HUFFish stuff from one HUFFster:   Israel Freedom Sleeper [FS] Documentary tonight,  FS July 5 Speak-Out, Updates on Recycling, MHCAN,  Andy C.’s “Bedbugs at River St.” concern,  and whatever you bring…  Coffee as ever.

On the agenda:   Items you bring, Freedom Sleepers–Suggestions for Expansion and Growth, the FS Documentary Short, Supporting MHCAN Clients, Potential Federal Lawsuit to Open City Hall Grounds, the Food Not Bombs Dance-on-the-Steps Saturday,  and more !   With coffee!

HUFF barely survived going mad gasping the bad air of bigotry in yesterday’s City Council meeting.  The Council ignored all critical public testimony from those who braved the toxic situation there.  Also coming up: mobilizing for educational outreach and protest in support of the vendors association,  report from Project Connect, Taking the Unhoused Civil Rights Struggle to the Staff, MHCAN report….and, as ever…more… with coffee and stuff!

HUFF will be holding Open House for Vendors, Performers, Tablers, Homeless Folks, and Community Members impacted under the upcoming Vanish the Vendors law coming up on 5-24-16. Other topics likely to surface: Updates from Salinas, Eureka, and other struggles against the Homeless Bans.  Upcoming Freedom Sleeper preliminary (demurrer) hearing on Friday at 8:15 AM for Robert Norse.  And coffee and snacks! 

HUFF will be meeting as usual at the Sub Rosa Cafe at 703 Pacific at 11 AM.  On the agenda:  Which Way for the Freedom Sleepers?   Support for Joff and Alex, the oft-arrested Street Artists.   Reviewing the Wreckage after the Tuesday City Council Meeting.   Plans for the Upcoming Project Homeless Connect.   And more!   Plus the usual coffee, munchies, and chatter.

If you can’t come, but want to get involved, call 831-423-4833.

HUFFsters emerging from the 10 AM Freedom Sleepers Meet-and-Murmur get together at the Sub Rosa Cafe will be presenting its thoughts to Councilmember Micah Posner at 11 AM.   Also on the agenda:  The “Give a Shit” campaign with a HUFF focus on the absence of 24-hour bathrooms in Santa Cruz; updates from Salinas, Sacramento, and Eureka,  strategy for organizing against the upcoming Vanish the Vendors law  due back at City Council May 10th, solidarity with Alex and Joff–artists rearrested on Sunday  and more!

Come early at 10 AM to work on Freedom SleepOut #44 with Toby Nixon. 

Freedom Sleeper Sidewalk Snoozer Toby Nixon says 10 AM is meeting time for those who want to scheme for next week’s Freedom SleepOut.

HUFF will roll out its agenda as soon after 11 as it can seat the restless coffee sippers.   Prospects: Bathroom Bullshit–How Can “Vandalism” Close Down the Soquel Garage Bathroom Day and Night for Three Weeks? …   Vanishing Vendors–Strategy for the next Council “Crap on the Street Folks” Session and Beyond…  Questions for Commisar Collins–the Man Behind the Vanishing Vendors Law…  and more.

Possible elements on the HUFF agenda:  “Give a shit!” Follow-up on the campaign to open up the Council bathrooms 24 hours; Marijuana cultivation restrictions coming back to the Supes from the C-4 Committee–relevant to the poor?;  homeless property in police lock-up–monitoring the madness;  Amy Goodman at the Rio Theater–another voice against homeless persecution in Santa Cruz?;  the Keith McHenry arrest and the April 12 Council Lookback; Organizing Against the New “Vanish the Vendors” Law;  plus coffee and questionable edibles.