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Full Show Disabled By Power Problems Last Sunday to Air Today

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The show features scintillating and soporific street interviews, some badlands Berkeley history with handicapped commissioner Dan McMullan, music lifted from You-tube by Ryan Greer, street performers and artists joyfully fighting back against the Vanish the Vendors laws, and just lots of stuff !  Five hours worth!   If you miss the show or want to hear it at another time, check out:

Part 1: http://radiolibre.org/brb/brb160717.mp3 [first 56 minutes]
Part 2: http://huffsantacruz.org/lost/F%20BB%207-17-16/F%20BB%207-17-16%201.mp3 
Part 3: http://huffsantacruz.org/lost/F%20BB%207-17-16/F%20BB%207-17-16%202.mp3

Los Angeles Homeless Activist Calls Out for Help

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Peggy: 

Great two letters.

I’m passing this appeal on to the HUFFsters and will bring it up at tomorrow’s HUFF meeting.  Not that we can do that much, but we can send e-mails.   You’re also invited on the air Thursday night at 6-8 PM, if you’d like.   We’ve gotten into a new studio and have live broadcasting again.

Robert

Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 16:18:17 -0700
Subject: URGENT – PLEASE ACT
From: peggylee.kennedy@gmail.com
To: venicejusticecommittee@gmail.com

Sorry for the duplicate emails, but this is really important!

Tomorrow, June 22 the LA City Council Committee on Poverty and Homelessness has (agenda item 4) the new ordinance making it illegal to sleep in a vehicle!

Here is the link to the agenda:
http://ens.lacity.org/clk/committeeagend/clkcommitteeagend3405104145_06222016.html

Please email a letter of opposition ASAP
and
PLEASE try to come to the meeting! It starts at 3pm. Put in a speaker card saying you are opposed to item 4.

Below is the email I sent them. Feel free to use what you want, but use your own words of course.

Below that is David’s email

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To:          LA City Council Homelessness and Poverty Committee

LACity Councilmember Harris-Dawson   councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org

LACity Councilmember Huizar                    councilmember.huizar@lacity.org

LACity Councilmember Bonin                     councilmember.bonin@lacity.org

LACity Councilmember Cedillo                   councilmember.cedillo@lacity.org

LACity Councilmember Price                       councilmember.price@lacity.org

Legislative Assistant Eric Villanueva          Eric.Villanueva@lacity.org

CC:         Mayor Eric Garcetti                         mayor.garcetti@lacity.org

 

Re:         June 22, 2016, Agenda Item 4, Council File 14-1057

Amending LAMC 85.02 (to prohibit lodging in a vehicle on city streets)

Councilmembers:

I am opposed to this ordinance in either of the two draft forms provided by the City Attorney:

It makes the act of lodging in a vehicle a crime when homelessness is persistent and growing.

It  does not create solutions first and foremost, which is what this committee should look at first considering the urgency of the homeless situation in Los Angeles.

It is inhumane and innocent people will be harmed.

The City of Los Angeles saw another increase of 11% in the homeless count of 2016 from that of 2015 (one-year). The prior 2015 count saw an increase of 12% from 2013 (two-years). Clearly the homeless problem in Los Angeles is persistent and growing.

These counts are of people, not simply numbers. They are community members and neighbors once housed in Los Angeles.  In fact 72% of adults experiencing homelessness have lived in LA County for more than 20-years. (Los Angeles Homeless Service Authority (LAHSA) Homeless County Presentation 

https://documents.lahsa.org/Planning/homelesscount/2016/factsheet/2016-HC-Results.pdf )

There are no Safe Parking programs in place, if ever created at all, which might meet the demand of those living homeless in a vehicle. Such programs may take years to develop. Any person of average intelligence can understand that living in a vehicle is safer than living outside “rough.”  Furthermore, Los Angeles does not have enough homeless shelters for the homeless people living “rough.”

The fact is Los Angeles has a severe housing crisis and is one of the least affordable places to live in the United States. (National Low Income Housing Coalition: Affordable Housing Gap Analysis 2016 http://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/Gap-Report_print.pdf ) I suggest the City of Los Angeles take a look internally to find reasons why so many low-income Angelinos are becoming homeless. Protecting, monitoring, and increasing low-income housing is one key place to begin.

