Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 3-8-26 Show includes Erin Spencer of Berkeley’s Harrison & 8th Encampment, Anti-War Tabling on Pacific + a March 11, 2004 Flashback on City Council’s Attack on Clearview Court Rent Control , & SAFE musical event #6

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The March 8th Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:

  • [3-2]  Anti-war voices from Food Not Bombs [FNB] and Indivisible joint rally at Ocean & Water with Andrea Tishler, Doug, Keith,
  • https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2026/03/03/community/berkeley-harrison-encampment-closure-march-9-deadline/
  • Erin Spencer, long-term Harrison encampment resident after losing his vehicle describes property loss, and survival struggle
  • [3-7] Abe on the goods and bads of the past week; Paul pity platitudes; Dick on collecting trashed food from the FNB meal, Anthony, Drew, and more
  • Phil Baer on Iran War; Raging and Joshing with Keith at the anti-war table on Pacific

The Flashback to March 11, 2004 includes:

  • Struggle to resist abolition of Rent Control for Clearview Court: City Council clips
  • Society for Artistic Freedom and Expressin [SAFE] #8 taking back performance rights on Pacific
  • HUFF doing a live radio table on Pacific Ave: V Man interviews Visionsong Valerie
  • Eleanor on Governor’s attempt to cut support for disabled
  • Buffalo on harassment from Lt. Joe Haebe
  • A Taste of Uncle Dennis’s Cream to the Dregs  Thursday night show

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides March 5, 2026 show is a Flashback to the August 10, 2003 show featuring Arcata activists Dave Meserve and Tad, guests Scott and Alicia, and psych rights activist Sally Zinman

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The March 5, 2026 show is a Flashback to the August 10, 2003 show. 

It includes:

HUFF endures the War Against the Poor here and in the Middle East, meets March 5th 1:30 -3:30 PM at Sub Rosa Cafe next to the Bike Church at 703 Pacific

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HUFF IN BRIEF 3-5-26   [** New Items on the Agenda]… Pass Arounds; Additions…Messages …Sign on to 3-29 March ….** Joint SCHU/HUFF  Coral St`.Tabling/Sweepwatch ….City Council/Supes 3-10  …**Laura’s Look: AB647 Report… Street Reports…. **Sean Dougherty candidacy demands…Reports from anti-ICE/anti-War protest/SCHU actions/polans …Alicia call/MHCAN/SCHU Update…Shelter Reports…Berkeley Report…Next HUFF meet 3-12-26 …** FM & People First (PF) Stats… …Rest = Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips…**Salinas Survival Camping Ban/Wes White call… RV Tow Bill LA News; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Update/Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations/Reggie M. Update …Jail, Courts reports?… **mild seather ahead, …Hobo Jim’s Cabrillo Case postponed…

FREE EVENTS         (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying)

Thursday March 5   5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs NO MEETING TODAY**

Friday March 6   4-6 PM   Free Food Church FELTON

Fridays 4-6+pm  Hallcrest Vineyards, 379 Felton Empire Rd. Felton

Saturday March 7   11 AM- 12:30  PM Protest Israel/U.S. Bombing of Iran Ocean & Water End the War  

Sat 3-7 & Sun 3-8  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; NEW Street Spirits & Street Sheets; leave off or pick up forms to record shelter and police abuse; Bulletin Board for posting notices.

Sat 3-7 4 PM – 7 PM   Party/Street Party  Quaker Meeting House 225 Rooney Street.

Sun 3-7   10-12 PM  People’s Aid : Solidarity & Services for those outside Green Gate Golf Club Drive.                    

2 PM  “Rest is Resistance” street huddle & book reading at the dinosaur statue or at Jamba Juice across from the Post Office downtown (may be cancelled due to Hometown Homeless event]

Tues 3-9  thru Thurs 2-26 10 AM until the food’s gone Bread & Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot           

3-9  9 AM  Stupidvipers 701 Ocean County Bldg Community Room           

3-9  1 PM (time uncertain) Shitty Council  809 Center St. City Hall

Wed 3-10   3:30 PM  Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless Little Red Church  Cedar & Lincoln Sts. Fireside Room

Sun 3-29 noon beginning at Spruce & Pacific in front of Sub Rosa Café March to End Homeless [FM and PF] Pimpery  

HUFF WISH List TASKS to Volunteer for + Possible INDIVIDUAL ACTIONS : [Call or Text 831-423-4833 if interested)

++++    ORGANIZING to pressure poverty pimps to reopen and expand survival services and stop the sweeps.

