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The 5-31-26 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show features the cutback in survival services, interviews with Snakey and Cooper +Flashback to 2-6-14 in-studio guests Doc Mike & Pat Colby & SF Human Rights Protest

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The May 31st show features:

The Flashback to Feb. 2, 2014 includes:

  • [in-studio visitors]  Michael O’Grady (“Doc Mike”) and Pat Colby (“Put ‘em in their Place” Pat)
  • The Human Statue (also street blues singer of “I can’t get no dough to get a burrito”) interview from San Francisco on his exclusion from Santa Cruz
  • Doc Mike’s difficulties at the Abbey Church/Café
  • Pergolesi Café—Liberal or “Luck ‘em out” for homeless looking?  A Report from Mark Waller, Colby, and others. Non-discrimination pacts.
  • Backpack bigotry:
  • SF Human Rights Day Protest chaired by Paul Boden in support of a California Bill of Rights in January 2014 with 200 people in the streets: Many speeches
  • S.C. Mayor Robinson supporting SCPD Bike Barricade against the Bike Church

Always up for suggestions and input.  Contact me at rnorse3@hotmail.com or call 831-423-4833.  Or show up at a HUFF meeting 703 Pacific (Sub Rosa Meeting Space) next to the Bike Church 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM Thursdays.   Or leave a note with workers at Food Not Bombs [FNB] 12 noon-3 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays at the Town Clock where Street Spirit and Street Sheet newspapers are available.

Weekly predictions:  More phony ceasefire as U.S. and Israel ignore the Iranian redlines while rearming.  Continued Iranian blockage of the Gulf of Hormuz, intensifying war threats, bullying, and bombing by the U.S. and Israeli government.   Unavoidable famine becomes increasingly likely overseas (and scarcity at home) in the weeks ahead due to the US regime’s desire to appear “victorious”.  Escalating Israeli massacres in Gaza and Lebanon as U.S. troops remain in the Middle East–the real news not the Trump or mainstream media pronouncements.    Some antiwar protests mark the weekend in Santa Cruz  If you start or hear of one, let me know.

Reported continued lockout of the unhoused community from Coral Street’s “Funding Matters” bathrooms, water, trash disposal, phone charging,—now reserved for clients only.  Similarly with the London Nelson bathrooms.  See also “In Response to “Housing Matters” Service Cut-Off on April 1st” at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/04/06/18885442.php .

Other meetings/events coming up: 

FREE EVENTS (for more info go to indybay.org/santacruz; click Calendar)       

Sun 5-31  10:30-12:30  PM  People’s Aid : Solidarity/Services for those outside Green Gate Golf Club Drive                           

noon-3 PM  Food Not Bombs still relocated to the post office with its Community Bulletin board, no-cost food, and Street Spirit newspapers    

Tues 6-2  thru Thurs 6-4 10 AM until the food’s gone Bread & Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot    

Wed  6-3  3:30 PM  Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless Little Red Church  Cedar & Lincoln Sts. Fireside Room         

Thur 6-4 7 AM   Support for the Coral St. encampment in event of another police sweep down at Coral St. and Limekiln.   For more info call 831-423-4833             

1:30 PM-3:30 PM  Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom   Sub Rosa Cafe/Courtyard Pacific & Spruce              

5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs volunteers meet at El Rio Mobile Home Park Community Room,       

Fri 6-5 2pm-?till food gone  BoulderCreek  13080 Hwy 9 between Jenna Sue’s Cafe and the taqueria             

Sat 6-6  11 AM – 12:30 PM  Anti-war elders and loyalists gather with signs at Ocean and Water Sts. gathering honks as gas and food prices jump upward                           

noon- 3 PM another Community meal with Food Not Bombs

The 5-28-26 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show is a Flashback to November 15, 2007 with call-in’s & debate about the Checkmate spraying of the Light Brown Apple Moth, anti-War activism at the Vets Hall, & anti-Coonerty tabling

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The Flashback to November 15, 2007 includes:

  • Denita Chesick on LBAM kicks off the LBAM (Light Brown Apple Moth) Checkmate spray’s toxic effect discussion
  • Theodora Kerry on the struggles of the (fairly) new Measure K Commission monitoring police activity against privately used cannabis
  • Uncle Dennis Davie corrects a misquote: he does NOT support the LBAM spraying.
  • [Nov. 12, 2007] at the City Council public forum on LBAM spraying with Aubray Bilgard and Marilyn Garrett
  • Battleready Bob Patton at the Vets Hall with Veteran Resisters and Courage to Resist’s Jeff Patterson with  “Breaking Ranks” film on soldiers gone AWOL to Canada
  • [11-4-07]  Boycott Bigotry—sidewalk tabling in front of the Bookshop Santa Cruz—Tenderfoot Tim Rumford “everyone else in HUFF” banned “for life”
  • Passerby opinion on the Coonerty Book Store’s support for the Sleeping Ban
  • A clip from Uncle Dennis Davie’s “From the Cream to the Dregs” show

The 5-24-26 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show features interviews with Gaia, Wes White, Steve Pleich, Robert Aguirre, & a full Flashback to 6-1-17 remembering the activist life of Bashful Bernard Klitzner, Red Church talk, & Freedom Sleepout 98/99

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The May 24, 2026 edition of Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides includes:

  • Restseeker Robert Aguirre on Gilroy’s Camp Hope and San Jose Sleepbusters
  • “Guts & Gusto” Gaia reviews the latest expensive Funding Matter  follies as well as her Trailer Park tug-of-war with a predatory landlord
  • “Whipmaster” Wes White on Camp Hope (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwuARogSMtI&t=622s ); Watsonville’s Hope Village; Sunday’s Soupstock, & the Salinas “no notice” traintrack sweep.
  • Swift-tongued Steve Pleich on his resumed Homeless Persons Legal Assistance project

The Flashback to June 1, 2017 includes:

  • Massive police pressure against Freedom Sleepout #99 with new green restrictions discouraging public assembly
  •  “Dangerous” John Thielking on the activist history of “Bashful” Bernard Klitzner who recently died.
  • “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson’s more extensive herstory  of Klitzner in the Koffee Klatch TagTeam  Koffee Klatch
  • Bella, one of Bernard’s intimates and partners, has a memorial.
  • Red Church roundtable:  Sexton Steve the bouncer; Julie Shaul of RV Fulltimers; Sonny, Cooper, & Co Late Night Singers; Cassidy, Devon Pierce
  • Pleich considers a challenge to City Mangler Martin Bernal’s new “no sitting, no lying” rules around City Hall

The 5-21-26 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show is a flashback to May 28, 2017 featuring the longest ever interview with the unsinkable Sherry Sheree and the Survival Sleepers between Freedom Sleepout 98 and 99, plus a long curated court Sleeping Ban

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The May 21, 2026 show is a Flashback to May 28, 2017. 

It includes

  • Sherry Sheree on her troubled night of a Survival Sleeper at City Hall
  • Kyle Henderson trollbusted near Mission St. McDonalds; cops use “anti-lodging” law against outdoor sleepers
  • Chief, Professor Hi Speed, “Backstory” Brent Adams, and other voices at Sleepground Zero at City Hall
  • Critiqueing the “Coffeetalk” fluff-and-chat at the library with Anonymous, Mary Jane, & Shelterstall at City Council
  • Court Trial of one of the 1990 Post Office Homeless tabler  “Shoeless” Joe Parker with people’s attorney Ray Glock-Grueneich
  • [5-27-17] Katzenjammer Keith McHenry on the Crackdown at City Hall’s Survival Speakers –100th Freedom SleepOut coming up
  • Jeffrey’s account of the 17 Survival Sleepers the Night Before City Council’s Meeting and Freedom Sleepout #98
  • Sherry preps for City Council testimony, exposes the myth of public bathroom closure “because of homeless vandalism”.
  • Ismail and Nasura on Islamaphobia, Katzenjammer chuckles at selective enforcement of forbidden sitting on low-lying City Hall wall
  • Kyle Henderson’s violent encounter on Mission St.;
  • Jeffrey and Stanford’s wake up chat at the library after nighttime tumult
  • Billy Lowry on City’s seizure of homeless clothes, ignoring “private property” labels

The 5-17-26 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show features a lengthy Coral St. sweep report and a full Flashback to 3-19-17 with Carol Denney, Abbi Samuels, Keith McHenry, Wes White, Mike Zint, Brent Adams, & the Freedom Sleepers

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The May 17, 2026 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:

The March 19, 2017 Flashback show includes:

  • [throughout]  Musical broadsides by Ryan Harvey
  • Activist Abbi Samuels with residents from the Survival Sleepers and Freedom Sleepout #88
  • “Cornerstone” Carol Denney on the Poverty Tour campsite that kept reappearing in Berkeley
  •  Police shooting in Antioch; the Romero shooting in Vallejo
  • Salinas crackdown on the Chinatown encampment
  • Freedom Sleepout#89 and the start of the nightly Survival Sleepers
  • Street Spirit  newspaper distributor J.C. Orton on the Berkeley Shelter situation
  • Berkeley imitates San Francisco’s phony sidewalk-to-sidewalk Navigation Center as a cover for removing encampments without housing
  • First They Came for the Homeless Michael Zint, Michael Lee, and others
  • Right to Dream Encampment activist history in Portland, OR
  • Brent Adams Santa Cruz report
  • Dreamcatcher on the trail of his Ranger-swiped bedding

