HUFFing along in the summertime, perhaps with ice cubes in the coffee 1:30 PM-3:30 PM 703 Pacific Ave. at the Sub Rosa Courtyard next to the Bike Church–crunch down on cookies, carrots, and cantankerous conundrums

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HUFF Agenda Suggestions 8-22-24                                                                      Top of the Agenda

++++   Street Sheet  and Street Spirit still looking for articles and stories ++++   The 7th “Time for Housing Not Horseshit at Funding Matters” protest 4-6 PM Monday August 26, 2023, Outside Housing matters at the Corner of river St. and Hiway 1  Drinks & Food ++++   Stupervisors and Shitty Council meet Tuesday 8-27 Times TBA ++++   Thursdays 3:30 – 4:30 pm  Morrisey Blvd overpass: End the Gaza Genocide ++++   Saturday 8-24 11 AM =2:30 PM Ocean & Water Signing  Info: Laura 247-5332 ++++   Prospects for rounding up and prompting sweep documentation ++++   Cloudy warm temperatures and no rain predicted for the next week.    ++++   Athena’s Monster Document to Shitty Council:  Activist Follow-Up?  

Standard Stuff: Procedures and Preliminaries  

++++   Passarounds & Handouts  TBA  

++++   Street Reports with particular focus on Raid Documentation  

++++   Final Report on Seized Property Scamdal and Funding Matters Protest Aftermath  

++++   Athena and Laura C. at the 6-20  MHAB to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMsaGIViMkg  

++++   MHAB 7-18 Video Still not there.   

++++   Board of Stupes:  August 27 9 AM 5th Floor County Bldg.  Shitty Council: same at City Hall Check Friday morning at https://www.cityofsantacruz.com/government/city-council/council-meetings  ++++   Laura, Athena, et. al at the Supes & City Hall: Likely Sunday net-show ++++   The broader issue of the recent Coral St. and Pogonip police sweeps and sheriff/police abuses there is discussed at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/20/18868124.php  

++++   More specific information regarding 7-29 Pogonip sweeps is available at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/26/18868249.phpReporting Back  

++++   Watsonville Survival Camp Destruction (Wes White, Monica Tone calls) & Salinas Bataan Park protest (7-27) update

++++   San Rafael post-Johnson v. Grants Pass: https://www.kqed.org/news/12000944/san-rafael-to-set-up-fenced-sanctioned-homeless-encampment-along-mahon-creek   

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

++++    Outcome of last Monday’s 6th protest at Hiway 1 and 9 targeting Kramer’s “Funding Matters” operation and  demanding Homes Not Sweeps  

Closer Inspection

++++   Still searching out Surveillance Camera Location (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)

++++   Flyer suggestions for upcoming Tourist Train protest with Coral St. info. ++++   Any posted notices of impending raids on existing camps?  Any court cases coming up?

++++   Examining MC 6.36 more closely—the Camping (Standards and Services Ordinance)  Ban.                                             

Possible Topics for Future Discussion:  Pick a Project to Ponder?

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

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

++++  Tourist Train Strategy & Spectacle Update: Locations?

++++  Cooling Center when extreme heat threatens?  Emergency gathering location

++++  Forming Specific Demands? (Stop  Sweeps, Funds to service existing camps)

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

++++  Report on Evan Morrison’s group at the Armory

++++  Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MHCAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)

++++  Future Targets:    Tourist Train…City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission Office… City Hall…​Emeline/TelcCare/Supes 

Additional Resources

++++  Keith McHenry on Kim Iverson (17 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avZZTAfUr44   

++++  2 hour version: https://rumble.com/v5b863f-were-being-duped-about-the-homelessness-crisis-the-dark-truth-behind-the-cl.html                                  

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

Summary of August 15th  netshow:     Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday, August 15, 2024 show Flashes back to February 10, 2011 featuring Steve Pleich, “Double-down” Dan McMullan of Berkeley, and Nader+ Ron Paul calling for a 3rd Party Alliance  

Summary of August 18th  netshow  to be posted  

++++ To hear these netshows,:  go to http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html   and click on August 15th and/or August 18th  links there. 

