Sunday 1-6-19 9:30 AM-3 PM at www.freakradio.org Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides: November and December Street Voices, Ross Camp Rumblings; 12-31-09 Flashback

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IMPORTANT CAUTION:  Today the freakradio.org website where this show normally streams seems to be having trouble.

If so, or if you wish to hear the show later, go directly to  http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html under Latest Show – 1/06/2019

Recently

  • City Council Outgoing and Upcoming
  • Two Tree-Savers Up Berkeley Way–Lisa Tigue and Lucy Love
  • January Street Spirit: Oakland City Govt. Betrays the Dignity Camp
  • Backstory Brent Adams on Likely Next Steps by the City
  • Brooding Again on Progressive’s Failure to Act on Just Eviction in December
  • Outrage, Anguish, and Info from Folks Eating in a Break in the Rain
  • ” Katzenjammer” Keith’s Pinpointing the Problem: the City Attorney and City Manager
Flashback to New Year’s Eve Broadcast 9 Years Ago: December 31, 2009
  • Late great Uncle Dennis hosts the show with Curbhugger Chris & Bathrobespierre Robert
  • 12-18 Street Interviews with Jacob Dawson and Richard Adams IDing Chief Ranger Wallace for illegal confiscation of disappearance of bicycle, tent, wallet without warning or notice1
  • 12-20: Merryweather Mike, “Santa” Brent Adams giving out cocoa and cookies
  • Brian Keith, homeless vet, makes militant call for a Tent City
  • Whitney Wilde & Becky Johnson reports on minor police harassment in the DIY parade
  • Curbhugger Chris, Curtis Reliford, Colin, Daniel Barker on the DIY parade and downtown darkness
  • Ron Hughes vs. Shadowslide Steve, Gabe, and Beggarbacker Becky in anti-smoking debate
  • Sundried stories from Daniel & Gabe on Officer Winston’s wild and wooly ways.
  • 12-22: Homeless Death Memorial protest in front of Bookshop (http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/12/19/18633184.php)
  • Becky Johnson’s report on three-fold rise in homeless deaths and Homeless Memorial at HRC

The entire show will be archived sometime Sunday at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html under Latest Show – 1/06/2019

The full December 31, 2009 show is also available at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb090101.mp3 and described in greater detail at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html#DEC08 under Thursday December 31, 2009.

Hacks and Ho-Ho’s from Santa Cruz Fulltimer Vandweller Julie

  • Join Conscience in Action at the Police Station (Laurel and Center) 1:30 PM Thursday January 10 to query Police Chief Andy Mills on issues of alleged RV harassment
  • Donate to Existing Homeless Encampments, not Poverty-Pimp Posturers–Winter Survival Demands Blankets, Water, Tarps, Portapotties & Trash Pick-Up’s
  • Support Food Not Bombs,  the Warming Center’s 24 Hour Storage Program, HUFF, Conscience and Action, Monterey County Homeless Advocates,  and other activists in documenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.
  •  Check out Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz  on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HomelessOutsideSantaCruz/ for updates.
  •   Read Updates and Post Them on Santa Cruz Indymedia at https://www.indybay.org/santa-cruz/
  •   Back up homeless efforts to organize either in protest or to demand adequate and accessible facilities.
  •   Exchange information with other supporters there to generate more communication and better solutions in the future.
  •   Listen in to Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides at freakradio.org every Thursday 6-8 PM, Sundays 9:30 AM- 3 PM
  •   Hear archived shows at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .
  •   If you must, expropriate items from chain stores.  Don’t steal from vulnerable fellow homeless!

Bathrobespiere’s Broadsides radio show streams tonight (1-3-19) at 6 PM at www.freakradio.org: RV Survivor Alicia Kuhl, a Proposed RV Rights Demonstration, & Interview with Tenant Activist C.M. Berger

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Free Radio Santa Cruz still still offers a reward of $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).  Help us so we can help you!


Tonight’s show streams at freakradio.org and archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

On tonight’s show:
  • Upcoming RV Protest at the SCPD Station Thursday January 9 Noon
  • RV Mom Alicia Kuhl Fights Back Against Housed Harassment of her Family
  • “Backtalk” Berger, Tenant Rights Activist, Suggests a New Model for Organizing
  • RV Dwelling–Not as Easy as It’s Cracked up to Be
  • Raw data from Food Not Bombs folks on being Rousted into the Rain, Taco Bell Lockout, “RealLife” Lee on Tacky Ticketeering,

HUFF meets 11 AM Tomorrow with Conscience & Action Wednesday 1-2-18 at the Sub Rosa

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HUFF has taken to holding tempestuous weekly meetings recently.  We weren’t sure how active Conscience and Action was going to be in the new year.   However co-founders Phil Posner and Nick Whitehead have expressed interest, so it looks like they’re revving up again.

HUFF hardroaders (as well as Conscience and Action activists) are invited to come early (10:45 a.m. or earlier) to meet with RV survivor Alicia, who will be bringing up the issue of RV harassment she and her three children have recently faced in their RV on the West side.

Other Likely topics:

HUFF Agenda Prospects:
  • The expanding Gateway/Ross campground: any chance for real protections from the “Progressive” City Council?  Think not?  Then how about from the Community?
  • How are RV dwellers doing in the wake of the Boise v. Martin decision and Coastal Commission’s “take down the “no parking signs” orders?
  • Homeless (Lack of) Service Center Update–Changes or More of the Same: an Examination of the latest answers from workers inside.
  • SCPD capers:  Reviewing police records perhaps to check for the frequency of Stay-Away Orders and Racial Profiling–a possible field trip after the meeting.
  • Is it any easier to get one’s property back from the “open only 4 hours a week” SCPD?
  • A Laundry List of Reminders for the Incoming Shitty Council
  • Evictions or support for those threatened in early January?  Are evictions increasing?  How goes the possible homeless/tenant Coalition?
  • Is Winter Shelter access any less difficult with its e-mail sign-up requirements than last month?  How are conditions out at the 7th Avenue Shelter and Salvation Army?
  • Any restoration of services out at MHCAN?  Is the Board of Directors still slumbering?
  • Upcoming Martin Luther King Day rally of the state Union of the Homeless including tours of homeless camps in Chico.
Come and share coffee, questions, and answers at 703 Pacific (next to the Bike Church) at HUFF.


  • Support the Downtown Santa Cruz Bath​room Task Force, Food Not Bombs,  the Warming Center’s 24 Hour Storage Program, HUFF, Conscience and Action, Monterey County Homeless Advocates, HomeFree, and other activists in documenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.
  •   Back up homeless efforts to organize either in protest or to demand adequate and accessible facilities.
  •   Exchange information with other supporters there to generate more communication and better solutions in the future.
  •   Listen in to Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides at freakradio.org every Thursday 6-8 PM, Sundays 9:30 AM- 3 PM
  •   If you must, expropriate items from chain stores.  Don’t steal from vulnerable fellow homeless!

Sunday 12-30-18 9:30 AM-3 PM at www.freakradio.org Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides: November and December Street Voices, Ross Camp Rumblings; 1-1-09 Flashback

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Recent Events

  • Rape Kit Closures–Is Santa Cruz Lagging Behind With Cops Nationwide?
  • Advice to the Campquest Protesters
  • Kevin’s Bushside View–Early Evening Reflections
  • UC Mows Down People’s Park Trees in Berkeley
  • Ricardo and Noel Dissect the Latest Persecution of Performers on Pacific
  • Xmas Snapshots:  Ron Rousted, Smurf on Stilts Seeking Funds for his Policenapped Dog
  • “Silver-Tongued” Steve Pleich’s Year-end Round-Up
  • Fat-Headed Folly from Fresno’s Flicks
  • Ross Camp Report
  • Whiplashing the Weatherbeaten up-Washington Way
  • Barks from the Blacktop at the Food Not Bombs Gathering
Flashback to Many Voices Looking Back on A Year 10 Years Ago: January 1, 2009
  • Laguna Beach ACLU Files Lawsuit Against Sleeping Ban
  • 12-30-08 Copwatch-on-Pacific-Avenue Interviews  medicant Mark —, musician Ernie Johnson, Pythonwearer, Fat Eddie volunteers
  • Visionsong Valerie sings “Downtown”, HUFF style
  • More voices: Michele B, Airplane Bob, Becka, Guitarslinging Marvin Meccam, Bashful Bernard, BamBam, Drummer Dave, J.P. Freeman & more!
  • poet Julia Vinograd’s “Bubbles and Bones”
  • the 2008 New Year’s Eve DIY parade with Beggarbacker Becky, Visionsong Valerie, Lisa Luck, and Sgt. Bush

The entire show will be archived sometime Sunday at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html under Latest Show – 12/30/2018

The full January 1, 2009 show is also available at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb090101.mp3 and described in greater detail at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html#DEC08 under Thursday January 1, 2009.

