The November 28, 2024 show is a Flashback to November 18, 2012

which includes:

• [Next to Normal musical selections throughout the show]
• Danny Bishop, street doctor: anti-homeless rules and architecture on buses; keep solidarity with comrades
• [9-24-12] Red Church Interviews: Lito on City workers stealing and burning his drums; Red, Jennifers, Bullfeathers
• Pac Avenue Renee & Scott dole out burritos meals and worldly wisdom; Reported attack on Lee; Sweetstring Sue on her amplified music ticket; brutal police stop of son Joe and father;  
• Void, Nevin, Faden, and Toby on Halloween police excessive force
• Toby’s H.D. Camera stalking cops on Halloween and seeking copwatchers to document Encampment Raids
• White cops (Officer Warren) with cars blocking the street stopping a black guy for a bike without a light.
• Mayor Gone Lame’s non-discussion of the Homeless [Lack of] Services Center & Special City Council meeting
• Community complaint Calls to HUFF
• “Battle Weary” Bob Patton on the Vets Hall struggle; others on the Sleeping Ban, new library exclusion rules
• Jo Ann of Dream Time Designs jewelry, 
• “Lighthouse” Linda, disabled mom and activist, on the Association of Faith Communities-style “services” list and also charged facing a year in jail for  “unlawful lodging’ for caretaking for a sick peaceful protester on the steps of the courthouse at night. 
• https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/01/15/18730225.php  “Convicted of “Unlawful Lodging,” Homeless Advocate Linda Lemaster Hopes to Abolish 647(e)”
• Brianna, Chief Blind Bullfeathers, Danny Fernandez on Pacific Street “Ticket Alert!” scene
• Sara, Neal, and Katie from Twin Lakes Church on their 3^rd visit downtown
• “Dead on” David Silva, “Silver-tongued” Steve Pleich, “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson and Bathrobespierre Robert discuss Lemaster trial as well as the paid shysters…
• Phil praises the 180/180 program.

The Sunday November 24, 2024 show includes:

• HUFF Hooplah: Segments of last Thursday’s 11-21 meeting including People’s Aid potluck and ongoing weekend lunches 1:30-3 at Hiways 1 and 9; ongoing protests against the Gaza genocide; street reports
• Mystical mumblings from Dylan Van Buren and a steady Food Not Bombs update from Dawnbreaker Drew
  

The Flashback to May 6, 2002 and May 10, 2002 includes (some out of order): [Go to https://huffsantacruz.org/archive01.html to hear the original uncut shows]

• Outward-bound Stan on his 7 open container tickets
• Counselor-at-law Chris Frederickson praises S.C. detoxing facilities
• Stephen Walton’s Letter from Jail accusing Deputy Mark Yanez of abuse following up on “Dead-on” David Silva’s claim in Street Shit Sheet #164 (https://www.huffsantacruz.org/streetsheet/street-shit-sheet-121-166%20(January%201993-2002%20and%202003%20and%202004%20and%202006%20and%202007).pdf   p. 177); Loney Burton’s account
• “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson’s hearing challenging seizure of her food stamps because her son Alex declined to be fingerprinted.
• Phone call from “Justman” Jim Cosner from jail in San Jose with accounts from fellow captives Steve & Dave
• Call-in from Santa Cruz Critic Michael “Tough-tongue” Tomasi
• S.C. City Council confidant Fred Geiger’s labor report and defense of the “progressive” Council.
• Tree account of a SCPD Pacific Ave. police-heavy arrest of Juan
• Union man Dan homeless with wife and dog
• Paul Reynolds account of the Court punishment for “displaying merchandise” for hemp jewelry—Baker ticket
• 4-29  Pac Avenue Street Scene
• Jolly Roger Comedy Troupe: Shooting at Corporatopilis 500
• Eleanor’s struggle with Mercy Housing against disability discrimination
• Judith on the Mercy Charities: questionable assurances & the El Centro deal  
• J.B. Associates corporate letter organizing tenants against local rent control
• “Green Party” Mayor Fitzmaurice’s record violating the Green Party platform supporting the homeless right to sleep
• Linwood makes car camping illegal.
• Berkeley voices: poet Julia Vinograd, Bruce Duncan Tele Times edition
• Bathrobespierre’s Updates: James Nay, Sleeping Ban history of the last year, and more
• Special guest: Jen Curry, stopped Jan 19,2002 by SCPD’s Butchie Baker for wrong-way biking on Pacific, day before Baker dismissed bicyclist Sean Duncan’s citation for being hit by a driver
• Curry’s account and appeal for witnesses
• [4-5-02] John Earth: update on food services and lack of services for the poor
• “Catnip” Kate Wells: chalking as free speech?…the Atwater decision…Capitola police’s Officer Murphy…Lori Andrus & Brian Andrus of the spring 1998 Button Street home invasion by SCPD Henig, Garrazio, and others…
• More on the El Centro controversy by Judith
• A second interview with Justman Jim Costner from jail

The November 21st 2024 show is a Flashback to August 5th, 1998. 

It includes:

++++ Black mom and activist Wanda Knight and companion Jordan Koran witness Knight being forced off the Canfield Boardwalk for speaking ill of the Ku Klux Klan in a private conversation.

++++ Prospects for a full discussion of Canfield’s 3^rd St. Expansion Redevelopment

++++ [8-1-98] Activist Larry Mulligan on San Diego cops rousting 240 people breaking promises

++++ Pacific Avenue cop hassles for sleeping/homeless status: Lucer, Gabriel Ryan

++++ Madcap Mark the Puppeteer hassled for using “nigger” puppets

++++ Jerry Henry, street minister and youth counselor, at “Ranco” Liquors at Aptos Rancho del Mar Shopping Center fighting harassment by Gottchalk’s, Coffee Roasting Company, to drive him away.

++++ FCC visits Pirate Radio (satire by Jolly Roger Comedy Troupe)

The Sunday Nov.17, 2024 show includes: 

• “Scope it Out” Scott Graham dissects the agenda of the November 19th Santa Cruz Shitty Council Meet  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uppRbWhhvEI&t=5265s
• “A Toast to the Union” sung by Carol Denney  Conflicting Voices
• Emory Paul’s Account of Visiting Many Chapters of California Homeless Union: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2s4Eq4LgiQ&t=29s
• San Rafael’s Mahon Creek Encampment Struggle: https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/08/09/federal-judge-san-rafael-can-enforce-homeless-camping-law/   https://www.marinij.com/2024/10/05/san-rafael-opens-authorized-camp-for-homeless/
• Conflicting Voices at San Rafael’s City Council Testifying on the “Feel Good” Token Encampment beating back court decisions first upholding, then dumping the civil rights of those outside: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uppRbWhhvEI&t=5265s
• Wes White on the Vallejo & Fresno homeless struggles and Emory Paul’s conclusions about the various Homeless Union chapters.
• [11-16]  Rachel’s Ruminations, Bruce’s Backbeat, Shawn on Anti-Homeless Hostility; Deep’s Dogmas
• Vehicle-dwellers, get out!: https://lookout.co/coastal-commission-says-santa-cruz-can-move-forward-with-westside-street-sweeping-program/  https://lookout.co/santa-cruz-street-sweeping-was-challenged-by-homeless-advocates-now-state-will-decide/

The Flashback to April 7, 2002 includes:

• Bathrobespierre on anti-homeless happenings in the local Green Party & its Homeless Working Group and Call to mobilize against City Council repression of dissent there.  
• “Bashful” Bernard K and Bathrobespierre Robert discuss Mayor “Cave-In” Chris Krohn; Bernard urges & Bathrobespierre rejects an election run for City Council.
• Santa Monica activist David Busch on the corporate “homeless” paper The Big Issue & Green Party sell-out
• “Catnip” Kate Wells on her four lawsuits against Capitola cop Murphy in Federal court & other police abuse
• Bathrobespierre on continuing weak police review, public bathroom scarcity, & upcoming Council agenda
• “Travelin'” Tom Noddy on police behavior towards “Cosmic Chris”, the street singer.

The November 14, 2024 show is a Flashback to May 4, 2017. 

It includes:

• Rana-Ghana, aka A Lone Spanger, writer for Austin TX’s Challenge homeless newspaper
• Keith McHenry & Bathrobespierre on a recent Police Review meeting involving the local ineffectual ACLU
• Kathy on Red Church crackdown on nearby sleepers; Julie Schaul on being profiled and tailed by Trader Jo’s security snoop Bill Nash
• “Black Students at UC Santa Cruz Protest Hostile Campus”at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/05/03/18799121.php  
• Brian Taylor on trials of a disabled houseless person in downtown Santa Cruz; Musical Mike and Bathrobespierre at the Red Church. 
• [5-1-24]  Claudio Martinez reporting on the Survival Sleepers on 4-20
• 6 Squadcars and more Cops at City Hall
• Rutabega Rick and Castaway Carol host a segment of Dennis Davie’s “From the Cream to the Dregs” show

The Sunday November 10, 2024 show includes:

• Interview with 2023-2024 Street Spirit editor Bradley Penner
• Jo’s Oral Communication Interrupted and Ignored on Toxic Anti-Homeless Sweeps outside Santa Cruz City Council
• Noah James Phippen—ski operator—on his job and income and oppression in the system
• Formerly homeless UCSCer and Genocide Opponent Caitlin on life as a continuing student
• End UCSC investment in Israeli genocide and suppression of peaceful campus protest letter
• Billi and Eddie on problems of exclusion from the Armory/LookOut and 1220 River St.

The Flashback to April 16, 2017 includes:

• Bathroom babble from the Long Hauler at the Red Church meal
• Many voices at the Michael Mear memorial including Abbi Samuels, Keith McHenry
• “Silver-Tongued” Steve Pleich on past discrimination for his homeless status and the SCCCCOR [Santa Cruz County Community Coalition] scorecard for anti-racist talk without anti-racist action.
• Survival Sleeper encampment resident Sheree Peterson and supporter Loudmouth Leith Austin speak out
• Report from Freedom SleepOut #92
• Carol Denney on Berkeley Mayor Areguin’s “Pathway to Housing” Hustle in Street Spirit
• Wes White’s video on the Michael Mear memorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwLwrX-nwW8&list=PLflVaWezcvDyKx1Loo9lirtZgBW1KWBsE&index=504

The Thursday November 7^th 2024 show is a Flashback to February 16, 2017. 

It includes:

• Santa Cruz D.A. Jeff Rossell’s press conference about deputy behavior during the SCPD slaying of Sean Arlt
• SCPD’s Lt. Barry and then City Manager Martin Bernal bar alternate media from entering public press conference at Police Community Room
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGnW82WWpww (“Blocked from Listening to Sean Arlt’s OIS SCPD Officers Named“)
• https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/02/16/18796574.php
• New obstacles to activist/media access to SCPD ticketing records around racial and class profiling.

The Sunday November 3, 2024 show includes: 

• “Come to Chicago and freeze on the streets!” audio, compliments of the Mayor’s budget plan:
• https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-migrants-city-merge-new-arrivals-shelter-program-state/15450230/
• Noon clock meal chatter: Victoria’ vicissitudes—cryptic and chaotic
• “Determination” Drew’s update on escalating police pressure downtown
• “Katzenjammer” Keith’s mini-update
• ACLU’s Guide on the Right to Post-Election Protest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGunox0UMSo 
  

The Flashback to November 20, 2016 includes: 

