HUFF IN BRIEF 2-12-26   Clarification and Additions…Messages…*New Items on the Agenda…More Shannon film showing prep….*Proposed Joint SCHU/HUFF  Coral St.Tabling?… Council Agenda blackout and police complaint removal…Questions for Funding Matters Flyer… Street Reports…. Reports from anti-ICE/anti-War protest/SCHU meeting….Shitty Council and Stupe Meetings 2-10-26 mention…Shelter Reports…Next HUFF meeting 2-19-26 …Winter Crisis:  No Winter Drop-In Shelter in Rain/Warming Center: Failure to Open During Past Cold & Current Rainy Weather (?)…Rest = Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips…Salinas Survival Camping Ban… RV Tow Bill Updates; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Update/Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations …Jail, Courts reports? …Keith Update …Weather ???…Salv Army Hours?    * New item as of 2-12 agenda

(mostly)FREE EVENTS (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying)

Thursday Feb 12  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meets El Rio Mobile Home Community Room, end of N. Pacific

*Fri Feb 13 MHCAN Reforming Zoom Call: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/71870370241?pwd=ZX1gnhqjO83pMhxBfVsQ29BhpTvHS7.1    Meeting ID: 718 7037 0241        Passcode: cHqW2w

*6-9 PM  “Will You Free My Palestine?” Benefit Crafts Day at Sub Rosa Cafe *6:00 PM – 7 PM   705 Front St. Amah Matsun Honoring Our Relatives

4:15 PM – 7:15 PM Free Food Church East Zayante Rd. & Sylvan Way in Zayante near the school bus stop

Sat 2-14      11 AM- 12:30  PM Protest Israel with American Bombs bombing in the Phony Ceasefire+ U.S.-backed Israeli occupation Ocean & Water End the War  

Sat 2-14  & Sun 2-15  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; NEW Street Spirits & Street Sheets; leave off or pick up forms to record shelter and police abuse; Bulletin Board for posting notices;

*1 -4:30 PM  More Amah Matsun activity The Teaching of Plants   Speakers, Tea  UCSC Hay Barn   

Sun 2-15  10-12 PM  People’s Aid : Solidarity & Services for those outside Green Gate Golf Club Drive.                    

2 PM  “Rest is Resistance” street huddle & book reading at the dinosaur statue or at Jamba Juice across from the Post Office downtown

Tues 2-17  thru Thurs 2-19 10 AM until the food’s gone Bread & Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot Wed 2-18  3:30 PM  Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless Little Red Church  Cedar & Lincoln Sts. Parade Exposing Service Abuse and Corruption Prep; MHCAN reorganizing; anti-MHCAN Shutdown

Sun  2-22  12:30-3 PM  Showing of Hometown Homeless, Maleah’s short film at the Sub Rosa & Other Resistance/SC Homeless Herstory films.                       *4 PM  Santa Cruz Homeless Union [SCHU] Keeping Track of Case Management     Town Clock

HUFF WISH List TASKS to Volunteer for + Possible INDIVIDUAL ACTIONS : [Call or Text 831-423-4833 if interested)

++++    VOLUNTEER work to publicize the Feb 22 Film showing to organize demands to restore and expand survival services & Stop the Sweeps

++++    ORGANIZING to pressure poverty pimps to reopen and expand survival services and stop the sweeps.

++++    POLLING FOR ARMORY CONDITIONS:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested

++++    TABLING AT CORAL ST. to gather reports of property taken or lost in police raids; conditions at Funding Matters (aka Housing Matters)

++++    ARMORY COMPLAINTS:  Call (408) 761-9930 as well as evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or  peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter access line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699; LET US KNOW at 216-8239 or 423-4833  if you’ve sent one and if you’ve gotten satisfaction.

++++   NEW STREET INFO for Tips & Lifelessons to buff up Thomas’s Tipzine?  Real resources for surviving on the street…Correcting false shelter/storage ‘services”

++++   COLLECTING/COLLATING TICKETS: Past homeless citation record of the last year to spot Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”

++++   FOLLOWING LEGISLATIVE ANTICS:  state, local, and federal: the closing federal/state/local fist. 

++++   EXERTING PRESSURE to establish or organize Winter Shelter/Services 

++++   SOLIDARITY IN STRUGGLE with anti-ICE, anti-genocide, anti-War, anti-gentrification, pro-tenant, anti-discrimination local protests  

++++   FOLLOWING Court cases and  supporting those held in 5150s 

++++   MHCAN reopening support? Ditto with other do-it-yourself or street level services like the Downtown Street Team, a Switchboard, etc.

++++   PREPARATION/PARTICIPATION in large protests as on Martin Luther King Day (Jan 19)

Older STORIES

*++++   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/01/19/18883100.php Marina Police Shoot & Kill Vehicle Driver, City Cancels MLK Fest

*++++   https://www.thecalifornian.com/story/news/local/2016/09/21/salinas-ordinance-prohibits-camping-loitering-goes-into-effect-oct-1/90770500/

++++     https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/01/21/18883217.php Fatal Police Shooting of Ronald Tinsley, II

++++     https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20260204/281668261409709

++++     https://thestreetspirit.org/2026/01/06/oakland-homeless-camp-policy-tabled-again-but-debate-rages-on/

++++     https://www.streetroots.org/news/2026/01/20/there-s-nothing-different-about-us-life-inside-techlandia-s-homeless-encampments

++++     https://lookout.co/watsonville-city-council-moves-forward-with-changes-to-its-oversized-vehicle-ordinance/story
++++     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LGkeZsBR_Q Live Stream of 10th Anniversary of the Homeless Union

++++      https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/1%20%20FRSC%201-18-26.mp3  10th Anniversary Audio + Norse Commentary

++++     https://lookout.co/city-county-of-santa-cruz-formally-begins-process-to-replace-housing-matters-day-services/story

++++     https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/11/04/ninth-circuit-upholds-alfred-v-vallejo-decision-setting-legal-precedent/

OLD STANDBYES     

New Street Spirits and Older Street Sheets to sell or read available at HUFF or at the FNB meal

++++   Street Spirit archives on line: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22&sort=-date

++++   Street Sheet recent stories on line: https://www.streetsheet.org/

++++    Recent stories on a variety of unhoused issues:   https://invisiblepeople.tv/

++++    Overview: https://endhomelessness.org/resource/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights

++++    Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K” 

++++     Santa Cruz Fulltimers  (vandwellers rights) https://www.facebook.com/groups/551244434895799

HUFF IN BRIEF 1-29-26   Clarification and Additions…Messages…Proposed Actions?… Natl Shutdown/ Coral St. tabling …Questions for People First?/Recruiting SCHU… Street Reports…. Reports from anti-ICE/anti-War protest/….Shitty Council and Stupe Reports 1-27-26… Homeless Freezeout …ICE & Other Protests…Shelter Reports… HUFF meeting schedule… Next HUFF meeting 2-5-26 (?)…Winter Crisis:  No Winter Drop-In Shelter in Rain/Warming Center: Failure to Open During Past Cold Weather…Hometown Homeless; Rest = Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips… Alicia on MHCAN…Updates on Watsonville & S.C. Stupes’ RV Tow Bill; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations …Jail, Courts reports? …. …Keith Update …Weather Sunny and Cool…Salv Army Hours?

(mostly)FREE EVENTS (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet)   

Thursday Jan 29  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room, end of N. Pacific Ave.Fri  Jan 30 No Business As Usual National Shutdown  No Work.  No School.  No Shopping.  Fund Survival Services Not ICE https://nationalshutdown.org/

Fri 1-30 4:15 PM – 7;15 PM Free Food Church East Zayante Rd. and Sylvan Way in Zayante near the school bus stop—”rain or shine”

Sat 1-31 24  11 AM- 12:30 PM Protest Israel with American Bombs bombing in the Phony Ceasefire+ U.S. occupation troops for Trump’s Israeli Expansion Plan– Ocean& Water End the War  Weekly Signs and Shouts  Palestine Justice Coalition  Impeach, Trump, Dump the Dems, anti-Venezuela, anti-ICE protest (DIY)

Sat 1-31 & Sun 2-1  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; NEW Street Spirits & Street Sheets available; leave off or pick up forms to record shelter and police abuse from Drew’s substitute; Bulletin Board for posting notices.

Sun 2-1  10-12 PM  People’s Aide : Solidarity & Services for those outside Green Gate Golf Club Drive.

Sun 2-1  2 PM  “Rest is Resistance” street huddle & book reading at the dinosaur statue or at Jamba Juice across from the Post Office downtown

Mon 2-2  4:30 -5:30 PM  possible Indivisible Demo Party Organizing and Anti-ICE protest Ocean and Water

Tues 2-3  thru Thurs 2-5 10 AM until the food’s gone Bread & Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot

Wed 2-4  3:30 PM  Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless  reforms London Nelson Ctr. Laurel & Center St.

Sat  2-22  12:30-3 PM  Showing of Hometown Homeless, Maleah’s short film at the Sub Rosa

HUFF WISH List TASKS to Volunteer for + Possible INDIVIDUAL ACTIONS : [Call or Text 831-423-4833 if interested)

++++    ORGANIZING to pressure poverty pimps to reopen and expand survival services and stop the sweeps.

++++    VOLUNTEER work to publicize the Feb 22 Film showing to organize demands to restore and expand survival services and Stop the Sweeps

++++    POLLING FOR ARMORY CONDITIONS:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested

++++    TABLING AT CORAL ST. to gather reports of property taken or lost in police raids; conditions at Funding Matters (aka Housing Matters)

++++    ARMORY COMPLAINTS:  Call (408) 761-9930 as well as evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or  peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter access line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699; LET US KNOW at 216-8239 or 423-4833  if you’ve sent one and if you’ve gotten satisfaction.

++++   NEW STREET INFO for Tips & Lifelessons to buff up Thomas’s Tipzine?  Real resources for surviving on the street…Correcting false shelter/storage ‘services”

++++   COLLECTING/COLLATING TICKETS: Past homeless citation record of the last year to spot Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”.

++++   FOLLOWING LEGISLATIVE ANTICS:  state, local, and federal: the closing federal/state/local fist. 

++++   EXERTING PRESSURE to establish or organize Winter Shelter/Services 

++++   SOLIDARITY IN STRUGGLE with anti-ICE, anti-genocide, anti-War, anti-gentrification, pro-tenant, anti-discrimination local protests  

++++   FOLLOWING Court cases and  supporting those held in 5150s 

++++   MHCAN reopening support? Ditto with other do-it-yourself or street level services like the Downtown Street Team, a Switchboard, etc.

++++   PREPARATION/PARTICIPATION in large protests as on Martin Luther King Day (Jan 19)

[somewhat]  Newer STORIES

++++     https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/01/19/18883100.php  City of Marina Police Shoot and Kill Vehicle Driver, City Cancels MLK Celebration

++++     https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/01/21/18883217.php MCBC Calls for Transparency & Accountability Following Fatal Police Shooting of Ronald Tinsley, II

++++     https://thestreetspirit.org/2026/01/06/oakland-homeless-camp-policy-tabled-again-but-debate-rages-on/    

++++     https://www.streetroots.org/news/2026/01/20/there-s-nothing-different-about-us-life-inside-techlandia-s-homeless-encampments

++++     https://lookout.co/watsonville-city-council-moves-forward-with-changes-to-its-oversized-vehicle-ordinance/story
++++     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LGkeZsBR_Q Live Stream of the Saturday Salinas 10th Anniversary of the Homeless Union

++++      https://www1.huffsantacruz.org/lost/1%20%20FRSC%201-18-26.mp3  10th Anniversary Audio + Commentary

++++     https://lookout.co/city-county-of-santa-cruz-formally-begins-process-to-replace-housing-matters-day-services/story

++++     https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/11/04/ninth-circuit-upholds-alfred-v-vallejo-decision-setting-legal-precedent/

OLD STANDBYES

New Street Spirits and Street Sheets to sell or read available at HUFF or at the FNB meal

++++   Street Spirit archives on line: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22&sort=-date

++++   Street Sheet recent stories on line: https://www.streetsheet.org/

++++    Recent stories on a variety of unhoused issues:   https://invisiblepeople.tv/   

++++    Overview: https://endhomelessness.org/resource/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights

++++    Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K” 

HUFF IN BRIEF 1-22-26   Clarification and Additions…Messages…Proposed Actions?… Coral St. Sweep & Other Street Reports….Shitty Council and Stupe 1-27-26… Homeless Freezeout …ICE & Other Protests…Shelter Reports… HUFF meeting schedule…Winter Crisis:  No Winter Drop-In Shelter in Rain/Warming Center: Failure to Open During Past Cold Weather…Hometown Homeless; Rest=Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips… Alicia on MHCAN…Updates on Watsonville & S.C. Stupes’ RV Tow Bill; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations …Jail, Courts reports …. Next HUFF meeting 1-29-26 (?)…Keith Update …No rain til Wed (1-30)

(mostly)FREE EVENTS 

(for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet)   

Thursday Jan 22  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room, end of N. Pacific Ave.

Friday Jan 23 2 PM  Protest against Venezuela War  High St. and Bay St. UCSC

Friday Jan 23 4:15 PM – 7;15 PM Free Food Church East Zayante Rd. and Sylvan Way in Zayante near the school bus stop—”rain or shine”

Saturday Jan 24  11 AM- 12:30  PM Protest Israel with American Bombs bombing in the Phony Ceasefire+ U.S. occupation troops for Trump’s Israeli Expansion Plan– Ocean& Water End the War  Weekly Signs and Shouts  Palestine Justice Coalition Perhaps anti-Venezuela, anti-ICE protest (DIY)

Saturday, Jan 24, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM   Like Water:  A Participatory Walk Natural Bridges Road and Delaware Avenue, https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/01/13/18882837.php

Saturday Jan 24 and Sunday Jan 25  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; NEW Street Spirits & Street Sheets available; leave off or pick up forms to record shelter and police abuse from Drew’s substitute; Bulletin Board for posting notices

Sunday Jan 25  10-12 PM  People’s Aide : Solidarity & Services for those outside at Green Gate Golf Club Drive.

Sunday Jan 25  2 PM  “Rest is Resistance” street huddle & book reading at the dinosaur statue or at Jamba Juice across from the Post Office downtown

Tuesday Jan 70-thru Thursday Jan 29 10 AM until the food’s gone Bread and Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot

HUFF WISH List                           

TASKS to Volunteer for + Possible INDIVIDUAL ACTIONS : [Call or Text 831-423-4833 if interested in any of these projects]

++++    POLLING FOR ARMORY CONDITIONS:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested

++++    TABLING AT CORAL ST. to gather reports of property taken or lost in police raids; conditions at Funding Matters (aka Housing Matters)

++++    ARMORY COMPLAINTS:  Call (408) 761-9930 as well as evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or  peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter access line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699; LET US KNOW at 216-8239 or 423-4833  if you’ve sent one and if you’ve gotten satisfaction.

++++   NEW STREET INFO for Tips & Lifelessons to buff up Thomas’s Tipzine?  Real resources for surviving on the street…Correcting false shelter/storage ‘services”

++++   COLLECTING/COLLATING TICKETS: Past homeless citation record of the last year to spot Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”

++++   FOLLOWING LEGISLATIVE ANTICS:  state, local, and federal: the closing federal/state/local fist. 

++++   EXERTING PRESSURE to establish or organize Winter Shelter/Services 

++++   SOLIDARITY IN STRUGGLE with anti-ICE, anti-genocide, anti-War, anti-gentrification, pro-tenant, anti-discrimination local protests  

++++   FOLLOWING Court cases and  supporting those held in 5150s 

++++   MHCAN reopening support? Ditto with other do-it-yourself or street level services like the Downtown Street Team, a Switchboard, etc.

++++   PREPARATION/PARTICIPATION in large protests as on Martin Luther King Day (Jan 19)Newer STORIES

++++     https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/01/19/18883100.php  City of Marina Police Shoot and Kill Vehicle Driver, City Cancels MLK Celebration

++++     https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/01/21/18883217.php MCBC Calls for Transparency & Accountability Following Fatal Police Shooting of Ronald Tinsley, II

++++     https://thestreetspirit.org/2026/01/06/oakland-homeless-camp-policy-tabled-again-but-debate-rages-on/    

++++     https://www.streetroots.org/news/2026/01/20/there-s-nothing-different-about-us-life-inside-techlandia-s-homeless-encampments

++++     https://lookout.co/watsonville-city-council-moves-forward-with-changes-to-its-oversized-vehicle-ordinance/story
++++     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LGkeZsBR_Q

Live Stream of the Saturday Salinas 10th Anniversary of the Homeless Union

++++     https://lookout.co/city-county-of-santa-cruz-formally-begins-process-to-replace-housing-matters-day-services/story

++++      https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/11/04/ninth-circuit-upholds-alfred-v-vallejo-decision-setting-legal-precedent/

OLD STANDBYES

++++   New Street Spirits and Street Sheets to sell or read available at HUFF or at the FNB meal

++++   Street Spirit archives on line: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22&sort=-date

++++   Street Sheet recent stories on line: https://www.streetsheet.org/

++++    Recent stories on a variety of unhoused issues:   https://invisiblepeople.tv/    

++++    Overview: https://endhomelessness.org/resource/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights

++++    Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K” 

HUFF IN BRIEF 1-15-25   Clarification and Additions…Messages…Proposed Actions?….Shitty Council and Stupe Updates: Floc, Lithium Batteries, and Homeless Freezeout….Street Reports…ICE & Other Protests…Shelter Reports… HUFF meeting schedule…10th Homeless Union Anniversary in Salinas Sat Jan 17…Winter Crisis:  No Winter Drop-In Shelter in Rain/Warming Center: Failure to Open During Past Cold Weather…Hometown Homeless; Rest=Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips… Updates on MHCAN; Stupes’ RV Tow Bill; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations …Jail, Courts reports …. Next HUFF meeting 1-22-26…Keith Update …Mid-60’s with no rain predicted.

FREE EVENTS  (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet)   

Thursday Jan 15 1:30 PM -3:30 PM HUFF meeting planning Salinas caravan for Jan 17th 10th Anniversary meeting of Homeless Union

Thursday Jan 15  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room, end of N. Pacific Ave.

Friday Jan 16 2 PM  Protest against Venezuela War  High St. and Bay St. UCSC

Friday Jan 16 4:15 PM – 7;15 PM Free Food Church East Zayante Rd. and Sylvan Way in Zayante near the school bus stop—”rain or shine”

Saturday Jan 17  8 AM – 5 PM  10th Anniversary National Homeless Union in Salinas 1 Main St.  Likely caravan to be arranged at 1-8 HUFF meeting

Saturday Jan 17  11 AM- 12:30  PM Protest Israel with American Bombs bombing in the Phony Ceasefire+ U.S. occupation troops for Trump’s Israeli Expansion Plan– Ocean& Water End the War  Weekly Signs and Shouts  Palestine Justice Coalition Perhaps anti-Venezuela, anti-ICE protest (DIY)

Saturday Jan 17  4 PM – 7:30 PM Party/Street Party  Quaker Meeting House 226 Rooney St., S.C.Rise Up Singing New Year’s Dinner

Saturday Jan 17 and Sunday Jan 18  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; NEW Street Spirits & Street Sheets available; leave off or pick up forms to record shelter and police abuse from Drew’s substitute; Bulletin Board for posting notices.

Sunday Jan 18  10-12 PM  People’s Aide : Solidarity & Services for those outside at Green Gate Golf Club Drive.Sunday Jan 18  2 PM  “Rest is Resistance” street huddle & book reading at the dinosaur statue or at Jamba Juice across from the Post Office downtown

Monday Jan 19 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM  Another “Indivisible” Civil Right  Protest Against the Trump Regime (but add Newsom, Keeley, Kramer & the Deadly Dems) Ocean & Water Sts. Make allies of the Dismal Democrats in the Homeless Civil Rights Struggle if you can 

Monday Jan 19 5:30 PM-7:30 PM Free Film “How Long is Long Enough: Caged-for-Life Prisoners Quntos Wilson & Layla Roberts   SC Barrios Unidos 1817 S.C.

Tuesday Jan 20-thru Thursday Jan 22 10 AM until the food’s gone Bread and Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot

TASKS to Volunteer for + Possible INDIVIDUAL ACTIONS : [Call or Text 831-423-4833 if interested in any of these projects]

++++    POLLING FOR ARMORY CONDITIONS:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested

++++    TABLING AT CORAL ST. to gather reports of property taken or lost in police raids; conditions at Funding Matters (aka Housing Matters)

++++    ARMORY COMPLAINTS:  Call (408) 761-9930 as well as evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or  peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter access line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699; LET US KNOW at 216-8239 or 423-4833  if you’ve sent one and if you’ve gotten satisfaction.

++++   NEW STREET INFO for Tips & Lifelessons to buff up Thomas’s Tipzine?  Real resources for surviving on the street…Correcting false shelter/storage ‘services”

++++   COLLECTING/COLLATING TICKETS: Past homeless citation record of the last year to spot Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”

++++   FOLLOWING LEGISLATIVE ANTICS:  state, local, and federal: the closing federal/state/local fist. 

++++   EXERTING PRESSURE to establish or organize Winter Shelter/Services 

++++   SOLIDARITY IN STRUGGLE with anti-ICE, anti-genocide, anti-War, anti-gentrification, pro-tenant, anti-discrimination local protests  

++++   FOLLOWING Court cases and  supporting those held in 5150s 

++++   MHCAN reopening support? Ditto with other do-it-yourself or street level services like the Downtown Street Team, a Switchboard, etc.

++++   PREPARATION/PARTICIPATION in large protests as on Martin Luther King Day (Jan 19)

New-ish STORIES (To Be Updated)  (TBA)

++++      https://lookout.co/city-county-of-santa-cruz-formally-begins-process-to-replace-housing-matters-day-services/story

++++      https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/11/04/ninth-circuit-upholds-alfred-v-vallejo-decision-setting-legal-precedent/

OLD STANDBYES New Street Spirits and Street Sheets to sell or read available at HUFF or at the FNB meal

++++   Street Spirit archives on line: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22&sort=-date

++++   Street Sheet recent stories on line: https://www.streetsheet.org/

++++    Recent stories on a variety of unhoused issues:   https://invisiblepeople.tv/    

++++    Overview: https://endhomelessness.org/resource/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights

++++    Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K” 

HUFF IN BRIEF 1-8-25   Clarification and Additions…Proposed Actions?….Street Reports…Shelter Reports… HUFF meeting schedule…10th Homeless Union Anniversary in Salinas Sat Jan 17…Winter Crisis:  No Winter Drop-In Shelter in Rain/Warming Center: Strategies…Hometown Homeless; Rest-Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips…Shitty Council meeting 1-23…Updates on MHCAN; Stupes’ RV Tow Bill; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations …Jail, Courts reports…Legislative Updates…. Next HUFF meeting 1-22-26…Keith Update…DIY New Years Eve…Sunny but chilly weather with NO rain predicted.

FREE EVENTS  (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet)   

Thursday Jan 8  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room, end of N. Pacific Ave.

Friday Jan 9:15 PM – 7;15 PM Free Food Church East Zayante Rd. and Sylvan Way in Zayante near the school bus stop—”rain or shine”

Saturday Jan 10  11 AM- 12:30  PM Protest Israel with American Bombs bombing in the Phony Ceasefire+ U.S. occupation troops for Trump’s Israeli Expansion Plan– Ocean & Water End the War  Weekly Signs and Shouts  Palestine Justice Coalition Perhaps anti-Venezuela, anti-ICE protest (DIY)

Saturday Jan 10 and Sunday Jan 11  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; NEW Street Spirits & Street Sheets available; leave off or pick up forms to record shelter and police abuse from Drew’s rep; Bulletin Board for posting notices.

Sunday Jan 11  10-12 PM  People’s Aide : Solidarity & Services for those outside at Green Gate Gulf Club Drive.

Sunday Jan 11  2 PM  “Rest is Resistance” street huddle & book reading at the dinosaur statue or at Jamba Juice across from the Post Office downtown.

Monday Jan 12 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM  Another “Indivisible” Civil Right  Protest Against the Trump Regime (but add Newsom, Keeley, Kramer & the Deadly Dems) Ocean & Water Sts. Make allies of the Dismal Democrats in the Homeless Civil Rights Struggle if you can 

Saturday Jan 17  8 AM – 5 PM  10th Anniversary National Homeless Union in Salinas 1 Main St.  Likely caravan to be arranged at 1-8 HUFF meeting.

Tasks to Volunteer for + Possible Individual action : Call or Text 831-423-4833 if interested in any of these projects

++++    POLLING FOR ARMORY CONDITIONS:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested

++++    TABLING AT CORAL ST. to gather reports of property taken or lost in police raids; conditions at Funding Matters (aka Housing Matters)

++++    ARMORY COMPLAINTS:  Call (408) 761-9930 as well as evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or  peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter access line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699; LET US KNOW at 216-8239 or 423-4833  if you’ve sent one and if you’ve gotten satisfaction.

++++   NEW STREET INFO for Tips & Lifelessons to buff up Thomas’s Tipzine?  Real resources for surviving on the street…Correcting false shelter/storage ‘services”

++++   COLLECTING/COLLATING TICKETS: Past homeless citation record of the last year to spot Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”.

++++   FOLLOWING LEGISLATIVE ANTICS:  state, local, and federal: the closing federal/state/local fist. 

++++   EXERTING PRESSURE to establish or organize Winter Shelter/Services 

++++   SOLIDARITY IN STRUGGLE with anti-ICE, anti-genocide, anti-War, anti-gentrification, pro-tenant, anti-discrimination local protests  

++++   FOLLOWING Court cases and  supporting those held in 5150s 

++++   MHCAN reopening support? Ditto with other do-it-yourself or street level services like the Downtown Street Team, a Switchboard, etc.

++++   PREPARATION/PARTICIPATION in large protests as on Martin Luther King Day (Jan 19)

New-ish Stories (To Be Updated)  (TBA)

++++      https://lookout.co/city-county-of-santa-cruz-formally-begins-process-to-replace-housing-matters-day-services/story

++++      https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/11/04/ninth-circuit-upholds-alfred-v-vallejo-decision-setting-legal-precedent/

Old Standbyes New Street Spirits and Street Sheets to sell or read available at HUFF or at the FNB meal

++++   Street Spirit archives on line: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22&sort=-date

++++    Recent stories on a variety of unhoused issues:   https://invisiblepeople.tv/

++++    Overview: https://endhomelessness.org/resource/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights

++++    Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K”

HUFF  Rough Agenda for 1-1-26  

Clarification and Additions…Street Reports… Coral St. 12-30 Sweep…Street response to Stall on Homeless Services…Winter Crisis:  No Winter Drop-In Shelter/Warming Center: Strategies…”People First” Emergency Shelter–Fact or Fiction?…Hometown Homeless prior showing…Rest=Resistance & Other Reading…. Thomas’s Tips…Updates perhaps on MHCAN; Stupes’ RV Tow Bill; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations …Shelter, Courts reports …Salinas Homeless Union 10th Anniversary… New Flyer Distribution at Coral St….Vets Hall Tabling Results …Weather Update: Rain predicted Thurs, Sat, Sun, and Monday.
The actual agenda will likely include a few more items with the usual coffee/tea, cookies, carrots, and the occasional sandwich.

Don’t forget to check out the Town Clock’s New Year’s Day noon meal compliments of Jumbo-Gumbo Joe Schultz.

Rough Draft of a flyer to be circulated at the Xmas meal at the Vets Hall at 11:30 AM:  Join us (with umbrellas at the ready) if you wish. 

Where to gather for emergency walk-in Winter Protection?      

+++  Supes, City Council, City Mangler had no walk-in Winter Shelter as rainstorms approach. 

+++  MHCAN, Downtown Street Team, operational drinking fountains, warming centers…gone.

+++  Escalating police attacks on homeless survival encampments are real threats to community well-being.

+++  This year’s homeless dead list had no street or  last names at the Portuguese Hall Housing Matters memorial.   Puff, the homeless dead are invisible! 

+++  2025’s Half-Named Victims: Katelyn L, Daniel B, Abbie S, Jesus D, Yesenia S, Matthew S, Omar L, John F, Bonifacio A, Guzmaro J, Devin S, Tommy B, Terrance F, Ryan H Scott R, Warren T, Jeremiah V, Ivy B, Michael S,John K, Nathan B, David D, Jeffrey R, Matthew L, Lance M, Arturo D, Michael A, Paul A, Karyn S, Birge S,  Steven M, Daniel S, Fred A, Carol E, Jose C

+++ Brent Adams of the one-time Warming Shelter says:  WHAT THE FUCK!? For 10 years in a row, the shelter I founded and ran opened during rain and cold weather. Warming Center Program would activate based on forecasts of more than 1″ of rain or temperatures below 38 degrees. There is currently a forecast of 4 out of 5 days with more than 1″ of rain, yet the “People First” shelter has nothing planned. The program I ran operated in Santa Cruz and Watsonville and received less than 5% of it’s operating budget from governmental sources – while the current system is 100% city and county funded. We as a community need to demand better for those who sleep outside.  

Write in your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choices for survival locations as well as suggestions of your own.  Ross Camp?…..   San Lorenzo?….   Parking structures?…..  Sidewalks in front of oblivious city officials?…..   Civic Center?…..   City Hall?….  The Public Library?….  Sports Stadium?…  Awnings of Downtown Shops?….  Fill in your suggestion of an awning or vacant building or another spot…………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Leave your suggestions with the servers at the Food Not Bombs meal or at HUFF meeting Thur1:30 PM 703 Pacific            

Flyer by Norse of  HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) 831-423-4833 www.huffsantacruz.org 309 Cedar PMB #14B  S.C. 12-24-25

HUFF 12-18-25   Clarification and Additions…Street Reports…Board of Stupidvipers Report—HUFF response to Stall on Homeless Services…)…Winter Crisis:  No Winter Drop-In Shelter/Warming Center: Strategies…Hometown Homeless showing progress;… ….Rest=Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips…Updates on MHCAN; Stupes’ RV Tow Bill; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations …Shelter, Courts reports …Homeless memorials Friday and Sunday…New Flyer Distribution at Coral St….HUFF meeting 12-25 replaced by tabling at Vets Hall..New flyers…

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet)

Thursday Dec 18  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room, end of N. Pacific Ave.

Friday Dec 19 10 AM – 11:30 AM  Homeless Reading of Dead   Portuguese Hall  216 Evergreen St.  “Light snacks”

Friday Dec 19 4:15 PM – 7;15 PM Free Food Church East Zayante Rd. and Sylvan Way in Zayante near the school bus stop–rain or shine

Saturday Dec 20  11 AM- 12:30  PM Protest Israel with American Bombs bombing in the Phony Ceasefire+ U.S. occupation troops for Trump’s Israeli Expansion Plan– Ocean & Water End the War  Weekly Signs and Shouts  Palestine Justice Coalition

Saturday Dec 20 and Sunday Dec 21  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; NEW Street Spirits & Street Sheets available; leave off or pick up forms to record shelter and police abuse from Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices.

Sunday Dec 21  10-12 PM  People’s Aide : Solidarity & Services for those outside at Green Gate Gulf Club Drive.

Sunday Dec 21  2 PM  “Rest is Resistance” street huddle & book reading at the dinosaur statue across from the Post Office downtown Sunday Dec 21  4  PM  Food Not Bombs Homeless for the Homeless Memorial  Town Clock  likely in the rain but under canopys

Sunday Dec 21  4 PM – 9 PM Holiday Crafts Market for Gaza  Barros Unidos Poets Corner 1817 Soquel Ave.  Arts, Crafts, Poetry, Music, Open Mic

Monday Dec 22 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM  Another Indivisible Civil Right  Protest Against the Trump Regime (but add Newsom, Keeley, Kramer & the Deadly Dems) Ocean & Water Sts.Make allies of the Dismal Democrats in the Homeless Civil Rights Struggle if you can

Thursday Dec 25 11:30 AM – 2 PM  Xmas Community Dinner  Downtown Vets Hall 846 Front St.

Tasks to Volunteer for + Possible Individual action: Call or Text 831-423-4833

++++    Info Tabling:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested…Armory Poll

++++    Armory complaints to (408) 761-9930 as well as evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or  peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter access line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699; Let us know at 216-8239 or 423-4833  if you’ve sent one and if you’ve gotten satisfaction.

++++   Any help for Tips & Lifelessons to buff up Thomas’s Tipzine?  Real resources for surviving on the street…Correcting false shelter/storage ‘services”

++++   Past homeless citation record of the last year: show Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”.

++++   Legislative updates—state, local, and federal: the closing federal/state/local fist.

++++   Info wanted on Winter Shelter/Services  Demand, anti-ICE, anti-genocide local protests?  Court cases?  5150?  MHCAN reopening support? New-ish Stories (To Be Updated)

++++     https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/12/08/18882095.php?show City Council Crapshow Coming Up Tuesday 12-9

++++      https://lookout.co/city-county-of-santa-cruz-formally-begins-process-to-replace-housing-matters-day-services/story

++++     https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/11/04/ninth-circuit-upholds-alfred-v-vallejo-decision-setting-legal-precedent/

Old Standbyes New Street Spirits and Street Sheets to sell or read available at HUFF or at the FNB meal

++++   Street Spirit archives on line: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22&sort=-date

++++    Recent stories on a variety of unhoused issues:   https://invisiblepeople.tv/

++++    Overview: https://endhomelessness.org/resource/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights

++++    Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K”

HUFF 12-11-25   Clarification and Additions…Street Reports…City Council/Stups Report…Winter Crisis:  No Winter Drop-In Shelter/Warming Center; Trump’s SNAP Cutbacks…Hometown Homeless showing progress;…San Jose RV Attacks ….Rest=Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips…Updates on MHCAN; Stupes’ RV Tow Bill; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations …Shelter, Courts reports

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet)

Thursday Dec 11  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room, end of N. Pacific Ave.

Friday Dec 12 4:15 PM – 7;15 PM Free Food Church East Zayante Rd. and Sylvan Way in Zayante near the school bus stop–rain or shine

Saturday Dec 13  11 AM- 12:30  PM Protest Israel with American Bombs bombing in the Phony Ceasefire+ U.S. occupation troops for Trump’s 10 Point Plan– Ocean & Water End the War  Weekly Signs and Shouts  Palestine Justice Coalition

Saturday Dec 13  2 PM  “Rest is Resistance” street huddle & book reading at the dinosaur statue across from the Post Office downtown

Saturday Dec 13 and Sunday Dec 14  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; older Street Spirits available; leave off or pick up accounts of shelter and police abuse from Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices; Sunday Dec 14  10-12 PM  People’s Aide : Solidarity & Services for those outside at Green Gate Gulf Club Drive.

Monday Dec 15 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM  Another Indivisible Civil Right  Protest Against the Trump Regime (but add Newsom, Keeley, Kramer & the Deadly Dems) Ocean & Water Sts.Make allies of the Dismal Democrats in the Homeless Civil Rights Struggle if you can Tasks to Volunteer for + Possible Individual action : Call or Text 831-423-4833

++++    Info Tabling:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested…Armory Poll

++++    Armory complaints to (408) 761-9930 as well as evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or  peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter access line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699; Let us know at 216-8239 or 423-4833  if you’ve sent one and if you’ve gotten satisfaction.

++++   Any help for Tips & Lifelessons to buff up Thomas’s Tipzine?  Real resources for surviving on the street…Correcting false shelter/storage ‘services”

++++   Past homeless citation record of the last year: show Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”.

++++   Legislative updates—state, local, and federal: the closing federal/state/local fist.

++++   Info wanted on Winter Shelter/Services  Demand, anti-ICE, anti-genocide local protests?  Court cases?  5150?  MHCAN reopening support?

New-ish Stories (TBA)

++++     https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/12/08/18882095.php?show City Council Crapshow Coming Up Tuesday 12-9

++++      https://lookout.co/city-county-of-santa-cruz-formally-begins-process-to-replace-housing-matters-day-services/story

++++     https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/11/04/ninth-circuit-upholds-alfred-v-vallejo-decision-setting-legal-precedent/

Old Standbyes New Street Spirits and Street Sheets to sell or read available at HUFF or at the FNB meal

++++   Street Spirit archives on line: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22&sort=-date

++++    Recent stories on a variety of unhoused issues:   https://invisiblepeople.tv/

++++    Overview: https://endhomelessness.org/resource/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights

++++    Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K”

HUFF Agenda 12-4-25   Clarification and Additions…Street Reports…Vets Hall Tabling Report…Winter Crisis:  No Winter Drop-In Shelter/Warming Center; Trump’s SNAP Cutbacks…Hometown Homeless showing;… Last Council meeting of the year: Tuesday December 10, Flocks Surveillance Cameras & Those Outside…San Jose RV Attacks…Featherflux Food Distribution….Rest=Resistance Reading….Thomas’s Tips…Updates on MHCAN; Stupes’ RV Tow Bill; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating….Shelter, Courts reports..December Street Sheets and Street Spirits available

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet)

Thursday Dec 4  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room, end of N. Pacific Ave.

Friday Dec 5 4:15 PM – 7;15 PM Free Food Church East Zayante Rd. and Sylvan Way in Zayante near the school bus stop–rain or shine

Saturday Dec 6  11 AM- 12:30  PM Protest Israel with American Bombs bombing in the Phony Ceasefire+ U.S. occupation troops for Trump’s 10 Point Plan– Ocean & Water End the War  Weekly Signs and Shouts  Palestine Justice Coalition

Saturday Dec 6  2 PM  “Rest is Resistance” street huddle and book reading at the dinosaur statue across from the Post Office downtown

Saturday Dec 6 and Sunday Dec 7  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; older Street Spirits available; leave off or pick up accounts of shelter and police abuse from Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices;

Saturday Dec 6 and Sunday Dec 7  afternoon  San Lorenzo Park  Possible Featherflock Food Distribution

Saturday Dec 7  7 PM – 9 PM  Seventh-day Adventist Church – Sundean Hall (in the back)  1024 Cayuga Street  Street Party  Free Food

Saturday Dec 7 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Dragtime Story Hour  Santa Cruz Main Library Community Room

Sunday Dec 7  10-12 PM  People’s Aide : Solidarity with and Services for those in danger of being swept at the Green Gate on Gulf Club Drive. Sunday Dec 7  3-5 PM  Eat for the Earth Fall Feast Dinner Party  Party/Street Party  Beth Love  admin [at] eatfortheearth.org  (831) 466-3405

Monday Dec 8 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM  Another Indivisible Civil Right  Protest Against the Trump Regime (but add Newsom, Keeley, Kramer & the Deadly Dems) Ocean & Water Sts.Make allies of the Dismal Democrats in the Homeless Civil Rights Struggle if you can!  

Tuesday Dec 8 2 PM  Downtown at the info booth at Soquel and Pacific  Featherflock food-and-justice project..check at HUFF meeting (12-4)  for confirmation

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Tasks to Volunteer for + Possible Individual action : Call or Text 831-423-4833

++++    Info Tabling:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested…Poll for Armory

++++    Armory complaints to (408) 761-9930 as well as evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or  peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter access line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699; Let us know at 216-8239 or 423-4833  if you’ve gotten satisfaction.

++++   Any help for Tips & Lifelessons to buff up Thomas’s Tipzine?  Real resources for surviving on the street…Correcting false shelter/storage ‘services”

++++   Past homeless citation record of the last year: help collating citations to show Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”

++++   Legislative updates—state, local, and federal: the closing federal/state/local fist.

++++   Info wanted on Winter Shelter/Services  Demand, anti-ICE, anti-genocide local protests?  Court cases?  5150?  MHCAN reopening support?

New-ish Stories (TBA)

++++   “Unpleasant Facts to Munch on at Two Pleasant Meals” at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/29/18881874.php

++++     https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/11/04/ninth-circuit-upholds-alfred-v-vallejo-decision-setting-legal-precedent/

Old Standbyes New Street Spirits and Street Sheets to sell or read available at HUFF or at the FNB meal

++++   Street Spirit archives on line: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22&sort=-date

++++    Recent stories on a variety of unhoused issues:   https://invisiblepeople.tv/

++++    Overview: https://endhomelessness.org/resource/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights

++++    Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K”