The July 31, 2025 show is a Flashback to September 20, 2015. 

It includes:

• Last of the live in-studio FRSC broadcasts
• Charles and Andrea Wilson from Monterey Protests against the Alvarado Sitting Band
• Bathrobespierre discussing events at Freedom SleepOut #10—the security guard assault and police arrest of Christina Barnes, Brent’s disruption, and more.
• Battlin’ Bob Lamonica on the Posner-Lane Proposed Homeless Camping Site Search and the History of FRSC, the anti-RV situation.
• Dangerous John Thielking on Eugene City Council—Speak out on overturning Camping Ban, phony decorum issues (the Clapping & Sign Ban), Smoking Ban
• Flashback to October 1988, a panel discussion between Ed Porter, Ray Grueneich, Jane Baer,and Charles Grey on the Camping Ban
• Freedom SleepOut #10: Security Guards and Police Assemble, Bathrobespierre comments
• Freedom Sleeper General Assembly
• Backtalk Brent Adams’ Suggestions on Effective Protest—Pro and Con; Bathrobespierre, Rabbi Phil, Steve Argue, Zav, Louise,
• Making Contact: the Prison Journey of Kevin Tindell

The July 27, 2025 show (the current segment) includes:

• [at odd intervals throughout] David Rovics https://www.davidrovics.com/palestine/ “One Year On: The Apocalypse in Review” Episode 3
• Bathrobespierre reads and comments on mainstream stories:

    ++ Dan Walters: “Governor  [Newsom] Bullies the Cities and Counties Like Trump Does the States”                        

++ ACLU notes a court decision challenges police use of “Qualified Immunity”           

++ Trump’s Executive Edict “Ending Crime and Disorder on American Streets”                        

++ “Courts, Cops in Deadly Chase: Cops Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity”;  “The Controversy Over Qualified Immunity”           

++  San Jose’s Columbus Park: Homeless Dig-In to Protect  Community.

• Community Activist Micah Posner’s Memorial Tribute to his father Phil Posner, former Freedom Rider and strong voice in the Freedom Sleepers (actual memorial August 3
• [7-20] Brimstone Man’s optimistic report at the Town Clock; Cooper on her new outlaw garden; Survival Supporter “Dinners for All” Drew’s call for blankets & tents
• [7-27] Drew on Lengthening food lines and increased criminalizations of those outside; Lyrical I on shrinking gig opportunities
•  Summary of the 10-19-03 Flashback upcoming.

The Flashback to October 19, 2003 includes: [low volume]

• Rough-Tongued Roxanne Acquistepache updates the struggle of Orly and Stacy Jones to retrieve their children from Foster Parent abuse
• “Battling”Bob Lamonica details the De Anza Mobile Home Park rent control struggle and the upcoming referendum to stop the City Council’s sell-out
• “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson analyzes MHC (the Mobile Home giant) and its attack on De Anza
• Bathrobespierre Robert conveys attorney Will Constantine’s critical view of the City’s rent control abolition.
• Rainbow Madonna’s Petition to legalize survival camping throughout California & Tony Kennedy Carr from San Diego
• Peace Activist and Musician Joe Williams critiques the City’s destruction of the voluntary street performers guidelines in the modified downtown ordinances
• “Battleready” Bob Patton reports on his Human Rights Organization, report on a Pacific Ave. fight; other voices at Soquel and Pacific.

The July 24 show is a Flashback to October 26, 2003 which includes:

• Co-host Rough Tongued Roxanne Acquistepache with Michael Stoops of the National Coalition for the Homeless of stigmatizing unhoused folks as criminals.
• Bathrobespierre plays Councilmember and Shadow Mayor Mike Rotkin in a mock dialogue with Stoops and Roxanne throughout the show.
• Norse’s unanswered questions for Rotkin on peacefully holding up a sign, police misconduct, the “move along” law, and other downtown ordinances.
• Roxanne on CPS problems, the need for stronger Grand Jury surveillance.
• Dora on her unfair arrest after domestic abuse—Roxanne & Bathrobespierre respond
• Callers respond to Pat Kittle’s rage at Homeless survival — trashy camping in the Pogonip; many callers react to the scapegoating including Bashful Bernard, Far Away Fuller, and others.
• Vinnie the V Man challenges the point of Bathrobespierre’s homeless; old Lady Scararms responds.
• Callers defend homeless folks including Clatterbox Embri
• “Scope It Out” Scott on Dora’s situation

The July 20, 2025 show includes:

