Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday, September 5, 2024 show Flashes back to 4-1-01 and 4-5-01 featuring Jury Nullification historian Godfrey Lehman, Tenant activist Donna Deiss, Steve Argue, Skidmark Bob, and more….

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The Thursday September 5, 2024 show is a Flashback to April 1, 2001 and April 5, 2001.  The April 1, 2001 Flashback includes:

  • Sleeping Ban Struggle: Which Way Forward?  History and Controversy: Skidmark Bob & Bathrobespierre
  • Scheming with Steve: Brainstorming on New Organizing Options with Steve Argue 
  • Koffee Klatch 3 Case—Post Feb 8 Hearing​—in the studio and in the court hallways with attorney Catnip Kate
  • HUFFsters confront Officers Azua and Gunther over violence + harassment of street people

Flashback to April 5, 2001 includes: ​

  • Pedestrians and loiterers talk High rents, crowded tenancy, and corrupt police—on the sidewalk
  • Donna Deiss’s Santa Cruz Tenants Rights Union  [TRUSC] update
  • “People Living out of their Vehicles Scramble to Stay Ahead of the Law in San Francisco”–Santa Cruz parallels with “Green Party” Mayor Tim Fitzmaurice ignoring pleas to end the Sleeping Ban law here.
  • Jolly Roger Comedy Troupe’s “Berkeley Scares” Hotline
  • Bathrobespierre’s Bullhorn: Do Nothing-“Rage Against Rent” Part of the Mercy Charities Giveaway?  Update on the local Green party maintaining silence on Fitzmaurice’s anti-homeless stance violating Green platform; 
  • Street conversations between SCPD Officer Gunther, Rabbi Chaim Levin, and some street folks challenging police behavior toward chalkers
  • Tent Cities in Portland and Seattle—Updating Story Seattle Times  (3-29-01)  “A Tent City Resident Fights December Chill…Stop Nomadic Journey of the Area’s Homeless”​
  • Crystal vendor, Dragon, Paddy Long, John Earth, & other street dialogues 
  • Godfrey Lehman, author and advocate of Jury Nullification, on his books & the history