Seek sunshine or shade with HUFF Thursday June 13, 2024 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM with a “Loose Cannons” meeting at the Sub Rosa Courtyard or Cafe with new issues of Street Sheet and Street Spirit available

HUFF “Loose Cannons” Agenda Suggestions 6-13-24                              `  Standard Stuff: Procedures and Preliminaries

++++   The meeting is follows the format decided by Athena and other members  

++++   Timekeeper (10 minutes per item)  Hand-raisin’ courtesies, Chair rotation  

++++   Passarounds & Handouts: Past two resolutions +  supporting UAW strike; grants pass v. Johnson summary, flyers given out at Coral St. and Duck Pond “Soupstock” concert  

++++   Announcements: TBA

++++   Street Reports (recorded if possible)

++++   Reviewing the Refugee Losses from Coral Street Demolitions  

                                               Upcoming Events

++++    Anti-Gaza Protests: Any word?

++++    Juneteenth 6-15 12 pm -5 p.m. Laurel Park: live music, presumably open bathrooms, basketball clinics, soul food, a parade, honoring the day news of the “Emancipation” reached Texas in 1865.  Others say it  was 6-19-1865.

++++   Saturday  6-15 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.                  

Gathering Information

++++   Upper Coral/Fern/Linekiln St.Updates—contacts for the future

++++   Still searching out Surveillance Camera Location (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)

++++   Flyer suggestions for upcoming Tourist Train protest with Coral St. info. By RN                                            

Possible Topics for Discussion

++++   Strategies for Organizing and Supporting Survival Encampments on Fern & Limekiln

++++   Still needs doing:  Anti-Genocide text of HUFF supportive resolutions. ++++   Tourist Train Strategy & Spectacle

++++   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 and Stupes?

++++  Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MH CAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)   

++++ No rain for the next 10 days                                            

Keeping Tabs: Someday Follow-Up’s   

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

                                                If enough time and desire  

++++  Possible phone contacts: Laura C. on Recent political updates and incoming videos/complaints, Stupes update at 245-0956; Wes White on Watsonville sweep threat; Helga on Coral St.   

++++  Pro-Palestinian-Homeless Alliance protest info: https://uscpr.org/oct-2023-protests/

++++People can’t be detained just for trying to avoid police https://www.pressreader.com/usa/marysville-appeal-democrat/20240504/281590950645117

++++    Various news items                                                                

Delayed Net-Show Access

June 6th :  https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-thursday-june-6-2024-show-flashes-back-to-the-march-18-2010-broadcast-featuring-bathrobespierres-analysis-and-commentary-of-the-rotkin-mathews-city-council-shutdown-o/ June 9th  https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-sunday-june-9-2024-show-has-interviews-with-victims-and-witness-of-the-coral-st-police-destruction-a-flashback-to-june19-2011-featuring-many-interviews-from-peacecamp/  

++++ To View these BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES NET-RADIO SHOWs:  go to http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  click on June 6th or 9th links there.            To Read descriptions of the show, click on above June 6th and 9th links above.