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The 6-14-26 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show has a Coral St. sweep report, B.J. on L.A. corruption, Live Oak Landing protest, McHenry’s Soup Street talk and a Flashback to 8-30-15 with “Don’t Box Me In” on Pac Ave with Alex, Joff–Keith & Abbi too

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The June 14, 2026 show includes:

  • Kirill’s account of the 6-11 early rising preemptive protection against the Coral St. sweep 
  • Beggarbacker Becky Johnson critiques L.A. social service and electoral corruption
  • 6-8 Activist protest against the vacant Live Oak Landing buildings:
  • Activist speak out: former Funding Matters employee Kevin Rothwell; peace activist Alan Fischer; SC Homeless Union bullhornster Alicia Kuhl; video journalist Wes White; copwatcher Adrien; Amia  &  Jesse   831-198314with SC Local info@santacruzlocal.or  ;
  • Ardent Ingrid and Katzenjammer Keith at McHenry’s Soup Street book presentation
  • Summary of the upcoming August 30, 2015 Flashback

The Flashback to August 30, 2015 includes: (some may be out of order)

  • The Highway 6 Fundraiser with CopClown skit by Jason & Pensky
  • Sit Criminal & Security Guard interviews
  • The SF Mime Troupe’s Freedom Land  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1m0MCuWkuo
  • “Battling Bob”  defends police behavior in the sidewalk  Blue Box scandal; David Silva takes exception.
  • Peggy Lee Kennedy: two homeless sidewalk sleepers shot on orders of Cadillac Hotel manager
  • The police-initiated 24-hour parking ban on Coral St.
  • Joff Jones and Alex Skelton’s “Art is Free” Sidewalk Protest
  • Monterey Charles backs Bernie Sanders, gives a report.
  • Andrea’s latest ticket for median signing.
  • Examining the Blue Box/Cages with String, the musician
  • Red Church Rumblings: “Justicewhen?” Jen, Karen Grant,  Dreamcatcher,Eliza Sears, and more
  • Keith’s morning walk along Pacific Ave.
  • Freedom Sleepers Coffee Break after Shitty Council meeting
  • Mellowskies John Malkin on Predictive Policing; SCPD’s John Bush clams up.

Summertime HUFFing 1:30 PM-3:30 PM 703 Pacific Sub Rosa Cafe or Courtyard (next to the Bike Church)

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ROUGH HUFF AGENDA IN BRIEF 6-11  2026  

HUFF Notes/Passarounds… Street Reports….Today’s (6-11) Coral St. Sweep Update & Follow-Up… Shitty Council (6-9) report… New Free Events…   Primary Aftermath….Future Coonerty Union Protest at Bookshop… Legislative Update….[Survival Shitter Spotlight]… PovertyPimpery  Accountability: Public Records; Morrison Update …Next Week’s Meeting …Barnstrm Dec Trump Cuts…Toughtrail Thomas’ Sunday Reading &  Tips  ….Posting at Armory bus pick-ups… collating citations/Reggie M. Update …[216-8239 working group]  …Jail, Court [Troy, Adrian Support]…Visits to Free Events/SCFG Updates…Pleich’s HPLHC …Temperate weather…

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

Thur June 11  7 AM  Witness and assist Coral St Survival Encampment  Limekiln & Coral  (police raid threatened at 8 AM)  bring cameras, phones, friends

5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meets El Rio Mobile Home Park Community Room

Fri June 12   10:30 PM – 12:30 PM  Legalish Help at HPLA 903 Pacific (UN Association) with Steve Pleich (rhymes with “h”)        

2PM-?  till food gone  BoulderCreek  13080 Hwy 9 between Jenna Sue’s Cafe and the taqueria
       4-6 PM   Free Food Church FELTON 4-6+pm  Hallcrest Vineyards, 379 Felton Empire Rd. Felton

Sat June 13  11 AM – 12:30 PM Anti-war picket and honk-in  Ocean and Water St.  703 Pacific                     

11 AM – 5 PM Kits for Unhoused  Oakes Lulu  112 (near the Lounge) Gather supplies from UCSC Good Will Bins                       

11 AM – 4 PM  Parade starts at Cathcart & Pacific   Street Party Cooper Street, Pacific Ave., Front St., Abbott Square and in the MAH at Cooper Street, Pacific Ave., Front St., Abbott Square and in the MAH                         noon- 6 PM  Juneteenth  Laurel Park 301 Center St.

