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WE ALSO CRAVE TO RETURN TO THE AIRWAVES IN ADDITION TO OUR NETCASTING!  That means simply access to a tall tree or rooftop where we can place the antenna.   In Covid-19 times, this is particularly important so the community can talk to itself without the ridiculous limitations of Zoom, etc.

Phone in (423-4833) or e-mail us (rnorse3@hotmail.com) tips on where we might find a studio space and a place to put our antenna.  $300 reward for finding us the studio space.   Eternal gratitude for finding an antenna location.  


When will the Benchlands City-County campground, which many residents have found helpful, be forced to move?   Mid-November is the rumor, but no assurance of places to go–either for the residents there or the much larger majority outside facing a freezing winter.  A private Good Samaritan has spent hundreds of dollars picking up 2700 pounds of garbage that City bosses were letting pile up.  All this next to the many tents huddling against the cheery phony “Housing Matters” sign for the 115 Coral St. poverty-pimp operation.

No action yet on City Mangler Martin Bernal’s 4 Edicts Against the Poor, passed subserviently by Shitty Council plan to once more fence off the Town Clock and surrounding areas to make them hostile to homeless survival campers comes before City Council Tuesday October 27th at the 2:15 PM session.  The “Bury the Library under a Parking Garage” was funded last Tuesday and stalks ahead.  Meanwhile I’ve filed a Brown Act demand that City Council reconsider all items done without public access and participation (see “Brown Act Demand to Santa Cruz City Council: ReDo Meetings You’ve Illegally Closed” at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/30/18837959.php  Badly-needed restroom, food, water, and charging services to the camps are still sorely missed.

COVID budget-cutting in spite of Projects Roomkey and Housekey continues.  While a small number are temporarily in the safer motel shelter, most of the “sheltered” are warehoused in the unhealthy group shelters–and even those shelters are full with waiting lists.  

The Pogonip camps continue to be blocked off and bulldozed.  Those along hiway 1 continue to be starved of sanitary resources.     Encampments along the San Lorenzo pathway near the Broadway bridge and along Hiway 1 at River St.  continue to struggle in record numbers after the City and County created more refugees by displacing the larger Benchlands encampment with their own show County-run encampment there due to be dumped and dispersed in the next few weeks.

City Mangler Bernal’s Emergency Edict banning (largely Latinx) vendors on Beach St. continues its preferential impact, OKing tourist and Boardwalk businesses for masked and unmasked alike along the beaches, the Boardwalk, and the “no vendors allowed” sidewalks.

NOMAD (Needs Oriented Movement assistance and De-escalation) and Food Not Bombs provided escape resources for vehicle dwellers threatened with home seizure by lethally-armed police and Public Works cronies out on the West side of town as younger activists begin to organize to resist what is likely to be the most Reactionary City Government in years–whether Demopublicans or Republicrats “win” the “election”.

ON TODAY’S 11-01-20 BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES SHOW
XXX  Peeking in at the state Propositions before the November 2nd Day of Doom (“election”) with “Scope it Out” Scott.

XXX  Bryan Brown and Raelyn Butcher on the Marysville Fire and somewhat Successful Lawsuit there.

XXX  Straight-On Steve Describes Rescue Operations for threatened Vehicle-Dwellers up on Western Ave. on 10-28
XXX  Moonside Mallory, Caretaker Kat, Down-but-Dogged Dreadeye, Stringstroker David, and others at the FNB meal speak up.

XXX “Officer Safety” Excuses in San Rafael, Philadelphia, San Jose, and elsewhere continue on their Violent Way.

XXX  Sharp back-and-forth between “Wordwhip ’em into Shape” Wes White and Barking Bathrobespierre Robert from 10-20

FLASHBACK FONDUE FROM JANUARY AND FEBRUARY 1994
XXX  New Year’s Eve (1-1-94)– Sgt. Patty Sepone’s SCPD-Created Riot at the Town Clock Drum Circle–Many Witness Accounts
XXX  1-8-94: Swelling the Ranks of the Poor & Righteous with San Jose’s CHAM (Community Homeless Alliance Ministry) in yet another protest demanding homes not hotels from the Rich-run Redevelopment Agency there.
XXX  1-8-94  Conversations with Sleeping Ban opponents “Jacklight” John Hamilton and Linda “the Lark” Edwards outside Coonerty’s Bookshop Santa Cruz; reports from “Red Top” Robert Flory on the SCPD Assault on the 2nd SleepCrime World Peace Vigil on Pacific Avenue, as City Council passes the anti-Homeless “Hosts” program and the beginning of the Downtown Ordinances attacking the right to sit, spare change, table, and/or perform downtown.  And more…


Summary descriptions of current and earlier shows after mid-November 2017 are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/ .  Earlier descriptions (back to 2005) are often available at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html .  A listing of where flashbacks to earlier times can be found will soon be available.

