Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday December 15, 2024 show features Reggie Meisler on the struggle to protect RVs and the future of “performance” activism & a Flashback to October 23, 2005 Micah Posner, Pebbles Trippet, Jason Pasqual and many more

The Sunday December 15, 2024 show includes:

The Flashback to October 23, 2005 includes:

  • Shoplifting as a healthier way of life—socially and individually.
  • Iraqis support attacks on Allied troops story
  • [9-28-05]  Bike activist Micah Posner supports avoiding a fence at the Ocean View Path by removing brush cover for the homeless from East Cliff to S. Branciforte.
  • Tim O’Hearn , Union Rep for In-Home Care Workers attacks Councilmember Madrigal and Union boss Cliff Tillman
  • [10-19-05] Robert, Julie, and Ian—Tales of Police Pressure
  • Caveman on History of Afflicting the Comfortable 
  • Jason Pasquale’s Account (and Caveman’s) of his arrest
  • Andrea Meagan on Cop Beating
  • Brozda’s Latest Barnstorming and Banning
  • James Patrick Dolan 4th at SAFE
  • Pebbles Trippet of the Medical Marijuana Patients Union on a Mendicino murder trial
  • Scott on Camp Break-up; Gregarious Greg songsinging
  • Skidmark’s Pop Defect show on the City’s Swipe at Scavenging Recyclers
  • [10-16-05]  

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday, December 12th 2024, show Flashes back to October 13, 2005 featuring Metro Riders Union activist Paul Mercelin Sampson vs. Metro Driver activists

Thursday December 12, 2024 show flashes back to October 13, 2005. 

It includes:

  • In-studio guest and Metro Bus Drivers Strike critic Paul Marcelin Sampson bat back and forth calls and opinions of the Strike.
  • SAFE singers on the loose singing and chatting
  • Augusto Sandino, Emery Ross and other callers clash with Sampson on the strike
  • Discussion of the Contract rejected
  • Andrea Morgan praises the new Greenway Medical Marijuana club
  • Richard gets ticketed for Sugar his dog after a snooze on the sidewalk

HUFF takes off on a Pressure-the-Powerful field trip to Watsonville Small Claims Court at 12:30 pm Thursday December 12th in support of Troy Mason who is seeking payback for police seizure of his survival gear

NO REGULAR HUFF MEETING THIS WEEK   The next HUFF meeting will be Thursday December 19th 1:30 PM-3:30 PM at the Sub Rosa Cafe as usual at 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church.
Instead folks interested in joining the HUFF caravan should contact Athena at 661-621-5502.  You can also show up at the Green Gate on Golf Club Drive at the entrance to the Pogonip Thursday December 12th at 10 AM when she will be leaving with possible space in her vehicle to caravan over to Watsonville for the hearing in Small Claims Court. 
You can also join Troy Mason’s supporters in Small Claims court in Watsonville:  Dept A, 3rd floor.  The Court is at 2nd and Main, 1 2nd St.  Turn left when you get off the elevator. The parking garage is free for the 1st 2 hours, $5 for the day.  Gaia may offer caravan service if you call her before 9 a.m. on Thursday morning (Dec 12th) at 477-9017.
Those seeking Street Spirits or Street Sheets to vend should call Bathrobespierre Robert at 831-423-4833 (no texts, it’s a landline).  The latest Street Spirit is available at the Main Branch of the Public Library.  It and Street Sheet can also be found on line.

++++   Berkeley Where Do We Go?  Updates from Andrea Hansen on Where Do We Go Berkeley facebook page.
POTENTIAL PROTESTS (around U.S.-funded wars in the Middle East)

++++   Saturday Nov. 16  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.

++++  U.S. Out:  Thursdays 3:30 to 4:30 pm  Morrisey Blvd overpass over hiway 1

++++  U.S. Out:  Tuesdays 4-5 at Mission & Lauren at base of UCSC with banners/signs 415-954-2763    
Though Rain is predicted for Thursday, Saturday, and Monday, there is still no walk-in Winter Shelter in Santa Cruz.  No Emergency Shelters have been opened.


 READING MATERIALS  (Read up and shock your neighbors!)  

++++    Vallejo: Background from 2021: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homelessness-wasted-millions-empty-hotel-rooms-police-evictions/  Eviction Sweeps in November 2024: https://www.vallejosun.com/state-local-agencies-remove-long-running-vallejo-homeless-encampment/  Chatting with the Sweepster Boss: https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2024/10/31/conversations-with-the-city-manager-homelessness-in-vallejo/   Vallejo’s Homeless File a Lawsuit: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homeless-union-members-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-encampment-eviction/

++++     Vasalia’s excuse for sweeps?:  https://fresnoalliance.com/visalia-confronts-homelessness/

++++     Fresno: Way More Arrests than Treatment  https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article293730944.html

++++   San Rafael: Lawsuit forces token costly tent program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uppRbWhhvEI

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

++++   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

++++  https://www.hrw.org/report/2024/08/14/you-have-move/cruel-and-ineffective-criminalization-unhoused-people-los-angeles  The Cruel and Ineffective Crimminalizaton of Unhoused People in L.A.  Tip of the hat to Laure C for this item and the ProPublica item below

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

++++   https://thestreetspirit.org/2023/02/07/berkeley-94700/   The Poor Tour & 1st  They Came for the Homeless

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

++++   https://projects.propublica.org/homeless-encampment-sweeps-taken-belongings/: ProPublica’s detailed analysis of property stolen and hardships incurred nationwide

++++   https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-migrants-city-merge-new-arrivals-shelter-program-state/15450230/ : Come Freeze in Chicago This Winter! 

Archived Net-Show  (Listen up for fun and fury)

To read summaries of the shows and past rough agendas go to: https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/

Recent shows:  Sunday December 8, 2024 show features Robert Whitaker, Steve Pleich, and Scott Graham & a Flashback to September 28, 2014 with the anti-homeless electioneers getting grilled including:         https://podfollow.com/1654047988/episode/8d2a9c89f11b42e68663c98df8cb3b483d8894a2/view  Where is my Mind?: Bad Science with Robert Whitaker                                                                        “Scope It Out” Scott Graham & Bathrobespierre Robert take pot shots at the Santa Cruz Shitty Council’s 12-10-24 agenda            “Silver-Tongue” Steve Pleich sometime houseless local activist covers a wide variety of “then and now” topics

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday December 8, 2024 show features Robert Whitaker, Steve Pleich, and Scott Graham & a Flashback to September 28, 2014 with the anti-homeless electioneers getting grilled

The December 8, 2024 show includes:

The Flashback to September 28, 2014 includes:

  • [throughout] Analysis of the proposed police-powered Stay-Away Order expansion, repression of audio recording at City Council, the Parking lot Panic law.
  • Protest, Speak-Out for the first SC Council meeting in September 2014; 
  • Update on Assistant City Manager Scott Collins’ Anti-Homeless “Mosquito” “No Loitering” shrill sound devices
  • Former Mayor Bruce Van Allen’s Kick-off Rally and other electoral speeches 
  • Vehicular habitation interviews: Graham Pruss (Road to Housing program Seattle  ), Julie Schaul, J.M. Shall, Sherry Decker, and others grahampruss@compasshousingalliance.org 
  • Julie S. on anti-homeless neighbor Pressure on Circle Church to drive away the early morning center 
  • Jerry Fall on “progress” towards a De Sal project
  • Candidate Lannie Sherman and other speakers at the rally.
  • Updates from post-Michael Brown police slaying in Ferguson, MO
  • John Crawford, black man, shot dead in Ohio Walmart: Implications in Santa Cruz; Lessons from the Benchlands SC-11 Clearing.
  • “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster on the SCPD, the proposed Homeless Bill of Rights, her “Smart Solutions to Homelessness” group and Upgrading HUFF

Bathrobespierre’s Broadside’ s Thursday, December 5th 2024, show Flashes back to August 17, 2017 featuring Tufluv’s Interviews with David Silva, Sherree Cherie, & Becky Johnson, + Scott G on the Pergo History Wes White, and Scott Graham

The Thursday December 5, 2024 show is a Flashback to August 17, 2017.  It includes:

  • “Beggerbacker” Becky Johnson reports on Sheriff Tow of Sara’s tent-on-top-of-trailer on Lapis Road and Marina
  • “Whip ’em into Shape” Wes White on the scene at the vehicle-home seizure
  •  At August HUFF “Tufluv” Tuckerinterviews”Dialogue-First” David Silva on Homeless Connect; Squatter Jan working, seeking services, trying to get a vehicle; Sherie Cherie on City harassment of MHCAN’s Sarah Leonard and targeted ticketing
  • ]8-12] “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster on John Stewart Company’s rent rousts
  • Kip on “Give Back Santa Cruz”
  • Anal Communications at Shitty Council: Silva on police misconduct, Nate Kennedy demanding businesses open their bathrooms; 
  • [8-15] “Scope it Out” Scott Graham on the closing and history of the Cafe Pergolesi

HUFF resumes its raucous rough-housing Thursday December 5th at the Sub Rosa Cafe next to the Bike Church at 703 Pacific

Ruf  HUFF Agenda Suggestions 12-5-24

Due to late night return from a Berkeley trip—securing some November Street Sheets and December Street Spirits the final agenda will be distributed at the Thursday meeting.  Due to the Thanksgiving meal at the Vets Hall, this Ruf HUFF agenda is largely the same as the earlier 11-21 Agenda.

Items followed by underlined on-line links can be viewed “at home” or  “in the library”.   Many items  are really reminders of where we’d be going if and when we find the person power, time, interest, and resources.  We are gathering information and evidence to challenge the Dominant (False) Narrative.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them.                                      

Top of the Agenda (Quick Announcements)

++++   Meeting etiquette: raise hands, stacker, time keeper

++++   Athena’s Asks Update
++++   Additions and Suggestions for Thomas’s Tips:  Salv Army Breakfast 9-11:30 AM (?)

++++   Berkeley Where Do We Go?  Updates from Andrea Hansen on Where Do We Go Berkeley facebook page.

++++  Reports from the Thanksgiving Meal  at the Vets Hall

++++   New Street Spirits available.  Street Sheet copies available on line Friday perhaps at https://www.streetsheet.org/read-our-full-issues/   Hard Copies of both also available at 903 Pacific and at the Food Not Bombs Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock—ask Drew  Contact Street Spirit and Street Sheet for local stories. 

++++   Saturday Nov. 16  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.

++++  U.S. Out:  Thursdays 3:30 to 4:30 pm  Morrisey Blvd overpass over hiway 1

++++  U.S. Out:  Tuesdays 4-5 at Mission & Lauren at base of UCSC with banners/signs 415-954-2763    

++++  Chilly but no rain for Friday 11-22 through Friday 11-29 for next week.

++++  The usual crowded often full non-emergency winter shelter when temps drop below 38 degrees or two days rain run by “People First” + Brent’s Warming Wednesdays 12-3 PM at 150 Felker St.

Standard Stuff: Regular Check-In’s  

++++   Passarounds:  Vallejo Handouts: TBA  

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

++++    Report from the library parking lot   

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

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

++++    Vallejo: Background from 2021: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homelessness-wasted-millions-empty-hotel-rooms-police-evictions/  Eviction Sweeps in November 2024: https://www.vallejosun.com/state-local-agencies-remove-long-running-vallejo-homeless-encampment/  Chatting with the Sweepster Boss: https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2024/10/31/conversations-with-the-city-manager-homelessness-in-vallejo/   Vallejo’s Homeless File a Lawsuit: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homeless-union-members-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-encampment-eviction/

++++     Vasalia’s excuse for sweeps ?:  https://fresnoalliance.com/visalia-confronts-homelessness/

++++     Fresno: Way More Arrests than Treatment  https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article293730944.html

++++   San Rafael: Lawsuit forces token costly tent program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uppRbWhhvEI

Possible Action Items

++++   Scheduling and strategy for confronting officials at Public events ++++   Next Shitty Council meeting—Tuesday, December 10th  

++++   Volunteer for connecting with  Vasalia, Fresno, Vallejo, San Rafael activists  

++++   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”)                                                      

++++   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; any new info? ++++  Exposing MC 6.36 and other sweep pretexts: Documenting the Deception                                  

Setting Up  Signposts to Stop the Nasty New Narrative/Tasks in Search of Takers

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

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

++++  WARMING CENTER OPENINGS?

++++  Focused Demands? (Stop the Sweeps, Reapportion funding to service existing camps; Walk-in Shelter)

++++  Govt. Reports:  (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board)

++++  Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MHCAN, 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 and older Rough Agendas:

To read summaries of the shows and past rough agendas go to: https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/ To hear the shows go to https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html                                        

More Resources & News

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday December 1st, 2024 show features a Happy Turkey Slaughter-Day Meal outside the Vets Hall & a Flashback to January 15, 2017 with the early days of First They Came for the Homeless Berkeley

The December 1st 24, 2024 show includes:

The Flashback to January 15, 2017 includes: 

  • Frenzied times in Tampa Florida—Keith McHenry reports Food Not Bombs [FNB] trespassing-in-the-park and food-sharing-without-a-permit plus supportive demonstrations and international FNB reports
  • [throughout] Ryan Harvey songs from Occupying Forces album & Santa Cruz’s own Jus’ Kiddin’s Moral Compass album.
  • First They Came for the Homeless [FTCftH] in Berkeley at their 16th location: supporter James and resident Mike Lee discuss the mobile herstory of their protest/survival encampment and adventures in court
  • Lee on Social Service doubletalk about “no money”, but protest loosened their pockets  
  • Lee on internal controversy within FTCftH
  • Videographer Clark Sullivan and poet/activist Sarah Menefee on the herstory of FTCftH

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday, November 28th 2024, show Flashes back to November 18, 2012 with extensive street interviews concluding with Lighthouse Linda Lemaster’s phony Illegal Lodging charge

The November 28, 2024 show is a Flashback to November 18, 2012

which includes:

  • [Next to Normal musical selections throughout the show]
  • Danny Bishop, street doctor: anti-homeless rules and architecture on buses; keep solidarity with comrades
  • [9-24-12] Red Church Interviews: Lito on City workers stealing and burning his drums; Red, Jennifers, Bullfeathers
  • Pac Avenue Renee & Scott dole out burritos meals and worldly wisdom; Reported attack on Lee; Sweetstring Sue on her amplified music ticket; brutal police stop of son Joe and father;  
  • Void, Nevin, Faden, and Toby on Halloween police excessive force
  • Toby’s H.D. Camera stalking cops on Halloween and seeking copwatchers to document Encampment Raids
  • White cops (Officer Warren) with cars blocking the street stopping a black guy for a bike without a light.
  • Mayor Gone Lame’s non-discussion of the Homeless [Lack of] Services Center & Special City Council meeting
  • Community complaint Calls to HUFF
  • “Battle Weary” Bob Patton on the Vets Hall struggle; others on the Sleeping Ban, new library exclusion rules
  • Jo Ann of Dream Time Designs jewelry, 
  • “Lighthouse” Linda, disabled mom and activist, on the Association of Faith Communities-style “services” list and also charged facing a year in jail for  “unlawful lodging’ for caretaking for a sick peaceful protester on the steps of the courthouse at night. 
  • https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/01/15/18730225.php  “Convicted of “Unlawful Lodging,” Homeless Advocate Linda Lemaster Hopes to Abolish 647(e)”
  • Brianna, Chief Blind Bullfeathers, Danny Fernandez on Pacific Street “Ticket Alert!” scene
  • Sara, Neal, and Katie from Twin Lakes Church on their 3rd visit downtown
  • “Dead on” David Silva, “Silver-tongued” Steve Pleich, “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson and Bathrobespierre Robert discuss Lemaster trial as well as the paid shysters…
  • Phil praises the 180/180 program.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday Nov. 24, 2024 show features a tumble of HUFF voices at a segment of its 11-21-24 meeting & Flashbacks to May 6 and May 10, 2001 Jan Curry and “Catnip” Kate Wells

The Sunday November 24, 2024 show includes:

  • HUFF Hooplah: Segments of last Thursday’s 11-21 meeting including People’s Aid potluck and ongoing weekend lunches 1:30-3 at Hiways 1 and 9; ongoing protests against the Gaza genocide; street reports
  • Mystical mumblings from Dylan Van Buren and a steady Food Not Bombs update from Dawnbreaker Drew

The Flashback to May 6, 2002 and May 10, 2002 includes (some out of order): [Go to https://huffsantacruz.org/archive01.html to hear the original uncut shows]

  • Outward-bound Stan on his 7 open container tickets
  • Counselor-at-law Chris Frederickson praises S.C. detoxing facilities
  • Stephen Walton’s Letter from Jail accusing Deputy Mark Yanez of abuse following up on “Dead-on” David Silva’s claim in Street Shit Sheet #164 (https://www.huffsantacruz.org/streetsheet/street-shit-sheet-121-166%20(January%201993-2002%20and%202003%20and%202004%20and%202006%20and%202007).pdf   p. 177); Loney Burton’s account
  • “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson’s hearing challenging seizure of her food stamps because her son Alex declined to be fingerprinted.
  • Phone call from “Justman” Jim Cosner from jail in San Jose with accounts from fellow captives Steve & Dave
  • Call-in from Santa Cruz Critic Michael “Tough-tongue” Tomasi
  • S.C. City Council confidant Fred Geiger’s labor report and defense of the “progressive” Council.
  • Tree account of a SCPD Pacific Ave. police-heavy arrest of Juan
  • Union man Dan homeless with wife and dog
  • Paul Reynolds account of the Court punishment for “displaying merchandise” for hemp jewelry—Baker ticket
  • 4-29  Pac Avenue Street Scene
  • Jolly Roger Comedy Troupe: Shooting at Corporatopilis 500
  • Eleanor’s struggle with Mercy Housing against disability discrimination
  • Judith on the Mercy Charities: questionable assurances & the El Centro deal  
  • J.B. Associates corporate letter organizing tenants against local rent control
  • “Green Party” Mayor Fitzmaurice’s record violating the Green Party platform supporting the homeless right to sleep
  • Linwood makes car camping illegal.
  • Berkeley voices: poet Julia Vinograd, Bruce Duncan Tele Times edition
  • Bathrobespierre’s Updates: James Nay, Sleeping Ban history of the last year, and more
  • Special guest: Jen Curry, stopped Jan 19,2002 by SCPD’s Butchie Baker for wrong-way biking on Pacific, day before Baker dismissed bicyclist Sean Duncan’s citation for being hit by a driver
  • Curry’s account and appeal for witnesses
  • [4-5-02] John Earth: update on food services and lack of services for the poor
  • “Catnip” Kate Wells: chalking as free speech?…the Atwater decision…Capitola police’s Officer Murphy…Lori Andrus & Brian Andrus of the spring 1998 Button Street home invasion by SCPD Henig, Garrazio, and others…
  • More on the El Centro controversy by Judith
  • A second interview with Justman Jim Costner from jail

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday, November 21st 2024, show Flashes back to August 5, 1998 with Wanda Knight vs. the Seaside Company, Larry Mulligan–San Diego activist, Marksman Mark, and Jerry Henry, Street Rights Counselor

The November 21st 2024 show is a Flashback to August 5th, 1998. 

It includes:

++++ Black mom and activist Wanda Knight and companion Jordan Koran witness Knight being forced off the Canfield Boardwalk for speaking ill of the Ku Klux Klan in a private conversation.

++++ Prospects for a full discussion of Canfield’s 3rd St. Expansion Redevelopment

++++ [8-1-98] Activist Larry Mulligan on San Diego cops rousting 240 people breaking promises

++++ Pacific Avenue cop hassles for sleeping/homeless status: Lucer, Gabriel Ryan

++++ Madcap Mark the Puppeteer hassled for using “nigger” puppets

++++ Jerry Henry, street minister and youth counselor, at “Ranco” Liquors at Aptos Rancho del Mar Shopping Center fighting harassment by Gottchalk’s, Coffee Roasting Company, to drive him away.

++++ FCC visits Pirate Radio (satire by Jolly Roger Comedy Troupe)