Sunday 3-11-18 9:30 AM-3 PM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides at 101.3 FM & freakradio.org: Interviews A-Plenty from the Pacific Avenue, Red Church, HUFF, and Bedraggled Doorways Flashback to December 4, 2011: after the Occupy Demolition

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Current Stuff:

  • Pacific Avenue Palaver with Frozen-‘n-Fucked Frenchie, Streetsinger Shade
  • A Brief David Silva Report from His Hospital Bed in Maputo, Mozambique
  • Anonymous and Up Front Voices from the Red Church on life outside the City’s Barbed Wire Boneyard Campground including Dreamcatcher, Julie Shaul, and other oldtimers
  • Beatback Brian and Two Rugged companions in a doorway
  • An older woman critiques the Winter Shelter
  • …and more

 

 Flashback to December 4, 2011

  • Classic Street Songstering from Phil Free and Skidmark Bob:  “Have a Happy Fuckin’ Day With”
  • Military Occupations Abroad
  • Turmoil in the Ocudome
  • Deputies Hit the Ocudome–Mike’s Report
  • Bank Evicts 103 Year Old Woman Story
  • Attorney/Activist Ed Frey Arrested While Copwatching
  • Lighthouse Linda Lemaster Boosts a Defense Benefit Fighting the Anti-Homeless Lodging Law


This show archives tomorrow or perhaps later today at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

For the full Flashback including Thomas Leavitt’s Wake-Up Call (6+ hours), go to http://radiolibre.org/brb/brb111204.mp3 .

Leave your comments and questions at 831-423-4833.

Contact 575-770-3377 to volunteer to help Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs locally through Facebook. Donate blankets tents, and tarps to folks directly on the street (80% of the homeless population) either directly or through the Warming Center Project  at 831-234-9848.

Check out Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz  on Facebook for updates on the shivering majority, left outside and outside the law.
 

HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) meets Wednesday 3-21-18  at 11 AM at the Sub Rosa Cafe (next to the Bike Church at 703 Pacific).  Coffee on the house.

Call 423-4833 to volunteer for or learn more about civil rights work on homeless civil rights issues.

Tonight 3-8-18 at 6 PM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides on Free Radio Santa Cruz at 101.3 FM Brooding on Laura’s Law in San Francisco, Voices from the Street from Big Drum Brent; Denver Class Action Lawsuit To Stop Property Seizure

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Spying from afar the “needles on wheels” 2002 Laura’s Law, described in greater detail at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura’s_Law

Our own local reactionaries pushing Lawyer’s Law locally:  http://takebacksantacruz.org/lauras-law/

Straight Stories from the Street via Brent Adams Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz at https://www.facebook.com/HomelessOutsideSantaCruz/


Hope Amidst the Horror from Denver Colorado: http://www.westword.com/news/denvers-homeless-class-action-lawsuit-could-end-in-trial-10035815


Free Radio, as usual, streams at freakradio.org.  The show archives under Lost Shows on the HUFF website at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html.   Look for the Latest Show – 3/8/2018  Thursday, March 8, 2018 – Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides.  

HUFF meets early: 10:30 AM 3-7-18 Wednesday at the Sub Rosa Cafe (next to the Bike Church on Pacific Ave.)

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HUFF [Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom] will begin its meeting half an hour early if necessary on the sidewalk outside the Sub Rosa (hopefully inside), but definitely moving indoors by 11 AM.

On the agenda:   Reviewing the phony PACT expenditures “cleaning up the downtown”, spotlighting Chief Mills’s busts of refugees from the San Lorenzo Campground after its closing last Wednesday, the psuedo-census of the SCPD grilling “homeless-looking” folks around the downtown in the days that followed, strategies for advising those outside to resist blueshirt and greenshirt bullying, a hard look at the new Boneyard barbedwire River St. campground, and more…all, with coffee.

  •   Support the Warming Center, Food Not Bombs,  HUFF and other activists in documenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.
  •   Back up homeless efforts to organize either as in protest or to demand adequate and accessible facilities.
  •   Exchange information with other supporters there to generate more communication and better solutions in the future.

This e-mail is the opinion of HUFF and does not necessarily represent the views of Food Not Bombs or the Warming Center.

Sunday 3-4-18 9:30 AM-2:30 PM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides at 101.3 FM & freakradio.org: Flashback Free! All Current Calamaties with special focus on the Destruction of the San Lorenzo Benchlands Campground and the new Barbed-Wire Boneyard

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Current Stuff:

  • Interviews aplenty from City Manager-created refugees on the last days of the San Lorenzo Campground
  • Big Drum Brent Adams on the Boneyard River St. Campground with additional remarks by employees there
  • First They Came For the Homeless self-run encampment activist Stacy on the Berkeley Alternative
  • “Push Back”  Pat Colby on the Santa Cruz Street Scene
  • L.A.’s Peggy Lee Kennedy on the Fight Against the Beach Curfew
  • Gloomy gobs of grim from the last City Council meeting
  • On-going updates and looks back from Food Not Bombs activist Keith McHenry

This show archives tomorrow or perhaps later today at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

Leave your comments and questions at 831-423-4833.

