Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Show 9-15-22 will stream and archive at 6 PM today. Featured: Battering Away at the Benchlands; Flashback to 7-11-94: FNB arrests in SF

As usual, the show will archive at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html, and will play on the net at www.freakradio.org

Brief written descriptions of many of these shows (so you know what you are getting into) are or will shortly be posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/.  

Your friends can also sign up to receive advance notice of the content of the twice-weekly shows by e-mailing rnorse3@hotmail.com and asking to be put on the HUFF e-mail list.
On today’s 9-15 show:

  • 9-14 Bashing Blue and His Tent
  • Robert Woodleaf on Police Abuse in the Phase 2 area of the Benchlands 9-14
  • Troy denounces police treating Phase 2 homeless possessions as trash.
  • Teal struggling with her stuff two hours before Phase 1 deadline on 9-13
  • FLASHBACK:  7-11-94 Brutal FNB busts at Civic Center Plaza



        BENCHLANDS RESISTANCE MEETING: Gathering Lawsuit Declarations Tomorrow Friday September 16th 5:30 PM near the 2nd stairway from the Water St. entrance.    Advisable to bring your own chair.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 9-11-22 now ARCHIVED featuring Benchlands Organizing for Resistance on “Phase One” Removal beginning 7 AM Tuesday 9-13; Flashback Fragments to 10-25 and 12-2 2001

A description of the current show and the 2001 Flashbacks can also be found at  http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/category/huff-communications/ .


You can hear the current show and earlier ones archived at  Http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html,  also visible as the “Latest” link of the Bathrobespierre’s Broadside section of www.huffsantacruz.org .



Brief written descriptions of many shows (so you know what you are getting into) are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/You can also sign up to receive advance notice of the content of the twice-weekly shows by e-mailing rnorse3@hotmail.com. and asking to be put on the HUFF e-mail list.


Today’s (9-11] show includes:   

+++ Planning to bolster the Benchlands when the City’s Demolition Deadline hits on Tuesday morning (9-13)  

+++  Watch (though hard to hear) podcast of much of the Benchlands 9-13 meeting by Commander X at  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5LHjgeBllUVT5JdE9t78zQ
https://www.twitch.tv/commanderxanon/about and/orhttps://twitter.com/CommanderXanon
+++  “Scope it Out” Scott Graham and Bathrobespierre bat around bummer bits from the upcoming 9-13 City Council meeting
+++    Brief summary of Flashbacks from 2001 focusing on Camp Paradise


Flashback to 10-25-01 Show:    

+++ Camp Paradise—the homeless-run year-old 50-100 person encampment–XXX   

+++ Cowardice at City Council—turning down  a demand that Bush stop bombing Afghanistan.
+++  Street cleaning or homeless removal?  Councilmember Reilly moves on vandewellers in Harvey West   

+++  Outcry at Oral Communications: No portapotties for encampments that need them  

+++   Councilmember Porter’s pro-Paradise proposals

Flashback to 12-02-01 Show:
    +++   Darkwatcher Ed Davidson, Affordable Housing advocate, explores the Dolphin-Lee (now the Nueva Vista) housing project.  

+++   Beggerbacker Becky Johnson reports on the December 1st flooding   

+++   Calamity Jane Imler weighs in from distant Missouri on players and playbooks in the homeless rights-and-shelter struggle.  

+++    In-studio guest Amy Courtney fighting the removal of anti-war banners from freeway overpasses.

BENCHLANDS RESISTANCE sponsered by SANTA CRUZ HOMELESS UNION, FOOD NOT BOMBS  [FNB] , and HUFF  will meet again Friday September 16th at 3 PM in the Benchlands directly down via the descending stairway from the access road between the Courthouse and the Lawn Bowling court  to discuss Resistance Strategies , gather numbers, and increase solidarity among Benchlands residents and Community supporters  as piecemeal tent demolition without alternative shelter approaches at Summer’s End.

In the past, SANTA CRUZ SHITTY COUNCIL  refused to fund or even permit independent low-barrier agreement or transitional camps, nor to fund FNB  or the Footbridge Services Program.  On August 23rd, it transferred $1 million in state funding for the Coral St. Safe Sleeping Program to “Benchlands Closure and Restoration”.

Call 575-770-3377  or 431-7766 to volunteer for the SC Homeless Union  or show up at the Friday 9-16 3 p.m. meeting and volunteer.  Still needed leadership and organizing help.  President Alicia Kuhl still takes concerns and complaints. 

Also notable: City Council’s failure to use the $14.5 million to set up survival campgrounds outside the Benchlands and support those that exist! 

Their principal goal seems to be to provide token shelter so they can restore the Sleeping/Camping Ban (MC 6.36) aka the Camping Services and Standards Ordinance and resume their “hide out or get out” policy. 

They would circumvent the Martin v. Boise “no tickets without real shelter” ruling by setting aside 10 shelter spaces up at the Overlook encampment and claiming those who don’t take them are “service resistant” and so no longer protected by that ruling.

HUFF STILL MEETS EVERY THURSDAY (NEXT MEETING 9-15) TO SCHEME & STARGAZE.  COFFEE & CONTROVERSY AT THE SUB ROSA COURTYARD 10:45 AM-1 PM THURSDAYS NEXT TO THE BIKE CHURCH AT 703 PACIFIC AVE. 

Protest the nuclear brinksmanship and arms pipeline to Ukraine!   1 PM Thursday 9-15 on the Steps of the County Building at 701 Ocean.   Make or bring your own signs to hold on Ocean St.  Suggestions:  Ceasefire Now!  Diplomacy to end the Ukraine war!  Fund Housing, Health Care, and Climate not Weapons of War!  More info contact Allan Fisher at afisher800@gmail.com  415-954-2763 or go to peaceinukraine.org.

VIEW VIDEOS FROM WES WHITE on his You-Tube channel (John Doe13K):  THEN POST SOME OF YOUR OWN ON YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA. 
OTHER OPTIONS: FACEBOOK, CALL HUFF (831-423-4833) FOR FRSC INTERVIEW, WRITE ESTABLISHMENT OR ALTERNATE MEDIA.
Or contact Bathrobespierre Robert at rnorse3@hotmail.com.
KEEP YOUR PHONE CHARGED AND HANDY TO RECORD UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTERS OR INCIDENTS YOU WITNESS ON YOUR PHONE PARTICULARLY IF AND WHEN POLICE WARN YOU YOU’LL BE SWEPT. 

DON’T WAIT FOR THE ACLU TO TURTLEWALK INTO ACTION.   LEARN YOUR RIGHTS, USE THEM, TALK WITH OTHERS, & PUBLICIZE.

COMMENT on the Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom facebook page or at www.indybay.org/santacruz where Bathrobespierre posts occasional announcements and stories.

Coming Sooner than we thought:  Ursula’s Utterances–a regular extensive description and review of each Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides and a backlog of those descriptions for the last half year.  E-mail rnorse3@hotmail.com if you’d like her description and commentary on any of the 2022 shows which she has been faithfully describing.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 9-4-22 is now archived at 9:30 AM-3 PM Benchlands Brainstorming with Elise, Keith, Mark, Manuel, etc. 5-15-05 Flashback: Tent University & More

On the Sunday September 4th Show:  

++++ Encounters on Pacific Avenue (8-31) Karen Coleman’s Caustic Concerns about District Elections, City Manager government, and Benchlands Baloney.
++++  Spitfire Sammy on surviving Keith and Cop consternation at FNB (8-31)
++++  Davida—Italian juggling and jawboning at the FNB meal (8-31) 
++++  Dreamcatcher gives thumbs-up to Jeremy, Benchlands & Shelter Manager  

++++  Bathrobespierre gives background to the latest Benchlands challenge and resistance.  

++++  Catch Up with their Caustic Plans: Katzenjammer Keith lays out likely alternatives
   ++++  Manuel on the Armory and the Overlook: Humiliating and Repressive  

++++   Elise, Greg, and Mark–Questions Without Answers

FLASHBACK to  the 5-15-2005 Show:  

++++   Battleweary Bob Patton, and Bashful Bernard Klitzner of the Human Rights Organization interrogate Mayor Mike Rotkin.   

++++   Rotkin’s cutback in Public Comment on the City Council Agenda & the History of His Reactionary Moves
++++  (5-13) Demand that UCSC Chancellor Expand The limited “Free Speech Zones” to the Entire Campus: Laurel Carlson, Pat True, Chris Krohn & Others
   ++++   (5-14) Robbie Raw on Chemtrails, Kenneth Krishna’s music, Loony Balloony driven into rain at Pacific Trading Company, Conjutoral Prestigatator Putter Ozzie Mogul, Byron Sims Beadster, Mu on musical break,
++++   Skidmark Bob calls out Sandwich Board crime by a local merchant.  

++++   Andrea/Meagan on contradictory instructions for playing on Pacific Avenue
++++   Ukiah Repressive Medical Marijuana Legislation 

++++   (5-5)  Visionsong Valerie on the 66th musical weekly event against the Downtown Ordinances; Michaelo’s soft jazz.      

[“Have a Happy Fuckin’ Day” sung by Phil Free throughout]

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Show 9-8-22 will stream and archive at 6 PM today. Featured: Castaway C.A.R.E. Courts Now Law; Benchlands Demolition Date 9-13; and more.

As usual, the show will archive at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html, and will play on the net at www.freakradio.org .  Any problems call 831-423-4833.

Brief written descriptions of many of these shows (so you know what you are getting into) are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/.  

Your friends can also sign up to receive advance notice of the content of the twice-weekly shows by e-mailing rnorse3@hotmail.com and asking to be put on the HUFF e-mail list.
On today’s 9-8 show:

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Show 9-1-22 will stream and archive at 6 PM today. Featured: Organizing in Action at the 3rd Union of the Homeless/FNB/HUFF Benchlands Resistance meeting…and more!

As usual, the show will archive at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html, and will play on the net at www.freakradio.org .  Any problems call 831-423-4833.

Brief written descriptions of many of these shows (so you know what you are getting into) are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/.  

Your friends can also sign up to receive advance notice of the content of the twice-weekly shows by e-mailing rnorse3@hotmail.com and asking to be put on the HUFF e-mail list.


On today’s 9-1 show:

  • 3rd Organizational Meeting of Benchlands Resistance 8-29 with Elise, Robert, Chris, Keith, and others.
  • Sidewalk strumming, singing, and speaking 8-19 with “Richard’s Brother” and Andy
  • Return of Glenn the Victorious Vendor 8-31
  • Terry and Raven the sore-pawed pooch bid farewell to Santa Cruz
  • Kazenjammer Keith staccato weekly report to HUFF

             [Social justice singing by David Rovics throughout]

  •   

        NEXT BENCHLANDS RESISTANCE MEETING Tomorrow Friday September 2nd 3 PM at Terry’s “Let’s Go Brandon” tent near the Water St. entrance to the Benchlands.  As you stand at the back of the courthouse looking towards the river, it’s right next to the camp with all the solar cells.  Free coffee and Union of the Homeless t-shirts (while they last).  Advisable to bring your own chair.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 8-28-22 streams and will archive at 9:30 AM-3 PM 8-22 Homeless Union Hotcakes with Garrett, Elise, & Greg; Cob-Wood Update, Reggie M. interview; Benchlands Backtalk ; 7-29-04 Flashback


You can hear the current show and earlier ones archived at
Http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html,  also visible as the “Latest” link under the Bathrobespierre’s Broadside section of www.huffsantacruz.org .


Brief written descriptions of many shows (so you know what you are getting into) are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/You can also sign up to receive advance notice of the content of the twice-weekly shows by e-mailing rnorse3@hotmail.com. and asking to be put on the HUFF e-mail list.
 


BENCHLANDS RESISTANCE sponsored by SANTA CRUZ HOMELESS UNION, FOOD NOT BOMBS  [FNB] , and HUFF  will meet again Monday Aug 29 at 6 PM at the Resource Center for Non-Violence  (612 Ocean) to discuss Resistance Strategies , gather numbers, and consider the latest City Council calamity  as the  Summer ‘s End  and piecemeal demolition approaches.

In the past, SANTA CRUZ SHITTY COUNCIL  refused to fund or even permit independent low-barrier agreement or transitional camps, nor to fund FNB  or the Footbridge Services Program.  On August 23rd, it transferred $1 million in state funding for the Coral St. Safe Sleeping Program to “Benchlands Closure and Restoration”.

Call 575-770-3377  or 431-7766 to volunteer for the SC Homeless Union  or show up at the Monday 8-29 meeting and volunteer.  Still needed leadership and organizing help.  President Alicia Kuhl still takes concerns and complaints. 

On the Sunday 8-28-22 Show:  

+++ Voices of Anger and Solidarity: Chris, Garrett, Elise, & Greg at the Benchlands Resistance 8-22  

+++ Cob-on-Wood to be bulldozed bit by bit https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/judge-caltrans-can-begin-clearing-oaklands-massive-wood-street-homeless-encampment/ar-AA1193mG
+++ Reggie Meisler: After the defeat of the OVO (Oversized Vehicle Ordinance) what next?  

+++ Talk from the Town Clock (8-27), Tracy Halpert, Steve Enriquez, Lion, Dreamcatcher, & Cooper.  

+++  (8-15) Benchlands resident Robert Woodley–his skepticism on shelter offers by Jeremy Leonard, the City’s Homeless Minder
+++  (8-15) Curbhugger Chris Doyon aka Commander X on the betryal by the Mexican government after his podcast from the Benchlands a year ago.

[Songs throughout from Peggy Seeger and Phil Ochs]
 
Flashback to the 7-29-04 Show:  

+++ Saturday night (7-3-04 at Cooper & Pacific) with Joe Williams, strummer, campaigner, speaker  

+++ Police harassment of SAFE (Society for Artistic Freedom and Expression) the previous Wednesday  

+++ Criticizing Democratic Party war enablers  

+++ SAFE event #26 (7-26) with Milliam and Mustafa, Phoenix the Harpist, Shrayah.  

+++  R.B. Hedenburg’s account of harassment at the 24 Hour Fitness Parking Lot, and he a paid customer!  

+++  NYPD cop fired for refusing to arrest a homeless man  

+++  Poet PP jumped by SC Highschoolers, hassled for street poetry reading  

+++  Factchecker Francis on the final City Council nails in the coffin of Clearview Court Rent Control

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Show 8-25-22 will stream and archive at 6 PM today. Featured: Audio of much of the 2nd Union of the Homeless/FNB/HUFF Monday Benchlands Resistance meeting

As usual, the show will archive at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html, and will play on the net at www.freakradio.org .  Any problems call 831-423-4833

Brief written descriptions of many of these shows (so you know what you are getting into) are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/.  

Your friends can also sign up to receive advance notice of the content of the twice-weekly shows by e-mailing rnorse3@hotmail.com and asking to be put on the HUFF e-mail list.
On today’s 8-25 show:
      Audio of Commander X’s podcast of the 8-22 2nd Benchlands Resistance meeting.  Full video at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5LHjgeBllUVT5JdE9t78zQ 
             [Ancient Tunes by Phil Ochs ]
     
        NEXT BENCHLANDS RESISTANCE MEETING Monday August 29 6 PM at 612 Ocean St.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 8-21-22 show features Darius Mohsenin outlines the Landlord View (part 2); Gabbing with Gibbs; Wes White’s update; Caustic Comments on Council Crud with Keith, & more… 5-27-2007 Flashback–described below

On the August 21, 2022 show:

  • Darius Mohsenin interview (part 2)
  • Gibbs Gab: Street stuff from a sidewalk local
  • More Mohsenin on words unspoken at the Benchlands Resistance Speak-Out
  • Bathrobespierre Robert and Katzenjammer Keith chitchat on Benchlands and City Council
  • Back to the Way Things Were: songs from the S.F. Mime Troupe’s yearly production.  https://www.sfmt.org/
  • [Rarely played Phil Ochs songs played throughout from A Toast to Those Who Are Gone  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQwWIG_1YGk&list=RDMM&index=3 ]

Flashback to May 27, 2007:

  • Street Interviews: Trey’s “Obstructing an Officer” ticket for sitting on an inoperative water fountain
  • Live phone interview with writer Robert Whitaker, author of Mad in America and the Mad in America website.
  • Panels on the Whitaker interview: 
  • +++ Jane Kysor of PIRC (Psychiatric Inmates Rights Collective);              
  • +++ Coral Brune of SAFE (Society for Artistic Freedom and Expression/Street Performers Against Foolish Enforcement)              
  • +++ “Millie from Gilroy”, a psuedonym for a local psychiatric survivor, on psychiatric drugs and their effects
  • +++ Call-in’s from “Mad John” Telfair, Bob Lamonica, and others
  • +++  More info: psychrights.org, mindfreedom.org, www.madinamerica.com 

SANTA CRUZ HOMELESS UNION, FOOD NOT BOMBS  [FNB] , and HUFF  will meet again Monday Aug 22 at 6 PM at the Resource Center for Non-Violence  (612 Ocean) to discuss Resistance Strategies  & the progress of a new Injunction as the  Summer ‘s End demolition threats loom larger at the 8-23 S.C. Shitty Council meeting.  This can happen anytime in the afternoon, but likely sometime between 4 and 6 PM.   Public speaking time severely limited.  Group presentations limited to three and total time for all speakers to 30 minutes. 

The Matthew-Meyers-Brunner speaker gag policy has meant speakers are sharply interrupted at 2 minutes and comment on all agenda items cut back from 3 minutes (5 for groups] to 2 minutes or less [3 for groups].
SANTA CRUZ SHITTY COUNCIL still refuses to fund or even permit independent low-barrier agreement or transitional camps, nor to fund FNB  or the Footbridge Services Program.  It proposes to redirect $1 million in state funding for the Safe Parking Program to “Benchlands Closure and Restoration”.

Call 575-770-3377  or 431-7766 to volunteer for the SC Homeless Union  or show up at the Monday 8-22 meeting and volunteer.  They are desperately in need of new blood and leadership with the time, passion, and resources to organize!  President Alicia Kuhl still takes concerns and complaints.  Also notable: City Council’s failure to use the $14.5 million to set up survival campgrounds and support those that exist! 

Their principal goal seems to be to provide token shelter so they can restore the Sleeping/Camping Ban (MC 6.36) aka the Camping Services and Standards Ordinance and resume their “hide out or get out” policy.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Show 8-18-22 will stream and archive at 6 PM today. Featured: Darius Mohsenin on the Landlord’s View; Cooper & Others on Leablower Luggery; Benchlands Resistance & more.

As usual, the show will archive at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html, and will play on the net at www.freakradio.org .  Any problems call 831-423-4833

Brief written descriptions of many of these shows (so you know what you are getting into) are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/.  

You can also sign up to receive advance notice of the content of the twice-weekly shows by e-mailing rnorse3@hotmail.com and asking to be put on the HUFF e-mail list.


On today’s 8-18 show:
       +++ Landlord Darius Mohsenin comparing rents and profits (part one)             [Songs by Peggy Seeger from
Heading for Home]
             +++ SF police use of cameras at BLM protests challenged:
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20220817/281638193993138

+++ Another End the Drug War editorial:  https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/08/17/opinion-california-should-legalize-all-drugs-it-works-elsewhere/
           [Phil Ochs: Previously unreleased version of “The War is Over” from
The Best of the Rest]

+++ Christy Lyn Monde (8-14) On Leaving the Benchlands & Sheltershit                    

+++ Cooper D’Angelo, Russell, Robert Yates and others (8-14) on Leafblowing away Homeless Sleepers         

[Phil Ochs: Previously unreleased “Take it Out of my Youth” from The Best of the Rest]


         +++ Bit of audio from the 8-15 Union of the Homeless/Food Not Bombs/HUFF meeting at the RCNV announcing prep for a 2nd Injunction to stop the depopulation of the Benchlands. for the full video go to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5LHjgeBllUVT5JdE9t78zQ
     
        NEXT BENCHLANDS RESISTANCE MEETING Monday August 22 6 PM at 612 Ocean St.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 8-14-22 streams and will archive at 9:30 AM-3 PM Council crapoloa, People’s Park Tour, & McHenry Roughed Up Flashback to 11-13-2016–Wes White on the new Homeless Union, Peggy Lee Kennedy & more

On the 8-14-2022 Show: 
      +++ Berkeley’s “Feed the Famished” Father–J.C. Orton giving a tour of the bulldozed People’s Park.          

+++ Squeezing in “Oral Communications” at City Council last Tuesday 11-9          

+++ Ill-funded Force Review of California Cops?  https://eastbayexpress.com/the-long-shadow-of-george-floyd-new-state-laws-on-police-accountability-are-testing-the-limits-of-several-agencies/
          +++ Katzenjammer Keith runs into “Mask Up or Get Mauled” goonsquad at Joy Schendeldecker London Nelson Rally 8-12.
          +++ 
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20220812/281513639932345


Flashback to 11-14-2016:          

+++ “Whip-em-into-shape” Wes White in long phone interview on the new Salinas Union of the Homeless, the Flagpole City Council Sleepout criminalized and more
            +++   Freedom SleepOut #69:  “Katzenjammer” Keith on Take Back Santa Cruz and the Guardian Angels           

+++   “Battling” Bob [Lamonica] vs. “Bathrobespierre” Robert  on local poverty pimperee              

+++   Zav Herschfield on Hiway Widening              

+++   Moonslight Mark on Trespassing tickets in the rain around the library              

+++   “Dead-on” David Silva and HIV Discrimination at a local massage parlor                 
            +++   Katzenjammer Keith National Issues & the Local police murder of Sean Arlt
           +++   Pacific Ave. interview with Phoenix Rose on performing in the boxes.              

+++   Berkeley disabled activist Dan MacMullan on politics and protest
             +++  “Dead on” David Silva–traveling among common folk in Mozambique and Macao.
           +++  “Check in” Charlie Reports on Monterey Sitting Ban protests –
              +++  [11-4] Music in and out of the Designated Discs on Pacific Ave.              

+++  P.J. and Pup on proper police and pizza; Cooper on her latest trial; Running Water and Jody: more tales of hunger–Food Not Bombs meal interviews
           +++  [11-7] “Push back” Pat Colbe on befriending Farley               +++   Quick Updates: Andy C., Lisa, Hutch              

+++   “Pissed off” Peggy Lee Kennedy on Palm Springs park persecution of Food Not Bombs. 
           +++  “Straight Talk” Susie Worth on Bookshop Coonerty’s “trespass” for using the bathroom…newcomers on friendly police and cold locals…