Monthly Archives: April 2026

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides March 19, 2026 show is a Flashback to the April 18, 2002 show with in-studio guests Lydia Heraree on Drug Abuse outside and Brother John from Las Vegas with an alarming report from the Las Vegas homeless community

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The March 19, 2026 show is a Flashback to April 18, 2002. 

It includes:

  • In-studio guest Lydia Heraree, UCSC researcher working on Drug Use in Jail and Among the Homeless
  • Lydia on the recent herstory of Pamona Food Not Bombs
  • Update on the False arrest lawsuit against SC City Council (the “Heil Krohn!” case)
  • Steve Weiss of UCSC HUFF reports
  • Further Heil Krohn! Discussion re: City Council’s legal reply to the lawsuit: the Norwalk court decision & other defenses
  • Officers Brandt and Baker violate state law by refusing to take Norse’s citizen’s citation against Mayor Krohn
  • Brother David Bear of Las Vegas on harassment of homeless on the street because of bed shortage, forced removal of portapotty, Palm Sunday deportations

HUFF hides from the heat at its usual 1:30 PM time at 703 Pacific Ave. next to the Bike Church at Sycamore and Pacific Ave

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An abbreviated version of the HUFF agenda, free events, and volunteer spots is below.  A fuller edition will be available at the meeting as well as cookies, coffee, community, and productive confusion.   Our main focus is seeking restoration of Homeless Human Rights.  The meeting lasts 1-2 hours depending on the desires of the participants.

HUFF IN BRIEF 3-19-26   [** New Items on the Agenda]… Pass Arounds; Additions…Messages …**VOTE to Sign on to 3-29 March ….**VOLUNTEER for Joint SCHU/HUFF  Coral St`Tabling/Sweepwatch ….**laura’s Look: Fresno-EREN/AB647 report- …Local Shelters…** Alicia call/MHCAN/SCHU Update …City Council/Supes Reports 3-10 .… Street Reports…. **Sean Dougherty candidacy demands…Reports from anti-ICE/anti-War protest/SCHU actions/plans … … …Next HUFF meet 3-26-26 …** FM & People First (PF) Flyer Stats… …Rest = Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips…**Salinas Survival Camping Ban/Wes White call… RV Tow Bill LA News; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Update/Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations/Reggie M. Update …Jail, Courts reports?… **mild weather ahead, …Hobo Jim’s Cabrillo Case postponed…

FREE EVENTS         (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying)

Thursday March 19   5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meets El Rio Mobile Home Park Community Room

**Friday March 20   4-6 PM   Free Food Church FELTON Fridays 4-6+pm  Hallcrest Vineyards, 379 Felton Empire Rd. Felton

Saturday March 21   11 AM- 12:30  PM Protest Israel/U.S. Bombing of Iran Ocean & Water End the War  

Sat 3-21 & Sun 3-22  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; NEW Street Spirits & Street Sheets; leave off or pick up forms to record shelter and police abuse; Bulletin Board for posting notices.

Sun 3-22   10-12 PM  People’s Aid : Solidarity & Services for those outside Green Gate Golf Club Drive.                   

2 PM  “Rest is Resistance” street huddle & book reading at the dinosaur statue or at Jamba Juice across from the Post Office downtownTues 3-24  thru

Thurs 3-26 10 AM until the food’s gone Bread & Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot       

**3-24  9 AM   S.C.  Stupidvipers 701 Ocean County Bldg Community Room       

**3-24  1 PM  11:30 a.m. or thereabouts S.C. Shitty Council  809 Center St. City Hall

Wed  3-24   3:30 PM  Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless Little Red Church  Cedar & Lincoln Sts. Fireside Room

Sun 3-29 noon beginning at Spruce & Pacific in front of Sub Rosa Café March to End Homeless “Funding Matters” and “People Someday”] Pimpery, Waste4, and Abuse

HUFF WISH List TASKS to Volunteer for + Possible INDIVIDUAL ACTIONS : [Call or Text 831-423-4833 if interested)

++++    ORGANIZING to pressure poverty pimps to reopen and expand survival services and stop the sweeps.

++++    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 at anti-War, anti-ICE, and anti-Sweep events

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 3-15-26 Show includes voices against the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, and a 12-18-08 Flashback with Attorney David Beauvais on Palo Alto’s Joseph Ciampi, Julia Vinograd, and Mike Rhodes’ Fresno Update

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The March 15, 2026 show includes:

  • Keith McHenry on recent and prospective anti-war activity.
  • Rovics award for “No Contract, No Coffee” in support of Starbucks strikers
  • [3-9] Joe Schultz, Mark Ginsberg, a Quaker couple, one of the 77 Wonders, a near anti-VAXer, and others at the U.S. Out of the Middle East protest at Ocean and Water
  • [3-1] Anti war thoughts:  Bill, Keith M., Pat Kittle, Shalom Dreampeace Compost,

The Flashback to December 18, 2008 includes:

  • Vandweller Joseph Ciampi’s illegal Palo Alto arrest dismissed by Judge Barrett: https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2008/12/17/assault-on-an-officer-charges-dismissed-in-palo-alto-taser-case/
  • Attorney “Bedrock” David Beauvais outlines Ciampi’s defense and the substance of his subsequent suit
  • Beauvais on how far you can resist an unlawful arrest.
  • “On the Street” and other poems; poet Julia Vinograd phones in with recent published and unpublished poetry
  • Linda from the Streets on the Rebele Family Shelter protest
  • Fresno’s Mike Rhodes on Police Violence in Madera
  • The Santa Cruz ACLU and the Sleeping Ban
  • Mark:  Jaywalker Crime in front of Borders Book Store