- Questions That Won’t Be Asked Chief “Season of Citations” Andy Mills at the ACLU Forum Tonight
- Brent Adams on the Challenge What’s Needed as Well as Protest in the Shelter Crisis
- Mad-for-Once Micah Posner and Katzenjammer Keith McHenry on Possible Protests
- Some Other Stuff Too
Author Archives: huffsantacruz
HUFF Focus on City Shelter Deceit and Cutback 11 AM SubRosa Cafe Wednesday 10-17-18; Conscience and Action also joining in to prep for 10-18 ACLU Forum on Police Use of Force
HUFF [Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom] will meet Wednesday, 10-17 11 AM at the Sub Rosa next to the Bike Church.
- “If Only They Had Organized…”–Response to the Latest Sudden Closure Announcement of the Barbedwire Boneyard River St. Campground
- Latest Police PR at Shitty Council’s “Public Safety” Hearing Monday Night
- Forming a Chapter of the Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless to join Salinas, Marysville and other state Chapters allied with the Poor People’s Campaign
- Civil Rights Watch for the Unhoused Majority Facing the Usual Dispersal and Harassment as Winter Approaches
- Follow-up and lead-up actions in the Bathroom Battle: Knockin on Tony Elliot’s door (the new P & R czar).
- Seeking Answers from Police Chief Andy Mills for his Latest “Trespass/Closed Area/Camping Ban” Citation Strategy
- 9th Circuit Federal Court Decision may institute Right to Rest and Sleep in Santa Cruz: Updates from Candidates Forums, Mills, and elsewhere
- Independent HUFF strategy for shifting the dialogue from Token Winter Shelter to Broad Support for Homeless Encampments
- Fall Sidewalk Streetsquawking
- Rise of the new Salinas RV Camp.
- Sad News from Sacramento: AB2178 to Restrict Charitable Food Giveaways, AB 1040 to “conservatorship” troublesome homeless; Bail Abolition but Amped up Judicial Power; limited Police Record access
- Reviewing the Candidate Cavalcade for Shitty Council: Two Proposed Homeless Forums by Councilmember Krohn versus Warming Center’s Brent Adams
- http://www.santacruzsentinel.
com/santa-cruz-to-shutter- city-run-homeless-encampment- by-nov-30 City Bureaucrats Drop the Do-Gooder Disguise in the Latest Abrupt Cutbacks - http://www.santacruzsentinel.
com/santa-cruz-downtown- launches-new-welcome-wagon- program Back to the Barbarous Bullshit of Bygone Days: Return of the Homeless-Hostile “Hosts” aka the “Ambassadors” - https://reason.com/archives/
2018/10/13/california-adopts- a-mixed-bag-of-food-la Driving Homeless Food Operations Out of Sight - http://www.kut.org/post/
austin-ordinance-banning- homeless-camps-challenged- court Even outside the 9th Circuit’s Martin v. Boise decision upholding the Right to Rest, folks outside are speaking up in court. - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/
us-news/tech-titans-feud- twitter-over-funding-homeless- programs-n919771 Tech bosses argue over S.F. Bucks-for-Bureaucrats Measure But How Much Reaches Those Outside?
- Support the Downtown Santa Cruz Bathroom Task Force, Food Not Bombs, the Warming Center’s 24 Hour Storage Program, HUFF, Conscience and Action, Monterey County Homeless Advocates, and other activists in documenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.
- Check out Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/
HomelessOutsideSantaCruz/ for updates. - Read Updates and Post Them on Santa Cruz Indymedia at https://www.indybay.org/santa-
cruz/ - Back up homeless efforts to organize either in protest or to demand adequate and accessible facilities.
- Exchange information with other supporters there to generate more communication and better solutions in the future.
- Listen in to Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides at 101.3 FM and freakradio.org every Thursday 6-8 PM, Sundays 9:30 AM- 3 PM
- Hear archived shows at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/
Lostshows.html .
Sunday 10-14-18 9:30 AM-3 PM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides: Native American Slaughter Day Background, Street-Speak from the Red Church, Amped-Up Andy Carcello on Marijuana Profiteering; + 7-7-07 Flashback !
Streams at freakradio.org and broadcasts at 101.3 FM
Archives today at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/L
- A Few Takes on Native American Slaughter (Columbus) Day
- More Backtalk and Battlecries from the Red Church Meal Munchers
- Fury for the Medical Marijuana Profiteers from Andy Carcello
- Another Round of Tunes by Ray Zimmerman
- Further Flashback within a Flashback to Bathrobespierre Robert on KSCO in 1993 and Berkeley Fightback against the Anti-Homeless Laws
- City Staff Dismantles the Voter’s Measure K Commission Seeking to Monitor Police and Make Marijuana Busts the Lowest Enforcement Priority
- Anita Henry and Craig Canada Debate and Discuss Medical Marijuana Use in Public
- Still More Street Interviews
- https://youtu.be/EFvrNIt_BU4 Watch “Bathrooms, Winter Survival and Community Caring: A Rally” on YouTube–Last Month’s Protest at City Hall Against the Louden Nelson Locked Lavatories
- https://mv-voice.com/news/
2018/10/11/council-may-put- curbs-on-vehicle-dwellers Mountain View NIMBY’s move on RV Dwellers - http://amp.ktvu.com/news/
oakland-partners-with-faith- leaders-to-offer-homeless- safe-parking-for-their- vehicles Oakland Authorities Offer Nighttime Only RV Respite - https://kjzz.org/content/
701449/flagstaff-considers- safe-parking-program-people- who-are-homeless Flagstaff Cops Respond to the 9th Circuit Court’s “Sleeping is a Right” Decision - https://www.registerguard.com/
news/20181013/curbside- camping-by-homeless-grows-in- visibility Eugene Bosses Blanch at Sight of Growing Homeless Survival Presence
Tonight’s Bathrobespiere’s Broadsides show airs tonight at 6 PM at 101.3 FM: Streetside Derek, Irene & Amber from Berkeley, Wonderguy Wes White from Salinas, Badboy Brent Adams & Brennon Robbins on Measure M
- Bits from the Berkeley Boulevards with Derek, Irene, and Amber
- Wes White on Disruption at Salinas City Council
- LA City Council Cracks Down on the Public: http://www.latimes.com/local/
lanow/la-me-ln-city-council- disruptions-20181010-story. html
- Brent Adams on the Challenge of “Low-Impact” Zones Around the Storage Program…and more!
- That Old Roy Zimmerman Singing Again
NO HUFF MEETING TODAY Conscience and Action today (10-10) generates organizational support against Bathroom Baloney at Louden Nelson & Cophappy Campercrushing 11 AM Sub Rosa Cafe- All welcome
HUFF [Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom] will meet Wednesday, 10-17 11 AM at the Sub Rosa next to the Bike Church. Conscience and Action will be meeting today (10-10) at the Sub Rosa at 11 AM.
Possible action items:
- Fanning the Flames for Frey’s Round-the-Clock Candidate & Official Accessibility
- Demanding D.A. Rosell Follow the S.F. “No More Homeless Camping Prosecutions”
- An Action Around City Council’s Concealed Winter Shelter Shutdown, Back Off from the CarPark and the Implications of the Boise Court of Appeals Decision here.
- Reviewing the Candidate Cavalcade for Shitty Council: Two Proposed Homeless Forums by Councilmember Krohn versus Warming Center’s Brent Adams
- Bathroom Battleplans–Next Steps in the Struggle for Safe Shitting:
+++ Hard Cop, Soft Cop Approach to new P & R Boss Tony Elliot
+++ “Get Into the Bathroom Free” Codes Distributed to the Rabble
+++ Reviewing Ursula’s “Vanishing Vandalism” Analysis
+++ Cornering the Council Candidate’s on Lavatory Liberation
+++ Mocking the Meanness with Street Theater and/or Radio Play
- Making the ACLU’s cop-talkie Forum Relevant to Santa Cruz
Hot Blasts from HUFFland:
- http://www.latimes.com/local/
lanow/la-me-ln-city-council- disruptions-20181010-story. html Using the Santa Cruz precedent to fight L.A. repression!
- http://www.santacruzsentinel.
com/santa-cruz-woman-found- dead-in-her-van How many more disabled, elderly, and unhoused will die this winter?
- October 18 7-9 PM 612 Ocean St. The local ACLU gives us cop and attorney chatter: A Forum of Police Use of Force –but let’s not name any local names!
