On the program:

• Activist Alicia Kuhl actively documents and comments on SCPD harassing a survival camper in a City parking lot, the camper’s outraged but educational comments.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KxDCwc6gbA&t=6s & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHd9mdNdbQw&t=68s
  
• Dialogue with activists at the Mountain Community Resource Center protest February 7th: Nutcracker Nick, Hellraiser Helga, Tuflove Tucker, & others
• Food Not Bombs patron interviews: Roxroy on the Downtown Street Team, Kazoo on benefits of the Hiway 9 encampment vs. Armory/Overlook shelter; Marshall and Ted also hurl words.
• Vendor Shawn on police misinformation and threats against him for teaching gemology and gem vending for donation.
• Lion on the EBT card usable for hot meals until Feb 22nd
• https://www.mintpressnews.com/behind-the-headline/can-the-march-to-world-war-three-be-stopped-with-david-swanson/

The 2-12-23 Show includes:

• Recent (2-8) Santa Cruz Homeless Union meeting critique
• “Backstory” Brent’s harsh but penetrating assessment of the accomplishments of the Footbridge Services that he is discontinuing and the City & County governments’ failures
• San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness Street Sheet Newspaper co-ordinator Emmett House on his history there. Check out http://www.streetsheet.org/ or
• Activist Alicia Kuhl documents three cops harassing a homeless man in a tent in a city parking lot, lying to him about shelter space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHd9mdNdbQw & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KxDCwc6gbA
• HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) at the Mountain Community Resource Center picketing protest in Felton on 2-7 demanding homeless folks not be sent out from awnings into the rain and cold—their second visit.
• 2-9 Roxray on Santa Cruz Street Teams
• Kazoo compares live in the Sycamore Grove camps off Hiway 9 with the City’s Armory/Overlook facility
• Marshal Taylor and Ted Henshaw at the Food Not Bombs meal sound off
• 1-30 Shawn on recent police sweeps of parking lots and sidewalks in downtown Santa Cruz

Edited Flashback to 12-3-06         [description at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html#DEC06]

The show is archived at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html . 

Flashback to March 13, 2006: 

• A veteran of the 1980’s Berkeley Rainbow Village tent city on its origins and end. 
• City Commission for the Prevention of Violence to Women hears Sheila Coonerty and Matt Ferrell of the Downtown Commission on the Parking Lot Panic law with critical interjections by Norse. 
• Jake and Kathleen Estrella on an unexpected police bust 
• 3-16 Protest against the Panic law at the Downtown Commission’s meeting. 
• Alternate Public Defender Bernard Pregerson on the local Drug War; calls from Madison and Bob Lamonica.

The show archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html (go to Latest Show – 2/5/2023)

Recent and upcoming events and interviews on the show include:

• Bathrobespierre’s Update on the Mountain Community Resource Center‘s latest refusal to change its current “no sheltering outside at night” policy.  See “Follow-Up Protest Questions for Tuesday…” at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/02/05/18854157 .
• J.C. Orton, Street Spirit master vendor of Berkeley, on his years of work managing money and accommodations for unhoused and conserved clients.
• Ninja Cat, Berkeley People’s Park resident and activist, on his history there and the latest sweeps in town—including the destruction of the “Here, There” encampment.
•  https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/02/03/roaming-charges-80/
• https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/29/the-murder-of-tyre-nichols-and-the-death-of-police-reform/
• Bathrobespierre sings 2/3^rd of “Downtown” Santa Cruz style.
• Preview of the March 2013 Flashback
  

Flashback to March 31, 2013 show:

• See full description at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html under March 31, 2013.
• “Making Contact” show Transportation Justice Movement—organizing for accessible and cheap transportation for all.
• “You Call That News” for March 26th–“Free” is your host.
• Skidmark Bob Duran interviews Candlelight Kim Argula on origins of Free Radio Santa Cruz;  Tony Mello, Tom Shreiner &  Stephen Dunafer; Skidmark interviewed.

The show will archive at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .

The February 2, 2023 show includes:

• Felton’s Mountain Community Resource Center follow-up protest slated for 11 AM Tuesday February 7th.
• HUFF phone-call to Community activist Reggie Meisler on his latest documented demand that the SCPD stop harassing homeless vehicle-dwellers with unpermitted No Overnight Parking signs that lack the required Coastal Commission design permits.
• [1-31] Food Not Bombs activist Keith McHenry announces upcoming vigils for police-murdered victims Nichols Tyre [2-2], Manuel Estevan Paez Teran [2-3], as well as a renewed California Homeless Union meeting [2-8 4 PM RCNV]; the death of Blake last week frozen to death outside the Housing Matters fenced-off complex…and other updates
• Outside survivors Chris and Alice give their views of the mixed attitude of Felton’s community and police towards those outside.
• Democracy Now segment on Memphis police and fire department murder of Tyre Nichols [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqt0cHicyBs]

The January 29, 2023 Show includes:

• Various articles covering the police murder of Tyre Nicols in Memphis
• [1-22-23] Helga’s herstory of anti-homeless harassment at the Mountain Community Resource Center and elsewhere in Felton
• [1-23-23] Dreamcatcher and Arnie give rosy snapshots of the Armory shelter
• [1-23-23] Everett Trujillo’s Report Card on Sheriff and Povertypimp Behavior
• [1-27] Helga and Bathrobespierre Shoot Questions at Deputy Jason Dune.
• [1-28] Helga’s account of her 1 a.m. bust for videoing Everett’s false arrest.
  

The November 11, 1999 Flashback includes:

• Largely Critical Phone Interview with Councilmember Chris Krohn on the Shoulder Tap law, Rent Control, the rushed Dolphin-Lee Project, Council’s stalling on an independent lawyer for the Citizens Police Review Board [CPRB]
  
• Gail Levy, President of the Cabrillo Estates Mobile Home Owners Association [CEMHOA] in Capitola defending their rent control.
• FRSC broadcaster and CEMHOA resident Merlin weighs in on the issue.
  
• Van dweller Dennis Rehm, 14-times hauled to court for Sleeping Ban crime, on the Flory-Edwards-Jacobs defense and judicial collusion with police repression.
• Catnip Kate Wells, defense attorney, advises CPRB members on the right to use lawful force to resist a false arrest.
• Roughrider Richard Quigley on social cleansing harassment of Jerry Henry, counselor to street youth, charged with 11 non-violent misdemeanors 
• Battling Bob Lamonica on the corrupt past of Judge Art Danner
• Homeless recycler Verna Hernandez on City harassment of her work

The January 26 show is a Flashback  to the October 21, 1999 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show.  It includes:

• ^{Jeff, a White Separatist, gets grilled by pro-Mumia- abu- Jamal activists.}
• Aaron Birsch, convicted of assaulting the homeless Joe Barker, discusses his trial and the underlying charge. [Part 2 of an interview that began with the October 14, 1999 show]
  
• Skidmark Bob on his encounter with the Birsch anti-Mumia group and the background of the SC-5 trial, arrested in the Kosovo anti-war protest
  
• Vinnie Lombardo, aka the V man, a FRSC reporter and broadcaster, on his upcoming court hearing in the SC-5 case.
• [Oct 10, 1999] Homeless squeegee woman “Patches” describes Bad Times at Dominican Hospital.
• Rev. John Phillips of the Rainbow Cross Walk, going from S.C. to S.F.
• Becky Johnson on Sgt. “Sticky Fingers” Butchie Baker’s failure to find anti-homeless assailants.
• “City’s Take Hard Line on Homeless” by Blair Anthony Robinson and Mathew Barrows
• Original show is at  https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/BRB%2010-21-99%20Tape%201%20side%20A.mp3   &   https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/BRB%2010-21-99%20Tape%201%20side%20B.mp3

On the 1-22-23 show:

• Police killers of Pleasanton’s Cody Chavez get off without charges a year later: https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/01/07/pleasanton-officers-cleared-in-fatal-february-2022-shooting/
• City HomelessHarassers ignore court order, sweep camps: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Advocates-say-San-Francisco-is-still-sweeping-17706130.
• Weaker check on “Pretext Stops” passes in San Francisco:
  https://www.vera.org/news/ending-pretextual-stops-is-an-important-step-toward-racial-justice
• HUFF Quarterbacking after Mountain Resource Center protest
• Pro-Assange Belmarsh Tribunal Speaks Out Against Injustice

The January 19^th Show includes:

• [1-17] Titanium-tongued Tony Mendanza on recent roustabouts with law enforcement lunacy.
• Birdsong Whitebeard on the view from the Food Not Bombs free clothing table after the rain.
• More parking lot punishment— reports Threadbare Theodore
• [1-18] Harvey West Hangout Report from GreyStevens, Mickie Sabzar, and Spanky.
• [1-19] Moving on the Mountain Resource Center’s renegade roust policies: Kara, long-time Felton resident, gives her view
• Volunteer Food Line worker Shelly’s perspective.
• Anonymous report of a S.C. homeless death in the library
• Perspectives on the protest: Rita, Dave, Anonymous
• Inside the MRC in search of answers—still looking.

On the 1-15-2023 Show:

• “Heartstrong” Helga has a wrangle of a conversation with Bathrobespierre Robert about recent incidents of anti-homeless discrimination at the Mountain Resources Center in Felton.
• Looking back on the 1-10 Santa Cruz Shitty Council meeting with new 4-year Mayor “Fast Lane” Fred Keeley and his authoritarian style
• “Scope it Out” Scott Graham reviews the Council wreckage.
• Brief squeaks of outrage and rationality from Steve, Hector, Joyh, Sabina, and Abbi during the token 1-10 Oral Communications period
• Silence from City Mangler Huffaker on the Shelter scandal: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/01/08/18853734.php
• Rainy day news and blues from Katzenjammer Keith McHenry [1-11]
• Food Not Bombs fusillades from Alice & “Grok It” Greg.
• Preview of the Flashback from Bathrobespierre Robert
  
  
• The December 20th, 2012 Flashback includes:

• [Bits from The Capital Steps comedy troupe throughout]
• Piercing the veil of the Poverty-pimpster and Politician-packed 14^th Homeless Memorial
• Homeless [Lack of] Service Center [HLOSC] rules
• The names and ages of the homeless dead over the last 20 years
• Memorial notes from a skeptical observer & interviews with: Larry Bordeau
• Vets report
• Mama Joy McCorkle’s “Cause of Death” poem
• Nearly audible encomiums by Beggarbacker Becky Johnson, Dead-on David Silva, and Silver-tongued Steve Pleich
• Fact-flee-er Phil Kramer avoids saying many actually housed by HLOSC
• A tearful Kalalia Guard (aka “Stormy”) mourns those not mentioned
• B. Johnson totals up the homeless death total; D. Silva on Billy’s death
  
• [11-26] Red Church Ravings: Jonathan on police doubleparking
• “Freedom” and her copwatcher report
• Rick Stipes report on his indecent exposure & camping ticket trials
• Mainstream media covers the Homeless Bill of Rights protest interviewing Razor Ray, Mama Shannon, Tom, Julie Schaul + family, Ralph
  
• The small City of Felton has no Winter shelter and its Mountain Resource Center 6134 Hiway 9 (across from Rite-Aid) has been accused of driving people out into rainy weather during the last three weeks.  An informational flyering and protest is planned for Felton at 10 AM Thursday December 20th.