The contemporary events section of the Sunday December 17, 2023 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:

• [12-13] “Cage Me Not” Cooper & Dreadeye recount the latest police seizure 
• [12-12]  Angry voices at Santa Cruz City Council’s Oral Communications denounce Israel’s merciless bombing of Israel, demand a ceasefire, and receive no assurances of action until mid-January.
• [12-16] “Scope it Out” Scott Graham deconstructs the Council’s Automatic License Reader Surveillance devices, passed at it’s 12-12 meeting and recalls an older Council’s sell-out of the rent control agreement with De Anza Mobile Home Park.
• Mike Quinn, street artist, [12-12] and Shawn the petitioner [12-13] on their recent activities
• https://www.poormagazine.org/post/camp-integrity-s-injunction-against-san-rafael-s-anti-camping-ordinance
• https://pacificsun.com/everybody-poops-yet-stingy-san-rafael-stymies-sanitation/
• https://davidrovics.blogspot.com › 2023 › 12 › from-battersea-to-burnside-bridge.html
• [12-8] Another report from a Berkeley law student watching the Gaza protests

The Flashback to the February 6, 2000 show (partial) includes:

• Food Not Bombs [FNB] Videojournalist Hugh Mejia on police backoff, international expansion, and the struggle to be heard in the courts.
• Caller Jim Smigma, upcoming City Council meeting, recent homeless deaths, discussion of Silva’s fast
• Silva’s Press Conference announcing his fast from late January
• Becky Johnson before the Board of Supervisors on Solitary Confinement, inadequate blankets, in the main jail.

The Flashback to the February 10, 2000 show includes:

• Street Light (homeless San Diego monthly) story published by Forrest Curo about police shooting of a homeless guy by Ron Sills.
• Interview with Street Spirit editor Terry Messman on the protest against Proposition E (stripping homeless folks of money and giving them housing vouchers).
• Two interviews with Kevin Clark, low-income auto rental provider at Front and Laurel, fighting City Council’s move to seize his business and turn it into a Nickelodeon parking lot.
• Challenging the Dolphin-Lee (Nueva Vista) Project at the Redevelopment Agency
• Beach Flats resident Phil Baer—dialogue on the Dophin-Lee.
• Speaking with Umbrella Man-in-a-garbage-bag outside Bunny’s Shoes on harassment by high schoolers—the Robert Stephan report.
• [12-18] Windsong Wendy caught panhandling after dark on Pacific Ave.
• Decorous Dan Hopkins on the Almar Avenue appeal—NIMBY’s seek to put up “No Parking” signs.
• Copwatcher Becky Johnson videos a “Driving While Brown” ticket.  Interview with the driver Aaron.
• Steadfast Steve Argue calls in from jail—on being beaten up by Deputy Zamora.

The introduction includes:

• a brief summary of the December 25, 2014 Flashback
• a short update on recent events
• a quick conversation with Reggie Meisler on the Coastal Commission’s hearing in Santa Cruz tomorrow and the Oversized Vehicle status.

The Flashback to December 25, 2014 includes: 

• Lane-Comstock “Performance Pens” [PP], new laws passed 11-18, going into force now severely limiting vending, sitting, sparechanging, or performing replacing the earlier Sidewalk Shrinkage laws passed in 2013 to discourage visible homeless and street person presence
• Deconstruction and detailing of the PP law
• Vice-Mayor Don Lane fields criticisms from Kate Winzell, Bathrobespierre, Alex the Artist, and others on the PP law
• “Dead-on” David Silva calls in to announce he’ll do some public sidewalk dancing to help end the Sleeping Ban
• Lengthy interview with Doug Loisel, former Executive Director of the Homeless [Lack of] Services Center, now called “Housing Matters”, discussing his work with Homeless Runaway Youth in Monterey and his memories of Santa Cruz’s homeless services.

The Sunday December 10, 2023 show features:

• “Hurricane” Helga Neibel on the recent raids along the levee path in Santa Cruz and elsewhere
• Helga on her own experiences in post-WWII Germany as a child and how she came to be a homeless activist
• https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-supervisors-ceasefire-18535295.php: Hundreds pack S.F. City hall as supervisor introduces resolution calling for case-fire in Israel-Hamas war
• “Backstory” Brent Adams: Lessons from his decade-long work providing services with the Warming Center and Footbridge Services
• “The Brave and the Free” and others protest the ACLU award to Gail Newel.
• Voices from the weekly Saturday 10 am-noon protest at Ocean and Water Sts. demanding an end to the Israeli bombing of Gaza.

The Flashback to October 10, 1994 includes: 

• “Visionsong” Valerie at the Copwatch table and other describing heavy police response to a “spitting on the sidewalk” incident.
• Federal marshals bust Free Radio Santa Cruz [FRSC] with comments from Ray Greuenich, Joe Williams, V-Man, Roxanne Acquistepache, Mark Primack, Brian Murphy, Skidmark Bob, Uncle Dennis, Becky Johnson, Valerie Christy, Lisa Braun, and Tim Rinker.
• Sheryl Koel, Supervisor of the FCC raid, fields angry questions; Mayor Scott Kennedy expresses support for FRSC; further comments by John Thielking, Augusto Sandino, Chris Krohn, and others.
• Capitola call:  Diss-ing the Deaf-to-Compassion Deputy down on dumpster-diving.
• Anderson Valley Anderson  columnist Fred Gardner on Defending Marijuana Safety and Access in the face of arrests in D.C.
• Commentary by Bathrobespierre on Ryan Coonerty’s refusal to come on the air; Nader, and other incidentals.

