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Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides July 3, 2025 show is a Flashback to May 2, 1999 with Rev. Wiley Drake, Kate Wells, Julia Vinograd, Phil Baer, and Lou Rice

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The July 3, 2025 show is a Flashback to May 2, 1999. 

It includes:

  • Pastor Wiley Drake vs. Buena Park [BP] authorities; BP retaliating for Drake’s federal civil rights lawsuit seeking damages.
  • “Catnip” Kate Wells on Jerry Henry strikingly successful victory getting a restored driver’s license in the face of Sheriff Joseph Hemingway’s abusive suspension action
  • Wells on libertarian activist Richard Quigley’s struggle against Claudia Easterby’s attempt to ban Quigley from the public sidewalk in front of Gottschalks.
  • Wells on Dennis Reim’s refusal to pay a “sleeping in your camper” fine because it was an infraction and that strategy as a new effective tactic for homeless folks
  • “Saturday Night”–more poems written & read by Julia Vinograd [throughout the audio]
  • Phil Baer on Dolphin-Lee Project property acquisition and Clinton’s Yugoslavia bombing
  • “The Rambouillet Accord: A Declaration of War Disguised as a Peace Agreement” By RichardBecker
  • Interview with Lou Rice on his Fast to spotlight abuses at the Homeless [Lack of] Services Center   https://www.santacruz.com/papers/cruz/04.14.99/homeless1-9915.html

HUFF takes advantage of the cooler summer weather to cower indoors anyway 1:30 -3:30 PM Thursday 7-3-25 at the Sub Rosa Cafe next to the Bike Church 703 Pacific

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RUF Suggestions for HUFF 7-3-25

Http web addresses are for background reading or listening for those with computer access.  Hard copy passarounds may cover some of the same subjects for those without.    Many agenda items are really signposts & reminders of where we’d be going if and when we find the person power, time, interest, and resources.  We are gathering information and evidence to challenge the Dominant (False) Police, City Manager Narrative, and the new “Normal”.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them. AGENDA SUBJECT TO CHANGE  A more updated series of suggestions may be available at the 1:30 PM meeting later today.   

                                          
Top of the Agenda (+ Quick Announcements)(a brief broad survey)

++++   Review Agenda + Additional Items

++++   Flag Possible Action Items

++++   Possible Handouts:  Agenda, Revised Shelter Poll   Passarounds TBA ++++   Street + past/uncoming sweep reports from the last week

++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’sCHECK-Ins, ANNOUNCEMENTS, and REPORTS

++++   ICE, Anti-War Protests

++++   Various 216-8239 Flyers Prospects;  Temporary Coverage of incoming reports

++++   MHCAN Concerns

++++   Projects in search of people: Shelter BusStop Watch; 216-8239 Retrieval; Landlord Profiteering Data.

++++   Gaia’s update on Capitola Mobile Home owners resistance to huge rent raises (Call for Update)(Solidarity Resolution)

++++   Various legacy media stories: https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-bans-homeless-people-renting-rvs/and more TBA

++++   Free Events (for demonstrating, organizing, leafleting, or enjoying)  

Friday, July 4  11 AM – 5 PM Indigenize Your Independence Sub Rosa Courtyard  

Saturday  July 5  11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-war  “Free Palestine” picket                                  

Noon-1 PM Downtown Library Upstairs Jazz   

Sunday July 6  2-4 PM  Henna Play  Suite 108 at the Tannery Courtyard 1060 River St.                                   

