The June 27, 2024 show is a Flashback to December 18, 2008. 

It includes:      

+++  Vandweller Joseph Ciampi tasered by Palo Alto police wins suppression of evidence hearing”.       

+++  Attorney David Beauvais discusses the Ciampi case in a phone interview       

+++  Many references to the case:  go to http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=10448   & search for Ciampi      

+++  Berkeley poet Julia Vinograd reads from her book America is Hiding Under My Bed.       

+++  Linda A.’s street report of a demo by single dad Chuck who complained he got a bogus urine test positive by the Rebele Family Shelter.      

+++ Phone interview with Fresno’s Mike Rhodes reporting from Madera and 60 homeless people protesting at their City Council  [https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/12/23/18556161.php] `     

+++  Street Interview: 12-11: Mark’s jaywalking ticket near Taco Bell’s—panhandling with “broke and hungry” sign, 2 hours with no luck, notes folks get lots of sleeping tickets      

+++ Strummer with bunnies

HUFF Ruf Agenda Suggestions 6-27-24                                             

 Top of the Agenda                 

++++   A shorter meeting than usual is planned.  

++++   Jacine has improved but may still be ill.  Several HUFF members may be ill or worried about illness.   Laura has come down with COVID with fever over the weekend but better now.  

++++   Meeting may be in the courtyard or inside: be prepared for cool weather.  

++++  If people want, we’ll give a call to Athena for a report on the Mental Health Advisory Board meeting last week.  

++++ The usual “Loose Cannons” meeting run by Athena is postponed another week.  Athena may join us late in the meeting if she’s finished helping Deona move her stuff from storage.  

++++ Video of the last MHAB meeting [6-20] :   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMsaGIViMkg  

++++  Restoring right to survival encampments in Santa Cruz regardless of the Supreme Crapster decision`                                     

Standard Stuff: Procedures and Preliminaries  

++++   Timekeeper (10 minutes per item)  Hand-raisin’ courtesies, Chair rotation  

++++   Passarounds & Handouts  TBA  

++++   Announcements: TBA

++++   Street Reports with particular focus on recent police attacks on encampments

++++   Reviewing the Refugee Property Losses from Coral Street Demolitions                                             Upcoming Events

++++    Monday The Santa Cruz Homeless Union will announce a meeting shortly after the Supreme Court’s decision in the Grants Pass case to be held at City Hall, 809 Center Street.  The decision has reportedly a June 30th deadline.

++++   Saturday  6-29 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.                

Gathering Information

++++  Property lost on Coral St. and at other recent seizures

++++   Still searching out Surveillance Camera Location (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)

++++   Flyer suggestions for upcoming Tourist Train protest with Coral St. info.

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

Possible Topics for Discussion

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

++++   Tourist Train Strategy & Spectacle Update

++++   Cooling Center when extreme heat threatens?  Suggestions?

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

++++  Reports from gov bodies (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board)  

++++  Budget Report from Shitty Council’s last meetings and Stupes?  Report on the new management contract for Evan Morrison’s group at the Armory ++++  Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MH CAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)   

++++ Temperate to warm day weather for the next 10 days; no promise police will be stopping their raids.  

++++  Bathroom access at the Bookshop Santa Cruz                              

Keeping Tabs: Someday Follow-Up’s   

++++  Protest Target Suggestions: Tourist Train Sites City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission… City Hall…​Emeline/TelcCare/Supes                                                                                                 

Delayed Net-Show Access

June 20th  :  https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-thursday-june-20-2024-show-flashes-back-to-the-september-25-2014-broadcast-featuring-street-interviews-a-plenty-and-discussion-of-the-anti-homeless-mosquito-devi/

June 23rd :  https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-sunday-6-23-24-show-joins-folks-at-one-of-the-few-surviving-homeless-gatherings-the-weekend-town-clock-meet-a-12-11-08-flashback-featuring-in-studio-cawster-crow-sat/

++++ To View these BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES NET-RADIO SHOWs:  go to http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  click on June 20th or 23rd  links there. 

++++  To Read descriptions of the show, click on the links above.

The June 23, 2024 show includes:  

• “Cornerstone” Carol Denney on present city, university, court, and legislative shenanigans and the future of People’s Park
• Oral arguments before the Supreme Court in the Grants Pass v. Jackson’s case: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/audio/2023/23-175
• “All About Action” Athena on recent police raids against those outside along Coral St. and vicinity as well as more on the recent behavior of Housing Matters. 
• “The U.S. is Preparing for World War 3 while Expanding Draft Registration” by Caitlin Johnstone at https://substack.com/@caitlinjohnstone
• Airborne Athena recounts the casualty list and increased hostile fire facing folks outside after the Coral St. raids

The Flashback to December 22, 2008 includes:

• “Linda A”  to be turned out of River St. mini-shelter while legally blind still recovering from eye surgery
• Crow joins the show as guest and co-host on reclaiming fenced off Drum Circle space rejecting a “stay away” order from Farmer’s Market/drum circle and demanding a jury trial.
• Last Saturday night [12-17] Sleep-Out: 2 cops give 4 a.m. citations
• Sociology prof Nick Alexieu at Queens College from NYC calls in to give update on the Greek rebellion.
• [12-18] “Street Guy with Tatoos” from Julia Vinograd’s then new Beside Myself book

The Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides June 20, 24 show is a Flashback to September 25, 2014. 

It includes:      

+++  G9-20 Interview with Keith McHenry on Mother Theresa in S.F          +++   9-25 Red Church Interviews: Eric Ray & Donna Marie on P&R’s August raid taking his stuff–5 camps destroyed, stuff hidden in trees taken, tents slashed by Labor Ready workers, repeats seizures subsequently      

+++  Honey’s 24-hour stay-away order from the beach after a ticket      

+++  Mass bust at Parking Lot #9 against travelers for smoking w/5 cops      

+++  Street jeweler Robin reports levee wildlife destruction to drive out campers, fencing near Tannery 2-3 weeks ago; HLOSC now like a prison with locked gate so no more meals there             

+++  Lone WolfHutch denounces S.C. Hotel for ripping him off for vets check             

+++  Jeweler reports Move-Along fine reduced from $349 to $100 though they weren’t asked as the law required to move along      

+++  DreamCatcher on massive seizure of property of 7 older men in San Lorenzo Park while they were at lunch      

+++  Correspondence with assistant City Manager Scott Collins on the anti-homeless “Mosquito” devices used to discourage groups of “undesireables” from clustering near banks, under bridges, and elsewhere in the city.       

+++  A caller and in studio broadcaster Doc Mike discuss the health implications of the Mosquito devices           

+++  Colin Campbell Clyde’s national political dismay

The Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday 6-16-24 show includes:

• Background of the Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides musical introductory theme “Sing me a Song of Social Significance” from the 30’s musical Pins and Needles
• Paula and Alana on police and code enforcer interference against poor folks downtown
• Paula on her past and Watsonville vs. Santa Cruz for the poor
• “San Francisco street beautification program turns ugly” from May 29, 2024 Chronicle
• “Giving Away Booze? Program actually Helps Alcoholics”  https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition-sunday/20240609/282381224698524
• Russell on the Coral St. demolition followed by fences and repeat raids
• Cooper: Health care racket dumping people on the streets; Dreadeye—Gov. Newsom cleaning out California of working people.
• Greg B.: Fragments of feeling and frenzy starting with exclusion for meyowing in the Sobering Center​
• Restless Robert Woodleaf on garbage can crime
• Katzenjammer Keith on unveiling of 750 beds-in-one-room shelter in San Diego—harbinger of the future?
• “Rainbow” has sour words about Chico’s musical sidewalks policies towards the homeless​
• [6-15]  Stefanie’s report from her sidewalk shopping card combo in the downtown library parking lot

The October 27, 2013 Flashback includes:

• Bathrobespierre on the backstory behind the Downtown Ordinance, past, present, and future
• Specifics of the proposed and toxic “non-commercial use” ordinance then coming up at City Council
• Constriction of the Consent Agenda public comment period and 4^th of July Triple Fine Zones & racial profiling
• Myths of the Public Hysteria Task Farce conclusions (aka the Public Safety Task Force).
• Public Comment on the ordinance constricting performer, table-ing, vending, and panhandling space downtown
• [ ]  Protest against the ordinance with Sage, Dan, Sgt. Bush, Dan C. of the Sentinel, Razor Ray, Alley & Apso from Chico, Anonymous, Denica, Anihu the pooch, David Silva, and Phil Posner.
• Phone Interview with Spilly Chilly’s Bowl of Rocks with Sandra Leigh as Community TV gets gentrified
• Task Farce Debate on Whether to Survey or Not
• Lighthouse Linda on the homeless ID system—compulsory or voluntary.
• More cheeky chalkers and supporters at the Protest: Dennis E., ​McCall, Mama Shannon, Colin Campbell Clyde, Sgt. Bush

The Thursday June 13, 2024 show is a Flashback to October 24, 2004. 

It includes:

• [throughout] Social and Political Songs from Mike True
• A 10-22-24 Interview with Gary, Bliss, and Joe Barker, focusing on Barker’s harassment by Parks and Rec rangers and state campground repression/restriction & Bliss on disabled discrimination.
• Compassion Flower Inn empresario Andrea Tishler on Supervisor expansion of caregiver canopy space for medical marijuana
• [10-23]  Bill and Chloe on sitting on Union Grove planter boxes across from Metro; Musical Mike Pentecost banned from Bookshop Coonerty for sleeping nearby; Curey, city library worker who lived in with her mom and three dogs in her car for a year in Mission St. Safeway lot; 
• Rough Rider Richard Quigley on the Last Days of Sheriff Mark Tracy, KSCO’s cutoff of Bathrobespierre Robert on the issue, and the latest on Quigley’s “freedom to helmet” issue
• Becky Johnson’s critical analysis Mayor Emily Reilly on homeless issues.
• Mad-and-Moody Michael Tomasi interview on police activity under acting Police Chief Skerry
• [9-2]  Thursday night FRSC-on-the-street interviews on the Iraqi war
• Brune and Norse—City Council candidates on the air

The June 9, 2024 show includes: 

•  https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20240607/281513641301273
• https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20240607/281706914829593
• [throughout] Older little heard Phil Ochs songs
• [6-3]  Zachary on the Coral Street police raid
• [6-3] “Forgettable” on police treatment of the unhoused community.
• Athena viewing and helping since 6:30 a.m. on the property removal and destruction.
• [6-3] Caretaker Kelsey driven away from her camp
• https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20240607/281621015483673
• Caregiver Dee Swanson samples Food Not Bombs food at the Town Clock
• Theodore—on wretched homeless conditions, now in SLE environment.​
• Increasingly outspoken Greg Bengston on his and street changes, prior banning from Housing Matters
• 6-3] Bengston phone report on Coral St. sweep
• Expected Supreme Court decision’s likely impact

The Flashback to June 19, 2011 includes: 

• Interviews with PeaceCamp 2010 from August 8-10, 2010:  Bob and Dipshit the Dog on Oaksterdam U, Crow & Red “illegal lodgers”; “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster on sheriff-created blanket shortage at PC 2010;
• More PC 2010 Interviews: Max on the Meth menace; Curbhugger Chris on arrest-created illness; “Big Drum” Brent on flag-burning; Mountainman Rich on corrupt  San Jose cops; 
• Unrepentant sleeper; 1996 Sleep Veteran remembers;  nighttime picture of the SleepOut; Richard, Amanda, and Bogie the dog
• Sheriffs make arrests; supporters aid and document; Commentary by Becky, Linda, & Collette
• Reacting to the next morning’s Sentinel story
• Pressing Mayor R. Coonerty to support the Mayoral anti-war Resolution
• Seth in Tent City in Santa Cruz 18 Years Ago; Paul on ticket for sidewalk standing on Spruce St.
• Crow on 2011 Vigil Supporting the jailed attorney-activist Ed Frey—6th month jail sentence for sleep protest; June 12, 2011: Casey caged for recording cops…
• Counterpunch: Obama’s Dehumanizing Immigration Policy
• 3rd Pardigm: Is the U.S. Constitution an Act of Treason?

The June 6, 2024 Show is a Flashback to March 18, 2010.  It features:

• Santa Cruz City Council seeking ban on new medical marijuana dispensaries.
• Check out more info at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/03/21/18642319.php Final Vote on New Medical Marijuana Dispensary Ban &  https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/03/09/18640441.php Santa Cruz City Council Votes to Ban Additional Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
• Public testimony on the ban and Valerie + Mike Coral of WAMM’s special pleading for itself but not for anyone else
• Attorney Jonathan Gettleman defends Downtown homeless sleepers Anna Richardson and Miguel de Leon (“Lito”) against a civil “sleep ban” injunction prohibiting them from sleeping at night there.