The July 9^th Sunday show includes:

• ACLU Chair & Community Activist Peter Geldblum’s letter to the Press-Banner challenging Scotts Valley P.D. Chief
• State court affirms (very) limited right to sue police, limiting their boundless qualified immunity in California.
• Catching up with Cooper D’Angelo—Clucking around the Clock.
• Peace Activist Laura S. calls for another anti-war rally (next protest 11 AM Thursday August 6 Hiroshima Day Town Clock)
• Kazoo Curbside Complaints—Life Downtown for a Coral St. Resident
• Roxroy on racial discrimination in “progressive” Santa Cruz
• Badinage, Blather, Bickering, and Bitter Updates at last Thursday’s HUFF meeting

Flashback repeat of the December 5^th , 1999 show gives you:

• A Vet’s judicious support for struggle to find safe spaces to sleep.
• David, five years homeless van dweller. & petition circulator, on yesterday’s abusive assault and arrest
• City Council Preview: Shoulder-tap Shenanagans and ignoring the Homeless Issues Task Force [HITF]
• Beggarbacker and Bathrobespierre discuss the Injunction banning Robert Steffan, the “slow-moving” Pink Umbrella guy, from sitting on the Bunny’s Shoes-adjacent bench
• Margaret Payne, Bunny’s Shoes Rep, defends their move to ban Steffan from the public bench next to their store.
• Caller and FRSC Broadcaster Merlin and Bathrobespierre discuss possible solutions other than banning Steffan.
• Skidmark Bob’s experiences with similar merchant abuse (Stewart Martin and the ID Building); on-street interviews on the issue.
• Interview with Charlie Stevens, the Public Defender, who defended Steffan for sleeping on the porch of the Homeless Services Center
• “Scope it Out” Scott Graham on the Almar Avenue Appeal—to ban (homeless) parking on the West side.
• Beggarbacker and Bathrobespierre demand the only Independent Investigation of police violence in the anti-bombing Kosovo demo be made public, and that folks ignore the distraction of the Citizens Police Review Board and focus on SCPD abuses directly.

Flashback repeat of the December 16^th, 1999 includes:

• “Dead-on” David Silva on police settlement requiring training, with video of Sgt. Crain explaining why he manhandled Silva, who was presenting petitions to City Council, got $20,000 (and wrote off $100,000 to get police training)
• Bathrobespierre seconds HITF‘s motion to demand suspension of Sleeping Ban-laws and that be put on the City Council agenda immediately
• Interview with Joe Barker, attacked back in April, and beaten by neo-Nazi Aaron Burch and his associates.
• Beggarbacker reports on Homeless Service Center Board refused to fund a late-night Security bus for the Armory.

Today’s July 6, 2023 Show includes:       

+++++  “Catch me Twice, Shame on Me” Keith McHenry on the International Political Scene     

+++++   A horrific report on the fate of Baba Ito—writer, healer, and Santa Cruz local—held captive in the County by the Mental Healthmongers     

+++++   “Whip ’em into Shape” Wes White on stalling the Salinas Union Pacific Homeless Sweeps     

+++++   “Mind over Master” Monica on the Oversized Vehicle scene up Delaware Roadway and the cold forgetful heart of the De Anza Coach Owners, screwed over by the same City now stealing the homes of those in RVs.     

[throughout]  Many a tune by David Rovics

The July 2nd, 2023 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:   

      +++ Phone interview and unpublished poetry reading with the late Berkeley poet Julia Vinograd         

+++ Background of Parks and Rec boss Danette Shoemaker’s Curfew on City Hall Courtyard protest         

+++ Mike Rhodes, Fresno activist and writer, reads selections from his newly published Dispatches from the War Zone         

+++ “Family of Man Murdered by Fresno Police Files Lawsuit—Freddy Canteno 2015”         

+++ “Shindig” on the new Vendors Vamoose Move-Along Law         

+++  More Interviews at the at Pat Colby’s “Give a Shit” Table seeking support to reopen the London Nelson Bathrooms
+++  Artist Alex Sheldon on recent arrests for doing artwork on Pacific Avenue         

+++  Monterey County Homeless Advocates activist Wes White updates the Flag Pole Community of Salinas         

  [March 9.2000 Flashback:]                         

***  “Closed” Meeting of Citizens Police Review Board [CPRB] subcommittee, and City Council Safety Committee plus Bob                                   Aaronson                         

***  Melissa & fiancée Eric panhandling for a tent; Reports from Anti-Sleeping Ban Tabling in front of the Del Mar Theater;                         Report of “Animal” Beaten; More reports.                         

***  Deborah from Atlanta talks about sweeping homeless from streets during Olympic Games                         

***  Robert, thrice arrested in Santa Cruz, Vietnam Vet homeless for 8 months, tolerated under bridges         

+++ Counterspin on Fuhrer Obama repairing “frayed ties” with Saudi Arabia, ignoring disastrous human rights record.

Included in the June 29th, 2023 show are:    

+++  [throughout] Songs from the 30’s musical Pins and Needles+++  Extensive interview with Reggie Meisler of Santa Cruz Cares and the fight to restore RV rights at the 6-27 City Council meeting

+++  Commentary on Mayor Keeley’s loosened City Council process—though with the same repressive outcome

+++  Afterthoughts on “Back Story” Brent Adams—pro and con

+++  Recent Update on RV targeting

+++  Appealing to Social Service Providers (known derisively as Poverty Pimps) as allies in the Rights struggle

+++  [6-27] ” Gobs of Gab” Greg Bengsten on incidents by San Lorenzo levee

+++  https://yvesengler.com/2023/06/25/canadas-odious-history-of-blocking-anti-war-voice-lives-again/

+++  https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2023/06/28/conflicts-of-interest-assange-could-be-extradited-to-the-us-soon/

The Sunday, June 25, 2023 show includes:

• Thousands of officers could be decertified:  https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition-sunday/20230618/281479280832933 
• CHP Hit for Drug Arrests in Traffic Stops: https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition-sunday/20230618/281642489590181   
• Dialogue with activist-tweeter “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson on Lapis Road update—the death of Sylvia’s son in Monterey County jail and other gloomy homeless updates.
• Johnson on her latest views on mask mandates, vaccine mandates, and assorted government COVID requirements
• Kazoo on life downtown for the homeless temporarily housed in the Paul Lee loft at “Funding Matters” 115 Coral St.
• Javier on the loss of his property & business putting him on the street
• Verbal snapshots of Pacific Avenue
• Musical biography of David Rovics recent conflicts on All Your Days at https://drovics.podbean.com/e/all-your-days-interview-part-2/
  
• More one-time support for slushy services for a homeless minority coming up at S.C. City Council on 6-27-23

The March 19, 1998 Flashback has: 

First impressions of the Button St. shooting from on-the-scene interviews.

Faith, Adrianna, and Laura gave their thoughts: criticism of trigger-happy police and implications if CPS stepped in.

“Dead On” David Silva comments and “Beggarbacker” Becky’s pieced-together narrative.

Witness reports police removed Lori Andrus the Mom and her baby; Silva’s “ear-witness” account.

Becky’s subsequent Street Spirit story in the May 1998 issue: http://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/086.Neighbors%20and%20Family%20Shocked%20By%20S.C.Police%20Shooting=5-98.jpg http://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/087.S.C.Shooting(cont.1)=5-98.jpg  http://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/088.S.C.Shooting(cont.2)=5-98.jpg

Anonymous neighbor’s account of the shooting.

Silva on the failure to make the ballot for saving the Pelton St. Homeless Garden & struggle for ballot support for Sleeping Ban Initiative.

Alley, Button St. resident and neighbor of the Andrus family, on police conduct and its risk to 100 children living nearby.

Salinas City Council bans nighttime peaceful sparechanging in ordinance modeled on a Santa Cruz law.

The June 22, 2023 show is a Flashback to June 4 2017 which includes:        

+++   [2017] Phone interview with the crackdown on Keith McHenry’s tabling at City Hall during Council meetings.

+++    [7-17-2010] Flashback within the flashback to 2010:  Bathrobespierre fields a panel of in-studio guests around the PeaceCamp 2010 [PC2010] event that began two weeks before with a PC2010 founder and attorney Ed Frey, PC2010 media mogul Curbhugger Chris Doyen, and long-time housing advocate “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster.
+++      The PC2010 panel discusses the lack of bathrooms for rich and poor downtown.
+++   Free-wheeling FRSC broadcaster exchanges phone quips and queries with the panel.
+++     Curbhugger Chris challenges Mayor “Riot Act” Rotkin to deal with hate crimes & the Sleeping Ban, reports on the overwhelming needs and determination of PC2010 protesters.      

+++    Bathrobespierre and Company discuss upcoming anti-homeless measures at City Council  https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2010/07/27/flier_7-13_city_council_flier.jpg (“Old Myths, New Laws: Poor-Bashing in The Depression.  3 More Strikes Against the Homeless.   City Council Crams Cartload of Crud on Afternoon Agenda”)(https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/07/26/18654725.php PeaceCamp2010 Marches to City Hall)

The June 18, 2023 show includes:      

+++  [6-17] FNB meal interviews: Helema Hamm on portapotty paucity and other perils for unhoused women      

+++  Musemaster Mel Nunez calls for restoration of Red Church Mondays and remembers Dan Ellsberg—died two days ago.
+++   Clearskies Cat, Free Guide worker, on the Tier 3 Oversized Vehicle program (all filled up!) at the Armory             

+++   Staccato Sammy challenging the activist narrative             

+++   “Call ’em Out” Claire with flyers and bullhorn leads pickets demanding freedom for Maya and Sebastian, court-napped children       maya.and.sebatian on Instagram.                 

 +++    “Jumbalaya” Joy and “Ready to Roll” Reggie present a Santa Cruz Cares plea for Oversized Vehicles to Westsiders: https://www.youtube.com › watch?v=HinlTmLlk5g              +++    Musical biography of David Rovics early years on All My Days at https://drovics.podbean.com/e/all-your-days-interview-part-1/    +++    Flashback Fury to March 1994 in front of the Bookshop Coonerty (aka Bookshop Santa Cruz) featuring Jerry, Steve Sullivan, Stephen Bender, and a Raging Neal Coonerty as well as Jerry and Gary on the Phoenix Project (city-mandated Phoenix, AZ encampment)