• https://shadowproof.com/2016/08/11/new-methods-of-restraining-inmates-have-deadly-outcomes/  The sometimes fatal WRAP restraint system
• https://pacificsun.com/wrap-restraint-lawsuit/   Brother’s Keeper: Marin Man Suing Police over the Use of Body Restraint Device
• https://pacificsun.com/saving-or-taking-lives-controversy-over-restraint-device-used-by-local-police/
• [throughout]  More from Rovics One Year On: The Apocalypse in Review (2024 on) https://www.davidrovics.com/palestine/
• https://www.streetsheet.org/homeless-related-arrests-citations-soared-in-these-california-cities-after-supreme-court-case/
• https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20250717/281573771725349
• HUFF chatter: SF rules for driving away RVs using street cleaner operations
• (SF Examiner’s alternate treatment): https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/housing/sf-board-of-supervisors-passes-citywide-rv-parking-limit/article_be4a09c5-4f47-434c-a6a2-c203e4f1a9f6.html
• https://www.courttv.com/news/doj-wants-no-prison-for-ex-officer-convicted-in-breonna-taylor-raid/

The Flashback to October 23, 1997 includes:

• [throughout] “Factwino vs. Armageddon Man” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i3A1rpPiMA  by SF Mime Troupe 1982
• S.C. Councilmember Kennedy’s earlier progressive days
• “Dead On” David Silva’s update on the 2nd Sleeping Ban Initiative, his lawsuit stemming from Sgt. Crane’s assault on David Silva, and S.C. rent control strategy
• “The Thin Blue Line: Stolen Lives Project Shines a Long Overdue Spotlight on Police Brutality”—Crabtree’s killing of Gerald Hall
• Skidmark Bob’s report on his First Panhandling ticket and SCPD’s Bayani harassing Needle Exchange
• The City’s Panhandling Ordinance
• Eureka’s Board of Supervisors Using County Health Officer Ann Lindsay to destroy the South Spit Jetty Homeless Survival Encampment
• Phone Interview with Father Eric Duff on the Jetty Sweep and Arrests
• Julia Vinograd “For the Young Man who Died of AIDs” and other poems from her Eye of the Hand audio tape  https://archive.org/details/1996-cassette-o-eye-of-the-hand-by-julia-vinograd
• [10-21-97] “Cornerstone” Carol Denney on the Berkeley 10-20 City Council on letting the BPD use Pepper-Spray
• Mini-Flashback to Spring 1991—Council considers a Plan to Drive Away Homeless Protesters from the Town Clock by Making it a Park with Closing Hours, Kennedy opposed
• A Snippet from Uncle Dennis Davie’s “From the Cream to the Dregs” intro

The current show may be available on the net around or after 6 PM with techie assistance.  However it will definitely be on the archives after 6 PM at  https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html.  

Once available on the archive, it should be downloadable in two sequential sections.

The content of the show will be likely be further summarized, described,  and posted soon at https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/category/huff-communications/

HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) continues to meet regularly on Thursdays 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM at the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church.  

The July 13, 2025 show includes:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu0efhXd1nU  Theft of Personal Property Through Collaboration of State and City Entities in Salinas, CA
• Wes White on the May Cal Trans/CHP sweeps on the Salinas tracks
• [throughout] episode 2 of One Year On: The Apocalypse in Review by David Rovics
• Wes on Salinas Council actions around the 2016 Flagpole Protest
• [7-6] Abe’s report on MHCAN & other thoughts
• Billy Joe (WAC) claims disability & religious discrimination
• Isaac Collins (the Lyrical Eye) on expensive tows, phony racial activism at thereallyricaleye
• Sea Otter and Cooper on People First Armory conditions

The Flashback to 7-20-03 includes:

• Coral on the Monterey County jail
• Tickets for Fortunetelling and Lying in the Sidewalk
• At the TV table in front of the Pacific Trading Company; John Maurer’s tale
• Homeless in Space–radio play by Nutcrack Nick Whitehead
• SC Sentinel writer Dan White celebrating a year of the Downtown Ordinance Crackdown
• Beggarbacker deconstructs Dan White’s front-page apologia
• A Vandweller’s Lament
• Travelin’ Tom Noddy’s Account of his “Criminal” Juggling Protest with commentary from “Jostle the Jarheads” Joe Williams​

The July 10, 2025 show is a Flashback to July 27, 2000.   

It includes:

• “Scope it Out” Scott and Bathrobespierre Robert discuss the City Council’s giveaway of the Advisory Committee and the Relocation Committee to Mercy Charities Housing in the Dophin-Lee Project with Phil Baer speaking at City Council & other irregularities.
• Paddy Long remembers homeless John’s death and its implications
• More of the Council vs. the public (Roxanne, Fitzmaurice, Sugar, Baer): Inside & Out

The July 6, 2025 show includes:

• Tumultuous tidbits from the 7-3 HUFF  meeting: the failure of city-funded social services
• https://www.streetsheet.org/the-beat-goes-on-the-struggle-of-las-vehicular-residents-and-the-venice-justice-committee/
• [Throughout] David Rovics: One Year On: The Apocalypse in Review
• [7-5] Cooper D’Angelo and Russell—the Town Clock Update
• “Portland Said It was Investing in Homeless People’s Safety.  Deaths Skyrocketed.”
• HUFF’s Tipster Thomas gives us some sidewalk spirituality and psychology. 
• Gritty Greetings Greg on the latest Santa Cruz sweeps

