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HUFF huddles around the coffeepot Thursday January 2nd 1:30-3:30 PM at the Sub Rose Cafe at 703 Pacific Ave next to the Bike Church

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WARNING FROM SURVIVAL CAMPERS AT THE CITY PARKING LOT NEXT TO THE MAIN LIBRARY: Police have reportedly said that on Thursday morning (January 2nd) between 7 and 10 a.m anyone found there will be ticketed, possibly arrested, with their property either seized or disposed of.  Anyone witnessing such police abuse should and phone in a report to 216-8238.  The information requested is clarified in this article: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/01/01/18871849.php

Ruf HUFF Suggestions & Reminders 1-2-25

Underlined  links are for background reading.   Many others 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) Narrative.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them.                                      

Top of the Agenda (Quick Announcements)

++++   Passarounds:  TBA

++++   Meeting etiquette: raise hands, stacker, time keeper

++++   Street reports from the last week. 

++++   Helga and/or Reggie phone report on Library parking lot raid 1-2 morning if it happened.

++++   Following up on Google number  216-8238 with regular report provider.
++++   Additions and Suggestions for Thomas’s Tips—Saturday meeting report.  Requested help?

++++   Possible Armory Revisit; Dreamcatcher visit  Info from People First Staff?

++++   Berkeley Where Do We Go?  Any Updates?

++++   New Years Eve Reports?

++++   Sweep reports from Coral St., under the Soquel Bridge, along Coral St., at Library, and elsewhere…?

++++   New Street Spirits not yet available.  https://www.streetsheet.org/read-our-full-issues/   Hard Copies of earlier issues may be available at 903 Pacific and at the Food Not Bombs Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock—ask Drew  Contact Street Spirit and Street Sheet to submit local stories & news accounts

++++   Saturday January 3rd 11 AM-12:30 PM Ocean and Water  Israeli butchery and aggression now expanded to Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, West Bank, and Gaza Support BDS locally. No more tax dollars for Israel. End the occupation & the apartheid system. Free all hostages & prisoners. 11 am-12:30 pm every Saturday. info:  call Laura at 831-247-5332.

++++  U.S. Out:  Thursdays 3:30 to 4:30 pm  Morrisey Blvd overpass over hiway 1

++++  U.S. Out:  Tuesdays 4-5 at Mission & Lauren at base of UCSC with banners/signs 415-954-2763    

++++  Rain Friday (1-3) Cool weather Thursday (1-2) and through the week.  Latest SC Free Guide

++++  The usual crowded often full non-emergency winter shelter only when temps drop below 38 degrees or flood warnings run by “People First” + Brent’s Warming Wednesdays 12-3 PM at 150 Felker St.

++++  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://drive.google.com/file/d/1ypAexFGyrU_kCoM3dByRDDrobyR9H8wA/viewLatest SC Free Guide

++++  No rules or procedures posted for 1220 River St., 115 Coral St., or People’s First RV and Armory Programs.

RESOURCES AND PROSPECTS including Regular Check-In’s, Older Stores. Possible Future Action Items, Signposts Against the Nasty New Narrative, Archived Net-Show Access, Still Older Resources & News  https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/  (the full HUFF blog)  .   To review ongoing projects, check out last week’s agenda, found at the same website to check for the full list of Resources and Prospects, which will be updated on line and hard copy  later on 1-2 or at the HUFF meeting.

HUFF boots out the Old Year 1:30 PM- 3:30 PM Thursday December 26 at the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific Ave. next to the Bike Church

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Rough HUFF Loose Cannon Suggestions & Reminders 12-26-24           Underlined  links are for background reading.   Many others 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) Narrative.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them.

These Thursday ” Loose Cannon”  meetings are run by Athena (with occasional gavel pounding from Robert).  This is a rough agenda.  The final version will be passed around at the meeting along with carrots, cookies, coffee, and chaotic catcalls.                                                             

Top of the Agenda (Quick Announcements)

++++   Passarounds:  Homeless Dead, Recent Flyers, Possible Indybay Story,

++++   Meeting etiquette: raise hands, stacker, time keeper

++++   Google number to report for filing raids, property loss, other abuses  216-8238
++++   Additions and Suggestions for Thomas’s Tips:  Ruf Copy for Next Meeting?

++++   Possible Armory Revisit; Dreamcatcher visit

++++   Berkeley Where Do We Go?  Any Updates?

++++   New Years Eve Copwatch?  Beware the Triple Fine Zones.

++++   Reports from the Homeless Memorials, Xmas Day Meals

++++   Sweep reports from Coral St., under the Soquel Bridge, along Coral St., at Library, and elsewhere…?

++++   New Street Spirits not yet available.  https://www.streetsheet.org/read-our-full-issues/   Hard Copies of both also available at 903 Pacific and at the Food Not Bombs Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock—ask Drew  Contact Street Spirit and Street Sheet to submit  local stories & news accounts or post on www.indybay.org/santacruz . 

++++   Saturday Dec 28  11 AM-12:30 PM Ocean and Water  Israeli butchery and aggression now expanded to Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, West Bank, and Gaza Support BDS locally. No more tax dollars for Israel. End the occupation and the apartheid system. Free all hostages and prisoners. info:  call Laura at 831-247-5332.

++++  U.S. Out:  Thursdays 3:30 to 4:30 pm  Morrisey Blvd overpass over hiway 1

++++  U.S. Out:  Tuesdays 4-5 at Mission & Lauren at base of UCSC with banners/signs 415-954-2763    

++++  Possible rain prospects Thursday, 12-26, Friday 12-27, and Sunday 12-29

++++  The usual crowded often full non-emergency winter shelter only when temps drop below 38 degrees or flood warnings run by “People First” + Brent’s Warming Wednesdays 12-3 PM at 150 Felker St.

++++  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 (UNVERIFIED)
++++   Santa Cruz Free Guide UPDATED!  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ypAexFGyrU_kCoM3dByRDDrobyR9H8wA/viewUNV

++++  No rules or procedures posted for 1220 River St., 115 Coral St., or People’s First RV and Armory Programs.

=========================RESOURCES AND PROSPECTS——————————————————————————-                                        Standard Stuff: Regular Check-In’s 

++++    Street Reports: Threats of Sweeps?  Posted Notices?  Uncomfortable encounters  

++++    Seeking Info & Contacts: Tabling Prospects for [FM]/Soup Kitchen/ Outside Salva Army Breakfast/Emeline/Court 

++++    Solidarity with Resistance to On-Campus Repression of Encampments & Protest—Developments? 

