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)

The February 9, 2025 Show includes:

• [throughout] “A History of the World According to David Rovics” cont.
• https://lookout.co/after-santa-cruz-encampment-sweep-that-resulted-in-arrests-homeless-advocacy-groups-decry-cruelty-and-shame/
• HUFF & People’s Aid statement denouncing the 1-27 Coral St. raids
• Wes White: Video interview(s)  “Serve & Protect”- CHP/CalTrans Sweep Victim Roberto Martinez in Salinas, CA [with a written transcript] at  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EUEtxCg52Y  [See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7AzCOJvypE&t=15s]
• https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20250122/281775634827212
• https://stephendunifer.substack.com/p/free-radio-liberating-the-commons?r=qrofv&triedRedirect=true
• Communitarian Cooper on high wind attacks on encampments
• Joseph Earl Taylor III on the land lord problems for Section 8 folks
• Former photographer Chip, FNB worker’s appeal, Eagle’s update
• Erin praises Armory with its “manageable rules”.

The Flashback to April 24, 2016 includes:

• [4-21] Pacific Avenue Protest in Solidarity with Arrested Freedom Artists Joff Jones and Alex Skelton against Blue Boxes & Move-Along Law: Serena Johnson
• Gary Currey, called a “nigger lowlife” as she accustomed him for sleeping after police pulled the sleeping bag off of him
• Alex & Joff Jones report on their “Art is Free” recent arrest; Ellie Wooly comments
• Earlier Joff interview from August 2015 on an earlier arrest
• S.C. County Cannabis Choices Committee Nick Bulaich’s Danger Report from Cannabis-Negative Board of Supervisors
• Demolition of the First They Came for the Homeless camp outside the Berkeley Main Office
• Red Church & Pacific Ave Interviews: Mary Jane; Dreamcatcher, Colin, +
• Toby Nixon’s You-Tube Channel
• Freedom SleepOut #41 Interviews
• Wes White’s Extensive Salinas Update on the Month-long Sleepout outside their City Hall…and more! 

The February 6, 2025 show is a Flashback to July 3, 2016. 

It includes:

• Elijah Dickson on work challenges for a street-ster
• “Candlelight” Kim on Post Office Steps Sitting Ban
• [at different points in the show] old Phil Ochs songs by the Phil
• Joe Pace on John Stewart housing and Kim Basket ticket penalties
• Free Radio broadcaster Nancy G and Nancy E. on problems of MHCAN
• Reports of SCPD’s Deeg—reportedly pushing to restrict MHCAN
• Shaheen–Sidewalk sketch artist doing caricatures on Pacific Avenue
• Alex and Joff—-Artists occasionally in costume displaying their paintings, the day after the new anti-artist city law went into effect.
• Matthew the outdoor Sculptor still untouched by police
• Ronee the Flower Lady, Grace, Josh, Lotus, and other voices 
• Keith McHenry on the one-year anniversary of the Freedom Sleepers
• [6-26-16]”Life First” Laura Boyd on New Life Center, Winter Shelter closure & more; Merryweather Mike, & Julie Schaul: Coastal Commission Deadline
• Joseph Taylor III on elevator sleeping
• [6-28] Two First Alarmsters and a CSO cop vs. a woman with a puppy sitting next to John the panhandler
• James gets a $400 ticket for having banned wares. Darien Mitchell makes $5 in a full day+a ticket without a warning for “sitting too long”.

The February 2, 2025 Show contains:

• Looking back and forward at recent and upcoming events
• [throughout] More from episode 3 of A History of the World According to David Rovics
• [1-27-25]  At the site of the Coral St. tent demolitions with Funding Matters [FM] clipboardsters and People’s Aide volunteers providing drinks & snacks.
• One victim’s mixed account; an anonymous employee of FM giving background.
• Athena and Manny give a skeptical but partly hopeful view on FM’s “help” in the current sweep.
• Robert R., a former resident of the Armory gives a critical view. 
• https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/01/30/new-fremont-camping-ban-could-leave-homeless-residents-with-no-place-to-go/  https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/02/fremont-ordinance-aid-abet/
• https://apnews.com/article/target-diversity-equity-inclusion-minneapolis-civil-rights-850701b0126bd9417dd488c72f5f8a81
• [1-26] Julie contemplates a return to the Armory
• Cooper’s report on sub par extreme winter shelter  
• Tony on hassles in San Francisco against Food Not Bombs there
• Lyrical Eye (aka Isaac Collins) poetizes on the spot
• Lito and Thumper the cat & Drew
• Candlelight Kim Argula: the 1992 homeless occupation of the Heiner House.
• 
  The flashback to February 16, 2012 includes:
• Introductory exclamations from Bathrobespierre and Free
• “Scope It Out” Scott speculates on the Santa Cruz Eleven [SC11] arrests
• Audio of Norse on Sandra Leigh’s Community TV show on SC-11
• Gary Johnson, 647i false prosecution
• Protest and the yellow police tape around Wells Fargo bank
• Tales of Officer “Grim Grip” Garner
• Paul on the closed S.C. Vets Hall
• [2-12] Occupy S.C. General Assembly at steps of the main post office
• Street voices: Barr, Dreamcatcher, Richard
• Lengthy chat with Father Joel Miller inside the Red Church free meal
• Former mayor Gone Lame (aka Don Lane) at UCSC: “Homelessness”

