Thursday’s April 27^th 2023 show is a Flashback to November 25, 2004. 

It includes: 

• Introduction to/Summary of the Flashback
• Vet’s Hall Thanksgiving Line seeing “End the Sleeping Ban” Initiative sign-up’s:  Gene—Sleeping Ban criminal, Victoria Camp–Paradise Vet, Maria—on streets 3 years ranger busted campsite, Kim from Arcata,  Chuck on Arcata’s Endeavor Shelter, Anonymous “Things Have to Change” guy, Brent busted under a bridge—not “out of sight, out of mind” enough, Mark ousted from Felton, 
• Vet’s Hall Meal Chat:  Susan Durst, Becky Johnson, Preacher Mike, and Scope-it-Out Scott
• https://www.counterpunch.org/2004/11/25/why-i-hate-thanksgiving-2004-version/by Mitchell Cohen: 
• Santa Barbara poet, activist, and authority-watcher Peter Marin on Shelter Resistance from the “Service Providers” rather than the Politicians; details of the struggle in organizing homeless resistance among supporters.
• Valerie Christy on guitar, playing a song she composed, “Continuum”

Likely HUFF Meeting Prospects 4-27-23   

  ++++  Priorities, Pass-Arounds, Placeholder Runthrough & Hand-Outs    

  ++++  Street reports; Encampment and Shelter Updates  

  ++++  Special City Council 4-25 Review : if anyone went.  

  ++++  Pre-Meeting Stop the Sweeps Check-In on Hiway 9 Report: Following Up  

  ++++  Reggie Meisler phone appeal and prep for OVO hearing before Coastal Commission 

  ++++  Capitola RV tenants struggle:  possible phone update.  

  ++++  Keith McHenry phone call and update: 

  ++++  Updating Laws: AB 920 (prohibiting discrimination based on housing status); SB 31 making it illegal to sit, lie, or camp within 1000′ 0f a daycare center, library, park or school; SB 47 expanding definition of “gravely disabled’ in Lanterman Petris (LPS) Act, making it easier to enforce involuntary and forced drugging and other “treatments”. 

  ++++  Petition management to restore Portapotty & Hand washing stations in dispersed survival camps; Ratner/Huffaker Visit.  Follow-Up?  

  ++++  Possible Reports from Pacific, Oakland, and S.F. on stopping sweeps 

  ++++  Felton’s FEMA Relief?  Helga’s Possible Update

  ++++  Friday 3-5 PM April 28^th Record Clearance Workshop 420 May Ave—also PD Clean Slate Day 

  ++++  Robbie Powelson: San Rafael Campcrushing Crackdown;  Camp Integrity Victory 

  ++++  Remembering Joe Pace of Food Not Bombs: 

http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  go to Latest Show either 4-27 or 4-30

  ++++   Friday 3-5 PM April 28^th Record Clearance Workshop 420 May Ave—also PD Clean Slate Day 

  ++++  Placeholder Reminders: Free Guide Verification, Mad Power Monitoring, Ticket Documenting, Board of Stupes, City’s Token Vehicular Lodging Programs. 

City of Santa Cruz – 831-420-5010   Mayor Fred Keeley  – fkeeley@cityofsantacruz.com  City Manager Matt Huffaker – mhuffaker@santacruzca.gov  Public Defender: 454-5300 

Police Chief  Bernie Escalante – bescalante@cityofsantacruz.com 

The Sunday April 23, 2023 Show includes:

• [David Rovics songs throughout, old and new]
• Curbwarmer Caricaturist Mike Quinn at his Pacific Avenue lamppost lamenting the lack of employment for the disabled
• Hiway 9 survival campsters Barbara Ann Delman on her former abusive landlord
• Unhoused refugee Jack Ryan Rodriguez on avoiding the hard lessons of the Benchlands.
• Tales of Police Shootings
• Parking Lot Punishment & other thoughts—report by Outdoors Alice
• Food not Bombs stalwart Eagle on Joe Pace and the St. Francis Soup Kitchen
• “Whip the Wicked” Wes White on Bright Spots and Bad Times in Salinas
• Song and Story of Khader Adnan, Palestinian hunger striker
• Racerunner Reggie Meisler’s Appeal to the Community to Unite Behind to Crush the anti-homeless OVO Law this May
• Santa Cruz City Council Update for the 4-25 Meeting: Blank check for military equipment for the police?
• More voices from Foot Not Bombs: Gary the Healer, Drew on Joe Pace, and Greg on the Armory—pluses and minuses.

