The usual time and place with the usual coffee and crunchables. 

Likely Agenda Items:  City Clownsil’s Latest Hits,
                                       City Mangler Martin Bernal’s Latest Target,
                                       Reports from Hither and Yon,
                                       New Organizing from Old Suspects,
                                       Eleventh Hour Examination of the state Propositions plus                                        …a bunch of other stuff.

We meet again at 703 Pacific–all welcome–clamoring about what to do next and sharing reports.
Likely topics:  

Election advisories for the Propositions                          

Public Records Update and Review                          

Latest on Marty Mirabel’s Court Case and Latest Sweep Swoops in Salinas Board of Stupes Expansion of Commercial Rental Moratorium, but for Tenants?                          

Strategies for Upcoming Dispersal of County Campground in 10 days  

Role-Playing Prep for What to Do When a Cop Approaches Your Tent (or Vehicle).                          

and…very likely…more.

HUFF AGENDA PROSPECTS  10-14-20

(Add your own items; swig the free coffee)

• Election Talk and Recommendations 
• Follow-Up on Proposed Advice to Confronted Survival Campers–Talking Back Productively to the Police
  
• Follow-Up’s on Corvalho and Riess Protections; Nick on Vehicular Letter for Tows 

• Updates for last two City Council meeting 
• https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/13/18837528.php 

Flyer Distributed During the Indigenous Slaughter Day Protest  

• Updates on RV’s under attack:  Latest reports from the City Police assault on RV and vehicular home defenders Alicia Kuhl and others 
• Indigenous Slaughter Updates from Monday (Keith, Carlos) 
• Wes’s Salinas Sweeps Update from Monday 
• Motel, Meal, Camp Reduction Reports 
• Pleich on AFC “Safe Spaces” Parking Program. 
• Santa Barbara FRSC Update:  
• Summary Judgment Victory in Marysville 

HUFF will be doing its weekly coffee-and-combustion get together today at 11 AM in the Sub Rosa Courtyard with the following likely top topics:

• Lessons from the partially successful but ultimately failed defense of the Food Not Bombs Lot #27 Resistance last week
  
• Updates on RV’s under attack:  Latest reports from the City Police assault on RV and vehicular home defenders Alicia Kuhl and others
• Reports on the reduction or shutoff of resources to Motel COVID-threatened residents, the proposed County Camp closing, & other camp removals throughout the City
• The proposed new “behind closed doors” Community Courts laying out reduced but real punishments to the “guilty” stripped of civil rights.
• New Street Spirits and Street Sheets from the Bay Area for distribution
• Unhoused Resistance and News Elsewhere in the State: from Santa Barbara to Berkeley to Salinas
• Street Resistance to Rule by the City Manager, Upcoming City Council “Public Meetings”, and the Continuing Police State

​HUFF will be doing its weekly coffee-and-combustion get together today at 11 AM in the Sub Rosa Courtyard with the following likely top topics:

• Defense of FNB and the Adjacent Camps (see “Growing Resistance to City Manager’s Camp & FNB Sweep Threats” at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/30/18837186.php
• Defending RV’s under attack: the fallout from City Council’s latest surrender to Bigotry in its attack on Alica Kuhl’s vehicular community.
• Reports on the reduction or shutoff of resources to Motel COVID-threatened residents, the proposed County Camp closing, & other camp removals throughout the City

The Highly Abbreviated Agenda includes

• the ruins of yesterday’s Shitty Council “meeting”
• surveying the levee sweeps and the rise of the hiway 1 encampments
• new vehicle seizure tales of terror
• homeless census info
• endlessly more…check out the meeting to hear the rest….

HUFF Agenda Prospects  9-16-20 

Recent Netcast Norse (“Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides”) Shows: 

+++  9-10  Covers: Latest Street Spirit  article on no escape from Smoke for Those Outside– https://thestreetspirit.org/2020/09/01/smoke-leaves-no-escape-for-the-bunsheltered/;  https://thestreetspirit.org/2020/09/01/protestors-demand-housing-not-barricades-after-uc-hastings-settlement/ — No Tents for the S.F. Sidewalk Dwellers–8-18 Latinx Vendors at City Hall Part 1; J.C. Orton, Berkeley Samaritan, on the Bay Area Scene; Alica Kuhl Interview  

+++  9-13  Covers: Latinx Vendors at City Hall, Part 2; Speeches at Cynthia Mathews’ house;
Councilman-in-exile Chris Krohn interview; Angry Recall Politics and Retribution Along the Levee; national stories about Police Violence and Discrimination;  Much of the 9-2 HUFF meeting with updates from Nick, Fox, Alicia, Keith, & Robert; August interview with George Carvalho, SC Patient Advocate on 5150 Hearings.  More details at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-archived-hanging-with-a-mid-week-huff-at-thon-encampment-p/  at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html under 9/13 

Recent Police/Council Abuses Unanswered 

• Silence on Police Defunding; Signs still up at Swanton & Delaware; Homeless vehicles still held; SCPD property hours unchanged; vendor restrictions still on 

Agenda Notions for Discussion or Action: 

• Bulletin Board Summary 
• Alicia & Keith Reports 
• Seaside, Watsonville, and Salinas Phone in Reports 
• Street Reports: Downtown Bathroom Closures 
• Looming Eviction Threat: Reports on Tenant Flight 
• Forced Drugging—the Riess Protection Update: Carvalho’s interview;  
• Street Reports on other encampments beyond the Benchlands,. Hiway 1, Levee 
• Flushing Out Homeless from the Pogonip: Bernal’s Expanded Enforcement Powers 
• Health status & testing availability of folks in the group shelters, Project Roomkey 
• Direct Action Protest as part of BLM movement for unhoused outside residents 
• The Upcoming S.C. Shitty Council Race: Alicia Kuhl’s Candidacy & Endorsements: 
• Food Not Bombs and Union of the Homeless Reports 

• St. Francis Soup Kitchen & Other Coffee Shop, Business Discrimination 
• Olive and Delaware Street Status Updates 
• Sacramento lawsuit outcome;  
• Impact of Fire Refugee Arrivals & Discriminatory Treatment of Local Homeless  
• Norse’s Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Shows at  http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .

HUFF Agenda Prospects  9-9-20 

          Summary of Recent Netcast Norse (“Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides”) Shows: 

+           9-6 Updates from Keith M., Serg K., Alicia K., Scott G., Backlot Ben, Merryweather Mike, Dreadeye, David Rovics, Sarah Iannarone & J.C. Orton at https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/FRSC%209-6-20.mp3  

+++        9-3  Field Reports from Lighthouse Linda, Mock-me-Not Monica, Whip-the-Worst Wes, & Zero Hour Zav (names from R.N.) at https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/FRSC%209-3-20.mp3  

O        Ongoing National Police Abuses Suggesting Fundamental Institutional Corruption 

^^^  Rochester, NY Top Cop Resignations & Nightly Protests in Spit-Hood Killing of Daniel Prude 9-8 

^^^  Salt Lake City, Utah Shooting of 13-year old unarmed autistic Linden Cameroun 9-4 

^^^  Portland, OR cops brutalized wheelchair protester Dustin Brandon 

^^^  San Leandro, CA cop Jason Fletcher  charged with felony manslaughter after shooting dead 33-year-old homeless Black man named Steven Taylor inside a Walmart on April 18 within a span of 40 seconds, because Taylor was trying to leave the store with a tent and a bat 

Local Police/Council Abuses Unanswered 

• No action at City Council 9-8 on police defunding, nor report from the Mills-Cummings Cop Committee 
• Signs and barriers still block parking at Swanton & Delaware Streets  
• Ben’s vehicle unreturned; charges still pending against Keith, Jeremiah. 
• SC Union vehicle still not returned or compensated for  
• Property return hours (and SCPD closedown?) still absurdly limited  
• Vendor Restrictions Resume in late September; Beach St. Vendor Ban in Force 
• New Murders: L.A.Sheriff Killing of Black Bicyclist Monday, 29-year-old Dijon Kizzee, inn Westmont. 

 Agenda Notions: 

• Street Reports: Downtown Bathroom Closures including City Hall bathroom shutdown Tuesday 
• Looming Eviction Threat: Council[‘s Weak 10% Ceiling on Profiteering Delayed 
• Forced Drugging—the Riess Protection Update: Corvalho’s interview 
• Street Reports on Status of other encampments beyond the Benchlands,. Hiway 1, the Levee 
• Activist Harassment—Cooper, Pirate, Jeremiah 
• Flushing Out Homeless from the Pogonip: Bernal’s Expanded Enforcement Powers 
• Health status & testing availability of folks in the group shelters, Project Roomkey Update 
• Status of Direct Action Protest as part of BLM movement for unhoused outside residents 
• The Upcoming S.C. Shitty Council Race: Alicia Kuhl’s Candidacy & Endorsements:  

• Salinas and Seaside Reports: Wes White and Anton Hunter on Outside Life to the South 
• Food Not Bombs and Union of the Homeless Reports 
• St. Francis Soup Kitchen & Other Coffee Shop, Business Discrimination 
• Olive and Delaware Street Status Updates 
• September Street Spirit  newspapers Available 
• Blake et.al. v. Grants Pass  Federal Court ruling 
• Sacramento lawsuit outcome 
• Impact of Fire Refugee Arrivals and Discriminatory Treatment of Local Homeless  
• Norse’s Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Shows at  http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .   

HUFF Agenda Prospects  9-2-20 

Continuing Local Police Abuses

• No indication signs and barriers have been removed from Swanton & Delaware Streets driving away vehicular residents in violation of Coastal Commission regs. 
• No return or recompense for S.C Homeless Union car, used to store clothing and food donations and also as shelter for unhoused guy, stolen two weeks ago from the FNB meal area.   
• No reasonable property release hours at SCPD (6 hours per week only) with survival gear still being jacked (as in Jeremiah arrest of a week ago by Officer Jones near Subway.  
• Downtown Vendor Restrictions Resume in late September; Beach St.. Vendor Ban in Force 
• Threatened police move on FNB Meal Site ? 

        Agenda Notions: 

• Street Reports: Downtown Bathroom Closures, Encampment Expansions 
• Newsom Sells out the Tenants:  AB 1436 warped into AB 3088—the Coming Eviction Plague 
• Any Protections Against Forced Drugging—the Riess Protection Update 
• Street Reports on Status of other encampments beyond the Benchlands 
• Benchlands contact, polling to check abusive evictions and restrictions 
• Flushing Out Homeless in the Pogonip: Bernal’s Expanded Enforcement Powers 
• Health status & testing availability of folks in the group shelters, Project Roomkey Update 
• Exploring Joint Coalition Direct Actions to restore, expand services among uncaged outside residents 
• Connection with Direct Action activists who restored open space down at the Post Office last Monday 
• The Upcoming S.C. Shitty Council Race: Alicia Kuhl’s Candidacy & Endorsements.
  

• Salinas and Seaside Reports: Wes White and Anton Hunter on Outside Life to the South 
• Updates and Upcoming Protests from  BLM, DSA, and displaced tenants 
• St. Francis Soup Kitchen Discrimination Status for Angel & other Alicia allies 
• Olive and Delaware Street Status Updates 
• September Street Spirit  newspaper coming soon. 
• Blake et.al. v. Grants Pass  Federal Court ruling 
• Sacramento lawsuit outcome 
• Impact of Fire Refugee Arrivals and Discriminatory Treatment of Local Homeless  
• Local Non-Response to 7 Bullets for Jacob Blake and subsequent attacks on BLM protests 
• Norse’s Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Shows in Exile on Santa Cruz Indymedia:                         
  

• Latest Outrages Against Cooper & Russell, Ben and Pirate, Jeremiah
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  HUFF shows are back on the net !  Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides shows are being netcast Thursdays 6-8 PM and Sundays 9:30 AM – 3 PM at freakradio.org.  Archives of most recent shows are available anytime at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .  Some new “during the evacuation” shows are available at that site. 
  
   HUFF meetings are usually recorded for personal notes, member info, and replay on the net.  Reserve comments you don’t want public for private discussion later.   

Research, Agitate, Take Direct Action ! 

• Stop “Permit Parking” Gentrification 
• Restore Survival Parking Spaces on Delaware & Swanton 
• Remove Anti-Homeless Fences on Coral St. & City-Wide 
• Stop City Mangler Bernal’s Threatened Attack on Food Not Bombs 
• Support Small Vendors & Artists on Beach St. & Pacific Avenue 
• Motel Rooms for Vulnerable Unhoused Folks NOW ! 
• Mass Protest at Staff Offices to Force Immediate Action 

HUFF tries again Wed 8-18 11 AM 703 Pacific Sub Rosa Café Courtyard

Free Coffee   Grouchy Company    August Street Spirit Newspapers

Support the Defund the Police/Refund the Community March Town Clock 7 PM Wednesday Night to the SCPD Station