HUFF meets and muses again Thursday September 24, 2026 1:30 – 3:30 PM (or shorter) at Abbott’s Square outside the Museum of Art & History (705 Front St.)

Ruf Agenda 9-24-26 IN BRIEF

HUFF Passarounds: ? …Likely Short Meet…Laura’s Legislative Report…Behavioral Health Reprt on MHCAN? …Street Reports…Sub Rosa Review…Invite Mills/Prepare Questions…Shitty Council & Stupes Reports…

NEXT TIME: Roach-requested Ami Chen Mills Visit…Berkeley’s Harrison St. Encampment Lawsuit…”Unreasonably Disturbing Noise” Crackdown Downtown on Pacific Palomar musicians

CHECK-INS: Shitty Council and Board of Supes Sept. 22 … Mime Troupe Wreckage audio archive & HUFF meetings NOT yet on line…restoration of Athena’s Loose Cannons meetings … SCHU Update/Future Support for Plaintiff tabling …Live Oak Landing Update?… Morrison/People Someday Update?…. MHCAN stall/Psych Deportations update …Hobo Jim’s Cabrillo College Update …Jail, Court ….Citation Check/Lawsuit Prep…Equal Rights for Every Neighbor Report … Warmer, then cooler, then warmer…MHCAN Mario-Coral-Richard Action Committee Update                                               

FREE EVENTS         (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying)

Anytime on line  Free Radio-on-the-net Archived Shows at https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html (Sunday shows have recent material; summaries are sometimes available at https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/category/huff-communications/ ; Thursday shows are Flashbacks)

Thur Sept 24   1:30-3:30 PM  HUFF meets at Abbott’s Square on Cooper St. between Front and Pacific in the back.   Walk thru the MAH entrance.  HUFF is at the pavilion in the back of the open area.  Bring your own snacks or buy them at rising prices.          

5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs [FNB] meets El Rio Mobile Home Park Community Room, end of N. Pacific Street          

6 PM or shortly thereafter:  Latest Net Free Radio Archive posted at https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  Click file on top of the list for show in two or more parts;1st part has most to hear contemporary news and views. Other parts are often Flashbacks to earlier shows or earlier times.

Fri Sept 25   10:30 PM – noon   Homeless Persons Legal Assistance [HPLA]  perhaps available at 903 Pacific Steve Pleich  call before hand  at 466-6078 to schedule yourself in or show up at 903 Pacific (UN Association) and hope.                       

2PM-?  till food gone  Boulder Creek  13080 Hwy 9 between Jenna Sue’s Cafe and the Taqueria
                         4-6 PM   Free Food Church FELTON 4-6+pm  Hallcrest Vineyards, 379 Felton Empire Rd. Felton

Sat Sept 26    11 AM – 12:30 PM Anti-war picket and honk-in  Ocean and Water St.  703 Pacific  Dems and Repubs still play electoral games on the edge of world wide nuclear war as we watch talking heads chatter.  Escalating war and looming worldwide famine makes local silence costly,..as politicians chatter & count cash.

Sat Sept 26  & Sun Sept. 27   noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal main Post Office;  Current Street Sheets & Street Spirits available to read or sell;   also register your opinion and experience about shelter, services, and justice in Santa Cruz:  get or leave off a form with Drew or other FNB folks   check  Bulletin Board for posting notices;  Look for possible plaintiff tabling for Fight Back lawsuit against Sweeps…HUFF may be tabling, flyering, & videoing.

Sun Sept 27   10:30-noon  PM  People’s Aid : Solidarity/Services at Green Gate on Golf Club Drive. Possibly Solar Showers in action.

Mon Sept 28  10:30 PM – 12:30 PM  More MaybeBaby HPLA Help (see Aug 2 above—call Pleich at 466-6078 to confirm) (let us know if you get help—no reports so far)                      

Tue Sept. 29 thru Thurs Oct. 1 10 AM until the food’s gone   Bread & Roses chowdown at Dragons Head bridge on the levee, in San Lorenzo Park and across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot; let us know if police obstruct or punish the food sharing.

Wed  Sept. 30  10:30 AM – 12:30 PM  more Pleich-advertised Legalish Help  (see above)           

3:30 PM  Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless Red Church  Cedar & Lincoln Sts. Red Church   Call Alicia 431-7766 to confirm where & whether it’s happening

Thur Oct 1  1:30 PM – 3:30 PM  Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom   Back of the Museum of Art & History [MAH} at Abbott’s Square.  Go to 705 Front St.  

RESOURCES

https://www.santacruzhealth.org/Portals/7/Pdfs/BH/Mental%20Health%20Advisory%20Board/2026/09_17_26%20Final%20Agenda.pdf  up for possible discussion: last Thursday’s Behavioral Health Advisory Board with its supposedly updated report from MHCAN wannabesseeking funding for an apparently top down board.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEwk4qSC9BA&list=PLflVaWezcvDzbm8x8UlhUZ47iVgxVajEM Salinas Homeless Union’s activist Wed White’s collection of historical videos of police destruction of homeless survival encampments.