Flashback to KSCO’s Saturday Special on May 16, 1992 featuring Jane Imler, Fred Grey, Robert Norse, Linda Edwards, and moderator Michael Zwerling.  The four in-studio guests field call-in questions from a homeless-hostile audience.

Flashback to the February 2, 2000 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show with co-host James “No Nonsense” Nay including:

• Mark More, former victim of trollbusters, snitched by Calvary Episcopal Church for walking on their property and arrested on warrants for peepee in public. open container, and bikecrime.
• In-studio guest.Frank “Pathblazer” Pucelik, former Citizens Committee for the Homeless  “Safe Haven” advocate, hired in May ’96 to be Director of the Community House project
  
• “Dead On” David Silva on the Rolling Fast & Taking the Sleeping Ban away from the Police to force Council to Create Safe Sleeping Zones
• Pucelik on the tangled trail he trod for advocating campgrounds.
• The elderly Mary Kourie evicted; James Nay’s account of the eviction.
• Skidmark Bob’s run-in with Sgt. Butchie Baker collecting shopping carts from homeless folks 
• Mary Kourie’s phone account of the aftermath of the eviction.

The April 20^th 2013 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:

• [throughout the show] Songs swiped from David Rovics website (thanks, David!) 
• “Cornerstone” Carol Denney, satirist, musician, and activist in Berkeley describes three victories for People’s Park
• Denney cont.: UC Chancellor still seeks to destroy the southside Park for phony “affordable housing”
• More Denney: The real answer for homeless housing: not tiny homes, dog sheds, or shelters, but vacant offices and residences
• Melissa, filmed by activist Melissa, on Camp Integrity in San Rafael, CA
• “Shout Out” Steve Conover or continuing abuses at the “Housing Matters” Coral St. poverty-complex.
• Jimmy Two-Guns on the Increasingly Hostile-to-the-Homeless Downtown Scene & Prison-like Armory Shelter
• Robert “the Hero” Woodleaf’s recent $400 ticket for resting near a bridge

The Sunday April 16 2023 show includes:

• [throughout] Songs by David Rovics from his website
• An elderly Felton woman reports FEMA and an abusive landlord put her on the streets:  Charlotte Cramer’s story.
• Indian nationalist Udham Ram Mohammed Sing Azad waits 21 years to avenge British imperialist Amritsar massacre
• Disability Rights California denounces the Care Courts, currently a favorite of the Santa Cruz City Council   https://www.disabilityrightsca.org/press-release/disability-rights-advocates-file-petition-challenging-the-constitutional-validity-of
• Snippets from the Care Court ad presented for an hour at the Santa Cruz City Council of April 14th
• Memories of Food Not Bombs host and helper Joe Pace, who recently died—from colleagues and his brother.
• Hotel living from a Coral St. refugee
• Varied sentiments from Hollywood, Ursa, and Guitar Joe
• Lyrical Eye Isaac Collins raps and ruminates about Santa Cruz
• Description of the upcoming Flashback

The January 18 1998 Flashback includes:

• Satirical songs from Mark Levy from his Sheroes/Heroes album (at various points)
• Attorney Catnip Kate Wells, five years organizer of the Maple St. Cannabis Buyer’s Club, on federal threats and a possible local response
• Activist scorn at the CPRB (Citizens Police Rah-Rah Board)’s final whitewashing of SCPD Officer Conner Cary murder of disabled homeless protester Happy John Dine with comments from Bob Lamonica, John Kaza, Vincent Lombardo, Robert Norse, Becky Johnson, Bob Patton, mainstream media, and more as they question CPRB Chair Bill Christie.
• Phone Interview with Becky Johnson of Santa Cruzans for Full Disclosure on CPRB’s coverup decision.
• Letters from Alex Darocy & Alex Southard to City on a Hill Press denouncing the CPRB findings.
• Phone Interview with radio broadcaster Mike Ackerman lamenting the CPRB process.
• Tony, Cannabis Club patient, asks questions about the CPRB.
• James Farmer  “On Cracking White City”
• Marco of the Tenants Rights Union of Santa Cruz on its recent activities
• Donna Deiss on a Boulder Creek tenant suffering from abusive landlord with ecoli in water supply.

