RUF Agenda Suggestions for HUFF 8-21-25
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.
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.
++++ Possible Handouts: Agenda, Revised Poll/Flyer, 216 Flyers, Vehicular Crunching Flyer. Passarounds HUFF Notes, Gaza Petition Available on Request: Shelter/Sweep Questionaire
++++ This Morning’s Coral Crackdown (if anyone went)
++++ Successful Protest at Tuesday’s Board of Supervipers; Follow-Up++++ Wednesday’s Keeley Backslapping Affair
++++ Other Protests: 8-14 Thur Red Line on Beach; 8-20
++++ Other Street & sweep reports from the last week
++++ Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters
++++ Court cases past and future; 5150’s
++++ Federal and State Policing updates
++++ Meetings Upcoming
++++ 216-8239 Sick Sweeps and Property Seizure Reports Accumulation
++++ 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 August 21 5-6 PM Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room
Saturday August 23 11 AM- 12:30 PM Ocean & Water anti-war “Free Palestine”Summer Show Fund-raiser for Palestine 5 PM-9 PM Barrios Unidos 1817 Soquel Ave. Could be free.
Saturday August 24 and Sunday August 25 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.More events T B A
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.
++++ Temperate cloudy weather for the next week (says on-line weather report)
++++ Tips & Lifelessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Sagacity
++++ Reggie & Gaia’s report on Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”: Volunteers?
++++ Laura C.: legislative updates
++++ Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces? Small Claims Court?
New Stories : Next week perhaps
++++ “Santa Cruz County proposal could allow the destruction of homeless RVs” at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/18/18879067.php?show_comments=1#18879071
Old Standbyes
++++ Hard 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”