Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday Nov. 17, 2024 show features San Rafael’s mini-Safe Sleeping Zone; researcher Emory’s visit to 9 California Homeless Union & a Flashback to April 7, 2002 with David Busch, Kate Wells, Tom Noddy

The Sunday Nov.17, 2024 show includes: 

The Flashback to April 7, 2002 includes:

  • Bathrobespierre on anti-homeless happenings in the local Green Party & its Homeless Working Group and Call to mobilize against City Council repression of dissent there.  
  • “Bashful” Bernard K and Bathrobespierre Robert discuss Mayor “Cave-In” Chris Krohn; Bernard urges & Bathrobespierre rejects an election run for City Council.
  • Santa Monica activist David Busch on the corporate “homeless” paper The Big Issue & Green Party sell-out
  • “Catnip” Kate Wells on her four lawsuits against Capitola cop Murphy in Federal court & other police abuse
  • Bathrobespierre on continuing weak police review, public bathroom scarcity, & upcoming Council agenda
  • “Travelin'” Tom Noddy on police behavior towards “Cosmic Chris”, the street singer.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday, November 14th 2024, show Flashes back to May 4th 2017 with The Lone Spanger of Austin TX’s Challenge homeless paper; Judy Schaul, Steve Pleich + Rick & Coral Subbing for Uncle Dennis’s Cream to the Dregs

The November 14, 2024 show is a Flashback to May 4, 2017. 

It includes:

  • Rana-Ghana, aka A Lone Spanger, writer for Austin TX’s Challenge homeless newspaper
  • Keith McHenry & Bathrobespierre on a recent Police Review meeting involving the local ineffectual ACLU
  • Kathy on Red Church crackdown on nearby sleepers; Julie Schaul on being profiled and tailed by Trader Jo’s security snoop Bill Nash
  • Black Students at UC Santa Cruz Protest Hostile Campus”at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/05/03/18799121.php  
  • Brian Taylor on trials of a disabled houseless person in downtown Santa Cruz; Musical Mike and Bathrobespierre at the Red Church. 
  • [5-1-24]  Claudio Martinez reporting on the Survival Sleepers on 4-20
  • 6 Squadcars and more Cops at City Hall
  • Rutabega Rick and Castaway Carol host a segment of Dennis Davie’s “From the Cream to the Dregs” show

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday Nov. 10, 2024 show features an interview with year-long Street Spirit editor Bradley Penner & a Flashback to April 16, 2017 covering the Memorial for Michael Mear, died outside perhaps of exposure

The Sunday November 10, 2024 show includes:

  • Interview with 2023-2024 Street Spirit editor Bradley Penner
  • Jo’s Oral Communication Interrupted and Ignored on Toxic Anti-Homeless Sweeps outside Santa Cruz City Council
  • Noah James Phippen—ski operator—on his job and income and oppression in the system
  • Formerly homeless UCSCer and Genocide Opponent Caitlin on life as a continuing student
  • End UCSC investment in Israeli genocide and suppression of peaceful campus protest letter
  • Billi and Eddie on problems of exclusion from the Armory/LookOut and 1220 River St.

The Flashback to April 16, 2017 includes:

  • Bathroom babble from the Long Hauler at the Red Church meal
  • Many voices at the Michael Mear memorial including Abbi Samuels, Keith McHenry
  • Silver-Tongued” Steve Pleich on past discrimination for his homeless status and the SCCCCOR [Santa Cruz County Community Coalition] scorecard for anti-racist talk without anti-racist action.
  • Survival Sleeper encampment resident Sheree Peterson and supporter Loudmouth Leith Austin speak out
  • Report from Freedom SleepOut #92
  • Carol Denney on Berkeley Mayor Areguin’s “Pathway to Housing” Hustle in Street Spirit
  • Wes White’s video on the Michael Mear memorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwLwrX-nwW8&list=PLflVaWezcvDyKx1Loo9lirtZgBW1KWBsE&index=504

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday, November 7th 2024, show Flashes back to February 16th 2017 with D.A. Jeff Rossell’s Press Conference on the SCPD’s Sean Arlt Shooting + Media locked out of SCPD Briefing

The Thursday November 7th 2024 show is a Flashback to February 16, 2017. 

It includes:

  • Santa Cruz D.A. Jeff Rossell’s press conference about deputy behavior during the SCPD slaying of Sean Arlt
  • SCPD’s Lt. Barry and then City Manager Martin Bernal bar alternate media from entering public press conference at Police Community Room
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGnW82WWpww (“Blocked from Listening to Sean Arlt’s OIS SCPD Officers Named“)
  • https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/02/16/18796574.php
  • New obstacles to activist/media access to SCPD ticketing records around racial and class profiling.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday Nov. 3, 2024 show features a few interviews around Food Not Bombs, ACLU’s “Prepping for Protest” suggestions & a Flashback to Nov 20, 2016 with Brian vs. the Coral St. Combine, Cornerstone Carol, & many more

The Sunday November 3, 2024 show includes: 

The Flashback to November 20, 2016 includes: 

  • [11-17]  Brian Aaron Denson’s lengthy & detailed expose of Homeless Lack of Services [HLOSC] (now Housing Matters) 2017 abuses as he did a three-night protest sleep-out on the doorstep of HLOSC.
  • [11-8] Keith McHenry’s report on FNB‘s struggle in Florida & Arizona
  • “Too bad the grown coward…sheriffs can’t take a 4” knife from a 15-year old…boy.”—on the Luke Smith killing
  • McHenry at Freedom SleepOut #20 [FSO #20] on the SCPD’s Sean Arlt’s slaying and prospective protest actions
  • Cornerstone Carol Denney [http://www.caroldenney.com/] on the election what “if I were the fuhrer”…
  • Upcoming City Council Stormclouds: Public Hysteria Committee Report, Restricted Access to Parks and Levee
  • Trading Barbs with Battling Bob Lamonica on the phone
  • Councilmember Micah answers agenda council on Riverwalk; Merlin calls for city support for FRSC transmitter
  • FSO #20: “Push Back” Pat Colby on her Protest demanding authorities release Sean Arlt slaying evidence; Dreamcatcher on ticketing in the library area;
  • Bonum, Bean, Thor the huskie, Cage O’Malley “No Hobo” the guitarist & Curtis Reliford
  • “Dead On” David Silva on the 12th  day of His Sleep against Sleep Suppression
  • Ricardo Lopez on Rangercrime & Abbi Samuels reading Rangers the riot act
  • Eagle with Baba Kush the pooch on First Alarm harassment
  • [11-14] Red Church Review: Norma Jean Tasker’s Memorial for John Manahan; Jason reports his brother by “Take Back Santa Cruzans”; Estella on forced hospitalization; James & Ricardo on the Cooper case

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday, October 31st, 2024, show Flashes back to December 1, 2016 with Keith McHenry on Sheriff Jim Hart’s Public Meeting on his sheriff’s killing Luke Smith and more

The Thursday October 31st, 2024 show is a

Flashback to December 1, 2016.  It includes

  • Bathrobespierre critiques downtown bans [directed against homeless], New Leaf “security”, over-financing of SCPD, landlord handwringing, SCPD resistance to transparency, and more
  • Katzenjammer Keith McHenry  on the “so sorry we shot Luke Smith” Community Meeting, police violence history  https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/rally-for-justice-in-the-arlt-and-smith-killings-130-pm-saturday-at-the-town-clock/
  • Doc Mike’s boatlife in Moss Landing; Coastal Commission RV bust of City Council ban update; problems with new shelters
  • Pac Avenue/FNB interviews:  Sunshine Man; Alex and Joff guerrilla painters; Anthony Edmund, Jaya the street jeweler, Ronna Gonna, Karen on Standing Rock.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday October 27th 2024 show features “Where-Do-We-Go?” interviews with Berkeley survival tent protesters, Interviews with RVster Amber Whitson & a Flashback to Feb 19, 2017 featuring Chris Krohn + more

The Sunday October 27th show includes:

The Flashback to February 19, 2017 includes:

  • Half-hour interview with Councilmember Chris Krohn asking about City investments in Wells Fargo, opening the books on the Sean Arlt slaying by SCPD and more.
  • [throughout] Ryan Harvey’s angry political songs
  • [2-13-2017] Red Church Interviews:  Don Hutchins thwarted bike theft, Julie Schaul on legal news against police sweeps in Seattle, WA.in the Lisa Hooper/Brandy Osborne case
  • Julie Schaul on Westside Safeway, Panda Express seating disappearing, kudos to Starbucks; her advice: contact corporate HQ for businesses with commendations and complaints, take business elsewhere.
  • Cooper D’Angelo’s year-old assault case; David Turner on difficulties getting in and staying in River St. mini-Shelter
  • [2-18] Black Lives Matter protest in Capitola, Badgebooster Bob Lamonica’s defense of Officer Bailey’s shooting of  Arlt.   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/02/23/18796773.php 
  • https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/02/14/18796493.php?show_comments=1#18796650 Flyer Distributed at City Council
  • Joy Parker: Airport protest on Trump Immigration Ban
  • Purple and Jay, Jennifer, around the Milkcrate Singers (Cooper faced trial for sitting on a milkcrate)
  • Street Handicraft Vendor Jaya Interview; Jeweler James at the Coffee Roasting outdoor seating area

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday, October 24th, 2024, show Flashes back to November 6, 2016 with a spirited critique of Prop 64 (Recreational grass), Berkeley’s Dan McMullan on the Poverty Tour, and lots more

The current show is now archived at https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.htmland may be streaming on the net starting at 6 p.m. 

If technical difficulties prevent that, go to the www.huffsantacruz.org website to hear it.   

If reached on the HUFF website above, the show can be downloaded in two sequential sections.

The content of the show will be further summarized and posted within a few days  at https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/category/huff-communications/

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday October 20th 2024 show features + a Flashback to June 28, 1996 – a Bathrobespierre in the slammer and interviews in the court corridors after the City’s partial Injunction victory against City Hall Protest

The October 20th edition of the show includes:

  • [10-16] Visiting Mutual Aid Food Tent at the Green Gate during morning camp destruction up Golf Club Drive
  • [throughout]  https://soundcloud.com/davidrovics/one-year-on-the-apocalypse-in-review-podcast-special
  • Chatter, castigation, and rationalizations with CSO Earl Buck on the city’s Helpful Demolitions
  • Manny’s Reflections on likely lower profile future anti-Gaza genocide demonstrations at UCSC
  • Legal worker Ray Glock-Grueneich’s recollections on his first days with the Scott Creek Bluff vehicular dwellers when their homes were stolen by county sheriffs.
  • [10-19] Brando and Ester—distributing free phones for poor folks.
  • Roger—run off from sleeping in early a.m. off church property
  • David Hanson—bound for Colorado to expand free camping gear to S.C., banished from Housing Matters
  • Jesus announces his coming marriage
  • Roadwatcher Robert Woodleaf on landlord difficulties; William’s restless history
  • “Deep” reports on the Washington Rainbow Gathering

The Flashback to June 28, 1996 includes: [sound quality varies]

  • Beggarbacker Becky [BB] hosts the show with Bathrobespierre in the jail in San Francisco for serving free food
  • [5-31] Court corridor discussion after the City attorney’s partial victory restricting the City Hall Sleepers Protest with an Injunction with Bathrobespierre, Wilomena Perl, attorneys David Beauvais & David Hilliard, & City Attorney John Barisone
  • BB chats with jail inmate Rick on her “adopt a prisoner” proposal and jail’s expense to the taxpayer
  • BB at City Council’s Social Service Committee with Kennedy, Rotkin, and Citizen’s Committee for the Homeless director Frank Pucelik
  • BB interviews Homeless “Green” hyperkinetic and dyslexic 
  • BB on her phone chat with homeless-hostile cartoonist Steve DeCinzo
  • Mad Mike the Wonder Dog’s musical selections

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday, October 17th 2024 show Flashes back to Feb. 4, 2016 & thence to Feb. 6, 2003 on the feeble afterlife of the Citizens Police Review Board & Jhond Golder vs. the Booters

The Thursday October 17th , 2024, show is a Flashback to February 4, 2016, and thence to February 6, 2003, on the feeble afterlife of the Citizens Police Review Board & Jhond Golder vs. the Booters

  • Intro to the 10-17-24 show followed by an intro to the 2-4-16 followed by the 2-6-03 show.  The initial 2024 commentary lasts about 4 minutes.  It’s followed by a 3-minute 2016 commentary which then merges into the 2003 flashback.  There is some commentary from 2016, interjected into the 2003 show.  Apologies for any confusion.  Some of the sound also requires amplifying. 
  • Carol Denny’s commentary [2003] on Berkeley City Council’s rubberstamping Pepper spray use by the BPD
  • Activist and single mom “Rough-Tongued” Roxanne Acquistepache is in-studio guest and co-host—with extended discussion on City Council’s guillotining of the Citizens Police Review Board [CPRB] possibly to stop a selective enforcement examination.  Rozanne on how former CPRB member Gia Grant was forced off the Board.
  • Burial of Raymond Quinton shooting investigation , racial profiling, selective enforcement, use of force
  • Jhond (John) Golder’s blow-by-blow struggle after police improperly towed his vehicular home.