Thursday December 12, 2024 show flashes back to October 13, 2005. 

It includes:

• In-studio guest and Metro Bus Drivers Strike critic Paul Marcelin Sampson bat back and forth calls and opinions of the Strike.
• SAFE singers on the loose singing and chatting
• Augusto Sandino, Emery Ross and other callers clash with Sampson on the strike
• Discussion of the Contract rejected
• Andrea Morgan praises the new Greenway Medical Marijuana club
• Richard gets ticketed for Sugar his dog after a snooze on the sidewalk

The December 8, 2024 show includes:

• https://podfollow.com/1654047988/episode/8d2a9c89f11b42e68663c98df8cb3b483d8894a2/view  Where is my Mind?: Bad Science with Robert Whitaker
• “Scope It Out” Scott Graham and Bathrobespierre Robert take pot shots at the Santa Cruz Shitty Council’s 12-10-24 agenda
• “Silver-Tongue” Steve Pleich sometime houseless local activist covers a wide variety of “then and now” topics

The Flashback to September 28, 2014 includes:

• [throughout] Analysis of the proposed police-powered Stay-Away Order expansion, repression of audio recording at City Council, the Parking lot Panic law.
• Protest, Speak-Out for the first SC Council meeting in September 2014; 
• Update on Assistant City Manager Scott Collins’ Anti-Homeless “Mosquito” “No Loitering” shrill sound devices
• Former Mayor Bruce Van Allen’s Kick-off Rally and other electoral speeches 
• Vehicular habitation interviews: Graham Pruss (Road to Housing program Seattle  ), Julie Schaul, J.M. Shall, Sherry Decker, and others grahampruss@compasshousingalliance.org 
• Julie S. on anti-homeless neighbor Pressure on Circle Church to drive away the early morning center 
• Jerry Fall on “progress” towards a De Sal project
• Candidate Lannie Sherman and other speakers at the rally.
• Updates from post-Michael Brown police slaying in Ferguson, MO
• John Crawford, black man, shot dead in Ohio Walmart: Implications in Santa Cruz; Lessons from the Benchlands SC-11 Clearing.
• “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster on the SCPD, the proposed Homeless Bill of Rights, her “Smart Solutions to Homelessness” group and Upgrading HUFF

The Thursday December 5, 2024 show is a Flashback to August 17, 2017.  It includes:

• “Beggerbacker” Becky Johnson reports on Sheriff Tow of Sara’s tent-on-top-of-trailer on Lapis Road and Marina
• “Whip ’em into Shape” Wes White on the scene at the vehicle-home seizure
•  At August HUFF “Tufluv” Tuckerinterviews”Dialogue-First” David Silva on Homeless Connect; Squatter Jan working, seeking services, trying to get a vehicle; Sherie Cherie on City harassment of MHCAN’s Sarah Leonard and targeted ticketing
• ]8-12] “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster on John Stewart Company’s rent rousts
• Kip on “Give Back Santa Cruz”
• Anal Communications at Shitty Council: Silva on police misconduct, Nate Kennedy demanding businesses open their bathrooms; 
• [8-15] “Scope it Out” Scott Graham on the closing and history of the Cafe Pergolesi

The December 1^st 24, 2024 show includes:

• Interview with videojournalist/activist Wes White on trials of a homeless activist in Trumpism Times
• [throughout] Chanties by Carol Denney from A Toast to the Union
• https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/city-cuts-number-days-homeless-families-shelter-19941713.php
• https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/ucsb-protest-search-warrant-19944165.php
• [11-28] Thanksgiving Chowline and Chatter at the Vets Hall:  Angel of Occupy Santa Cruz looks back; Babuska (Jasmine’s mom) remembers gun-toting Officer Hernanez https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/public-safety-danger-in-santa-cruz-gunmen-armed-with-badges-and-attitude/; Shantysurfer Julie Schaul on the Homeless and Higher Education; Angel and Athena on the predatory Proposition 36; Jim Vivian on Zayante’s Free Food Church and other real homeless services as well as the cutoff of services in Felton and Cabrillo College jim.vivian@yahoo.com
• Further updates from Vaxducker Sonya; Isaac Collins looking through his Lyrical Eye
• [11-30] Chaotic comments from Cooper; Drawdowns from Drew;  Juan on low-grade copish harassment; and Madcap mumblings from Mel, and
• Last Word(s) from Keith McHenry—a jovial description of rising prices and sinking hopes.
• https://thealtworld.com/caitlin_johnston/they-lied-about-gaza-and-theyre-lying-about-syria
  

The Flashback to January 15, 2017 includes: 

• Frenzied times in Tampa Florida—Keith McHenry reports Food Not Bombs [FNB] trespassing-in-the-park and food-sharing-without-a-permit plus supportive demonstrations and international FNB reports
• [throughout] Ryan Harvey songs from Occupying Forces album & Santa Cruz’s own Jus’ Kiddin’s Moral Compass album.
• First They Came for the Homeless [FTCftH] in Berkeley at their 16^th location: supporter James and resident Mike Lee discuss the mobile herstory of their protest/survival encampment and adventures in court
• Lee on Social Service doubletalk about “no money”, but protest loosened their pockets  
• Lee on internal controversy within FTCftH
• Videographer Clark Sullivan and poet/activist Sarah Menefee on the herstory of FTCftH

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