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Sunday October 15, 2017 9:30 AM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides– Updates on the Destruction of the Post Office Encampment and Flashing Back to February 2, 1999–John Malkin on the SCPD, Ed Frey on D.A. Corruption, & Smothering Sleeping Ban Reform

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Updates on the Lapis Road struggle in Monterey from activist Wes White;  Abbi Samuels and Ricardo Lopez on the Deportation of the Homeless at the Main Post Office, speakers at the MHAN speakout, the death of Frank Lopez, and more…

And a flashback 18 years ago when the struggle against the Sleeping Ban was raging strongly.

The original flashback show can also be heard then click on February 2, 1999 (Parts 1-4) at http://huffsantacruz.org/archive99

Contact 575-770-3377 to volunteer different kinds of support for the Survival Sleepers now dispersed to the Post Office and repeatedly warned they will be forced to dispersed without a legal spot to go to.  Join Food Not Bombs locally.  They are organizing support actions for those whose only resting place is an illegal piece of sidewalk.

Leave your comments and questions at the same number.   Still a $500 reward for any info leading to Free Radio’s finding a 10′ X 10′  studio space for Free Radio Santa Cruz to rent in Santa Cruz.

Later in the day after the show has aired, the Sunday 10-1 show archives at http://radiolibre.org/brb/brb171015.mp3. 

6 PM tonight 10-12-17 on 101.3 FM, streams at freakradio.org: Updates

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Berkeley’s former First They Came for the Homeless encampment (now called “Here and There”), more Julia Vinograd poetry, and some pirated parody!

Current street reports and messages can be left at 831-423-4833.

The show streams on freakradio.org and archives at http://radiolibre.org/brb/brb171012.mp3

For info on how to act and not just listen while gentrification galooses take over the City and drive out the poor, go to the Food Not Bombs and  Freedom Sleeper facebook pages.  Or directly to the Main Post Office, or where ever the struggle is raging..

Volunteer to support the Homeless struggling against Dehumanization at 575-330-3377 or by meeting with folks on the street.

Sunday October 8, 2017 9:30 AM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides with Lapis Roadside Militant Updates, Local Interviews, the 2nd Half of psychiatric researcher and mythbuster Robert Whitaker’s 9-5-04 Interview plus a special Mad in America Radio Blast

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Last of the Food Not Bombs meals at City Hall?  Listen in to Tyler, Nick, and others there last Tuesday.   Post Office musings of Billy from his sidewalk tent.   A shoutout to Diamond Dave from old Scotts Creek Bluffster Felilpe, with the ponderings of Katezenjammer Keith McHenry.

And a flashback completing the Robert Whitaker expose of the Mental Illness Manufacturing Machine (my phrase, not his) way back in 2004.  The struggle continues.

The original 9-5-04 flashback show in its entirety is not available on line.  An earlier and several later interviews with Robert Whitaker are archived at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb070527.mp3 [5-27-07], http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb080810.mp3[8-10-08], http://radiolibre.org/brb/brb110310.mp3 [3-10-11], and http://radiolibre.org/brb/brb140424.mp3 [4-24-14].

 

The Mad in America [“Radio Blast”] interview with with Bonnie Burstow and Nick Wallker on Forced Treatment as a Violation of Cognitive Liberty is at https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/10/bonnie-burstow-nick-walker/.

 

Contact 575-770-3377 to volunteer different kinds of support for the Survival Sleepers now dispersed to the Post Office and repeatedly warned they will be forced to dispersed without a legal spot to go to.  Join Food Not Bombs locally.  They are organizing support actions for those whose only resting place is an illegal piece of sidewalk.

 

Leave your comments and questions at the same number.   Still a $500 reward for any info leading to Free Radio’s finding a 10′ X 10′  studio space for Free Radio Santa Cruz to rent in Santa Cruz.

 

Later in the day after the show has aired, the Sunday 10-1 show archives at http://radiolibre.org/brb/brb171008.mp3. 

6 PM tonight 10-5-17 on 101.3 FM, streams at freakradio.org: Updates and Lookback: Mad in America writer Robert Whitaker Phone Interview from 9-5-04

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Robert Whitaker,  author of the seminal Mad in America and Anatomy of an Epidemic, answers questions from long-time psychiatric survivor and activist Jane Kysor,  Bathrobespierre Robert, and others.

Current street reports and messages can be left at 831-423-4833.

The show streams on freakradio.org and archives at http://radiolibre.org/brb/brb171005.mp3

For info on how to act and not just listen while gentrification galooses take over the City and drive out the poor, go to the Food Not Bombs and  Freedom Sleeper facebook pages.  Or directly to the Main Post Office, or where ever the struggle is raging.

The Tuesday night FNB meal remembering the Freedom and Survival Sleepers has reportedly served its last slosh of soup there.   Such are the whispers.

Volunteer to support the Homeless struggling against Dehumanization at 575-330-3377 or by meeting with folks on the street.

9:30 AM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Covers Features Poetry by Julia Vinograd and Commentary Galore Plus A Flashback to 1-17-10 with activists grilling then-Mayor Mike Rotkin–Tune in at 101.3 FM or freakradio.org Sunday October 1st

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The Sunday show features Updates on the Friday-Night Fresno Camping Ban Protest, Bits and Pieces from Street Supporters and Street Survivors in the last week…

And a full-blown February 24,2002 Flashback with

street minister Jerry Henry and attorneys Art Dudley and Kate Wells on his trial for disrupting a public business by encouraging youth as a counselor to feel okay in gathering in the public spaces outside what was the Aptos Gottschalks, SC Deputy’s Office, and Coffee Roasting Company…Kate Wells on medical marijuana prosecutions and the homeless persecution…A phone Interview with Jack Tefara of Portland’s Dignity Village….Councilmember Sugar on “the Magnet Effect”….Richelle, Linda Lemaster, Puppetman, Jeff the Fiddler, William Wesley Crow, Cannabis Carol, Razor Ray, Ed–voices from and about the street … …Michael Schmidt, former CEO of Chamber of Commerce, homeless advocate, and supervisorial candidate…the City attempts to restrict private property 3-day limit for camping in yards, and church/businesses…and more!

The full Flashback from 2-24-02 in its original form is also available at http://huffsantacruz.org/archive02  Go then to February 24, 2002 for its segments.

Contact 575-770-3377 to volunteer different kinds of support for the Survival Sleepers now dispersed to the Post Office and repeatedly warned they will be forced to dispersed without a legal spot to go to.  Join Food Not Bombs locally.  They are organizing support actions for those whose only resting place is an illegal piece of sidewalk.

Leave your comments and questions at the same number.   Still a $500 reward for any info leading to Free Radio’s finding a 10′ X 10′  studio space for Free Radio Santa Cruz to rent in Santa Cruz.

Later in the day after the show has aired, the Sunday 10-1 show archives at http://radiolibre.org/brb/brb171001.mp3.  

6 PM tonight 9-28-17 on 101.3 FM, streams at freakradio.org: Interviews with Santa Monica’s Peggy Lee Kennedy, Fresno’s Mike Rhodes, and Salinas’s Wes White

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“Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry also reports on the rumored crackdown October 1st against the Post Office Survival Sleepers.

Current street reports and messages can be left at 831-423-4833.

The show streams on freakradio.org and archives at http://radiolibre.org/brb/brb170928.mp3

For info on how to act and not just listen while gentrification galooses take over the City and drive out the poor, go to the Food Not Bombs and  Freedom Sleeper facebook pages.  Or directly to the Main Post Office, or where ever the struggle is raging.

Freedom SleepOut #115 reportedly received soup and coffee–but no sleepers reported.  The new Survival Sleepers are encamped around the Main Post Office, though reportedly under threat to leave or face citations in the next two weeks.

Volunteer to support the Homeless struggling against Dehumanization at 575-330-3377 or by meeting with folks on the street.

9:30 AM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Covers Features Poetry by Julia Vinograd and Commentary Galore Plus A Flashback to 1-17-10 with activists grilling then-Mayor Mike Rotkin–Tune in at 101.3 FM or freakradio.org Sunday September 24

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Today’s show gives us a preview of Julia Vinograd’s latest book Walls plus updates.

The 1-17-10 Flashback features the Rotkin Roast as well as audio of the HUFF singers given $200+ tickets for singing “Downtown” with lyrics denouncing anti-homeless laws and practices in downtown Santa Cruz.

The complete show can be found at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb100117.mp3  It is described in detail at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/brb-descriptions.html#JAN17 .  Go to Sunday, January 17, 2010 to get the grim particulars.

Contact 575-770-3377 to volunteer different kinds of support for the Survival Sleepers now dispersed to the Post Office and points along Pacific Avenue  and support Food Not Bombs locally and those whose only resting place is an illegal piece of sidewalk.

Leave your comments and questions at the same number.   Still a $500 reward for any info leading to Free Radio’s finding a 10′ X 10′  studio space for Free Radio Santa Cruz to rent in Santa Cruz.

Later in the day after the show has aired, the Sunday 9-24 show archives at http://radiolibre.org/brb/brb170924.mp3.

6 PM tonight 9-21-17 on 101.3 FM, streams at freakradio.org: Keith McHenry Update and Flashback to August 9, 1999–Inside the Santa Cruz Sentinel–A Refugee Reports!

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“Katzenjammer” Keith McHenry muses on rumors and prospects, followed by a Flashback to August 5, 1999 where the Santa Cruz Scent-Anal receives a thorough dissection by a former reporter and homeless activists V-Man, Skidmark Bob, Bathrobespierre Robert, and others.

Current street reports and messages can be left at 831-423-4833.

The show streams on freakradio.org and archives at http://radiolibre.org/brb/brb170921.mp3

For info on how to act and not just listen while gentrification galooses take over the City and drive out the poor, go to the Food Not Bombs and  Freedom Sleeper facebook pages.  Or directly to the Main Post Office, or where ever the struggle is raging.

Freedom SleepOut #115 reportedly received soup and coffee–but no sleepers reported.  The new Survival Sleepers are encamped around the Main Post Office, though reportedly under threat to leave or face citations in the next two weeks.

Volunteer to support the Homeless struggling against Dehumanization at 575-330-3377 or by meeting with folks on the street.

 

Another Week of No-Show For Weary HUFFsters– 11 AM September 20th Sub Rosa Meeting Called Off

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The usual Sub Rosa Cafe 11 AM meeting at 703 Pacific tomorrow (Wednesday September 20) will not be formally happening today, although the Cafe may be open and some HUFF members may be there. If you wish to pin down a HUFF meeting for next week, contact Robert at 423-4833.

Tune in at 7 PM Thursday 9-21 on Free Radio Santa Cruz to hear poetry from Berkeley poet Julia Vinograd’s newest book Detour as well as updates both gloomy and encouraging. National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty attorney Tristia Bauman has asked HUFF for its extensive trove of Public Records with an eye to some kind of legal filing in November perhaps.  Another legal researcher is investigating homeless encampments.

The second reading of the Unreasonably Disturbing Noise law changes will likely be on next Tuesday’s City Council agenda.   Packed with subjective criteria retaining police discretionary powers, it nonetheless limits police power over sound amplification.  Check out the 9-12 City Council’s Agenda (Item #21) for the proposed law which pass unanimously last week 7-0.

A description of the nasty law expanded police selective enforcement powers can be found at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/09/12/18802845.php (“Stacked Deck Stay-Away Law Expansion Promises More Pain for Poor Outside“)   If you’d like to help review the Public Records (still not fully disclosed) and/or help fight the Stay-Away orders as they are individually levied on homeless folks, contact Food Not Bombs  or HUFF  (numbers below).  Let these folks know if you or anyone you know has recently been given a Stay-Away order along with an Infraction ticket, particularly if it’s for longer than 24 hours (or 72 hours after October 12th when the new expanded law goes into effect).

Also please report conditions in San Lorenzo Park and around the Post Office.  
If you abhor meetings and wish to work on Public Records, Help compile accounts of Police/Ranger abuses, Monitor the new Library Rules, and/or Assist in getting interviews for Free Radio broadcasts or You-Tube Postings, contact Bathrobespierre Robert at 831-423-4833.  Activists around Food Not Bombs and the Freedom Sleepers are also looking for help gathering volunteers for the support meals on Saturday, Sunday, and Tuesday as well as folks who want to help homeless harassed with citations for Being Visibly Homeless.  Contact them at 575-770-3377. 

9:30 AM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Covers Updates on Marijuana, Syringes, and “Unreasonably Disturbing Noise” at City Council, Lapis Road Latest, A Taste of the Mime Troupe and More!–Tune in at 101.3 FM or freakradio.org

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Today’s show includes Carol Denny on Pepperspray Politics in Berkeley, Tenant Activist Organizing in Santa Cruz, and Caustic Commentary by Bathrobespierre on Everything.

Contact 575-770-3377 to volunteer different kinds of support for the Survival Sleepers now dispersed to the Post Office and points along Pacific Avenue  and support Food Not Bombs locally and those whose only resting place is an illegal piece of sidewalk.

Leave your comments and questions at the same number.   Still a $500 reward for any info leading to Free Radio’s finding a 10′ X 10′  studio space for Free Radio Santa Cruz to rent in Santa Cruz.

Later in the day after the show has aired, the Sunday 9-17 show archives at http://radiolibre.org/brb/brb170917.mp3.