HUFFsters, by popular demand, will be trudging through the rain to a New Year’s Day warm-up at the Sub Rosa Cafe 1:30-3:30 PM January 1, 2026. We’re still next to the Bike Church corner of Spruce and Pacific

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HUFF  Rough Agenda for 1-1-26  

Clarification and Additions…Street Reports… Coral St. 12-30 Sweep…Street response to Stall on Homeless Services…Winter Crisis:  No Winter Drop-In Shelter/Warming Center: Strategies…”People First” Emergency Shelter–Fact or Fiction?…Hometown Homeless prior showing…Rest=Resistance & Other Reading…. Thomas’s Tips…Updates perhaps on MHCAN; Stupes’ RV Tow Bill; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations …Shelter, Courts reports …Salinas Homeless Union 10th Anniversary… New Flyer Distribution at Coral St….Vets Hall Tabling Results …Weather Update: Rain predicted Thurs, Sat, Sun, and Monday.
The actual agenda will likely include a few more items with the usual coffee/tea, cookies, carrots, and the occasional sandwich.

Don’t forget to check out the Town Clock’s New Year’s Day noon meal compliments of Jumbo-Gumbo Joe Schultz.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides December 28, 2025 show– Homeless Deaths 2025 Street Memorial and a Flashback to Jan 28, 1999 on the City Council’s Task Farce to Divert Opposition to the Sleeping Ban

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The December 28, 2025 show includes:

The Flashback to January 28, 1999 includes: [some distortion in first half of show]

  • Bathrobe’s update on the latest Task Farce to Examine the Camping Ordinance sub-committee meetings
  • Oral Communications with the Task Farce: Bernard Klitzner, Peter Eberle, Kate Wells, David Silva, Linda LeMaster, Emily Riley, Paul Brindel, Robert Norse
  • Becky Johnson on the Homeless Services Center Board of Directors meeting
  • Controversy around Kitten Reynolds alleged snitching, surveillance, and sabotage on local homeless activists
  • Silva calls for “positive” approach to upcoming Task Farce meetings
  • Norse reads most of the Eichorn decision requiring courts to consider a necessity defense in Camping Ban cases

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides December 25th, 2025 show is a Flashback to the complete January 24, 1999 show featuring the Silva, Norse, and Johnson on Council’s diversion & dissection of the Camping Ban, Perusha Obluda on Palo Alto’s Anti-Homeless laws

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The Thursday December 25, 2025 show is a Flashback to January 24, 1999. 

It includes:

  • S.F. Chronicle article 1-22-99 “Palo Alto Sets Up Cart Swap”
  • Palo Alto civil right activist and KKUP broadcaster Purush Obluda Interview on proposed attack on homeless people pushing corporate shopping carts
  • “Feed the People” activist Teara on her 1st S.C. sleeping ticket; 2nd hand reports of 7 with bats attacking homeless
  • Terra and Bathrobespierre discuss federal court prospects around Sleeping Ban rulings & City Council’s latest
  • Committee to Repeal the Sleeping Ban visits the Task Farce to Protect the Ban (aka Task Force to Examine the Camping Ordinance) featuring Vice-Chief Jeff Locke, “Sticky Fingers” Butchie Baker, & Council Cucks
  • “Dead On” David Silva reports on upcoming right-wing agenda and urges sweet talk to City Council.
  • Further examination of police case for retaining the Ban vs. activist urging restoration of basic right to sleep.

HUFF will be flyering and polling folks at the Vets Hall Meal (Thursday 12-25-25) at 11:15 a.m. to ask “Where can folks find shelter?” Next regular meeting Jan 1, 2026 at 1:30 p.m. at the Sub Rose Cafe

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Rough Draft of a flyer to be circulated at the Xmas meal at the Vets Hall at 11:30 AM:  Join us (with umbrellas at the ready) if you wish. 


Where to gather for emergency walk-in Winter Protection?      

