Shiver in the cold, then huddle in the warmth: HUFF meets 1:30 PM-3:30 PM Thursday 1-23 at Sub Rose Cafe next to the Bike Church 703 Pacific Ave.

PRE MEETING PROTEST FOR ANY INTERESTED:  HANDS OFF SUMMER !  Rally Thursday Jan 23 Noon at Science and Engineering Library Plaza at UCSC,   March to Kerr Hall ! Two under grad students were suspended for Palestinian advocacy last year + a grad worker fired for going on strike for Palestine! 

Rough Suggestions & Reminders for next HUFF sit-down 1-23-25

Apologies to HUFFsters for the likely absence of Robert and Gloria from the 1-23 Thursday meeting  We are likely still  down for the count with some unclear ailment (lots of sneezing and coughing).  These Agenda suggestions are only intended as possible guidelines.  Athena, Gaia, and the HUFFsters, of course, have the final word.

Underlined  links are for background reading.   Many others items are really signposts & 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. AGENDA SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

                                       Top of the Agenda (Quick Announcements)

++++   Passarounds:  Agenda, perhaps.

++++   Street reports from the last week. 

++++   Jan 20th Martin Luther King Day parade lookback (also Trump Inauguration Day) & possible Gaza ceasefire 

++++   Rebele Family Shelter’s Eviction of family with motel accomoodation to run out on Friday.

++++   New Scent-Anal reporter on local homeless beat(?)

++++   Response to Police Abuse: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/01/01/18871850.php

++++   Following up on Google number  216-8238 with regular report provider.
++++   Additions and Suggestions for Thomas’s TipZine…  Follow-up’s.

++++   Possible Small Claims Court Follow-Up

++++   Possible Armory Revisit; Dreamcatcher visit  Info from People First Staff?  Cat?  Avi

++++   Berkeley Where Did They?—gone from Old City Hall

++++    Jan 14 Shitty Council and Stupervisers reports?  Upcoming 28th Chatter-thons.

++++   Helga: Sweeps at Coral St…, at Library, and elsewhere…?  Library activists gone missing?  Cops downtown?

++++   No New Street Spirits  and Street Sheets available  Hard Copies of earlier issues may be available at 903 Pacific and at the Food Not Bombs Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock—ask Drew  Contact Street Spirit and Street Sheet to submit local stories & news accounts

++++   Are Gaza protests continuing as ceasefire may stall…

++++   Chilling Reports from emergency weather shelters:  The usual crowded often full non-emergency winter shelter only when temps drop below 38 degrees or flood warnings run by “People First” + Brent’s Warming Wednesdays 12-3 PM at 150 Felker St.

++++  People First Free Guides: https://peoplefirstscc.org/freeguides  for S.C., Watsonville, SLV, Free Phones, Youth, Housing Waitlist, Pet Food, Addiction, Immigrant Storm Relief, SLE, Diaper Bank, and more (unchecked for usefulness)
++++  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ypAexFGyrU_kCoM3dByRDDrobyR9H8wA/viewLatest SC Free Guide  (Correction and checking badly needed)

++++  No rules or procedures posted, no waiting list length for 1220 River St., 115 Coral St., or People’s First RV and Armory Programs on the SC Free Guide.  Request written guidelines.

RESOURCES AND PROSPECTS including Regular Check-In’s, Older Stores. Possible Future Action Items, Signposts Against the Nasty New Narrative, Archived Net-Show Access, Still Older Resources & News  https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/  (the full HUFF blog) .  FOR MORE DETAILS CHECK THE RESOURCES AND PROSPECTS SECTION AT https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/huff-boots-out-the-old-year-130-pm-330-pm-thursday-december-26-at-the-sub-rosa-cafe-703-pacific-ave-next-to-the-bike-church/ 

Random   New (to us, but dated) Articles, Videos &  Resources                               S.F Chronicle Stories

+++ Barnes v. Felix court case may bring U.S. “moment of threat” lethal force use into line with international “totality of circumstances, necessary and proportionate” standard (1-22)

+++  Activists look to halt use of Alien Enemies Act of 1798 (detaining 17,000 Japanese, 11,000 Germans, and 3000 Italian nationals in WWII (1-15)

+++ Starbucks ends open-door welcome policy (1-15)

+++ State’s federal courts likely to stay liberal (1-15)

+++ New buying rules should end $1.l7 M toilets (1-12)

+++ Supervisor: Increase arrests, detox for users (1-6)

+++ 5 UC campuses reach deal over Gaza protests (12-22-24)

+++ Transphobic apparel the new hotness (1-3)                           

S.C.Scent Anal (Sentinel) Stories

+++ Law may help tenants stay in homes (12-25-24)

+++ Community mourns longtime Sentinel report Jessica York (1-14)

+++ Biden misses chance to finally close Guantanamo prison (1-11)

+++ Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office:  Public weighs in on watchdog report (10-30-24)

+++ U.S. homelessness up 18% as affordable housing out of reach (12-28-25)

                                   S.J. Mercury Stories

+++ Rochester, NY, Lawsuit: Guards ‘casually’ beat inmate to death (1-16)

+++ FDA proposes making cigarettes less addictive with a cap on nicotine (1-16)

+++ 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre—300 killed in by White mob in “coordinated, military-style attack” (1-12)

+++  Enforcement on RV encampments starts: city creates 30 temporary tow-away zones (1-10)

+++  Kentucky Judge scraps Title X rules expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students (1-10)