- https://www.sfchronicle.com/
bayarea/matier-ross/article/ SF-prosecutors-halt- enforcement-of-street-camping- 13288604.php How about it, D.A. Rosell, Chief Mills, City Mangler Bernal - http://amp.wcpo.com/
2883879289/hamilton-homeless- campers-told-to-be-out-sunday- or-be-arrested.html Fences, Citations, and Cop Constitution Crushing–in Ohio and in Santa Cruz–Just look around!
- Support the Downtown Santa Cruz Bathroom Task Force, Food Not Bombs, the Warming Center’s 24 Hour Storage Program, HUFF, Conscience and Action, Monterey County Homeless Advocates, and other activists in documenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.
- Check out Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/
HomelessOutsideSantaCruz/ for updates. - Read Updates and Post Them on Santa Cruz Indymedia at https://www.indybay.org/santa-
cruz/ - Back up homeless efforts to organize either in protest or to demand adequate and accessible facilities.
- Exchange information with other supporters there to generate more communication and better solutions in the future.
- Listen in to Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides at 101.3 FM and freakradio.org every Thursday 6-8 PM, Sundays 9:30 AM- 3 PM
- Hear archived shows at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/
Lostshows.html .
Sunday 10-7-18 9:30 AM-3 PM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides: More Musical Inspiration from David Rovics, Shake-Up Shouts from Brent Adams, and Street Snarls from Many More; Plus Happy John Dine Inquest Flashback 12-11-97
Streams at freakradio.org and broadcasts at 101.3 FM
Archives today at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/L
- Rough and Righteous Music from David Rovics cont. at the “No Homeless Bathrooms” London (Louden) Nelson Center
- Rage and Rumbles from the Red Church Meal Munchers
- Barnstorming Backtalk from Brent Adams
- Caustic Commentary from Bathrobespierre Robert
- Failure of the Citizens Police Review Board in the 1997 SCPD Slaying of Happy John Dine
- Rightwing Renegade Wiley Drake Stands up for the Homeless in southern California
- Bathrobespierre Relives his Fifteen Minutes of Fame on New York TV
- https://www.mytwintiers.com/
news/local-news/former-dunkin- donuts-employee-who-dumped- water-on-homeless-man-will- perform-community-service/ 1501226097 Homeless Victim Forgives Flush-Away-the-Poor Thug - https://katu.com/news/local/
residents-reach-good-neighbor- agreement-with-se-foster- homeless-shelter Nimbys Still Nay-Say Good Neighbor Homeless Shelter - https://www.sfchronicle.com/
bayarea/article/London-Breed- expected-to-set-goal-of- adding-1-000-13279982.php The Usual Fractional Shelter Programs Up S.F.-Way - https://www.sfchronicle.com/
bayarea/article/ACLU-sues-SF- police-claiming-unchecked- racism-in-13279819.php?src=hp_ totn Where’s the local Santa Cruz ACLU, eh?
Tonight’s Bathrobespiere’s Broadsides show airs tonight at 6 PM at 101.3 FM featuring more Louden Nelson Bathroom Blues with Brent Adams, David Rovics, and Bathrobespierre Robert
The show streams at freakradio.org and archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/
- Homelessness and the Constitution: https://www.counterpunch.org/
2018/10/02/the-constitution- and-homelessness/
- Brent Adams Ticketed for Leafleting in a Forbidden Zone: His Update
- Interview and Music with David Rovics after he was ousted from Louden Nelson Center
- Bathroom Blues from Seniors at Louden Nelson and along Pacific Avenue
- Still More Scattered Songs from Roy Zimmerman
- Dumping the Poor in Santa Rosa: https://www.pressdemocrat.com/
news/8806336-181/police-serve- eviction-notice-on - Uniformed Thugs on Patrol in Frisco : http://www.sfexaminer.com/
sfs-new-homeless-response- unit-accused-heavyhanded- police-response/ - More Chatter About Housing Up UCSC Way: https://news.ucsc.edu/2018/10/
mckay-home.html
HUFF Chitchat and Catch-Up 11 AM SubRosa Cafe Wednesday 10-3-18
HUFF [Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom] will meet Wednesday, 10-3 11 AM at the Sub Rosa next to the Bike Church.
Possible action items:
- Where’s Winter Shelter for the Most Vulnerable? Breaking Community Silence in the Face of No Drop-In Program for the few.
- Discussion of the SC Union of the Homeless organizing across program barriers
- Civil Rights Watch for the Unhoused Majority Outside Programs
- Follow-up and lead-up actions in the Bathroom Battle: Knockin on Tony Elliot’s door (the new P & R czar).
- 9th Circuit Federal Court Decision may institute Right to Rest and Sleep in Santa Cruz: Updates from Candidates Forums, Mills, and elsewhere
- Independent HUFF strategy for shifting the dialogue from Token Winter Shelter to Broad Support for Homeless Encampments
- Fall Sidewalk Streetsquawking
- Rise of the new Salinas RV Camp.
- Charting Legislative Mischief: AB2178 to Restrict Charitable Food Giveaways, AB 1040 to “conservatorship” troublesome homeless
- New legislation around Bail Abolition, and Police Records
- Reviewing the Candidate Cavalcade for Shitty Council: Two Proposed Homeless Forums by Councilmember Krohn versus Warming Center’s Brent Adams
Gems from Journeywise Julie:
- https://www.yakimaherald.com/
news/local/one-step-up-from- living-on-the-streets-rvs- give/article_9aac5e9c-c608- 11e8-9540-5bda11e22494.html Rigors of RV Life - http://www.eastoregonian.com/
judges-in-california-losing- sway-over-court-ordered-drug- treatment-eo-ap-webfeeds-news- nation- world15c415ce000adbb3ab83f1a8d cad8988 Drug Dead-End in Santa Cruz. - https://www.santacruzsentinel.
com/2018/10/02/santa-cruz- rent-control-foes-raise- 750000-supporters-raise-38000/ Rich Rip Into Rent Control; Poor Push Back on Measure M - https://www.santacruzsentinel.
com/2018/10/01/coast-lines- storage-program-finds-home/ Sentinel doles out drips and drabs for Backwoods Brent Adams’s Successful Storage Program - https://news.ucsc.edu/2018/10/
students-film-housing.html Housing at core of homeless crisis in Santa Cruz? –see UCSC students do their research on film.
- Support the Downtown Santa Cruz Bathroom Task Force, Food Not Bombs, the Warming Center’s 24 Hour Storage Program, HUFF, Conscience and Action, Monterey County Homeless Advocates, and other activists in documenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.
- Check out Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/
HomelessOutsideSantaCruz/ for updates. - Read Updates and Post Them on Santa Cruz Indymedia at https://www.indybay.org/santa-
cruz/ - Back up homeless efforts to organize either in protest or to demand adequate and accessible facilities.
- Exchange information with other supporters there to generate more communication and better solutions in the future.
- Listen in to Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides at 101.3 FM and freakradio.org every Thursday 6-8 PM, Sundays 9:30 AM- 3 PM
- Hear archived shows at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/
Lostshows.html .
Stepping Up the Search for Sanitary Bathroom Facilities: Tuesday 1 PM Protest March to Louden Nelson from City Hall 10-2-18
Sunday 9-30-18 9:30 AM-3 PM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides: Busqueing for Bathrooms and Flashing Back to the Final 1998 Cover-Up of the Police Murder of Happy John Dine
Streams at freakradio.org and broadcasts at 101.3 FM
Archives today at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/L
- Researching the Riverstreet (“Boneyard Barbed Wire”) Campground with the Joyful Heart Swami
- Righteous Voices from RV Dwellers in the Media
- Louden Nelson Lavatory Liberators at City Hall Last Tuesday including Micah and Phil Posner, Bob Lamonica, Ursula Reid, Becky Johnson, Dennis Etler, Steve Pleich, James Weller, Louise Drummond, Coral Brune, Wes White, Keith McHenry, Bill, Troy, and “A Guy Who Needs a Toilet”.
- City Council Oral Communication CrapQuesters
- Cries and Cackles from the Food Not Bombs Scene
- Songster David Rovics Sings “If You Go to Santa Cruz”
- Bathrobespierre Robert, the V-Man, Battling Bob Lamonica and Others Review the Citizens Police RahRah Board’s Exoneration of the SCPD Shooter in the Happy John Dine Slaying of November 1997
- Roughrider Richard Quigley Blasts Back at Bigotry at the Rancho Del Mar Shopping Center
- Bathrobespierre Relives his Fifteen Minutes of Fame on New York TV