On the August 21, 2022 show:

• Darius Mohsenin interview (part 2)
• Gibbs Gab: Street stuff from a sidewalk local
• More Mohsenin on words unspoken at the Benchlands Resistance Speak-Out
  
• Bathrobespierre Robert and Katzenjammer Keith chitchat on Benchlands and City Council
  
• Back to the Way Things Were: songs from the S.F. Mime Troupe’s yearly production.  https://www.sfmt.org/
• [Rarely played Phil Ochs songs played throughout from A Toast to Those Who Are Gone  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQwWIG_1YGk&list=RDMM&index=3 ]
  
  

Flashback to May 27, 2007:

• Street Interviews: Trey’s “Obstructing an Officer” ticket for sitting on an inoperative water fountain
• Live phone interview with writer Robert Whitaker, author of Mad in America and the Mad in America website.
• Panels on the Whitaker interview: 
• +++ Jane Kysor of PIRC (Psychiatric Inmates Rights Collective);              
• +++ Coral Brune of SAFE (Society for Artistic Freedom and Expression/Street Performers Against Foolish Enforcement)              
• +++ “Millie from Gilroy”, a psuedonym for a local psychiatric survivor, on psychiatric drugs and their effects
• +++ Call-in’s from “Mad John” Telfair, Bob Lamonica, and others
• +++  More info: psychrights.org, mindfreedom.org, www.madinamerica.com 

SANTA CRUZ HOMELESS UNION, FOOD NOT BOMBS  [FNB] , and HUFF  will meet again Monday Aug 22 at 6 PM at the Resource Center for Non-Violence  (612 Ocean) to discuss Resistance Strategies  & the progress of a new Injunction as the  Summer ‘s End demolition threats loom larger at the 8-23 S.C. Shitty Council meeting.  This can happen anytime in the afternoon, but likely sometime between 4 and 6 PM.   Public speaking time severely limited.  Group presentations limited to three and total time for all speakers to 30 minutes. 

The Matthew-Meyers-Brunner speaker gag policy has meant speakers are sharply interrupted at 2 minutes and comment on all agenda items cut back from 3 minutes (5 for groups] to 2 minutes or less [3 for groups].
SANTA CRUZ SHITTY COUNCIL still refuses to fund or even permit independent low-barrier agreement or transitional camps, nor to fund FNB  or the Footbridge Services Program.  It proposes to redirect $1 million in state funding for the Safe Parking Program to “Benchlands Closure and Restoration”.

Call 575-770-3377  or 431-7766 to volunteer for the SC Homeless Union  or show up at the Monday 8-22 meeting and volunteer.  They are desperately in need of new blood and leadership with the time, passion, and resources to organize!  President Alicia Kuhl still takes concerns and complaints.  Also notable: City Council’s failure to use the $14.5 million to set up survival campgrounds and support those that exist! 

Their principal goal seems to be to provide token shelter so they can restore the Sleeping/Camping Ban (MC 6.36) aka the Camping Services and Standards Ordinance and resume their “hide out or get out” policy.

As usual, the show will archive at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html, and will play on the net at www.freakradio.org .  Any problems call 831-423-4833

Brief written descriptions of many of these shows (so you know what you are getting into) are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/.  

You can also sign up to receive advance notice of the content of the twice-weekly shows by e-mailing rnorse3@hotmail.com and asking to be put on the HUFF e-mail list.

On today’s 8-18 show:
       +++ Landlord Darius Mohsenin comparing rents and profits (part one)             [Songs by Peggy Seeger from Heading for Home]
             +++ SF police use of cameras at BLM protests challenged:
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20220817/281638193993138

+++ Another End the Drug War editorial:  https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/08/17/opinion-california-should-legalize-all-drugs-it-works-elsewhere/
           [Phil Ochs: Previously unreleased version of “The War is Over” from The Best of the Rest]

+++ Christy Lyn Monde (8-14) On Leaving the Benchlands & Sheltershit                    

+++ Cooper D’Angelo, Russell, Robert Yates and others (8-14) on Leafblowing away Homeless Sleepers         

[Phil Ochs: Previously unreleased “Take it Out of my Youth” from The Best of the Rest]

         +++ Bit of audio from the 8-15 Union of the Homeless/Food Not Bombs/HUFF meeting at the RCNV announcing prep for a 2nd Injunction to stop the depopulation of the Benchlands. for the full video go to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5LHjgeBllUVT5JdE9t78zQ
     
        NEXT BENCHLANDS RESISTANCE MEETING Monday August 22 6 PM at 612 Ocean St.

On the 8-14-2022 Show: 
      +++ Berkeley’s “Feed the Famished” Father–J.C. Orton giving a tour of the bulldozed People’s Park.          

+++ Squeezing in “Oral Communications” at City Council last Tuesday 11-9          

+++ Ill-funded Force Review of California Cops?  https://eastbayexpress.com/the-long-shadow-of-george-floyd-new-state-laws-on-police-accountability-are-testing-the-limits-of-several-agencies/
          +++ Katzenjammer Keith runs into “Mask Up or Get Mauled” goonsquad at Joy Schendeldecker London Nelson Rally 8-12.
          +++ https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20220812/281513639932345


Flashback to 11-14-2016:          

+++ “Whip-em-into-shape” Wes White in long phone interview on the new Salinas Union of the Homeless, the Flagpole City Council Sleepout criminalized and more
            +++   Freedom SleepOut #69:  “Katzenjammer” Keith on Take Back Santa Cruz and the Guardian Angels           

+++   “Battling” Bob [Lamonica] vs. “Bathrobespierre” Robert  on local poverty pimperee              

+++   Zav Herschfield on Hiway Widening              

+++   Moonslight Mark on Trespassing tickets in the rain around the library              

+++   “Dead-on” David Silva and HIV Discrimination at a local massage parlor                 
            +++   Katzenjammer Keith National Issues & the Local police murder of Sean Arlt
           +++   Pacific Ave. interview with Phoenix Rose on performing in the boxes.              

+++   Berkeley disabled activist Dan MacMullan on politics and protest
             +++  “Dead on” David Silva–traveling among common folk in Mozambique and Macao.
           +++  “Check in” Charlie Reports on Monterey Sitting Ban protests –
              +++  [11-4] Music in and out of the Designated Discs on Pacific Ave.              

+++  P.J. and Pup on proper police and pizza; Cooper on her latest trial; Running Water and Jody: more tales of hunger–Food Not Bombs meal interviews
           +++  [11-7] “Push back” Pat Colbe on befriending Farley               +++   Quick Updates: Andy C., Lisa, Hutch              

+++   “Pissed off” Peggy Lee Kennedy on Palm Springs park persecution of Food Not Bombs. 
           +++  “Straight Talk” Susie Worth on Bookshop Coonerty’s “trespass” for using the bathroom…newcomers on friendly police and cold locals…

The details of today’s show and many other recent ones are posted at the HUFF blog at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/category/huff-communications/. 

As usual, the show itself is archived at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html.  Any problems accessing archives or playing shows when they netcast–contact  Robert at 831-423-4833.

Brief written descriptions of many of these shows (so you know what you are getting into) are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/.  

You can also sign up to receive advance notice of the content of the twice-weekly shows by e-mailing rnorse3@hotmail.com and asking to be put on the HUFF e-mail list.

Benchlands Survival Camp Defense Meeting: 6 pm Monday August 15 at the Resource Center for Non-Violence [RCNV] 612 Ocean St. Santa Cruz.


Today’s 8-11-22 show:

•  Bathrobespierre dissects City Mangler Matt Huffaker’s Mini-Report at the 8-9 Shitty Council meeting
•  Invitation and Interrogation of Huffaker by Food Not Bombs activist Keith McHenry and Union of the Homeless worker Alicia Kuhl.
•  A few bits from the 8-8 Benchlands Defense meeting at the RCNV
  

Flashback to August 13, 2015:

•  Counting the 20+ sleepers Late night at City Hall Area (in the days when grass grew there) on Aug 11.
•  Examining the City Council display for agendas, Arrival of the police.
  
•  Sgt. Forbas ignores the right to view the agenda; police threatening to remove food and literature tables.
•  Assessment of the Resistance
  
•  Israel, the video journalist being arrested for walking away.

Complete 8-13-2015 show at http://radiolibre.org/brb/brb150813.mp3 .

On the 8-4-2022 Show:      

+++ UC attacks and Activists defend People’s Park: https://www.peoplespark.org/wp/alert-to-save-peoples-park-fences-surveillance-lights-and-police-move-to-close-peoples-park-under-cover-of-darkness/
      +++ Countering the Negative Narrative (7-27): Andrea Pritchard of Copwatch, John H., and attorney Joe Liesner https://www.facebook.com/PeoplesParkCommunity/videos/771448257221300/;          

+++ KPFA morning news (8-4) on 8-3 People’s Park Struggle   

        +++ 7-31 Santa Lorenzo Park:  Steve Whelock, Aden of Seattle & Timothy of the Benchlands

           +++ 7-31  Dee, Benchlands resident, previously jailed for not leaving the campground evicted from under the Water St. bridge

      +++ From the 7-29 HUFF meeting, Democratic Socialists of America activist Reggie Meisler–Phone Interview on the success of the anti-OVO [Oversized Vehicle Ordinance] and likely follow-up’s.
Brief written descriptions of many of these shows (so you know what you are getting into) are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/.  

You can also sign up to receive advance notice of the content of the twice-weekly shows by e-mailing rnorse3@hotmail.com and asking to be put on the HUFF e-mail list.

Http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html,  also visible as the “Latest” link under the Bathrobespierre’s Broadside section of www.huffsantacruz.org  is now operational for current shows.  You will also find earlier shows from the last 3 1/2 years there. 


Brief written descriptions of many shows (so you know what you are getting into) are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/.  You can also sign up to receive advance notice of the content of the twice-weekly shows by e-mailing rnorse3@hotmail.com. and asking to be put on the HUFF e-mail list.

SANTA CRUZ HOMELESS UNION, FOOD NOT BOMBS  [FNB] , and HUFF  meet Monday Aug 8 at 6 PM at the Resource Center for Non-Violence  (612 Ocean) to discuss Resistance Strategies  as the  Summer ‘s End demolition threats loom larger.

Police and their City Council backers have made few if any significant  reforms since the Black Lives Matter marches of 2020.  Transparency, accountability, demilitarization, ending racial and class discrimination, are all on the HUFF  agenda.  

The failure of the SCPD and the state Department of Justice to make explicit, public, and accessible the Use of Force standards as required by state law is still another unmentioned scandal which we hope to be covering in future and encourage the public to speak out about.

On the 8-7-22 show: (7-27)  What’s next in the struggle to protect vehicular Homes-on-Wheels: the conclusion of the Reggie Meisler interview.
(8-6)    Katzenjammer Keith McHenry’s Sparce Update

(8-6)   Phone Interview with “Scope it Out” Scott Graham on the 8-9 Santa Cruz Shitty Council Meeting’s Agenda

(8-6)   More McHenry and Norse Interchange

“Roaming Charges” excerpts from Jeffrey St. Clair’s weekend on-line column (for more go to https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/08/05/roaming-charges-64/

(8-1) “Jus’ Sayin'” Jesse on the sidewalk Chess scene in Berkeley

(8-2) Bravin’ the Blueshirts with “Buff up the Badge” Deputy Chief John Bush at the National Nightout Police PR promenade last Tuesday

(8-2) “Jolly ’em Along” Jones gives his Lieutenant’s response to the rumors of Summer’s End Benchland sweep

(8-1)  “Roadway” Roger on the People’s Park Scene two days before UCB’s destruction of the trees.

(8-5)  “Live and Let Live” Leaf on life in the park during the protests (8-5)  “Can’t Shut Me Up” Kenny on the politics behind the persecution

(8-5)  “Just Trying to Make a Little Art” Janice–another voice from the Park

(8-6)  “Mess With Me Not” Max Ventura: Longer Phone Interview on the background and the foreground of the People’s Park struggle.

SANTA CRUZ SHITTY COUNCIL still refuses to fund or even permit independent low-barrier agreement or transitional camps, nor to fund FNB  or the Footbridge Services Program.

Call 575-770-3377  or 431-7766 to volunteer for the SC Homeless Union   desperately in need of new blood and leadership with the time, passion, and resources to organize!  President Alicia Kuhl still takes concerns and complaints. 

Especially important with the City Manager’s avowed threat to disperse the Benchlands camp this summer.  Also notable: City Council’s failure to use the $14.5 million to set up survival campgrounds and support those that exist!

HUFF STILL MEETS EVERY THURSDAY (NEXT MEETING 8-11) TO SCHEME & STARGAZE.  COFFEE & CONTROVERSY AT THE SUB ROSA COURTYARD 10:45 AM-1 PM THURSDAYS NEXT TO THE BIKE CHURCH AT 703 PACIFIC AVE. 

VIEW VIDEOS FROM WES WHITE on his You-Tube channel (John Doe13K):  THEN POST SOME OF YOUR OWN ON YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA.  Latest from Wes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov8zve28RT8  Gathering to FREE Leonard Peltier in Santa Cruz
OTHER OPTIONS: FACEBOOK, CALL HUFF (831-423-4833) FOR FRSC INTERVIEW, WRITE ESTABLISHMENT OR ALTERNATE MEDIA.
Or contact Bathrobespierre Robert at rnorse3@hotmail.com.
KEEP YOUR PHONE CHARGED AND HANDY TO RECORD UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTERS OR INCIDENTS YOU WITNESS ON YOUR PHONE PARTICULARLY IF AND WHEN POLICE WARN YOU YOU’LL BE SWEPT. 

DON’T WAIT FOR THE ACLU TO TURTLEWALK INTO ACTION.   LEARN YOUR RIGHTS, USE THEM, TALK WITH OTHERS, & PUBLICIZE.

COMMENT on the Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom facebook page or at www.indybay.org/santacruz where Bathrobespierre posts occasional announcements and stories.

STILL in the In Box:  Ursula’s Utterances–a regular extensive description and review of each Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides and a backlog of those descriptions for the last half year.  E-mail rnorse3@hotmail.com if you’d like her description and commentary on any of the 2022 shows which she has been faithfully describing.