Ruf Suggestions for HUFF 5-8-25 Agenda
Http web addresses are for background reading or listening. Many items are really signposts & reminders of where we’d be going if and when we find the person power, time, interest, and resources. We are gathering information and evidence to challenge the Dominant (False) Police and City Manager Narrative. Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them. AGENDA SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
Top of the Agenda (+ Quick Announcements)(a brief broad survey)
++++ Review Agenda—Flag Possible Action Items
++++ Possible Handouts: Agenda Suggestions; TBA Passarounds: Berkeley Encampment Removal; Armory Poll; Recent Flyers
++++ Street and sweep reports from the last week;
++++ “Funding Matters” March “to End Homelessness” Sunday: Report?
++++ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cuRi-cblDINever Again—Moss Landing
++++ Gaia’s update on Capitola Mobile Home owners resistance to huge rent raises
++++ Evan Morrison (Armory Shelter) report/audio from Tuesday meeting & tabling follow-up: http://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/1%20FRSC%205-4-25.mp3 (about 9 minutes and 20 seconds into the audio file)
++++ Saturday May 10 4-6 PM Housing Santa Cruz County Hotel Paradox 611 Ocean St Doc Sam Tsemberiz for 2025 Affordable Housing Month Poverty Pimperie $35 ($10 if a student).
++++ Various legacy media stories.
++++ Free Events (for demonstrating, organizing, leafleting, or enjoying)
Saturday 11 am- 1 pm Ocean & Water anti-war picket
Monday 4:30 -5:30 PM Ocean & Water Indivisible speakout—(about Trump/Biden domestic policy, also a likely Dem Party organizing event)
Next Saturday May 17 7;30-9:30 PM 155 River St. S.C. The Film Encampment
++++ Report from Armory Bus Stop Tabling; Prospects; Where to Leave off Results?
++++ MHCAN Funding Cut Crisis and Background: Laura C.
++++ Legislative followup on various state bills
++++ Evan Morrison meeting report/audio; next meeting slated for end of April; Forward complaints to (408) 761-9930 as well as evan@peoplefirstscc.org or peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699.
++++ 70s weather today and through the weekend; cooler with possible showers Monday otherwise
++++ Fremontlawsuit:https://eagleera.org/2025/04/27/california-homeless-union-and-advocates-sue-fremont-over-controversial-camping-ban/ Background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZt<<4ZMINEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT_d9BFEzYA
++++ Court and Jail reports. Others in court, at parole hearings, 5150ed
++++ Check-In for Thomas’s Tipzine
++++ Reggie & Gaia’s report on Citation Search for Selectively Enforced “Homeless Crime”
++++ Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces? Small Claims Court? Armory Visit?
++++ New Street Spirits and Street Sheets AVAILABLE. Mid-month Street Sheet stories available on line https//www.streetsheet.org/ . Hard Copies of both may be available Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock 12-3 PM—ask Drew at the Food Not Bombs Both want stories & news accounts: contact paper directly or Robert Norse (423-4833)
++++ People First Free Guides: https://peoplefirstscc.org/freeguides for S.C., Watsonville, SLV, Free Phones, Youth, Housing Waitlist, Pet Food, Addiction, Immigrant Storm Relief, SLE, Diaper Bank, and more (unchecked for usefulness)
++++ https://peoplefirstsdcc.org/freeguides SC Free Guide (Correction & updates needed) + many others
++++ SHOC (Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee)’s newspaper Homeward— https://sxacshoc.org/homeward/
++++ Street Spirit archives on line:https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22&sort=-date
++++ Recent stories on a variety of unhoused issues: https://invisiblepeople.tv/
++++ Overview: https://endhomelessness.org/resource/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights/