DESCRIPTIONS  POSTED AT http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/
THE SHOW ITSELF ARCHIVED AT http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html.
Reminder Again!  If you haven’t already done so and want to continue receiving this HUFF e-mail notice of shows and other homeless activist updates, please respond to rnorse3@hotmail.com to keep them coming.


WE WANT OUR PHONE LINE BACK SO YOU CAN CALL IN !  but that 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.

WE ALSO CRAVE TO RETURN TO THE AIRWAVES IN ADDITION TO OUR NETCASTING!  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 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.  



Benchlands City-County campground residents are being moved to the distant Delaveaga area. Nearby “Camp Freedom” residents next to the Lawn Bowling court have not, as of yet, been warned to move, though rains are approach.   The many survival camped along Hiway 1 report no specific warnings to move, but rumors of that happening soon–with no place to go as usual, after having been ousted from long-time camping areas in the Pogonip.  Rain, residents tell me, is 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. 

Some residents who ousted from the Wheelworks Association of Faith Communities parking lots near the vacant sports Stadium and the nearby vacant FEMA intake center on Front St. report they were quickly ousted from the Harvey West camp they set up.  Campsites 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 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 had nothing on its November 10th agenda either, other than a feel good 3-year plan to chat on about homeless deficiency and solutions without taking the basic steps to defend life and health this winter in yet another of its “no public, please” meetings held by Zoom instead of at the Civic Auditorium accessible to the anxious public. 

Food Not Bombs continues to serve daily 1-4 PM at Parking Lot #23 behind the Taco Bell for the moment, though City Mangler Bernal has been authorized to close it down and fence it off at any time. 

I have filed another Public Records Act request seeking information on a rumored Board of Supervisors memo in possession of Ryan Coonerty and City Council vice-Mayor Donna Meyers.  Still no response from Mayor Cummings to my Brown Act demand of week before last demanding that City Council reconsider all items done without public access and participation (see “Brown Act Demand to Santa Cruz City Council: ReDo Meetings You’ve Illegally Closed” at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/30/18837959.php ).

No offered transparency from City and County regarding expenditures (or non-expenditures) of funds from Project Roomkey and Project Housekey to suggest the amount of money spent (or wasted) (or used)   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 even the rudimentary portapotties and wash stations along hiway 9 removed.   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 outside are being left to freeze this winter.

No change in “The Mangler”‘s  Emergency Edict banning (largely Latinx) vendors on Beach St. continues its preferential impact, OK-ing tourist and Boardwalk businesses for masked and unmasked alike along the beaches, the Boardwalk, and the “no vendors allowed” sidewalks.

NOMAD (Needs Oriented Movement Assistance and De-escalation) and Food Not Bombs are still organizing to provide escape resources for vehicle dwellers threatened with home seizure by lethally-armed police and Public Works cronies.  These younger activists begin to organize to resist what is likely to be the most Reactionary City Government in years–now that reactionaries have won the city election.  Call 226-998 for more information.


ON TODAY’S 11-15-20 BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES SHOW
XXX “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster and Bathrobespierre make valiant attempts to discuss the “Affordable Housing” Hoax in Santa Cruz.

XXX The 11-11 HUFF meeting features NOMAD campwatcher Steven giving extensive updates plus the usual roster of rhetoric from
Bathrobespierre Robert.

XXX  Interviews with the Hiway 1 Refugees and Matt from the expanded “huts” of the adjacent Paul Lee Loft XXX  Pogonip deportees describe the City’s rush to remove them and destruction of their property.

XXX  A few croaks from the Food Not Bombs family

XXX  Report from “Camp Freedom” from guitarist-in-residence Ricardo Lopez

FLASHBACK to September 14, 2006: XXX   Psychedelic expert Peter Stafford in-studio guest discusses his life and writing XXX   Food Not Bombs report from the Wednesday Farmer’s Market. XXX   Street Interviews: Bam-Bam, Donna and Shane, Pot Bust on Loma Prieta XXX   DJ Rhino calls in from Olympia, WA on anti-homeless crackdown, anti-war activity, and Free Radio Olympia XXX   “Touchstone” Tim Rinker on Proposition K, the Lowest-Enforcement-Priority for Medical Marijuana, sabotaged by City Council and City Police.

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 police defunding, 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. 
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  “Backwoods” Brent Adams Denies “Sweeps” are Happening and Blasts Other Activist Behavior

xxx  Musing on the newsclips and editorial jibes with Bathrobespierre Robert

xxx  “Cornerstone” Carol Denney Reports the Latest Electoral Ravages from Berkeley

xxx  A few clips from historic parody pieces by the Jolly Roger Comedy Troupe up North

xxx  “Rough Weather” Rain Lambasts Govt. Agencies and the Callous Community as Winter Descends

xxx   Roberta Tytis Recounts Crawling Through the Courthouse Catwalk

DESCRIPTIONS  POSTED AT http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/
THE SHOW ITSELF ARCHIVED AT http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows..html.
Reminder Again!  If you haven’t already done so and want to continue receiving this HUFF e-mail notice of shows and other homeless activist updates, please respond to rnorse3@hotmail.com to keep them coming.


WE WANT OUR PHONE LINE BACK SO YOU CAN CALL IN !  but that 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.

WE ALSO CRAVE TO RETURN TO THE AIRWAVES IN ADDITION TO OUR NETCASTING!  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 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.  

Movement date for the Benchlands City-County campground is, according to Jessica York, stenographer for City Hall and the City Manager, mid-November–the destination a Campground area near the Armory up at De Laveaga.    As usual, York and the City officials she assiduously follows, completely ignore the reality for the majority of those outside.  See https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2020/11/05/santa-cruz-homeless-camp-moving-to-delaveaga/  This includes the many the unofficial “Freedom” campground next to the Lawn Bowling court and the many others along Hiway 1, near Felker St. and the cemetery, and throughout the City facing increasingly cold nights. Badly-needed restroom, food, water, and charging services to the camps are still sorely missed.

City Council has yet another of its “no public, please” meetings held by Zoom instead of in Civic or another large venue where the public could actually weigh in–in person.  Fences around parking lot#27 where Food Not Bombs served food for many months were removed in the Tuesday night {“no coup, thanks!”) protests and have not been set up again by cops and public works “helpers”.   

Neither Mayor Cummings nor his boss City Mangler Bernal has responded to my Brown Act demand that City Council reconsider all items done without public access and participation (see “Brown Act Demand to Santa Cruz City Council: ReDo Meetings You’ve Illegally Closed” at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/30/18837959.php .
No transparency from City and County regarding expenditures (or non-expenditures) of funds from Project Roomkey and Project Housekey.
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 even the rudimentary portapotties and wash stations along hiway 9 removed.   Ditto with the scores of tents along hiway 1 near the interection with 9.      Encampments along the San Lorenzo pathway near the Broadway bridge and along Hiway 1 at River St.  continue to struggle in record numbers.    Months ago,  the City and County created more refugees.  They displaced the earlier larger Benchlands encampment with their own show County-run encampment.  That managed encampment  is due to be relocated to a field outside the Armory in De La Vega Park in mid-November–with no provision for the many homeless people living outside.
City Mangler Bernal’s Emergency Edict banning (largely Latinx) vendors on Beach St. continues its preferential impact, OKing tourist and Boardwalk businesses for masked and unmasked alike along the beaches, the Boardwalk, and the “no vendors allowed” sidewalks.  The Boardwalk has opened its rides for weekends.

NOMAD (Needs Oriented Movement Assistance and De-escalation) and Food Not Bombs are still organizing to provide escape resources for vehicle dwellers threatened with home seizure by lethally-armed police and Public Works cronies.  These younger activists begin to organize to resist what is likely to be the most Reactionary City Government in years–now that reactionaries have won the city election.


ON TODAY’S 11-08-20 BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES SHOW–
XXX  HUFF Scuttlebutt from Monica on Vehicular threats, Fox on encampment needs, Ben on bogus charge banditry and appropriate community response, Keith and Fox on the recent Fence removal on Election night,

XXX  Shadeseeker Suzanne and Downside David on new Raids along Hiway 9

XXX  Castaway Cooper & Companions consider the fate of Camp Freedom, aka the Lawn Bowling-Adjacent Campground

XXX  Hearty howls from Ricardo Lopez and the Pacific Avenue Performers

XXX Berkeley updates from Here/There, the long-standing Edge-of-Oakland campground from Midlife Mark & Fellow Residents

XXX  Jocular Jimmy Dore “Biden Wins, What Now?” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSYQYGAhcEQ )

XXX  Chris Hedges of the new People’s Convention (more Hedges at https://www.rt.com/shows/on-contact/506002-american-discontent-
ruling-parties/)



FLASHBACK to 1994: Bathrobespierre Robert Norse vs. RiotAct Mike Rotkin on the soon-to-be-passed Downtown Ordinances in a February exchange–rife with interruptions from 2020 by Norse


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. 
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  “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry’s Update on the Restoration of Open Access to Public Parking Lot #27–fenced off by City Mangler Martin Bernal some weeks ago and liberated Tuesday night by concerned community members.

xxx  HUFF voices: “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster from Watsonville, “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson from Seaside, and “Whip ‘Em Into Shape” Wes White from Salinas at the 11-4 HUFF meeting

xxx  NOMAD (Needs Oriented Movement Assistance, and De-escalation) activist Swiftspeakin’ Steavn on increasing threats against vehicular dwellers and those outside.

xxx  Lawwatcher Laura reports the latest court capers around Marty Mirabal’s defense of a homeless home on wheels.

THE SHOW ITSELF ARCHIVED AT http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html.
Reminder: If you haven’t already done so and  want to continue receiving this HUFF e-mail notice of shows and other homeless activist updates, please respond to rnorse3@hotmail.com to keep them coming.
WE WANT OUR PHONE LINE BACK SO YOU CAN CALL IN !  but that 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.

WE ALSO CRAVE TO RETURN TO THE AIRWAVES IN ADDITION TO OUR NETCASTING!  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 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.  


When will the Benchlands City-County campground, which many residents have found helpful, be forced to move?   Mid-November is the rumor, but no assurance of places to go–either for the residents there or the much larger majority outside facing a freezing winter.  A private Good Samaritan has spent hundreds of dollars picking up 2700 pounds of garbage that City bosses were letting pile up.  All this next to the many tents huddling against the cheery phony “Housing Matters” sign for the 115 Coral St. poverty-pimp operation.

No action yet on City Mangler Martin Bernal’s 4 Edicts Against the Poor, passed subserviently by Shitty Council plan to once more fence off the Town Clock and surrounding areas to make them hostile to homeless survival campers comes before City Council Tuesday October 27th at the 2:15 PM session.  The “Bury the Library under a Parking Garage” was funded last Tuesday and stalks ahead.  Meanwhile I’ve filed a Brown Act demand that City Council reconsider all items done without public access and participation (see “Brown Act Demand to Santa Cruz City Council: ReDo Meetings You’ve Illegally Closed” at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/30/18837959.php  Badly-needed restroom, food, water, and charging services to the camps are still sorely missed.

COVID budget-cutting in spite of Projects Roomkey and Housekey continues.  While a small number are temporarily in the safer motel shelter, most of the “sheltered” are warehoused in the unhealthy group shelters–and even those shelters are full with waiting lists.  

The Pogonip camps continue to be blocked off and bulldozed.  Those along hiway 1 continue to be starved of sanitary resources.     Encampments along the San Lorenzo pathway near the Broadway bridge and along Hiway 1 at River St.  continue to struggle in record numbers after the City and County created more refugees by displacing the larger Benchlands encampment with their own show County-run encampment there due to be dumped and dispersed in the next few weeks.

City Mangler Bernal’s Emergency Edict banning (largely Latinx) vendors on Beach St. continues its preferential impact, OKing tourist and Boardwalk businesses for masked and unmasked alike along the beaches, the Boardwalk, and the “no vendors allowed” sidewalks.

NOMAD (Needs Oriented Movement assistance and De-escalation) and Food Not Bombs provided escape resources for vehicle dwellers threatened with home seizure by lethally-armed police and Public Works cronies out on the West side of town as younger activists begin to organize to resist what is likely to be the most Reactionary City Government in years–whether Demopublicans or Republicrats “win” the “election”.

ON TODAY’S 11-01-20 BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES SHOW
XXX  Peeking in at the state Propositions before the November 2nd Day of Doom (“election”) with “Scope it Out” Scott.

XXX  Bryan Brown and Raelyn Butcher on the Marysville Fire and somewhat Successful Lawsuit there.

XXX  Straight-On Steve Describes Rescue Operations for threatened Vehicle-Dwellers up on Western Ave. on 10-28
XXX  Moonside Mallory, Caretaker Kat, Down-but-Dogged Dreadeye, Stringstroker David, and others at the FNB meal speak up.

