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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

The 5-3-26 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show features Alicia Kuhl on Govt.-backed Poverty-Pimp Profiteering; and a packed Flashback to January 28, 2001 Lighthouse Linda, Battling Bob, poet Julia, Katherine Rhodes, Bathrobespierre on KSCO, and more

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The May 3, 2026 edition of Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides includes:

  • Union of the Homeless activist Alicia Kuhl critiques Funding Matters (aka Housing Matters) and other poverty-pimping non-profits notorious for  service cutoffs, jail-like conditions, funding waste, and broken promises, as exemplified by the Live Oak Landing “housing”.
  • [5-2]  Anthony on Freedom encampment of 25 along Coralitos Creek in Watsonville slated for demolition May 18th  after two years there;
  • Stressed-but-standing Sammy Battle on dealing with an OD
  • Foodmeister Drew on the highs and lows of recent Food Not Bombs events
  • Honest Abe on Housing Matters hokum

    The Flashback show to January 28, 2001 includes:

  • More betrayal from the “Progressive” Majority elected in 2000
  • “Battling” Bob Lamonica discusses Rent Control in San Jose
  • Julia Vinograd’s latest from Blues for All of US.
  • Update on the Koffee Klatch 3: Banishment from all City Council buildings
  • Judge Akao Ignores the  Slapsuit
  • Applications for the Cops RahRah Board (the so-called ”Crazy Citizens Police Review Board”)
  • Rhode Island’s Katherine Rose on Police Violence at the L.A. Democratic Party’s 2000 Fixed Convention
  • Dignityville—L.A. Tent City—getting assaulted for petitioning
  • Santa Cruz City Council abuses under Emperor Tim Fitzmaurice
  • KSCO’s Steve Hartman interviews Bathrobespierre  on the Koffee Klatch

Bathrobespierre’s Broadside’ s 4-30-26 Show is a Flashback to February 8, 2001 with attorneys “Bedrock” Beauvais and “Catnip” Kate defending the Koffee Klatch 3–attacked by then-Mayor Tim Fitzmaurice for insistent lobbying for winter shelter plus more!

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Bathrobespierre’s Broadside’ s 4-30-26 Show is a Flashback to February 8, 2001 with attorneys “Bedrock” Beauvais and “Catnip” Kate defending the Koffee Klatch 3–attacked by then-Mayor Tim Fitzmaurice for insistent lobbying for winter shelter plus …

The April 30, 2026 show is a partial Flashback to February 8, 2001. 

It includes:

  • Audio from Koffee Klatch 3 in Kourt in a Slapsuit against Mayor Tim Fitzmaurice (aka Emperor Fitz)’s attack on homeless lobbyists
  • Scope it Out Scott, Beggarbacker Becky, comment on the lawsuit.
  • Robbie reports unkind cop behavior against him and his RV
  • Rough-tongued Roxanne on increased homelessness via CPS “helpfulness”
  • Bathrobespierre attempts to speak Spanish

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 4-26-26 Show has a HUFF chat on the Coral Street copsweep; Elizabeth & Ruby on Outreach; Councilwatcher “Scope it Out” Scott ; Gibbs in Scotts Valley; +a 2-15-01 Flashback w/ Bob Lamonica, Rose Tafoya, & Skidmark Bob

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The May 26, 2026 show includes:

  • [4-23-26] The 4-23 HUFF meeting which Tipster Thomas begins by  reporting on the aftermath of today’s police sweep of the Coral St. survival encampment.
  • Troy on the Memorial Get Together of Victims and Relatives of Victims
  • [ throughout]   Ai Tsuno and David Rovics commentary & music from “Before World War III” 
  • Elizabeth and Ruby on Coral St. canvassing the survival camp residents
  • “Scope It Out” Scott Graham on “Community Not Cages” protest in Northern California and homeless resistance in Eureka/Arcata
  • Graham deconstructs the upcoming Santa Cruz City Council meeting
  • [4-24-26]   Gibbs’ Scott Valley report on a “legal” camping area here.

  The February 15, 2001 Flashback includes:

  • “Battling” Bob Lamonica on Rent Control struggle in San Jose
  • Rose Tafoya, whose daughter a year before was police-assaulted at night in the Beach Flats
  • Silencing Silva with a Psychiatric Arrest in the summer of 2000—a discussion
  • Bathrobespierre on the S.C. City Council’s intolerance of dissent at its meetings
  • Skidmark Bob on Vice-Chief Clark’s thuggish police behavior