++++    Napa: https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/napa-clearing-homeless-encampment-moving-residents-to-new-area/                                       

Older Stories for Ambitious Readers with access to Computers 

++++   Fremont Fascism: https://tricityvoice.com/new-housing-ordinance-causes-rift-in-fremont/ 

++++   San Francisco:  https://www.streetsheet.org/vehicle-residents-succeed-in-appealing-overnight-rv-ban/    

++++   Fresno:  https://fresnoalliance.com/fresno-a-cruel-and-unusual-city/Vallejo Background from 2021: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homelessness-wasted-millions-empty-hotel-rooms-police-evictions/  Eviction Sweeps in November 2024: https://www.vallejosun.com/state-local-agencies-remove-long-running-vallejo-homeless-encampment/  Chatting with the Sweepster Boss: https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2024/10/31/conversations-with-the-city-manager-homelessness-in-vallejo/   Vallejo’s Homeless File a Lawsuit: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homeless-union-members-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-encampment-eviction/

++++     Visalia’s excuse for sweeps?:  https://fresnoalliance.com/visalia-confronts-homelessness/

++++     Fresno: Way More Arrests than Treatmenthttps://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article293730944.html

++++   San Rafael: Lawsuit forces token costly tent program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uppRbWhhvEI                                                                    

Possible Future Action Items

++++   Scheduling and strategy for confronting officials at Public events 

++++   Next Shitty Council meeting—Tuesday, January 14, 2025 

++++   Volunteer for connecting with  Visalia, Fresno, Vallejo, San Rafael activists 

++++   San Francisco Cover-Up of Property Destruction: https://www.streetsheet.org/resolution-on-seizure-of-homeless-peoples-property-in-the-works/ 

++++    Preliminary refutation of excuses used to destroy survival encampments locally such as the Camping Services and Standards Ordinance (“the Camping Ban”)                                                      

++++   Spying Back on Surveillance Camera Location yet (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)

++++   Tracking court cases?

++++   Armory/1220 Expedition to check out Athena’s Asks; any new info?                                 

Setting Up  Signposts to Stop the Nasty New Narrative/Tasks in Search of Takers

++++  Stop the War Against the Poor Sweeps/Raids + Gaza Genocide Lanyards?

++++  New  Strategies for Documenting Property Loss:  Case #, Receipts, Audio recordings

++++  WARMING CENTER OPENINGS?

++++  Focused Demands? (Stop the Sweeps, Reapportion funding to service existing camps; Walk-in Shelter)

++++  PovertyPimp Palaces Incidents (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MH CAN, Grey Bears, FNB, )

++++  Future Targets:    City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission Office… City Hall…​Emeline/TelcCare/Supes   

++++   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/09/09/18869216.php   Civil Rights Groups Sue UCSC for Unlawful Campus Bans and Response to Student Protestshttps://www.indybay.org/uploads/2024/09/09/final_2024.09.03_ucsc_exclusion_notice_complaint-final.pdf                                 

Archived Net-Show Access and older Rough Agendas:

To read summaries of the shows and past rough agendas go to: https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/To hear the shows go to https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.htmlSpecific shows TBA                                        

Still Older  Resources & News

HUFF provides Xmas cheer and bad news at its Thursday December 19th 1:30-3:30 PM Meeting at the Sub Rosa 703 Pacific next to the beloved Bike Church

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HUFF Ruf Agenda & Resources Suggestions 12-19-24

Lots of “Homeless” labeled events coming up this week in the usual performative rush to avoid guilty feelings in the Xmas season.

Items followed by underlined on-line links are for on-line and background reading.   Many others 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) Narrative.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them.                                      

Top of the Agenda (Quick Announcements)

++++   Meeting etiquette: raise hands, stacker, time keeper

++++   Google number to report for filing raids, property loss, other abuses  216-8239
++++   Additions and Suggestions for Thomas’s Tips:  Ruf Copy for Next Meeting?

++++   Berkeley Where Do We Go?  Any Updates?

++++   Reports on the sweeps at Coral St., under the Soquel Bridge, along Coral St., at Library, and elsewhere…?

++++   New Street Spirits available.  Also at https://www.streetsheet.org/read-our-full-issues/   Hard Copies of both also available at 903 Pacific and at the Food Not Bombs Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock—ask Drew  Contact Street Spirit and Street Sheet to submit  local stories & news accounts or post on www.indybay.org/santacruz . 

++++   Friday Dec. 20 City’s Memorial: 10- 11:30 AM Portuguese Hall 216 Harvey West Park #2136  Info: Joey 454-2080

++++   Friday Dec. 20 6 PM—10 PM  Rumored party open to all at London Nelson Ctr.

++++   Saturday Dec. 21 HUFF/Union/FNB Memorial  4 PM Town Clock (rain predicted, bundle up_

++++   Wednesday December 25 Xmas meal 11 AM-2 PM  Vets Hall

++++   Saturday Dec 21  11 AM-12:30 PM Ocean and Water  Stop genocide and support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza now. No more tax dollars for Israel. End the occupation and the apartheid system. Free all hostages and prisoners. 11 am to 12:30 pm every Saturday. Help hold up banners. More info:  call Laura at 831-247-5332.

++++  U.S. Out:  Thursdays 3:30 to 4:30 pm  Morrisey Blvd overpass over hiway 1

++++  U.S. Out:  Tuesdays 4-5 at Mission & Lauren at base of UCSC with banners/signs 415-954-2763    

++++  Chilly rain possible Saturday 12-21 and Wednesday 12-25 (Merry Xmas to water-soaked refugees!)

++++  The usual crowded often full non-emergency winter shelter when temps drop below 38 degrees or two days rain run by “People First” + Brent’s Warming Wednesdays 12-3 PM at 150 Felker St.

++++   On-Line Santa Cruz Free Guide outdated https://hacosantacruz.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/FreeGuide.pdf                                        

Standard Stuff: Regular Check-In’s  

++++   Passarounds:  Vallejo Handouts: City’s Memorial Notice, Outdated “Free” Guide, recent HUFF flyers+ more  

++++    Street Reports: Threats of Sweeps?  Posted Notices?  Uncomfortable encounters   

++++    Seeking Info & Contacts: Tabling Prospects for [FM]/Soup Kitchen/ Outside Salva Army Breakfast/Emeline/Court  

++++    Solidarity with Resistance to On-Campus Repression of Encampments & Protest—Developments?  

