The April 27,2025 is a series of Flashback segments.

The November 9, 1997 Flashback includes:

• In-studio guest FRSC broadcaster Vinnie Lombardo (“the V-Man”)on police harassment for a FRSC table soliciting contributions
• Bathrobespierre’s “Leaning” ticket and strategies for cop-resisting
• Panhandling palaver
• Pandabear Paul Brindel on Eric Schek opposes the Camping Ban
• “Hapless Harry” aka Chaz on Court and Seaside Security thuggeries

The November 21, 1997 Flashback includes:

•  Skidmark Bob’s 1^st panhandling ticket in 6 years
•  The Rotkin-Kennedy leadership’s stop Celia Scott from being Mayor
•  Shadowside Sue’s report from Feed the People
• Fred Geiger, Phil Baer, and many others on the Scott debate
•  Charles Grey on Eugene’s Campaign for Legal Places to Sleep
•  Reverend Eric Duff on 48 notice to strip Eugene’s South Spit Jetty
  

The November 23, 1997 Flashback includes:

• Eddie Harris of the Sacramento Housing Alliance: Housing and Homeless Week
• P. Free, D. Silva, B. Johnson, D. Dumars and J. Cosner speak at the Happy John memorial 
• Bathrobespierre on the Citizens Police Review Board suborned by SCPD Chief Belcher

The April 24, 2025 show is a Flashback to October 11, 1998. 

These are recovered fragments of the show.  Some of the sound is distorted. 

• Lloyd Lawrence’s bizarre vehicular “camping” ticket while using a catheter
• 5 electoral candidates support ending the Sleeping Ban?  Could it be true?
• Bits from the Jolly Roger Comedy Troupe–“Community Policing Hotline”
• Cooperhouse Ground Breaking Interviews: Identifying issues and villains.
• Proposed “Shopping for Justice” (at Gottschalks) in Jerry Henry exclusion-harassment case by Attorney “Catnip” Kate Wells—charges dropped 
• Wells outlines Chaz the Fidget Man assaulted by Seaside security.
• Wells on other local cases: Frank Pucelik, Wanda, and David Hardy; her search for Marijuana Buyers Club property; cop’s “right” to lie in court without liability
• “Activists Overcome Banishment Decree in Isla Vista”  Oct 1998 Street Spirit
• Anniversary of Happy John Dine’s murder and cover-up on Nov. 12, 1997
• Latest Sleeping Ban Backroom Exchanges—David Silva’s report
• Cooperhouse Groundbreaking—a Look Back
• Berkeley Billy on Shelter Abuses at the Homeless Community Resource Center
• Review of The Celling—an expose of the U.S. Prison Industry

The April 20, 2025 show contains:

• Cheap RV Living https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1TIzbXeM5I
• [throughout] Rovics Musical History early 21st century
• Monterey City Council’s anti-homeless vehicular sleeping ban
• Brian Tyler Cohen interviews Glen Kirschner on pro-immigrant court ruling
• [4-6] “Danger” on squatting, houseless, and trying to stay sober
• “Zorro” (aka Miguel de Leon) “housing” separating him from girl friend
• “Lafayette”‘s free suggestions to secure homeless property
• A Berkeley law student views the anti-genocide protests from a distance
• Pro-Israeli advocate Beggarbacker Becky Johnson concludes the 4-part argument.

The Flashback to June 14, 2015 includes:  

• “Cornerstone” Carol Denney on Berkley’s new anti-homeless laws and trades comparative criticism with the Santa Cruz situation 
• “Cornerstone” on Smoking impacts on the homeless; Tree slaughter in People’s Park; Challenging the anti-homeless merchant-funded Ambassadors; Black Lives Matter, Copwatch, and the BPD
• Andy Carcello out at the Homeless [Lack of] Services Center [HLOSC],  to shutdown June 29th Page Smith Community House  and Paul Lee Loft
• Steve Conover (“Boulder Creek Steve”) disputes HLOSC’s “volunteer” status.
• Joseph Taylor 3^rd on his “sitting” ticket
• [6-8] Lazor-tongue Lee at the FNB Emergency breakfast at Hiway 1 & Hiway 9; “Backtalk” Brent denounces the activists; Lucero Luna HLOSC report; Steve, Jeff Patterson, Dennis Etler, Cooper D’Angelo, Donna Marie, David Trujillo.
• “Unsheltered Lives Matter” by Steve Pleich  https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/06/14/18773486.php
• “Push Back” Pat Colby & “Katzenjammer”  Keith McHenry on the Protest Breakfast
• Red Church Monday [6-9] Saint X cop report; “No food outside/keep off the Grass” Scott Gallagher; attorney Ed Frey; Hutch; “homefree” Carol & Nick 
•  Staff tries to betray the Comstock-Posner 24-hour bathrooms with 25K cut

The April 17, 2025 show is a Flashback to May 10, 2015. 

It includes:

• Miranda from Salinas’s Rainbow Speakers rejected by the SPD
• Herstory of Mother’s Day and its anti-war origins
• SCPD’s Ken Deeg’s pursuit of Santa Cruz’s 1^st 24-hour parking ban; other police antics here and elsewhere.
• Chatting with Stakeholders versus Calling Out Abusers
• Callers Dangerous John T., Dead-On David Silva, and Doc Mike.  Kip’s Blocking the Sidewalk tickets—attack on homeless organizers?
• LAPD Killing of Brandon Bren
• More street newsbits from Sandra Leigh, Romanoff, & more
• Voices against the 1^st 24-hour “No Homeless” Parking Ban: Lilly Craft,
• Kip on police crackdown 
• Making Change: Black Lives Matter: Interview with Alicia Garza

The April 13, 2025 show includes:

• The first 15 minutes of the 4-10 HUFF meeting
• David Rovics’ Musical History from the early 21st century throughout the archive
• 4-5: Green Party Gubernatorial candidate and History Prof Butch Ware on Green Party platforms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj5nvw9Do8E (video by Wes White)
• HUFF meeting reviews the anti-Trump protests
• HUFF activist & Capitola mobile homester Gaia on organizing the tenants—the latest
• Bathrobespierre questions Israeli government supporter Becky Johnson (Part 3)

The Flashback to February 8, 2004 includes:

• Paul Mercelin Sampson of the Metro Riders Union criticizes the Metro Board’s priorities
• Manteca’s David Brown on numerous progressive struggles there
• Kucinch or Sharpton as anti-war but also anti-homeless?
• Green Press editor Ed Oberholser
• “Social Cleansing in Santa Cruz” by Scott Rhodes
• Council OKs destruction of police records
• Beggarbacker Becky on the Dolphin-Lee Nueva Vista project’s cost
• Swimming against the City Council tide: analysis and documentation

The April 10, 2025 show is a Flashback to January 31, 2019. 

It includes:

• Poor People’s Campaign features Tenant Activists “Rough Road” Rick, & Cynthia Berger. 
• Red Church Renegades Sound Off: Patrick Travis, Joyful Heart, Todd J., Steve C.   
• Ross Camp Report with “All Speed Ahead” Alica, Bathrobespierre Robert, Ernest Rosenthal, Puddentain, and the Regulator
• https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/22/18820615.php  Police-Led MLK Day March, Lots of Smiles, Little Substance—many flyers on view

The April 6, 2025 show includes a portion of a Flashback to January 18, 2004: 

• Mathew Embray, Doug McGrath, Marilyn Weaver, and Bathrobespierre on the values of positively disruptive civil disobedience at City Council after Mayor Kennedy made an arrest.
• [January 2004] Interviews with street folk: Barry, Chris, Mu & more
• “Scope it Out” Scott on Fighting Back Against Kennedy & Rotkin
• A Guitarron player’s account; Jason Pasqual’s latest citation; the Return of Mr. Freeze. 

The Flashback to January 22, 2004 includes:

• Adrienne on diagnosing and treating Yuppie Personality Deficit
• Nutcracker Nick on “A Jiggle, A Juggle” his new street play
• Bradley of the Santa Cruz Indymedia on videoing recent events
• Audio of Mayor arresting Norse on January 13th and discussion with Beggarbacker Becky Johnson and another visiting leftist witness

The April 3, 2025 show is a Flashback to August 2, 2012.  It includes:

+++  Community TV talk show host Sandy Leigh (aka Spilly Chilly) on Disability Discrimination at the Homeless [Lack of] Services Center [HLOSC] 

+++   Panelist Mayor Don Lane (also Board member of HLOSC), activist Steve Pleich Homeless Persons Legal Assistance, and advocate John Colby on HLOSC abuse and neglect towards the disabled.

+++  Colby on disabled clients Meagan Andrea Morgan, Ron Skinner, both walker users, & Steve Lacelle+ others being denied or evicted from HLOSC.

+++   Bathrobespierre Robert and Lighthouse Linda on questions not askedand on Colby’s legal appeal to regulatory agencies.

+++   Pleich and Lane defensively “respond” to Colby’s specific criticisms.

+++   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/07/31/18718653.php 

+++   Summing Up: Colby’s questions remain unanswered; protests  continue.

The March 30, 2025 show includes:

• https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/26/oakland-lake-merritt-homeless-encampments/
• [throughout] Continued musical numbers from “A History of the World According to Rovics”
• Caitlin Johnstone: “The President of Peace Just Bombed Yemen 65 Times in 24 Hours”
• Keith McHenry on the Recent and Ongoing Protests about the Lithium Battery Fires
• Steven Ross on his squatting and surviving in Santa Cruz
• Heated discussion with pro-Israeli government supporter Becky Johnson
• https://peacenow.org.il/en/30-years-after-oslo-the-data-that-shows-how-the-settlements-proliferated-following-the-oslo-accords
  

The Flashback to April 11, 2010 includes:

• Troublesome Thomas and Bathrobespierre Robert discuss the City Attorney and the Sinister Singsong Sidewalk Citation case
• Further flashback to 12-28-87 interview with Travelin’ Tom Noddy on the 1977-8 Scott Creek Bluff bust and trial
• 3-28-10 Street Interviews with Merryweather Mike, Plantercrime Andrew, and Renee Currey of Sidewalk Beanies-and-Burritos fame
• Voices on the air and in the news: Lighthouse Linda, WakeUpTime Wes Modes, Lighttouch Louis La Fortune.
• Beggarbacker Becky on the aftermath of her Song trial with Ed Frey
• Death of the Dog Ban on Pacific Avenue
• Final words with Drum Circle Dave
• Making Contact episode on Bankruptcy of Journalism

The March 27, 2025 show is a Flashback to May 9, 2003. 

It includes:

• Roger Bournique on his landlord, local anti-Bush protest, and heroin use
• “Scope it Out” Scott on local jail crammed with Drug war prisoners
• Co-Host Jeffrey Gale joins the show with a national perspective
• Court Corridors report from Referee “Meatgrinder”  Mulligan
• Capitola City Council craziness against political protest; HUFF report
• A bar or two of music from Uncle Dennis’s “Cream to the Dregs” show