HUFF RUF Agenda Suggestions 9-5-24  

These are agenda suggestions and more guideposts than strict parliamentary requirements.  The agenda is also set by the participants of the meetings and a final copy will be distributed at the meeting.  

Top of the Agenda

++++   Street Spirits or Street Sheets next week.  Check on-line to read more current stories at  https://www.streetsheet.org/https://thestreetspirit.org/ ++++   Potential protest at Shitty Council 809 Center St.  1:30 p.m 9-10

++++   Thursdays 3:30 -4:30 pm (??)  at the Morrisey Blvd overpass over hiway 1

++++   Low 70s temperatures predicted for the next week; low 80s Thurs 9-5. ++++   Visiting City Mangler Matt Huffaker in his lair: possible protest

++++   Golf Club Drive Mutual Aid at the Green Gate Saturday morning?   

   Freeish Happenings:  

++++  S.F. Mime Troupe London Nelson 3 p.m. Sat 9-7, Sun 9-8 3 PM  

++++  Banned Book Protest outside Bookshop Santa Cruz Sunday 9-8  

++++  Really Really Free Market Sunday 9-8 Sub Rosa Courtyard 11 AM- 2 PM  

++++  The Brave and the Free meeting on Censorship at London Nelson 6 PM 9-9  ++++  Metro to S.C. County Fair at Watsonville Fairgrounds scmtd.com/en/countyfair 9-11 -9-13  

++++  Latino Role Models half-day conference at Cabrillo 9 am- 1p.m . Sat 9-14  

++++  Housing (Funding) Matters groundbreaking 10-11:30 AM 9-17 115B Coral                         

Standard Stuff: Procedures and Preliminaries  

++++   Passarounds & Handouts  https://www.streetsheet.org/sweeping-us-to-nowhere/;  

++++   Street Reports with focus on parking lot sleeper harassment  

++++   San Lorenzo Park Redesign Plan on Hold for Lack of Funding  

++++    MHAB Fallout : https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/08/26/18868955.php  

++++    The broader issue of the recent Coral St. and Pogonip police sweeps and sheriff/police abuses there is discussed at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/20/18868124.php  

++++   Escalating creation of foreign homelessness in Gaza and Ukraine as well as Santa Cruz raids on survival encampments may be a way of uniting with other protests such as Hiroshima events and week long vigil against Pinetta’s pro-genocide posture.                                                         

Reporting Back  

++++   Report back from Funding Matters (aka Housing Matters) Forum & Protest;  

++++   Armory Trip Report from Robert, Reggie, and Laura’s 9-6 Visit Audio coming up on 9-1 HUFF archives at https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  

++++   Watsonville/Sacramento/Statewide Reports from Wes White  

++++   Preliminary analysis of excuses used to destroy survival encampments locally such as the Camping Services and Standards Ordinance (“the Camping Ban”)

++++   Lessons learned from Keeley and Kramer 7Monday Afternoon Protests  

++++   Saturday  8-3 11 AM-12:30 PM Ocean and Water  Stop genocide and support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza now. No more tax dollars for Israel. End the occupation and the apartheid system. Free all hostages and prisoners. 11 am to 12:30 pm every Saturday. Help hold up banners. More info:  call Laura at 831-247-5332.

++++  New Gaza genocide protests at UCSC?                        

Closer Inspection

++++   Still searching out Surveillance Camera Location (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)

++++   Any posted notices of impending raids on existing camps?  Any court cases coming up?

++++   Examining MC 6.36 more closely—the Camping (Standards and Services Ordinance)  Ban.                                           

Possible Topics for Future Discussion

++++  Stop the War Against the Poor Sweeps/Raids + Gaza Genocide Lanyards?

++++  New  Strategies for Documenting Property Loss:  Case #, Receipts, Audio recordings

++++  Tourist Train Strategy & Spectacle Update: Locations?

++++  Cooling Center when extreme heat threatens?  Emergency gathering location

++++  Forming Specific Demands? (Stop the Sweeps, Reapportion funding to service existing camps)

++++  Govt. Reports:  (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board)

++++  Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MH CAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)

++++  Future Targets:    Tourist Train…City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission Office… Construction  Sites City Hall…​Emeline/TelcCare/Supes…     

Archived Net-Show Access: to read summaries of the shows:

Summary of August 15th  netshow:   https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-thursday-august-29-2024-show-flashes-back-to-april-23-1997-featuring-bill-beebee-s-f-liberation-radios-richard-edmonson-direct-action-marijuana-activist-dennis-pe/

Summary of September 1st   netshow https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-sunday-september-1-2024-show-features-act-now-worry-later-athena-at-huff-stop-sweeps-advocates-at-the-board-of-stupidvipers-bruce-mike-stefanie-more-fl/

The September 1, 2024 show includes:

• Rude voices from the HUFF [Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom] meeting of a late August meeting featuring “Act Now, Agonize Later” Athena, “Nutcracker” Nick, and others on strategies for speaking at Santa Cruz Shitty Council
• Bits from the “Stop the Sweeps” presentations of the County’s  Mental Health Advisory Board urgent “less cops, better training” advice to the Board of Stupidvipers led by “Lawseeker” Laura.
• Interviews from the 4^th August “Sweeps No More!” protest at Hiways 1 and 9 denouncing the Kramer-led Housing Matters (aka Funding Matters) from Bruce, Ocane, Magic Mike, and others
• [August 31] Old hand Steffanie and Idaho newcomers Michele and Titus assess bad times in the downtown library parking lot recently.
  

The Flashback to March 11, 2001, includes:

• “Steadfast” Steve Argue on the struggle to distribute Street Spirit, the homeless newspaper, against recurring police interference.
• Interview with Richard Edmonson, S.F. pirate radio broadcaster, and author of Rising Up: Class War in America from the Streets to the Airwaves  https://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/2001-3-reporting-from-the-center-of-the-struggle-001.pdf
• Attorney Larry Hildes, attorney for Columbus statue-smasher “Justman” Jim Cosner,  on the recent takedown in San Jose of the infamous conquistador and genocide master.
• In Studio Guests: Kiko and Veronica on a Racial Vehicular Stop
• Beggarbacker Becky and Bathrobespierre Robert scrutinize upcoming appropriations on the Shitty Council agenda; Green Party assembly resolution protecting residents of the Dolphin & Lee apartments.
• Citizen Police Review Board‘s public input on missing SCPD policy recommendations[Drug War, alcohol stings alcohol vendors surveillance, & prostitution harassment]; call for public hearings on Beach Flats crackdown, * more.

The Thursday August 29, 2024 show is a Flashback to April 23, 1997 which includes:

• In-studio guest Bill Beebee discusses his plans for a new alternative paper the Lighthouse Alternative Press 
• Phone Interview with Richard Edmonson of San Francisco Liberation Radio
• “Dead On” David Silva braves Bathrobespierre’s interruptions discussing the coming merger of Citizen’s Committee for the Homeless [CCH] and Gillette’s Homeless Community Resource Center [HCRC]
• “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson of CCH on the CCH-HCRC merger and SCPD shooting up Brian Andress’s house.
• Phone Interview with Marijuana provider, San Francisco’s Dennis Peron on his newly legal cannabis club
• Silva on the Initiative to End the Sleeping Ban & Canfield’s 3^rd Street Realignment
• “Bourgeois Bob” Lamonica on the dilemma of the property-less

The Sunday August 25, 2024 show includes:

• “Rough but Ready” Reggie Meisler’s Latest Update: Criticism of Housing Matters [HM], the recent protests against its pro-sweep policies, and the Tuesday August 27th Forum
• [throughout] Contemporary Phil Ochs memorial singer Zachary Stevenson…more of his stuff at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ituMorhb9pA
• HM and the stats showing increased drug fatalities following police sweeps destroying homeless communities.
• Speculation about the impact of changed management at the Overlook, the Armory, & the Tier 3 RV Program.
• City Council’s Tuesday move to increase street-sweeping disguised as “cleaning” as an anti-homeless measure.
• [8-19-24] Another in a series of Monday afternoon protests at Hiway 9 and 1 demanding HM start serving the majority homeless community, reform its stockade-style pro-police policies, treat clients as people, and stop encouraging the sweeps.
• California Homeless Union activist Wes White updates Sacramento Camp Compassion and introduces Emery, Harvard researcher.
• Erin from Auburn Tent City, HM evictee’s wait on their waiting list, 
• Keith McHenry examines Mayor Fred Keeley’s claims on reduced Santa Cruz homelessness & HM CEO Phil Kramer removing homeless camps.
• Lucy, a veteran of SCPD and UCSC police abuse in the campus Gaza protests, joins the homeless struggle.

The March 15, 2008 Flashback includes:

• [Selections from Young Frankenstein—the Musical throughout]
• Copwatching & recording a stop of Peter Ziegler by Officer Aldritch
• In studio guest Craig Canada describes his upset loud response to being thrown out into the rain by cops; harassment for outdoor marijuana medication
• Judith Scheer Berkeley Daily Planet on assault of Code Pink antiwar activists there; audio of Lois Atkinson, Berkeley activist there + visiting Santa Cruz activists
• Michael Diehl on Berkeley cops new citing only if outside sleepers refuse an available shelter bed.
• Mike Laselle arrested and beaten bloody by SCPD in a cop car outside the Asti [2-7]
• [3-12] Stefanie’s advice for cops who demand babies stop crying.
• “Dangerous John” T. on the San Jose trial of James Vivian ticketed for violating park closing hours when the park was open.
• Fresno report from Rhodes of bulldozers destroying campsites.
• Dino calls from Eugene, OR supporting Ron Paul
• [3-13] J.P. Freeman on cop theft of his raincoat right before the rain.
• Winter Soldier Hearings 3-14 – 3-16 excerpts

The Thursday August 22, 2024 show is a Flashback to August 14, 2014 which includes:

• Election events [2014] with Laney Sherman, Bruce Van Allen, a forum, Board of Stupes with Pleich of the ACLU proposing a night-time moratorium on the Sleeping Ban  https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/08/16/18760128.php  [Upcoming Events and Unanswered Questions Flyer for Candidates & Public”]
• Update for the Santa Cruz 11 [Final Four still being falsely prosecuted for the peaceful 3-day occupation of the 75 River St. vacant bank building]
• [8-13-14] Ranger gives citation and stay-away to an “alcohol in the park” offense; Corinna repeatedly cited for “survival sleeping” by the same cop
• Announcement and Discussion of Repeated Protests against Israeli attacks planned
• Doc Mike presents audio of Isabel Brena’s story of police harassment for displaying art downtown with her little girl with permit, surrounded by 7 cops; witness Briana Brewer’s account of SCPD Barnett’s ticketing.
• [8-10-14] Grant Wilson on successful flight to stop the SC Parks and Rec from revoking a permit customarily given to the S.F. Mime Troupe to play in San Lorenzo Park
• [8-11]  Sarah on Sanctuary City; Bathrobespierre critiques Deputy Chief Clark’s”Crime Wave in the Pogonip”

The Sunday August 18, 2024 show includes:

• Athena’s futile search at SCPD HQ for property taken by Police and Public Works in the Golf Club Drive sweep
• [at intervals throughout] Historical human rights songs by David Rovics
• “Scope It Out” Scott Graham’s continuing analysis of the June Santa Cruz City Council’s agenda
• Macklemore’s “Anthem for Gaza is a Rarity of Protest Song in an Era of Apolitical Music”
• [8-12 a.m.] Melinda at Coral St on the morning after police threats emptied the area; Eric Lopez on the homeless scene; More Accounts from Demon and others
• [8-12 p.m.] Wes White on the purpose of the weekly Hiway 1 & Hiway 9 “Stop the Sweeps” Protest reports on Sacramento & else; Alan Fisher reports on the week long vigil outside the offices of Rep Panetta the previous week; Foodfinder Drew reports on the impact of Sweeps on the Food Not Bombs family.
• “Let it Loose” Laura Chatham on the “Stop the Sweeps” letter to the Mental Health Advisory Board
• Julia: anti-genocide activist speaks up for street rights for those who live there.
• Rovics sings and plays for the Sweep Stopper protesters and describes his recent works and struggles
• [8-16] Wes White’s report from Sacramento’s struggling Camp Resolution and elsewhere around the state.
• Kim Iverson Interviews Keith McHenry [“We’re being duped about the Homelessness Crisis: the Dark Truth behind the Clean-up Efforts”.  For the short version go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avZZTAfUr44.  Longer video version also available at https://rumble.com/v5b863f-were-being-duped-about-the-homelessness-crisis-the-dark-truth-behind-the-cl.html 

The Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides August 15, 2024 show is a Flashback to February 10, 2011. 

It includes:

• [throughout] old songs by Laura Nyro; Smooth-tongued Steve Pleich co-hosting
• [12-31-10]  New Year’s Eve chat with “Naughty Santa”, Baltimore, Dreamcatcher, and more
• Phone interview with Dan McMullan, Berkeley Director of People Outside Project on how police disabled him in People’s Park, the pro-Business “Hosts”, the punk promises of Governor Brown, & updates on shelter beds, and the “Free Box”
• Comparing Berkeley and Santa Cruz protests linking local business discrimination and foreign war support
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTCr3dtDv1o “Ron Paul, Ralph Nader, agree on Progressive-Libertarian Alliance”
• Lighthouse Linda Lemaster on the new homeless census and new court “security” system
• Controversy at the Red Church: “Violence” Claims There

The Sunday August 11, 2024 show includes:

• https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/30/us/los-angeles-homeless-newsom.html 
• https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/us/newsom-homeless-los-angeles.html
• Rovics:  “My Daughter” 
• Keith McHenry on Counterspin: https://fair.org/home/the-problem-is-theres-no-place-for-anyone-to-go/
• https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/us/newsom-homeless-los-angeles.html 
• Rovics:  “Who Will Tell the People?” song and radio station KPFA reformer defense
• “Scope it Out ” Scott Graham’s Critical analysis of the June Santa Cruz City Council Agendas: 6-11 #21.1 Internal Expansion of SCPD; Eureka-Arcata gentrification report
• Rovics:  “Today in Yemen” (some years old)
• Graham denounces Council’s 6-11 #20 banning gas-powered leaf blowers exempting govt. leaf blowers; #10 $4.3 million for Evan Morrison’s People First Armory program but who’s getting paid what to do what?, #11 $500,000 to Community Bridges for mandatory bus transportation (those with jobs excepted)
• Rovics: “Butcher for Hire” (Police Boss John Timeney)
• [8-4]  Voices from Sunday’s Food Not Bombs Feed: Bill A, Otter,
• [8-4]  Heather MacCauley on Tent Removal near the Town Clock; Keith on 8-5 protest, Cooper’s instructive rage, “Tough Road” Thomas 
• Rovics: “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy”
• [8-5]  4^th Funding Matters [FM] [aka Housing Matters or HM] protest at Hiway 1 and 9: Reggie Meisler: “Sweeps Kill” + RV Update
• Rovics: “Lola Aglialoro”
• More “Funding Matters” protest voices: Alicia Kuhl, Bathrobespierre Robert, Mental Health Advisory Board’s letter urging police cutback and better training to the Board of Supervisors
• Manny on his homeless days, personal contact with Funding Matters boss Phil Kramer when he was teaching
• Rovics: “The Progressive Zionist”
• Peter Pan, Thomas—on the local impact of SCOTUS’s overturning of Johnson v. Grants Pass
• “One of Us”, a badly paid FM worker, on his time there
• Rovics: “A Song for Aaron Bushnell”
• Testimony passed along in FM from a current worker there​

The Flashback to October 21, 2024:

• Council candidate, Camping Ban opponent, and Co-host Steve Pleich reports on Homeless [Lack of] Services Center remaining silent on hard facts of no shelter available April through October before anti-homeless folks.
• Battle-ready Bob Patton on fight to reopen the Vet’s Hall
• Drum Circle Dave on bathroom baloney downtown
• [10-15] Ray on Prop 36 Drug Diversion stumbling blocks in S.C. courts, move-along law violation
• Santa Barbara settlement ACLU in August 2009 dropping their lawsuit against the Camping Ban
• City Sleeping Ban as infraction versus state Lodging Ban discussion for S.C. protesters
• Fresno report from Mike Rhodes
• “What’s Wrong with the Sit-Lie Law [in San Francisco]?” article: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/05/us/05bcjames.html

The Thursday August 8, 2024 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show is a Flashback to August 29, 2010.  It includes:

• [8-26-2010 or so]FRSC Broadcaster and protest supporter Coral Reef & Bathrobespierre Robert give reports from Peace Camp 2010 [PC 2010] on Sgt. Harms’ SCPD arrival turning on the klieg lights harassing the activists; Onwatcher Wayne’s “tents and toilets” suggestion.
• Zachary Jeff Ryan on Sgt. Harms threats to seize his and John Valley’s property; early morning ticket’s reports on ticketing of Dianne, Todd, John Valley, Blindbear Robert Facer, and others.
• https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/29/18657054.php?show_comments=1#18657058 [“Weathering the Police Storm at City Hall“]
• [8-24-2010]  Hot day’s march from City Hall to SCPD HQ to reclaim police-stolen property: Sara & Dreamcatcher
• “Tie-’em-up” Tricia Husome, SCPD Records Withholder, threatens activists documenting the copshop visit
• “Traveler” Elisse Casby and “Active to a Fault” Activist Attorney Ed Frey in-studio guests
• Frey on the “Sinister Sidewalk Singing” charge against Blindbear for singing a political song during the day.
• Alex Bender, Ocean & others evicted from the SCPD lobby; Becky Johnson reports on the lobby lockout; more reports on the aftermath
• Bathrobespierre responds to critical media (Santa Cruz Weekly)
• Closing down the Drum-Circle-in-Flight along the levee with a “Demonstration Garden”
• Sgt. Harms debates with Bathrobespierre on “when cops can lie”.
• Another expedition to retrieve property from cop lock-up.

The Sunday August 4, 2024 show includes:

• Cavalcade of protests recent and upcoming around the Gaza genocide and the homeless removal sweeps
• Rovics in narrative and song on the exploitive relationship of Spotify with musicians like him.
• https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20240729/281685440107562 [Pre-Trial Inmates lose Minimum Wage Fight]
• [7-28] Juan on probs with Funding Matters (which calls itself “Housing Matters”)
• [7-31] Tamorack on changing Santa Cruz and successful ayahuasca therapy versus cancer
• Phone Interview with “All-In” Athena on her support and copwatching of the 7-29 Golf Club Drive sweeps
• [7-29] Sara, Pogonip resident, forced to move on but no shelter offer; Lisa & Daniel—another ousted residents.

The Flashback to August 12, 2010 includes:

• [8-11-2010] P.J.  PeaceCamp 2010 [PC2010]’s new protest hub demanding decent services for those outside.
• Crow & Red, vandwellers, who displayed protest sign and cleaned up trash
• Bathrobespierre on Robert Facer’s court case: the background and basis of the months-long PC2010 Protest
• A hoarse Curbhugger Chris Doyon on the new protest spot; Channel 8 News talk with Bathrobespierre & Chris
• Wes Modes “walking in a parade without a permit” ticket [“Three Decisions in Court in the Wes Modes “Parading Without a Permit” Case“] at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/13/18656055.php
• Curbhugger’s on-the-stream Day One at City Hall for PC2010
• [8-12] “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster’s on her night at City Hall with PC2010 during the SCPD busts