Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday 7-14-24 show features the first Stop the Sweeps protest on the sidewalk next to Mayor “Fast Lane” Fred Keeley’s house + three 1997 Flashbacks featuring San Jose’s Sit-Lie law and local Panhandler Punishment campaign

The Sunday July 14, 2024 show includes:

The Flashback to April 17, 1997 includes:

  • [4-8] Public Testimony at San Jose’s City Council on its anti-homeless Sitting Ban
  • [Satirical songs by Mark Levy from “Take Off Your Clothes to Those You Oppose”] 
  • Bathrobespierre denounces Police Chief Steve Belcher’s deep-sixing citizen Complaints by labeling them minor “Inquiries”, violating his own C-7 internal police directive as well as city and state law.
  • “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry on SFPD killer cop Mark Andiya still on duty after killing blacks like Aaron Williams + other S.F. cop capers
  • Vandweller Laura Tucker on the “Real Change Not Spare Change” anti-panhandling project
  • Don of the 1988 Vehicular Residents Association and the fight in San Francisco for survival
  • Palo Alto Human Relations Commission activist on organizing directly with a sit-in against the Sit-Lie Ordinance

The Flashback to April 20, 1997 includes:

  •  Bathrobespierre’s Santa Cruz Court and City Council update
  •  Upcoming Palo Alto Sitting Ban CD sit-in as their Sitting Ban goes into effect over a 10-block area on 4-24 
  •  Palo Alto public comment on the Sitting Ban ordinance from January (some parts difficult to hear)
  •  Palo Alto City Attorney Ariel Cohen (January 1997): is the Sitting Ban anti-homeless?
  • (Final March hearing) More public comment pro and con on the Ban
  • Harsh San Jose Sit/Lie Ban law—Bathrobespierre’s description and Public Comment​​

The Flashback to May 4, 1997 includes: 

  • [5-1] Analysis, Aftermath, & Interviews in the wake of the  “Real Change not Spare Change” [SCnRC] Press Conference 
  • Sacramento Homelessness and Housing Conference—Interviews with Len Ducette “Hard Times” Homeless Newspaper Vendor
  • Bathrobespierre on Santa Cruz History of Local Protest and State Organization
  • More street debate on the “Let Them Eat Paper” SCnRC program
  • [5-4] Peppertongue Pat Ring on trial for a small sign and a “fuck you” comment to the Mayor on SCnRC