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HUFF Reconvenes After a Week of Absence Thursday 1:30-3:30 PM October 2nd at the Sub Rosa Cafe next to the Bike Church 703 Pacific Ave.

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Agenda Suggestions for “Loose Cannons” HUFF meeting 10-2-25

Preliminary items might be limited to 1 minute presentation unless the group wants more info.  The point is to maintain the real narrative not the one the City/County staff claims and to allow for any new input, briefly summarized.   Additional items to be added at the Thursday [10-2] meeting.  Please raise hands—look to Chair Venus or whoever is speaking at the time so the rest of us can hear what’s being said.  Meetings are recorded for possible replay.  If something you want to say is not for netcast, ask that recorder be turned off. 


Top of the Agenda

++++   Reports on Current Projects; Time Available for next week for Needs and Wants

++++   Follow-Up on Last Week’s Projects

++++   Once Hot Issues: MHCAN Closure; County RV law

++++   Flag New Possible Action Items Requiring Immediate Planning and/or Action

++++   Handouts: Agenda, TBA;   Passarounds HUFF Notes, Gaza Petition      Available on Request:  Questionnaire

Regular Reports

++++   Street Sweeps in Last Week and Coming Up
++++   Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters, Church Groups

++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’s

++++   Any business bullshit or discrimination?

++++   Meetings/Events of Interest Upcoming

++++   216-8239 Property Seizure Reports Accumulation + FNB Poll Report: Updates?

++++   Clanging pots and pans rally against U.S. Funding Gaza Starvation and Local Unhoused Refugee Harassment

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet

Thursday Oct 2   5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room

Saturday  Oct 4   11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-Genocide Weekly   Palestine Justice Coalition   Remember the Free Palestine Flotillas       

Saturday Oct 4 & Sunday Oct 5 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; NO NEW Street Sheets and Street Spirits this week.

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 8 4:30-5:30 PM  Indivisible  Protest         Indivisible Civil Rights Group        Corner of Ocean and Water Streets in Santa Cruz    Dem Party soft on Genocide

More check-in’s + Info

++++    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; evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or  peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699; (If you use it, let us know how it turns out)

++++   Rain possible today (11-2) then cooling for the next week (says on-line weather report—good luck)

++++   Tips & Lifelessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Sagacity

++++   Reggie & Gaia’s report on Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”:

++++   Laura C.: legislative updates

++++   Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces?  Small Claims Court? Newer Storieshttps://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/cesear-chavez-encampment-clear-newsom-21051443.phphttps://thestreetspirit.org/2025/10/01/dispatches-from-the-sweep-zone-looming-escalations/https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/10/01/exactly-who-is-entitled-to-live-in-albany-ca/https://www.streetsheet.org/mayor-signs-settlement-with-coalition-on-homelessness-winning-significant-protections-for-san-franciscos-unhoused-peoples-property-rights/

Old Standbyes 

++++   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 September 28, 2025 show notes small legal victories in Vallejo and Berkeley+ Flashback to organizing against Council hypocrisy in the 12-20-98 show

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The September 28,2025 show includes:

The Flashback to December 20, 2025 includes [some musical distortion removed]: 

  • Bathrobespierre [BP], “Lighthouse” Linda, “Tufluv” Tucker on fears of FCC shutdown of FRSC & the new Council’s twists to keep the Sleeping Ban & ignore winter shelter needs.
  • “Bashful” Bernard on “Don’t Sleep Tonite” Night; “Catnip” Kate’s call to the outgoing City Council on winter shelter; “Crossroads” Chris on his police-stolen van.
  • Bike ticketing Broadside at Lincoln & Pacific
  • Donna Deiss of Tenants Rights Union (TRUSC) dealing with their own 3rd eviction threat.
  • Berkeley literature vendor John Vance: phony felony grass charges to expel street youth
  • SCAN (Santa Cruz Action Network)’s failure on Sleeping Ban Repeal & ending cop abuse
  • Pursuing the vehicular refugees: Kaska’s kids and Dennis Reim’s court case
  • Voices and Vectors of Protest: Norse to the old Council, “Beggarbacker” on SF homeless dumping; Van’s $365 ticket; 12-27 threat to close down FRSC
  • Exposing Mayor “Birdseed” Beiers in song and story: BP sings “Away on Vacation”
  • Florida’s powerful Pottinger decision vs. Santa Cruz’s Xmas upsurge in tickets.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides September 25, 2025 show is a Flashback to September 12, 2002 with many bits from Joe Barker, Ed Frey, Michael Tomasi, Preacher Mike, David de Fasio on police plaguing Pacific Ave.

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The September 25, 2025 is a Flashback to September 12, 2002. 

It includes:

  • Street interviews on the first day of the intensified anti-homeless Downtown Ordinances with Surf Shop owner Christina
  • “Hackeysack” (aka Timothy James South) says no to repeated targeted Obstructing the Sidewalk citations outside the Pacific Trading Company 
  • “Excessive noise” cites for a Japanese flautist and Mu the piccolo player
  • Voices of Joe Barker, Ed Frey, Michael Tomasi, & Pastor Mike
  • Calling out cop harassment of street hemp jewelers
  • Tale of Beggarbacker Becky Johnson and Tokin’ Tim Rinker for erasable sidewalk chalking directing people to a public meeting.

HUFF taking a respite this Thursday (9-25) (NO MEETING) but due back again at the Sub Rosa Cafe next Thursday (10-2) with more coffee and clamor.

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For sleepy stragglers who haven’t heard the news, a few die-hard HUFFsters may be keeping company with the coffee pot to lend a listening ear to rumors and reports + take the pulse of victims of the latest police outrages. 

Jacine—groundskeeper and librarian of the Sub Rosa Cafe at 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church—will likely have coffee available with some of the usual left-over delicacies possibly provided by HUFF loyalists.  No guarantees though.

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Encouraging news to chew on in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Grants Pass v. Johnson slamdown of the homeless right to live last summer.  These stories aren’t new, but they be the harbinger of cooler weather for hot griddle attacks on homeless encampments: 

xxxx https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/09/04/berkeley-homeless-union-wins-new-restraining-order-delaying-encampment-closure-at-eighth-and-harrison/

xxxx https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/08/06/two-vallejo-lawsuits-test-legal-protections-for-unhoused-residents-post-grants-pass/    

xxxx https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/03/vallejo-injunction/ And some of the not-so-good news from recent edicts in nearby California communities by local bigots-in-power.

xxxx Scwarz et al v. Town of Fairfax et al, 

xxxx https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/07/09/ohlone-park-encampment-sweep


Meanwhile, keep your eye on the Board of Supervisors, meeting perhaps next Tuesday with a possible rewritten blank check for “law enforcement” to seize and tow and/or destroy “abandoned” or illegally parked vehicles.  The next meeting of this shifty group has shifted to Watsonville, presumably next Tuesday, but their agenda doesn’t usually come out until Friday.
Let us know if anyone’s raising the roof about the shutdown of MHCAN in spite of the funding that is available.  
Updates and alerts can be posted on the Food Not Bombs bulletin board at the Saturday and Sunday meals noon-3 PM at the Town Clock.
It may still be helpful to provide sweep warnings to HUFF at 831-423-4833 and/or reports of inappropriate police, sheltersheriff, or other authoritarian behavior to the 831-216-8239 line.
Got time on your hands and want to help on existing but dormant HUFF projects?  Give a call to HUFF, or start something yourself and let us know!

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides September 21, 2025 show features interviews with David Beauvais, Becky Johnson, Wes White, and Hurricane Helga + Flashback to Hopes & Illusions at the 12-13-98 show

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The September 21, 2025 show features:

  • Civil Rights Attorney “Bedrock” David Beauvais heads for Argentina; Farewell Flurrie on Domestic Doomsdays
  • Beauvais’s changing view of “Globalism” and open borders
  • https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jewish-professors-urge-uc-regents-not-to-negotiate-with-trump/ar-AA1MCuO5 
  • Beggarbacker Becky Johnson remembers her activist days with “Catnip” Kate Wells—dead recently at 79.
  • BJ on Wells’ pioneering attempts around medical marijuana obstructed by the City.
  • “Whip ’em into Shape” Wes White reports on the Santa Cruz Bernie Sanders boosters; videoing peekaboo politicians like Monterey County’s Supervisor Vallejo;   
  • “Hurricane” Helga on the recent Coral street and the “Beyond the Green Gate”  homeless scene.

