Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides August 17, 2025 show features quasi-establishment reports from D.C. on Trump’s anti-homeless war+ a Flashback to March 5, 2017 with Candlelight Kim, Freedom Sleepout 86, and lots more

The August 17, 2025 show includes 

  • Furious Facebook posting:  Alicia Kuhl outraged irony; Tyler, Sonya, and Wes chime in.
  • [throughout] David Rovics’ enraged response to the U.S. armed Gaza slaughter
  • Alternate media on Trump’s planned D.C. raids against the vulnerable homeless
  • 2 Logans and Shawn interviews in the aftermath of today’s earlier Coral Street sweeps
  • [8-9 & 8-16]  Dedicated Drew on the weekend Food Not Bombs 3-hour meal
  • Sean reports on this year’s Rainbow Gathering
  • Lighthouse Linda Lemaster on elder life and discrimination in the S.C. outskirts
  • HUFFster Athena reports on “at least the 5th[successive] weekly Coral St. sweep” in front of the Housing Matters [aka “Funding Matters”] poverty-industrial complex.
  • Frequently seized “Danger” describes the SCPD routine.

The Flashback to March 5, 2017 includes: 

  • Entrapment, abuse, and criminalization: Council-Cop collaboration
  • Rent stabilization in Santa Cruz?
  • Freedom Sleep Out #86: adjacent Council meeting on SCPD cop Bradley’s Arlt shooting back in October; cops withholding Officer’s Report and D.A. investigation; Viper on City tent theft
  • S.F.’s Jan Chan story—audio of video exchange
  • [2-26] Candlelight Kim’s eviction from the Homeless [Lack of] Services Center for a bite of bread; Bob Lamonica, Keith M., and a homeless library patron “suspended” for making faces at a computer screen.
  • More on the Sean Arlt killing and Chief Vogel’s apologia for ICE agent in the SCPD
  • Interview with Councilmember Chris Krohn

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides August 14, 2025 show is a Flashback to August 28, 2016 featuring a 2-hours long exchange with Backstory Brent Adams and a mini-Flashback to Beggarbacker Becky Johnson’s August 19, 2003 Erasable Political Chalking Arrest

The August 14, 2025 show is a Flashback August 28, 2025 which includes:

  • In-studio guest Brent Adams, Warming Center founder,  critical of “alienating” activist tactics, 
  • [throughout] songs by radical political songster Ryan Harvey
  • Brent on Phil Kramer and the 180-180 Program
  • Point-in-Time count talk; Joey killing; and new Pacific Ave. ordinance.
  • Brent on Past Protest Camps
  • Flashback to Sept. 2002—Becky Johnson’s 8-19 arrest for political chalk
  • John Malkin’s show on 12-13-14, Natl Day of Protest Against Police Violence

HUFF gathers itself after Cop Coral St. Crackdown 8-14-25 at the Sub Rosa Cafe 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church

Agenda Notions for HUFF 8-14-25
Top of the Agenda

++++   Reports on Current Projects; Time Available for next week;  Needs and Wants

++++   Flag Possible Action Items. 

++++   Possible Handouts: Agenda, Revised Poll/Flyer, 216 Flyers;   Passarounds HUFF Notes, Gaza Petition, Notice to Vacate, 209 Flyers

++++   This Morning’s Expanded Coral Crackdown; Lessons Learned: tagging, photoing, next prep?

++++   Other Street & sweep reports from the last week
++++   Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters

++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’s

++++   Federal and State Policing updates+

+++   Protests or Gatherings Throughout the Last Week & Upcoming

++++   216-8239 Sick Sweeps and Property Seizure Report Accumulation

++++   Clanging pots and pans rally against U.S. Funding Gaza Starvation and Local Unhoused Refugee Harassment

++++   Review Agenda (questions, additions)

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet]

Thursday august 14  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room6 PM  Main Beach Symbolic protest  “Let Gaza Swim : Red Line in the Sand”  See HUFF notes

Saturday august 16  11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-war  “Free Palestine”

Saturday august 16 and Sunday august 1017noon-3 PM FNB gathering and meal Town Clock; Street Spirits available; leave off or pick up polling sheets with Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices.

Monday august 11 4:30-5:30 PM ocean and Water, Indivisble “Civil Rights” group “Alligator Alcatraz—American Aschwitz

More check-in’s + Info

++++    Info Tabling:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested…Poll for Armory, 216 Distribution++++    Armory complaints to (408) 761-9930 as well as evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or  peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699.

++++    Weather wanders in the 70’s—no predicted rain.

++++   Tips & Life lessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Sages

++++   Reggie & Gaia’s report on Selective Ticketing for “Homeless Crime”: Volunteers?  

++++   Laura C.: legislative updates

++++   Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces?  Small Claims Court? 

New Stories  : More TBA

++++   Documenting Destruction: Flyers Say: “End the Homeless Sweeps”    https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/04/20/18875711.php

Old Standbyes

++++   Hard Copies of Street Spirit available Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock 12-3 PM—ask Drew at the Food Not Bombs.  Both want stories & news accounts: contact paper directly or Robert Norse (423-4833).    Pick up or leave off Armory polls with Drew as well.

++++   Street Spirit archives on line:https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22&sort=-date

++++    Recent stories on a variety of unhoused issues:   https://invisiblepeople.tv/   

++++    Overview: https://endhomelessness.org/resource/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights

++++    Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K” 

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides August 10, 2025 show features audio from “Can’t Keep Me Down” Clockster Cooper, Rabbi Phil Posner’s memorial, & more + a Flashback to Jan. 30, 2016/early Jan 2003 with Citizen’s Police Review Board chair Mark Halfmoon

The August 10, 2025 show includes:

  • Retired but relevant Barbara Riverwomon on the herstory of El Rio Mobile Home park as owned by the residents, unlike the Clear Court and De Anza where rent control was sold out by the City under corporate pressure.
  • Memorial memories of Freedom Sleeperand homeless activist Phil Posner who died in May—his life described by his sons including one-time City Council member Micah Posner.
  • [throughout] Many a song against the Gaza genocide by David Rovics
  • Town Clock Tattle: [8-3] Scott on the police excuses used to seize his four vehicles. [8-2] Cooper’s report on her latest Pogonip garden; Dreadeye’s update and blessings.
  • Athena’s outspoken updates on court cases, the pisspoor Point in Time homeless count, and the 216 countering-harassment call-in number.
  • “How Did I Know?” by Katzenjammer Keith McHenry

The Flashback to January 30, 2016 includes:

  • Dialogue with a Free Radio Broadcaster, who’s also a member of WAMMM (Women and Men’s Medical Marijuana collective) on WAMMM as ordained monopoly provider.
  • Discussion of the County’s anti-homeless Camping restrictions with vehicular resident Ed Howes.
  • Bathrobespierre describes and savages City Council’s beheading and dissolution of the Citizen’s Police Review Board which had begun serious questioning of SCPD policies.
  • Mark Halfmoon, chair of the former CPRB describes slanted SCPD reports, dysfunction on the CPRB, blockage of complainant input, failure of the “backroom” auditor model.
  • Halfmoon on the unconscious institutional racist factor in Santa Cruz City Council; he proposes a voter-enacted police review process.
  • Battlin’ Bob Lamonica agrees police power needs to be seriously overseen.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides August 7, 2025 show is a Flashback to January 30, 2003 via January 7, 2016 featuring former police review reformer “Make ‘Em Accountable” Mark Halfmoon and Berkeley activist “Cornerstone” Carol Denney

The August 7, 2025 show is a Flashback to January 30, 2003 via January 7, 2016.

It includes:

  • Dialogue with Free Radio Broadcaster Tony, also a member of WAMMM (Women and Men’s Medical Marijuana collective) on WAMMM as monopoly provider
  • Discussion of the County’s Camping restrictions with vehicular resident Ed Howes.
  • Bathrobespierre describes and savages City Council’s beheading and dissolution of the Citizens Police Review Board [CPRB].
  • Mark Halfmoon, chair of the former CPRB, on slanted SCPD reports, dysfunction on the CPRB, blockage of complainant input, failure of the auditor model as not transparent.
  • Halfmoon on the unconscious institutional racist factor in Santa Cruz City Council  and a voter-enacted police review
  • “Battlin’” Bob Lamonica agrees police power needs to be checked.

HUFF meets, mutters, and mixes 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM Thursday August 7 at Sub Rosa Cafe/Courtyard next to the Bike Church

Suggestions for Loose Cannons Meeting at HUFF 8-07-25


Top of the Agenda

++++   Reports on Current Projects; Time Available for next week;  Needs and Wants

++++   Review Agenda (questions, additions)

++++   Flag Possible Action Items. 

++++   Possible Handouts: Agenda, Revised Poll/Flyer, 216 Flyers.   Passarounds HUFF Notes, more TBA

++++   Available: New Street Sheets and Street Spirits                                                                                                               

Check-In’s

++++   Street & sweep reports from the last week
++++   Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters

++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’s

++++   Federal and State Policing updates

++++   Protests or Gatherings Throughout the Last Week & Upcoming

++++   216-8239 Sick Sweeps and Property Seizure Report

++++   Clanging pots and pans rally against U.S. Funding Gaza Starvation and Local Unhoused Refugee Harassment

++++    Love-In with the Landlord: Greg presents Darius (again).

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet]

Thursday July 24  Food Not Bombs meeting 5-6 PM  El Rio Mobile Home Community Room

Saturday July 26  11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-war  “Free Palestine”

Saturday JULY 26 and Sunday July 27 noon-3 PM FNB gathering and meal Town Clock; Street Spirits available; leave off or pick up polling sheets with Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices.

More check-in’s

++++    Info Tabling:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested…Poll for Armory

++++    Armory complaints to (408) 761-9930 as well as evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or  peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699.

++++   Weather TBA

++++   Tips & Lifelessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Sagacity

++++   Reggie & Gaia’s report on Selective Ticketing for “Homeless Crime”: Volunteers?  

++++   Laura C.: legislative updates

++++   Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces?  Small Claims Court? 

New Stories  : TBA

Old Standbyes

++++   Hard Copies of Street Spirit available Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock 12-3 PM—ask Drew at the Food Not Bombs.  Both want stories & news accounts: contact paper directly or Robert Norse (423-4833).    Pick up or leave off Armory polls with Drew as well.

++++   Street Spirit archives on line:https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22&sort=-date

++++    Recent stories on a variety of unhoused issues:   https://invisiblepeople.tv/   

++++    Overview: https://endhomelessness.org/resource/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights

++++     Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K” 

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides August 3, 2025 show features interview with California Homeless Union contact Alicia Kuhl on social services and myths + a Flashback to November 29, 2015 covering Freedom Sleepout #20

The August 3, 2025 show includes:

  • [at various points throughout] Lesser known tunes by Tart-and-Toxic Tom Lehrer
  • Dormant Santa Cruz Homeless Union activist on her shelter assistance experience
  • S.J. Mercury News:  “Millbrae, city with 22 homeless residents, bans encampments
  • “Redwood City Prohibits Camping; Council Okays Law That Levels Misdemeanor charges after two written charges to leave”
  • HUFF [7-31]Advocates Athena, Troy and others on the S.C. Coral street sweeps
  • “Backstory” Brent Adams gives a Felker St. report,  his new Art & Rebellion group, and the City’s progress in homeless shelter/housing

The Flashback to November 29, 2015 includes:

  • Bathrobespierre’s critical City Council’s passage of Richelle Noroyan’s attack on RV residents; continuing harassment of his recording Council meetings
  • Voices from and description at Freedom Sleepout #20 

Year-delayed Dashcam Video showed the Chicago 16-shot Murder of Laquan McDonald –Santa Cruz Racist Parallels

Outrage at Security Guard escalation and harassment; Police replace guards in rain, steal Artist Michael’s property.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides July 31, 2025 show is a Flashback to September 20, 2015 featuring voices from Freedom Sleepout #10 and a Council Candidate forum from October 1988

The July 31, 2025 show is a Flashback to September 20, 2015. 

It includes:

  • Last of the live in-studio FRSC broadcasts
  • Charles and Andrea Wilson from Monterey Protests against the Alvarado Sitting Band
  • Bathrobespierre discussing events at Freedom SleepOut #10—the security guard assault and police arrest of Christina Barnes, Brent’s disruption, and more.
  • Battlin’ Bob Lamonica on the Posner-Lane Proposed Homeless Camping Site Search and the History of FRSC, the anti-RV situation.
  • Dangerous John Thielking on Eugene City Council—Speak out on overturning Camping Ban, phony decorum issues (the Clapping & Sign Ban), Smoking Ban
  • Flashback to October 1988, a panel discussion between Ed Porter, Ray Grueneich, Jane Baer,and Charles Grey on the Camping Ban
  • Freedom SleepOut #10: Security Guards and Police Assemble, Bathrobespierre comments
  • Freedom Sleeper General Assembly
  • Backtalk Brent Adams’ Suggestions on Effective Protest—Pro and Con; Bathrobespierre, Rabbi Phil, Steve Argue, Zav, Louise,
  • Making Contact: the Prison Journey of Kevin Tindell

HUFF meets to mumble, muse, and munch on July 31st 1:30-3:30 PM Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church. Join us.

RUF Agenda Suggestions at HUFF 7-31-25


Top of the Agenda

++++   Review Agenda (questions, additions)

++++   Flag Possible Action Items. 

++++   Possible Handouts: Agenda, Older 216 Flyers;   Passarounds:  HUFF Notes, Trump’s Anti-Homeless Proclamation

++++   Street & sweep reports from the last week
++++   Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters

++++   Laura C’s report on Dylan Verner-Crist’s ACLU Update (if available)++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’s

++++   Federal and State Policing updates

++++   Protests/Gatherings Throughout the Last Week & Upcoming (e.g.Renter Union Launch, Indivisible Good Trouble protests)

++++   Various 216-8239 Flyers Prospect Meeting Report; Reggie, Athena, Venus Spread Sheet Updates or Phone Connects

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) 

Thursday July 31  Food Not Bombs meeting 5-6 PM  El Rio Mobile Home Community RoomSaturday August 2  11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-war  “Free Palestine”
Saturday August 2 2 PM – 4 PM  SURF (Showing Up for Racial Justice) meeting at London Nelson Community Center (possible Dem Party event)

Saturday August 2 and Sunday August 3rd noon-3 PM FNB gathering and meal Town Clock; Street Spirits available; leave off or pick up polling sheets with Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices.

Saturday August 2  & Sunday August 3rd  2 PM BERKELEY S.F. Mime Troupe’s DESOLATION in Live Oak Park Shattuck Ave. & Berryman St.

Sunday  August 3 noon Memorial Remembrance of Rev. Phil Posner noon-1 PM El Rio Mobile Home Community Room

More check-in’s

++++    Info Tabling:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested…Poll for Armory

++++    Armory complaints to (408) 761-9930 as well as evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or  peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699.

++++    Weather warming up  mid-70s thru next weekhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT_d9BFEzYA

++++   Tips & Lifelessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Sagacity

++++   Reggie & Gaia’s report on Selective Ticketing for “Homeless Crime”: Volunteers?  

++++   Laura C.: YES on SB 634 & other legislative updates

++++   Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces?  Small Claims Court? 

Mostly New Stories

++++ San Francisco bans homeless people from living in RVs with new parking limit https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-homeless-rv-ban-parking-290eaeb7e6b03e43e866e5b1b914da3b

++++  Love Is The Drug – Interview with Heather Edney / Santa Cruz Needle Exchange Programhttps://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/07/18/18878096.php

++++    New Category Added for 311 “Homeless Calls”  https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20250730/281595246587829
++++    https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-02/uc-bans-israel-boycotts-bds-student-governement-trump-pressure

++++    https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/07/18/the-bench-bandits-speak-in-the-war-over-street-furniture-sf-needs-to-sit-down-and-relax/

++++    https://sfist.com/2025/07/07/sf-city-hall-not-at-all-pleased-with-those-guerilla-benches-that-some-renegades-placed-at-bench-less-muni-stops/

++++    S.F. Settles suit over sweeping encampments  https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20250725/281479282461240

Old Standbys

++++   No new Street Spirits available in hard copy.   Current Street Sheet stories available on line https//www.streetsheet.org/ . Hard Copies of June & July Street Spirit available Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock 12-3 PM—ask Drew at the Food Not Bombs.  Both want stories & news accounts: contact paper directly or Robert Norse (423-4833).    Pick up or leave off Armory polls with Drew as well.

++++   Street Spirit archives on line: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22&sort=-date

++++    Recent stories on a variety of unhoused issues:   https://invisiblepeople.tv/   

++++    Overview: https://endhomelessness.org/resource/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights

++++     Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K” 

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides July 27, 2025 show features current gloomy mainstream news, a few Town Clock chuckles, A Phil Posner obit, & more + a Flashback to October 19, 2003 on CPS abuses, street performer pushback, and De Anza sell-out

The July 27, 2025 show (the current segment) includes:

  • [at odd intervals throughout] David Rovics https://www.davidrovics.com/palestine/ “One Year On: The Apocalypse in Review” Episode 3
  • Bathrobespierre reads and comments on mainstream stories:

    ++ Dan Walters: “Governor  [Newsom] Bullies the Cities and Counties Like Trump Does the States”                        

++ ACLU notes a court decision challenges police use of “Qualified Immunity”           

++ Trump’s Executive Edict “Ending Crime and Disorder on American Streets”                        

++ “Courts, Cops in Deadly Chase: Cops Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity”;  “The Controversy Over Qualified Immunity”           

++  San Jose’s Columbus Park: Homeless Dig-In to Protect  Community.

  • Community Activist Micah Posner’s Memorial Tribute to his father Phil Posner, former Freedom Rider and strong voice in the Freedom Sleepers (actual memorial August 3
  • [7-20] Brimstone Man’s optimistic report at the Town Clock; Cooper on her new outlaw garden; Survival Supporter “Dinners for All” Drew’s call for blankets & tents
  • [7-27] Drew on Lengthening food lines and increased criminalizations of those outside; Lyrical I on shrinking gig opportunities
  •  Summary of the 10-19-03 Flashback upcoming.

The Flashback to October 19, 2003 includes: [low volume]

  • Rough-Tongued Roxanne Acquistepache updates the struggle of Orly and Stacy Jones to retrieve their children from Foster Parent abuse
  • “Battling”Bob Lamonica details the De Anza Mobile Home Park rent control struggle and the upcoming referendum to stop the City Council’s sell-out
  • “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson analyzes MHC (the Mobile Home giant) and its attack on De Anza
  • Bathrobespierre Robert conveys attorney Will Constantine’s critical view of the City’s rent control abolition.
  • Rainbow Madonna’s Petition to legalize survival camping throughout California & Tony Kennedy Carr from San Diego
  • Peace Activist and Musician Joe Williams critiques the City’s destruction of the voluntary street performers guidelines in the modified downtown ordinances
  • “Battleready” Bob Patton reports on his Human Rights Organization, report on a Pacific Ave. fight; other voices at Soquel and Pacific.