Bundle up for cooling temperatures at the next HUFF meeting Thursday November 7th 1:30-3:30 PM at 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church

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Agenda Summary so far:   Council & Supes NO MEETINGS Next Tues …Athena’s Asks Update…HUFF on Instagram: huff_santacruz…People’s Food Food Tent 9 AM-11 AM Green Gate   1-3 PM Hiway 1 & River…Further work by Gaia and others on seeking a Monitoring Group for a HUFF Sweep/Raid  Record…Follow-Up for PRA for cop confiscation of bicycles…Possible sign-up’s for regular tasks..Thomas’s Tip Sheet…Report on the campus crackdown  Other Stuff & More details below

Items followed by underlined links can be viewed “at home” or  “in the library”  Items on either side of this agenda can be accessed by computers.  Many items  are really reminders of where we’d be going if and when we find the person power, time, interest, and resources.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them.  Athena will be running the show.                                      

Top of the Agenda (Quick Announcements)

++++   Prep for Proposed Berkeley Trip later today if Available

++++   Meeting etiquette: raise hands, stacker

++++   New Street Spirits available.  Street Sheet copies available on line at https://www.streetsheet.org/read-our-full-issues/   Hard Copies of both also available at 903 Pacific and at the Food Not Bombs Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock—ask Drew

++++   Election Results and Implications

++++   Saturday Nov. 9  11 AM-12:30 PM Ocean and Water  Stop genocide and support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza now. No more tax dollars for Israel. End the occupation and the apartheid system. Free all hostages and prisoners. 11 am to 12:30 pm every Saturday. Help hold up banners. More info:  call Laura at 831-247-5332.

++++   Thursdays 3:30 to 4:30 pm  Morrisey Blvd overpass over hiway 1

++++  Tuesdays 4-5 at Mission & Lauren at base of UCSC with banners/signs  415-954-2763    

++++   Protest Chevron’s fueling genocide in Gaza Fri Nov 15th 404 Soquel 4-6 PM

++++   Cooling  today;  cooler week ahead: Rain on Monday Nov 11th                                         Standard Stuff: Regular Check-In’s    

++++   Passarounds:  TBA   Handouts: TBA  

++++    Street Reports: Threats of Sweeps?  Posted Notices?  Uncomfortable encounters   

++++    Seeking Info & Contacts: Tabling at Funding Matters [FM]/Soup Kitchen  

++++    Solidarity with Resistance to On-Campus Repression of Encampments & Protest  

++++    Election Impacts on Homeless                                                       

Possible Action Items

++++    Scheduling and strategy for confronting officials at Public events ++++   San Francisco Cover-Up of Property Destruction: https://www.streetsheet.org/resolution-on-seizure-of-homeless-peoples-property-in-the-works/  

++++    Preliminary refutation of excuses used to destroy survival encampments locally such as the Camping Services and Standards Ordinance (“the Camping Ban”)                                                     

Tasks in search of Takers

++++   Spying Back on Surveillance Camera Location yet (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)

++++  Tracking court cases

++++  Armory/1220 Expedition to check out Athena’s Asks

++++  Exposing MC 6.36 and other sweep pretexts: Documenting the Deception                                  

Setting Up  Signposts to Stop the Nasty New Narrative

++++  Stop the War Against the Poor Sweeps/Raids + Gaza Genocide Lanyards?

++++  New  Strategies for Documenting Property Loss:  Case #, Receipts, Audio recordings

++++  Cooling Center when extreme heat threatens?  Emergency gathering location

++++  Focused Demands? (Stop the Sweeps, Reapportion funding to service existing camps)

++++  Govt. Reports:  (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board)

++++  Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MHCAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)

++++  Future Targets:    City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission Office… City Hall…​Emeline/TeleCare/Supes   

++++   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/09/09/18869216.php   Civil Rights Groups Sue UCSC for Unlawful Campus Bans and Response to Student Protests https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2024/09/09/final_2024.09.03_ucsc_exclusion_notice_complaint-final.pdf                                 

Archived Net-Show Access: to read summaries of the shows: To hear the shows go to https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

Very brief Descriptive Summary of Last Week’s Archived Net Shows–  October 31st   :   https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-thursday-october-31st-2024-show-flashes-back-to-december-1-2016-with-keith-mchenry-on-sheriff-jim-harts-public-meeting-on-his-sheriffs-killing-luke-smith-and-more/

November 3rd   TBA Coming Archived next Sunday November 10th : Interview with Street Spirit editor                                             

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