The Sunday January 7, 2024 show includes

• Upcoming Santa Cruz City Council preview for the 1-9-24 meeting focusing on the Ceasefire in Gaza resolution and the 339 Walnut Ave. Redwood tree removal
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fundraiser-to-protect-iconic-redwood-set-for-saturday/ar-AA1mqMip 
  
• “Cornerstone” Carol Denney on the latest University of California attack on People’s Park earlier this week
• https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20240105/281522230920276
  
• https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2024/01/04/guest-commentary-our-county-jails-are-failing-people-awaiting-trial-and-our-community/
• [1-4-24] Anonymous interviews at the Berkeley Barricades the day after the night the police tore down structures in People’s park
• Stacy the Berkeley juggler remembers historical People’s Park and Telegraph Avenue; Helen Bronstone, Burlingame architect opposing the UC teardown of the Park; Tooth describes police storming the Park and driving out the defenders
• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/29/la-police-fatally-shot-niani-finlayson-body-camera
  

The Flashback to November 27, 2008 includes: 

• [11-23] Irish and Cammuran report an assault by Officer Winston before a crowd of onlooking youth followed by an arrest of the victim and arrival of Winston’s fellow blueshirts; Mark reports cops waking up folks at 7 a.m. on Pacific Avenue;
• [11-13] Coral, food server with SAFE (Society for Artistic Freedom of Expression) reports Officer Forbus harassment
• Joe on Bad Ass Coffee “we don’t serve people like you”; Robert U. & Alice report Robert ousted after spending $25 on coffee and computer use; reply from Bad Ass management; 
• Travis on sidewalk spitting ticket, singing Christian music ticket; newly-arrived Carrie praises Santa Cruz
• [11-14] Flutist Sequoia reports ticketing of the Thursday Christians feeding folks on Pacific; 
• Nim on being ticketed for feeding the birds, sitting in a group of 2, bike riding wrong direction, sitting against a wall, having trash
• Corporate Rat, Donkey Man, Chiquita Burrito, on tales of rage, frustration, and whimsy re: police and parental repression
• Disgruntled downtowner notes 4 days running, “they stole my stuff”; Starlight on cop ousting churchside homeless sleepers; Metro driver madness; 
• [11-26]  Return to the Metro—challenging the no pamphleting law
• A taste of Uncle Dennis’s From the Cream to the Dregs 

Apologies for the lack of a 1-4-24 show announcement.  

The content of the show is briefly summarized below and is archived at https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/category/huff-communications/

The show can be heard at https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .If you do, the show is in two files which should be opened separately & sequentially as usual. 

The January 4, 2024 show is a Flashback to the January 7, 2007 show with homeless material from Thomas Leavitt’s The Wake Up Call includes:

• Remembrance for attorney, activist, and homeless-supporter Paul Sanford after his death falling from a tall building
• Flashback within a flashback:  Pursued by police in an early 1990s People’s Park protest, interview with JayJay and Ute; Redtop Robert Flory on the march from Berkeley Bart through the City 
• Bathrobespierre on the subsequent history of People’s Park (1991-2007)
• May of 1996:   Interview with Berkeley attorney Larry Hildes on breaking out activist Shitkicker Sean Alemi and Sandy Ross, falsely jailed for infractions in the City Hall Sleepers Vigil of 1996; his successful fight denying Rotkin’s push for a TRO to stop the vigil on any public property;  the upcoming struggle against an attempt to ban the protest at City Hall at night
• Tenderfoot Tim Rumford introduced as co-host; 
• Fresno Freeze-out:  Scrooge-ish “Rescue Mission” boss Larry Arce tears down ornaments from homeless Xmas tree
• Activist Mike Rhodes on wheelchair bound David Hamilton who spent 7 months in jail awaiting trial for a dropped charge, now harassed for signing on a median.
• [12-14-07]  Michael Wallace, homeless driver busted for marijuana possession, mistakenly let the cop search his vehicle; Mark, nearby resident, notes less patrol cops; Paula and Yahyah make poetry outside the E-3 playhouse
• [12-31]  Clitoria Cummings & 100+ others at the DIY 2006-7 DIY parade; Cordelia, the Hugger Woman on countering Counter-Terrorist Terror and spreading the love.
• Later on New Year’s Eve—running commentary from downtown Santa Cruz
• [1-7-07]  Visionsong Valerie and Merryweather Mike on Pacific Ave. with Mac and Cheese; Kenneth A. on racist discrimination at Rebele Family Shelter for his family;
• [  ] Human Rights Organization  vet Bob Patton—Historical and International Overview
• Karen on Santa Cruz’s Measure K, making marijuana use the lowest enforcement priority

