CONSCIENCE AND ACTION IDEAS 10-30-19
Note: Agenda Ideas are simply suggestions and subject to change and addition from anyone in the group. They cover a wide range of possibilities.
- Announcements: Choice of Action Items; Timekeeper & Time Limits; Vibes Guy
- Lower Ocean Elder/Disabled Evictions; What Happened Yesterday?
- Louden Nelson Bathroom and Sleep-Out Updates
- Protest and Council Prep for Sunday November 3, Council Flashmobbing November 5th in the Quintero Killing
- Following up on the Justin Cummings Outreach on Encampments, Enforcement, Rent, and Bathrooms; Will the Elusive Cummings Respond?
- Stina Follow-Up on Peepee Bottles to City Council for November 5th ; Alternative Protests at Bernal, Cummings, Watkins door
- Updates on Shelter Availability & the Winter Shelter Sham
- Updates on Exposing the O’Hara Narrative; 1220 Reports
- Union of the Homeless Update–Upcoming Events
For HUFFsters New Street Spirits and Street Sheets now available. November Issue Available in 2 weeks
- Announcements: Including Brief Summaries of Agenda Items
- Finishing the C & A Agend
- Union of the Homeless Proposals Around Mandatory Incarceration for Shelter or “Obligation to Shelter”
- Monitoring Campground & Shelter Conditions–Tabling at Coral St.: Another Union Proposal
- Synchronizing with SC Union of the Homeless Organizing
- Haebe’s Hellraising–Latest Report from Ivorytickler Scott
- RV Update–Re: Police Response, Vigilante Action, & Reports from Other Cities
Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides radio show streams tonight (10-24-19) at 6 PM at www.freakradio.org: Mike on Berkeley Organizing Around the “Where Can We Go” Encampments, the 1020 Union of the Homeless Meeting
NO STUDIO YET SO THE $300 REWARD REMAINS UNCLAIMED !
WE GOT $300 FOR YA IF WE CAN USE WHAT YOU SUGGEST FOR A YEAR. FIND US A TRANSMITTER LOCATION? YOU GET HUGS, KISSES, GRATITUDE, AND A REVITALIZED LOCAL PIRATE RADIO!
We need access to a bathroom, internet, and electricity.–either indoors or out (we’ll build a structure if necessary).
We’re also seeking a transmitter space where we can put up an antenna–a backyard, a multistory home, a high tree–help us spread the word.
Tonight’s show streams at freakradio.org and archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/
TONIGHT’S SHOW INCLUDES:
- “Make it Right” Mike on the Wednesday March and Resistance to Cal-Trans Anti-Homeless Mayhem in Berkeley
- Last Sunday’s 2nd Union of the Homeless Plans-and-Reports Exchanges at the Food Not Bombs Meal
Delay and Denial–Inaction at City Council, Resistance in Berkeley, and the Growing Post Office Encampment– 11 AM Sub Rosa at 703 Pacific, followed by HUFF Wednesday October 23rd
CONSCIENCE AND ACTION IDEAS 10-23-19
Note: Agenda Ideas are simply suggestions and subject to change and addition from anyone in the group. They cover a wide range of possibilities.
- Announcements: Choice of Action Items; Timekeeper & Time Limits; Vibes Guy
- Support for Encampments & Sweeps at Louden Nelson & Coral St; Street Reports
- Following up on the Justin Cummings Outreach on Encampments, Enforcement, Rent, and Bathrooms;
- Stina Follow-Up on Peepee Bottles to City Council; Alternative Protests at Bernal, Cummings, Watkins door
- Laura’s Update on Shelter Availability & the Winter Shelter Sham
- Marcos and Winter Shelter Follow-Up: Exposing the O’Hara Narrative
- Lower Ocean Elder/Disabled Evictions: Upcoming Special Meeting
- Union of the Homeless Update–Upcoming Events
- Updates at River St. Camp, Louden Nelson Bathrooms
For HUFFsters New Street Spirits and Street Sheets now available. November Issue Available in 2 weeks
- Announcements: Including Brief Summaries of Agenda Items
- Finishing the C & A Agenda
- Union of the Homeless Proposals Around Mandatory Incarceration for Shelter or “Obligation to Shelter”
- Monitoring Campground & Shelter Conditions–Tabling at Coral St.: Another Union Proposal
- Synchronizing with SC Union of the Homeless Organizing
- Susie O’Hara Documentation
- RV Update–Re: Police Response, Vigilante Action, & Reports from Other Cities
- Scheduling Homeless Union Tabling at FNB or on Pacific
Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides streams today (10-20-19) at 9:30AM at www.freakradio.org: Lots of stuff from the streets as the Union for the Homeless organizes & a 3-15-2012 Flashback
EARN BUCKS, GET FREE RADIO BACK ON THE AIR AND ON THE PHONE LINES:
Free Radio Santa Cruz stands ready to dole out $300 for info leading to a 10′ X 10′ studio space with bathroom, internet, and electrical access–either indoors or out (we’ll build a structure). We’re also seeking a transmitter space where we can put up an antenna–a backyard, a multistory home, a high tree–help us spread the word. Help us so we can help you!
Today’s show streams at freakradio.org and archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/
Councilmember Glover’s Usual Friday pre-Council Agenda Examination was cancelled last Friday.
The full letter to Vice-Mayor Justin Cummings demanding accountability will shortly be published at www.indybay.org/santacruz .
Current Events on the Show
- Father Jerry and Daughter Andrea Survival Camped on the Post Office Sidewalk
- 10-12 Union of the Homeless convenes on the sidewalk to gather resources, assign tasks, & organize unhoused folks with Gen-I, Alicia, Steve A, Sarah, Keith, Robert, Jeremiah, and Ray: Reports, Debate, and Prattle
- A Letter to Vice-Mayor Cummings
- Food Not Bombs Reportage from Katzenjammer Keith on the Recall, historical anecdotes, and dimly positive prospects from Vice-Mayor Cummings
- Campus and City Pushback against the Recall by “Engaged and Enraged” Elisse C.
- Near the Tracks on the sidewalk at Coral St. with “Mildheart” Mike & Neighbors
- Broken Ribs in the Old Bad Bust for His Own Bike by two “Concerned Citizens”
- “Tom Tom” Thomas Thompson Gives a Glimpse on 40 Years Outside in Santa Cruz
- Randy Rainbow’s Spicy Satire Throughout the Show
Flashing Back to March 15, 2012
- Santa Cruz Eleven face Phony Felonies in the beginning of a 4 year struggle
- Sunday 3-11-12 “Foreclosures? No Thanks”Rally at the Occuplaza
- “Judicial Jawbreaker” Joel, “Sass Back” Susan W, the “Masked Man”, “Silver Tongued” Steve P., Raging Granny,
- India Supreme Court Rules Sleep is a Human Right
- More March Voices: Homeowner Facing Foreclosure, Masked Cowboy Star from Occupy Monterey, Taking over the Streets with the Robed Tentmonster
- “Dead On” David Silva’s Commentary
- Will Durant’s “Story of Philosophy” Selection
- The show is also archived at http://radiolibre.org/brb/
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Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides radio show streams tonight (10-17-19) at 6 PM at www.freakradio.org: Andrea on the “Where Can We Go?” Encampments in Berkeley
NO STUDIO YET SO THE $300 REWARD REMAINS UNCLAIMED !
WE GOT $300 FOR YA IF WE CAN USE WHAT YOU SUGGEST FOR A YEAR. FIND US A TRANSMITTER LOCATION? YOU GET HUGS, KISSES, GRATITUDE, AND A REVITALIZED LOCAL PIRATE RADIO!
We need access to a bathroom, internet, and electricity.–either indoors or out (we’ll build a structure if necessary).
We’re also seeking a transmitter space where we can put up an antenna–a backyard, a multistory home, a high tree–help us spread the word.
Tonight’s show streams at freakradio.org and archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/
TONIGHT’S SHOW INCLUDES:
- “All In” Alicia Kuhl drops a dime on recent on-line “light her up” threats to her family.
- Andrea, “Where Can We Go?” Berkeley encampment supporter reports on standing firm under CHP and Cal-Trans Cop Harassment
- Gen-I on a fistful of parking citations; The first Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless Street Meeting on October 6th; Dwight’s “Move Along But We’re Not Being Racist” Report on the SC Police; Alicia on her DIY Safe Parking Zone Program on Olive next to Mission near CVS; Tabbylover Tim on a purrfect presidential prospect; Elijah on parking ticket pain for vehicledwellers.
Resisting In Place–A Berkeley Response to the Sweeps– 11 AM Sub Rosa at 703 Pacific, followed by HUFF Wednesday October 16th
CONSCIENCE AND ACTION IDEAS 10-16-19
Note: Agenda Ideas are simply suggestions and subject to change and addition from anyone in the group. They cover a wide range of possibilities.
- Announcements: Choice of Action Items; Timekeeper & Time Limits; Vibes Guy
- Encampments & Sweeps on Coral St, the Beach, the Levee, the Post Office, and the Pogonip: Street Reports
- Following up on the Justin Cummings Outreach on Encampments, Enforcement, Rent, and Bathrooms;
- Stina Follow-Up on Peepee Bottles to City Council; Alternative Protests at Bernal, Cummings, Watkins door
- Laura’s Update on Shelter Availability & the Winter Shelter Sham
- Marcos and Winter Shelter Follow-Up: Exposing the O’Hara Narrative
- Lower Ocean Elder/Disabled Evictions
- Union of the Homeless Update
- 1220 River St Followup, Louden Nelson Report
For HUFFsters New Street Spirits and Street Sheets now available. Sorry for the delay.
- Announcements: Including Brief Summaries of Agenda Items
- Finishing the C & A Agenda
- Library Concerns
- Union of the Homeless Proposals Around Mandatory Incarceration for Shelter or “Obligation to Shelter”
- Monitoring Shelter Conditions–Tabling at Coral St.: Another Union Proposal
- Street and Campground Report
- Susie O’Hara Documentation
- RV Update–Re: Police Response, Vigilante Action, & Reports from Other Cities
- Scheduling Homeless Union Tabling at FNB or on Pacific
- Recycling Update
Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides radio show streams today (10-13-19) at 9:30AM at www.freakradio.org: Berkeley’s I-80 Encampment Stands Fast, Councilmember Drew Glover Parries Bathrobespierre Robert, Lower Ocean Tenants, & a 7-9-2015 Flashback !
OH, GIVE US A HOME…
Free Radio Santa Cruz stands ready to dole out $300 for info leading to a 10′ X 10′ studio space with bathroom, internet, and electrical access–either indoors or out (we’ll build a structure). We’re also seeking a transmitter space where we can put up an antenna–a backyard, a multistory home, a high tree–help us spread the word. Help us so we can help you!
Today’s show streams at freakradio.org and archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/
To hear Councilmember Glover’s examination of the 10-8 Council agenda, go to http://www.huffsantacruz.org/
and look for Drew Agenda Meeting- 10/5/2019.
and look for Drew Agenda Meeting- 10/5/2019.
Due to power failure, there was no Thursday 10/10/2019 show.
