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PHONE LINE ACCESS if we find a studio space we can rent around Santa Cruz.  Doesn’t have to be big.  10′ X 10′ will do, indoors or outdoors (we can build a shack if you supply the space).  Just needs electricity and internet access.  Phone tips into 831-423-4833.  Reward for finding a space for a year $300.

RADIO ACCESS means access to a tall tree or rooftop where we can place the antenna (or a key to the County Building attic).   In Covid-19 times, particularly important and helpful to those in vehicles or computerless outside so the community can speak its voice.

Phone in or e-mail us (rnorse3@hotmail.com)

Norse’s Notes

No further reports from the Benchlands City-County campground moved to the distant Delaveaga area: if you’ve got any, phone ’em in.  “Camp Freedom” adjacent to the Lawn Bowling court above the Benchlands has reportedly grown to 100 tents, but still lacks potable water and adequate sanitary facilities.  Park bathrooms remain closed and locked.   No invitation to use the County building bathrooms during the day.  

No word of supplies, portapotties, trash pick-up’s (except by generous private folks), or a place to go when the rains hit from the many fenced-off tents along hiway 1 next to the humorously named Housing Matters  (actually–Funding Matters). 

No reports from NOMAD workers. In the past NOMAD assisted survival campers move when Nature or City Mangler Martin Bernal issues new deportation edicts.   The reality of increasingly cold Winter nights still hasn’t stirred warm-and-cozy City and County bureaucrats into setting up badly-needed restroom, food, water, and charging services for the overwhelming majority of those outside.

City Council’s lead Uncle Tom Justin Cummings & and his go-to Big Daddy Supervisor Ryan Coonerty have done nothing to open emergency Winter Shelter as temperatures drop.  Nothing is on the 12-8 Shitty Council Agenda on that subject, leaving Brent Adams’ expanded makeshift Warming Center likely to be overwhelmed in spite of his best efforts to maintain scalability.  With the expanding number of deaths and hospitalizations by COVID-19, there is no reported effort to move those in the many congregate shelters (Veteran’s Hall, Laurel St., Paul Lee) to single room residences.

No offered accounting of City and County outlays from Project Roomkey and Project Housekey to identify the vulnerable homeless population ignored.  And word has not reached us that either City or County have applied for expanded Newsom’s Project funds.  Some who were lucky enough or persistent enough to get a motel room do report the planned evictions have been postponed as the state has moved closer to lockdown.

Vendors are still banned on Beach St. sidewalks unless they have brick and mortar businesses, of course.

City Council is likely to get worse with the arrival of Council newbies Sonja Brunner and Shebreh Kalatari-Johnson.  Chief Andy Mills’ home-seizures (for those in vehicles) is continuing. 

NOMAD (Needs Oriented Movement Assistance and De-escalation) continues to plan meetings and actually act to assist vehicle dwellers under police and vigilante threat from “Dirty Hands” Deb Elston’s “volunteers”.      Call 226-998 for more information.

ON TODAY’S 11-29-20 BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES SHOW

XXX  COVID-19 Cries and Conundrums–“Dangerous” John Thielking in Eugene Demands Masking, Fact-Checking on the Danish “No Clear Evidence that Masks Protest the Wearer” Study

(https://www..factcheck.org/2020/11/danish-study-doesnt-prove-masks-dont-work-against-the-coronavirus/ )

XXX  More from John Malkin’s “Refund the Community” Interview with attorneys Elizabeth Caballero and Jonathan Gettleman (full interview: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/28/18838692..php

XXX  Activist Alicia Kuhl and a Local Nurse exchange thoughts with Bathrobespiere Robert at a 12-1 Food Not Bombs  meal.

XXX  James-in-the-Sunshine gives a gloomy account of Berkeley’s latest electoral defeat.

XXX  City Council’s last “meeting” of the year with the new perps seated and no action on rent ruination and police puffery.

XXX  A Look-In at Sacramento and a Fresno report from FRSC veteran Mathew Embri

XXX  Another regular report from “Katzenjammer’ Keith McHenry

XXX  Kim Brown interviews Ricci Sergienko on police crushing L.A. housing takeover:   https://therealnews.com/obama-knows-something-about-slogans-that-disappoint-people

XXX  Jimmy Dore interviews Glenn Greenwald on media censorship.  Longer interview at https://lumpenproletariat.org/2020/11/24/tjds-glenn-greenwald-the-complete-interview/

FLASHBACK

XXX  March 1992 KZSC radio interviews Margaret Marr and John Malkin about the need for strong civilian police review in Santa Cruz in the days when that seemed to be a possible solution to police violence.

