The May 17, 2026 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:
- A community volunteer’s account of a recent police raid [5-15] on the survival encampments along Coral St. in front of Housing Matters (more properly known as Funding Matters), whose millions of dollars in budget does not include continuing water, handwashing, mail, toilet, and other services for the unhoused majority.
- Several news stories about ICE (Immigration Control & Enforcement) shooting and extralegal false imprisonment of Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/14/fbi-arrests-california-man-shot-ice-assault
- Work Begins on Planned ICE Site: https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/05/14/ice-detention-facility-gilroy-santa-clara-county/
The March 19, 2017 Flashback show includes:
- [throughout] Musical broadsides by Ryan Harvey
- Activist Abbi Samuels with residents from the Survival Sleepers and Freedom Sleepout #88
- “Cornerstone” Carol Denney on the Poverty Tour campsite that kept reappearing in Berkeley
- Police shooting in Antioch; the Romero shooting in Vallejo
- Salinas crackdown on the Chinatown encampment
- Freedom Sleepout#89 and the start of the nightly Survival Sleepers
- Street Spirit newspaper distributor J.C. Orton on the Berkeley Shelter situation
- Berkeley imitates San Francisco’s phony sidewalk-to-sidewalk Navigation Center as a cover for removing encampments without housing
- First They Came for the Homeless Michael Zint, Michael Lee, and others
- Right to Dream Encampment activist history in Portland, OR
- Brent Adams Santa Cruz report
- Dreamcatcher on the trail of his Ranger-swiped bedding