Monthly Archives: August 2021

Sunday 8-29-21 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show airs and archives 9:30 a.m. or shortly thereafter: Posner on Bikes and the Community Credit Union Scam; Gloomy Growls from the Food Not Bombs meal; Panther Patrols the Dakota Camp; Flashback to 4-29-01

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ON THE 8-30-21 SHOW:  
      +++    Correcting the “Bad Biker” Narrative with “Minimum Trust” Micah Posner
      +++    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/us/migrant-camp-reynosa-remain-in-mexico.html
      +++    Questioning Voices from the Food Not Bombs meal: Sea Otter, Thomas, Rain, Q.Z, and Dreadeye
      +++    https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/California-loitering-law-is-a-license-for-16412232.php
      +++    Panther on Problems & Prospects of the Dakota Agreement Camp
      +++    Video shows trooper pummeling Black motorist after traffic stop:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FggwxyM32MA


FLASHING BACK TO THE 4-29-01 SHOW:​​
       ****   “No to Columbus Worship; Free Political Prisoners” Forum with attorney Larry Hildes, Petitioners to Dump Columbus Day, Yellow Hawk, and more       

****     Robert Waters Suffocates in a D.C. Court While Attorneys Chatter On       

****     The Supreme Court’s Atwater decision: allowing abusive arrests for “no seat belt”       

****      “Rough Rider” Richard Quigley on the “Atwater v. City of Lago Vista” Decision; the local “Take Me to a Magistrate” suspect’s rights   

****       Bathrobespierre plays Cop to Quigley’s Suspect–Role-Playing as a citizen training exercise.       

****        The City Council’s Self-Congratulatory “Rage Against Rent” Rally in the Beach Flats while the 5-2 Progressive majority on the Council did nothing about real Rent Control.

 
The show will be available on HUFF archives at the Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides under Lost/Latest Shows http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html)  as well as netcast at 9:30 AM or shortly thereafter. 

Detailed written descriptions of recent shows are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/  (search for “Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides” on the right side of the screen).  Many older audio archives are described and currently available at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html .  

Sunday 8-15-21 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show airs and archives 9:30 a.m. or shortly thereafter: Interviews Galore with Sausalito Activist Robbie Powelson, Berkeley’s Carol Denney, the Benchlanders, Salinas’s Wes White, People’s Parksters, & More

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ON THE 8-15-21 SHOW:  
      +++    Standing Against Sausalito Savagery with “Rough Water” Robbie Powelson
      +++    Bedside Chat from “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry
      +++    “Cornerstone” Carol Denney on Destruction of “Where Do We Go?”
      +++    “Backstory” Brent Adams Critiques City/County Cut-and-Run Policies
      +++    A Walk Through the Greater Camp Paradise: https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2021/08/13/not-a-place-to-call-home/
      +++    Barks from the Benchlands with Darien, Marsha, Sophie, & Greg
      +++    Present at the Pulverization: Woeful Watcher Wes White Documents the Razing of the Sherwood Park and Carr Lake Survival Camps in Salinas
      +++   “Scope it Out” Scott Graham on “Mum’s the Word” Mayor Meyers Sneak Play Slipping in District Elections in Santa Cruz      

+++   Survival Camp Days in Berkeley’s Peoples Park with Heartspeaker Hans
      +++   Tasty Tidbits and Sharp Seasoning from the Volunteer Staff of Berkeley’s People’s Park Kitchen with Chef Nick & the Community of Cooks
      +++   Adventures Outside the Dominant Paradigm with Cooper & Russell        

+++   Plodding through Police Pawing with Marty & Bathrobespierre: Anatomy of a 72-Hour “Storage” Citation

NOTE TO BENCHLAND DEFENDERS:  Santa Cruz Homeless Union is postponing its PUSH movie today, part of a campaign to pledge defense of the Benchlands and other encampments, out of caution in the wake of the new Delta virus assault.


The show will be available on HUFF archives at the Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides under Lost/Latest Shows http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html)  as well as netcast at 9:30 AM or shortly thereafter. 

Detailed written descriptions of recent shows are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/  (search for “Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides” on the right side of the screen).  Many older audio archives are described and currently available at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html .  
Commentary by Ursula and more detailed descriptions of recent shows may also be available on the Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom Facebook page where you can also leave comments. Some of Ursula’s earlier work can be found at http://huffsantacruz.org/ursula.html. 

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 8-12-21 show netcasts at freakradio.org and archives around 6 PM at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html FLASHBACK to December 31, 2020–Right After the San Lorenzo Park Victory

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If you wish, you can also hear this show (August 12, 2021–a Flashback to December 31, 2020) and other homeless civil rights shows at a time of your convenience.

Click on http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html . Detailed descriptions are available at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/ soon after the show is aired or archived. 


ON THE 12-31 SHOW :

xxx Many Moments at 2nd “Move ‘Em Out Monday” at San Lorenzo Park

xxx  Former Clownsil member Micah Posner at the Barricades


xxx  Pensive Pete Shanks Chats with Us


xxx  Pan, aka “Pussy” the Persistent, a Park resident, gives background.


xxx  Barbara of WILPF  Risks Arrest and Infection to Support the Park Defenders


xxx  Nick and the Wes White’s Salinas Union of the Homeless Contingent Make the Journey

xxx  Jailfreed Joshua Rios Praises the Occupation xxx  Police Create Tumult in the Park

xxx  “Panicfree” Pan & Others Address the Cops Blocking the Dakota Street


xxx  Another Black Victim of White Police: Columbus cop Adam Coy kills Andre Hill, holding a cellphone. https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Police-didn-t-help-Andre-Hill-for-5-minutes-after-15838717.php

HUFF Still in the Benchlands Thursday August 12 11 a.m. -1 p.m. at the Tables between Courthouse & the Survival Camps

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Agenda Prospects  for Thursday’s (8-12) Meeting       

+++ Sisterly Greetings from the People’s Kitchen in Berkeley’s People’s Park
      +++ Resurrecting AB 5: the Homeless Bill of Rights
      +++ Salinas Sweeps and the un-Zoomed Salinas City Council Report from Whipster Wes
      +++ Resistance Strategies Against Further Sweeps and Benchland on Hold?
      +++ Novato and Chico City-Wide Injunctions: Gathering Plaintiffs for Santa Cruz
      +++ HUFF Response to Exclusion or Mandatory Vaccinations on the Horizon for Those Outside?
      +++ Bring Reports of Threats or Citations Using the New Camping Bans, Other Laws, or No Laws to HUFF
        +++ Possible Sweep Defenses When the Cops Come Calling–Individual & Group Strategies
        +++ Laura’s Law Substitutes in Santa Cruz: Conservatorships, “No Warning” Deportations, and “No Protection” Reiss Hearings
       +++ Untwisting the Crooked O’Hara Narrative:  Mustering Past Evidence of Shelter Denial and the City Manager’s Jive Claims
       +++ New Contacts with the Coastal Commission on Monitoring Illegal “Parking Limitation” Sign Placements Against Vehicular Residents

       +++  HUFF Chess ‘n Chatter Tabling in the Benchlands

        +++ Still Hooked on Meetings?  the City-organized Camp Meeting 6 PM mid-Camp 8-5; Coalition of Benchland Defense Organizations meets 5 PM  8-6 same tables where HUFF meets!
Mid–70’s Predicted in Santa Cruz.   If you can believe the internet.

Continue to Organize for pre-emptive pressure on the City with Resistance strategies and support for unhoused through Santa Cruz at these and other meetings: 
City-organized Benchlands meeting 6 PM 8-5 mid-Benchlands;              Santa Cruz Homeless Union Camp meeting 5 PM 8-6 Tables between Benchlands and Courthouse.Tune in for ongoing reports netcasted on Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 6 PM Thursdays on freakradio.org and 9:30 AM-3 PM Sundays. 

