Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday November 2, 2023 show is a Flashback to July 25, 2010 featuring the earlier days of the PeaceCamp2010 protest at the County Building featuring Curbhugger Chris Doyen (later known as Commander X)

The November 2, 2023 show is a Flashback to July 25, 2010. 

It includes:

  • Troublesome Thomas Leavitt and Bathrobespierre Robert Norse reviewing Motormouth (Mayor) Mike Rotkin and the last City Council antics including the Rental Inspection Ordinance
  • [7-13] Earlier Curbhugger Chris at PeaceCamp2010 (33 sleepers last night)  PeaceCamp2010.blogspot.com 
  • [7-25] 45 Sleepers last night—update from Curbhugger.
  • [7-12] Curbhugger’s report of being excluded from the Courthouse corridors after he pursued guards who stole the PC2010 flag with a camera
  • Kathy Bugker from Nashville Homeless Power Project in Tennessee calls in, 4-time homeless woman.
  • Spilly Chilly, aka Sandra Leigh, Community TV host, on corporate shake-up there.
  • Brief Robert Whitaker, psychiatric researcher, on you-tube and R.C. & Leigh, psychiatric survivors. 
  • Curbhugger and Beggerbacker Becky Johnson discuss the Flag seizure and Courthouse exclusion further.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday October 29, 2023 show features the complete Investigator radio play, a bit of Pac Ave life, and a lengthy Flashback to August 8, 2010 in the midst of PeaceCamp2010 protests

The contemporary segment of the Sunday October 29, 2023 includes:

  • The Investigator, a radio play from Canada satirizing Joseph McCarthy and his “anti-communist” investigations of the early 1950s
  • [songs by Ryan Harvey at various intervals throughout]
  • “If I Had a Rocket Launcher” two versions—one by Ryan Harvey and the original by Bruce Cockburn
  • The ancient struggle of Westside De Anza Mobile Home Park residents for Rent Control and their okaying City persecution of Oversized “Homes on Wheels”–an exchange between Bathrobespierre Robert and Battling Bob Lemonica
  • A call-in to Russell in Dominican Hospital, recovering from a stroke
  • A Preacher on Pacific and Dancing Tom
  • Malaki—gathering petition signatures to legalize healing psychedelics
  • Towntalk from Thomas
  • Jawboning with Jackie
  • Intro to the following Flashback

The Flashback to August 8, 2010 includes:

  • PeaceCamp2010 supporter and witness reports night of 8-7 arrests and citations in front of the County Building
  • Night of 8-6 – 8-7: audio of PC2010 consternation over 647e Unlawful Lodging citations for peaceful protests
  • Nina Millican, UCSC student,  and Gillian Greensite, former UCSC rape Counselor, and the dissolving of Greensite’s 30-year rape prevention program
  • Curbhugger Chris Doyen—out of jail—reports on prior night’s raid by phone; arrestee Christine’s account. 
  • Greensite on Rape Stats regarding homeless, SCPD blocking Council from considering 2006 CCPVAW report through staffer Kathy Agnon; SCPD PRster Zack Friend declines to answer key questions; caller Free encourages counselors to advise homeless folks;
  • In-studio guest Lighthouse Linda Lemaster from PC2010 on latest “protest during business hours only” directive
  • 8-7 Audio of PC2010; PeaceCamper Collette Connolly’s account; Chris Doyon on jail conditions. 

