10 AM Friday July 31, 2020
Benchlands Containment Camp
Details:
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/31/18835540.php
Monthly Archives: July 2020
Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides netcast streams tonight 7-30-20 at 6 PM at freakradio.org. & archived at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html Barricading Off the Benchlands, Interviews with Phil Posner, Anton Hunter, & Brent Adams
xxx https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/28/san-jose-video-of-cop-kicking-and-dragging-woman-prompts-fresh-calls-for-police-reforms-but-some-worry-it-wont-be-enough/
xxx Benchlands Blasts from David King, Alie, Russell, Blue, and Jen
xxx “Faithful” Phil Posner’s Benchlands Report
xxx “Bittertongue” Brent Adams Update on the Benchlands Deportations
xxx Seaside Unhoused Leader Anton Hunger on the “Roberts Lake” Relocations
Protests Continue Opposing SCPD Harassment of Vehicles at Courthouse on Monday; HUFF meets Wednesday 11 AM Sub Rosa Courtyard 703 Pacific to discuss future actions
Marty Mirabel, aka “Pirate”, showed up with a dozen protesters at
the County Building Monday (7-27) for a cancelled pre-trial court date.
Marty was defending the vehicular home of a friend from 10+ cops two
weeks before and charged with
multiple felonies for “obstructing”, “battery” and such.
Protesters from HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship &
Freedom), Food Not Bombs, and the broader community rallied in single
digit numbers and spoke broadly about recent police harassment of
unhoused folks, particularly dangerous during
the COVID pandemic. see “Emergency Protest–COVID-19 in S.C. Jails
& Shelters ” at
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/26/18835408.php.
Also increasingly apparent is the City and County’s insistence on
keeping unhoused folks into unhealthy group shelters instead of
providing the motel and housing access funded by Project Roomkey and
Housekey moneys.
The Santa Cruz Homeless Union’s Safe Parking program, run by Alicia
Kuhl, is imperiled by a plan to restrip parking spots along Olive St.
near the Mission St. CVS in order to criminalize vehicular homes parked
there for a year or more.
Already vehicle dwellers have been frightened away from Swanton and
Delaware Streets with new signage, traffic cones, and police tape in
violation of Coastal Commission law that requires there be coastal
access for RV’s and vehicles.
The local Coastal Commission agency is fundamentally in bed with city
bureaucrats and the police and their “Drive the Homeless Out of Town”
agenda in spite of the COVID-19 Shelter-in-Place requirements and the
long-term Coastal regulations.
Several years ago Councilwoman Richelle Niroynan’s anti-homeless “No RVs
at night:” law was essentially vetoed by the Coastal Commission. See
“Unexpected Victory at Coastal Commission Overturning Nighttime RV Ban”
at
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/08/11/18790030.php .
Direct Action by Black Lives Matter activists, concerned with the
attacks on unhoused people in Santa Cruz took down the fences around the
Town Clock and the Post Office twice as well as the fences along the
Water St. bridge overlook areas. HUFF activists will
discuss preparing for future actions demanding authorities remove
restrictive signage and end harassment of vehicular residents at once at
tomorrow’s HUFF meeting.
More extensive audio of the protest will likely be played on the netcast
of the Thursday Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show July 30th which will
be archived at
https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/FRSC%207-30-20.mp3 .
http://www.huffsantacruz.org
Further protests will be considered at the 7-29 HUFF meeting 11 AM
at the Sub Rosa Cafe. More audio of the 7-27 Court steps protest in the
7-30 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show. For audio of the 7-22 Protests
at Mayor Cummings
and Vice-Mayor Mathews Homes go to
https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/1%20FRSC%207-26-20.mp3 .
http://www.huffsantacruz.org
FOR AUDIO SELECTIONS FROM THE COURTHOUSE PROTEST 7-27 AND TO COMMENT GO TO
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/28/18835474.php
Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides archived today & netcast 9:30 AM-3 PM today July 26, 2020–audio of last week’s shout-out at politicians Mathews, Cummings, & Myers + 1992 Flashbacks to Homeless Union Struggle
Today’s 7-26-20 show description will also be posted early at
http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/. It and other shows are now again available on the huffsantacruz.org archives
at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html.
City
Council remains in hiding or on vacation ignoring the Defund the Police
demands made repeatedly at the last three Council sessions & direct
action protests outside their homes last week. MARTY MIRABEL
(“PIRATE”) faces a cooked-up pre-trial hearing tomorrow
Monday July 27th for defending a friend’s vehicular home from a massive
police raid in violation of CDC guidelines.
GATHER
AT 9:30 AM TOMORROW IN FRONT OF THE COURTHOUSE FOR A DEFUND-THE-POLICE
RALLY & DEMAND THAT THE D.A. DROP THE PHONY CHARGES AND CEASE
COLLUSION WITH A CORRUPT AND OVER-MILITARIZED SCPD IN ITS WAR AGAINST
THE UNHOUSED.
NOTE
TO LISTENERS: THE PROTEST TIME IS NOT 10:30 AM AS INCORRECTLY MENTIONED
IN THE NETCAST, BUT 9:30 AM. APOLOGIES FOR ANY CONFUSION.
VIDEO
OF THE POLICE MOBBING OF MARTY AT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP_IS4fR2JM&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR31gdenzugCVMc_TnLhFJwK_P-jgh-nLUzoTe250Wa0fnza5usMZPwHQKA
CURRENT EVENTS IN TODAY’S BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES:
***
More angry
commentary and exposure of shadow Mayor Cynthia Mathews perpetual and
persistent war against the poor in protests in front of her house.***
National Update of Police–Local and Federal–Antics in Portland, Seattle, and Louisville
***
Not Fucking Around Coalition “Grand Master” Jay in 7-18 speech before the arrival of their armed militia in Louisville yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve__CUUBElg
***
Unhoused activists Wes White, Alicia Kuhl, Keith McHenry, Robert Norse,
Marty Mirabel as well as community members Chris Krohn and others speak
at the start of the 7-22 Wharf-to-Westside March Against Police
Violence & Politician Collusion
*** Benchlands
Banter–the Latest from the Homeless Ghetto Right Outside the Closed
Park Bathrooms and Excluded Showers of the County
Building: Comments by Devon, Joseph Earl Tayor III, Rene Discol, Lexi,
Hillbilly (Zack)
***
Appealing to the missing Mayor Cummings outside his Beach Flats apartment
*** Film Tribute in progress
to dead poet Julia Vinograd: https://vimeo.com/425220110/df1164da28https://vimeo.com/425220110/df1164da28
*** Paul’s Account of the overkill SCPD seizure of Jeremiah on 7-22 outside the Subway sandwich joint
*** “Whipback” Wes White in a brief Salinas update on politics there.
*** Voices of rage and revival outside the residence of Vice-Mayor Donna Myers
FLASHBACKs to
S.C.Union of the Homeless 7-14-92 and KSCO’s 1-7-92 Grilling of Psychiatric Inmates Rights Collective activist Jane Kysor
*** Speeches
preparatory to an occupation of Cal-Trans property at Josephine and
River Streets demanding an end to the Sleeping Ban
and decent housing by the SC Union.
*** Remarks by Paul
Brindel, Lotus Maynard, John Stewart, Robert Norse, Ray Grueneich, Terry
Messman, Linda Lemaster, Rainbow Weaver,
Linda Edwards, and others
*** An hour of
skepticism, sarcasm, and sniping from Daryl Alan Gault, aka, DAG against
activists fighting forced drugging and incarceration.