3 PM  Mystery Event RCNV 612 Ocean                   

Monday July 7 5:30 PM – 7 PM  Open Mic  Soquel Dr PM   Ocean & Water Civil Rights Weekly Anti-Trump Dem. Party Indivisible Protest                   

Tuesday, July 8  5 PM  Film: 14 Tirmeh  Sub Rosa Cafe

++++    Info Tabling:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested…Poll for Armory Resident Concerns–Volunteers

++++        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 but not rainy thru the weekFremont lawsuit:https://eagleera.org/2025/04/27/california-homeless-union-and-advocates-sue-fremont-over-controversial-camping-ban/   Background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZt<<4ZMINEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT_d9BFEzYA

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

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

++++   Laura C.: YES on SB 634 & other updates

++++   New Street Spirits  available.   Mid-month Street Sheet stories available on line https//www.streetsheet.org/ . Hard Copies of both may be 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)

++++  People First Free Guides: https://peoplefirstscc.org/freeguides for S.C., Watsonville, SLV, Free Phones, Youth, Housing Waitlist, Pet Food, Addiction, Immigrant Storm Relief, SLE, Diaper Bank, and more (unchecked for usefulness) (Warning: entries not verified)
++++   https://peoplefirstsdcc.org/freeguides SC Free Guide  (Correction & updates needed) + many others

++++   SHOC (Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee)’s newspaper Homeward— https://sxacshoc.org/homeward/

++++   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

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides June 29, 2025 show features more anti-war protest chats and street candor with Joe and Abe + a Flashback to segments of the February 20th , 23rd, & 27th, 2003 shows

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The June 29, 2025 show includes:

  • Pacific Ave. dialogue with Woodwindist George Oakley at the Scribner Statue
  • Wheelchair bound Joe Watts on the SC War Against the Poor at the Town Clock Anti-War protest against the U.S. attack on Iran.
  • [throughout] Rovics “The Apocalypse in Review” in commentary and music
  • Keith’s commentary on the protest; Bathrobespierre’s view
  • Bill, Jennifer, & others speak out
  • Steve Enriquez on MHCAN; “Danger” on ditching the cops; Abe on his independent ministry; Keith Bishof on his history here

The Flashback to segments of February 20, 2003 includes:

  • [Jeffrey Gale, Co-Host) History of Rep. Farr’s non-responses to anti-war questions
  • San Francisco’s “Break Away” Anti-War March
  • Rep. Farr ducks and dodges at the Del Mar as his Democratic Party pro-war votes and silence challenged; Dialogue with Roxanne A.
  • Mayor “Smiley” Riley–restricting Public Comment Against the War & other Topics

The Flashback last 45 minutes of February 23, 2003’s show includes:

  • “Assisted Outpatient Treatment” AOT, aka “Needles on Wheels” in California (AB 1421)
  • Marvin X at Civic Center Plaza; J.D. Sparks (Sacramento Bee) “Homeless, Their Advocates March for a Place to Camp” 2-18-02
  • Nick F. in satirical vein refuses to provide bus tickets; Ray offers bolt cutters for trapped vehicles
  • City Council to vote on weak anti-war resolution, dumps action against selective enforcement. racial profiling and tightens the downtown ordinances. 
  • L.A. City Council passes stronger anti-war bill + greater efforts to seek homeless funding.

The Flashback to segments of February 27, 2003 includes: 

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides June 26 2025 show features two Flashbacks: April 18, 1999 and April 22, 1999 with Peter Lumsdaine, David Silva, Phil Baer, Jane Kyser, & Scott Graham

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The current show includes two Flashback segments   

The April 18, 1999 Flashback includes the first half of that show :

 The April 22, 1999 Flashback is the entire show and it includes: 

  • In-studio guest Peace activist Peter Lumsdaine on the Clinton bombing of Yugoslavia
  • “Scope-It-Out” Scott Graham on the Rex Court-Dolphin-Lee Apartment demolition plan to support Mercy Housing’s “Nueva Vista” Project and City Council’s surrender to closed process and developer surrender on the renewed 3rd Street Realignment, “inclusionary housing”, etc.
  • Beach Flats resident and activist Phil Baer on the Clinton Kosovo war and the lack of public process in the Dolphin-Lee project
  • An angry “Dead-On” David Silva on misinformation about SCAN  (Santa Cruz Action Network), Kosovo, and other local topics.
  • Norse’s Announcements, Updates, and questions on the future of the soon-to-be-replaced Homeless [Lack of] Services Center