XXX  Spring 1992 Many voices at a City Council Study Session denouncing and defending the SCPD in the civilian police review board creation debate.

Summary descriptions of current and earlier shows after mid-November 2017 are posted at
http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/ .  Earlier descriptions (back to 2005) are often available at
http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html .  A listing of where flashbacks to earlier times can be
found will soon be available. 

SHOW ARCHIVES AND DESCRIPTIONS 

Recent Past Shows are Described at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/ 

Recent Past Shows are Archived separately at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  

Many Pre-2017 Shows are Described at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html

Many Pre-2017 Shows are Archived at http://radiolibre.org/brb/

Archives prior to 2004 are at http://huffsantacruz.org/archivemain.html 

For Flashbacks before 1995, go to http://huffsantacruz.org/radio.html and search for “Flashback” 

Act Locally or Regret Later 

• Demand NO SWEEPS OF THE HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS without real alternatives.  Join the groups
  listed below, and/or start your own support group to stop the continued “whack-a-mole” SCPD and Public Works “disappear the homeless” approach that now threatens their health & the broader Community’s as well.

• Volunteer for homeless civil rights or service programs that actually serve:  Food Not Bombs, Day/Night Storage, HUFF, SC Homeless Union, Your Allied Rapid Response (YARR), Sub Rosa Cafe, NOMAD and others mentioned on Instagram. 
• Join Black Lives Matter protests to demand funding community aid not police force, the end of homeless
  harassment, and true community action to restore resources to all of us.

To hear this show at a time of your choosing, Check Out  http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  later tonight. 
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ON TODAY’S SHOW

xxx  War on RV’s in Santa Monica and Santa Cruz, but Santa Barbara fights back with a lawsuit.

xxx  Attorneys Caballero and Gettleman Expose Abusive S.C. Jail Conditions in the Death-by-Water Tamario Smith case (https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/28/18838692.php)

xxx  Castaway Cooper’s “Freedom Camp” Update from San Lorenzo Park

xxx  A Neighbor Ponders the Deb Elston Protests (on archives only).

APOLOGIES FOR A SLEEP-DEPRIVATION-INDUCED DELAY IN THE PRE-SHOW POSTING OF CONTENTS AND UPDATES.  THE NETCAST SCHEDULE OF THE SHOW IS ALSO DELAYED TODAY.

THOSE DESCRIPTIONS TO BE POSTED LATER TODAY AT http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/
THE SHOW ITSELF ARCHIVED AT http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html.
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WE WANT THAT PHONE LINE !  but it won’t happen unless we can find a studio space we can rent around Santa Cruz.  Doesn’t have to be big.  10′ X 10′ will do, indoors or outdoors (we can build a shack if you supply the space).  Just needs electricity and internet access.

AND HOW ABOUT GOING BACK ON THE RADIO?! That means simply access to a tall tree or rooftop where we can place the antenna.   In Covid-19 times, this is particularly important so the community can talk to itself without the ridiculous limitations of Zoom, etc.

Phone in (423-4833) or e-mail us (rnorse3@hotmail.com) tips on where we might find either a studio space and a place to put our antenna.  $300 reward for finding us the studio space.   Eternal gratitude for finding an antenna location.  

THE SHOW ITSELF ARCHIVED AT http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html.

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PHONE LINE ACCESS WANTED !  but it won’t happen unless we can find a studio space we can rent around Santa Cruz.  Doesn’t have to be big.  10′ X 10′ will do, indoors or outdoors (we can build a shack if you supply the space).  Just needs electricity and internet access..  Phone tips into 831-423-4833.
RADIO ACCESS TOO!  which means access to a tall tree or rooftop where we can place the antenna (or a key to the County Building attic).   In Covid-19 times, particularly important and helpful to those in vehicles or computerless outside so the community can speak its voice.

Phone in or e-mail us (rnorse3@hotmail.com) helpful suggestions on where we might find either a studio space and a place to put our antenna.  $300 reward for finding us the studio space.   Babble aplenty for all for finding us an antenna location.  

