HUFFbundles up against deepening autumn and housing chatters at the usual 1:30-3:30 PM Thursday October 17 at the Sub Rosa Cafe/Courtyard 703 Pacific, spitting distance from the Bike Church

HUFF Rough Agenda Suggestions 10-17-24

Agenda Summary:   Sweeps Update (from Monday Coral St.  & Tuesday (Pogonip)…Meeting reports (Tuesday Night’s RCNV Against Repression Meeting)…Athena’s Asks…HUFF on Instagram: huff_santacruz…People’s Food Food Tent 9 AM-2 PM…Further work by Gaia and others on seeking a Monitoring Group for a HUFF Sweep/Raid  Record…PRA for cop confiscation of bicycles…Possible sign-up’s for regular tasks..Thomas’s Tip Sheet…Report on the campus crackdown

Items followed by links can be viewed “at home” or  “in the library”  Items on the  flipside of this agenda are really reminders of where we’d be going if we had the person power, time, interest, and resources.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them. 

Top of the Agenda (Quick Announcements)

++++   Street Sheets and Street Spirits

++++   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 today; Dry & Cooling with no rain predicted for next week;

++++   Athena’s Asks, Horsewoman’s Hot Issue, Laura’s sign up/call up list, Thomas’s Tips

++++   Possible Updates on Lane letter, Housing Matters stuff, Troy and Andrea claims                                             

Standard Stuff: Regular Check-In’s  

++++   Passarounds:  TBA   Handouts: TBA  

++++   Street Reports: Threats of Sweeps?  Posted Notices?  Uncomfortable encounters  

++++   San Rafael Sweep under cover of City Camp: https://www.marinij.com/2024/10/05/san-rafael-opens-authorized-camp-for-homeless/    

++++   Care courts—the mythology and the reality:  https://www.kqed.org/news/12007175/care-court-was-supposed-to-help-those-hardest-to-treat-heres-how-its-going    

++++    Seeking Info & Contacts: Tabling at Funding Matters [FM]/Soup Kitchen  

++++    Solidarity with Resistance to On-Campus Repression of Encampments & Protest                                                         

Possible Action Items

++++    Shitty Council October 22nd  meeting (agenda out Friday morning): ++++    Scheduling and strategy for confronting officials at Public  

++++   San Francisco Cover-Up of Property Destruction: https://www.streetsheet.org/resolution-on-seizure-of-homeless-peoples-property-in-the-works/  

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

Tasks in search of Takers

++++   Spying Back on Surveillance Camera Location yet (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)

++++  Tracking court cases

++++  Armory/1220 Expedition to check out Athena’s Asks

++++  Exposing MC 6.36 and other sweep pretexts: Documenting the Deception                                            

Setting Up  Signposts to Stop the Nasty New Narrative

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

++++  New  Strategies for Documenting Property Loss:  Case #, Receipts, Audio recordings

++++  Cooling Center when extreme heat threatens?  Emergency gathering location ++++  Focused 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:    City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission Office… City Hall…​Emeline/TelcCare/Supes   

++++   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.indybay.org/uploads/2024/09/09/final_2024.09.03_ucsc_exclusion_notice_complaint-final.pdf                                 

Archived Net-Show Access: to read summaries of the shows:

To hear the shows go to https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

Very brief Descriptive Summary of Last Week’s Archived Net Shows– 

October 10th :   https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-thursday-october-10th-2024-show-flashes-back-to-november-5-2015-featuring-in-person-interview-with-berkeley-poet-julia-vinograd-update-on-the-space-constricting-blue-b/

October 13th :    https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-sunday-october-13-2024-show-features-a-flashback-to-june-24-1996-a-bathrobespierre-in-jail-segment-with-host-becky-johnson-an-interview-with-heather-hanson/                                            

More Resources & News

https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homeless-union-members-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-encampment-eviction/  Recent lawsuit by California Homeless Union against Sweeps

https://thestreetspirit.org/2023/02/07/berkeley-94700/   The Poor Tour & First They Came for the Homeless

https://www.codepublishing.com/CA/SantaCruz/#!/SantaCruz06/SantaCruz0636.html#6.36 : Santa Cruz’s excuse for its anti-homeless sweep/raids