NO REGULAR HUFF MEETING THIS WEEK The next HUFF meeting will be Thursday December 19th 1:30 PM-3:30 PM at the Sub Rosa Cafe as usual at 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church.
Instead folks interested in joining the HUFF caravan should contact Athena at 661-621-5502. You can also show up at the Green Gate on Golf Club Drive at the entrance to the Pogonip Thursday December 12th at 10 AM when she will be leaving with possible space in her vehicle to caravan over to Watsonville for the hearing in Small Claims Court.
You can also join Troy Mason’s supporters in Small Claims court in Watsonville: Dept A, 3rd floor. The Court is at 2nd and Main, 1 2nd St. Turn left when you get off the elevator. The parking garage is free for the 1st 2 hours, $5 for the day. Gaia may offer caravan service if you call her before 9 a.m. on Thursday morning (Dec 12th) at 477-9017.
Those seeking Street Spirits or Street Sheets to vend should call Bathrobespierre Robert at 831-423-4833 (no texts, it’s a landline). The latest Street Spirit is available at the Main Branch of the Public Library. It and Street Sheet can also be found on line.
++++ Berkeley Where Do We Go? Updates from Andrea Hansen on Where Do We Go Berkeley facebook page.
POTENTIAL PROTESTS (around U.S.-funded wars in the Middle East)
++++ Saturday Nov. 16 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
Though Rain is predicted for Thursday, Saturday, and Monday, there is still no walk-in Winter Shelter in Santa Cruz. No Emergency Shelters have been opened.
READING MATERIALS (Read up and shock your neighbors!)
++++ Vallejo: Background from 2021: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homelessness-wasted-millions-empty-hotel-rooms-police-evictions/ Eviction Sweeps in November 2024: https://www.vallejosun.com/state-local-agencies-remove-long-running-vallejo-homeless-encampment/ 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
++++ San Francisco Cover-Up of Property Destruction: https://www.streetsheet.org/resolution-on-seizure-of-homeless-peoples-property-in-the-works
++++ 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.hrw.org/report/2024/08/14/you-have-move/cruel-and-ineffective-criminalization-unhoused-people-los-angeles The Cruel and Ineffective Crimminalizaton of Unhoused People in L.A. Tip of the hat to Laure C for this item and the ProPublica item below
++++ https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homeless-union-members-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-encampment-eviction/ Recent lawsuit by Ca Homeless Union against Sweeps
++++ https://thestreetspirit.org/2023/02/07/berkeley-94700/ The Poor Tour & 1st They Came for the Homeless
++++ https://www.codepublishing.com/CA/SantaCruz/#!/SantaCruz06/SantaCruz0636.html#6.36 : One of Santa Cruz’s excuses for its anti-homeless sweep/raids
++++ https://projects.propublica.org/homeless-encampment-sweeps-taken-belongings/: ProPublica’s detailed analysis of property stolen and hardships incurred nationwide
++++ https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-migrants-city-merge-new-arrivals-shelter-program-state/15450230/ : Come Freeze in Chicago This Winter!
Archived Net-Show (Listen up for fun and fury)
To read summaries of the shows and past rough agendas go to: https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/
Recent shows: Sunday December 8, 2024 show features Robert Whitaker, Steve Pleich, and Scott Graham & a Flashback to September 28, 2014 with the anti-homeless electioneers getting grilled including: https://podfollow.com/1654047988/episode/8d2a9c89f11b42e68663c98df8cb3b483d8894a2/view Where is my Mind?: Bad Science with Robert Whitaker “Scope It Out” Scott Graham & Bathrobespierre Robert take pot shots at the Santa Cruz Shitty Council’s 12-10-24 agenda “Silver-Tongue” Steve Pleich sometime houseless local activist covers a wide variety of “then and now” topics