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Beat the Heat, Cuddle Against the Cold at the 6-15 Thursday 10:45 AM HUFF Meeting at Sub Rosa Cafe and/or Courtyard at 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church

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HUFF Prospects 6-15-23  

  ++++  Priorities, Pass-Arounds, Placeholder Run-through & Hand-Outs        

  ++++  Street reports; Encampment and Shelter Updates  

  ++++  Martin v. Boise Update: https://www.vox.com/23748522/tent-encampments-martin-boise-homelessness-housing      

  ++++  Shitty Council Update on OVO and Budget   Preview Analysis at  https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/1%20FRSC%206-11-23.mp3 (2 hrs. 7 minutes into audio file)

  ++++ City on a Hill Press article and interview:  Article: https://cityonahillpress.com/2023/06/05/pogonip-encampment-braces-for-city-sweep/  Interview:  https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/1%20FRSC%206-4-23.mp3 (approx. 40 minutes into the audio file)  

  ++++  San Diego Ordinance and Opposition: Comparison w/Santa Cruz Update

  ++++  San Diego opposition:    https://www.anacalifornia.org/post/opposing-unsafe-camping-ordinance-san-diego-taskforce  

  ++++  The Phony Potemkin Village “Funding Matters” Tour—Laura’s Report 

  ++++  Missing medical and service provider opposition in Santa Cruz to anti-homeless sweeps  

  ++++  Recent flyer updates post-Hiway 9 sweeps—input?  

  ++++  Mayor’s Invite for FRSC Interview: More HUFF Input  

  ++++  MHCAN Report; MH Advisory Committee Meet Today 3-5 PM 

  ++++  Capitola RV tenants struggle:  Final Vote 

  ++++  Phone Check-in with Keith McHenry  

  ++++  Legislative Updates: 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, and 5150ish powers)   

  ++++  Possible Other Encampment Reports from around the state    

  ++++  Portland cracks down: https://www.wweek.com/news/2023/06/06/how-does-portlands-proposed-camping-ban-stack-up-to-those-of-other-major-oregon-cities/  

  ++++  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCr2Wn5QRew  Gilroy, CA Banning the Use of Certain Public Rights-of-Way as Sleeping or Living Accommodations [31m into audio]  

  ++++ HUFF Indybay Story archive library: https://huffsantacruz.org/indybay/  

  ++++ HUFF Streetshit sheet archives https://huffsantacruz.org/ssarchives.html   

  ++++ HUFF Street Spirit article archives: http://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/StreetSpirit-main.html   

  ++++  Checking in: Free Guide Verification, Mad Power Monitoring, Ticket Documenting, Board of Stupes, City’s Token Vehicular Lodging Programs.     

WANT TO CONTACT Uncertain “Service Providers” ?   

“Free” Guide Contact:  Katayun Salehi (she/her)  217-778-7764  kat@thefreeguide.org     Steve Pleich  Homeless Persons Legal Assistance Project  831-466-6078  

TO HEAR THE BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES NET-RADIO SHOW:   

Anytime after 6 PM Thursday and 9:30 AM Sunday for the latest show, go to: http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  Click on the Latest Show  of the date you want   

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 6-11-23 show netcasts & archives at 9:30 AM featuring interviews with Berkeley’s Chess Corner Jessie, Scope it Out Scott and Rough Road Reggie on the Shitty Council, Quiver–Street Sheet editor + 6-24-15 Flashback

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The 6-11-23 Show includes:

  • Wes White and various homeless activists confront the Salinas City Council and the Monterey County Board of Supervisors:  Salinas/Monterey County CA Homeless Union Express Needs to the Jurisdictions, Look to Pass SB 567  youtube.com/watch?v=d6M8rlbYTfE&t=23s 
  • Jesse Challenge from Berkeley’s Chess Corner, Part 2:  Downing Trees in People’s Park Doomed Equitable Housing There
  • Reggie Meisler on the modified Oversized Vehicle Ordinance coming up at Shitty Council 6-13
  • Quiver Watts, San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness editor of the homeless publication Street Sheet,  on the S.F. struggle
  • Scope-It-Out Scott Graham mucks the mud of the upcoming Shitty Council meeting

The Flashback to 5-24-2015 includes: 
Lucero Luna, fiery local and traveling activist, translates some of the show into Spanish as co-host and commentator

Bathrobespierre on Vending and “Free Speech Zones” downtown

Doc Mike on the first 24-hour forbidden-to-park-except-by-permit on the streets near the Homeless (Lack of) Services Center [HLOSC]

D.J. Merlin on Salinas leading into a discussion of police body cameras pro-and-con”

Push-em-back” Pat calls cop higher-up’s to deter beat cop bullshit

Courney Hanson opposing solitary confinement for juveniles

Georgia Murphy on sheriff racial discrimination [Nov 2, trespass ticket for sitting at the bus stop]

Mayor Don Lane (“Gone Lame”) questioned about the Public Work’s 24-hour homeless parking ban near the HLOSC

Doc Mike Grills City Manager Martin Bernal”Friend to the Famished” Phil Posner confronts Parks & Rec Boss Danette Shoemaker on a trial camp in the parks & open bathrooms

Making Contact: Dehumanization Throughout Time to Justify Slavery and Ethnic Cleansing

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday June 8. 2023 show interviews Kazoo, once of Hiway 9, Lawseeker Laura, and other Pogonip refugees plus an update from downsouth from Calvin Moss & Peggy Lee Kennedy…and more

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The June 8, 2023 show includes:             

+++      [throughout the show] selections from Peggy Seeger’s vinyl Familiar Faces      

+++   [6-5] Hijacking homes for Hiway 9 survival refugees: Kazoo on conditions in the Funding Matters “Paul Lee Loft” where he’s staying after the demolition of his home and property a week or more ago.
      +++   [6-5] Lawseeker Laura urges Kazoo and Derek to sue for loss of property, demand replacement of worker Jeremy Leonard whose actions allegedly facilitated the destruction of their property.
             +++      [6-5] Refugee, musician, and disabled activist Sonny Lopez on police evictions removing camper property as “debris”, losing his instruments, ID, and other vital items.
      +++   [6-4] Calvin Moss, homeless advocate and researcher, in Joshua Tree and Los Angeles on sweeps in Palm Springs, Banning & NomadLand.
             +++      [6-4] Peggy Lee Kennedy, Moss’s colleague and Venice Justice Committee activist, on L.A. City Council corruption and bigotry.             +++      [6-7] Jesse, sidewalk chess club organizer on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, on pressure against Chess Corner and other gentrification ghoulery there.

HUFF huddles again today Thursday (6-8-23) at the usual den: Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church Coffee & Consumables Usually Available

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HUFF Prospects 6-8-23 (+ bring your own)     

  ++++  Priorities, Pass-Arounds, Placeholder Runthrough & Hand-Outs       

  ++++  Street reports; Encampment and Shelter Updates     

  ++++  San Diego Ordinance and Opposition: Comparison w/Santa Cruz 

  ++++   https://www.change.org/p/stop-criminalizing-homelessness-in-san-deigo-further?   

Julie Schaul on San Diego opposing bad law. 

  ++++  San Diego opposition: https://www.anacalifornia.org/post/opposing-unsafe-camping-ordinance-san-diego-taskforce 

  ++++  Missing medical and service provider opposition in Santa Cruz to anti-homeless sweeps 

  ++++  Recent flyer updates on Hiway 9 sweeps—input? 

  ++++  Final Coastal Commission Hearing for “stakeholders” June 7th  

  ++++  HIWAY 9  #2  SWEPT & DEADLINE FOR #3 MON 9 PM 6-5th  

  ++++  Upcoming Santa Cruz Shitty Council Meeting Tuesday 6-13 P & R 

  ++++  Mayor’s Invite for FRSC Interview: More HUFF Input 

  ++++  Reports: “Affordable” Housing Meetings; MHCAN; MH Advisory 

  ++++  Capitola RV tenants struggle:  today’s vote on the final ordinance & possible phone update.     