The Flashback to December 13, 1998 includes: [occasional sound distortion may require adjustment]

  • Homeless guy says he & his friend companion John took away Happy John Dine’s gun on November 12, the day Dine was shot dead by police some time before that happened
  • Hopeful chatter about upcoming informal meetings with Councilmembers after Councilman Sugar’s proposal to stop Sleeping Ban enforcement.
  • V-Man’s account of Officer Baker’s “give me your name” harassment at City Council
  • Phil Free & Bathrobespierre [BR] on “Catsclaw” Kitten Reynolds checkered herstory.
  • BJ’s Analysis of Darrell Cole’s article in the SC Sentinel on the Sleeping Ban debate.
  • Lighthouse Linda on “uncurable” warrants from the 1996 City Hall Sleepers Protest
  • Copwatcher Bob Duran’s on the 12-12 Free Mumia! march.
  • “Dead on” David Silva on police harassment of needle exchange & the “common ground” issue of accessible restrooms.
  • Lamplight Lucy Kemnitzer  on exploding the anti-homeless myths.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides September 18, 2025 show is a Flashback to November 25, 2012 featuring Red of the Road on Cancer Survival Tactics, Silver-tongued Steve Pleich on the De Sal Delusion, and more…

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The September 18, 2025 show is a Flashback to November 25, 2012. 

It includes:

  • In-studio guest/hosts Red of the Road and “Cry of the Dawn” a merry exchange with Crow on an incident near the Main Bench; Red’s autobiographical account of her homeless struggle with cancer
  • [throughout at various points] Next to Normal–the musical
  • “Scope it Out” Scott at on newly elected Micah Posner, the De Sal hoax, and the Housing First/Smart Solutions diversion from real support for those outside.
  • Pacific Ave. Interviews: guitarist Ricardo Lopez, portraitist Santiago; anonymous visitor from Santa Monica; Yoyo 3-days in jail plus sock theft for charges dropped; 
  • https://www.police1.com/legal/articles/mich-man-accused-of-murder-at-14-to-get-11m-ugho8P9f70U376iF/  and more
  • Oakland Police Department facing federal takeover, with support by other cop bureaus

HUFF hopes for continued coolish weather at its Sub Rosa Cafe meeting spot with a likely shorter meeting 1:30 PM-2:30 PM Thursday September 18 at 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church

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Agenda Prospects for HUFF meeting 9-18-25

The purpose of the meeting is for some to share information and updates, for others to express needs, make available resources.  The point is to maintain the real narrative not the one the City/County staff pumps out.  

Please raise hands & look to the speaker to avoid talking over each other.  For those wearied or impatient of “going  through the agenda”, it’s a checklist to catch up on current happenings.  I’ll limit my talk to 1 minute on each item, unless the group asks for more info.                

The meeting is being recorded so that some of it may be netcast at the twice weekly net-radio show. If you do not wish to be recorded for a particular comment say so and we’ll turn off the recording.

Shows are 6-8 PM Thursdays and 9:30 AM-3 PM Sundays at https://www.freakradio.org/listen.html –click on or DSL/Cable — 128kbps stereo  or go to go to https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html any time for the latest show.  


Top of the Agenda

++++   Reports on Current Projects; Time Available for next week;  Needs and Wants

++++   Shortened meeting today (9-18); likely pause with no meeting next week

++++   Follow-Up on Last Week’s Projects

++++   Hot Issues: MHCAN Closure Follow-Up; County RV restriction law (next meeting 9-30 9 AM Watsonville)

++++   Govt. meeting Agenda Into https://archive.org/details/ctvscc?page=3&and%5B%5D=year%3A%222025%22

++++   Flag New Possible Action Items Requiring Immediate Planning and/or Action

++++   Handouts: Agenda;   Passarounds TBA      Available on Request:  Questionnaire

Regular Reports

++++   Street Sweeps in Last Week and Coming Up
++++   Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters

++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’s

++++   Follow up’s on Trump, Newsom, and Keeley-Huffaker Edicts

++++   Meetings of Interest Upcoming

++++   216-8239 Property Seizure Reports Accumulation + FNB Poll Report: Updates?

