The Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides August 15, 2024 show is a Flashback to February 10, 2011. 

It includes:

• [throughout] old songs by Laura Nyro; Smooth-tongued Steve Pleich co-hosting
• [12-31-10]  New Year’s Eve chat with “Naughty Santa”, Baltimore, Dreamcatcher, and more
• Phone interview with Dan McMullan, Berkeley Director of People Outside Project on how police disabled him in People’s Park, the pro-Business “Hosts”, the punk promises of Governor Brown, & updates on shelter beds, and the “Free Box”
• Comparing Berkeley and Santa Cruz protests linking local business discrimination and foreign war support
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTCr3dtDv1o “Ron Paul, Ralph Nader, agree on Progressive-Libertarian Alliance”
• Lighthouse Linda Lemaster on the new homeless census and new court “security” system
• Controversy at the Red Church: “Violence” Claims There

The Sunday August 11, 2024 show includes:

• https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/30/us/los-angeles-homeless-newsom.html 
• https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/us/newsom-homeless-los-angeles.html
• Rovics:  “My Daughter” 
• Keith McHenry on Counterspin: https://fair.org/home/the-problem-is-theres-no-place-for-anyone-to-go/
• https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/us/newsom-homeless-los-angeles.html 
• Rovics:  “Who Will Tell the People?” song and radio station KPFA reformer defense
• “Scope it Out ” Scott Graham’s Critical analysis of the June Santa Cruz City Council Agendas: 6-11 #21.1 Internal Expansion of SCPD; Eureka-Arcata gentrification report
• Rovics:  “Today in Yemen” (some years old)
• Graham denounces Council’s 6-11 #20 banning gas-powered leaf blowers exempting govt. leaf blowers; #10 $4.3 million for Evan Morrison’s People First Armory program but who’s getting paid what to do what?, #11 $500,000 to Community Bridges for mandatory bus transportation (those with jobs excepted)
• Rovics: “Butcher for Hire” (Police Boss John Timeney)
• [8-4]  Voices from Sunday’s Food Not Bombs Feed: Bill A, Otter,
• [8-4]  Heather MacCauley on Tent Removal near the Town Clock; Keith on 8-5 protest, Cooper’s instructive rage, “Tough Road” Thomas 
• Rovics: “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy”
• [8-5]  4^th Funding Matters [FM] [aka Housing Matters or HM] protest at Hiway 1 and 9: Reggie Meisler: “Sweeps Kill” + RV Update
• Rovics: “Lola Aglialoro”
• More “Funding Matters” protest voices: Alicia Kuhl, Bathrobespierre Robert, Mental Health Advisory Board’s letter urging police cutback and better training to the Board of Supervisors
• Manny on his homeless days, personal contact with Funding Matters boss Phil Kramer when he was teaching
• Rovics: “The Progressive Zionist”
• Peter Pan, Thomas—on the local impact of SCOTUS’s overturning of Johnson v. Grants Pass
• “One of Us”, a badly paid FM worker, on his time there
• Rovics: “A Song for Aaron Bushnell”
• Testimony passed along in FM from a current worker there​

The Flashback to October 21, 2010:

• Council candidate, Camping Ban opponent, and Co-host Steve Pleich reports on Homeless [Lack of] Services Center remaining silent on hard facts of no shelter available April through October before anti-homeless folks.
• Battle-ready Bob Patton on fight to reopen the Vet’s Hall
• Drum Circle Dave on bathroom baloney downtown
• [10-15] Ray on Prop 36 Drug Diversion stumbling blocks in S.C. courts, move-along law violation
• Santa Barbara settlement ACLU in August 2009 dropping their lawsuit against the Camping Ban
• City Sleeping Ban as infraction versus state Lodging Ban discussion for S.C. protesters
• Fresno report from Mike Rhodes
• “What’s Wrong with the Sit-Lie Law [in San Francisco]?” article: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/05/us/05bcjames.html

The Thursday August 8, 2024 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show is a Flashback to August 29, 2010.  It includes:

• [8-26-2010 or so]FRSC Broadcaster and protest supporter Coral Reef & Bathrobespierre Robert give reports from Peace Camp 2010 [PC 2010] on Sgt. Harms’ SCPD arrival turning on the klieg lights harassing the activists; Onwatcher Wayne’s “tents and toilets” suggestion.
• Zachary Jeff Ryan on Sgt. Harms threats to seize his and John Valley’s property; early morning ticket’s reports on ticketing of Dianne, Todd, John Valley, Blindbear Robert Facer, and others.
• https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/29/18657054.php?show_comments=1#18657058 [“Weathering the Police Storm at City Hall“]
• [8-24-2010]  Hot day’s march from City Hall to SCPD HQ to reclaim police-stolen property: Sara & Dreamcatcher
• “Tie-’em-up” Tricia Husome, SCPD Records Withholder, threatens activists documenting the copshop visit
• “Traveler” Elisse Casby and “Active to a Fault” Activist Attorney Ed Frey in-studio guests
• Frey on the “Sinister Sidewalk Singing” charge against Blindbear for singing a political song during the day.
• Alex Bender, Ocean & others evicted from the SCPD lobby; Becky Johnson reports on the lobby lockout; more reports on the aftermath
• Bathrobespierre responds to critical media (Santa Cruz Weekly)
• Closing down the Drum-Circle-in-Flight along the levee with a “Demonstration Garden”
• Sgt. Harms debates with Bathrobespierre on “when cops can lie”.
• Another expedition to retrieve property from cop lock-up.

The Sunday August 4, 2024 show includes:

• Cavalcade of protests recent and upcoming around the Gaza genocide and the homeless removal sweeps
• Rovics in narrative and song on the exploitive relationship of Spotify with musicians like him.
• https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20240729/281685440107562 [Pre-Trial Inmates lose Minimum Wage Fight]
• [7-28] Juan on probs with Funding Matters (which calls itself “Housing Matters”)
• [7-31] Tamorack on changing Santa Cruz and successful ayahuasca therapy versus cancer
• Phone Interview with “All-In” Athena on her support and copwatching of the 7-29 Golf Club Drive sweeps
• [7-29] Sara, Pogonip resident, forced to move on but no shelter offer; Lisa & Daniel—another ousted residents.

The Flashback to August 12, 2010 includes:

• [8-11-2010] P.J.  PeaceCamp 2010 [PC2010]’s new protest hub demanding decent services for those outside.
• Crow & Red, vandwellers, who displayed protest sign and cleaned up trash
• Bathrobespierre on Robert Facer’s court case: the background and basis of the months-long PC2010 Protest
• A hoarse Curbhugger Chris Doyon on the new protest spot; Channel 8 News talk with Bathrobespierre & Chris
• Wes Modes “walking in a parade without a permit” ticket [“Three Decisions in Court in the Wes Modes “Parading Without a Permit” Case“] at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/13/18656055.php
• Curbhugger’s on-the-stream Day One at City Hall for PC2010
• [8-12] “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster’s on her night at City Hall with PC2010 during the SCPD busts

The August 1, 2024 show is a Flashback to June 15, 1997. 

It includes:

• Jack Zedlitz discussing his court case defending against Santa Barbara’s Sit-on-the-sidewalk Ban on State St.
• Santa Barbara attorneys Robert Landheer and Marc Chytilo on the Sitting Ban law
• Kara Henson, Santa Barbara college student and participant in the protests against the Ban, tells how and why.
• Santa Monica’s Jennifer Wagonner reports on open shower facilities, but cops stalking the food services
• Santa Cruz’s Downtown Association bars activists from its subcommittee meeting
• Report on the California Civil Rights Action Network
• Keith McHenry on the plans for a San Francisco Presidio takeover to open up housing to the house-less.
• June 4 S.F. Police Commission Hearings on public outrage at SFPD Mark Andiya’s murder of Aaron Williams
• Lighthouse Linda Lemaster of Housing Now in Santa Cruz on the destruction of “welfare reform”
• Bathrobespierre on City Council’s twists, turns, &- machinations in the last six months in “no shelter” Santa Cruz

The Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides July 28,2024 show includes:

• Protest July 29th “Police Raid of Encampment in Pognip” https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/26/18868249.php
• Activist Keith McHenry’s look back at Friday’s “It’s Already Happened Here Protest” and other protests coming up…his 10-year ban from the Galleria for attempting to enter the “It Can’t Happen Here” “public” reading.
• Other voices from the Town Clock on living outside: Russell, Cooper, Joe M., Ernestina, Mark W
• [7-21] Heron debates an anti-homeless anonymity at the 3rd  “Stop the Sweeps” [aka “Cast Out Keeleyism in Santa Cruz”]
• Occupy Santa Cruz veteran Pensky on life since 2011; Wes White on the continuing Bataan Protest in Salinas and the History of the 9-year old Flagpole Encampment at Salinas City Hall
• Brihana Joy Grey interviews Alex Karakatsanis and Kamala Harris, copaganda, and surveillance sell-out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh90PBIonbU&t=3155s

The Flashback to August 1, 2010 includes:

• [throughout]  Liberal Shop of Horrors by The Capital Steps
• [7-31-10]  Early midnight wakings, ID-ing, of PeaceCamp2010 [PC2010], the 4-month long protest that began 7-4-10 on the steps of the Courthouse & became a 24-hour encampment/safe zone with Sheriff lieutenant Fred Plagueman, “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson, “Eggbeater” Ed Frey, Razor Ray,& “Lighthouse”Linda Lemaster 
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2010/08/01/dan-ellsberg%E2%80%99s-wikileaks-wish-list/b572e498-0b00-478d-8048-c4df6f88842e/ 
• [8-1-10]  Malcolm and Margot Thornhill—frightened away from the protest by the Sheriff action; Morning-after report by Curbhugger Chris and others at the protest
• Lost street interviews:  Around Ronee Currey’s Burritos, Beanies, and Chess table on Pacific Avenue; Becka’s on sexual work and abuse among the homeless; Anna Banana Richardson, Carol Williams, Merryweather Mike, Mickey Rat, and others.
• July Oral Communications at City Council: Voices from PC2010
• Ronee at PC2010
• Attorney and activist Frey on the Robert Facer case that precipitated PC2010
• A bit of Robert Whitaker—psychiatric researcher and author of Anatomy of an Epidemic

The July 25, 2024 edition of Bathrobespierre’s Broadside is a Flashback to November 16, 2014.  It includes:

• Public  Works permit controversy against the Errett Circle Sunrise Cafe-and-Warming Center; permit parking in an attempt to exclude the pro-homeless operation
• Portion of the Chris Hedges vs. B. Traven debate on “Black Block” tactics in the Occupy Movement and Resistance Protest
• City Council cooks up a pseudo-appeal process for its police-initiated Stay-Away orders with Infraction Citations
• Street interviews: harassment cites for smoking near but not in the Metro “No Smoking’ zone; “Catch Her if you Can” Katy on inappropriate cop treatment of epilepsy
• Elm St. mission bike reg changes; Joe Traveler sings about the SCPD; discussion of the performance laws
• Monterey Charles’ homeless update
• [10-27] Vendors/performers & Vice-Mayor Don Lane in a Sidewalk Q & A: “Performance Pens” downtown
• Making Contact: Victims and Perps get together for Restorative Justice in Schools & Behind Bars

The  Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday July 21, 2024 show includes:

•  https://www.streetsheet.org/supreme-court-allows-criminalization-of-homelessness/
• [7-15] Voices from the “Stop the Sweeps, Mayor Keeley” at the 2^nd “Just Outside Your House” protest  including Drew, Dreadeye, and other “Get a Clue, Keeley” folks
• [7-15] “Whip ’em Into Shape” Wes White on events in Oakland and Salinas
• [7-15] Peace activist Alan Fisher on the proposed and on-going “Pressure Panetta to Stop Funding Gaza Genocide” campaign followed by two anonymous angry voices
• [7-19] Keith, Hector, and Athena bullhorn and chant at the “It Has Happened Here” anti-Panetta, anti-Keeley protest at the Galleria
• Clockside cackle with Smokey the Bearita & Trailside Thomas
• Seafoam Sophie on Coral St. sweeps and sex work
  

The Flashback to November 23, 2014 includes:

• “Catch Her if you Can” Katy co-hosting with discussion of the Downtown’s DUPE [Downtown Undertaking Prohibition of Everyone] “diversion” program
• https://thestreetspirit.org/2014/08/01/lauras-law-and-the-danger-of-forced-detention/ 
• [11-21-14] Wolfie McMeyow in Berkeley and others on the protest against the UCB Tuition Hike
• Julia Vinograd reads poetry and hawks her latest Cannibal Cafe book
• Poet and activist Peter Marin on funding rides from jail, the Santa Barbara RV parking law, local work of the Committee for Social Justice, 
• Cornell West speaking at the UC Santa Cruz Occupation:  https://www.indybay.org//newsitems/2014/11/21/18764409.php
• “Spilly Chilly” aka Sandra Leigh on costly cliqueishness in the new Community TV
• Calvin’s report on the Venice Beach busts and the resistance of David Busch, Occupy Venice, and others
• UCB Occupation:  Susan K on the Protest over Tuition Hikes
• Bathrobespierre reads some Local & National News Briefs

The Thursday July 18^th Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show is a Flashback to May 11, 1997. 

It includes:

• [uneven sound—requires adjusting at several points]
• [4-27-97] Lengthy interview with Mendicino Medical Marijuana long-time activist Pebbles Trippet on her trials past and recent, difficulties with her attorney around the historic Prop 215 (passed in 1996), and more
• Sitcrime & Leancrime on Pacific Avenue—plus Pepperspray treatment at Washrock laundromat/coffeebar.​
• ​​Food Not Bombs activist Diamond Dave in SF, and Berkeley homeless advocate Yukon Hanibal updates
• Street Sage Russell Baker shining the light on Berkeley Shitty Council hypocrisy
• Poet Julia Vinograd, bubbling, smiling, and reading from her 50th-or-so book
• Cornerstone Carol Denney on the UCB’s SLAPPsuit harassment
• Berkeley Police Review Commisioner Aaron Handel
• More snatches from the People’s Park 28^th Anniverary:  Denney sings; 
• “Dead On” David Silva on S.C. and Fresno welfare systems & S.C.’s “Real Change not Spare Change” program
• Tuflove Laura Tucker on Shower Discrimination at Lee Laboa’s St. Francis Soup Kitchen

The Sunday July 14, 2024 show includes:

• Announcements of pending protests against the Gaza genocide and the Santa Cruz sweeps
• An Open Letter to Governor Newsom on alternatives to the sweeps enabled by the SCOTUS’s Grants Pass decision
• https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/07/11/the-truth-lovers-prayer/
• https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/the-story/homeless-camp-case-grants-pass-oregon-supreme-court-ruling/283-2044f141-5a87-42c8-9c69-bdaedd0d01e8
• 7-9  “Homes Not Sweeps” Vigil outside S.C. Mayor “Fast Lane” Fred Keeley’s home at Market and Water
• [7-9] Wes White on Service Program ID’s in Salinas promoting police treatment of encampments; Keith McHenry’s exchange with Mayor Keeley; “Desperado in Training” praises Bathrobespierre and the protest; Lorens on squatting at Ginza; street reports from “Truthtracker” Thomas;  Alex on abusive treatment at Dominican Hospital; 
• “Can’t shut me down” Cooper D’Angelo’s latest update; 

The Flashback to April 17, 1997 includes:

• [4-8] Public Testimony at San Jose’s City Council on its anti-homeless Sitting Ban
• [Satirical songs by Mark Levy from “Take Off Your Clothes to Those You Oppose”] 
• Bathrobespierre denounces Police Chief Steve Belcher’s deep-sixing citizen Complaints by labeling them minor “Inquiries”, violating his own C-7 internal police directive as well as city and state law.
• “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry on SFPD killer cop Mark Andiya still on duty after killing blacks like Aaron Williams + other S.F. cop capers
• Vandweller Laura Tucker on the “Real Change Not Spare Change” anti-panhandling project
• Don of the 1988 Vehicular Residents Association and the fight in San Francisco for survival
• Palo Alto Human Relations Commission activist on organizing directly with a sit-in against the Sit-Lie Ordinance

The Flashback to April 20, 1997 includes:

•  Bathrobespierre’s Santa Cruz Court and City Council update
•  Upcoming Palo Alto Sitting Ban CD sit-in as their Sitting Ban goes into effect over a 10-block area on 4-24 
•  Palo Alto public comment on the Sitting Ban ordinance from January (some parts difficult to hear)
•  Palo Alto City Attorney Ariel Cohen (January 1997): is the Sitting Ban anti-homeless?
• (Final March hearing) More public comment pro and con on the Ban
• Harsh San Jose Sit/Lie Ban law—Bathrobespierre’s description and Public Comment​​

The Flashback to May 4, 1997 includes: 

• [5-1] Analysis, Aftermath, & Interviews in the wake of the  “Real Change not Spare Change” [SCnRC] Press Conference 
• Sacramento Homelessness and Housing Conference—Interviews with Len Ducette “Hard Times” Homeless Newspaper Vendor
• Bathrobespierre on Santa Cruz History of Local Protest and State Organization
• More street debate on the “Let Them Eat Paper” SCnRC program
• [5-4] Peppertongue Pat Ring on trial for a small sign and a “fuck you” comment to the Mayor on SCnRC​