  ++++  Phone Check-in with Keith McHenry & Hiway 9ster refugees

  ++++  Legislative Updates: 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, and 5150ish powers)  

  ++++  Possible Other Encampment Reports from around the state   

  ++++   Portland cracks down: https://www.wweek.com/news/2023/06/06/how-does-portlands-proposed-camping-ban-stack-up-to-those-of-other-major-oregon-cities/ 

++++  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCr2Wn5QRew  Gilroy, CA Banning the Use of Certain Public Rights-of-Way as Sleeping or Living Accommodations     [31m into audio] 

 

  ++++ HUFF archive library: https://huffsantacruz.org/indybay/ 

  ++++ HUFF streetshit sheet archives https://huffsantacruz.org/ssarchives.html  

  ++++ HUFF Street Spirit article archives: http://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/StreetSpirit-main.html  

  ++++ Media Contacts:  Serf City Times; Indy Bay; City on a Hill Press; Street Spirit changes

  ++++ Soupstock & other reports

  ++++  Checking in: Free Guide Verification, Mad Power Monitoring, Ticket Documenting, Board of Stupes, City’s Token Vehicular Lodging Programs.    

WANT TO CONTACT Uncertain “Service Providers” ?  

“Free” Guide Contact:  Katayun Salehi (she/her)  217-778-7764  kat@thefreeguide.org     Steve Pleich  Homeless Persons Legal Assistance Project  831-466-6078 

TO HEAR THE BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES NET-RADIO SHOW:  

Anytime after 6 PM Thursday and 9:30 AM Sunday for the latest show, go to: http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  Click on the Latest Show  of the date you want

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 6-4-23 show netcasts & archives at 9:30 AM featuring more reports Flashback: December 11, 2011 Occupy Santa Cruz activists scramble to struggle on vs. illegal city/county repression

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The 6-4 Show includes: 

  • [5-29]  Chat with Robert Woodleaf on the Monday taping off of the 2nd hillside section of the Pogonip Hiway 9 encampment and life in the Paul Lee Loft for housing seeker Kazoo.
  • Woodleaf on the many residents of the area and the failure of alternate housing/shelter alternatives
  • [5-29] Kyle and Maya from City on a Hill Press (up at UCSC); Sharpsight Suzanne praises city worker Jeremy Leonard, critiques police sweeps.
  • “Stay the Course” Steve Conover on the disability discrimination up at the Armory
  • [6-3]  Sentry and strummer Steve of Food Not Bombs on unexpected personal community support.
  • [6-1]  HUFF meeting info exchange prompts investigation and outreach for those under attack near Hiway 9.

Flashback to December 11, 2011:

  • Troublesome Thomas, Bathrobespierre Robert, and Crowsnest Coral on the future of the Occupy Santa Cruz movement
  • Silver-tongued Steve Pleich seeking Injunctive relief to restore access to the Occupy movement at night
  • Attorney Ed Frey’s account of his arrest the previous week at Occupy
  • D.J. Embryo and Bathrobespierre discuss the use of force—however “rule-compliant” in organizations and Occupy.
  • “Dead On” David Silva thanks Occupy for saving his life.
  • “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry in Taos, reporting on his experiences with many Occupy’s around the country.
  • “The Real Definition of Terrorism” by Glenn Greenwald
  • SCPD Chief Kevin Vogel makes City Hall grounds and offices at noon a “no go” zone and holds Alex Darocy without charges
  • 8 cops versus 2 bicyclists just outside City Hall
  • Anson Krekler: Million Dollar Blues; Dreamcatcher:  Occupy Santa Cruz’s San Lorenzo Park Annex removal on Honey, the last holdout.
  • Reports from the Forbidden Zone on 12-9-11—Camille and Abbi challenging the 7 pm curfew law on a cold night.  
  • Noah of Occupy on the 5 arrested in the San Lorenzo Park sweep defending the homeless encampment
  • Tom of the Occupy the Sanitation Committee on the closing down of the portapotty.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday June 1. 2023 show is a Flashback to December 23, 1999 with interviews aplenty including Mary Kourie, 82-year old evictee , Robert Steffan (the pink dressin’ slow-walkin bag-guy), and more

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The June 1, 2023 show is a Flashback to December 23, 1999.  It includes:

  • [some sound distortion in the music; turn down the sound and skip forward]
  • Elderly homeless Mary Kourie on Mayor Sugar’s “not on the agenda” reaction to the homeless crisis
  • Co-Host K.C. the Bubble Lady joins Bathrobespierre in reviewing the scene in Wichita, KS and Santa Cruz
  • Ernie, the piano man, arrested & jailed for non-payment of a Sleeping Ban ticket
  • Lighthouse Linda on Judge Danner’s justice on Sleeping Ban tickets.
  • Buttery worker and writer Chris Larsen reports on his Holland sleep-on-the-road trip
  • Inglewood homeless man James Brown beaten to death (Akron Journal story)
  • Robert Steffan, the “Pink Umbrella” man, who sat on a bench in a garbage bag outside Bunny’s shoes—his story.
  • Copwatch Bob Duran on Officer Bluebully Brandt breaking up anti-Capitalist carolers outside
  • (distorted) Speech to City Council about Robert Steffan.