++++    Napa: https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/napa-clearing-homeless-encampment-moving-residents-to-new-area/   

     Older Stores for Ambitious Readers with access to Computers  

++++   San Francisco:  https://www.streetsheet.org/vehicle-residents-succeed-in-appealing-overnight-rv-ban/    

++++   Fresno:  https://fresnoalliance.com/fresno-a-cruel-and-unusual-city/ Vallejo Background from 2021: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homelessness-wasted-millions-empty-hotel-rooms-police-evictions/  Eviction Sweeps in November 2024: https://www.vallejosun.com/state-local-agencies-remove-long-running-vallejo-homeless-encampment/  Chatting with the Sweepster Boss: https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2024/10/31/conversations-with-the-city-manager-homelessness-in-vallejo/   Vallejo’s Homeless File a Lawsuit: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homeless-union-members-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-encampment-eviction/

++++     Visalia’s excuse for sweeps ?:  https://fresnoalliance.com/visalia-confronts-homelessness/

++++     Fresno: Way More Arrests than Treatment  https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article293730944.html

++++   San Rafael: Lawsuit forces token costly tent program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uppRbWhhvEI

Possible Future Action Items

++++   Scheduling and strategy for confronting officials at Public events  ++++   Next Shitty Council meeting—Tuesday, December 10th  

++++   Volunteer for connecting with  Visalia, Fresno, Vallejo, San Rafael activists  

++++   San Francisco Cover-Up of Property Destruction: https://www.streetsheet.org/resolution-on-seizure-of-homeless-peoples-property-in-the-works/  

++++    Preliminary refutation of excuses used to destroy survival encampments locally such as the Camping Services and Standards Ordinance (“the Camping Ban”)                                                      

++++   Spying Back on Surveillance Camera Location yet (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)

++++   Tracking court cases?

++++   Armory/1220 Expedition to check out Athena’s Asks; any new info? ++++  Exposing MC 6.36 and other sweep pretexts: Documenting the Deception                                  

Setting Up  Signposts to Stop the Nasty New Narrative/Tasks in Search of Takers

++++  Stop the War Against the Poor Sweeps/Raids + Gaza Genocide Lanyards?

++++  New  Strategies for Documenting Property Loss:  Case #, Receipts, Audio recordings

++++  WARMING CENTER OPENINGS?

++++  Focused Demands? (Stop the Sweeps, Reapportion funding to service existing camps; Walk-in Shelter)

++++  Govt. Reports:  (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board) ++++  Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MHCAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)

++++  Future Targets:    City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission Office… City Hall…​Emeline/TelcCare/Supes   

++++   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/09/09/18869216.php   Civil Rights Groups Sue UCSC for Unlawful Campus Bans and Response to Student Protests https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2024/09/09/final_2024.09.03_ucsc_exclusion_notice_complaint-final.pdf                                 

Archived Net-Show Access and older Rough Agendas: To read summaries of the shows and past rough agendas go to: https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/ To hear the shows go to https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html                                        

Still Older  Resources & News

HUFF takes off on a Pressure-the-Powerful field trip to Watsonville Small Claims Court at 12:30 pm Thursday December 12th in support of Troy Mason who is seeking payback for police seizure of his survival gear

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NO REGULAR HUFF MEETING THIS WEEK   The next HUFF meeting will be Thursday December 19th 1:30 PM-3:30 PM at the Sub Rosa Cafe as usual at 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church.
Instead folks interested in joining the HUFF caravan should contact Athena at 661-621-5502.  You can also show up at the Green Gate on Golf Club Drive at the entrance to the Pogonip Thursday December 12th at 10 AM when she will be leaving with possible space in her vehicle to caravan over to Watsonville for the hearing in Small Claims Court. 
You can also join Troy Mason’s supporters in Small Claims court in Watsonville:  Dept A, 3rd floor.  The Court is at 2nd and Main, 1 2nd St.  Turn left when you get off the elevator. The parking garage is free for the 1st 2 hours, $5 for the day.  Gaia may offer caravan service if you call her before 9 a.m. on Thursday morning (Dec 12th) at 477-9017.
Those seeking Street Spirits or Street Sheets to vend should call Bathrobespierre Robert at 831-423-4833 (no texts, it’s a landline).  The latest Street Spirit is available at the Main Branch of the Public Library.  It and Street Sheet can also be found on line.

++++   Berkeley Where Do We Go?  Updates from Andrea Hansen on Where Do We Go Berkeley facebook page.
POTENTIAL PROTESTS (around U.S.-funded wars in the Middle East)

++++   Saturday Nov. 16  11 AM-12:30 PM Ocean and Water  Stop genocide and support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza now. No more tax dollars for Israel. End the occupation and the apartheid system. Free all hostages and prisoners. 11 am to 12:30 pm every Saturday. Help hold up banners. More info:  call Laura at 831-247-5332.

++++  U.S. Out:  Thursdays 3:30 to 4:30 pm  Morrisey Blvd overpass over hiway 1

++++  U.S. Out:  Tuesdays 4-5 at Mission & Lauren at base of UCSC with banners/signs 415-954-2763    
Though Rain is predicted for Thursday, Saturday, and Monday, there is still no walk-in Winter Shelter in Santa Cruz.  No Emergency Shelters have been opened.


 READING MATERIALS  (Read up and shock your neighbors!)  

++++    Vallejo: Background from 2021: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homelessness-wasted-millions-empty-hotel-rooms-police-evictions/  Eviction Sweeps in November 2024: https://www.vallejosun.com/state-local-agencies-remove-long-running-vallejo-homeless-encampment/  Chatting with the Sweepster Boss: https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2024/10/31/conversations-with-the-city-manager-homelessness-in-vallejo/   Vallejo’s Homeless File a Lawsuit: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homeless-union-members-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-encampment-eviction/

++++     Vasalia’s excuse for sweeps?:  https://fresnoalliance.com/visalia-confronts-homelessness/

++++     Fresno: Way More Arrests than Treatment  https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article293730944.html

++++   San Rafael: Lawsuit forces token costly tent program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uppRbWhhvEI

++++   San Francisco Cover-Up of Property Destruction: https://www.streetsheet.org/resolution-on-seizure-of-homeless-peoples-property-in-the-works

++++   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/09/09/18869216.php   Civil Rights Groups Sue UCSC for Unlawful Campus Bans and Response to Student Protests

++++   https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2024/09/09/final_2024.09.03_ucsc_exclusion_notice_complaint-final.pdf

++++  https://www.hrw.org/report/2024/08/14/you-have-move/cruel-and-ineffective-criminalization-unhoused-people-los-angeles  The Cruel and Ineffective Crimminalizaton of Unhoused People in L.A.  Tip of the hat to Laure C for this item and the ProPublica item below

++++   https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homeless-union-members-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-encampment-eviction/  Recent lawsuit by Ca Homeless Union against Sweeps

++++   https://thestreetspirit.org/2023/02/07/berkeley-94700/   The Poor Tour & 1st  They Came for the Homeless

++++   https://www.codepublishing.com/CA/SantaCruz/#!/SantaCruz06/SantaCruz0636.html#6.36 : One of Santa Cruz’s excuses for its anti-homeless sweep/raids

++++   https://projects.propublica.org/homeless-encampment-sweeps-taken-belongings/: ProPublica’s detailed analysis of property stolen and hardships incurred nationwide

++++   https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-migrants-city-merge-new-arrivals-shelter-program-state/15450230/ : Come Freeze in Chicago This Winter! 

Archived Net-Show  (Listen up for fun and fury)

To read summaries of the shows and past rough agendas go to: https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/

Recent shows:  Sunday December 8, 2024 show features Robert Whitaker, Steve Pleich, and Scott Graham & a Flashback to September 28, 2014 with the anti-homeless electioneers getting grilled including:         https://podfollow.com/1654047988/episode/8d2a9c89f11b42e68663c98df8cb3b483d8894a2/view  Where is my Mind?: Bad Science with Robert Whitaker                                                                        “Scope It Out” Scott Graham & Bathrobespierre Robert take pot shots at the Santa Cruz Shitty Council’s 12-10-24 agenda            “Silver-Tongue” Steve Pleich sometime houseless local activist covers a wide variety of “then and now” topics

HUFF resumes its raucous rough-housing Thursday December 5th at the Sub Rosa Cafe next to the Bike Church at 703 Pacific

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Ruf  HUFF Agenda Suggestions 12-5-24

Due to late night return from a Berkeley trip—securing some November Street Sheets and December Street Spirits the final agenda will be distributed at the Thursday meeting.  Due to the Thanksgiving meal at the Vets Hall, this Ruf HUFF agenda is largely the same as the earlier 11-21 Agenda.

Items followed by underlined on-line links can be viewed “at home” or  “in the library”.   Many items  are really 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) Narrative.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them.                                      

Top of the Agenda (Quick Announcements)

++++   Meeting etiquette: raise hands, stacker, time keeper

++++   Athena’s Asks Update
++++   Additions and Suggestions for Thomas’s Tips:  Salv Army Breakfast 9-11:30 AM (?)

++++   Berkeley Where Do We Go?  Updates from Andrea Hansen on Where Do We Go Berkeley facebook page.

++++  Reports from the Thanksgiving Meal  at the Vets Hall

++++   New Street Spirits available.  Street Sheet copies available on line Friday perhaps at https://www.streetsheet.org/read-our-full-issues/   Hard Copies of both also available at 903 Pacific and at the Food Not Bombs Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock—ask Drew  Contact Street Spirit and Street Sheet for local stories. 

++++   Saturday Nov. 16  11 AM-12:30 PM Ocean and Water  Stop genocide and support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza now. No more tax dollars for Israel. End the occupation and the apartheid system. Free all hostages and prisoners. 11 am to 12:30 pm every Saturday. Help hold up banners. More info:  call Laura at 831-247-5332.

++++  U.S. Out:  Thursdays 3:30 to 4:30 pm  Morrisey Blvd overpass over hiway 1

++++  U.S. Out:  Tuesdays 4-5 at Mission & Lauren at base of UCSC with banners/signs 415-954-2763    

++++  Chilly but no rain for Friday 11-22 through Friday 11-29 for next week.

++++  The usual crowded often full non-emergency winter shelter when temps drop below 38 degrees or two days rain run by “People First” + Brent’s Warming Wednesdays 12-3 PM at 150 Felker St.

Standard Stuff: Regular Check-In’s  

++++   Passarounds:  Vallejo Handouts: TBA  

++++    Street Reports: Threats of Sweeps?  Posted Notices?  Uncomfortable encounters  

++++    Report from the library parking lot   

++++    Seeking Info & Contacts: Tabling at Funding Matters [FM]/Soup Kitchen/ Outside Salva Army Breakfast  

++++    Solidarity with Resistance to On-Campus Repression of Encampments & Protest—Developments?  

++++    Vallejo: Background from 2021: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homelessness-wasted-millions-empty-hotel-rooms-police-evictions/  Eviction Sweeps in November 2024: https://www.vallejosun.com/state-local-agencies-remove-long-running-vallejo-homeless-encampment/  Chatting with the Sweepster Boss: https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2024/10/31/conversations-with-the-city-manager-homelessness-in-vallejo/   Vallejo’s Homeless File a Lawsuit: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homeless-union-members-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-encampment-eviction/

++++     Vasalia’s excuse for sweeps ?:  https://fresnoalliance.com/visalia-confronts-homelessness/

++++     Fresno: Way More Arrests than Treatment  https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article293730944.html

++++   San Rafael: Lawsuit forces token costly tent program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uppRbWhhvEI

Possible Action Items

++++   Scheduling and strategy for confronting officials at Public events ++++   Next Shitty Council meeting—Tuesday, December 10th  

++++   Volunteer for connecting with  Vasalia, Fresno, Vallejo, San Rafael activists  

++++   San Francisco Cover-Up of Property Destruction: https://www.streetsheet.org/resolution-on-seizure-of-homeless-peoples-property-in-the-works/  

++++    Preliminary refutation of excuses used to destroy survival encampments locally such as the Camping Services and Standards Ordinance (“the Camping Ban”)                                                      

++++   Spying Back on Surveillance Camera Location yet (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)

++++   Tracking court cases?

++++   Armory/1220 Expedition to check out Athena’s Asks; any new info? ++++  Exposing MC 6.36 and other sweep pretexts: Documenting the Deception                                  

Setting Up  Signposts to Stop the Nasty New Narrative/Tasks in Search of Takers

++++  Stop the War Against the Poor Sweeps/Raids + Gaza Genocide Lanyards?

++++  New  Strategies for Documenting Property Loss:  Case #, Receipts, Audio recordings

++++  WARMING CENTER OPENINGS?

++++  Focused Demands? (Stop the Sweeps, Reapportion funding to service existing camps; Walk-in Shelter)

++++  Govt. Reports:  (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board)

++++  Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MHCAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)

++++  Future Targets:    City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission Office… City Hall…​Emeline/TelcCare/Supes   

++++   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/09/09/18869216.php   Civil Rights Groups Sue UCSC for Unlawful Campus Bans and Response to Student Protests https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2024/09/09/final_2024.09.03_ucsc_exclusion_notice_complaint-final.pdf                                 

Archived Net-Show Access and older Rough Agendas:

To read summaries of the shows and past rough agendas go to: https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/ To hear the shows go to https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html                                        

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HUFF likely takes shelter inside the Sub Rosa Cafe at 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church Thursday November 21st 1:30-3:30 PM–Chatter, cookies, and carrots

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Rough HUFF “Loosey Goosey” Agenda Suggestions 11-21-24

Agenda Summary so far:   Council & Supes Graham Discussion—Last Sunday…Athena’s Asks Update…HUFF on Instagram: huff_santacruz LOOK IT OVER…People’s Food Food Tent  Sundays:   1-3 PM Hiway 1 & River…Further work by Gaia and others on seeking a Monitoring Group for a HUFF Sweep/Raid  Record…Follow-Up for PRA for cop confiscation of bicycles…James-in-the Rain’s Report…Possible sign-up’s for regular tasks..Thomas’s Tip Sheet…Report on the campus crackdown: No Campus TRO…volunteer to connect with other cities… Other Stuff & More details below  Items marked with * are also priority announcements.           

Items followed by underlined on-line links can be viewed “at home” or  “in the library”.   Many items  are really 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) Narrative.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them.                                      

Top of the Agenda (Quick Announcements)

++++   Athena’s Friday 4-6 Potluck for People’s Food Tent Sub Rosa Tomorrow

++++   Update on the Proposed On-Line Documentation of Anti-Homeless Incidents ++++   Berkeley Where Do We Go?  Updates from Andrea Hansen on Where Do We Go Berkeley facebook page.

++++   Thanksgiving Meal 11-3 Vets Hall Thursday 11-28  846 Front St.; Next HUFF meeting?

++++   Meeting etiquette: raise hands, stacker, time keeper

++++   Old Street Spirits available.  Street Sheet copies available on line at https://www.streetsheet.org/read-our-full-issues/   Hard Copies of both also available at 903 Pacific and at the Food Not Bombs Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock—ask Drew  Street Spirit and Street Sheet are both looking for local stories. 

++++   Saturday Nov. 16  11 AM-12:30 PM Ocean and Water  Stop genocide and support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza now. No more tax dollars for Israel. End the occupation and the apartheid system. Free all hostages and prisoners. 11 am to 12:30 pm every Saturday. Help hold up banners. More info:  call Laura at 831-247-5332.

++++  U.S. Out:  Thursdays 3:30 to 4:30 pm  Morrisey Blvd overpass over hiway 1

++++  U.S. Out:  Tuesdays 4-5 at Mission & Laurel at base of UCSC with banners/signs 415-954-2763    

++++  Update on Protest Chevron’s fueling genocide in Gaza + Tue and Th protests last week?

++++   Rain or showers predicted for Friday 11-22 through Friday 11-29 for next week.

++++   The usual crowded often full non-emergency winter shelter when temps drop below 38 degrees or two days rain run by “People First” + Brent’s Warming Wednesdays 12-3 PM at 150 Felker St.  

                                       Standard Stuff: Regular Check-In’s  

++++   Passarounds:  Vallejo Handouts: TBA  

++++    Street Reports: Threats of Sweeps?  Posted Notices?  Uncomfortable encounters   

++++    Seeking Info & Contacts: Tabling at Funding Matters [FM]/Soup Kitchen  

++++    Solidarity with Resistance to On-Campus Repression of Encampments & Protest  

++++    Election Impacts on Homeless  

++++    Morrison letter; Keeley proposed letter  

++++    Vallejo: Background from 2021: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homelessness-wasted-millions-empty-hotel-rooms-police-evictions/  Eviction Sweeps in November 2024: https://www.vallejosun.com/state-local-agencies-remove-long-running-vallejo-homeless-encampment/  Chatting with the Sweepster Boss: https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2024/10/31/conversations-with-the-city-manager-homelessness-in-vallejo/   Vallejo’s Homeless File a Lawsuit: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homeless-union-members-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-encampment-eviction/

++++     Vasalia’s excuse for sweeps ?:  https://fresnoalliance.com/visalia-confronts-homelessness/

++++     Fresno: Way More Arrests than Treatment  https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article293730944.html

++++   San Rafael: Lawsuit forces token costly tent program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uppRbWhhvEI

Possible Action Items

++++   Scheduling and strategy for confronting officials at Public events ++++   Volunteer for connecting with  Vasalia, Fresno, Vallejo, San Rafael activists  

++++   San Francisco Cover-Up of Property Destruction: https://www.streetsheet.org/resolution-on-seizure-of-homeless-peoples-property-in-the-works/  

++++    Preliminary refutation of excuses used to destroy survival encampments locally such as the Camping Services and Standards Ordinance (“the Camping Ban”)                                                      

++++   Spying Back on Surveillance Camera Location yet (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)

++++  Tracking court cases?

++++  Armory/1220 Expedition to check out Athena’s Asks; any new info? ++++  Exposing MC 6.36 and other sweep pretexts: Documenting the Deception                                  

Setting Up  Signposts to Stop the Nasty New Narrative/Tasks in Search of Takers

++++  Stop the War Against the Poor Sweeps/Raids + Gaza Genocide Lanyards?

++++  New  Strategies for Documenting Property Loss:  Case #, Receipts, Audio recordings

++++  WARMING CENTER OPENINGS?

