Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides November 27, 2025 show has sections of two Flashbacks, one to May 17, 1996 and a second to May 24,1996 featuring City Council’s attempt to ban protest at City Hall by Injunction

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The November 27, 2025 show has a Flashback section (not the complete show) of the May 17, 1996 show which includes:

  • Bathrobespierre interviews Calamity Jane Imler on the activists’ struggle with the Paul Lee/Page Smith Citizens Committee for the Homeless [CCH]
  • Sentinel writer Karen Clark smears the City Hall Sleepers protest and Beggarbacker Becky responds
  • Why no Campground—cheaper and easier—turned down by City, County, and CCH—Beggarbacker and Bathrobespierre analyze
  • Santa Barbara Sleepwalkers headed for Sacramento: on Night #76  of City Hall Sleepout with Beaming Bob, Cobblestone Colin, and Dark-of-Night Deke talk Sleeping Ban Abolition strategies
  • Ron Howard of the Interfaith Satellite Shelter Program’s “No shelter available” and homeless use of the Necessity Defense

The November 27, 2025 show has a Flashback section of the May 24, 1996 show which includes:

  • [throughout the show] “Last Tango in Chalatango” by the San Francisco Mime Troupe
  • [5-10] Cops at the City Hall Sleepers Vigil interviews
  • [5-23] Michael O’Toole of Indigent Services on Eureka cops harassing homeless
  • [5-23] Attorney “Bedrock” David Beauvais on their partial protest victory in court stopping Rotkin’s proposed TRO against those struggling to end the Sleeping Ban
  • Bathrobespierre deconstructs Sentinel’s dismissive and inaccurate story on the Court struggle.
  • Chip critiques Cannabis Collective selling rather than providing medical marijuana: it’s history including the 1994 takeover of the program by those selling it.