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Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides’ 4-9-26 Show is a Flashback to March 16, 2006. It has attorney Bernard Pregerson, defender of victims of the Drug War, protests against the Parking Lot Panic law, & a veteran of Berkeley’s Rainbow Village (more details later perhaps)
HUFF greets the impending nuclear dawn Thursday April 9 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM at the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church
The following is a summary of the larger HUFF agenda, which will be available at the HUFF meeting along with the usual get-it-while-you-can coffee and where-are-these-from? cookies.
The larger agenda includes volunteer options, links to articles of interest, and other items.
Below the summary is a listing of some of the free events that one HUFFsters has dredged up.
[** New Items on the Agenda] HUFF IN BRIEF 4-9-26 Additions…**HUFF Notes…Messages… Street Reports…. Wes White War’s Impact on Homeless View/Salinas Report …Reports from Kick Back on Coral St. Closing Protest…FOLLOW-UP (Joint SCHU/HUFF/FNB effort) Contacting the Contact.. List…John Doe13K Video ? KSBW Report… … **216-8239 working group …. MHCAN Update .. ** Mayoral Candidacy Questions–Invitation**… City Council/Supes Meetings 4-14 …Next HUFF meet 4-15-26 or 4-22-26? …** FM & People First (PF) Flyer Prep w/Pub Records… …Rest = Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips…**Salinas QUICK UPDATES: RV Tow Bill LA News; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Update/Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations/Reggie M. Update …Jail, Court **Wet weather Sat/Sun …London Nelson bathrooms still locked to those not in programs…
FREE EVENTS (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying)
5-6 PM Food Not Bombs meets El Rio Mobile Home Park Community Room
Fri April 10 2pm-?till food gone Boulder Creek 13080 Hwy 9 between Jenna Sue’s Cafe and the taqueria
4-6 PM Free Food Church FELTON Fridays 4-6+pm Hallcrest Vineyards, 379 Felton Empire Rd. Felton
**Friday April 10 4:30-6:30 PM Community Discussion: the U.S. Empire is Burning London Nelson Park 301 Center St
**Friday April 7-10 PM PM Film screening for Prarieland defendants—anti-ICE activists Sub Rosa Cafe.
Sat April 11 11 AM – 12:30 PM Anti-war picket and honk-in Ocean and Water St.
Sat 4-11 & Sun 4-12 noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; Old Street Spirits & Street Sheets; leave off or pick up forms to record shelter and police abuse; Bulletin Board for posting notices.
Sun 4-12 10:30-12:30 PM People’s Aid : Solidarity/Services for those outside Green Gate Golf Club Drive.
2 PM “Rest is Resistance” street huddle & book reading at the dinosaur statue or at Jamba Juice across from the Post Office downtown Mon 4-13 4:30-5:30 PM Anti-Trump Protest—corner of Ocean and Water St. Make it an Anti-War Protest!
Tues 4-14 thru Thurs 4-16 10 AM until the food’s gone Bread & Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot
Wed 4-2 3:30 PM Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless Little Red Church Cedar & Lincoln Sts. Fireside Room
Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides’ 4-5-26 Show covers the 3-29-26 March to End Homelessness plus commentary on the WWIII-threatening expansion of the US/Israeli attack on Iran
Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides’ 4-2-26 Show is a Flashback to March 12, 2017. It includes Pat Malo of the California Cannabis Advocates Alliance, Voices from Freedom Sleep-Out #87 and harder to hear speeches from International Women’s Day
Brief HUFF agenda for its Thursday April 2nd meeting 1:30-3:30 PM at the Sub Rosa Cafe at 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church
This a rough copy of the Agenda. Additional items may be added at the meeting and additional time given to items presented by participants there.
Coffee and munchables are typically available as well as brief shelter from storms, bathroom breaks, and plenty of chatter.
** indicates a New Item on the Agenda Other items provide for updates and volunteer action. HUFF IN BRIEF 4-2-26 Additions…Messages… Street Reports…. Reports from NO Kings Sat Rally and NO Pimps Sun Rally…John Doe13K Video & KSBW Coverage … **Imprompt phone-in meeting proposal….**Follow-Up Joint SCHU/HUFF Coral St.T abling/Sweepwatch ….**laura’s new MHCAN Update .. ** Report from Krohn Mayoral Candidacy Kickoff…Local Shelter …City Council/Supes Reports 3-24 …Next HUFF meet 4-9 or 4-15-26? …** FM & People First (PF) Flyer Prep… …Rest = Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips…**Salinas Survival Camping Ban/Wes White call… QUICK UPDATES: RV Tow Bill LA News; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Update/Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations/Reggie M. Update …Jail, Court **Upcoming weather …**Bathroom accessibility
Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 3-29-26 Show features the “No Kings” somewhat anti-war rally and Flashbacks to April 15, 2004 with the 11th SAFE street strummers and May 13, 2004 show with Fresno’s Mike Rhodes, San Jose’s Jim Loese, and more
The March 29, 2026 show includes:
- Reading off the signs as they pass by at the “No Kings” rally
- Occasional interviews with the walkers and sign-bearers
- [throughout] AI Tsumo’s Epstein Empire: Guided Tour political rage in music
- https://truthout.org/articles/top-house-dems-delay-iran-war-powers-vote-as-trump-threatens-ground-invasion/
- [3-28] Keith McHenry’s critical view of Indivisible as sacrificing anti-war activity for Democratic Party electoral organizing
- Holly Hammer on Berkeley’s People’s Park Council on the upcoming People’s Park lookback
- [3-7-26] McHenry tabling on Pacific Ave. for the March to End Anti-Homeless Poverty-Pimping + Solidarity with the Survival Encampments
The Flashback to the April 15, 2004 show includes:
- Look-in on SAFE #11 (Society for Artistic Freedom of Expression aka Street Performers Against Foolish Enforcement) with Gabe, Jenny, Shane, Mama Val, & more
- Interviews from the support march for the Oakland strikers on the docks
- Copwatch Bob’s advice for Copwatch Tom at Thursday’s FRSC Pacific Ave. live radio table
- In-studio guest Buffalo on ex-SCPD Lieutenant “Jack Up the Joyful” Joe Haebe.
The Flashback to the May13, 2004 show includes:
- Vinnie the V-Man and Skidmark Bob discussing the FCC raid on Santa Cruz’s FRSC Laurel St. station
- Jim Loese working to decriminalize and make accessible medical marijuana in San Jose; HUFF’s “HUFF and Puff” plans (never realized) to distribute medical marijuana on the street
- Fresno’s Miike Rhodes in the struggle to counter sweeps near the Poverello Houas leading to the Kinkaid lawsuit.
- Late April: Corporate Pigs in Paradise—Oakland Anti-Iraq War Protest
- https://chicago.indymedia.org/archive/newswire/display/41367/index.php A Campaign Coasting Towards Disaster—Where is John Kerry?
- Correspondence: D.C. Mayor Displaces Poor to Attract New Residents; Ralph Nader’s “Inhumane Treatment of Prisoners produces Blowbacks and Backlashes”—letter to Fuhrer Bush
- 19-year old Damian on the street for a year claims severe medical problems
- Non-updates on the Dominican Hospital-assisted deaths of Patches the squeegee worker; Linda CJ’s wife, Sideshow Bob (aka John)
- [5-5] Unapologetic local smashes into Jessica the sparechanger without apology knocking her down.
Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 3-26-26 Show is a Flashback to June 28, 2012. It includes the Struggle Against the Aptos Rancho Del Mar Safeway, Red’s Recovery from Cancer, and Berkeley Mayor Bates’ attempt to ram through a No Sitting Initiative
The FRSC 3-26-26 show is a Flashback to June 28, 2012.