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday August 18, 2024 show reviews last Monday’s (8-12)”Stop the Sweeps” Protest with more from”Scope It Out” Scott, “Ain’t Stoppin’ Now” Athena, and Kim Iverson’s 2 hour show with Keith McHenry

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The Sunday August 18, 2024 show includes:

  • Athena’s futile search at SCPD HQ for property taken by Police and Public Works in the Golf Club Drive sweep
  • [at intervals throughout] Historical human rights songs by David Rovics
  • “Scope It Out” Scott Graham’s continuing analysis of the June Santa Cruz City Council’s agenda
  • Macklemore’s “Anthem for Gaza is a Rarity of Protest Song in an Era of Apolitical Music”
  • [8-12 a.m.] Melinda at Coral St on the morning after police threats emptied the area; Eric Lopez on the homeless scene; More Accounts from Demon and others
  • [8-12 p.m.] Wes White on the purpose of the weekly Hiway 1 & Hiway 9 “Stop the Sweeps” Protest reports on Sacramento & else; Alan Fisher reports on the week long vigil outside the offices of Rep Panetta the previous week; Foodfinder Drew reports on the impact of Sweeps on the Food Not Bombs family.
  • “Let it Loose” Laura Chatham on the “Stop the Sweeps” letter to the Mental Health Advisory Board
  • Julia: anti-genocide activist speaks up for street rights for those who live there.
  • Rovics sings and plays for the Sweep Stopper protesters and describes his recent works and struggles
  • [8-16] Wes White’s report from Sacramento’s struggling Camp Resolution and elsewhere around the state.
  • Kim Iverson Interviews Keith McHenry [“We’re being duped about the Homelessness Crisis: the Dark Truth behind the Clean-up Efforts”.  For the short version go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avZZTAfUr44.  Longer video version also available at https://rumble.com/v5b863f-were-being-duped-about-the-homelessness-crisis-the-dark-truth-behind-the-cl.html 

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Thursday, August 15, 2024 show Flashes back to February 10, 2011 featuring Steve Pleich, “Double-down” Dan McMullan of Berkeley, and Nader+ Ron Paul calling for a 3rd Party Alliance

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The Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides August 15, 2024 show is a Flashback to February 10, 2011. 

It includes:

  • [throughout] old songs by Laura Nyro; Smooth-tongued Steve Pleich co-hosting
  • [12-31-10]  New Year’s Eve chat with “Naughty Santa”, Baltimore, Dreamcatcher, and more
  • Phone interview with Dan McMullan, Berkeley Director of People Outside Project on how police disabled him in People’s Park, the pro-Business “Hosts”, the punk promises of Governor Brown, & updates on shelter beds, and the “Free Box”
  • Comparing Berkeley and Santa Cruz protests linking local business discrimination and foreign war support
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTCr3dtDv1o “Ron Paul, Ralph Nader, agree on Progressive-Libertarian Alliance”
  • Lighthouse Linda Lemaster on the new homeless census and new court “security” system
  • Controversy at the Red Church: “Violence” Claims There

HUFF has a spontaneous sitdown at 1:30-3:30 p.m. Thursday August 15 at 703 Pacific at the Sub Rosa Cafe next to the Bike Church–bring ideas, energy, patience, and impatience

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HUFF “Loose Cannon” Agenda Suggestions 8-15-24

(Athena & other HUFFsters make the Agenda—these are simply suggestions—some of them placeholders)                                                          

Top of the Agenda

++++   Editors of Street Spirits or Street Sheets want articles.  Check on-line to read at  https://www.streetsheet.org/  or https://thestreetspirit.org/

++++    The 6th in a series of educational protests against the recent homeless sweeps will focus on “Housing Matters” Director Phil Kramer  4-6 PM Monday August 19, 2023, Outside Housing matters at the Corner of river St. and Hiway 1   Free Food and Drinks.

++++  Antiwar signs Thurs 3:30-4:30 pm  at the Morrisey Blvd overpass over hiway 1

++++  Saturday  8-3 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.

++++  Low 70s predicted and no rain predicted for the Thurs and for next week.                               

Standard Stuff: Procedures and Preliminaries  

++++   Passarounds & Handouts  TBA  

++++   Street Reports with particular focus on recent escalating police attacks  

++++    Follow-up, organizing, and possible future use of  Stand Off Survival Snatching forms             

++++    Specific demands to press the Mental Health Advisory Board (MHAB) less police, more training presented at least Shitty Council and Board of Stupes meeting

++++    Specific targets: Press Conference at SCPD HQ, vigil at City Mangler, etc.  

++++    The letter read to the Shitsters and Stupes can be found in flyer form at https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2024/07/20/keeley_protest–a_breath_of_sanity_from_the_s.pdf .  

++++   The broader issue of the recent Coral St. and Pogonip police sweeps and sheriff/police abuses there is discussed at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/20/18868124.php

++++    Escalating creation of foreign homelessness in Gaza and Ukraine as well as Santa Cruz raids on survival encampments may be a way of uniting with other protests such as Hiroshima events and week long vigil against Pinetta’s pro-genocide posture.                                                        

Reporting Back  

++++   Watsonville Survival Camp Destruction (Wes White, Monica Tone calls) & Salinas Bataan Park protest (7-27) updates  

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

++++    Outcome of last Monday’s 4th homeless activist protest and support for 5th  “Kick Out Keeley and Kramer” protest at next Monday.  

Closer Inspection

++++   Still searching out Surveillance Camera Location (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)

++++   Any posted notices of impending raids on existing camps?  Any court cases coming up?

++++   Examining MC 6.36 more closely—the Camping (Standards and Services Ordinance)  Ban.                                           

Possible Topics for Future Discussion

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

++++  New  Strategies for Documenting Property Loss:  Case #, Receipts, Audio recordings [Follow-Up action on Protests and Raids]

++++  Tourist Train Strategy & Spectacle Update: Locations? Flyers? ++++  Cooling Center when extreme heat threatens?  Emergency gathering location

++++  Forming Specific Demands? (Stop the Sweeps, Reapportion funding to service existing camps) [Special research on $ spent by Kramer of FM and Morrison 0f Armory

++++  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 Attorney’s Office… City Hall…​Public Works Dept… Emeline/TelcCare/Supes…Public events with Kramer & Keeley                                                                                          

Delayed Net-Show Access

Summary of August 8th   netshow:     https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadside-s-thursday-august-8-2024-show-flashes-back-to-august-29-2010-featuring-5-hours-of-interview-and-commentary-around-peacecamp-2010-with-a-lengthy-exchange-between-sgt/

Summary of August 11th  netshow:   http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-sunday-august-11-2024-show-reviews-the-4th-stop-the-sweeps-protest-scope-it-out-scotts-agenda-lookback-and-a-flashback-to-october-21-2010-featuring-politic/

++++ To hear these netshows,:  go to http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  and click on August 8th and/or August 11th  links there.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Sunday August 11, 2024 show reviews the 4th “Stop the Sweeps” Protest & “Scope It Out” Scott’s Agenda Lookback +and a Flashback to October 21, 2010 featuring Politician Pleich on the 2010 Election

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The Sunday August 11, 2024 show includes:

  • https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/30/us/los-angeles-homeless-newsom.html 
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/us/newsom-homeless-los-angeles.html
  • Rovics:  “My Daughter” 
  • Keith McHenry on Counterspin: https://fair.org/home/the-problem-is-theres-no-place-for-anyone-to-go/
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/us/newsom-homeless-los-angeles.html 
  • Rovics:  “Who Will Tell the People?” song and radio station KPFA reformer defense
  • “Scope it Out ” Scott Graham’s Critical analysis of the June Santa Cruz City Council Agendas: 6-11 #21.1 Internal Expansion of SCPD; Eureka-Arcata gentrification report
  • Rovics:  “Today in Yemen” (some years old)
  • Graham denounces Council’s 6-11 #20 banning gas-powered leaf blowers exempting govt. leaf blowers; #10 $4.3 million for Evan Morrison’s People First Armory program but who’s getting paid what to do what?, #11 $500,000 to Community Bridges for mandatory bus transportation (those with jobs excepted)
  • Rovics: “Butcher for Hire” (Police Boss John Timeney)
  • [8-4]  Voices from Sunday’s Food Not Bombs Feed: Bill A, Otter,
  • [8-4]  Heather MacCauley on Tent Removal near the Town Clock; Keith on 8-5 protest, Cooper’s instructive rage, “Tough Road” Thomas 
  • Rovics: “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy”
  • [8-5]  4th Funding Matters [FM] [aka Housing Matters or HM] protest at Hiway 1 and 9: Reggie Meisler: “Sweeps Kill” + RV Update
  • Rovics: “Lola Aglialoro”
  • More “Funding Matters” protest voices: Alicia Kuhl, Bathrobespierre Robert, Mental Health Advisory Board’s letter urging police cutback and better training to the Board of Supervisors
  • Manny on his homeless days, personal contact with Funding Matters boss Phil Kramer when he was teaching
  • Rovics: “The Progressive Zionist”
  • Peter Pan, Thomas—on the local impact of SCOTUS’s overturning of Johnson v. Grants Pass
  • “One of Us”, a badly paid FM worker, on his time there
  • Rovics: “A Song for Aaron Bushnell”
  • Testimony passed along in FM from a current worker there​

The Flashback to October 21, 2010:

  • Council candidate, Camping Ban opponent, and Co-host Steve Pleich reports on Homeless [Lack of] Services Center remaining silent on hard facts of no shelter available April through October before anti-homeless folks.
  • Battle-ready Bob Patton on fight to reopen the Vet’s Hall
  • Drum Circle Dave on bathroom baloney downtown
  • [10-15] Ray on Prop 36 Drug Diversion stumbling blocks in S.C. courts, move-along law violation
  • Santa Barbara settlement ACLU in August 2009 dropping their lawsuit against the Camping Ban
  • City Sleeping Ban as infraction versus state Lodging Ban discussion for S.C. protesters
  • Fresno report from Mike Rhodes
  • “What’s Wrong with the Sit-Lie Law [in San Francisco]?” article: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/05/us/05bcjames.html

Bathrobespierre’s Broadside’ s Thursday, August 8, 2024 show Flashes back to August 29, 2010 featuring 5 hours of interview and commentary around PeaceCamp 2010 with a lengthy exchange between Sgt. Harms and Bathrobespierre Robert

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The Thursday August 8, 2024 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show is a Flashback to August 29, 2010.  It includes:

  • [8-26-2010 or so]FRSC Broadcaster and protest supporter Coral Reef & Bathrobespierre Robert give reports from Peace Camp 2010 [PC 2010] on Sgt. Harms’ SCPD arrival turning on the klieg lights harassing the activists; Onwatcher Wayne’s “tents and toilets” suggestion.
  • Zachary Jeff Ryan on Sgt. Harms threats to seize his and John Valley’s property; early morning ticket’s reports on ticketing of Dianne, Todd, John Valley, Blindbear Robert Facer, and others.
  • https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/29/18657054.php?show_comments=1#18657058 [“Weathering the Police Storm at City Hall“]
  • [8-24-2010]  Hot day’s march from City Hall to SCPD HQ to reclaim police-stolen property: Sara & Dreamcatcher
  • “Tie-’em-up” Tricia Husome, SCPD Records Withholder, threatens activists documenting the copshop visit
  • “Traveler” Elisse Casby and “Active to a Fault” Activist Attorney Ed Frey in-studio guests
  • Frey on the “Sinister Sidewalk Singing” charge against Blindbear for singing a political song during the day.
  • Alex Bender, Ocean & others evicted from the SCPD lobby; Becky Johnson reports on the lobby lockout; more reports on the aftermath
  • Bathrobespierre responds to critical media (Santa Cruz Weekly)
  • Closing down the Drum-Circle-in-Flight along the levee with a “Demonstration Garden”
  • Sgt. Harms debates with Bathrobespierre on “when cops can lie”.
  • Another expedition to retrieve property from cop lock-up.

