HUFF Agenda Prospects 8-24-23     

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

  ++++  Passarounds: tba  

  ++++  Handouts:  Mime Troupe Flyer, City Council Blurb, 2019 Homelessness 

  ++++  Public Record 2018-9 Infractions:
https://cityofsantacruz.sharefile.com/d-se39d9b53f33a4178a30cbb78a2872892  

  ++++  As ever…Street reports; Sweeps on Beach & elsewhere: Demo?    

  ++++  Supervisor and Council Reports  

  ++++  2019 Homeless File from Councilmember Glover: 

  ++++  Harm Reduction Lawsuit; Denise Elrich call 

  ++++  Vouchers for RV immunity—progress? Tier 3  No reply.   

  ++++  Mental Health Advis Board Reportback 

  ++++  Street Sheet availability:  Drew of Food Not Bombs on Sat and Sunday; paper racks near UN Assoc 903 Pacific; public library perhaps, next week new issue   

  ++++  COH vs. SFPD stopping tows for parking tickets; resolution of support   

  ++++  Public Records Updates:  Homeless 2019 Targeting, RV citations  

  ++++  Camping/Sleeping Ban  (MC 6.36) https://www.codepublishing.com/CA/SantaCruz/#!/SantaCruz06/SantaCruz0636.html#6.36   

  ++++  Oversized Vehicle Ordinance (OVO) MC 10.40.120):  https://www.codepublishing.com/CA/SantaCruz/#!/SantaCruz10/SantaCruz1040.html#10.40.120    

  ++++  Anti-war Protest Update from Hiroshima Sunday August 6^th : https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/1%20FRSC%208-13-23.mp3  (80 minutes into the audio file)   

  ++++  Mayor grilling—Keeley back; no reply yet; HUFF input   

  ++++  Sleeping Ban/OVO Law Flyers:  Help Still Wanted   

  ++++  COH Lawsuit Enforcement Update: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s-f-mayor-breed-rejects-allegations-lawsuit-18191036.php + Verner-Crist’s letter   

  ++++  Legislative Updates: AB 1082 Slowing down tows; XXX CareCourt Crap; AB 920 (banning “homeless” discrimination) SB 31 (banning sitting, lying, or camping within 1000′ of a daycare center, library, park or school); SB 47 expanding definition of “gravely disabled’ in Lanterman Petris (LPS) Act, (easier conservatorship, forced drugging, & 5150 powers); SB 326 (shifting housing to drug funding)     

 ++++  HUFF Indybay Story archive library: http://huffsantacruz.org/indybay/          ,   

 ++++ HUFF Streetshit sheet archives: https://huffsantacruz.org/ssarchives.html  

 ++++ HUFF Street Spirit archives (also at the library):  

http://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/StreetSpirit-main.html

++++  Checking in: Free Guide Verification, Mad Power Monitoring, Ticket Documenting, Board of Stupes,     

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 August 20, 2023 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:

• (throughout the show) David Rovics songs and historical notes
• Brief Notes on the Upcoming City Council Meeting
• HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) meeting 8-20 with San Francisco Emigre Ken’s accounts of being pissed on, on Pacific Avenue and library discrimination
• Greg Bengston’s report of trollbuster attacks on the levee
• https://48hills.org/2023/05/sf-continues-to-violate-court-order-on-sweeps-of-homeless-people-filing-says
• Legal and legislative updates from Joy, Laura C., and Robert
  
• https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/6/21/23766954/first-amendment-protest-supreme-court-fifth-circuit-deray-mckesson-doe
  
• Audio of the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s 2022 London Nelson Park show “Breakdown”

Flashback to Bathrobespierre’s Broadside netcast of November 25, 2004 including:

Thanksgiving Vets Hall Chow Line—Circulating a Petition to End the Sleeping Ban

Interviews with Steve T.,  Victoria Arnason (former Camp Paradiser), Maria (rape and park ticket victim), Kim (Christian from Arcata, hassled in Felton), Chuck (on the Arcata Endeavor shelter), Raymond from Tucson, Brent (forced out from under the bridge), Mark (rousted in Felton, left in peace in Santa Cruz)

Vets Table colloquy: Susan Durst, Becky Johnson, Preacher Mike,

David T., Scott Graham

Justice advocate Peter Marin on Santa Barbara’s anti-homeless RV ordinance violating intrastate travel right

The August 17, 2023 edition of Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides is a Flashback to the April 25, 2019 show. 

It includes:

• Bathrobespierre discusses the Quintero (“Ross Camp”) lawsuit going to court to stop the dispersal of the Ross Camp on April 26th after the April 23^rd Council decision and the Burdick verdict to disperse it, with campers revealing threats and false statements used to do so.
• Alicia Kuhl’s account of braving Salvation Army personnel screaming as Kuhl attempted to contact SC Homeless Union members.
• [4-21-19] Sarah on the Homeless (Lack of) Services Center (aka Housing Now) at the $1000/plate benefit;
• Darius the landlord’s “problems” (visual blight, drug use) and his solutions.
• [4-22] Chatter in the Court Hallway at the Burdick hearing recess: Katzenjammer Keith, Java Junction Mike, Depot Park Rafa, Roughheart Rothwell, and others
• Activist Attorney Anthony Prince on organizing the homeless at Ross Camp
• Colloquy while waiting for City Council to return from closed-from-the-public discussion of the lawsuit supporting Ross Camp with Nutcracker Nick & Others

More background:  https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/04/23/18822934.php “Federal Judge Orders City of Santa Cruz to Halt Closure of Ross Camp”& https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/05/01/18823070.php  “Protests Planned at Heroes Camp”

The August 13, 2023 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:

• “Cage Me Not” Cooper on continued police sweeps against her and others; Dreadeye comments
• Anonymous informant claims staff discrimination at Greybear’s, but praises some of their services (low prices)
• Gary Morrow Thorne’s Tale
• Drew and Zachary Booth on Booth’s police stop for asking to wash car windows at Water St. next to the Town Clock
• Roxroy, Best Boy on his successful shelter quest
• Mike Quinn, curbside artist, sounds off
• Hiroshima Day “U.S./NATO Out of Ukraine” protest at Town Clock–Speedy-Tongued Steve Pleich on limited antiwar protest recently
• Woolly Robert Woodleaf on recent sweeps; hotel evictees returning to Armory
• Organizer Keith McHenry & others denounce the Ukraine war and the threat of nuclear war
• Chat with Rowen, organizer of past anti-Ukraine war rallies here
• Code Pink speaker who went to Vienna International Peace Conference Calling for Ukraine Ceasefire details history

The Flashback to July 10, 2005 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show features:

SAFE (Society for Artistic Freedom & Expression)‘s 74^th sidewalk singalong and soup-it-up festivities with reports from Hawk, “Crazy” Mary, Jeremy, Micah Posner, Drummer Bob, and others.

HRO (Human Rights Organization)’s Battleready Bob Patton & Bashful Bernard Klitzner spearhead a public dialogue with Councilmember Tony Madrigal, seeking concrete action on the City’s anti-homeless Sleeping Ban, where he backs away. 

Francis, Felipe, and Paul Marcelin Sampson respond to Madrigal’s evasions

SAFEsters sing “Downtown” with Homeless lyrics

Principled pot-ster Pebbles Trippet calls in from Ukiah on the new Attorney General

Bard Dennis Holt on abusive problems with the SCPD

Becky Johnson replies to Free Radio Santa Cruz exclusion and Santa Cruz Indymedia censorship raised in detail at http://radiolibre.org/brb/brb050707.mp3

The August 10, 2023 edition of Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides includes: 
+++  https://santacruzlocal.org/2023/08/02/podcast-how-homeless-services-money/  Further info: 
https://santacruzlocal.org/2023/05/05/homeless-services-money-part-1/
https://santacruzlocal.org/2023/05/05/homeless-services-money-part-2/
https://santacruzlocal.org/2023/05/05/homeless-services-money-part-3/
Flashback to the remains of the November 27, 2014 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show including:
      +++  Co-hosts FRSC broadcaster Doctor Mike and “Catch Her if you Can” Kathlean join Bathrobespierre
             +++  Street poet’s positive views on the new performance pen (“dots for dodos”) laws going into effect in 3 weeks             

+++  Elm St. “Parking Lot Panic” incident—eye witness by Bathrobespierre and Kathlean as well as audio             

+++   K and B critique Black Lives Matter march speakers at the SCPD station.      

+++   Caller discusses failure of “progressive Santa Cruz” to follow through with further protest              

+++   “Stay-away” Edicts from cops with infraction tickets debated at November 18, 2014 Santa Cruz City Council.             

