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The 8-23-26 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show features reports from the Killer Coonerty protest plus a Flashback to February 4, 2007 with Troublesome Thomas, Berkeley’s Doubledown Dan McMullan, and the Tactical Ice Cream Squad

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The August 23, 2026 show features:

  • [throughout] Anti-war cuts from David Rovics and Ai Tsumo’s wrenching pro-Palestinian historically specific songs
  • Bathrobespierre itemizes the anti-homeless laws and policies of “Fast Lane” Fred’ S.C. City Council and Ryan Coonerty’s anti-homeless record.
  • Text of Keith McHenry’s “Killer Coonerty” flyer
  • [8-23] Exchanges from the Killer Coonerty protest in front of the Bookshop Coonerty featuring Salinas video journalist Wes White, S.C. Homeless Union oldtimer Richard Lewis, curious passersby Kevin and Cole, Jasimine and Augie from Fresno.
  • “Whip ‘em into Shape” Wes describes he and a protest colleague being banned from the Bookshop Coonerty for walking through with a critical sign.

The Flashback to February 4, 2007 features:

  • Troublesome Thomas Leavitt with a critical view of Rent Control in Santa Monica
  • An audio tape from October 15, 1993 with Santa Cruz activists visiting a San Francisco Food Not Bombs protest and meal
  • Visionsong Valerie meets the Name That Tune challenge.
  • Pacific Avenue palaver: Panhandler Brett showcases his techniques; Marilyn’s view from her Al Fresco kiosk, Evan speaks out from behind the Silver Shop Ad sign, John M. provides personal insight on meth use and abuse.
  • Remember the work of heroic attorney for the unhoused Paul Sanford who defended the Camp Paradise survival campers and partially reformed the City’s harsh panhandling law.
  • “Congress has the power: who has the power, who has the will?” by Alexander Cockburn
  • Doubledown Dan Hamilton calls in from Berkeley with news about the People’s Park Free Box; Berkeley Liberation Radio,
  • Shadow Mayor Rotkin’s rotten record; Berkeley’s Tactical Ice Cream Squad visits UCSC
  • $275 ticket from Ranger John Wallace for a drop of beer in a recycled bottle (?!)
  • Round-the-State summary of homeless civil rights update

The 8-16-26 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show features reports from Kirill, Adrian, and Keith plus Flashbacks to 9-25-97, 10-12-97, & 10-19-97 on Eureka’s South Spit Jetty evictions, Marco & Donna’s SC Tenants Union, David Silva’s Council autopsy & more

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The August 16, 2016 show includes:

The Flashback to a segment of the September 25, 1997 show includes:

  • Skidmark Bob on the Net Enforce Team’s antics with its criminal Drug War policies
  • Katzenjammer Keith San Francisco Update around upcoming Police Brutality Day (Oct.22)
  • Donna Deiss and Marco Marokee introduce the Santa Cruz Tenants Rights Union [SCTU]
  • Closed Citizens Committee for the Homeless meetings & River St. mini-Shelter evictions
  • Jim, the Street Spirit newspaper versus predatory policeman David LeFavor
  • Eureka’s South Spit Jetty (Paradise beach) scandal

The Flashback to October 12, 1997 includes:

  • “Dead-On” David Silva deconstructing the upcoming City Council meeting
  • “Cornerstone” Carol Denney on the Wherry Housing CD sit-in and arrests occupying the vacant S.F. Presidio buildings
  • Eureka’s Dr. Wendy Ringand the Bogus Health Scare to run off the homeless 

The Flashback to October 19, 1997 includes:

  • Speeches and narrative from 10-18 Police Accountability Day in S.C.—marches to copshop and then the pokey
  • Marco of SCTU on contacting those getting Unlawful Detainers
  • Dr. Ann Linzy vs. Dr. Ring in the South Spit Jetty Eviction crisis in the Health Hazard hoax
  • More Police Accountability Day march audio and commentary

The 8-9-26 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show features a chilling account from activist Sean Dougherty on his citation for assisting the Coral St. survivors and a Flashback to March 18, 2012 at the start of the Occupy Santa Cruz Persecutions

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The August 9, 2026 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show features:

  • https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/07/after-nagasaki-against-the-politics-of-psychic-numbing/
  • Activist and Gaza Genocide Opponent Sean Dougherty on his Coral Street  Sweep Experience and Its Aftermath
  • [Topical political songs by David Rovics and Ai Tsumo throughout]
  • 8-8 Varied Voices at Food Not Bombs meal, some anonymous reports on shelter and services , Street Veteran Bruce, Sympathetic Steve E., Small Town Tommy
  • Coral St. report from Cooper D’Angelo and RoughRoad Russell.  A Wheelchair guy still waiting for his check

The Flashback to March 18, 2012 includes

  • “Troublesome” Thomas Leavitt and Bathrobespierre discuss the demurrer hearing of “Ground Zero” Gary Johnson
  • “Occupy” reports from San Luis Obispo, NYC’s Zocolli Park, and Santa Cruz’s Malicious Prosecutions
  • Outbursts against U.S. govt. outrages at home and abroad
  • Occupy defenders In S.F., Davis, and Santa Cruz push back.
  • Early March Foreclosure march interviews with Lawrence MacGregor (“Blue”),
  • Monday Nite Coffee House at Red Church:  Scott Galloway, Pregnant Couple Denied at Armory,
  • [2-15] Steven Samms, Street Guitarist,
  • K.C. on Johnson’s hearing
  • [2-17] Mark the metal polisher and street poet back from Portland  (facebook: Mark Sherman).
  • Dreamcatcher the nonspanger, CJ Stock, Brianna on violin, Ricardo Lopez, Eden, and office seeker Joseph Korea
  • [2-20] Hippie, Brian Parquette, Janet Loper and Tim Phipps: Armory expulsions among varied harassment incidents
  • Gary’s attorney Ed Frey on jury selection the next day
  • T on the San Quentin “Occupy the Prisons” protest
  • [2-14] Matt Nathanson of local SEIU
  • Making Contact: Nationwide Movement to “Ban the [Been Arrested?]Box”

The 7-30-26 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show presents a Flashback the May 13, 1996 show with Bobby Joyce of the SF Coalition and civil rights lawsuit; Ron Howard, direction of the SC shelter program, and Keith McHenry, fighting for food server rights

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The 7-30-26 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show presents a Flashback the May 13, 1996 show with Bobby Joyce of the SF Coalition and civil rights lawsuit; Ron Howard, direction of the SC shelter program, and Keith McHenry, fighting for food server rights  

The Flashback to May 13, 1996 includes:

  • [5-3] The S.F. Coalition on Homelessness’s Bobby Joyce, lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against Mayor Jordan & Brown’s Matrix describes continued sleepcrime ticketing of homeless in a City with 11,000 to 15,000 homeless with 1200 shelter beds.
  • Bathrobespierre’s short blurbs on the City Hall Sleepout in its 76th day cop abuse all around the town.
  • [5-3] Ron Howard, Operations Manager of the Interfaith Satellite Shelter Program [ISSP] with capacity of 28 in Santa Cruz describes the current homeless  lack of shelter situation.
  • Bathrobespierre describes the then-recent conflict between the Cannabis Collective and Free Radio Santa Cruz
  • Katzenjammer Keith McHenry San Francisco update and Amnesty International’s describing a Food Not Bombs volunteer convicted of food-serving facing a 2 months jail sentence bound for jail as a potential “prisoner of conscience”.