Wednesday, March 11 3:30-5 PM Santa Cruz Homeless Union [SCHU] meets at Calvary Episcopal (the little Red Church) at Lincoln and Cedar Sts in the Fireside Room.  We will make protest signs to protest the Housing Matters (more accurately known as Funding Matters) cut-off of services at the end of March as well as the takeover of the previously client-run Mental Health Clients Action Network [MHCAN] by the failed People First (more accurately known as People Someday.   Pizza and drinks will be available.  Sign up for a petition to replace the notorious Shelter Gatekeeper Jeremy Leonard.  Join up.  Other agenda items TBA. 

Thursday, March 12, 2026 8 AM Coral St. and Hiway 9 SCHU banner display to publicize and document a scheduled survivalgear-destroying sweep of the Tent Community in front of Funding Matters at 150 Coral St.   Also protests the closing of day services and attempts by the Poverty-Industrial Complex [People First] to take over MHCAN.  See https://santacruzlocal.org/2026/03/04/mhcan-people-first-offers-temporary-takeover/
Thursday, March 12, 2026 1:30 – 3:30 PM HUFF MEETING CANCELLED.

Thursday, March 12, 2026 6 – 8 PM  at the SC MAH (Front & Cooper Sts)  Picture This: Belonging Builds Community, a fundraising event by the service-slashing Funding Matters “will explore the themes of belonging, connection, and the shared responsibility” FM plans to dump services to 1700 homeless community members for mail, elec outlets, showers, toilets, and water on March 31st.  Pay $10 to get in or stand outside and give them an earful. 

Friday, March 13, 2026 4:30 – ? PM (Al Quids Day) at Ocean and Water Sts.  U.S. Out of the Middle East protest

Wednesday, March 18 3:30-5 PM Santa Cruz Homeless Union [SCHU] meets at Calvary Episcopal (the little Red Church) at Lincoln and Cedar Sts in the Fireside Room.

Thursday, March 19, 2026 1:30 – 3:30 PM HUFF meeting Sub Rosa Cafe at Pacific and Spruce Streets, 703 Pacific, next to the Bike Church.

Sunday, March 29, 2026 12:00 noon  starting at Pacific and Spruce Streets:  Stop the Sweeps  Open Day Services for the Homeless   Audit the S.C. Homeless Industrial Complex

HUFF IN BRIEF 3-5-26   [** New Items on the Agenda]… Pass Arounds; Additions…Messages …Sign on to 3-29 March ….** Joint SCHU/HUFF  Coral St`.Tabling/Sweepwatch ….City Council/Supes 3-10  …**Laura’s Look: AB647 Report… Street Reports…. **Sean Dougherty candidacy demands…Reports from anti-ICE/anti-War protest/SCHU actions/polans …Alicia call/MHCAN/SCHU Update…Shelter Reports…Berkeley Report…Next HUFF meet 3-12-26 …** FM & People First (PF) 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 seather ahead, …Hobo Jim’s Cabrillo Case postponed…

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

Thursday March 5   5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs NO MEETING TODAY**

Friday March 6   4-6 PM   Free Food Church FELTON

Fridays 4-6+pm  Hallcrest Vineyards, 379 Felton Empire Rd. Felton

Saturday March 7   11 AM- 12:30  PM Protest Israel/U.S. Bombing of Iran Ocean & Water End the War  

Sat 3-7 & Sun 3-8  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.

Sat 3-7 4 PM – 7 PM   Party/Street Party  Quaker Meeting House 225 Rooney Street.

Sun 3-7   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 downtown (may be cancelled due to Hometown Homeless event]

Tues 3-9  thru Thurs 2-26 10 AM until the food’s gone Bread & Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot           

3-9  9 AM  Stupidvipers 701 Ocean County Bldg Community Room           

3-9  1 PM (time uncertain) Shitty Council  809 Center St. City Hall

Wed 3-10   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 [FM and PF] Pimpery  

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 on Martin Luther King Day (Jan 19)

HUFF IN BRIEF 2-26-26   Clarification and Additions…Messages…*New Items on the Agenda… ….*Wednesday Joint SCHU/HUFF  Coral St`.Tabling?… City Council/Supes 2-24 Meeting Reports…Questions for Funding Matter [FM]s Flyer… Street Reports…. *Sean Dougherty endorsement…Reports from anti-ICE/anti-War protest/SCHU meeting …MHCAN Update…Shelter Reports…Next HUFF meeting 3-5-26 …*Digging into FM & People First (PF) Stats…Winter Crisis:  No Winter Drop-In Shelter in Rain/Warming Center: Failure to Open During Past Cold & Current Rainy Weather (?)…Rest = Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips…*Salinas Surival Camping Ban/Wes White call… RV Tow Bill; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Update/Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations/Reggie M. Update …Jail, Courts reports? …Keith Update …Warming to Sunday; Cooler to Wednesday, …more details at HUFFmeet                                                      * Likely New item as of 2-19        More details available at HUFFmeet

FREE EVENTS                                   

(for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying)

Thursday Feb 26  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meets El Rio Mobile Home Community Room, end of N. Pacific

4:15 PM – 7:15 PM Free Food Church East Zayante Rd. & Sylvan Way in Zayante near the school bus stop

Friday Feb 27  Time TBA Snacks and FNB/SCHU tabling at Location TBA                               7-9 PM Main Public Library Upstairs Author Brian Barth signs his book Front Street   It discusses encampments Crash Zone in San Jose, Wood Street in Oakland, and Wolfe Camp in Cupertino.  Barth answers questions from a panel with Funding Matters [FM] honcho Don Lane, Santa Cruz Homeless Union Prez Alicia Kuhl, and perhaps others .   Lane’s FM group supports regular police “cleaning” (i.e. destruction) of survival camps on the Coral Street sidewalks in front of Funding Matters and plans to cut off services to the entire ourdoors and housed homeless community in March, in order to expand services to its clients.

Sat Feb 28  11 AM- 12:30  PM Protest U.S. War plans with Israel against Iran that may usher in WW3 + rage against U.S./Israeli bombing in the Phony Gaza Genocide Ceasefire   Ocean & Water End the War  

Sat 2-28  & Sun3-1noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; OLD Street Spirits & Street Sheets; leave off or pick up forms to record shelter and police abuse; Bulletin Board for posting notices; perhaps new flyers. Sun 3-1  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, & spiritual sustenance at the dinosaur statue or at Jamba Juice across from the Post Office downtown            

5 PM  MHCAN Driveway at 1051 Cayuga St.   past and current members and supporters gather to consider nominations for a new Board of Directors to reopen MHCAN

Tues 3-3  thru Thurs 3-5 10 AM until the food’s gone Bread & Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot

Wed 3-4  3:30 -5 PM  Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless Little Red Church  Cedar & Lincoln Sts. Fireside Room          

6:00 PM – 7:30 PM  Panel Discussion:  Institute of the Arts and Sciences, 100 Panetta Avenue, S.C.  Historic Entanglement of Fire, Settlement, and Stewardship in the Santa Cruz Mountains

HUFF IN BRIEF 2-19-26   Clarification and Additions…Messages…*New Items on the Agenda…More Shannon/Meliah film showing prep……. City Council/Supes 2-24 Meetings…Questions for Funding Matters Flyer… Street Reports…. Reports from anti-ICE/anti-War protest/SCHU meeting …MHCAN Renewal Update…Shelter Reports…Next HUFF meeting 3-2-26 …Winter Crisis:  No Winter Drop-In Shelter in Rain…*Proposed Joint SCHU/HUFF  Coral St. Protest/Pol Tabling?…Warming Center: Failure to Open During Freeze and Rain though funded to do so…Options for Opening up DIY Shelter…Rest = Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips…Salinas Survival Camping Ban/Wes White call… RV Tow Bill; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Update/Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations/Reggie M. Update …Jail, Courts reports? …Keith Update …Possible Rain Sun, Tue, & Wed,                                                                                    

* New item as of 2-19 agenda      Longer More detailed agenda available at HUFFmeetSee alsohttps://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/02/17/18884186.php

Upcoming Meetings to Resist Service Cutback and Homeless Sweeps 

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