Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides March 2, 2025, show features interviews with Becky Johnson and Grasshopper and Flashbacks to March 15, 1997 and April 13, 1997–Life amidst the SCPD on Pacific Avenue

The March 2, 2025 show includes: 

The Flashback to March 15, 1997 includes:

  • A Cluster of Voices: Carrie, Rolling Thunder Sheridan, Baba Ito, John Earth, Long Distance Lee, 
  • Update on City Council Lock Down Chain Gang Trial
  • Travelin’ Tom Noddy on the Chaz trial for sitting on the base of the Scribner statue (hard to hear in part)
  • Stan Freberg’s Tom Jefferson v. Ben Franklin from his U.S.A. album
  • 3-10 Speakers at the Palo Alto City Council opposing the Sit-Lie law—which passed
  • Bathrobespierre vs. Councilmember Scott Kennedy on the Sleeping Ban

The Flashback to April 13, 1997 includes: 

  • Berkeley Street Poet Julia Vinograd recites “The Sparechanger Came from Outer Space”
  • Keith McHenry on SFPD cop Mark Andiya—killer of Aaron Williams in 1995
  • Panhandler and poet Jim, Street Spirit vendor, Trisha, unlucky Lucky’s shopping cart user, 
  • Skidmark Bob “trains” the cops on 1st Amendment and Needle Exchange
  • Steve McWilliams of the Pikes Peak Hemp Coalition