++++    POLLING FOR ARMORY CONDITIONS:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested

++++    TABLING AT CORAL ST. to gather reports of property taken or lost in police raids; conditions at Funding Matters (aka Housing Matters)

++++    ARMORY COMPLAINTS:  Call (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.

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

++++   COLLECTING/COLLATING TICKETS: Past homeless citation record of the last year to spot Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”

++++   FOLLOWING LEGISLATIVE ANTICS:  state, local, and federal: the closing federal/state/local fist. 

++++   EXERTING PRESSURE to establish or organize Winter Shelter/Services 

++++   SOLIDARITY IN STRUGGLE with anti-ICE, anti-genocide, anti-War, anti-gentrification, pro-tenant, anti-discrimination local protests  

++++   FOLLOWING Court cases and  supporting those held in 5150s 

++++   MHCAN reopening support? Ditto with other do-it-yourself or street level services like the Downtown Street Team, a Switchboard, etc.

++++   PREPARATION/PARTICIPATION in large protests as on Martin Luther King Day (Jan 19)

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides March 1, 2026 show show features the Brian Barth panel of Wood Street Commons former residents + a Flashback to the October 28, 2003 show with writer Robert Whitaker grilled by Coral Brune, Jennifer Gosk, & Bathrobespierre

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The March 1, 2026 show includes:

  • [throughout the show]   AI Tsuno and David Rovics, Jesse  songs
  • [2-27]  Brian Barth , author of Front Street, a study of the Oakland Wood Street Commons Encampment, and three former residents  there as well as Funding Matters PRster Don Lane and Santa Cruz Homeless Union President Alicia Kuhl  https://santacruzpl.libnet.info/event/15732988
  • [2-28]  https://www.antiwar.com/past/20260301.html  Anti-war researcher Dave de Camp’s
  • Iran war news

The Flashback to October 28, 2003 contains:

  • Paul Mercelin Sampson of the MetroRiders Unions on the Metro Board agreeing after months of stalemate that flyer distribution allowed, to reconvene at the Board meeting in 90 days
  • Jennifer Gosk, Coral Brune, and Bathrobespierre interrogate author Robert Whitaker on his book Mad in America  Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill 
  • Implications of Whitaker’s research for “mentally ill” as labels for the homeless and the real impact of drugs and lack of housing
  • Historical develoopments and regressions in “treatment” of the “mentally ill”.
  • Van Jones, supporter of Ariana Huffington for Governor, on police abuse in San Francisco and Huffington’s position on homeless civil liberties issues
  • Berkeley’s Jolly Roger Comedy Troupe  “Video Tour on City-funded Berkeley Shopping”, “FBI’s rationale for Selective Surveillance”, and more.
  • De Anza Mobile Home Park sell-out update with Beggarbacker Becky Johnson

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides February 26, 2026 show is a Flashback to the October 29, 2017 show featuring RV struggle at Lapis Road; Mike Zint on First They Came for the Homeless, Brent Adams, Mama Shannon, and many more

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The February 26, 2026 show is a Flashback to October 29, 2017.

It includes:

  • Lapis Road RV HomeDwellers Association  30 Day Updatehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By3CuDOGMVo
  • Activist and communitarian camper Mike Zint’s “Here…There” Berkeley Update
  • Berkeley’s KPFA Up Front: Eviction of homeless during the Hepatis outbreak.
  • Demands for a Rent Freeze at Santa Cruz Shitty Council
  • Brent Adams Warming Center Update
  • Food Not Bombs meal update  Rioberto, Ricardo Lopoez, Abbi Samuels, and others
  • Renters and Homeless: When Can Folks Unite?: Affordable Housing Chitter Chatter: Lady Jane Ann & Jimmie Jones
  • Mama Shannon:  Perjury by Park Rangers

HUFF welcomes wanderers and survivors 1:30 PM-3:30 PM Thursday February 26 at Sub Rose Cafe 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church

