The Sunday January 23, 2025 show includes:

+++  [1-6] Jesse of the Berkeley Sidewalk Chess Club on the getting straight news on the Gaza genocide

+++  Jesse on the local City Council’s complicity and corruption in the Gaza slaughters

+++  [throughout] A History of the World according to David Rovics beginning with “Song for the Eureka Stockade” , commentary: “The Eureka Stockade uprising in Australia”.

+++  Jesse on Apec Security’s attacks on him for challenging the strangulation of People’s Park

+++  Jesse on the problems of mixing satire and comedy with the tragic Gaza genocide

+++  Jesse on AI and legacy media censorship around Gaza

+++  [1-11] Upcoming Santa Cruz City Council meeting analysis by “Scope-It-Out” Scott Graham

+++  [1-10]  “Troublesome”  Thomas Leavitt A New Small College Instructor on Poverty Times in Santa Cruz and Arizona

+++  [1-11]   “Deep Heart” Drew Writes the Wealthy & the Woe-struck on the same Page

+++  Felix on Prop 36; Greg on the Fungus Festival & Cheap Meals Around Town;

+++   Flashback Summary

The Flashback to February 10, 2008 includes: 

+++  Flash within a Flash: 1999—Jerry Henry held for trial on $100,000 bail

+++  [occasional music by Mike True throughout the show]

+++  Eric, Vice-Chair of the City’s Measure K (“Lowest Enforcement for Private Over-21 City Use of Marijuana”)

+++  Bathrobepierre menaced by Sheriff’s Deputy Smith

+++  John on marijuana rights and police terrorism

+++  “Peaceful protesters prevail at parking lot #4 despite the foolish 15 minute provocateur!” (https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/02/09/18478068.php?)

+++   Conversations to the beat of the Drum Circle Successful Protest

+++   Mike True’s Account of his Successful $15,000 Lawsuit Against Butchie “Sticky Fingers” Baker

+++   Gillian Greensite’s critique of the SCPD’ poor record of rape kit closure

+++   HRO activist Bob Patton reports Scott and Elizabeth’s letter from City Attorney dismissing citations.

+++   Jhond Golder on the “Take Me to a Magistrate” law and fighting bad RV citations.

The January 9, 2025 show is a Flashback to January 17, 2008. 

It includes:

• L.A. ACLU’s Peter Bebring on the Jones settlement there
• Jail Interview with Paul Bolerice—a victim of abuse tasering
• Police raid on Drum Circle #4
• Felton Interview on the outdoor patio with Ben Foose
• https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/16/18472946.php?show_comments=1#18473190  Alert—Drummers Being Hassled at Farmer’s Market

The January 5, 2025 show includes:

• [various spots throughout]  Historical songs and commentary from A History of the World According to David Rovics beginning with “Ballad of Lachlan Macquarie”
• “Kill the Poor 2.0” –by Bob McCloskey Community Alliance (Jan 2025)–report from Fresno, CA
• “Jambalaya” Jaya, “Hurricane” Helga, & others at the 1-2-25 HUFF meeting on the police encampment demolition at the Library parking lot
• Helga’s outrage and Nutcracker Nick on street and legislative solutions
• Helga- sweep schedules and Izzy on Funding Matters (150 Coral St.) services (limited to clients)
• Stefanie (Parking Lot resident)’s report on the recent 12-30 report
• New Years Day at the Town Clock—report from Sasha, Izzy, and K. McHenry

The Flashback to June 3, 1996 includes:

• Eulogy for homeless activist and heroine Linda the Lark Edwards: Flash within a Flashback to one of her last interviews May 27, 1995 on the murder of Berkeley People’s Park activist Rosebud De Novo by police
• The Angry Stanford Reverand May 1996
• May 16 S.F. Bathrobespierre hearing where both prosecution and defense agreed on no jail, but judge overruled both.

The Flashback to July 12, 1996 includes:

• Host-while-Bathrobespierre-in-jail “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson interviews Deborah Johnson on her fight to reclaim 3 children
• Johnson interviews me and prison guards from San Francisco County Jail #8

The January 2, 2005 show is a Flashback to June 5, 2005. 

It includes:

• 2-hour interview with Robert Lederman, President  of Artists Response to Illegal State Taxes, on his NYC legal fight for the rights of street vendors, performers, & wanderers to sell art or simply be there.
• Julia Vinograd’s voice and verses from Bubbles and Bones (1995)
• Ron Lau speaks about the City’s Redevelopment Agency to seize his Pacific Ave. property
• Caregiver & Cannabis advocate Jim Lohse of area20.com: follow the law!
• Andrea Tishler of Compassion Flower Inn on Coral’s WAMMM‘s finally pressing City Council to extend its medical marijuana distribution allowance.

The Sunday December 29, 2024 show includes:

• https://www.marinij.com/2024/12/13/novato-tightens-camping-rules-enraging-advocates-for-homeless/
• https://www.marinij.com/2024/12/23/novato-vigil-march-held-for-homeless-residents/
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/marin-judge-backs-novato-in-homelessness-ruling/ar-AA1wgaVu
• https://duckduckgo.com/?q=A+History+of+the+World+according+to+David+Rovics&atb=v315-1&t=chromentp&ia  [music and commentary by David Rovics at various points throughout the netcast]
• [12-23-24] Food Not Bombs activist Keith McHenry on the City’s Funding Matters memorial and the FNB memorial—both in honor of the unhoused who died in 2024.  https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/12/30/18871791.php
• [12-21-24] Voices from the Town Clock Memorial: “Just Call Me” George, “Lawseeker” Laura, “Katzenjammer” Keith, “Earthbound” Eagle, & “Dedicated” Drew.
• https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/family-relationships-20000060.php I Cut Ties With My Parents; I Don’t Regret It, & Here’s Why”
• [12-26-24] Vets Hall Xmas Meal Chatter Outside: Robert “Harley” Jackson, Stevie Ray, Babushka, Robin, Gene Dulles,
• [12-28-24] Sara R. on getting work while homeless, Christopher Robinson, Xavier on getting back his Santa Cruz house

The Flashback to July 31/August 1, 2005 includes:

• Street Smatterings: Doe-eyed Deon, Gregarious Greg, Beachside painter John, “Just My Luck” George,
• Phone interview with Stephen Pearcy fighting censorship of his anti-war soldier displays on his home.
• SAFE (Society for Artistic Freedom and Expression) #71
• Danielle Hemingway on her Skateboarding/Loitering under an Alcove in the Rain/Stop sign violation sojourn at the jail farm.
• Pebbles Trippet’s poetry, conversation with Greenway’s Lisa Molyneux, Andrea Morgan, Anita Henri

The Thursday, December 26, 2024 show is a Flashback to July 21, 2005 including

• San Diego’s free radio station www.pirate969.org, raided by the FCC 
• “BattleReady” Bob Patton of the Human Rights Organization on the local SEIU‘ssupport for its pro-Sleeping Ban Park Ranger employees. “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson[BJ] joins. 
• BJ Excluded from FRSC and Indybay Collective
• Attorney “Catnip” Kate on FRSC “censorship”
• Norse Just Censored & Arrested at City Council?
• “Steadfast” Steve Argue on SEIU Bad Leadership
• “Catnip” on the Jerry Henry case

The Sunday December 22, 2024 show includes:

• https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2024/12/04/watsonville-commission-overrides-appeal-of-downtown-homeless-micro-village-plan/
• [periodically throughout] Dylanesque songs by Jesse Welles
• Most of the December 19hop-a-long HUFF meeting:
•       +++  Call 831-216-8239 to record incidents of anti-homeless abuse and hold government thugs and poverty pimps accountable.
•       +++  Rockhardo reports on being assaulted in his camp
•       +++  Law-watcher Laura reviews Troy Mason’s Small Claims Court hearing 
•       +++  Prep for Trustseeder Thomas’s truthful Tips for those outside
• Hawk on the recent police “safety” break-up of his campsite
• Dreamcatcher’s positive look at the Armory long-term shelter

The Flashback to September 11, 2005 includes:

•  [9-2]  Tom Hatch busted for medicinal marijuana;
• Bus Driver Ari on Mayor Rotkin’s “Two Hats”.
• Tina of San Jose’s area420 on lack of marijuana outreach
• SLV student Chris at 18 is anti-Iraq war
• [9-3] Blueshirt Bully P. Bechtel Bombards Bicyclists
• “Scope it Out” Scott on Sleazy Developer behavior
• Jeremy the Jeremy on Bench Removal near Union Grove
• Eli Williams—the street singer and pro-Iraqi war soldier
• [9-9]  Parolee & S.C. suspect Mad Mike the Wonder Dog’s prison tour
• Street eyes: Michael of Catalyst, Visionsong Valerie
• Benchsitter beggar David Loftstead on S. California
• Merryweather Mike’s stylings
• Lean on phony probation jailing
• Lisa Molyneux on imminent opening of Greenway
• “Dangerous” John T. of the Human Rights Organization
• Upcoming City Council in View: BB’s report
• Skidmark Bob on New Orleans; Pat Kittle on crappy homeless campsites; Visionsing counters
• Andrea Tishler on allowing S.C. adults to use grass
• Bad Cop, No Doughnut weekly show for 9-5-05

The December 19, 2024 show flashes back to September 15, 2005 and includes:

• San Lorenzo Park housed neighbors on Dakota Street demand class cleansing of the park at night in speeches to City Council.
• Roughrider Richard Quigley denounces Karen Hibble, “unelected queen of Aptos”, and the attacks on Jerry Henry, street pastor to the youth at Rancho Del Mar.
• Quigley’s biker court battle with the many riding-with-a-non-regulation helmet tickets.
• SAFE singers versus acrylic painter with toxic materials
• Very Brief Brozda update on his electoral campaign

The Sunday December 15, 2024 show includes:

• https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/busing-people-homelessness-relocation-programs-19949400.php
• Reggie Meisler on his involvement in the last few years of RV survival camping here
• https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/12/15/meditations-on-a-six-year-old-amputee-crawling-through-gaza-with-the-help-of-a-roller-skate/
• Meisler on the ineffectiveness of symbolic protest against the Gaza genocide and Santa Cruz’s treatment of its unhoused refugees
• https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2024/12/05/guest-commentary-volunteer-at-thanksgiving-meal-was-unable-to-find-shelter-help-for-elderly-woman/
• [12-14] Conversations under the Food Not Bombs canopies against the rain & wind
  • Stefanie Ross on police banning her from all parking lots.
  • Christopher Picard, on his eviction from the Armory, his struggles with rumored 12′ x 12′ rest spaces on the sidewalk.
  • “Determination” Drew on the merciful break in the weather.

The Flashback to October 23, 2005 includes:

• Shoplifting as a healthier way of life—socially and individually.
• Iraqis support attacks on Allied troops story
• [9-28-05]  Bike activist Micah Posner supports avoiding a fence at the Ocean View Path by removing brush cover for the homeless from East Cliff to S. Branciforte.
• Tim O’Hearn , Union Rep for In-Home Care Workers attacks Councilmember Madrigal and Union boss Cliff Tillman
• [10-19-05] Robert, Julie, and Ian—Tales of Police Pressure
• Caveman on History of Afflicting the Comfortable 
• Jason Pasquale’s Account (and Caveman’s) of his arrest
• Andrea Meagan on Cop Beating
• Brozda’s Latest Barnstorming and Banning
• James Patrick Dolan 4^th at SAFE
• Pebbles Trippet of the Medical Marijuana Patients Union on a Mendicino murder trial
• Scott on Camp Break-up; Gregarious Greg songsinging
• Skidmark’s Pop Defect show on the City’s Swipe at Scavenging Recyclers
• [10-16-05]  

Thursday December 12, 2024 show flashes back to October 13, 2005. 

It includes:

• In-studio guest and Metro Bus Drivers Strike critic Paul Marcelin Sampson bat back and forth calls and opinions of the Strike.
• SAFE singers on the loose singing and chatting
• Augusto Sandino, Emery Ross and other callers clash with Sampson on the strike
• Discussion of the Contract rejected
• Andrea Morgan praises the new Greenway Medical Marijuana club
• Richard gets ticketed for Sugar his dog after a snooze on the sidewalk