The Flashback to July 3, 2003 includes: 

• Black grass dealer Taz Barker aka Xavier notes Sgt.Flippo banning him from downtown
• Businesses criminalize seating spaces downtown with laws and cops
• Why boycott bigotry at the Pacific Trading Company [PTC]

• Troublesome Thomas Leavitt on additional avenues for pressuring the PTC
• [7-3] PTC sidewalk interviews: Shawna, Roxanne Acquistepache
• “Leaning on a railing” ticket at PTC for Medardo Joe to harass a sidewalk video showing
• Razor Ray’s Court “sound amplification” ticket experience
• Jeffrey Gale’s Redding report

The Flashback to July 6, 2003 includes:

• Advocate for missing or unwanted services by CPS “Rough-Tongued” Roxanne 
• John Gibson of the Santa Cruz Bill of Rights Defense Committee fighting 2001 Patriot Act
• Reilly’s Council rushes through & ignores Kim Dowan, Sheila Coonerty, & Greg Kin

The July 3, 2025 show is a Flashback to May 2, 1999. 

It includes:

• Pastor Wiley Drake vs. Buena Park [BP] authorities; BP retaliating for Drake’s federal civil rights lawsuit seeking damages.
• “Catnip” Kate Wells on Jerry Henry strikingly successful victory getting a restored driver’s license in the face of Sheriff Joseph Hemingway’s abusive suspension action
• Wells on libertarian activist Richard Quigley’s struggle against Claudia Easterby’s attempt to ban Quigley from the public sidewalk in front of Gottschalks.
• Wells on Dennis Reim’s refusal to pay a “sleeping in your camper” fine because it was an infraction and that strategy as a new effective tactic for homeless folks
• “Saturday Night”–more poems written & read by Julia Vinograd [throughout the audio]
• Phil Baer on Dolphin-Lee Project property acquisition and Clinton’s Yugoslavia bombing
• “The Rambouillet Accord: A Declaration of War Disguised as a Peace Agreement” By RichardBecker
• Interview with Lou Rice on his Fast to spotlight abuses at the Homeless [Lack of] Services Center   https://www.santacruz.com/papers/cruz/04.14.99/homeless1-9915.html

The June 29, 2025 show includes:

• Pacific Ave. dialogue with Woodwindist George Oakley at the Scribner Statue
• Wheelchair bound Joe Watts on the SC War Against the Poor at the Town Clock Anti-War protest against the U.S. attack on Iran.
• [throughout] Rovics “The Apocalypse in Review” in commentary and music
• Keith’s commentary on the protest; Bathrobespierre’s view
• Bill, Jennifer, & others speak out
• Steve Enriquez on MHCAN; “Danger” on ditching the cops; Abe on his independent ministry; Keith Bishof on his history here

The Flashback to segments of February 20, 2003 includes:

• [Jeffrey Gale, Co-Host) History of Rep. Farr’s non-responses to anti-war questions
• San Francisco’s “Break Away” Anti-War March
• Rep. Farr ducks and dodges at the Del Mar as his Democratic Party pro-war votes and silence challenged; Dialogue with Roxanne A.
• Mayor “Smiley” Riley–restricting Public Comment Against the War & other Topics

The Flashback last 45 minutes of February 23, 2003’s show includes:

• “Assisted Outpatient Treatment” AOT, aka “Needles on Wheels” in California (AB 1421)
• Marvin X at Civic Center Plaza; J.D. Sparks (Sacramento Bee) “Homeless, Their Advocates March for a Place to Camp” 2-18-02
• Nick F. in satirical vein refuses to provide bus tickets; Ray offers bolt cutters for trapped vehicles
• City Council to vote on weak anti-war resolution, dumps action against selective enforcement. racial profiling and tightens the downtown ordinances. 
• L.A. City Council passes stronger anti-war bill + greater efforts to seek homeless funding.

The Flashback to segments of February 27, 2003 includes: 

• [low but audible sound throughout] [Jeffrey Gale co-host]
• Preparations for an all-night vigil against the Iraqi War with Downtown-for-All and Anti-War tables both happening; other local anti-war events and non-events
• https://www.counterpunch.org/2003/02/26/mistrial-rosenthal-jurors-say-they-received-outside/
• Sophie on Standing United for Peace on upcoming anti-war UCSC events
• https://www.counterpunch.org/2003/02/22/hopscotch-rebellion/
• Nick F calls in from Germany on Rosenthal and looming Iraq war
• Councilmember Kennedy ducks Golder’s subpoena
• Streetsters talk: C.J. Stock, “Mickey Mouse”, John Maurer, Wesley & Dana, Tim