The Thursday March 14, 2024 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides is a Flashback to 2004 and features the Robert Wagner Memorial, Cries against the Coast S.C. Hotel, and interviews galore + a further Flashback to Norse v. Rotkin in February 1994 on KSCO

The Thursday March 14, 2024 is a Flashback to December 5, 2004. 

It includes:

  •  Robert Wagner, dead in the cold while sleeping outside City Hall: intro and preliminary comments about City Council
  • [12-2]  Voices from the Wagner candlelight vigil outside City Hall: “Visionsong” Valerie Christy, “Big Drum” Brent Adams, Christina, Samm, 
  • Robert Etcetera’s on Robert Wagner and current controversies around the Vets Hall
  • The proposed Coast S.C. Hotel and its impact on the Clearview Court mobile home tenants; Ralph Meyberg’s commentary.
  • [11-26] Sidewalk Scofflaws outside Borders—Skateboarder Dan Hemmingway
  • [11-27] Musical (aka Merryweather] Mike
  • Iraq Occupation and Resistance: “Informed Comment” by Juan Cole www.juancole.com; “Gunman Ambushed Bus of Civilians”, “How Pat Tillman Died”
  • Flashback within a Flashback: February 1994 debate: Bathrobespierre Robert Norse vs. Riot Act Mike Rotkin (current Mayor) on KSCO-AM
  • Music of undetermined origin—perhaps from​ Uncle Dennis’s “From the Cream to the Dregs”

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday March 10, 2024 show has conversations with Cornerstone Carol Denney and Street Chess Club Founder Jesse in Berkeley, Reggie Meisler on the fight back against the City’s homeless RV ban, and a 1994 Flashback

The Sunday March 10, 2024 show includes:

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday March 7, 2024 show is a a Flashback to December 27, 1998 featuring co-host James Nay, with Pat K., Bob L., Roxanne A., David S, Becky J., Phil F., Linda L. on Karen Gillette, Homeless Community Services Center boss

The Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides March 7, 2024 show is a flashback to December 27, 1998.  It includes:

  • co-host and guest James “No Nonsense” Nay describes terminal times as a Monitor Manager at the Winter Armory Shelter
  • Caller Bob Lamonica discuss “relocation camps” for the homeless with Nay
  • Caller Phil Free scorches Homeless Community Resource Center [HCRC]’ manager Karen Gillette
  • Nay and a caller review the positives of the HCRC and Karen Gillette
  • Beggarbacker Becky Johnson, Lighthouse Linda Lemaster, & Sidewalk Shannon Cassamo review the[10-21-98] Mid-County Post article heralding Gillette as “The Advocate”; caller  Pat Kittle calls in with criticisms of homeless litter.
  • Lamonica and Rough-Tongue Roxanne Acquistepache on “the Magnet effect” if human rights are to be restored for the homeless
  • Dead-On David Silva on the upcoming “Don’t Sleep Tonight” Night and the Initiative to End the Sleeping Ban
  • Nay gives more details of his HCRC job and firing

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday March 3, 2024 show covers last Tuesday’s “Fuck Your FEMA Camps!” protest at City Hall plus rueful ruminations in the rain at FNB + a Flashback to April 11, ’04: with NYC squatter Frank Morales & Steve Argue

The Sunday March 3, 2024 show includes:

  • at interludes throughout the show: Dave Lippman’s melodic & satiric sarcasm
  • “Yes, They Are Coming for the Homeless”  https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/02/27/18863521.php
  • [2-27] “Fuck Your FEMA Camps!” Protest inside and outside Shitty Hall against Santa Cruz’s implicit collusion with state and feds
  • Sophie on Armory pluses and minuses from a transsexual perspective  
  • Dialogue with Cop Shutting Down the Bullhorn  
  • Bits of Oral Communication at Shitty Council“Fast Lane” Fred interrupts Meeting for Keith’s “Fuck you, Fred” response​; Keith’s commentary
  • Street view from a Renter—according to George
  • Petitioning up in Scotts Valley; Nicolas on unnecessary misery with closed shelters in rain and wind
  • Jay ousted from parking garage cover into rain; Art on pretext pullover
  • Cody—watching from Food Not Bombs meal and Daylight Drew’s report from the chow line

The Flashback to April 11, 2004 includes: 