It includes:
- Red’s Recovery and Survival from Cancer while living in her Vehicle
- Community fight against corporate Safeway expansion in Aptos Ranch Del Mar Shopping Center
- Santa Cruz Eleven update & other S.C. activist news
- Andy Worthington: Removal of Right to an Attorney for Illegally Held Guantanamo Suspects https://original.antiwar.com/worthington/2009/05/01/dictatorial-powers-unchallenged-as-us-enemy-combatant-pleads-guilty/
- Berkeley City Council Debate on Mayer Bates Bumbuster Sitting Ban
As major catastrophe threatens in the Middle East, HUFF rages on 1:30 – 3:30 PM Thursday March 26 at the Sub Rose Cafe next to the Bike Church at 703 Pacific
[** New Items on the Agenda] HUFF IN BRIEF 3-26-26 Street Reports…. **Contact if for future Anti-War protests…**Flyers for No Kings Protest 3-28 and Stop the Sweeps, Audit the Pimps 3-29 Pass Arounds… Additions…Messages … ….**VOLUNTEER for Joint SCHU/HUFF Coral St`.Tabling/Sweepwatch ….**laura’s new MHCAN Update …Local Shelter …City Council/Supes Reports 3-24 …Next HUFF meet 4-2-26 …** FM & People First (PF) Flyer Prep… …Rest = Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips…**Salinas Survival Camping Ban/Wes White call… QUICK UPDATES: RV Tow Bill LA News; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Update/Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations/Reggie M. Update …Jail, Court **Wet weather Tu/Wed/Thur …London Nelson bathrooms still locked to those not in programs…
FREE EVENTS (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying)**Thursday March 26 1:30 to 3 PM. In front of Santa Cruz County Courthouse (Panetta’s office inside) at Ocean and Water Streets.. Stop funding war. Bring signs for peace and ending bombing in Iran or supplying arms to Israel for attacks on Iran, Lebanon, Gaza 5-6 PM Food Not Bombs meets El Rio Mobile Home Park Community Room
Thurs, March 26, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM Panel Discussion Santa Cruz Personal Rapid Transit (SCPRT)\ (RCNV) 612 Ocean Street
Fri March 27 2pm-?till food gone BoulderCreek 13080 Hwy 9 between Jenna Sue’s Cafe and the taqueria
4-6 PM Free Food Church FELTON Fridays 4-6+pm Hallcrest Vineyards, 379 Felton Empire Rd. Felton
Sat March 28 10 AM San Lorenzo Park 3rd “No Kings” March—Turn An Oligarchic Dem/Repu Anti-Trump Rally into an Anti-War Rally
Sat 3-28 & Sun 3-29 noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; NEW Street Spirits & Street Sheets; leave off or pick up forms to record shelter and police abuse; Bulletin Board for posting notices
Sun 3-29 10-12 PM People’s Aid : Solidarity & Services for those outside Green Gate Golf Club Drive.
Sun 3-29 Noon Sycamore and Pacific near the Sub Rose Café at 703 Pacific: Demand Real Homeless Services; Stop the Sweeps; Audit the Pimps March
2 PM “Rest is Resistance” street huddle & book reading at the dinosaur statue or at Jamba Juice across from the Post Office downtown
Tues 3-31 thru Thurs 4-2 10 AM until the food’s gone Bread & Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot
Wed 4-2 3:30 PM Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless Little Red Church Cedar & Lincoln Sts. Fireside Room around the side
Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 3-22-26 Show includes Meta and others at the Town Clock and a Flashback to August 24, 2003 featuring Rough-Tongued Roxanne and parents Stacy & Orly Jones roasting CPS, & Paul Sanford on the “Fuck the Pigs” Maurer case
The Flashback is a bit choppy at a few points.
The March 22, 2026 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:
- [throughout] Rovics Best of Ai Tsumo songs
- https://www.ktvu.com/news/san-jose-consider-revising-flock-surveillance https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/san-jose-police-flock-safety-license-plate-readers-policy-change/
- https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/03/14/redwood-city-cops-cleared-in-fatal-shooting-last-fall/
- https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/03/15/bay-area-billionaires-fighting-california-ballot-initiative-tax-wealth-spending-big-kill-it/
- [3-21] Town Clock stabbing incident: Jasmine, Roach; about Coral St. sweeps: Matthew, Meta.
- Meta’s experience with cops, Cabrillo, and the campclearers
- https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20260316/281775635672827 San Francisco’s Plan for Drug Arrest doomed to Failure
- Oakland Sets Big Goals in Homelessness Plan; Mayor Vows to Reduce Numbers on the Street by Half in Five Years.
- Susan Abulhawa responds to Mayor Mamdani’s antisemitism charge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK579XJuSaU
The Flashback to August 24, 2003 includes:
- River’s journey thru S.C. justice via court and cops: directed to leave town, then dragged back.
- Ken, Hairdresser Ray, Worldweary Joe Williams, and other voices from the street
- Attorney/Activist Paul Sanford, his client John Maurer defending a “Fuck the Pigs” sign, and Good Times reporter Laurel Chesky
- Eleanor supporting rights under Worker’s Compensation
- Rough-tongued Roxanne Acquistapache on CPS Abuses against Stacy and Orly Jones & their kids
- A long musical cut from Skidmark Bob’s show