HUFF cools it with calm but chaotic colloquy at the usual 703 Pacific (Sub Rosa Cafe) 1:30-3:30 PM next to the Bike Church

Agenda Suggestions for HUFF 8-28-25

For those wearied or impatient with the repeated Agenda, most of them except those flagged as action or discussion items might be limited to 1 minute presentation unless the group wants more info.  This is also a rough draft with additional items to be added at the Thursday [8-28] meeting]


Top of the Agenda

++++   Reports on Current Projects; Time Available for next week;  Needs and Wants

++++   Follow-Up on Last Week’s Projects

++++   Flag Possible Action Items. 

++++   Handouts: Agenda, TBA;   Passarounds HUFF Notes, Gaza Petition         Available on Request:  Shelter/Sweep Questionaire

++++   This Morning’s Coral Crackdown (if anyone went) & Pajaro Demolition

++++   MHCAN Closure—Response?

++++   Successful Protest at Tuesday’s Board of Supervipers; Follow-Up++++   Wednesday’s Keeley Backslapping Affair

++++   Other Protests: 8-14 Thur Red Line on Beach; 8-20

++++   Other Street & sweep reports from the last week
++++   Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters

++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’s

++++   Federal and State Policing updates

++++   Meetings Upcoming

++++   216-8239 Sick Sweeps and Property Seizure Reports Accumulation

++++   Clanging pots and pans rally against U.S. Funding Gaza Starvation and Local Unhoused Refugee Harassment

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet]

Thursday August 28  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room

Saturday August 30 11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-war  All Out for Palestine: Gaza is Starving   Palestine Justice Coalition           Summer Show Fund-raiser for Palestine 5 PM-9 PM Barrios Unidos   1817 Soquel Ave.  Could be free.

Saturday August 30 and Sunday August 31 noon-3 PM FNB gathering and meal Town Clock; Street Spirits available; leave off or pick up polling sheets with Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices.

Monday September 1   8:30 AM- 11 AM   “Workers Over Billionaires” Protest  13190 CA-9, Boulder Creek    

Monday September 1 Noon-2:30  PM Barbecue & Fish fry  sc vets Hall  746 Front St.More events   T B A

More check-in’s + Info

++++    Info Tabling:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested…Poll for Armory

++++    Armory complaints to (408) 761-9930 as well as evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or  peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699.

++++    Temperate cloudy weather for the next week (says on-line weather report)

++++   Tips & Lifelessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Sagacity

++++   Reggie & Gaia’s report on Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”: Volunteers?  

++++   Laura C.: legislative updates

++++   Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces?  Small Claims Court? 

++++   (if by popular demand) Wes White’s phone report on Pajaro Camp DemolitionNew Media Stories  : Next week perhaps

Old Standbyes

++++   Hard Copies of Street Spirit available Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock 12-3 PM—ask Drew at the Food Not Bombs.  Both want stories & news accounts: contact paper directly or Robert Norse (423-4833).    Pick up or leave off Armory polls with Drew as well.

++++   Street Spirit archives on line:https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22&sort=-date

++++    Recent stories on a variety of unhoused issues:   https://invisiblepeople.tv/   

++++    Overview: https://endhomelessness.org/resource/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights

++++    Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K”