Category Archives: Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Radio Show

Sunday 12-23-18 9:30 AM-3 PM at www.freakradio.org Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides: Homeless Memorial cont., Brent Adam’s Update, Voices from Hero’s Camp, Landlord Victims Speak, 12-23-1997 Flashback

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Recent Events

  • Remainder of the 12-20 Homeless Memorial at the Homeless (Lack of) Services Center
  • Interviews Outside and After the Memorial from Wandering Spirit, Cliff, and Shawn
  • A Looksee at the Ross “Hero’s” Camp–Vanessa and Lito
  • Budgetwatching with Brent Adams
  • Landlords Strike!–Janeen T.’s story
Flashback to Earlier Days But Similar Ways: December 23, 1997
  • Attorney Anthony Bole Defends Patricia Gardella for Sitting on a Bench
  • Curfew Analysis and the “Happy John Dine” Cover-Up Update
  • Annie Voise of SF Liberation Radio Weighs In
  • Santa Monica’s Jennifer Waggoner on her Housing Takeover Arrest

The December 23, 1997 show should be soon archived on the HUFF website, go to http://huffsantacruz.org/archive97

Justice and Injustice Tales from Vandweller Julia
  • Donate to Existing Homeless Encampments, not Poverty-Pimp Posturers–Winter Survival Demands Blankets, Water, Tarps, Portapotties & Trash Pick-Up’s
  • Support the Downtown Santa Cruz Bath​room Task Force, Food Not Bombs,  the Warming Center’s 24 Hour Storage Program, HUFF, Conscience and Action, Monterey County Homeless Advocates, Food Not Bombs, and other activists in documenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.
  •  Check out Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz  on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HomelessOutsideSantaCruz/ for updates.
  •   Read Updates and Post Them on Santa Cruz Indymedia at https://www.indybay.org/santa-cruz/
  •   Back up homeless efforts to organize either in protest or to demand adequate and accessible facilities.
  •   Exchange information with other supporters there to generate more communication and better solutions in the future.
  •   Listen in to Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides at freakradio.org every Thursday 6-8 PM, Sundays 9:30 AM- 3 PM
  •   Hear archived shows at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .
  •   If you must, expropriate items from chain stores.  Don’t steal from vulnerable fellow homeless!

Bathrobespiere’s Broadsides radio show streams tonight (12-20) at 6 PM at www.freakradio.org: L.A. attacks RV Dwellers Pretending to Help; the S.C. 2018 Homeless Death Memorial

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Free Radio Santa Cruz still still offers a reward of $300 for info leading to a 10′ X 10′ studio space with bathroom, internet, and electrical access–either indoors or out (we’ll build a structure).  Help us so we can help you!


Tonight’s show streams at freakradio.org and archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  

On tonight’s show:
  • Los Angeles Slips and Slides Around the Court’s Martin v. Boise decision, faking help for RV Dwellers while actually further Restricting Them
  • “Stop the Stupidity” Steve calls out the Homeless Lack of Service Center Hypocrisy for Turning Him Away from the Bathroom “because of the Homeless Memorial”
  • Names of the Homeless Dead read there and remembrances from the Assembled
  • Musical interludes by Phil Ochs & Fans

Sunday 12-16-18 9:30 AM-3 PM at www.freakradio.org Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides: More from the 12-11 City Council’s Leaving Tenants Dangling; Backtalk from Brent Adams, Wes White’s Wooly Words, 12-20-1998 Flashback

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 Chilly Comfort in the Winter of 2018

  • More Ducking & Dodging from the 12-11 City Council; More Outrage from the Audience.
  • “Big Drum” Brent’s Updates and Advice on Safe Car Camping
  • City Council’s Sell-Out of the Downtown to Developers
  • Words in the Wind from Salinas’s Wes White
Flashback to Activist Response to another “Progressive Victory and Stall” on December 20, 1998
  • Chaz, Constanza, and Dennis Reim expose police harassment in Dec 7th Wintertalk
  • FCC attacks on an earlier more vibrant Free Radio Santa Cruz
  • “Tuf-Love” Laura Tucker and “Lighthouse Linda” Lemaster recall “Linda the Lark” Edwards Heroism in 1993 and “Progresive” prospects of the new City Council
  • “Bashful” Bernard Klitzner on “Don’t Sleep Night”
  • “Crossroads” Chris Brozda on his Van Seizure after 70 Days in Jail
  •  “Down for the Struggle” Donna Deiss’s Santa Cruz Tenants Union (TRUSC) report
  • “Jackhammer” John Vance’s Update from Telegraph Ave. in Berkeley
  • (Hard to Hear) Testimony at the Shitty Council in late November 1998
  • “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson’s Homeless Community Resource Center
  • HUFF Xmas Songs santa-Cruz style from 1998….

The December 20, 1998 shows are currently archived on the HUFF website, go to http://huffsantacruz.org/archive98

Ripples from the Roadway
  • Donate to Existing Homeless Encampments, not Poverty-Pimp Posturers Winter Survival Demands Blankets, Water, Tarps, Portapotties & Trash Pick-Up’s
  • Support the Downtown Santa Cruz Bath​room Task Force, Food Not Bombs,  the Warming Center’s 24 Hour Storage Program, HUFF, Conscience and Action, Monterey County Homeless Advocates, and other activists in documenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.
  •  Check out Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz  on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HomelessOutsideSantaCruz/ for updates.
  •   Read Updates and Post Them on Santa Cruz Indymedia at https://www.indybay.org/santa-cruz/
  •   Back up homeless efforts to organize either in protest or to demand adequate and accessible facilities.
  •   Exchange information with other supporters there to generate more communication and better solutions in the future.
  •   Listen in to Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides at freakradio.org every Thursday 6-8 PM, Sundays 9:30 AM- 3 PM
  •   Hear archived shows at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .
  •   If you must, expropriate items from chain stores.  Don’t steal from vulnerable fellow homeless!

Bathrobespiere’s Broadsides show streams tonight (12-13) at 6 PM at www.freakradio.org: Aftermath of the “So Sorry” New City Council in NOT Attempting a Rent Freeze Vote + Interviews Galore

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 Free Radio Santa Cruz still still offers a reward of $300 for info leading to a 10′ X 10′ studio space with bathroom, internet, and electrical access–either indoors or out (we’ll build a structure).  Help us so we can help you!


Tonight’s show streams at freakradio.org and archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

On tonight’s show:
  • Activist Dru Glover on the Poor People’s Campaign meeting tonight
  • Red Church Roustabouts Give Us News You Won’t Get Elsewhere
  • Interview with a Parks & Rec Ranger on the Ross “Heroes” Camp
  • Bathrobespierre Struggles to Get Commitments to the Freeze…and Fails at the Council Meeting

Between shows, what you can do:
    • Support the Downtown Santa Cruz Bath​room Task Force, Food Not Bombs,  the Warming Center’s 24 Hour Storage Program, HUFF, Conscience and Action, Monterey County Homeless Advocates, and other activists in documenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.
    • Check out Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz  on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HomelessOutsideSantaCruz/ for updates.
    • Read Updates and Post Them on Santa Cruz Indymedia at https://www.indybay.org/santa-cruz/
    • Back up homeless efforts to organize either in protest or to demand adequate and accessible facilities.
    • Exchange information with other supporters there to generate more communication and better solutions in the future.

    • Listen in to Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides at freakradio.org every Thursday 6-8 PM, Sundays 9:30 AM- 3 PM
    • Hear archived shows at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .
    • If you must, expropriate items from chain stores.  Don’t steal from vulnerable fellow homeless!
    • Camp lightly and safely!

Sunday 12-9-18 9:30 AM-3 PM at www.freakradio.org Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides: City Council RunAround–the Upcoming 12-11 Meeting & 12-12 Eviction Day Deadline; Ross Camp Roaming; Flashbacks to 1997

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 Sizzling on the Stove:
  • Painfully Long Critique of City Council Avoidance of the Emergency Freeze/Just Eviction Measure*
  • Tenant Rage at the Public Microphone
  • Chewing Over the Usual at the Red Church Chowline
  • Commentary and Chats from the Ross Campground

Flashback to ancient Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Shows of March 8, 1997 and November 6, 1997

