The March 16, 2025 show includes:

• [here and there] More of The World According to David Rovics: 1980s-90s
• https://sjsunews.com/article/updated-city-law-threatens-houseless
•  https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition-sunday/20250309/281560886558097  Shelter refusal may be a crime.
• https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/25/san-jose-homeless-relocation-pilot-program/
• 3-15: Voices from the Food Not Bombs [FNB] meal: “The Lone Ranger”(aka MessMelter Mel) on Empty Buildings and the Few Understanding Merchants
• “Push Back” Pat Colby on her Personal Struggle against Eviction & Stalking
• Izzy ousted from storage, abused at Funding Matters corral.
• Fremont Unhoused Activists Fight Back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT_d9BFEzYA: Homeless Groups Resist the new Fremont Camping Ban
• [2-23]  Cooper on the price escalation

The Flashback to March 22, 1996 includes:

• Bathrobespierre reviews Sentinel stories and omissions
• ‘Judgement Day’ John Stewart on the fatal tasering of Joseph Lighter and “in-custody death syndrome”
• Ford’s Parking Lot: Leroy, Space, Faith, Greyhat, and others on earlier illegal arrest, search & seizure
• Homeless Community Resource Center Board of Directors: Bathrobespierre, Celine Marie Pasquale, Tim Rinker, and Becky Johnson
• Lengthy in-studio interview with David Dumars (“B.D.”) on his upcoming trial
• March 1996 Street Sheet on the G.A. shuffle
• How to look up a warrant locally.
• Protests supporting City Hall Sleepers: Pajama Party; interviews from last Saturday’s Ford Parking lot (“Friendship Corner”) protest
• Interview with Feed the People activist Sean Alemi and his subsequent arrest

The March 13, 2025 show is a Flashback to May 27, 2004

• Soupslurper Douglas on his defensive “embarassment” strategy re: cop problems
• LeeAnn Thomas, housed oldtimer (of 20 years) & Ticketsearch on Pacific Avenue
• John gets a ticket for asking a cigarette at night: his dialogue with the dubious dicks
• Americans for Safe Action [ADA]attorney Joe Elford on history of medical marijuana 
• Elford on limits of SB 420, the legislative codification and limitations on Prop 215
• Elford on “Voluntary” Medical Marijuana Card, federal vs. state quantity limits, etc.
• Joshua on Phoenix the harpist and a variety of charges prompted by Sgt. Baker
• Proposed “Huff and Puff” program to shame City Council into allow grass sales.

The March 9, 2025 show includes:

• Reggie Meisler efforts to expose and block the City’s new Sidewalk Sleeping that criminalizes vehicular resident by burdening their right to park.
• Housing Matters latest hokum with SCPD sweeps roll on.
• [at various points] “A History of the World According to David Rovics”
• https://www.aclunc.org/news/aclu-challenges-unconstitutional-seizure-ucsc-students-phone
• https://www.kget.com/news/local-news/bakersfield-agencies-clear-11-homeless-encampments-make-9-arrests-on-v-st/
• “Danger” sez “danger now!-time to polarize” enter abandoned buildings, etc.
• Stephen Ross, former broker, now homeless, critiques and praises…
•  “Gregarious Greg” ducks, dodges, and redirects my ACLU critical questions
•  “Up at Dawn” Drew’s updates on two weekends with Food Not Bombs
• Local Bert Glick’s latest, recited by the poet

The Flashback to February 2, 1996 includes:  [some audio distortion]

• Non-human homeless creatures and bench removal on Pacific Ave.
• Battlin’ Bob Lamonica pushes for a pedestrian mall
• Dragonsheart Dan and Bathrobespierre Robert discuss Dan’s appeal of the Community House trailer project sell-out.
• Struggling for hot water at Santa Barbara Armory Winter Shelter 1992

The Flashback to February 5, 1996 includes:

• Updates on Community House, Coral St., County Curfew,  & more
• Phil Free and later Bob Lamonica—critique last FRSC meeting
• San Jose Curfew chatter; Trial of Robbie Berlin for Marijuana cultivation
• “Religious views of Rastafarians ruled valid in marijuana trial”—Examiner story
• In-studio guest Robbie Berlin, slated for trial later this month
• Jury Nullification its history and use in Berlin’s medical marijuana case 
• Becky Johnson & streetsters on the S.C. County Curfew & civil rights