SHOW ARCHIVES AND DESCRIPTIONS-

Recent Past Shows are Described at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/Recent Past Shows are Archived separately at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html
Many Pre-2017 Shows are Described at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html
Many Pre-2017 Shows are Archived at http://radiolibre.org/brb/
Archives prior to 2004 are at http://huffsantacruz.org/archivemain.html
For Flashbacks before 1995, go to http://huffsantacruz.org/radio.html and search for “Flashback”

Act Locally or Regret Later

• Vote (if you choose) for local candidates who oppose the dominant anti-homeless narrative (Alicia Kuhl was recently endorsed by HUFF), but don’t expect them to take real action which, as ever, will be coming from those outside and those who support them on the streets.  For those into “lesser evil” voting, consider Kuhl, Hill, Kumars, and Brown for the Shitty Council seats.  For the top cover man for the Corporate Duopoly, vote for someone other than Biden or Trump  (Biden has California sewn up, for those who’ve jumped on the Biden-as-Savior bandwagon). 
  
• Proposition pick-apart prognosticator Scott Graham recommends the following votes on the state measures:  14-Yes, 15-Yes, 16-Yes, 17-Yes, 18-Yes, 19-Yes, 20-No, 21-Yes, 22-No, 23-Yes, 24-Yes, 25-Yes
  
• Demand NO SWEEPS OF THE HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS without real alternatives.  Jointhe groups listed below, and/or start your own support group to stop the continued “whack-a-mole” SCPD and Public Works “disappear the homeless” approach that now threatens their health & the broader Community’s as well.
  
• Volunteer for homeless civil rights or service programs that actually serve:  Food Not Bombs, Day/Night Storage, HUFF, SC Homeless Union, Your Allied Rapid Response (YARR), Sub Rosa Cafe, NOMAD and others mentioned on Instagram.
• Join Black Lives Matter protests to demand police defunding, the end of homeless harassment, and true community action to restore resources to all of us.

To hear this show at a time of your choosing, Check Out  http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  later tonight. 

ON TODAY’S SHOW

xxx  Speakers at the “Make a Growlful Noise” Rally at City Hall in Honor of Desiree Quintero, who died after City evicted several hundred from the Ross Camp without real shelter alternatives.  https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/26/18837897.php including “Katzenjammer” Keith, an Angry Lot #27 Refugee,  “Can the Crap” Alicia Kuhl, Elisse, Distant National Homeless Union Organizer Anthony Prince, and “Ragged Tongue” Razor Ray

xxx  NOMAD (Needs Oriented Movement and Direction) activists Steven and Emi on Latest Defense of Western Avenue Unhoused in and out of Vehicles, with reports on progress feeding and defending homeless folks tenthomes in their camps under attack from the City.

If you want to continue receiving this HUFF e-mail notice of shows and other homeless activist updates, please respond to rnorse3@hotmail.com to keep them coming.  
When will the Benchlands City-County campground, which many residents have found helpful, be forced to move?   Who knows?  Authorities apparently aren’t telling residents.  Same with the smaller (but still well-populated) campground above the Benchlands near the Lawn Bowling area.  There are also concerns with the Felker St. camp near the former Camp Paradise location behind the cemetery. 

Further rubberstamping of City Mangler Martin Bernal’s plan to once more fence off the Town Clock and surrounding areas to make them hostile to homeless survival campers comes before City Council Tuesday October 27th at the 2:15 PM session.  The “Bury the Library under a Parking Garage” boondoggle comes up at 7 PM.  Oral Communications on other topics not on the agenda is at 5:30 PM.  There are NO proposals on the agenda to actually provide badly-needed restroom, food, water, and charging services to the campgrounds whose presence belies the “Housing Smidgeons” sign on Hiway 1, that lie about the “success” of the former Homeless (Lack of) Services Center at 115 Coral St.
To “join” the City Council meeting by Zoom–particularly hard for those outside with limited phone resources–
Call any of these numbers If one is busy, try the next one.  1-833-548-0282 (Toll Free)   1-877-853-5247 (Toll Free)   1-888-788-0099 (Toll Free)   1-669-900-9128   1-346-248-77991-3Enter the meeting ID number: 928 2917 3723     When prompted for a Participant ID, press #.  Press *9 on your phone to “raise your hand” when the Mayor calls for public comment.DON’T EXPECT CITY COUNCIL TO RESPOND FAVORABLY TO ANY HOMELESS CIVIL RIGHTS OR EXPANDED SERVICES QUESTIONS NOR TO POLICE DEFUNDING. 

While a small number are temporarily in the safer motel shelter, most of the “sheltered” are warehoused in the unhealthy group shelters–and even those shelters are full with waiting lists.  

The Pogonip camps continue to be blocked off and bulldozed.  Those along hiway 1 continue to be starved of resources like portapotties, wash stations, and other basics.     Encampments along the San Lorenzo pathway near the Broadway bridge and along Hiway 1 at River St.  multiplied exponentially after the City and County created more refugees by displacing the larger Benchlands encampment with their own show County-run encampment there.  There are no provisions for providing decent facilities for those camps as fall turns to winter.

City Mangler Bernal’s Emergency Edict, habitually rubberstamped extends the September ban on vendors on Beach St. while the County authorities invite Boardwalk area businesses to resume their sidewalk crowd-drawing activities near the Boardwalk and unmasked tourists continue to be invited to crowd beaches, the Boardwalk, and the “no vendors allowed” sidewalks.


ON TODAY’S 10-25-20 BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES SHOW:
XXX  Interview with Emi, unhoused protection and diplomacy, on his new organization NOMAD, planning a Felker camp weenie roast next Saturday, time and place TBA. XXX  Hard Times in L.A. https://theintercept.com/2020/10/19/homeless-los-angeles-covid-wildfires
XXX  Democrats Abandon Single “Me Too” Standard in Tara Reade Accusations against Joe Biden ( Warning–Fox News is reporting)
XXX  Benchlands Broadsides–Voices from the Lawn Bowling Adjacent Tent Encampment: Cooper, Serena, David, Dreamcatcher
XXX  “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry goes into quarantine for possible COVID-19 and subsequently announced a memorial/protest at the City Hall meeting 2 PM in honor of Desiree Quintero opposing City Manager Martin Bernal’s Executive Decrees targeting unhoused survival camps and Food Not Bombs.  https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/26/18837897.php
XXX  “Scope it Out” Scott Graham Reviews the Wretched Prospects for Tuesday’s City Council Meeting–involving Consent Item #9 (the subject of McHenry’s Tuesday protest above) and the Evening “Bury the Library Under a Multi-Storied Parking Lot” Agenda Item.
XXX   Michele Critiques the Armory Shelter XXX   “Speak Out” Satya and Some Discussion of the Anti-Maskers of Santa Cruz
XXX  John Malkin interviews Joy-and-Jubilation African-American Activist Curtis Reliford on his recent run-in with a racist roughneck XXX  Former Freedom Sleeper Phil Posner reports on his recent Bagels-on-Bikes round-the-city.

ALSO ON TODAY’S BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES SHOW: FLASHBACK NEWSBRIEFS & INTERVIEWS IN 1991
xxx  late December 1991–KDBQ’s “Liberal” Larry Johnson Interviews “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster, “Back Channel” Barnaby, and “Bathrobespierre Robert” on splits among homeless civil rightsters as well as exploding liberal stereotypes about local unhoused folks
xxx  12-18-91 UCSC Cops Assault Forest (“Elfland”) Defender and KSBW TV cameraman in peaceful protest
xxx   Spring 1991:  Bathrobespierre to KSCO’s John Muth’s Noon Balloon on Town Clock Curfew & Visionquest Homeless-Free
xxx   4-4-91 6 PM News on River St. Mini-Shelter “Controversy” as well as SCPD attack and arrest of  “Won Ton” Dave Jacob’s at the Clock, interviewing “Meandering” Mike Girth eye witness and Peace Vigil participant at the Clock against the Persian Gulf Iraqi War
xxx   4-7-91 Bathrobespierre interviews “Jet Lag” Joe Salinsky, another Peace Vigil participant on multiple SCPD abuses at the Clock
xxx   4-9-91  Muth and Bathrobespierre on “homeless out!” growth proposals by Visionquest Santa Cruz as well as Salinsky and others pressing claims against police for SCPD abuses at the Clock
          …plus Various uncut bits and clips of 1991 from the cutting room floor throughout

