Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides December 14, 2025 show– Wes White on new ways to lure civil right support + a Flashback to October 9, 1997 featuring Jenny Jenigan on Eureka’s South Spit Jetty Eviction, Donna and Marco on Tenant Activism, and more

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The December 14, 2025 show includes:

  • https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/rv-dwelling-crackdown-21219247.php
  • [throughout the show] Ai Tsuno & David Rovics’ Class War: A Guided Tour
  • Salinas speakers on D.A. voter intimidation against renter protection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGuGOe89UZk
  • Salinas videojournalist and activist Wed White on the history of the struggle for renter protection in Salinas
  • White on the January 17, 2026 10-year Union of the Homeless celebration—the organizations invited.
  • White on the hopes for a local support sleep-in for one of the survival encampments
  • Updates from Town Clock Talk: security volunteer Steve Enriquez, percussionist Zac Alvaret, and poet Isaac Collins (“Elder Respect”).

The Flashback to October 9,1997 includes:              (volume needs boosting throughout)

  • “Skidmark Bob” on dubious doings of the Drug Enforcement Team and other SCPDsters
  • “Katzenjammer” Keith on renewed anti-homeless Matrix enforcement in S.F. and Police Brutality Day 10-22
  • Marco Merokee and Donna Deiss of TRUSC (Tenants Rights Union of Santa Cruz)
  • Bathrobespierre critiquing Citizens Committee for the Homeless’s shutdown of the “Back 40” Open-Air Shelter
  • Beggarbacker Becky on River St. Shelter evictions; [9-25] Disabled panhandler Jim accosted on Pacific Ave.
  • Jenny Genigan: South Spit Jetty “health hoax” against Paradise Beach survival campers upcoming 10-2 eviction

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Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides December 11, 2025 show is a Flashback with segments of the July 15, 1996 and July 19, 1996 shows

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The July 15, 1996 Flashback includes:

  • Beggarbacker Becky Johnson hosts the show while Bathrobespierre is in jail.
  • Speakers at the City Hall Sleepers Vigil March: Beggarbacker Becky, Peppertongue Pat, Justman Jim, & More
  • Santa Barbara attorney Will Hastings on Santa Barbara’s Sleeping Ban
  • Bathrobespierre from San Francisco’s County Jail #8 F Pod—strange meal schedule and credible prison stories
  • [7-5-96] S.F. Liberation Radio on the background of Bathrobespierre’s case, his attempt to disqualify the prejudiced Judge Barclay

The July 19, 1996 Flashback includes: 

  • Skidmark Bob Duran on Downtown Farmer’s Market politics and cop misuse of the Sitting restrictons
  • Beggarbacker Becky gives an update on Barclay, the Jailing Judge, who sent Bathrobespiere to the lock-up.
  • San Jose Community Homeless Alliance action occupying vacant house—Street Spirit article
  • Marin activist Bob King “San Rafael Tries to Bully St. Vincent’s Dining Hall to…site near City Dump” in Street Spirit Vol 2 #7 at https://archive.org/details/cuig_000151/mode/2up .

HUFF chugs through winter weather Thursday December 11 1:30 -3:30 PM at the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific smack dab next to the Bike Church

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HUFF 12-11-25   Clarification and Additions…Street Reports…City Council/Stups Report…Winter Crisis:  No Winter Drop-In Shelter/Warming Center; Trump’s SNAP Cutbacks…Hometown Homeless showing progress;…San Jose RV Attacks ….Rest=Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips…Updates on MHCAN; Stupes’ RV Tow Bill; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations …Shelter, Courts reports

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet)

Thursday Dec 11  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room, end of N. Pacific Ave.

