Preliminary Agenda Suggestions for “Loose Cannons” HUFF 4-4-25
Http web addresses are for background reading or listening. Many items are really signposts & reminders of where we’d be going if and when we find the person power, time, interest, and resources. We are gathering information and evidence to challenge the Dominant (False) Police and City Manager Narrative. Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them. AGENDA SUBJECT TO CHANGE; Athena will be running this “Loose Cannons” meeting with the usual outbursts from me and others.
Top of the Agenda (+ Quick Announcements)
++++ Possible Handouts or Handouts: Agenda Suggestions; more TBA; Passarounds: TBA
++++ Evan Morrison meeting slated for end of April; Info and policy changes wanted?
++++ Street and sweep reports from the last week;
++++ Low 60s today and thru the week
++++ Fremont lawsuit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsgvH2Gu8ow Background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZtMM4ZMlNEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT_d9BFEzYAApplication to Santa Cruz?
++++ HUFF study group to propose emergency actions for next storm++++ Court and Jail reports. Others in court, at parole hearings, 5150ed
++++ Updates from Students for Justice in Palestine and on-campus protests: Friday 4-4-25 noon gathering at base of UCSC, march to Town Clock 1 p.m. Saturday 11 am- 1 pm Town Clock
++++ Shitty Council and Stupervipers Alert for 4-8
++++ Tips for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Revelations
++++ Reggie and Gaia’s report on Citation for “Homeless Crime” Phone 216-8238 to report abuses
++++ Resolution & HUFF support for Fremont lawsuit & UCSC protesters
++++ Proposed statement anticipating protest actions against proposed U.S. war to back renewed Gaza genocide/ethnic cleansing: Vigil Against Wars Abroad and at Home, if not previously done.
++++ Norse’s Downtown Ordinance & Camping Ban Update: Progress Report, Any Help?
++++ Wes White’s Fremont Videos of Folks Outside: Go to You-Tube then “John Doe13K”
++++ Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces? Small Claims Court? Armory Visit?
++++ No New Street Spirits and Street Sheets available Mid-month Street Sheet stories available on line at https://www.streetsheet.org/ Hard Copies of both may be available Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock 12-3 PM—ask Drew at the Food Not Bombs Both want stories & news accounts: contact ‘em
++++ People First Free Guides: https://peoplefirstscc.org/freeguides for S.C., Watsonville, SLV, Free Phones, Youth, Housing Waitlist, Pet Food, Addiction, Immigrant Storm Relief, SLE, Diaper Bank, and more (unchecked for usefulness)
++++ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ypAexFGyrU_kCoM3dByRDDrobyR9H8wA/viewLatest SC Free Guide (Correction & updates needed)
++++ PeopleFirst: Rules and procedures written? Waiting list length for 1220 River St., 115 Coral St., or People’s First RV and Armory Programs on the SC Free Guide? Request public guidelines.
++++ SHOC (Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee)’s newspaper Homeward—archives: https://sxacshoc.org/homeward/
++++ Street Spirit archives on line: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22&sort=-date
++++ Resources: https://www.fremontforeveryone.com/; https://endhomelessness.org/resource/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights/https://fresnoalliance.com/whats-wrong-with-fresnos-leaders/