HUFF Meetings are Back in the Benchlands! Thursday 7-22; Tables between Courthouse & Benchlands

Posted on July 22, 2021 by huffsantacruz

Agenda Prospects for Thursday’s (7-22) Meeting

+++ The Successful Novato Injunction–The Documentation Used and How It Might Apply to Santa Cruz
+++ Possible Resistance Strategies Against Further Sweeps and Benchland Demolition in the Benchlands
+++ Update on Pajaro River Sweep Wednesday morning from Monike Tone

+++ Wes White reports on his Union of the Homeless Tour of Marysville, Modesto, Fresno, San Diego, and Venice
+++ Bring Reports of Threats or Citations Using the New Camping Bans, Other Laws, or No Laws to HUFF or Alicia at 431-7766
+++ Rental Moratorium Prospects and Landlord Harassment–Possible Updates
+++ Possible Sweep Defenses When the Cops Come Calling–Individual & Group Strategies
+++ Laura’s Law in Santa Cruz: Did They Opt-Out? Countering Conservatorships & “No Warning” Deportations
+++ Untwisting the Crooked City Hall Narrative: Mustering Past Evidence of Shelter Denial and the Susie O’Hara’s False Narrative
+++ New Contacts with the Coastal Commission on Monitoring Illegal “Parking Limitation” Sign Placements Against Vehicular Residents

Cool Weather Continues… Dress warmly.

Holding off the Novato Camping Ban Crapola with another Union of the Homeless Injunction (thanks to Anthony Prince–now come to Santa Cruz and do likewise!). Also encouraging–a Chico Injunction Victory and a new lawsuit against the Mountain View RV Parking Ban,
Still, the Santa Cruz Survival Camps in the Benchlands remain in the tender arms of a hostile City Manager and government.
Watsonville’s Pajaro River Camp was attacked by Watsonville Police Thugs Early Today (7-21) destroying 15 homes.
Continue to Organize for pre-emptive pressure on the City with Resistance strategies and support for unhoused through Santa Cruz at these and other meetings:
City-organized Benchlands meeting 6 PM 7-22 mid-Benchlands; Santa Cruz Homeless Union Camp meeting 5 PM 7-23 Tables between Benchlands and Courthouse.

Tune in for ongoing reports netcasted on Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 6 PM Thursdays on freakradio.org and 9:30 AM-3 PM Sundays. Shows archived at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html Likely updates from San Diego, Berkeley, Sausalito, San Rafael, and elsewhere.

Read encouraging words defending the Chico survival camps and unhoused folks at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/07/10/18843676.php (“The Chico Decision-Hope for the Homeless in Santa Cruz”).
Action Against Homes-on-Wheels Removal in Mountain View: https://www.mv-voice.com/news/2021/07/12/aclu-law-foundation-announce-lawsuit-to-stop-mountain-views-rv-parking-ban

Sunday 7-18-21 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show archived: Breaking Novato TRO win; Marin County Homeless Union’s Robbie Powelson; Wes White Tours the State Organizing… 5-21-09 Flashback –Rights Attorneys Gettleman & Beauvais/ Norse & Schmidt

Posted on July 18, 2021 by huffsantacruz

ON THE 7-18-21 SHOW:
      +++ “Whip ‘Em Into Shape” Wes White Tour the State. Reports from Marysville, Modesto, Fresno, San Diego, and Venice Beach.
      +++   Standing of City Council bigotry in Novato: a Successful Union of the Homeless TRO
      +++   David Rovics on Recent On-Line Harassment by Critics Right and Left
      +++ “Rough Water” Robbie Powelson of the Marin Homeless Union in 7-12 Interview updating Anchor-Out and Union resistance in the North Bay
      +++ “Mess With Me Not” Monica Tone of the Pajaro River Homeless Updates Watsonville and Both Sides of the River
      +++   Voices from the Food Not Bombs Friday Feast: FNB server Joe and “Joy in the Jungle” Union of the Homeless plaintiff Dreadeye Sound Off       +++   Throughout: David Rovcs speaking out in song


On the FLASHBACK to May 21, 2009

+++ 5-17 Sidetalk Steve at the Marijuana Legalization table
+++ Matt Silver, Greenpeace Activist details SCPD harassment downtown

+++ Gun or Taser? The Oscar Grant Murder: http://www.sfbayview.com/2009/did-bart-cop-who-killed-oscar-grant-mistake-gun-for-taser/
+++ Extensive In-Studio Interview with local civil rights attorney Jonathan Genttleman, defending Anna Richardson and Miguel “Lito” De Leon against “Sleep Downtown, Go to Jail” Injunction.

+++ Berkeley attorney David Beauvais on his defense of Bathrobespierre Robert for “trespassing” (i.e. interviewing homeless) at the Metro Transit Center and prior homeless cases.

FLASHBACK to May 2, 2001
Audio of Community TV’s Club Cruz 151: Robert Norse Interviews Community Business Leader and Local CEO Mike Schmidt on his unusual support for homeless civil rights in Santa Cruz.

Recent HUFF stuff: Federal Judge Halts Novato’s Anti-Homeless Law: file:///C:/Users/Robert/AppData/Local/Temp/516121476-California-Homeless-Union-et-al-v-City-of-Novato-et-al-complaint.pdf

HUFF may be moving its meeting time and place. CALL 831-423-4833 to confirm if you’d like to attend.

“Free Commander X” Protest Rally at San Jose Courthouse 280 S. 1st Street, San Jose, California Tuesday Noon 7-20 Keith McHenry of Food Not Bombs writes: “Doyon was homeless in Santa Cruz and was participating in a protest against the city’s policy of dehumanizing those who live outside. According to the 2011 Federal indictment, a December 16, 2010, DDoS attack was orchestrated as part of “Operation Peace Camp 2010” in retaliation for the enforcement of the camping ban. The City of Santa Cruz enacted Section 6.36.010 of its Municipal Code, entitled “Camping Prohibited,” which contained restrictions and definitions on camping within Santa Cruz City. This sleeping ban law was made even more repressive in early June changing its title to “Camping Services and Standards Ordinance.” The law officially took effect on July 9, 2021, and could be used to justify the relocation of all unhoused to some as not yet defined facilities that could include a dusk to dawn “safe sleeping site” in a parking lot.” Chris Doyon and Keith McHenry were broadcasting a weekly live podcast from Freedom Camp at San Lorenzo Park in Santa Cruz when Commander X was extradited to the United States. This is the last program Doyon did just days before he was captured.

The show will be available on HUFF archives at the Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides under Lost/Latest Shows http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html) as well as netcast at 9:30 AM or shortly thereafter.

Detailed written descriptions of recent shows are at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/ (search for “Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides” on the right side of the screen). Many older audio archives are described and currently available at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html .
Commentary by Ursula and more detailed descriptions of recent shows may also be available on the Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom Facebook page where you can also leave comments. HUFF is also too slowly developing a page at http://huffsantacruz.org/ursula.html.

BRING PHONE CHATTER BACK to FREE RADIO!
We need studio space to restore the phone line. Send us tips on where to rent studio space. There’s still a $300 reward if you find us a year’s space. FRSC also needs a location to set up our antenna again downtown– in a tree, a house, etc. Call the HUFF line (831-423-4833) if you have any tips.

Meanwhile for input into my show, contact Bathrobespierre Robert at HUFF or rnorse3@hotmail.com. You can also comment on the Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom facebook page.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 7-15-21 show netcasts 6 PM at freakradio.org : Deadly Deal in Berkeley–Cornerstone Carol Denney on the Mayor’s Betrayal; Katzenjammer Keith on Efforts in the Benchlands

Posted on July 16, 2021 by huffsantacruz

The show is slated to go out tonight at 6 PM on the net at www.freakradio.org.Alternately, to hear this show (July 15, 2021) and other homeless civil rights shows at a time of your convenience,

Click on http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .

ON THE 7-15 SHOW:
XXX “Cornerstone” Carol Denney gives a full and angry background to the Berkeley City Council’s sell-out of low-income housing to the University of California.

XXX Anti-Vaxer David Rodriguez held 2 weeks without bail for a competence hearing for anti-mask protests, in a court segregated from public and defendant. https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2021/07/14/anti-mask-advocate-released-from-santa-cruz-jail-found-mentally-competent/

XXX Katzenjammer Keith McHenry Supplies Food and Facts in Another Update

XXX More Oregon Songs from Songslinger David Rovics throughout

Upcoming SC Homeless Union Camp Meet-Up 5 PM Friday July 16th at the Benches between Courthouse & the Benchlands.

Saturday, July 17, 2021, 11am-1pm Community Clean-Up
meet in San Lorenzo Park, Dakota St. entrance, near the Duck Pond and pedestrian bridge Friday, July 23, 2021, after the 5pm Benchlands meeting meet in San Lorenzo Park, near the picnic tables behind the Courthouse.

