The July 20, 2025 show includes:

• https://shadowproof.com/2016/08/11/new-methods-of-restraining-inmates-have-deadly-outcomes/  The sometimes fatal WRAP restraint system
• https://pacificsun.com/wrap-restraint-lawsuit/   Brother’s Keeper: Marin Man Suing Police over the Use of Body Restraint Device
• https://pacificsun.com/saving-or-taking-lives-controversy-over-restraint-device-used-by-local-police/
• [throughout]  More from Rovics One Year On: The Apocalypse in Review (2024 on) https://www.davidrovics.com/palestine/
• https://www.streetsheet.org/homeless-related-arrests-citations-soared-in-these-california-cities-after-supreme-court-case/
• https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20250717/281573771725349
• HUFF chatter: SF rules for driving away RVs using street cleaner operations
• (SF Examiner’s alternate treatment): https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/housing/sf-board-of-supervisors-passes-citywide-rv-parking-limit/article_be4a09c5-4f47-434c-a6a2-c203e4f1a9f6.html
• https://www.courttv.com/news/doj-wants-no-prison-for-ex-officer-convicted-in-breonna-taylor-raid/

The Flashback to October 23, 1997 includes:

• [throughout] “Factwino vs. Armageddon Man” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i3A1rpPiMA  by SF Mime Troupe 1982
• S.C. Councilmember Kennedy’s earlier progressive days
• “Dead On” David Silva’s update on the 2nd Sleeping Ban Initiative, his lawsuit stemming from Sgt. Crane’s assault on David Silva, and S.C. rent control strategy
• “The Thin Blue Line: Stolen Lives Project Shines a Long Overdue Spotlight on Police Brutality”—Crabtree’s killing of Gerald Hall
• Skidmark Bob’s report on his First Panhandling ticket and SCPD’s Bayani harassing Needle Exchange
• The City’s Panhandling Ordinance
• Eureka’s Board of Supervisors Using County Health Officer Ann Lindsay to destroy the South Spit Jetty Homeless Survival Encampment
• Phone Interview with Father Eric Duff on the Jetty Sweep and Arrests
• Julia Vinograd “For the Young Man who Died of AIDs” and other poems from her Eye of the Hand audio tape  https://archive.org/details/1996-cassette-o-eye-of-the-hand-by-julia-vinograd
• [10-21-97] “Cornerstone” Carol Denney on the Berkeley 10-20 City Council on letting the BPD use Pepper-Spray
• Mini-Flashback to Spring 1991—Council considers a Plan to Drive Away Homeless Protesters from the Town Clock by Making it a Park with Closing Hours, Kennedy opposed
• A Snippet from Uncle Dennis Davie’s “From the Cream to the Dregs” intro

The current show may be available on the net around or after 6 PM with techie assistance.  However it will definitely be on the archives after 6 PM at  https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html.  

Once available on the archive, it should be downloadable in two sequential sections.

The content of the show will be likely be further summarized, described,  and posted soon at https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/category/huff-communications/

HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) continues to meet regularly on Thursdays 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM at the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church.  

The July 13, 2025 show includes:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu0efhXd1nU  Theft of Personal Property Through Collaboration of State and City Entities in Salinas, CA
• Wes White on the May Cal Trans/CHP sweeps on the Salinas tracks
• [throughout] episode 2 of One Year On: The Apocalypse in Review by David Rovics
• Wes on Salinas Council actions around the 2016 Flagpole Protest
• [7-6] Abe’s report on MHCAN & other thoughts
• Billy Joe (WAC) claims disability & religious discrimination
• Isaac Collins (the Lyrical Eye) on expensive tows, phony racial activism at thereallyricaleye
• Sea Otter and Cooper on People First Armory conditions

The Flashback to 7-20-03 includes:

• Coral on the Monterey County jail
• Tickets for Fortunetelling and Lying in the Sidewalk
• At the TV table in front of the Pacific Trading Company; John Maurer’s tale
• Homeless in Space–radio play by Nutcrack Nick Whitehead
• SC Sentinel writer Dan White celebrating a year of the Downtown Ordinance Crackdown
• Beggarbacker deconstructs Dan White’s front-page apologia
• A Vandweller’s Lament
• Travelin’ Tom Noddy’s Account of his “Criminal” Juggling Protest with commentary from “Jostle the Jarheads” Joe Williams​

The July 10, 2025 show is a Flashback to July 27, 2000.   

It includes:

• “Scope it Out” Scott and Bathrobespierre Robert discuss the City Council’s giveaway of the Advisory Committee and the Relocation Committee to Mercy Charities Housing in the Dophin-Lee Project with Phil Baer speaking at City Council & other irregularities.
• Paddy Long remembers homeless John’s death and its implications
• More of the Council vs. the public (Roxanne, Fitzmaurice, Sugar, Baer): Inside & Out

The July 6, 2025 show includes:

• Tumultuous tidbits from the 7-3 HUFF  meeting: the failure of city-funded social services
• https://www.streetsheet.org/the-beat-goes-on-the-struggle-of-las-vehicular-residents-and-the-venice-justice-committee/
• [Throughout] David Rovics: One Year On: The Apocalypse in Review
• [7-5] Cooper D’Angelo and Russell—the Town Clock Update
• “Portland Said It was Investing in Homeless People’s Safety.  Deaths Skyrocketed.”
• HUFF’s Tipster Thomas gives us some sidewalk spirituality and psychology. 
• Gritty Greetings Greg on the latest Santa Cruz sweeps

The Flashback to July 3, 2003 includes: 

• Black grass dealer Taz Barker aka Xavier notes Sgt.Flippo banning him from downtown
• Businesses criminalize seating spaces downtown with laws and cops
• Why boycott bigotry at the Pacific Trading Company [PTC]

• Troublesome Thomas Leavitt on additional avenues for pressuring the PTC
• [7-3] PTC sidewalk interviews: Shawna, Roxanne Acquistepache
• “Leaning on a railing” ticket at PTC for Medardo Joe to harass a sidewalk video showing
• Razor Ray’s Court “sound amplification” ticket experience
• Jeffrey Gale’s Redding report

The Flashback to July 6, 2003 includes:

• Advocate for missing or unwanted services by CPS “Rough-Tongued” Roxanne 
• John Gibson of the Santa Cruz Bill of Rights Defense Committee fighting 2001 Patriot Act
• Reilly’s Council rushes through & ignores Kim Dowan, Sheila Coonerty, & Greg Kin

The July 3, 2025 show is a Flashback to May 2, 1999. 

It includes:

• Pastor Wiley Drake vs. Buena Park [BP] authorities; BP retaliating for Drake’s federal civil rights lawsuit seeking damages.
• “Catnip” Kate Wells on Jerry Henry strikingly successful victory getting a restored driver’s license in the face of Sheriff Joseph Hemingway’s abusive suspension action
• Wells on libertarian activist Richard Quigley’s struggle against Claudia Easterby’s attempt to ban Quigley from the public sidewalk in front of Gottschalks.
• Wells on Dennis Reim’s refusal to pay a “sleeping in your camper” fine because it was an infraction and that strategy as a new effective tactic for homeless folks
• “Saturday Night”–more poems written & read by Julia Vinograd [throughout the audio]
• Phil Baer on Dolphin-Lee Project property acquisition and Clinton’s Yugoslavia bombing
• “The Rambouillet Accord: A Declaration of War Disguised as a Peace Agreement” By RichardBecker
• Interview with Lou Rice on his Fast to spotlight abuses at the Homeless [Lack of] Services Center   https://www.santacruz.com/papers/cruz/04.14.99/homeless1-9915.html

The June 29, 2025 show includes:

• Pacific Ave. dialogue with Woodwindist George Oakley at the Scribner Statue
• Wheelchair bound Joe Watts on the SC War Against the Poor at the Town Clock Anti-War protest against the U.S. attack on Iran.
• [throughout] Rovics “The Apocalypse in Review” in commentary and music
• Keith’s commentary on the protest; Bathrobespierre’s view
• Bill, Jennifer, & others speak out
• Steve Enriquez on MHCAN; “Danger” on ditching the cops; Abe on his independent ministry; Keith Bishof on his history here

The Flashback to segments of February 20, 2003 includes:

• [Jeffrey Gale, Co-Host) History of Rep. Farr’s non-responses to anti-war questions
• San Francisco’s “Break Away” Anti-War March
• Rep. Farr ducks and dodges at the Del Mar as his Democratic Party pro-war votes and silence challenged; Dialogue with Roxanne A.
• Mayor “Smiley” Riley–restricting Public Comment Against the War & other Topics

The Flashback last 45 minutes of February 23, 2003’s show includes:

• “Assisted Outpatient Treatment” AOT, aka “Needles on Wheels” in California (AB 1421)
• Marvin X at Civic Center Plaza; J.D. Sparks (Sacramento Bee) “Homeless, Their Advocates March for a Place to Camp” 2-18-02
• Nick F. in satirical vein refuses to provide bus tickets; Ray offers bolt cutters for trapped vehicles
• City Council to vote on weak anti-war resolution, dumps action against selective enforcement. racial profiling and tightens the downtown ordinances. 
• L.A. City Council passes stronger anti-war bill + greater efforts to seek homeless funding.