In the mean time, emergency measures are in order now. We need safe places for homeless people to rest, storage for their belongings, access to sanitary facilities, and so much more.

Turning homeless people into criminals is cruel, it certainly is not a solution and it has proven more expensive that housing people. 

Vote no and stop this from going forward!

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Free Radio’s Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Show update

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Interested HUFFsters:   My twice-weekly radio show is now back in the studio.  You can call in at 831-427-3772 when I’m on air, and leave me a message at 831-423-4833 off-air.  Since I’m no longer preparing my shows in advance, unless I have an unusual guest, I won’t be sending out the twice-weekly reminder of my show.  I invite you all to listen and call in anyway! 


On Sunday’s show I’ll be covering my Freedom Sleeper hearing Friday, Cannabis Crackdown Updates, among several hours of other things.

The show broadcasts at 101.3 FM and streams on the internet at freakradio.org at 9:30 AM -2 PM Sundays and 6-8 PM Thursdays.   It will archive at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brbYYMMDD.mp3
where YY is the year, MM the month, and DD the day.  So tomorrow’s show on June 19, 2016 will archive at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb160619.mp3

Freedom Sleeper Get Together 8 PM Tuesday June 14 at City Hall? Council Preview

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Hi Everyone:

PROPOSED MEETING
Zav believes it would be good for Freedom Sleepers to firm up any plans for the July 5 Memorial Demo and clarifying what needs to be done and who can do it.  He suggests we meet at 8 PM in front of City Hall at the Freedom Sleeper site on Tuesday night.

Zav has also asked HUFF members (and anyone interested) to be particularly aware of the Budget approval that follows the Consent Agenda (Item #22) probably at 2:45 or 3 PM, which concerns money for public bathrooms (if any).   HUFF is encouraging the City to open the City Hall bathrooms 24-hours a day (the “Give a Shit” campaign).  Unfortunately the documents giving budget specifics and when items are coming up are not on line at the moment.

UPCOMING COURT HEARING
Also up for possible discussion at the 8 PM meeting (if that’s what we decide) is support for the June 17 Motions Hearing on my two “in the park after 10 PM” citations (10 AM Dept. 1).  The issue here is to get the police video and audio released prior to trial.  And use the occasion to publicize the City’s continuing harassment of Freedom Sleepers (and, of course, the unhoused community).

There is a chance that the well-documented City staff’s movement of agendas to the sidewalk in December may nullify my tickets (and perhaps those of all other Freedom Sleepers) and show that the arrests were false.   My court (not jury) trial before Judge Marigonda is currently slated for June 24 at 10 AM but may be postponed–if the Discovery Motion is granted.

ON THE COUNCIL AGENDA
I’d also add that on the June 14 Consent Agenda at 2:30 PM earlier that day are item #5, expanding triple fine zones for the holidays from the downtown area to include the entire city for July 4, Halloween, and New Year’s.  Plus expanding the time affected to 48 hours before and 48 hours after the holiday itself.  Pretty serious expansion of police power for harassment (and fund-raising) for minor offenses.

Item #6 kicks down $100,000 for graffiti abatement; item #8 $50,000 for a trash container up at the golf course; item #10 authorizes the City’s whole financial packet without any examination of investments in war profiteering or companies boycotted by the BDS movement (to boycott Israel unless it leaves the Occupied territories); item #11 $36,000 for new police helmets at $350+ a helmet. 

If anyone wants to talk on these Consent Agenda items, I encourage you to send an e-mail to a Council member (mposter@cityofsantacruz.com, dlane@cityofsantacruz.com, cchase@cityofsantacruz.com, etc.) asking them  to pull the item from the agenda for separate discussion and vote.   Or call them at 420-5020 and leave them a message.

NUMBER & LOCATION OF BLUE BOXES NOT SETTLED
The Resolution specifying the number and location of the blue cages, or “exempt zones” (as the blue bracketed areas on Pacific Avenue are called) is NOT on the agenda as anticipated.  However the law banning jewelry and other “Commercial” sales and uses, tightening the “move every hour” law, and enacting further restrictions on using the blue cages goes into effect on June 23 or 24th.

Sunday Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides: former MHCAN client “Righteous Rantster” Reynaldo, former Cannabis C-4 Member “Nip of News” Nick Balaich,, and “Worldweary” Willie Underbaggage Speak Out

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Plus Lots of Street Interviews and “Doubleduty” Doug Loisel (Methadone Clinic Manager and Youth Counselor) on the Medical Murder of Krista Deluca in Santa Cruz City Jail last year.   And still more for more than 4 1/2 hours!


The show broadcasts at 101.3 FM and streams on the internet at freakradio.org at 9:30 AM -2 PM (June 12).  It will archive at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb160612.mp3.

Thursday’s Bathrobes Show 6-8 PM features Snappy Commentary and Still More Street Interviews

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A pastiche of vendors, a passel of poor folks, and my analysis and argument.   That’s pretty much it.


The show broadcasts at 101.3 FM and streams on the internet at freakradio.org at 6-8 PM (June 2nd).  It will archive at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb160609.mp3.

Go to http://radiolibre.org/brb/   for older shows–as well as the latest show.  To see some of them described go to http://huffsantacruz.org/radio.html
For the really old shows go to http://huffsantacruz.org/archivemain.htm

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Resumes Recent Interview Broadcasting–Lots of Voices Raging!

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Red Church Clients Sound Off! Street Interviews galore!  More,”Vanish the Vendors” doubletalk from Shitty Council.  Police cam policies up North.  And still more for nearly 4 1/2 hours!

The show broadcasts at 101.3 FM and streams on the internet at freakradio.org at 9:30 AM -2 PM (June 5).  It will archive at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb160605.mp3.

 

Thursday’s Bathrobes Show 6-8 PM features Street Interviews and Other Updates

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Canvasing the Sunday Food Not Bombs line for news and views; belated partial accountability for two brutal Alameda County sheriffs; Wes White’s Salinas City Hall Sleep-In Report…and other stuff as well.

The show broadcasts at 101.3 FM and streams on the internet at freakradio.org at 6-8 PM (June 2nd).  It will archive at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb160602.mp3.

Go to http://radiolibre.org/brb/   for older shows–as well as the latest show.  To see some of them described go to http://huffsantacruz.org/radio.html
For the really old shows go to http://huffsantacruz.org/archivemain.html.

Flashback Show Ten Years to 2-12-06 with long-gone but still remembered Roughrider Richard Quigley and a host of obscure old-timers when they were youngertimers

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 Apologies to listeners.  The I-pod ate my painstakingly prepared 4 1/2 hour show which featured another go-around at the “Vanish the Vendors” City Council, last week on the street, fine audio from The Grapes of Wrath, and lots of hard-hitting slightly-off-key political/educational rage songs from Ryan Harvey.  Maybe next time…


Instead we’ll be broadcasting an oldie:

Sunday, February 12, 2006 show includes Richard Quigley interviewed on being banned from Aptos Safeway for trying to buy an “I know I’m stupid to be a loyal Safeway customer” …Discussion of the Patriot Act… “Deadman” being excluded from his wife’s funeral in Hollister the day before……”Mr. TV”….Bike church update from Road Scholar…Musical Mike and Valkyrie Valerie describing police selective enforcement against political tablers and activists near New Leaf Market…Ryan of Tent University at UCSC calling in against SCPD spygate, with Tent U update …The Brune interviews: judge drops dog-on-the-mall charge…Sylvia Karas, MHCAN Board member and psychiatric survivor speaks on AB1421 (easier psych commitment) and Prop 63 (funding of services), ducks question on whether she’ll stand up for medical marijuana use among her clients…Caller reports high-speed unsafe police chase ending in crash on 2-11…and more! 

The show broadcasts at 101.3 FM and streams on the internet at freakradio.org at 9:30 AM – 1:15 PM (May 29).  It will archive at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb160529.mp3.

Thursday’s Bathrobes Show 6-8 PM features Street Interviews Against the Vanish-the-Vendors Law

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And that’s mostly it !The show broadcasts at 101.3 FM and streams on the internet at freakradio.org at 6-8 PM (May 26th).  It will archive at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb160526.mp3.

Go to http://radiolibre.org/brb/   for older shows–as well as the latest show.  To see some of them described go to http://huffsantacruz.org/radio.html

For the really old shows go to http://huffsantacruz.org/archivemain.html.