The April 30, 2023 Show includes:

• [Selections throughout from Charlie King and Karen Brandow’s On the Journey album]
• Cooper D’Angelo’s recent adventures bounced about from sidewalk to jail
• Town Clock memorial for Joe Pace, joyful Food Not Bombs [FNB] worker: Father Joel Miller, Keith McHenry, Eagle, Drew, Joe’s brother Nick, Michael (Joe’s neighbor). Cooper, Lyrical I (Isaac Collins), Lion, Kathleen, Elise, Dreadeye, Moon, a WAMM compatriot, Kat, & others.
• Lion’s additional experiences with Joe Pace and the police.
• Ex-fire commisioner attacking Doty and other homeless people with bear spray?–S.F. Chronicle stories https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/beating-of-ex-fire-commissioner-defense-attorney-accuses-don-carmignani-of-bear-spray-attacks-on-homeless-peop
• Interview with Beggarbacker Becky Johnson on the fate of the Lapis Road refugees and scandalous doings pharmaceutical and political.
• [4-29] Christina, year long FNB volunteer on freedom-snatching globalist dividers; Joe on limits of low income housing;  Seamore Slab joins in
• Mutual Aid from https://www.scfreeclinic.org spokesperson on its emergency supplies to folks outside, aka Romsey Pastensia
• Roughhouse Raconteur Robert “the Hero” Woodlief on the Armory and the Overlook; Eagle on the Food Overflow; Suzanne on Coral St. deficiencies
• Lawwatcher Laura on the Mental Health Advisory Committee’s latest plenty-of-nothing at the 4-27 HUFF meeting; further slices from the HUFFmeet with “Trekin’ On” Troy, “Kindred Heart” Kevin, & others
• Katzenjammer Keith’s Prospects of Escalating Peril for the Poor interview

The April 25, 2002 Flashback includes:

• Hank Milstein announcing May Day Festival and Picnic with music, poetry, and political chat
• Bathrobespierre on Councilmember Scott Kennedy’s checkered political agenda and the Doug Rand Memorial (Town Clock) Peace Park
• Ed Howes, homeless brother of infamous police Officer Jim Howes, reads Paul Franklin’s letter defending Food Not Bombs against the Metro S.C.’s Nuz columnist
• Catnip Kate Wells, activist attorney, on the Norse v. Krohn  “Heil Krohn!” mock-Nazi salute lawsuit; calls for a funded City Attorney rather than the Barisone-Condotti firm;
• Becky Johnson calls for audience declarations regarding City Council procedural abuses against the public as the “Heil Krohn!” lawsuit moves forward.
• Councilmember Reilly’s January 1999 letter denouncing the Sleeping Ban contrasted with her in-power homeless powers since joining the City Council

• Kathy Greygo, Homes on Wheels member, held in jail with Officers Seiley and Headley arresting her for sleeping warrants, while parked in the “forbidden” Harvey West area,  also taking her dogs, 
• Flashback within this flashback:  Back to Mayor Rotkin’s Regime:    +++ Sept 11, 1996  Mark Bryan Watson presents Dominican hospital document from Aug 22^nd confirming his fractured wrist, broken in jail by two deputies.  +++ Sept 11, 1996  Mama Tama  http://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/009.Love,%20Pregnancy%20&%20Homelessness.jpg  +++ Sept 11, 1996  Confrontation with Sgt. Andy Crain threatening to seize food at homeless protest at City Hall under Rotkin’s Injunction

• April 2002 Cosmic Chris reports merchant/police crackdown on Pacific Avenue musicians

Thursday’s April 27^th 2023 show is a Flashback to November 25, 2004. 

It includes: 

• Introduction to/Summary of the Flashback
• Vet’s Hall Thanksgiving Line seeing “End the Sleeping Ban” Initiative sign-up’s:  Gene—Sleeping Ban criminal, Victoria Camp–Paradise Vet, Maria—on streets 3 years ranger busted campsite, Kim from Arcata,  Chuck on Arcata’s Endeavor Shelter, Anonymous “Things Have to Change” guy, Brent busted under a bridge—not “out of sight, out of mind” enough, Mark ousted from Felton, 
• Vet’s Hall Meal Chat:  Susan Durst, Becky Johnson, Preacher Mike, and Scope-it-Out Scott
• https://www.counterpunch.org/2004/11/25/why-i-hate-thanksgiving-2004-version/by Mitchell Cohen: 
• Santa Barbara poet, activist, and authority-watcher Peter Marin on Shelter Resistance from the “Service Providers” rather than the Politicians; details of the struggle in organizing homeless resistance among supporters.
• Valerie Christy on guitar, playing a song she composed, “Continuum”

Likely HUFF Meeting Prospects 4-27-23   

  ++++  Priorities, Pass-Arounds, Placeholder Runthrough & Hand-Outs    

  ++++  Street reports; Encampment and Shelter Updates  

  ++++  Special City Council 4-25 Review : if anyone went.  

  ++++  Pre-Meeting Stop the Sweeps Check-In on Hiway 9 Report: Following Up  

  ++++  Reggie Meisler phone appeal and prep for OVO hearing before Coastal Commission 

  ++++  Capitola RV tenants struggle:  possible phone update.  

  ++++  Keith McHenry phone call and update: 

  ++++  Updating Laws: AB 920 (prohibiting discrimination based on housing status); SB 31 making it illegal to sit, lie, or camp within 1000′ 0f a daycare center, library, park or school; SB 47 expanding definition of “gravely disabled’ in Lanterman Petris (LPS) Act, making it easier to enforce involuntary and forced drugging and other “treatments”. 

  ++++  Petition management to restore Portapotty & Hand washing stations in dispersed survival camps; Ratner/Huffaker Visit.  Follow-Up?  

  ++++  Possible Reports from Pacific, Oakland, and S.F. on stopping sweeps 

  ++++  Felton’s FEMA Relief?  Helga’s Possible Update

  ++++  Friday 3-5 PM April 28^th Record Clearance Workshop 420 May Ave—also PD Clean Slate Day 

  ++++  Robbie Powelson: San Rafael Campcrushing Crackdown;  Camp Integrity Victory 

  ++++  Remembering Joe Pace of Food Not Bombs: 

http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  go to Latest Show either 4-27 or 4-30

  ++++   Friday 3-5 PM April 28^th Record Clearance Workshop 420 May Ave—also PD Clean Slate Day 

  ++++  Placeholder Reminders: Free Guide Verification, Mad Power Monitoring, Ticket Documenting, Board of Stupes, City’s Token Vehicular Lodging Programs. 

City of Santa Cruz – 831-420-5010   Mayor Fred Keeley  – fkeeley@cityofsantacruz.com  City Manager Matt Huffaker – mhuffaker@santacruzca.gov  Public Defender: 454-5300 

Police Chief  Bernie Escalante – bescalante@cityofsantacruz.com 

The Sunday April 23, 2023 Show includes:

• [David Rovics songs throughout, old and new]
• Curbwarmer Caricaturist Mike Quinn at his Pacific Avenue lamppost lamenting the lack of employment for the disabled
• Hiway 9 survival campsters Barbara Ann Delman on her former abusive landlord
• Unhoused refugee Jack Ryan Rodriguez on avoiding the hard lessons of the Benchlands.
• Tales of Police Shootings
• Parking Lot Punishment & other thoughts—report by Outdoors Alice
• Food not Bombs stalwart Eagle on Joe Pace and the St. Francis Soup Kitchen
• “Whip the Wicked” Wes White on Bright Spots and Bad Times in Salinas
• Song and Story of Khader Adnan, Palestinian hunger striker
• Racerunner Reggie Meisler’s Appeal to the Community to Unite Behind to Crush the anti-homeless OVO Law this May
• Santa Cruz City Council Update for the 4-25 Meeting: Blank check for military equipment for the police?
• More voices from Foot Not Bombs: Gary the Healer, Drew on Joe Pace, and Greg on the Armory—pluses and minuses.

