The usual time and place with the usual coffee and crunchables.
Likely Agenda Items: City Clownsil’s Latest Hits,
City Mangler Martin Bernal’s Latest Target,
Reports from Hither and Yon,
New Organizing from Old Suspects,
Eleventh Hour Examination of the state Propositions plus …a bunch of other stuff.
Say No to the City Manager’s Attack on Homeless Encampments and Food Not Bombs–2 PM Wednesday October 27th at City Hall Courtyard–NO on Agenda Item #9
THE THREAT OF FURTHER ACTION AGAINST THOSE OUTSIDE & GROUPS THAT SUPPORT THEM
The city is threatening to evict Food Not Bombs from its sharing location for the fourth time during this pandemic even though more than 100 people a day are depending on us for food, clothing, books and masks. They are suggesting that it will be illegal for us to share in any public location and plan to fence off each of these areas.
Tuesday, October 27, 2020, at 2 PM Santa Cruz City Hall – 809 Center Street, Santa Cruz. The vote is scheduled for that time or soon thereafter.
The City Council meeting will, as usual, be held behind closed doors in spite of the availability of the Civic Auditorium for safe use.
For information on how to call in your opposition, go to https://ecm.cityofsantacruz.com/OnBaseAgendaOnline/Meetings/ViewMeeting?id=1533&doctype=1
If you wish a fuller discussion of the 4 City Manager Decrees up for rubberstamping by the City Council, when it comes your time to speak, request the City Council remove item #9 from the Consent Agenda for a staff report and more extensive discussion. Mention that Councilmember Sandy Brown is often respectful of the public’s right to speak more fully on Consent Agenda items and hope she will do so again on this one.
For more coverage of this issue and to make your own comments, go to https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/26/18837897.php ,
Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides netcast streams tonight 10-22-20 at 6 PM at freakradio.org: Interviews with HUFFsters, Marty Mirabel, Cooper d’Angelo, and other tent dwellers
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
HUFF back at Sub Rosa Courtyard today 11 AM 10-21 dissecting the state Propositions, best activist strategies for homeless help, and other updates
We meet again at 703 Pacific–all welcome–clamoring about what to do next and sharing reports.
Likely topics:
Election advisories for the Propositions
Public Records Update and Review
Latest on Marty Mirabel’s Court Case and Latest Sweep Swoops in Salinas Board of Stupes Expansion of Commercial Rental Moratorium, but for Tenants?
Strategies for Upcoming Dispersal of County Campground in 10 days
Role-Playing Prep for What to Do When a Cop Approaches Your Tent (or Vehicle).
and…very likely…more.
Updated Description of Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides archived at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html at Latest Show 10/18/2020 Flashback to July 17, 2011
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.
Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides netcast hopefully streams tonight 10-15-20 at 6 PM at freakradio.org. & archived at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html: Interviews with Dennis Holt, Brent Adams, & others Otherwise, see attached instructions.
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
HUFFing Again Wednesday October 14th at the Sub Rosa Courtyard at 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church
HUFF AGENDA PROSPECTS 10-14-20
(Add your own items; swig the free coffee)
- Election Talk and Recommendations
- Follow-Up on Proposed Advice to Confronted Survival Campers–Talking Back Productively to the Police
- Follow-Up’s on Corvalho and Riess Protections; Nick on Vehicular Letter for Tows
- Updates for last two City Council meeting
- https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/13/18837528.php
Flyer Distributed During the Indigenous Slaughter Day Protest
- Updates on RV’s under attack: Latest reports from the City Police assault on RV and vehicular home defenders Alicia Kuhl and others
- Indigenous Slaughter Updates from Monday (Keith, Carlos)
- Wes’s Salinas Sweeps Update from Monday
- Motel, Meal, Camp Reduction Reports
- Pleich on AFC “Safe Spaces” Parking Program.
- Santa Barbara FRSC Update:
- Summary Judgment Victory in Marysville
Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides archived & netcast 9:30 AM-3 PM today October 11. Interviews a-plenty with Peter Marin, Aaron Hosner, Keith McHenry, Alicia Kuhl, and More!
OUR FAMILIAR S.O.S. 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.
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.