  • Calling Out the Matthews-Rotkin City Council in the Court Crackdown on the 1996 City Hall Sleeping Protest
  • Deputy Fitzgerald Assaults Ageing Activist Jane Kysor for Medical Marijuana, Beggarbacker Becky Johnson Comments
  • Roughrider Richard Quigley Describes His Court Struggle to Maintain Motorcyclist Rights
  • Vinnie the V-Man on Skidmark Bob in his Hearing for “Damaging’ a Police Vehicle
  • Nutcracker Nick Whitehead Reports on the Aftermath of the previous year’s City Council Lockdown
  • Pointed Musical Burlesque from the 1981 S.F. Mime Troupe’s Americans in Last Tango In Huahuatenango**
  • Bathrobespierre Gets Busted in S.F. for Being in a Park in Food Not Bombs follies
  • L.A. Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness Activist Bob Ehrlenbush on Dumping the Begging Ban
  • Officer Bully-the-Bums Brandt Reportedly Threatens to Unleash his Police Dog
  • Longer version of the 11-6-97 Show Archives later at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html
  • A few 1997 shows are currently archived, go to http://huffsantacruz.org/archive97
*   Bathrobespierre’s Critical Assessment of the Brown-Krohn response to the Terrazas Council Sell-Out Evolves Through the Show.
** S.F. Mime Troupe Growing Archives at http://www.sfmt.org/company/archives/lastango/last.php
Ripples from the Roadway


  • Donate to Existing Homeless Encampments, not Poverty-Pimp Posturers Winter Survival Demands Blankets, Water, Tarps, Portapotties & Trash Pick-Up’s
  • Support the Downtown Santa Cruz Bath​room Task Force, Food Not Bombs,  the Warming Center’s 24 Hour Storage Program, HUFF, Conscience and Action, Monterey County Homeless Advocates, and other activists in documenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.
  •  Check out Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz  on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HomelessOutsideSantaCruz/ for updates.
  •   Read Updates and Post Them on Santa Cruz Indymedia at https://www.indybay.org/santa-cruz/
  •   Back up homeless efforts to organize either in protest or to demand adequate and accessible facilities.
  •   Exchange information with other supporters there to generate more communication and better solutions in the future.
  •   Listen in to Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides at freakradio.org every Thursday 6-8 PM, Sundays 9:30 AM- 3 PM
  •   Hear archived shows at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .
  •   If you must, expropriate items from chain stores.  Don’t steal from vulnerable fellow homeless!

Bathrobespiere’s Broadsides show streams tonight (12-06) at 6 PM at www.freakradio.org: Rent FreezeRoundAbout coming up on 12-11; Brand, Cranky Caller, Rightheart Ricardo, and Cynthia of the Santa Cruz Tenants Association

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 Free Radio Santa Cruz still still offers a reward of $300 for info leading to a 10′ X 10′ studio space with bathroom, internet, and electrical access–either indoors or out (we’ll build a structure).  Help us so we can help you!

Tonight’s show streams at freakradio.org and archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

On tonight’s show:
  • Looking forward to a tumultuous December 11th Council Meeting
  • Righteous Ranting from the Cranky Caller
  • “Blast Ahead” C.M. Berger of the SC Tenants Association Plots a Housed-Homeless Alliance

Between shows, what you can do:
    • Support the Downtown Santa Cruz Bath​room Task Force, Food Not Bombs,  the Warming Center’s 24 Hour Storage Program, HUFF, Conscience and Action, Monterey County Homeless Advocates, and other activists in documenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.
    • Check out Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz  on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HomelessOutsideSantaCruz/ for updates.
    • Read Updates and Post Them on Santa Cruz Indymedia at https://www.indybay.org/santa-cruz/
    • Back up homeless efforts to organize either in protest or to demand adequate and accessible facilities.
    • Exchange information with other supporters there to generate more communication and better solutions in the future.

    • Listen in to Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides at freakradio.org every Thursday 6-8 PM, Sundays 9:30 AM- 3 PM
    • Hear archived shows at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .
    • If you must, expropriate items from chain stores.  Don’t steal from vulnerable fellow homeless!
    • Camp lightly and safely!

Sunday 12-2-18 9:30 AM-3 PM at www.freakradio.org Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides: City Council Carousel–Ducking and Delaying the Rent Control Vote; Red Church Roundalay–Voices from the Chowline; Flashback to 1-17-99

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 Sizzling on the Stove:
  • Mumbling Along with City Manager Martin Bernal–Clouding the Campground Coverup
  • Public Records Pushback–the Process of Exposure to Punish Obstruction
  • Marysville Union of the Homeless Report from Attorney Anthony Prince
  • Salvation Army Shelter Review by Outspoken Aaron Horsman
  • Barks and Bellows from the November 27th Council Freeze-Out of the Rent Freeze Discussion
  • Ancient Phil Ochs Tunes Throughout the Show

Flashback to January 17, 1999:

  • Meanness Monitor Richard Quigley Challenging Deputy Nielson DooDoo
  • Attorney Catnip Kate Wells On Local Civil Rights lawsuits of the time
  • Beggarbacker Becky Johnson Bashes Deputy Fitzgerald’s Bad Behavior
  • Bashful Bernard Klitzner Revs up Against the Sleeping Ban
  • Vinnie the V-Man Updates the Free Radio Struggle Back Then
  • Show archives later today at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html if you missed it.
  • Other January 1999 shows currently archived, go to http://huffsantacruz.org/archive99
Flashes from Here and There and Even Further Away

Bathrobespiere’s Broadsides show streams tonight (11-29) at 6 PM at www.freakradio.org: Oakland Courts Crunch Housing and Dignity Village; Mike Zint’s Report from Berkeley; Rage from City Council’s Rent Freeze Run-Around

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 Free Radio Santa Cruz still still offers a reward of $300 for info leading to a 10′ X 10′ studio space with bathroom, internet, and electrical access–either indoors or out (we’ll build a structure).  Help us so we can help you!


Tonight’s show streams at freakradio.org and archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

On tonight’s show:
  • Federal Court Rules Against Housing-and-Dignity-Village Encampment
  • Berkeley First They Came for the Homeless Activist Mike Zint Weighs In
  • Oral Communication Chatter at the 11-27 City Council
  • 3 Tenant Organizations and 1 Landlord Lobby Give Opening Speeches in the City Council’s 11-27 “Duck the Rent Freeze Extension” Session
Between shows, what you can do:
    • Support the Downtown Santa Cruz Bath​room Task Force, Food Not Bombs,  the Warming Center’s 24 Hour Storage Program, HUFF, Conscience and Action, Monterey County Homeless Advocates, and other activists in documenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.
    • Check out Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz  on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HomelessOutsideSantaCruz/ for updates.
    • Read Updates and Post Them on Santa Cruz Indymedia at https://www.indybay.org/santa-cruz/
    • Back up homeless efforts to organize either in protest or to demand adequate and accessible facilities.
    • Exchange information with other supporters there to generate more communication and better solutions in the future.

    • Listen in to Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides at freakradio.org every Thursday 6-8 PM, Sundays 9:30 AM- 3 PM
    • Hear archived shows at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .
    • If you must, expropriate items from chain stores.  Don’t steal from vulnerable fellow homeless!
    • Camp lightly and safely!

Sunday 11-25-18 9:30 AM-3 PM at www.freakradio.org Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides: Talking Turkey at the Thanksgiving Chow Line

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 Current Clips:
  • Another Round with “Bad News and Bear It” Brent Adams
  • Listening in on Loud Laments at the last Homeless-Heavy Conscience in Action meeting
  • Talking Turkey with the Hungry Homeless & Associates in the Thanksgiving Chow Line

Flashback:

  • Looking Back with Doug Loisel:  An hour and a quarter with former Homeless (Lack of) Services Center Director–the Last Accessible Captain of the Coral Street Concentration Zone.  The December 19, 2013 Show
  • To hear the full show, go to http://radiolibre.org/brb/brb131219.mp3
Bits of Booty from Here Abouts

Bathrobespiere’s Broadsides show streams tonight (11-22) at 6 PM at www.freakradio.org: Cop Crackdown, Red Church Round-Up, and Beachside Greg’s Report Chief Mills False Reassurances to Rousted Campers

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Free Radio Santa Cruz still still offers a reward of $300 for info leading to a 10′ X 10′ studio space with bathroom, internet, and electrical access–either indoors or out (we’ll build a structure).  Help us so we can help you!

Tonight’s show streams at freakradio.org and archives at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

On tonight’s show:

    • Support the Downtown Santa Cruz Bath​room Task Force, Food Not Bombs,  the Warming Center’s 24 Hour Storage Program, HUFF, Conscience and Action, Monterey County Homeless Advocates, and other activists in documenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.
    • Check out Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz  on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HomelessOutsideSantaCruz/ for updates.
    • Read Updates and Post Them on Santa Cruz Indymedia at https://www.indybay.org/santa-cruz/
    • Back up homeless efforts to organize either in protest or to demand adequate and accessible facilities.
    • Exchange information with other supporters there to generate more communication and better solutions in the future.

    • Listen in to Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides at freakradio.org every Thursday 6-8 PM, Sundays 9:30 AM- 3 PM
    • Hear archived shows at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html .
    • If you must, expropriate items from chain stores.  Don’t steal from vulnerable fellow homeless!
    • Camp lightly and safely!