Team starting points: Felker St. footbridge, Soquel St. underpass. Water St. underpass, Laurel St. underpass
Dress in layers and wear sturdy, closed-toe shoes, prepare for sun/heat, BYO water bottle, garden gloves, and trash picker/rake/shovel if you have them
We will have supplies available: water and snacks, disposable and reusable gloves, masks, hand sanitizer, some tools, sharps and used battery containers, and lots of garbage bags
Participants who are not residents of the riverbanks are requested to sign up in advance and expected to follow a community code of conduct (https://forms.gle/bCHaPgBdpj5cEsYA6)
Coordinated by Benchlands Camp Council, Sanitation for the People, Food not Bombs, SC Homeless Union
Supported by DSA Santa Cruz, Westside Cares, H.U.F.F

Legal Papers for the San Lorenzo Park Injunction available at this link for the next 14 days: https://cityofsantacruz.sharefile.com/d-s911ada8e59964e4c891a8e9690536bb9

HUFF Taking a Summer Break: No Meeting Thursday 7-15; Check Out PUSH Film at Tabbycat 7-14 Tonight 7:30 PM; ; Benchlands Meeting 6 PM 7-14 mid-Benchlands; SC Homeless Union 5 PM 7-15 Tables between Courthouse & Benchlands

Posted on July 15, 2021 by huffsantacruz

In the wake of the Chico Injunction Victory and a new lawsuit against the Mountain View RV Parking Ban, Santa Cruz Survival Camps in the Benchlands remain in the tender arms of a hostile City Manager and government.
Continue to Organize for pre-emptive pressure on the City with Resistance strategies and support for unhoused through Santa Cruz at these and other meetings:
PUSH Film master-of-ceremonied by Keith McHenry of Food Not Bombs 7:30 PM 7-14 Tabbycat Cafe Union and Cedar; Organize against the Dark Building Buy-Up.

City-organized Benchlands meeting 6 PM 7-14 mid-Benchlands; Santa Cruz Homeless Union Camp meeting 5 PM 7-15 Tables between Benchlands and Courthouse.

Sunday 7-11-21 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show archived and netcasting 9:30 AM -3 PM: Breaking Warren v. Chico victory; 7-9 Homeless Union Meeting; Flashbacks to 2001 w/Schmidt and Quigley

Posted on July 11, 2021 by huffsantacruz

ON THE 7-11-21 SHOW:

+++ Introduction to the Warren v. City of Chico Injunction Victory
+++ Letter to Jon Showalter the Association of Faith Communities on
its “Safe Parking” Program
      +++ “Laughing Heart” Lee Ann’s Resident Update on the Benchlands
      +++   More Songs from Oregon’s Haunted Past by Biteback Bard David Rovics
      +++ Benchland Occupants, Homeless Unionists, DSA-sters, HUFFists,
join an hour long Resistance Support exchange: Warning–lots of cross talk and wind interference with the recording.


On the FLASHBACK to May 5, 2001’s Club Cruz show

+++ “Rough Rider” Richard Quigley on His Technique for dealing with
abusive deputies.

Recent HUFF stuff: “The Chico Decision-Hope for the Homeless in Santa Cruz” athttps://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/07/10/18843676.php

HUFF may be moving its meeting time and place.   CALL 831-423-4833to confirm if you’d like to attend.

The show will be available on HUFF archives at the Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides under Lost/Latest Shows http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html) as well as netcast at 9:30 AM or shortly thereafter.

Detailed written descriptions of recent shows are at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/ (search for “Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides” on the right side of the screen). Many older audio archives are described and currently available at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html .
Commentary by Ursula and more detailed descriptions of recent shows may also be available on the Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom Facebook page where you can also leave comments. HUFF is hoping to develop a blog accessible through http://huffsantacruz.org/ursula.html at a date as yet most uncertain.

BRING PHONE CHATTER BACK to FREE RADIO!
     We need studio space to restore the phone line. Send us tips on where to rent studio space. There’s still a $300 reward if you find us a year’s space. FRSC also needs a location to set up our antenna again downtown– in a tree, a house, etc. Call the HUFF line (831-423-4833) if you have any tips.


Meanwhile for input into my show, contact Bathrobespierre Robert at HUFF or rnorse3@hotmail.com. You can also comment on the Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom facebook page.

Chico’s Homeless Win Preliminary Injunction—Will Santa Cruz Take a Similar Path?

Posted on July 11, 2021 by huffsantacruz

The grim news of sweeps removing homeless-run encampments in Sausalito and San Rafael, as well as the RV rousts in Seaside, in recent weeks is now counterbalanced by a ray of light from a federal court in the Warren v. City of Chico case, which I transcribe here. In mid-December, City Manager Martin Bernal unilaterally sent in Andy Mills’ SCPD last December to oust the homeless population living in San Lorenzo Park, ignoring the winter weather, COVID crisis, and lack of City shelter.

Bernal and his staff had decreed such removals with false promises of adequate alternative shelter and services from the Benchlands, 1220 River St., Ross Camp, and Phoenix Camp in prior years.

In response, community organizations set up their own tents and showed up in large numbers to interpose themselves between armed police and the threatened homeless residents. A day later the California Homeless Union and its attorney Anthony Prince got a TRO (Temporary Restraining Order) blocking the removal. The order was turned into a longer term Preliminary Injunction on January 20th.

In negotiations with the City, Prince agreed to squeeze the homeless encampment into the Benchlands in March where it has grown over the last few months receiving limited support from City authorities and from Food Not Bombs and other charitable groups.

“Given the great disparity between the number of beds and the number of unhoused persons, the Court need not get into the weeds of whether the existing beds are “practically available.” There was simply not enough shelter available for the community to opt to enforce its criminal sanctions.” –quote from the decision

TO READ JUDGE MORRISON’S DECISION GRANTING THE PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION, GO TO “The Chico Decision-Hope for the Homeless in Santa Cruz” AT https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/07/10/18843676.php .

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 7-8-21 show netcasts 6 PM at freakradio.org : Opinions and Outbursts from Activists Looking In, and Benchlanders Looking Out

Posted on July 9, 2021 by huffsantacruz

The show is slated to go out tonight at 6 PM on the net at www.freakradio.org.

Alternately, to hear this show (July 8, 2021) and other homeless civil rights shows at a time of your convenience, Click on http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .

ON THE 7-8 SHOW:
XXX FNB cook and organizer Keith McHenry on sweeps and evictions in L.A., San Diego, and other cities across the state, local abuses in the Santa Cruz’s “Safe Parking” program, and a city-wide update.

XXX “Whip ‘Em Into Shape” Wes White on the San Rafael forcible removal of the Underpass Encampment, Novato’s Camp Compassion looking for a restraining order against cop harassment, a bit of personal history.

XXX Troy and Russell of the Benchlands, Memorial to the dead Leland, “Listen to the DST” by Tony Hall and Michael Powell.
XXX Endnotes from C.J., recently returned from Merced.

Upcoming SC Homeless Union Camp Meet-Up 5 PM Friday July 9th at the Benches between Courthouse & Benchland

Legal Papers for the San Lorenzo Park Injunction available at this link for the next 21 days: https://cityofsantacruz.sharefile.com/d-s911ada8e59964e4c891a8e9690536bb9

As Sweeps Step Up Across the State HUFF meets at the Courthouse tables between Benchlands and back of the Courthouse Thursday 7-8-21 at 11 AM

Posted on July 8, 2021 by huffsantacruz

As authorities attack survival camp communities in Sausalito & San Rafael, HUFF meets 11 AM Thursday 7-8 at the benches between the Courthouse & the Benchlands.
We may arrive early in the Benchlands from 10:30 to 11 AM giving out literature to folks living there.

Agenda Prospects for Thursday’s (7-1) Meeting
   +++ Report on the Dumphy Park Camp Demolition and Resistance
      +++ Possible Resistance Strategies Against Further Sweeps and Benchland Demolition in the Benchlands
    +++ Remembering a Fallen Activist
      +++ Upcoming SC Homeless Union Camp Meet-Up 5 PM tomorrow at the Benches between Courthouse & Benchland
      +++ Additional Meetings: Jeremy Leonard holds his weekly Benchlands meeting Thursday 6-10 6 PM at the middle of the Benchlands camp
      +++ Homeless Organizing Reports from Novato, Chico, & Petaluma       +++ Bringing Reports of Threats or Citations Using the New Camping Bans, Other Laws, or No Laws to HUFF or Alicia at 431-7766
      +++ Rental Moratorium Prospects and Landlord Harassment–Possible Updates
      +++ Possible Sweep Defenses When the Cops Come Calling–Individual & Group Strategies
      +++ Laura’s Law in Santa Cruz: Did They Opt-Out? Countering Conservatorships & “No Warning” Deportations
      +++ Untwisting the Crooked City Hall Narrative: Mustering Past Evidence of Shelter Denial and the Susie O’Hara’s False Narrative
      +++ New Contacts with the Coastal Commission on Monitoring Illegal “Parking Limitation” Sign Placements Against Vehicular Residents

+++ Violence Against Women Outside—Rumors & Facts

+++ Still Up… Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Shows on the HUFF website–http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html /

Cooler Weather Predicted Cool to Nippy Dress warmly.

