Monthly Archives: January 2026

HUFF meets to catch its breath and the latest news 1:30 – 3:30 PM Thursday January 8, 2026 at the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church…may end early

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HUFF IN BRIEF 1-8-25   Clarification and Additions…Proposed Actions?….Street Reports…Shelter Reports… HUFF meeting schedule…10th Homeless Union Anniversary in Salinas Sat Jan 17…Winter Crisis:  No Winter Drop-In Shelter in Rain/Warming Center: Strategies…Hometown Homeless; Rest-Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips…Shitty Council meeting 1-23…Updates on MHCAN; Stupes’ RV Tow Bill; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations …Jail, Courts reports…Legislative Updates…. Next HUFF meeting 1-22-26…Keith Update…DIY New Years Eve…Sunny but chilly weather with NO rain predicted.

FREE EVENTS  (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet)   

Thursday Jan 8  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room, end of N. Pacific Ave.

Friday Jan 9:15 PM – 7;15 PM Free Food Church East Zayante Rd. and Sylvan Way in Zayante near the school bus stop—”rain or shine”

Saturday Jan 10  11 AM- 12:30  PM Protest Israel with American Bombs bombing in the Phony Ceasefire+ U.S. occupation troops for Trump’s Israeli Expansion Plan– Ocean & Water End the War  Weekly Signs and Shouts  Palestine Justice Coalition Perhaps anti-Venezuela, anti-ICE protest (DIY)

Saturday Jan 10 and Sunday Jan 11  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; NEW Street Spirits & Street Sheets available; leave off or pick up forms to record shelter and police abuse from Drew’s rep; Bulletin Board for posting notices.

Sunday Jan 11  10-12 PM  People’s Aide : Solidarity & Services for those outside at Green Gate Gulf Club Drive.

Sunday Jan 11  2 PM  “Rest is Resistance” street huddle & book reading at the dinosaur statue or at Jamba Juice across from the Post Office downtown.

Monday Jan 12 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM  Another “Indivisible” Civil Right  Protest Against the Trump Regime (but add Newsom, Keeley, Kramer & the Deadly Dems) Ocean & Water Sts. Make allies of the Dismal Democrats in the Homeless Civil Rights Struggle if you can 

Saturday Jan 17  8 AM – 5 PM  10th Anniversary National Homeless Union in Salinas 1 Main St.  Likely caravan to be arranged at 1-8 HUFF meeting.

Tasks to Volunteer for + Possible Individual action : Call or Text 831-423-4833 if interested in any of these projects

++++    POLLING FOR ARMORY CONDITIONS:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested

++++    TABLING AT CORAL ST. to gather reports of property taken or lost in police raids; conditions at Funding Matters (aka Housing Matters)

++++    ARMORY COMPLAINTS:  Call (408) 761-9930 as well as evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or  peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter access line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699; LET US KNOW at 216-8239 or 423-4833  if you’ve sent one and if you’ve gotten satisfaction.

++++   NEW STREET INFO for Tips & Lifelessons to buff up Thomas’s Tipzine?  Real resources for surviving on the street…Correcting false shelter/storage ‘services”

++++   COLLECTING/COLLATING TICKETS: Past homeless citation record of the last year to spot Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”.

++++   FOLLOWING LEGISLATIVE ANTICS:  state, local, and federal: the closing federal/state/local fist. 

++++   EXERTING PRESSURE to establish or organize Winter Shelter/Services 

++++   SOLIDARITY IN STRUGGLE with anti-ICE, anti-genocide, anti-War, anti-gentrification, pro-tenant, anti-discrimination local protests  

++++   FOLLOWING Court cases and  supporting those held in 5150s 

++++   MHCAN reopening support? Ditto with other do-it-yourself or street level services like the Downtown Street Team, a Switchboard, etc.

++++   PREPARATION/PARTICIPATION in large protests as on Martin Luther King Day (Jan 19)

New-ish Stories (To Be Updated)  (TBA)

++++      https://lookout.co/city-county-of-santa-cruz-formally-begins-process-to-replace-housing-matters-day-services/story

++++      https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/11/04/ninth-circuit-upholds-alfred-v-vallejo-decision-setting-legal-precedent/

Old Standbyes New Street Spirits and Street Sheets to sell or read available at HUFF or at the FNB meal

++++   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 January 4, 2026 show– Rainy Day Ruminations at the Town Clock plus a Flashback to February 4, 1999 chronicling the slow suffocation of Sleeping Ban Reform via City Council’s Task Force under police misinformation

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The January 4, 2026 show includes: [volume varies abruptly]

The February 4, 1999 Flashback includes:

  • Police “accountability” at City Council’s Task Force to [Retain] the Camping Ordinance—Deputy Chief Jeff Locke, V-Man, Becky, Bernard, and Bathrobespierre.
  • Street Spirit hawker Phil on oppressive rules at the Natl Guard Armory Winter Shelter
  • Territh of Feed the People on the cold crisis
  • Joanna, trailer tenant & sojourner in Dominican & Harbor Hills 
  • Spotlighting the Beiers Betrayal—Bathrobe & Silva on the Advisory bodies Retreat

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides January 1, 2026 show is a Flashback to the complete June 15, 2011 show with many interviews from Aug 8-10, 2010 during the high point of the Peace Camp 2010 protests for Blindbear Robert Facer and those outside

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The January 1, 2026 show is a Flashback to  the complete June 15, 2011 show which includes:

  • Interviews from August 7-9, 2010 at last year’s PeaceCamp 2010: Bob with Dipshit the Dog, Crew the Lodger and Red the Lodgeress, Lighthouse Linda, Max, Curbhugger Chris
  • [Throughout]“Then and Now” Reverberations from 2011 looking back on 2010 re: Sleeping Ban reforms & 2010 Court cases
  • Kristian Williams  “Torture and the Logic of Domination”  Summer 2011 Slingshot
  • “Congress Eyes Purse Strings Over Libya”, “Obama Wins Nobel War Prize”
  • U.S. Mayor’s Resolution Against National War Spending in Iraq and Afghanistan $126 billion per year
  • Comments at the Courthouse in the Petitioning to Free Ed Frey & Gary Johnson, facing 6 months in jail for Sleep Protest
  • Crow’s morning vigil at Courthouse demanding Frey be released

HUFFsters, by popular demand, will be trudging through the rain to a New Year’s Day warm-up at the Sub Rosa Cafe 1:30-3:30 PM January 1, 2026. We’re still next to the Bike Church corner of Spruce and Pacific

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HUFF  Rough Agenda for 1-1-26  

Clarification and Additions…Street Reports… Coral St. 12-30 Sweep…Street response to Stall on Homeless Services…Winter Crisis:  No Winter Drop-In Shelter/Warming Center: Strategies…”People First” Emergency Shelter–Fact or Fiction?…Hometown Homeless prior showing…Rest=Resistance & Other Reading…. Thomas’s Tips…Updates perhaps on MHCAN; Stupes’ RV Tow Bill; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations …Shelter, Courts reports …Salinas Homeless Union 10th Anniversary… New Flyer Distribution at Coral St….Vets Hall Tabling Results …Weather Update: Rain predicted Thurs, Sat, Sun, and Monday.
The actual agenda will likely include a few more items with the usual coffee/tea, cookies, carrots, and the occasional sandwich.

Don’t forget to check out the Town Clock’s New Year’s Day noon meal compliments of Jumbo-Gumbo Joe Schultz.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides December 28, 2025 show– Homeless Deaths 2025 Street Memorial and a Flashback to Jan 28, 1999 on the City Council’s Task Farce to Divert Opposition to the Sleeping Ban

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The December 28, 2025 show includes:

The Flashback to January 28, 1999 includes: [some distortion in first half of show]

  • Bathrobe’s update on the latest Task Farce to Examine the Camping Ordinance sub-committee meetings
  • Oral Communications with the Task Farce: Bernard Klitzner, Peter Eberle, Kate Wells, David Silva, Linda LeMaster, Emily Riley, Paul Brindel, Robert Norse
  • Becky Johnson on the Homeless Services Center Board of Directors meeting
  • Controversy around Kitten Reynolds alleged snitching, surveillance, and sabotage on local homeless activists
  • Silva calls for “positive” approach to upcoming Task Farce meetings
  • Norse reads most of the Eichorn decision requiring courts to consider a necessity defense in Camping Ban cases

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides December 25th, 2025 show is a Flashback to the complete January 24, 1999 show featuring the Silva, Norse, and Johnson on Council’s diversion & dissection of the Camping Ban, Perusha Obluda on Palo Alto’s Anti-Homeless laws

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The Thursday December 25, 2025 show is a Flashback to January 24, 1999. 

It includes:

  • S.F. Chronicle article 1-22-99 “Palo Alto Sets Up Cart Swap”
  • Palo Alto civil right activist and KKUP broadcaster Purush Obluda Interview on proposed attack on homeless people pushing corporate shopping carts
  • “Feed the People” activist Teara on her 1st S.C. sleeping ticket; 2nd hand reports of 7 with bats attacking homeless
  • Terra and Bathrobespierre discuss federal court prospects around Sleeping Ban rulings & City Council’s latest
  • Committee to Repeal the Sleeping Ban visits the Task Farce to Protect the Ban (aka Task Force to Examine the Camping Ordinance) featuring Vice-Chief Jeff Locke, “Sticky Fingers” Butchie Baker, & Council Cucks
  • “Dead On” David Silva reports on upcoming right-wing agenda and urges sweet talk to City Council.
  • Further examination of police case for retaining the Ban vs. activist urging restoration of basic right to sleep.