Sat June 13  & Sun June 14 noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal main Post Office;  New Street Sheets to read or sell; leave off or pick up forms to record shelter and police abuse; Bulletin Board for posting notices

Sun June 14    10:30-12:30  PM  People’s Aid : Solidarity/Services for those outside Green Gate on Golf Club Drive.                               

2 PM  Thomas’s street huddle & other book reading at the dinosaur statue or at Jamba Juice across from the Post Office downtown

Mon June 15 10:30 PM – 12:30 PM  More Legalish Help (see June 12 above)

Tues June 16 thru Thurs June 18  10 AM until the food’s gone   Bread & Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot

Wed  June 17  3:30 PM  Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless Little Red Church  Cedar & Lincoln Sts. Fireside Room                               

10:30 PM – 12:30 PM  Still more Legalish Help  (see above)

Thur June 18  1:30 PM – 3:30 PM  Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom   Sub Rosa Pacific & Spruce 703 Pacific

Restore Rights for those outside Talk with HUFF–meets today, Thursday, June 4, 1:30 PM-3:30 PM at the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church

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HUFF IN BRIEF 6-4-26-2026  .HUFF Notes/Passarounds… Street Reports….Coral St. Sweep Update & Follow-Up… **June 8 Live Oak Landing Protest: Alicia call…    Primary Aftermath….Future Coonerty Union Protest at Booksho… [216-8239 working group]  [Survival Shitter Spotlight]… PovertyPimpery  Accountability: Public Records; Morrison Update …Next Week’s Meeting …**Brnstrm Dec Trump Cuts…Toughtrail Thomas’ Sunday Reading &  Tips  ….Posting at Armory bus pick-ups… collating citations/Reggie M. Update …Jail, Court [Troy, Adrian Support]…Visits to Free Events/SCFG Updates…Pleich’s HPLHC …Rain cold Mon/Tues…

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

Thur June 4   5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meets El Rio Mobile Home Park Community Room

Fri June 5     2PM-?  till food gone  Boulder Creek  13080 Hwy 9 between Jenna Sue’s Cafe and the taqueria
       4-6 PM   Free Food Church FELTON 4-6pm  Hallcrest Vineyards, 379 Felton Empire Rd. Felton       

6-9:30 PM “Making an Exoneree” Film Series  UC  S.C.Digital Arts Research Center 453 Kerr Rd., reception 6-7 screenings begin at 7 p.m.

Sat June 6  11 AM – 12:30 PM Anti-war picket and honk-in  Ocean and Water St.  703 Pacific                            

11 AM-noon Live Oak Library Annex Mountain Lions, Bobcats & You  979 17th Ave                                

11 AM – 4 PM  Parade starts at Cathcart & Pacific   Street Party Cooper Street, Pacific Ave., Front St., Abbott Square and in the MAH at Cooper Street, Pacific Ave., Front St., Abbott Square and in the MAH                         3 PM- 4 PM  Branciforte library 230 Gault St.  Solarpunk Summer  Seedcraft Class/Workshop                                

4:20 PM Performances, 4:30 PM March Town Clock Dyke Trans March

Sat June 6  & Sun June 7 noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal main Post Office; Street Spirits & Street Sheets; leave off or pick up forms to record shelter and police abuse; Bulletin Board for posting notices

Sun June 7    10:30-12:30  PM  People’s Aid : Solidarity/Services for those outside Green Gate on Golf Club Drive.                               

2 PM  Thomas’s street huddle & other book reading at the dinosaur statue or at Jamba Juice across from the Post Office downtown

Tues June 9 thru Thurs June 11  10 AM until the food’s gone   Bread & Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot

Wed  June 10  3:30 PM  Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless Little Red Church  Cedar & Lincoln Sts. Fireside Room

Thur June 11  1:30 PM – 3:30 PM  Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom   Sub Rosa Pacific & Spruce 703 Pacific  

HUFF WISHLIST, OLDER STORIES, & RESOURCES  will be available at today’s meeting on a separate sheet.

The 5-31-26 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show features the cutback in survival services, interviews with Snakey and Cooper +Flashback to 2-6-14 in-studio guests Doc Mike & Pat Colby & SF Human Rights Protest

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The May 31st show features:

The Flashback to Feb. 2, 2014 includes:

  • [in-studio visitors]  Michael O’Grady (“Doc Mike”) and Pat Colby (“Put ‘em in their Place” Pat)
  • The Human Statue (also street blues singer of “I can’t get no dough to get a burrito”) interview from San Francisco on his exclusion from Santa Cruz
  • Doc Mike’s difficulties at the Abbey Church/Café
  • Pergolesi Café—Liberal or “Luck ‘em out” for homeless looking?  A Report from Mark Waller, Colby, and others. Non-discrimination pacts.
  • Backpack bigotry:
  • SF Human Rights Day Protest chaired by Paul Boden in support of a California Bill of Rights in January 2014 with 200 people in the streets: Many speeches
  • S.C. Mayor Robinson supporting SCPD Bike Barricade against the Bike Church

Always up for suggestions and input.  Contact me at rnorse3@hotmail.com or call 831-423-4833.  Or show up at a HUFF meeting 703 Pacific (Sub Rosa Meeting Space) next to the Bike Church 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM Thursdays.   Or leave a note with workers at Food Not Bombs [FNB] 12 noon-3 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays at the Town Clock where Street Spirit and Street Sheet newspapers are available.

Weekly predictions:  More phony ceasefire as U.S. and Israel ignore the Iranian redlines while rearming.  Continued Iranian blockage of the Gulf of Hormuz, intensifying war threats, bullying, and bombing by the U.S. and Israeli government.   Unavoidable famine becomes increasingly likely overseas (and scarcity at home) in the weeks ahead due to the US regime’s desire to appear “victorious”.  Escalating Israeli massacres in Gaza and Lebanon as U.S. troops remain in the Middle East–the real news not the Trump or mainstream media pronouncements.    Some antiwar protests mark the weekend in Santa Cruz  If you start or hear of one, let me know.

Reported continued lockout of the unhoused community from Coral Street’s “Funding Matters” bathrooms, water, trash disposal, phone charging,—now reserved for clients only.  Similarly with the London Nelson bathrooms.  See also “In Response to “Housing Matters” Service Cut-Off on April 1st” at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/04/06/18885442.php .

Other meetings/events coming up: 

FREE EVENTS (for more info go to indybay.org/santacruz; click Calendar)       

Sun 5-31  10:30-12:30  PM  People’s Aid : Solidarity/Services for those outside Green Gate Golf Club Drive                           

noon-3 PM  Food Not Bombs still relocated to the post office with its Community Bulletin board, no-cost food, and Street Spirit newspapers    

Tues 6-2  thru Thurs 6-4 10 AM until the food’s gone Bread & Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot    

Wed  6-3  3:30 PM  Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless Little Red Church  Cedar & Lincoln Sts. Fireside Room         

Thur 6-4 7 AM   Support for the Coral St. encampment in event of another police sweep down at Coral St. and Limekiln.   For more info call 831-423-4833             

1:30 PM-3:30 PM  Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom   Sub Rosa Cafe/Courtyard Pacific & Spruce              

5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs volunteers meet at El Rio Mobile Home Park Community Room,       

Fri 6-5 2pm-?till food gone  BoulderCreek  13080 Hwy 9 between Jenna Sue’s Cafe and the taqueria             

Sat 6-6  11 AM – 12:30 PM  Anti-war elders and loyalists gather with signs at Ocean and Water Sts. gathering honks as gas and food prices jump upward                           

noon- 3 PM another Community meal with Food Not Bombs

The 5-28-26 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show is a Flashback to November 15, 2007 with call-in’s & debate about the Checkmate spraying of the Light Brown Apple Moth, anti-War activism at the Vets Hall, & anti-Coonerty tabling

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The Flashback to November 15, 2007 includes:

  • Denita Chesick on LBAM kicks off the LBAM (Light Brown Apple Moth) Checkmate spray’s toxic effect discussion
  • Theodora Kerry on the struggles of the (fairly) new Measure K Commission monitoring police activity against privately used cannabis
  • Uncle Dennis Davie corrects a misquote: he does NOT support the LBAM spraying.
  • [Nov. 12, 2007] at the City Council public forum on LBAM spraying with Aubray Bilgard and Marilyn Garrett
  • Battleready Bob Patton at the Vets Hall with Veteran Resisters and Courage to Resist’s Jeff Patterson with  “Breaking Ranks” film on soldiers gone AWOL to Canada
  • [11-4-07]  Boycott Bigotry—sidewalk tabling in front of the Bookshop Santa Cruz—Tenderfoot Tim Rumford “everyone else in HUFF” banned “for life”
  • Passerby opinion on the Coonerty Book Store’s support for the Sleeping Ban
  • A clip from Uncle Dennis Davie’s “From the Cream to the Dregs” show

HUFF paddles to its weekly worry session at 1:30 PM Thursday May 28th at the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific Ave. next to the Bike Church

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[** New Items on the Agenda]    HUFF IN BRIEF 5-28-2026   … Chair?….**HUFF Notes/Passarounds… Street Reports…. **June 8 Live Oak Landing Protest    **FRSC Report on Salinas/Gilroy[‘s Camp Hope with Homeless Union’s Wes White & Robert Aguirre …“Task progress” FollowUp on Coral St. Support] [216-8239 working group]  [Survival Shitter Spotlight]…**Election Endorsements after Wed Forum… **Shitty Council/Stupes  Reports 5-26 …PovertyPimpery  Accountability: Norse Report on Funding Matters, People Someday? …Next Week’s Meeting …**Brnstrm Dec Trump Cuts…Toughtrail Thomas’ Sunday Reading &  Tips  ….Posting at Armory bus pick-ups… collating citations/Reggie M. Update …Jail, Court [Troy, Adrian Support]…Visits to Free Events/SCFG Updates…Pleich’s HPLHC  **Rain today; cool & warner next week …

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

Thur May 28   5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meets El Rio Mobile Home Park Community Room

Fri May 29    2PM-?  till food gone  Boulder Creek  13080 Hwy 9 between Jenna Sue’s Cafe and the taqueria
       4-6 PM   Free Food Church FELTON 4-6+pm  Hallcrest Vineyards, 379 Felton Empire Rd. Felton

Sat May 30  11 AM – 12:30 PM Anti-war picket and honk-in  Ocean and Water St.  703 Pacific                            

5 PM –  10 PM  2nd Annual  Celebration of Life Fundraiser at Sub Rose Café Info about Gaze, Mid-East War

Sat May 30  & Sun May 31  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal main Post Office; Street Spirits & Street Sheets; leave off or pick up forms to record shelter and police abuse; Bulletin Board for posting notices

Sun May 23    10:30-12:30  PM  People’s Aid : Solidarity/Services for those outside Green Gate on Golf Club Drive.                          

2 PM  Thomas’s street huddle & other book reading at the dinosaur statue or at Jamba Juice across from the Post Office downtown

Tues June 2 thru Thurs June 410 AM until the food’s gone Bread & Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot

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

Thur June 4  1:30 PM – 3:30 PM  Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom   Sub Rosa Pacific & Spruce 703 Pacific  

HUFF WISHLIST, OLDER STORIES, & RESOURCES  will be available at the meeting on a separate sheet.

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