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 5-14-26 Show is a Flashback to August 2, 2001 with Street Newspaper interviews and August 16, 2001 perspectives on Camp Paradise from Richard P., Shelly, Dirtclod, and others

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The Flashback to August 2, 2001 included:

  • Interviews with North American Street Newspaper Organizations (NASNA) in San Francisco
  • Correcting the San Francisco Chronicle’s  anti-homeless stereotypes: Interviews with the NASNA  protesters
  • “Dangerous” John Thielking’s report on the latest “Free Mumia Abu Jamal” protest
  • “Justman’ Jim Cosner in Elmwood Jail
  • Gordon from the Tucson Union of the Homeless
  • Ken Moshesh’s successful struggle in Berkeley according to Poor magazine
  • Jaywalker Jubee in Santa Cruz tale of police justice

The Flashback to August 16, 2001 (partial) included:

  • Street Roots writer and street activist Bryan discusses Dignity Village, a homeless-run encampment which became a permanent feature of Portland, OR
  • Shelly and Richard Posner, new arrivals to Santa Cruz’s Camp Paradise [CP], Larry Templeton’s camp under the Hiway 1 bridge on the San Lorenzo river
  • Single mom Michelle, SC City Council gadfly Michael Tomasi, and other Santa Cruz locals sound off.
  • Ben, John, Dirtclod, and other CP residents with brief stories
  • Glen Mowrer, former head of the Santa Barbara Public Defenders office, with a history of defending people sleeping in vehicles.
  • “Jesus Loves You” traveling kitchen Gina on their multi-vehicle DIY service providing actual rather than paper assistance and community to street residents

Meetings coming up: 

Sun May 17th  10-12 PM  People’s Aid : Solidarity & Services for those outside Green Gate Golf Club Drive.       

noon-3 PM  Soupstock:  San Lorenzo Park Food Not Bombs celebration

Wed May 20th  3:30 PM  Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless  returns at the Little Red Church (Cavalry Episcopal at Lincoln and Cedar) in the Fireside [side] room                             

6 PM     Restoring Homeless Civil Rights and Services in Santa Cruz—-Questioning the local Candidates also at the Little Red Church.

Thursday May 21st 1:30 -3:30 PM HUFF meets at 703 Pacific (Sub Rosa Cafe) as usual.

The 5-10-26 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show has two Flashback shows to December 31, 2000 and January 4, 2001 as well as clips from the police riot on Jan 1, 1994

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The Flashback to December 31, 2000 includes;

  •  History of Santa Cruz’s First Night on New Year’s Eve: Adrienne Boles eye-witness to 1994’s 1-1-94 police riot
  • [at various points]  On the Edge: Selections from Ewan McColl, Peggy Seeger, and Charles Roberts Radio Ballots
  • “Battling” Bob Lamonica on an impotent S.C. ACLU
  • Street Interviews with survivors of the January 1, 1994 New Year’s Eve: Lisa Gillespie, Darren W. Crow, Dave “Won Ton” Jacobs, “Red top” Robert Flory,  Victoria de la Torrey at the “SleepCrime in Progress” Vigil
  • Conflicting reports of the Pacific Ave. riot and its aftermath
  • “Shelter beds stay empty as  Homeless resist confinement” (L.A. Times  Dec. 27,1993)

The Flashback to January 4, 2001 includes:

  • Report from Steve of San Rafael near the Ritter House
  • Dallas homeless newspaper (“Endless Choices”) vendors work day
  • “Scope it Out” Scott Graham on Mercy Housing/City Council resident eviction and Fitzmaurice’s KoffeeKlatch Injunction
  • “Taken from the Streets: Freezing Weather Prompts City to Remove Homeless” in NYC
  • Harassment of Street Paper Vendors in Santa Cruz—a Lookback
  • Accomplishments in Santa Cruz based on Homeless Activism
  • Graham In-Studio; Silva on lines from Elected Forum

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 5-7-26 Show is a Flashback to April 8, 2001 with elder activist Ed Davidson, rent controlster Bob Lamonica, Attorney Ed Frey, exposing Mercy Housing and City Council capers

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The Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 5-7-26 show is a Flashback to April 8, 2001.  It includes:

  • “Battling” Bob Lamonica on Rent Control, his upcoming S.C. Hempo expo, and the fate of Hemp nationwide
  • Former Planning Director and Housing Advocate  Ed Davidson on City’s buying 211 Gault St. for Mercy Housing Corp [MHC]-run Senior Housing  and the MHC-run Rex/Dolphin/Lee
  • Attorney “eggbeater” Ed Frey defending Tenants demanding relocation funding in a Mercy Housing  Mackintosh Mobile Home Project
  • Tucson Street Newspaper Hawker banned from Medians
  • Subpoena for Mayor Tim Fitzmaurice in the Koffee Klatch TagTeam Teach In—Attorney Catnip Kate Wells’ brief