XXX “Officer Safety” Excuses in San Rafael, Philadelphia, San Jose, and elsewhere continue on their Violent Way.

XXX  Sharp back-and-forth between “Wordwhip ’em into Shape” Wes White and Barking Bathrobespierre Robert from 10-20

FLASHBACK FONDUE FROM JANUARY AND FEBRUARY 1994
XXX  New Year’s Eve (1-1-94)– Sgt. Patty Sepone’s SCPD-Created Riot at the Town Clock Drum Circle–Many Witness Accounts
XXX  1-8-94: Swelling the Ranks of the Poor & Righteous with San Jose’s CHAM (Community Homeless Alliance Ministry) in yet another protest demanding homes not hotels from the Rich-run Redevelopment Agency there.
XXX  1-8-94  Conversations with Sleeping Ban opponents “Jacklight” John Hamilton and Linda “the Lark” Edwards outside Coonerty’s Bookshop Santa Cruz; reports from “Red Top” Robert Flory on the SCPD Assault on the 2nd SleepCrime World Peace Vigil on Pacific Avenue, as City Council passes the anti-Homeless “Hosts” program and the beginning of the Downtown Ordinances attacking the right to sit, spare change, table, and/or perform downtown.  And more…


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

• Vote (if you choose) for local candidates who oppose the dominant anti-homeless narrative (Alicia Kuhl was recently endorsed by HUFF), but don’t expect them to take real action which, as ever, will be coming from those outside and those who support them on the streets.  For those into “lesser evil” voting, consider Kuhl, Hill, Kumars, and Brown for the Shitty Council seats.  For the top cover man for the Corporate Duopoly, vote for someone other than Biden or Trump  (Biden has California sewn up, for those who’ve jumped on the Biden-as-Savior bandwagon). 
  
• Proposition pick-apart prognosticator Scott Graham recommends the following votes on the state measures:  14-Yes, 15-Yes, 16-Yes, 17-Yes, 18-Yes, 19-Yes, 20-No, 21-Yes, 22-No, 23-Yes, 24-Yes, 25-Yes
  
• Demand NO SWEEPS OF THE HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS without real alternatives.  Jointhe 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 police defunding, 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. 

ON TODAY’S SHOW

xxx  Speakers at the “Make a Growlful Noise” Rally at City Hall in Honor of Desiree Quintero, who died after City evicted several hundred from the Ross Camp without real shelter alternatives.  https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/26/18837897.php including “Katzenjammer” Keith, an Angry Lot #27 Refugee,  “Can the Crap” Alicia Kuhl, Elisse, Distant National Homeless Union Organizer Anthony Prince, and “Ragged Tongue” Razor Ray

xxx  NOMAD (Needs Oriented Movement and Direction) activists Steven and Emi on Latest Defense of Western Avenue Unhoused in and out of Vehicles, with reports on progress feeding and defending homeless folks tenthomes in their camps under attack from the City.

If you want to continue receiving this HUFF e-mail notice of shows and other homeless activist updates, please respond to rnorse3@hotmail.com to keep them coming.  
When will the Benchlands City-County campground, which many residents have found helpful, be forced to move?   Who knows?  Authorities apparently aren’t telling residents.  Same with the smaller (but still well-populated) campground above the Benchlands near the Lawn Bowling area.  There are also concerns with the Felker St. camp near the former Camp Paradise location behind the cemetery. 

Further rubberstamping of City Mangler Martin Bernal’s plan to once more fence off the Town Clock and surrounding areas to make them hostile to homeless survival campers comes before City Council Tuesday October 27th at the 2:15 PM session.  The “Bury the Library under a Parking Garage” boondoggle comes up at 7 PM.  Oral Communications on other topics not on the agenda is at 5:30 PM.  There are NO proposals on the agenda to actually provide badly-needed restroom, food, water, and charging services to the campgrounds whose presence belies the “Housing Smidgeons” sign on Hiway 1, that lie about the “success” of the former Homeless (Lack of) Services Center at 115 Coral St.
To “join” the City Council meeting by Zoom–particularly hard for those outside with limited phone resources–
Call any of these numbers If one is busy, try the next one.  1-833-548-0282 (Toll Free)   1-877-853-5247 (Toll Free)   1-888-788-0099 (Toll Free)   1-669-900-9128   1-346-248-77991-3Enter the meeting ID number: 928 2917 3723     When prompted for a Participant ID, press #.  Press *9 on your phone to “raise your hand” when the Mayor calls for public comment.DON’T EXPECT CITY COUNCIL TO RESPOND FAVORABLY TO ANY HOMELESS CIVIL RIGHTS OR EXPANDED SERVICES QUESTIONS NOR TO POLICE DEFUNDING. 