After a preliminary meeting at the SCPD Station 155 Center St. at noon 8-8 to track down police-seized homeless gear, HUFF will meet at the Sub Rosa Cafe at 703 Pacific Ave. next to the Bike Church 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM

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HUFF Preliminary Agenda Suggestions 8-8-24                                                                      Top of the Agenda

++++   New Street Spirits & Street Sheets here.  On-line current/archives too. Street Spirit editor soliciting Santa Cruz articles

++++    The 5th in a series of educational protests against the recent homeless sweeps will focus on “Housing Matters” Director Phil Kramer  4-6 PM Monday August 12, 2023, Outside Housing matters at the Corner of river St. and Hiway 1   Free Food and Drinks. 

++++   Thursdays from 3:30 to 4:30 pm  at the Morrisey Blvd overpass over hiway 1

++++   Cloudy warm temperatures and no rain predicted for the next week.                                             

Standard Stuff: Procedures and Preliminaries  

++++   Passarounds & Handouts  Funding Matters flyer update; Athena Council letter  

++++   Street Reports with particular focus on raid rumors, Bag-and-Tag follow-ups.  

++++  Report on Cop Shop Visit for Seized Property and Funding Matters Protest

++++   Affirming HUFF’s purpose: to regain  retain basic civil liberties and survival services, fight discrimination  

++++   Keeping watch for hands raised; heckler alert; vibe watcher; breaks & chair shift  

++++   Athena and Laura C. at the 6-20  MHAB to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMsaGIViMkg  

++++   Last MHAB meeting: 7-18 Video Not yet available.  

++++   Board of Stupes:  August 13 9 AM 5th Floor County Bldg.  Shitty Council: 8-13 check Thur nite, Friday morning at https://www.cityofsantacruz.com/government/city-council/council-meetings  ++++   The Final Letter from the last MHAB meeting [7-18] is available at  https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2024/07/20/keeley_protest–a_breath_of_sanity_from_the_s.pdf

++++   The broader issue of the recent Coral St. and Pogonip police sweeps and sheriff/police abuses there is discussed at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/20/18868124.php  

++++   More specific information regarding last Monday’s 7-29 Pogonip sweeps is available at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/26/18868249.php

++++    Escalating creation of foreign homelessness in Gaza and Ukraine as well as Santa Cruz raids on survival encampments may be a way of uniting with other protests such as Hiroshima events and week long vigil against Pinetta’s pro-genocide posture.  Hall vigil on 3rd Floor of County Bldg outside Panetta’s office continues 10-12 Friday.    

Reporting Back  

++++   Watsonville Survival Camp Destruction (Wes White, Monica Tone calls) & Salinas Bataan Park protest (7-27) update  

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

++++    Outcome of last Monday’s Union of the Homeless 3rd protest at parking lot next to  “Fast Lane” Fred Keeley house at Market and Water Strs demanding Homes Not Sweeps

++++   Saturday  8-10 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.                        

Closer Inspection

++++   Still searching out Surveillance Camera Location (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)

++++   Flyer suggestions for upcoming Tourist Train protest with Coral St. info. ++++   Any posted notices of impending raids on existing camps?  Any court cases coming up?

++++   Examining MC 6.36 more closely—the Camping (Standards and Services Ordinance)  Ban.                                           

Possible Topics for Future Discussion

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

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

++++  Tourist Train Strategy & Spectacle Update: Locations?

++++  Cooling Center when extreme heat threatens?  Emergency gathering location

++++  Forming Specific Demands? (Stop the Sweeps, Reapportion funding to service existing camps)

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

++++  Report frin Evan Morrison’s group at the Armory

++++  Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MH CAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)

++++  Future Targets:    Tourist Train…City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission Office… City Hall…​Emeline/TelcCare/Supes                                                                                          

Delayed Net-Show Access

Summary of August 1st netshow:     https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-thursday-august-1-2024-show-flashes-back-to-june-15-1997-featuring-the-fight-against-the-santa-barbara-sitting-ban-and-struggles-in-santa-monica-and-san-francisco/

Summary of July 28th netshow   :  https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-sunday-7-28-24-show-features-the-third-community-eyes-on-mayor-keeley-protest-a-flashback-to-august-1-2010-with-many-interviews-from-the-peacecamp-2010-encampment/

++++ To hear these netshows,:  go to http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html  and click on July 23rd and/or July 25th  links there. 

Bathrobespierre’s Broadside’s Sunday, August 4, 2024 show follows the July 29, 2024 activist response to the City Mangler’s two weeks of anti-homeless raids and a Flashback to August 12, 2010 on PeaceCamp2010’s move to City Hall

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The Sunday August 4, 2024 show includes:

  • Cavalcade of protests recent and upcoming around the Gaza genocide and the homeless removal sweeps
  • Rovics in narrative and song on the exploitive relationship of Spotify with musicians like him.
  • https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20240729/281685440107562 [Pre-Trial Inmates lose Minimum Wage Fight]
  • [7-28] Juan on probs with Funding Matters (which calls itself “Housing Matters”)
  • [7-31] Tamorack on changing Santa Cruz and successful ayahuasca therapy versus cancer
  • Phone Interview with “All-In” Athena on her support and copwatching of the 7-29 Golf Club Drive sweeps
  • [7-29] Sara, Pogonip resident, forced to move on but no shelter offer; Lisa & Daniel—another ousted residents.

The Flashback to August 12, 2010 includes:

  • [8-11-2010] P.J.  PeaceCamp 2010 [PC2010]’s new protest hub demanding decent services for those outside.
  • Crow & Red, vandwellers, who displayed protest sign and cleaned up trash
  • Bathrobespierre on Robert Facer’s court case: the background and basis of the months-long PC2010 Protest
  • A hoarse Curbhugger Chris Doyon on the new protest spot; Channel 8 News talk with Bathrobespierre & Chris
  • Wes Modes “walking in a parade without a permit” ticket [“Three Decisions in Court in the Wes Modes “Parading Without a Permit” Case“] at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/13/18656055.php
  • Curbhugger’s on-the-stream Day One at City Hall for PC2010
  • [8-12] “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster’s on her night at City Hall with PC2010 during the SCPD busts

Bathrobespierre’s Broadside’s Thursday, August 1, 2024 show Flashes back to June 15, 1997 featuring the fight against the Santa Barbara Sitting Ban, and struggles in Santa Monica and San Francisco

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The August 1, 2024 show is a Flashback to June 15, 1997. 

It includes:

  • Jack Zedlitz discussing his court case defending against Santa Barbara’s Sit-on-the-sidewalk Ban on State St.
  • Santa Barbara attorneys Robert Landheer and Marc Chytilo on the Sitting Ban law
  • Kara Henson, Santa Barbara college student and participant in the protests against the Ban, tells how and why.
  • Santa Monica’s Jennifer Wagonner reports on open shower facilities, but cops stalking the food services
  • Santa Cruz’s Downtown Association bars activists from its subcommittee meeting
  • Report on the California Civil Rights Action Network
  • Keith McHenry on the plans for a San Francisco Presidio takeover to open up housing to the house-less.
  • June 4 S.F. Police Commission Hearings on public outrage at SFPD Mark Andiya’s murder of Aaron Williams
  • Lighthouse Linda Lemaster of Housing Now in Santa Cruz on the destruction of “welfare reform”
  • Bathrobespierre on City Council’s twists, turns, &- machinations in the last six months in “no shelter” Santa Cruz

HUFF gathers again at the Sub Rosa Cafe/Courtyard to respond to the ongoing war against the poor at home and abroad 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM Thursday August 1st at 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church

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HUFF Ruf Loose Cannons Agenda Suggestions 8-1-24

This is a rough agenda—an edited and updated version will be available on August 1st at the HUFF meeting.  This is also simply suggestions—​to be considered and passed as HUFFsters wish.​                                                      

Top of the Agenda

++++   More informal process with Athena  

++++  XX The meeting will be shorter than usual with many members going to support the presentation to the Mental Health Advisory Board (MHAB] at 5200 Soquel with a proposed advisory letter seeking to end or soften the sweeps/raids on homeless survival encampments on Coral St. and elsewhere in so far as the County Sheriffs are involved.  

++++   The location of this meeting will be at the Sheriff’s Office Headquarters, Community Room, 5200 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz. Enter Building C, go to the right when you enter, pass the restrooms and you will find the Community Room.   It runs from 3 to 5.  Rides from Sub Rosa will likely be available.  

++++   For those interested in the presentation by Athena and Laura C. at the 6-20  MHAB meeting,  it’s available on line at   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMsaGIViMkg  

++++   The letter forwarded to the Board of Superstupes can be found in flyer form at https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2024/07/20/keeley_protest–a_breath_of_sanity_from_the_s.pdf .  

++++   The broader issue of the recent Coral St. and Pogonip police sweeps and sheriff/police abuses there is discussed at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/20/18868124.php  

++++   More specific information regarding last Monday’s 7-29 Pogonip sweeps is available at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/26/18868249.php

++++    The 4th in a series of educational protests against the recent homeless sweeps will focus on “Housing Matters” Director Phil Kramer  4-6 PM Monday August 6, 2023, Outside Housing matters at the Corner of river St. and Hiway 1   Free Food and Drinks.

++++    Mild temperatures in the 70s predicted for 8-1 afternoon and next week 

++++    Escalating creation of foreign homelessness in Gaza and Ukraine as well as Santa Cruz raids on survival encampments will be a focus for the next few weeks in other protests:                                              

Standard Stuff: Procedures and Preliminaries  

++++  Announcements:  See above

++++   Street Reports with particular focus on recent police attacks on encampments

++++   Preliminary analysis of excuses used to destroy survival encampments locally

++++   Possibly reviewing the Refugee Property Losses from Coral Street Demolitions (Athena)

++++   Passarounds & Handouts  TBA                                              

Current  and Upcoming Events

++++    Outcome of last Monday’s 3rd Union of the Homeless protest at parking lot next to  “Fast Lane” Fred Keeley house at Market and Water Strs demanding Homes Not Sweeps and planning for the 3rd protest.

++++   Saturday 7-20  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.

++++   Reports from the surveillance and support crew that helped survival campers deal with the massive police raid of last Monday (7-29)

Closer Inspection

++++   Reports (if any) on reclaiming property from the survival-smashing sweeps of property.

++++   Still searching out Surveillance Camera Location (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)

++++   Flyer suggestions if any for upcoming Tourist Train protest with Coral St. info.

++++   Any posted notices of impending raids on existing camps?  Any court cases coming up?

++++   Examining MC 6.36 more closely—the Camping Services and Standards Act

++++   The impact of the Supreme Court’s bad decision on San Francisco’s Injunction; success then failure in Oakland.   

Possible Topics for Discussion

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

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

++++  Tourist Train Strategy & Spectacle Update

++++  Cooling Center when extreme heat threatens?  Suggestions?

++++  Specific Demands? (Stop the Sweeps, Reapportion funding to service existing camps)

++++  Reports from gov bodies (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board)

++++  Report on the new management contract for Evan Morrison’s group at the Armory

++++  Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MH CAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)    

                    

Keeping Tabs: Someday Follow-Up’s

++++  Protest Target Suggestions: Tourist Train Sites City Mangler’s office

…Police Station…Coastal Commission… City Hall…​Emeline/TelcCare/Supes