++++  Focused Demands? (Stop the Sweeps, Reapportion funding to service existing camps; Walk-in Shelter)

++++  Govt. Reports:  (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board)

++++  Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MHCAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)

++++  Future Targets:    City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission Office… City Hall…​Emeline/TelcCare/Supes   

++++   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/09/09/18869216.php   Civil Rights Groups Sue UCSC for Unlawful Campus Bans and Response to Student Protests https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2024/09/09/final_2024.09.03_ucsc_exclusion_notice_complaint-final.pdf                                 

Archived Net-Show Access: to read summaries of the shows:

To hear the shows go to https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html Very brief Descriptive Summary of Last Week’s Archived Net Shows– 

November 14th   :   https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-thursday-november-14th-2024-show-flashes-back-to-may-5th-2017-with-the-lone-spanger-of-austin-txs-challenge-homeless-paper-judy-schaul-steve-pleich-rick-coral-s/

November 17th: TBA                                         

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Come indoors as the weather chills and make things hot for the shelter smashers at HUFF, meets Thursday November 14, 2024 1:30-3:30 p.m. at 703 Pacific Sub Rosa Cafe next to the Bike Church

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HUFF Ruf Agenda Suggestions 11-14-24

Agenda Summary so far:   Council & Supes Next meeting 11-19 …Athena’s Asks Update…HUFF on Instagram: huff_santacruz…People’s Food Food Tent  Sundays:   1-3 PM Hiway 1 & River…Further work by Gaia and others on seeking a Monitoring Group for a HUFF Sweep/Raid  Record…Follow-Up for PRA for cop confiscation of bicycles…Possible sign-up’s for regular tasks..Thomas’s Tip Sheet…Report on the campus crackdown…volunteer to connect with other cities… Other Stuff & More details below  Items marked with * are also priority announcements.           

Items followed by underlined links can be viewed “at home” or  “in the library”  Items on either side of this agenda can be accessed by computers though there may be pay walls.  Many items  are really reminders of where we’d be going if and when we find the person power, time, interest, and resources.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them.                                      

Top of the Agenda (Quick Announcements)

++++   Berkeley Where Do We Go?  Updates

++++   Meeting etiquette: raise hands, stacker or Athena’s rules

++++   New Street Spirits available.  Street Sheet copies available on line at https://www.streetsheet.org/read-our-full-issues/   Hard Copies of both also available at 903 Pacific and at the Food Not Bombs Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock—ask Drew  Street Spirit and Street Sheet are both looking for local stories. 

++++   Saturday Nov. 9  11 AM-12:30 PM Ocean and Water  Stop genocide and support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza now. No more tax dollars for Israel. End the occupation and the apartheid system. Free all hostages and prisoners. 11 am to 12:30 pm every Saturday. Help hold up banners. More info:  call Laura at 831-247-5332.

++++   U.S. Out:  Thursdays 3:30 to 4:30 pm  Morrisey Blvd overpass over hiway 1

++++  U.S. Out:  Tuesdays 4-5 at Mission & Lauren at base of UCSC with banners/signs  415-954-2763    

++++   Protest Chevron’s fueling genocide in Gaza Fri Nov 15th 404 Soquel 4-6 PM

++++   Cooling  today;  colder week ahead: Cloudy but no rain predicted for next week.

++++   The usual crowded often full non-emergency winter shelter when temps drop below 38 degrees or two days rain run by “People First” + Brent’s Warming Wednesdays 12-3 PM at 150 Felker St.                                        

Standard Stuff: Regular Check-In’s    

++++   Passarounds:  TBA   Handouts: TBA  

++++    Street Reports: Threats of Sweeps?  Posted Notices?  Uncomfortable encounters   

++++    Seeking Info & Contacts: Tabling at Funding Matters [FM]/Soup Kitchen  

++++    Solidarity with Resistance to On-Campus Repression of Encampments & Protest  

++++    Election Impacts on Homeless  

++++    Updates from Wes White  

++++    Vallejo: Chatting with the Sweepster Boss: https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2024/10/31/conversations-with-the-city-manager-homelessness-in-vallejo/   Vallejo’s Homeless File a Lawsuit: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homeless-union-members-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-encampment-eviction/

++++     Vasalia’s excuse for sweeps ?:  https://fresnoalliance.com/visalia-confronts-homelessness/

++++     Fresno: Way More Arrests than Treatment  https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article293730944.html

++++   San Rafael: Lawsuit forces token costly tent program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uppRbWhhvEI

Possible Action Items

++++   Scheduling and strategy for confronting officials at Public events ++++   Volunteer for monitoring Vasalia, Fresno, Vallejo, San Rafael activists ++++   San Francisco Cover-Up of Property Destruction: https://www.streetsheet.org/resolution-on-seizure-of-homeless-peoples-property-in-the-works/  

++++    Preliminary refutation of excuses used to destroy survival encampments locally such as the Camping Services and Standards Ordinance (“the Camping Ban”)                                                      

Tasks in search of Takers

++++   Spying Back on Surveillance Camera Location yet (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)

++++  Tracking court cases?

++++  Armory/1220 Expedition to check out Athena’s Asks; any new info? ++++  Exposing MC 6.36 and other sweep pretexts: Documenting the Deception                                  

Setting Up  Signposts to Stop the Nasty New Narrative

++++  Stop the War Against the Poor Sweeps/Raids + Gaza Genocide Lanyards?

++++  New  Strategies for Documenting Property Loss:  Case #, Receipts, Audio recordings

++++  Cooling Center when extreme heat threatens?  Emergency gathering location

++++  Focused Demands? (Stop the Sweeps, Reapportion funding to service existing camps)

++++  Govt. Reports:  (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board)

++++  Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MHCAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)

++++  Future Targets:    City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission Office… City Hall…​Emeline/TeleCare/Supes   

++++   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/09/09/18869216.php   Civil Rights Groups Sue UCSC for Unlawful Campus Bans and Response to Student Protests https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2024/09/09/final_2024.09.03_ucsc_exclusion_notice_complaint-final.pdf                                 

Archived Net-Show Access: to read summaries of the shows: To hear the shows go to https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html Very brief Descriptive Summary of Last Week’s Archived Net Shows– 

November 7th   :   https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-thursday-october-31st-2024-show-flashes-back-to-december-1-2016-with-keith-mchenry-on-sheriff-jim-harts-public-meeting-on-his-sheriffs-killing-luke-smith-and-more/

November 10th : https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-sunday-nov-10-2024-show-features-an-interview-with-year-long-street-spirit-editor-bradley-penner-a-flashback-to-april-16-2017-covering-the-memorial-for-michael-mear/                                        

