Monthly Archives: July 2024

Bathrobespierre’s Broadside’s Thursday, July 11, 2024 show Flashes back to the February 21, 1997 with Bathrobespierre’s dense S.C. Shitty Council, Badboy Blueshirts on the Prowl, and numerous victim interviews

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The July 11, 2024 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show is a Flashback to February 21, 1997. 

It includes: 

  • Bathrobespierre’s extensive commentary on court successes around the City’s attempt to persecute and prosecute protesters in the previous year’s City Hall Lockdown case and City Council’s meaningless “homeless study session”.
  • [throughout] Songs from the S.F. Mime Troupe’s 1981 production of Last Tango in Huahuatenango
  • Citizens Committee for the Homeless failure to reopen a safe sleeping zone.
  • Jeffrey Stewart, street musician, noting Officer Eveleth violent harassment and court conviction for “possession of a milk crate”. Alice Tiehust on her court case.
  • “Skidmark” Bob Duran, street musician, harassed for “dim” bike light, “unreasonable noise” by Ali Baba’s Cafe and more
  • “Peppertongue” Pat Ring beats harassment charges by court bailiff and bully James Thurber
  • Brief passionate public commentary opposing Palo Alto’s pending “sit-lie” law.

HUFF struggles to make friends and make hay Thursday July 11, 2024 at the Sub Rosa Cafe next to the Bike Church at 703 Pacific –Make haste to expose, resist, and overturn bad anti-homeless laws and policies

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HUFF Rug Agenda Suggestions 7-11-24  

Top of the Agenda

++++   No new Street Spirits or Street Sheets yet.  

++++   For those interested in the presentation by Athena and Laura C. at the last MHAB meeting [6-20] it’s available on line at   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMsaGIViMkg  

++++   Mild warm temperatures predicted for the afternoon no rain predicted for the next week.  

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

Standard Stuff: Procedures and Preliminaries  

++++  Passarounds & Handouts  TBA  

++++  Announcements:  Fri July 19 6 PM Stop the Sweeps Protest in front of Bookshop Coonerty

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

++++   Preliminary analysis of excuses used to destroy survival encampments locally

++++   Possibly reviewing the Refugee Property Losses from Coral Street Demolitions (Athena)                                            

Current  and Upcoming Events

++++    Outcome of last Monday’s Union of the Homeless protest at parking lot next to  “Fast Lane” Fred Keeley house at Market and Water Strs demanding Homes Not Sweeps

++++   HUFF Prep for 7-19 Protest on  Pacific in front of Bookshop  mentioned under Announcements

++++   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.                        

Closer Inspection

++++   Reports (if any) on reclaiming property from the survival-smashing sweeps of property.

++++   Bookshop Santa Cruz Public Records on Bathroom Contracts

++++   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?

++++   Examining MC 6.36 more closely—the Camping Ban.  

Possible Topics for Discussion

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

++++  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)

++++  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.)  

Keeping Tabs: Someday Follow-Up’s

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

Delayed Net-Show Access

July 4th   :  https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-thursday-july-4-2024-show-flashes-back-to-the-november-27-2011-broadcast-featuring-discussion-around-the-homeless-and-the-occupy-santa-cruz-movement-fresnos-mike/

July 7th  :  https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-sunday-7-7-24-show-features-a-protest-meeting-planning-the-opening-stage-of-a-local-stop-the-sweeps-campaign-an-11-24-2011-flashback-at-the-height-of-the-occupy-santa-c/

++++ To hear 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.        

Other Resources

++++  Invisible People Website on Grants Pass:  https://invisiblepeople.tv/the-cicero-institute-makes-homelessness-worse-for-everyone/

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday 7-7-24 show features a protest meeting planning the opening stage of a local Stop the Sweeps campaign + an 11-24-2011 Flashback at the height of the Occupy Santa Cruz protests

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The July 7, 2024 edition of Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides includes: 

+++ California Homeless Union organizer Keith McHenry rounds up and fields suggestions from unhoused survivors and housed supporters on how to deal with the Supreme Court’s attack on the Grants Pass v. Jackson decision and the continued sweeps of property and people in Santa Cruz

+++ Western Regional Advocacy Project activist Paul Boden discusses Business Improvement Decisions (B.I.D.s) and their repressive effect on folks outside.