City Council snuck to a new day (Thursday) and time (evening) for its latest “regular” “meeting”. Their budget hearing continued with its high militarist police budget ignoring the voices and needs of the Community regarding police defunding to preempt their violence, discrimination, homeless harassment, and overspending. Instead, the police budget was reportedly the only department left uncut with three new “Community Service” officers added with no changes in policy or top personnel. https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2020/10/09/santa-cruz-budget-cuts-reduce-5-million-in-city-spending/ All power still in the hands of City Manager Martin Bernal with the Council an echo chamber. More ticketing of City Council candidate and SC Homeless Union organizer Alicia Kuhl after the bigotry-based Council veto of her group’s right to park safely on Olive St. (Sandy Brown dissenting).
Ben–the man whose vehicle was seized months ago in violation of CDC “shelter-in-place” guidelines–was bailed out and is reportedly at large, surviving the latest SCPD retaliation for his determined resistance to the police sweeps that continue to cast a dark shadow along the levee.
City boss Bernal seems intent on ignoring CDC guidelines and the Martin v. Boise decision regarding no homeless sweeps without homeless shelter. While a small number are still 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. Authorities have announced plans to disband the Benchlands County-run containment-camp that displaced the larger encampment there by October 31 with similar plans to oust those in motels. https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2020/10/10/panetta-stone-tour-santa-cruz-homeless-encampments/
Air quality and temperature has been merciful considering there are still no protected areas set aside for the toxic air quality alerts, the potential smoke danger, and cooling functions–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.
ON TODAY’S BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES SHOW:
*** Colombus (National Slaughter Day) protest slated for 10:30 AM tomorrow 10-12 at Laurel & Pacific
*** “Food for the Famished” Keith McHenry Reviews the Latest Police Sweep Program & Voter Registration Push
*** Community Musicman Curtis Reliford Cries “Racism” on “Progressive” Santa Cruz https://www.facebook.com/curtis.reliford.5
*** “Lord of the Lies” Deconstructs the Vice-Presidential Sound-Byte Special “Debate” Part 2*** Pinchhitting Pitcher for the Poor and Poet Peter Marin Weighs in from Santa Barbara
*** Arduous Adventure Account from Activist-on-Wheels Alicia Kuhl
*** Punishing the Maskless with Medical Conditions: a Report from Satya Orion. https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/COVID-19/Guidance-for-Face-Coverings_06-18-2020.pdf
*** “Whip the Wicked” Wes White Calls for Help Against Salinas Sweeps Part 2
*** James Loewen Corrects a Bigot-Based Historical Record with Indigenous Slaughter (Columbus Day) upon us. https://vimeo.com/281339140
*** “Scope it Out” Scott Graham Dissects and Discards the Latest Shitty Council Meeting
*** Aaron Hosmer’s Lonely Battle To Recover Property from Tow Company and Cops https://www.facebook.com/aaron.hosmer.5
***
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
- Hit the Protest Trail Tomorrow (Monday October 12th) at Laurel and Pacific at 10:30 AM in a march to the County Building.
- 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 alternatives. Help defend!
Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides netcast streams tonight 10-8-20 at 6 PM at freakradio.org. & archived at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html: Linda Lemaster and Wes White; Lefties Critique the Pence-Harris Sound Byte Special
ON TODAY’S SHOW
xxx “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster critiques the Proposed Public Defender Changes
xxx “Lord of the Lies”–The Real News’s Final “Stir Crazy” show Roasts the Vice-Presidential Charade-sters, presenting the right and the left hand of the Corporate Puppet Show.
xxx “Whip Back the Wicked” Wes White Warns of Another Sherwood Park Sweep in Salinas
HUFF meets today (Wednesday 10-7) licking its wounds and shaking off depression from last Friday’s raid on Food Not Bombs and the nearby encampments
HUFF will be doing its weekly coffee-and-combustion get together today at 11 AM in the Sub Rosa Courtyard with the following likely top topics:
- Lessons from the partially successful but ultimately failed defense of the Food Not Bombs Lot #27 Resistance last week
- Updates on RV’s under attack: Latest reports from the City Police assault on RV and vehicular home defenders Alicia Kuhl and others
- Reports on the reduction or shutoff of resources to Motel COVID-threatened residents, the proposed County Camp closing, & other camp removals throughout the City
- The proposed new “behind closed doors” Community Courts laying out reduced but real punishments to the “guilty” stripped of civil rights.
- New Street Spirits and Street Sheets from the Bay Area for distribution
- Unhoused Resistance and News Elsewhere in the State: from Santa Barbara to Berkeley to Salinas
- Street Resistance to Rule by the City Manager, Upcoming City Council “Public Meetings”, and the Continuing Police State