HUFF will continue through out Robert’s Temporary Absence due to Medical needs. While he will be missed, we are going to be meeting at the same Bat Time and same Bat place.
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> Join us at Subrosa (across from Saturn & Walgreen’s parking lot on Pacific)
> 11:00 am – 1:00pm Free Coffee to all attendees.
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> Possible Agenda Items will be current updates on Freedom Sleepers, Keith and Abbi’s trial and tribulations with SC city, SCPD and county DA court appearance, Monday’s Koffee Klatch and other homeless, disabled and poor people’s civil rights issues.
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> The rest of the agenda will go with flow and vibes of the attendees.
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> Pat Colby
Tag Archives: HUFF meetings
HUFF will puff tomorrow as usual, Sub Rosa, 11 AM come rain or shine.
I’ll be making the HUFF meet tomorrow (1-20) with a review of the Homeless Names of the Dead from the last decade, a look-in at the Eureka situation, a HUFF take on the proposed partial elimination of the survival sleeping ban, the latest iteration of the Homeless Bill of Rights…and more…plus coffee and clamor, as well as the latest from the restless Freedom Sleepers, fresh from their Sleep #28 !
New Year, Old Story: HUFF meets to document and challenge the usual anti-homeless harassment 11 AM 1-13 Sub Rosa
Huddling together after another mid-night rain at Freedom SleepOut #27, harried HUFFsters will huddle together sipping Sub Rosa Coffee and….
- reviewing City Council’s latest,
- continue prep for exposing First Alarm thuggery,
- reviewing former Mayor Lane’s latest Sleeping Ban reform proposal (at the same time as he votes to make parking “oversized” RV’s a crime),
- considering HUFF support for a proposed expansion of the Warming Center program at the Red Church,
- checking the latest responses from the Homeless (Lack of) Services Center,
- seeking out new allies
- among whatever else floats by!
HUFF swims to another meeting today Wednesday 1-6 at the Sub Rosa–11 AM
Likely to be discussed: Legislature and San Jose’s “support managed encampments” proposed funding; Sleeping Ban reform discussion at City Council this month or next?; Direction Action Protest to Expose Driving Homeless People Out Into the Rain; a Lookback at 2015…and whatever falls out…
HUFF still slurpin’ coffee Wednesday morning 12-30 11 AM at ye olde Sub Rosa Cafe
On the HUFF horizon: DIY New Year’s Eve parade and promenade Friday evening; reinvigorating demands for SCPD reform in Santa Cruz in the wake of mainstream media reports of police/prosecution/mayoral murder and cover-up in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Minneapolis, Chicago, Ohio, and Missouri; Warming Center Whiplash: Alternatives to Hypothermia when no Program is in Place; Report from Freedom SleepOut #25…and, of course, more than you want and less than you hoped for…
HUFF Shouts Humbug at City Council’s Xmas Chilly Cheer 11 AM 12-23 Sub rosa Cafe
Any chance to make the City Council Sinners Repent? Not likely. Legal Leapabout: Attorney Judi Bari may be up for helping follow up on illegal seizures of homeless property; a review of the year’s abuses and victories. Reports of violence attacks on the homeless. The latest chapter on the Lane-Posner “real soon we’ll put the Sleeping Ban on the agenda”. Xmas treats.
HUFF meets again at Sub Rosa 11 AM 12-16 703 Pacific Indoors!
HUFF’s been guaranteed an indoor space thanks to the kindness of Penske tomorrow morning. Up for chatter and possibly action: More effective documention of police escalation against homeless folks; property and sleeping ban plaintiff search at the homeless meals; sit-down with new Homeless (Lack of) Services Center boss Phil Kramer; organizing against the RV law and supporting the proposed lawsuit against it; defending existing encampments–prospect or pipedream?; allied parallel expeditions assisting Freedom Sleepouts and opening up new daytime protest; and whatever you fancy! Liquid consumables available without cost.
HUFF to meet at traditional watering hole–the Sub Rosa 11 AM today 12-9
In the wake of what may be the last Sleep-Out of this year at least, I’ll propose we discuss what actions should be taken in light of
(a) San Jose hypothermia death and City Council babble about supporting Tent cities (albeit on church grounds;
(b) search for vehicular plaintiffs who want to challenge the RV law due to go into effect on January 8th;
(c) solidarity & communication with homeless activists in Eugene, Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, San Jose, & elsewhere;
(d) the upcoming Freedom Sleepers sponsored-forum with Tristia Bowman (of the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty), Robert Aguirre (San Jose founder of H.O.M.E.L.E.S.S. in San Jose), and Ketih McHenry (Food not Bombs co-founder) at 4:30 PM Sunday 12-13 at the Resource Center for Non-Violence.
(b) search for vehicular plaintiffs who want to challenge the RV law due to go into effect on January 8th;
(c) solidarity & communication with homeless activists in Eugene, Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, San Jose, & elsewhere;
(d) the upcoming Freedom Sleepers sponsored-forum with Tristia Bowman (of the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty), Robert Aguirre (San Jose founder of H.O.M.E.L.E.S.S. in San Jose), and Ketih McHenry (Food not Bombs co-founder) at 4:30 PM Sunday 12-13 at the Resource Center for Non-Violence.
And other stuff, for sure. With the usual hot drinks provided. Come early so we don’t leave first!
HUFF Definitely Back at Sub Rosa Tomorrow (Wednesday December 2) 11 AM. Coffee guaranteed!!
HUFFsters: No more trekking around to mingle with seclusive students sipping bourgeois beverages at the Pergolesi–at least this week! Back at the usual Sub Rosa Cafe surrounded by lots of literature and agreeable reasonably priced (free) drinks.
Likely to find agenda discussion: Next week’s Shitty Council Final Vote (12-8) on the “Homeless RV’s Get Lost” law coming up for a final reading; the latest update on the frost-bitten Freedom Sleepers movement and its next move; Berkeley Battle In Progress–a weeklong campout culminates in today’s City Council meeting up there; fighting back against police property seizures–schemes and strategies; plus lots of stuff that hasn’t made print yet…
Today (Dec 1) there will be a special 5:30 PM “New tactics, new energy?!” meeting to protect the rights of houseless people at the Supply Room of the Red Church. Want more Freedom SleepOuts and like actions? Join the meeting! And come to Freedom Sleep-Out at City Hall tonight thereafter.
HUFF: Come in out of the Cold to Sub Rosa 11 AM Wednesday 11-25-15
Coffee and chat at HUFF tomorrow (11-25) as we view remains of the wreckage from City Council’s ‘decisions’ on the Warming Center, the “No Homeless RV’s law, and the aftermath of Freedom SleepOut #20. Also on the agenda: the California Rural Legal Assistance Lawsuit Against the Manteca Sleeping Ban; Berkeley’s Ongoing SleepOut Outside City Hall, New Strategies of Survival and Resistance as Winter Descends…