etc. as HUFF warms chairs 1:30-3:30 PM at Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific (next to the Bike Church). All welcome

Posted on October 10, 2024 by huffsantacruz

Rough Suggestions for Additions to Loose Cannons Agenda 10-10-24

Items followed by links can be viewed “at home” or “in the library” Items on the flipside of this agenda are really reminders of where we’d be going if we had the person power, time, interest, and resources. Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them. The meeting is run and the agenda set by Athena who usually presents her agenda items at the meeting.

Top of the Agenda (Quick Announcements/Reports)

++++ New Street Sheets and Street Spirits

++++ Saturday 11 AM-12:30 PM Ocean and Water Stop genocide and support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza now. No more tax dollars for Israel. End the occupation and the apartheid system. Free all hostages and prisoners. 11 am to 12:30 pm every Saturday. Help hold up banners. More info: call Laura at 831-247-5332.

++++ 10-7 noon Courthouse Panetta visit; 6:30 Town Clock memorial; campus action on 10-7

++++ Berkeley’s Resolution: HUFF urgency update?

++++ Cooling—Thursday and for next week: high 60s, low 70s

++++ Possible Updates on Lane letter, Housing Matters stuff, Troy and Andrea claims

++++ Shitty Council and Board of Stupes reports, if any. SCPD Rape Inadequacy Finding.

++++ Supporting Weekend Mutual Aid: Athena’s report.

Standard Stuff: Regular Check-In’s

++++ Passarounds: Shitty Council’s Response to Grand Jury +TBA Handouts: TBA

++++ Street Reports

++++ Berkeley “Where Do We Go” Encampment Protest/Support: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/tents-pop-up-in-front-of-berkeley-city-hall-in-protest-of-encampment-sweeps/ar-AA1rQVIzhttps://www.dailycal.org/news/city/houseless-sweeps-encampment-protest-hits-one-week/article_0703be1e-8548-11ef-93ff-5fe4344c521c.html

++++ Care courts—Fluff and fancy before City Council (47 minutes into media file on line)

++++ Strategies for Resistance: Tabling at Funding Matters [FM]/Soup Kitchen

++++ Solidarity with Resistance to On-Campus Repression of Encampments & Protest

Possible Action Items

++++ San Francisco Cover-Up of Property Destruction: https://www.streetsheet.org/resolution-on-seizure-of-homeless-peoples-property-in-the-works/

++++ Preliminary refutation of excuses used to destroy survival encampments locally such as the Camping Services and Standards Ordinance (“the Camping Ban”)

Closer Inspection: Gathering Info

++++ More on Surveillance Camera Location (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)

++++ Outstanding threats of upcoming raids? Any posted notices of impending raids on existing camps? Any court cases coming up?

++++ Examining MC 6.36 more closely—the Camping (Standards and Services Ordinance) Ban.

Usual Topics for Future Discussion: Signposts to Stop the New Narrative

++++ Stop the War Against the Poor Sweeps/Raids + Gaza Genocide Lanyards?

++++ New Strategies for Documenting Property Loss: Case #, Receipts, Audio recordings

++++ Cooling Center when extreme heat threatens? Emergency gathering location

++++ Forming Specific Demands? (Stop the Sweeps, Reapportion funding to service existing camps)

++++ Govt. Reports: (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board)

++++ Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MHCAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)

++++ Future Targets: City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission Office… City Hall…Emeline/TelcCare/Supes

++++ https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/09/09/18869216.php Civil Rights Groups Sue UCSC for Unlawful Campus Bans and Response to Student Protests https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2024/09/09/final_2024.09.03_ucsc_exclusion_notice_complaint-final.pdf

Archived Net-Show Access: to read summaries of the shows: To hear the shows go to https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html Descriptive Summary of Last Week’s Archived Net Shows

October 3rd netshow: https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-thursday-october-3rd-2024-show-flashes-back-to-august-13-2015-featuring-deadend-dialogue-with-the-scpd-and-busts-at-freedom-sleepers-event-5-in-the-start-of-a-two-year/

October 10th netshow: https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-sunday-october-6-2024-show-features-mixed-news-stories-pushback-in-berkeley-evil-in-norwalk-more-a-flashback-to-august-23-2015-with-a-mime-troupe-interview-can/

Recent Resources & News

https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homeless-union-members-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-encampment-eviction/ Recent lawsuit by California Homeless Union against Sweeps

https://thestreetspirit.org/2023/02/07/berkeley-94700/ The Poor Tour & First They Came for the Homeless

https://www.cityofsanrafael.org/encampments-enforcement/ San Rafael’s Justifications

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday October 6, 2024 show features mixed news stories–pushback in Berkeley, evil in Norwalk, & more, + a Flashback to August 23, 2015 with a Mime Troupe Interview, Cannabis fightback, & lots of talk

Posted on October 10, 2024 by huffsantacruz

The Sunday October 6, 2024 show includes:

The Flashback to August 23, 2015 includes:

Analysis of upcoming City Council meeting on Poverty Pimp appropriations, street vending restrictions, and more
Freedomland, by the S.F. Mime Troupe (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1m0MCuWkuo)
Quietism after brief anti-Bearcat protests; SCPD critique
Noah on SCPD crackdown on visual artists Alex Skelton and Joff Jones
Andrea Morgan: three tickets this week for the Walkerwoman.
“Oakland Police Screen Footage of Fatal Events”
San Jose (three SJPD shootings in two days)–San Jose Mercury News editorial about “how to regain trust in police”
Cannabis Advocates Alliance fighting SC Board of Supervisors C-4 repressive with Beggarbacker Becky Johnson’s report on marijuana cultivation.
Bathrobespierre and Beggarbacker discussion Freedom Sleeper #6 protest and Shitter Shenanagans
Hugo, 3-year veteran of the Mime Troupe, grilled on a variety of questions.
Red Church Roundsides:Larry Brookside, sleeping in a huddle, ticketed, and run off
Silver-tongued Steve Pleich, ACLU mini-potentate, buffs up the latest meeting
Southern California Calvin on the state of vehicular resident (in)security down there
Conversation with 1^st Alarm Security Guard at Freedom SleepOut #6
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/21/18776461.php Attendance Doubles at Sixth City Hall Sleepout
“Never Let Your Government Tell You Who Your Enemies Are” https://substack.com/@caitlinjohnstone/note/c-71544259

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday, October 3rd 2024 show Flashes back to August 13, 2015 featuring Deadend Dialogue with the SCPD and Busts at Freedom Sleepers Event #5 in the start of a two-year weekly campaign

Posted on October 9, 2024 by huffsantacruz

The October 3^rd 2024 show is a Flashback to August 13, 2015.

It includes:

Co-Host Doc Mike on the Tannery residents anxiety over a recent murder with misplaced blame transforming into anti-homeless hostility.
Discussion of Sleeping Ban court strategies and signing up for Homeless (Lack of) Services Center programs to avoid tickets in the absence of shelter.
[8-11-2015] A tour of Freedom SleepOut #5 at outside City Council after their 8-11 meeting.
SCPD under Sgt. Forbus demands sleepers leave in spite of the law requiring access to the posted agenda outside City Council and the right use paths through “closed” parks at night, arresting R. Norse and K. Rothwell as well as video journalist Israel Dawson. Sleepers move to the sidewalk.
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/16/18776253.php (“SDPC arrest journalist and issue stay-away orders at Community Sleepout #5“
[8-9] Final fragments: Harpist Phoenix, an anonymous sitter, and Host harassment

HUFF huddles in the heat Thursday October 3rd 1:30-3:30 PM at the Sub Rosa Cafe/Courtyard (next to the Bike Church at 703 Pacific)

Posted on October 3, 2024 by huffsantacruz

HUFF Ruf Agenda Suggestions 10-3-24

Top of the Agenda (Quick Announcements)

++++ New Street Sheets and Street Spirits

++++ Anti-War Thursdays 3:30-4:30 pm banner Hiway 1 & Morrisey overpass (?)

++++ Monday noon-1 p.m. Oct. 7th Courthouse 701 Ocean: Stop Netanyahu’s Violence

++++ 6:30 P.M. Oct. 7th Town Clock Candelight Vigil grieving for all the war victims

++++ Hot today; Warm & Cooling & no rain predicted for next week;

++++ Possible Updates on Lane letter, Troy and Andrea claims

Standard Stuff: Regular Check-In’s

++++ Passarounds: TBA Handouts: TBA

++++ Street Reports

++++ Fresno, Oakland, and Fremont Encampment Sweeps: https://fresnoland.org/2022/08/29/republish-a-fresnoland-story-for-free-heres-how/https://gvwire.com/2024/09/23/fresnos-anti-camping-ordinance-goes-into-effect-city-says-it-will-prioritize-treatment-first/https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2024/09/24/return-public-spaces-to-the-public-oakland-mayor-thao-orders-city-to-ramp-up-homeless-sweeps/https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/09/23/fremont-could-ramp-up-sweeps-on-homeless-encampments-ban-camping-and-overnight-parking/

++++ Care courts—the mythology and the reality: https://www.kqed.org/news/12007175/care-court-was-supposed-to-help-those-hardest-to-treat-heres-how-its-going

++++ Strategies for Resistance: Tabling at Funding Matters [FM]/Soup Kitchen

++++ Solidarity with Resistance to On-Campus Repression of Encampments & Protest

Possible Action Items

++++ Shitty Council October 8th meeting (agenda out Friday morning) ++++ San Francisco Cover-Up of Property Destruction: https://www.streetsheet.org/resolution-on-seizure-of-homeless-peoples-property-in-the-works/