While a small number are temporarily in the safer motel shelter, most of the “sheltered” are warehoused in the unhealthy group shelters–and even those shelters are full with waiting lists.  

The Pogonip camps continue to be blocked off and bulldozed.  Those along hiway 1 continue to be starved of resources like portapotties, wash stations, and other basics.     Encampments along the San Lorenzo pathway near the Broadway bridge and along Hiway 1 at River St.  multiplied exponentially after the City and County created more refugees by displacing the larger Benchlands encampment with their own show County-run encampment there.  There are no provisions for providing decent facilities for those camps as fall turns to winter.

City Mangler Bernal’s Emergency Edict, habitually rubberstamped extends the September ban on vendors on Beach St. while the County authorities invite Boardwalk area businesses to resume their sidewalk crowd-drawing activities near the Boardwalk and unmasked tourists continue to be invited to crowd beaches, the Boardwalk, and the “no vendors allowed” sidewalks.


ON TODAY’S 10-25-20 BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES SHOW:
XXX  Interview with Emi, unhoused protection and diplomacy, on his new organization NOMAD, planning a Felker camp weenie roast next Saturday, time and place TBA. XXX  Hard Times in L.A. https://theintercept.com/2020/10/19/homeless-los-angeles-covid-wildfires
XXX  Democrats Abandon Single “Me Too” Standard in Tara Reade Accusations against Joe Biden ( Warning–Fox News is reporting)
XXX  Benchlands Broadsides–Voices from the Lawn Bowling Adjacent Tent Encampment: Cooper, Serena, David, Dreamcatcher
XXX  “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry goes into quarantine for possible COVID-19 and subsequently announced a memorial/protest at the City Hall meeting 2 PM in honor of Desiree Quintero opposing City Manager Martin Bernal’s Executive Decrees targeting unhoused survival camps and Food Not Bombs.  https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/26/18837897.php
XXX  “Scope it Out” Scott Graham Reviews the Wretched Prospects for Tuesday’s City Council Meeting–involving Consent Item #9 (the subject of McHenry’s Tuesday protest above) and the Evening “Bury the Library Under a Multi-Storied Parking Lot” Agenda Item.
XXX   Michele Critiques the Armory Shelter XXX   “Speak Out” Satya and Some Discussion of the Anti-Maskers of Santa Cruz
XXX  John Malkin interviews Joy-and-Jubilation African-American Activist Curtis Reliford on his recent run-in with a racist roughneck XXX  Former Freedom Sleeper Phil Posner reports on his recent Bagels-on-Bikes round-the-city.

ALSO ON TODAY’S BATHROBESPIERRE’S BROADSIDES SHOW: FLASHBACK NEWSBRIEFS & INTERVIEWS IN 1991
xxx  late December 1991–KDBQ’s “Liberal” Larry Johnson Interviews “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster, “Back Channel” Barnaby, and “Bathrobespierre Robert” on splits among homeless civil rightsters as well as exploding liberal stereotypes about local unhoused folks
xxx  12-18-91 UCSC Cops Assault Forest (“Elfland”) Defender and KSBW TV cameraman in peaceful protest
xxx   Spring 1991:  Bathrobespierre to KSCO’s John Muth’s Noon Balloon on Town Clock Curfew & Visionquest Homeless-Free
xxx   4-4-91 6 PM News on River St. Mini-Shelter “Controversy” as well as SCPD attack and arrest of  “Won Ton” Dave Jacob’s at the Clock, interviewing “Meandering” Mike Girth eye witness and Peace Vigil participant at the Clock against the Persian Gulf Iraqi War
xxx   4-7-91 Bathrobespierre interviews “Jet Lag” Joe Salinsky, another Peace Vigil participant on multiple SCPD abuses at the Clock
xxx   4-9-91  Muth and Bathrobespierre on “homeless out!” growth proposals by Visionquest Santa Cruz as well as Salinsky and others pressing claims against police for SCPD abuses at the Clock
          …plus Various uncut bits and clips of 1991 from the cutting room floor throughout