Flashback to March 13, 2006: 

• A veteran of the 1980’s Berkeley Rainbow Village tent city on its origins and end. 
• City Commission for the Prevention of Violence to Women hears Sheila Coonerty and Matt Ferrell of the Downtown Commission on the Parking Lot Panic law with critical interjections by Norse. 
• Jake and Kathleen Estrella on an unexpected police bust 
• 3-16 Protest against the Panic law at the Downtown Commission’s meeting. 
• Alternate Public Defender Bernard Pregerson on the local Drug War; calls from Madison and Bob Lamonica.

The show archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html (go to Latest Show – 2/5/2023)

Recent and upcoming events and interviews on the show include:

• Bathrobespierre’s Update on the Mountain Community Resource Center‘s latest refusal to change its current “no sheltering outside at night” policy.  See “Follow-Up Protest Questions for Tuesday…” at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/02/05/18854157 .
• J.C. Orton, Street Spirit master vendor of Berkeley, on his years of work managing money and accommodations for unhoused and conserved clients.
• Ninja Cat, Berkeley People’s Park resident and activist, on his history there and the latest sweeps in town—including the destruction of the “Here, There” encampment.
•  https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/02/03/roaming-charges-80/
• https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/29/the-murder-of-tyre-nichols-and-the-death-of-police-reform/
• Bathrobespierre sings 2/3^rd of “Downtown” Santa Cruz style.
• Preview of the March 2013 Flashback
  

Flashback to March 31, 2013 show:

• See full description at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html under March 31, 2013.
• “Making Contact” show Transportation Justice Movement—organizing for accessible and cheap transportation for all.
• “You Call That News” for March 26th–“Free” is your host.
• Skidmark Bob Duran interviews Candlelight Kim Argula on origins of Free Radio Santa Cruz;  Tony Mello, Tom Shreiner &  Stephen Dunafer; Skidmark interviewed.

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