Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 5-13-21 show netcasts 6 PM at freakradio.org Reports from the Last Hours at Hiway 1; Protest Plunge at City Hall

The show is slated to go out tonight at 6 PM on the net at www.freakradio.org.
Alternately, to hear this show (May 13, 2021) and other homeless civil rights shows at a time of your convenience, Click on http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .


ON THE 5-13 SHOW :
xxx Nathan, Paul, Scott, and others–on the last hours at Hiway 1 as Cal-Trans demolished the many camps, sending the former residents on a trek to Nowhere.

xxx A pastiche of protest speakers excluded from the Camping Ban rubberstamping on 5-13, raising their voices on the sidewalk outside City Hall.

HUFF meets Thursday 5-13-21 at 11:30 AM at the Sub Rosa Courtyard, next to the Bike Church–Benchlands Injunction Hearing 10 AM before the meeting

DUE TO THE SCHEDULED ZOOM COURT HEARING ON THE SAN LORENZO BENCHLANDS INJUNCTION, HUFF WILL MEET HALF AN HOUR LATER AT 11:30 AM.

HEAR OR VIEW THE INJUNCTION STATUS HEARING:  https://www.cand.uscourts.gov/judges/van-keulen-susan-svk/


Agenda Prospects  for Tomorrow’s  (5-6) Meeting
+++ Outcome and Issues from the Court Injunction Hearing Earlier      

+++ New TOLO Terror in the shape of the Camping Standards and Services Ordinance Passed at City Council

+++ Encampment Reports: San Lorenzo Benchlands Highway 1/9 Demolition


 +++ Latest SC Homeless Union Update News


 +++ Likely Overcrowding in the Benchlands with the Rumored Moving of Harvey West Agreement Camp


 +++ Coastal Commission Check-In and Monitoring Illegal “Parking Limitation” Sign Placements Against Vehicular Residents

 +++ Local Laura’s Law (aka “Needles on Wheels”) Working Group –Sending a Sharp Message to the Supes

+++ Updates Wanted on the Felker St. & the Pogonip

      +++ City Council and Supes Reports–If Anyone Attended

      +++ Public Records Replies and Silences

      +++ News from Other Cities

      +++ New Street Spirits and Street Sheets still available at the meeting !   

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

      Likely coffee and crunchables.   Predicted weather in the Sub Rosa Courtyard:  Cloudy and Cool–Be Prepared to Bundle Up.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides archived at huffsantacruz.org and netcasting 9:30 AM -3:30 PM 5-9-21 All-Current Interviews and Insights from San Lorenzo Park

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. 

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 can be found on the Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom
Facebook page where you can also leave comments.  HUFF is also developing a page at http://huffsantacruz.org/ursula.html


Check out Flashback descriptions at http://huffsantacruz.org/Flashback%20Replays%20Listing%202021.pdf .

DO YOU MISS OLD-TIME CALL-IN FREE RADIO ON THE AIR?
FRSC still seeks a spot to setup our antenna again in the downtown area–a tree, a house. 
Want our call-in line restored as well as live shows?  Send us tips on where to rent studio space with a $300 reward for cueing us into a year’s contract. 

Meanwhile for input into my show, contact Bathrobespierre Robert at 831-423-4833 or rnorse3@hotmail.com.


ON THE TODAY’S 5-9-21 SHOW

xxx Triple Threat:  8 AM Eviction Threat at Hiway 1 and Hiway 9 5-10-21; 5 PM Protest Against the new TOLO at City Hall 809 Center St 5-11-21; morning (time TBA) ZOOM Injunction Hearing on the San Lorenzo Camp (now crowded into the Benchlands) 5-13-21.


xxx  Analysis of the Upcoming of TOLO 3, the Anti-Camping Law now called the CSAS[“Camping Services and Standards”] Ordinance by Kayla Kumar and Bathrobespierre Robert


xxx “Balancing Act with the Bureaucrats” Brent Adams Regrets But Defends the Upcoming Relocation to the Benchlands of the Successful “Community Agreements” Harvey West Encampment


xxx Injunction Plaintiff Dreadeye and Jailed-for-Resisting Cooper Report from San Lorenzo Park


xxx 5-6 Interviews with Richard, Luis, and Casper on the 3rd and Final Noon Eviction

xxx Extensive series of 5-3 Interviews at the Resistance Table from Dreadeye, Teddy, and Jody

xxx Brent Adams Blasts the Resistance Narrowly Avoiding a Physical Fight

xxx Lee Ann Sherwood on her In-the-Camp “Policing” and “Mental Health” Support

xxx David G., Michelle, Casey, and Nutcracker Nick –more from Deadline Day 5-6

xxx Camp Supplier Jumboheart Jeremy on the virtues and limits of the Benchland camp

xxx Assorted concerns from Miss May, Julie, Main Beacher

xxx Soquel visiter Rain on being harassed for distributing PB & J sandwiches a year ago

xxx Mark Peabody on retaliatory assault by SCPD’s Sgt. Ross.

xxx Benchlands Residents Reports–What We Need: Randall, Mia, Jennifer, Lisa, Manuel.FLASHBACK TO February 20, 2014

 
Gather  before 8:00 AM Monday May 10  at Hiway 1 and Hiway 9 to demand decent accommodations before eviction of the encampment, deter CHP abuse, and assist those forced to move to nowhere Contact City Council with a NO on the new Camping Ban; In-Person Protest 5 PM Tuesday May 11th in front of City Hall.Morning of Thursday May 11th (time TBA), observe the on-line Injunction status hearing for those in the Benchlands with an uncertain future.Check out the weekly HUFF meeting  Thursday May 6th 11 AM at 703 Pacific (the Sub Rosa next to the Bike Church] for musing, masticating, and meandering on how to expose and undo anti-homeless shenangans by authorities public and private.  Or at least to howl at the darkness.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 5-6-21 show netcasts 6 PM at freakradio.org Attorney Robert Landyeer on the Santa Barbara Struggle; Wes White from Salinas, and more…

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


ON THE 5-6 SHOW :
xxx Attorney and Social Justice Activist Robert Landyeer on the History of the Committee for Social Justice to help out RV tow victims

xxx Landyeer on the Santa Barbara population make-up and its impact on the homeless community.

xxx  Wes White on Mobilizing with Agents of Change and Community Before Cops to Pressure Politicians to Respect People and Property in “Clean-Up” Sweeps

xxx  A Walk Through San Lorenzo Park at the Noon Eviction Deadline

Revving Up the Resistance outside the Red Church 5 PM Friday May 7th: Fighting TOLO-3 and Supporting the Benchlands Encampment through the Court Injunction and Elsewise

HUFF meets Thursday 5-6-21 at 11 AM at the Sub Rosa Courtyard, next to the Bike Church noon Thursday May 6th: New Deadline for the Upper San Lorenzo Camp Residents; May 11th: TOLO 3; May 13th: Court Hearing on Benchlands Fate

Agenda Prospects  for Tomorrow’s  (5-6) Meeting
       +++ Mother’s Day Tabling Downtown in Support of Homeless Mom Resistance ? 
      +++ San Lorenzo Benchlands Encampment Polling, and Organizational Contacts organizing Survival Camps Across the City
      +++ Preparation for the May 11th TOLO-3 Santa Cruz city Council Attack on the Poor  and the Federal Court’s May 13th Likely Eviction Deadline
      +++ Hooking up with Encampment Contacts Around the City
      +++ Coastal Commission Check-In and Monitoring Illegal “Parking Limitation” Sign Placements Against Vehicular Residents

      +++ Local Laura’s Law (aka “Needles on Wheels”) Working Group –Sending a Sharp Message to the Supes

      +++ Updates Wanted on the Felker St., Harvey West, and Hiway 1/9 Encampments

      +++ Public Records Updates on Bathrooms, Making Public Citizen Claims, and Organizing Public Postings

      +++ Chico and Carter (L.A.) Decision Updates  Chico: See Passarounds L.A.:  https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/1%20FRSC%204-25-21.mp3   (12 Minutes into the audio file)

      +++ New Street Spirits and Street Sheets available at the meeting !   

      +++ Down Again, Up Again!  Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Shows on the HUFF website–http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html /

      Likely coffee and crunchables.   Predicted weather in the Sub Rosa Courtyard:  Cool, but Sunny.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides archived at huffsantacruz.org and netcasting 9:30 AM -3 PM 5-2-21 Wes White on Salinas, Benchlands Banter, Voices from Seattle and Stockton, Keith Fields Questions, Cherie Punches the PillPushers; Flashback to 2-20-2014

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. 

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 can be found on the Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom
Facebook page where you can leave comments.  Still struggling to find a good way to post Ursula’s Utterances on the HUFF website–don’t hold your breath.


A Flashback description page is at http://huffsantacruz.org/Flashback%20Replays%20Listing%202021.pdf .

OLD BUT STILL TRUE…
     FRSC still seeks a spot to setup our antenna again in the downtown area–a tree, a house. 
     Want our call-in line restored as well as live shows?  Send us tips on where to rent studio space with a $300 reward for cueing us into a year’s contract. 

Meanwhile for input into my show, contact Bathrobespierre Robert at 831-423-4833 or rnorse3@hotmail.com.


ON THE TODAY’S 5-2-21 SHOW

xxx “Whip the Wicked” Wes White defends his optimism regarding recent Salinas politician palaver.

xxx  4-29 Bits of Benchlands Banter from Roaming Monitors Jeremy and Chris
xxx Even the small well-managed Oakland RV camp under assault in Oakland:
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/making-it-in-the-bay/trailer-park-community-in-oakland-faces-uncertain-future/2528852/

xxx Ryan from Seattle Answers the Call to Protest in the Friday False Alarm in San Lorenzo

xxx Fred from Stockton Found Work, Lodging, and a Friendly Community in the Park

xxx Oakland’s Cob on Wood Encampment also faces threat:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/Community-of-cob-huts-rise-in-West-Oakland-16118904.php

xxx  Former Freedom Sleeper and VideoJournalist Israel Dawson Looks Back.  His earlier protest video at https://idawson0.wixsite.com/freedomsleepers/film-1
xxx  Unchecked unaccountable police murders still going strong after Chauvin’s conviction

xxx  “Can’t Catch my Breath” Keith McHenry Fields Criticism and Praise on the SC Union’s “Wait for Benchlands” Organizing Strategy at the 4-29 HUFF meeting + many other updates
xxx  “Shit me Not!” Cherie on Home Invasion, Seizure, Deportation, and False Drugging by the Mental Health Helpers




FLASHBACK TO February 20, 2014
xxx Co-Host “Travelin'” Tom Noddy Reviews the History of the Voluntary Street Performers Guidelines–crushed by City Council ordinances and its impact on high quality performers in Santa Cruz: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/02/18/18751213.php?show_comments=1#18751499


xxx “Dead-on” David Silva on New National Help for Vets and Silva’s Experience in the Secret Radioactive Spraying in Vietnam

xxx Misty-eyed Doc Mike on Shelter Challenges for the Older Folks
 


Gather 8:00 AM Monday May 3  at San Lorenzo Duck Pond to Support The Homeless Encampment Being Displaced by City Police
Check out the weekly HUFF meeting  Thursday May 6th 11 AM at 703 Pacific (the Sub Rosa next to the Bike Church] for musing, masticating, and meandering on how to expose and undo anti-homeless shenanigans by authorities public and private.  Or at least to howl at the darkness.
Conspire for Justice with a community opposed to likely spring sweeps may be meeting 5 PM Friday May 7th on the lawn at the Red Church at Cedar and Lincoln.  Contact Keith McHenry at 575-770-3377 for more info.  Also contact him to help with a Survey of Homeless Encampments he’s making to determine a possible positive response to threatened police expulsion in the weeks ahead.

