Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday Nov. 3, 2024 show features a few interviews around Food Not Bombs, ACLU’s “Prepping for Protest” suggestions & a Flashback to Nov 20, 2016 with Brian vs. the Coral St. Combine, Cornerstone Carol, & many more

The Sunday November 3, 2024 show includes: 

The Flashback to November 20, 2016 includes: 

  • [11-17]  Brian Aaron Denson’s lengthy & detailed expose of Homeless Lack of Services [HLOSC] (now Housing Matters) 2017 abuses as he did a three-night protest sleep-out on the doorstep of HLOSC.
  • [11-8] Keith McHenry’s report on FNB‘s struggle in Florida & Arizona
  • “Too bad the grown coward…sheriffs can’t take a 4” knife from a 15-year old…boy.”—on the Luke Smith killing
  • McHenry at Freedom SleepOut #20 [FSO #20] on the SCPD’s Sean Arlt’s slaying and prospective protest actions
  • Cornerstone Carol Denney [http://www.caroldenney.com/] on the election what “if I were the fuhrer”…
  • Upcoming City Council Stormclouds: Public Hysteria Committee Report, Restricted Access to Parks and Levee
  • Trading Barbs with Battling Bob Lamonica on the phone
  • Councilmember Micah answers agenda council on Riverwalk; Merlin calls for city support for FRSC transmitter
  • FSO #20: “Push Back” Pat Colby on her Protest demanding authorities release Sean Arlt slaying evidence; Dreamcatcher on ticketing in the library area;
  • Bonum, Bean, Thor the huskie, Cage O’Malley “No Hobo” the guitarist & Curtis Reliford
  • “Dead On” David Silva on the 12th  day of His Sleep against Sleep Suppression
  • Ricardo Lopez on Rangercrime & Abbi Samuels reading Rangers the riot act
  • Eagle with Baba Kush the pooch on First Alarm harassment
  • [11-14] Red Church Review: Norma Jean Tasker’s Memorial for John Manahan; Jason reports his brother by “Take Back Santa Cruzans”; Estella on forced hospitalization; James & Ricardo on the Cooper case

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday, October 31st, 2024, show Flashes back to December 1, 2016 with Keith McHenry on Sheriff Jim Hart’s Public Meeting on his sheriff’s killing Luke Smith and more

The Thursday October 31st, 2024 show is a

Flashback to December 1, 2016.  It includes

  • Bathrobespierre critiques downtown bans [directed against homeless], New Leaf “security”, over-financing of SCPD, landlord handwringing, SCPD resistance to transparency, and more
  • Katzenjammer Keith McHenry  on the “so sorry we shot Luke Smith” Community Meeting, police violence history  https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/rally-for-justice-in-the-arlt-and-smith-killings-130-pm-saturday-at-the-town-clock/
  • Doc Mike’s boatlife in Moss Landing; Coastal Commission RV bust of City Council ban update; problems with new shelters
  • Pac Avenue/FNB interviews:  Sunshine Man; Alex and Joff guerrilla painters; Anthony Edmund, Jaya the street jeweler, Ronna Gonna, Karen on Standing Rock.

HUFF casts aside phony election eve chatter with real palaver about homeless rights destruction in Santa Cruz 1:30 – 3:30 PM Thursday 10-31-24 at 703 Pacific in the SubRosa Courtyard next to the Bike Church

HUFF Ruf Agenda Suggestions 10-31-24

Agenda of items:    …Athena’s Asks Update…HUFF on Instagram: huff_santacruz…People’s Food Tent Sat/Sun:  9 AM-11 AM Green Gate   1-3 PM Hiway 1 & River… Monitoring Group for HUFF Sweep/Raid  Record…*PRA update on cop confiscation of bicycles…Thomas’s Tip Sheet…Election: Erection or Rejection  More details below

Items followed by underlined links can be viewed by computers.  May items  are really reminders of where we’d be going if and when we find the person power, time, interest, and resources.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them.                                      

Top of the Agenda (Quick Announcements)

++++   Berkeley trip reports and possible updates

++++   Meeting etiquette: raise hands, stacker

++++   *Street Sheets & Street Spirits next week.  Check  903 Pacific & FNB.  Call HUFF
++++   *Saturday Oct. 26  11 AM-12:30 PM Ocean and Water  Stop genocide and support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza now. No more tax dollars for Israel. End the occupation and the apartheid system. Free all hostages and prisoners. 11 am to 12:30 pm every Saturday. Help hold up banners. More info:  call Laura at 831-247-5332.

++++   Cooling  today; week ahead: Dry & mid-60’s

Standard Stuff: Regular Check-In’s    

++++   Passarounds:  TBA   Handouts: TBA  

++++    Street Reports: Threats of Sweeps?  Posted Notices?  Food Tent & Lib Lot Reports   

++++    Seeking Info & Contacts: Tabling at Funding Matters [FM]/Soup Kitchen  

++++    Solidarity with Resistance to On-Campus Repression of Encampments & Protest  

++++    Election Impacts on Homeless                                                       

Possible Action Items

++++   Scheduling and strategy for confronting officials at Public events  ++++    Preliminary refutation of excuses used to destroy survival encampments locally such as the Camping Services and Standards Ordinance (“the Camping Ban”)                                                     

Tasks in search of Takers

++++   Spying Back on Surveillance Camera Location yet (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)

++++  Tracking court cases: HUFF Record Keeper?

++++  Armory/1220 Expedition to check out Athena’s Asks

++++  Exposing MC 6.36 and other sweep pretexts: Documenting the Deception                                  

Setting Up  Signposts to Stop the Nasty New Narrative

++++  Advertise the Abuses  with “Stop the War Against the Poor Sweeps/Raids + Gaza Genocide” Lanyards?

++++  Possible Public Records Documents Review and RV Antics by Reggie Meisler

++++  New  Strategies for Documenting Property Loss:  Case #, Receipts, Audio recordings

++++  Cooling Center when extreme heat threatens?  Emergency gathering location

++++  Focused Demands? (Stop the Sweeps, Reapportion funding to service existing camps)

++++  Govt. Reports:  (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board) ++++  Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MH CAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)

++++  Future Targets:    City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission Office… City Hall…​Emeline/TelcCare/Supes   

++++   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/09/09/18869216.php   Civil Rights Groups Sue UCSC for Unlawful Campus Bans and Response to Student Protests https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2024/09/09/final_2024.09.03_ucsc_exclusion_notice_complaint-final.pdf                                 

Archived Net-Show Access: to read summaries of the shows: To hear the shows go to https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

Very brief Descriptive Summary of Week Before Last’s Archived Net Shows–  October 17th  :   https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-thursday-october-17th-2024-show-flashes-back-to-feb-4-2016-thence-to-feb-6-2003-on-the-feeble-afterlife-of-the-citizens-police-review-board-jhond-golder-vs-the/

October 20th  https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-sunday-october-20th-2024-show-features-a-flashback-to-june-28-1996-a-bathrobespierre-in-the-slammer-and-interviews-in-the-court-corridors-after-the-citys-partial-i/                                            

More Resources & News

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday October 27th 2024 show features “Where-Do-We-Go?” interviews with Berkeley survival tent protesters, Interviews with RVster Amber Whitson & a Flashback to Feb 19, 2017 featuring Chris Krohn + more

The Sunday October 27th show includes:

The Flashback to February 19, 2017 includes:

  • Half-hour interview with Councilmember Chris Krohn asking about City investments in Wells Fargo, opening the books on the Sean Arlt slaying by SCPD and more.
  • [throughout] Ryan Harvey’s angry political songs
  • [2-13-2017] Red Church Interviews:  Don Hutchins thwarted bike theft, Julie Schaul on legal news against police sweeps in Seattle, WA.in the Lisa Hooper/Brandy Osborne case
  • Julie Schaul on Westside Safeway, Panda Express seating disappearing, kudos to Starbucks; her advice: contact corporate HQ for businesses with commendations and complaints, take business elsewhere.
  • Cooper D’Angelo’s year-old assault case; David Turner on difficulties getting in and staying in River St. mini-Shelter
  • [2-18] Black Lives Matter protest in Capitola, Badgebooster Bob Lamonica’s defense of Officer Bailey’s shooting of  Arlt.   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/02/23/18796773.php 
  • https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/02/14/18796493.php?show_comments=1#18796650 Flyer Distributed at City Council
  • Joy Parker: Airport protest on Trump Immigration Ban
  • Purple and Jay, Jennifer, around the Milkcrate Singers (Cooper faced trial for sitting on a milkcrate)
  • Street Handicraft Vendor Jaya Interview; Jeweler James at the Coffee Roasting outdoor seating area

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday, October 24th, 2024, show Flashes back to November 6, 2016 with a spirited critique of Prop 64 (Recreational grass), Berkeley’s Dan McMullan on the Poverty Tour, and lots more

The current show is now archived at https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.htmland may be streaming on the net starting at 6 p.m. 

If technical difficulties prevent that, go to the www.huffsantacruz.org website to hear it.   

If reached on the HUFF website above, the show can be downloaded in two sequential sections.

The content of the show will be further summarized and posted within a few days  at https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/category/huff-communications/

HUFF shouts and shudders as Halloween and Tweedledum Elections approach 1:30 – 3:30 PM Thursday October 24, 2024 at Sub Rosa 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church followed by a likely road trip in support of Berkeley’s “Where Do We Go?” Protest

HUFF Rough Agenda Suggestions 10-24-24

Agenda Summary so far:   Council & Supes Update …Athena’s Asks Update…HUFF on Instagram: huff_santacruz…People’s Food Food Tent 9 AM-11 AM Green Gate   1-3 PM Hiway 1 & River…Further work by Gaia and others on seeking a Monitoring Group for a HUFF Sweep/Raid  Record…PRA for cop confiscation of bicycles…Possible sign-up’s for regular tasks..Thomas’s Tip Sheet…Report on the campus crackdown  More details below

Items followed by underlined links can be viewed “at home” or  “in the library”  Items on either side of this agenda can be accessed by computers.  May items  are really reminders of where we’d be going if and when we find the person power, time, interest, and resources.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them.  

Top of the Agenda (Quick Announcements)

++++   Prep for Proposed Berkeley Trip later today if Available

++++   Meeting etiquette: raise hands, stacker

++++   Street Sheets and Street Spirits next week.Copies also available at 903 Pacific and at the Food Not Bombs Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock—ask Drew

++++   Saturday Oct. 26  11 AM-12:30 PM Ocean and Water  Stop genocide and support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza now. No more tax dollars for Israel. End the occupation and the apartheid system. Free all hostages and prisoners. 11 am to 12:30 pm every Saturday. Help hold up banners. More info:  call Laura at 831-247-5332.           

10-26 6 PM- 8 PM London Nelson Community Center 301 Center Street  Santa Cruz Prepares for the Impact of World War III Everyone is welcome to participate in this free event 

++++   Cool today; Dry & Cooling with no rain predicted for next week;                                          

Standard Stuff: Regular Check-In’s    

++++   Passarounds:  TBA   Handouts: TBA   

++++    Street Reports: Threats of Sweeps?  Posted Notices?  Uncomfortable encounters   

++++    Seeking Info & Contacts: Tabling at Funding Matters [FM]/Soup Kitchen  

++++    Solidarity with Resistance to On-Campus Repression of Encampments & Protest  

++++    Election Impacts on Homeless                                                       

Possible Action Items

++++    Scheduling and strategy for confronting officials at Public events ++++   San Francisco Cover-Up of Property Destruction: https://www.streetsheet.org/resolution-on-seizure-of-homeless-peoples-property-in-the-works/  

++++    Preliminary refutation of excuses used to destroy survival encampments locally such as the Camping Services and Standards Ordinance (“the Camping Ban”)                                                     

Tasks in search of Takers

++++   Spying Back on Surveillance Camera Location yet (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)

++++  Tracking court cases

++++  Armory/1220 Expedition to check out Athena’s Asks

++++  Exposing MC 6.36 and other sweep pretexts: Documenting the Deception                                  

Setting Up  Signposts to Stop the Nasty New Narrative

++++  Stop the War Against the Poor Sweeps/Raids + Gaza Genocide Lanyards?

++++  New  Strategies for Documenting Property Loss:  Case #, Receipts, Audio recordings

++++  Cooling Center when extreme heat threatens?  Emergency gathering location

++++  Focused Demands? (Stop the Sweeps, Reapportion funding to service existing camps)

++++  Govt. Reports:  (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board)

++++  Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MHCAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)

++++  Future Targets:    City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission Office… City Hall…​Emeline/TelcCare/Supes   

++++   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/09/09/18869216.php   Civil Rights Groups Sue UCSC for Unlawful Campus Bans and Response to Student Protests https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2024/09/09/final_2024.09.03_ucsc_exclusion_notice_complaint-final.pdf                                 

Archived Net-Show Access: to read summaries of the shows:

To hear the shows go to https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html Very brief Descriptive Summary of Last Week’s Archived Net Shows– 

October 17th  :   https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-thursday-october-17th-2024-show-flashes-back-to-feb-4-2016-thence-to-feb-6-2003-on-the-feeble-afterlife-of-the-citizens-police-review-board-jhond-golder-vs-the/

October 20th  TBA                                             

More Resources & News

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday October 20th 2024 show features + a Flashback to June 28, 1996 – a Bathrobespierre in the slammer and interviews in the court corridors after the City’s partial Injunction victory against City Hall Protest

The October 20th edition of the show includes:

  • [10-16] Visiting Mutual Aid Food Tent at the Green Gate during morning camp destruction up Golf Club Drive
  • [throughout]  https://soundcloud.com/davidrovics/one-year-on-the-apocalypse-in-review-podcast-special
  • Chatter, castigation, and rationalizations with CSO Earl Buck on the city’s Helpful Demolitions
  • Manny’s Reflections on likely lower profile future anti-Gaza genocide demonstrations at UCSC
  • Legal worker Ray Glock-Grueneich’s recollections on his first days with the Scott Creek Bluff vehicular dwellers when their homes were stolen by county sheriffs.
  • [10-19] Brando and Ester—distributing free phones for poor folks.
  • Roger—run off from sleeping in early a.m. off church property
  • David Hanson—bound for Colorado to expand free camping gear to S.C., banished from Housing Matters
  • Jesus announces his coming marriage
  • Roadwatcher Robert Woodleaf on landlord difficulties; William’s restless history
  • “Deep” reports on the Washington Rainbow Gathering

The Flashback to June 28, 1996 includes: [sound quality varies]

  • Beggarbacker Becky [BB] hosts the show with Bathrobespierre in the jail in San Francisco for serving free food
  • [5-31] Court corridor discussion after the City attorney’s partial victory restricting the City Hall Sleepers Protest with an Injunction with Bathrobespierre, Wilomena Perl, attorneys David Beauvais & David Hilliard, & City Attorney John Barisone
  • BB chats with jail inmate Rick on her “adopt a prisoner” proposal and jail’s expense to the taxpayer
  • BB at City Council’s Social Service Committee with Kennedy, Rotkin, and Citizen’s Committee for the Homeless director Frank Pucelik
  • BB interviews Homeless “Green” hyperkinetic and dyslexic 
  • BB on her phone chat with homeless-hostile cartoonist Steve DeCinzo
  • Mad Mike the Wonder Dog’s musical selections

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday, October 17th 2024 show Flashes back to Feb. 4, 2016 & thence to Feb. 6, 2003 on the feeble afterlife of the Citizens Police Review Board & Jhond Golder vs. the Booters

The Thursday October 17th , 2024, show is a Flashback to February 4, 2016, and thence to February 6, 2003, on the feeble afterlife of the Citizens Police Review Board & Jhond Golder vs. the Booters

  • Intro to the 10-17-24 show followed by an intro to the 2-4-16 followed by the 2-6-03 show.  The initial 2024 commentary lasts about 4 minutes.  It’s followed by a 3-minute 2016 commentary which then merges into the 2003 flashback.  There is some commentary from 2016, interjected into the 2003 show.  Apologies for any confusion.  Some of the sound also requires amplifying. 
  • Carol Denny’s commentary [2003] on Berkeley City Council’s rubberstamping Pepper spray use by the BPD
  • Activist and single mom “Rough-Tongued” Roxanne Acquistepache is in-studio guest and co-host—with extended discussion on City Council’s guillotining of the Citizens Police Review Board [CPRB] possibly to stop a selective enforcement examination.  Rozanne on how former CPRB member Gia Grant was forced off the Board.
  • Burial of Raymond Quinton shooting investigation , racial profiling, selective enforcement, use of force
  • Jhond (John) Golder’s blow-by-blow struggle after police improperly towed his vehicular home. 

HUFFbundles up against deepening autumn and housing chatters at the usual 1:30-3:30 PM Thursday October 17 at the Sub Rosa Cafe/Courtyard 703 Pacific, spitting distance from the Bike Church

HUFF Rough Agenda Suggestions 10-17-24

Agenda Summary:   Sweeps Update (from Monday Coral St.  & Tuesday (Pogonip)…Meeting reports (Tuesday Night’s RCNV Against Repression Meeting)…Athena’s Asks…HUFF on Instagram: huff_santacruz…People’s Food Food Tent 9 AM-2 PM…Further work by Gaia and others on seeking a Monitoring Group for a HUFF Sweep/Raid  Record…PRA for cop confiscation of bicycles…Possible sign-up’s for regular tasks..Thomas’s Tip Sheet…Report on the campus crackdown

Items followed by links can be viewed “at home” or  “in the library”  Items on the  flipside of this agenda are really reminders of where we’d be going if we had the person power, time, interest, and resources.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them. 

Top of the Agenda (Quick Announcements)

++++   Street Sheets and Street Spirits

++++   Saturday   11 AM-12:30 PM Ocean and Water  Stop genocide and support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza now. No more tax dollars for Israel. End the occupation and the apartheid system. Free all hostages and prisoners. 11 am to 12:30 pm every Saturday. Help hold up banners. More info:  call Laura at 831-247-5332.

++++   Cool today; Dry & Cooling with no rain predicted for next week;

++++   Athena’s Asks, Horsewoman’s Hot Issue, Laura’s sign up/call up list, Thomas’s Tips

++++   Possible Updates on Lane letter, Housing Matters stuff, Troy and Andrea claims                                             

Standard Stuff: Regular Check-In’s  

++++   Passarounds:  TBA   Handouts: TBA  

++++   Street Reports: Threats of Sweeps?  Posted Notices?  Uncomfortable encounters  

++++   San Rafael Sweep under cover of City Camp: https://www.marinij.com/2024/10/05/san-rafael-opens-authorized-camp-for-homeless/    

++++   Care courts—the mythology and the reality:  https://www.kqed.org/news/12007175/care-court-was-supposed-to-help-those-hardest-to-treat-heres-how-its-going    

++++    Seeking Info & Contacts: Tabling at Funding Matters [FM]/Soup Kitchen  

++++    Solidarity with Resistance to On-Campus Repression of Encampments & Protest                                                         

Possible Action Items

++++    Shitty Council October 22nd  meeting (agenda out Friday morning): ++++    Scheduling and strategy for confronting officials at Public  

++++   San Francisco Cover-Up of Property Destruction: https://www.streetsheet.org/resolution-on-seizure-of-homeless-peoples-property-in-the-works/  

++++    Preliminary refutation of excuses used to destroy survival encampments locally such as the Camping Services and Standards Ordinance (“the Camping Ban”)                                                      

Tasks in search of Takers

++++   Spying Back on Surveillance Camera Location yet (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)

++++  Tracking court cases

++++  Armory/1220 Expedition to check out Athena’s Asks

++++  Exposing MC 6.36 and other sweep pretexts: Documenting the Deception                                            

Setting Up  Signposts to Stop the Nasty New Narrative

++++  Stop the War Against the Poor Sweeps/Raids + Gaza Genocide Lanyards?

++++  New  Strategies for Documenting Property Loss:  Case #, Receipts, Audio recordings

++++  Cooling Center when extreme heat threatens?  Emergency gathering location ++++  Focused Demands? (Stop the Sweeps, Reapportion funding to service existing camps)

++++  Govt. Reports:  (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board)

++++  Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MH CAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)

++++  Future Targets:    City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission Office… City Hall…​Emeline/TelcCare/Supes   

++++   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/09/09/18869216.php   Civil Rights Groups Sue UCSC for Unlawful Campus Bans and Response to Student Protests https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2024/09/09/final_2024.09.03_ucsc_exclusion_notice_complaint-final.pdf                                 

Archived Net-Show Access: to read summaries of the shows:

To hear the shows go to https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

Very brief Descriptive Summary of Last Week’s Archived Net Shows– 

October 10th :   https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-thursday-october-10th-2024-show-flashes-back-to-november-5-2015-featuring-in-person-interview-with-berkeley-poet-julia-vinograd-update-on-the-space-constricting-blue-b/

October 13th :    https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-sunday-october-13-2024-show-features-a-flashback-to-june-24-1996-a-bathrobespierre-in-jail-segment-with-host-becky-johnson-an-interview-with-heather-hanson/                                            

More Resources & News

https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homeless-union-members-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-encampment-eviction/  Recent lawsuit by California Homeless Union against Sweeps

https://thestreetspirit.org/2023/02/07/berkeley-94700/   The Poor Tour & First They Came for the Homeless

https://www.codepublishing.com/CA/SantaCruz/#!/SantaCruz06/SantaCruz0636.html#6.36 : Santa Cruz’s excuse for its anti-homeless sweep/raids

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday October 13, 2024 show features + a Flashback to June 24, 1996 – a Bathrobespierre-in-jail segment with host Becky Johnson + an interview with Heather Hanson

The current segment of the October 13, 2024 show includes:

The Flashback to June 24, 1996 includes:

  • Jailtime Host Beggarbacker Becky Johnson interviews Bathrobespierre Robert in San Francisco County Jail #8 
  • Bathrobe on boycotting cities with anti-homeless laws, visiting rules at the S.F. jail, unpublished response to de Cinzo’s “rape the crank in jail” cartoon in the Metro Santa Cruz  weekly.
  • Heather Hanson on the seizure of her baby from Dominican Hospital 
  • Bathrobe and Becky on the criminalizing of handheld signs at S.C. City Hall, more reports from the jail
  • Fellow jail inmate Frank on Bathrobe’s food crime
  • B and B on police review board and city council action and inaction.

The show has four sequential segments: two for recent events & two for the flashback.

HUFF INSTAGRAM NOW FEATURES IRREGULAR ANNOUNCEMENTS OF PROTESTS, STREET REPORTS, AND OPINION AT huff_santacruz.  

HUFF supports People’s Food Tent Saturdays and Sundays 9 AM -11 at green gate on Golf Club Drive and 1 PM- 3 pm at Hiway 9 and Hiway 1.