++++ As ever…Street reports; Sweeps on Beach & elsewhere: Demo?
++++ Diplomacy Not War in Ukraine Saturday 9-30 noon Town Clock
++++ Vouchers for RV immunity—progress? Tier 3 No reply.
++++ Q.Z.’s MHCAN concerns; Greybears issues
++++ Street Sheet availability: Drew of Food Not Bombs on Sat and Sunday; paper racks near UN Assoc 903 Pacific; public library perhaps, next week new issue
++++ Oswaldo Vasquez—Harassment in Watsonville by cops and schools for disability autism?
++++ Mayor grilling—Keeley back; no reply yet; HUFF input
++++ Sleeping Ban/OVO Law Flyers: Help Still Wanted
++++ COH Lawsuit Enforcement Update:
++++ Legislative Updates: AB 1082 Slowing down tows; AB 920 (banning “homeless” discrimination) SB 31 (banning sitting, lying, or camping within 1000′ of a daycare center, library, park or school); SB 47 expanding definition of “gravely disabled’ in Lanterman Petris (LPS) Act, (easier conservatorship, forced drugging, & 5150 powers); SB 326 (shifting housing to drug funding)
Progress? Missing: the actual cost of the “emergency shelter beds”, the large number of people left outside, & the wasteful and futile cost of the enforcement sweeps
[throughout] David Rovics historical songs of struggle
[9-4] Talkin’ with Tenderfoot Tim—RV report from Antonelli’s Pond—and more
Pacific Ave. Interviews: Reticent Robert on the Diminishing Sleep-Out Scene; Joseph Taylor a fellow bench-sitter lambasts Housing Matters; Rory—got infections from rats in HM
Scope-it-Out Scott Graham and Bathrobespierre pick and peck at the upcoming Santa Cruz Shitty Council Meeting
[9-9] Streetside Interview with James Nay and his daughter Rose Nay, both vehicular dwellers who report regular harassment from SCPD and deputies.
At Freedom Sleep-Out #19 on 11-17, Glen Richard Cubana, union electrician from San Jose, reports beating and losses of his truck and dog by police and security, ticketed for sleeping, trespass, with possessions taken without receipts
Plenty of Commentary from Bathrobespierre Robert throughout
Dreamcatcher ticketed for bike on the sidewalk, saved stuff from unattended property tickets, others did not.
Ticked-off Tony the shirtbringer, Uncle Lee, and Bathrobespierre exchange satirical and serious commentary, Deryk Smith, on new cop tactic—pre-protest harassment because City Hall grounds are now “a park”, seizing sleeping bags and other survival gear.
Michele Irway on 6-cops descending on Lucky with her massage table, & grocery cart; other cops hauled off two carloads full.
FRSC Broadcaster Doc Mike on the Winter Armory Shelter rules
Joshua’s “camping” ticket for sitting on a blanket eating breakfast
Story of the Minneapolis police shooting of the black Jamar Clark
The September 7, 2023 edition of Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides (a November 19, 2015 flashback) contains:
[throughout] songs from Plain Brown Rapper by Uncle Bonsai
Interviews from Freedom Sleep-Out #19 on 11-17: Lawrence MacGregor (aka Blue Viper), Juan Richard Cubana (tickets and jail), Dreamcatcher (Unattended property swoop), Tony (the satirical t-shirt provider), Razor Ray
Deryk, Jimmy Costa, Marco, Michele Irway: police seized property early calling City Hall “a park” during the day prior to protest; Michele on Depot Park raid 11-16
Doc Mike on Changes at Coral Street Homeless (Lack of) Services Center: Daily showers with ID & Meals for Armory users.
Marcos on bikescene: easy come, easy go; blankets, bags stolen and dumped;
[11-17] Pacific Ave interviews: Joshua—tickets for eating breakfast on a blanket with dog
Minneapolis activists occupy police department after police shooting of Jamar Clark
After-report from photographer/reporter Alex Darocy
++++ As ever…Street reports; Sweeps on Beach & elsewhere: Demo?
++++ Vouchers for RV immunity—progress? Tier 3 No reply.
++++ Q.Z.’s MHCAN concerns
++++ Street Sheet availability: Drew of Food Not Bombs on Sat and Sunday; paper racks near UN Assoc 903 Pacific; public library perhaps, next week new issue
++++ Mayor grilling—Keeley back; no reply yet; HUFF input
++++ Sleeping Ban/OVO Law Flyers: Help Still Wanted
++++ COH Lawsuit Enforcement Update:
++++ Legislative Updates: AB 1082 Slowing down tows; AB 920 (banning “homeless” discrimination) SB 31 (banning sitting, lying, or camping within 1000′ of a daycare center, library, park or school); SB 47 expanding definition of “gravely disabled’ in Lanterman Petris (LPS) Act, (easier conservatorship, forced drugging, & 5150 powers); SB 326 (shifting housing to drug funding)
Progress? Missing: the actual cost of the “emergency shelter beds”, the large number of people left outside, & the wasteful and futile cost of the enforcement sweeps
Steve of “Parents That Care About Their Children” on his daughter taken on complaint of neighbors
Hans on his Capitola cop clubbing after arrest for bike riding without a light
Paul Volpino of TRUSC (Tenants Rights Union of Santa Cruz) challenging Environmental Health and Building with its pro-landlord policies
Jolly Roger Comedy Troupe: Border Patrol v. Santa Claus
Aurora, Colorado’s anti-loitering law; Toronto’s cops force 20+ 3-year church residents off property with shelters and hostels full; 4 recent Sleeping Ban tickets;
Need for Sleeping Ban Repeal as winter looms; Councilmember Kennedy’s sabotage; dubious prospects for new “progressive” Council
Strategies for Handling SCPD’s Headley, for hassling FRSC broadcaster Sara, for giving away FRSC t-shirts on Pacific Ave. as incentive for donations.
Dialogue with Sara and more strategies for dealing with Headley harassment
Memorial and forum on anniversary of the murder of Happy John Dine in November 12th .
++++ Vouchers for RV immunity—progress? Tier 3 No reply.
++++ Mental Health Advis Board Report back ; Q.Z.’s MHCAN concerns
++++ Street Sheet availability: Drew of Food Not Bombs on Sat and Sunday; paper racks near UN Assoc 903 Pacific; public library perhaps, next week new issue
++++ Federal temporary restraining order halting implementing the anti-homeless ordinance SMC 19.50 in San Rafael. Next hearing is September 6th, 10am in San Francisco. Contact Robbie Powelson via facebook to help drive the plaintiffs down.
++++ Legislative Updates: AB 1082 Slowing down tows; XXX CareCourt Crap; AB 920 (banning “homeless” discrimination) SB 31 (banning sitting, lying, or camping within 1000′ of a daycare center, library, park or school); SB 47 expanding definition of “gravely disabled’ in Lanterman Petris (LPS) Act, (easier conservatorship, forced drugging, & 5150 powers); SB 326 (shifting housing to drug funding)
++++ Checking in: Free Guide Verification, Mad Power Monitoring, Ticket Documenting, Board of Stupes,
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8-26: Billy Carpender on Cop Displacement and Destruction of his Sleeping Gear; Trespass; and Sitting Ban Citations; George H. Willoughby—in a wheelchair after heart attack and stroke, forced to “move along” by police, outside 10 years.
8-26: Javier: artist at Munch cafe, his work on the walls, on apartment search problems and life of a nomadic artist
8-22: Keith McHenry on war, peace, homeless harassment, and local anti-war controversies.
The Flashback to September 25, 2005 includes:
[throughout: psychiatric survival songs by Morgan Firestar]
“Mad Mike the Wonder Dog” Balderos on a double homicide, memorial for Abdullah Hassan, aka George Eugene Dawson or General Dread, died a week ago
City Council slated to consider closing access trail between Eastcliff Ave. and Branceforte at night over Commission opposition
Norse’s disruption trial date for standing at the City Council microphone Oct. 24; John Maurer’s “Fuck the Pigs” case on Closed agenda
7-6-05: Interview with Uncle Dennis (the Bard) Holt for not showing his driver’s license; Honorable mention of HotRod (John Rapaport) and Leatherlungs Jim Purcell’s cases; Holt also reports on S.F. anti-war protest
Phone interview with Pebbles Trippet—on the right of self-defense in Medina Meteras case, a marijuana grower who defended their crop. .info@mmpu.org 707-964-YESS
” Pepper-in-your-Punch” Pat Kittle on the Mexican Marijuana Mafia
Trumping Public Defender Desiree Young’s advice to plead out. “Bad Boy” Brozda wins a dismissal from Judge Akao after hearing of his abuse in custody (reports being shackled hand and foot, forcibly medicated, money taken, held in solitary).
Jeremiah facing trial for “disturbing the peace” and “resisting arrest”, reported deputies using Abu Gharab-style masks on prisoners
The August 24, 2023 edition of Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides is a September 22, 2005 flashback. It includes
Peter Stafford, psychedelic author and Homeless Garden Project worker, describes his jury duty in a competency case from the past where he was one of the two hold-out’s.
Troy of The Bike Church on group bike rides like Critical Mass as well as the Church’s services
Protests against Sizzla Kalonja at the Catalyst as for threatening homophobic lyrics: Mike Motorcyle the skateboarder, signholders Rachel and Julie urging boycott and ban,
Matthew Embri of FRSC’s Clatterbox on the anti-Sizzla protests, the lyrics, and the musician
Lisa Molyneux of Greenway discusses the first two days of Santa Cruz City’s first medical dispensary in five years (not counting the exclusionary and generally inaccessible WAMM (WoMen’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana)
“Crossroads” Chris Brozda presses County Counsel and others against the City’s Sleeping Ban
“Monkey” (aka Colin Campbell Clyde) on disappearing Pacific Avenue benches
L.A. babble from “Bruce” calls in to note creativity becomes ugly when shrill
Steve and Virginia Percy’s “Bush Lied; I Died” anti-war display ripped down again
‘Battleready’ Bob Patton calls in to praise Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides