The Sunday October 15, 2023 show features Evan Morrison, SC Free Guide and Safe Parking Manager at the 10-5 HUFF Meeting.  The show includes:

• Follow-up Letter on the Interview with Mayor “Fast Lane” Fred Keeley: Unanswered Questions
• David Rovics:  Genocidal Ironies (podcast): https://www.patreon.com/posts/genocidal-90993611 
• Mostly unedited audio of the 10-5-23 HUFF meeting:  Guest on the Firing Line—Evan Morrison–who runs the Safe Parking for Oversized Vehicles program, also the Santa Cruz Free Guide
• Details of the Oversized Vehicle program; Successful housing search for a very few
• Updating and Upgrading the Santa Cruz Free Guide
• Sweeps and the Armory: Discussion
• Lisa’s account of being expelled from the Armory
• Availability of Tier 2 Parking Lots
• Eric: Macing at the City Hall Fountain
• Pacific Avenue Birth Day/Birthing Day celebrations with Madeline and the Visionettes
• Cooper’s Catch-Up Report; Sea Otter on the Sweeps
• Victoria on the Levee—Saga of Single Survivor there
• Chitrow Keller—Long Time unhoused guy of darker skin hue

The October 12, 2013 Show is a long audio from the 4^th of July Homeless Congress rally in San Lorenzo Park, recorded by psychiatric rights activist John Stewart includes:

• Initial Homeless Independence Day conversations with “Jabberwocky” Jay Green, Bathrobespierre Robert Norse, Stormin’ Norman, EarthFirster, Linda the Lark Edwards, Paddy Long, Barbara Haglund, “Many Miles” Mike, Baba Ito,  WILPF women, Berkeley Copwatcher, Oakland Homeless Unionists, & others  (some parts hard to hear]
• “Homeless Not Helpless” March Prep & Discussion of Opposing “Take Back Our Town” hecklers
• Speakers:  Norse, Green, Yahawway, Osamal, George Solis with a Mitch Snyder statement, Gerald of Oakland Homeless Union, Curtis of Berkeley Homeless Union, San Jose-ster, Santa Barbara Mike, Pat Arnold, Pam of Oakland on taking over Old Man’s Park, Dr. Michael Zinn from Orange County,and “Sharin'” Sherry Conable
• “Backoff” Bruce Van Allen urges activists to drop the demand to end the Sleeping Ban to “do the possible” and “calm things down”.
• Folk singer Mark Levy sings the satirical “99 Points of Light” celebrating Sandra Lorranger’s jailing for serving free food.
  
• March goes on Tour of the Pacific Garden Mall; Stopping at the Forbidden Fence
• Post Office Homeless Table: Nigel Self, Moonlight Mike Carreiro, Rodent, Stormin’ Norman, Grinning Ray Grueneich
• Alternating speakers and musicians:  Katzenhammer Keith McHenry on SF, Santa Cruz musician Beverly Adams sings “Vagabonds”, “Homeless Livin'”, Toni Torturella, formerly homeless writer, 
• Workshops: Andrew Jackson: Housetakeovers; Gerald Waldrin on False Congratulations; Andrea Pritchard: Copwatch; Angela Walters: Vouchers for Housing; Vincent Venson—Oakland Independent Resource Center; Self-Help Program; 
• Mark Levy sings  Send a Man to Mars
• San Jose’s Community Homeless Alliance Ministry activist Sandy Perry on Guadaloupe River sweeps under cover of providing housing
• Bathrobespierre’s invitation to sleep out (illegally) in Santa Cruz; Pam of Oakland on passivity of Santa Cruz homeless; Paddywagon Pete Pascoe on “Being Free”; Berkeley’s John Michael Jones; local sidewalk shyster Ray Grueneich supporting Copwatch; 
• Kathy calls for broader movement; “Many Miles” Mike on Santa Barbara struggle; Berkeley organizer on Declaration of Interdependence;  Flower on Mental Health torture for street victims;
  
• Deep Friend Sea Monkeys strum and twang
• Afterthoughts about the Protest

The Sunday Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show for October 8, 2023 will include:

• https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/san-francisco-supreme-court-18406525.php 
  
• https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/housing/sf-700-sleeping-pods-violate-building-code-inspectors-say/article_a8459fe2-62ec-11ee-acab-bbda4eab0a5c.html
  
  
• Tiny Home Villages face obstacles in San Francisco—October 6, 2023 [Musical interludes throughout—songs from David Rovics and Inner City the musical]
• Interview with Santa Cruz Mayor “Fast Lane” Fred Keeley
  

The Flashback to the July 6, 1997 show will include:

• Bathrobespierre’s Update on Police Abuse & General Intro
• Justman Jim Cosner on his arrest for bannering a fence on Pacific Avenue
• The Balderos Appeal from Jail, and the Upcoming Santa Cruz Youth Curfew
• Interview with “Consolidate”, his group harassed for small marijuana sales
• San Jose Rachel Perez, Human Rights Defense Committee activist 
  
• Phone interview with Michael Feinstein, Santa Monica Green Councilmember fighting Sitting Ban on the 3^rd Ave. Promenade
• Midnight Special Bookshop owner Margie Giz on big money deforming Santa Monica
• June 24^th Santa Cruz Oral Communications
• Speaking against the Palo Alto anti-homeless Sit/Line law after a year of extended debate (from March 1997)

Flashback: Portions of the July 20, 1997 show include:

Discussing strategies for response: James E. Magner reports Washrock laundromat manager attacking him.

Washrock’s employee defends the management and its policies for its “anti-loitering” policies.

[7-19] Bruce reports manager told him to leave though he was waiting for his friends’ laundry to finish.

Mark reports on being turned away from the Washrock restroom.

Bathrobespierre on some examples of mediation through Street Performers Guidelines and Kimberly Hallinan/Daniel Rubin mediators.

Opposing the hypocrisy of the City’s honoring radical activist and musical saw player Tom Schreibner and harassing current performers.

Free, 23-year old visitor, on her husband’s jailing, restroom exclusion, police harassment, and other complaints Upcoming Sleepcrime trial of Dragonsheart Dan Hopkins for peaceful protest against the Sleeping Ban in the City Hall Sleepers Protest.

Billy Starr on his $270 ticket for sitting on a planter edge

The September 28, 2023 edition of Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides (a February 13, 2005 flashback) includes:

• Mayor Mike Rotkin, in-studio guest, on his view of the history of homeless activism in the 80’s, establishing the Cedar St. cold-and-rainy-night shelter, defends the closing of the Coral St. Open Air Shelter and the City’s 11 PM – 8:30 AM Sleeping Ban.  Bathrobespierre denounces the Citizens Committee for the Homeless [CCH] violation of the agreement with Save Our Shelter [SOS]
• Robert (Battleweary Bob) Lee (Patton) calls in to denounce Rotkin
• Celine Marie Pasquale, writer of The Public Response to Homelessness in Santa Cruz 1989-1994, notes Rotkin’s “best services” and asks if he’d consider a multi-city alliance to pressure legislature or file an emergency declaration.
• Red Top Robert Flory notes his concern while homeless was local oppression against homeless in the form of local ordinances; Norse goes into the details of the City’s oppressive panhandling laws.
• Pasquale notes Rotkin-supported laws support anti-homeless stereotypes; homeless caller confronts Rotkin as seeking to control people and deny them free spaces.
• Dragonsheart Dan in studio, member of SOS committee, defends Bathrobespierre and others who aren’t homeless who support the homeless, describes being harassed by the Hosts in the first 45 minutes of his arrival, corrects Rotkin’s description of the reasons for closing the shelter.
• Rotkin rejects a roadside resting law.
• Questions about the New Brighton Beach situation
• Pasquale on the oppressive social control behavior of the Hosts; Rotkin defends them.
• Bob Lamonika on the two-tiered society—and final comments.

The October 1, 2023 show includes:

• [musical breaks featuring Inner City the musical]

• [9-26]  Lookback with Jacklight John Hamilton, old-time HUFF activist and Homeless Tabler
• [9-26]  Lee Ann Sherwood, aka Grandma Barbie, offers phone defense against police harassment
• [9-16]  Humble on the COVID lull in sleep/rest busts locally
• [9-16]  Mel on the Bread and Roses services in Santa Cruz  https://www.scbreadandroses.org/
•              Katzenjammer Keith reports on Cop crackdown on the San Lorenzo levee pathway and dire predictions nationally
• [9-30]   U.S./NATO Out of Ukraine rally: Joyce C., Gloria, Drew, 
• [9-30]   Lawseeker Laura demands “Fast Lane” Fred Keeley provide usable scale-able shelter, and end the sweeps of survival encampments
• [9-30]   Richard Anderson boosts Sean Dougherty for Congress (19^th District)
• [9-30]   “Just passing by” Jeffrey, 
• [9-30]   Keith on the history of the Ukraine provocation
• [9-30]   Sean Dougherty running for Congress with anti-war message
• [9-30]   Kathleen with Palestine Justice Coalition on the media 

The September 28, 2023 edition of Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides is a February 13, 2005 flashback.  It includes:

• Street Clips from the one-year anniversary of SAFE (Society for Artistic and Free Expression), a Take-Back-the-Streets gang of musicians
• Buffeting the Blueshirt Bigotry of CSO Pam Bechtel
• Interviews and Music from Joe Williams, Robert Etcetera, Umbrella Man Robert, antiwar UCSCer John
• Interview with Mayor Gone Lame (aka Don Lane) defending Developer Pals and their Santa Cruz Hotel Project

The Sunday September 24, 2023 show includes:

• More historical songs from David Rovics with his commentary [throughout]
• [9-18] Berkeley Chess Club founder Jesse Shehan discusses various struggles: to save People’s Park as community-developed open space,  to stop the City’s coercive attempt to shut down Chess Corner at Telegraph and Haste, and more
• [9-18] People’s Park interviews with Dale Yoders—homeless friend and visitor to the Park; Kenny, Dale’s homeless roommate, with intricate spiritual notions and a passion for defending the Park
• [9-18] Cat, the Adeline and Russell tent survivalist living outside next to the Adeline corridor
• A lonely visit to Brent Adam’s former Footbridge Services closed office at 150 Felker
• [9-23] “Kindly Claws” Cooper calls out police and judges for bad faith and bad policy
• [9-23] Videojournalist Damene Haynes on police violence and theft affecting him personally
• [9-23] Montserat Chatfield on free phone distribution at the Town Clock
• [9-23] Eihen Miller, fast-talking former firefighter on walkin’ the homeless walk
• [9-21] Rightful Reggie Meisler updating the HUFF community on the City’s slow steps towards banning “oversized” vehicles.