Norse’s Notes

Phone reports indicate the Benchlands City-County campground residents have largely been moved to the distant Delaveaga area–for which, no reports yet.  “Camp Freedom” the 50-tent mini village adjacent to the Lawn Bowling court reports inadequate sanitary facilities and a pressing need for potable water.   San Lorenzo bathrooms remain shut and there has been no invitation to use the County building bathrooms.   The same crucial shortages plague the Hiway 1 camps though it is adjacent to the many fenced-off services of the deceptively named Housing Matters  (proposed truth-in-advertising name Funding Matters).  The City and County have made no provision for predicted December rains, likely put the many camps underwater.

Survival campers near the Tannery have reportedly been driven off, with NOMAD workers reportedly assisting them in moving but not necessarily to any basic service access.  The reality of increasingly cold Winter nights still hasn’t stirred warm-and-cozy City and County bureaucrats into setting up badly-needed restroom, food, water, and charging services for the overwhelming majority of those outside.

Assistant City Mangler Susie O’Hara has reportedly stepped away or been dumped from her position as puff piece pusher and ardent apologist, backing of Mangler Martin Bernal’s inflated and false shelter claims in the sweeping of earlier survival camps in San Lorenzo Park and Ross. 

City Council’s lead Uncle Tom Justin Cummings & and his go-to Big Daddy Supervisor Ryan Coonerty have done nothing to open emergency Winter Shelter as temperatures drop.  Nor have either moved to relieve the risk of the many congregate shelters (Veteran’s Hall, Laurel St., Paul Lee) as the second wave of COVID-19 hits. 

And Brent Adams of the Warming Center overflow shelter has expanded his rented space, but still awaits support from the City money managers.  He notes the County is willing to spend $2000 per person and $1 million a year for the well-managed but absurdly expensive Benchlands (now Delaveaga) campground, but won’t even provide the limited Winter Shelter traditional at this time of year to stem the homeless suffering as winter sets in.  No offered accounting of City and County outlays from Project Roomkey and Project Housekey to identify the vulnerable homeless population ignored.  And word has not reached us that either City or County have applied for Newsom’s Project funds.

While a number of vulnerable unhoused are temporarily in the safer motel shelter, most of those “sheltered” are warehoused in the unhealthy group shelters–and even those shelters have waiting lists as the SCPD and its “social worker” allies pass out alleged available resource lists.   

Vendors on Beach St. sidewalks continue to be banned, breaking promises to take action by October to redress the situation. 

Chief Andy Mills police “reforms” backed by his City Council go-to Justin Cummings were unanimously ratified by the Council at its final November meeting before the “new” Council sashays in 2nd Tuesday in December.  They provide no police defunding and were done with screened public input and a shrunken public comment period on November 24th.

NOMAD (Needs Oriented Movement Assistance and De-escalation) continues to plan meetings and actually act to assist vehicle dwellers under police and vigilante threat from “Dirty Hands” Deb Elston’s “volunteers”.      Call 226-998 for more information.

ON TODAY’S 11-29-20 BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES SHOW

XXX “Cornerstone” Carol Denney tells of Berkeley gloom in the wake of the 2020 local elections.

XXX  May 1994 Mini Flashback to May 13 as Mayor Kennedy ducks the microphone after the infamous May 11 police riot at the
successful Sitting Ban protests at Cathcart and Pacific.

XXX  S.F. Chronicle columnist Otis R. Taylor Jr. on Vallejo police beating and bribing in the recent Carl Edwards case:  https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/Man-beaten-by-Vallejo-police-will-receive-15743509.php 

XXX  “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster on the latest chapter of her Watsonville fire aftermath odyssey and a plea for help.

XXX  Artist and activist “Dreadeye” (Randolph Talley III) denounces police assault, two weeks jailing, and multiple charges near San Lorenzo Park.

XXX  Footbridge Services activist Brent Adams denounces the City’s failure to open Winter Shelter, describes his expansion of the Warming Center, attacks other activists as focused on a political agenda rather than actual houseless people, and gives some updates.

XXX  Steavn (that’s how he spells it) of NOMAD (Needs Oriented Movement Assistance and De-escalation) provides another helpful update, as he does Food Not Bombs clean-up.

XXX  “Pirate” (Marty Mirabel) tells of ticketing, turmoil, and the troubles of lone outside living.
XXX   SC Homeless Union  Prez Alicia Kuhl briefly describes the latest from the dormant-but-not-dead Union (my interpretation not hers)

FLASHBACK to May 1994 in the wake of Mass Protests Against the Sitting Ban & the “Progressive” Council’s
anti-homeless Downtown Ordinances.

XXX  Many speakers weigh in in an Afternoon protest of May 18, 1994 in front of Neil Coonerty’s Bookshop Santa Cruz after Coonerty led a campaign to empower police against street people and unhoused folks downtown and in other business districts.

XXX  Analysis of the Aftermath: “Redtop” Robert Flory, “Jacklight” John Hamilton, and “Bathrobespierre”
Robert Norse discuss the protests and give us a peek into planned events…way back then.

Summary descriptions of current and earlier shows after mid-November 2017 are posted at

http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/ .  Earlier descriptions (back to 2005) are often available at

http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html .  A listing of where flashbacks to earlier times can be
found will soon be available. 

SHOW ARCHIVES AND DESCRIPTIONS 

Recent Past Shows are Described at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/ 

Recent Past Shows are Archived separately at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  

Many Pre-2017 Shows are Described at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html

Many Pre-2017 Shows are Archived at http://radiolibre.org/brb/

Archives prior to 2004 are at http://huffsantacruz.org/archivemain.html 

For Flashbacks before 1995, go to http://huffsantacruz.org/radio.html and search for “Flashback”

To hear this show at a time of your choosing, Check Out  http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  later tonight. 
Reminder for those who haven’t already responded:  If you wish to continue receiving these updates and haven’t already e-mailed your interest, please send an e-mail to rnorse3@hotmail.com. 

ON TODAY’S SHOW

xxx  Witnesses to claims of false ticketing and assaulting an individual with a vehicle and then attempting to leave the scene blow the whistle on Volunteer Officer #502 Deborah Elston and her companions.

xxx  Return to Lot #27–a Food Not Bombs/Community Thanksgiving Meal at Front and Laurel: Sharing Food and Feelings

xxx  Vexed Vehicle Dwellers and their Allies outside Darkside Debbie’s home invite her to discuss the implications of her ticketing terrorism–threatening the only homes some poor folks have.

Apologies to listeners for the late posting of the 11-22 show and its late description here.

Norse’s Notes

Benchlands City-County campground residents have largely been moved to the distant Delaveaga area.   New fences are going up on the County Bureaucrat side of “Camp Freedom” at the Lawn Bowling court.  A few residents have been given a few days notice to move or else.  Some departing County campground residents have given their tents and cots to the Freedom folks, but there is now no potable water available and few portapotties.  San Lorenzo bathrooms remain shut and there has been no invitation to use the County building bathrooms.   The same crucial shortages plague the Hiway 1 camps..  December  Rain, residents tell me, are likely to turn their camping area in front of the Housing Mutters ad sign on hiway 1 up to and beyond the railroad tracks into a river.   

Povertypimp Patron Don Lane backs grantgrabber claims of extensive shelter (see https://www.donlane.org/post/the-invisible-blogger-reappears-and-has-new-stuff-to-say-about-homelessness-in-santa-cruz-county? )    Campsites at the Benchlands, near Felker St. and the cemetery face “flood warning” excuses to be moved along, with NOMAD workers reportedly planning to assist them in moving where they want to go.  The reality of increasingly cold Winter nights still hasn’t stirred warm-and-cozy City and County bureaucrats into setting up badly-needed restroom, food, water, and charging services for the overwhelming majority of those outside.  

City Council’s agenda again had nothing re: Winter Shelter, nor relieving the risk of the many congregate shelters (Veteran’s Hall, Laurel St., Paul Lee).  Brent Adams of the Warming Center overflow shelter has expanded his rented space, but gets no support from the City coffers. 

My Public Records Act requests remain fundamentally unanswered.  One asked for access to the citations of RV dwellers targeted for harassment by volunteer police officer and veteran reactionary Deborah Elston..  Another sought key memos from Supervisor Coonerty to Councilmember Myers on a rumored round-em-up and ship-em-out deportation scheme against the homeless. 

