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ON TODAY’S SHOW:
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New York judge suspends right to be taken before a judge, oks indefinite detention of protesters:
https://lawandcrime.com/george-floyd-death/aoc-slams-nyc-judge-for-suspension-of-habeas-corpus-in-response-to-george-floyd-protests/
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ubs7o
*** Anonymous Terror Tales from the Sunday May 31st March
*** Walkin’ last
Sunday’s “SCPD’s Police Chief Taking a Knee Is Not Enough” Black Lives
Matter protest in Santa Cruz with photojournalist Alex Darocy
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/31/18833476.php
*** Voices from the Tracks up Coral St. way: Patty, Jeff, Heather, Audrey
*** Dreamcatcher praises the Vet’s Hall Shelter
*** Police Station
Protest after the Puff Westcliff Drive Assemble-and-Disperse March
Eliza, Elena, Tania & Many Others June 3rd
*** Raging at Artful Andy Mills from Laurel and Center St. 6-3
*** Joe Longtermer and Elise Review Recent Protests at the 6-4 Dusk March
*** Speakout at the Courthouse 6-4
*** Tenant Activist Cynthia Berger’s Updates
*** Shades of segregationist southern sheriffs in liberal Walnut Creek…
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/06/protester-recounts-getting-attacked-by-police-dogs-tear-gassed-at-walnut-creek-demonstration/
*** “Scope it Out” Scott
Reviews the schmoozing and ducking questions by Mayor “Uncle Tommy”
Justin Cummings and SCPD Chief “More Anti-Homeless Laws on the Way” Andy
Mills
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10104270518678442&set=a.592427598492
FLASHBACK TO A SANTA CRUZ CITY COUNCIL INVESTIGATION THAT NEVER WAS
OF POLICE ABUSE BY OFFICER “BUTCHIE” LORAN BAKER JULY 28, 1992
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HUFF and the
Free Radio Santa Cruz netshow back at 831-423-4833
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Join
Food Not Bombs [FNB], HUFF, and other local groups at theDaily Meal at the Laurel & Pacific struggling for volunteers to pass on information and provide support.
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Call
City Hall (420-5020) and the Board of Supervisors (454-2200) or Rattle
the Windows of these Toxic Pretenders where They Live to demand
Immediate
Motel Vouchers (indoor shelter) for the entire homeless population
during the crisis so they can shelter-in-place as recommended by the
CDC.
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Insist that City Manager Bernal and Chief Mills stop the sweeps of homeless encampments–violating the CDC directive.
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Prepare
for peaceful urgent Direct Action to enact these health measures if
City Manager Bernal, Mayor Cummings, and Chief Mills continue to Stall.
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Resist
Business and Corporate Pressure to Restore Massive Tourist “Business as
Usual” in the midst of a Pandemic of Unknown Dimensions
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Contact Bathrobespierre Robert for final word on what form if any the weekly Wednesday HUFF meeting will take (normally 6-10).
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Demand
“Bad News” Bernal Order His Cops to Stand off and Allow Homeless
Activists to Reopen Camp Phoenix, remain where they are without
molestation
(stop the sweeps!), and/or allow for self-run triage zones (as at the
Ross Camp site) now that Governor Newsom has declared that area surplus
space to be designated for homeless use.
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Pressure
the City to provide support for vehicular residents, water for those in
the Benchlands, portapotties for those in the Pogonip and the Levy,
and decent survival services citywide.
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Denounce
the latest cosmetic “See, We Have Shelter” lie with the pathetic and
all-in-the-same-room response of the Vet’s Hall, the Armory, and Laurel
St instead of the needed and promised motel rooms. These need to be
provided BEFORE symptoms develop, BEFORE testing, TARGETING the most
vulnerable but providing for all during the crisis.
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Demand
immediate transfer of money to shelter the many rather than provide an
illusion by unsafely sheltering a few, while really providing protective
cover to the City Council and Board of Supervisors for essentially
doing nothing for the great majority and allowing Mills’
police-and-rangers to threaten campsites with seizure and arrest at will
as police are the only large gang allowed to publicly assemble.
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Contact Chief Mills at amills@cityofsantacruz.com to demand fundamental changes such as that seized survival gear be available for reclaiming during
regular business hours, not just 6 hours as week. See
https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2019/12/18/police_protest_flyer_12-18-19.pdf
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Hold
accountable City Hall NIMBY enablers at all public meetings: Mayor
Justin Cummings, City Manager-for-Life Martin Bernal, His Wrecking Crew
of
Abuse Enablers Susie O’Hara and Megan Bunch, Police Chief Andy Mills,
& City Attorney Tony Condotti for Inciting the Ross Camp
Destruction, Subsequent Deaths, & the Friday Nov 15th Demolition of
Camp Phoenix (the renewed Deseire Memorial Survival Encampment
in back of Ross) with a campaign of lies to the community regarding
“adequate shelter options”.
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Remember
Deseire Quintero–Killed by City Indifference, Negligence, and Malice
in Closing the First Ross Camp Without Any Adequate Shelter! Support
Survival Campgrounds, Empty Building Takeovers This Plague Season
Wherever They Happen. Provide them with supplies.
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Take
peaceful action to open up buildings for Emergency Shelter as well as
an end to harassment citation of folks surviving outside under “trespass
on public property”, “closed area”, “public nuisance” and “blocking the
sidewalk” pretexts;
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Witness,
oppose, and document police and ranger harassment using “closed areas”,
“blocking the sidewalk”, “public nuisance”, “public trespass”, and
“illegal lodging” to get around the Boise v. Martin “No shelter? No tickets!” decision.
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Demand
City Manager “Mangler” Martin Bernal and SCPD Police Chief
“Ambushmaster” Andy Mills account for their destruction of Camp Phoenix
ignoring
City Council’s required Standard Operating Procedures for closing
encampments and violating their own admission that “trespass” could not
be properly applied to the survival sleepers. Remember the bad history
so it’s not repeated!
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Contact Alicia Kuhl to find more direct and effective ways to
support the next shelter-in-place encampments throughout the City
starved of food and survival gear at 831-431-7766. DONATE SURVIVAL
GEAR & VOLUNTEER DURING THE CRISIS EVERY DAY AT
FOOD NOT BOMBS Laurel & Front St. MEAL.
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Document Homeless Discrimination & Sign Up for Direct Action
to “Open the Bathrooms Now!” Action by contacting the SC Union, HUFF,
Conscience & Action, or the Give-A-Shit Campaign
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Provide Direct Support to Survival Camps & Squats as City
Council Ignores the Emergency; Skip the Poverty Pimp Entrepreneurs to give directly to
Food Not Bombs, the Felker St. Footbridge Services, the SC Homeless Union and other
real providers.
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Post Your Documentation of Police and Ranger “Move Along” Mischief or Pass it on to BadAss Mama at 831-431-7766
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Donate
to Existing Homeless Encampments, NOT Poverty-Pimp Posturers– Survival
Demands Blankets, Water, Tarps, Portapotties &
Trash Pick-Up’s–and Deter Police Harassment by being On Call to
Document It.
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Additional
Needs for Community Samaritans!–More Needs: Potable Water for
Drinking, Laundry Access so Clothes Don’t Mildew, Electrical
Phone-Charging Hook-up’s and More Space in Additional Spots, Monitor
and Expose Cop Crackdowns
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Support
Food Not Bombs, the Warming Center’s Day/Night Storage Program,
HUFF,
and independent homeless activists bydocumenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.
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Check out
The Santa Cruz Community, Santa Cruz Homeless Advocates &
Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz, Monterey County Homeless Advocates,
SNAIL, HEART Disabled Homeless People, Power Surge Tenants Rights, Bay
Area Landless People’s Alliance,
and more on Facebook..then go out and do something!
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Read Updates and Post Them on
Santa Cruz Indymedia at https://www.indybay.org/santa-cruz/
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Exchange information with other supporters there to generate more communication and better solutions in the future.
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