Court Order Ending Federal Protection of the Benchlands Camp: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/06/30/18843516.php

Activists Respond (“Sounding a Warning in the Benchlands and the Broader Community” at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/07/03/18843556.php

Sunday 7-4-21 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show archived and netcasting 9:30 AM -3 PM: More News on Seaside’s Anti-Homeless Sweeps from Becky Johnson; the Fresno Update from Mellowheart Mike Rhodes; Flashback: 10-4-04 Quigley Boots Out a Bad Sheriff

Posted on July 4, 2021 by huffsantacruz

ON THE 7-4-21 SHOW:

+++ Bigotry Bites RV Dwellers at Laguna Seca and Home Depot–the Bad
News from Beggarbacker Becky Johnson

+++ $14.5 million for Homeless Bureaucrats with No Accountability–another empty story by Jessica York.

+++ “Rough Times” Mike Rhodes, Community Alliance writer and long-time civil rights fighter for those outside, on the Fresno scene.

+++ Songs from Oregon’s Haunted Past by Biteback Bard David Rovics

Flashback to October 24, 2004:
*** Months of ground and car sleeping with Greg, encounters with racist skinheads

*** Joe Barker and Bliss on Ranger Snoopery & Grass Seizures
*** Snagged for Sit-Crime near by Union Grove on Pacific Ave: Bill & Cloe
***Three years of criminal sleeping in her vehicle for a City worker
*** Roughrider Richard Quigley on why and how he squared off against and deposed Sheriff Mark Tracy
***Beggarbacker Becky Johnson: Why I’m Not Voting for Emily Reilly

***Vet of the Streets Michael Tomasi praises and pans the SCPD

*** Visionsong Valerie polls the public on voting choices for November
*** Coral Brune on her City Council candidacy
*** Throughout: Songs a-plenty by Streetstrummer Mike True:
“Desperado”, “Sleepin'”, “War”, and “Distant Shores”

Recent HUFF stuff: “Sounding a Warning in the Benchlands and the Broader Community” athttps://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/07/03/18843556.php

HUFF may be moving its meeting time and place. CALL 831-423-4833 to confirm if you’d like to attend.

The show will be available on HUFF archives at the Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides under Lost/Latest Shows http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html) as well as netcast at 9:30 AM or shortly thereafter.

Detailed written descriptions of recent shows are at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/ (search for “Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides” on the right side of the screen). Many older audio archives are described and currently available at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html .
Commentary by Ursula and more detailed descriptions of recent shows may also be available on the Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom Facebook page where you can also leave comments. HUFF is also too slowly developing a page at http://huffsantacruz.org/ursula.html.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 7-1-21 show netcasts 6 PM at freakradio.org : Federal Court Abandons the Benchlands: Analysis by Katzenjammer Keith, Homeless Union Prez Alicia, HUFFster Gloria, and Bathrobespierre Robert

Posted on July 2, 2021 by huffsantacruz

The show is slated to go out tonight at 6 PM on the net at www.freakradio.org.Alternately, to hear this show (July 1, 2021) and other homeless civil rights shows at a time of your convenience, Click on http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .

ON THE 7-1 SHOW:
xxx Judge Van Keulen Dumps the Homeless in the Waiting Claws of the City: the Text of the Court Order (more commentary at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/06/30/18843516.php “Judge Dumps Benchlands Survival Camp, Ignores Shelter Emergency”)

xxx “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry on the Decision and Possible Responses

xxx Bathrobespierre Robert and Glad-Eyes Gloria Swim Through the Swamp of the Decision.

xxx Boardwalk Security Bullies Bounce Tattooed Traveler: https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/06/24/sj-dad-claims-santa-cruz-boardwalk-guard-kicked-him-out-calling-pinoy-pride-tattoo-gang-related/

xxx Analysis from Alicia Kuhl on the Court Decision and Possible Activist Response.

xxx Beggarbacker Becky Johnson on Home Depot’s Eviction of RV Residents and Other Outrages from the South

Upcoming SC Homeless Union Camp Meet-Up 5 PM Friday July 2nd at the Benches between Courthouse & Benchland

Legal Papers for the San Lorenzo Park Injunction available at this link for the next 28 days: https://cityofsantacruz.sharefile.com/d-s911ada8e59964e4c891a8e9690536bb9

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