  • Anita Henry of Med-X, Medical Marijuana distribution service, co-hosts through most of the show.
  • Preview of Frank Morales—The Squatter Movement Seizing Housing—on Guns and Butter: Anita and caregiver caller Mathew react
  • Bathrobespierre previewing City Council: the coming sell-out of the Clearview Court Rent Control; Bathrobespierre’s lawsuits; Steve Argue’s move-along arrest; cops on high-school campus; and more.
  • Anita:  Medical Marijuana in the News: city, state, and nation-wide update
  • Congo Ray—caretaker and jack-of-many-trades—on recent life in an RV
  • HUFF & PUFF—discussing sidewalk distribution of free medical marijuana to protest failure to allow distribution centers in town
  • 1 ½  hours with Frank Morales on the phone—11 buildings and the squatter path to legality
  • Dealing with Urban Poor by destroy the housing and whole neighborhoods in south Bronx in order to disperse them: special deconcentration; defending in court and by calling the neighborhood to physically support with direct action.
  • Rather than reconcentrating thru housing creation, authorities lowered habitability standards and started warehousing with “shelters”.
  • “Steadfast” Steve Argue struggle against the Move-Along law limiting tabling for vendors, petitioners, musicians to 1 hour.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday February 29, 2024 show is a Flashback to September 7, 1997 featuring Bathrobespierre’s First “Leaning” ticket, Berkeley’s “Cornerstone” Carol Denney, & “Wild Will” Hastings + more

The February 29, 2024 show is a Flashback to September 7, 1997 and it includes:

  • [throughout] Various musical selections from the Marat/Sade theater piece
  • Garland and Whitney on vehicle seizure at an alcohol checkpoint in San Mateo County—a possible Driving While Black stop
  • Bathrobespierre Robert’s first “Leaning” citation from Officer David LaFaver
  • Matt. Dan, Jacob, and Robecca on various unwarranted police intrusions
  • Larry Turnell on anti-homeless Sitting Ban in Santa Barbara and other obscenities
  • Karen Gillette’s Homeless Community Resource Center banning people from eating at the Free Meal
  • Santa Barbara’s Legal Defense Center attorney “Wild Will” Hasting on the City’s general sleeping ban excepting 5 parcels
  • “Cornerstone” Carol Denney on phony “blocking a sign”, “standing in the roadway” tickets and a Council vote on pepper spray use.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday February 25, 2024 show S.C. protests against the punishment of Julian Assange, Fox on S.C. psychiatric shenanigans & Keith on upcoming protests +a fuzzy Flashback to Nov. 16, 1995: Open-air shelter defense

The Sunday February 25, 2024 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:

  • “Free Julian Assange” Protest at Ocean & Water (Starbucks) corner with commentary from Greg on his encounters with “the Deep State”; the 2024 progressive activist scene;
  • [Satirist and social critic Dave Lippman songs throughout the show, lifted from the internet]
  • Jillian on Snowden and other more local figures;  Drew on the “Scamdemic”
  • Wes the photojournalist: Salinas Council Vote continuing sweeps of the homeless
  • Keith distributing flyers on “First They Came for the Homeless” and the Cicero Institute/CIA conspiracy to “round ’em up”; mental health malpractice in Santa Cruz;
  • “Fox” on experiences in shrink shops, including TeleCare, Santa Cruz’s own psych holding ward and transmission belt to other “hospitals”
  • Food Not Bombs fellowship with Blue (Lawrence MacGregor) on the ups and downs of apartment life; “R” on tobacco smoking as a health benefit; Keith on organizing for a Tuesday “Fuck Your FEMA Camps” protest at City Council; Dylan on forced psychiatric “treatment” in prison

The November 16, 1995 Flashback includes: 

  • UCSC student Mike working on the history of Homeless resources
  • Louis on stays at the River St. mini-Shelter and Carota’s Jesus, Joseph, and Mary shelter
  • Dianna, the street jeweler, on a successful resolution of a dispute with Georgianna’s Cafe (then next to the Bookshop Coonerty)
  • Colorful accounts from Alex, Gypsy, Cosmo, Kelly, and Bubbles—on subjects ranging from love to rape.
  • Bathrobespierre Robert and Crossroads Chris Brozda on the Open-Air Shelter-destroying Page Smith Community House
  • Billy and Dusty on the San Francisco scene.
  • Further Flashback to January 1, 1994: Sgt. Reedy’s New Year’s Eve riot
  • Skidmark Bob and “Rolling Thunder” Mike Sheridan on cops and campgrounds.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday February 22 2024 show is a Flashback to February 27, 2003 with commentary and comments from Jeffrey Gale, James Cosner, Sophie, C.J. Stock, and others

The Thursday February 22, 2024 show is a flashback to February 27, 2003 and includes: 