+++    Bathrobespierre on Susie O’Hara and the D.A.P. (Downtown Accountability Project, aka Downtowners Against the Poor)             

+++    Parks and Recreation Czarina Dannettee Shoemaker on the modified Stay Away law with its phony appeal addition

The August 6, 2023  Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:  

• Hard times and hard-scrabble struggle for Food Not Bombs in Houston, TX:   https://abc13.com/food-not-bombs-houston-homeless-volunteer-group-cited-tickets-dismissed-for-public-library/13594020/  https://www.themarysue.com/not-guilty-verdict-for-food-not-bombs-shows-that-americans-still-have-a-shred-of-humanity/  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/04/texas-volunteers-fined-feeding-homeless-heat 
• [7-31]  Continuing adventures of “Cage Me Not” Cooper pursued to the Cowell’s Beach by sleepcrushing coppers
  
• Phil Ochs’ “Love Me, I’m a Liberal” song updated by several singers
• https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/08/05/disrupt-the-culture-wars/  
• [8-3]  HUFF meeting phone update on the Oversized Vehicle Ordinance by Reggie Meisler
  
• [8-4]  “Tart but Tender” Thomas on Cop Overkill on Pacific Ave; Mailin on Exclusions from St. Francis Soup Kitchen;
• [8-4] Deanna: on restoring homeless human rights in Santa Cruz; Anonymous T on Overly Permissive Landlords
• https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/world-war-iis-top-military-leaders-admitted-hiroshima-nagasaki-bombings-were-needless/
• [8-3] Coppernapping Cooper—the latest chapter
• San Francisco Lawyers and the Coalition on Homelessness—Two Fightbacks against Sweeps and Poverty Tows
• https://www.facebook.com/robert.powelson/videos/269206242498271  Injunction Protecting Falkirk Cultural Center—Mark Rivera case

Due to technical problems with the HUFF website, the August 3^rd show was netcast and not archived.  Likewise today (August 3rd), it will again be netcast at freakradio.net but not archived as usual on the HUFF website until that service is restored.  Problems at its origin in Texas makes the repair completion date uncertain.

The August 3^rd , 2023 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:

• 7-24: “Cage Me Not Cooper” calls in to report cruel and usual punishment coming up for the Hiway 9 refugee community currently roosting in the greenbelt near the end of Golf Club Drive.
• KSQD Interview with Mental Health Client Action Network co-founder and activist Sarah Leonard from their archives.
• 7-25: Cooper’s second report on growing police threats against the emigree community.
• 7-25: Angry anonymous appeal from a victim of police property seizure
• 7-25: “I Will” Tyler on panhandling perspectives in front of Forever Twenty-One
• 7-25: Natalie and Cisco: Jewelry Vending on Pacific Ave.
• 7-25: Rob of Mil Marvel Masterpieces telling us how you make metal art
• 7-23: Devoted Drew’s Latest report from the weekend Food Not Bombs meal
• 7-23: Vet activist Lee on improving but still difficult vet conditions around Santa Cruz
• 7-23:  T’Shawn Joseph Battle, Roxroy the Best Boy, and Rapid-Tongue Robert Woodleaf: Talk around the Town Clock
• 7-26:  Cooper’s dark third report—after the police demolition of her community’s camp
• Andrew Malkinson’s tale of terror:  https://consortiumnews.com/2023/07/27/free-after-17-years-in-prison-for-a-rape-he-didnt-commit/

The July 30, 2023 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:

• 7-24: “Cage Me Not Cooper” calls in to report cruel and usual punishment coming up for the Hiway 9 refugee community currently roosting in the greenbelt near the end of Golf Club Drive.
• KSQD Interview with Mental Health Client Action Network co-founder and activist Sarah Leonard from their archives.
• 7-25: Cooper’s second report on growing police threats against the emigree community.
• 7-25: Angry anonymous appeal from a victim of police property seizure
• 7-25: “I Will” Tyler on panhandling perspectives in front of Forever Twenty-One
• 7-25: Natalie and Cisco: Jewelry Vending on Pacific Ave.
• 7-25: Rob of Mil Marvel Masterpieces telling us how you make metal art
• 7-23: Devoted Drew’s Latest report from the weekend Food Not Bombs meal
• 7-23: Vet activist Lee on improving but still difficult vet conditions around Santa Cruz
• 7-23:  T’Shawn Joseph Battle, Roxroy the Best Boy, and Rapid-Tongue Robert Woodleaf: Talk around the Town Clock
• 7-26:  Cooper’s dark third report—after the police demolition of her community’s camp
• Andrew Malkinson’s tale of terror:  https://consortiumnews.com/2023/07/27/free-after-17-years-in-prison-for-a-rape-he-didnt-commit/

The July 27th, 2023 show includes Flashback…

…Selections from the April 27^th show including
++++ Julio Sanchez on no shelter here; “Whatever” (aka David Darnoll) on harassed under bridge for sleeping; Sabrina & family on police tickets for sleeping;
++++ Bathrobespierre Robert and Beggarbacker Becky profile City Council’s arbitrary, authoritarian, and alternate-fact approach to the public;                     

++++ Becky on Beatings of homeless folks like Stephen Dawson & Brad Mills and SCPD blockade against contacting the victims                     

++++ Interview with Lee Apartments manager Julie Constanza Gomez in the Mercy Charities Housing Dolphin-Lee scandal.                     

++++ Conservative business community activist Mike Schmidt on his plea to Mayor Keith Sugar
….Selections from the April 30^th show including                   

++++  “Dead-On” David Silva’s step up of the Sleep Fast Campaign calling for phone-in’s during Sleepy Time to Council at home                    ++++   4-3-98:  Controversy at Ali Baba’s Cafe, Sidewalk Chalk, & Disturbing the Peace—James Nay & Scarecrow Report                   

++++   Nay describes peaceful sitting-on-the-floor Council protest to Mercury News Reporter John Woolfolk                   

++++   Sleeping Ban Table Interviews: Cassandra Fox, Michael Tomasi defender, Michael and Morena, and more             

++++   Woodsy Sleeping Then and Now
++++    4-29-98:  Chamber of Commerce Mike Schmidt phone update supports suspension of Sleeping Ban on outskirts

The Sunday July 23^rd 2023 show includes:

• HUFF meeting of July 20th—Kazoo on FEMA storm relief mixed results for homeless
• Monica on Delaware St. ticketing of OVs
• Keith McHenry’s phone call to HUFF detailing Baba Ito’s loss of website, property, liberty, and health while forcibly medicated under City/County coercion, upcoming Hiroshima Day anti-war protest August 6^th 11 AM, Golf Club Drive car tows, 
• HUFF Resolution:  US Out of the Ukraine, stop arming Ukraine.
• Gaia (Laura Tucker)’s report on the successful but incomplete struggle to retain trailer park home in Capitola
• Wes White’s on-the-spot report on the Salinas sweeps—staving off removal for a few days.
• Pop-up Pickle pusher “Pickle Chris” on Pacific Avenue in front of New Leaf & other downtown vendors. 

Portions of the August 20^th 1998 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show include (with some audio distortion):

• TRUSC (Tenants Right Union of Santa Cruz) activist Donna Deiss on County government collusion with landlords
• Berkeley Report on conservative faction funding Sitting Ban on Telegraph Avenue—Operation AveWatch and a Protest in front of Andy Ross’s Bookstore (“Cody’s”) supporting anti-Street People protest under the guise of fighting anti-Semitism.
• Anthony Popernick of Pirate Radio in Watsonville:  Radio Watson
• Wanda Knight—Problems with the Seaside Company and Racism in Felton and the County

Portions of the August 23^rd  1998 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show include (some audio fuzzy):

• Bathrobespierre’s  Rogue’s Round-Up: Update of Police and D.A. Misconduct in Recent Police Shootings & other Local Titled Felons
• Phil Barr, Community Activist and Beach Flats Activist, on Recent Events in City Council’s 3^rd St. Realignment
• Pacific Avenue Patter: Rainbow denounces merchant harassment of disabled Jeanie; Officer Over’s Misdeeds
• Phil Free on Housing Crunch, Kitten Reynolds’ Letter, and the DTA’s “Give the Homeless a Shove not a Sheckel” Program
• More Nasty Newsbriefs from Phil Barr
• “Big Nurse” Jane Haagstrom of Berkeley’s Alta Bates Hospital on the Psychiatric Scene including Shock Therapy & Medications
  
• “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster
• “Dead On” David Silva on the Campaign against Miguel Guttierez.