The Flashback to segments of February 27, 2003 includes: 

• [low but audible sound throughout] [Jeffrey Gale co-host]
• Preparations for an all-night vigil against the Iraqi War with Downtown-for-All and Anti-War tables both happening; other local anti-war events and non-events
• https://www.counterpunch.org/2003/02/26/mistrial-rosenthal-jurors-say-they-received-outside/
• Sophie on Standing United for Peace on upcoming anti-war UCSC events
• https://www.counterpunch.org/2003/02/22/hopscotch-rebellion/
• Nick F calls in from Germany on Rosenthal and looming Iraq war
• Councilmember Kennedy ducks Golder’s subpoena
• Streetsters talk: C.J. Stock, “Mickey Mouse”, John Maurer, Wesley & Dana, Tim

The current show includes two Flashback segments   

The April 18, 1999 Flashback includes the first half of that show :

• Toronto Starr April 18, 1999 story:  “400 March to Queens Park for Homeless”
• San Francisco voices from the mass protests against the Clinton Serbia bombing 
• Sally Zinman’s Street Spirit  story: “The Unraveling of Civil Rights”  https://rightsandrecovery.org/e-news-bulletins/2022/08/29/advocates-laud-the-life-and-legacy-of-sally-zinman/
• PIRC (Psychiatric Inmates Rights Collective) activist Jane Kysor interview

 The April 22, 1999 Flashback is the entire show and it includes: 

• In-studio guest Peace activist Peter Lumsdaine on the Clinton bombing of Yugoslavia
• “Scope-It-Out” Scott Graham on the Rex Court-Dolphin-Lee Apartment demolition plan to support Mercy Housing’s “Nueva Vista” Project and City Council’s surrender to closed process and developer surrender on the renewed 3rd Street Realignment, “inclusionary housing”, etc.
• Beach Flats resident and activist Phil Baer on the Clinton Kosovo war and the lack of public process in the Dolphin-Lee project
• An angry “Dead-On” David Silva on misinformation about SCAN  (Santa Cruz Action Network), Kosovo, and other local topics.
• Norse’s Announcements, Updates, and questions on the future of the soon-to-be-replaced Homeless [Lack of] Services Center

The June 22, 2025 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:

• [throughout] The [Musical] History of the World according to David Rovics
• [6-22-2025] Voices from the mixed Indivisible/Food Not Bombs/The Brave and Free Town Clock protest against Trump’s attack on Iran & the Gaza genocide
•  Indivisible supporters, local anti-Zionist and environmentalist Pat Kittle, Rowan Malar,
• Brent Adams on his new Art & Rebellion group, a homeless update, & protest strategy, 
• Jumbogumbo Joe Schultz, Wayside Warbler Woody, and Jennifer and Bill.
• [6-20-25]  Lengthy interview: “Whipster” Wes White on Salinas homeless activist Rita Acosta  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsqS4K06qds  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj1-biuS-mU
• Casual interview with former Mayoral speech suppresser Chris Krohn
• Tips-for-Toughroaders from HUFFster Thomas
  

The Flashback to March 18, 2010 includes:

• Medical Marijuana Dispensary Ban at Shitty City Council: Background & Blathering + Lots of Critical Commentary and Deconstruction by Bathrobespierre

The June 19, 2025 show is a Flashback to July 2, 2006 

It includes

• A further Flashback to November 1988 with a KZSC call-in panel discussion featuring peace activist Charles Grey, civil rights attorney Ray Grueneich, UCSC Students Against the Sleeping Ban activist Maria, and Street Shit Sheet editor Robert Norse on the Sleeping Ban controversy and the November 1988 election.
• Crow vs. Officer Pam Bechtel
• Barry’s Pizza Pummeling and Other Agonies
• D.J. Shatter: Unseemly Opposition to Critical Mass protest ride
• Fresno’s Mike Rhodes presents Pam Kinkaid, Joanna, and Randy Johnson on the latest Fresno anti-homeless raid, which ultimately resulted in the Kinkaid law suit.
• Care-eyes Coral on Shopping Cart stigma
• VC on the SAFE singers with Gregarious Greg and others
• Corridors of the Courthouse Chatter with Jimmy and Clark
• Parking lot panic law update with Crow
• Nutcracker Nick on Officer Swanek and a forthcoming  street play
• [6-27] Red, Monkey, Mama Shannon, Yahsahway, Ernie Tello and other voices