Justice and Injustice Tales from Vandweller Julie

  • Join the DIY New Year’s Eve Parade at the Parking Lot Behind the Saturn Cafe at Pacific and Spruce
  • Donate to Existing Homeless Encampments, not Poverty-Pimp Posturers–Winter Survival Demands Blankets, Water, Tarps, Portapotties & Trash Pick-Up’s
  • Support the Downtown Santa Cruz Bath​room Task Force, Food Not Bombs,  the Warming Center’s 24 Hour Storage Program, HUFF, Conscience and Action, Monterey County Homeless Advocates, Food Not Bombs, and other activists in documenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.
  •  Check out Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz  on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HomelessOutsideSantaCruz/ for updates.
  •   Read Updates and Post Them on Santa Cruz Indymedia at https://www.indybay.org/santa-cruz/
  •   Back up homeless efforts to organize either in protest or to demand adequate and accessible facilities.
  •   Exchange information with other supporters there to generate more communication and better solutions in the future.
  •   Listen in to Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides at freakradio.org every Thursday 6-8 PM, Sundays 9:30 AM- 3 PM
  •   Hear archived shows at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .
  •   If you must, expropriate items from chain stores.  Don’t steal from vulnerable fellow homeless!

Bathrobespiere’s Broadsides radio show streams tonight (12-27) at 6 PM at www.freakradio.org: Tales from the Mouths of the Many at the Sidewalk and the Xmas Slophouse

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 Free Radio Santa Cruz still still offers a reward of $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).  Help us so we can help you!


Tonight’s show streams at freakradio.org and archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

On tonight’s show:
  • December 27, 1831:  Slave Rebellion in Jamaica
  • Creepy Xmas Chronicles from Honolulu and Las Vegas
  • Red Church Round-Up:  Voices from the Crowd including Fire-seared Joseph Taylor III, Max, Noel, Ricardo, Steve and others remembering the dead Jonah,   Deva, Monica, Cooper, Latina, Lupay, and, Robert Palmer
  • Sidewalkery from the Food Not Bombs Feed:   Norma Jean, “Just Plain” Jim, Dreamcatcher, “By-the-By” Blue,  “Whip ‘Em Into Shape” Wes, “Nutcracker” Nick, “Tokemeister” Tim,  T.M. Maddison of the Bridge,  “Katzenjammer Keith”,  Ismail & Nasira, & “Mountainheart” Matt,
  • Plus the inevitable complaints of Bathrobespierre Robert, your harumphing host

HUFF meets 11 AM Today Wednesday 12-26 at the Sub Rosa

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 HUFF Agenda Prospects:

  • The expanding Gateway/Ross campground: contacts, organizing, prospects for eviction down the road
  • How are RV dwellers doing in the wake of the Boise v. Martin decision and Coastal Commission’s “take down the “no parking signs” orders?
  • Homeless (Lack of) Service Center Update–Changes or More of the Same?
  • Is it any easier to get one’s property back from the “open only 4 hours a week” SCPD?
  • Directing the new City Council’s attention to repealing the anti-homeless laws.
  • Are City Council members, tenant activists and their homeless advocate allies taking any action over the Xmas vacation to deter evictions or support those threatened?  Are evictions increasing?  How goes the possible homeless/tenant Coalition?
  • What should HUFF ask of Conscience and Action, if it returns in January?
  • Is Winter Shelter access any less difficult with its e-mail sign-up requirements than last month?  How are conditions out at the 7th Avenue Shelter and Salvation Army?
  • Any restoration of services out at MHCAN?  Is the Board of Directors still slumbering?
  • Any news from the state-wide Union of the Homeless, Marysville, Santa Barbara, San Diego, and/or L.A.?
Come and share coffee, questions, and answers at 703 Pacific (next to the Bike Church) at HUFF.