To read the complete (undelivered) speech deconstructing the powerful Watkins minority at City Council, go to “Pushing Past the Censure/Recall Distraction at City Council” at https://www.indybay.org/
Current Events on the Show
- “Aim for the Belly” Alicia Kuhl,, Prez, Stands Fast Under Police and Costco Harassment
- Mayor “Whittle Down the Time” Watkins Second Attack on Glover and Krohn at City Council 10-8-19
- Tenant advocates call for Rent Freeze in Lower Ocean; Krohn deserts Glover in the Crucial Motion
- Lower Ocean Eviction Victims Ronald and Laurel Describe Upcoming 123 Bixby Street Landlord Cruelty
- Tenant Toughtimes Trooper Cynthia Berger on the Limits of the State Rent Law and Santa Cruz’s Rental Inspection Ordinance
- Shawna and William of the “Where Do We Go?” Berkeley Encampment Recalls a Day of Standing off the CHP and Cal-Trans Cops
- Councilmember Drew Glover Reviews Eight Months of Stall Under Interrogation from Bathrobespierre Robert
- Voices of the Victims at Food Not Bombs: Harm Reduction Volunteer Report, Fastlane Free, Katzenjammer Keith,
- Wes, Virgil, Mike, Dread,Betsy, & Cherie–Salinas Sherwood Park Shit Survivors
Flashing Back to July 9, 2015
- Guest co-host Ivy Rou, Street Vendor on Pacific Avenue
- Ivy on Eviction Devastation in Santa Cruz–True Stories
- Wellwisher Jim Weller at the First Sleep-Out of the Two Year Freedom Sleeper Protest
- Home-on-Wheels Visitor Describes Police Treatment Here
- Find-A-Place Phil Posner Kicks off the Weekly Freedom Sleeper Event;
- Silver-Tongued Steve Pleich, Act Now! Abbi Samuels Suggests Sleeping Spots, the Vote
- Backtalking Bob Lamonica Challenges Ivy; Phone Allies Include Uncle Dennis, Smoothie Steve, Doc Mike & Others
- The show is also archived at http://radiolibre.org/brb/
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Replace the Real Power in the City–the Staff Heads–or Slog the Swamp Some More
Pushing Past the Censure/Recall Distraction at City Council
At the 10-8 City Council meeting, Mayor Watkins gave staff the usual expansive and unnecessary presentation time for prior items. She then eliminated group presentation time on the pointlessly returned censure of Krohn/Glover item. Initially refusing again to recognize a Councilmember, she again tried to hide behind the City Attorney as back-up. Failing this she cut back public comment time severely, allowing a special favored group presentation by the discredited City Commission for the Prevention of Violence to Women. I prepared this speech of which I was only permitted to read part of at the meeting:
Instead of booking the Civic Auditorium for the Council meetings expected overflow crowd, Watkins insisted (again) on using the crowded Council chambers. This resulted in further delay as people were hustled out of Council chambers, prompting angry response from former Councilmember Ed Porter who denounced the police directions as “shameful”.
Watkins several times interrupted speakers to shush audience comment. Even though speakers seemed to have no problem with the occasional public voice. In so doing, Watkins took up additional time and embarrassed the proceedings with her usual inappropriate authoritarian treatment to the proceedings.
The entire issue ended hours later, as was expected, with a 4-3 vote rejecting the censure proposal–which had not been recommended by the Rose report in the first place.
Oral Communication was subsequently cut back to a minute and a half, then one minute.
A line of tenant supporters at Oral Communications brought up the pending winter eviction of Section 8 elders and disabled folks in the Lower Ocean neighborhood. In response, Councilmember Glover made an emergency motion to put rent control/just eviction back on the next agenda. Councilmember Krohn initially second the motion, but withdrew the second when he learned it was intended to protect all tenants, not just the Lower Ocean folks. Brown and Cummings, supposedly tenant advocates, remained conspicuously silent, and Glover’s motion died for lack of a second.
This cowardly and useless strategy of going hat in hand to Mayor Watkins to put items on the agenda instead of installing the items with a 4-3 vote is sad. It seems to reflect the advise of “Progressive advisers” that the Councilmembers walk on eggshells so as not to offend Matthew’s more rabid recall supporters.
What needs to be done is to return to real issues, baldly, clearly, and repeatedly stated. Loudly, as necessary,. And by those of outside the chambers.
Wasting time with the ridiculous recall/censure discussion, talking of “reconciliation:” and “bringing the community together” is simply blind to the reality: There is a clear power division in this community between predatory commercial, real estate, and bureaucratic interests and those of renters, workers, students, elderly, and homeless folks. Recognizing that it is a power struggle that must be won is vital.
As I mention in the speech I was unable to complete, a direct action crisis approach is being taken all over the country (and indeed the world) by various movements and needs to be repeated here.
For the full speech, go to: https://www.indybay.org/
Probing Past the Duck-the-Issue Denunciations at Shitty Council: Conscience & Action at 11 AM Sub Rosa at 703 Pacific, followed by HUFF Wednesday October 9th
CONSCIENCE AND ACTION IDEAS 10-9-19
Note: Agenda Ideas are simply suggestions and subject to change and addition from anyone in the group. They cover a wide range of possibilities.