Rally to Defend the Dignity of Those Outside in San Lorenzo Park and Elsewhere 5-3-21

Come to San Lorenzo Park Duck Pond Monday 8 AM May 3rd

  • Mass demonstration demanding justice and housing for those outside.
  • Shelters and the Benchlands camp sites are full.
  • Those in tents  in the Upper Park face arrest and property seizure.
  • Demonstrate our Community’s Concern Again to Witness and Assure Fair Treatment.
  • No Evictions Without Adequate Alternative Living Space.
  • The COVID crisis is not over.  Stand Up for Those Who Have No Place to Go !
  • Challenge the City Manager’s False “Plenty of Shelters” Narrative
  • Stop the City Staff ‘s Drive to Force Homeless Folks Out of Sight and Out of Town

See also https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/01/18842042.php

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 4-29-21 show netcasts 6 PM at freakradio.org Backs Up Against the Benchlands Bullying–Interviews from San Lorenzo Park

The show is slated to go out tonight at 6 PM on the net at www.freakradio.org.
Alternately, to hear this show (April 29, 2021) and other homeless civil rights shows at a time of your convenience, Click on http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .

ON THE 4-29 SHOW :
xxx Homeless Czar and Possible Future City Manager Lee Butler announces Friday deadline for San Lorenzo relocations to Benchlands, upcoming Camping Ban on May 11.

xxx Lorenzo resident Alex compares Survival Camp here with Camp Ross

xxx  Eric declares he won’t move to the Benchlands.
xxx  Dreamcatcher on the positive side of campgrounds for an Artist
xxx  Jeremy reviews the Benchlands camper stats.
xxx  Cage-me-not Cooper smiles at the proposed Friday eviction.

On the Spot Observation and Opposition: Standing Against Bullying to the Benchlands Those Who Live in San Lorenzo Park 8:30am Friday April 30

Reving Up the Resistance outside the Red Church 5 PM Friday April 30th: Fighting TOLO-3 and the Encampment Uprooting on the horizon all over Santa Cruz

Two Shots at May Day Madness: noon May 1 Laurel and Front–Lyrical Eye and the Uprising–Devour while you Dance!        

1 PM May 1 UCSC Quarry–Meet and March to Kerr Hall 2 pm on Behalf of UCSC Workers, Kops off Kampus!

Sunday May 2 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM  Clutch-the-Cash:  Stimulus Clinic for Those Without Income–Special Lessons on How to Cash in.

HUFF meets Thursday 4-29-21 at 11 AM at the Sub Rosa Courtyard, next to the Bike Church Polling the Encampments; the City Forces Park Residents to Relocate to the Benchlands; Will May 13th Mean Deportation to Nowhere?

Agenda Prospects  for Tomorrow’s (4-22) Meeting
       +++ TentTable, Encampment Polling, and Organizational Contacts as Support for Survival Camp Resistance
      +++ Gathering a Phone and Personal Contacts in those Survival Camps that Still Exist
      +++ Preparation for the May 11th TOLO-3 Council Attack  and the Court’s 13th Likely Eviction Deadline
      +++ Coastal Commission Contacts and Researching Illegal Sign Placements Against Vehicular Residents

      +++ Local Laura’s Law (aka “Needles on Wheels”) Working Group –Fighting the May Deadline

      +++ Updates Wanted on the Felker St., Harvey West, and Hiway 1/9 Encampments

      +++ Public Records Updates on Bathrooms, Making Public Citizen Claims, and Organizing Public Postings

      +++ Chico and Carter (L.A.) Decision Updates  Chico: See Passarounds L.A.:  https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/1%20FRSC%204-25-21.mp3   (12 Minutes into the audio file)

      +++ Available for Download–Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Shows on the HUFF website–http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html /

No new Street Spirits yet; the usual coffee and crumbles.   Predicted weather in the Sub Rosa Courtyard:  Cool, but Sunny.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides soon to be archived at huffsantacruz.org and netcasting 9:30 AM -3 PM today 4-25-21 “Put Up or Shut Up” Peggy Lee Kennedy Scorches the Carter Injunction in L.A., Flashback to more active activist times with March 21, 2004

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.  WARNING:  Including the Flashback, the show is extremely long.  Listen at your own risk.

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 can be found on the Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom
Facebook page where you can leave comments.  Prospects are good that Ursula’s Utterances will be available within a week at www.huffsantacruz.org as well.


A Flashback description page is at http://huffsantacruz.org/Flashback%20Replays%20Listing%202021.pdf .

Want FRSC back on the air not just the net?  We need a spot to setup our antenna again in the downtown area–a tree, a house. 

Want our call-in line restored as well as live shows?  Send us tips on where to rent studio space with a $300 reward for cueing us into a year’s contract. 

Meanwhile for input into my show, contact Bathrobespierre Robert at 831-423-4833 or rnorse3@hotmail.com.


ON THE TODAY’S 4-25-21 SHOW

xxx ” Put Up or Shut Up” Peggy Lee Kennedy of the Venice Justice Committee (check her out on Facebook) gives an angry and extensive critique of Judge David O’Connor’s Injunction requiring L.A. authorities to spend supposedly “homeless” funding on shelters and services but not providing real protection to those the Injunction may soon drive into police paddywagons.


xxx All Quiet on the Santa Cruz Front?  With protests raging in other Cities as black victims are executed by militarized cops, Santa Cruz homeless activists (HUFF, SC Homeless Union, Black Lives Matter, DSA, NOMAD included) seem reduced to small meetings and angry e-mails, tweets, texts, and facebook laments.  Review of HUFF demands made on SCPD Andy Mills last summer.

xxx Scouring the Scumsters with “Scope it Out” Scott Graham.  The 4-27 City Council Agenda (accessible only by Zoom or phone–go to https://ecm.cityofsantacruz.com/OnBaseAgendaOnline/Meetings/ViewMeeting?id=1687&doctype=1 for the tiresome details) is sliming into view this Tuesday at 12:30 PM. 


xxx Lightfooting about the PovertyPimp Plantation with “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster


FLASHBACK TO March 21, 2004
xxx Andrea Prichrett on Berkeley Copwatch finding police accountability through direct observation and action rather than depending on non-profits, City Councils, courts, etc.

xxx Co-Host Quintus Cornish faces S.C. County Deputy guns at Felton’s New Leaf Market for petitioning there.
xxx Chris Frederickson, homeless attorney, reviews the plight of youth facing the Homeless (Lack of) Services Center

xxx  Street Tabling with Merryweather Mike and Visionsong Valerie when Free Radio was taking direct reports from Pacific Avenue live: Lea reports a “Sitting” ticket from Community Service Officer Pam Bechtel on the Rampage & and other cop capers
xxx  Caller reports on Cop Threats against a late-night party on Seabright Ave.
xxx  A Temporary Victory in the “Move Along” Charges against Steve Argue and Mathew Hartog
xxx  Expelled from the Bookshop Santa Cruz for a “Jesus Loves You” message on his backpack?
xxx  Taking the “Under God” affirmation in the Pledge of Allegiance to the Supreme Court with attorney Paul Sanford. 


TentTable  is a firm maybe at Pacific & Soquel today April 25th at 1 PM for Resisting the threatened return of anti-homeless laws at City Council on May 11th, likely police sweeps , and the anti-homeless Modified Injunction against San Lorenzo Survival Campers.  It may be rained out.
Weather permitting, join Santa Cruz Homeless Union  weekly meeting Monday 2 PM April 26th   at Front and Laurel Streets at the Food Not Bombs meal.
Check out the weekly HUFF meeting  Thursday April 29nd 11 AM at 703 Pacific (the Sub Rosa next to the Bike Church] for musing, masticating, and meandering on how to expose and undo anti-homeless shenangans by authorities public and private.  Or at least to howl at the darkness.
Conspire for Justice with a community opposed to likely spring sweeps may be meeting 5 PM Friday April 30th on the lawn at the Red Church at Cedar and Lincoln.  Contact Keith McHenry at 575-770-3377 for more info.  Also contact him to help with a Survey of Homeless Encampments he’s making to determine a possible positive response to threatened police expulsion in the weeks ahead.