Recent Past Shows are Described at
http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/Many Earlier Shows are Described at
http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html
Earliest Shows are Described at
http://huffsantacruz.org/archivemain.html
Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides netcast streams tonight 7-23-20 at 6 PM at freakradio.org. & archived at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html Marching on the Mighty Mathews: Black Lives Matter Supports Homeless Protest outside Cynthia Mathews
xxx Gathering (7-20) and marching to Council woman and ex-Mayor Cynthia Mathew’s house
xxx A taste of the new San Francisco Mime Troupe radio site (www.sfmt.org) with bi-weekly episodes.
xxx Stephon Clark’s cousin from Sacramento raises spirits, chants, and issues.
xxx Tale of the police car-theft: told by the man whose car was stolen by police and for whom Pirate went to jail
xxx Rumors from the Benchlands: Will there be relocation and “improvement” at San Lorenzo for those outside?
xxx Mobbing SCPDsters take away Jeremiah Maxi from Pacific Avenue 2-22
HUFF huddles again today Wednesday 7-22 at the courtyard of the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church Coffee Free Bring Your Own Treats
HUFF Agenda Suggestions 7-22-20
- Watsonville COVID-19 Outbreak: https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2020/07/20/covid-19-cluster-closes-south-county-homeless-shelter/
- Possible Poll-Tabling at the Benchlands and a Joint Coalition Direct Action to Restore Water There
- Report on Monday’s Night-Time Shriek-Out at Cynthia Mathews and Andy Mills HQ.
- Bringing the Protest to Politicians & Bureaurats—Wharf Roundabout 7 PM
- Update and Lesson from Robert’s Beach Resistance in Seaside: Wes’s Report
- HUFF Position on the Shut-down Commerce-wise and Protest-Wise and No-Motel-Wise
- Vendor Situation and Police/Street Reports
- Phone Contacts with BLM, Dem Socialists, Glover-Krohn progressives and other street groups
- St. Francis Soup Kitchen Discrimination Status
- Olive and Delaware Street Organizing and Support; 72-Hour Sticker Harassment
- Return of the print edition of the Street Spirit newspaper
- Riess Protections for 5150ed S.C. Locals- Further Updates
- Cherie reports Motel worker has told her they’ll be open for her until December, suggesting extended Motel residence…for a few
Upcoming Events
- The Upcoming S.C. Shitty Council Race: Alicia Kuhl’s Candidacy & Endorsements: Town Clock 2 PM
- 2nd Disturb-the-Comfortable, Comfort-the-Disturbed Speak-Out Starting at Wharf 7 PM tonight.
- Likely Protest at Pirate (Marty Mirabel)’s Prelminary Hearing 10:30 AM Monday July 27th Courthouse
The HUFF website is back! Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides shows are being netcast Thursdays 6-8 PM and Sundays 9:30 AM – 3 PM at freakradio.org. Archives of most recent shows are available anytime at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows..html
Volunteer assistance is badly needed. Bring your reports for rebroadcast on the net at Free Radio Santa Cruz (freakradio.org) either to the meeting or call in at 831-423-4833. Or post them yourself at www.indybay.org/santacruz or on facebook.
Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides archived today & netcast 9:30 AM-3 PM today July 19, 2020 covering defund police actions in Santa Cruz and homeless resistance in Seaside plus 11-22-91 Flashback to anti-Police Violence Forum
Today’s 7-19-20 show description will also be posted at
http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/. It and other shows are now again available on the huffsantacruz.org archives
at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html.
Sorry for the long delay, but the archives have been repaired!
The
next City Council meeting (unless they announce a sudden 24-hour-
notice-only “Special” session again as they did on July 2nd) will be the
second Tuesday in August. This–without extensive public protest will
likely be a public-excluded (unless you have a
tv or computer) meeting, again largely ignoring the Defund the Police
demands made repeatedly at the last three Council sessions by an
overwhelming majority of those calling in. It’s likely only strong
visible loud public protests may get the Council (and
more important–the City’s) attention. Look for announced protest
times on line and from those you know. FOLKS WILL BE GATHERING TOMORROW
JULY 20TH AT 9 PM AT TOWN CLOCK FOR A DEFUND-THE-POLICE RALLY &
DIRECT DIALOGUE WITH ALL POLITICIANS & POLICE WHO WANT
TO ATTEND.
CURRENT EVENTS:
*** Lots of History and Less “What Do We Do Now?” Interview with John Malkin, author, musician, SC activist around community control of police and non-violence as a road forward.
*** “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry 7-17 Report on Marty the Pirate Assault and Kidnapping by the SCPD as Marty struggled to defend a homeless man’s vehicular home. Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP_IS4fR2JM&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR31gdenzugCVMc_TnLhFJwK_P-jgh-nLUzoTe250Wa0fnza5usMZPwHQKA
*** “Barracuda Mama” Alicia Kuhl Runs For City Council–the Pros and the Cons
*** “Whip ‘Em Into Shape” Wes White Update 1 (7-14) on Robert’s Lake Survival Encampment in Seaside
*** Covering Up the Sean Monterrosa Murder–Vallejo Police Department in Action: https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/piece-of-evidence-in-vallejo-police-of-sean-monterrosa-shooting-destroyed/?sba=AA
***
Sunday 7-18 at the Town Clock with a Youthful
Black Lives Matter/Blue Lives Murder Protest
*** Wes White Update
2 (7-16) on Seaside’s Planned Demolition of Robert’s Lake Encampment
*** Keith McHenry on the Sunday BLM protest and a Preview of Tomorrow’s “Hold the Council Criminals Accountable” Gathering at the Town Clock 9 PM
FLASHBACK to SPAN (Stop Police Abuse Now!) FORUM
November 22, 1991.
*** Irish Bryan (of Sara and Bryan), whose trial testimony began the aborted investigation of the since-sanctified SCPD Officer Loren “Butchie” ‘Sticky Fingers’ Baker whose abuse of women and homeless people had a long herstory.
*** Introduction and Moderation by “Nutcracker” Nick Whitehead, compiler of SPAN accounts of local police abuse.*** Berkeley attorney and Berkeley Police Review Commissioner Osha Neumann on their struggling board
*** Then-attorney Ray Glock-Gruneich on his struggle against sheriff and police misconduct here*** Individual accounts including “Stand Up”Sara Hillman, “Loud Mouth” Leith Austin (aka Rainbow Lite) & others
*** Music by “Music for the Many” Mark Levy
Recent Past Shows are Described at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/
Many Earlier Shows are Described at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html
Earliest Shows are Described at http://huffsantacruz.org/archivemain.html
Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides netcast streams tonight 7-16-20 at 6 PM at freakradio.org. & archived at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html Seaside’s Vehicular Residents Fight Back; Police Seize Vehicular Homes in Santa Cruz
CAN’T CATCH THE SHOW DURING NETCAST TIME? DOWNLOAD IT AT YOUR CONVENIENCE! http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .
ON TODAY’S SHOW
xxx Katzenjammer Keith McHenry Calls for 9 AM Solidarity with Pirate at Court Tomorrow Morning (7-17) for Defending a Vehicular Home
xxx Update from “Call from Above” Cooper and Her Latest Adventures With Cops & Such
xxx Bathrobespierre Robert Howls at Police Towing a Survival Vehicle from the Food Not Bombs Meal
xxx “Whip ‘Em Some Wisdom” Wes White on the Roberts Lake Resistance Movement
xxx Tough-it-Out Thomas on Cell Tower Headaches and Dental Decay
xxx Beggarbecker Becky Johnson on Robert’s Lake & RV Survival Camps in Monterey County
Still scheming away today (7-15) in the courtyard (outside) of the Sub Rosa at 11 AM for a few hours. 703 Pacific with Coffee and (socially distanced) companionship
HUFF Agenda Suggestions 7-15-20
Police killings that happened or were uncovered/publicized in the last week:
In Portland, Oregon, an unidentified federal agent shot & seriously injured Donavan La Bella, a 26-year-old protester, on Saturday. He was holding a stereo speaker above his head when he was hit in the head with a so-called less lethal round after protesters threw back a police-hurled smoke grenade. Yesterday he remained hospitalized in serious condition with a fractured skull & broken bones in his face
In Arkansas, Calvin Salyers, a police officer…charged with manslaughter after fatally shooting a fellow police officer Scott Hutton who knocked on his front door in early June who had come to the house to pick up a patrol car.
Phoenix cop Michael McGillis tackles Mariah Valenzuela in traffic stop a week ago; video newly released.
REPORTS AND/OR ACTION
- Public Records Refusal from Administrator Bonnie Bush A HUFF mini-protest, tabling, encampment, or march to a Policy Maker’s House or Business..
- Fighting Back Against Vigilante Harassment: Alicia Kuhl’s TRO Try in Court Yesterday
- The Upcoming S..C. Shitty Council Race: Alicia Kuhl’s Candidacy & Endorsements
- SC Union of the Homeless Update & Other Organizational Homeless Activity
- Keith’s Possible Arraignment 1 PM Tomorrow Dept. 1 for Expropriating Police Seizure Vats
- Learning from and Supporting Robert’s Beach Resistance in Seaside: Wes’s Report
- HUFF Position on the Shut-down Commerce-wise and Protest-Wise
- Call-In to Tonight’s Shitty Council Meeting in Seaside and Its Aftermath: Defund & Disengage
- Vendor Situation and Police/Street Reports
- Phone Contacts with BLM, Dem Socialists, Glover-Krohn progressives and other street groups
- The new Shelter-in-Place Shutdown: Implications
- Status Report on the CDC-disapproved Group Shelters which are Santa Cruz’s main duck-and-dodge response to the Project Roomkey funding, leaving hundreds of vulnerable houseless people at risk
- St. Francis Soup Kitchen Discrimination Status
- Olive and Delaware Street Organizing and Support; 72-Hour Sticker Harassment
- Return of the print edition of the Street Spirit newspaper
- Riess Protections for 5150ed S.C. Locals–Research
- Reports on 7-9 Scotts Valley BLM Protest; 7-11 BLM Protest SLV, Paddle Out for Tamario Smith 7-11 and Upcoming Protests
The HUFF website is back! Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides shows are being netcast Thursdays 6-8 PM and Sundays 9:30 AM – 3 PM at freakradio.org. Archives of most recent shows are available anytime at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html
Volunteer assistance? Bring your reports for rebroadcast on the net at Free Radio Santa Cruz (freakradio.org) either to the meeting or call in at 831-423-4833.
Grand Jury report: https://www.co.santa-cruz.ca.us/Portals/0/County/GrandJury/GJ2020_final/MicroHomes_Report.pdf
Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 7-12-20 show today: Alicia Kuhl’s Upcoming TRO Hearing, Reports from Keith McHenry & Steve Pleich, “Fuck the Fourth” Speeches & NYC activist Robert Lederman in a show flashing back to July 4, 2004
Today’s 7-12-20 show description will also be posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/.
It and other shows are now again available on the huffsantacruz.org archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html.
Sorry for the long delay, but the archives have been repaired!
The next City Council meeting (unless they announce a sudden 24-hour- notice-only “Special” session again as they did on July 2nd) will be the second Tuesday in August. This–without extensive public protest will likely be a public-excluded (unless you have a tv or computer) meeting, again largely ignoring the Defund the Police demands made repeatedly at the last three Council sessions by an overwhelming majority of those calling in. announced 24 hours ahead of time. It’s likely only strong visible loud public protests may get the Council (and more important–the City’s) attention. Look for announced protest times on line and from those you know.
CURRENT EVENTS:
*** Norse Updates: Psych Release, Public Records on Olive St. Parking, City Council Rules, Police Defunding
*** Lt. Haebe accosts Drayco; Alicia Kuhl to Court for TRO Against the Burdicks
*** Many-Sided McHenry Report on Conditions for Outside Residents Around the Town
*** Exposing the “Bountygate” Attack on the Russians at https://thegrayzone.com/
*** “Fuck the 4th” Speeches Demanding Police Defunding at the Beach Flats
***
Zane Talking Out by the Coral St. Train Tracks–Before the Latest Cal-Trans Sweep
*** “Don’t Bury the Library”
Protesters Reiterate Their Reasons
*** Taking Back the Streets on July 21st with
Food Not Bombs and the Coalition to Defund the SCPD
*** https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/08/gilroy-poised-to-pay-1-million-to-family-of-unarmed-man-killed-in-2015-police-shooting/
*** https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/body-cam-footage-shows-officer-fatally-shot-sf-man-from-truck-e2-80-99s-back-seat/ar-BB16v90e
*** Glenn Greenwald at http://theintercept.com/2020/07/09/how-the-house-armed-services-committee-in-the-middle-of-a-pandemic-approved-a-huge-military-budget-and-more-war-in-afghanistan/
*** Steve Pleich’s Defund the Police by 30% Proposal–But Will He lead the Protests To Get There?
FLASHBACK TO7-4-2004 BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES SHOW
*** Robert Ledermann of A.R.T.I.S.T. (Artists’ Response To Illegal State Tactics) at https://groups.yahoo.com
/neo/groups/nycstreetartists/info chronicles street vendors and activists fighting back against police repression
in New York City.
Recent Past Shows are Described at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/
Many Earlier Shows are Described at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html
Earliest Shows are Described at http://huffsantacruz.org/archivemain.html
Act Locally or Regret Later
- Support Alicia Kuhl in her Watsonville hearing Tues 7-14 8:30 AM in Burdick’s Court. Info: 431-7766
- Call in street reports to HUFF and the Free Radio Santa Cruz netshow back at 831-423-4833
- Join Food Not Bombs [FNB], HUFF, and other local groups at the Daily Meal at the Laurel & Pacific seeking volunteers to pass on information and provide support.
- Eat and organize at FNB meals 1;30-5:30 weekdays, 4-6 Sat & Sun.
- Demand Legislative Rubberstampers of City Manager Martin Bernal and County Potentates Restore Actual Public Meetings instead of Closed Door On-Line Charades.
- Call City Hall (420-5020) and the Board of Supervisors (454-2200) or Rattle the Windows of these Toxic Pretenders where They Work & Live to demand Defunding Police Agencies to secure safety & services.
- Hit the streets to Insist that City Manager Bernal and Chief Mills stop the sweeps of homeless encampments–violating the CDC directive and halt $$ for these and other police terror sweeps.
- Prepare for peaceful urgent Direct Action to enact these health & safety measures if City Manager Bernal, Mayor Cummings, and Chief Mills continue to Stall.
- Resist Business and Corporate Pressure to Restore Massive Tourist “Business as Usual” in the midst of a Pandemic of Unknown Dimensions
- Prepare for the likely return of explicit anti-homeless police, business, and vigilante activity as “business-as-usual” resumes.
-
Check out resumed HUFF meetings Wed 11 AM at the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific (next meeting 7-15)
-
Demand
“Bad News” Bernal Order His Cops to Stand off and Allow Homeless
Activists to Reopen Camp Phoenix, let other survival campers remain
where they
are without molestation (stop the sweeps!), and/or allow for self-run
triage zones (as at the Ross Camp site) now that Governor Newsom has
declared that area surplus space to be designated for homeless use.
Provide decent facilities for trash pick-up, washing,
drinkable water, and bathroom access.
-
Pressure
the City to provide support for vehicular residents, water for those in
the Benchlands, portapotties for those in the Pogonip and the Levy,
and decent survival services citywide.
-
Denounce
the latest cosmetic “See, We Have Shelter” lie with the pathetic and
all-in-the-same-room response of the Vet’s Hall, the Armory, and Laurel
St instead of the needed and promised motel rooms. These need to be
provided BEFORE symptoms develop, BEFORE testing, TARGETING the most
vulnerable but providing for all as the crisis escalates nation-wide.
- Demand immediate transfer of money to shelter the many rather than provide an illusion by unsafely sheltering a few, while really providing protective cover to the City Council and Board of Supervisors for essentially doing nothing for the great majority and allowing Mills’ police-and-rangers to threaten campsites with seizure and arrest at will as police are the only large gang allowed to publicly assemble.
- Contact Chief Mills at amills@cityofsantacruz.com to demand fundamental changes such as that seized survival gear be available for reclaiming during regular business hours, not just 6 hours as week. See https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2019/12/18/police_protest_flyer_12-18-19.pdf
-
Hold
accountable City Hall NIMBY whenever they show up in public: Mayor
Justin Cummings, City Manager-for-Life Martin Bernal, His Wrecking Crew
of
Abuse Enablers Susie O’Hara and Megan Bunch, Police Chief Andy Mills,
& City Attorney Tony Condotti for Inciting the Ross Camp
Destruction, Subsequent Deaths, & the Friday Nov 15th Demolition of
Camp Phoenix (the renewed Deseire Memorial Survival Encampment
in back of Ross) with a campaign of lies to the community regarding
“adequate shelter options”.
