The 4-13-23 show—a Flashback to 10-24-13—will include:
Summary of the Flashback
Phil Posner’s Pacific Avenue Sidewalk Protest on Shrinking Public Space for Vendors, Performers, and Gatherings: [10-19] “Corkscrew” Tony, Paul Bernadino, Dennis Etler, Rus Manos, & others with Community Chatter at Food Not Bombs.
Looking for tidbits of news and the latest “roust the wretched” plans while sipping courtesy coffee and crunchable cookies? Consider the following subjects, or add your own! Meeting likely to end at 1 PM, so come early, leave early!
++++ Legislative updates on AB 920 (prohibiting discrimination based on housing status); SB 31 making it illegal to sit, lie, or camp within 1000′ 0f a daycare center, library, park or school; SB 47 expanding definition of “gravely disabled’ in Lanterman Petris (LPS) Act, making it easier to enforce involuntary and forced drugging and other “treatments”.
++++ The disappearing Petition to restore Portapotty & Hand washing stations in dispersed survival camps; Ratner/Huffaker Visit. Follow-Up?
++++ Reggie Meisler—Call and Update
++++ Upcoming Injunction Hearing for S.F. lawsuit against sweeps; Pacifica Victory; Defeat at Wood St. Oakland
++++ Police Lawleslsness Against FNB: No validation of Police Sweep at City Hall March 10th—in Public Records
++++ Mixed Reports from Felton’s Mountain Community Resource Center
++++ Placeholder Reminders: Free Guide Verification, Mad Power Monitoring, Ticket Documenting, Board of Stupes, City’s Token Vehicular Lodging Programs… A Reminder: Food Not Bombs is now serving only on the weekends noon-3 PM; St. Francis may start providing weekday indoor meals, rather than its meagre hand-out paper bag lunches. No meaningful downtown walk-in shelter is available downtown during the day regardless of life-threatening weather. Harassment of survival sleepers in public parking lots and garages continues. City of Santa Cruz – 831-420-5010 Mayor Fred Keeley – fkeeley@cityofsantacruz.com City Manager Matt Huffaker – mhuffaker@santacruzca.gov Police Chief Bernie Escalante – bescalante@cityofsantacruz.com
If anyone is interested in working on HUFF projects around local treatment of the “mentally ill”, recent arrests and tickets for unhoused
folks in public places,, organizing for legal or direct action protest against the exclusion of those outside from protective buildings
during storms or any other items on recent HUFF agendas, please contact me at 831-423-4833.
The (relatively) current events section of the April 9, 2023 show features the 4-6 HUFF meeting with Bathrobespierre’s commentary:
[throughout] musical breaks from David Rovics’ “Life at Earth Matters Farm Remix”
Lawwatcher Laura C. reports on the “Public Safety” meeting of “Fast Lane” Fred Keeley, “Breadgiver Buster” Bernie Escalante & local homeless-hostiles; the April 1st Fools Parade by Housing Matters; the Planning Commission’s vote on the Coral St. expansion, and more
Brief phone comments by “Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry on continuing meal, bathroom, shortages
RV-rights defender Reggie Meisler advises on how to enlist reluctant local Coastal Commission reps to stop predatory police and staff attacks on those living in their vehicles.
The October 24, 2010 Flashback includes:
[at various points] Musical breaks from Cornerstone Carol Denney]
Last night of the Portapotty at PeaceCamp 2010 in front of city Hall with attorney-activist Ed Frey—moving from streets into the Courts
PeaceCampsters Art with Bathrobespierre’s narrative commentary
“Deep Voice” on the Rental Inspection Ordinance rushed through the previous summer, harassment ticketing at Three Trees Lot on Westcliff Drive
“Tough Road” Todd Hill, PC2010 supporter on the end of PeaceCamp 2010.
Photographer Rick Dell; Uncle Ray on camping tickets from eager Parks and Rec ticketbots
Lightcaster Larry on the Veteran’s Hall struggle
Move-Along Law origin; new unattended tickets law passed recently
Skidmark Bob on the controversial state marijuana Proposition 19
Bob Noxious on KLSD radio hopes and tidbits
Big Drum Brent encounters an “unreasonably disturbing noise” ticket
Brief bits from Drum Circle Dave rants on
Silver-Tongued Steve P. on UN Day
Clint’s poetry prep for singing
Ronee Curry with her Beans ‘n Burrito service on Pacific Ave.
Quickies from Curbhugger Chris—a court update on his “illegal lodging” charge from PC2010 protest
Travelin’ Tom Noddy on history of Street Performers Guidelines in Santa Cruz
[10-20-10] Levee survivor John Valley on his theft lawsuit against the Sheriff’s Department for seizure of his shopping cart
Making Contact: the Proposition 19 [Legalizing Marijuana Somewhat]
Sound quality is very low. If you can boost up the volume on your speaker, do so. The June 21, 1996 Flashback includes:
Background and Context of the June 21st Flashback as Bathrobespierre Robert checks in for a 2-month jail sentence for serving free food in San Francisco with Food Not Bombs [FNB]
Speeches, Rage, and Revelry on the Steps of the Jail just before Bathrobespierre checks in
Whittier activist on FNB arrests there, Mr. Twister (aka Corey MacDonald), Diamond Dave, & others
Bathrobespierre’s report on the City Hall Sleepers Protest
Perp walk into jail
Report on day-to-day life in County jail by phone
S.C. Revolutionary Coalition Speeches on June 20th including Jim Cosner, Becky Johnson, Dragonsheart Dan Hopkins, & Others
Coastal Commission boots out Yuppy appeal against Coastal Access and RV parking in Pacifica
Questions for April Fools Day Fundraiser “Housing [i.e. Funding] Matters” boss Phil Kramer
Brief snippets from the 4-1 Fools Day rally with Traffic Monitor Teri Schroeder; Jo of La Selva Beach Community Churches; Mayor Fred Keeley from the speakers podium; Warren Robles of the Quakers; Councilmember Sandy Brown; and others
Antioch Amid FBI probe, police department refused to release use of force records
Homeless supporter and activist Reggie Meisler on his successful pressure forcing removal of anti-homeless-in-RVs signs and restripe-parking-places-in-order-to-exclude-large-old-vehicles
Note: Some of the July 1 Flashback is repeated. Fast forward past the repetition as necessary. The volume on the Flashbacks is low and may need boosting. The Flashback to the July 1, 1996 show (Bathrobbespierre’s Broadsides from S.F. County Jail #8) includes:
Beggarbacker Becky Johnson visits Bathrobespierre Robert Norse Kahn (#1472209) in Jail [6-28-96]
History of Bathrobespierre’s Involvement with Food Not Bombs [FNB] (he was jailed for serving food in S.F.)
Regrets about the Jail stay
History of other “Food Criminals” in Santa Cruz and San Francisco
Life on the Glamour-Slammer.
Santa Cruz Opponents of Homeless Human Rights
The Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Radio Show
Proposed Strategies to End the Sleeping Ban in Santa Cruz; the Ban in Berkeley
Why FNB won’t apply for nor accept permits nor go indoors.
FNB struggle: scorecard of recent victories
Why refuse probation when it’s offered? Why an out-of-town judge called in for the case?
The Flashback to the July 5, 1996 show includes:
More from Bathrobespierre in Jail—Part 2 of Interview with Perusha Obluda, Palo Alto activist and broadcaster.
Obluda interviews Becky Johnson, discussing the S.C. Sleeping Ban, and Palo Alto Sitting Ban
Social Service SubCommittee Meeting (5-25) with Mike Rotkin, Scott Kennedy, and Jane Yokoyama
Phone Interview: “Mad Mike the Wonderdog” Balderos interviews Bathrobespierre Robert
Sealed Letter from Bookshop Santa Cruz owner Neal Coonerty Improperly Impacts Court
[7-3-23] Obluda’s intervew with Bathrobespierre Part One: Petitioning inside the jail for a Law Library
Another Becky Johnson interview with Bathrobespierre in Jail; B.J. on Father Mike Marini’s Church Shelter
++++ Street reports; Encampment and Shelter Updates
++++ Further 3-28 City Council Review: Consent Agenda White-out on input, debate, and final vote even for items taken off agenda; Brown’s new day-before “requirement”
++++ Capitola landlord cracks down on Mobile Home owner/tenants: update?
++++ 3-30 Sheriff’s Office 5200 Soquel Ave 6-7:30 PM “A Community Discussion Concerning Safety in Santa Cruz” with Mayor “Fast Lane” Fred Keeley; Top Cop “Bust the Breadgivers” Bernie Escalante, “Friendly Fascism” Phil Kramer of Housing Smatters & other “Hide the Hungry” Povertycrats https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10160385811038820&set=a.489759988819 : Possible Report.
++++ April 1st Protest of Fools—the Housing Smatters March and Festival: Report from the March
++++ Keith McHenry phone call and update.
++++ Reggie Meisler—Call and Update: archived on FRSC at
++++ Legislative updates on AB 920 (prohibiting discrimination based on housing status); SB 31 making it illegal to sit, lie, or camp within 1000′ 0f a daycare center, library, park or school; SB 47 expanding definition of “gravely disabled’ in Lanterman Petris (LPS) Act, making it easier to enforce involuntary and forced drugging and other “treatments”.
++++ Shelter ShutOut of Last Weeks and the next Weeks
++++ RV Victory: the Removal of Signs in the Coastal Zone: What Next? Meisler at City Council; Parking Authority on the Run? Meisler call. FRSC show archived at https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/1%20FRSC%204-2-23.mp3 [110 minutes into the audio file]
++++ The disappearing Petition to restore Portapotty & Hand washing stations in dispersed survival camps; Ratner/Huffaker Visit. Follow-Up?
++++ Organizing to push Martin v. Boise pro per lawsuit activity using Robbie Powelson’s paper trail
++++ Placeholder Reminders: Free Guide Verification, Mad Power Monitoring, Ticket Documenting, Board of Stupes, City’s Token Vehicular Lodging Programs… A Reminder: Food Not Bombs is now serving only on the weekends noon-3 PM; St. Francis may not yet be providing weekday indoor meals, only handing out meager bag lunches. The City has still not released Public Records documenting its attack on Food Not Bombs food servers on March 10th at City Hall. On April 3, the City Records Dept. announced it was delaying a response to the March 23rd Public Record Act demand on the police attack to April 17th. No meaningful downtown walk-in shelter is available downtown during the day regardless of life-threatening weather. Harassment of survival sleepers in public parking lots and garages continues. City of Santa Cruz – 831-420-5010 Mayor Fred Keeley – fkeeley@cityofsantacruz.com City Manager Matt Huffaker – mhuffaker@santacruzca.gov Police Chief Bernie Escalante – bescalante@cityofsantacruz.com
If anyone is interested in working on HUFF projects around local treatment of the “mentally ill”, recent arrests and tickets for unhoused
folks in public places,, organizing for legal or direct action protest against the exclusion of those outside from protective buildings
during storms or any other items on recent HUFF agendas, please contact me at 831-423-4833.
++++ Capitola landlord cracks down on Mobile Home owner/tenants.
++++ 3-30 Sheriff’s Office 5200 Soquel Ave 6-7:30 PM “A Community Discussion Concerning Safety in Santa Cruz” with Mayor “Fast Lane” Fred Keeley; Top Cop “Bust the Breadgivers” Bernie Escalante, “Friendly Fascism” Phil Kramer of Housing Smatters & other “Hide the Hungry” Povertycrats https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10160385811038820&set=a.489759988819
++++ April 1st Protest of Fools—the Housing Smatters March 10 AM 4-1 from Cathcart and Cedar; Food Not Bombs banners
++++ Reggie Meisler—Call and Update: Victory at City Council Tuesday; Next Steps in Vehicular Homes Rights Struggle; Westcliff Sign Removal?
++++ Alicia Kuhl’s Press Conference Proposal and Call on the Vehicular Homes Struggle
++++ Legislative updates on AB 920 (prohibiting discrimination based on housing status); SB 31 making it illegal to sit, lie, or camp within 1000′ 0f a daycare center, library, park or school; SB 47 expanding definition of “gravely disabled’ in Lanterman Petris (LPS) Act, making it easier to enforce involuntary and forced drugging and other “treatments”.
++++ Weather Damage and Shelter ShutOut of Last Weeks and the next Weeks
++++ RV Victory: the Removal of Signs in the Coastal Zone: What Next? Meisler at City Council; Parking Authority on the Run?
++++ Weekly Thursday War supporting U.S. Arms and Cash to Ukraine Town Clock 3-28 4 PM
++++ Homeless Union Hibernation– Bagels and Badinage at 4 p.m.. Wednesday, 612 Ocean 3-22.
++++ The disappearing Petition to restore Portapotty & Hand washing stations in dispersed survival camps; Ratner/Huffaker Visit. Follow-Up?
++++ Organizing to push Martin v. Boise pro per lawsuit activity using Robbie Powelson’s paper trail \
++++ Placeholder Reminders: Free Guide Verification, Mad Power Monitoring, Ticket Documenting, Board of Stupes, City’s Token Vehicular Lodging Programs… A Reminder: Food Not Bombs is now serving only on the weekends noon-3 PM; St. Francis may not yet be providing weekday indoor meals, only handing out meager bag lunches. The City has still not released Public Records documenting its attack on Food Not Bombs food servers on March 10th at City Hall. No meaningful downtown walk-in shelter is available downtown during the day regardless of life-threatening weather. Harassment of survival sleepers in public parking lots and garages continues. City of Santa Cruz – 831-420-5010 Mayor Fred Keeley – fkeeley@cityofsantacruz.com City Manager Matt Huffaker – mhuffaker@santacruzca.gov Police Chief Bernie Escalante – bescalante@cityofsantacruz.com
If anyone is interested in working on HUFF projects around local treatment of the “mentally ill”, recent arrests and tickets for unhoused
folks in public places,, organizing for legal or direct action protest against the exclusion of those outside from protective buildings
during storms or any other items on recent HUFF agendas, please contact me at 831-423-4833.
Throughout the show: selections from Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl’s Kilroy was Here
Food Not Bombs [FNB] activist McHenry notes FNB’sdropping back to weekends only in its Town Clock feedings and his anticipation of a ramped-up war on the poor outside.
Town Clock Check-In: An anonymous vet & Dread-Eye on humiliating police targeting
“Dawn-to-Dusk” Drew on the FNB shift from weekday to weekend meals—and no reports of a crackdown.
“Hard Road” Helga on continuing bad news from those outside up in Felton
Miles, a recently returned to Santa Cruz, and the unnecessarily hard times created for those outside by authorities here and elsewhere
3-28 Council Analysis of upcoming S.C. Shitty Council Agenda: Items 14, 17, 25, 27 (Letter Supporting Increasing Conservatorship Powers, Downtown Library “Housing” Giveaway; Massive Expansion of Military Equipment Purchase Authority; Parking Space Excluding “Oversized” RVs)
[throughout: selections from Peggy Seeger’s topical songs from 80’s England & the vinyl Kilroy Was Here]
Co-Host “Stick-it-to-’em” Steve Pleich co-hosting. Pleich reports on Homeless [Lack of] Service Center gala earlier and his plans to shmooze with City Attorney Barisone on the “receipts and no tickets if you’re on the HSC waiting list for a bed on a night when there’s no shelter” in the wake of the new MC 6.36.056……
Battleready Bob Patton of the Human Rights Organization and United Veterans Council activist on endless struggle to reopen and reclaim control of the Vets Hall.