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HUFF IN BRIEF 2-26-26   Clarification and Additions…Messages…*New Items on the Agenda… ….*Wednesday Joint SCHU/HUFF  Coral St`.Tabling?… City Council/Supes 2-24 Meeting Reports…Questions for Funding Matter [FM]s Flyer… Street Reports…. *Sean Dougherty endorsement…Reports from anti-ICE/anti-War protest/SCHU meeting …MHCAN Update…Shelter Reports…Next HUFF meeting 3-5-26 …*Digging into FM & People First (PF) Stats…Winter Crisis:  No Winter Drop-In Shelter in Rain/Warming Center: Failure to Open During Past Cold & Current Rainy Weather (?)…Rest = Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips…*Salinas Surival Camping Ban/Wes White call… RV Tow Bill; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Update/Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations/Reggie M. Update …Jail, Courts reports? …Keith Update …Warming to Sunday; Cooler to Wednesday, …more details at HUFFmeet                                                      * Likely New item as of 2-19        More details available at HUFFmeet

FREE EVENTS                                   

(for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying)

Thursday Feb 26  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meets El Rio Mobile Home Community Room, end of N. Pacific

4:15 PM – 7:15 PM Free Food Church East Zayante Rd. & Sylvan Way in Zayante near the school bus stop

Friday Feb 27  Time TBA Snacks and FNB/SCHU tabling at Location TBA                               7-9 PM Main Public Library Upstairs Author Brian Barth signs his book Front Street   It discusses encampments Crash Zone in San Jose, Wood Street in Oakland, and Wolfe Camp in Cupertino.  Barth answers questions from a panel with Funding Matters [FM] honcho Don Lane, Santa Cruz Homeless Union Prez Alicia Kuhl, and perhaps others .   Lane’s FM group supports regular police “cleaning” (i.e. destruction) of survival camps on the Coral Street sidewalks in front of Funding Matters and plans to cut off services to the entire ourdoors and housed homeless community in March, in order to expand services to its clients.

Sat Feb 28  11 AM- 12:30  PM Protest U.S. War plans with Israel against Iran that may usher in WW3 + rage against U.S./Israeli bombing in the Phony Gaza Genocide Ceasefire   Ocean & Water End the War  

Sat 2-28  & Sun3-1noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; OLD Street Spirits & Street Sheets; leave off or pick up forms to record shelter and police abuse; Bulletin Board for posting notices; perhaps new flyers. Sun 3-1  10-12 PM  People’s Aid : Solidarity & Services for those outside Green Gate Golf Club Drive.            

2 PM   “Rest is Resistance” street huddle,book reading, & spiritual sustenance at the dinosaur statue or at Jamba Juice across from the Post Office downtown            

5 PM  MHCAN Driveway at 1051 Cayuga St.   past and current members and supporters gather to consider nominations for a new Board of Directors to reopen MHCAN

Tues 3-3  thru Thurs 3-5 10 AM until the food’s gone Bread & Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot

Wed 3-4  3:30 -5 PM  Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless Little Red Church  Cedar & Lincoln Sts. Fireside Room          

6:00 PM – 7:30 PM  Panel Discussion:  Institute of the Arts and Sciences, 100 Panetta Avenue, S.C.  Historic Entanglement of Fire, Settlement, and Stewardship in the Santa Cruz Mountains

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 2-22-26 Show includes Scope-it-Out Scott, Mama Shannon, anti-ICE songs , and a 12-8-2011 Flashback within the 4-23-2017 show on SCPD action & Mayor Lane’s silence crushing Occupy SC

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The February 22, 2026  show includes:

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides February 19, 2026 show is a Flashback to the February 26, 2017 show featuring many voices from decades before that: Police Accountability Activist Mel Mason and Santa Monica Activist David Busch

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The February 19, 2026 show is a Flashback to February 26, 2017 which includes a Flash within a Flash to March 2, 2002  with some 2017 comments. 