The 4-13-23 show—a Flashback to 10-24-13—will include:

• Summary of the Flashback
• Phil Posner’s Pacific Avenue Sidewalk Protest on Shrinking Public Space for Vendors, Performers, and Gatherings: [10-19]  “Corkscrew” Tony, Paul Bernadino, Dennis Etler, Rus Manos, & others with Community Chatter at Food Not Bombs.
• Phone Interview with Fresno writer and activist Mike Rhodes on resistance to destruction of the Grain Silo/Canal Bank Encampment https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/10/23/18745312.php
• Rhodes article “City of Fresno Finds New Ways to Harass the Homeless” https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/10/09/18744608.php
• Rhodes article “Where Hope Goes to Die” https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/11/03/18745912.php
  
• [10-20] City Council’s Sidewalk Snatching—Reactions from the Sidewalk
• Brief Interview with Jim Cohen—the Juror who blocked conviction of homeless activists in 1996
  
• [10-21] Jack at the Red Church, recently hospitalized, on living out of a shopping cart 

The (relatively) current events section of the April 9, 2023 show features the 4-6 HUFF meeting with Bathrobespierre’s commentary:

• [throughout] musical breaks from David Rovics’ “Life at Earth Matters Farm Remix”
• Lawwatcher Laura C. reports on the “Public Safety” meeting of “Fast Lane” Fred Keeley, “Breadgiver Buster” Bernie Escalante & local homeless-hostiles; the April 1^st Fools Parade by Housing Matters; the Planning Commission’s vote on the Coral St. expansion, and more
• Brief phone comments by “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry on continuing meal, bathroom, shortages
•  RV-rights defender Reggie Meisler advises on how to enlist reluctant local Coastal Commission reps to stop predatory police and staff attacks on those living in their vehicles.

The October 24, 2010 Flashback includes:

• [at various points] Musical breaks from Cornerstone Carol Denney] 
• Last night of the Portapotty at PeaceCamp 2010 in front of city Hall with attorney-activist Ed Frey—moving from streets into the Courts
• PeaceCampsters  Art with Bathrobespierre’s narrative commentary
• “Deep Voice” on the Rental Inspection Ordinance rushed through the previous summer, harassment ticketing at Three Trees Lot on Westcliff Drive
• “Tough Road” Todd Hill, PC2010 supporter on the end of PeaceCamp 2010.
• Photographer Rick Dell; Uncle Ray on camping tickets from eager Parks and Rec ticketbots
• Lightcaster Larry on the Veteran’s Hall struggle
• Move-Along Law origin; new unattended tickets law passed recently
• Skidmark Bob on the controversial state marijuana Proposition 19
• Bob Noxious on KLSD radio hopes and tidbits
• Big Drum Brent encounters an “unreasonably disturbing noise” ticket
• Brief bits from Drum Circle Dave rants on
• Silver-Tongued Steve P. on UN Day
• Clint’s poetry prep for singing
• Ronee Curry with her Beans ‘n Burrito service on Pacific Ave.
• Quickies from Curbhugger Chris—a court update on his “illegal lodging” charge from PC2010 protest
• Travelin’ Tom Noddy on history of Street Performers Guidelines in Santa Cruz
• [10-20-10] Levee survivor John Valley on his theft lawsuit against the Sheriff’s Department for seizure of his shopping cart
• Making Contact:  the Proposition 19 [Legalizing Marijuana Somewhat]

Sound quality is very low.  If you can boost up the volume on your speaker, do so.
The June 21, 1996 Flashback includes: 

• Background and Context of the June 21^st Flashback as Bathrobespierre Robert checks in for a 2-month jail sentence for serving free food in San Francisco with Food Not Bombs [FNB]
• Speeches, Rage, and Revelry on the Steps of the Jail just before Bathrobespierre checks in
• Whittier activist on FNB arrests there, Mr. Twister (aka Corey MacDonald), Diamond Dave, & others
• Bathrobespierre’s report on the City Hall Sleepers Protest
• Perp walk into jail
• Report on day-to-day life in County jail by phone
• S.C. Revolutionary Coalition Speeches on June 20^th including Jim Cosner, Becky Johnson, Dragonsheart Dan Hopkins, & Others

The first 25 seconds of the show is somewhat garbled.  Apologies.
The current events section of the April 2, 2023 show includes:

•  [throughout the show]  Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl songs from Hot Blast
• https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/03/30/18855178.php  April Fools March to “End Homelessness”–flyer by Keith McHenry distributed at the “Housing Now April Fools Day March”
  
• Letter from Sheila Carrillo, originally printed in Bratton-on-line supporting Santa Cruz Food Not bombs
• https://lookout.co/santacruz/community-voices/opinion-from-community-voices/story/2023-02-14/santa-cruz-must-end-unlawful-harassment-of-people-living-in-vehicles 
  