ON TODAY’S SHOW

xxx Activist and Shitty Council Candidate Alicia Kuhl Denounces Ongoing Police Harassment of her Vehicle/Home

xxx Blake v. Grants Pass Decision–an Introduction

xxx  HUFFsters huddle looking for the next steps–the path to peaceful resistance to police abuses

xxx  Courtroom capers–the ongoing piratical struggle of Marty Mirabel in defense of a homeless man’s vehiclehome.

xxx  Cooper and Company in the Lawn Bowling Campground Above the Benchlands

ON THE SUNDAY 10-18-20 BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES SHOW:
​    ***  Portland’s Mayoral Race (“Teargas” Teddie and Sarah Iannarone) and Police Issues there–contrasted with no positions on Police Defunding (Deafening Silence) here  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ted-wheeler-sarah-iannarone-participate-in-virtual-forum/vi-BB1a77ck
***  Vet Concerns in Santa Cruz with Robert Carrigan
***  Native American Slaughter Speeches Aplenty–Mostly on Homeless Issues–preceding the 10-12 Day March

***  Marty Mirabel (“Pirate”)–Another “Moved Along” Musician at the Boardwalk***  Huffing and harumphing from the 10-14 HUFF meeting
FLASHBACK TO THE BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES SHOW OF JULY 17, 2011
***  “Democracy”…in Santa Cruz?  A Critical Discussion including the Jail’s “Restraint” Chair***  Interview with 15-year stage hand, out of Paul Lee Loft & homeless again
***  Interviews at the Casey Livinggood’s once-monthly  “Stop the Orlando Food Busts” Meal by Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs with Charles Goodwin, “Fox”, Casey L.
***  Ed Frey’s appeal of his “Illegal Lodging” 647e conviction for a peaceful non-obstructive nighttime protest : Update
***  Mark Beckner on his indefinite ban from the Homeless (Lack of) Services Center  [now known as Housing
Matters]*** Protesters at SC City Hall “Trespass” Serving and Eating Free Food with S.C. Food Not Bombs*** Norse’s Nighttime Narrative During the July 1st City Hall Sleep-Out
***Measure K Commission–Hobbled by Vacancies, Hostile Appointments, & a Sabotaging Staffer: Last of
the Just– Former Member Anita Henry Reports on the Bankrupt Commission.
*** Craig Canada, Cannabis Champion, on the State Legislative and Initiative Activity, Media Spin, and the Vote
*** Bob Lamonika on Measure K funding and organizing & Santa Cruz history of medical marijuana
*** Norse on then-Commissioner Kim Baskett’s “Guilty” Verdict in the Sinister Street Singsong case and the Upcoming Appeal.


The show streams at www.freakradio.org   and archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .  At that archive, click on the date of the show to hear it at any time.

Summary descriptions of current and earlier shows after mid-November 2017 are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/ .  Earlier descriptions (back to 2005) are often available at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html .  A listing of where flashbacks to earlier times can be found will soon be available.

SHOW ARCHIVES AND DESCRIPTIONS

Recent Past Shows are Described at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/Recent Past Shows are Archived separately at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html
Many Pre-2017 Shows are Described at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html
Many Pre-2017 Shows are Archived at http://radiolibre.org/brb/
Archives prior to 2004 are at http://huffsantacruz.org/archivemain.html
For Flashbacks before 1995, go to http://huffsantacruz.org/radio.html and search for “Flashback”

Act Locally or Regret Later

• Vote (if you choose) for local candidates who oppose the dominant anti-homeless narrative (Alicia Kuhl was recently endorsed by HUFF), but don’t expect them to take real action which, as ever, will be coming from those outside and those who support them on the streets.
  
• Demand NO SWEEPS OF THE HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS without real justification, alternative location or shelter, and respect for the Martin v. Boise and Blake v. Grants Pass rulings, the CDC guidelines, and the City’s own spring 2019 requirements respecting the health and safety of those sheltering outside. 
• Volunteer for homeless civil rights or service programs that actually serve:  Food Not Bombs, Day/Night Storage, HUFF, SC Homeless Union, Your Allied Rapid Response (YARR), Sub Rosa Cafe and others mentioned on Instagram
• Support decent resources (portapotties, trash pick-up’s, electrical access, needle exchange, potable water) to those sheltering outside.
• Check out HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) now meeting Wednesday 11 AM in the courtyard of the Sub Rosa Cafe at 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church.
• Support Tenant Resistance against landlord pressure as unemployment compensation and federal aid remains stalled.
• No Fences on Coral St. and at the former Food Not Bombs Survival Resources Lot #27 !
  
• Call in street reports to HUFF and the Free Radio Santa Cruz netshow back at 831-423-4833; Post your video on Facebook and You-tube.  Pass on protest times and places via Instagram and Santa Cruz Indymedia.
• Follow homeless civil rights struggles in other cities on You Tube’s “John Doe13K” channel, the S.F. Coalition on Homelessness’s Street Sheet website, and Santa Cruz County Homeless Advocates facebook page.
• Join in volunteer efforts that provide real services like Footbridge Services at 150 Felker St., Food Not Bombs daily meal at Lot #22 next to the old Taco Bell at Pacific & Laurel 1-6 PM daily.
  
• Restore in-person City Council meetings and access to those in power (City Manager Bernal)
• Defund “Homeless Removal” police services and put the money in real community help
• Resist a Reactionary City Council’s gentrification drive that threatens health and traditional values.

The October 31st “Move Without Destination” Depopulation of the Benchlands comes closer.  Some activists consider assisting Brent Adams and his Day/Night Storage crew in assisting those who forced to move and acting as “diplomats” and “helpers” as police under City Mangler Martin Bernal violates Martin v. Boise “no citations without indoor shelter” ruling as well as the CDC’s “let the homeless shelter in place” guidelines.

While a small number are temporarily in the safer motel shelter, most of the “sheltered” are warehoused in the unhealthy group shelters–and even those shelters are full with waiting lists.  

Air quality problems and high temperatures have returned with no protected areas set aside for the toxic air quality alerts, the potential smoke danger, etc. –particularly impactful of those outside, and of the broader community–given the COVID-19 pandemic.  Large publicly funded buildings like the Civic and the Stadium stand empty while encampments multiply outside the “lack of services” Housing Smidgeons Poverty Pimp Palace at 115 Coral St. with its misleading “Housing Matters” sign.  Dangerous COVID-19 vulnerable group shelters at the Vet’s Hall, Armory, “Housing Smidgeons” Paul Lee Loft, and Laurel St. continue to be the main “go to” for police” as a warehousing “alternative” when they threaten the visually “undesirable” outdoor camps being destroyed in the Pogonip, along the levee, and elsewhere.

The Pogonip camps have been blocked off and bulldozed.  Those along hiway 1 continue to be starved of resources like portapotties, wash stations, and other basics.     Encampments along the San Lorenzo pathway near the Broadway bridge and along Hiway 1 at River St.  multiplied exponentially after the City and County created more refugees by displacing the larger Benchlands encampment with their own show County-run encampment there.  There are no provisions for providing decent facilities for those camps as fall turns to winter.

No indication that “banned” vendors on Beach St. have been invited to resume their family-sustaining sidewalk businesses down near the Boardwalk, while unmasked tourists continue to be invited to crowd beaches, the Boardwalk, and the “no vendors allowed” sidewalks.

 
STILL ASKIN’….   
               WE NEED TO GET BACK ON THE AIR AND RESTORE OUR PHONE LINE.  Phone in (423-4833) or e-mail us (rnorse3@hotmail.com) tips on where we might find a studio space and a place to put our antenna.  $300 reward for finding us the studio space.   Eternal gratitude for finding an antenna location.   Free Radio is ever-more important during the COVID crisis.

TECHNICAL PROBLEMS MAY DELAY THE NETCAST OF TODAY’S SHOW.  IF IT DOESN’T COME ON AT 6 P.M., GO TO http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  (with a description of the show to be posted shortly at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/ )

ON TODAY’S SHOW

xxx  “”Declamation” Dennis Holt on Santa Cruz Days Before & During the Pandemic
xxx  “Birds-Eye” Brent Adams on Community Cooperation for Homeless Services
xxx  Assorted Updates from Emi and KeithWorkshop Organizing tomorrow (Friday October 16) on What to Do When the Coppers Crash Your Tent at the Sub Rosa Cafe (next to the Bike Church) at 703 Pacific at 7pm