Friday Dec 12 4:15 PM – 7;15 PM Free Food Church East Zayante Rd. and Sylvan Way in Zayante near the school bus stop–rain or shine

Saturday Dec 13  11 AM- 12:30  PM Protest Israel with American Bombs bombing in the Phony Ceasefire+ U.S. occupation troops for Trump’s 10 Point Plan– Ocean & Water End the War  Weekly Signs and Shouts  Palestine Justice Coalition

Saturday Dec 13  2 PM  “Rest is Resistance” street huddle & book reading at the dinosaur statue across from the Post Office downtown

Saturday Dec 13 and Sunday Dec 14  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; older Street Spirits available; leave off or pick up accounts of shelter and police abuse from Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices; Sunday Dec 14  10-12 PM  People’s Aide : Solidarity & Services for those outside at Green Gate Gulf Club Drive.

Monday Dec 15 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM  Another Indivisible Civil Right  Protest Against the Trump Regime (but add Newsom, Keeley, Kramer & the Deadly Dems) Ocean & Water Sts.Make allies of the Dismal Democrats in the Homeless Civil Rights Struggle if you can Tasks to Volunteer for + Possible Individual action : Call or Text 831-423-4833

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

++++    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 access line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699; Let us know at 216-8239 or 423-4833  if you’ve sent one and if you’ve gotten satisfaction.

++++   Any help for Tips & Lifelessons to buff up Thomas’s Tipzine?  Real resources for surviving on the street…Correcting false shelter/storage ‘services”

++++   Past homeless citation record of the last year: show Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”.

++++   Legislative updates—state, local, and federal: the closing federal/state/local fist.

++++   Info wanted on Winter Shelter/Services  Demand, anti-ICE, anti-genocide local protests?  Court cases?  5150?  MHCAN reopening support?

New-ish Stories (TBA)

++++     https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/12/08/18882095.php?show City Council Crapshow Coming Up Tuesday 12-9

++++      https://lookout.co/city-county-of-santa-cruz-formally-begins-process-to-replace-housing-matters-day-services/story

++++     https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/11/04/ninth-circuit-upholds-alfred-v-vallejo-decision-setting-legal-precedent/

Old Standbyes New Street Spirits and Street Sheets to sell or read available at HUFF or at the FNB meal

++++   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

++++    Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K”

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides December 7, 2025 show– + Flashbacks to segments of shows from September 18 and 25, 1995 highlighting Lighthouse Linda Lemaster and Madhouse John Stuart on campgrounds, curfews, and “crazy” folks

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The December 7, 2025 show includes:

The Flashback to September 18, 1995 includes: 

  • “Curfew-Kicker” Coral, activist & singer, is studio guest, discussing the proposed County curfew law.
  • “Stubbornheart” Star at Santa Cruz Hostwatch “Hounddogging the Hosts” and expanding tabling on Pacific Ave.
  • Mediation at Ali Baba’s Café downtown?
  • “Madhouse” John Stewart on Joseph Lightner seized on San Jose Streets then held on psych bloc; Coral on oppression on the Dominican Psych Ward

The Flashback to September 25, 1995 includes:

  • “Redtop” Robert Flory on struggle to stop forced “Community Service” hours in lieu of an Infraction fine
  • “Crossroads” Chris Brozda on massive Serbian refugee  crisis; and the coming Campground Wipeout by the Citizens Committee [Exploitation] for the Homeless.
  • “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster urges the community to hold authorities accountable
  • Various articles of potential impact on poor folks by Lighthouse and Bathrobespierre.
  • A segment of “The Copwatch Radio Hour” from Berkeley Free Radio.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides December 4, 2025 show is a Flashback to November 4, 2007 featuring Halloween on Pacific Ave. & a further Flashback to 1988 with Calamity Jane Imler and Bubbah Brian Koepke + Hardhitting History from Bathrobespierre

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The December 4, 2025 show is a Flashback to November 4, 2007 which includes:

  • “Bathrobespierre” Robert on the Imler’s homeless herstory 1984-89 on “Troublesome” Thomas Leavitt’s Wake-Up Show
  • The 1988 Flashback segment mentioned below [continuing through the show]
  • Bob L. vs. Bathrobespierre on Campgrounds for the homeless
  • Visionsong Valerie’s homeless herstory choosing food over rent
  • Homeless Ivan on Venice Beach vs. Santa Cruz
  • 1993 Flashback [details below]
  • Pacific Ave. portraits: Merryweather Mike, Mr. Twister (Corey MacDonald), Trey, & more
  • Copwatch on Halloween: 9th in the protests in front of the Bookshop Coonerty

