her attorney around the historic Prop 215 (passed in 1996), and more
• Sitcrime & Leancrime on Pacific Avenue—plus Pepperspray treatment at Washrock laundromat/coffeebar.​
• ​​Food Not Bombs activist Diamond Dave in SF, and Berkeley homeless advocate Yukon Hanibal updates
• Street Sage Russell Baker shining the light on Berkeley Shitty Council hypocrisy
• Poet Julia Vinograd, bubbling, smiling, and reading from her 50th-or-so book
• Cornerstone Carol Denney on the UCB’s SLAPPsuit harassment
• Berkeley Police Review Commisioner Aaron Handel
• More snatches from the People’s Park 28^th Anniverary:  Denney sings; 
• “Dead On” David Silva on S.C. and Fresno welfare systems & S.C.’s “Real Change not Spare Change” program
• Tuflove Laura Tucker on Shower Discrimination at Lee Laboa’s St. Francis Soup Kitchen

The Sunday July 14, 2024 show includes:

• Announcements of pending protests against the Gaza genocide and the Santa Cruz sweeps
• An Open Letter to Governor Newsom on alternatives to the sweeps enabled by the SCOTUS’s Grants Pass decision
• https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/07/11/the-truth-lovers-prayer/
• https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/the-story/homeless-camp-case-grants-pass-oregon-supreme-court-ruling/283-2044f141-5a87-42c8-9c69-bdaedd0d01e8
• 7-9  “Homes Not Sweeps” Vigil outside S.C. Mayor “Fast Lane” Fred Keeley’s home at Market and Water
• [7-9] Wes White on Service Program ID’s in Salinas promoting police treatment of encampments; Keith McHenry’s exchange with Mayor Keeley; “Desperado in Training” praises Bathrobespierre and the protest; Lorens on squatting at Ginza; street reports from “Truthtracker” Thomas;  Alex on abusive treatment at Dominican Hospital; 
• “Can’t shut me down” Cooper D’Angelo’s latest update; 

The Flashback to April 17, 1997 includes:

• [4-8] Public Testimony at San Jose’s City Council on its anti-homeless Sitting Ban
• [Satirical songs by Mark Levy from “Take Off Your Clothes to Those You Oppose”] 
• Bathrobespierre denounces Police Chief Steve Belcher’s deep-sixing citizen Complaints by labeling them minor “Inquiries”, violating his own C-7 internal police directive as well as city and state law.
• “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry on SFPD killer cop Mark Andiya still on duty after killing blacks like Aaron Williams + other S.F. cop capers
• Vandweller Laura Tucker on the “Real Change Not Spare Change” anti-panhandling project
• Don of the 1988 Vehicular Residents Association and the fight in San Francisco for survival
• Palo Alto Human Relations Commission activist on organizing directly with a sit-in against the Sit-Lie Ordinance

The Flashback to April 20, 1997 includes:

•  Bathrobespierre’s Santa Cruz Court and City Council update
•  Upcoming Palo Alto Sitting Ban CD sit-in as their Sitting Ban goes into effect over a 10-block area on 4-24 
•  Palo Alto public comment on the Sitting Ban ordinance from January (some parts difficult to hear)
•  Palo Alto City Attorney Ariel Cohen (January 1997): is the Sitting Ban anti-homeless?
• (Final March hearing) More public comment pro and con on the Ban
• Harsh San Jose Sit/Lie Ban law—Bathrobespierre’s description and Public Comment​​

The Flashback to May 4, 1997 includes: 

• [5-1] Analysis, Aftermath, & Interviews in the wake of the  “Real Change not Spare Change” [SCnRC] Press Conference 
• Sacramento Homelessness and Housing Conference—Interviews with Len Ducette “Hard Times” Homeless Newspaper Vendor
• Bathrobespierre on Santa Cruz History of Local Protest and State Organization
• More street debate on the “Let Them Eat Paper” SCnRC program
• [5-4] Peppertongue Pat Ring on trial for a small sign and a “fuck you” comment to the Mayor on SCnRC​

The July 11, 2024 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show is a Flashback to February 21, 1997. 

It includes: 

• Bathrobespierre’s extensive commentary on court successes around the City’s attempt to persecute and prosecute protesters in the previous year’s City Hall Lockdown case and City Council’s meaningless “homeless study session”.
• [throughout] Songs from the S.F. Mime Troupe’s 1981 production of Last Tango in Huahuatenango
• Citizens Committee for the Homeless failure to reopen a safe sleeping zone.
• Jeffrey Stewart, street musician, noting Officer Eveleth violent harassment and court conviction for “possession of a milk crate”. Alice Tiehust on her court case.
• “Skidmark” Bob Duran, street musician, harassed for “dim” bike light, “unreasonable noise” by Ali Baba’s Cafe and more
• “Peppertongue” Pat Ring beats harassment charges by court bailiff and bully James Thurber
• Brief passionate public commentary opposing Palo Alto’s pending “sit-lie” law.