• [11-17]  Brian Aaron Denson’s lengthy & detailed expose of Homeless Lack of Services [HLOSC] (now Housing Matters) 2017 abuses as he did a three-night protest sleep-out on the doorstep of HLOSC.
• [11-8] Keith McHenry’s report on FNB‘s struggle in Florida & Arizona
• “Too bad the grown coward…sheriffs can’t take a 4” knife from a 15-year old…boy.”—on the Luke Smith killing
• McHenry at Freedom SleepOut #20 [FSO #20] on the SCPD’s Sean Arlt’s slaying and prospective protest actions
• Cornerstone Carol Denney [http://www.caroldenney.com/] on the election what “if I were the fuhrer”…
• Upcoming City Council Stormclouds: Public Hysteria Committee Report, Restricted Access to Parks and Levee
• Trading Barbs with Battling Bob Lamonica on the phone
• Councilmember Micah answers agenda council on Riverwalk; Merlin calls for city support for FRSC transmitter
• FSO #20: “Push Back” Pat Colby on her Protest demanding authorities release Sean Arlt slaying evidence; Dreamcatcher on ticketing in the library area;
• Bonum, Bean, Thor the huskie, Cage O’Malley “No Hobo” the guitarist & Curtis Reliford
• “Dead On” David Silva on the 12^th  day of His Sleep against Sleep Suppression
• Ricardo Lopez on Rangercrime & Abbi Samuels reading Rangers the riot act
• Eagle with Baba Kush the pooch on First Alarm harassment
• [11-14] Red Church Review: Norma Jean Tasker’s Memorial for John Manahan; Jason reports his brother by “Take Back Santa Cruzans”; Estella on forced hospitalization; James & Ricardo on the Cooper case

The Thursday October 31st, 2024 show is a

Flashback to December 1, 2016.  It includes

• Bathrobespierre critiques downtown bans [directed against homeless], New Leaf “security”, over-financing of SCPD, landlord handwringing, SCPD resistance to transparency, and more
• Katzenjammer Keith McHenry  on the “so sorry we shot Luke Smith” Community Meeting, police violence history  https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/rally-for-justice-in-the-arlt-and-smith-killings-130-pm-saturday-at-the-town-clock/
• Doc Mike’s boatlife in Moss Landing; Coastal Commission RV bust of City Council ban update; problems with new shelters
• Pac Avenue/FNB interviews:  Sunshine Man; Alex and Joff guerrilla painters; Anthony Edmund, Jaya the street jeweler, Ronna Gonna, Karen on Standing Rock.

The Sunday October 27^th show includes:

• Berkeley RV dweller Amber Whitson updates us on Berkeley’s 2022 crackdown on RVsters and more
• [throughout] David Rovics continues his One Year On: The Apocalypse in Review—parts 2 and 3  https://soundcloud.com/davidrovics/one-year-on-episode-3?in=davidrovics/sets/one-year-on-the-apocalypse-in
• https://www.streetsheet.org/stop-prop-36-californias-latest-prison-industrial-scam/
• https://www.streetsheet.org/a-pissed-off-voter-guide-briefly/
• https://www.streetroots.org/news/2024/10/02/letter-odoj-outline-legal-vulnerabilities-grants-pass-homeless-sites
• [10-24-24] At City Hall with Berkeley’s “Where Do We Go?” [WDWG] with Mario and Maryann Uribe
• [10-24-24] At the protest at Ohlone Park with Atlas
• [10-25-24] Stacy Hill from S.F., Steve the WDWG security man, and Richard Rodreguez

The Flashback to February 19, 2017 includes:

• Half-hour interview with Councilmember Chris Krohn asking about City investments in Wells Fargo, opening the books on the Sean Arlt slaying by SCPD and more.
• [throughout] Ryan Harvey’s angry political songs
• [2-13-2017] Red Church Interviews:  Don Hutchins thwarted bike theft, Julie Schaul on legal news against police sweeps in Seattle, WA.in the Lisa Hooper/Brandy Osborne case
• Julie Schaul on Westside Safeway, Panda Express seating disappearing, kudos to Starbucks; her advice: contact corporate HQ for businesses with commendations and complaints, take business elsewhere.
• Cooper D’Angelo’s year-old assault case; David Turner on difficulties getting in and staying in River St. mini-Shelter
• [2-18] Black Lives Matter protest in Capitola, Badgebooster Bob Lamonica’s defense of Officer Bailey’s shooting of  Arlt.   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/02/23/18796773.php 
• https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/02/14/18796493.php?show_comments=1#18796650 Flyer Distributed at City Council
• Joy Parker: Airport protest on Trump Immigration Ban
• Purple and Jay, Jennifer, around the Milkcrate Singers (Cooper faced trial for sitting on a milkcrate)
• Street Handicraft Vendor Jaya Interview; Jeweler James at the Coffee Roasting outdoor seating area