It includes:

  • Former Seaside Councilman and Black Panther activist Mel Mason on police abuse and the police murder of Charles Vaughn Sr.
  • Venice homeless activist David Busch on his arrest in a sports bar for ordering a cup of coffee while wearing an “unhoused” sign around his neck
  • UCSC Steve HUFF organizer’s Update
  • Battling” Bob Lamonica on Rudeness Downtown
  • Attorney Jim Fossbinder and “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson on her LAPD lawsuit for beating at the 2000 Democratic National Convention [DNC]
  • Ben Mazel on LAPD Violence at the DNC
  • Ed Howes, The Janitor, Linda Lemaster, Dangerous John T.  and more

HUFF defies storm and gutless shelter phonies at 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM Thursday 2-19 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church Pacific

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HUFF IN BRIEF 2-19-26   Clarification and Additions…Messages…*New Items on the Agenda…More Shannon/Meliah film showing prep……. City Council/Supes 2-24 Meetings…Questions for Funding Matters Flyer… Street Reports…. Reports from anti-ICE/anti-War protest/SCHU meeting …MHCAN Renewal Update…Shelter Reports…Next HUFF meeting 3-2-26 …Winter Crisis:  No Winter Drop-In Shelter in Rain…*Proposed Joint SCHU/HUFF  Coral St. Protest/Pol Tabling?…Warming Center: Failure to Open During Freeze and Rain though funded to do so…Options for Opening up DIY Shelter…Rest = Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips…Salinas Survival Camping Ban/Wes White call… RV Tow Bill; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Update/Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations/Reggie M. Update …Jail, Courts reports? …Keith Update …Possible Rain Sun, Tue, & Wed,                                                                                    

* New item as of 2-19 agenda      Longer More detailed agenda available at HUFFmeetSee alsohttps://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/02/17/18884186.php

Upcoming Meetings to Resist Service Cutback and Homeless Sweeps 

https://lookout.co/the-facts-on-housing-matters-day-services-dont-match-the-narrative/story

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 2-15-26 Show features Police Review Sell-Out in Berkeley and a Flashback to Freedom SleepOut #83 on the sidewalk in front of City Hall

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The February 15, 2026 show includes:

  •    “Cornerstone”  Carol Denney critiques recent behavior of its newly “reformed” review body over the Berkeley Police Department
  • [3-11] Hot Dog and Survival Giveaway on Coral Street in front of Funding Matters [FM] (aka Housing Matters) by Santa Cruz Homeless Union and HUFF
  • Articulate growlings from Abe while working on his cart/bike
  • Jessa, occasional FM user describes and  denounces polices and cutbacks of FM.
  • 2-14 Valentine’s Day update from Caregiver Cooper
  • Organizer Alicia Kuhl describes a recent Zoom meeting by MHCAN supporters and members hoping to reopen the services.
  • Bill and Bruce speak up with mixed reports.

The Flashback to February 12, 2017

  • Further Flashback to 2004 –Visionsong Valerie’s Copwatch/Free Radio Call-in Table
  • [10-4-04] Spitter Investigation—Denise, Drew, & Sara’s account
  • [9-29-04] Ray G,,  Coral B., V-Man, Roxanne A., Joe W., Skidmark Bob, Dennis D., Becky J.,  & others  at the FCC’s seizure of the FRSC Equipment
  • [9-29-04] Supervising Deputy Sheryl Cole Responds to Questions; Mayor Kennedy makes a statement
  • [Feb 2017] Voices from Freedom SleepOut [FS] #83 & City Council meeting: Abbi S. , Elise
  • Elise on UC’s attack on the student Trailer Park and organizing for rent control
  • Dreamcatcher gives homespun defense of SCPD  ticketeers.
  • Upcoming City Council Agenda antics; Bad Behavior Reports
  • “False Report in Santa Cruz” [of Meth Giveaway—Keith McHenry [KM] hoax]
  • San Francisco denies permit for Summer of Love Concert
  • “$1.5 million settlement reached in killing of L.A.  Black man”—Ezell Ford shooting in 2014 https://apnews.com/general-news-8d98d36e2ff34acba51a4c75afdc012f
  • FS #83 Interviews: KM on effectiveness of FS strategy, Sonny & Bear on Fooding, Brandon on Tenants Rights
  • Update: SCPD’s Ken Deeg’s anti-homeless No Parking signs on Coral, Fern, and Limekiln Streets