Looming is the “Homeless Lives Matter” Community Camp kickoff on July 4th 6:30PM on the sidewalk next to the main Post Office. Paul Lee loft closed “for a week” yesterday. As did meals and presumably showers, shitter, and laundry for the “not in programs” homeless. No budget yet or other clear answers. What will HUFF’s role be in this “rolling campout”? Chat, scheme, organize!
Category Archives: HUFF meetings
HUFF does its usual; Wednesday June 24th Sub Rosa 11 AM 703 Pacific
Front and center on the HUFF agenda is the “Homeless Lives Matter” Cafe HUFF breakfast slated for Thursday 6-25 at 10 AM at the corner of hiway 9 and hiway 1. Last week, CHP and SCPD ganged up on the oatmeal cookers–we’ll see what’s on the menu for this Thursday. Updates on the City Council and Board of Supes meeting, today’s Sin Barras monthly demo against Solitary Confinement, and what the Good Times left out of the expose on Deputy Chief Steve Clark. check it out.
HUFF into the Fray: Sub Rosa 11 AM Tomorrow June 17 at 703 Pacific
HUFF: Lots of activist talk about the June28 CampOut coming up–which should take up a chunk of the meeting; we’ll be looking for clearer info on the Homeless (Lack of) Services Budget, the Fate of the 24 Hour Parking Ban near Coral St., and organizing for the Emergency Breakfast Thursday at Hiway 1 and 9 as well as the Project Pollinate Duck Pond Event This Saturday. Join the gang! Coffee should stimulate the proceedings!
HUFF does it’s thing Wednesday June 10th 11 AM at Sub Rosa (or Cafe Pergo if Rosa Closed)
HUFF will go through its usual shit (hopefully with more bathrooms on the way) at the usual place (Sub Rosa), but we haven’t secured clear indication that they’ll be open. If not, come to the Cafe Pergolesi.
On the HUFF agenda: City Council budget aftermath and County budget upcoming…The Encampment Proposal of FNB/Camp of Last Resort/& Other Activists…New police records on contracts they have…In Search of Cell Phones, Our Own Media, and Streetwatch!…with coffee and crunchables!
HUFF Meeting 6-3 to Follow Survival Services Shutdown Meeting 11 AM 703 Pacific Sub Rosa
Activists from Food Not Bombs, HUFF, the Homeless Persons Legal Assistance Project, Sanctuary Village, as well as former workers & clients of the Homeless (Lack of) Services Center met yesterday.
They called for an Emergency Preparations to provide survival alternatives the July 1st Shutdown of Services–ending Meal, Mail, Shower, and Laundry Services.
This meeting is a follow-up to the Sunday meeting to firm up plans for a significant and sustained response to the shutdown of services to the general unhoused population here.
HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom)–which normally meets at the Sub Rosa during this time will be joining this meeting and hold its regular meeting afterwards.
If the Sub Rosa is closed, we’ll meet at the Cafe Perglesi.
For further info go to..https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/06/02/18773039.php
HUFF chugs on: Probably at Sub Rosa 11 AM 5-27
I’m told Sub Rosa at 703 Pacific will be open and serving coffee to thirsty HUFFsters tomorrow morning.
ON MY AGENDA: Threatened closing of meals and shelter at the Homeless (Lack of) Services Center through loss of state money, announced by Director Jannan Thomas at City Council tonight…Behind-the-Scenes Backstab–the 24 Hour Parking Ban Moves Forward…Cell Phone Protection for Those Outside?–Updates and Prospects…Police Mayhem Murderers Go Free in Cleveland–Police Reform in Santa Cruz…and whatever the tide washes in…
HUFF on the move tomorrow–check the Sub Rosa First 11 AM
HUFF, normally a fan of 703 Pacific Ave.–the Sub Rosa Cafe–may be out of luck tomorrow. The usual staff person–Matt-won’t be around, and I’m not sure he’s found a replacement. If the place is closed, we’ll move to The Bagelry on Cedar between Laurel and Maple. Join Us!
Up and coming: Prep for Food Not Bombs 35th Anniversary this weekend as well as the Saturday Solitary Confinement protest by Sin Barras…new developments in the “Drive the Homeless Away with 24-Hour Parking Bans”scheme by Public Works; a Step Forward in the Sleeping Deprivation Small Claims Lawsuit Drive, and more, of course.
HUFF Meeting Tomorrow
HUFF meets tomorrow 11 AM at ye olde Sub Rosa Cafe.
We’ll be updating on anything learned at the Project Homeless Connect. (google “Project Homeless Connect” for more info)
There’s the Campaign to Protect Public Parking Places Near 115 Coral St.-
(Marlin Granlund of the Parking Permit Bureau is still stonewalling on who can contest his “Dump the Homeless from Harvey West” 24-Hour Ban on Parking near 115 and the Homeless (Lack of) Services Center).
And the upcoming Speak-Out Saturday-
HUFF will be throwing a speak out (and perhaps a shriek out) Saturday May 16 at the Food Not Bombs meal near the Main Post Office downtown. The day before the National Postal Union will be having a rally in the same place (time uncertain).
NORSE NOTES: I have little confidence that the state Legislature will pass this bill, but here’s a chance to get in an e-mail or phone call before a 1:30 PM deadline tomorrow. I’ve asked Councilmember Micah Posner to author a Right2Rest local bill, which he said he’d happily do if someone else would support it. Otherwise, no go.
AB718 says:
The legislative body of a city, county, or city and county shall not prohibit, or otherwise subject to civil or criminal penalties, the act of sleeping or resting in a lawfully parked motor vehicle.
Please call or send an email asap. The hearing is Wed May 13 at 1:30. So a call or email even the morning of May 13 may is still worth it.
Just email or call (or both!) and say Assemblymember Gordon – please support AB718 to allow people to rest or sleep in a legally parked car.
Capitol Office:Sacramento …Tel: (916) 319-2024
District Office:Los Altos …Tel: (650) 691-2121
Email: https://lcmspubcontact.lc.ca.
(an “email Rich Gordon” form pops up).
Here is a link to the Bill:
http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-
HUFF weaves and wanders again Sub Rosa 5-6-15 11 AM
After a heavily surveilled and cramped protest today, HUFF veterans will return from the wars to report their latest on the fight to save Parking spaces on Coral, Fern, and Limekiln streets. Some tabling may be in the offing at the Farmer’s Market. We’re still hoping to hear from the Obamaphone Seeker. And there was a May Day Sit protest in Monterey, rumor has it. Other concerns: Tightening up at the Red Church, Performer reports from Pacific Avenue, and more prospects as I work through the nite…. There will be coffee!
Homeless Lives Matter! HUFF meeting 11 AM – 1 PM Sub Rosa
Like to be up for chatter and choices: Wednesday Info-Gathering and Rights-Asserting Protest at the Metro or Possibly Starbucks…The Baltimore Uprising–Its Implications for Us in Santa Cruz…Permit Parking Around the Homeless (Lack of ) Services Center–Being Pals with the Prejudiced Goes Sour…The Homeless Dumping Issue and Neal Coonerty…Return of the Prodigal Rabbi–Phil Posner Back in Town with “Camp of Last Resort”…and, of course, more.