Come indoors as the weather chills and make things hot for the shelter smashers at HUFF, meets Thursday November 14, 2024 1:30-3:30 p.m. at 703 Pacific Sub Rosa Cafe next to the Bike Church

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HUFF Ruf Agenda Suggestions 11-14-24

Agenda Summary so far:   Council & Supes Next meeting 11-19 …Athena’s Asks Update…HUFF on Instagram: huff_santacruz…People’s Food Food Tent  Sundays:   1-3 PM Hiway 1 & River…Further work by Gaia and others on seeking a Monitoring Group for a HUFF Sweep/Raid  Record…Follow-Up for PRA for cop confiscation of bicycles…Possible sign-up’s for regular tasks..Thomas’s Tip Sheet…Report on the campus crackdown…volunteer to connect with other cities… Other Stuff & More details below  Items marked with * are also priority announcements.           

Items followed by underlined links can be viewed “at home” or  “in the library”  Items on either side of this agenda can be accessed by computers though there may be pay walls.  Many items  are really reminders of where we’d be going if and when we find the person power, time, interest, and resources.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them.                                      

Top of the Agenda (Quick Announcements)

++++   Berkeley Where Do We Go?  Updates

++++   Meeting etiquette: raise hands, stacker or Athena’s rules

++++   New Street Spirits available.  Street Sheet copies available on line at https://www.streetsheet.org/read-our-full-issues/   Hard Copies of both also available at 903 Pacific and at the Food Not Bombs Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock—ask Drew  Street Spirit and Street Sheet are both looking for local stories. 

++++   Saturday Nov. 9  11 AM-12:30 PM Ocean and Water  Stop genocide and support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza now. No more tax dollars for Israel. End the occupation and the apartheid system. Free all hostages and prisoners. 11 am to 12:30 pm every Saturday. Help hold up banners. More info:  call Laura at 831-247-5332.

++++   U.S. Out:  Thursdays 3:30 to 4:30 pm  Morrisey Blvd overpass over hiway 1

++++  U.S. Out:  Tuesdays 4-5 at Mission & Lauren at base of UCSC with banners/signs  415-954-2763    

++++   Protest Chevron’s fueling genocide in Gaza Fri Nov 15th 404 Soquel 4-6 PM

++++   Cooling  today;  colder week ahead: Cloudy but no rain predicted for next week.

++++   The usual crowded often full non-emergency winter shelter when temps drop below 38 degrees or two days rain run by “People First” + Brent’s Warming Wednesdays 12-3 PM at 150 Felker St.                                        

Standard Stuff: Regular Check-In’s    

++++   Passarounds:  TBA   Handouts: TBA  

++++    Street Reports: Threats of Sweeps?  Posted Notices?  Uncomfortable encounters   

++++    Seeking Info & Contacts: Tabling at Funding Matters [FM]/Soup Kitchen  

++++    Solidarity with Resistance to On-Campus Repression of Encampments & Protest  

++++    Election Impacts on Homeless  

++++    Updates from Wes White  

++++    Vallejo: Chatting with the Sweepster Boss: https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2024/10/31/conversations-with-the-city-manager-homelessness-in-vallejo/   Vallejo’s Homeless File a Lawsuit: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homeless-union-members-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-encampment-eviction/

++++     Vasalia’s excuse for sweeps ?:  https://fresnoalliance.com/visalia-confronts-homelessness/

++++     Fresno: Way More Arrests than Treatment  https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article293730944.html

++++   San Rafael: Lawsuit forces token costly tent program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uppRbWhhvEI

Possible Action Items

++++   Scheduling and strategy for confronting officials at Public events ++++   Volunteer for monitoring Vasalia, Fresno, Vallejo, San Rafael activists ++++   San Francisco Cover-Up of Property Destruction: https://www.streetsheet.org/resolution-on-seizure-of-homeless-peoples-property-in-the-works/  

++++    Preliminary refutation of excuses used to destroy survival encampments locally such as the Camping Services and Standards Ordinance (“the Camping Ban”)                                                      

Tasks in search of Takers

++++   Spying Back on Surveillance Camera Location yet (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)

++++  Tracking court cases?

++++  Armory/1220 Expedition to check out Athena’s Asks; any new info? ++++  Exposing MC 6.36 and other sweep pretexts: Documenting the Deception                                  

Setting Up  Signposts to Stop the Nasty New Narrative

++++  Stop the War Against the Poor Sweeps/Raids + Gaza Genocide Lanyards?

++++  New  Strategies for Documenting Property Loss:  Case #, Receipts, Audio recordings

++++  Cooling Center when extreme heat threatens?  Emergency gathering location

++++  Focused Demands? (Stop the Sweeps, Reapportion funding to service existing camps)

++++  Govt. Reports:  (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board)

++++  Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MHCAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)

++++  Future Targets:    City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission Office… City Hall…​Emeline/TeleCare/Supes   

++++   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/09/09/18869216.php   Civil Rights Groups Sue UCSC for Unlawful Campus Bans and Response to Student Protests https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2024/09/09/final_2024.09.03_ucsc_exclusion_notice_complaint-final.pdf                                 

Archived Net-Show Access: to read summaries of the shows: To hear the shows go to https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html Very brief Descriptive Summary of Last Week’s Archived Net Shows– 

November 7th   :   https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-thursday-october-31st-2024-show-flashes-back-to-december-1-2016-with-keith-mchenry-on-sheriff-jim-harts-public-meeting-on-his-sheriffs-killing-luke-smith-and-more/

November 10th : https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-sunday-nov-10-2024-show-features-an-interview-with-year-long-street-spirit-editor-bradley-penner-a-flashback-to-april-16-2017-covering-the-memorial-for-michael-mear/                                        

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