RUF Agenda Suggestions for “Loose Cannons” HUFF meeting 9-4-25

For those wearied or impatient with the repeated Agenda, most of them except those flagged as action or discussion items might be limited to 1 minute presentation unless the group wants more info.  The point is to maintain the real narrative not the one the City/County staff claims.  This is also a rough draft with additional items to be added before & at the Thursday [9-4] meeting.

Top of the Agenda

++++   Reports on Current Projects; Time Available for next week;  Needs and Wants

++++   Follow-Up on Last Week’s Projects

++++   Flag Possible Action Items That Require Immediate Planning and/or Action: MHCAN Closure; County RV law.

++++   Handouts: Agenda, TBA;   Passarounds HUFF Notes, Gaza Petition         Available on Request:  Shelter/Sweep Questionnaire

++++   Street Sweeps in Last Week and Coming Up
++++   Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters

++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’s

++++   Follow up’s on Trump, Newsom, and Keeley-Huffaker Edicts

++++   Meetings of Interest Upcoming

++++   216-8239 Property Seizure Reports Accumulation + FNB Poll Report

++++   Clanging pots and pans rally against U.S. Funding Gaza Starvation and Local Unhoused Refugee Harassment

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet

Thursday Sept 4  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 5   8:30 AM- 4 PM “Know Their Names”—Honoring Martyred Gazan Children  12 PM – 1 PM Press Conference  4 PM Silent March from Ocean & Water    4:30 Town Clock Name Reading, Signs     5:15 PM Silent March   5:30 PM-7:30 PM Silent March to Cooper St.    7:30 PM- Late Evening  Visual Images           

Saturday sept 6   11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-war  All Out for Palestine: Gaza is Starving   Palestine Justice Coalition          

Saturday sept 6 and Sunday sept 7 noon-3 PM FNB gathering and meal Town Clock; Street Spirits available; leave off or pick up polling sheets with Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices.

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 8 4:30-5:30 PM  Indivisible  Protest         Indivisible Civil Rights Group        Corner of Ocean and Water Streets in Santa Cruz

More check-in’s + Info

++++    Info Tabling:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested…Poll for Armory

++++    Armory complaints to (408) 761-9930 as well as evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or  peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699.

++++   Initially sunny then sunny/cloudy for the next week (says on-line weather report—good luck)

++++   Tips & Lifelessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Sagacity

++++   Reggie & Gaia’s report on Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”.

++++   Laura C.: legislative updates

++++   Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces?  Small Claims Court? 

++++   Attorney Kate Wells death: Check out HUFF site Descriptions or Flashbacks for more herstory

++++   (if by popular demand) Wes White’s phone report on Pajaro Camp Demolition

Old Standbyes

++++   Hard Older Copies of Street Spirit available Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock 12-3 PM—ask Drew at the Food Not Bombs.  Both want stories & news accounts: contact paper directly or Robert Norse (423-4833).    Pick up or leave off Armory polls with Drew as well.  

++++   Street Spirit archives on line:https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22&sort=-date

++++    Recent stories on a variety of unhoused issues:   https://invisiblepeople.tv/   

++++    Overview: https://endhomelessness.org/resource/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights

++++    Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K”