Shows archived at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html   Likely updates from San Diego, Berkeley, Sausalito, San Rafael, and elsewhere.


Read encouraging words defending the Chico survival camps and unhoused folks at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/07/10/18843676.php  (“The Chico Decision-Hope for the Homeless in Santa Cruz”).
Action Against Homes-on-Wheels Removal in Mountain View: https://www.mv-voice.com/news/2021/07/12/aclu-law-foundation-announce-lawsuit-to-stop-mountain-views-rv-parking-ban

 RV Defense in L.A. :  https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2021-07-27/a-federal-class-action-lawsuit-challenges-los-angeles-restrictions-on-where-hom-eless-people-can-park-rvs

Sunday 8-8-21 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show airs and archives 9:30 a.m. or shortly thereafter: Interviews with Wes White, Garrett Stevens, Steve Pleich, and more. Flashback to February 12, 2015

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ON THE 8-8-21 SHOW:  
      +++    Exploding (again) the “Hiroshima Massacre Needed for WWII Victory” Myth: https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/08/06/mythmaking-and-the-atomic-destruction-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/
      +++    Sweet Siren Screams of Danielle Savage Throughout
      +++    A Brief Boring Look at the 8-10 City Council Agenda
      +++    California Rent Moratorium Under Attack: https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/06/landlords-push-to-end-california-eviction-ban/
      +++    “Woe to the Wicked” Wes White on the 7 AM Sweeps Coming Up Monday August 9th at Sherwood Park;  Navidad Creek/First Tee 7 AM August 10;  Shout-Back at City Council 4 PM Tuesday August 10.
      +++     “Gracious but Gutsy” Garrett Stevens on Shower Shenanagans in the Benchlands.
      +++    Biden Pressured into a Partial Moratorium Extension: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/cdc-issues-new-eviction-ban-for-most-of-us-through-oct-3
      +++   “Softball” Steve Pleich Fields HUFF  Questions About the Latest Police Parole Detentions & Arrests along Camp Paradise Trail & the Benchlands
      +++   Lee Camp’s Redacted Show Covers the Half-Baked Rent Moratorium Extension: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55QdFl_5l7I&t=608s
      +++   More Pleich Back-and-Forth on Homeless COVID Testing & Vaccination        

+++   “Scope it Out” Scott Graham on the Empty City Council Agenda Coming Up 8-10.

NOTE TO BENCHLAND DEFENDERS:  Santa Cruz Homeless Union and allies will be kicking off the Pledge to Defend the Benchlands & Other Homeless Encampments 5 PM outside City Hall 5 PM Tuesday August 10th  SIGN UP AND SPEAK OUT ! 


FLASHBACK TO February 12, 2015
Street level interviews with Pineapple, David, and Joshua on DUI’s, harassment homeless ticketing, and other issues


Update on the Small Claims Court Defense Against the Sleeping Ban
Encounter with Roadside Curtis Reliford, Black Samaritan & Activist


Flo on the Camp of Last Resort meeting
Doc Mike and Bathrobespierre on Justice vs. Compassion

Dave Mahere, SC Tenant Lawyer on his S.F. Tenant Lawyering
Councilmember Micah Posner Credits HUFF with lowering bail amounts

Cynthia “Backtalk” Berger on the latest from SC Tenants Association

Bathrobespierre Belches Against Parklets and Public Moneys to Privatize Abbot Square

Backpack Discrimination at Starbucks?

Jimmy of I Help Monterey on the Starfish Safe Parking Program and is 22-year IHM  Church shelter program”

Chuck out Chicanery” Charles, Sitting Ban Protester, Calls in.

   
The show will be available on HUFF archives at the Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides under Lost/Latest Shows http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html)  as well as netcast at 9:30 AM or shortly thereafter. 

Detailed written descriptions of recent shows are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/  (search for “Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides” on the right side of the screen).  Many older audio archives are described and currently available at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html .

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 8-5-21 show netcasts at freakradio.org and archives around 6 PM with FLASHBACK to October 20, 1995

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If you wish, you can also hear this show (August 5, 2021–a Flashback to October 20, 1995) and other homeless civil rights shows at a time of your convenience, Click on http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .

Detailed descriptions are available at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/ . 


FULL BAG OF FLASHBACKS ON THE 10-20-95 SHOW: 

Merry days from the earliest year of Free Radio Santa Cruz
Co-Host Charles Grey recalls his “living within my share of the world’s available income” both here and in Eugene, where he moved.


Nutcracker Nick Whitehead trips about the studio and Lighthouse Linda Lemaster calls in adding bittersweet sanity and real-life grounding.

Skidmark Bob Duran, Copwatcher and Free Radio regular, gives helpful and caustic updates.

Beggarbacker Becky Johnson on hapless homeless victim Ray McMinn Street Dialogues with Beadster Babes banned from the Farmer’s Market,

Crow–a Dad standing up for his daughter’s doodoo dumpin.An article by Crossroads Chris Brozda, leftist critic of Bathrobespierre


Jolly Roger Comedy Troupe Sketches including the Psychopathology of the Corporate Criminal,

Door-to-Door Sales of Influence for President Clinton,

and more Paul Mortez and Antony Delatno: Sexual Life among the 20-somethings on Pacific Avenue.

HUFF Cools It in the Benchlands Thursday 8-5 at the Tables between Courthouse & the Survival Camps Reviewing the Latest SCPD Raids

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Agenda Prospects  for Thursday’s (8-5) Meeting       

+++ Updates on the Fentanyl Follie

+++ Resurrecting AB 5: the Homeless Bill of Rights
+++ City Council’s Zoom Charade and the Coalition Protest August 10th 5 PM City Hall
+++ Possible Resistance Strategies Against Further Sweeps and Benchland Demolition in the Benchlands: Polling Results
+++ Novato and Chico City-Wide Injunctions: Gathering Plaintiffs
+++ Exclusion or Mandatory Vaccinations on the Horizon for Those Outside?
+++ Bring Reports of Threats or Citations Using the New Camping Bans, Other Laws, or No Laws to HUFF or Alicia at 431-7766
+++ Possible Sweep Defenses When the Cops Come Calling–Individual & Group Strategies
+++ Laura’s Law in Santa Cruz: Did They Opt-Out?  Countering Conservatorships & “No Warning” Deportations as Go-To Bad Alternatives
 +++ Untwisting the Crooked O’Hara Narrative:  Mustering Past Evidence of Shelter Denial and the City Manager’s Jive Claims
+++ New Contacts with the Coastal Commission on Monitoring Illegal “Parking Limitation” Sign Placements Against Vehicular Residents

 +++  Moving HUFF meetings back to the Sub Rosa, perhaps Tuesdays at Noon?

+++ Hooked on Meetings?  the City-organized Camp Meeting 6 PM mid-Camp 8-5; Coalition of Benchland Defense Organizations meets 5 PM  8-6 same tables where HUFF meets!

   Looks like Cool Weather.  But come prepared.

Continue to Organize for pre-emptive pressure on the City with Resistance strategies and support for unhoused through Santa Cruz at these and other meetings: 
City-organized Benchlands meeting 6 PM 8-5 mid-Benchlands;              Santa Cruz Homeless Union Camp meeting 5 PM 8-6 Tables between Benchlands and Courthouse.

Tune in for ongoing reports netcasted on Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 6 PM Thursdays on freakradio.org and 9:30 AM-3 PM Sundays. 

Shows archived at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html   Likely updates from San Diego, Berkeley, Sausalito, San Rafael, and elsewhere.


Read encouraging words defending the Chico survival camps and unhoused folks at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/07/10/18843676.php  (“The Chico Decision-Hope for the Homeless in Santa Cruz”).
Action Against Homes-on-Wheels Removal in Mountain View: https://www.mv-voice.com/news/2021/07/12/aclu-law-foundation-announce-lawsuit-to-stop-mountain-views-rv-parking-ban

 RV Defense in L.A. :  https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2021-07-27/a-federal-class-action-lawsuit-challenges-los-angeles-restrictions-on-where-hom-eless-people-can-park-rvs

Sunday 8-1-21 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show airs and archives 9:30 a.m. or shortly thereafter: Interviews with Watsonville’s Monike Tone and Coral Brune of the Tannery; Flashback to the Trouble 2014 times–the September 11th Show.

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ON THE 8-1-21 SHOW:  
      +++   Critical Update in the “Final Settlement” of the Dissolution of the San Lorenzo Benchlands Injunction https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2021/07/30/santa-cruz-homeless-civil-rights-lawsuit-dimissed/ 
      +++   ‘Latest’ City Administration Propaganda: https://www.cityofsantacruz.com/community/city-newsroom/city-manager-s-weekly-reports    https://www.cityofsantacruz.com/community/homelessness
      +++   “Comfort the Castaways” Coral Brune, Tannery Resident and Local Musician on latest doings along the Levee near her home
      +++   Rousting the Wretched ROUND-UP Renegades– https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Herbicide-Roundup-to-be-pulled-from-U-S-store-16350403.php
      +++   “Maximum Resistance” Monike Tone of the south County Homeless Union reports on Sweeps-Without-Notice by Watsonville Camp Crushers.
      +++   “Whip ’em into Shape” Wes White on Mandatory Vaccination and other issues.
      +++   An earlier article by Mercury Newster Marisa Kendall: https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/07/12/california-cities-take-new-steps-to-eradicate-homeless-camps/
      +++  Street Spirit covers Oakland’s latest token efforts to legitimize a tiny number of encampments: https://thestreetspirit.org/2021/07/08/as-encampment-sweeps-pick-up-community-continues-to-build/        

+++   7-31 Keith McHenry on the Fentanyl-laced Marijuana killings among the homeless community, the coming Eviction Crisis, and more.


FLASHBACK TO September 11, 2014

The “Low Impact Zone” around the 115 Coral Street Poverty PimpsteramaChallenging Santa Cruz Mayor Robinson’s “No Unattended Recording” Rule–part of the Crackdown of Curfews and Punishments by the Take Back Santa Cruz-sympathetic City Council.”Chronic Offenders” Program;

Strong Women Speak at City Council


Capital Steps “Please the Powerful” Numbers Harassment Inspections of Paula Gregore’s ADU Street Interviews:  CPS Danger;

Jason on San Jose v. Santa Cruz, Different Accounts of Police Treatment Red Church 9-8 Accounts: Louis Mehia,


 Update on the Association of Faith Communities and the ACLU Scott Gallaway–Red Church Manager–defends the status quo. Julie Schaul of Santa Cruz Full Timers on MacDonalds “Move Along” Policy Kelly’s Tale of Vehicular Harassment Father Joel Miller Pumps the AFC Conference Street People’s Radio and FRSC host Karma on not getting shelter questions answered


The show will be available on HUFF archives at the Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides under Lost/Latest Shows http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html)  as well as netcast at 9:30 AM or shortly thereafter. 

Detailed written descriptions of recent shows are at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/  (search for “Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides” on the right side of the screen).  Many older audio archives are described and currently available at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html .  
Commentary by Ursula and more detailed descriptions of recent shows may also be available on the Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom Facebook page where you can also leave comments. Some of Ursula’s earlier work can be found at http://huffsantacruz.org/ursula.html. 

BRING PHONE CHATTER & VOLUNTEERS BACK to FREE RADIO!
       We need studio space to restore the phone line.  Send us tips on where to rent studio space.  There’s still a $300 reward if you find us a year’s space. 

ANTENNA LOCATION STILL WANTED FRSC also needs a location to set up our antenna again downtown– in a tree, a house, etc.  Call the HUFF line (831-423-4833) if you have any tips. 
    
GET YOUR STORY OUT ON THE AIR, contact Bathrobespierre Robert at HUFF or rnorse3@hotmail.com.  You can also comment on the Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom facebook page.