RUF Suggestions for HUFF 6-20-25

Http web addresses are for background reading or listening for those with computer access.  Hard copy passarounds may cover some of the same subjects for those without.    Many agenda items are really signposts & reminders of where we’d be going if and when we find the person power, time, interest, and resources.  We are gathering information and evidence to challenge the Dominant (False) Police, City Manager Narrative, and the new “Normal”.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them. AGENDA SUBJECT TO CHANGE  A more updated series of suggestions may be available at the1:30 PM meeting later today. 

                                            
Top of the Agenda (+ Quick Announcements)(a brief broad survey)

++++   Review Agenda

++++   Additional Agenda Items– Flag Possible Action Items

++++   Possible Handouts:  Agenda, Shelter Poll   Passarounds City Council’s 6-24 Agenda

++++   Street and sweep reports from the last week
++++   HUFF Disruption policy; Athena’s Proposals—Update; Staggered Meeting Attendance

++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’sCHECK-Ins, ANNOUNCEMENTS, and REPORTS

++++   Protests or Gatherings Throughout the Last Week: Homeless/Anti-War focus?

++++   Shitty Council of 6-10; Report from Stupes Board of 6-3

++++   Various 216-8239 Flyers Prospects; Reggie & Gaia Updates or Phone Connects

++++   MHCAN Status?

++++   Projects in search of people: Shelter BusStop Watch; 216-8239 Retrieval; Landlord Profiteering Data.

++++   Gaia’s update on Capitola Mobile Home owners resistance to huge rent raises (Call for Update)(Solidarity Resolution)

++++   Wes White’s Salinas and State Updates

++++   Various legacy media stories: https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-bans-homeless-people-renting-rvs/and more TBA

++++   Free Events (for demonstrating, organizing, leafleting, or enjoying)….   

Saturday  June 21  11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-war  “Free Palestine” picket    

Sunday June 22 3-5 PM Tannery Arts Ctr Courtyard 1060 River S.  Resistancia Open Mic                   

Monday June 23  4:30 PM – 5:30 PM   Ocean & Water Civil Rights Weekly Anti-Trump Dem. Party Indivisible Protest                   

Wednesday June 25 7 PM ‘No Place to Grow” Film and Panel, 3rd, Raymond, & Uden Streets Beach Flats

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

++++        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.

++++        No Rain…Cooler 60s weather continuing thru the next Week. Fremont lawsuit:https://eagleera.org/2025/04/27/california-homeless-union-and-advocates-sue-fremont-over-controversial-camping-ban/   Background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZt<<4ZMINEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT_d9BFEzYA

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

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

++++   Laura C.: YES on SB 634

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

++++   In early July new Street Spirits  and Street Sheets may be available.   Mid-month Street Sheet stories available on line https//www.streetsheet.org/ . Hard Copies of both may be 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)

++++  People First Free Guides: https://peoplefirstscc.org/freeguides for S.C., Watsonville, SLV, Free Phones, Youth, Housing Waitlist, Pet Food, Addiction, Immigrant Storm Relief, SLE, Diaper Bank, and more (unchecked for usefulness) (Warning: entries not verified)
++++   https://peoplefirstsdcc.org/freeguides SC Free Guide  (Correction & updates needed) + many others

++++   SHOC (Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee)’s newspaper Homeward— https://sxacshoc.org/homeward/

++++   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