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday October 26, 2023 show is a Flashback to May 25, 2006 featuring a defeat for the homeless and broader community in the Parking Lot Panic law and a victory in getting Measure K on the ballot

The show is a Flashback to May 25, 2006 and includes:

  • A street Vet weighs in late against the U.S. Occupation of Iraq
  • Intro and current [2006] events by Bathrobespierre Robert
  • Part 1 of the anti-McCarthyite satire from the 1950s The Investigator (full play athttps://archive.org/details/the-investigator-by-reuben-ship  or 25 minutes into the October 29, 2023 edition of Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides at https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/2%20FRSC%2010-26-23.mp3 
  • Andrew Tishler, Compassion Flower Inn Medical Marijuana Rest Resort for Upscale Medicators on the successful signature gathering for local City’s Measure K after City Council refused to put it on the ballot.  (It passed and was later crippled by the City Attorney).
  • Ian, Arizona caller and previous Santa Cruz resident, calls in from Bisbee, AZ, supporting Cafe Anarchista there
  • [5-5] Vaness and Chris on hackeysacking crime and punishment at Laurel and Pacific Ave.
  • [5-7] Evagulos Alexandors urges boycott of Saturn Cafe, details Lulu Carpenter’s kick out psychiatrically-labeled customers
  • David and Monty at a rally for immigrant rights

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday October 22, 2023 show features Cease-Fire and Freedom for Gaza Protest Rally 10-20, Interviews & lengthy Flashback to October 9, 2016 with Berkeley’s “First They Came for the Homeless-Poor Tour 2016-2017” and much more!

The Sunday October 22, 2023 show includes:

  • [throughout the show] Musical history in song and chant from David Rovics: https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/ & https://www.davidrovics.com/history/
  • [10-20]  Town Clock protest against the Israeli bombing of Gaza—Nadia leads chants.
  • Anonymous carpenter shares views on the dimensions of local protest
  • Letter from homeless rights activist Reggie Meisler after the first Stakeholder’s meeting mandated by the Coastal Commission on the Oversized Vehicle Ordinance (OVO)
  • [10-21] Drew and Stayla/Sierra—Hard times on the concrete street; Miguel angry police waking
  • Nathan Hammel—Standing up for your rights against nighttime cop harassment
  • Davenport Scott & Yancy
  • Catch-me-Not Cooper on Ruftimes Russell’s latest medical condition
  • Katzenjammer Keith McHenry’s lengthy report on Israeli and Santa Cruz authorities treating folks like “Human Animals”

The Flashback to October 9, 2016 includes:

  • [occasional harsh but happy songs from  Ryan Hardy] 
  • Oct 7th Raid on Berkeley homeless at Fairview and Adeleine in front of the Berkeley Food and Housing Project prompts “Where are We Supposed to Go?” chalked on the Shattuck sidewalk in front of Downtown Association
  • “Dogged” Dan McMullan, disabled but undismayed Berkeley activist on “First They Came for the Homeless Poor Tour 2016-2017” with commentary from Mike Lee & Mike Zint
  • Jose Castenada talks to homeless activists after a bad anti-homeless Salinas City Council vote
  • Conversations with the Flagpole Community & Daytime Tent Storage Serviceman Wes White setting up camp for the night at City Hall
  • News Briefs: The case of Ramena, Iranian instrumentalist, falsely ticketed on Pacific Ave. in Santa Cruz; Brent Adams “Out of Sight, Out of Mind” videos
  • Santa Cruz City Council candidates on the Sleeping Ban: Steve Pleich and Nate Kennedy
  • California Cannabis Advocates Alliance—defeat of County Supervisors attempt to toxically restrict cultivation with a Citizen Initiative; Proposition 64–Limited Recreational Legalization of Marijuana
  • Phone interview with “Homeless Mayors” Raelyn Butcher and Bryan Brown from Marysville for 300 people outside
  • William Burns, disabled El Centro resident for three years, 5 times assaulted by another resident with no protection from landlord, police, or courts.
  • Mama Shannon on successful resistance and court battle against repeated ticket harassment by both City and County attorneys
  • Red Church Interviews: Nancy Eaton, Steve Conover, Pat Colby, Bob Rees, Joe Blow, Michael, Devon Pearce, Joey, Scott Galloway.
  • At Freedom Sleeper #64 at City Hall: David Silva’s 3rd Tuesday reports on City Council’s shifty suppression of Freedom Sleepers at Oral Communications; Lawrence MacGregor (“Blue”) on a recent assault where he was airlifted to Stanford;
  • Salinas editor/publisher of Voices from the Street, Van Gresham, and Monterey County Homeless Advocates activist Wes White history of anti-homeless ordinances.
  • Partial audio of the KCET video:  Vandwelling in Santa Barbara— 2004 the Safe Parking program
  • 10-2  Anonymous accounts of Paul Lee loft problems at Homeless (Lack of) Services Program
  • Interview with alternative candidate Nate Kennedy for City Council
  • Fresno’s Mike Rhodes: How I Became a Homeless Advocate in 2002 in his first book Dispatches from the War Zone

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday October 19, 2023 show is a Flashback to a mid-May 1998 show featuring discussion of the newly formed Homeless Services Center; tenant rights update from Donna Deiss and Marco Marokee…and more

The Thursday October 19 show is a Flashback to selections from the mid-May 1998 shows from mid-May ’98 shows particularly 5-21-98 and 5-24-98. It includes:

  • Bathrobespierre Robert’s Intro and Update
  • “Dead on” David Silva on Last Minute Push for the 2nd Sleeping Ban Repeal Initiative
  • [5-4-98] Housing California ’98 Conference: Alicia Augden of Marina Permanent Housing gives a Salinas Report
  • Portland, OR Campaign for Legal Places to Sleep
  • Judge Bryer Enjoins 6 Medical Marijuana User; Judge Cahill overrules SF’s Cannabis Club’s Prop 215 Rights:   “Pot Club to Fight Closure Ruling” (SF Examiner)
  • “Battling” Bob Lamonica on the temporary resignation of Homeless Community Resource Center as it merged with Citizens Commitee for the Homeless to form the Homeless Services Center: Bathrobespierre’s Critical View
  • Donna Deiss and Marco Marokee of the Tenants Rights Union of Santa Cruz check court records, warn tenants of evictions, and advise them; Riverview Apartment fence controversy.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday October 15, 2023 show features Santa Cruz Free Guide & ‘Safe “Oversized” RV Parking” Director Evan Morrison in dialogue with HUFF from their October 5th meeting and interviews with Cooper, Victoria, Sea Otter, and other

The Sunday October 15, 2023 show features Evan Morrison, SC Free Guide and Safe Parking Manager at the 10-5 HUFF Meeting.  The show includes:

  • Follow-up Letter on the Interview with Mayor “Fast Lane” Fred Keeley: Unanswered Questions
  • David Rovics:  Genocidal Ironies (podcast): https://www.patreon.com/posts/genocidal-90993611 
  • Mostly unedited audio of the 10-5-23 HUFF meeting:  Guest on the Firing Line—Evan Morrison–who runs the Safe Parking for Oversized Vehicles program, also the Santa Cruz Free Guide
  • Details of the Oversized Vehicle program; Successful housing search for a very few
  • Updating and Upgrading the Santa Cruz Free Guide
  • Sweeps and the Armory: Discussion
  • Lisa’s account of being expelled from the Armory
  • Availability of Tier 2 Parking Lots
  • Eric: Macing at the City Hall Fountain
  • Pacific Avenue Birth Day/Birthing Day celebrations with Madeline and the Visionettes
  • Cooper’s Catch-Up Report; Sea Otter on the Sweeps
  • Victoria on the Levee—Saga of Single Survivor there
  • Chitrow Keller—Long Time unhoused guy of darker skin hue

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday October 12, 2023 show is a Flashback to the July 4, 1990 Homeless Congress in Santa Cruz, compiled by Judgment Day John Stewart inspired by the 8 1/2 month long Post Office Homeless Table

The October 12, 2013 Show is a long audio from the 4th of July Homeless Congress rally in San Lorenzo Park, recorded by psychiatric rights activist John Stewart includes:

  • Initial Homeless Independence Day conversations with “Jabberwocky” Jay Green, Bathrobespierre Robert Norse, Stormin’ Norman, EarthFirster, Linda the Lark Edwards, Paddy Long, Barbara Haglund, “Many Miles” Mike, Baba Ito,  WILPF women, Berkeley Copwatcher, Oakland Homeless Unionists, & others  (some parts hard to hear]
  • “Homeless Not Helpless” March Prep & Discussion of Opposing “Take Back Our Town” hecklers
  • Speakers:  Norse, Green, Yahawway, Osamal, George Solis with a Mitch Snyder statement, Gerald of Oakland Homeless Union, Curtis of Berkeley Homeless Union, San Jose-ster, Santa Barbara Mike, Pat Arnold, Pam of Oakland on taking over Old Man’s Park, Dr. Michael Zinn from Orange County,and “Sharin'” Sherry Conable
  • “Backoff” Bruce Van Allen urges activists to drop the demand to end the Sleeping Ban to “do the possible” and “calm things down”.
  • Folk singer Mark Levy sings the satirical “99 Points of Light” celebrating Sandra Lorranger’s jailing for serving free food.
  • March goes on Tour of the Pacific Garden Mall; Stopping at the Forbidden Fence
  • Post Office Homeless Table: Nigel Self, Moonlight Mike Carreiro, Rodent, Stormin’ Norman, Grinning Ray Grueneich
  • Alternating speakers and musicians:  Katzenhammer Keith McHenry on SF, Santa Cruz musician Beverly Adams sings “Vagabonds”, “Homeless Livin'”, Toni Torturella, formerly homeless writer, 
  • Workshops: Andrew Jackson: Housetakeovers; Gerald Waldrin on False Congratulations; Andrea Pritchard: Copwatch; Angela Walters: Vouchers for Housing; Vincent Venson—Oakland Independent Resource Center; Self-Help Program; 
  • Mark Levy sings  Send a Man to Mars
  • San Jose’s Community Homeless Alliance Ministry activist Sandy Perry on Guadaloupe River sweeps under cover of providing housing
  • Bathrobespierre’s invitation to sleep out (illegally) in Santa Cruz; Pam of Oakland on passivity of Santa Cruz homeless; Paddywagon Pete Pascoe on “Being Free”; Berkeley’s John Michael Jones; local sidewalk shyster Ray Grueneich supporting Copwatch; 
  • Kathy calls for broader movement; “Many Miles” Mike on Santa Barbara struggle; Berkeley organizer on Declaration of Interdependence;  Flower on Mental Health torture for street victims;
  • Deep Friend Sea Monkeys strum and twang
  • Afterthoughts about the Protest

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday October 8, 2023 show features a very recent interview with Mayor “fast Lane” Fred Keeley and a Flashback to July 6, 1997 (Interviews from Santa Monica & San Jose) + a bit from 7-20-97’s Washrock controversy

The Sunday Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show for October 8, 2023 will include:


The Flashback to the July 6, 1997 show will include:

  • Bathrobespierre’s Update on Police Abuse & General Intro
  • Justman Jim Cosner on his arrest for bannering a fence on Pacific Avenue
  • The Balderos Appeal from Jail, and the Upcoming Santa Cruz Youth Curfew
  • Interview with “Consolidate”, his group harassed for small marijuana sales
  • San Jose Rachel Perez, Human Rights Defense Committee activist 
  • Phone interview with Michael Feinstein, Santa Monica Green Councilmember fighting Sitting Ban on the 3rd Ave. Promenade
  • Midnight Special Bookshop owner Margie Giz on big money deforming Santa Monica
  • June 24th Santa Cruz Oral Communications
  • Speaking against the Palo Alto anti-homeless Sit/Line law after a year of extended debate (from March 1997)


Flashback: Portions of the July 20, 1997 show include:

Discussing strategies for response: James E. Magner reports Washrock laundromat manager attacking him.

Washrock’s employee defends the management and its policies for its “anti-loitering” policies.

[7-19] Bruce reports manager told him to leave though he was waiting for his friends’ laundry to finish.

Mark reports on being turned away from the Washrock restroom.

