Category Archives: Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Radio Show

Sunday on Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides: a Blow-by-Blow Breakdown of the Vanish the Vendors Law; Snips from Freedom Sleepout #44, Selections from Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, and More !

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More than you ever wanted to hear in a moment-by-moment deconstruction of  Assistant City Mangler Scott Collins often misleading description of the unanimously passed Vanish the Vendors law at the May 10, 2016 City Council.   Keith McHenry and Steve Pleich on Freedom SleepOut #44 and the City’s “Steal the Sidewalks” gambit.   Pause with the Pathos of Steinbeck’s story, reminding us that yesterday is today

The show broadcasts at 101.3 FM and streams on the internet at freakradio.org at 9:30 AM – 2:30 PM (May 15).  It will archive at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb160515.mp3.

Free Radio Show Tonight Has “Vanish the Vendors” Ordinance Discussion and Sacramento Attorney Mark Merin: 6 -8 PM

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 Interviews with folks in line for a meal at the Red Church speak out on various issues; I interject some preliminary commentary on Tuesday‘s unanimous City Council vote approving harsher restrictions downtown that ban jewelry, hairwrapping, painting a picture, and other traditional Pacific Avenue sidewalk activities.  Sacramento activist and attorney Mark Merin discusses the aftermath of the 3 month long homeless protest there and his move to establish a permitted homeless encampment.

No historical flashbacks this time, but 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.

The show broadcasts at 101.3 FM and streams on the internet at freakradio.org at 6-8 PM (May 5th).  It will archive at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb160505.mp3.

Sunday’s Long Show Covers 3rd Artist Bust Downtown, Tom Noddy on Tuesday’s “Vanish the Vendors” Law, the Eureka Homeless Deportations, and More–9:30 AM 5-8 101.1 FM!

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“Cornerstone” Carol Denney’s account of the crushing of Berkeley’s “First They Came from the Homeless” Protest.”

“Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry’s Call to Resist the “Vanish the Vendors” Law at Santa Cruz City Council on Tuesday right before Freedom SleepOut #44

A lengthy back-n-forth between “Travelin'” Tom Noddy and “Bathrobespierre” Robert Norse on Tuesday’s  “Performance Pens” law.

Eureka Attorney Shelly Mack updates the legal struggle in the wake of thr expulsion of hundreds of homeless from the Pelco Marsh May 1st .

Plus Alex Skelton and Joff Jones Account of their 3rd Arrest for Straying Outside the Blue Boxes Last Sunday at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/05/05/18786084.php

Drink lots of coffee or bring several pillows.

The show broadcasts at 101.3 FM and streams on the internet at freakradio.org at 9:30 AM – 2:45 PM (May 8).  It will archive at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb160508.mp3.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides hops back to 2014 to warn against the “Box in the Artists” Blue Boxes Downtown 6-8 PM on 101.3 FM and freakradio.org

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 Flashback to November 6, 2014.  The show has my discussion of the “Dots for Dodos” as I call the Performance Pens, or “Blue Boxes”  set up on Pacific Avenue to restrict performers, vendors, tablers, and others with a “display device” then proposed by Council Public Space Abolitionists Don Lane and Pamela Comstock.  With a “Vanish the Vendors” ordinance coming up at City Council on May 10th–the discussion is particularly relevant.

There are also plenty of street interviews along with commentary from “Catch-Her-If-You-Can” Katie.   
None of the times mentioned for meetings and other events are current, of course.
The show broadcasts at 101.3 FM and streams on the internet at freakradio.org at 6-8 PM (May 5th).  It will archive at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb160505.mp3.

HUFF hits the streets noon Saturday April 30th to Fight the Sidewalk Shutdown Law

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https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/04/29/18785787.php

Taking Back Pacific Avenue and Defending Artist, Vendors, & the Community Against Bad Laws
Date Saturday April 30
Time 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Location Details
Soquel and Pacific on Pacific Avenue outside Forever 21. Or whereever the wind blows or the police push us.
Event Type Protest
Contact Name Robert Norse
Email Address rnorse3 [at] hotmail.com
Phone Number 831-423-4833
Address 309 Cedar St. P.O. Box 14B, Santa Cruz, 95060
Join us at noon on Pacific to TAKE BACK THE PUBLIC SPACE ! We’ll share coffee, brownies, strong opinions, and heart space with all comers.

HUFF [Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom] is tabling to raise public awareness about and action around…

+++ The upcoming attack on vendors and other non-commercial folks on the street by the City Council with its new “Vanish the Vendors” ordinance. The law reportedly returns to City Council on May 10th. See http://scsire.cityofsantacruz.com/sirepub/mtgviewer.aspx?meetid=712&doctype=AGENDA [item #22]. My summary is at http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/04/11/18785162.php .

+++ Support for and solidarity with artists on Pacific Avenue, notably two arrested on Saturday April 16 for “displaying artwork outside the blue dotted area’. See “Pacific Avenue Santa Cruz: The Joff Jones and Alex Skelton Report on Freedom in the USA” at http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/04/25/18785582.php .

+++ Join the HUFF campaign to open the City Hall bathrooms 24-hours a day, reopen the closed Soquel Ave. garage bathroom, and bring Santa Cruz into the 21st Century on elementary health and sanitation matters.

+++ Support the HUFF campaign to replace “forbidden zones” blue “performance pens”, and “move along” laws with the successful Voluntary Street Performers Guidelines–which worked well from 1980 to 2002, until torpedoed by a merchant-hamstrung City Council. See http://www.buskersadvocates.org/saalegalSantaCruzGuide.html .

Bring video and audio devices if you’ve got ’em (phones will do)!

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides “No Flashbacks” Show covers latest City Hall Dog and Pony Show with lots of growls from the unhoused outside 6-8 PM tonight!

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Special coverage of Freedom SleepOut #42 and Council Capers before it; Interviews with the unrepentant unhoused:  Dreamcatcher, Brent Adams, Sgt. Bush, Sherry, and others.

The show broadcasts at 101.3 FM and streams on the internet at freakradio.org at 6-8 PM (April 28).  It will archive at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb160428.mp3.

Salinas City Hall SleepOut, Supes Constrict-Cannabis-Cultivating, Joff and Alex Solidarity protests–on Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 9:30 AM today Sunday 4-24-16

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A show with no flashbacks !  Pacific Avenue Protest Solidarity with Arrested Freedom Artists Joff Jones and Alex Skelton..Street Interviews with Gary Currey, racially harassed for sleeping…Thursday interview on Alex & Joff’s recent arrest..Earlier Joff interview on their August 2015 arrest…Nick Bulaich’s Danger Report from Cannabis Negative Board of Supervisors …Red Church Interviews…Freedom SleepOut #41 Interviews…Wes White’s Extensive Salinas Update on the Month-long Sleepout outside their City Hall…and more!

The show broadcasts at 101.3 FM and streams on the internet at freakradio.org at 9:30 AM – 2:00 PM (April 24).  It will archive at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb160424.mp3.

FRSC’s Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Flashes Back to June 22, 2000: Heated Debates and Angry Analysis

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Tonight’s show returns to June 20, 2000.  We follow City Council’s retreat from its previous endorsement of the Safe Sleeping Zones in the industrial areas, jewelry seizure by the SCPD, Robert Steffan–the Pink Guy who previously lived in a garbage bag outside Bunny’s Shoes, a lengthy analysis of City Council treachery against the homeless by Chamber of Commerce CEO Mike Schmidt and insider Activist David Silva, as well as a dialogue on the Nueva Vista “oust the Latinos” project then called the Dolphin-Lee project.

The show broadcasts at 101.3 FM and streams on the internet at freakradio.org at 6-8 PM (April 21).  It will archive at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb160421.mp3.

FRSC’s Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Reviews the Vicious Anti-Vending Law, McHenry’s Arrest, and the Cannabis Clampdown Coming Up at the Board of Supes

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Tonight’s show continues the discussion of the “Vanish the Vendors” law introduced at City Council last Tuesday and due to come back April 26th for a 1st reading.  “Katenzjammer” Keith McHenry’s latest stint in jail, and the upcoming “Coral the (Marijuana) Cultivators” ordinance coming back to the Board of Supes on April 19th. 

The show broadcasts at 101.3 FM and streams on the internet at freakradio.org at 6-8 PM (April 14).  It will archive at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb160414.mp3.

FRSC’s Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Flashes Back to 1988 6:30-8:30 PM Show tonight

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Tonight’s show is all about Fall 1988 and alternate media KZSC’s coverage of the struggle to overthrow the Sleeping Ban.  Interviews with Charles Grey, Ray Glock-Greuneich, Jane Imler, Robert Norse, and Brian Koepke.

The show broadcasts at 101.3 FM and streams on the internet at freakradio.org at 6-8 PM (April 7).  It will archive at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb160331.mp3.