No offered accounting of City and County outlays from Project Roomkey and Project Housekey to identify the vulnerable homeless population ignored.  The costly $1 mil per year Benchlands campground was an example of providing a showcase shelter for a few while ignoring the plight of the many–standard Santa Cruz strategy. 

While a number of vulnerable unhoused are temporarily in the safer motel shelter, most of those “sheltered” are warehoused in the unhealthy group shelters–and even those shelters have waiting lists as the SCPD and its “social worker” allies pass out alleged available resource lists.    

The Pogonip camps continue to be blocked off with no restoration of portapotties, wash stations, and trash pick-ups along hiway 9.   Ditto with the scores of tents along hiway 1 near the intersection with 9–no portapotties for the scores of Pogonip evacuees there.   

And, of course, there’s no drop-in Winter Shelter so folks willing to brave congregate shelters are being left outside to freeze this winter. 

No change in “The Mangler”‘s  Emergency Edict banning (largely Latinx) vendors on Beach St. with a “report” that reports no vending options for the vendors.  

NOMAD (Needs Oriented Movement Assistance and De-escalation) and Food Not Bombs have reportedly helped some vehicle dwellers move their vehicles to temporary safety or secured possessions from threatened vehicles.      Call 226-998 for more information.

A Monday 11-23 “Wake Up, Officer Elston” protest was held outside her house at 323 Majors St. protesting her apparent targeted citation of vehicular homes–notably that of homeless organizer Alicia Kuhl.  A partial video of the protest can be seen at https://www.facebook.com/100006740895781/videos/2934297870138214 . 

ON TODAY’S 11-22-20 BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES SHOW

XXX “Whip the Wicked” Wes White and Anton Hunter on the continuing Robert’s Lake RV Camp, brighter Salinas City Council prospects, more homeless sweeps and the COVID-19 situation for those outside.

XXX  Project Roomkey and Housekey–New Funds and New Fighting–Newsbriefs from out of town.

XXX  Jolly Roger Comedy Troupe “Oldies” from the mid-90’s: Berkeley Police Movie Reviewers,

XXX  Reports and Retorts from the 11-18 HUFF meeting; Report on “Volunteer” Cop Deborah Elston’s Stalk-and-Smash 11-16

Vehicular Home Attack and possible Community responses

XXX  A lookback:  the 1927 Columbine Mine Massacre

XXX  Food Not Bombs voices: Maitlin rhapsodizes on the tough times in the rain; Joe Pace’s update on Dreadeye’s arrest & other tips;

Kat on the Pirate (Marty Mirabel) case(s);

XXX  Interviews at Freedom Camp, the Upper Benchlands, after the Relocation of the County’s Lower Benchlands Campground–with Mark and Communitarian Cooper. 

Brief FLASHBACK to May 1994 and the “Who Owns the Sidewalks” Protests Against the Sitting Ban  

Summary descriptions of current and earlier shows after mid-November 2017 are posted at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/ . 

Earlier descriptions (back to 2005) are often available at

http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html .  A listing of where flashbacks to earlier times can be
found will soon be available. 

SHOW ARCHIVES AND DESCRIPTIONS 

Recent Past Shows are Described at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/ 

Recent Past Shows are Archived separately at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  

Many Pre-2017 Shows are Described at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html

Many Pre-2017 Shows are Archived at http://radiolibre.org/brb/

Archives prior to 2004 are at http://huffsantacruz.org/archivemain.html 

For Flashbacks before 1995, go to http://huffsantacruz.org/radio.html and search for “Flashback” 

To hear this show at a time of your choosing, Check Out  http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  later tonight. 
Reminder for those who haven’t already responded:  If you wish to continue receiving these updates and haven’t already e-mailed your interest, please send an e-mail to rnorse3@hotmail.com. 

ON TODAY’S SHOW

xxx  San Jose Protester David Baca with shattered knee has “assault” case dismissed 6 months late with unnamed Assaulting officers uncharged and likely still on the force.
xxx  Mothers Against Murder Activist offers $1000 reward for info leading to the killer of homeless East Palo Alto resident Santiago Gonzalez-Gonzalez
xxx  “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry Discusses Vehicle Seizures and the Darkening Local and National Picture for Folks Outside