Flashback to KSCO’s Saturday Special on May 16, 1992 featuring Jane Imler, Fred Grey, Robert Norse, Linda Edwards, and moderator Michael Zwerling.  The four in-studio guests field call-in questions from a homeless-hostile audience.

Flashback to the February 2, 2000 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show with co-host James “No Nonsense” Nay including:

• Mark More, former victim of trollbusters, snitched by Calvary Episcopal Church for walking on their property and arrested on warrants for peepee in public. open container, and bikecrime.
• In-studio guest.Frank “Pathblazer” Pucelik, former Citizens Committee for the Homeless  “Safe Haven” advocate, hired in May ’96 to be Director of the Community House project
  
• “Dead On” David Silva on the Rolling Fast & Taking the Sleeping Ban away from the Police to force Council to Create Safe Sleeping Zones
• Pucelik on the tangled trail he trod for advocating campgrounds.
• The elderly Mary Kourie evicted; James Nay’s account of the eviction.
• Skidmark Bob’s run-in with Sgt. Butchie Baker collecting shopping carts from homeless folks 
• Mary Kourie’s phone account of the aftermath of the eviction.

The April 20^th 2013 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:

• [throughout the show] Songs swiped from David Rovics website (thanks, David!) 
• “Cornerstone” Carol Denney, satirist, musician, and activist in Berkeley describes three victories for People’s Park
• Denney cont.: UC Chancellor still seeks to destroy the southside Park for phony “affordable housing”
• More Denney: The real answer for homeless housing: not tiny homes, dog sheds, or shelters, but vacant offices and residences
• Melissa, filmed by activist Melissa, on Camp Integrity in San Rafael, CA
• “Shout Out” Steve Conover or continuing abuses at the “Housing Matters” Coral St. poverty-complex.
• Jimmy Two-Guns on the Increasingly Hostile-to-the-Homeless Downtown Scene & Prison-like Armory Shelter
• Robert “the Hero” Woodleaf’s recent $400 ticket for resting near a bridge

The Sunday April 16 2023 show includes:

• [throughout] Songs by David Rovics from his website
• An elderly Felton woman reports FEMA and an abusive landlord put her on the streets:  Charlotte Cramer’s story.
• Indian nationalist Udham Ram Mohammed Sing Azad waits 21 years to avenge British imperialist Amritsar massacre
• Disability Rights California denounces the Care Courts, currently a favorite of the Santa Cruz City Council   https://www.disabilityrightsca.org/press-release/disability-rights-advocates-file-petition-challenging-the-constitutional-validity-of
• Snippets from the Care Court ad presented for an hour at the Santa Cruz City Council of April 14th
• Memories of Food Not Bombs host and helper Joe Pace, who recently died—from colleagues and his brother.
• Hotel living from a Coral St. refugee
• Varied sentiments from Hollywood, Ursa, and Guitar Joe
• Lyrical Eye Isaac Collins raps and ruminates about Santa Cruz
• Description of the upcoming Flashback

The January 18 1998 Flashback includes:

• Satirical songs from Mark Levy from his Sheroes/Heroes album (at various points)
• Attorney Catnip Kate Wells, five years organizer of the Maple St. Cannabis Buyer’s Club, on federal threats and a possible local response
• Activist scorn at the CPRB (Citizens Police Rah-Rah Board)’s final whitewashing of SCPD Officer Conner Cary murder of disabled homeless protester Happy John Dine with comments from Bob Lamonica, John Kaza, Vincent Lombardo, Robert Norse, Becky Johnson, Bob Patton, mainstream media, and more as they question CPRB Chair Bill Christie.
• Phone Interview with Becky Johnson of Santa Cruzans for Full Disclosure on CPRB’s coverup decision.
• Letters from Alex Darocy & Alex Southard to City on a Hill Press denouncing the CPRB findings.
• Phone Interview with radio broadcaster Mike Ackerman lamenting the CPRB process.
• Tony, Cannabis Club patient, asks questions about the CPRB.
• James Farmer  “On Cracking White City”
• Marco of the Tenants Rights Union of Santa Cruz on its recent activities
• Donna Deiss on a Boulder Creek tenant suffering from abusive landlord with ecoli in water supply.

