HUFF tumbles together for another Thursday meet at the Sub Rosa Cafe/Courtyard 703 Pacific 1:30-3:30 p.m. September 12, 2024 next to the Bike Church

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HUFF RUF Loose-Goosey Loose Cannons Agenda Suggestions 9-12-24  Note: Agenda is tentative and finalized in the meeting, depending on who’s there and what priorities are decided on.  Athena runs the “Loose Cannon’s” meeting.                                                                      

Top of the Agenda

++++  New September Street Spirits & 8-15 and 9-1 Street Sheets are here!  ++++   Censorship & Banned Books Protest: Sunday 1-3 PM  9-15 Outside Bookshop Coonerty (aka Bookshop Santa Cruz

++++   Thursdays from 3:30 to 4:30 pm  at the Morrisey Blvd overpass over hiway 1

++++   Saturday   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.

++++   Cool & cloudy & no rain predicted for next week; sunnyish on 9-12 ++++   Armory Visit Update & Coral St. Protest Assessment

++++   Public Records and Disruptions: Update  

Standard Stuff: Procedures and Preliminaries  

++++   Passarounds & Handouts  TBA  

++++   Street Reports with particular focus on recent police attacks at Golf Club Drive including Bag-and-Tag follow-up.  

++++   A look back for newcomers: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/20/18868124.php  

++++   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/26/18868249.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  Salinas Bataan Park protest (7-27) update & Sacramento’s Camp Compassion  

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

Closer Inspection

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

++++   Flyer suggestions for upcoming Tourist Train protest with Coral St. info.

++++   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

++++  Tourist Train Strategy & Spectacle Update: Locations?

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

++++  Forming Specific 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 (MH CAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)

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