Back from a week’s respite, I’ll be hoping to find a HUFFster or two tomorrow at the usual time and place.

Agenda prospects:   Input for the Christopher Krohn interview on Free Radio Thursday night; support and salute to the Berkeley “First They Came for the Homeless” encampment; traveling plans: possible connect-up’s with Salinas Union of the Homeless Martin Luther King day get together and the Marysville Jungle Protection Assembly coming up next month; another round of protest demanding police reform this Saturday at the Town Clock; Sleeping Ban and Property Recover lawsuits–Lost, Strayed, or Stolen?;  the ignored Winter Shelter Emergency………..

………….and whatever the cat drags in…

Agenda prospects include:  HUFF specific demands for the December 17th “Justice for Sean Arlt and Luke Smith” Rally 1:30 PM at the Town Clock; Reports from Colorado, Berkeley, Santa Rosa,and far-away Florida; Slipping Past the Stalling on Police Records; Adding New Wrinikles to Old Homeless Xmas Carols;  and more…

Coffee as ever, crunchy chocolate chip cookies, and a warm place to chatter.

Back again to heat up things with coffee and catcalls,  HUFF plans a meeting with Councilmember Elect Sandy Brown, HUFF proposals for next Saturday’s anti-police violence rally, updates on the somewhat successful attack on the County-s RV  ban, spinoff demonstratons supporting the Freedom Sleepers,  a report on the Winter Shelter and Warming Center mini-programs and maybe more…

HUFF will be hammering out its proposals for police reform at the Saturday 1:30 PM protest at the Town Clock 11-26.  The meeting runs from 11 AM depending on when coffee and patience and participants run out.

Agenda items also likely to include:  Freedom SleepOut #72 Lookback and Lookforward; Expectations from Incoming City Council members (Krohn and S. Brown); Interacting with the Growing Anti-Trump Protest;  and more!

Hearty (and not-so hardy) HUFFsters will brave drizzle and sunshine to ponder HUFFstuff.  On the agenda in part:   David Silva’s hunger fast and the “Rolling Fast”; County RV Ban Battle Continues;  Struggling with the Sheriff’s Department to Get Its Citation Record Released as Required by Law; Surveillance Public Records of the City Police Again Delayed;  Watsonville Homeless Connect–Worth Wandering South?; ACLU Agenda for Wednesday Night–Prospects?; Looking for Updates from Tenant Rights Struggle, Council Coronation Crapola on Tuesday 11-22, Aftermath of the Metro (Measure D) Fight, MHCAN, Laura’s Law at the Supes, and Cannabis Constriction at the Supes; Prep for the Saturday 1:30 PM Cop-Corner-at-the-Town-Clock rally, and Freedom SleepOut 71 Update…all this and the new Street Spirit too (!).

HUFFsters battered and bruised by electoral hysteria will stare at each other and then press on at the usual mid-morning to early afternoon meeting.  Up for discussion and prep are

• tomorrow’s Cop Corner protest on SCPD profiling, surveillance, and lack of accountability as well as their secrecy in withholding the audio and video of the Sean Arlt shooting.
• discussion of future actions opposing police/ranger/First Alarm sweeps of sleepers and sitters around the library
• winter shelter woes and the PR shell game being played
• updates on the Cooper trial and Andy C. expose of the Homeless (Lack of) Services Center
• latest on public records about tenant complaints and city response
• Coastal Commission update on the County’s RV law

In the wake of Freedom SleepOut #69 and the “Vent and Vamoose!” session with SCPD’s “No Audio, No Video, No Names” Chief Vogel and Vice-Chief Martinez up at the Peace United Church last night, we’ll be sizing up creative ways of educating the interested and pressuring the complacent around the dangerously expanded police power in Santa Cruz–particularly as it impacts the unhoused.   Also on the agenda”  Coastal Commission RV update,
Guarding Against the Guardian Angels, Spotlighting Harassment Around City Hall and the Library, and Getting the Goods on the Homeless (Lack of) Services Center.

Come prepared to drink coffee and chat endlessly.

We’ll also be making final prep for the “Return to Cop Corner” protest Thursday at 1 PM.  See https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/11/01/18792930.php.