• Coastal Commission boots out Yuppy appeal against Coastal Access and RV parking in Pacifica
  
• Questions for April Fools Day Fundraiser “Housing [i.e. Funding] Matters” boss Phil Kramer
• Brief snippets from the 4-1 Fools Day rally with Traffic Monitor Teri Schroeder; Jo of La Selva Beach Community Churches; Mayor Fred Keeley from the speakers podium; Warren Robles of the Quakers; Councilmember Sandy Brown; and others
• Drew of Food Not Bombs—brief update
• Minneapolis settlement on police brutality:  Background    https://www.fox9.com/news/minneapolis-police-city-violated-civil-rights-law-state-concludes  (April 2022)     https://www.fox9.com/news/minneapolis-city-council-police-settlement   ½ hour audio update on Minneapolis police department…(March 31, 2023) 
• Background on Santa Cruz Police Department Racial Profiling:   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/10/23/18763218.php    HUFF Releases Evidence of SCPD Profiling, Joins National Police Brutality Protests 
• Antioch  Amid FBI probe, police department refused to release use of force records
• Homeless supporter and activist Reggie Meisler  on his successful pressure forcing removal of anti-homeless-in-RVs signs and restripe-parking-places-in-order-to-exclude-large-old-vehicles

Note:  Some of the July 1 Flashback is repeated.  Fast forward past the repetition as necessary.   The volume on the Flashbacks is low and may need boosting. The Flashback to the July 1, 1996 show (Bathrobbespierre’s Broadsides from S.F. County Jail #8) includes:

• Beggarbacker Becky Johnson visits Bathrobespierre Robert Norse Kahn (#1472209) in Jail [6-28-96]
• History of Bathrobespierre’s Involvement with Food Not Bombs [FNB] (he was jailed for serving food in S.F.)
• Regrets about  the Jail stay
• History of other “Food Criminals” in Santa Cruz and San Francisco
• Life on the Glamour-Slammer.
• Santa Cruz Opponents of Homeless Human Rights
• The Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Radio Show
• Proposed Strategies to End the Sleeping Ban in Santa Cruz; the Ban in Berkeley
•  Why FNB won’t apply for nor accept permits nor go indoors.
• FNB struggle: scorecard of recent victories
• Why refuse probation when it’s offered?  Why an out-of-town judge called in for the case?

The Flashback to the July 5, 1996 show includes:

• More from Bathrobespierre in Jail—Part 2 of Interview with Perusha Obluda, Palo Alto activist and broadcaster.
• Obluda interviews Becky Johnson, discussing the S.C. Sleeping Ban, and Palo Alto Sitting Ban
• Social Service SubCommittee Meeting (5-25) with Mike Rotkin, Scott Kennedy, and Jane Yokoyama
• Phone Interview: “Mad Mike the Wonderdog” Balderos interviews Bathrobespierre Robert
• Sealed Letter from Bookshop Santa Cruz owner Neal Coonerty Improperly Impacts Court
• [7-3-23] Obluda’s intervew with Bathrobespierre Part One: Petitioning inside the jail for a Law Library
• Another Becky Johnson interview with Bathrobespierre in Jail; B.J. on Father Mike Marini’s Church Shelter

The July 16-2008 Flashback includes:

• Context and description of the 7-16-2015 flashback
• Blaming the Homeless-Futile and Brutal: at the Homeless [Lack of] Services Center [HLOSC] and in the Media
• Doc Mike on entrance requirements of the River St. mini-Shelter
• Final Sell-Out of the Santa Cruz Eleven Case: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/07/14/18774931.php:  “Case Closed—A Kind of Resolution”
  
• Courtroom Corridor Chatter with Gabreilla Ripley-Phipps & Others
• Free Radio Broadcaster Ren Tawil, host of Mideast Madness, on the media coverage of the 9-11 attacks
• Cleveland Eight Denounce Failure to Charge Criminal Cops in Tamir Rice Murder
• Cyrus Evincio Mertado of Boulder Creek—shot and killed by Santa Cruz County Sheriffs Deputies
• [7-13] Dave on the Impact of the Meal Shutoff at the HLOSC; Animal on Cutoff of Showers & Other Services
• Craig the Thor on his sidewalk rock artwork; Johnny C. gives up on opening up a pass-along pantry
• Leticia—35 year SC resident, forced out of her home by mold…. and other street reports