Some HUFFsters will gather at the Sub Rosa Thursday June 26 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM 702 Pacific Ave next to the Bike Church

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More Suggestions for “Loose Cannons” HUFF 6-26-25

Http web addresses are for background reading or listening.   Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them.  Out of exhaustion, frustration, or the call of Mother Nature, breaks may be called.  The chair may be rotated if folks want.  If the Agenda looks familiar and unduly repetitive, some of it is for the benefit of new folks or returning ones.  Many items are really signposts & reminders of where we’d be going if and when we find the person power, time, interest, and resources.  Gathering information and evidence can help challenge the Dominant (False) Police and City Manager Narrative.  Documenting and complainant numbers are repeated for convenience.   Athena chairs the meeting.   

                                          
Top of the Agenda

++++   Review Agenda (questions, additions)

++++   Athena’s proposed smooth meeting suggestions

++++   Flag Possible Action Items: Sweep Notices; Key Upcoming Events++++   Possible Handouts: Agenda +TBA  Passarounds HUFF Notes + TBA

++++   Street & sweep reports from the last week
++++   People’s First poll update

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

Quicker CHECK-Ins, ANNOUNCEMENTS, and REPORTS

++++   Protests or Gatherings Throughout the Last Week

++++   Uses of HUFF Mental Health Advisory Board Resolution

++++   Reports on Shitty Council & Board of Stupes on 6-24; L.C. on 6-10  MHCAN Hearing.

++++   Various 216-8239 Flyers Prospect Meeting Report; Reggie, Athena, Venus Spread Sheet Updates or Phone Connects

++++   Gaia’s update on Capitola Mobile Home owners resistance to huge rent raises (Call for Update)(Solidarity Resolution)

++++   Wes White’s Salinas and State Updates:  http://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/1%20FRSC%206-8-25.mp3 (55 minutes into the file)

++++   Various legacy media stories: TBA

++++   Free Events (for demonstrating, organizing, leafleting, polling, or enjoying)

Thursday June 26  5-6 PM El Rio Mobile Home Park Community Room Food Not Bombs meeting

Friday June 27 4:30 PM- 5:30 PM Ocean & Water Fight VA/Medicaid Cuts Indivisible

Saturday  June 28  11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-war  “Free Palestine” picket    

Monday June 30  4:30 PM – 5:30 PM   Ocean & Water Civil Rights Weekly Anti-Trump Dem. Party Indivisible

Wednesday July 2 4-6 PM Town Clock Anti-War Protest with Food Not Bombs

++++    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.

++++    Still No Rain…mid-70’s thru the next Week. Fremont lawsuit:https://eagleera.org/2025/04/27/california-homeless-union-and-advocates-sue-fremont-over-controversial-camping-ban/  Background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZt<<4ZMINEhttps://www.youtube.com/watc?v=pT_d9BFEzYAhttps://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? Library Stuff

++++   New Street Spirits  and Street Sheets likely available next week.   Mid-month Street Sheet stories available on line https//www.streetsheet.org/ . Hard Copies of both may be 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)

++++   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

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides June 22, 2025 show features the 6-18 Town Clock anti-war protest and brief chats with Tipster Thomas and Chris Krohn + a Flashback to March 18, 2010 with Rotkin’s City Council killing new marijuana clubs

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The June 22, 2025 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:

  • [throughout] The [Musical] History of the World according to David Rovics
  • [6-22-2025] Voices from the mixed Indivisible/Food Not Bombs/The Brave and Free Town Clock protest against Trump’s attack on Iran & the Gaza genocide
  •  Indivisible supporters, local anti-Zionist and environmentalist Pat Kittle, Rowan Malar,
  • Brent Adams on his new Art & Rebellion group, a homeless update, & protest strategy, 
  • Jumbogumbo Joe Schultz, Wayside Warbler Woody, and Jennifer and Bill.
  • [6-20-25]  Lengthy interview: “Whipster” Wes White on Salinas homeless activist Rita Acosta  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsqS4K06qds  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj1-biuS-mU
  • Casual interview with former Mayoral speech suppresser Chris Krohn
  • Tips-for-Toughroaders from HUFFster Thomas

The Flashback to March 18, 2010 includes:

  • Medical Marijuana Dispensary Ban at Shitty City Council: Background & Blathering + Lots of Critical Commentary and Deconstruction by Bathrobespierre

HUFF has its post-Juneteenth meeting today (Friday June 20) 1:30 – 3:30 pm at the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church

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RUF Suggestions for HUFF 6-20-25

Http web addresses are for background reading or listening for those with computer access.  Hard copy passarounds may cover some of the same subjects for those without.    Many agenda items are really signposts & reminders of where we’d be going if and when we find the person power, time, interest, and resources.  We are gathering information and evidence to challenge the Dominant (False) Police, City Manager Narrative, and the new “Normal”.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them. AGENDA SUBJECT TO CHANGE  A more updated series of suggestions may be available at the1:30 PM meeting later today. 

                                            
Top of the Agenda (+ Quick Announcements)(a brief broad survey)

++++   Review Agenda

++++   Additional Agenda Items– Flag Possible Action Items

++++   Possible Handouts:  Agenda, Shelter Poll   Passarounds City Council’s 6-24 Agenda

++++   Street and sweep reports from the last week
++++   HUFF Disruption policy; Athena’s Proposals—Update; Staggered Meeting Attendance

++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’sCHECK-Ins, ANNOUNCEMENTS, and REPORTS

++++   Protests or Gatherings Throughout the Last Week: Homeless/Anti-War focus?

++++   Shitty Council of 6-10; Report from Stupes Board of 6-3

++++   Various 216-8239 Flyers Prospects; Reggie & Gaia Updates or Phone Connects

++++   MHCAN Status?

++++   Projects in search of people: Shelter BusStop Watch; 216-8239 Retrieval; Landlord Profiteering Data.

++++   Gaia’s update on Capitola Mobile Home owners resistance to huge rent raises (Call for Update)(Solidarity Resolution)

++++   Wes White’s Salinas and State Updates

++++   Various legacy media stories: https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-bans-homeless-people-renting-rvs/and more TBA

++++   Free Events (for demonstrating, organizing, leafleting, or enjoying)….   

Saturday  June 21  11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-war  “Free Palestine” picket    

Sunday June 22 3-5 PM Tannery Arts Ctr Courtyard 1060 River S.  Resistancia Open Mic                   

Monday June 23  4:30 PM – 5:30 PM   Ocean & Water Civil Rights Weekly Anti-Trump Dem. Party Indivisible Protest                   

Wednesday June 25 7 PM ‘No Place to Grow” Film and Panel, 3rd, Raymond, & Uden Streets Beach Flats

++++    Info Tabling:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested…Poll for Armory Resident Concerns–Volunteers

++++        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.

++++        No Rain…Cooler 60s weather continuing thru the next Week. Fremont lawsuit:https://eagleera.org/2025/04/27/california-homeless-union-and-advocates-sue-fremont-over-controversial-camping-ban/   Background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZt<<4ZMINEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT_d9BFEzYA

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

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

++++   Laura C.: YES on SB 634

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

++++   In early July new Street Spirits  and Street Sheets may be available.   Mid-month Street Sheet stories available on line https//www.streetsheet.org/ . Hard Copies of both may be 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)

++++  People First Free Guides: https://peoplefirstscc.org/freeguides for S.C., Watsonville, SLV, Free Phones, Youth, Housing Waitlist, Pet Food, Addiction, Immigrant Storm Relief, SLE, Diaper Bank, and more (unchecked for usefulness) (Warning: entries not verified)
++++   https://peoplefirstsdcc.org/freeguides SC Free Guide  (Correction & updates needed) + many others

++++   SHOC (Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee)’s newspaper Homeward— https://sxacshoc.org/homeward/

++++   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

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides June 19, 2025 show is a Flashback to July 2, 2006 and then to November 1988 with Mike Rhodes, Pam Kinkaid, the Fresno Activists, the S.C. SAFEsters plus much more

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The June 19, 2025 show is a Flashback to July 2, 2006 

It includes

  • A further Flashback to November 1988 with a KZSC call-in panel discussion featuring peace activist Charles Grey, civil rights attorney Ray Grueneich, UCSC Students Against the Sleeping Ban activist Maria, and Street Shit Sheet editor Robert Norse on the Sleeping Ban controversy and the November 1988 election.
  • Crow vs. Officer Pam Bechtel
  • Barry’s Pizza Pummeling and Other Agonies
  • D.J. Shatter: Unseemly Opposition to Critical Mass protest ride
  • Fresno’s Mike Rhodes presents Pam Kinkaid, Joanna, and Randy Johnson on the latest Fresno anti-homeless raid, which ultimately resulted in the Kinkaid law suit.
  • Care-eyes Coral on Shopping Cart stigma
  • VC on the SAFE singers with Gregarious Greg and others
  • Corridors of the Courthouse Chatter with Jimmy and Clark
  • Parking lot panic law update with Crow
  • Nutcracker Nick on Officer Swanek and a forthcoming  street play
  • [6-27] Red, Monkey, Mama Shannon, Yahsahway, Ernie Tello and other voices

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides June 15, 2025 show features Bathrobespierre’s Interviews Reviews and Wise Cracks on Two Protests + a Flashback to May 1, 2005 with Pat True, Robert Lederman, and other Interviews

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The June 15th 2025 show includes:

  • [More Rovics historical political songs from 2020 to 2022]
  • [6-7] Cooper at Food Not Bombs on Dominican Hospital treatment of her friends
  • HUFF crosstalk updates Jesse’s and Troy’s latest misadventures
  • [6-6]  Keith’s anti-war protest to stop the U.S. invasion of Iran Drew Lewis, Joe Schultz, Keith, and other protesters
  • [4-18] https://keithmchenry.substack.com/p/controlled-oppositi
  • [4-14] “No Kings” Indivisible  protest of thousands—description of the signs  being held on the incoming stream with occasional interviews

The Flashback to May 1, 2005 includes:

  • Pat True, hunger striker: Tent University on UCSC complicity with UCPD/SCPD brutality
  • [4-26-05] City Council Oral Communications on WAMM’s marijuana monopoly & caller/community input.
  • Rober Lederman A.R.T.I.S.T street performer and artist  artistpres@comcast.net 
  • Call for non-discrimination against Jerry Henry at Coffee Roasting Co. in Aptos
  • Jim Losey on Area 420.com, seeking to open medical marijuana shop in San Jose
  • Andrea Tishler on a HUFF and PUFF tabling in Santa Cruz

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides for June 12th, 2025 is a Flashback to March 9, 2006 including Micah Posner, Peter Weiss, Andrea Morgan, and C.J. Stock

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The June 12, 2025 show is a Flashback to March 9, 2006. 

It includes:

  • Bathrobespierre’s updates: his hearing & Pitchess motion against Lt. Steve Clark in the Rotkin gag case; Alonzo Eversol’s marijuana case; and more.
  • Bike enthusiasts Micah Posner, Central Transportation Advocate, & Peter Weiss of People Power fighting County Transportation Commission‘s sneak attack to widen Hiway 1
  • [3-1] Lobo and two others driven into the rain from library overhang
  • Bathrobespierre on the Parking Lot/Garage Panic & Paranoia laws & local harassment of medical marijuana users
  • Strummaster C.J. Stock and SandwichSearcher Steve on the P& P laws.