-
Remember
Deseire Quintero–Killed by City Indifference, Negligence, and Malice
in Closing the First Ross Camp Without Any Adequate Shelter! Support
Survival Campgrounds, Empty Building Takeovers This Plague Season
Wherever They Happen. Provide them with supplies.
- Take peaceful action to open up buildings for Emergency Shelter as well as an end to harassment citation of folks surviving outside under “trespass on public property”, “closed area”, “public nuisance” and “blocking the sidewalk” pretexts;
- Witness, oppose, and document police and ranger harassment using “closed areas”, “blocking the sidewalk”, “public nuisance”, “public trespass”, and “illegal lodging” to get around the Boise v. Martin “No shelter? No tickets!” decision.
-
Demand
City Manager “Mangler” Martin Bernal and SCPD Police Chief
“Ambushmaster” Andy Mills account for their destruction of Camp Phoenix
ignoring
City Council’s required Standard Operating Procedures for closing
encampments and violating their own admission that “trespass” could not
be properly applied to the survival sleepers. Remember the bad history
so it’s not repeated!
·
Contact Alicia Kuhl to find more direct and effective ways to
support the next shelter-in-place encampments, legal challenges, and
fundamental police change throughout the City starved of food and
survival gear at 831-431-7766. DONATE SURVIVAL GEAR
& VOLUNTEER DURING THE CRISIS EVERY DAY AT FOOD NOT BOMBS Laurel & Front St. MEAL.
· Document Homeless Discrimination & Sign Up for Direct Action to “Open the Bathrooms Now!” Action by contacting the SC Union, HUFF, Conscience & Action, or the Give-A-Shit Campaign
· Provide Direct Support to Survival Camps & Squats as City Council Ignores the Emergency; Skip the Poverty Pimp Entrepreneurs to give directly to Food Not Bombs, the Felker St. Footbridge Services, the SC Homeless Union and other real providers.
·
Post Your Documentation of Police and Ranger “Move Along” Mischief or Pass it on to BadAss Mama at 831-431-7766
· Donate to Existing Homeless Encampments, NOT Poverty-Pimp Posturers– Survival Demands Blankets, Water, Tarps, Portapotties & Trash Pick-Up’s–and Deter Police Harassment by being On Call to Document It.
· Additional Needs for Community Samaritans!–More Needs: Potable Water for Drinking, Laundry Access so Clothes Don’t Mildew, Electrical Phone-Charging Hook-up’s and More Space in Additional Spots, Monitor and Expose Cop Crackdowns
· Support Food Not Bombs, the Warming Center’s Day/Night Storage Program, HUFF, and independent homeless activists by documenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.
- Check out The Santa Cruz Community, Santa Cruz Homeless Advocates & Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz, Monterey County Homeless Advocates, SNAIL, HEART Disabled Homeless People, Power Surge Tenants Rights, Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance, and more on Facebook..then go out and do something!
- Read Updates and Post Them on Santa Cruz Indymedia at https://www.indybay.org/santa-cruz/
- Exchange information with other supporters there to generate more communication and better solutions in the future.
- Listen in to Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides at freakradio.org Thursdays 6-8 PM, Sundays 9:30 AM- 3 PM
- Hear archived shows at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html . Call in with street reports and commentary: 831-423-4833
- If you must, expropriate items from corporate & chain stores. Don’t steal from vulnerable fellow homeless or local businesses!
REMINDER: Free Radio Santa Cruz stands ready to dole out $300 for info leading to a 10′ X 10′ studio space with bathroom, internet, and electrical access–either indoors or out (we’ll build a structure). We’re also seeking a transmitter space where we can put up an antenna–a backyard, a multistory home, a high tree–help us spread the word. Help us so we can help you!