The December 31^st  show includes:

• [12-30-23] Sea Otter reports on a phone being destroyed by an officer while he was videoing what he saw as an abusive police contact downtown within the last few weeks.  Report incidents, send videos to Laura the law-watcher at 831-245-0956.
• Troy and Otter on washing/drying resources for those outside as the rains hit
• Bathrobespierre updates the HPHP analyst’s declining to provide more details about the 2023 Homeless Dead (https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/12/27/18861406.php)
• KZSC Host John Sanditch interviewing Bathrobespierre on October 25, 2017 on police directing unhoused to the San Lorenzo Benchlands

The Flashback to February 28, 2016 includes:

• Fresno journalist and activist Mike Rhodes on police brutality there and his recently published Dispatches from the War Zone.
• “Push Back” Pat Colby on the homeless right to recycle, the recent Freedom Sleepers [FS] #32 event
• Mike Boyd on his lawsuit against the taxing of medical marijuana by local authorities.
• “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry on his struggles to present documentation of apt FS clean-up to Assistant City Manager Scott Collins, activist action expanding the free speech squares on Pacific (then called the “blue boxes”), and Toby Nixon’s management of recent FS events.
• Various stories: 72 Hour Deadline Camper Crackdown in S.F.; SF police obstruction of Mario Woods assassination investigation; police shooting in Burns, OR of man reaching for a waistband;
• Flashback within a Flashback: 1989: Interview with “Backyard” Brian Staley, first man jailed extensively in the Soup Wars of Spring; 3-13-89 “Slyshoes” Sandra Lorranger, after her arrest for soup serving at the Town Clock.
• Councilmember Micah Posner grilled on the rental inspection law with few answers

The December 28, 2023 show is a Flashback to the October 6, 2016 show.  It includes: 

• Part 2 of Beggerbacker Johnson’s account of the “Criminal Chalking” case  (related material at https://www.counterpunch.org/2003/02/22/hopscotch-rebellion/)
• Palo Malo of the Cannabis Activists Alliance on County marijuana restriction efforts and Prop. 64 (failed) Legalization for Recreation; dangers of state regs eliminating collective garden option under 1996’s medical marijuana Prop 215
• [10-5] Silva critiques the ACLU Forum on Houselessness as a political candidate booster and a guy selling a book. 
• Steve Pleich, master of ceremonies, gets Bathrobespierre’s critique, announces the forum.
• Wes White, Monterey County Homeless Union,  on the Salinas scene.
• Mike Rhodes, author of Dispatches from the War Zone, and how he got involved in Fresno.

HUFF Agenda Prospects 12-28-23       

  ++++  Priorities, Placeholder Run-through & Hand-Outs , Passarounds    

  ++++  Hand-outs: TBA  

  ++++  Street reports; As ever…Beach, Parking Lots, Pogonip, Library, Levee  

  ++++  Homeless Memorial on line: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/12/27/18861406.php  

Tick-Tock: Token Tidbits in the Winter War on the Homeless 

  ++++  HUFF Notes & Announcements:TBA   

  ++++  Possible phone contacts: Reggie M’s Latest Oversized Vehicle Report; Marin’s Robbie Powelson on Camp Integrity in San Rafael. 

  ++++  Protest Targets for Winter Shelter/Stop the Sweeps: City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission…  

  ++++  City Council refusal to meet for December Gaza ceasefire resolution 

  ++++  Homeless Persons Legal Assistance Project 10-noon  except M,Tu, W, F at UN HQ with blue banner in window at 903 Pacific Ave.  Civil Grand Jury     

  ++++  Alicia Kuhl: OVO update/support for possible protests as well as point-in-time count outcome; Kuhl’s concerns.  

  ++++  Local Anti-War Action:  Ocean/Water St. Saturday picketing 10 am-noon  

  ++++  Confronting Gaza Homelessness—What can Santa Cruzans do?

  ++++  Oakland clears out anchor-outs creating more rough sleepers \https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/12/21/oakland-police-clear-abandoned-boats-anchor-outs-warned-to-leave-estuary/ 

   ++++ Serf City Times resumes 12-29 https://serf-city-times.constantcontactsites.com 

   ++++  Placeholder followup—study groups:  student anti-war contacts, Darius rental follow-up, Psych rights subcommittee; ticket documenting/public records act request filing  

TO HEAR THE BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES NET-RADIO SHOW:               

          Anytime after 6 PM Thursday and 9:30 AM Sunday for the latest show, go to: http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  Click on the Latest Show  of the date you want              

The Sunday December 24, 2023 show includes:

• Stan Freberg’s “Green Xmas” of 1950s vintage (also available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5IXlfJSEi4)
• [12-12] More futile voices asking for even a semblance of symbolic justice and sanity (i.e. a Gaza ceasefire demand) from the Santa Cruz Shitty Council—which preferred to leave on vacation as the ethnic cleansing/genocide escalated.
• [12-21] Alicia Kuhl of the Santa Cruz County Homeless Advocates on the Homeless Death situation this year 
• [12-21] Some of the names of the Homeless Dead read at the Town Clock Memorial in the late afternoon
• A Red Xmas Carol radio play by the S.F. Mime Troupe
• [12-18]  Ceci in the remains of Berkeley’s People’s Park on the recent eviction efforts there.
• Berkeleyside article on the 8^th and Harrison encampment struggle: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/12/22/west-berkeley-homeless-encampment-8th-harrison-closure 
  
• Street Sheet: COH vs. S.F. the fight to enforce the Injunction protecting those outside: http://www.streetsheet.org/coalition-on-homelessness-et-al-vs-san-francisco-lawyers-make-the-case-for-stopping-sweeps/
• Still more eloquent unheard voices at the Santa Cruz Shitty Council pleading for a response during the Oral Communications period

The Flashback to March 5, 2015 contains:

• Food Not Bombs hassled by SCPD for its banner at the Main Post Office meal and clothing donation
• Hiway 17 blockage by UCSC students against tuition hikes and police violence
• Norse’s nettlesome local updates
• Expanded cop-initiated Stay Away orders in parks
• Col Terry Maxwell supporting the Bearcat but not the way the SCPD slipped it past City Council
• Bad Times with “Big John”, the library security guard.
• [2-26]  Street Interviews…”Lookin’ for Love”(Jay, Jack, and Mark), Oz on ticket-signing strategy, Keith M. on SCRAM (against Militarization)
• Papa John and Curtis Reliford making vehicular music on the street

The Service Providers Memorial lasted 2 ½ hours.  

A listing of the names of the dead is posted at https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2023/12/27/homeless_dead_2023_.png 

When HUFF attempted to get more information, David Davis, who seemed to be running the memorial, refused and redirected us to the County Recorder’s Office (https://www.santacruzcountyca.gov/rcd/).  See “Tick-Tock: Token Tidbits in the Winter War on the Homeless” at 

The Memorial may be further described in the Full Blog Archive on the HUFF website at https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/category/huff-communications/at a future date.  

Prior Memorials are available for the last few years at https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .  

Much early Memorials are likely available in whole or part at http://radiolibre.org/brb/ .  Click on shows at or shortly after December 21^st of the year you’re interested in.   Questions?  Feel free to call me at 831-423-4833.

The contemporary events section of the Sunday December 17, 2023 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:

• [12-13] “Cage Me Not” Cooper & Dreadeye recount the latest police seizure 
• [12-12]  Angry voices at Santa Cruz City Council’s Oral Communications denounce Israel’s merciless bombing of Israel, demand a ceasefire, and receive no assurances of action until mid-January.
• [12-16] “Scope it Out” Scott Graham deconstructs the Council’s Automatic License Reader Surveillance devices, passed at it’s 12-12 meeting and recalls an older Council’s sell-out of the rent control agreement with De Anza Mobile Home Park.
• Mike Quinn, street artist, [12-12] and Shawn the petitioner [12-13] on their recent activities
• https://www.poormagazine.org/post/camp-integrity-s-injunction-against-san-rafael-s-anti-camping-ordinance
• https://pacificsun.com/everybody-poops-yet-stingy-san-rafael-stymies-sanitation/
• https://davidrovics.blogspot.com › 2023 › 12 › from-battersea-to-burnside-bridge.html
• [12-8] Another report from a Berkeley law student watching the Gaza protests

The Flashback to the February 6, 2000 show (partial) includes:

• Food Not Bombs [FNB] Videojournalist Hugh Mejia on police backoff, international expansion, and the struggle to be heard in the courts.
• Caller Jim Smigma, upcoming City Council meeting, recent homeless deaths, discussion of Silva’s fast
• Silva’s Press Conference announcing his fast from late January
• Becky Johnson before the Board of Supervisors on Solitary Confinement, inadequate blankets, in the main jail.

The Flashback to the February 10, 2000 show includes:

• Street Light (homeless San Diego monthly) story published by Forrest Curo about police shooting of a homeless guy by Ron Sills.
• Interview with Street Spirit editor Terry Messman on the protest against Proposition E (stripping homeless folks of money and giving them housing vouchers).
• Two interviews with Kevin Clark, low-income auto rental provider at Front and Laurel, fighting City Council’s move to seize his business and turn it into a Nickelodeon parking lot.
• Challenging the Dolphin-Lee (Nueva Vista) Project at the Redevelopment Agency
• Beach Flats resident Phil Baer—dialogue on the Dophin-Lee.
• Speaking with Umbrella Man-in-a-garbage-bag outside Bunny’s Shoes on harassment by high schoolers—the Robert Stephan report.
• [12-18] Windsong Wendy caught panhandling after dark on Pacific Ave.
• Decorous Dan Hopkins on the Almar Avenue appeal—NIMBY’s seek to put up “No Parking” signs.
• Copwatcher Becky Johnson videos a “Driving While Brown” ticket.  Interview with the driver Aaron.
• Steadfast Steve Argue calls in from jail—on being beaten up by Deputy Zamora.

The introduction includes:

• a brief summary of the December 25, 2014 Flashback
• a short update on recent events
• a quick conversation with Reggie Meisler on the Coastal Commission’s hearing in Santa Cruz tomorrow and the Oversized Vehicle status.

The Flashback to December 25, 2014 includes: 

• Lane-Comstock “Performance Pens” [PP], new laws passed 11-18, going into force now severely limiting vending, sitting, sparechanging, or performing replacing the earlier Sidewalk Shrinkage laws passed in 2013 to discourage visible homeless and street person presence
• Deconstruction and detailing of the PP law
• Vice-Mayor Don Lane fields criticisms from Kate Winzell, Bathrobespierre, Alex the Artist, and others on the PP law
• “Dead-on” David Silva calls in to announce he’ll do some public sidewalk dancing to help end the Sleeping Ban
• Lengthy interview with Doug Loisel, former Executive Director of the Homeless [Lack of] Services Center, now called “Housing Matters”, discussing his work with Homeless Runaway Youth in Monterey and his memories of Santa Cruz’s homeless services.

The Sunday December 10, 2023 show features:

• “Hurricane” Helga Neibel on the recent raids along the levee path in Santa Cruz and elsewhere
• Helga on her own experiences in post-WWII Germany as a child and how she came to be a homeless activist
• https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-supervisors-ceasefire-18535295.php: Hundreds pack S.F. City hall as supervisor introduces resolution calling for case-fire in Israel-Hamas war
• “Backstory” Brent Adams: Lessons from his decade-long work providing services with the Warming Center and Footbridge Services
• “The Brave and the Free” and others protest the ACLU award to Gail Newel.
• Voices from the weekly Saturday 10 am-noon protest at Ocean and Water Sts. demanding an end to the Israeli bombing of Gaza.

The Flashback to October 10, 1994 includes: 

• “Visionsong” Valerie at the Copwatch table and other describing heavy police response to a “spitting on the sidewalk” incident.
• Federal marshals bust Free Radio Santa Cruz [FRSC] with comments from Ray Greuenich, Joe Williams, V-Man, Roxanne Acquistepache, Mark Primack, Brian Murphy, Skidmark Bob, Uncle Dennis, Becky Johnson, Valerie Christy, Lisa Braun, and Tim Rinker.
• Sheryl Koel, Supervisor of the FCC raid, fields angry questions; Mayor Scott Kennedy expresses support for FRSC; further comments by John Thielking, Augusto Sandino, Chris Krohn, and others.
• Capitola call:  Diss-ing the Deaf-to-Compassion Deputy down on dumpster-diving.
• Anderson Valley Anderson  columnist Fred Gardner on Defending Marijuana Safety and Access in the face of arrests in D.C.
• Commentary by Bathrobespierre on Ryan Coonerty’s refusal to come on the air; Nader, and other incidentals.