HUFF it up today Thursday June 1st at the Sub Rosa Cafe, 10:45 AM – 1 PM or so 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church Refreshments and Repartee included

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HUFF Meeting Prospects 6-1-23      

  ++++  Priorities, Pass-Arounds, Placeholder Runthrough & Hand-Outs       

  ++++  Street reports; Encampment and Shelter Updates     

  ++++  Recent flyer updates on Hiway 9 sweeps—input? 

  ++++     Final Coastal Commission Hearing June 7th  

  ++++  HIWAY 9 SWEEP #2  POSTED AND DEADLINE FOR MONDAY 9 PM 6-5th  

  ++++  Upcoming Santa Cruz Shitty Council Meeting Tuesday 6-6   

  ++++  Mayor’s Invite for FRSC Interview: HUFF Input 

  ++++ Reports: “Affordable” Housing Meetings; MHCAN; MH Advisory 

  ++++  Capitola RV tenants struggle:  possible phone update.     

  ++++  Phone Check-in with Keith McHenry & Hiway 9sters 

  ++++  Legislative Updates: 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, and 5150ish powers)  

  ++++  Possible Other Encampment Reports from around the state   

  ++++ https://www.change.org/p/stop-criminalizing-homelessness-in-san-deigo-further?  

Julie Schaul on San Diego opposing bad law. 

  ++++ HUFF archive library: https://huffsantacruz.org/indybay/ 

  ++++ HUFF streetshit sheet archives https://huffsantacruz.org/ssarchives.html  

  ++++ HUFF Street Spirit article archives: http://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/StreetSpirit-main.html  

  ++++ Mixed legacy of former Councilmember Ed Porter—recently died. 

  ++++ Media Contacts:  Serf City Times; Indy Bay; Street Spirit faltering 

  ++++ June 4 Sunday noon-6PM : Soupstock at the Duck Pond; tabling? 

  ++++  Checking in: Free Guide Verification, Mad Power Monitoring, Ticket Documenting, Board of Stupes, City’s Token Vehicular Lodging Programs.    

WANT TO CONTACT THE “Service Providers” ?  

“Free” Guide Contact:  Katayun Salehi (she/her)  217-778-7764  kat@thefreeguide.org     Steve Pleich  Homeless Persons Legal Assistance Project  831-466-6078 

TO HEAR THE BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES NET-RADIO SHOW:  

Anytime after 6 PM Thursday and 9:30 AM Sunday for the latest show, go to: http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  Click on the Latest Show  of the date you want  

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 5-28-23 show netcasts & archives at 9:30 AM featuring many Deportation Interviews at the hill-side of Hiway 9 and a 12-1-2011 Flashback with the 75 River St. bank occupier Cracker

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 The 5-28-2023 includes:            

++++ https://www.columbian.com/news/2023/may/21/new-york-city-has-a-right-to-shelter-but-will-it-establish-a-right-to-sleep-outside/                      ++++ [5-25] Shawn Fraser on ousted from Benchlands into revolving door Coral St.;  Jessie McLaine on losing 4 cars in 4 months           

++++ [5-22] Steve Conover’s happier follow-up report on Michele’s entrance into the Armory           

++++ [5-21]  Bubbah, “Nobody”, and Paul on the Encampment meeting and other Pogonip survival reflections          

++++ [5-21]  Michael and Anna—out of hope as another sweep looms
++++ [5-21]  Zack, Dregs coffeehouse worker’s view from the counter         ++++ [5-22]  Alonzo, Ramido, Jose, and Meagan: on the day the Spanish-speaking Pogonipster camp was roped off           

++++ [5-27]  Jake on the Scotts Valley scene; Kazoo in flight from the Pogonip sweep; Drew’s Food not Bombs update; Dreadeye—still struggling with a friend’s vehicular cites           

++++ [5-27]  Johnny—artist, chef, fisherman—while sketching at Dreg’s.

The Flashback to 12-1-2011 features:          

++++ Cracker, in-studio guest throughout, describes his ledge-perch in Occupy San Jose        

++++ FRSC DJ Embryo reports from Occupy L.A. defends the vacant bank occupation in Santa Cruz, transcending the private property law

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday May 25 2023 show is a Flashback to February 23, 2012 one of the first shows to air after false indictments of the Santa Cruz Eleven for conspiracy and trespass in the 75 River St. bank Occupy event

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The May 25, 2023 show is a Flashback to February 23, 2012 and includes: 

  • Richard D. Martin, former Security guard, denounces misuse of money at Monica Martinez’s Homeless [Lack of] Services Center  & mistreatment at the Armory shelter at 115 Coral St.
  • Free Radio Santa Cruz [FRSC] frenemy broadcasters Bathrobespierre Robert Norse banters with technical mainstay Uncle Dennis Davie
  • Interviews with sidewalk musicians and street scalawags including Angela Flynn and Saxy Peter, the controversial saxophonista
  • Three-way phone exchange with Steve Pleich from the Occupy Santa Cruz General Assembly and FRSC musician Embryo from LA on the false sanctity of “private property” around the 75 River St. occupation suddenly being prosecuted as multiple felonies
  • [2-19]  One man attempts to restart the Occupy in front of the courts.
  • [2-18]  Casey Livingood describes the Gary Johnson “Sleeping is Not a Crime” protest on a bench outside the courts

HUFF makes coffee, catharsis, and conversation 10:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. (closing time varies) at 703 Pacific, Sub Rosa Cafe, next to the Bike Church

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HUFF Meeting Prospects 5-25-23      

  ++++  Priorities, Pass-Arounds, Placeholder Runthrough & Hand-Outs       

  ++++  Street reports; Encampment and Shelter Updates     

  ++++     Meeting Outcomes last Saturday 

  ++++  HIWAY 9 SWEEPS IN PROGRESS; NEW ONES PLANNED perhaps3rd MONDAY 5-29  START TIME FOR HILLSIDE TENTCRUSHING usually 9  am 

  ++++  Shitty Council Meeting report, if anyone went or listened 

  ++++  Capitola RV tenants struggle:  possible phone update.     

  ++++  Phone Check-in with Keith McHenry & Hiway 9sters 

  ++++  Legislative Update: AB 920 (prohibiting discrimination based on housing status); SB 31 making it illegal to sit, lie, or camp within 1000′ of a daycare center, library, park or school; SB 47 expanding definition of “gravely disabled’ in Lanterman Petris (LPS) Act, making it easier to enforce involuntary and forced drugging and other “treatments”.    

  ++++  Oregon’s State Law and Portland/Beaverton DayCamping Bans 

  ++++  Possible Other Encampment Reports from around the state   

  ++++https://www.facebook.com/groups/SantaCruzCountyHomelessAdvocates/permalink/1361414574715451/?  

Julie Schaul on street harassment 

  ++++ HUFF archive library: https://huffsantacruz.org/indybay/ 

  ++++ HUFF streetshit sheet archives https://huffsantacruz.org/ssarchives.html  

  ++++ HUFF Street Spirit article archives: http://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/StreetSpirit-main.html 

  ++++  Checking in: Free Guide Verification, Mad Power Monitoring, Ticket Documenting, Board of Stupes, City’s Token Vehicular Lodging Programs.    

WANT TO WRITE THE IRRESPONSIBLE OFFICIALS ?  

City of Santa Cruz – 831-420-5010   Mayor Fred Keeley  – fkeeley@cityofsantacruz.com    

City Manager Matt Huffaker – mhuffaker@santacruzca.gov  Public Defender: 454-5300    

Police Chief  Bernie Escalante – bescalante@cityofsantacruz.com    

TO HEAR THE BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES NET-RADIO SHOW:  

Anytime after 6 PM Thursday and 9:30 AM Sunday for the latest show, go to: http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  Click  on the Latest Show  of the date you want