The Thursday January 30, 2025 show is a Flashback to Jan. 26, 2017 with:

• Bertha G. (aka Rebecca), a Pilates teacher on vehicular living
• 2017 Trump on the value of torture as an interrogation technique
• SCPD’s boss Kevin Vogel withholds videos of the SCPD Sean Arlt slaying
• [1-19] Swift-tongue Steve Pleich at the Red Church defends Winter Shelter management and Krohn’s “kitchen cabinet”.
• Katzenjammer Keith’s analysis of Freedom Sleep-Out #81

The January 26, 2025 Show includes:  

• Upcoming sweeps and freeze alert—limited emergency shelter 
• Reports of recent second-hand accounts of over-policing

The Flashback to April 27, 2008. It includes:  

• Flash within a Flash to June 28, 1988—Norse, Rocky Stone, others are Laird City Council’s Oral Communications
• Suzanne, “Buffalo” Razor Ray, Danny on dealings with Chief Ranger Wallace
• Phone calls from near and far: Horsewoman and German Nick F.and Jhond Golder on speaking legal sense to illegal “no parking” signs.
• WAMM’s April 20 Walnut lot Shin-Dig behind Bad-Ass Coffee
• Bad-Law Buster David Busch from Ontario Tent City
• Guitarist C.J. Stock recently out of the hospital

Bathrobespierre’s Broadside’s Thursday, Jan 23, 2025, show  Flashes back to April 20, 2008  with Micah Posner & Ed Davidson on the hit-and-run killing of Chris Rock on Mission St. + Mayor Coonerty’s new Council  censorship

The January 23, 2025 show is a Flashback to April 2008.  It includes:

• [throughout] songs from the satirical Uncle Bansai group
• In-studio guests Platypus, Utah, and Goat tell of the service dog standoff
• Mayor Clampdown Ryan Coonerty’s new Administrative agenda speech restrictions
• Mama Shannon aka Mrs. B. and Bert Glick’s poetry.
• Julie and doggie Duchess
• 4:20 grass festivities
• Chief Ranger Wallace’s depredations.
• Shane Maxfield’s audio on Metro Guard probs
• UCSC Social Worker vendor and SAW (Students Against War) report.
• Micah Posner and others on the hit-and-run of bicyclist Chris Rock

The January 19, 2025 Show is a Flashback to January 27, 2008. 

It includes:

++++More contemporary accounts available at:  https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/23/18474460.php?show_ (Taking Back the Tarmac–Santa Cruz Reclaims People’s Parking Lot #4)   See also https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/25/18474803.php?show_comments=1#18474910  (Beat It!  This is Our Parking Lot) and  the earlier https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/16/18472946.php?show_comments=1#18474787 (ALERT: Drummers Being Hassled at Farmer’s Market).

++++  Intro and commentary on the Drum Circle struggle (“Taking Back the Tarmac”) by Bathrobespierre Robert and Troublesome Thomas.

++++   Audio interviews and narrative at the Circle: Jade, Mary’s arrest, Tim Rinker, Bob Pickenpa, Suzanne, 

++++   Bumbloodier Baskett’s new “thou shalt not sleep” policy.

++++   [1-26] Bob P.’s arrest account where his finger broken  ++++   Spook and Mandy on fake LSD sales, [9-12-07] Jason Pasquel, Shane vs. Ranger Wallace,

++++   Community TV programmer and former Citizens Police Review Board Mark Halfmoon on Triple-Fine Zone Behavior in Halloween 2007. 

++++    Brian Parquette on SCPD violation of Measure K

++++    George Carlin’s expanded “7 Dirty Words” Routine

The Thursday January 16, 2025 show is a Flashback to February 17, 2008 and features:

• Prop 21 (criminalizing youth 14+ as thought they were adults) and Judge Akao’s anti-21 speech
• Rose, San Diego Street Light writer, on the killing of homeless William Anthony Miller, Jr. 
• San Jose cops arrest 23 of us at City Hall by Mayor Ron Gonzalez under Community Homeless Alliance Minister [CHAM]
• “Dead-on” David Silva presses Rolling Sleepfast, weekly Press Conference, Council call-in
• Wanda C. Knight back on 5-31-98 punished by Boardwalk Seaside Security Guards, now facing 11 car stops in 6 weeks in Felton.
• Bathrobespierre’s 1^st visit to Dolphin-Lee in 1 ½ year after City sent in inspectors; landlord Phil Baer’s reaction to complaints.
• Baer’s call stop demolishing 63 units of affordable housing for 50 units at a price that consumes next 5 years of affordable housing $
• Attorney Ed Frey on “merciless” Mercy Housing in Soquel mobile home park relocation for 6 months—tax dodge for rich Catholics