The 4-13-23 show—a Flashback to 10-24-13—will include:

• Summary of the Flashback
• Phil Posner’s Pacific Avenue Sidewalk Protest on Shrinking Public Space for Vendors, Performers, and Gatherings: [10-19]  “Corkscrew” Tony, Paul Bernadino, Dennis Etler, Rus Manos, & others with Community Chatter at Food Not Bombs.
• Phone Interview with Fresno writer and activist Mike Rhodes on resistance to destruction of the Grain Silo/Canal Bank Encampment https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/10/23/18745312.php
• Rhodes article “City of Fresno Finds New Ways to Harass the Homeless” https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/10/09/18744608.php
• Rhodes article “Where Hope Goes to Die” https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/11/03/18745912.php
  
• [10-20] City Council’s Sidewalk Snatching—Reactions from the Sidewalk
• Brief Interview with Jim Cohen—the Juror who blocked conviction of homeless activists in 1996
  
• [10-21] Jack at the Red Church, recently hospitalized, on living out of a shopping cart 

The (relatively) current events section of the April 9, 2023 show features the 4-6 HUFF meeting with Bathrobespierre’s commentary:

• [throughout] musical breaks from David Rovics’ “Life at Earth Matters Farm Remix”
• Lawwatcher Laura C. reports on the “Public Safety” meeting of “Fast Lane” Fred Keeley, “Breadgiver Buster” Bernie Escalante & local homeless-hostiles; the April 1^st Fools Parade by Housing Matters; the Planning Commission’s vote on the Coral St. expansion, and more
• Brief phone comments by “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry on continuing meal, bathroom, shortages
•  RV-rights defender Reggie Meisler advises on how to enlist reluctant local Coastal Commission reps to stop predatory police and staff attacks on those living in their vehicles.

The October 24, 2010 Flashback includes:

• [at various points] Musical breaks from Cornerstone Carol Denney] 
• Last night of the Portapotty at PeaceCamp 2010 in front of city Hall with attorney-activist Ed Frey—moving from streets into the Courts
• PeaceCampsters  Art with Bathrobespierre’s narrative commentary
• “Deep Voice” on the Rental Inspection Ordinance rushed through the previous summer, harassment ticketing at Three Trees Lot on Westcliff Drive
• “Tough Road” Todd Hill, PC2010 supporter on the end of PeaceCamp 2010.
• Photographer Rick Dell; Uncle Ray on camping tickets from eager Parks and Rec ticketbots
• Lightcaster Larry on the Veteran’s Hall struggle
• Move-Along Law origin; new unattended tickets law passed recently
• Skidmark Bob on the controversial state marijuana Proposition 19
• Bob Noxious on KLSD radio hopes and tidbits
• Big Drum Brent encounters an “unreasonably disturbing noise” ticket
• Brief bits from Drum Circle Dave rants on
• Silver-Tongued Steve P. on UN Day
• Clint’s poetry prep for singing
• Ronee Curry with her Beans ‘n Burrito service on Pacific Ave.
• Quickies from Curbhugger Chris—a court update on his “illegal lodging” charge from PC2010 protest
• Travelin’ Tom Noddy on history of Street Performers Guidelines in Santa Cruz
• [10-20-10] Levee survivor John Valley on his theft lawsuit against the Sheriff’s Department for seizure of his shopping cart
• Making Contact:  the Proposition 19 [Legalizing Marijuana Somewhat]