Coffee and chat at HUFF tomorrow (11-25) as we view remains of the wreckage from City Council’s ‘decisions’ on the Warming Center, the “No Homeless RV’s law, and the aftermath of Freedom SleepOut #20. Also on the agenda: the California Rural Legal Assistance Lawsuit Against the Manteca Sleeping Ban; Berkeley’s Ongoing SleepOut Outside City Hall, New Strategies of Survival and Resistance as Winter Descends…
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HUFF ‘n Stuff will brave the mid-day cold to huddle together tomorrow 11-11 at 11 a.m. (!) at the Sub Rosa
HUFF agenda is likely to be brooding over:
+++ Berkeley’s Upcoming SleepOut on 11-16 and the Berkeley City Council meeting’s planned attack on the homeless (See http://www.thestreetspirit.
+++ The on-going struggle to focus federal attention via the DOJ and HUD oversight to finally force City Council to pay attention to basic homeless survival rights this winter before the suffering toll grows from El Nino.
+++ Support for other allied student and community struggles (Tuition/Police Abuse by UCSC activists, the Beach Flats Community Garden by activists there, Tenant organizing).
+++ Transformed Support for the Freedom Sleepers Movement to account for freezing and wet weather ahead.
+++ The on-going struggle to focus federal attention via the DOJ and HUD oversight to finally force City Council to pay attention to basic homeless survival rights this winter before the suffering toll grows from El Nino.
+++ Support for other allied student and community struggles (Tuition/Police Abuse by UCSC activists, the Beach Flats Community Garden by activists there, Tenant organizing).
+++ Transformed Support for the Freedom Sleepers Movement to account for freezing and wet weather ahead.
HUFF it up later today–if you dare 11 AM Sub Rosa Cafe
Moving from Freedom SleepOut #17 to HUFF Chat-and-Sip #1608 (we’ve been meeting weekly since 1989 or perhaps before). Agenda prospects for: tonight’s City Commission for the Prevention of Violence to Women’s discussion of safe sleeping zones for women to (perhaps) be forwarded to the next Shitty Council meeting; RV Parking and Safe Zones on November 24th agenda; Panhandling laws coming up for challenge?; Blue Box 2 Case 8:30 AM 11-5; whatever the cold wind blows in…along with hot coffee and other drinkables.
HUFF will still puff at Sub Rosa Today 11 AM at ye olde 703 Pacific Ave.
HUFF meeting today to review recent work by activists Avian, Laura, Linda perhaps, and others! Not to mention the latest vague Mea Culpa from Mayor Lane on his facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/Don.
HUFF struts its stuff Wednesday 10-21-15…11 AM at Sub Rosa 703 Pacific
HUFF will be staggering in from SleepOut #15 (assuming we’re not in the hoosegow) to consider tabling at a Take Back Santa Cruz Event on Thursday night, organizing for the UN street closure on Saturday, considering a recent report of a police officer drawing a gun, and prep for next Tuesday’s Council Meeting sleep-out for a possible Sleep-In. Come on down and join the merriment. Coffee and cups provided.
HUFF trudges on: 11 AM Sub Rosa Cafe 10-14
After the mega-Council meeting of 10-13 and the Freedom Sleepers Declaration of a [Relatively] Safe Sleeping Zone on the City Hall Sidewalks, it’s time to plan for upcoming anticipated El Nino weather and the harder choices that face houseless and houseless supporters alike. If Sub Rosa at 703 Pacific isn’t available, we’ll likey move to Cafe Pergolesi, but the new location will be posted on the Sub Rosa gate. New strategies for supporting restoration of space and security for performers, vendors, loungers, residents, you name it…
HUFFling and snuffling: Wednesday 10-7 at ye olde Sub Rosa Cafe 11 AM
Weary HUFFsters, straggling in from Freedom SleepOut #13 will find a dose of coffee and cantankerousness at the weekly HUFF-orama. Rumors that Cal Tran or other badged bozos are giving “littering” tickets along the tracks (but not for litter, rather–clean up and move or have your stuff confiscated) , city attorney seems to confirm that zero camping tickets are being dismissed under the ‘on the waiting list’ exemption, new informational flier on getting your name on the River St. Waiting List by phone to avoid tickets, and, possibly a more restive than usual SleepOut #14 coming up on October 20th. Sleep out and then force your eyes open for the HUFF meet…!
HUFF putters and sputters–11 am today Sub Rosa 9-30-15
In the wake of Freedom SleepOut #12 and the Blue Box Arraignment/Festival of the Streets this morning of Abbi Samuels and Keith McHenry, HUFF will be brooding on the latest Bell v. Boise court decision turning back the homeless lawsuit, upcoming Broken Windows forum in S.F. Thursday, the Exodus from the Jungle and homeless forum in San Jose Friday–and other coffee-drenched topics…
HUFFies to HUFF again Wednesday at Sub Rosa 11 AM, awake or asleep
HUFFsters will slurp coffee and trade stories of Freedom SleepOut #11 at the usual time and place (703 Pacific) as well as review recent tallies of Park and Recreation Citations (thank you, Avian and Laura!). Coming up also–the “End the Violence Against Freedom Sleepers and the Homeless” Press Conference Thursday 5:30 PM in front of the Rio Theater, the River St. Shelter Waiting List–Hoax or Delusion?, Vancouver’s Decision to End the Sleeping Ban, and other stuff as well!
HUFFing Again After A Tense Night 11 AM Sub Rosa 703 Pacific 9-16
HUFFsters, some of us anyway, will be dragging our weary butts to the Sub Rosa Cafe today to ponder on the outcome of Freedom Sleep #10, brood on the likely upcoming RV bans at City Council either next Tuesday or the one two weeks later, and seek solidarity perhaps with We Copwatch and Black Lives Matter to encourage some direct action in Santa Cruz. A sleep-in inside City Hall chambers itself has been suggested. We’ve got the coffee if you drink it.