++++   Clanging pots and pans rally against U.S. Funding Gaza Starvation and Local Unhoused Refugee Harassment

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) more TBA at HUFFmeet

Thursday Sept 18  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room

Saturday  Sept 20   11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-war  Weekly   Palestine Justice Coalition   Anti-Starvation Flotilla

Saturday Sept 20 and Sunday Sept 21 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; NEW Street Sheets and Street Spirits.

Monday  Sept 22 4:30-5:30 PM  Another Indivisible Anti-Trump Protest         Indivisible Civil Rights Group        Corner of Ocean and Water Streets in Santa Cruz

More check-in’s + Info

++++    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,

++++   Cool, then weekend warm, then possible rain Tuesday (says on-line weather report—good luck)

++++   Tips & Lifelessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Sagacity

++++   Reggie & Gaia’s report on Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”.

++++   Laura C.: legislative updates

++++   Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces?  Small Claims Court? 

++++   Attorney Kate Wells death: Check out HUFF site Descriptions or Flashbacks for more herstory

++++   (if by popular demand) Wes White’s phone report on Pajaro Camp Demolition

New-ish Stories (Newer ones may be added in Final Agenda at the Meeting)https://www.streetsheet.org/rules-of-the-road-rv-dwellers-deserve-answers-on-sfs-new-permit-program/https://www.streetsheet.org/america-the-new-banana-republic/https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/08/06/two-vallejo-lawsuits-test-legal-protections-for-unhoused-residents-post-grants-pass/https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/08/06/sfs-rv-ban-is-an-act-of-erasure-not-a-remedy/

Old Standbyes 

++++   Street Spirit & Street Sheet  both want local stories & news accounts: contact paper directly or Robert Norse (423-4833).   

++++   Earlier Santa Cruz homeless herstory/history: Street Shit Sheet   https://www.huffsantacruz.org/ssarchives.html

++++   Audio her/history—Free Radio Santa Cruz’s https://huffsantacruz.org/  Go to “Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides”

++++   Street Spirit archives on line: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22

++++    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” for latest videos

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides September 14, 2025 show features an interview with attorney David (“Bedrock”) Beauvais and “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster as well as a Flashback to November 13, 1997 & witness testimony to the police killing of Happy John Dine

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The September 14, 2025 show includes:

  • [8-3-25] David “Bedrock” Beauvais on “Qualified Immunity” as a defense for police officers and bureaucrats
  • [throughout]  More David Rovics singing out for justice in Gaza
  • Beauvais on the Berkeley police harassment of People’s Park activist Cornerstone Carol Denney.
  • Smooth-tongued Steve Pleich on MHCAN’s recent closure and attempted rebirth
  • [9-13] Food Not Bombs [FNB] Steve Enriquez on Street Team Shutdown; Andre on FNB consensus work
  • “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster on the MHCAN shutdown and its earlier herstory.

The Flashback to November 13, 1997 includes: 

  • [11-10-97]  Witness & street reaction to cop Conor Carey’s shooting of Happy John Dine
  • V-Man, David Silva, Bob Lamonica, Larry Redick & others—-different views of the killing.
  • Morning after street interviews:  Jeanie, Colin, Phil F., Mad Mike the Wonder Dog, 
  • Phil Free ticketed for wrong-way biking on Pacific.
  • Account and interviews at the scene of the shooting: Norse, Johnson, Stacy from the roof of the New Leaf, 
  • Theodora Kerry asking how to keep the investigation alive and real

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides September 11, 2025 show is a Flashback to September 21, 1997 featuring Bathrobespierre’s narrative of the trials of Shitkicker Sean Alemi, Eureka’s South Spit Jeffy homeless, Mad Mike Balderos, Dead On David Silva, & more…

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The September 11, 2025 show is a Flashback to September 21, 1997. 