Contact 575-770-3377 to volunteer to help Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs locally through Facebook. Donate blankets tents, and tarps to folks directly on the street (80% of the homeless population) either directly or through the Warming Center Project  at 831-234-9848.

Check out Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz  on Facebook for grim details of the Boneyard River St. Campground.
HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) meets Wednesday 3-7-11 AM at the Sub Rosa Cafe (next to the Bike Church at 703 Pacific).  Coffee on the house.

Call 423-4833 to volunteer for or learn more about civil rights work on homeless civil rights issues.

Tonight 3-1-18 at 6 PM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides on Free Radio Santa Cruz at 101.3 FM Sunny Softsell from the Boneyard Barbedwire Campground, All Things Wet and Woebegotten for those left evicted from the San Lorenzo Campground

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Interviews aplenty from the last days of the San Lorenzo Campground Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week!   Cheery hopes from the backers of the new River St. (barbed wire, no visitors, curfews, quiet time, etc.) Campground and gloomy prospects from those being tossed out of San Lorenzo Campground into the rain.  Listen and learn.

Free Radio, as usual, streams at freakradio.org.  The show archives under Lost Shows on the HUFF website at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html.   Look for the Latest Show – 3/1/2018  Thursday, March 1, 2018 – Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides. 

HUFF in the Wilds: Special meeting 10:15 AM Wednesday 2-28-18 at San Lorenzo Benchlands Look for the Protest Signs

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We will be moving from our usual Sub Rosa location next to the Bike Church to the San Lorenzo Benchlands as the City forces campers to leave.

  PLEASE COME DOWN TO SAN LORENZO PARK TODAY TO ASSIST FOLKS:

    •   Help document the mass deportation to nowhere with audio and camera
    •   Assist, if you wish, in helping move homeless gear
    •   Support the Warming Center, Food Not Bombs,  HUFF and other activists in documenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.
    •   Back up homeless efforts to organize either as in protest or to demand adequate and accessible facilities.
    •   Exchange information with other supporters there to generate more communication and better solutions in the future


    UP FOR DISCUSSION AS WE EYEBALL THE BENCHLAND EVICTIONS:

  • More Reports from Santa Ana Riverbed Encampment,
  • Communicating with Other Encampments to the North and South
  • Stories from the Street Around Us

 

Several Suggested Strategies for Those Left Outside

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A double-sided flier I circulated today and will do again tomorrow, energy willing. The San Lorenzo Benchlands area contains scores of tents which now face eviction. The “humanitarian” cover for this removal operation is a $90,000/month fenced off area on the edge of town at 1220 River St. with unclear access policies and three levels of policing (internal hosts, First Alarm Security outside, and a nearby mobile Police Substation.

The deadline for eviction tomorrow, according to workers at the River St. campground, is 11 AM. While I found numerous City-funded workers helping move homeless property from San Lorenzo to River St. today, there is clearly no place for most homeless people in the City to go.

HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) activists will be down at the San Lorenzo Campground to observe and document the eviction of the poorest in our community 10:15 AM Wednesday 2-28.  Join us and post any video you take.
Read more and make comments at

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/02/27/18807021.php

Flyer is at https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2018/02/27/campground_evictions__side_one.pdf
and https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2018/02/27/campground_evictions_side_two.pdf

LAST DAY OF THE SAN LORENZO CAMPGROUND? COME DOWN TO DOCUMENT THE CREATION OF INTERNAL REFUGEES!

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According to Channel 8, today, Tuesday February 27th, is the last day for survival campers in the San Lorenzo Benchlands.  


      The only immediate campground alternatives is a barbed wire-ringed fenced-off space at the edge of town at 1220 River St.  It looks to be 1/3 the size of the current San Lorenzo campground.   Homeless people are considered too dangerous to be able to walk to and from the campground, so those using it must be ferried to and from.  It is reportedly already almost completely filled.  It costs $90,000 a month–which is likely far     more than was spent on San Lorenzo, with only a fraction of its clients.  Homeless advocates and homeless people were not consulted in its creation.  Its existence seems more of a fluffy PR cover for the elimination of the San Lorenzo campground with no real alternatives..

       The other “shelter alternative” is the Winter Shelter program slated to end in mid April. It involves body searches, strict entering and leaving times, and other aspects that make it unsuitable for many outside.  It is current limited to around 110 people.  There are no plans for a summer shelter program other than the “have your ‘Path to Housing’ cash or vouchers” ready program of the Homeless (Lack of) Services Center.

