Tag Archives: Homeless

Tonight 5-24-18 at 6 PM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides on Free Radio Santa Cruz at 101.3 FM, Storage for Those Outside in June? Ask Brent Adams; Project (Homeless) Connect Interviews, SF Chroni Interviews Doc Coffin on the SF Opiod Crisis

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Tonight’s Show(6-8 PM) Includes:  Chats with Folks in Line at Wednesday’s Santa Cruz Project (Homeless) Connect, “Big Drum” Brent Adams on the Prospects of his Summer Storage Program, and Dr. Phillip Coffin discusses the Opioid Crisis in S.F. in a Chronicle podcast with Heather Knight

Coffin’s full interview is also available on line at https://projects.sfchronicle.com/tools/podcasts/?show=onsanfrancisco&id=d5262ea47ce6c2913ddaffa6bb9f0c15 .

Free Radio, as usual, streams at freakradio.org.  The show archives under Lost Shows on the HUFF website at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html.   Look for Latest Show – 5/24/2018  Thursday, May 24, 2018 – Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides.  

5-20-18 9:30 AM-3 PM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Silva Special! The rest of the Silva Memorials on 5-12 and 5-20, Contentious Updates from “Silver Tongued” Steve Pleich and “Big Drum” Brent Adams, and a Final Community TV Memory of David Silva

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Streams at freakradio.org and broadcasts at 101.3 FM

SHOWTIME NUGGETS TODAY
  • Part 2 of the 5-12 Sub Rosa Silva Memorial
  • Brent Adams Delayed But Hopefully Not Dormant Homeless Storage Program
  • Silva Wakesters Plot an Organizing Coalition for Wednesday 11 AM 5-23 at the Sub Rosa
  • “Weather the Worst” Wes White of Salinas Reports on the D.C. Poor People’s Campaign and Salinas Doings
  • “Push Back” Pat Colby Cross-Examined by Bathrobespierre Robert Norse on a Sidewalk Sufferer near Safeway
  • Sweet Talkin’ Steve Pleich Updates Latest ACLU DoDoings on Homeless Issues at the “No Bathrooms for the Homeless” Louden Nelson Center meeting
  • Marco from Downtown Street Team and the River Street “Boneyard” Campground Reports In
  • Carolina on Life at the Paul Lee Loft (Homeless [Lack-of] Services Center)
  • March 1999 Community TV Exchange on City Council’s Sleeping Ban Sell-Out with David Silva Confronting Chris Krohn on Becky Johnson’s Club Cruz show
  • Plenty of other voices
UPCOMING EVENTS:
  • 8 AM Santa Cruz County Courthouse at 701 Ocean St. Justice for Jeremy Saunders–2nd year UCSC student charged with a felony assault on a police officer after he was peacefully crossing the street among many other students during the AFSCME Strike on May 7th.  https://www.facebook.com/events/847008852166117/
  • City Council ducks the issues again with nothing new on its 2:30 PM afternoon session re: the June 30th closing of the River Street (Barbed Wire) Campground (Agenda Item #12) and no action from “Sidestepping” Sandy Brown on the promised Silva Memorial Day, and the silence of betrayal on police and staff anti-homeless antics.
  • 11 AM Wednesday 5-23 Silva Survivors may meet at the Sub Rosa Cafe to plan a broader activist Coalition around local human rights issues.

This show archives May 21, 2018 at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

Leave your comments and questions at 831-423-4833.  

Tonight 5-17-18 at 6 PM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides on Free Radio Santa Cruz at 101.3 FM, Victorious Alexander from San Jose, Wes White from Salinas, & the Silva Memorial from Santa Cruz, Part 1

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 Tonight’s Show(6-8 PM) Includes:  Victorious Alexander’s Challenging San Jose Authorities, Wes White at Take Back Santa Cruz’s Town Clock Rally, and Part One of the David Silva Memorial from 5-12.

Free Radio, as usual, streams at freakradio.org.  The show archives under Lost Shows on the HUFF website at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html.   Look for Latest Show – 5/17/2018  Thursday, May 17, 2018 – Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides.  

HUFF meets Wednesday May 16th 2018. 11 AM Sub Rosa 703 Pacific

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HUFF [Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom] will meet Wednesday, 5-16-18 at 11 AM at the Sub Rosa, our normal meeting place, next to the Bike Church.

Agenda Prospects:

  • Rent Control Blues: the Sandy Brown Buffeting and Behind-the-Scenes Council Clucking
  • Poor People’s Campaign Report from D.C. :  Arrests Against Criminalizing the Poor
  • Silva Memorial Chapter 2: Prep for Saturday’s 4-6 PM Event
  • Activist Abbi Samuels Appeals her Freedom Sleeper citation from last year 4 PM Thursday S.C. Courthouse 5-17
  • Jeremy Saunders UCSC striker goes to court 8 AM 5-22
  • ACLU Meeting Wednesday 5-16 Louden Nelson–you know, where they have closed the bathrooms and put up the anti-homeless fence. 7 PM
  •   Support the Warming Center, Food Not Bombs,  HUFF and other activists in documenting, providing resources, & publicizing the situation.
  •   Back up homeless efforts to organize either in protest or to demand adequate and accessible facilities.
  •   Exchange information with other supporters there to generate more communication and better solutions in the future.

Silva Memorial Reminder: Noon Saturday May 12 Sub Rosa Cafe 4 PM Main Post Office Corner Santa Cruz

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A reminder that folks are gathering Saturday May 12th at 703 Pacific (the Sub Rosa Cafe next to the Bike Church) beginning at noon to remember Santa Cruz activist David Silva.  The event is slated to go .  Bring memories of David.  The tribute to David will continue with food and festivities at the Food Not Bombs gathering at 4 PM-6 PM.

As homage to David’s persistent and principled struggle to end the criminalization of poor and homeless people in town, we will be inviting folks to leave their contact information for a flashmob protest/jubilee to be announced sometime in the weeks ahead.

Tonight 5-10-18 at 6 PM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides on Free Radio Santa Cruz at 101.3 FM, Brent Adams from Santa Cruz; Carol Denney from Berkeley, Vittorius Alexander from San Jose, and a Landlord versus the City

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Tonight’s Show(6-8 PM) Includes: Brent Adams on his delayed storage program and Crackdown on tents in San Francisco and Santa Cruz, Carol Denney’s Berkeley Fight to Stop the Business Bullies from Tearing Down Fliers, Vittorio Alexander’s Challenging San Jose Courts, and Jeanie J.’s Landlord Lament.

Free Radio, as usual, streams at freakradio.org.  The show archives under Lost Shows on the HUFF website at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html.   Look for the Latest Show – 5/10/2018  Thursday, May 10, 2018 – Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides.  

5-6-18 9:30 AM-3 PM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides with Homeless Union Reports Statewide, Rumblings from the Red Church, Clearing the Town Clock for the Take Back Santa Cruz Rally; 2-11-01 Flashback

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Streams at freakradio.org and broadcasts at 101.3 FM

 

Current Stuff:

  • Homeless Union Activists Sign In and Speak Out in Statewide Prep
  • Last Meal at the Red Church Facing the May Shutdown
  • Police Clear the Town Clock of Unhoused Public In Prep for a Take Back Santa Cruz Rally
  • Notes from the TBSC Rally


Flashback Content from February 11, 2001:

  • Updates on the Citizens Police Review Board, Green Party, Santa Cruz Action Network DinDin, City Council
  • Norse Chats with UCSC Sleeping Ban Researcher Lea
  • The Steve Argue Update
  • Jill Butler on UCSC’s Holiday Inn Scam
  • Merlin on Capitola Trailer Court Life
  • Green Party Closes Ranks to Support an anti-homeless Mayor
  • Bob Lamonika on Rent Gouging
  • Portland’s Gallagher Decision Throws Out the Sleeping Ban
  • Tom Reveille, Lee Butler, Linda Lemaster, Christina Tofoya, and more Speak Out


This show archives May 6, 2018 at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

Leave your comments and questions at 831-423-4833.  

Tonight 5-3-18 at 6 PM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides on Free Radio Santa Cruz at 101.3 FM, Bits and Snips from Near and Far, Flashback to 4-6-97

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Tonight’s Show(6-8 PM) Includes: Joshua Tree Courts Versus a Vehicular Family,  Upcoming Events including Friday’s Take Back Santa Cruz Anti-Homeless Hysteria Gathering at the Town Clock Amplified by the Sentinel‘s Jessica York, Flashback to Justman Jim Cosner’s Chat with the FBI, Shitkicker Shawn Alemi’s Street Report, Palo Alto Lookback, Beggarbacker Becky Johnson on “Citizen’s Committee for the Homeless” Latest,  

Free Radio, as usual, streams at freakradio.org.  The show archives under Lost Shows on the HUFF website at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html.   Look for the Latest Show – 5/3/2018  Thursday, May 5, 2018 – Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides.  

4-29-18 9:30 AM-3 PM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides with Street Talk from “Push Back” Pat,, Councilwatch by “Lighthouse:” Linda, “Big Drum” Brent, , Renter Update with Tenants First! “Straight Talk” Cynthia, & the Red Church Roustabouts

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Streams at freakradio.org and broadcasts at 101.3 FM

Current Stuff:

  • Pat and John Colby update the latest cop and sheriff shenangans
  • Bathrobespierre blasts the latest City Council simperings.
  • Brent Adams Tippytoes His Critique of Existing Shelter and Storage Options
  • Cynthia Berger Goes Over the Details in the Last Days of the Rent Control Push
  • Smoothtalkin’ Steve Pleich Gives Supervisorspeak
  • Red Church Voices Speak Out from Last Days of the Red Church (closing until June)


This show archives April 29, 2018 at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

Leave your comments and questions at 831-423-4833.  

Tonight 4-26-18 at 6 PM Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides on Free Radio Santa Cruz at 101.3 FM, Interviews from FNB Corner, Berkeley, and Bathrobespierre Robert’s Hideout

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Tonight’s Show Includes: Brief Bits on City Council’s  “Shove [A Few of] ‘Em in a Shelter” Plan, the County’s “Cut Back on Cannabis” Law,  Longtime Lydia Looks Back, Cornerstone Carol Denney on new anti-homeless laws in Berkeley, and more…

Free Radio, as usual, streams at freakradio.org.  The show archives under Lost Shows on the HUFF website at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html.   Look for the Latest Show – 4/26/2018  Thursday, April 26, 2018 – Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides.