The April 17, 2025 show is a Flashback to May 10, 2015. 

It includes:

• Miranda from Salinas’s Rainbow Speakers rejected by the SPD
• Herstory of Mother’s Day and its anti-war origins
• SCPD’s Ken Deeg’s pursuit of Santa Cruz’s 1^st 24-hour parking ban; other police antics here and elsewhere.
• Chatting with Stakeholders versus Calling Out Abusers
• Callers Dangerous John T., Dead-On David Silva, and Doc Mike.  Kip’s Blocking the Sidewalk tickets—attack on homeless organizers?
• LAPD Killing of Brandon Bren
• More street newsbits from Sandra Leigh, Romanoff, & more
• Voices against the 1^st 24-hour “No Homeless” Parking Ban: Lilly Craft,
• Kip on police crackdown 
• Making Change: Black Lives Matter: Interview with Alicia Garza

The April 13, 2025 show includes:

• The first 15 minutes of the 4-10 HUFF meeting
• David Rovics’ Musical History from the early 21st century throughout the archive
• 4-5: Green Party Gubernatorial candidate and History Prof Butch Ware on Green Party platforms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj5nvw9Do8E (video by Wes White)
• HUFF meeting reviews the anti-Trump protests
• HUFF activist & Capitola mobile homester Gaia on organizing the tenants—the latest
• Bathrobespierre questions Israeli government supporter Becky Johnson (Part 3)

The Flashback to February 8, 2004 includes:

• Paul Mercelin Sampson of the Metro Riders Union criticizes the Metro Board’s priorities
• Manteca’s David Brown on numerous progressive struggles there
• Kucinch or Sharpton as anti-war but also anti-homeless?
• Green Press editor Ed Oberholser
• “Social Cleansing in Santa Cruz” by Scott Rhodes
• Council OKs destruction of police records
• Beggarbacker Becky on the Dolphin-Lee Nueva Vista project’s cost
• Swimming against the City Council tide: analysis and documentation

The April 10, 2025 show is a Flashback to January 31, 2019. 

It includes:

• Poor People’s Campaign features Tenant Activists “Rough Road” Rick, & Cynthia Berger. 
• Red Church Renegades Sound Off: Patrick Travis, Joyful Heart, Todd J., Steve C.   
• Ross Camp Report with “All Speed Ahead” Alica, Bathrobespierre Robert, Ernest Rosenthal, Puddentain, and the Regulator
• https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/22/18820615.php  Police-Led MLK Day March, Lots of Smiles, Little Substance—many flyers on view

The April 6, 2025 show includes a portion of a Flashback to January 18, 2004: 

• Mathew Embray, Doug McGrath, Marilyn Weaver, and Bathrobespierre on the values of positively disruptive civil disobedience at City Council after Mayor Kennedy made an arrest.
• [January 2004] Interviews with street folk: Barry, Chris, Mu & more
• “Scope it Out” Scott on Fighting Back Against Kennedy & Rotkin
• A Guitarron player’s account; Jason Pasqual’s latest citation; the Return of Mr. Freeze. 

The Flashback to January 22, 2004 includes:

• Adrienne on diagnosing and treating Yuppie Personality Deficit
• Nutcracker Nick on “A Jiggle, A Juggle” his new street play
• Bradley of the Santa Cruz Indymedia on videoing recent events
• Audio of Mayor arresting Norse on January 13th and discussion with Beggarbacker Becky Johnson and another visiting leftist witness

The April 3, 2025 show is a Flashback to August 2, 2012.  It includes:

+++  Community TV talk show host Sandy Leigh (aka Spilly Chilly) on Disability Discrimination at the Homeless [Lack of] Services Center [HLOSC] 

+++   Panelist Mayor Don Lane (also Board member of HLOSC), activist Steve Pleich Homeless Persons Legal Assistance, and advocate John Colby on HLOSC abuse and neglect towards the disabled.

+++  Colby on disabled clients Meagan Andrea Morgan, Ron Skinner, both walker users, & Steve Lacelle+ others being denied or evicted from HLOSC.

+++   Bathrobespierre Robert and Lighthouse Linda on questions not askedand on Colby’s legal appeal to regulatory agencies.

+++   Pleich and Lane defensively “respond” to Colby’s specific criticisms.

+++   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/07/31/18718653.php 

+++   Summing Up: Colby’s questions remain unanswered; protests  continue.

The March 30, 2025 show includes:

• https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/26/oakland-lake-merritt-homeless-encampments/
• [throughout] Continued musical numbers from “A History of the World According to Rovics”
• Caitlin Johnstone: “The President of Peace Just Bombed Yemen 65 Times in 24 Hours”
• Keith McHenry on the Recent and Ongoing Protests about the Lithium Battery Fires
• Steven Ross on his squatting and surviving in Santa Cruz
• Heated discussion with pro-Israeli government supporter Becky Johnson
• https://peacenow.org.il/en/30-years-after-oslo-the-data-that-shows-how-the-settlements-proliferated-following-the-oslo-accords
  

The Flashback to April 11, 2010 includes:

• Troublesome Thomas and Bathrobespierre Robert discuss the City Attorney and the Sinister Singsong Sidewalk Citation case
• Further flashback to 12-28-87 interview with Travelin’ Tom Noddy on the 1977-8 Scott Creek Bluff bust and trial
• 3-28-10 Street Interviews with Merryweather Mike, Plantercrime Andrew, and Renee Currey of Sidewalk Beanies-and-Burritos fame
• Voices on the air and in the news: Lighthouse Linda, WakeUpTime Wes Modes, Lighttouch Louis La Fortune.
• Beggarbacker Becky on the aftermath of her Song trial with Ed Frey
• Death of the Dog Ban on Pacific Avenue
• Final words with Drum Circle Dave
• Making Contact episode on Bankruptcy of Journalism

The March 27, 2025 show is a Flashback to May 9, 2003. 

It includes:

• Roger Bournique on his landlord, local anti-Bush protest, and heroin use
• “Scope it Out” Scott on local jail crammed with Drug war prisoners
• Co-Host Jeffrey Gale joins the show with a national perspective
• Court Corridors report from Referee “Meatgrinder”  Mulligan
• Capitola City Council craziness against political protest; HUFF report
• A bar or two of music from Uncle Dennis’s “Cream to the Dregs” show

The March 23, 2025 show includes: 

• https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/drug-supplies-mayor-lurie-20228206.php https://www.city-journal.org/article/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-drug-policy-homelessness
• https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/sf-drug-arrest-data-dealers-users-police-20217830.php https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20250320/281479282202178
• [Throughout] A History of the World According to David Rovics
• https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/03/19/controversial-homeless-policy-proposal-divides-san-jose-residents/ https://sanjosespotlight.com/op-ed-mayor-mahans-plan-hurts-black-brown-and-disabled-communities/
• https://endhomelessness.org/resources/research-and-analysis/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights/
• Keith McHenry on personal symptoms from the Moss Landing Lithium Battery Fire
• McHenry attacks local liberals in power parroting the establishment line on the divisions in the Local Left on Ukraine

The Flashback to November 15, 1998 includes (with much audio distortion):

• Critique of the Community Homeless Resource Center
• Attorney Catnip Kate Wells remembers activist Sean Alemi
• His son discusses the Cop Shooting of Charles Vaughn, Sr. on a Seaside roof
• Skidmark Bob Duran reports of Steve Argue locked down in S.C. County jail
• Struggle to Put the Sleeping Ban up to Council Vote for Winter
• Many street interviews throughout

The March 20, 2025 show is a Flashback to February 15, 2004

and includes:

• Bathrobespierre’s analysis of the local activist push to have protection against the Patriot Act and City Council’s refusal to enact such.
• Testimony at Council by John Gibson of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee [BORDC], Norse of HUFF, Councilmember Kennedy, and others.
• Phone interview with Keith McHenry on his lengthy activist history
• “Hail Kerry, Senator Facing Both Ways,…” by Cockburn and St. Clair
• Phone interview with Berkeley poet Julia Vinograd reading & reporting
• Clearview Court Sell-Out
• Pat Kittle challenges Sleeping Ban opponents to “respect the forest”

The March 16, 2025 show includes:

• [here and there] More of The World According to David Rovics: 1980s-90s
• https://sjsunews.com/article/updated-city-law-threatens-houseless
•  https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition-sunday/20250309/281560886558097  Shelter refusal may be a crime.
• https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/25/san-jose-homeless-relocation-pilot-program/
• 3-15: Voices from the Food Not Bombs [FNB] meal: “The Lone Ranger”(aka MessMelter Mel) on Empty Buildings and the Few Understanding Merchants
• “Push Back” Pat Colby on her Personal Struggle against Eviction & Stalking
• Izzy ousted from storage, abused at Funding Matters corral.
• Fremont Unhoused Activists Fight Back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT_d9BFEzYA: Homeless Groups Resist the new Fremont Camping Ban
• [2-23]  Cooper on the price escalation

The Flashback to March 22, 1996 includes:

• Bathrobespierre reviews Sentinel stories and omissions
• ‘Judgement Day’ John Stewart on the fatal tasering of Joseph Lighter and “in-custody death syndrome”
• Ford’s Parking Lot: Leroy, Space, Faith, Greyhat, and others on earlier illegal arrest, search & seizure
• Homeless Community Resource Center Board of Directors: Bathrobespierre, Celine Marie Pasquale, Tim Rinker, and Becky Johnson
• Lengthy in-studio interview with David Dumars (“B.D.”) on his upcoming trial
• March 1996 Street Sheet on the G.A. shuffle
• How to look up a warrant locally.
• Protests supporting City Hall Sleepers: Pajama Party; interviews from last Saturday’s Ford Parking lot (“Friendship Corner”) protest
• Interview with Feed the People activist Sean Alemi and his subsequent arrest