        Given these sober facts, it’s nonsense to believe government claims that San Lorenzo campers are being given a real alternative –at least for most.  Much of the ballyhoo around these “shelter proposals” seems simply to be a way of dressing up mass eviction & possible crackdown city-wide.

        The San Lorenzo campground was initially created as a “toleration” zone given the Hepatitis A epidemic.  Won’t removing the campground recreate the bad conditions?


       PLEASE COME DOWN TO SAN LORENZO PARK TODAY TO ASSIST FOLKS.

  •   Help document the mass deportation to nowhere with audio and camera
  •   Assist, if you wish, in helping move homeless gear
  •   Support the Warming Center, Food Not Bombs,  HUFF and other activists in documenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.
  •   Back up homeless efforts to organize either as in protest or to demand adequate and accessible facilities.
  •   Exchange information with other supporters there to generate more communication and better solutions in the future.


This e-mail is from HUFF and does not necessarily represent the views of the Warming Center or Food Not Bombs.

A LONGER E-MAIL WITH MORE DETAILS WILL FOLLOW

       PLEASE COME DOWN TO SAN LORENZO PARK TODAY 

    •   Help document the mass deportation to nowhere with audio and camera
  •   Assist, if you wish, in helping move homeless gear
  •   Support the Warming Center, Food Not Bombs,  HUFF and other activists in documenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.
  •   Back up homeless efforts to organize either as in protest or to demand adequate and accessible facilities.
  •   Exchange information with other supporters there to generate more communication and better solutions in the future.

This e-mail is the opinion of HUFF and does not necessarily represent the views of Food Not Bombs or the Warming Center.

Sunday 2-25-18 9:30 AM-2:30 PM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides at 101.3 FM & freakradio.org: Brent and Bathrobespierre on the Smashing of the San Lorenzo Campground, the Marysville Report, and Other Voices; December 15, 2011 Flashback

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Current Stuff:

  • Roadrider Curtis Reliford on Racist Repression in Santa Cruz

  • Shantytown Sharon Scoffs at the River St. Campground

  • “Big Drum” Brent surveys the Impending San Lorenzo Campground Destruction

  • Raelyn Butcher and Brian Brown of Marysville Report Organization Energy Up North

The early December 15, 2011 Street and Phone Interviews Flashback covers:

    • Brent looks back on the 75 River St. Occupation two weeks later
    • Nutcracker Nick and others on the Occupy Wall Street Shut down of the Oakland Ports
    • Updates on the False Police Arrests at the First San Lorenzo Camp Shutdown 7 Years Ago
    • Sheriffs Ignore the Supervisors Smart Meter Moratorium
    • Other stuff as well

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    This show archives tomorrow at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

    Leave your comments and questions at 831-423-4833.

    Contact 575-770-3377 to volunteer to help Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs locally through Facebook. Donate blankets to the San Lorenzo Campers (until they get ousted on February 28th) either directly or through the Warming Center Project  at 831-234-9848.

    Check out Homeless Outside in Santa Cruz  on Facebook.
     

     

    HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) meets Wednesday 2-28-18 11 AM

    at the Sub Rosa Cafe (next to the Bike Church at 703 Pacific).  Coffee on the house.  Special emergency meeting to monitor the City’s Sweep-Away of the San Lorenzo Campground.


    Call 423-4833 to volunteer for or learn more about civil rights work on homeless civil rights issues.

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Tonight 2-22-18 at 6 PM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides on Free Radio Santa Cruz at 101.3 FM — May 31, 2001 Flashback Featuring Sweet Street and Suite Activist Michael Schmidt, Tenants Rights Activist Donna Deiss, and more

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Voices from Yesteryear’s Show include

  • (Unsuccessful) Board of Supervisors Candidate Mike Schmidt, CEO of the Chamber of Commerce,
  • Donna Deiss of the Santa Cruz Tenants Union,
  • Terrible Tony of WAMM and FRSC,
  • Outspoken Homeless and Homeless Issues Task Force Activist Doug McGrath,  
  • Bathrobespierre Robert on the Koffee Klatch 3 Legal Case

Read coverage of the Koffee Klatch 3 case at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/2001-1-still-waiting-for-justice-001.pdf , http://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/2001-4-homeless-activists-banned-from-sc-city-hall-001.pdf,
http://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/153.City’s%20Suit%20Dismissed%20Against%20The%20Koffee%20Klatch%203=7-2000.pdf, and
http://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/154.Suit%20Dismissed(cont.)=7-2000.pdf

Free Radio, as usual, streams at freakradio.org.  The show archives under Lost Shows on the HUFF website at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html.   Look for the Latest Show – 2/22/2018  Thursday, February 22, 2018 – Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides.