The October 12, 2025 show features:

• [throughout]  Songs by Jesse Welles
• [10-9] Ezekiel on 10-8 raid on Coral St. clearing away 40-50 people, returning in the night to hassle.
• [10-9] Sara Huss reports on the effect of the 10-8 raid on the Coral homeless community.
• Staff subterfuge and public comment on 10-7 Vehicle Tow-or-Destroy giving deputies increased powers at Board of Stupes
• [10-6] Berkeley groundsleepers Drayeko & Zubear at 8th and Harrison: on history of BPD violence & theft
• [10-6] Vehicularly housed since 2017, protected by DIY lawsuit, Yessica Prada on herstory of past and current struggle and police malpractice.
• David and Reggie of City on a Hill Press at the Free Palestine protest at Mission Park
•  [10-18] Saheel, Laura, and Gus against the Gaza genocide at Ocean and Water St.
• Hillbilly Jim at HUFF giving an update on his Cabrillo college exclusion
• Silver-tongued Steve Pleichz’ tidbits about MHCAN reopening prospects, the Stupervipers RV s scam, + more

The Flashback to August 19, 1999.  It includes:

• 1st Alarm Security Thugs vs. Jerry Henry at Rancho Del Mar Shopping Center—Background & Interview
• Ballad of “Happy John Dine” shot dead by SCPD Officer Conor Carey
• Bathrobespierre on the new City-Council created Homeless Issues Task Force [HITF], and Rose’s Citizen’s Police Review Board.
• Scotts Valley local game store owner on youth complaints re: Scotts Valley PD
• HITF brainstorming, when it admitted actual homeless testimony.
• “Why Our Children Kill: The Stealth Militarization of Society” by Tom Sanders in the Anderson Valley Advertiser
• [10-19] Louis Faircheck, black guy in court had to plead guilty to get out of jail before Judge Heather Morse

The October 9, 2025 show is a Flashback to April 6, 2003. 

It includes:

• Peace Activist and Walter Millison guest-hosts the show and
• Beggarbacker Becky and Bathrobespierre Robert on Council clampdown, and City Council member “Two-Minute” Mathews” City-Wide Permit Parking Scheme
• Matty Fitzgerald on Freedom for the Flowering Fence at the Town Clock
• Walter recounts his time at the latest Sleeping Ban vigil.
• Iraqi war exchange of views with “Battlin’ Bob Lamonica”

The October 5, 2025 show includes:

• https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/san-francisco-rv-parking-ban-20826641.php San Francisco is about to outlaw my survival with its ban on RV parking by Mike Little
• https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/cesear-chavez-encampment-clear-newsom-21051443.php S.F. encampment cleared under infamous ‘hairball’ highway tangle
• [throughout the show] Songs by Jesse Wells
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4QuCN-Xq7A Interfaith and Community Leaders Call for U.S.-Palestine Policy Changes in Monterey & Salinas, CA
• https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-droned-flotilla-activists Israel Droned Flotilla Activists & Then Abused Greta Thunberg

The Flashback to March 14, 1999 includes:

• “Dirt-sifter” Doug McGrath on SCPD’s failure to respond to multiple calls to report a homeless beating.
• Bathrobespierre’s critique of new “Progressives” Krohn and Sugar failures on promised Sleeping Ban reform
• Silva on “Progressive” Coalition and the Chamber of Commerce analysis
• “Bashful” Bernard Klitzner on strategic analysis, different Sleeping Ban strategies than electoral; Silva advises ”chill out!”
• SF Coalition on Homelessness “Broken Hearts” Valentines Day Protest: March to the Supervisors & Open Mike
• SF Food Not Bombs activist Christopher Crass and attorney Kim on the Biotic Baking Brigade for pieing the powerful.
• SF Guardian story on Kim Malechsky, attorney for “Cherry Pie Three”, defendant Justin Gross

The October 2, 2025 show is a Flashback to January 7, 1999. 

It includes:

• Former Armory manager and outraged HUFF activist James Nay on his false firing and donation sifting by 115 Coral St. employees.
• “Fidget” inventor Chaz describes being thrown out of Mercury-News reporter Lee Quarnstrom’s office and reviewed his assault case against Boardwalk security thugs.
• Merlin reports on more Boardwalk bullying and abuse on public property.
• Silva & Norse have conflicting views of the new Council’s “public” process.
• “Bashful” Bernard’s struggles for input to the Task Force to Examine the Camping Ordinance.
• “Rough-Tongued” Roxanne refocuses on the emergency Winter Shelter crisis.
• Uncle Dennis introduces “Earth First” show…

The September 28,2025 show includes:

• [throughout]  More Rovics songs celebrating resistance to the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
• https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/09/04/berkeley-homeless-union-wins-new-restraining-order-delaying-encampment-closure-at-eighth-and-harrison/
• https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2025/09/15/community/berkeley-harrison-homeless-camp-update-eighth-street-ruling/
• https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2025/06/10/community/berkeley-cant-close-harrison-homeless-camp-yet-judge-says/
• https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2025/06/05/community/judge-orders-berkeley-stop-harrison-homeless-encampment-cleanup/
• https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homeless-union-members-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-encampment-eviction/
• https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/03/vallejo-injunction/
• https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/08/06/two-vallejo-lawsuits-test-legal-protections-for-unhoused-residents-post-grants-pass/
• State of the Shitty City info bits from Silver-Tongued Steve Pleich: No legal recourse for “closed area” Stay-Away process? Threat of “abandoned vehicle” citations?  

The Flashback to December 20, 1998 includes [some musical distortion removed]: 

• Bathrobespierre [BP], “Lighthouse” Linda, “Tufluv” Tucker on fears of FCC shutdown of FRSC & the new Council’s twists to keep the Sleeping Ban & ignore winter shelter needs.
• “Bashful” Bernard on “Don’t Sleep Tonite” Night; “Catnip” Kate’s call to the outgoing City Council on winter shelter; “Crossroads” Chris on his police-stolen van.
• Bike ticketing Broadside at Lincoln & Pacific
• Donna Deiss of Tenants Rights Union (TRUSC) dealing with their own 3^rd eviction threat.
• Berkeley literature vendor John Vance: phony felony grass charges to expel street youth
• SCAN (Santa Cruz Action Network)’s failure on Sleeping Ban Repeal & ending cop abuse
• Pursuing the vehicular refugees: Kaska’s kids and Dennis Reim’s court case
• Voices and Vectors of Protest: Norse to the old Council, “Beggarbacker” on SF homeless dumping; Van’s $365 ticket; 12-27 threat to close down FRSC
• Exposing Mayor “Birdseed” Beiers in song and story: BP sings “Away on Vacation”
• Florida’s powerful Pottinger decision vs. Santa Cruz’s Xmas upsurge in tickets.

The September 25, 2025 is a Flashback to September 12, 2002. 

It includes:

• Street interviews on the first day of the intensified anti-homeless Downtown Ordinances with Surf Shop owner Christina
• “Hackeysack” (aka Timothy James South) says no to repeated targeted Obstructing the Sidewalk citations outside the Pacific Trading Company 
• “Excessive noise” cites for a Japanese flautist and Mu the piccolo player
• Voices of Joe Barker, Ed Frey, Michael Tomasi, & Pastor Mike
• Calling out cop harassment of street hemp jewelers
• Tale of Beggarbacker Becky Johnson and Tokin’ Tim Rinker for erasable sidewalk chalking directing people to a public meeting.

The September 21, 2025 show features:

• Civil Rights Attorney “Bedrock” David Beauvais heads for Argentina; Farewell Flurrie on Domestic Doomsdays
• Beauvais’s changing view of “Globalism” and open borders
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jewish-professors-urge-uc-regents-not-to-negotiate-with-trump/ar-AA1MCuO5 
• Beggarbacker Becky Johnson remembers her activist days with “Catnip” Kate Wells—dead recently at 79.
• BJ on Wells’ pioneering attempts around medical marijuana obstructed by the City.
• “Whip ’em into Shape” Wes White reports on the Santa Cruz Bernie Sanders boosters; videoing peekaboo politicians like Monterey County’s Supervisor Vallejo;   
• “Hurricane” Helga on the recent Coral street and the “Beyond the Green Gate”  homeless scene.

The Flashback to December 13, 1998 includes: [occasional sound distortion may require adjustment]

• Homeless guy says he & his friend companion John took away Happy John Dine’s gun on November 12, the day Dine was shot dead by police some time before that happened
• Hopeful chatter about upcoming informal meetings with Councilmembers after Councilman Sugar’s proposal to stop Sleeping Ban enforcement.
• V-Man’s account of Officer Baker’s “give me your name” harassment at City Council
• Phil Free & Bathrobespierre [BR] on “Catsclaw” Kitten Reynolds checkered herstory.
• BJ’s Analysis of Darrell Cole’s article in the SC Sentinel on the Sleeping Ban debate.
• Lighthouse Linda on “uncurable” warrants from the 1996 City Hall Sleepers Protest
• Copwatcher Bob Duran’s on the 12-12 Free Mumia! march.
• “Dead on” David Silva on police harassment of needle exchange & the “common ground” issue of accessible restrooms.
• Lamplight Lucy Kemnitzer  on exploding the anti-homeless myths.

The September 18, 2025 show is a Flashback to November 25, 2012. 

It includes:

• In-studio guest/hosts Red of the Road and “Cry of the Dawn” Red have a merry exchange with Crow on an incident near the Main Bench; Red’s autobiographical account of her homeless struggle with cancer
• [throughout at various points] Next to Normal–the musical
• “Scope it Out” Scott at on newly elected Micah Posner, the De Sal hoax, and the Housing First/Smart Solutions diversion from real support for those outside.
• Pacific Ave. Interviews: guitarist Ricardo Lopez, portraitist Santiago; anonymous visitor from Santa Monica; Yoyo 3-days in jail plus sock theft for charges dropped; 
• https://www.police1.com/legal/articles/mich-man-accused-of-murder-at-14-to-get-11m-ugho8P9f70U376iF/  and more
• Oakland Police Department facing federal takeover, with support by other cop bureaus

The September 14, 2025 show includes:

• [8-3-25] David “Bedrock” Beauvais on “Qualified Immunity” as a defense for police officers and bureaucrats
• [throughout]  More David Rovics singing out for justice in Gaza
• Beauvais on the Berkeley police harassment of People’s Park activist Cornerstone Carol Denney.
• Smooth-tongued Steve Pleich on MHCAN’s recent closure and attempted rebirth
• [9-13] Food Not Bombs [FNB] Steve Enriquez on Street Team Shutdown; Andre on FNB consensus work
• “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster on the MHCAN shutdown and its earlier herstory.

The Flashback to November 13, 1997 includes: 

• [11-10-97]  Witness & street reaction to cop Conor Carey’s shooting of Happy John Dine
• V-Man, David Silva, Bob Lamonica, Larry Redick & others—-different views of the killing.
• Morning after street interviews:  Jeanie, Colin, Phil F., Mad Mike the Wonder Dog, 
• Phil Free ticketed for wrong-way biking on Pacific.
• Account and interviews at the scene of the shooting: Norse, Johnson, Stacy from the roof of the New Leaf, 
• Theodora Kerry asking how to keep the investigation alive and real

The September 11, 2025 show is a Flashback to September 21, 1997. 

It includes:

• Ever-Abusive Eveleth Pursues Shitkicker Sean Alemi on Pacific
• Redtop Robert Flory’s Court Victory in pro-per Appeal of 24 Sleeping Ban cases
• Phony chalgilla “emergency at Eureka South Spit Jetty to run off homeless refugees—phone interview with Nancy D. of Eureka Love in Action
• Beggarbacker Becky Johnson in-studio guest on UCSC’s housing grab & rising support for the Initiative to End the Sleeping Ban
• Roughrider Richard Quigley on protecting kids against Sheriff Deverell’s attack in the Aptos Shopping Center
• Green Party Gadfly David Silva on recent SCPD attacks on David Harding & others
• Sidewalk Soothsayer Josh on Officers Seiley and LeFavor ticketing for Tarot Card reading.
• Santa Monica and Buena Park Alerts on Homeless Resistance