The August 24, 2025 show includes:

• Audio for Western Region Advocacy Project (WRAP)’s 20th Anniversary birthday celebration with Paul Boden, Monica–Disability Rights Advocate, Philippine activist Kersten, Poor Magazine Poets, L.A.s General Doegun, Adam of LACAN, all in video at   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60HWb2mOdlw&t=239s
• [Throughout] recent stark musical cries against U.S./Israeli genocide by singer David Rovics from his recent additions at https://drovics.podbean.com/e/songs-for-gaza/
• “Whip Back the Wicked” Wes White’s California Homeless Union update prioritizing 8-25 Pajaro Camp Demolition
• “Katzenjammer” Keith on his recent arrest at the Parking Garage groundbreaking 8-20
• Making Contact addenda: “Cleaner” War with Drones
• “Free the Land” show with a Peace Camp 2010 Flashback

The Flashback to September 2, 2012 includes:

• Pastor Steve de DeFields Gambrel Circle Church update
• Dialogue with Fresno-based Mathew Embri
• 8-2 Surfer David, Mel Nunez, James, Santo—street interviews
• 8-3 SC11 Protest March with Bi-Polar Bear (aka Dreamcatcher), Jack Cole
• 80’s Mime Troupe songs from Fact Wino v. Armageddon Man
• “Ground Zero” Gary, “Lighthouse” Linda, and Norse on their upcoming trials  
• Menace of the City’s P&R “Access and Use” Chapter (MC 13.04)
• Skidmark Bob from Copwatch and Free Radio to P&R employee
• Occupy Roxanne of the Food Justice Coalition

The August 21, 2025 show is a Flashback to August 21, 2012. 

It includes:

• [throughout] Jen Walker’s political music from “Broken Down”]
• “Backstory” Brent Adams—his video journal you-tube posting “What Are You Doing Here?”—Inside Occupy Santa Cruz:  https://www.youtube.com/watchv=8iyK7Nx1Wtc&t=34s
• [8-19] Jen Walker and Tom Hintze, hosted at Attorney and House-arrested Ed Frey’s place on a city-to-city tour with legal & jail training against police repression of Occupy.
• Bathrobespierre and Brent recall details of the final repression of the Benchlands
• Questions and reports from the Frey Forum by many voices.
• Lighthouse Linda on ways to break down institutional police walls
• CAO Susan Muriello’s Courthouse curfew and Downtown Ordinance talk.
• Jen and Tom report on their visits to Occupy’s across the country.
• Making Contact: Can Law Enforcement Unions Change?

The August 17, 2025 show includes 

• Furious Facebook posting:  Alicia Kuhl outraged irony; Tyler, Sonya, and Wes chime in.
• [throughout] David Rovics’ enraged response to the U.S. armed Gaza slaughter
• Alternate media on Trump’s planned D.C. raids against the vulnerable homeless
• 2 Logans and Shawn interviews in the aftermath of today’s earlier Coral Street sweeps
• [8-9 & 8-16]  Dedicated Drew on the weekend Food Not Bombs 3-hour meal
• Sean reports on this year’s Rainbow Gathering
• Lighthouse Linda Lemaster on elder life and discrimination in the S.C. outskirts
• HUFFster Athena reports on “at least the 5^th[successive] weekly Coral St. sweep” in front of the Housing Matters [aka “Funding Matters”] poverty-industrial complex.
• Frequently seized “Danger” describes the SCPD routine.

The Flashback to March 5, 2017 includes: 

• Entrapment, abuse, and criminalization: Council-Cop collaboration
• Rent stabilization in Santa Cruz?
• Freedom Sleep Out #86: adjacent Council meeting on SCPD cop Bradley’s Arlt shooting back in October; cops withholding Officer’s Report and D.A. investigation; Viper on City tent theft
• S.F.’s Jan Chan story—audio of video exchange
• [2-26] Candlelight Kim’s eviction from the Homeless [Lack of] Services Center for a bite of bread; Bob Lamonica, Keith M., and a homeless library patron “suspended” for making faces at a computer screen.
• More on the Sean Arlt killing and Chief Vogel’s apologia for ICE agent in the SCPD
• Interview with Councilmember Chris Krohn

The August 14, 2025 show is a Flashback August 28, 2025 which includes:

• In-studio guest Brent Adams, Warming Center founder,  critical of “alienating” activist tactics, 
• [throughout] songs by radical political songster Ryan Harvey
• Brent on Phil Kramer and the 180-180 Program
• Point-in-Time count talk; Joey killing; and new Pacific Ave. ordinance.
• Brent on Past Protest Camps
• Flashback to Sept. 2002—Becky Johnson’s 8-19 arrest for political chalk
• John Malkin’s show on 12-13-14, Natl Day of Protest Against Police Violence

The August 10, 2025 show includes:

• Retired but relevant Barbara Riverwomon on the herstory of El Rio Mobile Home park as owned by the residents, unlike the Clear Court and De Anza where rent control was sold out by the City under corporate pressure.
• Memorial memories of Freedom Sleeperand homeless activist Phil Posner who died in May—his life described by his sons including one-time City Council member Micah Posner.
• [throughout] Many a song against the Gaza genocide by David Rovics
• Town Clock Tattle: [8-3] Scott on the police excuses used to seize his four vehicles. [8-2] Cooper’s report on her latest Pogonip garden; Dreadeye’s update and blessings.
• Athena’s outspoken updates on court cases, the pisspoor Point in Time homeless count, and the 216 countering-harassment call-in number.
• “How Did I Know?” by Katzenjammer Keith McHenry

The Flashback to January 30, 2016 includes:

• Dialogue with a Free Radio Broadcaster, who’s also a member of WAMMM (Women and Men’s Medical Marijuana collective) on WAMMM as ordained monopoly provider.
• Discussion of the County’s anti-homeless Camping restrictions with vehicular resident Ed Howes.
• Bathrobespierre describes and savages City Council’s beheading and dissolution of the Citizen’s Police Review Board which had begun serious questioning of SCPD policies.
• Mark Halfmoon, chair of the former CPRB describes slanted SCPD reports, dysfunction on the CPRB, blockage of complainant input, failure of the “backroom” auditor model.
• Halfmoon on the unconscious institutional racist factor in Santa Cruz City Council; he proposes a voter-enacted police review process.
• Battlin’ Bob Lamonica agrees police power needs to be seriously overseen.

The August 7, 2025 show is a Flashback to January 30, 2003 via January 7, 2016.

It includes:

• Dialogue with Free Radio Broadcaster Tony, also a member of WAMMM (Women and Men’s Medical Marijuana collective) on WAMMM as monopoly provider
• Discussion of the County’s Camping restrictions with vehicular resident Ed Howes.
• Bathrobespierre describes and savages City Council’s beheading and dissolution of the Citizens Police Review Board [CPRB].
• Mark Halfmoon, chair of the former CPRB, on slanted SCPD reports, dysfunction on the CPRB, blockage of complainant input, failure of the auditor model as not transparent.
• Halfmoon on the unconscious institutional racist factor in Santa Cruz City Council  and a voter-enacted police review
• “Battlin’” Bob Lamonica agrees police power needs to be checked.

The August 3, 2025 show includes:

• [at various points throughout] Lesser known tunes by Tart-and-Toxic Tom Lehrer
• Dormant Santa Cruz Homeless Union activist on her shelter assistance experience
• S.J. Mercury News:  “Millbrae, city with 22 homeless residents, bans encampments“
• “Redwood City Prohibits Camping; Council Okays Law That Levels Misdemeanor charges after two written charges to leave”
• HUFF [7-31]Advocates Athena, Troy and others on the S.C. Coral street sweeps
• “Backstory” Brent Adams gives a Felker St. report,  his new Art & Rebellion group, and the City’s progress in homeless shelter/housing

The Flashback to November 29, 2015 includes:

• Bathrobespierre’s critical City Council’s passage of Richelle Noroyan’s attack on RV residents; continuing harassment of his recording Council meetings
• Voices from and description at Freedom Sleepout #20 

Year-delayed Dashcam Video showed the Chicago 16-shot Murder of Laquan McDonald –Santa Cruz Racist Parallels

Outrage at Security Guard escalation and harassment; Police replace guards in rain, steal Artist Michael’s property.

The July 31, 2025 show is a Flashback to September 20, 2015. 

It includes:

• Last of the live in-studio FRSC broadcasts
• Charles and Andrea Wilson from Monterey Protests against the Alvarado Sitting Band
• Bathrobespierre discussing events at Freedom SleepOut #10—the security guard assault and police arrest of Christina Barnes, Brent’s disruption, and more.
• Battlin’ Bob Lamonica on the Posner-Lane Proposed Homeless Camping Site Search and the History of FRSC, the anti-RV situation.
• Dangerous John Thielking on Eugene City Council—Speak out on overturning Camping Ban, phony decorum issues (the Clapping & Sign Ban), Smoking Ban
• Flashback to October 1988, a panel discussion between Ed Porter, Ray Grueneich, Jane Baer,and Charles Grey on the Camping Ban
• Freedom SleepOut #10: Security Guards and Police Assemble, Bathrobespierre comments
• Freedom Sleeper General Assembly
• Backtalk Brent Adams’ Suggestions on Effective Protest—Pro and Con; Bathrobespierre, Rabbi Phil, Steve Argue, Zav, Louise,
• Making Contact: the Prison Journey of Kevin Tindell

The July 27, 2025 show (the current segment) includes:

• [at odd intervals throughout] David Rovics https://www.davidrovics.com/palestine/ “One Year On: The Apocalypse in Review” Episode 3
• Bathrobespierre reads and comments on mainstream stories:

    ++ Dan Walters: “Governor  [Newsom] Bullies the Cities and Counties Like Trump Does the States”                        

++ ACLU notes a court decision challenges police use of “Qualified Immunity”           

++ Trump’s Executive Edict “Ending Crime and Disorder on American Streets”                        

++ “Courts, Cops in Deadly Chase: Cops Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity”;  “The Controversy Over Qualified Immunity”           

++  San Jose’s Columbus Park: Homeless Dig-In to Protect  Community.

• Community Activist Micah Posner’s Memorial Tribute to his father Phil Posner, former Freedom Rider and strong voice in the Freedom Sleepers (actual memorial August 3
• [7-20] Brimstone Man’s optimistic report at the Town Clock; Cooper on her new outlaw garden; Survival Supporter “Dinners for All” Drew’s call for blankets & tents
• [7-27] Drew on Lengthening food lines and increased criminalizations of those outside; Lyrical I on shrinking gig opportunities
•  Summary of the 10-19-03 Flashback upcoming.

The Flashback to October 19, 2003 includes: [low volume]

• Rough-Tongued Roxanne Acquistepache updates the struggle of Orly and Stacy Jones to retrieve their children from Foster Parent abuse
• “Battling”Bob Lamonica details the De Anza Mobile Home Park rent control struggle and the upcoming referendum to stop the City Council’s sell-out
• “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson analyzes MHC (the Mobile Home giant) and its attack on De Anza
• Bathrobespierre Robert conveys attorney Will Constantine’s critical view of the City’s rent control abolition.
• Rainbow Madonna’s Petition to legalize survival camping throughout California & Tony Kennedy Carr from San Diego
• Peace Activist and Musician Joe Williams critiques the City’s destruction of the voluntary street performers guidelines in the modified downtown ordinances
• “Battleready” Bob Patton reports on his Human Rights Organization, report on a Pacific Ave. fight; other voices at Soquel and Pacific.

The July 24 show is a Flashback to October 26, 2003 which includes:

• Co-host Rough Tongued Roxanne Acquistepache with Michael Stoops of the National Coalition for the Homeless of stigmatizing unhoused folks as criminals.
• Bathrobespierre plays Councilmember and Shadow Mayor Mike Rotkin in a mock dialogue with Stoops and Roxanne throughout the show.
• Norse’s unanswered questions for Rotkin on peacefully holding up a sign, police misconduct, the “move along” law, and other downtown ordinances.
• Roxanne on CPS problems, the need for stronger Grand Jury surveillance.
• Dora on her unfair arrest after domestic abuse—Roxanne & Bathrobespierre respond
• Callers respond to Pat Kittle’s rage at Homeless survival — trashy camping in the Pogonip; many callers react to the scapegoating including Bashful Bernard, Far Away Fuller, and others.
• Vinnie the V Man challenges the point of Bathrobespierre’s homeless; old Lady Scararms responds.
• Callers defend homeless folks including Clatterbox Embri
• “Scope It Out” Scott on Dora’s situation