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Bundle up for cooling temperatures at the next HUFF meeting Thursday November 7th 1:30-3:30 PM at 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church

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HUFF Rough “Loose Cannons” Suggestions 11-7-24

Agenda Summary so far:   Council & Supes NO MEETINGS Next Tues …Athena’s Asks Update…HUFF on Instagram: huff_santacruz…People’s Food Food Tent 9 AM-11 AM Green Gate   1-3 PM Hiway 1 & River…Further work by Gaia and others on seeking a Monitoring Group for a HUFF Sweep/Raid  Record…Follow-Up for PRA for cop confiscation of bicycles…Possible sign-up’s for regular tasks..Thomas’s Tip Sheet…Report on the campus crackdown  Other Stuff & More details below

Items followed by underlined links can be viewed “at home” or  “in the library”  Items on either side of this agenda can be accessed by computers.  Many items  are really reminders of where we’d be going if and when we find the person power, time, interest, and resources.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them.  Athena will be running the show.                                      

Top of the Agenda (Quick Announcements)

++++   Prep for Proposed Berkeley Trip later today if Available

++++   Meeting etiquette: raise hands, stacker

++++   New Street Spirits available.  Street Sheet copies available on line at https://www.streetsheet.org/read-our-full-issues/   Hard Copies of both also available at 903 Pacific and at the Food Not Bombs Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock—ask Drew

++++   Election Results and Implications

++++   Saturday Nov. 9  11 AM-12:30 PM Ocean and Water  Stop genocide and support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza now. No more tax dollars for Israel. End the occupation and the apartheid system. Free all hostages and prisoners. 11 am to 12:30 pm every Saturday. Help hold up banners. More info:  call Laura at 831-247-5332.

++++   Thursdays 3:30 to 4:30 pm  Morrisey Blvd overpass over hiway 1

++++  Tuesdays 4-5 at Mission & Lauren at base of UCSC with banners/signs  415-954-2763    

++++   Protest Chevron’s fueling genocide in Gaza Fri Nov 15th 404 Soquel 4-6 PM

++++   Cooling  today;  cooler week ahead: Rain on Monday Nov 11th                                         Standard Stuff: Regular Check-In’s    

++++   Passarounds:  TBA   Handouts: TBA  

++++    Street Reports: Threats of Sweeps?  Posted Notices?  Uncomfortable encounters   

++++    Seeking Info & Contacts: Tabling at Funding Matters [FM]/Soup Kitchen  

++++    Solidarity with Resistance to On-Campus Repression of Encampments & Protest  

++++    Election Impacts on Homeless                                                       

Possible Action Items

++++    Scheduling and strategy for confronting officials at Public events ++++   San Francisco Cover-Up of Property Destruction: https://www.streetsheet.org/resolution-on-seizure-of-homeless-peoples-property-in-the-works/  

++++    Preliminary refutation of excuses used to destroy survival encampments locally such as the Camping Services and Standards Ordinance (“the Camping Ban”)                                                     

Tasks in search of Takers

++++   Spying Back on Surveillance Camera Location yet (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)

++++  Tracking court cases

++++  Armory/1220 Expedition to check out Athena’s Asks

++++  Exposing MC 6.36 and other sweep pretexts: Documenting the Deception                                  

Setting Up  Signposts to Stop the Nasty New Narrative

++++  Stop the War Against the Poor Sweeps/Raids + Gaza Genocide Lanyards?

++++  New  Strategies for Documenting Property Loss:  Case #, Receipts, Audio recordings

++++  Cooling Center when extreme heat threatens?  Emergency gathering location

++++  Focused Demands? (Stop the Sweeps, Reapportion funding to service existing camps)

++++  Govt. Reports:  (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board)

++++  Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MHCAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)

++++  Future Targets:    City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission Office… City Hall…​Emeline/TeleCare/Supes   

++++   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/09/09/18869216.php   Civil Rights Groups Sue UCSC for Unlawful Campus Bans and Response to Student Protests https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2024/09/09/final_2024.09.03_ucsc_exclusion_notice_complaint-final.pdf                                 

Archived Net-Show Access: to read summaries of the shows: To hear the shows go to https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

Very brief Descriptive Summary of Last Week’s Archived Net Shows–  October 31st   :   https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-thursday-october-31st-2024-show-flashes-back-to-december-1-2016-with-keith-mchenry-on-sheriff-jim-harts-public-meeting-on-his-sheriffs-killing-luke-smith-and-more/

November 3rd   TBA Coming Archived next Sunday November 10th : Interview with Street Spirit editor                                             

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HUFF casts aside phony election eve chatter with real palaver about homeless rights destruction in Santa Cruz 1:30 – 3:30 PM Thursday 10-31-24 at 703 Pacific in the SubRosa Courtyard next to the Bike Church

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HUFF Ruf Agenda Suggestions 10-31-24

Agenda of items:    …Athena’s Asks Update…HUFF on Instagram: huff_santacruz…People’s Food Tent Sat/Sun:  9 AM-11 AM Green Gate   1-3 PM Hiway 1 & River… Monitoring Group for HUFF Sweep/Raid  Record…*PRA update on cop confiscation of bicycles…Thomas’s Tip Sheet…Election: Erection or Rejection  More details below

Items followed by underlined links can be viewed by computers.  May items  are really reminders of where we’d be going if and when we find the person power, time, interest, and resources.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them.                                      

Top of the Agenda (Quick Announcements)

++++   Berkeley trip reports and possible updates

++++   Meeting etiquette: raise hands, stacker

++++   *Street Sheets & Street Spirits next week.  Check  903 Pacific & FNB.  Call HUFF
++++   *Saturday Oct. 26  11 AM-12:30 PM Ocean and Water  Stop genocide and support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza now. No more tax dollars for Israel. End the occupation and the apartheid system. Free all hostages and prisoners. 11 am to 12:30 pm every Saturday. Help hold up banners. More info:  call Laura at 831-247-5332.

++++   Cooling  today; week ahead: Dry & mid-60’s

Standard Stuff: Regular Check-In’s    

++++   Passarounds:  TBA   Handouts: TBA  

++++    Street Reports: Threats of Sweeps?  Posted Notices?  Food Tent & Lib Lot Reports   

++++    Seeking Info & Contacts: Tabling at Funding Matters [FM]/Soup Kitchen  

++++    Solidarity with Resistance to On-Campus Repression of Encampments & Protest  

++++    Election Impacts on Homeless                                                       

Possible Action Items

++++   Scheduling and strategy for confronting officials at Public events  ++++    Preliminary refutation of excuses used to destroy survival encampments locally such as the Camping Services and Standards Ordinance (“the Camping Ban”)                                                     

Tasks in search of Takers

++++   Spying Back on Surveillance Camera Location yet (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)

++++  Tracking court cases: HUFF Record Keeper?

++++  Armory/1220 Expedition to check out Athena’s Asks

++++  Exposing MC 6.36 and other sweep pretexts: Documenting the Deception                                  

Setting Up  Signposts to Stop the Nasty New Narrative

++++  Advertise the Abuses  with “Stop the War Against the Poor Sweeps/Raids + Gaza Genocide” Lanyards?

++++  Possible Public Records Documents Review and RV Antics by Reggie Meisler

++++  New  Strategies for Documenting Property Loss:  Case #, Receipts, Audio recordings

++++  Cooling Center when extreme heat threatens?  Emergency gathering location

++++  Focused Demands? (Stop the Sweeps, Reapportion funding to service existing camps)

++++  Govt. Reports:  (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board) ++++  Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MH CAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)

++++  Future Targets:    City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission Office… City Hall…​Emeline/TelcCare/Supes   

++++   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/09/09/18869216.php   Civil Rights Groups Sue UCSC for Unlawful Campus Bans and Response to Student Protests https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2024/09/09/final_2024.09.03_ucsc_exclusion_notice_complaint-final.pdf                                 

Archived Net-Show Access: to read summaries of the shows: To hear the shows go to https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

Very brief Descriptive Summary of Week Before Last’s Archived Net Shows–  October 17th  :   https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-thursday-october-17th-2024-show-flashes-back-to-feb-4-2016-thence-to-feb-6-2003-on-the-feeble-afterlife-of-the-citizens-police-review-board-jhond-golder-vs-the/

October 20th  https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-sunday-october-20th-2024-show-features-a-flashback-to-june-28-1996-a-bathrobespierre-in-the-slammer-and-interviews-in-the-court-corridors-after-the-citys-partial-i/                                            

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HUFF shouts and shudders as Halloween and Tweedledum Elections approach 1:30 – 3:30 PM Thursday October 24, 2024 at Sub Rosa 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church followed by a likely road trip in support of Berkeley’s “Where Do We Go?” Protest

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HUFF Rough Agenda Suggestions 10-24-24

Agenda Summary so far:   Council & Supes Update …Athena’s Asks Update…HUFF on Instagram: huff_santacruz…People’s Food Food Tent 9 AM-11 AM Green Gate   1-3 PM Hiway 1 & River…Further work by Gaia and others on seeking a Monitoring Group for a HUFF Sweep/Raid  Record…PRA for cop confiscation of bicycles…Possible sign-up’s for regular tasks..Thomas’s Tip Sheet…Report on the campus crackdown  More details below

Items followed by underlined links can be viewed “at home” or  “in the library”  Items on either side of this agenda can be accessed by computers.  May items  are really reminders of where we’d be going if and when we find the person power, time, interest, and resources.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them.  

Top of the Agenda (Quick Announcements)

++++   Prep for Proposed Berkeley Trip later today if Available

++++   Meeting etiquette: raise hands, stacker

++++   Street Sheets and Street Spirits next week.Copies also available at 903 Pacific and at the Food Not Bombs Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock—ask Drew

++++   Saturday Oct. 26  11 AM-12:30 PM Ocean and Water  Stop genocide and support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza now. No more tax dollars for Israel. End the occupation and the apartheid system. Free all hostages and prisoners. 11 am to 12:30 pm every Saturday. Help hold up banners. More info:  call Laura at 831-247-5332.           

10-26 6 PM- 8 PM London Nelson Community Center 301 Center Street  Santa Cruz Prepares for the Impact of World War III Everyone is welcome to participate in this free event 

++++   Cool today; Dry & Cooling with no rain predicted for next week;                                          

Standard Stuff: Regular Check-In’s    

++++   Passarounds:  TBA   Handouts: TBA   

++++    Street Reports: Threats of Sweeps?  Posted Notices?  Uncomfortable encounters   

++++    Seeking Info & Contacts: Tabling at Funding Matters [FM]/Soup Kitchen  

++++    Solidarity with Resistance to On-Campus Repression of Encampments & Protest  

++++    Election Impacts on Homeless                                                       

Possible Action Items

++++    Scheduling and strategy for confronting officials at Public events ++++   San Francisco Cover-Up of Property Destruction: https://www.streetsheet.org/resolution-on-seizure-of-homeless-peoples-property-in-the-works/  

++++    Preliminary refutation of excuses used to destroy survival encampments locally such as the Camping Services and Standards Ordinance (“the Camping Ban”)                                                     

Tasks in search of Takers

++++   Spying Back on Surveillance Camera Location yet (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)

++++  Tracking court cases

++++  Armory/1220 Expedition to check out Athena’s Asks

++++  Exposing MC 6.36 and other sweep pretexts: Documenting the Deception                                  

Setting Up  Signposts to Stop the Nasty New Narrative

++++  Stop the War Against the Poor Sweeps/Raids + Gaza Genocide Lanyards?

++++  New  Strategies for Documenting Property Loss:  Case #, Receipts, Audio recordings

++++  Cooling Center when extreme heat threatens?  Emergency gathering location

++++  Focused Demands? (Stop the Sweeps, Reapportion funding to service existing camps)

++++  Govt. Reports:  (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board)

++++  Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MHCAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)

++++  Future Targets:    City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission Office… City Hall…​Emeline/TelcCare/Supes   

++++   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/09/09/18869216.php   Civil Rights Groups Sue UCSC for Unlawful Campus Bans and Response to Student Protests https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2024/09/09/final_2024.09.03_ucsc_exclusion_notice_complaint-final.pdf                                 

Archived Net-Show Access: to read summaries of the shows:

To hear the shows go to https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html Very brief Descriptive Summary of Last Week’s Archived Net Shows– 

October 17th  :   https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-thursday-october-17th-2024-show-flashes-back-to-feb-4-2016-thence-to-feb-6-2003-on-the-feeble-afterlife-of-the-citizens-police-review-board-jhond-golder-vs-the/

October 20th  TBA                                             

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