Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides May 15, 2025, show is a Flashback from July 10, 2005 featuring Medical Marijuana Activist Pebbles Trippet & Human Rights Organization Activists Grilling Councilmember Hernandez

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The May 15, 2025 show is a Flashback to July 10, 2005. 

It includes: 

  • Mike reports being struck by cop in San Lorenzo Park; “Crazy” Mary spends 5 days in jail on Open Container warrant; Jeremy searched by hostile cops on Hippie Corner; other reports from Hawk, Micah P., Drummer Bob.
  • More music and reports from SAFE event #74
  • Human Rights Organization [HRO] and Brown Berets grill Councilmember Tony Madrigal in a long interview.
  • [6-26] Brown Beret & Copwatch activists Frances & Felipe
  • Pebbles Trippet, “pariah in Ukiah”, with June 23rd Lockyer opinion restricting cities from increasing grass penalties beyond Prop. 215.
  • Dennis the Bard on police assaulting his flute duet.
  • Producer and co-worker Becky Johnson & critics on her censorship complaints & exclusion from FRSC and Santa Cruz Indymedia.

Back in the Sunshine with HUFF? Wander in between 1:30 PM and 3:30 PM May 15 Thursday 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church. May disband early.

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Ruf Suggestions for “Loose Cannons” HUFF 5-15-25

Http web addresses are for background reading or listening.   Many items are really signposts & reminders of where we’d be going if and when we find the person power, time, interest, and resources.  We are gathering information and evidence to challenge the Dominant (False) Police and City Manager Narrative.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them. AGENDA SUBJECT TO CHANGE;  Athena will be running this “Loose Cannons” meeting with timely outbursts from me and others.  A more updated series of suggestions available at the 1:30 PM meeting.                                             
Top of the Agenda (+ Quick Announcements)(a brief broad survey)

++++   Athena’s Agenda Items and Sequence Take Priority

++++   Review Agenda—Flag Possible Action Items

++++   Possible Handouts:  Agenda Suggestions; TBA   Passarounds: TBA

++++   Street and sweep reports from the last week;
++++   Disruption policy

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

++++   Newsom Homeless Nakba Nonsense—Our Response?

++++   City Council Report Back

++++   “Funding Matters” March “to End Homelessness” May 4 Sunday: Result?

++++   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cuRi-cblDINever Again—Moss Landing Update

++++   Gaia’s update on Capitola Mobile Home owners resistance to huge rent raises

++++   Evan Morrison Recent Correspondence; Missing Date from People First Armory

++++   Various legacy media stories: 150 Unhoused People Face Eviction from Deschutes National Foresthttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/illegal-camping-arrests-are-soaring-in-sf-what-does-it-mean-for-the-homeless-crisis/ar-AA1CUKGx                  Vallejo protective injunction: https//calmmatters.org/housing/homelessness2025/03/Vallejo-injunction/

++++   Free Events (for demonstrating, organizing, leafleting, or enjoying)             

Thursday  May 14   4-5 PM Town Clock Indivisible anti-Trump cutbacks                                    5 PM- ?  Town Clock anti-Genocide (Nakba Day)             

Saturday  May 16  11 am- 1 pm Ocean & Water anti-war picket                                                 7 PM “The Encampments” 155 S. River St. S.C.              Sunday     May 18   11 AM – 6 PM  Kaiser Stadium S.C.                                 

 7 PM  Liwanag  45 minute film at 612 Ocean St.             

Monday    May 19   4:30 PM – 5:30 PM   Ocean & Water Civil Rights Weekly                                                       

7 PM  Film Life of Katharine Lee Bates             

Wednesday May 21  4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Weekly Town Clock

++++    Info Tabling:  Saturday noon Town Clock; Friday or ? Water St. Bridge Bus Stop

++++   Follow-Up on Justin/Athena TRO/trauma suggestion?

++++   MHCAN Funding Cut Crisis and Background

++++   Legislative followup on various state bills

++++   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;

++++   Low 70s Thurs and thru the week; no rain…getting warmer

++++   Fremont lawsuit:https://eagleera.org/2025/04/27/california-homeless-union-and-advocates-sue-fremont-over-controversial-camping-ban/   Background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZt<<4ZMINEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT_d9BFEzYA

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

++++   Reggie & Gaia’s report on Citation for “Homeless Crime”  

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

++++   New Street Spirits  and Street Sheets available.   Mid-month Street Sheet stories available on line https//www.streetsheet.org/ . Hard Copies of both may be 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)

++++   People First Free Guides: https://peoplefirstscc.org/freeguides for S.C., Watsonville, SLV, Free Phones, Youth, Housing Waitlist, Pet Food, Addiction, Immigrant Storm Relief, SLE, Diaper Bank, and more (unchecked for usefulness)
++++   https://peoplefirstsdcc.org/freeguides SC Free Guide  (Correction & updates needed) + many others

++++   SHOC (Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee)’s newspaper Homeward— https://sxacshoc.org/homeward/

++++   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/

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides May 11, 2025 show features “Scope-It-Out” Scott Graham on Tuesday’s Shitty Council Meeting+ a Flashback to September 5, 2005 on the Medical Marijuana struggle

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The May 11, 2025 show includes:

+++  “Scope it Out” Scott fleshes out gloomy prospects at Tuesday’s S.C. Shitty Council

+++   [throughout] David Rovics “A [Musical] History of the World” 2011-2013

+++   Scott reviews the Downtown Expansion Plan as B-South of Laurel under cover.

+++   Phone interview with HUFFster “Tough Haul” Troy, the ordeal of S.C. outside living.

+++   Mid-April Food Not Bombs [FNB] interviews: Louisa Carolli on forced drugging in Santa Cruz. “Still Standing” Stephanie Ross on dangerous fungus among those outside….Smiley Big returns to the area looking for more activist opportunities: “No Cages, Please!” Jay speaks up…

+++    [5-5-25]  Visionsong Valerie strums and sings; Karefree Kelly, Midtown Madeleine.

+++    Billy Quealy on the Housing Struggle and Shitty Sheltering

+++    “Katzenjammer” Keith on FNB‘s financial problems in a wide-ranging rant.

The Flashback to September 5, 2005 includes:

+++  Christine of San Jose’s Area 420 working on guidelines, ID cards, but opening dispensary?

+++  Bathrobespierre and Troublesome Thomas Leavitt interview columnist and music critic Bruce Bratton and his establishment and alternative media days.

+++  Earthmommer and Lighthouse Linda fire questions at Bratton, while he describes his dismissal from Sentinel and Metro

+++   Bratton on Public Access and the Beach Boardwalk; Bathrobespierre critiques Bratton’s media silence on homeless and poverty issues, who pleads ignorance on those issues.

+++   “Lighthouse” Linda on her shelter priorities on the 1999-2000 Homeless Issues Task Force

+++   SAFE event #83 interviews with Hot Rod John Rapport, “Green Man”, Dan Hemmingway, Don Filano, Jennifer Lawson, Thomas Robb in the specifics of police harassment

+++    LisaMolyneux on her about-to-open medical marijuana club Greenway 

+++    “Dangerous” John Thielking reads HRO [Human Rights Organization] correspondence to and from Mayor Mike Rotkin.

+++    Ukiah’s Pebbles Trippet joins Bratton in denunciation of the Red Cross in the Hurricane Katrina crisis in New Orleans

+++    “Visionsong” Valerie asks about Katrina style suffering in Santa Cruz.

+++    Criticism of Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods.  

+++    “Road Scholar” (aka Gregarious Greg) and Leavitt on high rents also trap houseless here.

+++     Counterpunch stories on the U.S. Iraqi occupation

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides May 8, 2025, show is a Flashback from April 9, 2000 featuring co-host James Nay, UCSC Melissa, Sleeping Ban Hunger Faster David Silva, Catnip Kate Wells, and more…

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The May 8, 2025 show is a Flashback to April 9, 2000. 

It includes:

  • Co-Host James Nay joins Bathrobespierre Robert throughout
  • [4-5] Felton’s Happy Camper—adventures on street and shelter
  • Blake Smith and Rev. Snow—both from Sacramento’s SHOC.
  • Melissa Goldberg, UCSC student’s “Throwing the Homeless out of their Homes” paper
  • Dead-on David Silva on futile negotiations, Green Party’s vote to join CD against City Council’s Tuesday Sleeping Ban silence, and his own Fast to end the Ban.
  • Skidmark Bob’s “Skinheads with Underwear on Pacific Avenue” report
  • Attorney Catnip Kate Wells on medical marijuana reform proposals + her new (soon to be zoned away) medical marijuana club; updates local homeless court cases
  • Battling Bob L., Lighthouse Linda L., and “Lotta Law” Eleanor pack in updates.
  • Nay on his Chalking “End the Sleeping Ban’ on the sidewalk with erasable chalk.

HUFF beams in the sunshine 1:30 -3:30 PM at the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific, S.C. next to the Bike Church

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Ruf Suggestions for HUFF 5-8-25 Agenda

Http web addresses are for background reading or listening.   Many items are really signposts & reminders of where we’d be going if and when we find the person power, time, interest, and resources.  We are gathering information and evidence to challenge the Dominant (False) Police and City Manager Narrative.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them. AGENDA SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

 
Top of the Agenda (+ Quick Announcements)(a brief broad survey)

++++   Review Agenda—Flag Possible Action Items

++++   Possible Handouts:  Agenda Suggestions; TBA   Passarounds: Berkeley Encampment Removal; Armory Poll; Recent Flyers

++++   Street and sweep reports from the last week;

++++   “Funding Matters” March “to End Homelessness”  Sunday: Report?

++++   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cuRi-cblDINever Again—Moss Landing

++++   Gaia’s update on Capitola Mobile Home owners resistance to huge rent raises

++++   Evan Morrison (Armory Shelter) report/audio from Tuesday meeting & tabling follow-up: http://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/1%20FRSC%205-4-25.mp3 (about 9 minutes and 20 seconds into the audio file)

++++   Saturday May 10 4-6 PM  Housing Santa Cruz County Hotel Paradox  611 Ocean St  Doc Sam Tsemberiz for 2025 Affordable Housing Month Poverty Pimperie $35 ($10 if a student).

++++   Various legacy media stories.

++++   Free Events (for demonstrating, organizing, leafleting, or enjoying)             

Saturday 11 am- 1 pm Ocean & Water anti-war picket             

Monday 4:30 -5:30 PM  Ocean & Water Indivisible  speakout—(about Trump/Biden domestic policy, also a likely Dem Party organizing event)             

Next Saturday May 17 7;30-9:30 PM 155 River St. S.C. The Film Encampment

++++   Report from Armory Bus Stop Tabling; Prospects; Where to Leave off  Results?

++++   MHCAN Funding Cut Crisis and Background: Laura C.

++++   Legislative followup on various state bills

++++ Evan Morrison meeting report/audio; next meeting slated for end of April;  Forward 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.

++++   70s weather today and through the weekend; cooler with possible showers Monday otherwise

++++   Fremontlawsuit:https://eagleera.org/2025/04/27/california-homeless-union-and-advocates-sue-fremont-over-controversial-camping-ban/   Background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZt<<4ZMINEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT_d9BFEzYA

++++   Court and Jail reports.  Others in court, at parole hearings, 5150ed

++++   Check-In for Thomas’s Tipzine

++++   Reggie & Gaia’s report on Citation Search for Selectively Enforced  “Homeless Crime”  

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

++++   New Street Spirits  and Street Sheets AVAILABLE.   Mid-month Street Sheet stories available on line https//www.streetsheet.org/ . Hard Copies of both may be 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)

++++   People First Free Guides: https://peoplefirstscc.org/freeguides for S.C., Watsonville, SLV, Free Phones, Youth, Housing Waitlist, Pet Food, Addiction, Immigrant Storm Relief, SLE, Diaper Bank, and more (unchecked for usefulness)
++++   https://peoplefirstsdcc.org/freeguides SC Free Guide  (Correction & updates needed) + many others

++++   SHOC (Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee)’s newspaper Homeward— https://sxacshoc.org/homeward/

++++   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/

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides May 4, 2025 show features HUFF activists questioning People First Shelter Boss Evan Morrison + Flashbacks to December 7, 1997 and December 21, 1997

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The May 4, 2025 show includes:

  • Discussion with People’s First Director Evan Morrison regarding Armory rules and outcomes with HUFFsters.
  • More musical history from David Rovics throughout
  • LawWatcher Laura C. lastest report from the Board of StuporVipers to fund MHCAN even at its reduced size.
  • Moments and Musings from the May 1st Rally and March 
  • San Jose Mayor Matt Mayhem Cracks Down on RV survival campers

The Flashback to December 7, 1997 includes:

  • Avery’s panhandling, leaning, and sitting on cardboard ticket
  • Bathrobespierre Previews 12-8 City Council, Updates the 11-12 SCPD Happy John Dine slaying, and Lang’s Levee Curfew
  • Callers sound off: Phil Free & V-Man give inside info and sharp criticism of law enforcers downtown
  • Pat Kittle outraged at those surviving outside demands Bathrobespierre denounce littering campers.
  • Beggarbacker Becky Johnson addresses the Magnet Effect and other hostile-to-the-homeless myths.
  • Chaz, aka “The Widget Man” & “Hapless Harry”, on a 7-cop cite

The Flashback to December 21, 1997 includes:

  • Tenant Tips from Marco Marconi of S.C. Tenant’s Union
  • Pamela Gardela’s “equal access” case after ticketed for sitting on a bus bench with a monthly bus pass.
  • “Happy” John Dine case Update and caustic commentary
  • Norse critic Mike Mason attacks his analysis of the “Happy John” killing on KSCO radio.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides May 1, 2025, show is a Flashback from February 14, 1999 featuring Skidmark Bob’s Terror Tales of Life with Officer Garner

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The show has some sound problems and cuts off before it conclusion.

The May 1, 2025 show is a Flashback to parts of the February 14, 1999 show.  Parts of the sound are distorted.  The show includes:

  • Political machinations around City Council’s Task Force to Examine the Camping Ordinance [TFECO]  and the 2nd   Citizen Initiative to Eliminate the Sleeping Ban
  • Audio testimony from a recent February 1999hearing
  • Skidmark Bob vs. Officer Garner & Sgt. Sanderson for Trashcan Crime with threats of CPS child removal
  • Skidmark gives more accounts of GrimGrip Garner’s  Abusive Behavior & SCPD’s Disappearing Tickets
  • Rough-tongued Roxanne satirically critiques “sinister singing” downtown
  • KSCO’s Steve Hartman on the Camping Ban (cuts off abruptly)

HUFF has May Day meeting May 1, 2025 at the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific Ave next to the Bike Church. Likely a shorter meeting

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Suggestions for the HUFF agenda :  Touching Base on Basic Issues 

HUFF Loose Cannons Meeting 5-1-25
Http web addresses are for background reading or listening.   Many items are really signposts & reminders of where we’d be going if and when we find the person power, time, interest, and resources.  We are gathering information and evidence to challenge the Dominant (False) Police and City Manager Narrative.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them. AGENDA SUBJECT TO CHANGE;  Athena will be running this “Loose Cannons” meeting with timely outbursts from me and others.    

                                          
Top of the Agenda (+ Quick Announcements)(a brief broad survey)

++++   Athena’s Agenda Items and Sequence Take Priority

++++   Review Agenda—Flag Possible Action Items

++++   Possible Handouts:  Agenda Suggestions; TBA   Passarounds: TBA

++++   Street and sweep reports from the last week.

++++   Rockhardo’s court case(s) and others upcoming

++++   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cuRi-cblDINever Again—Moss Landing

++++   Gaia’s update on Capitola Mobile Home owners resistance to huge rent raises

++++   Evan Morrison (Armory Shelter) report/audio from Tuesday meeting…Tabling follow-up?

++++   Various legacy media stories: 150 Unhoused People Face Eviction from Deschutes National Foresthttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/illegal-camping-arrests-are-soaring-in-sf-what-does-it-mean-for-the-homeless-crisis/ar-AA1CUKGx                  Vallejo protective injunction: https//calmmatters.org/housing/homelessness2025/03/Vallejo-injunction/

++++   Free Events (for demonstrating, organizing, leafleting, or enjoying) More perhaps TBA              Saturday 11 am- 1 pm Ocean & Water anti-war picket

++++   Follow-Up on Justin/Athena TRO/trauma suggestion?

++++   MHCAN Funding Cut Crisis and Background

++++   Legislative followup on various state bills

++++  Evan Morrison meeting report/audio; next meeting slated for end of April;  Forward 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.

++++   Mid 60s today and thru the week; no rain 

++++   Fremontlawsuit:https://eagleera.org/2025/04/27/california-homeless-union-and-advocates-sue-fremont-over-controversial-camping-ban/   Background:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZt<<4ZMINE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT_d9BFEzYA

++++   Court and Jail reports.  Others in court, at parole hearings, 5150ed

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

++++   Reggie & Gaia’s report on Citation for “Homeless Crime”  

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

++++   New Street Spirits  and Street Sheets maybe next week.   Mid-month Street Sheet stories available on line https//www.streetsheet.org/ . Hard Copies of both may be 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)

++++   People First Free Guides: https://peoplefirstscc.org/freeguides for S.C., Watsonville, SLV, Free Phones, Youth, Housing Waitlist, Pet Food, Addiction, Immigrant Storm Relief, SLE, Diaper Bank, and more (unchecked for usefulness)
++++   https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ypAexFGyrU_kCoM3dByRDDrobyR9H8wA/viewLatest SC Free Guide  (Correction & updates needed) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ypAexFGyrUkCoM3dByRDDrobyR9H8wA/view

++++    SHOC (Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee)’s newspaper Homeward— https://sxacshoc.org/homeward/

++++   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/

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides April 27, 2025 show: is largely Flashbacks to 1997 with fragments from November 9th, 21st, & 23rd featuring the V-Man, Eugene’s Charles Grey & Eureka’s Eric Duff

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The April 27,2025 is a series of Flashback segments.

The November 9, 1997 Flashback includes:

  • In-studio guest FRSC broadcaster Vinnie Lombardo (“the V-Man”)on police harassment for a FRSC table soliciting contributions
  • Bathrobespierre’s “Leaning” ticket and strategies for cop-resisting
  • Panhandling palaver
  • Pandabear Paul Brindel on Eric Schek opposes the Camping Ban
  • “Hapless Harry” aka Chaz on Court and Seaside Security thuggeries

The November 21, 1997 Flashback includes:

  •  Skidmark Bob’s 1st panhandling ticket in 6 years
  •  The Rotkin-Kennedy leadership’s stop Celia Scott from being Mayor
  •  Shadowside Sue’s report from Feed the People
  • Fred Geiger, Phil Baer, and many others on the Scott debate
  •  Charles Grey on Eugene’s Campaign for Legal Places to Sleep
  •  Reverend Eric Duff on 48 notice to strip Eugene’s South Spit Jetty

The November 23, 1997 Flashback includes:

  • Eddie Harris of the Sacramento Housing Alliance: Housing and Homeless Week
  • P. Free, D. Silva, B. Johnson, D. Dumars and J. Cosner speak at the Happy John memorial 
  • Bathrobespierre on the Citizens Police Review Board suborned by SCPD Chief Belcher

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides April 24, 2025, show is a Flashback from October 11, 1998

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The April 24, 2025 show is a Flashback to October 11, 1998. 

These are recovered fragments of the show.  Some of the sound is distorted. 

  • Lloyd Lawrence’s bizarre vehicular “camping” ticket while using a catheter
  • 5 electoral candidates support ending the Sleeping Ban?  Could it be true?
  • Bits from the Jolly Roger Comedy Troupe–“Community Policing Hotline”
  • Cooperhouse Ground Breaking Interviews: Identifying issues and villains.
  • Proposed “Shopping for Justice” (at Gottschalks) in Jerry Henry exclusion-harassment case by Attorney “Catnip” Kate Wells—charges dropped 
  • Wells outlines Chaz the Fidget Man assaulted by Seaside security.
  • Wells on other local cases: Frank Pucelik, Wanda, and David Hardy; her search for Marijuana Buyers Club property; cop’s “right” to lie in court without liability
  • “Activists Overcome Banishment Decree in Isla Vista”  Oct 1998 Street Spirit
  • Anniversary of Happy John Dine’s murder and cover-up on Nov. 12, 1997
  • Latest Sleeping Ban Backroom Exchanges—David Silva’s report
  • Cooperhouse Groundbreaking—a Look Back
  • Berkeley Billy on Shelter Abuses at the Homeless Community Resource Center
  • Review of The Celling—an expose of the U.S. Prison Industry