It includes:

  • Ever-Abusive Eveleth Pursues Shitkicker Sean Alemi on Pacific
  • Redtop Robert Flory’s Court Victory in pro-per Appeal of 24 Sleeping Ban cases
  • Phony chalgilla “emergency at Eureka South Spit Jetty to run off homeless refugees—phone interview with Nancy D. of Eureka Love in Action
  • Beggarbacker Becky Johnson in-studio guest on UCSC’s housing grab & rising support for the Initiative to End the Sleeping Ban
  • Roughrider Richard Quigley on protecting kids against Sheriff Deverell’s attack in the Aptos Shopping Center
  • Green Party Gadfly David Silva on recent SCPD attacks on David Harding & others
  • Sidewalk Soothsayer Josh on Officers Seiley and LeFavor ticketing for Tarot Card reading.
  • Santa Monica and Buena Park Alerts on Homeless Resistance

Unsummerly cool temperatures as HUFF swims in the usual sewage of sweeps from its perch at Sub Rosa Cafe Thursday 1:30-3:30 PM 703 Pacific Ave. next to the Bike Church as ever

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Agenda Suggestions for HUFF meeting 9-11-25

For those wearied or impatient with the repeated Agenda, most of them except those flagged as action or discussion items might be limited to brief presentations from the Agendista unless the group wants more info.  The point is to maintain the real narrative not the one the City/County staff claims.  Raise hands; avoid talking over others.  Add additional items may be added at the Thursday [9-11] meeting. 


Top of the Agenda

++++   Reports on Current Projects; Time Available for next week;  Needs and Wants

++++   Follow-Up on Last Week’s Projects

++++   Hot Issues: MHCAN Closure; County RV law

++++   Flag New Possible Action Items Requiring Immediate Planning and/or Action

++++   Handouts: Agenda, TBA;   Passarounds HUFF Notes, Gaza Petition      Available on Request:  Questionnaire

Regular Reports

++++   Street Sweeps in Last Week and Coming Up
++++   Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters

++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’s

++++   Follow up’s on Trump, Newsom, Keeley-Huffaker Edicts, and actual SCPD practices

++++   Meetings of Interest Upcoming

++++   216-8239 Property Seizure Reports Accumulation + FNB Poll Report: Updates?

++++   Clanging pots and pans rally against U.S. Funding Gaza Starvation and Local Unhoused Refugee Harassment

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet

Thursday Sept 11  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room

Saturday  Sept 13   11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-war  Weekly   Palestine Justice Coalition   Signs Up for Gaza       

Saturday Sept 13 and Sunday Sept 14 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; NEW Street Sheets and Street Spirits

Monday September 15 8 4:30-5:30 PM  Another Indivisible  Protest         Indivisible Civil Rights Group        Corner of Ocean and Water Streets in Santa Cruz 

Wednesday Sept. 24  6:30 – 8:30 PM  Free Romancero Ladino Songs–Concert w/ Mark levy Capitola Library, 2005 Wharf Road  Free   with Refreshments  

More check-in’s + Info

++++    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.

++++   Mid-70s for the next week (says on-line weather report—maybe so)

++++   Tips & Lifelessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Sagacity

++++   Reggie & Gaia’s report on Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”.

++++   Laura C.: legislative updates

++++   Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces?  Small Claims Court? 

++++   Attorney Kate Wells death: Check out HUFF site Descriptions or Flashbacks for more herstory

++++   (if by popular demand) Wes White’s phone report on Pajaro Camp DemolitionNew-ish Stories  Video of Gaza history and anger against genocidehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4QuCN-Xq7A&t=2945shttps://thestreetspirit.org/2025/09/04/berkeley-homeless-union-wins-new-restraining-order-delaying-encampment-closure-at-eighth-and-harrison/https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/09/04/the-commons-belongs-to-us-all/   

Old Standbyes 

++++   New Street Spirits available this week.  New and Older Copies of 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”