Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides May 8, 2025, show is a Flashback from April 9, 2000 featuring co-host James Nay, UCSC Melissa, Sleeping Ban Hunger Faster David Silva, Catnip Kate Wells, and more…

The May 8, 2025 show is a Flashback to April 9, 2000. 

It includes:

  • Co-Host James Nay joins Bathrobespierre Robert throughout
  • [4-5] Felton’s Happy Camper—adventures on street and shelter
  • Blake Smith and Rev. Snow—both from Sacramento’s SHOC.
  • Melissa Goldberg, UCSC student’s “Throwing the Homeless out of their Homes” paper
  • Dead-on David Silva on futile negotiations, Green Party’s vote to join CD against City Council’s Tuesday Sleeping Ban silence, and his own Fast to end the Ban.
  • Skidmark Bob’s “Skinheads with Underwear on Pacific Avenue” report
  • Attorney Catnip Kate Wells on medical marijuana reform proposals + her new (soon to be zoned away) medical marijuana club; updates local homeless court cases
  • Battling Bob L., Lighthouse Linda L., and “Lotta Law” Eleanor pack in updates.
  • Nay on his Chalking “End the Sleeping Ban’ on the sidewalk with erasable chalk.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides May 4, 2025 show features HUFF activists questioning People First Shelter Boss Evan Morrison + Flashbacks to December 7, 1997 and December 21, 1997

The May 4, 2025 show includes:

  • Discussion with People’s First Director Evan Morrison regarding Armory rules and outcomes with HUFFsters.
  • More musical history from David Rovics throughout
  • LawWatcher Laura C. lastest report from the Board of StuporVipers to fund MHCAN even at its reduced size.
  • Moments and Musings from the May 1st Rally and March 
  • San Jose Mayor Matt Mayhem Cracks Down on RV survival campers

The Flashback to December 7, 1997 includes:

  • Avery’s panhandling, leaning, and sitting on cardboard ticket
  • Bathrobespierre Previews 12-8 City Council, Updates the 11-12 SCPD Happy John Dine slaying, and Lang’s Levee Curfew
  • Callers sound off: Phil Free & V-Man give inside info and sharp criticism of law enforcers downtown
  • Pat Kittle outraged at those surviving outside demands Bathrobespierre denounce littering campers.
  • Beggarbacker Becky Johnson addresses the Magnet Effect and other hostile-to-the-homeless myths.
  • Chaz, aka “The Widget Man” & “Hapless Harry”, on a 7-cop cite

The Flashback to December 21, 1997 includes:

  • Tenant Tips from Marco Marconi of S.C. Tenant’s Union
  • Pamela Gardela’s “equal access” case after ticketed for sitting on a bus bench with a monthly bus pass.
  • “Happy” John Dine case Update and caustic commentary
  • Norse critic Mike Mason attacks his analysis of the “Happy John” killing on KSCO radio.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides May 1, 2025, show is a Flashback from February 14, 1999 featuring Skidmark Bob’s Terror Tales of Life with Officer Garner

The show has some sound problems and cuts off before it conclusion.

The May 1, 2025 show is a Flashback to parts of the February 14, 1999 show.  Parts of the sound are distorted.  The show includes:

  • Political machinations around City Council’s Task Force to Examine the Camping Ordinance [TFECO]  and the 2nd   Citizen Initiative to Eliminate the Sleeping Ban
  • Audio testimony from a recent February 1999hearing
  • Skidmark Bob vs. Officer Garner & Sgt. Sanderson for Trashcan Crime with threats of CPS child removal
  • Skidmark gives more accounts of GrimGrip Garner’s  Abusive Behavior & SCPD’s Disappearing Tickets
  • Rough-tongued Roxanne satirically critiques “sinister singing” downtown
  • KSCO’s Steve Hartman on the Camping Ban (cuts off abruptly)

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides April 27, 2025 show: is largely Flashbacks to 1997 with fragments from November 9th, 21st, & 23rd featuring the V-Man, Eugene’s Charles Grey & Eureka’s Eric Duff

The April 27,2025 is a series of Flashback segments.