- Announcements: Choice of Action Items; Timekeeper & Time Limits; Vibes Guy
- Reports from the Beach on the Curfew Imposition and Homeless Displacement
- City Council Lookback from 10-8 & Staff Report Deadline for 10-10: Pressuring Justin Cummings on Encampments, Enforcement, Rent, and Bathrooms;
- Stina Follow-Up on Peepee Bottles to City Council; Alternative Protests at Bernal, Cummings, Watkins doors
- Most of Last Glover Agenda Meeting Archived at http://huffsantacruz.org/lost/
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- Laura’s Update on Shelter Availability & the Winter Shelter Sham
- Marcos and Winter Shelter Follow-Up: Exposing the O’Hara Narrative
- Lower Ocean Elder/Disabled Evictions
- Phone a Cop for Service Proposal
- 1220 River St Followup, Louden Nelson Report
For HUFFsters New Street Spirits and Street Sheets will be available soon. Sorry for the delay.
- Announcements: Including Brief Summaries of Agenda Items
- Further Action on C & A Items
- Library Concerns
- Union of the Homeless Proposals Around Mandatory Incarceration for Shelter or “Obligation to Shelter”
- Monitoring Shelter Conditions–Tabling at Coral St.: Another Union Proposal
- Street and Campground Report
- Susie O’Hara Documentation
- RV Update–Re: Police Response, Vigilante Action, & Reports from Other Cities
- Scheduling Homeless Union Tabling at FNB or on Pacific
- Recycling Update
Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides radio show streams today (10-6-19) at 9:30AM at www.freakradio.org: The Upcoming Shitty Council Meeting & a 7-2-06 Flashback !
REWARD STILL OFFERED…
Free Radio Santa Cruz stands ready to dole out $300 for info leading to a 10′ X 10′ studio space with bathroom, internet, and electrical access–either indoors or out (we’ll build a structure). We’re also seeking a transmitter space where we can put up an antenna–a backyard, a multistory home, a high tree–help us spread the word. Help us so we can help you!
Today’s show streams at freakradio.org and archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/
To hear Councilmember Glover’s examination of the 10-8 Council agenda, go to http://www.huffsantacruz.org/
and look for Drew Agenda Meeting- 10/5/2019 soon to be posted.
and look for Drew Agenda Meeting- 10/5/2019 soon to be posted.
For another round of Mayor Watkins’ “Fill Up the Time With Staff Chatter Until We Can Get rid of the Progressive Majority” Filler, check out the City Council’s jerky video of their last Council meeting–Mayor Watkin’s Latest Attack on Councilmembers Glover and Krohn at http://scsire.cityofsantacruz.
Current Events on the Show
- Toughing it Out in Texas: Austin’s Mayor vs. Texas Governor on Different Forms of Homeless Repression
- “Scope it Out” Scott Graham previews and critiques City Council Agenda Item #17 Compulsory Residential Rental Inspection Expansion
- Officer who murdered Botham Jean gets light sentence; testifying witness shot dead.
- Geneye on the parking ticket maze for van dwellers
- Nutcracker Nick Whitehead on couch-surfing and car-camping at age 80
- “Mist of Morning” Marty Gives a Thumbs Up to the River St. campground.
Flashing Back to July 2, 2006
- Flashback within a Flashback: post-election November 1988 KZSC panel on homeless activism: UCSC Students Jenny and Maria, “Live on Less” Activist Charles Grey, Attorney Ray Grueneich
- Crow on Parking Garage Paranoia Law,
- Bruised but Unbowed Barry on Rough Street Times
- DJ Shatter on Critical Mass Protest and Harassment
- Fresno’s Mike Rhodes on Police Seizure of Shopping Carts
- SAFE (Society for Artistic Freedom and Expression) Street Performers Guild report with Condor (Greg)
- Walkin’ the Streets with Crow on CSO Pam Bechtel
- Nutcracker Nick, playwright and policewatcher on Sgt. Swaneck
- Mama Shannon
- Ernie Street Pianist and Composer
- Las Vegas ACLU Lawsuit Defending the Homeless
- The show is also archived at http://radiolibre.org/brb/
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Act Locally or Regret Repeatedly