  • Co-host Jeffrey Gale gives commentary at various points
  • Cannabis activist and researcher Rosenthal flawed trial?  https://www.counterpunch.org/2003/02/26/mistrial-rosenthal-jurors-say-they-received-outside/
  • Sophie of UCSC’s Standing United for Peace discusses limited UCSC protest against the Iraqi war & other protests around town
  • Beggarbacker Becky Johnson’s chalking trial:  https://www.counterpunch.org/2003/02/22/hopscotch-rebellion/
  • Listener Benito from Germany calls in, comparing European situation on marijuana and anti-war reaction
  • Songs from C.J. Stock; Renik, sidewalk solicitor, on recent cop hassles; John Maurer; Wesley and Janet Harrison on bench removal; Gabe and Bathrobespierre exchange puns; John W on Officer Brandt; Tim W accuses Parking Enforcement of possible vandalism; 
  • “City Council Ducks War; Kennedy Ducks Subpoena; Golder Gets Banned” Flyer
  • Gale urges Tax Refusal and Sit-Down Strike against threatened Iraqi War
  • “Justman” James Cosner on Upcoming Speak-Out Against the War.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday February 18, 2024 show spotlights Salinas activist Wes White, Alicia Kuhl’s critique of Encompass, cops stealing tarps & blankets before a rain and a Flashback to March 6, 2005: Protest critiques and tips

The Sunday February 18, 2024 show includes:

  • David Rovics roars out songs (lifted from you-tube) throughout.
  • “Whip ‘Em Into Shape” Wes White on the outcome of his protest arrest, police exclusion from a public event, and more
  • Bathrobespierre casts a caustic eye on the S.C. City Council’s latest grant to the SCPD for surveillance drones in spite of public opposition
  • Public comment unanimously opposing the drones and near-unanimously ignored by the City Council
  • Local activist Alicia Kuhl on her recent departure from Encompass; homeless legal battles here and elsewhere; 
  • “Take it to the Max” Troy and “Hurricane” Helga on brutal police tarp seizures along Coral St. in the rain

The Flashback to March 6, 2005 includes:

  • Peppertongue” Pat Ring recalls 1996 struggles in and out of court around the City Hall Sleepers Vigil that went on for nearly 7 months
  • UCSC activists at an anti-war forum looking for old lessons in the ongoing struggle against the Iraqi war
  • Ralph Meyberg speaking and organizing pressing for a referendum on the City Council’s Coast Hotel Project
  • Clearview Court survivor Liberty on the implications of the Coast Hotel project for residential coach owners there
  • Fighting back against the Public Comment constriction at City Council—a detailed example.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday February 15, 2024 show is a Flashback to January 9, 2005 including the voices of Roger Etcetera, Joe Williams, Jane Kyser, and many others–with music aplenty from Phil Ochs, Anne Feeney, and more

The February 15, 2024 show is a Flashback to the Sunday January 9, 2005 show.  It includes:

  • Gloomy & gritty morning messages & intro
  • SAFE #48 [Society for Artistic Freedom of Expression, aka, Stop your Awful Foolish Enforcement or some such)– D. Roger Etcetera reporting on Animal and two homeless vets ticketed in the rain for shelter on the edge of a parking garage
  • City Council Update on the meaning of the Nazi salute (“Heil Krohn!”) court case; other “speed and ignore” Council procedures; Coast Hotel prep for fast track
  • Progress of a HUFF-motivated lawsuit against the Sleeping Ban
  • PIRC [Psychiatric Inmates Rights Collective] activist Jane Kysor on dangers of psychiatric drug compulsion for homeless 
  • Peppermint Patty on Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s silence on Iraqi war, and dark origins of psychiatry post-World War One.
  • Disabled in mobility Dan Hemmingway on forced medical treatment from paramedics, on maltreatment at Dominican Hospital
  • Jhond Golder update—banned falsely from all city offices for two years.
  • Bush’s lavish inauguration
  • Peace and Freedom candidate Joe Williams on the November 2004 election & local opposition to the Iraqi war locally
  • Bob Lamonica on American intervention abroad 
  • Music aplenty from the following show

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday February 11, 2024 show has Helga, Kazoo, Woodleaf, Cooper, Drew, and more and a Flashback to January 29, 2017 with Nate Kennedy, Carol Denney, Pat Colby, Dan McMullen & more + Freedom SleepOut #81

The Sunday February 11,2024 show includes:

The Flashback to January 29, 2017 includes:

  • Studio guest: origami cranescrafter Nate Kennedy—suggestions to City Council
  • “Battling Bob Lamonica vs. Bathrobespierre Robert on Councilmember Gone Lame (Don Lane) and his sorry record
  • Jah, prolific street Jeweler, on recent tickets from Park Rangers; “Pushback” Pat Colby on homeless runoff from outside the library, even during open hours.
  • “Still standing” Abbi Samuels and “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry on Food Not Bombs’s recent detente with a critic
  • “Blue: calls for cameras and witnesses for Freedom Sleepout #81
  • “Restless” Richard Lopez on local police state action around the downtown
  • Berkeley’s “Downhome” Dan MacMullan on the future of People’s Park
  • “Cornerstone” Carol Denney savages Berkeley City Council sell-outs
  • “The Sane Progressive” indicts DemParty symp Michael Moore for implicitly endorsing Bush-Obama warcrimes.