The show will archive at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .

The February 2, 2023 show includes:

• Felton’s Mountain Community Resource Center follow-up protest slated for 11 AM Tuesday February 7th.
• HUFF phone-call to Community activist Reggie Meisler on his latest documented demand that the SCPD stop harassing homeless vehicle-dwellers with unpermitted No Overnight Parking signs that lack the required Coastal Commission design permits.
• [1-31] Food Not Bombs activist Keith McHenry announces upcoming vigils for police-murdered victims Nichols Tyre [2-2], Manuel Estevan Paez Teran [2-3], as well as a renewed California Homeless Union meeting [2-8 4 PM RCNV]; the death of Blake last week frozen to death outside the Housing Matters fenced-off complex…and other updates
• Outside survivors Chris and Alice give their views of the mixed attitude of Felton’s community and police towards those outside.
• Democracy Now segment on Memphis police and fire department murder of Tyre Nichols [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqt0cHicyBs]

The January 29, 2023 Show includes:

• Various articles covering the police murder of Tyre Nicols in Memphis
• [1-22-23] Helga’s herstory of anti-homeless harassment at the Mountain Community Resource Center and elsewhere in Felton
• [1-23-23] Dreamcatcher and Arnie give rosy snapshots of the Armory shelter
• [1-23-23] Everett Trujillo’s Report Card on Sheriff and Povertypimp Behavior
• [1-27] Helga and Bathrobespierre Shoot Questions at Deputy Jason Dune.
• [1-28] Helga’s account of her 1 a.m. bust for videoing Everett’s false arrest.
  

The November 11, 1999 Flashback includes:

• Largely Critical Phone Interview with Councilmember Chris Krohn on the Shoulder Tap law, Rent Control, the rushed Dolphin-Lee Project, Council’s stalling on an independent lawyer for the Citizens Police Review Board [CPRB]
  
• Gail Levy, President of the Cabrillo Estates Mobile Home Owners Association [CEMHOA] in Capitola defending their rent control.
• FRSC broadcaster and CEMHOA resident Merlin weighs in on the issue.
  
• Van dweller Dennis Rehm, 14-times hauled to court for Sleeping Ban crime, on the Flory-Edwards-Jacobs defense and judicial collusion with police repression.
• Catnip Kate Wells, defense attorney, advises CPRB members on the right to use lawful force to resist a false arrest.
• Roughrider Richard Quigley on social cleansing harassment of Jerry Henry, counselor to street youth, charged with 11 non-violent misdemeanors 
• Battling Bob Lamonica on the corrupt past of Judge Art Danner
• Homeless recycler Verna Hernandez on City harassment of her work

The January 26 show is a Flashback  to the October 21, 1999 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show.  It includes:

• ^{Jeff, a White Separatist, gets grilled by pro-Mumia- abu- Jamal activists.}
• Aaron Birsch, convicted of assaulting the homeless Joe Barker, discusses his trial and the underlying charge. [Part 2 of an interview that began with the October 14, 1999 show]
  
• Skidmark Bob on his encounter with the Birsch anti-Mumia group and the background of the SC-5 trial, arrested in the Kosovo anti-war protest
  
• Vinnie Lombardo, aka the V man, a FRSC reporter and broadcaster, on his upcoming court hearing in the SC-5 case.
• [Oct 10, 1999] Homeless squeegee woman “Patches” describes Bad Times at Dominican Hospital.
• Rev. John Phillips of the Rainbow Cross Walk, going from S.C. to S.F.
• Becky Johnson on Sgt. “Sticky Fingers” Butchie Baker’s failure to find anti-homeless assailants.
• “City’s Take Hard Line on Homeless” by Blair Anthony Robinson and Mathew Barrows
• Original show is at  https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/BRB%2010-21-99%20Tape%201%20side%20A.mp3   &   https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/BRB%2010-21-99%20Tape%201%20side%20B.mp3

On the 1-22-23 show:

• Police killers of Pleasanton’s Cody Chavez get off without charges a year later: https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/01/07/pleasanton-officers-cleared-in-fatal-february-2022-shooting/
• City HomelessHarassers ignore court order, sweep camps: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Advocates-say-San-Francisco-is-still-sweeping-17706130.
• Weaker check on “Pretext Stops” passes in San Francisco:
  https://www.vera.org/news/ending-pretextual-stops-is-an-important-step-toward-racial-justice
• HUFF Quarterbacking after Mountain Resource Center protest
• Pro-Assange Belmarsh Tribunal Speaks Out Against Injustice

