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HUFF “Loose Cannon” Agenda Suggestions 8-15-24

(Athena & other HUFFsters make the Agenda—these are simply suggestions—some of them placeholders)                                                          

Top of the Agenda

++++   Editors of Street Spirits or Street Sheets want articles.  Check on-line to read at  https://www.streetsheet.org/  or https://thestreetspirit.org/

++++    The 6th in a series of educational protests against the recent homeless sweeps will focus on “Housing Matters” Director Phil Kramer  4-6 PM Monday August 19, 2023, Outside Housing matters at the Corner of river St. and Hiway 1   Free Food and Drinks.

++++  Antiwar signs Thurs 3:30-4:30 pm  at the Morrisey Blvd overpass over hiway 1

++++  Saturday  8-3 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.

++++  Low 70s predicted and no rain predicted for the Thurs and for next week.                               

Standard Stuff: Procedures and Preliminaries  

++++   Passarounds & Handouts  TBA  

++++   Street Reports with particular focus on recent escalating police attacks  

++++    Follow-up, organizing, and possible future use of  Stand Off Survival Snatching forms             

++++    Specific demands to press the Mental Health Advisory Board (MHAB) less police, more training presented at least Shitty Council and Board of Stupes meeting

++++    Specific targets: Press Conference at SCPD HQ, vigil at City Mangler, etc.  

++++    The letter read to the Shitsters and Stupes can be found in flyer form at https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2024/07/20/keeley_protest–a_breath_of_sanity_from_the_s.pdf .  

++++   The broader issue of the recent Coral St. and Pogonip police sweeps and sheriff/police abuses there is discussed at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/20/18868124.php

++++    Escalating creation of foreign homelessness in Gaza and Ukraine as well as Santa Cruz raids on survival encampments may be a way of uniting with other protests such as Hiroshima events and week long vigil against Pinetta’s pro-genocide posture.                                                        

Reporting Back  

++++   Watsonville Survival Camp Destruction (Wes White, Monica Tone calls) & Salinas Bataan Park protest (7-27) updates  

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

++++    Outcome of last Monday’s 4th homeless activist protest and support for 5th  “Kick Out Keeley and Kramer” protest at next Monday.  

Closer Inspection

++++   Still searching out Surveillance Camera Location (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)

++++   Any posted notices of impending raids on existing camps?  Any court cases coming up?

++++   Examining MC 6.36 more closely—the Camping (Standards and Services Ordinance)  Ban.                                           

Possible Topics for Future Discussion

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

++++  New  Strategies for Documenting Property Loss:  Case #, Receipts, Audio recordings [Follow-Up action on Protests and Raids]

++++  Tourist Train Strategy & Spectacle Update: Locations? Flyers? ++++  Cooling Center when extreme heat threatens?  Emergency gathering location

++++  Forming Specific Demands? (Stop the Sweeps, Reapportion funding to service existing camps) [Special research on $ spent by Kramer of FM and Morrison 0f Armory

++++  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 Attorney’s Office… City Hall…​Public Works Dept… Emeline/TelcCare/Supes…Public events with Kramer & Keeley                                                                                          

Delayed Net-Show Access

Summary of August 8th   netshow:     https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadside-s-thursday-august-8-2024-show-flashes-back-to-august-29-2010-featuring-5-hours-of-interview-and-commentary-around-peacecamp-2010-with-a-lengthy-exchange-between-sgt/

Summary of August 11th  netshow:   http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-sunday-august-11-2024-show-reviews-the-4th-stop-the-sweeps-protest-scope-it-out-scotts-agenda-lookback-and-a-flashback-to-october-21-2010-featuring-politic/

++++ To hear these netshows,:  go to http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  and click on August 8th and/or August 11th  links there.