The November 9, 1997 Flashback includes:

  • In-studio guest FRSC broadcaster Vinnie Lombardo (“the V-Man”)on police harassment for a FRSC table soliciting contributions
  • Bathrobespierre’s “Leaning” ticket and strategies for cop-resisting
  • Panhandling palaver
  • Pandabear Paul Brindel on Eric Schek opposes the Camping Ban
  • “Hapless Harry” aka Chaz on Court and Seaside Security thuggeries

The November 21, 1997 Flashback includes:

  •  Skidmark Bob’s 1st panhandling ticket in 6 years
  •  The Rotkin-Kennedy leadership’s stop Celia Scott from being Mayor
  •  Shadowside Sue’s report from Feed the People
  • Fred Geiger, Phil Baer, and many others on the Scott debate
  •  Charles Grey on Eugene’s Campaign for Legal Places to Sleep
  •  Reverend Eric Duff on 48 notice to strip Eugene’s South Spit Jetty

The November 23, 1997 Flashback includes:

  • Eddie Harris of the Sacramento Housing Alliance: Housing and Homeless Week
  • P. Free, D. Silva, B. Johnson, D. Dumars and J. Cosner speak at the Happy John memorial 
  • Bathrobespierre on the Citizens Police Review Board suborned by SCPD Chief Belcher

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides April 24, 2025, show is a Flashback from October 11, 1998

The April 24, 2025 show is a Flashback to October 11, 1998. 

These are recovered fragments of the show.  Some of the sound is distorted. 

  • Lloyd Lawrence’s bizarre vehicular “camping” ticket while using a catheter
  • 5 electoral candidates support ending the Sleeping Ban?  Could it be true?
  • Bits from the Jolly Roger Comedy Troupe–“Community Policing Hotline”
  • Cooperhouse Ground Breaking Interviews: Identifying issues and villains.
  • Proposed “Shopping for Justice” (at Gottschalks) in Jerry Henry exclusion-harassment case by Attorney “Catnip” Kate Wells—charges dropped 
  • Wells outlines Chaz the Fidget Man assaulted by Seaside security.
  • Wells on other local cases: Frank Pucelik, Wanda, and David Hardy; her search for Marijuana Buyers Club property; cop’s “right” to lie in court without liability
  • “Activists Overcome Banishment Decree in Isla Vista”  Oct 1998 Street Spirit
  • Anniversary of Happy John Dine’s murder and cover-up on Nov. 12, 1997
  • Latest Sleeping Ban Backroom Exchanges—David Silva’s report
  • Cooperhouse Groundbreaking—a Look Back
  • Berkeley Billy on Shelter Abuses at the Homeless Community Resource Center
  • Review of The Cellingan expose of the U.S. Prison Industry

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides April 20, 2025, show: Vehicular Help +Monterey’s Crackdown + Protest Reviews… A Flashback to June 14, 2015 with Cornerstone Carol Denney Exposing Bad Berkeley Laws

The April 20, 2025 show contains:

  • Cheap RV Living https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1TIzbXeM5I
  • [throughout] Rovics Musical History early 21st century
  • Monterey City Council’s anti-homeless vehicular sleeping ban
  • Brian Tyler Cohen interviews Glen Kirschner on pro-immigrant court ruling
  • [4-6] “Danger” on squatting, houseless, and trying to stay sober
  • “Zorro” (aka Miguel de Leon) “housing” separating him from girl friend
  • “Lafayette”‘s free suggestions to secure homeless property
  • A Berkeley law student views the anti-genocide protests from a distance
  • Pro-Israeli advocate Beggarbacker Becky Johnson concludes the 4-part argument.

The Flashback to June 14, 2015 includes:  

  • “Cornerstone” Carol Denney on Berkley’s new anti-homeless laws and trades comparative criticism with the Santa Cruz situation 
  • “Cornerstone” on Smoking impacts on the homeless; Tree slaughter in People’s Park; Challenging the anti-homeless merchant-funded Ambassadors; Black Lives Matter, Copwatch, and the BPD
  • Andy Carcello out at the Homeless [Lack of] Services Center [HLOSC],  to shutdown June 29th Page Smith Community House  and Paul Lee Loft
  • Steve Conover (“Boulder Creek Steve”) disputes HLOSC’s “volunteer” status.
  • Joseph Taylor 3rd on his “sitting” ticket
  • [6-8] Lazor-tongue Lee at the FNB Emergency breakfast at Hiway 1 & Hiway 9; “Backtalk” Brent denounces the activists; Lucero Luna HLOSC report; Steve, Jeff Patterson, Dennis Etler, Cooper D’Angelo, Donna Marie, David Trujillo.
  • “Unsheltered Lives Matter” by Steve Pleich  https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/06/14/18773486.php
  • “Push Back” Pat Colby & “Katzenjammer”  Keith McHenry on the Protest Breakfast
  • Red Church Monday [6-9] Saint X cop report; “No food outside/keep off the Grass” Scott Gallagher; attorney Ed Frey; Hutch; “homefree” Carol & Nick 
  •  Staff tries to betray the Comstock-Posner 24-hour bathrooms with 25K cut

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides April 17, 2025 is a Flashback to May 10, 2015 with extensive commentary and street interviews including Miranda of Salinas and a BLM Alicia Garza Interview

The April 17, 2025 show is a Flashback to May 10, 2015. 

It includes:

  • Miranda from Salinas’s Rainbow Speakers rejected by the SPD
  • Herstory of Mother’s Day and its anti-war origins
  • SCPD’s Ken Deeg’s pursuit of Santa Cruz’s 1st 24-hour parking ban; other police antics here and elsewhere.
  • Chatting with Stakeholders versus Calling Out Abusers
  • Callers Dangerous John T., Dead-On David Silva, and Doc Mike.  Kip’s Blocking the Sidewalk tickets—attack on homeless organizers?
  • LAPD Killing of Brandon Bren
  • More street newsbits from Sandra Leigh, Romanoff, & more
  • Voices against the 1st 24-hour “No Homeless” Parking Ban: Lilly Craft,
  • Kip on police crackdown 
  • Making Change: Black Lives Matter: Interview with Alicia Garza

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides April 13, 2025, show features Bits from the 4-10 HUFF huddle, Rovics a plenty, Trailerpark Talkback, & Zionist protestations+ A Flashback to February 8, 2004 with the Metroriders, Manteca, S.C Shitty Council & more!

The April 13, 2025 show includes:

  • The first 15 minutes of the 4-10 HUFF meeting
  • David Rovics’ Musical History from the early 21st century throughout the archive
  • 4-5: Green Party Gubernatorial candidate and History Prof Butch Ware on Green Party platforms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj5nvw9Do8E (video by Wes White)
  • HUFF meeting reviews the anti-Trump protests
  • HUFF activist & Capitola mobile homester Gaia on organizing the tenants—the latest
  • Bathrobespierre questions Israeli government supporter Becky Johnson (Part 3)

The Flashback to February 8, 2004 includes:

  • Paul Mercelin Sampson of the Metro Riders Union criticizes the Metro Board’s priorities
  • Manteca’s David Brown on numerous progressive struggles there
  • Kucinch or Sharpton as anti-war but also anti-homeless?
  • Green Press editor Ed Oberholser
  • “Social Cleansing in Santa Cruz” by Scott Rhodes
  • Council OKs destruction of police records
  • Beggarbacker Becky on the Dolphin-Lee Nueva Vista project’s cost
  • Swimming against the City Council tide: analysis and documentation

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides April 10, 2025 is a Flashback to January 31, 2019 when the Independent Homeless Ross Camp was in Flower with tenant activist Cynthia Berger and Homeless Union Prez Alicia Kuhl

The April 10, 2025 show is a Flashback to January 31, 2019. 

It includes:

  • Poor People’s Campaign features Tenant Activists “Rough Road” Rick, & Cynthia Berger. 
  • Red Church Renegades Sound Off: Patrick Travis, Joyful Heart, Todd J., Steve C.   
  • Ross Camp Report with “All Speed Ahead” Alica, Bathrobespierre Robert, Ernest Rosenthal, Puddentain, and the Regulator
  • https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/22/18820615.php  Police-Led MLK Day March, Lots of Smiles, Little Substance—many flyers on view

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides April 6, 2025, show features recent police abuse articles, more Becky vs. Bathrobespierre on the Gaza Genocide, interspersed with David Rovics+ Flashbacks to January 18 and 22, 2004 on resistance & crackdown at City Council

The April 6, 2025 show includes a portion of a Flashback to January 18, 2004: 

  • Mathew Embray, Doug McGrath, Marilyn Weaver, and Bathrobespierre on the values of positively disruptive civil disobedience at City Council after Mayor Kennedy made an arrest.
  • [January 2004] Interviews with street folk: Barry, Chris, Mu & more
  • “Scope it Out” Scott on Fighting Back Against Kennedy & Rotkin
  • A Guitarron player’s account; Jason Pasqual’s latest citation; the Return of Mr. Freeze. 

The Flashback to January 22, 2004 includes:

  • Adrienne on diagnosing and treating Yuppie Personality Deficit
  • Nutcracker Nick on “A Jiggle, A Juggle” his new street play
  • Bradley of the Santa Cruz Indymedia on videoing recent events
  • Audio of Mayor arresting Norse on January 13th and discussion with Beggarbacker Becky Johnson and another visiting leftist witness