Sorry this message didn’t get out sooner, but it’s a rare Wednesday morning that HUFF won’t be pulling up a chair to chatter and chow down with whatever coffee and crunchables are available. Main item is what to do around the galloping criminalization of homeless folks here as evidenced by last night’s Council Shameful Spectacle. Specifics: Fightback Training, Latest Public Records Act Info (Officer Bill Azua’s Stats), Bearcat B.S., and more…
Category Archives: HUFF meetings
SCPD Stonewalling & Cold Weather Callousness at HUFF Meet 11 AM 1-7 Wed Sub Rosa
Downing cups of hot fluid to stay awake and comfy, we’ll be engaging in the usual circular firing squad activity with your suggestions and some of these on the agenda: Prep for the 2 PM Cop Corner Protest Demanding an End to Racial and Homeless Profiling in Santa Cruz; Confronting New Stonewalling by the City on Public Records; First Reports on Downtown Performance Pens; Prep for the Upcoming First City Council Meeting of the Year.
Come if you can. Help from a distance if you can’t.
Shaming Out the Old Year, Dancing in the New: HUFF back at Sub Rosa 11 AM December 31st
HUFF –unapologetic in its disdain for holiday breaks–will be back at its old meeting place Wednesday morning with the usual bubbling pot of reports, recriminations, and restlessness. Upcoming: Prep for the DIY New Year’s parade Wednesday night (at 5 PM or so), Disability Two-Step at the City Attorney’s?, Zapping Officer Bill Azua: Scanning his Many Citations for Evidence of Bias; Strategies for De-Militarizing the SCPD–the January 13th Council meeting and the Bearcat Acquisition; Warming Center Worries; and whatever winter winds blow in… We got coffee; you bring what you got.
HUFF withdraws to the Bagelry 320 Cedar St. for 12-24 meeting 11 AM
The ever-methodical (if manic) HUFF meeting will move for this Wednesday only to the nearby Bagelry as the Sub Rosa will not be open on that day.
Upcoming on the HUFF agenda tomorrow at the Baglery: Follow-Up on the Cop Corner protest, given the upcoming Bullies for Bearcat Protest Happening at City Council; DIY New Year’s Eve parade prep; researching Azua’s racial record, a report of cloths-snatching by the SCPD and Sheriffs, protest against the absurdly limited propery reclamation hours at the SCPD?, “Steady Hand” Steve’s Update from the National Law Center On Homelessness and Poverty, organizing at the HLOSC’s Xmas meal Thursday…and whatever else tickles our fancies.
You supply the bodies and brains. We supply bagels and coffee.
HUFF prepares for Protest Against Police Cover-Up 11 AM-1 PM Sub Rosa 703 Pacific Wednesday 12-17
HUFF looks for clearer skies tomorrow after its meeting when we assemble at the police station at 2 PM on Cop Corner for some flyering, feeding, fasttalking for passing pedestrians and vehicles. Then closer to Copland for a Speak-Out, perhaps a Shriek-Out against police violence.
The HUFF meeting at 11 AM will consider the latest police non-response to Public Records Actg requests for police use of force (tasers, batons, pain-compliance holds, choke-holds, bullets, etc.). We will discuss a response to the upcoming Homeless (Lack of) Services Center Homeless Death Memorial (reportedly Thursday), consider emergency responses to the unmet Warming Center crisis, take Street Reports, and attempt to link up with protesters across the state and country who are addressing police violence against the unhoused communities.
Come, have fun, discuss what might work, then do it!
HUFF outruns the rain Wednesday 11 AM December 10th Sub Rosa
HUFF prepares for rainy weather tomorrow: Discussing the Upcoming Saturday protest at the Town Clock against Police Violence, the implications of City Council’s Shut down today, Soldarity with Berkeley and other Cities rising up to demand real change. Also up for consideration–Small Claims Court Struggle, Occupying Warming Centers in Winter, and…whatever else we can piece together. With coffee and munchies.
Come in out of the rain and HUFF up: Sub Rosa 11 AM 12-3
Coming up for consideration and action: Demand and Protest at the the SCPD for independent investigation of racial and class citations in 2013 and 2014, considering the unsavory track record of Officer Bradley Barnett; Preparing for the Expansion of Police Power With Stay-Away Orders on December 9th; Righteous Shelter from the Rain: the Warming Center and Housing Crisis in Santa Cruz; …RV Power–How Can We Support the Only Affordable Housing Homeless People Have?…We got coffee and cocoa, you bring the thirst for justice…
Chatter Along With HUFF 11 AM – 1 PM Wednesday 11-26 Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific
A few agenda items: Connecting with the Occupy Education Movement on Campus and the Local Rising Anger at Racial Profiling…Cabrillo Student Connections–forming new coalitions…Thanksgiving Day HUFF-a-thon at the Vet’s Hall…Following Up on the Azua and Barnett Cases…and whatever the looming winter brings…
HUFF Recovers From Latest Council Assault 11 AM Today 11-19 Sub Rosa
Huddling together against the growing cold, HUFF will attempt to light a warming fire as nights grow colder and the chance of rain increases.
Some possible topics: Responses to the new Performance Pens and Stay Away Orders. Another look at the Homeless (Lack of) Services Center. One-Day Charity Meet Returns to the Veteran’s Hall on Thanksgiving. Response to the RV Threat. Nasty Santa Cruz Neighbors Meet Tonight.
And Whatever Else Wanders In… Come one, come all.
HUFF Toddles On! Wednesday 11-12 11AM Sub Rosa Cafe
HUFF discusses picking up the cudgels for Small Claims Court action to end the Sleeping Ban and restore basic Human Rights for Homeless Folks; plots a return to the City Attorney’s Office to demand disability allowances for those crippled by the Move Along law; considers another go-around with City Council on 11-18 when Stay-Away orders and Performer Pens get a final vote. Among cups of coffee and dropping temperatures outside. If you can’t come, give us a call to help! 423-4833.