The Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides June 20, 24 show is a Flashback to September 25, 2014. 

It includes:      

+++  G9-20 Interview with Keith McHenry on Mother Theresa in S.F          +++   9-25 Red Church Interviews: Eric Ray & Donna Marie on P&R’s August raid taking his stuff–5 camps destroyed, stuff hidden in trees taken, tents slashed by Labor Ready workers, repeats seizures subsequently      

+++  Honey’s 24-hour stay-away order from the beach after a ticket      

+++  Mass bust at Parking Lot #9 against travelers for smoking w/5 cops      

+++  Street jeweler Robin reports levee wildlife destruction to drive out campers, fencing near Tannery 2-3 weeks ago; HLOSC now like a prison with locked gate so no more meals there             

+++  Lone WolfHutch denounces S.C. Hotel for ripping him off for vets check             

+++  Jeweler reports Move-Along fine reduced from $349 to $100 though they weren’t asked as the law required to move along      

+++  DreamCatcher on massive seizure of property of 7 older men in San Lorenzo Park while they were at lunch      

+++  Correspondence with assistant City Manager Scott Collins on the anti-homeless “Mosquito” devices used to discourage groups of “undesireables” from clustering near banks, under bridges, and elsewhere in the city.       

+++  A caller and in studio broadcaster Doc Mike discuss the health implications of the Mosquito devices           

+++  Colin Campbell Clyde’s national political dismay

The Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday 6-16-24 show includes:

• Background of the Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides musical introductory theme “Sing me a Song of Social Significance” from the 30’s musical Pins and Needles
• Paula and Alana on police and code enforcer interference against poor folks downtown
• Paula on her past and Watsonville vs. Santa Cruz for the poor
• “San Francisco street beautification program turns ugly” from May 29, 2024 Chronicle
• “Giving Away Booze? Program actually Helps Alcoholics”  https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition-sunday/20240609/282381224698524
• Russell on the Coral St. demolition followed by fences and repeat raids
• Cooper: Health care racket dumping people on the streets; Dreadeye—Gov. Newsom cleaning out California of working people.
• Greg B.: Fragments of feeling and frenzy starting with exclusion for meyowing in the Sobering Center​
• Restless Robert Woodleaf on garbage can crime
• Katzenjammer Keith on unveiling of 750 beds-in-one-room shelter in San Diego—harbinger of the future?
• “Rainbow” has sour words about Chico’s musical sidewalks policies towards the homeless​
• [6-15]  Stefanie’s report from her sidewalk shopping card combo in the downtown library parking lot

The October 27, 2013 Flashback includes:

• Bathrobespierre on the backstory behind the Downtown Ordinance, past, present, and future
• Specifics of the proposed and toxic “non-commercial use” ordinance then coming up at City Council
• Constriction of the Consent Agenda public comment period and 4^th of July Triple Fine Zones & racial profiling
• Myths of the Public Hysteria Task Farce conclusions (aka the Public Safety Task Force).
• Public Comment on the ordinance constricting performer, table-ing, vending, and panhandling space downtown
• [ ]  Protest against the ordinance with Sage, Dan, Sgt. Bush, Dan C. of the Sentinel, Razor Ray, Alley & Apso from Chico, Anonymous, Denica, Anihu the pooch, David Silva, and Phil Posner.
• Phone Interview with Spilly Chilly’s Bowl of Rocks with Sandra Leigh as Community TV gets gentrified
• Task Farce Debate on Whether to Survey or Not
• Lighthouse Linda on the homeless ID system—compulsory or voluntary.
• More cheeky chalkers and supporters at the Protest: Dennis E., ​McCall, Mama Shannon, Colin Campbell Clyde, Sgt. Bush

The Thursday June 13, 2024 show is a Flashback to October 24, 2004. 

It includes:

• [throughout] Social and Political Songs from Mike True
• A 10-22-24 Interview with Gary, Bliss, and Joe Barker, focusing on Barker’s harassment by Parks and Rec rangers and state campground repression/restriction & Bliss on disabled discrimination.
• Compassion Flower Inn empresario Andrea Tishler on Supervisor expansion of caregiver canopy space for medical marijuana
• [10-23]  Bill and Chloe on sitting on Union Grove planter boxes across from Metro; Musical Mike Pentecost banned from Bookshop Coonerty for sleeping nearby; Curey, city library worker who lived in with her mom and three dogs in her car for a year in Mission St. Safeway lot; 
• Rough Rider Richard Quigley on the Last Days of Sheriff Mark Tracy, KSCO’s cutoff of Bathrobespierre Robert on the issue, and the latest on Quigley’s “freedom to helmet” issue
• Becky Johnson’s critical analysis Mayor Emily Reilly on homeless issues.
• Mad-and-Moody Michael Tomasi interview on police activity under acting Police Chief Skerry
• [9-2]  Thursday night FRSC-on-the-street interviews on the Iraqi war
• Brune and Norse—City Council candidates on the air

The June 9, 2024 show includes: 

•  https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20240607/281513641301273
• https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20240607/281706914829593
• [throughout] Older little heard Phil Ochs songs
• [6-3]  Zachary on the Coral Street police raid
• [6-3] “Forgettable” on police treatment of the unhoused community.
• Athena viewing and helping since 6:30 a.m. on the property removal and destruction.
• [6-3] Caretaker Kelsey driven away from her camp
• https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20240607/281621015483673
• Caregiver Dee Swanson samples Food Not Bombs food at the Town Clock
• Theodore—on wretched homeless conditions, now in SLE environment.​
• Increasingly outspoken Greg Bengston on his and street changes, prior banning from Housing Matters
• 6-3] Bengston phone report on Coral St. sweep
• Expected Supreme Court decision’s likely impact

The Flashback to June 19, 2011 includes: 

• Interviews with PeaceCamp 2010 from August 8-10, 2010:  Bob and Dipshit the Dog on Oaksterdam U, Crow & Red “illegal lodgers”; “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster on sheriff-created blanket shortage at PC 2010;
• More PC 2010 Interviews: Max on the Meth menace; Curbhugger Chris on arrest-created illness; “Big Drum” Brent on flag-burning; Mountainman Rich on corrupt  San Jose cops; 
• Unrepentant sleeper; 1996 Sleep Veteran remembers;  nighttime picture of the SleepOut; Richard, Amanda, and Bogie the dog
• Sheriffs make arrests; supporters aid and document; Commentary by Becky, Linda, & Collette
• Reacting to the next morning’s Sentinel story
• Pressing Mayor R. Coonerty to support the Mayoral anti-war Resolution
• Seth in Tent City in Santa Cruz 18 Years Ago; Paul on ticket for sidewalk standing on Spruce St.
• Crow on 2011 Vigil Supporting the jailed attorney-activist Ed Frey—6th month jail sentence for sleep protest; June 12, 2011: Casey caged for recording cops…
• Counterpunch: Obama’s Dehumanizing Immigration Policy
• 3rd Pardigm: Is the U.S. Constitution an Act of Treason?

The June 6, 2024 Show is a Flashback to March 18, 2010.  It features:

• Santa Cruz City Council seeking ban on new medical marijuana dispensaries.
• Check out more info at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/03/21/18642319.php Final Vote on New Medical Marijuana Dispensary Ban &  https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/03/09/18640441.php Santa Cruz City Council Votes to Ban Additional Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
• Public testimony on the ban and Valerie + Mike Coral of WAMM’s special pleading for itself but not for anyone else
• Attorney Jonathan Gettleman defends Downtown homeless sleepers Anna Richardson and Miguel de Leon (“Lito”) against a civil “sleep ban” injunction prohibiting them from sleeping at night there.

The Sunday June 2, 2024 show includes:

• Numerous little-known seldom-heard Phil Ochs songs throughout
• A casual chat with Food Not Bombs longtimer Keith McHenry on matters from Coral St. to Gaza
• https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/richmond-police-shooting-mcdonald-19465171.php
  
• https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20240521/281779929238624  [“NYC Mayor Defends Police Response after Officers Punch Protester”]
  
• “How Could Grants Pass v Johnson reshape Homeless Policy?”  
• Gritty-but-gracious Greg B. on the tagging and eviction of survival campers along the downtown San Lorenzo River
• Tent-dweller James Shane on life on the Coral St. sidewalk as police plan another mass refugee removal; Choey asking where money goes

The Flashback to June 7, 1995 includes: 