The December 7, 2023 show is a Flashback to July 29, 2004 including:

• Occasional tunes from Visionsong Valerie C
• [7-3-04] Pac Ave interviews: Phoenix the Harpist on harassment of CD sellers, Joe Williams on “Move Along” Threats, sign seizures, & U.S. troops in Iraq
• NYPD Officer Eduardo De La Cruz suspended for refusing to arrest a homeless man
• More street interviews from Miriam, Gustavo, Shrayah, Christopher Robin during SAFE #26 performance
• Robert Bruce Hidenberg’s ticketing while sleeping at 24-hour fitness in his car though a member
• Looney Balloony on being recently assaulted by teenage trollbusters
• Damien, Nicole, Aubrey, on the street: threats of ticketing for spitting
• Francis reporting on S.C. Shitty Councils beheading of Clearview Court and De Anza mobile home parks

The current events section of the Sunday December 3, 2023 show (File 1 in the archives) includes:

• Robbie Powelson’s update/appeal for San Rafael’s self-run unhoused encampment Camp Integrity
• Silver-tongued Steve Pleich (rhymes with “h”) on the civil Grand Jury and his Homeless Persons Legal Assistance Project
• https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/19/us/politics/jan-6-trial-father-son.html
  
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/san-jose-excessive-force-lawsuit-from-2020-george-floyd-protests-cleared-for-trial/ar-AA1kO4Sv
  
• [12-1]  Jeff, African-American petitioner at Scotts Valley shopping center, on a recent police encounter at Nob Hill Foods
• https://lookout.co/santa-cruz-city-council-delays-vote-on-installing-license-plate-readers-over-privacy-concerns/ 
  
• Heidi, not homeless herself, on Scotts Valley local homeless updates on a few recent folks 
• “War is a Homeless Issue” flyer  https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/11/11/18860292.php
  
• San Rafael injunction provides some protection for San Rafael survival campers https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Federal+Judge+Limits+Homeless+Camping+Ordinance+San+Rafael&atb=v315-1&t=chromentp&ia=web

The Flashback to April 25, 2004 includes:

• Grandma Lee Murphy from Santa Anna, CA  on Housing Discrimination
• Escalating war in Iraq: Report from Peace Between Peoples Mediators there
• Organizer Fred Geiger on Clearview Court, Rent Control, and Santa Cruzans for Responsible Planning opposition to Home Depot development, challenged by Paul Marcelin Sampson
• Homeless marksman Tad from Arcata, CA on repression of food distribution in city parks tadspeace@yahoo.com 
• Activist James Nay on being attacked by sheriffs in Felton Faire
• Ray the Hairdresser’s account of hyperactive CSO officer Pam Bachtel
• Call-in’s: Neal from anti-war Capitola 13, poet Christopher Robin on Bill of Rights Defense Committee, and more
• Jim of Area 420 in San Jose on distribution of marijuana there
• [2-24-94] Clearview Court resident at City Council Maxima Sanchez breaks down in tears

The November 30, 2023 show is a Flashback to May 15, 2003.  It includes:

• [Musical interludes with the Jus’ Kiddin’ Santa Cruz street-banned band]
• Jeffrey Gale joins Bathrobespierre as co-host
• Gale interviews then-Sheriff Mark Tracy questioning his policy around sex offenders, bed space for drug and alcohol rehab, and more
• Bathrobespierre questions Tracy on preferential treatment given to medical marijuana provider WAMM to the detriment of the majority of medical marijuana users as well as the proposed ID cards for medical marijuana legal immunity
• Critique of the B interview
• City Council’s latest show meeting—inadequate movement on ADU’s and denouncing Bush’s Iraqi invasion
• Discussion of Recent issues:  P & R underling Mia Duckette’s assaulting and jailing  of Beggerbacker Becky for chalking “End the Sleeping Ban”ish slogans on the curb in erasible chalk; New Leaf sidewalk seizure; Pacific Trading Company no-sit railing creation in collusion with SCPD; Mayor Emily Reilly’s token anti-war effort; 
• Jhond Golder banned from government buildings in pursuit of public records and local court “justice”.

The Sunday November 26,2023 show includes:

• Katzenjammer Keith McHenry on the upcoming City Council’s slamdunk vote on “terrorist preventing” Automatic License Plate Readers and dark doings around the city and state
• Lunchserver Leo discusses his history with Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs
• “Cage Me Not” Cooper on the preliminary steps taken before the looming demolition of her Community Survival Camp in the Pogonip
• Master Cartoonist Mike Quinn: Complaints from his Cafe Seat
• “Ceasefire in Gaza NOW!” speakers in Abbott’s Square 11-24 including “Anomaly”, Gage, Elam, Polesmi, and Aron (names approximate)
• A former Santa Cruzan in San Francisco law student’s experience with his first arrest
• Vets Line Voices (at the Thanksgiving Chowdown):  Eric S., Toughtimes Thomas, Sasha, Juanito, Dreamcatcher, and Timmy B
• Cooper’s Update and Call for Support to witness and resist the 11-27 police destruction of Camp Cooper

The Flashback to May 30, 1999 includes:  

•  Kosovo call-out by Bathrobespierre for local response criticizing local Democratic party hacks
•  Tracy D’Angelo’s report from the mini-protest in Laurel Park against the Kosovo bombing, freeing Mumia, freeing Steve Argue, and more
•  Councilmember Tim Fitzmaurice on the City Council’s anti-war resolution being a good step in spite of failure to consider the historical   background.
•  Fitzmaurice on Rep Sam Farr’s position and history on the Kosovo bombings
•  Bathrobespierre on Fitzmaurice’s bad position on the sleeping ban, violence against the homeless, and city council procedure.
•  Activist Lou Rice in-studio guest on the objectives of his homeless fast including a water fountain & better food at the Homeless Services  Center and his conversation with Executive Director Ken Cole.
• Biotic Bakers Brigade—which pied S.F. Mayor Willie Brown for his mistreatment of the homeless.