The 5-24-26 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show features interviews with Gaia, Wes White, Steve Pleich, Robert Aguirre, & a full Flashback to 6-1-17 remembering the activist life of Bashful Bernard Klitzner, Red Church talk, & Freedom Sleepout 98/99

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The May 24, 2026 edition of Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides includes:

  • Restseeker Robert Aguirre on Gilroy’s Camp Hope and San Jose Sleepbusters
  • “Guts & Gusto” Gaia reviews the latest expensive Funding Matter  follies as well as her Trailer Park tug-of-war with a predatory landlord
  • “Whipmaster” Wes White on Camp Hope (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwuARogSMtI&t=622s ); Watsonville’s Hope Village; Sunday’s Soupstock, & the Salinas “no notice” traintrack sweep.
  • Swift-tongued Steve Pleich on his resumed Homeless Persons Legal Assistance project

The Flashback to June 1, 2017 includes:

  • Massive police pressure against Freedom Sleepout #99 with new green restrictions discouraging public assembly
  •  “Dangerous” John Thielking on the activist history of “Bashful” Bernard Klitzner who recently died.
  • “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson’s more extensive herstory  of Klitzner in the Koffee Klatch TagTeam  Koffee Klatch
  • Bella, one of Bernard’s intimates and partners, has a memorial.
  • Red Church roundtable:  Sexton Steve the bouncer; Julie Shaul of RV Fulltimers; Sonny, Cooper, & Co Late Night Singers; Cassidy, Devon Pierce
  • Pleich considers a challenge to City Mangler Martin Bernal’s new “no sitting, no lying” rules around City Hall