The Flashback to February 20, 2005 includes:

• [throughout] Sections from the Capitol Steps satire Papa’s Got a Brand New Bagdad
• [2-10]Happyheart Hale, Visionsong Valerie, Just-in-Town Jeff, Angel-on-the-sidewalk, Free, Vincent, Junior, Rachel & Skittles,   at the Vigil Against Two Wars table
• Roger’s stay-away-order report….Disappearing bench from in front of SC Diner on Ocean St.
• Homeless Lack of Services Center  [HLOSC] Board of Directors considering Human Rights Organization’s proposal asking that the Board support a pro-homeless lawsuit with Bob Patton, Don Lane, Bernard Klitzner, Ken Cole, 
• Rita Craft reports police photo’ing petitioners and food gatherers
• [2-6] Don Snyder, Gregarious Greg, Dan Hemmingway, Bobby MacGee, Vitaltongue Valerie & at SAFE event #55 
  
• City Council preview for upcoming meeting
• Fred Gardener’s CannibaNotes
• Fick Nuller from Germany calls in
• Andrea Meagan on the absence of marijuana centers
• Andrea Tishler of Compassion Flower Inn on Measure Z conference in Oakland

The September 21, 2023 edition of Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides  is a February 10,  2015 flashback.  It includes:

• [Music from Inner City musical at intervals]
• Jolly Roger Comedy Troupe: Busting Free Radio 
• Brian Joseph Shiro, held a week in jail, for Officer Pam Bechtel’s Skateboarding ticket
• Grant Wilson of Art & Revolution & Merryweather Mike Podesta brief interviews
• Ralph Myberg of SCRAP opposing the $66 million Santa Cruz Coast Hotel
• Fresno’s Mike Rhodes on landless taking back and tilling the land in Brazil
• Good Times weekly covers the John Maurer “Fuck the Pigs” sign

The September 17, 2023 Bathrobespierre’s Broadside show includes:

• https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/08/07/attorney-calls-antioch-police-force-clear-and-present-danger-asks-for-federal-oversight/
  
• https://odysee.com/@foundring:1/speedofscience:8?r=8Un47KWnDUazPzWfjjDrJyBgZ6VEzUHL  Kylan de Ghetaldi’s mRNA’s song and other sharp satirical songs frequently attacking vaccine effectiveness, vaccine mandates, and masking efficacy
  
• Russell’s claim seeking restitution for SCPD property seizure and destruction:  https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/09/13/18858887.php
• Cornerstone Carol Denney denounces Berkeley’s demolition of homeless encampments, her own struggle for tenant-run housing free from harassment, and more
  
• Oregon “right to rest” bill may give homeless people the right to sue for $1000 
• Berkeley judge extends Injunction protecting survival camps and vehicles on 8^th and Harrison to September 27^th   https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/unhoused-at-berkeley-encampment-score-a-legal-victory-and-reprieve/
• Tenderfoot Tim Rumford’s report on increased visible RV regulation (with cones) at the Shaeffer and Delaware area in Santa Cruz

The Flashback to March 27, 2005 includes:

• 5000 to 10,000 journalists arrested in Iraq—on V-Man’s “Rockin’ the Boat” 3-25 show with coordinated Iraq protests across the country—Two Years of Occupation
• Street musician Scotty on his detention in Shawnee County, Kansas 
• Indymedia controversy on the deleting of Becky Johnson’s posts with callers Jim Loese, V-Man, Earthmommer, 
• Protest against the Iraq war in San Jose
• Arcata City Councilmember Dave Meserve on the vote supporting troops who oppose an illegal war, on the Green Council majority, on the Arcata Endeavor and Service Center, police review and other issues.
• Bonus epilogue: The Feminist Menace show

The September 14, 2023 edition of Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides (an August 6, 2015 flashback) includes:

• Andrea Meagan, signer on the medians, denounces Homeless Lack of Services Center (HLOSC)
• Lucero Luna, awakened after a nap in her car by Capitola cops in mid-afternoon.
• Beggarbacker Becky Johnson on various colorful homeless protests coming up.
• Brief interviews with the newly-named Freedom Sleepers including “Anonymous”, Dolan, and others
• A longer chat with “Can’t Help But Care” Kevin Rothwell on high-pressure help for Alexis and her dog
• Martin v. Boise case—various readings
• Becky Johnson counts 28 people nearing 11 p.m. for SleepOut #4 including Monterey Maxwell, the Green Baron (https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/07/23/18775300.php  “3^rd Sleep-In at City Hall”
• “Hiroshima and the Persistence of Nuclear Weapons” at https://www.counterpunch.org/author/dr2cratr/