HUFF will be hammering out its proposals for police reform at the Saturday 1:30 PM protest at the Town Clock 11-26. The meeting runs from 11 AM depending on when coffee and patience and participants run out.
Agenda items also likely to include: Freedom SleepOut #72 Lookback and Lookforward; Expectations from Incoming City Council members (Krohn and S. Brown); Interacting with the Growing Anti-Trump Protest; and more!
Hearty (and not-so hardy) HUFFsters will brave drizzle and sunshine to ponder HUFFstuff. On the agenda in part: David Silva’s hunger fast and the “Rolling Fast”; County RV Ban Battle Continues; Struggling with the Sheriff’s Department to Get Its Citation Record Released as Required by Law; Surveillance Public Records of the City Police Again Delayed; Watsonville Homeless Connect–Worth Wandering South?; ACLU Agenda for Wednesday Night–Prospects?; Looking for Updates from Tenant Rights Struggle, Council Coronation Crapola on Tuesday 11-22, Aftermath of the Metro (Measure D) Fight, MHCAN, Laura’s Law at the Supes, and Cannabis Constriction at the Supes; Prep for the Saturday 1:30 PM Cop-Corner-at-the-Town-Clock rally, and Freedom SleepOut 71 Update…all this and the new Street Spirit too (!).
HUFFsters battered and bruised by electoral hysteria will stare at each other and then press on at the usual mid-morning to early afternoon meeting. Up for discussion and prep are
In the wake of Freedom SleepOut #69 and the “Vent and Vamoose!” session with SCPD’s “No Audio, No Video, No Names” Chief Vogel and Vice-Chief Martinez up at the Peace United Church last night, we’ll be sizing up creative ways of educating the interested and pressuring the complacent around the dangerously expanded police power in Santa Cruz–particularly as it impacts the unhoused. Also on the agenda” Coastal Commission RV update,
Guarding Against the Guardian Angels, Spotlighting Harassment Around City Hall and the Library, and Getting the Goods on the Homeless (Lack of) Services Center.
Come prepared to drink coffee and chat endlessly.
We’ll also be making final prep for the “Return to Cop Corner” protest Thursday at 1 PM. See https://www.indybay.org/
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On the sidewalk at the corner of Laurel and Center Street (at the location of the SCPD main station).
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After a City Council meeting of the spiritually exhausted talking to the morally dysfunctional about the need to do the obvious in the Sean Alrt murder: release the audio and videl, fire the officers involved, dump the police chief and city manager if necessary, and make other fundamental changes in the SCPD, HUFF will consider its low-intensity but persistent protests against SCPD arrogance, stonewalling, and lack of accountability. Also on the agenda: the Santa Barbara RV struggle, pushing back against Parks and Recreation “no loitering” repression, reports of a cops breaking one homeless man’s arm, and other incidentals. All with coffee. Free.
With the recent killing Sean Amit Sunday morning, police gunslingers have raised a long needed debate about the need for Community Control of Police that HUFF has long been urging. Or will this be another excuse to blame the disabled and the “mentally ill”? Also on the Agenda:
and, of course, more and more…
with hits of coffee available to keep you going…
On the HUFF agenda: Homeless (Lack of) Service Center Clients Speak Out!–Discussion of the Latest Petition Denouncing Bedbugs and Bad SErvice; Solidarity with Marysville facing Deportation on October 17th; Tabling at the UN Street Fair; Confronting the City Council Election; Update on the City Council Meeting and Freedom SleepOut #66…and more. All laced with coffee and catcalls.
HUFF goes through cup after cup of coffee while considering (a) the aftermath of the Salinas crackdown, (b) the upcoming “Houselessness Forum” thrown by the ACLU Wednesday night 7 PM at the MAH downtown, (c) conditions at the Homeless Lack of Services Center in a phone call at 1 PM between Andy Carcello and his HUD rep, (d) lots of other stuff.
HUFF Agenda Prospects: Salinas Last Stand Support, Fighting Handicraft Citations on Pacific, Whether and Who to Endorse in the Silly Clownsil Race, Self-Defense for Trollbusting Victims, with coffee and clamor for all!
HUFF Agenda Prospects: Salinas Update, HUFF Visitors, Last Chance to Splash a Little Wake-Up Truth on the Council Candidate Forums, Trollbusting on the rise? Agitate and Participate! 703 Pacific, as ever.