The July 7, 2024 edition of Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides includes: 

+++ California Homeless Union organizer Keith McHenry rounds up and fields suggestions from unhoused survivors and housed supporters on how to deal with the Supreme Court’s attack on the Grants Pass v. Jackson decision and the continued sweeps of property and people in Santa Cruz

+++ Western Regional Advocacy Project activist Paul Boden discusses Business Improvement Decisions (B.I.D.s) and their repressive effect on folks outside.

+++  Venice Civil Rights for the Homeless advocate Peggy Lee Kennedy on the L.A. crackdown on those on the streets.

+++ [throughout] Foundring plays and sings more Tom Lehrer tunes, some with updated lyrics at https://rumble.com/v4s5cg3-a-streaming-wasted-with-tom-lehrer-live-performance-of-60-songs.html 

The Flashback to November 24, 2011 includes: 

+++  A critical lookback at former Mayor Scott Kennedy’s darker side.

+++  A chat with Danica de Foy, Monterey broadcaster, on the Occupy Santa Cruz [OSC] struggle with Sheriff Wowak’s deputies.

+++  OSC’s Dennis and Bathrobespierre discuss City Council repression and the City’s bathroom shutdown.

+++  Interviews with the housed Dolores Manning and the unhoused Phillip Snyder harassed for his service dog “Barack Obama.”

+++   “Scope it Out” Scott Graham on the City’s extravagant unwise funding of the De Sal water project & a critique of Scott Kennedy’s record.

+++   [11-10] A walkaround at OSC

+++   Optimistic news from Mike Donahue—30 days and nights at OSC–on the Wells Fargo occupation and other actions.

+++   Updates from Occupy Oakland, Egyptian police violence against protesters at Tahrir Square

+++   OSC attorney Ed Frey reports he’s gotten the court to move the City’s attempt to stop OSC with an injunction, moving it to Federal court.

+++   Bill calls in to denounce Union absence from OSC. 

+++   “Cut the Crap” Coral Brune and “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster on report and critique internal disruption at OSC

+++   Lemaster on the planned Recuperative Center

+++   Making Change: a 2011 look at the Israeli Occuptation

The July 4, 2024 show is a Flashback to November 27, 2011. 

It includes:

• Reports from photojournalist Alex Darocy [https://alexdarocy.blogspot.com/] from the Occupy Santa Cruz [OSC] General Assembly—talk of​ moving the  protest for “safety concerns”, in-studio guest Grasshopper, and caller Neil Mick
• FRSC broadcaster Meta (Mathew Embryo] reports from L.A. and SLO on the Occupy movements.
• “A Little Education on Move-On” by Kevin Zeiss
• Mike Rhodes Updates from Fresno [https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/11/20/18700355.php  “More Arrests at Occupy Fresno”]
• Last conversation between Bathrobespierre Robert Norse and former Mayor Scott Kennedy—who died the week before.
• Clips from a Capitola City Council meeting’s public comments on Mobile Home Rent Control
• “Scope It Out” Scott Graham on Santa Cruz City Council capers
• “The Fruits of Deliberation” on salon.com by Glenn Greenwald

The Sunday June 30, 2024 show includes:

• Anticipating the Supreme Court’s Grants Pass v. Johnson decision 
• [throughout] Obscure Phil Ochs songs and recent ones by David Rovics 
• [6-24]  Interview and presentation by Keith McHenry on what was then the forthcoming Supreme Court Grants Pass ruling
• Rebellion in song and story at the Womera Break-Out of 2002 in Australia
• [6-29] Phone Interview with McHenry after the release of the Supreme Court’s decision
• Video: The People vs. Paul Crump  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrSnv2z2ZGs 
• “How Does Anyone Still Care About This Bullshit” by Caitlin Johnstone https://substack.com/home/post/p-146110105

The Flashback to October 27, 1995 includes:

• “Renegade” Richard Quigley on reasonable vs. ridiculous rules of the road—challenging chump tickets in court​.
• Quigley’s “Take me to a magistrate” encounter and strategy with a roadside cop.
• Quigley’s cases in local courts  seeking to regain his driver’s license and “verified complaints”.
• “No Guns” (Antoinette) Radichi on management harassment at the Wednesday downtown Farmer’s Market
• Phone call-in from “Red-Top” Robert Flory:  “driving is a necessity and a right, not a privilege.” 
• Flory’s report on Arcata mayor’s threat to arrest Food not Bombs food servers in their homes. 
• [10/26] Phone interview with “Won-Ton” Dave Jacobs