Monthly Archives: October 2025

HUFF Reconvenes After a Week of Absence Thursday 1:30-3:30 PM October 2nd at the Sub Rosa Cafe next to the Bike Church 703 Pacific Ave.

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Agenda Suggestions for “Loose Cannons” HUFF meeting 10-2-25

Preliminary items might be limited to 1 minute presentation unless the group wants more info.  The point is to maintain the real narrative not the one the City/County staff claims and to allow for any new input, briefly summarized.   Additional items to be added at the Thursday [10-2] meeting.  Please raise hands—look to Chair Venus or whoever is speaking at the time so the rest of us can hear what’s being said.  Meetings are recorded for possible replay.  If something you want to say is not for netcast, ask that recorder be turned off. 


Top of the Agenda

++++   Reports on Current Projects; Time Available for next week for Needs and Wants

++++   Follow-Up on Last Week’s Projects

++++   Once Hot Issues: MHCAN Closure; County RV law

++++   Flag New Possible Action Items Requiring Immediate Planning and/or Action

++++   Handouts: Agenda, TBA;   Passarounds HUFF Notes, Gaza Petition      Available on Request:  Questionnaire

Regular Reports

++++   Street Sweeps in Last Week and Coming Up
++++   Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters, Church Groups

++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’s

++++   Any business bullshit or discrimination?

++++   Meetings/Events of Interest Upcoming

++++   216-8239 Property Seizure Reports Accumulation + FNB Poll Report: Updates?

++++   Clanging pots and pans rally against U.S. Funding Gaza Starvation and Local Unhoused Refugee Harassment

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet

Thursday Oct 2   5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room

Saturday  Oct 4   11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-Genocide Weekly   Palestine Justice Coalition   Remember the Free Palestine Flotillas       

Saturday Oct 4 & Sunday Oct 5 noon-3 PM FNB gathering and meal Town Clock; Street Spirits available; leave off or pick up polling sheets with Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices; NO NEW Street Sheets and Street Spirits this week.

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 8 4:30-5:30 PM  Indivisible  Protest         Indivisible Civil Rights Group        Corner of Ocean and Water Streets in Santa Cruz    Dem Party soft on Genocide

More check-in’s + Info

++++    Info Tabling:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested…Poll for Armory

++++    Armory complaints to (408) 761-9930; evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or  peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699; (If you use it, let us know how it turns out)

++++   Rain possible today (11-2) then cooling for the next week (says on-line weather report—good luck)

++++   Tips & Lifelessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Sagacity

++++   Reggie & Gaia’s report on Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”:

++++   Laura C.: legislative updates

++++   Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces?  Small Claims Court? Newer Storieshttps://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/cesear-chavez-encampment-clear-newsom-21051443.phphttps://thestreetspirit.org/2025/10/01/dispatches-from-the-sweep-zone-looming-escalations/https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/10/01/exactly-who-is-entitled-to-live-in-albany-ca/https://www.streetsheet.org/mayor-signs-settlement-with-coalition-on-homelessness-winning-significant-protections-for-san-franciscos-unhoused-peoples-property-rights/

Old Standbyes 

++++   Street Spirit archives on line: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22&sort=-date

++++    Recent stories on a variety of unhoused issues:   https://invisiblepeople.tv/   

++++    Overview: https://endhomelessness.org/resource/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights

++++    Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K” 

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides September 28, 2025 show notes small legal victories in Vallejo and Berkeley+ Flashback to organizing against Council hypocrisy in the 12-20-98 show

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The September 28,2025 show includes:

The Flashback to December 20, 2025 includes [some musical distortion removed]: 

  • Bathrobespierre [BP], “Lighthouse” Linda, “Tufluv” Tucker on fears of FCC shutdown of FRSC & the new Council’s twists to keep the Sleeping Ban & ignore winter shelter needs.
  • “Bashful” Bernard on “Don’t Sleep Tonite” Night; “Catnip” Kate’s call to the outgoing City Council on winter shelter; “Crossroads” Chris on his police-stolen van.
  • Bike ticketing Broadside at Lincoln & Pacific
  • Donna Deiss of Tenants Rights Union (TRUSC) dealing with their own 3rd eviction threat.
  • Berkeley literature vendor John Vance: phony felony grass charges to expel street youth
  • SCAN (Santa Cruz Action Network)’s failure on Sleeping Ban Repeal & ending cop abuse
  • Pursuing the vehicular refugees: Kaska’s kids and Dennis Reim’s court case
  • Voices and Vectors of Protest: Norse to the old Council, “Beggarbacker” on SF homeless dumping; Van’s $365 ticket; 12-27 threat to close down FRSC
  • Exposing Mayor “Birdseed” Beiers in song and story: BP sings “Away on Vacation”
  • Florida’s powerful Pottinger decision vs. Santa Cruz’s Xmas upsurge in tickets.