The Sunday June 2, 2024 show includes:

• Numerous little-known seldom-heard Phil Ochs songs throughout
• A casual chat with Food Not Bombs longtimer Keith McHenry on matters from Coral St. to Gaza
• https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/richmond-police-shooting-mcdonald-19465171.php
  
• https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20240521/281779929238624  [“NYC Mayor Defends Police Response after Officers Punch Protester”]
  
• “How Could Grants Pass v Johnson reshape Homeless Policy?”  
• Gritty-but-gracious Greg B. on the tagging and eviction of survival campers along the downtown San Lorenzo River
• Tent-dweller James Shane on life on the Coral St. sidewalk as police plan another mass refugee removal; Choey asking where money goes

The Flashback to June 7, 1995 includes: 

• The Flashback prerecorded because of Bathrobespierre’s sentencing hearing for serving free food without a permit in San Francisco
• Background of the S.F. harassment of Food Not Bombs and the homeless there
• The Santa Cruz Injunction against the City Hall Sleepers Protest Vigil:  Sunshine and Pat Ring face citation and arrest for “protruding sign”
• [6-4-96] Discussion with Frank Pucelik of the Citizen’s Committee for the Homeless
• Palo Alto homeless activist and KKUP broadcaster Perusha Obluda on that city’s anti-homeless “No Sitting on the Sidewalk” law
• Keith of San Francisco’s Food Not Bombs response to Bathrobespierre’s jailing for soupcrime & other recent SF events.
• San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness staff attorney Judy Appel on the fight against Mayor Brown’s anti-homeless Matrix program
• Former Homeless Daycenter Duchess on attacks on homeless people

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides’s May 30, 2024 show is a Flashback to February 19, 1996.  It includes: 

•  Bathrobespierre Robert and guest/co-host “Judgment Day” John Stewart on Santa Cruz anti-homeless laws and policies, plus the dangers of involuntary social service “help” for the “mentally ill”; plus a crique of “Brimstone” Barbara Riverwomon’s support for Jonathan Kuzol Rachel and Her Children.
• “Townwise” Tony Mello on the Berkeley Food Not Bombs gathering and the Fresno homeless scene.
• Riverwomon calls in
• Jerry of the Loose Cannon publication on government subsidizing homeowners over renters.
• Bathrobespierre Upstart Updates from the Road and the Sidewalk 

The May 23, 2024 show is a Flashback to July 22, 2001 and includes: 

• Bathrobespierre’s updates on recent and upcoming City Council plan to purchase the Lee property for the Nueva Vista project; refusal to put Councilmember Porter’s “Modify the Sleeping Ban” proposal on the agenda.
• Dustyhands Doug McGrath on the recent abuses of Officer Seiley (the younger) around Camp Paradise.
• Bud, the Street Spirit street paper vendor
• Skidmark Bob interviews Camp Paradise head Larry Templeton with a positive view; cordoning off of Hippie Planter at New Leaf market
• Bathrobespierre speaks to City Council on its [Failure to provide Portapotties] Politics 
• Stillstanding Steve Argue on sheriffs called to retag a tent in Riverview Campground for “blocking view” & a citation for “intent to urinate”
• “Dangerous” John Thielking discusses negotiations for bail for Justman Jim Costner for his Columbus statue smashing.
• Street Spirit update on Camp Paradise: https://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/2002-7-camp-paradise-vs-city-hall-001.pdf 

The Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday May 19,2024 show includes:  

• [throughout] New and old mostly “End the Gaza Genocide” songs from David Rovics 
• Wide-roaming” Wes White on Povery Pimpsters in Salinasland, a Sacramento victory for Camp Resolution, rundown on Monterey County human rights organizations and other tough and tender tidbits.  Check his you-tube videos on John Doe13K.
• Rovics on the pros and cons of song in protest:  https://davidrovics.substack.com/p/to-sing-or-not-to-sing
• https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/05/16/israel-descends-into-barbarism/
  
• Activist Allen Fischer on recent town protests against the Gaza genocide

The Flashback to April 1, 2012 includes:

• Background behind the prosecution of the Santa Cruz 11 [SC-11], a selected group of journalists and activists who were accused of conspiracy to trespass at the vacant 75 River St. Wells Fargo bank on November 30, 2011 
• Response to the arraignments of Bradley Stuart and Alex Darocy , 2 of the SC-11, a few days ago
• Mike Rhodes, Fresno activist and writer, from Chancey Park with Occupy Fresno’s encampment
• Patch, a homeless evictee, describes his 15-person encampment setting up at the publicly funded but privately owned park 
• Flashpoints on Pacific Radio with Dennis Bernsteen interviewing SC-11 Defendant Bradley Stuart Allen and his attorney Ben Rice
• Beggerbacker Becky Johnson, SC-11 defendant and reporter on selective enforcement at that prosecution: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/30/18710437.php?show_comments=1#18710470 [Johnson has extensive contemporaneous coverage at http://beckyjohnsononewomantalking.blogspot.com/ throughout 2012]
• Johnson on her brief and bully-heavy Sinister Sidewalk Singsong trial and conviction before Judge Almquist
• SC-11 Supporters gathering at the D.A.’s office as two of the 11 are set for trial; comments by Elise, Jim Waller, Free, and others
• Coralee on streetside Rotkin guitaring for Measure A for the Teen Center
• Other voices: Gary Johnson, Ed Frey, Linda Lemaster, David Silva, and Steve Pleich

The May 16, 2024 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show is a Flashback to September 1, 2005.  It includes: 

• Troublesome Thomas Leavitt as co-host; guests Lighthouse Linda Lemaster, Hot Rod, and Hawk
• Pros and mostly cons of one-time Mayor Christopher Krohn
• Hurricane Bush, [aka Hurricane Katrina] and bad times in New Orleans
• Hot Rod faces court order to sign himself into a psych ward or face camping, blocking the sidewalk, and other charges; “Backup” sings
• [8-17] SAFE [Society for Artistic Freedom & Expression] #81;  “Breakfast” the RV sleeper on a private lot was wakened at 5 a.m.
• [8-31] Hawk on his encounter with Officer Perry (“Robocop”)
• Fighting “odor” discrimination—a discussion
• Troublesome Thomas or Lighthouse Linda—naive or co-opted?–for their behavior as part of the Homeless Issues Task Force
• Letter from Arcata critiquing its Homeless Task Force

The Sunday Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show for May 12, 2024 includes:

• https://www.woodtv.com/news/michigan/homeless-woman-was-living-inside-michigan-rooftop-store-sign-with-computer-coffee-maker/
• RV supporters appeal to Coastal Commission: https://documents.coastal.ca.gov/reports/2024/5/Th14a/Th14a-5-2024-exhibits.pdf 
• ACLU, Disability Rights Coalition, Reggie Meisler, Santa Cruz Cares, and Jamie P. opposing Santa Cruz’s nighttime RV ban
• “Where’s the Music” Commentary and Song by David Rovics
• Macklemore’s Discussion and Excerpts from his “Free Palestine” song https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Macklemore+Palestine+song+lyrics&atb=v315-1&t=chromentp&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DZHxzia_4vN8
• Nutcracker Nick on UCSC’s “End the Bombing” Encampment & other homeless topics
• Madeline on the Garfield Park Apartments on troubled and troublefree times
• “Cage me not” Cooper denounces ongoing police/court corruption and harassment
• Caitlin Johnstone:  “When Opposing Radicalism is seen as Radical, Radicalism becomes a Moral Imperative”

The Flashback to August 31, 2000 includes: 

• Candidate and former political prisoner Steve Argue on his upcoming City Council campaign
• Beggerbacker Becky’s Update on CPRB police-pandering
• Berkeley’s Jolly Roger Comedy Troupe 1996 Satire
• “LAPD Can Be Sued for Racketeering, Court Rules”
• Roxanne Aquestapache at the Board of Supervisors on CPS Abuses
• “Scope it Out” Scott reviews the Shitty Council candidates & Violence against the Homeless
• “Dead on” David Silva on Supervisorial candidates
• Mike Schmidt, James Nay, Becky Johnson, and Robert Norse before the Board of Supes on homeless issues

The Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday May 9, 2024 show is a Flashback to April 21, 2005.  It includes:

• [4-15] First and most violent night of UCSC Tent University at the base of campus at California and High Sts. with police using torture compliance.  Sasha: victim of police violence; repeated claims that those facing police were returning tomorrow.
• Becky Johnson’s report on police rationale for breaking up the peaceful protest; Linda Lemaster on tent pulldown by cops
• Morning-after interview with Mayor Mike Rotkin supporting the SCPD behavior at UCSC Tent University [TU], withholding taser use info now
• Rotkin’s history supporting the Camping Ordinance and the Sleeping Ban and current police practices, accessible public records
• [4-21] Pac Avenue drumming and unicycle vignettes
• [4-22] UCSC student Ali on outside sleeping and treehome destruction
• TU organizer Will Parish on TU dispersal; Bridgetara Isis on the protest
• Victory of activist attorney Paul Sanford on the John Maurer “Fuck the Pigs” sign in his hat case after multiple harassment by SCCSO Bechtel.

The Sunday May 5, 2024 Bathrobespierre’s Broadside show includes:

• “Backstory” Brent Adams reviewing his work in struggling to expand social services over the last decade
• [4-28]  “Jus’ Tired” Jim on the day before City removal of the Harvey West survival encampment
• [4-28]  “Airborne” Athena
• The Listening Post:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4f9ulAAdJA on media smearing of student anti-genocide protests
• Jack Ryan Rodreguez—his history as a displaced sometime homeless activist
• [4-29]  Observing the police raid dispersing the  encampment.

The August 23, 2007 Flashback includes:  

• Background and objectives of the August 12-19 extended Homies for the Homeless [HfH]protest at the S.C. City Council Courtyard.
• https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/08/18/18441394.php?show_comments=1#18441626 [“Sleep Ban Fighters Regroup after Saturday Morning Police Raid”]
• Reviewing the record of the SCPD at the HfH:the few citations, the Sentinel smears, PR police professional Zack Friend hostile account
• Success and prospects of those fighting the Sleeping Ban
• [8-18] Christopher Williams on phony resource packets handed out by SCPD—Shane, Amanda and John Barnett, on scene with 25 Sleepers​
• Amisa on landlord restrictions about associating with “the homeless”
• In-studio guest Lighthouse Linda Lemaster, former chair of the Homeless Issues Task Farce
• Lee on his own psychological defensive weapons against anti-homeless harassment and Demone, Amanda, and John on the phony resource packets

The May 2^nd Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show is a Flashback to April 21, 2005.  It includes: 

+++Commentary, discussion, and interviews around the police attack and use of pain compliance holds to drag away peaceful students at the edge of campus in the Tent University event they invited the community to attend.              

+++   [4-18] Rationale for the Bay and High Sts. Tent U protest: Ben More of NBC questions a protester             

+++   Marsa on specific concerns; university’s bureaucratic response; interview with a woodsie; CD-prep as police cars arrive             

+++   Phone chat with Linda Lemaster, Roger Mench, Dangerous John      +++   Marijuana provider Anita Henry discussing the Santa Cruz city ordinance effectively barring medical marijuana centers for 5 years