• The Flashback prerecorded because of Bathrobespierre’s sentencing hearing for serving free food without a permit in San Francisco
• Background of the S.F. harassment of Food Not Bombs and the homeless there
• The Santa Cruz Injunction against the City Hall Sleepers Protest Vigil:  Sunshine and Pat Ring face citation and arrest for “protruding sign”
• [6-4-96] Discussion with Frank Pucelik of the Citizen’s Committee for the Homeless
• Palo Alto homeless activist and KKUP broadcaster Perusha Obluda on that city’s anti-homeless “No Sitting on the Sidewalk” law
• Keith of San Francisco’s Food Not Bombs response to Bathrobespierre’s jailing for soupcrime & other recent SF events.
• San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness staff attorney Judy Appel on the fight against Mayor Brown’s anti-homeless Matrix program
• Former Homeless Daycenter Duchess on attacks on homeless people

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides’s May 30, 2024 show is a Flashback to February 19, 1996.  It includes: 

•  Bathrobespierre Robert and guest/co-host “Judgment Day” John Stewart on Santa Cruz anti-homeless laws and policies, plus the dangers of involuntary social service “help” for the “mentally ill”; plus a crique of “Brimstone” Barbara Riverwomon’s support for Jonathan Kuzol Rachel and Her Children.
• “Townwise” Tony Mello on the Berkeley Food Not Bombs gathering and the Fresno homeless scene.
• Riverwomon calls in
• Jerry of the Loose Cannon publication on government subsidizing homeowners over renters.
• Bathrobespierre Upstart Updates from the Road and the Sidewalk 

The May 23, 2024 show is a Flashback to July 22, 2001 and includes: 

• Bathrobespierre’s updates on recent and upcoming City Council plan to purchase the Lee property for the Nueva Vista project; refusal to put Councilmember Porter’s “Modify the Sleeping Ban” proposal on the agenda.
• Dustyhands Doug McGrath on the recent abuses of Officer Seiley (the younger) around Camp Paradise.
• Bud, the Street Spirit street paper vendor
• Skidmark Bob interviews Camp Paradise head Larry Templeton with a positive view; cordoning off of Hippie Planter at New Leaf market
• Bathrobespierre speaks to City Council on its [Failure to provide Portapotties] Politics 
• Stillstanding Steve Argue on sheriffs called to retag a tent in Riverview Campground for “blocking view” & a citation for “intent to urinate”
• “Dangerous” John Thielking discusses negotiations for bail for Justman Jim Costner for his Columbus statue smashing.
• Street Spirit update on Camp Paradise: https://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/2002-7-camp-paradise-vs-city-hall-001.pdf 

The Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday May 19,2024 show includes:  

• [throughout] New and old mostly “End the Gaza Genocide” songs from David Rovics 
• Wide-roaming” Wes White on Povery Pimpsters in Salinasland, a Sacramento victory for Camp Resolution, rundown on Monterey County human rights organizations and other tough and tender tidbits.  Check his you-tube videos on John Doe13K.
• Rovics on the pros and cons of song in protest:  https://davidrovics.substack.com/p/to-sing-or-not-to-sing
• https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/05/16/israel-descends-into-barbarism/
  
• Activist Allen Fischer on recent town protests against the Gaza genocide

The Flashback to April 1, 2012 includes:

• Background behind the prosecution of the Santa Cruz 11 [SC-11], a selected group of journalists and activists who were accused of conspiracy to trespass at the vacant 75 River St. Wells Fargo bank on November 30, 2011 
• Response to the arraignments of Bradley Stuart and Alex Darocy , 2 of the SC-11, a few days ago
• Mike Rhodes, Fresno activist and writer, from Chancey Park with Occupy Fresno’s encampment
• Patch, a homeless evictee, describes his 15-person encampment setting up at the publicly funded but privately owned park 
• Flashpoints on Pacific Radio with Dennis Bernsteen interviewing SC-11 Defendant Bradley Stuart Allen and his attorney Ben Rice
• Beggerbacker Becky Johnson, SC-11 defendant and reporter on selective enforcement at that prosecution: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/30/18710437.php?show_comments=1#18710470 [Johnson has extensive contemporaneous coverage at http://beckyjohnsononewomantalking.blogspot.com/ throughout 2012]
• Johnson on her brief and bully-heavy Sinister Sidewalk Singsong trial and conviction before Judge Almquist
• SC-11 Supporters gathering at the D.A.’s office as two of the 11 are set for trial; comments by Elise, Jim Waller, Free, and others
• Coralee on streetside Rotkin guitaring for Measure A for the Teen Center
• Other voices: Gary Johnson, Ed Frey, Linda Lemaster, David Silva, and Steve Pleich