The March 29, 2026 show includes:

• Reading off the signs as they pass by at the “No Kings” rally
• Occasional interviews with the walkers and sign-bearers
• [throughout] AI Tsumo’s Epstein Empire: Guided Tour political rage in music
• https://truthout.org/articles/top-house-dems-delay-iran-war-powers-vote-as-trump-threatens-ground-invasion/
• [3-28]  Keith McHenry’s critical view of Indivisible as sacrificing anti-war activity for Democratic Party electoral organizing
• Holly Hammer on Berkeley’s People’s Park Council on the upcoming People’s Park lookback
• [3-7-26] McHenry tabling on Pacific Ave. for the March to End Anti-Homeless Poverty-Pimping + Solidarity with the Survival Encampments

The Flashback to the April 15, 2004 show includes:

• Look-in on SAFE #11 (Society for Artistic Freedom of Expression aka Street Performers Against Foolish Enforcement) with Gabe, Jenny, Shane, Mama Val, & more
• Interviews from the support march for the Oakland strikers on the docks
• Copwatch Bob’s advice for Copwatch Tom at  Thursday’s FRSC Pacific Ave. live radio table
• In-studio guest Buffalo on ex-SCPD Lieutenant “Jack Up the Joyful” Joe Haebe.

The Flashback to the May13, 2004 show includes:

• Vinnie the V-Man and Skidmark Bob discussing the FCC raid on Santa Cruz’s FRSC Laurel St. station
• Jim Loese working to decriminalize and make accessible medical marijuana in San Jose; HUFF’s “HUFF and Puff” plans (never realized) to distribute medical marijuana on the street
• Fresno’s Miike Rhodes in the struggle to counter sweeps near the Poverello Houas leading to the Kinkaid lawsuit.
• Late April: Corporate Pigs in Paradise—Oakland Anti-Iraq War Protest
• https://chicago.indymedia.org/archive/newswire/display/41367/index.php   A Campaign Coasting Towards Disaster—Where is John Kerry?
• Correspondence: D.C. Mayor Displaces Poor to Attract New Residents; Ralph Nader’s “Inhumane Treatment of Prisoners produces Blowbacks and Backlashes”—letter to Fuhrer Bush
• 19-year old Damian on the street for a year claims severe medical problems
• Non-updates on the Dominican Hospital-assisted deaths of Patches the squeegee worker; Linda CJ’s wife, Sideshow Bob (aka John)
• [5-5] Unapologetic local smashes into Jessica the sparechanger without apology knocking her down.

The  FRSC 3-26-26 show is a Flashback to June 28, 2012.  

It includes:

• Red’s Recovery and Survival  from Cancer while living in her Vehicle
• Community fight against corporate Safeway expansion in Aptos Ranch Del Mar Shopping Center
• Santa Cruz Eleven update & other S.C. activist news
• Andy Worthington:  Removal of Right to an Attorney for Illegally Held Guantanamo Suspects https://original.antiwar.com/worthington/2009/05/01/dictatorial-powers-unchallenged-as-us-enemy-combatant-pleads-guilty/
• Berkeley City Council Debate on Mayer Bates Bumbuster Sitting Ban

The Flashback is a bit choppy at a few points.

The March 22, 2026 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:

• [throughout]  Rovics  Best of Ai Tsumo songs
• https://www.ktvu.com/news/san-jose-consider-revising-flock-surveillance  https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/san-jose-police-flock-safety-license-plate-readers-policy-change/
• https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/03/14/redwood-city-cops-cleared-in-fatal-shooting-last-fall/
• https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/03/15/bay-area-billionaires-fighting-california-ballot-initiative-tax-wealth-spending-big-kill-it/
• [3-21] Town Clock stabbing incident: Jasmine, Roach; about Coral St. sweeps: Matthew, Meta.
• Meta’s experience with cops, Cabrillo, and the campclearers
•   https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20260316/281775635672827    San Francisco’s Plan for Drug Arrest doomed to Failure
• Oakland Sets Big Goals in Homelessness Plan; Mayor Vows to Reduce Numbers on the Street by Half in Five Years.
• Susan Abulhawa responds to Mayor Mamdani’s antisemitism charge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK579XJuSaU  
  