The January 19^th Show includes:

• [1-17] Titanium-tongued Tony Mendanza on recent roustabouts with law enforcement lunacy.
• Birdsong Whitebeard on the view from the Food Not Bombs free clothing table after the rain.
• More parking lot punishment— reports Threadbare Theodore
• [1-18] Harvey West Hangout Report from GreyStevens, Mickie Sabzar, and Spanky.
• [1-19] Moving on the Mountain Resource Center’s renegade roust policies: Kara, long-time Felton resident, gives her view
• Volunteer Food Line worker Shelly’s perspective.
• Anonymous report of a S.C. homeless death in the library
• Perspectives on the protest: Rita, Dave, Anonymous
• Inside the MRC in search of answers—still looking.

On the 1-15-2023 Show:

• “Heartstrong” Helga has a wrangle of a conversation with Bathrobespierre Robert about recent incidents of anti-homeless discrimination at the Mountain Resources Center in Felton.
• Looking back on the 1-10 Santa Cruz Shitty Council meeting with new 4-year Mayor “Fast Lane” Fred Keeley and his authoritarian style
• “Scope it Out” Scott Graham reviews the Council wreckage.
• Brief squeaks of outrage and rationality from Steve, Hector, Joyh, Sabina, and Abbi during the token 1-10 Oral Communications period
• Silence from City Mangler Huffaker on the Shelter scandal: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/01/08/18853734.php
• Rainy day news and blues from Katzenjammer Keith McHenry [1-11]
• Food Not Bombs fusillades from Alice & “Grok It” Greg.
• Preview of the Flashback from Bathrobespierre Robert
  
  
• The December 20th, 2012 Flashback includes:

• [Bits from The Capital Steps comedy troupe throughout]
• Piercing the veil of the Poverty-pimpster and Politician-packed 14^th Homeless Memorial
• Homeless [Lack of] Service Center [HLOSC] rules
• The names and ages of the homeless dead over the last 20 years
• Memorial notes from a skeptical observer & interviews with: Larry Bordeau
• Vets report
• Mama Joy McCorkle’s “Cause of Death” poem
• Nearly audible encomiums by Beggarbacker Becky Johnson, Dead-on David Silva, and Silver-tongued Steve Pleich
• Fact-flee-er Phil Kramer avoids saying many actually housed by HLOSC
• A tearful Kalalia Guard (aka “Stormy”) mourns those not mentioned
• B. Johnson totals up the homeless death total; D. Silva on Billy’s death
  
• [11-26] Red Church Ravings: Jonathan on police doubleparking
• “Freedom” and her copwatcher report
• Rick Stipes report on his indecent exposure & camping ticket trials
• Mainstream media covers the Homeless Bill of Rights protest interviewing Razor Ray, Mama Shannon, Tom, Julie Schaul + family, Ralph
  
• The small City of Felton has no Winter shelter and its Mountain Resource Center 6134 Hiway 9 (across from Rite-Aid) has been accused of driving people out into rainy weather during the last three weeks.  An informational flyering and protest is planned for Felton at 10 AM Thursday December 20th.

In the February 12, 2003 Flashback:

• Street Interviews: Raymond and Samantha get accosted by Officer Brandt for Open Container and Camping; remarks about Armory Shelter living;
  
• Sherry Conable’s account of musician Thomas Siles being driven away by Farmer’s Market “managers”
• Sometime co-host Jeffrey Gale on his struggle to press Mayor Reilly to use the spacious Civic Center Auditorium for a City Council anti-war vote and to persuade conservative KSCO radio to broadcast the Council meeting on the issue.
• “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson on her arrest with Tim Rinker for political protest with erasable chalk on the sidewalk against the anti-homeless Downtown Ordinances.  See also https://www.counterpunch.org/2003/02/22/hopscotch-rebellion/
• Paleo-Free Radio trailblazer Trailblazer Tom Rebele offers Johnson legal support.
  
• Bathrobespierre dissects the draw-and-quartering of the Citizens Police Review Board and its replacement with a coopted Police Auditor

City Manager Matt Huffaker’s latest attack on homeless health and safety is described at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/01/08/18853734.php (Santa Cruz City Mangler Closes Civic Auditorium Closes Civic Auditorium)

The 1-8-23 Show includes:

• City Manager Huffaker’s letter announcing shutdown of the Civic Auditorium shelter even as heavy rains are predicted for Monday https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/01/08/18853734.php
  
• Tentative court ruling spares People’s Park for the moment  (http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/01/04/18853680.php)
• Drew & other Food Not Bombs activists react to Mangler’s Civic shutdown
• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/06/us-police-killings-record-number-2022 
• https://reason.com/2022/12/15/cop-fired-for-offering-a-homeless-man-a-shit-sandwich-rehired-by-nearby-town/  
• Housed Lolo remembers her car-housed days and current homeless-hostile attitudes.
• https://fresnoalliance.com/excremental-change-public-toilets-needed-now/
  
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PROA6vrYQtU  David Rovics on “If You’re Going to Santa Cruz…” in story and song
• Felton’s Helga Fights Mountain Resource Center Cruelty
  

The May 8, 2016 Flashback Show includes:

• ‘CStreet artists Alex and Joff arrested for displaying their artwork for sale on Pacific Ave.   Videos: May 5, 2016: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/05/05/18786084.php   July 10, 2016: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/07/10/18788862.php
  
• ‘Cornerstone’ Carol Denney on Berkeley PD harassment of The (homeless) Poverty Tour
• Activist Nick Volaich on the Board of Supervisors anti-marijuana cultivation plans.
• Interview with attorney Shelly Mach fighting

LATE FLASH:  The Civic Center Flooding and Wet Weather Emergency Pop-Up Shelter—open for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday nights—is reportedly closing down in spite of 8″ of predicted rain by Monday.  A worker reports that folks were ousted at 9 AM on the order of the new Mayor (Fred Keeley), some still unable to secure their property indoors, though staff are within denying entrance (as of 1 p.m. Saturday). 
There is no indication that the Civic will reopen as emergency shelter in time for torrential rains predicted for early next week (as well as showers through the weekend)
So, the City is spending money harassing homeless folks in the rain (see below) but refuses to extend Civic Auditorium shelter in spite of flood conditions. 
City homeless funding is still unaccounted for. 
City shelter programs are inaccessible to the majority of those outside. 
Now, as for the last few years, there has been no drop-in winter shelter as in past years.The City has refused to fund Brent Adams’ Footbridge Services—causing the only free storage program in town to shut down along with his laundry, women’s support, and other daily services.
To comment on this harsh but typical policy, contact City Mangler Matt Huffaker at mhuffaker@cityofsantacruz.com or the new Santa Cruz Mayor “Fast Lane'”Fred Keeley
at fkeeley@cityofsantacruz.com .

On the Thursday netshow described below there is also a brief interview with Arnie, a Civic Center Shelter occupant on Wednesday night, who reports he was harassed and directed to move along twice by police in the rain, and even threatened when under the parking garage shelter (“be gone by 8”).

In the November 8, 2007 Flashback:

• Bathrobespierre Robert fires “where can the homeless go during the possibly toxic Light Brown Apple Moth spraying” to then-Councilmember Tony Madrigal.  Madrigal, to his credit, was out tabling, giving out masks, and expressing public concern about the spraying (also opposed by the City Council).  However, he had no particular interest in pressing publicly for shelter from the spraying—even in the parking garages.
• Callers express their outrage and provide updates.  Among them “Dangerous John” Thielking, Visionsong Valerie Christy, Skidmark Bob Duran, Mad but Mindful Maddison, and others.
• President Bush’s boys defend waterboarding, a bit of its history.

On the 1-1-23 show: 

• A few new laws for 2023:  https://apnews.com/article/abortion-california-law-enforcement-gavin-newsom-04d3681d700b4ee8e994d8d16b215ffa
• “Caught but Carefree” Keith McHenry on his 12-27 “serving food out of the rain in Public parking lot #10” arrest by SCPD Officer Denise Cockrum and his subsequent powwow with Top Cop Escalante & more
• SC Homeless Union acolyte Shane Braden (aka Casper) on police problems for doing push-up’s at the Metro
• Roxray the Bestboy Hanton on a racially motivated stop or two and some tattoo checks by curious cops
• Joe, Dreamcatcher, Drew, and an anonymous videoster on Cockrum’s timely handcuffing of McHenry for unauthorized use of public space in the rain.
• Cornerstone Carol Denney on Mayor Arreguin’s betrayal of his progressive fans in the class war against the poor
• Sharpheart Suzanne brings up the case of wheelchair Steve “exited” from Housing (Funding) Matters
• The unexpurgated HUFF meeting from 1-1-2023 (long)