Today’s July 6, 2023 Show includes:       

+++++  “Catch me Twice, Shame on Me” Keith McHenry on the International Political Scene     

+++++   A horrific report on the fate of Baba Ito—writer, healer, and Santa Cruz local—held captive in the County by the Mental Healthmongers     

+++++   “Whip ’em into Shape” Wes White on stalling the Salinas Union Pacific Homeless Sweeps     

+++++   “Mind over Master” Monica on the Oversized Vehicle scene up Delaware Roadway and the cold forgetful heart of the De Anza Coach Owners, screwed over by the same City now stealing the homes of those in RVs.     

[throughout]  Many a tune by David Rovics

The July 2nd, 2023 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:   

      +++ Phone interview and unpublished poetry reading with the late Berkeley poet Julia Vinograd         

+++ Background of Parks and Rec boss Danette Shoemaker’s Curfew on City Hall Courtyard protest         

+++ Mike Rhodes, Fresno activist and writer, reads selections from his newly published Dispatches from the War Zone         

+++ “Family of Man Murdered by Fresno Police Files Lawsuit—Freddy Canteno 2015”         

+++ “Shindig” on the new Vendors Vamoose Move-Along Law         

+++  More Interviews at the at Pat Colby’s “Give a Shit” Table seeking support to reopen the London Nelson Bathrooms
+++  Artist Alex Sheldon on recent arrests for doing artwork on Pacific Avenue         

+++  Monterey County Homeless Advocates activist Wes White updates the Flag Pole Community of Salinas         

  [March 9.2000 Flashback:]                         

***  “Closed” Meeting of Citizens Police Review Board [CPRB] subcommittee, and City Council Safety Committee plus Bob                                   Aaronson                         

***  Melissa & fiancée Eric panhandling for a tent; Reports from Anti-Sleeping Ban Tabling in front of the Del Mar Theater;                         Report of “Animal” Beaten; More reports.                         

***  Deborah from Atlanta talks about sweeping homeless from streets during Olympic Games                         

***  Robert, thrice arrested in Santa Cruz, Vietnam Vet homeless for 8 months, tolerated under bridges         

+++ Counterspin on Fuhrer Obama repairing “frayed ties” with Saudi Arabia, ignoring disastrous human rights record.

Included in the June 29th, 2023 show are:    

+++  [throughout] Songs from the 30’s musical Pins and Needles+++  Extensive interview with Reggie Meisler of Santa Cruz Cares and the fight to restore RV rights at the 6-27 City Council meeting

+++  Commentary on Mayor Keeley’s loosened City Council process—though with the same repressive outcome

+++  Afterthoughts on “Back Story” Brent Adams—pro and con

+++  Recent Update on RV targeting

+++  Appealing to Social Service Providers (known derisively as Poverty Pimps) as allies in the Rights struggle

+++  [6-27] ” Gobs of Gab” Greg Bengsten on incidents by San Lorenzo levee

+++  https://yvesengler.com/2023/06/25/canadas-odious-history-of-blocking-anti-war-voice-lives-again/

+++  https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2023/06/28/conflicts-of-interest-assange-could-be-extradited-to-the-us-soon/

The Sunday, June 25, 2023 show includes:

• Thousands of officers could be decertified:  https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition-sunday/20230618/281479280832933 
• CHP Hit for Drug Arrests in Traffic Stops: https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition-sunday/20230618/281642489590181   
• Dialogue with activist-tweeter “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson on Lapis Road update—the death of Sylvia’s son in Monterey County jail and other gloomy homeless updates.
• Johnson on her latest views on mask mandates, vaccine mandates, and assorted government COVID requirements
• Kazoo on life downtown for the homeless temporarily housed in the Paul Lee loft at “Funding Matters” 115 Coral St.
• Javier on the loss of his property & business putting him on the street
• Verbal snapshots of Pacific Avenue
• Musical biography of David Rovics recent conflicts on All Your Days at https://drovics.podbean.com/e/all-your-days-interview-part-2/
  
• More one-time support for slushy services for a homeless minority coming up at S.C. City Council on 6-27-23

The March 19, 1998 Flashback has: 

First impressions of the Button St. shooting from on-the-scene interviews.

Faith, Adrianna, and Laura gave their thoughts: criticism of trigger-happy police and implications if CPS stepped in.

“Dead On” David Silva comments and “Beggarbacker” Becky’s pieced-together narrative.

Witness reports police removed Lori Andrus the Mom and her baby; Silva’s “ear-witness” account.

Becky’s subsequent Street Spirit story in the May 1998 issue: http://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/086.Neighbors%20and%20Family%20Shocked%20By%20S.C.Police%20Shooting=5-98.jpg http://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/087.S.C.Shooting(cont.1)=5-98.jpg  http://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/088.S.C.Shooting(cont.2)=5-98.jpg

Anonymous neighbor’s account of the shooting.

Silva on the failure to make the ballot for saving the Pelton St. Homeless Garden & struggle for ballot support for Sleeping Ban Initiative.

Alley, Button St. resident and neighbor of the Andrus family, on police conduct and its risk to 100 children living nearby.

Salinas City Council bans nighttime peaceful sparechanging in ordinance modeled on a Santa Cruz law.

The June 22, 2023 show is a Flashback to June 4 2017 which includes:        

+++   [2017] Phone interview with the crackdown on Keith McHenry’s tabling at City Hall during Council meetings.

+++    [7-17-2010] Flashback within the flashback to 2010:  Bathrobespierre fields a panel of in-studio guests around the PeaceCamp 2010 [PC2010] event that began two weeks before with a PC2010 founder and attorney Ed Frey, PC2010 media mogul Curbhugger Chris Doyen, and long-time housing advocate “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster.
+++      The PC2010 panel discusses the lack of bathrooms for rich and poor downtown.
+++   Free-wheeling FRSC broadcaster exchanges phone quips and queries with the panel.
+++     Curbhugger Chris challenges Mayor “Riot Act” Rotkin to deal with hate crimes & the Sleeping Ban, reports on the overwhelming needs and determination of PC2010 protesters.      

+++    Bathrobespierre and Company discuss upcoming anti-homeless measures at City Council  https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2010/07/27/flier_7-13_city_council_flier.jpg (“Old Myths, New Laws: Poor-Bashing in The Depression.  3 More Strikes Against the Homeless.   City Council Crams Cartload of Crud on Afternoon Agenda”)(https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/07/26/18654725.php PeaceCamp2010 Marches to City Hall)

The June 18, 2023 show includes:      

+++  [6-17] FNB meal interviews: Helema Hamm on portapotty paucity and other perils for unhoused women      

+++  Musemaster Mel Nunez calls for restoration of Red Church Mondays and remembers Dan Ellsberg—died two days ago.
+++   Clearskies Cat, Free Guide worker, on the Tier 3 Oversized Vehicle program (all filled up!) at the Armory             

+++   Staccato Sammy challenging the activist narrative             

+++   “Call ’em Out” Claire with flyers and bullhorn leads pickets demanding freedom for Maya and Sebastian, court-napped children       maya.and.sebatian on Instagram.                 

 +++    “Jumbalaya” Joy and “Ready to Roll” Reggie present a Santa Cruz Cares plea for Oversized Vehicles to Westsiders: https://www.youtube.com › watch?v=HinlTmLlk5g              +++    Musical biography of David Rovics early years on All My Days at https://drovics.podbean.com/e/all-your-days-interview-part-1/    +++    Flashback Fury to March 1994 in front of the Bookshop Coonerty (aka Bookshop Santa Cruz) featuring Jerry, Steve Sullivan, Stephen Bender, and a Raging Neal Coonerty as well as Jerry and Gary on the Phoenix Project (city-mandated Phoenix, AZ encampment)

The June 15, 2023 show is a collection of 1994 Flashbacks which includes:

• [March 1, 94]  Keith McHenry, Kathren Marsh, Greg Price, Janice, Robert Norse on the many pretexts used to deny Food Not Bombs Health and Park permits as well as Bathrobespierre’s Food Trial conviction earlier in the year.
• [March ’94]  News clips of the protests against Neal Cooerty’s sitting and sparechanging bans
• [March ’94]  Darrell Alan Gault (“Dag”) and guests denounce & debate protests against Coonerty’s anti-homeless laws
• [April -94]   Some of KSCO’s “Saturday Special” with then-Mayor Scott Kennedy defending the anti-panhandling law and more. 

The 6-11-23 Show includes:

• Wes White and various homeless activists confront the Salinas City Council and the Monterey County Board of Supervisors:  Salinas/Monterey County CA Homeless Union Express Needs to the Jurisdictions, Look to Pass SB 567  youtube.com/watch?v=d6M8rlbYTfE&t=23s 
• Jesse Challenge from Berkeley’s Chess Corner, Part 2:  Downing Trees in People’s Park Doomed Equitable Housing There
  
• Reggie Meisler on the modified Oversized Vehicle Ordinance coming up at Shitty Council 6-13
• Quiver Watts, San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness editor of the homeless publication Street Sheet,  on the S.F. struggle
• Scope-It-Out Scott Graham mucks the mud of the upcoming Shitty Council meeting

The Flashback to 5-24-2015 includes: 
Lucero Luna, fiery local and traveling activist, translates some of the show into Spanish as co-host and commentator

Bathrobespierre on Vending and “Free Speech Zones” downtown

Doc Mike on the first 24-hour forbidden-to-park-except-by-permit on the streets near the Homeless (Lack of) Services Center [HLOSC]

D.J. Merlin on Salinas leading into a discussion of police body cameras pro-and-con”

Push-em-back” Pat calls cop higher-up’s to deter beat cop bullshit

Courney Hanson opposing solitary confinement for juveniles

Georgia Murphy on sheriff racial discrimination [Nov 2, trespass ticket for sitting at the bus stop]

Mayor Don Lane (“Gone Lame”) questioned about the Public Work’s 24-hour homeless parking ban near the HLOSC

Doc Mike Grills City Manager Martin Bernal”Friend to the Famished” Phil Posner confronts Parks & Rec Boss Danette Shoemaker on a trial camp in the parks & open bathrooms

Making Contact: Dehumanization Throughout Time to Justify Slavery and Ethnic Cleansing

The June 8, 2023 show includes:             

+++      [throughout the show] selections from Peggy Seeger’s vinyl Familiar Faces      

+++   [6-5] Hijacking homes for Hiway 9 survival refugees: Kazoo on conditions in the Funding Matters “Paul Lee Loft” where he’s staying after the demolition of his home and property a week or more ago.
      +++   [6-5] Lawseeker Laura urges Kazoo and Derek to sue for loss of property, demand replacement of worker Jeremy Leonard whose actions allegedly facilitated the destruction of their property.
             +++      [6-5] Refugee, musician, and disabled activist Sonny Lopez on police evictions removing camper property as “debris”, losing his instruments, ID, and other vital items.
      +++   [6-4] Calvin Moss, homeless advocate and researcher, in Joshua Tree and Los Angeles on sweeps in Palm Springs, Banning & NomadLand.
             +++      [6-4] Peggy Lee Kennedy, Moss’s colleague and Venice Justice Committee activist, on L.A. City Council corruption and bigotry.             +++      [6-7] Jesse, sidewalk chess club organizer on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, on pressure against Chess Corner and other gentrification ghoulery there.

The 6-4 Show includes: 

• [5-29]  Chat with Robert Woodleaf on the Monday taping off of the 2^nd hillside section of the Pogonip Hiway 9 encampment and life in the Paul Lee Loft for housing seeker Kazoo.
  
• Woodleaf on the many residents of the area and the failure of alternate housing/shelter alternatives
• [5-29] Kyle and Maya from City on a Hill Press (up at UCSC); Sharpsight Suzanne praises city worker Jeremy Leonard, critiques police sweeps.
• “Stay the Course” Steve Conover on the disability discrimination up at the Armory
• [6-3]  Sentry and strummer Steve of Food Not Bombs on unexpected personal community support.
• [6-1]  HUFF meeting info exchange prompts investigation and outreach for those under attack near Hiway 9.

Flashback to December 11, 2011:

• Troublesome Thomas, Bathrobespierre Robert, and Crowsnest Coral on the future of the Occupy Santa Cruz movement
• Silver-tongued Steve Pleich seeking Injunctive relief to restore access to the Occupy movement at night
• Attorney Ed Frey’s account of his arrest the previous week at Occupy
• D.J. Embryo and Bathrobespierre discuss the use of force—however “rule-compliant” in organizations and Occupy.
• “Dead On” David Silva thanks Occupy for saving his life.
• “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry in Taos, reporting on his experiences with many Occupy’s around the country.
• “The Real Definition of Terrorism” by Glenn Greenwald
• SCPD Chief Kevin Vogel makes City Hall grounds and offices at noon a “no go” zone and holds Alex Darocy without charges
• 8 cops versus 2 bicyclists just outside City Hall
• Anson Krekler: Million Dollar Blues; Dreamcatcher:  Occupy Santa Cruz’s San Lorenzo Park Annex removal on Honey, the last holdout.
• Reports from the Forbidden Zone on 12-9-11—Camille and Abbi challenging the 7 pm curfew law on a cold night.  
• Noah of Occupy on the 5 arrested in the San Lorenzo Park sweep defending the homeless encampment
• Tom of the Occupy the Sanitation Committee on the closing down of the portapotty.