HUFF IN BRIEF 1-15-25 Clarification and Additions…Messages…Proposed Actions?….Shitty Council and Stupe Updates: Floc, Lithium Batteries, and Homeless Freezeout….Street Reports…ICE & Other Protests…Shelter Reports… HUFF meeting schedule…10th Homeless Union Anniversary in Salinas Sat Jan 17…Winter Crisis: No Winter Drop-In Shelter in Rain/Warming Center: Failure to Open During Past Cold Weather…Hometown Homeless; Rest=Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips… Updates on MHCAN; Stupes’ RV Tow Bill; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations …Jail, Courts reports …. Next HUFF meeting 1-22-26…Keith Update …Mid-60’s with no rain predicted.
FREE EVENTS (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet)
Thursday Jan 15 1:30 PM -3:30 PM HUFF meeting planning Salinas caravan for Jan 17th 10th Anniversary meeting of Homeless Union
Thursday Jan 15 5-6 PM Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room, end of N. Pacific Ave.
Friday Jan 16 2 PM Protest against Venezuela War High St. and Bay St. UCSC
Friday Jan 16 4:15 PM – 7;15 PM Free Food Church East Zayante Rd. and Sylvan Way in Zayante near the school bus stop—”rain or shine”
Saturday Jan 17 8 AM – 5 PM 10th Anniversary National Homeless Union in Salinas 1 Main St. Likely caravan to be arranged at 1-8 HUFF meeting
Saturday Jan 17 11 AM- 12:30 PM Protest Israel with American Bombs bombing in the Phony Ceasefire+ U.S. occupation troops for Trump’s Israeli Expansion Plan– Ocean& Water End the War Weekly Signs and Shouts Palestine Justice Coalition Perhaps anti-Venezuela, anti-ICE protest (DIY)
Saturday Jan 17 4 PM – 7:30 PM Party/Street Party Quaker Meeting House 226 Rooney St., S.C.Rise Up Singing New Year’s Dinner
Saturday Jan 17 and Sunday Jan 18 noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; NEW Street Spirits & Street Sheets available; leave off or pick up forms to record shelter and police abuse from Drew’s substitute; Bulletin Board for posting notices.
Sunday Jan 18 10-12 PM People’s Aide : Solidarity & Services for those outside at Green Gate Golf Club Drive.Sunday Jan 18 2 PM “Rest is Resistance” street huddle & book reading at the dinosaur statue or at Jamba Juice across from the Post Office downtown
Monday Jan 19 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Another “Indivisible” Civil Right Protest Against the Trump Regime (but add Newsom, Keeley, Kramer & the Deadly Dems) Ocean & Water Sts. Make allies of the Dismal Democrats in the Homeless Civil Rights Struggle if you can
Monday Jan 19 5:30 PM-7:30 PM Free Film “How Long is Long Enough: Caged-for-Life Prisoners Quntos Wilson & Layla Roberts SC Barrios Unidos 1817 S.C.
Tuesday Jan 20-thru Thursday Jan 22 10 AM until the food’s gone Bread and Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot
TASKS to Volunteer for + Possible INDIVIDUAL ACTIONS : [Call or Text 831-423-4833 if interested in any of these projects]
++++ POLLING FOR ARMORY CONDITIONS: Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested
++++ TABLING AT CORAL ST. to gather reports of property taken or lost in police raids; conditions at Funding Matters (aka Housing Matters)
++++ ARMORY COMPLAINTS: Call (408) 761-9930 as well as evan@peoplefirstscc.org or peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter access line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699; LET US KNOW at 216-8239 or 423-4833 if you’ve sent one and if you’ve gotten satisfaction.
++++ NEW STREET INFO for Tips & Lifelessons to buff up Thomas’s Tipzine? Real resources for surviving on the street…Correcting false shelter/storage ‘services”
++++ COLLECTING/COLLATING TICKETS: Past homeless citation record of the last year to spot Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”
++++ FOLLOWING LEGISLATIVE ANTICS: state, local, and federal: the closing federal/state/local fist.
++++ EXERTING PRESSURE to establish or organize Winter Shelter/Services
++++ SOLIDARITY IN STRUGGLE with anti-ICE, anti-genocide, anti-War, anti-gentrification, pro-tenant, anti-discrimination local protests
++++ FOLLOWING Court cases and supporting those held in 5150s
++++ MHCAN reopening support? Ditto with other do-it-yourself or street level services like the Downtown Street Team, a Switchboard, etc.
++++ PREPARATION/PARTICIPATION in large protests as on Martin Luther King Day (Jan 19)
New-ish STORIES (To Be Updated) (TBA)
OLD STANDBYES New Street Spirits and Street Sheets to sell or read available at HUFF or at the FNB meal
++++ Street Spirit archives on line: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22&sort=-date
++++ Street Sheet recent stories on line: https://www.streetsheet.org/
++++ 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”