Likely to be discussed: Legislature and San Jose’s “support managed encampments” proposed funding; Sleeping Ban reform discussion at City Council this month or next?; Direction Action Protest to Expose Driving Homeless People Out Into the Rain; a Lookback at 2015…and whatever falls out…
Category Archives: HUFF meetings
HUFF still slurpin’ coffee Wednesday morning 12-30 11 AM at ye olde Sub Rosa Cafe
On the HUFF horizon: DIY New Year’s Eve parade and promenade Friday evening; reinvigorating demands for SCPD reform in Santa Cruz in the wake of mainstream media reports of police/prosecution/mayoral murder and cover-up in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Minneapolis, Chicago, Ohio, and Missouri; Warming Center Whiplash: Alternatives to Hypothermia when no Program is in Place; Report from Freedom SleepOut #25…and, of course, more than you want and less than you hoped for…
HUFF Shouts Humbug at City Council’s Xmas Chilly Cheer 11 AM 12-23 Sub rosa Cafe
Any chance to make the City Council Sinners Repent? Not likely. Legal Leapabout: Attorney Judi Bari may be up for helping follow up on illegal seizures of homeless property; a review of the year’s abuses and victories. Reports of violence attacks on the homeless. The latest chapter on the Lane-Posner “real soon we’ll put the Sleeping Ban on the agenda”. Xmas treats.
HUFF: Come in out of the Cold to Sub Rosa 11 AM Wednesday 11-25-15
Coffee and chat at HUFF tomorrow (11-25) as we view remains of the wreckage from City Council’s ‘decisions’ on the Warming Center, the “No Homeless RV’s law, and the aftermath of Freedom SleepOut #20. Also on the agenda: the California Rural Legal Assistance Lawsuit Against the Manteca Sleeping Ban; Berkeley’s Ongoing SleepOut Outside City Hall, New Strategies of Survival and Resistance as Winter Descends…
HUFF ‘n Stuff will brave the mid-day cold to huddle together tomorrow 11-11 at 11 a.m. (!) at the Sub Rosa
HUFF agenda is likely to be brooding over:
+++ Berkeley’s Upcoming SleepOut on 11-16 and the Berkeley City Council meeting’s planned attack on the homeless (See http://www.thestreetspirit.
+++ The on-going struggle to focus federal attention via the DOJ and HUD oversight to finally force City Council to pay attention to basic homeless survival rights this winter before the suffering toll grows from El Nino.
+++ Support for other allied student and community struggles (Tuition/Police Abuse by UCSC activists, the Beach Flats Community Garden by activists there, Tenant organizing).
+++ Transformed Support for the Freedom Sleepers Movement to account for freezing and wet weather ahead.
+++ The on-going struggle to focus federal attention via the DOJ and HUD oversight to finally force City Council to pay attention to basic homeless survival rights this winter before the suffering toll grows from El Nino.
+++ Support for other allied student and community struggles (Tuition/Police Abuse by UCSC activists, the Beach Flats Community Garden by activists there, Tenant organizing).
+++ Transformed Support for the Freedom Sleepers Movement to account for freezing and wet weather ahead.
HUFF it up later today–if you dare 11 AM Sub Rosa Cafe
Moving from Freedom SleepOut #17 to HUFF Chat-and-Sip #1608 (we’ve been meeting weekly since 1989 or perhaps before). Agenda prospects for: tonight’s City Commission for the Prevention of Violence to Women’s discussion of safe sleeping zones for women to (perhaps) be forwarded to the next Shitty Council meeting; RV Parking and Safe Zones on November 24th agenda; Panhandling laws coming up for challenge?; Blue Box 2 Case 8:30 AM 11-5; whatever the cold wind blows in…along with hot coffee and other drinkables.
HUFF will still puff at Sub Rosa Today 11 AM at ye olde 703 Pacific Ave.
HUFF meeting today to review recent work by activists Avian, Laura, Linda perhaps, and others! Not to mention the latest vague Mea Culpa from Mayor Lane on his facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/Don.
HUFF struts its stuff Wednesday 10-21-15…11 AM at Sub Rosa 703 Pacific
HUFF will be staggering in from SleepOut #15 (assuming we’re not in the hoosegow) to consider tabling at a Take Back Santa Cruz Event on Thursday night, organizing for the UN street closure on Saturday, considering a recent report of a police officer drawing a gun, and prep for next Tuesday’s Council Meeting sleep-out for a possible Sleep-In. Come on down and join the merriment. Coffee and cups provided.
HUFF trudges on: 11 AM Sub Rosa Cafe 10-14
After the mega-Council meeting of 10-13 and the Freedom Sleepers Declaration of a [Relatively] Safe Sleeping Zone on the City Hall Sidewalks, it’s time to plan for upcoming anticipated El Nino weather and the harder choices that face houseless and houseless supporters alike. If Sub Rosa at 703 Pacific isn’t available, we’ll likey move to Cafe Pergolesi, but the new location will be posted on the Sub Rosa gate. New strategies for supporting restoration of space and security for performers, vendors, loungers, residents, you name it…
HUFFling and snuffling: Wednesday 10-7 at ye olde Sub Rosa Cafe 11 AM
Weary HUFFsters, straggling in from Freedom SleepOut #13 will find a dose of coffee and cantankerousness at the weekly HUFF-orama. Rumors that Cal Tran or other badged bozos are giving “littering” tickets along the tracks (but not for litter, rather–clean up and move or have your stuff confiscated) , city attorney seems to confirm that zero camping tickets are being dismissed under the ‘on the waiting list’ exemption, new informational flier on getting your name on the River St. Waiting List by phone to avoid tickets, and, possibly a more restive than usual SleepOut #14 coming up on October 20th. Sleep out and then force your eyes open for the HUFF meet…!