The March 6, 2025 show is a Flashback to November 13, 1997.  It includes:

• Extensive discussion & interviews around the slaying of Happy John Calvin Dine a few days before in downtown Santa Cruz by Officer Connor Carey.
• FRSC’s V-Man interviews 3 witnesses immediately after the shooting
• Caller Bob Lamonica on Unanswered Questions
• “Dead on” David Silva’s account of a bloodied hitchhiker terrified of the police who said he saw the Dine killing.
• Larry Redick, who says he was an across-the-street witness,  describes the  Dine killing; other reactions from Bike Jeannie, Colin, Brandon, Mike, and Mike
• Mad Mike the Wonder Dog Balderos on D.A. and Sentinel refusing to listen 
• “Rainbow Light” aka “Loudmouth Leith” reviews his Santa Cruz homeless civil rights history.
• 45 Minutes of Uncle Dennis Davis’s “From the Cream to the Dregs”

The March 2, 2025 show includes: 

• [here and there] “A History of the World According to David Rovics’
• https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/s-f-man-tased-east-bay-parks-police-left-19855048.php
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/they-were-arrested-for-sleeping-outside-while-homeless-now-these-californians-are-headed-to-trial/ar-AA1zRx2v 
• “Grasshopper” on homeless meals in Eugene & assorted chatter
• Trials of single female RV-life in Santa Cruz
• “Beggarbacker” Becky on the local Greens exchanging its pro-homeless commitment to curry political capital with 2001 Mayor Tim Fitzmaurice

The Flashback to March 15, 1997 includes:

• A Cluster of Voices: Carrie, Rolling Thunder Sheridan, Baba Ito, John Earth, Long Distance Lee, 
• Update on City Council Lock Down Chain Gang Trial
• Travelin’ Tom Noddy on the Chaz trial for sitting on the base of the Scribner statue (hard to hear in part)
• Stan Freberg’s Tom Jefferson v. Ben Franklin from his U.S.A. album
• 3-10 Speakers at the Palo Alto City Council opposing the Sit-Lie law—which passed
• Bathrobespierre vs. Councilmember Scott Kennedy on the Sleeping Ban

The Flashback to April 13, 1997 includes: 

• Berkeley Street Poet Julia Vinograd recites “The Sparechanger Came from Outer Space”
• Keith McHenry on SFPD cop Mark Andiya—killer of Aaron Williams in 1995
• Panhandler and poet Jim, Street Spirit vendor, Trisha, unlucky Lucky’s shopping cart user, 
• Skidmark Bob “trains” the cops on 1^st Amendment and Needle Exchange
• Steve McWilliams of the Pikes Peak Hemp Coalition

The February 27, 2025 show is a Flashback to March 19, 2015. 

It includes:

• “Cornerstone” Carol Denney on Berkeley City Council’s latest anti-homeless bad law proposals; her TwitWhit parodies (https://archive.org/details/@twit_wit), the SLAPP lawsuit against her, & more
• Long-since “Gone Lame” Mayor Don Lane rejected demand to seek out and provide access to his and other Council members e-mail records regarding public issues when sent to private addresses
• Street voices including Jason in a Blanket, Bumblebee the jeweler woman, Wayne on Joe’s Pizza shift to anti-homeless policies; Craftsman Jaya headed for trial for public display for sale on Pacific Avenue
• Kevin Robinson’s music and Chris’s EightsizeClaws  group

The Sunday February 23, 2025 Show includes:

• High points and low points of [most of] the 2-20-25 HUFF meeting
• [throughout] “The History of the World According to David Rovics” in the 1960s
• “Arc of Justice” Athena announces and orchestrates Street Reports & a Coral St. Update
• People First Director Evan Morrison gives Armory estimates and promises Armory Stats.
• Hard questions from Gregarious Greg, Jivefree Justin, Athena, and “Where’s the Winter Shelter?” Laura for Morrison.
• Jivefree’s account of his latest “assault” bust and upcoming jury trial
• Sodbuster Stephen Dunifer on “Micropower Radio” here and elsewhere

The Flashback to March 17, 2002 includes: 

Analysis and context of Mayor Krohn’s arresting Bathrobespierre at the 2-15-02 City Council meeting for a nondisruptive silent mock-Nazi gesture.

2-15 Audio: Officer “Butchie” Baker & Officer Brandt’s “no charge” arrest.

Prior City Council trespasses on the rights of attendees: Bathrobespierre’ historical analysis In-studio guests “High Ground” Jerry Henry on Ali Baba’s cafe’s fascism toward street folk; Scott Rhodes on the phony “reform” of the Sleeping Ban in parks; both on repression at the Aptos Rancho Del Mar Shopping Center.

Amy Courtney, Bedsheets Bandista, on her anti-war banners at Hiway 1 overpass.

Santa Barbara’s “Nuf Said” Nancy McCradie on RV Task Force Stonewalling.

Phil Free Hostility Patrol song for Pacific Avenue.

3-2-02 “DarkWatcher” David Busch on Santa Monica’s [homeless] Sleeping Ban

The February 20, 2025 show is a Flashback to February 14, 2010. 

It includes:

• [Occasional songs throughout from Visionsong Valerie Christy]
• Further flashback to Audio from October 22, 1988—Peace and Justice activist Charles Grey on his arrest & trial for non-violent CD (Sleepcrime) challenging the Sleeping Ban sections of the Camping Ban
• Curbhugger Chris’s Panhandler’s Lament
• Boulder, Colorado:  boulderexpress.org on criminalizing those outside for “sheltering” with blankets
• Reactionary Santa Cruz voices call for police enforcement of sitters, panhandlers, and street musicians
• Moonstruck Mike, Jeremy Casmer & Drum Circle Dave weigh in on Downtown life
• Unanswered questions for “Riot Act” Mike Rotkin on Metro Center guard power & bus user rights.
• Sacramento report from activist attorney Mark Merin
• Gainsville attacks food servers in Florida
• Making Contact:  No Bucks for Banks

The February 16, 2025 show includes:

Background to the February 13^th Protest at the Rio Theater’s film showing to benefit Funding Matters [FM] (aka Housing Matters) and its failure to oppose the Sweeps/Raids in front of the Coral St. “campus”.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMbK8Zj9ZE8  Protest video.

Monica on why she’s standing in the rain holding a “Stop the Sweeps” sign.

Drew Lewis on the Corruption of so-called “Affordable Housing” Initiatives

[throughout] More of “A History of the World According to David Rovics”

Scattered interviews on the sidewalk: Athena, Elise, S.F. John.

“Whip ‘Em Into Shape” Wes White’s Salinas Update  https://www.youtube.com/watchv=KeQFr0Y8SPA [Rain, Overnight Freezing Temperatures and Illegal Unnoticed Sweeps Conducted Daily in Salinas, CA]

Keith McHenry on the Bullhorn urging FM to start funding unhoused folks 

California city makes ‘aiding’ or ‘abetting’ a homeless camp illegal

McHenry on the new local and federal totalitarianism; what to expect and what is to be done? 

The Flashback to January 24, 2010 includes:

Call for Disclosing Taser Torture in Local Policing

Audio (Part 3) of the Sinister Sidewalk Singing Stampout Citation

Skidmark Bob Duran’s History Fighting “Terrorism” Singing Tickets in 1990s

News on Palo Alto Panhandler Victor Frost challenge of Sit/Lie Law

New Year’s Eve 2009-2010 DIY Parade Festivities

Bathrobespierre denounces De Sal and Marijuana Dispensary Moratorium

The February 13, 2025 show is a Flashback to January 11, 2009. 

It includes:

• Further Flashback to Spring 1990,  a difficult-to-hear portion of the court trial of homeless activist “Jailtime” Judith Beinert for aiding sleepcrime.
• Co-host and guest Anita Henry of Med-X Medical Marijuana Distribution
• Many voices: Merryweather Mike, Drum Circle participants, Black Rose, Dreamcatcher, Caitlin, and more.
• John Maurer, Hawk on the death of Runner George
• Rawstuff Rawn’s run-in at Denny’s restaurant
• Lengthy audio and critique of Measure K Committee’s Cutoff of Reviewing the SCPD “Report”.
• Reminder: SCPD Sgt. Le Moss’s fracturing elderly activist Donna Deiss’s arm
• Israeli Gaza Offensive 2009: Operation Cast Lead (cuts off abruptly)