Bathrobespierre on some examples of mediation through Street Performers Guidelines and Kimberly Hallinan/Daniel Rubin mediators.

Opposing the hypocrisy of the City’s honoring radical activist and musical saw player Tom Schreibner and harassing current performers.

Free, 23-year old visitor, on her husband’s jailing, restroom exclusion, police harassment, and other complaints Upcoming Sleepcrime trial of Dragonsheart Dan Hopkins for peaceful protest against the Sleeping Ban in the City Hall Sleepers Protest.

Billy Starr on his $270 ticket for sitting on a planter edge

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday October 5, 2023 show is a Flashback to December 22, 1995 featuring a lively debate between Mayor Mike Rotkin and Bathrobespierre Robert, with more from Dragonsheart Dan Hopkins, Celine Pasquale, and Bob Lamonica

The September 28, 2023 edition of Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides (a February 13, 2005 flashback) includes:

  • Mayor Mike Rotkin, in-studio guest, on his view of the history of homeless activism in the 80’s, establishing the Cedar St. cold-and-rainy-night shelter, defends the closing of the Coral St. Open Air Shelter and the City’s 11 PM – 8:30 AM Sleeping Ban.  Bathrobespierre denounces the Citizens Committee for the Homeless [CCH] violation of the agreement with Save Our Shelter [SOS]
  • Robert (Battleweary Bob) Lee (Patton) calls in to denounce Rotkin
  • Celine Marie Pasquale, writer of The Public Response to Homelessness in Santa Cruz 1989-1994, notes Rotkin’s “best services” and asks if he’d consider a multi-city alliance to pressure legislature or file an emergency declaration.
  • Red Top Robert Flory notes his concern while homeless was local oppression against homeless in the form of local ordinances; Norse goes into the details of the City’s oppressive panhandling laws.
  • Pasquale notes Rotkin-supported laws support anti-homeless stereotypes; homeless caller confronts Rotkin as seeking to control people and deny them free spaces.
  • Dragonsheart Dan in studio, member of SOS committee, defends Bathrobespierre and others who aren’t homeless who support the homeless, describes being harassed by the Hosts in the first 45 minutes of his arrival, corrects Rotkin’s description of the reasons for closing the shelter.
  • Rotkin rejects a roadside resting law.
  • Questions about the New Brighton Beach situation
  • Pasquale on the oppressive social control behavior of the Hosts; Rotkin defends them.
  • Bob Lamonika on the two-tiered society—and final comments.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday October 1, 2023 show features U.S. Out of Ukraine; Diplomacy Now~ and the Usual Updates from Unhoused Outsiders+ Flashback to 4-27-03: Panhandler Paranoia on BillBoards, SEIU at Dominican, Captila 13 Defendants

The October 1, 2023 show includes:

  • [musical breaks featuring Inner City the musical]
  • [9-26]  Lookback with Jacklight John Hamilton, old-time HUFF activist and Homeless Tabler
  • [9-26]  Lee Ann Sherwood, aka Grandma Barbie, offers phone defense against police harassment
  • [9-16]  Humble on the COVID lull in sleep/rest busts locally
  • [9-16]  Mel on the Bread and Roses services in Santa Cruz  https://www.scbreadandroses.org/
  •              Katzenjammer Keith reports on Cop crackdown on the San Lorenzo levee pathway and dire predictions nationally
  • [9-30]   U.S./NATO Out of Ukraine rally: Joyce C., Gloria, Drew, 
  • [9-30]   Lawseeker Laura demands “Fast Lane” Fred Keeley provide usable scale-able shelter, and end the sweeps of survival encampments
  • [9-30]   Richard Anderson boosts Sean Dougherty for Congress (19th District)
  • [9-30]   “Just passing by” Jeffrey, 
  • [9-30]   Keith on the history of the Ukraine provocation
  • [9-30]   Sean Dougherty running for Congress with anti-war message
  • [9-30]   Kathleen with Palestine Justice Coalition on the media