  

The Flashback to August 24, 2003 includes:

• River’s journey thru S.C. justice via court and cops: directed to leave town, then dragged back.
• Ken, Hairdresser Ray, Worldweary Joe Williams,  and other voices from the street
• Attorney/Activist Paul Sanford, his client John Maurer defending a “Fuck the Pigs” sign, and Good Times reporter Laurel Chesky
• Eleanor supporting rights under Worker’s Compensation
• Rough-tongued Roxanne Acquistapache on CPS Abuses against Stacy and Orly Jones & their kids
• A long musical cut from Skidmark Bob’s show

The March 19, 2026 show is a Flashback to April 18, 2002. 

It includes:

• In-studio guest Lydia Heraree, UCSC researcher working on Drug Use in Jail and Among the Homeless
• Lydia on the recent herstory of Pamona Food Not Bombs
• Update on the False arrest lawsuit against SC City Council (the “Heil Krohn!” case)
• Steve Weiss of UCSC HUFF reports
• Further Heil Krohn! Discussion re: City Council’s legal reply to the lawsuit: the Norwalk court decision & other defenses
• Officers Brandt and Baker violate state law by refusing to take Norse’s citizen’s citation against Mayor Krohn
• Brother David Bear of Las Vegas on harassment of homeless on the street because of bed shortage, forced removal of portapotty, Palm Sunday deportations
  

The March 15, 2026 show includes:

• Keith McHenry on recent and prospective anti-war activity.
• Rovics award for “No Contract, No Coffee” in support of Starbucks strikers
• [3-9] Joe Schultz, Mark Ginsberg, a Quaker couple, one of the 77 Wonders, a near anti-VAXer, and others at the U.S. Out of the Middle East protest at Ocean and Water
• [3-1] Anti war thoughts:  Bill, Keith M., Pat Kittle, Shalom Dreampeace Compost,

The Flashback to December 18, 2008 includes:

• Vandweller Joseph Ciampi’s illegal Palo Alto arrest dismissed by Judge Barrett: https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2008/12/17/assault-on-an-officer-charges-dismissed-in-palo-alto-taser-case/
• Attorney “Bedrock” David Beauvais outlines Ciampi’s defense and the substance of his subsequent suit
• Beauvais on how far you can resist an unlawful arrest.
• “On the Street” and other poems; poet Julia Vinograd phones in with recent published and unpublished poetry
• Linda from the Streets on the Rebele Family Shelter protest
• Fresno’s Mike Rhodes on Police Violence in Madera
• The Santa Cruz ACLU and the Sleeping Ban
• Mark:  Jaywalker Crime in front of Borders Book Store

The March 12, 2026 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show is a Flashback to December 7, 2008. 

It includes: [with low volume in places]

• [10-6] Aftermath of and interviews with the previous night’s UN Human Right’s Day  Sleep-Out
• In studio guest Penelope Jernberg—Police Harassment around Santa Cruz Hard Drug Use
• In-studio guest Councilmember Mike Rotkin on the Public Safety Committee’s reaction to the SCPD and campus vs. Council free speech protecton.
• [12-9] Sitting Ban lessons for Officer Winston on Pacific Avenue at a Sleeping Ban protest with Beth, Grifter, Naomi, and Mia
• German resident Nick Fuller’s phone exchange
• More Sleeping Ban static from SCPD Inouye.

The March 8th Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:

• [3-2]  Anti-war voices from Food Not Bombs [FNB] and Indivisible joint rally at Ocean & Water with Andrea Tishler, Doug, Keith,
• https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2026/03/03/community/berkeley-harrison-encampment-closure-march-9-deadline/
• Erin Spencer, long-term Harrison encampment resident after losing his vehicle describes property loss, and survival struggle
• [3-7] Abe on the goods and bads of the past week; Paul pity platitudes; Dick on collecting trashed food from the FNB meal, Anthony, Drew, and more
• Phil Baer on Iran War; Raging and Joshing with Keith at the anti-war table on Pacific

The Flashback to March 11, 2004 includes:

• Struggle to resist abolition of Rent Control for Clearview Court: City Council clips
• Society for Artistic Freedom and Expressin [SAFE] #8 taking back performance rights on Pacific
• HUFF doing a live radio table on Pacific Ave: V Man interviews Visionsong Valerie
• Eleanor on Governor’s attempt to cut support for disabled
• Buffalo on harassment from Lt. Joe Haebe
• A Taste of Uncle Dennis’s Cream to the Dregs  Thursday night show

The March 5, 2026 show is a Flashback to the August 10, 2003 show. 

It includes:

• Scott from Plumas County on Mikuriya and the medical marijuana struggle and Alicia on police destruction of  Camp Paradise a year or two before
• Bathrobespierre critiques WAMM’s exclusionary policies; Theodora Kerry defends the Corals (WAMM leaders).
• Krohn City Council testimony and debate on local protection from the federal P.A.T.R.I.O.T  Act in the fall of 2002
• Arcata’s Tad on the struggle against the Camping Ban up there
• Green Arcata Councilmember ….on anti-Patriot Act ordinance forbidding cooperation
• Former Santa Cruz Citizen’s Police Review Board Chair Mark Halfmoon on SC Patriot Act compliance
•  “Rough-Tongued” Roxanne Acquistepache –the dangers of forced psych drugging https://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/177.AntiDepessants%20Prescribed%20To%20Cure%20Anti-War%20Blues=5-2003.jpg    https://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/178.Anti-Depressants(cont.)=5-2003.pdf
• Sally Zinman, Exec Director of Counseling Network of Psychiatric Clients on Laura’s Law (involuntary Forced Treatment)  https://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/188.Forced%20Treatment-Coming%20Soon%20to%20a%20County%20Near%20You=8-2003.jpg

The March 1, 2026 show includes:

• [throughout the show]   AI Tsuno and David Rovics, Jesse  songs
• [2-27]  Brian Barth , author of Front Street, a study of the Oakland Wood Street Commons Encampment, and three former residents  there as well as Funding Matters PRster Don Lane and Santa Cruz Homeless Union President Alicia Kuhl  https://santacruzpl.libnet.info/event/15732988
• [2-28]  https://www.antiwar.com/past/20260301.html  Anti-war researcher Dave de Camp’s
• Iran war news

The Flashback to October 28, 2003 contains:

• Paul Mercelin Sampson of the MetroRiders Unions on the Metro Board agreeing after months of stalemate that flyer distribution allowed, to reconvene at the Board meeting in 90 days
• Jennifer Gosk, Coral Brune, and Bathrobespierre interrogate author Robert Whitaker on his book Mad in America  Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill 
• Implications of Whitaker’s research for “mentally ill” as labels for the homeless and the real impact of drugs and lack of housing
• Historical develoopments and regressions in “treatment” of the “mentally ill”.
• Van Jones, supporter of Ariana Huffington for Governor, on police abuse in San Francisco and Huffington’s position on homeless civil liberties issues
• Berkeley’s Jolly Roger Comedy Troupe  “Video Tour on City-funded Berkeley Shopping”, “FBI’s rationale for Selective Surveillance”, and more.
• De Anza Mobile Home Park sell-out update with Beggarbacker Becky Johnson

The February 26, 2026 show is a Flashback to October 29, 2017.

It includes:

• Lapis Road RV HomeDwellers Association  30 Day Updatehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By3CuDOGMVo
• Activist and communitarian camper Mike Zint’s “Here…There” Berkeley Update
• Berkeley’s KPFA Up Front: Eviction of homeless during the Hepatis outbreak.
• Demands for a Rent Freeze at Santa Cruz Shitty Council
• Brent Adams Warming Center Update
• Food Not Bombs meal update  Rioberto, Ricardo Lopoez, Abbi Samuels, and others
• Renters and Homeless: When Can Folks Unite?: Affordable Housing Chitter Chatter: Lady Jane Ann & Jimmie Jones
• Mama Shannon:  Perjury by Park Rangers