The agenda will look something like this—with a few modifications.
HUFF Agenda Prospects 3-28-24
Top of the Agenda: Procedures
++++ Timekeeper (10 minutes per item) Hand-raisin’ rules, Chair rotation
++++ Agenda Additions, Announcements. Pass-arounds; SF under SB 1011; Rejected Permit Modifications for OV; Hand-Outs: Machelle Memorial flyer
++++ Short description of Agenda Items
++++ Outstanding projects
++++ Week on, week off, schedule.
Reports and Info Items
++++ Follow-Up on Robert Ratner/Matt Huffaker Demand Discussion
++++ Street & Court reports Beach, Parking Lots, Pogonip, Library, Levee Warnings, Sweeps, & Tickets
++++ Fri 29th Sat 30th Rain, Thunderstorms
++++ Newcomer & Agenda Additions
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++++ Reports from government bodies (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board), Joy, Laura calls
++++ Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MH CAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)
Action Proposals:
++++ Major choice of focus in the meeting. Proposed prep or actions. Target; demands?
++++ Possibilities: Survival Camp Sweeps; 5150 Seizures; Tier 2 RV Investigation; Tent Seizure Accounts; Property Reclaiming Fantasy or Reality? ; Armory/Coral St. & “Warming Shelter” accessibility bathroom/portapotty expansion/potable water for survival campsites; street newsletter; Poverty pimpery connections & auditing (Ratner, Huffaker); recent Coral St. clearing threats
++++ Targets for Rainy Weather Shelter/Stop the Sweeps/Raids: City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission… City Hall/Emeline/TelcCare/Supes
++++ New April 2024 & older March 2024 issues of Street Sheetlikely available in hard copy next meeting but the stories can be accessed on line at thestreetsheet.org
++++ The new March 2024 issue of Street Spirit –the first since June 2023—is available at Sub Rosa, Food Not Bombs Town Clock meal distribution Sat and Sun 12-3 p.m. and in the newspaper shelves just outside the UN HQ. Call Norse at 831-423-4833 to confirm locations are supplied.
++++ Editors of these papers may be up for printing local poetry and street reports—call to get help.
Joy Shindledecker and Reggie Meisler at SC Shitty Council Appealing the Staff’s Homeless-Hostile Oversized Vehicle Ordinance Permit
Many voices at the July 11, 1994 Flashback to a S.F. Food Not Bombs support rally at the Hall of Justice for Keith McHenry facing phony felony charges including support speeches by many alternate political party activists and McHenry himself decrying S.F. Mayor Frank Jordan’s Matrix campaign.
David Rovics: Hollywood Bread and the Unanswered 9-11 Questions: commentary and song
Streetstairway speaker Hector on harassment downtown and life in S.C. jail
Davis Gillis’s account of the last HUFF meeting
The Flashback to March 25, 2004 includes:
Co-Host & Guest Tom Beloit, Copwatch Santa Cruz rebooter; songs by Danielle Savage at various points
In-studio guest throughout Quinton Cornish, petition circulator, on a New Leaf Felton’s attempt to use police to drive him away
Phone interview with Berkeley Copwatch’s Andrew Prichard on the need for community action to stem police abuse
Marxist activist Steve Argue, also a sometime street newspaper vendor, on different strategies for dealing with police harassment
Visionsong Valerie and Merryweather Michael of FRSC interviewing live on Pacific Avenue: Lee’s “No Sidewalk Sitting ” Cite from CSO Pam Bechtel
Caller reports on police bust at Seabright and Logan at 11 PM
Mathew Hartog, arrested under the Move Along law, & Steve Argue discuss Judge Barton’s decision in Argue’s Move-Along case
Further FRSC table interviews: Richard Oxman, Hot Rod John Rapport, Bob Patton, Edward Levy, Kat, “Free”
Brief interview with Activist Attorney Paul Sanford on local (John Maurer) and national (Michael Newdow) “Eliminate ‘Under God’ from the Pledge of Allegiance” https://www.c-span.org/video/?189752-1/pledge-allegiance# [cuts off abruptly]
At the 3-14-24 HUFF meeting, the group voted to continue weekly meetings, but have every other meeting be an informal gathering without the usual tight agenda constraints typical of those run by Robert (who may not make the meeting). The current meeting is the first meeting with looser flow to be created by the HUFFsters themselves. The following are suggestions for possible topics, but participants themselves may decide leadership and agenda—if those terms apply. Coffee & tea will still be available cost-free. Bring snacks to share.
Standard Stuff: Procedures and Reports
++++ Group can decide on its own procedures such as Timekeeper (10 minutes per item) Hand-raisin’ rules, Chair rotation
++++ Announcements and Street Reports
++++ PassArounds (read and return): old Shgelosis story.
Possible Topics for Discussion and/or Action
++++ Demands for Robert Ratner/Matt, County Homeless Czar (Accountabuility for $$ spent) and/or Matt\ Huffaker Demand (Stop the Sweeps; Services to Existing Camps)
++++ Machelle Bryant memorial 4-7 PM 3-31 Friendship Garden; Harvey West Park
++++ Agenda Additions
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++++ Reports from government bodies (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board)
++++ Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MH CAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)
Action Proposals: Choosing 1 for Action, 2 for Research
++++ If wanted: Major choice of focus in the meeting. Proposed prep or actions. Target; demands?
++++ Possibilities: Survival Camp Sweeps; 5150 Seizures; Tier 2 RV Investigation; Tent Seizure Accounts; Property Reclaiming Fantasy or Reality? ; Armory/Coral St. & “Warming Shelter” accessibility bathroom/portapotty expansion/potable water for survival campsites; street newsletter; poverty pimpery connections & auditing; Local Petitioning against new Criminalize Homeless initiatives
++++ Rainy Weather Predicted Fri 3-22, Sat 3-23, Wed 3-27 Fri 3-29 Sat 3-30 Possible Targets Stop the Sweeps/Raids: City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission… City Hall—City Council meets 3-26 Other targets: /Emeline/TelcCare/Supes
++++ Flyer Prep Research: Seeking more Info from George Corvalho, Patient Advocate; Stories from former clients; 5150 Protections at TeleCare with Proposition 1 likely winning;
++++ New March 2024 issues of Street Sheet may be available in hard copy at the first April meeting and the stories likely accessible then on line at thestreetsheet.org
++++ The new March 2024 issue of Street Spirit –the first since June 2023—is available at Sub Rosa, Food Not Bombs Town Clock meal distribution Sat and Sun 12-3 p.m. and in the newspaper shelves just outside the UN HQ on Pacific Ave.
++++ Editors of these papers may be up for publishing local poetry and street reports—contact Norse at 831-423-4833 for more info.
++++ Followed by short briefings on other agenda items, time allowing
++++ PassArounds (read and return): Mainstream media on election, police measures, Shelter shit, drug doodoo
++++ Callbacks on projects and an every-other-week schedule
Reports and Info Items
++++ Follow-Up on Robert Ratner/Matt Huffaker Demand Discussion
++++ Street & Court reports Beach, Parking Lots, Pogonip, Library, Levee Warnings, Sweeps, & Tickets
++++ Tales of being driven into rain from parking structures, overhangs, etc.
++++ Newcomer & Agenda Addition Discussion
++++………………………………………………………………………………
++++………………………………………………………………………………
++++ Reports from government bodies (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board)
++++ Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MH CAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)
Action Proposals: Choosing 1 for Action, 2 for Research
++++ Major choice of focus in the meeting. Proposed prep or actions. Target; demands?
++++ Possibilities: Survival Camp Sweeps; 5150 Seizures; Tier 2 RV Investigation; Tent Seizure Accounts; Property Reclaiming Fantasy or Reality? ; Armory/Coral St. & “Warming Shelter” accessibility bathroom/portapotty expansion/potable water for survival campsites; street newsletter; poverty pimpery connections & auditing; Local Petitioning against new Criminalize Homeless initiatives
++++ Targets for Rainy Weather Shelter/Stop the Sweeps/Raids: City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission… City Hall/Emeline/TelcCare/Supes
++++ Possible phone contacts: Laura C. on Mental Health Madness; Maleah on UCSC; Keith on Sacramento Protest Caravan; Wes on recent and upcoming video work
++++ Placeholder runthrough—study groups: Rents vs. Profits—S.C. Survey, Psych rights subcommittee; ticket documenting/public records act request filing
Street Sheet and Street Spirit
++++ New March 2024 issues of Street Sheetmay be available in hard copy next meeting but the stories can be accessed on line at thestreetsheet.org
++++ The new March 2024 issue of Street Spirit –the first since June 2023—is available at Sub Rosa, Food Not Bombs Town Clock meal distribution Sat and Sun 12-3 p.m. and in the newspaper shelves just outside the UN HQ.
++++ Editors of these papers may be up for printing local poetry and street reports—contact Norse at 831-423-4833 for more info.
++++First hour of the 3/10/24 show covers the Housed Defense of Folks Living in Oversized Vehicles: an Interview with Reggie Meisler on Fight Against the OVO permit at 3-12 City Council meeting: https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/FRSC%203-10-24.mp3 (10 minutes into the file)
KKUP’s Urban Camper show: interviews with Paul Boden, then-head of the SF Coalition of the Homeless, Bathrobespierre, Morgan Ash and Lily B. of Stanford Homeless Action Coalition, and Tom of the newly-formed San Jose Food Not Bombs.