  • Support the Downtown Santa Cruz Bath​room Task Force, Food Not Bombs,  the Warming Center’s 24 Hour Storage Program, HUFF, Conscience and Action, Monterey County Homeless Advocates, and other activists in documenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.
  •  Check out Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz  on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HomelessOutsideSantaCruz/ for updates.
  •   Read Updates and Post Them on Santa Cruz Indymedia at https://www.indybay.org/santa-cruz/
  •   Back up homeless efforts to organize either in protest or to demand adequate and accessible facilities.
  •   Exchange information with other supporters there to generate more communication and better solutions in the future.
  •   Listen in to Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides at freakradio.org every Thursday 6-8 PM, Sundays 9:30 AM- 3 PM
  •   Hear archived shows at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .
  •   If you must, expropriate items from chain stores.  Don’t steal from vulnerable fellow homeless!

Sunday 12-23-18 9:30 AM-3 PM at www.freakradio.org Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides: Homeless Memorial cont., Brent Adam’s Update, Voices from Hero’s Camp, Landlord Victims Speak, 12-23-1997 Flashback

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Recent Events

  • Remainder of the 12-20 Homeless Memorial at the Homeless (Lack of) Services Center
  • Interviews Outside and After the Memorial from Wandering Spirit, Cliff, and Shawn
  • A Looksee at the Ross “Hero’s” Camp–Vanessa and Lito
  • Budgetwatching with Brent Adams
  • Landlords Strike!–Janeen T.’s story
Flashback to Earlier Days But Similar Ways: December 23, 1997
  • Attorney Anthony Bole Defends Patricia Gardella for Sitting on a Bench
  • Curfew Analysis and the “Happy John Dine” Cover-Up Update
  • Annie Voise of SF Liberation Radio Weighs In
  • Santa Monica’s Jennifer Waggoner on her Housing Takeover Arrest

The December 23, 1997 show should be soon archived on the HUFF website, go to http://huffsantacruz.org/archive97

Justice and Injustice Tales from Vandweller Julia
  • Donate to Existing Homeless Encampments, not Poverty-Pimp Posturers–Winter Survival Demands Blankets, Water, Tarps, Portapotties & Trash Pick-Up’s
  • Support the Downtown Santa Cruz Bath​room Task Force, Food Not Bombs,  the Warming Center’s 24 Hour Storage Program, HUFF, Conscience and Action, Monterey County Homeless Advocates, Food Not Bombs, and other activists in documenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.
  •  Check out Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz  on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HomelessOutsideSantaCruz/ for updates.
  •   Read Updates and Post Them on Santa Cruz Indymedia at https://www.indybay.org/santa-cruz/
  •   Back up homeless efforts to organize either in protest or to demand adequate and accessible facilities.
  •   Exchange information with other supporters there to generate more communication and better solutions in the future.
  •   Listen in to Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides at freakradio.org every Thursday 6-8 PM, Sundays 9:30 AM- 3 PM
  •   Hear archived shows at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .
  •   If you must, expropriate items from chain stores.  Don’t steal from vulnerable fellow homeless!

Bathrobespiere’s Broadsides radio show streams tonight (12-20) at 6 PM at www.freakradio.org: L.A. attacks RV Dwellers Pretending to Help; the S.C. 2018 Homeless Death Memorial

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Free Radio Santa Cruz still still offers a reward of $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).  Help us so we can help you!


Tonight’s show streams at freakradio.org and archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  

On tonight’s show:
  • Los Angeles Slips and Slides Around the Court’s Martin v. Boise decision, faking help for RV Dwellers while actually further Restricting Them
  • “Stop the Stupidity” Steve calls out the Homeless Lack of Service Center Hypocrisy for Turning Him Away from the Bathroom “because of the Homeless Memorial”
  • Names of the Homeless Dead read there and remembrances from the Assembled
  • Musical interludes by Phil Ochs & Fans

HUFF meets 11 AM Today Wednesday 12-19 at the Sub Rosa

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CRITICAL QUESTIONS FOR TODAY
  • What’s happening at the Ross/Gateway/River St. Camp?   Is portapotty/washing station/dumpster access increasing as more people seek sanctuary there?  What’s up with the SCPD/P & R policies of “herd ’em to Ross”?
  • How are RV dwellers doing in the wake of the Boise v. Martin decision and Coastal Commission’s “take down the “no parking signs” orders?
  • Are cop/ranger seizures of property any less than last winter?
  • Is it any easier to get one’s property back from the “open only 4 hours a week” SCPD?
  • Is harassment downtown and in residential neighborhoods dropping or rising?
  • Are Coral St.’s Homeless (Lack of) Services policies improving?
  • Are City Council members, tenant activists and their homeless advocate allies taking any action over the Xmas vacation to deter evictions or support those threatened?  Are evictions increasing?  How goes the possible homeless/tenant Coalition?
  • Why is bathroom access restored at San Lorenzo Park, but not at Louden Nelson and City Hall?  Any updates on cafe bathroom access, portapotty accessibility?
  • Is Winter Shelter access any less difficult with its e-mail sign-up requirements than last month?  How are conditions out at the 7th Avenue Shelter?
  • Any restoration of services out at MHCAN?  Is the Board of Directors still slumbering?
  • Any news from the state-wide Union of the Homeless, Marysville, Santa Barbara, San Diego, and/or L.A.?
  • Whatever happened to Conscience in Action ?
Come and share coffee, questions, and answers at 703 Pacific (next to the Bike Church) at HUFF.


  • Support the Downtown Santa Cruz Bath​room Task Force, Food Not Bombs,  the Warming Center’s 24 Hour Storage Program, HUFF, Conscience and Action, Monterey County Homeless Advocates, and other activists in documenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.
  •  Check out Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz  on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HomelessOutsideSantaCruz/ for updates.
  •   Read Updates and Post Them on Santa Cruz Indymedia at https://www.indybay.org/santa-cruz/
  •   Back up homeless efforts to organize either in protest or to demand adequate and accessible facilities.
  •   Exchange information with other supporters there to generate more communication and better solutions in the future.
  •   Listen in to Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides at freakradio.org every Thursday 6-8 PM, Sundays 9:30 AM- 3 PM
  •   Hear archived shows at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .
  •   If you must, expropriate items from chain stores.  Don’t steal from vulnerable fellow homeless!

Sunday 12-16-18 9:30 AM-3 PM at www.freakradio.org Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides: More from the 12-11 City Council’s Leaving Tenants Dangling; Backtalk from Brent Adams, Wes White’s Wooly Words, 12-20-1998 Flashback

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 Chilly Comfort in the Winter of 2018

  • More Ducking & Dodging from the 12-11 City Council; More Outrage from the Audience.
  • “Big Drum” Brent’s Updates and Advice on Safe Car Camping
  • City Council’s Sell-Out of the Downtown to Developers
  • Words in the Wind from Salinas’s Wes White
Flashback to Activist Response to another “Progressive Victory and Stall” on December 20, 1998
  • Chaz, Constanza, and Dennis Reim expose police harassment in Dec 7th Wintertalk
  • FCC attacks on an earlier more vibrant Free Radio Santa Cruz
  • “Tuf-Love” Laura Tucker and “Lighthouse Linda” Lemaster recall “Linda the Lark” Edwards Heroism in 1993 and “Progresive” prospects of the new City Council
  • “Bashful” Bernard Klitzner on “Don’t Sleep Night”
  • “Crossroads” Chris Brozda on his Van Seizure after 70 Days in Jail
  •  “Down for the Struggle” Donna Deiss’s Santa Cruz Tenants Union (TRUSC) report
  • “Jackhammer” John Vance’s Update from Telegraph Ave. in Berkeley
  • (Hard to Hear) Testimony at the Shitty Council in late November 1998
  • “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson’s Homeless Community Resource Center
  • HUFF Xmas Songs santa-Cruz style from 1998….

The December 20, 1998 shows are currently archived on the HUFF website, go to http://huffsantacruz.org/archive98

Ripples from the Roadway
  • Donate to Existing Homeless Encampments, not Poverty-Pimp Posturers Winter Survival Demands Blankets, Water, Tarps, Portapotties & Trash Pick-Up’s
  • Support the Downtown Santa Cruz Bath​room Task Force, Food Not Bombs,  the Warming Center’s 24 Hour Storage Program, HUFF, Conscience and Action, Monterey County Homeless Advocates, and other activists in documenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.
  •  Check out Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz  on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HomelessOutsideSantaCruz/ for updates.
  •   Read Updates and Post Them on Santa Cruz Indymedia at https://www.indybay.org/santa-cruz/
  •   Back up homeless efforts to organize either in protest or to demand adequate and accessible facilities.
  •   Exchange information with other supporters there to generate more communication and better solutions in the future.
  •   Listen in to Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides at freakradio.org every Thursday 6-8 PM, Sundays 9:30 AM- 3 PM
  •   Hear archived shows at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .
  •   If you must, expropriate items from chain stores.  Don’t steal from vulnerable fellow homeless!