+++  Supes, City Council, City Mangler had no walk-in Winter Shelter as rainstorms approach. 

+++  MHCAN, Downtown Street Team, operational drinking fountains, warming centers…gone.

+++  Escalating police attacks on homeless survival encampments are real threats to community well-being.

+++  This year’s homeless dead list had no street or  last names at the Portuguese Hall Housing Matters memorial.   Puff, the homeless dead are invisible! 

+++  2025’s Half-Named Victims: Katelyn L, Daniel B, Abbie S, Jesus D, Yesenia S, Matthew S, Omar L, John F, Bonifacio A, Guzmaro J, Devin S, Tommy B, Terrance F, Ryan H Scott R, Warren T, Jeremiah V, Ivy B, Michael S,John K, Nathan B, David D, Jeffrey R, Matthew L, Lance M, Arturo D, Michael A, Paul A, Karyn S, Birge S,  Steven M, Daniel S, Fred A, Carol E, Jose C

+++ Brent Adams of the one-time Warming Shelter says:  WHAT THE FUCK!? For 10 years in a row, the shelter I founded and ran opened during rain and cold weather. Warming Center Program would activate based on forecasts of more than 1″ of rain or temperatures below 38 degrees. There is currently a forecast of 4 out of 5 days with more than 1″ of rain, yet the “People First” shelter has nothing planned. The program I ran operated in Santa Cruz and Watsonville and received less than 5% of it’s operating budget from governmental sources – while the current system is 100% city and county funded. We as a community need to demand better for those who sleep outside.  

Write in your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choices for survival locations as well as suggestions of your own.  Ross Camp?…..   San Lorenzo?….   Parking structures?…..  Sidewalks in front of oblivious city officials?…..   Civic Center?…..   City Hall?….  The Public Library?….  Sports Stadium?…  Awnings of Downtown Shops?….  Fill in your suggestion of an awning or vacant building or another spot…………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Leave your suggestions with the servers at the Food Not Bombs meal or at HUFF meeting Thur1:30 PM 703 Pacific            

Flyer by Norse of  HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) 831-423-4833 www.huffsantacruz.org 309 Cedar PMB #14B  S.C. 12-24-25

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides December 21, 2025 show– Many 1996 Flashbacks–to March S.C. City Council and May Food Not Bombs protests in San Francisco plus a full show from 4-1-96 with Sean Alemi, Gary Yamene, Keith McHenry, James Cosner, & more

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The December 21, 2025 show contains:

  • [throughout] Rovics and Ai Tsuno Class War Zone
  • [3-12-96] Unhoused protesters speak to City Council and the Community at Oral Communications at the beginning of the City Hall Sleepers Vigil
  • Testimony by Dan Hopkins, Henry Kettleman, James Cosner, Tim Rinker, Chad, Sean Alemi, Ron Parker, John Stuart, Cole Larsen, Chris Brozda, Robert Norse at the 3-15 closing of the Winter Armory Shelter
  • https://news.antiwar.com/2025/12/17/bill-to-block-trump-from-launching-war-with-venezuela-fails-in-the-house/
  • [June 1996] Interviews and speeches at San Francisco Hall of Justice at Bathrobespierre’s Sentencing Hearing: Becky Johnson, Bob Hansen, D.A. Terrence Hallinan, Pat Carey, Bathrobespierre, Keith McHenry, Karen Parker
  • [12-18-25] HUFF  meeting segment discussing protest/encampment demanding winter shelter, restored services

The Flashback April 1, 1996 show contains:

  • Chat with a free knive sharpener on Pacific Ave.
  • Slammersleeper Sean Alemi from Ward A in the Jail
  • Robin Hood’s account of his last 3 years from Mothercare to Back Forty
  • Beggarbacker Becky on the Citizens Committee [to exploit] the Homeless shutting down recording their meetings
  • [3-29-96] Mall musings: Patrick criticizes Priscilla, Café Pergolesi manager for pregnancy discrimination; Bill displaying crystals & handling Hosts; Chink Bob Lee street jeweler; Sergeants Seiley and Sanderson confront man with dog on the mall; Alexa vandweller and brownie distributor busted;
  • Gary Yamene, Citizens Police Review Board staffer interviewed on the Complaint Tracking Process Committee reviewing SCPD General Orders segregating and secreting complaints under an “inquiry” category.
  • “Justman” Jim Cosner of the Revolutionary Coalition on the sentencing hearing of David Dumars (“B.D.”) for standing near a vandalized newsrack.
  • “Dragonsheart” Dan Hopkins reports on the B.D. hearing.  Keith’s expanded FNB  report
  • [4-1]  “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry on Fresno gathering of Food Not Bombs [FNB]; harassment in Whittier, NYC, Arcata; new groups in San Bernadino, San Diego, Costa Mesa; detailed San Francisco report.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides December 18th, 2025 show will be a Flashback to Audio coverage of 1991’s struggle for Free Speech at the Town Clock and Defense of People’s Park

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The December 18, 2025 show is a Flashback to various 1991 audio recordings.

  • [Spring 1991]  “Chewin’ the Fat” radio show with guests “Jetlag Joe” Salinsky, “Wonton Dave” Jacobs, Linda “the Lark” Evans on SCPD & City Council harassment of the Town Clock Peace Vigil
  • [7-28-91]  Bathrobespierre and Backyard Brian get divergent accounts from activists in Berkeley about People’s Park being retaken by UCB; police harassing, citing, and arresting folks for sleeping in the park.
  • [8-3-25]   “Calamity Jane” Imler and Bathrobespierre at a mass People’s Park meeting…Joseph reports on his encounter with H.S. Stern BPD $73…nighttime conversations in the Park

HUFF dodges rainfall at the Thursday 1:30-3:30 PM December 18 meeting at the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church

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HUFF 12-18-25   Clarification and Additions…Street Reports…Board of Stupidvipers Report—HUFF response to Stall on Homeless Services…)…Winter Crisis:  No Winter Drop-In Shelter/Warming Center: Strategies…Hometown Homeless showing progress;… ….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 …Homeless memorials Friday and Sunday…New Flyer Distribution at Coral St….HUFF meeting 12-25 replaced by tabling at Vets Hall..New flyers…

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

Thursday Dec 18  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room, end of N. Pacific Ave.

Friday Dec 19 10 AM – 11:30 AM  Homeless Reading of Dead   Portuguese Hall  216 Evergreen St.  “Light snacks”

Friday Dec 19 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 20  11 AM- 12:30  PM Protest Israel with American Bombs bombing in the Phony Ceasefire+ U.S. occupation troops for Trump’s Israeli Expansion Plan– Ocean & Water End the War  Weekly Signs and Shouts  Palestine Justice Coalition

Saturday Dec 20 and Sunday Dec 21  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; NEW Street Spirits & Street Sheets available; leave off or pick up forms to record shelter and police abuse from Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices.

Sunday Dec 21  10-12 PM  People’s Aide : Solidarity & Services for those outside at Green Gate Gulf Club Drive.

Sunday Dec 21  2 PM  “Rest is Resistance” street huddle & book reading at the dinosaur statue across from the Post Office downtown Sunday Dec 21  4  PM  Food Not Bombs Homeless for the Homeless Memorial  Town Clock  likely in the rain but under canopys

Sunday Dec 21  4 PM – 9 PM Holiday Crafts Market for Gaza  Barros Unidos Poets Corner 1817 Soquel Ave.  Arts, Crafts, Poetry, Music, Open Mic

Monday Dec 22 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

Thursday Dec 25 11:30 AM – 2 PM  Xmas Community Dinner  Downtown Vets Hall 846 Front St.

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 (To Be Updated)

++++     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 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

…

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”