RUF Agenda Suggestions at HUFF 7-31-25
Top of the Agenda
++++ Review Agenda (questions, additions)
++++ Flag Possible Action Items.
++++ Possible Handouts: Agenda, Older 216 Flyers; Passarounds: HUFF Notes, Trump’s Anti-Homeless Proclamation
++++ Street & sweep reports from the last week
++++ Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters
++++ Laura C’s report on Dylan Verner-Crist’s ACLU Update (if available)++++ Court cases past and future; 5150’s
++++ Federal and State Policing updates
++++ Protests/Gatherings Throughout the Last Week & Upcoming (e.g.Renter Union Launch, Indivisible Good Trouble protests)
++++ Various 216-8239 Flyers Prospect Meeting Report; Reggie, Athena, Venus Spread Sheet Updates or Phone Connects
Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying)
Thursday July 31 Food Not Bombs meeting 5-6 PM El Rio Mobile Home Community RoomSaturday August 2 11 AM- 12:30 PM Ocean & Water anti-war “Free Palestine”
Saturday August 2 2 PM – 4 PM SURF (Showing Up for Racial Justice) meeting at London Nelson Community Center (possible Dem Party event)
Saturday August 2 and Sunday August 3rd 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.
Saturday August 2 & Sunday August 3rd 2 PM BERKELEY S.F. Mime Troupe’s DESOLATION in Live Oak Park Shattuck Ave. & Berryman St.
Sunday August 3 noon Memorial Remembrance of Rev. Phil Posner noon-1 PM El Rio Mobile Home Community Room
More check-in’s
++++ 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 as well as evan@peoplefirstscc.org or peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699.
++++ Weather warming up mid-70s thru next weekhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT_d9BFEzYA
++++ Tips & Lifelessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Sagacity
++++ Reggie & Gaia’s report on Selective Ticketing for “Homeless Crime”: Volunteers?
++++ Laura C.: YES on SB 634 & other legislative updates
++++ Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces? Small Claims Court?
Mostly New Stories
++++ San Francisco bans homeless people from living in RVs with new parking limit https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-homeless-rv-ban-parking-290eaeb7e6b03e43e866e5b1b914da3b
++++ Love Is The Drug – Interview with Heather Edney / Santa Cruz Needle Exchange Programhttps://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/07/18/18878096.php
++++ New Category Added for 311 “Homeless Calls” https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20250730/281595246587829
++++ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-02/uc-bans-israel-boycotts-bds-student-governement-trump-pressure
++++ S.F. Settles suit over sweeping encampments https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20250725/281479282461240
Old Standbys
++++ No new Street Spirits available in hard copy. Current Street Sheet stories available on line https//www.streetsheet.org/ . Hard Copies of June & July Street Spirit available Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock 12-3 PM—ask Drew at the Food Not Bombs. Both want stories & news accounts: contact paper directly or Robert Norse (423-4833). Pick up or leave off Armory polls with Drew as well.
++++ 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”