The November 4, 2007 replayed show has a further Flashbacks to Fall, 1988  and 1993 which include:

  • [1988] KZSC Interview Nov-Dec with Imler and Koepke around continuous repeated protests demanding an end to harassment of homeless sleepers with no shelter and general discrimination against those outside.
  • [1993] Trial of Homes Not Jails member “Redtop” Robert Flory
  • [1993] Mark, Mary Lou, & Rick among 35 people at the Courthouse attending the trial and Nick, Ace, 14-year old “Florida”, Rubin, and other outside residents commenting on recent busts.
  • [1993 “Candelight” Kim Argula, Calamity, “Lighthouse Linda” on trying to woo homeless “service providers” to end the Sleeping Ban.

HUFF meets to provide and gather info Thursday December 4 1:30 – 3:30 PM at the Sub Rosa Cafe at 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church

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HUFF Agenda 12-4-25   Clarification and Additions…Street Reports…Vets Hall Tabling Report…Winter Crisis:  No Winter Drop-In Shelter/Warming Center; Trump’s SNAP Cutbacks…Hometown Homeless showing;… Last Council meeting of the year: Tuesday December 10, Flocks Surveillance Cameras & Those Outside…San Jose RV Attacks…Featherflux Food Distribution….Rest=Resistance Reading….Thomas’s Tips…Updates on MHCAN; Stupes’ RV Tow Bill; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating….Shelter, Courts reports..December Street Sheets and Street Spirits available

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet)

Thursday Dec 4  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room, end of N. Pacific Ave.

Friday Dec 5 4:15 PM – 7;15 PM Free Food Church East Zayante Rd. and Sylvan Way in Zayante near the school bus stop–rain or shine

Saturday Dec 6  11 AM- 12:30  PM Protest Israel with American Bombs bombing in the Phony Ceasefire+ U.S. occupation troops for Trump’s 10 Point Plan– Ocean & Water End the War  Weekly Signs and Shouts  Palestine Justice Coalition

Saturday Dec 6  2 PM  “Rest is Resistance” street huddle and book reading at the dinosaur statue across from the Post Office downtown

Saturday Dec 6 and Sunday Dec 7  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; older Street Spirits available; leave off or pick up accounts of shelter and police abuse from Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices;

Saturday Dec 6 and Sunday Dec 7  afternoon  San Lorenzo Park  Possible Featherflock Food Distribution

Saturday Dec 7  7 PM – 9 PM  Seventh-day Adventist Church – Sundean Hall (in the back)  1024 Cayuga Street  Street Party  Free Food

Saturday Dec 7 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Dragtime Story Hour  Santa Cruz Main Library Community Room

Sunday Dec 7  10-12 PM  People’s Aide : Solidarity with and Services for those in danger of being swept at the Green Gate on Gulf Club Drive. Sunday Dec 7  3-5 PM  Eat for the Earth Fall Feast Dinner Party  Party/Street Party  Beth Love  admin [at] eatfortheearth.org  (831) 466-3405

Monday Dec 8 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM  Another Indivisible Civil Right  Protest Against the Trump Regime (but add Newsom, Keeley, Kramer & the Deadly Dems) Ocean & Water Sts.Make allies of the Dismal Democrats in the Homeless Civil Rights Struggle if you can!  

Tuesday Dec 8 2 PM  Downtown at the info booth at Soquel and Pacific  Featherflock food-and-justice project..check at HUFF meeting (12-4)  for confirmation

Tasks to Volunteer for + Possible Individual action : Call or Text 831-423-4833

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

++++    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 access line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699; Let us know at 216-8239 or 423-4833  if you’ve gotten satisfaction.

++++   Any help for Tips & Lifelessons to buff up Thomas’s Tipzine?  Real resources for surviving on the street…Correcting false shelter/storage ‘services”

++++   Past homeless citation record of the last year: help collating citations to show Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”

++++   Legislative updates—state, local, and federal: the closing federal/state/local fist.

++++   Info wanted on Winter Shelter/Services  Demand, anti-ICE, anti-genocide local protests?  Court cases?  5150?  MHCAN reopening support?

New-ish Stories (TBA)

++++   “Unpleasant Facts to Munch on at Two Pleasant Meals” at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/29/18881874.php

++++     https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/11/04/ninth-circuit-upholds-alfred-v-vallejo-decision-setting-legal-precedent/

Old Standbyes New Street Spirits and Street Sheets to sell or read available at HUFF or at the FNB meal

++++   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

++++    Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K”

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Nov 30, 2025 show–Thanksgiving Chow Line Chatter as Winter Winks in + Flashbacks to February 26 and March 1 1998: Marco and Donna, Tenant Activists; TufLuv Tucker and Beggarbacker Becky on Poverty Pimpery–and much more..

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The November 30, 2025 show includes:

The Flashback to February 26, 1998 includes:

  • Bathrobespierre’s Update on various aspects of the Sleeping Ban Abolition struggle
  • Donna Deiss and Marco Maroni of the S.C. Tenants Union with the Tenant News
  • Carlos & Eve on the 1977 Scotts Creek Bluff sheriff van seizures and subsequent trespass trial of the victimized van dwellers
  • “Ghost of a Chance for Justice for ‘Happy’ John Dine”—Review of the Citizens Police Review Board cover-up of the SCPD killing
  • Victims of Officer Martin Over Weigh In

The Flashback to March 1, 1998 includes:

  • Bathrobespierre’s Updates on Shitkicker Sean’s Alemi’s “Feed the People”, the “Riot Act” Rotkin debate, the Dine slaying and more.
  • “Dead On” David Silva Announces Sleeping Ban Repeal Initiative to City Council, and more Oral Communication by Marco, Bathrobespierre,
  • “A Short History of Dope in America” by Charles Bowden in the Anderson Valley Advertiser
  • Beggarbacker Becky Johnson’s Memorial to Tama Perlman [https://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/StreetSpirit-main.html  March 1997 Lost Children of the Poor]
  • Lengthy interview with Gary Yamene, staffer of the Citizens Police Review Board
  • Alfredo de Jesus’s lawsuit for SC Sheriff’s seizure of his medical marijuana
  • Silva reports SCPD Rodriguez threat to Mike “Get Out of Town” or lose your dog.
  • “Tufluv” Laura Tucker on last meeting to choose Executive Director who oversees survival and homeless services as SC Community Resource Center and Citizens Committee for the Homeless consider merging.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides November 27, 2025 show has sections of two Flashbacks, one to May 17, 1996 and a second to May 24,1996 featuring City Council’s attempt to ban protest at City Hall by Injunction

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The November 27, 2025 show has a Flashback section (not the complete show) of the May 17, 1996 show which includes:

  • Bathrobespierre interviews Calamity Jane Imler on the activists’ struggle with the Paul Lee/Page Smith Citizens Committee for the Homeless [CCH]
  • Sentinel writer Karen Clark smears the City Hall Sleepers protest and Beggarbacker Becky responds
  • Why no Campground—cheaper and easier—turned down by City, County, and CCH—Beggarbacker and Bathrobespierre analyze
  • Santa Barbara Sleepwalkers headed for Sacramento: on Night #76  of City Hall Sleepout with Beaming Bob, Cobblestone Colin, and Dark-of-Night Deke talk Sleeping Ban Abolition strategies
  • Ron Howard of the Interfaith Satellite Shelter Program’s “No shelter available” and homeless use of the Necessity Defense

The November 27, 2025 show has a Flashback section of the May 24, 1996 show which includes:

  • [throughout the show] “Last Tango in Chalatango” by the San Francisco Mime Troupe
  • [5-10] Cops at the City Hall Sleepers Vigil interviews
  • [5-23] Michael O’Toole of Indigent Services on Eureka cops harassing homeless
  • [5-23] Attorney “Bedrock” David Beauvais on their partial protest victory in court stopping Rotkin’s proposed TRO against those struggling to end the Sleeping Ban
  • Bathrobespierre deconstructs Sentinel’s dismissive and inaccurate story on the Court struggle.
  • Chip critiques Cannabis Collective selling rather than providing medical marijuana: it’s history including the 1994 takeover of the program by those selling it.

HUFF skips its regular Thursday (11-27) meeting, but will be tabling starting at 11 AM 11-27 in front of the Vets Hall building in front of the Main Post Office

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HUFF next scheduled meeting is December 4th at the Sub Rosa Cafe & Courtyard 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM next to the Bike Church at 703 Pacific.

In addition to the Vets Hall Thanksgiving (Free) Meal indoors today from 11 AM-3 PM, food will be available at the church behind the Calvary Episcopal Church (the Red Church) on Center St.afternoon, time uncertain.

An additional free event will be happening (Potluck, Celebration) at Brent Adams Footbridge Services 150 Felker St. Thanksgiving after 5 PM, exact time uncertain [from Keith McHenry’s Food Not Bombs Facebook page] Two homeless women were told they had until November 11th to move their camp in an abandoned parking lot where Workbench plans to build a condo tower. The police took all their things on November 10th. The five other people living their also lost all their things. The City of Santa Cruz gave Joby a $500,000 interest free loan. This is the dystopian hellscape they call Santa Cruz.  https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2025/11/15/joby-takes-first-flight-of-its-hybrid-demonstrator-aircraft-in-marina/

[Another McHenry entry] There is a Flock Camera pointing at the [downtown Santa Cruz] Library. These are much more than a License plate reader. These cameras can identify people walking by and they send this information to over 4,000 law enforcement agencies.

[And another] In 2019, the City of Santa Cruz lied and our [Ross Camp] friend Desiere died because of their lies. They told a Federal Judge that the homeless they were evicting from the safety of Ross Camp would have a place in the shelter or hotel but that wasn’t true and we told the judge that but he believed the city. These are two of the people [then officials] who lied that are still in office. Susie O’Hara – sohara@santacruzca.gov Supervisor Justin Cummings – Third.District@santacruzcountyca.gov

[from Backpack Project Victoria B.C.] Lewis St. In Duncan has been cleared.  Duncan does not have enough shelter spaces. No housing. And extreme weather is here. People are suffering and dying on the streets, bylaw is confiscating survival gear and violently displacing people. And people who live without homes are denied basic human rights such as clean drinking water,showers, toilets and safe secure housing. Where is the humanity? Where are the solutions?

#displacementkills

#housingisahumanright

#stopthesweeps

#duq

Two children have been killed every day in Gaza since the so-called ceasefire began. Why has this disappeared from the headlines? The genocide never ended — and our government is still complicit. End all arms sales to Israel, now. Demand local government divest from all companies doing business with apartheid Israel.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides November 23, 2025 show–Wes White struggles with dark times in Salinas + Flashback to August 30, 2015 on the 8thFreedom SleepOut with artists Joff & Alex fighting street repression

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The November 23, 2025 show includes:

The Flashback to August 30, 2015 includes:

  • Update, Announcements, Warning of a Countdown to losing the studio, Upcoming Protests
  • S.F. Mime Troop—Dialogue and Description
  • Street and Security Guard McDonald Conversation
  • [Throughout] Ancient Songs by Satirist Tom Lehrer
  • Bathrobespierre & Bob Lamonica on Keith and Abbi’s “Reformed Performer Cages”
  • [8-22-15] Joff Jones and “Art is Free” Alex Skelton displaying Their art outside the “Performer-Vendor Cages”
  • Monterey’s Charles report including a pro-Bernie view
  • Andrea Morgan’s latest signing on a median citation
  • Peggy Lee Kennedy of Venice reports a homeless shooting
  • Dawn of The Hat Company  denounced City Council reduction of vendor bracket-cages
  • Keith on “Hostile-pitality” agent confusion downtown.
  • Red Church review…Stonewalled by Sgt. Bush