+++  Venice Civil Rights for the Homeless advocate Peggy Lee Kennedy on the L.A. crackdown on those on the streets.

+++ [throughout] Foundring plays and sings more Tom Lehrer tunes, some with updated lyrics at https://rumble.com/v4s5cg3-a-streaming-wasted-with-tom-lehrer-live-performance-of-60-songs.html 


The Flashback to November 24, 2011 includes: 

+++  A critical lookback at former Mayor Scott Kennedy’s darker side.

+++  A chat with Danica de Foy, Monterey broadcaster, on the Occupy Santa Cruz [OSC] struggle with Sheriff Wowak’s deputies.

+++  OSC’s Dennis and Bathrobespierre discuss City Council repression and the City’s bathroom shutdown.

+++  Interviews with the housed Dolores Manning and the unhoused Phillip Snyder harassed for his service dog “Barack Obama.”

+++   “Scope it Out” Scott Graham on the City’s extravagant unwise funding of the De Sal water project & a critique of Scott Kennedy’s record.

+++   [11-10] A walkaround at OSC

+++   Optimistic news from Mike Donahue—30 days and nights at OSC–on the Wells Fargo occupation and other actions.

+++   Updates from Occupy Oakland, Egyptian police violence against protesters at Tahrir Square

+++   OSC attorney Ed Frey reports he’s gotten the court to move the City’s attempt to stop OSC with an injunction, moving it to Federal court.

+++   Bill calls in to denounce Union absence from OSC. 

+++   “Cut the Crap” Coral Brune and “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster on report and critique internal disruption at OSC

+++   Lemaster on the planned Recuperative Center

+++   Making Change: a 2011 look at the Israeli Occuptation

Bathrobespierre’s Broadside’s Thursday, July 4, 2024 show Flashes back to the November 27, 2011 broadcast featuring discussion around the homeless and the Occupy Santa Cruz movement, Fresno’s Mike Rhodes, and Scott Kennedy’s last FRSC Interview

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The July 4, 2024 show is a Flashback to November 27, 2011. 

It includes:

  • Reports from photojournalist Alex Darocy [https://alexdarocy.blogspot.com/] from the Occupy Santa Cruz [OSC] General Assembly—talk of​ moving the  protest for “safety concerns”, in-studio guest Grasshopper, and caller Neil Mick
  • FRSC broadcaster Meta (Mathew Embryo] reports from L.A. and SLO on the Occupy movements.
  • “A Little Education on Move-On” by Kevin Zeiss
  • Mike Rhodes Updates from Fresno [https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/11/20/18700355.php  “More Arrests at Occupy Fresno”]
  • Last conversation between Bathrobespierre Robert Norse and former Mayor Scott Kennedy—who died the week before.
  • Clips from a Capitola City Council meeting’s public comments on Mobile Home Rent Control
  • “Scope It Out” Scott Graham on Santa Cruz City Council capers
  • “The Fruits of Deliberation” on salon.com by Glenn Greenwald

Beat the Sweeps; Endure the Heat with HUFF–meets Thursday July 4th (holiday cookies provided) 1:30-3:30 PM 703 Pacific at the Sub Rosa Cafe (or Courtyard) next to the Bike Church

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HUFF Ruf Agenda Suggestions 7-4-24   

Pre-Meeting Events 

++++   The Brave and the Free’s [TBATF] “We Can Stop World War III” parade in Aptos joins the Shortest Parade in the World at 10 AM July 4th near Wells Fargo Bank there.

++++   TBATF joins a second 4th of July parade in Scotts Valley at Carbanero & Scotts Valley Drive noon. 

++++   Bring “Stop the Sweeps” banners to these events if you wish.  

     Top of the Agenda

++++   Athena’s more informal Loose Cannons is planned.  With occasional growls from Bathrobespierre.  

++++   Health seems to be better for most members, though the holiday makes a smaller group likely.  

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

++++   No new Street Spirits or Street Sheets yet.  

++++   For those interested in the presentation by Athena and Laura C. at the last MHAB meeting [6-20] it’s available on line at   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMsaGIViMkg  

++++   “Heat advisory” supposedly for the day; no rain predicted for the next week.  

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

++++   Warning: Triple Fine zones may be in place for the 4th of July and adjacent days.                                     

Standard Stuff: Procedures and Preliminaries  

++++  Passarounds & Handouts  TBA  

++++  Announcements: TBA

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

++++   Discussion of the Supreme Court kick-in-the-face overturning part of Martin v. Boise

++++   Possibly reviewing the Refugee Property Losses from Coral Street Demolitions                                            

Current  and Upcoming Events

++++    Call to Keith McHenry of Food Not Bombs on the results of his Union of the Homeless meeting last Monday on the Court’s overturning of the Grants Pass v. Johnson decision striking down the right to sleep.

++++   Monday July 8th 4 p.m. Protest Against Santa Cruz Sweeps Market and Water St.

++++   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.                        

Closer Inspection

++++   Reports (if any) on reclaiming property from the survival-smashing sweeps of property.

++++   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?

++++   Examining MC 6.36 more closely—the Camping Ban.

 Possible Topics for Discussion

++++ Possible Vigil Against Two Wars, done as individual action

++++ 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 (MHCAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)

++++  Bathroom access at the Bookshop Santa Cruz supposedly affirmed.

Keeping Tabs: Someday Follow-Up’s

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

Delayed Net-Show Access

June 27th  :  https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-thursday-june-27-2024-show-flashes-back-to-the-december-18-2008-broadcast-featuring-berkeley-poet-julia-vinograd-reading-attorney-david-beauvais-discussing-the-ciam/

June 30th :  https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-sunday-6-30-24-show-joins-folks-at-one-of-the-few-surviving-homeless-gatherings-the-weekend-town-clock-meet-a-10-27-95-flashback-featuring-in-studio-guest-richard-quig/

++++ 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.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday 6-30-24 show joins folks at one of the few surviving homeless gatherings–the weekend Town Clock meet + a 10-27-95 Flashback featuring in-studio guest Richard Quigley, + “No Guns” Radichi, & “Redtop” Robert Flory

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The Sunday June 30, 2024 show includes:

  • Anticipating the Supreme Court’s Grants Pass v. Johnson decision 
  • [throughout] Obscure Phil Ochs songs and recent ones by David Rovics 
  • [6-24]  Interview and presentation by Keith McHenry on what was then the forthcoming Supreme Court Grants Pass ruling
  • Rebellion in song and story at the Womera Break-Out of 2002 in Australia
  • [6-29] Phone Interview with McHenry after the release of the Supreme Court’s decision
  • Video: The People vs. Paul Crump  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrSnv2z2ZGs 
  • “How Does Anyone Still Care About This Bullshit” by Caitlin Johnstone https://substack.com/home/post/p-146110105

The Flashback to October 27, 1995 includes:

  • “Renegade” Richard Quigley on reasonable vs. ridiculous rules of the road—challenging chump tickets in court​.
  • Quigley’s “Take me to a magistrate” encounter and strategy with a roadside cop.
  • Quigley’s cases in local courts  seeking to regain his driver’s license and “verified complaints”.
  • “No Guns” (Antoinette) Radichi on management harassment at the Wednesday downtown Farmer’s Market
  • Phone call-in from “Red-Top” Robert Flory:  “driving is a necessity and a right, not a privilege.” 
  • Flory’s report on Arcata mayor’s threat to arrest Food not Bombs food servers in their homes. 
  • [10/26] Phone interview with “Won-Ton” Dave Jacobs