The Sunday February 25, 2024 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:

• “Free Julian Assange” Protest at Ocean & Water (Starbucks) corner with commentary from Greg on his encounters with “the Deep State”; the 2024 progressive activist scene;
• [Satirist and social critic Dave Lippman songs throughout the show, lifted from the internet]
• Jillian on Snowden and other more local figures;  Drew on the “Scamdemic”
• Wes the photojournalist: Salinas Council Vote continuing sweeps of the homeless
• Keith distributing flyers on “First They Came for the Homeless” and the Cicero Institute/CIA conspiracy to “round ’em up”; mental health malpractice in Santa Cruz;
• “Fox” on experiences in shrink shops, including TeleCare, Santa Cruz’s own psych holding ward and transmission belt to other “hospitals”
• Food Not Bombs fellowship with Blue (Lawrence MacGregor) on the ups and downs of apartment life; “R” on tobacco smoking as a health benefit; Keith on organizing for a Tuesday “Fuck Your FEMA Camps” protest at City Council; Dylan on forced psychiatric “treatment” in prison

The November 16, 1995 Flashback includes: 

• UCSC student Mike working on the history of Homeless resources
• Louis on stays at the River St. mini-Shelter and Carota’s Jesus, Joseph, and Mary shelter
• Dianna, the street jeweler, on a successful resolution of a dispute with Georgianna’s Cafe (then next to the Bookshop Coonerty)
• Colorful accounts from Alex, Gypsy, Cosmo, Kelly, and Bubbles—on subjects ranging from love to rape.
• Bathrobespierre Robert and Crossroads Chris Brozda on the Open-Air Shelter-destroying Page Smith Community House
• Billy and Dusty on the San Francisco scene.
• Further Flashback to January 1, 1994: Sgt. Reedy’s New Year’s Eve riot
• Skidmark Bob and “Rolling Thunder” Mike Sheridan on cops and campgrounds.

The Thursday February 22, 2024 show is a flashback to February 27, 2003 and includes: 

• Co-host Jeffrey Gale gives commentary at various points
• Cannabis activist and researcher Rosenthal flawed trial?  https://www.counterpunch.org/2003/02/26/mistrial-rosenthal-jurors-say-they-received-outside/
• Sophie of UCSC’s Standing United for Peace discusses limited UCSC protest against the Iraqi war & other protests around town
• Beggarbacker Becky Johnson’s chalking trial:  https://www.counterpunch.org/2003/02/22/hopscotch-rebellion/
• Listener Benito from Germany calls in, comparing European situation on marijuana and anti-war reaction
• Songs from C.J. Stock; Renik, sidewalk solicitor, on recent cop hassles; John Maurer; Wesley and Janet Harrison on bench removal; Gabe and Bathrobespierre exchange puns; John W on Officer Brandt; Tim W accuses Parking Enforcement of possible vandalism; 
• “City Council Ducks War; Kennedy Ducks Subpoena; Golder Gets Banned” Flyer
• Gale urges Tax Refusal and Sit-Down Strike against threatened Iraqi War
• “Justman” James Cosner on Upcoming Speak-Out Against the War.

The Sunday February 18, 2024 show includes:

• David Rovics roars out songs (lifted from you-tube) throughout.
• “Whip ‘Em Into Shape” Wes White on the outcome of his protest arrest, police exclusion from a public event, and more
• Bathrobespierre casts a caustic eye on the S.C. City Council’s latest grant to the SCPD for surveillance drones in spite of public opposition
• Public comment unanimously opposing the drones and near-unanimously ignored by the City Council
• Local activist Alicia Kuhl on her recent departure from Encompass; homeless legal battles here and elsewhere; 
• “Take it to the Max” Troy and “Hurricane” Helga on brutal police tarp seizures along Coral St. in the rain

The Flashback to March 6, 2005 includes:

• Peppertongue” Pat Ring recalls 1996 struggles in and out of court around the City Hall Sleepers Vigil that went on for nearly 7 months
• UCSC activists at an anti-war forum looking for old lessons in the ongoing struggle against the Iraqi war
• Ralph Meyberg speaking and organizing pressing for a referendum on the City Council’s Coast Hotel Project
• Clearview Court survivor Liberty on the implications of the Coast Hotel project for residential coach owners there
• Fighting back against the Public Comment constriction at City Council—a detailed example.

The February 15, 2024 show is a Flashback to the Sunday January 9, 2005 show.  It includes:

• Gloomy & gritty morning messages & intro
• SAFE #48 [Society for Artistic Freedom of Expression, aka, Stop your Awful Foolish Enforcement or some such)– D. Roger Etcetera reporting on Animal and two homeless vets ticketed in the rain for shelter on the edge of a parking garage
• City Council Update on the meaning of the Nazi salute (“Heil Krohn!”) court case; other “speed and ignore” Council procedures; Coast Hotel prep for fast track
• Progress of a HUFF-motivated lawsuit against the Sleeping Ban
• PIRC [Psychiatric Inmates Rights Collective] activist Jane Kysor on dangers of psychiatric drug compulsion for homeless 
• Peppermint Patty on Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s silence on Iraqi war, and dark origins of psychiatry post-World War One.
• Disabled in mobility Dan Hemmingway on forced medical treatment from paramedics, on maltreatment at Dominican Hospital
• Jhond Golder update—banned falsely from all city offices for two years.
• Bush’s lavish inauguration
• Peace and Freedom candidate Joe Williams on the November 2004 election & local opposition to the Iraqi war locally
• Bob Lamonica on American intervention abroad 
• Music aplenty from the following show

The Sunday February 11,2024 show includes:

• https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/02/09/san-jose-to-ban-homeless-camps-along-guadalupe-river-trail/ 
• [throughout the show] Dave Lippman’s Star of Goliath spotlighting Palestinian history
• “Hurricane” Helga’s angry report from Harvey West; Cesar Alvaro on the Depot Park mini-shelter
• Fast dialogue between Kazoo and Robert Woodleaf on broken promises at Housing Matters and other shelters 
• Soul at the Berkeley People’s Park Free Store and Information Table

The Flashback to January 29, 2017 includes:

• Studio guest: origami cranescrafter Nate Kennedy—suggestions to City Council
• “Battling Bob Lamonica vs. Bathrobespierre Robert on Councilmember Gone Lame (Don Lane) and his sorry record
• Jah, prolific street Jeweler, on recent tickets from Park Rangers; “Pushback” Pat Colby on homeless runoff from outside the library, even during open hours.
• “Still standing” Abbi Samuels and “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry on Food Not Bombs’s recent detente with a critic
• “Blue: calls for cameras and witnesses for Freedom Sleepout #81
• “Restless” Richard Lopez on local police state action around the downtown
• Berkeley’s “Downhome” Dan MacMullan on the future of People’s Park
• “Cornerstone” Carol Denney savages Berkeley City Council sell-outs
• “The Sane Progressive” indicts DemParty symp Michael Moore for implicitly endorsing Bush-Obama warcrimes.

The Thursday February 8, 2004 show is a Flashback to October 23, 1997:

• [songs from Factwino v. Armageddon Man, a S.F. Mime Troupe production throughout]
• “Dead On” David Silva on the struggle for the anti-Sleeping Ban Initiative
• “The Thin Blue Line” on Stolen Lives Project in the SF Bay Guardian
• Skidmark Bob’s Copwatch report, correcting police misinformation on “panhandling” charges
• Eureka Health Department moving on the South Spit Jetty homeless population
• Eureka’s Father Eric Duff smuggling in food to the Eureka homeless—interview.
• Berkeley City Council debate on Pepper Spray as reported by Cornerstone Carol Denney [10-23-97]
• Bathrobespierre Robert critiques Santa Cruz Citizens Police Review Board & Councilmember Kennedy’s pro-SCPD letter
• 1991 Flashback: Councilmember Kennedy’s Last Progressive Hurrah—Supporting the Homeless Protest Encampment at the Town Clock
• Uncle Dennis’s “Earth First” Intro

The February 4, 2024 show includes:   

• The attack on the Martin v. Boise case via Johnson v. Grants Pass at https://johnsonvgrantspass.com/.  Various media takes by Invisible People, Vox, Vice, & USA Today.  
• Songs snatched from David Rovics’ loaded website [throughout the show]
• [1-31]  “Nutcracker” Nick reporting on the Harvey West Friendship Garden  Encampments
• [1-28]  Roger Meade on his false imprisonment in S.C. County Jail for 28 days on dropped “attempted murder” charges and other police/judicial obscenities
• [2-3]  “Right Path” Reggie Meisler on the slippery struggle with the Planning Commission’s latest attack on “oversized” RVs
• “Rough Nights” Renter on the problems of Landlord malign neglect and the Section 8 labyrinth
• https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/san-diego/story/2024-01-24/san-diego-settles-lawsuit-challenging-vehicle-habitation-law  
• Merinda on good Armory conditions, and unsafety for homeless women downtown
• Tips from Charles on negotiating police and courts in Santa Cruz
• Paul Bernes spreading prayer and food to poor folks; Hurricane Helga blows in with blankets and out with bread. 
• Dawnseeker Drew on Food Not Bombs on increasing crowds and more volunteers
• Shawn says “NO on Proposition One”
• Chitterchatter between Mello Mel and Bathrobespierre Robert

The Flashback show (May 11, 2017) includes: 

• Katzenjammer Keith McHenry and “Stop the Sweeps” Abbi Samuels at City Hall’s “No Penalty for Poverty” Rally with commentary buy Silver-tongued Steve Pleich
• [5-7-17] Survival Sleeper Updates from the round-the-clock Sleepout at City Hall  from Hans and Claudia
• [5-9-17] At the Homeless Co-ordinating Committee’s “Don’t Fence Us Out” Rally