Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday July 13, 2023 show features Flashbacks to December 26 and December 30, 1999 which features Pacific Avenue Santa Cruz and Telegraph Avenue Berkeley Interviews & attorney David Beauvais on the Explicit Players defense

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The July 13, 2023 edition of Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides includes parts of two earlier shows.
The first Flashback is from Sunday December 26, 1999 and includes:

  • Cleveland’s commercial crackdown artists go after their homeless population.
  • “Camper” discusses lean panhandling days in Santa Cruz.
  • Pied Piper Steve Sullivan rhapsodizes on various civic matters.
  • [12-5-1999] “Tuf to be tender” Laura Tucker on an earlier assault
  • [12-1-1999] “Bedrock” David Beauvais, Berkeley Civil Rights attorney discusses his defense of the Explicit Players, a nude performing group.
  • Talking with the Telegraph Ave. Sit criminals of Berkeley
  • Poet Julia Vinograd talks election disappointment and unlooses some poetry.

The second segment is a Flashback is from Thursday December 30, 1999 and includes:

  • Co-Host James “Nuts to the Knuckleheads” Nay joins Bathrobespierre reviewing an L.A. Times story from Los Angeles’ Pershing Park where Food Not Bombs food servers were getting busted.
  • Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs V-Man’s story of on First Night New Year’s 1996-7 selectively targeted for open container on Pacific Ave by Officer Le Moss
  • Bathrobespierre Recaps the Happy John Dine Murder and Cover-Up of November 1967 from cops to review board to City Council
  • [12-14] Calling the public to call out the cops for false ticketing as in this instance Jaywalking on Pacific Avenue
  • $500,000 for a Homeless Kitchen but sleeping bans and no shelter expansion as Mayor Sugar sweeps past public comments by homeless supporters in mid-winter’s last Council meeting of the year
  • [October 1999 interviews] Sleep seekers fleeing police, “Black Man in America”, Officer Swanek’s prey
  • [12-14] Testimony before the Closed Session of City Council on the Dolphin-Lee Project from Bathrobespierre Robert, “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster, “Rough-tongued” Roxanne Acquistepache, “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson 
  • Call-in’s on the Dolphin-Lee Deal from Beach Flats landlord/resident Phil Baer & “Scope it Out” Scott Graham on City’s trading $2 million in Redevelopment money to dump hundreds of residents at the Dolphin and Lee apartments.