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2005

Thursday, August 4, 2005
Download Show Hotrod's HUFF report.. 6:15 PM-7:30 PM Live phone interview with community activist Phil Baer on the Seaside Company's land grab of the Tidelands, their recent lawsuit, and City Council's inadequate response...[last part of the show--an impassioned phone-in defense of FRSC programmer Becky Johnson by Bob L. lost because of the technical problems] [2 hours]

Sunday, August 7, 2005
Download Show Call-in from Chris Brozda, homeless activist (cimabue.org@mindspring.com...10 AM-noon: Grace E. Jackson, psychiatrist critic of psychiatric medications live phone interview...call-in's from Linda L., Chris B. Andrea, Nick F...Live interview with Arcata homeless activist Tad 12:20 PM--about the co-option of the Homeless Task Force, the misuse of Proposition 63 money for forced drugging/incarceration for the homeless, and other topics (www.theplazoid.blogspot.com)......show ends 1:30 (4 hours).

Thursday, August 11, 2005
Download Show Live Bonnie Morr, United Transporation Union worker, phone interview...David Myberg on the Tidelands, Proposition X, and other local issues..Lean discusses discrimination at Long's King's Plaza Capitola...Live Phone Interview with Richard Quigley on victories in court around the motorcycle helmet law thanks to Judge Michael Barton, latest developments in Jerry Henry's case--a settlement by threats by (retired) Judge Kelsay....live guest Linda Lemaster on parallel Santa Cruz concerns to that of the Arcata Homeless Task Force.. (2 hours)

Sunday, August 14, 2005
Download Show Interviews: Eli Charleston playing gently amplified guitar without a permit and without harassment downtown...street folks...Hotrod's HUFF report....Bill Hinkle's street report; Chris on excessive costs of getting a medical marijuana card if you're poor...live phone interview with Bonnie Morr of the United Transportation Union (UTU)....Two Patrick Cockburn articles on Iraq from the Anderson Valley Advertiser...Robert B.: falsely arrested for stealing a purse...Homeless Service Center client praises, HUFF activists for homeless services..Interview with Bill Daniels, Hobo Filmmaker....discussion of Cindy Sheehan's "Camp Casey" protest outside Bush's Summer White House at Crawford, TX...caller John T. criticizes SC Indymedia for deleting stories...live call-in from Mendicino Medical Marijuana Patients Union co-founder Pebbles Trippet on using the Unruh Civil Rights Act to challenge city dispensary restrictions...Callers discuss medical marijuana, police repression against music at Cafe Pergolesi...cuts from Mayor Rotkin's statements on the "Unruly Gatherings" law July 26th at City Council...(4 hours)

Thursday, August 18, 2005
Download Show Studio Guest Ragtime Street Guitarist Eli Charleston interview and live performance at various times throughout the show....6:30-7:05 p.m. San Anselmo lawyer and anti-war activist Ford Greene (www.fordgreene.com) on his struggle to keep up a 8" X 12" changing political sign on his building.....Bonnie Morr interview on UTU strike vote being counted as we spoke...(2 hours)

Sunday, August 21, 2005
Download Show In-studio guests Thomas Leavitt, local open meetings activist and Linda Lemaster, housing advocate, discuss the Brown Act....Supervisorial/congressional candidate and anti-psychiatry activist Chris Brozda calls in with account of hassle by police for giving out business cards in his election campaign downtown....Memorial to recently deceased homeless activist Jim Moran...Medical Marijuana Patients Union activist Pebbles Trippet's update on City of Ukiah's new 90% off-limits for medical marijuana patients who grow their own; murder trial of Dean Manjeres and Valerie Boommeyan for self-defense in break-in to steal their medicine; (Trippett contact: 707-964-YESS)..Andrea Tishler's call-in report on movement to tax-and-regulate marijuana (ACLU backing off)...Street Interviews: Billi on Pacific Ave. New Leaf discrimination and other downtown businesses...Midean on police response to fight in front of Catalyst... Alexander Cockburn's article on Cindy Sheehan...David calls in critical of police critics....Neil of anti-war Capitola 13 calls in...(4+ hours)

Thursday, August 25, 2005
Download Show Chris B. call-in: arrested on disturbing the peace charge, and held 2 days as he distributed his business card for his election campaign... Alaska anti-psychiatry attorney Jim Gottstein (psychrights.org) on alternatives to psychiatric drugging in Trieste, Berne, Finland, intar.org; legal abuses in the psychiatric system...Marilyn of San Diego calls in on case of her son held in Atascadero State Hospital...Jeff calls in from Support Coalition International (mindfreedom.org) on falsified hospital records, forming support networks.....Lisa Molyneux's Greenway marijuana dispensary report (phone:831-420-1640) ..Street interviews--Tiffany and Nick on the street scene. (2 hours)

Sunday, August 28, 2005
Download Show Street Interviews: Rex and Rachel on police at Pacific & Elm; Peter Stafford on the helpful robbers...10:30-11:45 AM Live Interview with Housing Advocate and Councilwatcher Ed Davidson (e-davidson@sbcglobal.net...Reading of Stan Goff's critique of Tom Hayden's Peace Plan...Caller Tim Rinker reports Odwalla cutting off Food Not Bombs...

Thursday, November 3, 2005
Download Show Songs by Danielle Savage...Halloween-on-Pacific-Avenue...Phone interview with Attorney Paul Sanford about his White House press conference where he asked Bush front man Scott McClellen if Rove's leak of Valerie Plume's name would constitute "treason", the subsequent lawsuit against KSCO for breaking his contract, and other updates...Hotrod and Vishnu describe street squalor at the HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) meeting...Paul Sanford interview continues (electonnetwork.com)...Local artist and homeowner Mattison urges a "meth" watch... (2 hours)

Sunday, November 6, 2005
Download Show Songs by Valerie Christy of SAFE...Street interviews from Pacific Avenue...phone discussion with "Tax and Regulate Marijuana" advocate Tim Rinker asking callers for input on a professional local poll at 831-427-5335...Mayor Mike Rotkin fields criticism of his Office of Compassionate Use (OCU) legislation, which host Norse denounces as "useless", "non-compassionate", and "not an office"...Halloween-on-Pacific-Avenue clips...Med-Ex provider Anita Henry critiques the OCU, announces a Downtown Neighbors meeting...More Halloween clips...Compassion Flower Inn hostess Andrea Tishler discusses the restrictive Santa Cruz marijuana ordinance and Santa Cruzans for Sensible Marijuana Policy 831-466-0420, which is working to put a anti-drug war measure on the November 2006 ballot...Attorney Kate Wells praises a recent 9th Circuit decision overturning a law making it a misdemeanor to make false claim against a police officer, discusses local tasering cases, notes the upcoming Richard Quigley wake...Host Norse reads reports on the Iraqi occupation and rioting in France...Street report of an early October assault allegedly prompted by Officer Pam Bechtel at Punker Corner...In-Home Care worker Tim Ahern talks about "rocking the boat" in dealng with union bureaucrats Tony Madrigal and Cliff Tillman...a Santa Cruzan visits Poland...(approx 4 hours)

Thursday, November 10, 2005
Download Show Music by Danielle Savage. The Hemingway Report on camping tickets at the Red Church (difficult to hear)...Musicians Coral and Greg talk about standing off police harassment with SAFE (Society for Artistic Freedom and Expression) in front of New Leaf Market at their weekly Wednesday night jam...Van dweller Sharon Paight updates living in a vehicle...Clive Bustrade discusses his appeal after five months in the local jail in an incident where a deputy shot a "less than lethal" weapon off a foot from his child's face...(2 hours)

Sunday, November 13, 2005
Download Show Political Songs...Veteran's Day Interview at Jason Pascqual's Street Tarot Stand...Stringstrummer Sue on her bloosie banjo...Streetsights Stanley reports on 11 of last 17 months in jail and the perils of the Open Container...Live recording of Erumpent Ernie, street pianist, singing "Destiny" from his new musical show Viva Voltaire!...Street Interviews...Songs from Working, the musical...Mattison against Meth--calls in...Zero Hour Zoran, van dweller, critiques psychiatric abuses against the homeless and inadequate response by local activists...Bear, San Lorenzo Park Mayor, update...In-studio Guest Box-Seat Bob Patton describes upcoming Human Rights Organization shindig...Indymedia Banning of Becky Johnson: the latest exchange..."Thick 'n Thin" Theodora, Beggerbacker Becky= and others call in on indymedia censorship controversy... "Dangerous" John T. on the protest at the Nickelodeon over the film "Paradise Now"...Officer Brandt to Hotrod "take your shoes and shit and don't come back!"...Leatherlungs Jim Purcell's update... controversy.(approx 3 1/2 hours)

Thursday, November 17, 2005
Download Show Music by Danielle Savage...Street Interviews: Ron C.'s hard times...Chris Brozda interview and update...More Bear Update...C.J. Stock's Streetstrummin...Norse reads anti-war commentary from Justin Raimondo (antiwar.org) ...Music from Merryweather Mike and Biblethumper Bryan...M.M. reports on Vet Day on-the-beat lawmaking from CSO "Predator Pam" Bachtel with new "others can't watch your stuff" rules for the homeless...Street interviews...(approx 2 hours).

Sunday, November 20, 2005
Download Show Chris Brozda called in from the Dominican Hospital Psychiatric Unit describing his arrest, he said, for trying to file a complaint at the main police station against Sgt. Seiley, who, he claims, refused to take a report regarding threats against Brozda as he distributed political literature in front of Starbucks several days before...Pamela Lee Spires, a disabled peace and justice advocate, called in from Watsonville alleging an assault by WPD Deputy Ridgeway where, she says, he slammed her into the walls in her wheelchair at the hospital...John Thielking called in from San Jose discussing censorship, Becky Johnson, and Santa Cruz Indymedia...In-studio guest Jim Lohse reported on his Santa Clara medical marijuana group area420.com, now headed by Tina (408-509-7656); Lohse also discussed his new website www.eminent shame.com about eminent domain abuses...Med-Ex activist Anita Henry called in with questions about the new Santa Cruz Medical Marijuana Club--Greenway...Paul Marcelin Sampson of the Metroriders Union critiques the Metro settlement and discusses the strike...Street bard Nitcho (aka Uncle Dennis) reads Julia Vinograd's latest poetry...Street Interviews: Aftermath of an assault at Long's Drug Store...(approx 4 hours)

Thursday, November 24, 2005
Download Show Street tapes (ST): Roughrider Richard Quigley pre-death wake: BE Smith on his federal jail time for medical marijuana, Felons Union; In-Home Care Workers Rep. Tim Ahern critiques Tony Madrigal; holy hempstress Theodora Kerry; Legal Worker Ray Glock Grueneich; Judge Tom Kelly; KSCO Owner Michael Zwerling gets served lawsuit by reporter/attorney Paul Sanford; minister Jerry Henry and others...More street tapes...Jason Pasqual, street tarot reader; ticketing of Brandon the celloist...Phone-In from L.A. listener on homeless and mental illness...Phone-In from Robert on harassment of recyclers.. (Approx 2 hours--sound quality of some interviews varies widely)...

Sunday, November 27, 2005
Download Show Caustic phone exchange with critic Chris Brozda...Street tapes (ST) : Vet Jim Purcell detained by cops at the Vet's Hall while waiting for an apparently non-existent restraining order and other Thanksgiving day incidents...ST: Brad, the bold panhandler near the Cinema 9, describes his legal history...Co-Host Thomas Leavitt discusses "Progressive" politics in Santa Cruz...Bob Lamonika challenges Comsymps...John Thielking announces support for condemned killer Tookie Williams...Mendicino Medical Marijuana Union activist Pebbles Trippet (707-964-YESS) calls in with a new report on the Urziceanu case which protects selling marijuana...She also discusses the murder of Les Crane, compassionate distributor...Ukiah patients/growers ignore abusive city restrictions...a new religious defense in the iowasca case using both the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses of the First Amendment (see unitedcannabisministries.org)...ST: Interview with Ken Carrington on UCB's destruction of the Free Clothing Box...ST: Glasseagle and Oscar in Santa Cruz struggle on the streets...(approx 4 hours)

Thursday, December 1, 2005
Download Show Street Interviews (SI): Chilean group Manana Mi Chanto sings and talks about dealing with authorities on Pacific Avenue..."Captain America" defends Tim Bratton in the Vet's Hall controversy...SAFE (Society for Artistic Freedom and Expression/Streetperformers Against Foolish Enforcement)'s 96th consecutive weekly event: toxic brownies..Nitcho on the Guitar...Diane-- anthropologist stalking street performers...Valerie P. on how SAFE works... In-studio guest Lisa Molyneux, owner of Greenway Medical Marijuana Distributory reports on the club's first 2 1/2 months ...Earthmommer, Andrea, Becky J., Scott G., and others call in...Larry Wilson critiques Vet's Hall manager Tim Bratton and announces a noon December 5th protest...(2 hours)

Sunday, December 4, 2005
Download Show Conclusion of Wilson commentary from 12-1 show...Bathrobespierre Robert discusses the "Sushi Now" settlement and the depositions for the forthcoming federal lawsuit taken earlier in the week from Mayors Fitzmaurice, Krohn, and Kennedy...Segment of the Fitzmaurice deposition...Hotrod and Chris Brozda critique Sgt. Eric Seiley...SAFE #95 interviews w/ Bill Hinkle on street scene; Ginny Gomez on Proposition 63 funding and Mental Health Board meetings...(457-9754 X 3280)..."Hutch" critiques recent TRO against him at Vet's Hall..Al complains about Homeless Family Shelter problems... Mickey Rat, Alexander, cellist Brando, and Rico Thunder respectively sound off ...caller Matthew discusses self-policing as an unexplored problem...D. Roger Etcetera discusses his first Camping ticket (trial 12-29 10 AM Dept. 1)...Louise on bass viol and her 5 player band...Petitioning downtown...(approx 3 1/2 hours).

Thursday, December 8, 2005
Download Show Discussion of political repression at past "First Night" parades and the police riot of New Years 1994...taped interviews from that riot....tape from the deposition of Councilmember Fitzmaurice, who stopped a meeting to have Robert Norse excluded because of a "don't act like a fascist" salute to the Council...reading of Genera Odom's "We Should Cut and Run" article in the Anderson Valley Advertiser of 10-27 (approx. 2 hours)

Sunday, December 11, 2005
Download Show Street interviews; Pacific Trading Company complaints "move along" Looney Balloony--children's street entertainer...Hurricane Katrina charity seeker...chair of the former Homeless Issues Task Force, Linda Lemaster, calls in critiquing empty beds at the $5, 000, 000 Family Shelter. San Francisco Coalition on Homeless activist Bianca Henry discusses S.F.'s Housing Crisis...homeless residents Lisa Tucker and Michael Aisle denounce SFPD property confiscations...Public Advocate Riva Enteen defends KPFA commentator Bill Mandel against programming cutbacks (www.indybay.org; kpfa.org; www.struggle-and-win.net)...African-American tarot reader Jason Paschal calls in from Los Angeles (still awaiting trial in Santa Cruz for tarot reading w/o a license)...Interview with Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry now in Tucson on police harassment of FNB, FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force activities, his planned trip to Africa, proposal for a tent city against Iraqi war, new computer chip in driver's licenses under the Real ID act (www.foodnotbombs.net)...Road Scholar Greg calls in...Andrea on Mayor Cynthia Mathews...(approx 3 1/2 hours)

Thursday, December 15, 2005
Download Show ...Street interviews: "Ocean" who broke up a fight downtown on Halloween reports Officer "Robocop" Perry charged him with disturbing the peace, took him to jail, where he was booked for a $360 and then released 22 minutes later...Call in from Earthmommer... More interviews from New Year's Eve 1993-4 and the police-provoked riot downtown....FRSC broadcaster Sandino describes being pulled over and interrogated as a burglary suspect...Human Rights Day (12-11) downtown with Lex La Fortune, Becky Johnson, Paul Ortiz, and a local poet. (2 hours)...

Sunday, December 18, 2005
Download Show 2 Hour interview with Paul Ortiz, Associate UCSC Community Studies on the Sleeping Ban, police abuse, and other local and national topics. Call-in's from Human Rights....Interview with Omar, Sharon, and Shawn--3 Street Sitters on Haight St. in San Francisco...Chris Brozda update (upcoming Marsdon motion in court where he seeks to have assistance of counsel and be his own attorney Jan 5 10 AM Dept. 2) (831-464-0501 cimabue@mindspring.com)...Call-in from John T. of the Human Rights Organization (humanrightsorg.org 425-4467)...More of former Mayor Tim Fitzmaurice's sworn deposition in the "Heil Krohn!" lawsuit against the City (approx. 3 1/2 hours)

Thursday, December 22, 2005
Thursday December 22nd Tiny segment--show not archived.

Sunday, December 25, 2005
Download Show Three Editorials from Counterpunch "Who Will Fight for The Constitution: The Year of Vanished Credibility" by Alexander Cockburn; "Talkin' About the "I" Word" by Ralph Nader [www.counterpunch.org]...Calling Rep. Sam Farr at 831-429-1976--reading from his website on the Iraqi war....BOLT (Bikers of Lesser Tolerance) gets Judge Barton to hold hearing on sanctions for CHP over its obstruction on the helmet law [google for "Bolt of California" to reach his website]...1991 Santa Cruz City Council debate on closing down the Town Clock at night to get rid of homeless protesters there...Councilmember Fitzmaurice's deposition in the Norse case against City Council repression.... (approx 3 1/2 hours).

Thursday, December 29, 2005
Download Show Thomas Leavitt co-host...Berkeley street poet Julia Vinograd's poetry...Phone discussion with Chris Brozda on the Pottinger decision, which upheld the right to sleep in public places in Miami in 1998....German listener calls in...Looney Balloony's $360 ticket in front of the Pacific Trading Company for playing his radio......Bob Patton of the Human Rights Organization (425-4467 www.humanrightsorg.org...RO reports in and notes Ventura homeless camp...Direct call to Mike Rotkin expressing concern that two turned away from the Armory because they had an extra guitar...Historical flashback: 9-16-96--City Hall Sleepers Protest: Flashback: Nov '94 Sleeping Ban Demo in front of Bookshop Santa Cruz on Pacific Avenue...

2006

Sunday, January 1, 2006
Download Show Guest host Thomas Leavitt; can't find notes. Read Lost John Lennon interview with Tariq Ali in Counterpunch; items about cost of the war in IRaq reaction $2 trillion, 11 fatalities in Iraq in one day; lots of talk about DIY First Night. Various people called in. NIN intro music, various music items, Side A of "Workers Union" album. First show, kind of rough around the edges. About 3.5 hours (9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.)

Thursday, January 5, 2006
No show; guest host Thomas Leavitt stuck in San Jose on emergency work assignment. Apologies.

Sunday, January 8, 2006
Download Show Guest host Thomas Leavitt; intro music: NIN "Tell The Lie". Rant about new loitering law article in Sentinel, rant about Sentinel... more NIN, track(s?) from Public Enemy. Discussion of DIY First Night, announcement of rally at City Hall on Tuesday, reading off various articles from Santa Cruz Indymedia re topic. PSA for Earth First; PSA for Paul Ortiz speaking at Green Party event. More "Public Enemy"; Jude Barri spoken word album track. Tony Madrigal discussion. Andrea calls in re: TM. Matter Embreyo calls in - capitalism, exploitation, economic development. Track from Utah Phillips, Side B of "Workers Union", read from City Manager's "Introduction to the Budget" in this year's City Budget document... went on too long, on to the next thing: more Utah Phillips (much better). LP selection: Beatles (Magical Mystery Tour). Homeless Task Force Final Report Introduction. X - I'm Lost, You, Fourth of July. End with retro audio interview: Skidmark Bob "Camp Paradise Raided". About 3.5 hours (9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.)

Thursday, January 12, 2006
Download Show Guest host Thomas Leavitt; intro music: NIN. Followed by a track from the "Mandela" sound track. Followed by LP selection, Johnny Cash - "Ring of Fire". PSA from SCPEL (Santa Cruz Progressive Email List) and about SCPEL. Monsoor Article. PSA - SCPEL - re: death penalty protest (Ray Allen?). Play audio from MLK flash video I saw on the Internet. Another "Mandela" selection. Read santacruzsentinel.com article re: City Council protest over police surveillance of DIY First Night planning meetings. Track from Judi Bari spoken word album - "FBI Stole My Fiddle". Track from Johnny Cash LP - "I walk the line". Andrea - caller re: meeting in Tuesday... health clinic atrocities... call County Supervisors... PSA - Brothers to Brothers; PSA - Pajaro Primero; PSA - freakradio mention pagesincolor.com; another track from "Mandela" John T. calling from Human Rights Organization - report on Rally for Clarence Ray Allen. Side C of "Workers Union" somewhere in there? About 2 hours. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Sunday, January 15, 2006
Download Show Guest host Thomas Leavitt; intro music: NIN - Tell the Lie. Thomas greets listeners. Music: The Cranberries - first two tracks from "No Need To Argue" - "Ode To My Family", "I can't be with you." More intro on plan for the show. Rant about Santa Cruz Senile, lameness of local media. Read "LocalTalk" from Goodtimes about domestic spying, rant about Bush Administration. Discussion of who the real "bad guys" are. Musical interlude: The Cranberries - Zombie. Freewayblogger item. Phone numbers and other announcements. Call in from ? re: whether Robert is going to jail, female artists. Susan Kessy, local artist - excerpts from tape. PSA re: Neighborhood Community Organization. Caller (?) re: Depleted Uranium Presentation at Vets Hall on Tuesday. 10:30 a.m. Phone interview with 30 Moira LaMountain, Santa Monica activist with HOPE (Helping Other People Eat) who feeds homeless people, re: Santa Monica earning title of 9th most hostile to homeless city. Discussion of housing issues, homeless advocacy, poverty. Half hour interview or so. Wonderful and inspiring. Read GT article "Easy Access" available at http://www.gtweekly.com about affordable and accessible housing being built by the Quiggs (owners of The Attic, downtown ). Play track from HAPA (native Hawaiian music). Play Metallica, "Unforgiven". Play Paul Robeson - "Joe Hill" from "Favorite Songs", Monitor records. Play part of tape of Coral Brune at SAFE - interviews from the street. Phone interview with Christine Shanes from Santa Monica - talking about recent changes about feeding homeless, getting children involved, hypocrisy of praise and illegality. Phone interview with Peggy Lee Kennedy - feeding homeless people, w/ FNB every week for 3-4 years... talking about her program, and what FNB does: feed vegan nutritional food. Two wonderful, inspiring activist women making a difference in their communities. End show with VCR tape audio of City Council Meetings (cut off by arrival of next show's host, out of time). About 3.5 hours (9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.)

Thursday, January 19, 2006
No show, communications gap - Thomas thought Robert was returning on 18th. Apologies.

Sunday, January 22, 2006
Download Show Street interviews [SI] by Coral Brune earlier in the month at the SAFE (Society for Artistic Freedom and Expression gathering)...congressional candidate and homeless militant Chris Brozda calls in....Raven in Berkeley gives update on People's Park...Norse discusses upcoming City Council agenda...January 10th Oral Communications speakers on "Spygate", SCPD's surveillance and infiltration of "Last Night-DIY", the peaceful New Year's celebration: Sherry Conable, Ruth Gordon, Sheila Coonerty, Anthony Cuchedr, Chris Krohn, Celia Scott, Sandino Gomez, Rico Thunder, John Thielking, Grant Wilson and others...Thunder cut off by Mayor "Two Minutes" Mathews....callers Coral and dj shatter comment...Skidmark Bob calls in on the history of police surveillance and how to track it. More call-ins and further Oral Communication from Joe Schultz, and Lydia Blanchard...Andrea Tishler, of the SC Citizens for Sensible Marijuana Policy announces finalization of the proposed city marijuana "tax and regulate" initiative, now gone to the city attorney....Norse reviews the 1979 Berkeley Marijuana Legalization Ordinance...SI: Coral Brune interviews Monkey, Ron, and Breakfast on police surveillance of Last Night... (approx 4 hours).

Thursday, January 26, 2006
Download Show New time for HUFF meetings: 9:30 AM-11:30 AM Wednesday...Norse critiques Mayor Cynthia Mathews shortchanging the public at City Council meetings and Police Chief Howard Skerry's lie around the New Year's spying being a "one time affair"...Councilmember Madrigal's City Manager-appointed "Independent" Investigation proposal at City Council 1-24...Callers on police surveillance: Susan, Andrea...Public Comment on the Madrigal Proposal...Caller Mattison comments...Norse's commentary on the Madrigal proposal..Interview with Rico Thunder on surveillance... (2 hours)

Sunday, January 29, 2006
Download Show Street interview [SI]: the arrest of "Ma" (Melvia Johnson) in her wheelchair for camping warrants...Death of Judge Art Danner yesterday--caller Bob Lamonika comments...SI: D. Roger Etcetera, "Ozark Willie", and DJ Shatter give critical perspectives on Tim Bratton, manager of the Vet's Hall; magician and street entertain Tom Connor recalls an earlier Santa Cruz; Looney Balloony on his own harassment...R. Norse reads from the National Coalition for the Homeless's annual 20 Meanest Cities report (at www.nationalhomeless.org/publications/crimereport/meanestcities.html)...."Billy Budd" calls in about SCPD surveillance...Tape and commentary of the 1-26 Downtown Commission discussion of the Downtown Ordinances and the proposed "Ten Minute Lingering Limit" in Parking Garages (and perhaps Parking Lots) being considered: speakers include Matt Ferrell, Head of Public Works and proponent of this law, Downtown Commissioners including Jim Brown and Chair Sheila Coonerty, Human Rights Organization activists Bob Patton and Bernard Klitzner, local Terry Thomas, and HUFF activist Robert Norse...More on Looney Balloony's police harassment downtown...Tim Rinker of the Santa Citizens for a Responsible Marijuana Policy (831-420-2772) and host Norse debate different strategies on decriminalizing marijuana locally...caller and SCCRMP member Theodora Kerry defends Tim Rinker...(approx 4 hours)

Thursday, February 2, 2006
Download Show Norse Commentary on "Ten Minute Loitering Limit" Law...45 minute interview with Rico Thunder on documents Northern California (not the Santa Cruz) ACLU got from the SCPD on the spying scandal as well as his interview with Deputy-Chief Kevin Vogel [some of the documents are now posted at www.indybay.org] Contact Rico at rico@thespoon.com...Report on an interview with Tim Bratton, manager of the Vet's Building...Street Interviews: Experiences with the cops...Mad Mike the Wonderdog on police beating the bushes..."Pirate", "Damian", and "Parrot" downtown; Coralee's Downtown Interviews including Roger Etcetera's report.. recent arrest of Brandon the cello player...comments from Marilyn of Alfresco's, BigDrum Brent, Guitar Joe, Valerie Promise, "Under Arrest", and others...Michelle Beltos on being denied access to River St. Shelter...John Maurer's update on his "Fuck the Pigs" lawsuit (approx 2 hours)

Sunday, February 5, 2006
Download Show Street Interviews [SI]: Previews from Ernie K's musical Vive Voltaire...musician Sullivan comments...Reexamining laudatory press treatment of "Drumhead" Art Danner, former D.A. and judge, who died a week ago: caller Bob Lamonika remembers the late 80's Sandra Larsen scandal where Danner hit her car but got no alcohol test though he'd been drinking; the Katherine Gardner affair, an assistant D.A. whose falsified time cards were hushed up during Danner's 1994 reelection campaign; the Happy John Dine killing cover-up, where Danner supported the patently false allegations of police chief Steve Belcher that Dine when shot dead by SCPD Officer Connor Carey in 1997 was pointing a toy gun at him....Becky Johnson criticizes Danner for his failure to investigate the law enforcement killing of homeless shooter Leslie Wyman and for his treatment of homeless advocate Dennis Rehm...host Norse updates folks on the Steve Kubby case, marijuana advocate rejailed after his deportation from Canada and now being allowed marinol...SIs: Kimberly on "rockin the signs"...CSO Pam Bechtel giving a citation for "tying shoelaces" within 50' of a change-making machine...Bhajan Romero, just out of jail, for another Bechtel cite for "not picking up litter" near him near the Riverbank...casting discussion of the film The Tripper...John Monahan of the Palomar Hotel charges management discrimination...Paula critiques Homeless Services Center for being forced to leave in the rain, while sick, discusses Watsonville services and laws...obituary of Betty Friedan...Jolly Roger Comedy Troupe piece on Disney in Berkeley...FRSC's d.j. shatter discusses medical marijuana at Greenway...Andrea praises FNB's door-to-door services...FRSC calls U.S. Congressional Rep. Sam Farr (429-1976) requesting his recent voting record on military appropriations...more Coral Brune street interviews of SAFE events...discussion of the Downtown Commission/Public Works "Ten Minutes and Get Lost" Policy for Parking Lots and Garages....Call Public Works at 420-5160 to oppose the law and/or get info..(approx 3.5 hours)

Thursday, February 9, 2006
Download Show Courthouse Interview with Richard Quigley and Lauren--who got tickets from an eager Park Ranger for being "on a beach after dark" dismissed... Homeless Hotrod's latest report....Taz Barker-Crimins fights a misdemeanor citation with his companion for "trespassing" in an abandoned building during a rainstorm (pre-trial hearing March 9, 10AM Dept. 2)...HRO worker Bob Patton relates Homeless Service Center director Ken Cole's comments on Musical Mike's being kicked off the Armory bus for having a guitar too many... Street interviews: Mayor "Bear" reports from San Lorenzo Park... Boston Jim recounts First Alarm harassment and a subsequent seizure...Jennifer describes her struggles as a homeless mom with baby Nick...Coral Brune and the SAFE musicians...Phone interview with Berkeley Councilmember Kriss Worthington on Marijuana Busts and the Homeless (info: 510-981-7170)

Sunday, February 12, 2006
Download Show Richard Quigley interviewed on being banned from Aptos Safeway for trying to buy an "I know I'm stupid to be a loyal Safeway customer" ...Discussion of the Patriot Act... "Deadman" describes being excluded from his wife's funeral in Hollister the day before......"Mr. TV"....Bike church update from Road Scholar...Musical Mike and Valkyrie Valerie describe police selective enforcement against political tablers and activists near New Leaf Market...Ryan of Tent University at UCSC calls in against SCPD spygate, gives Tent U update (contact: bustakaplan@yahoo.com)...The Brune interviews: judge drops dog-on-the-mall charge...Sylvia Karas, MHCAN Board member and psychiatric survivor speaks on AB1421 (easier psych commitment) and Prop 63 (funding of services), ducks question on whether she'll stand up for medical marijuana use among her clients...Caller reports high-speed unsafe police chase ending in crash yesterday.

Thursday, February 16, 2006
Download Show Coral Brune interviews Food Not Bomber Milky Way Mike and Uncle Dennis the Bard; Norse on "Santa Cruz Spygate"... co-host Jhon Golder joins Robert Norse... Preliminary Interview with Bob Aaronsen, SCPD "Auditor"....Santa Cruz City Council's Public Safety Committee testimony in Spygate... Mayor Mathews on Spygate...(2 hours).

Sunday, February 19, 2006
Download Show Co-host Thomas Leavitt....caller Bob Lamonika on S.C Spygate...More Testimony from the Public Safety Committee..First-ever Norse Interview with Mayor Cynthia Mathews on Process Issues at City Council; Bob Patton asks Homeless Rights Questions: Mathews on Spygate....Norse analyzes Mathews falsehoods...Interview with street cello player Brandan, arrested, handcuffed, and jailed for Downtown Ordinance violations...Street Musician Bud Sassy...John T. calls in, recommending worldcan'twait.org...Musicians "Ohm to the Power of Infinity"...Police Auditor Bob Aaronsen Interview after the Public Safety Committee...More of the Public Safety Committee's meeting..(approx 3 1/2 hours)

Thursday, February 23, 2006
Download Show Co-host homeless internet writer Craig Canada...Street Interviews: Musical Mike on the Armory Shelter problem...flute player speaks...Tokin' Tim Rinker on Petition for Taxing and Regulating Marijuana locally...attorney Paul Sanford on his lawsuit against KSCO's Michael Zwerling...Downtown Commission discussion of January on Downtown Ordinances and Ten Minute Trespass Law...(2 hours)

Sunday, February 26, 2006
Download Show Jolly Roger Comedy Troupe Satire from 1995 Berkeley...African-American tarot card reading Jason Paschal cops a plea, and is banned...RN reads Fred Gardner's "The Investigation of Dr. Denny"...Kristen Lems: "We Will Never Give Up"...Greenway medical marijuana venor Lisa Molyneux discusses her club in its 7th month of operation in Harvey West Park..Interview with Nickolas Bezanis, on bureaucratic opposition to the Saturday Market...Jolly Roger: FCC Training Session...Jeremy the Jeweler and Deutschland Nick call in...Craig Canada of www.palmspringsbum.com discusses public reaction to his sign "Marijuana Patient Needs Room" ..."Dangerous" John T. calls in on indybay.org censorship..Kristen Lems: "Failure is Impossible"/"I Was Going to be an Engineer"....1996--Loura Corradi interviews Robert Norse and Mike Rotkin... (approx 4 hours)

Note: Starting in March, the referenced audio archives contain not only Bathrobespierre's Broadsides, but on Sunday mornings, contain Thomas Leavitt's show, "The Wake Up Call".

Thursday, March 2, 2006
Download Show John Cude, aka Shuken-sword, massage therapist, talks about implications of his work for poor people, how words replacing images repress us... [jwcude@yahoo.com...234-9032]...Community activist Fred Geiger at City Council interview...Norse commentary on the 10-minute trespass law. (2 hours)

Sunday, March 26, 2006
Download Show ["This Land Is Your Land; It isn't My Land": Morgan Firestar]...Norse commentary on Ten Minute Trespass Law...Continuation of 3-16 Special Downtown Commission Meeting on the Law: Public Comment and Discussion.. [5 1/2 hours]..Street Interviews: Tall Ted Avon RocketMan Watchchalk Kurswald's Rap + Tara's Healing...Dana + T.J. on SCPD lenience and harshness: family gets the Sleeping Ban runaround...Amy's toy terrorism...Beards around a bench babbling...Guitargripper Greg struts and strums...Robert Whiteowl the Flautist...poet/activist Christopher Robin on Friday Wired Wash problems and the New Year's Eve parade...Tokin' Tim Rinker "Tax and Regulate" Marijuana... ...Roger Etcera bashes Vet's Hall's Tim Bratton....Phone Interview with Rico Thunder on Spygate...Mikey Rat's Open Container tickets...City Council Alert...Homeowner Matt denounces over policing downtown....Midnight Food Distributor El Callejero Harassed...Chalk on the sidewalk in front of Pacific Trading Company...Bad Moon Rising by Free Eagle...Brandon's Cello Report...Phone Interview with Councilmember Mike Rotkin on Spygate [openup@ucsc.edu, 459-4601..."Tax and Regulate" Marijuana Activist Andrea Tishler on Sentinel Black Propaganda 466-0420 [to circulate petitions for marijuana initiative]...Louis LaFortune urges support for Congress to cut off Iraq money (Call Rep. Farr at 429-1976). Approx. three and a half hours.

Thursday, March 30, 2006
Download Show Rovics: "Shut Them Down"... Norse on 3-29 City Council's Public Safety Committee discussion of police spying...announcement of Chris Brozda's death...Street Interviews: Uncle Dennis the Bard... Norse at City Council 3-28 (Consent Agenda items)...Interview with Oakland's Chris Hermes with Americans for Safe Access: new CHP policy on medical marijuana seizures...regulation update: benefits and drawbacks...fighting employment discrimination (Ross case at California Supreme Court)...medical marijuana--significant benefit or legalization distraction'...Rovics: "Coke is the drink of death squads" (two hours)

Sunday, April 2, 2006 (incomplete recording)
Download Show "It Isn't Nice" anti-psychiatry song by Morgan Firestar...demo prior to the 3-29 Public Safety Committee [PSC] meeting w/activists Rico Thunder, Sherry Conable, & others...PSC meeting + Norse commentary...Robert Whiteowl, Street Musician; Brandon cello player headed for court...judicial notes by Norse...PSC meeting: Public Commentary with Fred Geiger, Rico Thunder, Celia Scott, Coyote, & others...[cuts off at Michael Tomasi's testimony] (should be 5 1/2 hours, but it's not)

Thursday, April 6, 2006
Download Show Norse intro on Parking Lot Panic Law...Downtown Commission 3-23 meeting on Parking Lot Panic Law...Bench Removal Report...Changemaking machine installation Critique by Becky Johnson...Bachtel gives computer plug-in ticket...Andrea on 7 squad cars responding to a bar-and-grill fight, ignoring a meter maid's slashed tires...[approx 2 hours]

Sunday, April 9, 2006
Download Show [Thomas Leavitt's "Wake Up Call --2 hours]...Phil Ochs: "What's That I Hear Now?" ...Co-Host Thomas Leavitt...Is Indymedia censoring Becky Johnson?--discussion by phone with V-Man...continued Downtown Commission 3-23 meeting on the Parking Lot Panic law--questions to Deputy Police Chief Vogel-- with extensive commentary...Resident Mattison on violent scene downtown, suggests a fence rather than a trespass law...Downtown customer gets $25 parking ticket..In-studio guest Bob Patton with the Human Rights Organization statement on the law...Mattison praises S.F. Mayor Newsom's homeless policy...Street Interviews: Patrick on Parking Tickets...Bob Guzley on Minimum Wage Petition...Smiley on changing Santa Cruz...Doug McGraff on being harassed by Pam Bachtel around medical marijuana...Ochs: "I Ain't A Marchin Any More"...(approx 3 1/2 hours)

Thursday, April 13, 2006
Download Show Staff Report and Beginning Public Comment on the Parking Lot Panic Law at City Council 4-11...In-studio guests Don and Dove-- the "psychedelic relic"--criticize the Parking Lot Panic law, city council process, and general treatment of the homeless....callers Bob, Andrea, Tim, and Paul pile on...Street Interviews....[approx. 2 hours]

Sunday, April 16, 2006
Download Show [Thomas Leavitt's "Wake Up Call --2 hours, with some discussion of the Jones et. al. v. Los Angeles, the federal pro-homeless decision that overturned the Sleeping Ban restrictions on Skid Row homeless]...C.J. Stock plays "Christopher Robin"...West Coast poet Bert Glock reads from past and future works [459-0976 bert@bertglick.com] ...Norse on the Jones decision..In-studio homeless loiterer Craig Canada [www.palm springsbum.org] responds to callers...Street Interviews: Doug McGraff on homeless man kicked awake...Jesus Pon Soha's misdemeanor state camping ticket under PC647j...Andrea Tishler on the local Tax and Regulate All Marijuana Initiative...Street Inter-views: critics of CSO Pam Bachtel--Alex, "I Forgot", Mary, Deadman and others...Mattison's account of the Norse June 14/05 arrest...Crow on 15 Minute Law...Chris H.Gray, UCSC lecturer, criticizes fellow unionist Mike Rotkin...Robbie Raw criticizes medical marijuana activists...Kelly James on Finkelstein Protest...Night police stop at the Co-America Parking Lot...Street Interviews: Various...Paul Herko fights eviction; Latino workers at lumber yard sidewalk [Approx 4 hours]

Thursday, April 20, 2006
Download Show Phil Ochs: "Cops of the World"...Greg Montoya's Report on Lobbying Trip to Sacramento Against Widening Hiway 1...Street Interviews on the Parking Lot Law...Roger Etcetera on the Vet's Hall Situation....Norse Monologue on Parking Lot Law...Crow calls in...Hawk challenges Ranger Wallace's "Open Container" ticket...Interview with legal worker Grinning Ray Glock-Grueneich on the Jones decision (2 hours)

Sunday, April 23, 2006
Download Show [Thomas Leavitt's "Wake Up Call --2 hours] "Small Circle of Friends" & "Cross My Heart" by late great Phil Ochs...Parking Lot Panic Trespass Law Monologue w/callers Mattison Fitzgerald, Bob Patton...City Council Debate on the Parking Lot Law from 4-11 interspersed with commentary...Paul from Vet's Hall defends Tim Bratton, gives update..Robert Hutchinson--enjoined by Bratton from the Vet's Center--comments...Street interviews: Violin+Pansy the Musical Saw Player...Norse karaoke's "Downtown"...(Approx 3 1/2 hours)

Thursday, April 27, 2006
Street Interviews: ...Guests Shane and Donna in the studio: Shane, an AIDS patient, talks about being assaulted and arrested by an SCPD officer on Pacific Avenue earlier this week while he was trying to help jumpstart a car...legal worker Ray Glock-Grueneich joins as co-host...Becky Johnson on the Commission for the Prevention of Violence Against Women's recent rape report...Andrea reports hassled by police for panhandling on a median...Linda Lemaster reports on the HSC fundraiser...[approx 2 hours]

Sunday, April 30, 2006
Download Show Ochs: Tape from California Street Interviews: Police on music inspection in San Lorenzo Park; guitarist C.J. Stock on Sacramento and street performers, the Parking Garage Paranoia Law [PGPL], health dangers in the shelter program; sax player Sutton on the PGPL; guitarist Valerie C. weighs in against street auditions; Larry's Vet's report; 117th SAFE (Society for Artistic Freedom and Expression) street performer's Wednesday "take back the streets" sing-a-long on 4-26; Vet Bob Patton discusses Vets for Peace; Santa Cruz City Council items from 4-25: Homeland Security; live studio interview with Bob and Jean Glenn on their film Lockout--about a union struggle in the mid-west...More City Council tape: the Downtown Management Corporation appropriation; pork in the Affordable Housing appropriation [approx 3 1/.2 hours]

Thursday, May 4, 2006
Download Show Terry Messman's editorial in May Street Spirit on UCB's attack on the Berkeley Free Box...music: Annie and the Vets: Singing Peace to Power...Tape from the Downtown Commission of March 23rd on the PGPL...Bob Patton's Human Relations Organization report...Studio guests Ray Glock-Grueneich talking about the Jones decision from L.A. and Linda Lemaster, chair of the former HITF, reports on the Homeless Services Center shindig...(2 hours)

Sunday, May 7, 2006
Download Show [Lots of punk music prior to BB showstart] Parking Lot Panic Law Discussion...Crow phones in--plans parking garage protest...Bob L. calls in on the Coonerty Clan...Downtown Commission's Final 3-23 meeting...Interchange with caller Casey on the Jones decision...Song: Jesus, the Long-Haired Radical Socialist Jew... Tina of Silicon Valley Cannabis Patients Union phone interview...Andrea wants to pressure docs to issue recommendations and cut prices for medical marijuana...Roxanne Acquistepache critiques the Third District Supervisorial candidates....Street Interview on Walnut St. 5-6 with Jim, a homeless guy who'll be displaced from his spot under the garage overhang...the Rotkin-Coonerty letter to Tulin Ozdigger of the National Law Center for Homelessness and Poverty....[approx. 4 hours]

Thursday, May 11, 2006
Download Show Guest co-host Craig Canada...Street Interviews: Hassles for David, the street musician trying to sleep in his car...Linda Lemaster guest...Craig talks about street living...May 9th City Council Debate on Parking Lot Panic Law w/ Norse commentary...[approx 2 hours]

Sunday, May 14, 2006
Download Show [Thomas Leavitt's the Wake-Up Call for 2 hours]...Cozmic Chris gets First Alarm Security "Knock and Go" Harassment of his van in the Public Lot across from Cafe Bene... Lee, "hippie with a laptop", talks about changes in Santa Cruz [Lee's website: www.leighm.net]...Saturday demo against UCPD attacks on the Free Box in Berkeley's People's Park--interviews with Michael Diehl, Tom Matowski, Screwy Louie. Dan McMullan, reports from his wheelchair on the late April police assault on him in the presence of his two small boys, his arrest, and hospitalization...activist Mike Rhodes calls in from Fresno, reporting on destruction of the Tent City near Poverello House..host Norse reads three articles on Iraq--suicidal troops sent into combat, military split on insurgent strategy, ex -WMD inspector reports politicians quashed facts...Interviews and tape from 5-12 Code Pink Mother's Day anti-war rally outside the recruiting station on 41st Ave...Responses to the proposed Parking Lot Panic Law from Kathy, Rachel, Mark Shelton. City Council 5-7 hearing replay continues w/public testimony...[Norse show approx 3 1/2 hours; total tape time 5 1/2 hours]

Thursday, May 18, 2006
Download Show Parking Garage Paranoia Law Petition Table interviews (May 6th)...Officer Albert versus two women giving away t-shirts with their art work for donation...Rapper Leon Limas in-studio guest...More street interviews on Parking Garage Paranoia: Susan Brattenberry, Digeridoo Dave...Bob Patton reports Human Services Center Board's tepid response to call to support a Santa Cruz Sleeping Ban challenge based on the Jones decision in L.A. [www.humanrightsorg.org] [approximately two hours]

Sunday, May 21, 2006
Download Show (Thomas Leavitt's Wake Up Call for 2 hours]...Norse Introduction...Street Music in front of New Leaf with Pansy the saw player, Midnight, Monkey, and others...Interviews and Norse Commentary on the Pacific Avenue Armed Forces Day Parade....Grandpa Jim critiques the Parade...Kev Doss on Arcata's Court Decision weakening the Sleeping Ban...Norse reads from June 2005 Street Spirit (www.thestreetspirit.org) on Arcata homeless legal hoops...attorney Kate Wells phone-in interview on the Maurer ("Fuck the Pigs") case and the controversy on the Sentinel's on-line forum...Street and call-in interviews... More from Kate Wells...City Council's May 9th Parking Garage Paranoia Law debate..More of Wells on the Maurer case and the forthcoming panhandling law changes...Wells on the Norse case...May 9th at Council cont. [approx. 3 1/2 hours]

Thursday, May 25, 2006
Download Show Street Interviews: Patrick's shift from pro to anti-Bush...Mike's critique of the local ACLU ...Part 1 of Rueben Ship's 1954 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation anti-McCarthy radio play 'The Investigator'...Compassion Flower Inn owner and local 'tax and regulate' marijuana Initiative organizer Andrea Tishler updates the situation...[Contact info for Santa Cruzans for a Sensible Marijuana Policy: 831-466-0420 reservations@compassionflowerinn.com.] ...Crow calls in announcing protest plans against the Parking Garage Paranoia law...Ian from Bisbee, AZ, noting pressure on local homeless food programs, 'the Coffee Project' and a 'Hosts' program... More Street Interviews: bike on the sidewalk; Monessa & Chris on hackeysacking downtown; call for Boycott of Saturn Cafe, Staff of Life, Lulu Carpenter's...David and Monte on the May 1 Latino Day rally in Santa Cruz..[approx 2 hours]

Sunday, May 28, 2006
Download Show Two Hours of The Wake-Up Call...Supervisorial June Primary Election Discussion with Thomas Leavitt...Skidmark Bob phones in with support for candidate Chris Krohn...The Investigator radio play Part 2 of 3...Street Interviews...Parking Garge Paranoia Law at City Council 5-23 w/Norse commentary; Bob Patton and others give Public Comment...Phone Report from Pebbles Trippet of the Mendicino Medical Marijuana Patients Union on an independent grass roots coalition creating a comprehensive policy approach...the Urzicenau case legalizes transportation, distribution, growing, for medical purposes going beyond Prop 215 and SB420...Contact pebbles@mmpu.org Box 2059 Fort Bragg, CA phone: 707-964 YESS...Street Interview with Mountain Dave...Phone Interview with Richard Quigley on the assault on disabled Jerry Henry's outside the Aptos Coffee Roasting Company at the Rancho Del Mar Shopping Center and the Alice-in-Wonderland response of a restraining order being taken out against Henry instead of his assailant...For Quigley's KSCO radio shows: google "Quigley"... Becky Johnson on the Parking Garage law...(approx 3 1/2 hours)

Thursday, June 1, 2006
Download Show Street Interview: "Crow" details "good times" with CSO Officer "Pummel the Poor" Pam Bachtel playing amplified music at the Wednesday Food Not Bombs distribution...May 23rd City Council on Parking Garage Paranoia Law cont..more public testimony including ACLU attorney Don Zimmermann's statement.. Public reaction to the Council tape...(Approx 2 hours)

Thursday, June 8, 2006
Download Show Parking Garage Paranoia Law--City Council discussion 5-23 (Council member Madrigal and Porter question Vice-Chief Vogel, Fitzmaurice opposes law, Reilly & Rotkin defend the law...Crow calls in Farmer's Market manager warning to musical shindig at Farmer's Market...Further Council Garage Law Possession...Earthmommer calls in with "rape" concerns supporting parking lot laws...Street Interviews...Kevin & Friends on Sleeping Ban tickets downtown...(tall) Linda Edwards poem...May 1 "no one is illegal" demo...(2 hours)

Sunday, June 11, 2006
Download Show Two hours of The Wake-Up Call including an SDS anti-war report and polygyny, Dan McMullen calls in with Berkeley People's Park Free Box update...Anti-war update...Native American activist co-host Rebecca Horsewoman...Park policing update.. Caller Leila attacks forced drugging..Horsewoman and her vehicles versus the SCPD...a longer call-in from disabled activist Dan McMullan...Horsewoman's "for sale" signs on her cars [457-9754 X3015]... Street Interviews: Juan Santos Pontoja on pre-trial fighting PC 647j state anti-camping law, camp despoiled and possessions discarded...Mrs. B. vs. Ranger John Wallace making a false arrest at 10:30 AM for sleeping in the park...Council changing panhandling law under court pressure in John Maurer "Fuck the Pigs" cases: speakers at City Council including attorney Paul Sanford and Don Zimmerman...[3 1/2 hours]

Thursday, June 15, 2006
Download Show Norse commentary on Drug War, Jury Nullification, his own criminal prosecution for speaking at City Council, and other updates...Jerry Henry on recent 4-20 assault and harassment at Aptos Coffee Roasting Company...Starbucks' Steve calls in on the Henry situation & harassment at the Boardwalk...(needs to be finished)

Sunday, June 18, 2006
Download Show Two hours of The Wake Up Call w/ praise for Saint Robert Norse...co-host Thomas Leavitt: his formation of a local SDS (Students for A Democratic Society)...Santa Cruz City Budget...guest: Rebecca Horsewoman...SB 1003's forcible removal of Navahos: www.blackmesais.org...Caller Bob L. on City Council's "500 mile firewall"--progressive abroad, regressive at home...Donna Deiss's update on Officer Breyerly's assault on Shane; Shane interview; Saturday Market Nick interview; guest Linda Lemaster on Homeless Services Center...guest: DJ Shatter...Patty, a homeless woman with no alternatives, get a Sleeping Ban ticket....Supreme Court's destruction of the Exclusionary Rule..(approx 4 hours)

Thursday June 22, 2006
Download Show Phone interview with Bridgewater State College (MASS) Sociology Professor Michelle Wacken on criminalization of the vehicular homeless in Santa Barbara (508-245-3809)..Mrs. B. vs. Ranger John Wallace making a false arrest at 10:30 AM for sleeping in the park...Julia Vinograd, Berkeley poet, author of Face to Face, reads "For the 50th Anniversary of Ginsberg's Howl" & other poems..SCPD political police surveillance update...Phone interview with Fresno's Mike Rhodes www.indybay.org/centralvalley on bulldozing the homeless there "Fresno Homeless Attacked and Insulted by City Workers"...music from the street...(2 hours)

Sunday, June 25, 2006
Download Show Two hours of The Wake Up Call w/a reading of the crackdown in Venice on street vendors/performers...Parking Garage Paranoia Protest and tasering discussion w/ Becky Johnson... People's Park April 30th Protest Against Police Assault on Dan McMullan in the Fight to Save the Free Box Christian Pico and Zachary Running Wolf Brown: Berkeley Mayoral Candidates ...Pebbles Trippet w/Mendicino Medical Marijuana Report..(approx 3 1/2 hours)

Thursday, July 6, 2006
Download Show Political Police Surveillance Update...Homeless elderly van dweller Mike Seymour on gang/police collusion against him in his van, history of his harassment in Santa Cruz...co-host Craig Canada in harassment of medical marijuana users in Page Smith and HSC..."Know Your Rights" tips...Berkeley police stop with Copwatcher Michael Diehl http://www.createpeaceathome.org...Screwy Louie of Berkeley Liberation Radio...10AM-1 PM 510-712-6093..Jaywalking ticket in Santa Cruz. Musical Mike told he can't play in front of sidewalk cafes..6-27 Spygate Oral Communications at S.C. City Council: Rico Thunder, Grant Wilson, Jen Laskin, and Mike Rotkin...police call in to fundraise...[2 hours]

Sunday, July 9, 2006
Download Show [Two hours of the Wake Up Call]..More on New Year's Spygate...Earthmommer calls in noting Sgt.Swannack arrested a protector rather than the assaulter in an attack on a Critical Mass Bike Ride...caller Theodora bemoans complaining without action... Thomas Leavitt critiques City Attorney Barisone..Spygate cont...ACLU letter on need for stronger protection against political police surveillance..Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser Thomas Leavitt on the City Attorney's supplemental budget request..German listener Nick on drug laws in Europe..Resuming 11-11-88 KZSC show on Sleeping Ban with UC Student Alliance for the Homeless including Maria Aldorene, Jenny Kenly, Ray Glock-Grueneich, Charles Grey, and Robert Norse..Street Interview: panhandler from the Phillipines [3 1/2 hours]

Thursday, July 13, 2006
Download Show Kenny the Panhandler. Eric Schlosser's Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap labor in the American Black Market on audio, Part 2. Discussion of Tony Madrigal and City Council action on "no smoking in San Lorenzo Park" and other laws. audio tape from the First Amendment Wake/March. delivering a cardboard coffin to the City Manager..Replay of 1988 replay of KZSC radio show featuring former attorney Ray Glock-Grueneich, Charles Grey, and Maria A. and Jennife Kenley of Student Alliance with the Homeless. more First Amendment Funeral tape. A.P. story on Supreme court's decision declaring Bush's military commissions unconstitutional..Street Interview: Andrew in San Lorenzo park reports on five camps raided near Emeline..[2 hours]

Sunday, July 16, 2006
Download Show [Thomas Leavitt's Wake-Up Call: second hour has discussion of proposed anti-homeless Parking Garage Paranoia Law-and the Maurer "no profane panhandling signs" case. Norse intro...Guest: Thomas Leavitt. July 11th City Council meeting. Norse struggles with the Consent agenda. Eric Schlosser's Reefer Madness:Sex, Drugs, and Cheap labor in the American Black Market on audio.. Federal Prison for Grass..Craig Canada in the studio.Leavitt critiques the Barisone report on the "lowest priority" marijuana initiative..phone interview with Initiative proponent Andre Tishler (S.C. for Sensible Marijuana Policy 466-0420). Vice-Mayor Emily Reilly interrupts activist Bernard Klitzner's critique of John Barisone...Council member Mike Rotkin live in the studio defends City Attorney John Barisone, discusses Marijuana Initiative, the Sleeping Ban. Street Interview: pregnant and homeless, Angela Sweat ticketed by CSO Pam Bachtel for reading within 10' of a panhandler. [approx. 5 ½ hours including Thomas Leavitt's Wake Up Call]

Thursday, July 20, 2006
Download Show Julia Vinograd reads her poetry: The Giant Rat...Children Playing Jumprope with Jeruselem's Hair...When They Crucified the Son of War...In-studio guest Linda Lemaster on City Attorney Barisone's legal opinion challenging the "lowest priority" marijuana initiative...callers debate Barisone's opinion, the initiative, value of city council discussion..Street Interviews: D. Roger Etcetera on Vets Hall controversy, elder vet abuse...Congo Ray on being stabbed, also seeking help at 457-8567 Cosmic Chris accuses police of harassing him and heisting his registration tags...discusses a felony weapons charge for having a Lucier's Knife to tune his guitar on his bicycle...Linda L. and Norse discuss the homeless "magnet" myth, and the 1978 Scotts Creek Bluff homeless fight back...more Cosmic Chris interview... "Boogie" reports CHP officer tries to recruit him as a snitch....Precious' accuses Dominican Hospital of treating poor people like shit...(2 hours)

Sunday, July 23, 2006
Download Show [Two hours of the Wake-Up Call which played some of the March 1991 hearing on Councilmember Manhaney's proposal to fence off the Town Clock to remove antiwar homeless protesters]...info on Vancouver, Canada injection rooms...Santa Cruz City Council update...Eric Schlosser's Reefer Madness on exploitation of strawberry workers..Phone Interview with Andrea Tishler of Santa Cruzans for a Sensible Marijuana Policy [taxandregulate.org...callers debate marijuana, Cuba...Street Interviews: Precious on police misconduct and homeless life as a single local black woman; Brent on fenced-in Poet's Park in Beach Flats...Midnight John from Denny's discussing waiting on the homeless...[approx 3 1/2 hours]

Thursday, July 27, 2006
Download Show Taped interview with "Midnight John" continues and partner Jolie, Denny's worker, on the homeless at midnight...Another segment of Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser--the underground immigrant economy...Discussion of Rotkin's crushing "Impeach Bush" resolution for November vote...Street interviews: Guitarist C.J., Poet Shannan B. "I Sit on the Street and Look at the Tourists" ...5-year San Quentin vet Tim on time inside and in Vacaville on the local homeless scene...July 24 Public Safety Committee tape on the pro-police surveillance guidelines...Craig Canada's report on the 22 phone calls it took to get back his stuff from the Homeless Services Center...(2 hours)

Sunday, July 30, 2006
Download Show [Thomas Leavitt's 2-hour Wake Up Call includes , 1991 Testimony at City Council against 1 AM curfew at the Town Clock by "Jetlag" Joe Salinksy, "Won Ton" Dave Jacobs, "Moxie" Margaret Marr, & others + commentary from Robert Norse]..more of 1991 tape including testimony from "Meandering" Mike Girth, Rocky Stone, "Bubbah" Brian Koepke, Linda Edwards, & others. Craig Canada joins as guest host....Selections from "Can't Stop the Clock"--Nick Whitehead's current play...Exchange on Israeli invasion of Lebanon w/Becky Johnson, "Jane Doe", Earth Mommer, John Thielmann, ...July 25, 2006 City Council meeting: Conference & Visitor's Council appropriation, Saturday Market Discussion...More July 24th chatter at Rotkin's Public Safety Committee...interviews after that meeting with Councilmember Coonerty, Bob Aronson, & others. (3 1/2 hours approx)

Thursday, August 3, 2006
Download Show In-studio guest Clive Bustrade entrepreneur and technologist now working in human rights field at www.coppercards.com and www.libertyforlife.com updates his case where he was convicted of felonious "reckless endangerment" for driving 27 mph up at private road with a 25 mph speed-limit, held on $150, 000 bail (15 times the scheduled amount)...street interviews: Solar, acrylic artist ticketed for display of merchandise...removal of change machine at Elm & Pacific...the Donna Deiss eviction case (2 hours)

Sunday, August 6, 2006
Download Show [Two hours of the Wake-Up Call w/1991 KZSC interview with homeless anti-war activists Linda Edwards, Robert Flory, Nicholas Whitehead and Robert Norse forming the background of the play Take Back the Clock]...Review of "Sir, No Sir" documentary of anti-Vietnam war protest in military...More 1991 Town Clock protest with Joe Salinsky, Linda Edwards, etc...Discussion of November ballot recommendations... Street Interviews: Angela Sweet gets ticketed by CSO Pam Bachtel for having her boyfriend 10' away while panhandling...Updates on Pogonip beat, Craig Canada by Tim R..Hiroshima: The Real Story--Counterpunch story read aloud...Fred Gardner's "Dr. Denney Sues the DEA" story aloud..Andrea Tishler of S.C. For Sensible Marijuana Policy phone interview [466-0420]...

Thursday August 10, 2006
Download Show [Show starts 5 minutes late because of Sprouts]...In-studio Guests: Tammy Singh on Homelessness and Police Abuse; and Tim Rumford on the Seaside Company Foreign Worker Exploitation, his Monday feeding program...Discrimination against the homeless in housing..Phone interview with attorney Kate Wells on the Norse "disruption" case and the Quigley "helmet law" case...Phone interview: Roger Mentch, Hemporium of Felton Marijuana Dispensary--on trial again!...Tammy on police misconduct (2 hours)...July 25th City Council meeting...Interview with John Anthony of LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition)..[3 1/2 hours approx]

Sunday, August 13, 2006
Download Show Two Hours of The Wake Up Call including audio from 1991 on City Council's Crackdown at the Town Clock Peace Vigil...co-host: Thomas Leavitt...Why did Rotkin press to deny voters the right to vote on an Impeach the Bushies in November?... Audio from 7-11 City Council Impeachment discussion in courtyard...Street Interviews: Cosmic Chris, Crow, & Others... BeBe assails Pat Clark of Vets Hall as anti-homeless...Tim Rinker on the Rotkin Impeachment Derailing...Reading of Fred Gardner: Dr. Denney Sues the DEA...Caller Bob Lamonika on the struggle to legalize Hemp, then and now...Various calls from Mattison..Theodora Kerry on the "Lowest Priority for Private Adult Marijuana" City Initiative [www.www.sensiblesantacruz.org]...Mattison on increased rapes in Santa Cruz...Coral and Condor call in...Counterpunch articles by Robert Fisk [The Real Reason the British Should be Frightened; How London's Terror Scare Looks From Beirut] and John Ross ["Voto Por Votos" Mexican Civil Resistance in Five Acts] ...3 1/2 hours

Thursday, August 17, 2006
Download Show Norse commentary on L.A. Times article echoing police complaints against ACLU's Jones lawsuit against the Skidrow Sleeping Ban...Berkeley's Hannibal Yukon helps replace a Free clothing Box in People's Park last spring; X-Plicit Players performer Debbie Moore discusses the police crackdown..."James" describes Mental Health Probation, and how he was abusively tasered in the County Jail...(2 hours)

Sunday, August 20, 2006
Download Show [Two hours of Thomas Leavitt's Wake-Up Call includes audio from an April 1991 KZSC Interview with attorneys Margaret Marr and Samora Michel of the Coalition for a Citizen's Police Review Commission]...Leavitt and Norse discuss Police Review...More of the Marr/Michel 1991 Interview...6 phone calls from Mattison..81-year old Mary Koury discusses being banned from ISSP's emergency shelter program...Street interviews: Jenna the Firedancer talks with Norse and CSO Pam Bachtel...Food Not Bombs report from 'Changes' at Wednesday Farmers Market Feed and Strum...'Tips for Tunes': Santa Fe changes anti-performer ordinance under ACLU pressure...Vet Robert Ackerly reports being thrown off a bus ...activist Bob Lamonika on police review... Skidmark Bob on Why Copwatch failed in Santa Cruz..[Show goes off the air an hour early because of broadcast problems] (approx 2 1/2 hours)

Thursday, August 24, 2006
Download Show Updates...Phone interview with Jim Vivian, San Jose activist and security guard, on court struggle to dismiss a ticket for sleeping in the park during the day...Bruce Hedenberg interview on July 8 assault and false arrest by Deputy Eryavek (part 1)...1 hour long interview with Joe Williams, GI resistance activist, and Stephen Dunafer, free radio old timer with calls from Skidmark Bob, Jim Lohse, and others [segment also archived on indybay at http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/24/18300450.php]..Jim Lohse interview on campus bust for medical marijuana and planned protest [approx. 2 hours]

Sunday, August 27, 2006
Download Show [Two hours of Leavitt's Wake Up call: End of 1991 Earthbeat interview with attorney Margaret Marr and Michel Samora on Police Review...Leavitt's Commentary on the need for community oversight..December 1991: Norse & Others at City Council on Bill of Rights 200th Anniversary in Santa Cruz; Citizens Police Review Debate]..co-host Craig Canada...Norse on political history of SCPD...Sunday London Times: "You Wouldn't Catch Me Dead in Iraq" 8-27 Tale of four deserters... Bruce Hedenburg Interview on July 12th on threats from a Davenport man followed by an assault and brutal arrest by Deputy Matty Eryavek...Norse and Craig on the Sleeping Ban...Good Times article:"Out of the Woods" by Peter Koht..phone calls from Skidmark Bob (public space reduction), Bob Lamonika (November "inevitable election" of Bruce Van Allen)...Channel 8 Videoman and Sentinel report Shanna McCord at July 5th Spygate Funeral and Protest for 1st Amendment...(5 1/2 hours approx)

Thursday, August 31, 2006
Download Show Intro and talk about Norse's upcoming criminal trial...interview with attorney Kate Wells...Doug Cronen's "on the beach after hours" ticket...SAFE interviews...Crow, Condor, Deon, others give street reports...Valerie Christie on 1980s Carota Soup Kitchen..Good Times on City Council races...Flashback Tape: Ray Glock-Grueneich confronting City Coluncil candidates on Sleeping Ban in 1988 race...C.J. Stock guitarist on the Parking Garage Paranoia law...Mr. Wescott on his seven arrests in last eleven months...(2 hours)

Sunday, September 3, 2006
Download Show [Wake Up call: Norse in studio with Leavitt on 1994 San Francisco Food Not Bombs Demo w/ Santa Cruz and Berkeley activists joining in...Leavitt reads Street Roots story: "London Calling" (new Dignity Village in London)]...Craig Canada's street report on threats from a family man for public medical marijuana use...midnight chat with Mr. Wescott...weedbay.net: DEA raid on Trichome Healing Center in Van Nuys...Riva Enteen and Steve Zeltzer--live conference phone interview on censorship & discrimination at KPFA against Labor Collective and its programming attempts...Hobo Lee live in-studio updating us on life on the rails...Sistani in Iraq abandons leadership role...Wescott chat continues... (approx 4 hours)

Thursday, September 7, 2006
Download Show Norse intro...Street Interviews: Swami at the Palomar and at SAFE--and his .illegal. display blanket...CSO Pam Bachtel makes up a .no sitting near the Swami. rule...Local July demo supporting urban farming in Los Angeles and public spaces in Santa Cruz...Thomas Leavitt on City Attorney Barisone's contract...More urban farming interviews...Disabled Warren Moore the mall Ventriloquist fighting a bogus ticket..Urban gardening interviews cont...Santa Cruz City Council candidate Simba Kenyatta phone interview....(2 hours)

Sunday, September 10, 2006
Download Show [Thomas Leavitt on The Wake-Up Call...April 1, 1991 audio tape--Norse on proposed fence/curfew at Town Clock]...Alex the coin collector for Sentinel newspaper boxes...Steve Zeltzer gives KPFA protest update...activist James Nay in studio discusses deputies Eryavec and Smith involved in assaulting him in 2004, multiple arrests for one bogus mid-1997 left-turn ticket...call-in interview from .James., covername for a man who describes being tasered in jail last year...[5 1/2 hours including T.L.s show]

Thursday, September 14, 2006
Download Show Psychedelic expert Peter Stafford in-studio guest...discusses his life and writing...Food Not Bombs report from the Wednesday Farmer's Market...(FNB contact: Chavez Co-Op Noon each Wednesday--Main St. across from the Hostel]...Street Interviews: Bam-Bam, Donna and Shane, Pot Bust on Loma Prieta...DJ Rhino calls in from Olympia, WA on anti-homeless crackdown, anti-war activity, and Free Radio Olympia [frolympia.org 360-870-9705)....Socialist Workers on anti-deportation demo...Tim Rinker on Proposition K (2 hours)

Sunday September 17, 2006
Download Show [Norse is guest host on Thomas Leavitt's The Wake-Up Call...The Life and Hazardous Times of Charles Bukowski (CD)... Discussion of the Sleeping Ban History...June 1988 Tabling for Homeless Rights tape w/Paddy Long, Elizabeth Gibbs...Iraq: Civil War or Insurgency? w/call-in's...Norse vs. Lamonika on Pull-Out...Songs by local Christian singer Beverly Adams...In-studio guest author on psychedelic drugs Peter Stafford...discussion of the Ed Rosenthal case...Trainhopping with Lee...[5 1/2 hours approx.]

Thursday, September 21, 2006
Download Show Norse on elections...V-Man on Declaration of Peace Spotlight Event...Fresno journalist and activist Mike Rhodes calls in on new laws criminalizing homeless shopping cart possession ...call for info on the Homeless Services Center complex...Andrea vs. V-Man...Interviews from the Downtown Neighbors S.C. City Council Candidates Forum including Lynn Robinson...Norse case dropped--background...Attorney Kate Wells on the dropping of the case..Roger Mentch on his upcoming Five Felonies Oct. 16 trial for selling medical marijuana...[2 hours]

Sunday, September 24, 2006
Download Show [Wake Up call includes 1993 Stephen Dunafer interview with a Rodney King protester who torched a police motorcycle].. in studio interview with Councilmember Tony Madrigal...In-studio interview with Councilmember and candidate Mike Rotkin...homeless blogger Craig Canada in studio...homeless activist Becky Johnson debates Rotkin on "magnet effect" of Sleeping Ban...In-studio interview with Simba Kenyatta...Sportsfield activist Jhon Golder in studio...Norse's City Council Preview...Care provider Anita Henry critiques S.C. medical marijuana clubs...

Thursday, September 28, 2006
Download Show Norse intro on Community Events Upcoming and the Detention Act...Santa Cruz Die-In 9-27...Parking Agency Boss Matt Ferrell on disappeared portapotties, planned self-cleaning toilet, and "no loitering, but free speech" signs...Senator Russ Feingold on the Detention Act...More from the Die-In [2 hours]

Sunday October 1, 2006
Download Show [T.L.'s Wake Up Call plays July 1992 Santa Cruz City Council Debate on Investigation of SCPD Officer Loran "Butchie" Baker on charges of sexual misconduct (Part 1)...with Robert Norse..]..Medical marijuana update and critique of local dispensaries from Med-Ex Worker Anita Henry...To contact D.A. Bob Lee and demand medical marijuana distribution charges be dropped against Roger Mentch, call 454-2400...Street Interviews: Catman and Baby...Sid protests Drunk in Public jailing...Sid, Brad, and Latalie denounce Benicio's refusal to serve the homeless....Callers debate whether prices at Greenway (140 Dubois) and S.C. Patients Collective (114 Limekiln) run by Ken Sampson are fair...People's Art Gallery at Planning Dept. public hearing (www.thepeoplesartgalllery.com)..Brent and Igliation critique the hearing...in-studio guest Human Rights Organization activist Bernard Klitzner describes his meeting with Simba Kenyatta and Kenyatta's position on the sleeping ban and the downtown ordinances...John Thielking reports on San Jose anti-flyering laws..City Council on 9-14-06 debates the Triple Fines Zone for Halloween...(5 1/2 hours)

Thursday, October 5, 2006
Download Show In-studio guest Tim Rumford discusses Lulu Carpenter owner Manifred Srineth's confrontation with disabled homeless panhandler Shane Maxwell on September 26th, which ended in police citing Maxwell for "swearing"...audio from the "World Can't Wait" Town Clock "U.S. Out of Iraq" rally earlier in the day...Rumford on the Homeless Service Center's planned closing of the ISSP program and other problems there...(2 hours)

Sunday, October 8, 2006
Download Show [Wake Up Call had part 2 of the 1992 City Council hearing on the Commission for the Prevention of Violence Against Women's recommendations for suspending Officer Loran "Butchie" Baker pending investigatikon...Norse commentary]... Thomas Leavitt is co-host throughout the show...Norse and Leavitt debate supporting Bruce Van Allen for City Council..discussion of district elections and candidate statements on the Sleeping Ban at the Community TV forum..More interviews from Oct. 5 "World Can't Wait" anti-war demo...caller: U.S. hegemony or Ben Laden cali-phate...anti-war interviews cont...audio from anti-Buju Banton protest outside the Catalyst some days ago and in-studio discussion. [5 1/2 hours including the Leavitt show]

Thursday, October 12, 2006
Download Show Street Interviews: Musical Mike Details new "No Sitting for Youth" policy at the Metro Transit Center...Shane Maxfield details various hassles with police downtown including an abusive assault from Lulu Carpenter's owner (M. Srineth) in late September involving SCPD collusion (detailed at http://www.indybay.org /newsitems/2006/10/13/18320184.php ..Tim Rumford of humanityforhomeless.blogspot.com adds his own investigative comments on the Maxfield-Srineth affair...Tim recalls his own "jailhouse interrogation" by the SCPD back in 1980...recounts CSO Bachtel's over-zealous arrest of a homeless woman apparently for "drunk in public"...Norse reads Mike Rhodes, Fresno homeless activist, on recent city theft of homeless shopping carts and destruction of their property with planned Tent City at City Hall October 21st....Tim reports on severe cutbacks in local Medicare/Medi-Cal and food stamp benefits.. (2 hours)

Sunday, October 15, 2006
Download Show [Wake Up Call has Part 3 of The Baker Cover-Up--Santa Cruz City Council.s 1992 Refusal to Appoint an Independent Investigator in the Sexual Misconduct Case of Officer Loran "Butchie" Baker]...Tim Rumford joins Norse as co-host, seeking volunteers for his Monday Pacific Avenue feed-the-hungry program: 831-464-8455 guitarandpen@hotmail.com or blog: humanityforhomeless.blogspot.com...Tim tells of Roger McGary, wheelchair guy with ostemy bag, locked out of Pleasant Care for a week and on the streets...Cosmic Chris goes to trial for Capitola cop's U-turn ticket where Chris is charged with "concealed weapon" for carrying a Luthiers Tool (a tool used to fashion guitars)...8:30 AM 10-16 Dept. 2...hour long call-in interview with Berkeley People's Park activist Dan McMullen [peoplesparkcommunity@yahoogroups.com] on gentrification and harassment of the homeless on Telegraph Avenue, the upcoming election, and fear mongering used to smear People's Park.....disabled homeless activist Craig Canada joins as co-co-host in the studio...McMullen advises high-profile "direct action gets the goods" style protest to secure benefits being denied with sleep-outs in front of the responsible agencies....critique of medical marijuana clubs as profiteers in Berkeley...John T. of San Jose (pagesincolor.com or freemumia.org or prisonradio.org) announces Mumia events... WAMM member Tony Treadway talks about cut backs at the medical marijuana collective, restrictive policies for members there...Jan of Maine calls discussing shelter crisis there [ janhouse@yahoo.com] [5 1/2 hours]

Thursday, October 19, 2006
Download Show UCSC Sleeping Ban (Ordinances 51 and 57)...Interviews up at UCSC Volunteer Fair...Erin Dankman--UCSC activist against Regent ..critic's account of "Students Started the Violence" (subsequently deleted by indybay.org)... http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/18/18321441.php?show_comments=1#18321570...Report on Roger Mentch of Hemporium--2005 conviction overturned...Call-in from Mike Rhodes, Fresno Homeless Activist [559-978-4502.]on Federal Court victory enjoining police from seizing and destroying homeless property, now requiring them to catalog and store it...the Rescue Mission Racket...misinformation that homeless can't vote...Klan-style hate groups immediately follow after police round-up homeless...in Fresno...Washington Post gutlessness in coverage of Bush's Constitutional outrages--most recently the Military Commissions Act suspending the Constitution around detention, charges, and habeas corpus. [2 hours]

Sunday, October 22, 2006
Download Show [The Wake-Up Call hosted by Robert Norse: Excerpts from March 9, 1993 Santa Cruz City Council meeting under Mayor Neal Coonerty, excluding homeless protesters and others from the evening session]...music from Tom Shivers. Malthusia...co-host Tim Rumford:]...Caller Mattison reports many double-loader cement trucks from out-of-state headed for Los Alamos...Med-Ex activist Anita Henry's update on the Mentch decision overturning Bob Lee's local Drug War conviction from last year...settlement stopping CHP seizure of marijuana...critique of WAMM... Censorship on indybay.org/santacruz? discussion...Becky Johnson on her being censored...Tenderfoot Tim strums some blues.. Caller Earthmommer suggests netzero.com..to get 10 hours a month of free internet...10-19 protest speakers against the Regents repression the day after the protest...Table Petitioning Against Collusion between Lulu Carpenter's owner and Police humanityforhomeless.blogspot.com?. ..Tenderfoot Tim's report on the Desalination Debate between Rotkin and Giacchino...Tim on the unwieldy Homeless Service Center policy for returning property, grievances, etc. [Approx 5 hours]

Thursday, October 26, 2006
Download Show Indybay.org censorship discussion..Lulu Carpenters harassment update...Street Interviews: Wheelchair Roger downtown...Triple fine zones coming up for Halloween...SIs: W.C., Bernadeena hassled at New Leaf Market planter by .Hosts....caller Paul on winter shelter...Ryan Coonerty on Santa Cruz Social Services, holding Lulu Carpenters accountable at City Council...C.J. Stock strums illegally inside the Walnut/Church St. Parking Garage...Ed Davidson on affordable housing...[2 hours]

Sunday, October 29, 2006
Download Show [Thomas Leavitt's The Wake Up Call has election discussion of Bruce Van Allen... Attorneys Ben Rice and ACLU's Alan Hopper on Santa Cruz County Medical Marijuana Issues.talk at the Santa Cruz Law Library]...Craig Canada and Tenderfoot Tim Rumford comment on Medical Marijuana...Earthmommer and Mattison call in on various topics...Theodora Kerry on Measure K.Lowest Priority for Marijuana...new website: www.santacruzcensorship.blogspot.com...Tim Rumford on his new Food Monday food program..Liberty City shantytown in Miami...Tina from Cal State East Bay tinarphillips@yahoo.com on protests...reproductive slavery... [approx 4 hours with the Marijuana Forum]

Thursday, November 2, 2006
Download Show Norse on the Oct 17th Military Commisions Bill...Halliburton's "illegal immigrant" detention camps...revereradio.net...Scope-In-Out Scott Graham co-hosts...Spirited discussion of ballot measures...critique of police Halloween measures on Pacific Ave...Scott savages the businesses against Measure G....arguments against Measure K...boisterous discussion of Council race...(2 hours)

Sunday, November 5, 2006
Download Show [Thomas Leavitt's Wake Up Call: Audio of "To Serve and Protect"--UCSC student late 90's video of abuses in the SCPD and attempted community control...Leavitt reports second-hand police beating...Phone Interview with City Council candidate Bruce Van Allen] Callers Mattison and Earthmommer praise and critique Bruce Van Allen...Local election issues...Skidrow L.A. article...Street Interviews: Halloween downtown w/Condor, Theodora...Co-Host Tenderfoot Tim...Wheelchair Roger on the streets in the rain, evicted resident of Pleasant Care Nursing Home on Soquel Extension for having a diabetic reaction and leaving AMA.... In-studio Education activist Cynthia Berger and community activist Scott Graham join Tim as panel on Watkins v. Baker...Halloween street madness...Studio panel on state initiatives...[5 1/2 hours]

Thursday, November 9, 2006
Download Show Various archival marijuana songs throughout the show...co-host: Condor...articles from the Counterpunch website on election results by Joshua Frank and Bruce K. Gagnon...laws against the poor in Santa Cruz...Sleeping Ban petition asking City Attorney to suspend ticketing as L.A. and San Diego have done...Phone interview with attorney Kate Wells on the election, custodial arrests for infractions, and other legal updates..street interviews: Nickolas still dodging bill collectors from a five year old sleeping ban ticket...Ben Rice, attorney for Hemporium founder Roger Mentch, gives updates on Mentch's case, discusses punitive county measures against local growers and users. [2 hours]

Sunday, November 12, 2006
Download Show Note: Normal audio archive of file is corrupted due to technical problem with streaming server, to listen to today's production of The Wakeup Call (ends when technical problem discovered) and Bathrobespierre's Broadsides (144 megabyte download, will take several minutes even on a fast connection), click on the links. Note: these are very large files.
Various classic pot songs played throughout the show...Co-hosts: "Tenderfoot" Tim Rumford, Rodney Avery...Street Interviews from UCSC on the homeless and the UC Regents protest: James Free, Cassanra J., Jenny Holton...SAFE song and chatter...Med-Ex Medical Marijuana Activist Anita Henry calls in about crime and corruption in Mercy Housing's Neary Lagoon project, bureaucratic stonewalling by Redevelopment Agency czarina Ciel Cirillo...Mattison Fitzgerald calls in on neighborhood violence... African-American local Rodney Avery describes police harassment, arrest, and seizure of his vehicles and makes community appeal.. to donate contact HUFF at 831-423-4833...Interviews from Friday demo urging a boycott of Lulu Carpenter's cafe, Michael Tomasi reports on police refusal to take a citizens arrest of Tom Bissell after an assault that drew blood...Bernard Klitzner banned from Lulu Carpenters...2003 tape of interviews with homeless peace protesters led by Olivia Brownrabbit who filed battery/assault charges against Srinath after he threw coffee at a protester with a "Boycott Lulu Carpenters" sign...[4 hours]

Thursday, November 16, 2006
Download Show Introduction...Replay of March 16, 2003 tape with accounts of Manthri Srinath, Lulu Carpenters owner, abusing homeless patrons, who were also anti-war protesters.... caller Turtle asks how to make ACLU accountable...Human Rights Organization activist Bob Patton asks listeners to call in any camping ban tickets they've gotten for a lawsuit..831-425-4467 www.humanrightsorg.org...L.A. Downtown News on the Jones lawsuit and L.A.'s suspension of the Sleeping Ban...tape: Heidi gives a positive view of Lulu's...Maurer a negative one...Street Interviews: drummers moved along, Pan on being a street guitarist in Walnut Creek [2 hours]

Sunday, November 19, 2006
(The Wake Up Call has some hard rock and Noam Chomsky) ...brief farewell to Councilmember Fitzmaurice...Lulu Carpenters boycott discussion..audio tape from the Friday November 17th boycott tabling outside Lulu's; interviews with or tape of Joaquin, Road Scholar, Tim Rumford, Shane, Mark Fullerton several police officers, SCPD Officer Jeffrey Aldridge (who wrote the original Shane Maxfield citation for Srinath), his superior Sgt. Dan Flippo, San Jose John, Valerie C., Jeff Hitchcock...Hairdresser Rey... Michael Rhodes on the federal court hearing seeking an injunction against the Fresno PD to stop it from seizing and destroying homeless property [http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/18/18330868.php] (5 1/2 hours).

Thursday, November 23, 2006
Download Show Co-host Tenderfoot Tim Rumford. Judge Wagner's Kincaid Preliminary Injunction banning the Fresno PD from destroying homeless property---[http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/23/18332519.php] various articles Fresno writer and activist Mike Rhodes calls in: distributing cameras to the homeless to photograph police and public works violence and thievery in action; food program discussion: saga of Food Not Bombs....the Potters Hand.... http://www.santacruzcensorship.blogspot.com has locally censored stories ...Phone Interview with Mike Rhodes...on city thugs compacting homeless bicycles, court confrontations, homeless funding going into FPD code enforcement, mikerhodes@comcast.net....Halloween downtown: drummers, Nightwatcher Nick's Eureka report, Catastrophic Craig Canada's update, a cop stop downtown...(2 hours)

Sunday, November 26, 2006
Download Show [The Wake Up Call: Musical selections and Leavitt commentary on unsustainability of U.S. life style ]...Iraqi war report...Co-host Tim Rumford.....Shane Maxfield's phone report on SCPD refusing to make a theft arrest when he was stolen from...1 in 5 homeless attacked or robbed, quotes Rumford from national survey....discussion of Judge Wanger's pro-homeless Kincaid decision in Fresno stopping police bulldozing and destroying homeless property....Street interviews: Brad and Shana, "No Loitering" signs under Andy's Auto on Pacific...L.A. Update: Police Chief Bratton's "Broken Windows" sweeps... Bard Dennis Holt...Street Interviews: Hawk on Ranger Wallace's theft of his tarp, tent, axe; Crazy Mary calls for a Santa Cruz People's Park; Michele B. banned from eating at Elm St. by restraining order; Condor on more anti-homeless street architecture...."Unpaid" Bill on Ranger Wallace tickets... Fred Gardner "Another 1.9 Victims" on Marijuana and Pharmaceuticals. [3 1/2 hours]

Thursday, November 30, 2006
Download Show Guest Xwette from Squamash Nation...child seized on order from Commissioner "Junk Justice" Joseph...denied access to Rebele Family Shelter...Interviews on Halloween Eve on Pacific Avenue...Phone Interview with Stephen Pearcy, Berkeley lawyer on anti-war activity there.

Sunday, December 3, 2006
Download Show [The Wake Up Call has Thomas Leavitt on shallowness of the local progressive community with the votedown of Measure G...Norse and his old audio tape: 1992 San Francisco Demo against the Curfew...1992 David Nadel at People's Park Setting Up Signs at Volleyball Court...1992 City Council Meeting--on Homeless Services and Police Review Board...]....1992 tape continues...Tenderfoot Tim co-hosts...Comparison of then and now...Paul on tasering as torture...1992 speakers: Won Ton Dave Jacobs, Linda Edwards, Tony Mello, John Malkin, Helen Ewan, Lotus Maynard, Jane Looney, ...2006: Becky Johnson's draft HUFF letter to Vice-Mayor Ryan Coonerty asking for city's policy on nighttime sleeping arrests....2006 death blind homeless man Peter Klusky... 1992 City Council speakers: Robert Norse, Linda Lemaster, Margaret Marr...many call-ins from Mattison...2006 Thanksgiving food line interviews with Warren Moore, Tim Fitzmaurice, Scott Graham, Tom Lewis, Rick, Casey, Nena Ruez...Cleveland phone report on anti-war conference (U.S. Labor Against the War)[ workagaisntwar@yahoo.com

Thursday, December 7, 2006
Download Show Co-host Tenderfoot Tim. Update on Nueva Vista (Dolphin-Lee) Project by Nena Ruez and Julie Costanza...Update on Dennis Adams' banned meal...preliminary discussion of Scotts Valley anti-camping law...New court procedure sending FTAs, FYAs, for minor infractions to collection agencies...More street interviews from the Thanksgiving food line ...Grinmaster Guitarist Greg in studio on Metro Center's new used of blasted classical music to drive away homeless.. SAFEster Coral B. calls in noting some Host harassment while trying to sell her artwork downtown...New harassment of food servers.. [2 hours]

Sunday, December 10, 2006
Download Show [The Wake Up Call has 2 hours of music and political discussion with Thomas Leavitt]...Thomas and "Tenderfoot" Tim Rumford co-host...homeless bunnyowner Shane M. describes anti-homeless activity on Pacific... Ave...Donna Deiss at Domincan Hospital mistreatment of poor...new anti-homeless parking regs...discussion of Scotts Valley anti-Camping Ordinance under consideration; tape of the Council session...Phone Interview with homeless activist Tad of Arcata on homeless legal struggle, police, povertypimpery, and forced "mental health" drugging up north [theplazoid.blogspot.com tadspeace@yahoo.com] ...caller Valerie critiques Scotts Valley police chief...November 28th Santa Cruz Council Chowdown after new Councilmembers were sworn in--interviews at the feast with Nancy LaFortune, Bob Campbell....discussion of Vets Hall banning of local homeless vet food server Dennis Adams of the Potters Hand....[3 1/2 hours].

Thursday, December 14, 2006
Download Show Norse chats about Quigley...Michael Wallace's Los Gatos marijuana ticket...phone interview with Richard Quigley on new law notifying cops if insurance missing, allowing car to be impounded...proposes to recall Sheriff Robbins because of violating Proposition 215 with marijuana busts...Michael Wallace interview cont...writer Gregory Afghani interview on L.A. Jones decision and the right of the Skid Row homeless to sleep [www.cangress.org for Los Angeles Community Action gregory.afghani@yahoo.com]...[2 hours]

Sunday, December 17, 2006
Download Show [The Wake-Up Call has Norse co-hosting, discussion of struggle to serve free food in Santa Cruz, the Scotts Valley anti-camping law; archival tapes from January 1994--Food Not Bombs struggles to serve free food; Keith McHenry, co-founder of FNB, calls in live from Taos, N.M.--his struggle against police repression in San Francisco; FNB in Africa; FNB info: 800-884-1136] ...McHenry interview concludes....co-host Tenderfoot Tim Rumford with traveling Irish visiter Colomb MacMorrow--ticketed by police in different cities, sleeping ban ticket in Santa Cruz; Thomas Leavitt calls in a report from Dennis Adams feeding program at the Town Clock; ...Poet Shannon Breedan ...Supervisor Elect Neal Coonerty on affordable housing...Med-Ex worker Anita Henry updates on her struggle for safety in her low-income Sycamore Grove housing project, critique of medical marijuana ; Scotts Valley City Council's Dec 7th 1st reading of its anti-camping (anti-homeless) ordinance...[approx 5 hours including relevant sections of The Wake-Up Call]

Thursday, December 21, 2006
Download Show Nick, who lost his Marine sister in Iraq by car bomb, sits on Pacific Avenue with a "testing human kindness" sign against the war in Iraq.....Jeremy Alderson of the Annual Homelessness Marathon critiques Poverty Pimps on Coalition Boards...Fresno homeless activist Pamela Kincaid reports on fighting for survival against the FPD...Journalist and activist Michael Rhodes on legal successes against those bulldozing the homeless there...Ranger Wallace's ticketing record revealed; Activist Becky Johnson calls in reading Presiding Judge Morse's 11-14-06 order setting a new civil collection process for Failures to Appear on infractions...$2520: the cost to get Public Records on Sleeping Tickets!...Scotts Valley City Council's 2nd and Final Reading of its Homeless Camping Ban...Norse on SVPD Chief John Weiss....[approx 2 hours]

Sunday, December 24, 2006
Download Show [Thomas Leavitt's The Wake-Up Call...Leavitt's rap on Sleeping Ban...Norse co-host...Police Surveillance of DIY Last Night 2005 Scandal discussion...Audio track Part One of Voices Community TV show with host Mark Halfmoon interviewing former Mayor Chris Krohn, activist Sherry Conable vs. former Mayor Mike Rotkin and Councilmember Ed Porter]...Valerie Christy live on guitar with "O Little Town of Santa Cruz"....Tonee Mello, Oaxaca activist setting up Free Radio stations there tonee@riseup.net 415-587-6275...Oaxaca update: check narconews.com and www.radiotupa.org...Norse on "Week of Winter Woe"....Craig Canada on the ISSP program and his recent kidnapping by police and incarceration in Dominican Psych Ward ...V. Christy's "Homeless Jingle Bells"....12-22 Homeless Demo in front of City Attorney's Office urging him to stop issuing sleeping tickets: Steve Argue and Emily Malone on Mumia Abu-Jamal, Jumbogumbo Joe Schultz on the Sleeping Ban, Melissa and Baby Luna on homeless life, Caroline Burke on the Paris homeless...Public Bathroom Void...co-host Anita Henry.. Live homeless version of "Downtown" by Norse, Christy, Canada, Henry. Phone-In with Rev. Wiley Drake of Buena Park, CA on his history of being criminalized for helping the homeless www.crusaderadio.com (714-865-8132) ...Mike True: "Sleepin' in Santa Cruz"...Anita's medical marijuana update..[4 hours]

Thursday, December 28, 2006
Download Show Street Interviews [SI]: Intro song: "Not My Fight" from Election Day U.S.A. collection ...Uncle Dennis the Bard (www.quetzalcoyotl.org) on Halloween police and Lulu Carpenters ranting...Norse updates... SI: Halloween Downtown cont.: critique of police presence, sheriffs pass on an open container ticket...8-17-06 Jeremiah on Harmonica: "It Ain't No Crime to Play My Tune on the Street"--beer break citations from Kline and Hoppe...12-22-06: Interviews from the Sleeping Ban Demo in front of Bookshop Santa Cruz: Brandy lesbian mom on street survival; 56-year-old Ted on crutches critiques the Armory...Paul Sanford (died supposedly a suicide 12-24-06) remembered... ..Juan Cole on "Top Ten Myths About Iraq" [http://www.juancole.com/ at Dec 26, 2006]...More Demo Interviews: Pam from Camp Paradise, Douglas on the Cecile White Act...Backpacker Johnny claims Ranger Wallace stole his stuff twice. [2 hours]

Sunday, December 31, 2006
Download Show [Extended version including The Wake-Up Call: Songs throughout the show from "Election Day U.S.A"....Norse on DIY Last Night Police Surveillance a year ago...background to the Scandal: http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/19261/index.php; [http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/19313/index.php] replay of Feb 2006 Voices Community TV show with Sherry Conable, Chris Krohn, Mike Rotkin, and Ed Porter interviewed by Mark Halfmoon on Surveillance Scandal...Newsbriefs and Street Interviews: LAACLU seeks renewal of "no searches without cause" of homeless on Skid Row...S.C. Bebe on SCPD's "Move Along" order...Report from Oaxaca by Robert Flory... Phone Interview with Randy Wallberger of Project S.H.E.L.T.E.R. on his capsule home modules www.s-h-e-l-t-e-r.org 310-828-9328...12-21 Homeless Services Center Director Ken Cole reads names of the homeless dead in 2006 (45 or so)...Homeless Persons Health Project Matt Nathanson interviewed on Sleeping Ban...Bob Patton appeals for 68-year old woman suffering problems at Homeless Services Center...Castaway Kim gets a jaywalking ticket on Pacific Ave...Seth, Swami, Dansk, and Roger E. on the Vet's Hall controversy...[approx 5 1/2 hours]

2007

Thursday, January 4, 2007
Download Show Swami's Sermon...Castaway Kim critiques Friends Outside...signers of the "End the Sleeping Ban" petition in the "Follow the Jones Decision" rally outside Coonerty's Bookshop Santa Cruz speak out: Johnny Circa, Alena. ..Benchwarmer John on ID harassment on Pacific Ave...dialogue after 12-7 Scotts Valley meeting when they passed anti-homeless Camping Ban...Vet's Hall protest Against Pat Clark: Roger claims vets locked out, money unaccounted for; other critics; Jean Kerry--Commander of the Disabled Vets criticizes Tim Bratton, Jake a local vet...Ron on Emeline/Dominican medical care abuses...Zoran on schizophrenia...Ruben Gomez on the struggle for control of the Vets Hall...Roger's Xmas Day Update...Xmas Day ticket for "bike on the sidewalk" report musicians Cosmic Chris, Valerie Christy, ..Xmas at the Homeless Meal...(2 hours)

Sunday, January 7, 2007
Download Show [The Wake-Up Call includes interview with two Berkeley marchers Santa Cruz supporters in the Peoples Park Demos in 1991...the first part of a Norse interview with Larry Hildes, homeless attorney in 8 1/2 month long 1996 City Hall Sleepers protest; then-Mayor Rotkin tried to secure an injunction the homeless vigil anywhere in the downtown; Norse channels Rotkin...Interview with Fresno activist Mike Rhodes on anri-war protests, barbed-wire drunk detention camps, and the homeless situation there...http://indybay.org/newsitems/2007/01/02/18343438.php... Street Interviews: Stonemason busted in has car for less than an oz. of grass...poets outside the E3 Playhouse...December 31--Last Night Parade with the Opera Lady, the Fire Juggler, Louis and Nancy La Fortune, Cordelia, Becky Johnson, Bobby Ackerman and others...Interviews at SAFE 1-2-07: Kenneth, Angie, and baby's shelter problems [approx. 4 hours]

Thursday, January 11, 2007
Download Show Guests Kate Horner and Tokin' Tim Rinker of Santa Cruzans for Sensible Marijuana Policy...Discussion of Measure K--the successful "lowest priority for marijuana" initiative voted in...1-9 City Council passes $700, 000 grant to maintain emergency shelter at its current 5-10% level...$700, 000 appropriation for more Parks and Recreation Ranger busts of the poor...Sam reviews Fresno situation...[approx 2 hours]

Sunday, January 13th, 2007
[Thomas Leavitt's The Wake Up Call: Slave Revolt: Black Assassinations in America] Reairing of the December 24th, 2006 show due to problems with broadcast transmitter.

Thursday, January 18, 2007
Download Show Co-Host Human Rights Organization co-founder Bob Patton...Audio of interview earlier that afternoon with Santa Cruz Mayor Emily Reilly... Reilly, Patton, and Bernard Klitzer discuss the City's Sleeping, Blanket, and Camping Ban Laws (MC 6.36.010) w/Norse and Patton interjecting comments...Surprise speakers Deadman, Indigenous Preacher, and Philosopher King support a proposed sleep-out....Street Interviews: C.J. Stock street guitarist with guitar taken by police...Daniel, three-time escapee from Harbor Hills Locked Facility...1-7 City Council discussion of $700, 000 grant to Parks and Recreation anti-homeless ranger policing (2 hours)

Sunday, January 21, 2007
Download Show [Thomas Leavitt's Wake Up Call guest-hosted by Robert Norse... hypocrisy and repression in the D.A. Bob Lee's attack on medical marijuana providers...Santa Cruz Sleeping Ban discussion w/Leavitt...AIDS sufferer Shane Maxfield on downtown discrimination against the homeless..caller asks for mass houseless protest...Attorney Larry Hildes continues 1996 interview begun on January 6...] Old-time homeless activist John Hernandez calls in on discrimination against homeless at state parks...Co-host Tenderfoot Tim "First Thoughts Toward a Homeless Resistance"...[Hildes interview continues with Norse roleplaying Rotkin].. Difficulties of Speaking at City Council--1-9...Shane's "bunny food on sidewalk" littering ticket...Musician Cosmic Chris update on his ticket.. UCSC Students Sam Harris and Paul on describe Vice Mayor Ryan Coonerty's "Problems w/Constitutional Law" and "Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism" courses...A Testimonial Dinner for local freedom fighter and motorcycle activist Richard Quigley...[5 hours or so]

Thursday, January 25, 2007
Download Show Grinmaster Greg co-host; "Not About Free Speech--The Case of Venezuela's RCTV" by George Ciccariello-Maher at http://www.counterpunch.org/maher01122007.html....Live phone interview from Venezuela with him...1-14 street interviews with washboard band, bystanders, 1-17 Interview with Sr. Arana on his seat belt ticket...Walnut Creek's Fresh Start founder Susan Prather discusses Richmond's changes in its Sleeping Ban, which now includes because of her lobbying, the "Jones decision" language as well as Walnut Creek which, she says, does not harass homeless speakers in public places. www.freshstartwc.org(2 hours)

Sunday, January 28, 2007
Download Show [Thomas Leavitt's The Wake Up Call Archival tape from 1-27-93 San Francisco Food Not Bombs challenging repressive Mayor Frank Jordan's anti-homeless Matrix program in front of City Hall..including interviews with People's Park activist Susan Marsh, a Communications Worker of America speaker, and others]..co-host Thomas Leavitt...frequent caller Madmouth Mattison... Cabrillo Homeless Task Force activist Matt Marks at Santa Cruz City Council 1-23 on the pro-homeless Jones decision...more from '93 FNB rally...L.A. Sweeps on homeless: http://la.indymedia.org/news/2007/01/191954.php...Yvonne Agino, a homeless 65-year old woman who died 3 days ago, accuses Marcus Banuelos and others at the Homeless Service Center of incompetence, corruption, and fraud, of shining on homeless people. Human Rights Organizer Bob Patton and HUFF activist Becky Johnson comment on Agino's tragic death...police blockade downtown at La Vie restaurant and the "Party at Your Peril" ordinance...on-air phone call/message to Councilmember Lynn Robinson...[approx 4 hours]

Sunday, February 11, 2007
Download Show (Thomas Leavitt's The Wake Up Call includes archival tape from 1993 FNB rally in Civic Center Plaza in wake of police Matrix crackdown ...Protest Against the 1992 Bay Area Curfew in wake of acquittal of cops who beat Rodney King.. Audio Documentary of George Jackson Killing in Marin County: "The Struggle Inside": Origins of the Modern Anti-Prison Movement...Phone Interview with Santa Barbara Homes on Wheels activist Nancy McCradie]...Co-hosts Norse and Tenderfoot Tim crack down on the Crackdown...Maxi-mouth Mattison's Latest Phone Flashes...Bob Lamonika attacks Slobbery and Peepee downtown...City Council Preview...Carolyn says barhoppers not homeless the problem...In studio guest Jhon Golder and Beach Flats resident Phil Baer (on phone) discusses recent Tidelands giveaway to Seaside Company... Norse and Golder roleplay a police Sleeping Ban stop...Virginia Pearcy, Berkeley attorney, discuss the Wataba mistrial--first non-commissioned officer courtmartialed for refusing to go to Iraq...Street Interviews: C J. Stock on seizure of his guitar...Portland activist and writer Ruth Kovocs doing a poverty tour calls in.. [4 1/2 hours approx, counting archives played during The Wake-Up Call]

Thursday, February 14, 2007
Download Show Pacific Avenue Crackdown: Street Interviews from 2-13 cop gives bike ticket, Borders youth discuss the situation...Brad ticketed for sleeping ticket...Craig Canada gets a Tuesday night sleeping ticket after speaking at City Council...Discussion of the Ronald Stokes case...Steve Argue on Student Anti-War, Labor Demo and Friday Demo at Rep Farr's Office...Santa Cruzans for Sensible Marijuana Use---Kate Horner on City Council's Court Challenge Against Measure K (2 hours)

Sunday, February 18, 2007
Download Show (The Wake Up Call includes SPAN (Stop Police Abuse Now!) 11-91 Forum ...police harassment then and now..."Nutcracker" Nick Whitehead host.... Berkeley Copwatch with Suzanne and Lisa...Mark Levy sings "The LAPD Theme" ....Norse and Leavitt discuss the Current Crackdown... SPAN Forum: Osha Neumann, attorney and Police Review Commission member discusses police review...Bathrobespierre's Broadsides: Reading of "Lights out for Citizen Review" in the 2007 Berkeley Copwatch bulletin by Carol Denney ...Mark from Aptos at raggedychic8@yahoo.com seeks help...co-host Tenderfoot Tim notes he's posted a video of the anti-war protest at Rep Sam Farr's office last Friday at www.humanityforhomeless.blogspot.com...Street Interviews: Byways Brad busted for Sleeping.. Upcoming Homelessness Marathon schedule...Shade'n'shine Shane reports from street....Streetperformer Valerie Promise announces the Ribboned Watchers; volunteer at vpromise@yahoo.com, describes harassment from Sgt. Flippo for legal medical marijuana use in public...callers announce signal problems...Street Interviews: Jeremy tries to claim bike parts, gets hassle from Officer Aldridge; publicly confronting two cops harassing Mike the Biker going the "wrong way" on Pacific Ave... Roughsleeper Rudy gets police pressure...Daywatcher Dos's report of cop crackdown ("why were you in the bathroom so long?")...Nightfall Nickolas P. reports on Ronald Stokes, African-American who cracked and pounded a cop after watching a bust too many...Outreach worker ducks the microphone...Swami counsels Norse...Colin Clyde on police profiling the poor downtown...Valerie C. reports from the Potters Hand Sunday meal down at the Town Clock...Updates on squeezing Sleeping Ban stats from a cantankerous court...[Approx 5 hours with archives playing]

Sunday, April 1, 2007
Download Show [The Wake-Up Call co-host Rober Norse...Leavitt and Norse critique Rep. Farr's Pro-Iraq War vote [http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/03/27/18383959.php]...Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry: Part 2 of his Porter College Presentation 3-16: questions from the audience...More on Farr...Zinn the Supplemental Iraqi Funding]...Interviews at antiwar protest at County Building and at Farr's Office 2-16, Steve Argue.. A. Cockburn: "The Fake Fight Over the Iraqi War"... Norse at City Council on dogs, lawsuit, and upcoming Rotkin-Myberg debate...in-studio guest David Myberg, local attorney and surfer, discusses law expanding Parks and Recreation power to tax and regulate surf school access to the beach...cranky courtmaster Jhon Golder joins as in-studio guest...Norse commentary on lawsuit, harassment at the Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting Company...caller Carolyn urging late-night downtown drummers on Pacific Avenue to back off...seat belt court case [cont. from 1-25-07 show]...legal worker Ray Glock-Gruneich on the Jones decision, state versus federal courts...Donska Morgan, medical marijuana guy in wheelchair, ticketed for joint by Officer Bines 2-3 in alley behind Borders...Lindsey's citation ticketed by Officer Valdez for a U-turn he instructed her to make...Activist Ed Frey announced his weekly noon citizen's rally at the Post Office...3-27 Tuesday SAFE/HUFF musicians adventures with Officer Brandt; Suzanne on the crackdown...Mike Ortega on Vice-Chief Sepone giving a harassment ticket to drummers some years ago...[5 1/2 hours]

Sunday, April 8, 2007
Download Show [Thomas Leavitt's The Wake Up Call...guest: Robert Norse...dialogue on the usual no shelters, no shitters, for the poor...Tac Ice Cream Squad's "Know Your Rights" Presentation at UCSC, Part 2...Berkeley Copwatch Andrea Prichard's Critique of Community Policing]...Tigger on problems doing Community Service...Rotkin and Norse spar...Forum/Debate: Attorney David Meyberg, Councilmember Mike Rotkin, and Advocate Jhon Golder on Proposed Expansion of Power for Parks and Recreation to Regulate students/instructions for surfing school crossing the beach... [for remainder of show go to www.huffsantacruz.org and scroll down for April 8, 2007 show, which didn't get properly recorded] [2 1/2 hours]

Thursday, April 12, 2007
Download Show Music...Compassion fatigue collage; "Who Owns the Land?"...guest host: Thomas Leavitt...Palo Alto, Fresno, Orlando FL updates... (1 1/4 hour)

Sunday, April 15, 2007
[Thomas Leavitt's The Wake Up Call: Norse and Leavitt discuss Orlando Homeless Feeding Bans and local Bans...] ..Part 3 of 3-16 UCSC Porter College Food Not Bombs Forum: interview w/ Jill Rounds (Keith McHenry companion)...Summer 2006 HUFF Forum Presentation by Bob Patton on History of Anti-Homeless Laws; Becky Johnson on Chalkcrime] Former network and local photographer Chip Scheuer in-studio guest....Brent the Barrell Drummer's "Excessive Noise" Ticket from Officer Aldridge...Norse vs. caller Bob Lamonika on Iraq Suicide Bombing...Banning Anti-War Signs...D Evans Trespass-at-the-Bookshop Santa Cruz arrests...Iraqi Vet speaks...Street Interview: John in Capitola Kings Plaza on Destruction of his Campsite...February 15 Farr Protesters at Farr's Office...[approx 4 1/2 hours]

Thursday, April 19, 2007
Download Show Updates: Salinas Bans Medical Marijuana Clubs...Measure K Update...Brian "Squirrel" on homeless campgrounds...Alan Treval says police roughed him up, arrested for resisting arrest...Brian on three incidents of police harassment in his vehicle...victory in Fresno--a "free zone" for homeless campers..interviews from the Feb. 20 homelessness marathon...Phone Interview with Fresno Peace-and-Justice activist Mike Rhodes on progress of "free zone" announcement (2 hours)

Sunday, April 22, 2007
Download Show [Guest host Robert Norse takes over The Wake-Up Call, playing Matt Marks Cabrillo College Homelessness forum from 4-21, part 1 with commentary from Norse and Human Rights Organization activist Bob Patton; Patton reports of renewed sleep crime tickets after the mid-April closing of the Armory as well as planned staff reductions at the Homeless Services Center]...Upcoming City Council Meeting Advisory: paysoffs in lieu of low-income housing, more funding for the Downtown Management Corporation...Various Street Interviews: Dean of Coffee Cart A-Go-Go praises downtown Santa Cruz after the crackdown...Phil and his wife discuss Wallace's raid on them naked with camping ticket...Scope-It-Out Scott Graham calls in critiquing the Redevelopment Agency and explaining "eminent domain"..Elderly jaywalker describes his bust...Valerie Promise's on a new service center downtown...Craig Canada's break with the Greenway Medical Marijuana Club...Officer Sims stops a bicyclist on Pacific Avenue...Free Skool "Know Your Rights" class...John busted in incident where New Leaf employee pursued him with "stay away" paper...Phone interview with Sally Zinman of California Network of Mental Health Clients http://www.ncmhcso.org/ - http://www.californiaclients.org/ on how much of Proposition 63 money is going to involuntary incarceration and drugging, the recent fight to challenge a department of mental health ruling funneling money there..Update from Free Radio Berkeley founder Stephen Dunafer [approx 5 hours]

Sunday, April 29, 2007
Download Show [Thomas Leavitt's The Wake Up Call...Reversing the National Security State and the Iraqi War...Legal eagle Ray Glock-Grueneich defends Brian Flanegan Staley in flashback tape from March 1989 and Staley's conviction for serving the homeless free food at the Town Clock...Staley's phone interview after he was sentenced to 6 months in jail..]...1989 Norse interview about S.C. Sentinel slandering Staley...January S.F. U.S.-Out-Of-Iraq January 27th protest...Co-host Craig Canada [www.palmspringsbum.org]...sleeping hassle this morning...discussion of homeless services and Karen Gillette..."poverty court" in S.F...bannerdrop on April 26th in Senate chambers favoring impeachment...attack on medical cannabis edibles...Norse's "Heil Krohn" lawsuit dismissal attacked by law profs Vikram Amar and Alan Brownstein [http://writ.lp.findlaw.com/commentary/20070427_brownstein.html]..[approx 4 1/2 hours]

Thursday, May 3, 2007
Download Show In-studio interview with 65-year old James Sherman, homeless volunteer at the Homeless Services Center and Human Rights Organizationista Bob Patton on recent ranger crackdown and tent slashing against the homeless as well as HSC problems...LAPD Crackdown Against Journalista at Pro-Immigrant rally... Matt P. with Bread and Roses and Poor People's Union in Olympia, WA's Camp Quixote (2 hours)

Sunday, May 6, 2007
Download Show [The Wake-Up Call w/Thomas Leavitt...replay of Bill Moyers interview with John Stewart...http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04272007/watch.html...Norse as guest...Pressure on food servers-to-the-poor; Flashback: Brian Flanegan Staley's comments on being sentenced to 2 months in jail for serving free food in March 1989] ...Critique of Officer Eric Seiley...City Council Agenda Preview .... Downtown Association's "12-Point-Plan" to Cleanse the Downtown ...http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2007/April/26/local/stories/05local.htm) Downtown Association: 831-429-8433...caller Paul urging civility by homeless, update on Vet's Hall situation, proposes a shelter/campground...Ranger Gene calls in noting an abusive "open container" citation from Ranger John Wallace...Phone Interview with former Arcata Green Party Council member Dave Meserve... May 2nd Arcata City Council meeting w/lengthy public comment on the People's Project houseless encampment...http://arcata.granicus.com/View Publisher.php?view_id=2 Human rights activist "Lighthouse" Linda Lemaster in-studio guest...Call-in interview with Fresno writer and activist Mike Rhodes updating city violation of Kincaid federal injunction against destroying homeless property...Arcata City Council testimony continues [approx 5 hours]

Sunday, May 27, 2007
Download Show [Thomas Leavitt's The Wake Up Call...Memorial for the Death of 95-year-old Hilda Whitehead...] Street Interviews: Trey's "Obstructing an Officer" ticket for sitting on an inoperative water fountain...Live Phone Interview with Robert Whitaker, author of Mad in America: panelists: Jane Kysor of PIRC (Psychiatric Inmates Rights Collective), Coral Blume of SAFE (Society for Artistic Freedom and Expression/Street Performers Against Foolish Enforcement), and "Millie from Gilroy", a psuedonym for a local psychiatric survivor, on psychiatric drugs and their effects...call-in's from "Mad John" Telfair, Bob Lamonika, and others Info: psychrights.org, mindfreedom.org ... [4 hours]

Thursday, May 31, 2007
Download Show Swami's Downtown Report on Cosmo Arrest 5/27 and other police actions...."Unreasonable noise" and street performers discussion..."Mad" John Telfair calls in...Street interviews...Anonymous flautist's lament...6th Sleeping Ticket for Craig Canada...Street performers make a police complaint against a motorcyclist...Reports from Ragin Ron, Eagleeye Ed, Shantyshack Shannan, TickettakerTrey, and Caustic Colin (the last denouncing black mold in the HSC showers)...AIDS sufferer Shane denied service, reports activist Donna Deiss...Infraction window clerks deny public access to Sleeping Ban citation records and call police Thursday May 24th...[2 hours]

Sunday, June 3, 2007
Download Show [The Wake Up-Call includes Downtown Commission meeting of May 24th discussion of the proposed "No Trespassing in City Parking Lot" law, which includes a requirement that even those with cars and bikes be gone within 15 minutes, as is currently the law in city parking garages...] ...Downtown Commission [DC] meeting continues with Homeless Services Center director Ken Cole's orientation on the homeless...Phone Interview with Chaz, street inventor in Venice Beach...DC meeting continues...Caller Lamonika supports parking garage law..."Nutcracker" Nick Whitehead calls in street update...DC meeting continues...ACLU Board member and attorney Don Zimmerman speaks on the Parking Lot Panic Law...[approx 4 1/2 hours]

Thursday, June 13, 2007
Download Show CPVAW [Commission for the Prevention of Violence Against Women] co-founder Gillian Greensite criticizes the Santa Cruz City Council and SCPD's tepid response to a reported rape rate that is four times the state average and growing by leaps and bounds...Michael Diehl, Community Organizer of Berkeley's BOSS [Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency] reports on last Tuesday's vote at Berkeley City Council okaying movement towards laws banning urination and defecation but not providing bathroom facilities, laws against "yelling", sitting on the sidewalk, and other "unsightly" homeless behavior...Greensite interview continues... (2 hours)

Thursday, June 21, 2007
Download Show Gillian Greensite returns to further analyze SCPD > whitewash and City Council collusion in ignoring the Rape Crisis in Santa Cruz...Chair of the former Homeless Issues Task Force Linda Lemaster joins her...http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/06/19/18428574.php [2 hours]

Sunday, September 9, 2007
Download Show (Thomas Leavitt's The Wake-up Call lasts 1 1/2 hours and includes lots of catchy tunes, homeless vet John Branon from Homies for the Homeless; Flashback Audio featuring 1988 KZSC interviews with Linda the Lark Edwards, Charles Grey, Food givers Jackie Bross and Tim the Foodgiver at midnight at a Town Clock sleep-out; Brandon critiques the Vet's Hall); Interview with Sleeping Ban Lawsuit attorney David Beauvais of Berkeley on his recent victory in The Naked Carpenter court case as well as Santa Cruz homeless cases; Van dweller Crow talks about his home being shot at, firebombed, and more recent night time police visits;"Mama Don't Allow No Sleepin' Around Here" song-VC; upcoming City Council agenda review (total time including revelant portions of T.L.'s show: approx 4 hrs) (2 hours)

Thursday, September 13, 2007
Download Show Guests: homeless community member Brian Holtze and anti-war researcher Ike Solem. Solem critiques City Council's multi-million dollar contracts with Camp, Dresser, and Mckay, a world-wide engineering firm with a history of corruption and profiteering in Afghanistan and Iraq; Street Interviews [2 hours]

Sunday, September 16, 2007
Download Show (The Wake-Up Call) ...Norse and Leavitt discuss Councilmember Tony Madrigal, under siege from the SCPD for suggesting possible racial profiling on his opposition to the Triple Fine Zones for Halloween discussion at city Council 9-11...clip from City Council discussion of Zones...caller Bob Lamonika, Jorge discuss Madrigal...Mike Rhodes of Fresno calls in updating Fresno Camping Ordinance (on hold) http://www.fresnoalliance.com/home... LoriAnne Tennison and John Bruan of Kalamazoo Homeless Action Network calls in on trials of KHAN activists...urges people to write to the local gazette after earlier successful letter from Santa Cruz... Councilmember Tony Madrigal calls, discussing last Halloween's possible racial profiling [transcript at: contact Madrigal at 420-5028]...... August 12: Homies for the Homeless speakers: Jhon Golder.. homeless Mike Glassel, prospective plaintiff in the Sleeping Ban lawsuit, calls in: reporting Boardwalk security guard and SCPD brutality in the Beach Flats against him...war with Iran? (approx 4 hours)

Thursday, September 20, 2007
Download Show In-studio guest Ike Solem reprises his critique of Camp, Dresser, and McKee and the City Council's desal contract with them.. In-studio guest Anita Henry discusses her first meeting of the Measure K. Advisory Commission last night; invites folks to come to next meeting of the K Commission on Monday October 8, 6 PM at City Hall; call her at 425-3444; e-mail her at MedEx95060@aol.com...Caller Jorge defends Councilmermber Tony Madrigal (contact: 420-5028).... Norse vs. Henri on prosecuting marijuana profiteers... Street interviews at the Boycott Bigotry Wednesday protest at Bookshop Santa Cruz: Bryce on pleading guilty to get out of jail, John on homeless cleared away from post office, Vice Mayor Ryan Coonerty charges vandalism because he found HUFF fliers in 40 of his children's books, Billy Starr on trollbusters downtown... August visit to Berkeley People's Park...Counterpunch article: The Mirage of Victory: America's Real War Aims in Iraq by Justin Raimondo ("http://www.antiwar.com") (2 hours)

Thursday, September 27, 2007
Download Show In-studio guest: Bob Glass (and son William), owner of Bad Ass Coffee, opposing the proposed Parking Lot Panic law and problems ...Callers: Mattison, Anita Henri, Bradley, 9-27 Interview with Malcolm Barr, Homies for the Homeless...Downtown Commission Hearing on Parking Lot Panic Law (pt. 1) ...(approx 2 hours)

Sunday, September 30, 2007
Download Show (The Wake Up Call...Norse Flashback tapes: Santa Barbara activists in Santa Cruz in 1989..Midnight at the Town Clock Sleepout in 1988 in KZSC Interview: Charles Grey, a younger Robert Norse...Bob Lamonika calls in with discussion: Bruce Bratton's attack on Modes and Norse, on Scott Imler's 60 Minutes...Downtown Commission (9-27) on Parking Lot Law (pt. 2)....Measure R back on ballot in Berkeley.. Norse reads Fred Gardner's article on history of Medical Marijuana movement: The Man Behind the MoveOn Ad Bill Zimmerman or Bill-Did-Us-In? at http://www.counterpunch.org /gardener09292007.html...Anita Henri of Measure K Commission calls in; more info at 425-3444...Bookshop Protest 8-5 street interviews... Fitzmaurice buys land from city; Ed Davidson critiques...Craig Canada trail update...Council trashes Madrigal 9-25...Scott Graham critiques Madrigal's "possible profiling" comments..Ed Davidson criticizes councils police gangbang re: Madrigal..more public testimony from council's 9-25 attack on Madrigal...(4 1/2 hrs.)

Thursday, October 4, 2007
Download Show Norse on Parking Lot Panic Law...Street Interview: 10-30 on the sidewalk in front of Borders: Hugh Montgomery the vet comments... Scotty's eulogy for Carl Stevens...a Moonie speaks...Downtown Commission 9-27: Zack Friend of SCPD and other staff members on Downtown Parking Lots (pt. 3)...Peter Gelderloos: How Non-Violence Protects the State...(approx. 2 hours)

Sunday, October 7, 2007
Download Show (The Wake-Up Call...Norse and Leavitt discuss the Parking Lot Panic Law, review the Downtown Commission's 9-27 Hearing on the Law [including testimony from Ken Cole of Homeless Service Center] pt. 4)..Leavitt continues as co-host...Rotkin attacks Madrigal at 9-25 Council meeting; Madrigal's defense; Officer Azua calls for Madrigal's resignation; Lt. Clark denounces Madrigal; call-in's from Skidmark Bob, Anita Henri on Measure K Commission coming up 10-8, Scott Graham on Triple Fine Zones for Halloween...Madrigal declines to call in...Downtown Commission continues...(approx.4 Hrs.)

Thursday, October 11, 2007
Download Show In-studio guest Chuck Huddleston, semi-retired local 65-year old resident who spoke at City Council on October 9th against the Parking Lot Trespass law, which Council passed for a first reading 5-2...He and Norse comment the Downtown Commission's consideration of the law September 27th before it voted to forward the law to Council 6-1 {pt. 5) ...numerous call-in's...Update on the Los Angeles Jones settlement, extending the ban on nighttime sleep busts to all of Los Angeles...Phone interview with Jennifer Friedenbach of the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness on S.F.Chronicle and Mayor Newsome's attack on the homeless, classism on the left against the homeless (approx 2 hours)

Sunday, October 14, 2007
Download Show (The Wake Up-Call: Norse and Leavitt play and discuss the conclusion of the Downtown Commission 9-27 hearing on the Parking Lot law. (pt. 6) ..Street Interviews: Jeremiah banned from making and selling (for donation) palmrose orgamis on the sidewalk; DeeMahn (DeMoan) of Homies for the Homeless gives report on violence against the homeless in the Pogonip...In-studio guest: Anita Henri, Measure K Commissioner on City Council's failure to appoint commissioners and weakening of the law...Al of El Rio Mobile Home Park's phone report...Theodora Kerry, original Measure K Initiative proponent, discusses the proposed spraying against the apple moth and its impact on the homeless community. More info at http://1hope.org and http://stopthespray.org ....Chuck Huddleston calls in with a protest report from his Saturday park-in against the Parking Lot law yesterday...Balloting in front of the Bookshop Santa Cruz (10-7): is their racial/class profiling in Santa Cruz?... (approx 4 hours)

Sunday, October 21, 2007
Download Show [The Wake-Up Call—last half hour has Norse reviewing Council's crippling of the Measure K Committee— Lowest Enforcement for Private Adult Use of Marijuana]...Oct 8 meeting of the Measure K Committee w/City Attorney Barisone... Bob Lamonika criticizes K supporters didn't apply, so he withdrew...SAFE activist Valerie C. in studio...Phone commentary by Measure K member Anita Henri... “Dangerous John” T. remember street singer Grinmaster Greg Montoya...demo against tasering in San Jose...discussion of survey of community concerns about SCPD...Tommy on 1996 River St. Refugees struggling for campground... V.C. On homeless stigmatized as “mentally ill”...Disabled Robert P. reports young cop hassling him for leaning against a tree on Pacific Ave, storeowner defending the leaner.... In-studio guest James Nay on sheriff's dept. shenangans and being hassled for writing “Sleep Deprivation is Torture” in erasable chalk in 2000....David Busch's report from Venice, CA...8-22 John Brandon, Ben Ramsey, and other Homies for the Homeless protesters reviewing the City Hall Sleep-In..[Approx 4 hours]

Thursday, December 20, 2007
Download Show Mr. French’s Sleeping Ban Ticket…San Diego Activist Patrick Zetner on Successful Campaign Against their Sleeping Ban… Robert “Hutch” “Lone Wolf” “Laughing Dog” Hutchinson on ban at the Vet’s Hall by Manager Tim Bratton and Richard Anderson… HRO Activist Bob Patton reports on elderly woman whose son with multiple back injuries turned away by HPHP…Mayor Ryan Coonerty’s letters to Norse (http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/12/17/18467575.php ... denouncing him; Norse’s reply demanding Public Records substantiating the charges (http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/12/22/18468436.php) Street Interviews:  Tarpseeker Terry explains why he doesn’t use the Armory…Tenderfoot Tim’s Pacific Avenue Report… Measure K Commission Recent Meeting (Part One)…Panhandlers hassled near highway 1 south…(2 hours)  

Thursday, December 27, 2007
Download Show In-studio guests: Tilden, Michael Major, Dusty street survey on homelessness... monitoring Chief Ranger John Wallace's “you need to get the hell out of here” at the duck pond of “undesirable” homeless...Little Star harassed for leafleting at UCSC...Adam the musicman & friends...poem on wall of Union Grove music: “the King of Yes” by Charles Cunningham...Code of Conduct on New Leaf Sidewalk?... Street Interviews: Charles Williams praises Homeless Persons Health Project... “Mrs. B” vs. Ranger Wallace... Sacramento civil rights attorney Mark Merin discusses his lawsuit against the Sleeping Ban there...$15 billion per month for Iraq/Afghanistan?...(2 hours)

2008

Thursday, February 21, 2008
Download Show Berkeley Demo For and Against Marine Recruitment...Berkeley Daily Planet letters on the demos... “Ten Years Ago People Power Stopped Clinton” 2-18-08 by Bill Simpich http://peaceandjustice.org/article.php/2008021810print5232576/" Berkeley Demo cont...Uncle Dennis on Light Brown Apple Moth spraying controversy...Norse on the homelessness marathon of the day before...Bruce Anderson of Anderson Valley Advertiser: “Personal Encounters with the Homeless”... ...(2 hours)

Thursday, February 28, 2008
Download Show 2-28-08 City Council 2-26: Consent Agenda Crackdown...35 minute Phone Interview with Longtime Councilwatcher Ed Davidson on Consent Agenda & Downtown Ordinances [http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/03/09/18484640.php...]... Paul Boden from Western Regional Advocacy Project http://www.wraphome.org/ : national and S.F. Update ...Donna Deiss, RV dweller, wins victory over Chief Ranger John Wallace's “No Rvs” sign in Lighthouse Field Parking Lots signs...Norse on Rotkin's selective budget cuts...Street Interviews: Rawn 86ed from Noah's; jailed for 16 days for violating 3 year “no trespass” TRO from Front St. B&C home; $275 a week for In-Cal...Jhond G on Deiss's “outstanding victory” and Coastal Commission's expanding parking time along beachfront streets... [2 hours]

Thursday, May 1, 2008
Download Show In studio guest: local Leila...Street Interviews: Skate boarding event and the SCPD by Corey Ray at weazelbeek@gmail.com... Leila's bad experience with SCPD as victim...caller recounts cop with drawn gun at a seat belt stop...Ontario, CA and Camp Hope Tent City calls in live as San Bernadino sheriffs grill him on his Walk for Justice... Billy Starr recalls harassment from Officer Sims on Pacific Ave...(2 hours)

Sunday, May 4, 2008
Download Show (The Wake-Up Call: Norse & Leavitt discuss Andrew Cockburn's “Democrats Okay Funds for Covert Ops: Secret Bush “Finding” Widens War on Iraq” at http://www.counterpunch.org/andrew0502208.html ...4-8 Norse comments on 4-22 City Council meeting.. Phone interview with Lloyd of the Coalition For a County Dialogue on Race, Poverty, Equality, & Justice's upcoming public forums..(Contact Wanda Knight at 246-0228)...Street Interviews: Sleeping Ban Lawsuit plaintiffs Zack and Ella Mae—8 camping tickets in the last 4 nights between them...Corey Ray on skate boarder scene at http://thrasher.com...boatside Max...Caller Bob defends U.S. Occupation of Iraq...Hobo Lee's lengthy interview on destructive impacts of camping on the earth... “Study: Smoking Pot Doesn't Cause Cancer--It May Prevent It!: the Greatest Story Never Told” by Fred Gardner at http://www.counterpunch.org/gardner05032008.html & ...Phone Interview with Fresno activists Mike Rhodes (peace activist and journalist) and Al Williams (homeless appointee on the Fresno Task Force to End Homelessness) on new code enforcement approach to separating homeless campers and sympathetic landowners (see http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/05/02/18496330.php )& (approx 4 ½hours)

Thursday, May 8, 2008
Download Show Anti-Recruiting Activity at UCSC Job Faire...In-studio interview with bike activist Micah Posner— multi-million dollar Cedar & Cathcart Parking Garage, making Mission St. bike safe through strong bike friendly traffic signs, SCPD proposing vaguer weaker signs...Wanda Knight on Upcoming Racism Dialogue (246-0228 to report police misconduct) [2 hours]

Sunday, May 11, 2008
Download Show [Wake Up call: 2 hours of cool music...]...[Music throughout the show by Uncle Bansai Myn and Wymyn].. Bikeriders People's Power coming to City Council with proposed Mission St. signs to protect cyclers.. .Phone Interview with Donna Deiss—assaulted May 9th by Sgt. Christian LeMoss as she tried to get into her RV, breaking her arm, then handcuffing her...Phone Interview w/John Golder on the background of the Deiss case and RV harassment...Phone Interview with eyewitness to assault on Deiss--Brian Parquette... S.F. Chronicle reports Kelly Medora, petite preschool teacher had arm broken by SFPD in a jaywalking arrest, settling for $235, 000—largest amount for excessive force not involving a weapon...Phone Interview with Steve Argue noting Sgt. LeMoss's attacked a man with a child at the May 1999 Yugoslavia anti-war protest and asssaulted activist Jim Cosner for putting up a Mumia poster...Does Rep. Farr have $55, 000-100, 000 invested in military contractors over in Iraq? He hasn't answered back...Argue on candidate Simba Kenyatta and the May Day anti-war protest in S.F. and the Longshoreman's port shutdown...Micah Posner on the bikeride.. .Phone Interview w/ Wanda Knight on racial profiling...Phone Interview with Brianna, another Deiss-LeMoss eyewitness... Greg, another eyewitness, gives his account...Second Donna Deiss phone interview...[4 ½ hours]

Thursday, May 15, 2008
Download Show In-studio guests Ben Ramsey, homeless African-American ex-vet, from Monterey County and Becky Johnson, HUFF activist...Discussion of homeless programs in Monterey. ..Arthur Rios On United Poor People's 21 day sleep-out in front Portland, OR city hall http://www.homelessliberationfront.wordpress.com/ ...Larry Reynolds, another Portland protester—the group met yesterday with Portland Mayor Potter, on anti-homeless sit/lie law...Katie—another protester ...http://www.portland.indymedia.org/en/topic/homelessness/ ... Updates....Paul Ortiz on City Council's white-out of police profiling by SCPD ...(2 hours)

Sunday, May 18, 2008
Download Show (The Wake-Up Call: 1 ¾ hours of music...Norse & Leavitt on Consent Agenda Capers of the Santa Cruz City Council...Case in point: City Council Meeting of May 12....Brian Parquette's public statement on Sgt. LeMoss's Assault on Donna Deiss Yovino; analysis of the police report...Indybay stories athttp://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/05/14/18499096.php and http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/05/1018498355.php" More on Coonerty's cutting off comments...Norse and Brune at Oral Communications...in-studio guest vet Thomas Goodwin discusses being pepper sprayed at the Metro Center and an arrest at the Vets Hall restroom ...Visionsong Valerie Christy strums in-studio “Dear Ryan”...More on the Coonerty Consent Agenda Crackdown...Lloyd of the Coalition For a County Dialogue on Race, Poverty, Equality, & Justice...Report police abuse calls at 457-2406...Portland indymedia update on homeless sleep-in at City Hall:http://www.youtube.com/watch/v=dTuzH-hJeW8" ...People Power bike ride on Mission St...Fresno homeless court action update...in-studio commentator: Linda Lemaster...(approx 4 ½ hours)

Thursday, May 22, 2008
Download Show Updates and Monologue around the Donna Deiss assault ...Christine Maricio—witness to Donna Deiss assault...Leila's smoking ticket...Clive Bustrade on deputy harassment...San Jose taser abuse... Chyrstal—another witness to Donna Deiss assault...Bliss on her mixed reaction to the police...(2 hours)

Sunday May 25, 2008
Download Show (The Wake Up Call: After 1 ½ hours of music, Norse and Leavitt discuss First Alarm Security harassment of the homeless and even city employees in public spaces downtown...new wireless outside Civic Auditorium, .. Flashback: November 1997—Activist David Silva on Community TV Debating the Sleeping Ban Repeal Initiative of 1997 with Chris Wilder and Barbara Hall...Aly Ebrahimzadeh attorney and activist calls in on Sleeping Ban... Norse on SCPD's “no recording” policy...Sgt. LeMoss's Donna Deiss assault: Sara's testimony...City Council gadfly Ed Davidson on reduced public input ...Berkeley Councilman Kriss Worthington on the proposed Sunshine Act... krissworthington.com ...(4 hours)

Thursday May 29, 2008
Download Show Updates...Phone interview from Michele Wakin updating her analysis of homeless RV dwellers in Sonoma, Santa Cruz, and Santa Barbara Counties ...Interviews with witnesses of Sgt. LeMoss's May 9th assault on Donna Deiss and subsequent police interviews: Chris Turner, Joshua...Street interviews at the Wednesday Drum Circle...Discussion of vet Thomas Goodwin's case fighting discrimination at the S.C. Vet's Hall..Street Interviews on Women's Crisis Center...Brian Parquette report...Pondering Patty on the Street Scene...Norse reads “War Immemorial Day – No Peace for Militarized U.S.” by Bill Quigley at http//www.counterpunch.org/quigley05262008.html " .....Candidate for Superior Court Judge Steven Wright in-studio guest with Linda Lemaster...(2 hours)

Sunday, June 1, 2008
Download Show (The Wake-Up Call: 1 ½ hours of music, last ½ hour Norse takes calls of Lloyd from Coalition for Race, Poverty, Equality, and Justice, which takes reports of police abuse at 831-457-2406\ or Simba Kenyatta at 831-459-9349...1990's Berkeley Copwatch Training video with commentary) http//www.berkeleycopwatch.org ...Mayor Coonerty new coercive City Council rules...mock-Nazi salute lawsuit update Santa Cruz Sentinel article: http//www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_9424867 ...Brief street interviews...Bernard Klitzner of Human Rights Organization on Sgt. Christian LeMoss's May 9th assault on elderly disabled RV dweller Donna Deiss...Gillian Greensite on the SCPD's continued strikingly low clearance (arrest) rate of local rape cases City on a Hill Press article at santacruzsentinel.com/ci_9424867 http://www.cityonahillpress.com/article.php?id=1291 ... discusses the issue by phone with http://alyesquire-aly.blogspot.com/ "http://"attorney-activist of The Prometheus Project...Street Interviews...Discussion of hippie scene in front of New Leaf Market from merchant's perspective...(4 hours approx)

Thursday, June 5, 2008
Download Show In studio interview with Fresno activist and journalist Mike Rhodes on upcoming settlement with the homeless in federal Kincaid lawsuit... Rhodes on Fresno's homeless budget..Crazy Mary calls in with report on ranger harassment in the city parks....Rhodes on "Housing First" model...Portland update on homeless protest there...John T.'s San Jose report...Leila on medical malpractice by over medicating in local psych ward...Protests against police violence in San Jose...(2 hours)

Sunday, June 8, 2008
Download Show The Wake Up Call (towards very end—Flashback from Oct. 1991 Harassed at the Free Meal, Discussion of early '90's homeless activism...) In studio guest “Tenderfoot” Tim Rumford on Social Service Budget Cuts in the County (http://www.humanityforhomeless.blogspot.com) ...Fresno phone interview with successful homeless plaintiff Al Williams, activist Mike Rhodes: updates, controversy immediate tent cities vs. housing...Tim on security camera notice in the 41st Ave. Cinema...SCPD Rape Investigation Scandal commentary...In studio guest: Linda Lemaster's commentary...(approx 4 ½ hours)

Thursday, June 12, 2008
Download Show Lengthy Interview with surviving Measure K Commission member Anita Henri, who is also a long-time marijuana provider with Med-Ex... Tim Rumford on federal and county cuts on medical care...Update on the Fresno homeless lawsuit settlement (Judge Wanger versus Mayor Autry)...(2 hours)

Sunday, June 15, 2008
Download Show The Wake-Up Call (1 ¼ hours of music, TL commentary; Flashback: Citizens Police Review Board 12/8/97 hearing on harassment of homeless people, questionable police behavior, and the killing of "Happy" John Dine)...Public calls for (and CPRB rejects) independent investigation of Officer Connor Carey's killing of Dine a month before; speakers include: Becky Johnson, David Silva, Michael Ackerman, Ray Glock Grueneich, eyewitness Mike Schultz, eyewitness Stacey Buckelew, Dine caretaker Alan Van Cleeve, Ed Frey, Robert Norse, Barbara Jackson, Billy Starr ("William Starr"), Linda Lemaster...In-studio guest: Anita Henri, phone interview with victim Donna Deiss...Henri on cover-up of complaints on Measure K Committee.. Peter Linebaugh on June 15th 1381 "Wat Tyler (assassination) Day" in England [http://www.counterpunch.org/linebaugh06132008.html ] ...phone interview with Gillian Greensite, former CPVAW member on CPVAW's secret subcommittee meetings, coverup of inadequate SCPD rape procedures...More on Happy John Dine killing...Street Interviews: June 3rd chat with Merryweather Mike, street smiler & others [approx 5 hours]

Thursday, June 19, 2008
Download Show Vet's Thomas Goodwin's Travail Trying to Use the Vet's Building Bathroom...Street Interview with Thomas G.--Officer Peabody, he reports, warns him not to go to the Vet's Hall...Updates...hour-long Phone Interview with author and writer Joshua Frank [http://www.counterpunch.org ); as anti-war critic, Frank attacks Obama...Street Interviews: old-time black local musician Ron on the street scene...Officer Forbus tickets 6 locals for "sitting in the shade" around the corner from the Tampico's as part of a bench-removal and harassment campaign around the Metro...[2 hours]

Thursday, June 26, 2008
Download Show (weird censored memorial to George Carlin and his "7 Dirty Words from the vanilla-ized Pacifica) ...Craig Canada's victory in the PizzaMyHeart "get out of the bathroom" assault trial; Becky Johnson's report..."Who's Actually Winning in Iraq" by Alex Cockburn [http://www.counterpunch.org/patrick06262008.html ] , , , Phone Interview with Anita Henry reporting back from Councilmember Rotkin on the Measure K Commission... Search for the secret CPVAW subcommittee meeting...[2 hours]

Sunday, June 29, 2008
Download Show The Wake-Up Call: 1 hour of music, ½ hour of Klington vocabulary, ½ hour local political discussion) Norse on the War...Flashback: April 2000: Pie in the Pusser award to Mike Rotkin at City Council...In-studio guest: Thomas Goodwin on his struggle to fight for rights at the Santa Cruz Vets Hall...More from April 2000 Council Meeting: David Silva, Roxanne Acquistepache...Flashback Audio: Homeless Service Providers (Ken Cole, Christine Lyons-Johnson, Paul Brindel) Answer Questions from City Council Candidates in October 2000...June 8/08: Officer Forbus gives 6 “sitting in the shade” tickets for folks sitting around the corner from the Tampico's ATM machine...Berkeley PD stops Juneteenth celebration there...Zero Democrats Vote Against Biggest War Iraqi War Appropriation...Code Pink “Wins” Bare Breasts” versus Marine Recruiters Case...Craig Canada Court Update... Americans for Safe Access's Noah Member on law for homeless medical marijuana smoking...(5 ½ hours approx)

Thursday, July 3, 2008
Download Show [throughout: songs from Uncle Bonsai] Specific details on the triple fine zones on July 4th ...In-studio guest: flag-burner "Big Drum" Brent Adams on his upcoming event... Proposed $500-700, 000 to design the Cedar-Cathcart Parking Garage on next Council's consent agenda...Craig Canada's legal update and report on the hung jury of his trial for battery at Pizza My Heart...Call-in from Anita Henri, Medical Marijuana activist and Measure K Committee member, with Labor Ready update on its systematic theft of homeless property, Iraq war, and other mattersHUFF, update on Measure K...caller David defends Labor Ready in the Pogonip... "Left Out" Linda claims Bay Front Inn discriminated against a homeless customer...(2 hours)

Sunday, July 6, 2008
Download Show [The 2-hour Wake-Up Call preempted by music]...Leila on smoker's rights...Huey Long speech on "Share the Wealth"...Visionsong Valerie reports "Move-Along' hassles and ticketing of Cosmic Chris by Officer Collins...Even Scent-Anal [Sentinel] rightist ranters didn't like July 4th overpolicing...In-studio guest: Homeless Vet Thomas Goodwin wins victory to use bathroom at local Vet's Hall...In-studio guest: Anita Henri...Roasting Flagscorcher Brent & report on 4th of July totemtoasting...phone report from Santa Barbara writer and homeless advocate Peter Marin: changes due to bureaucrat support...Fresno report on Rescue Mission destruction of homeless camps...Street Interviews: Shane on landlord shenanagans...Richard reports false accusation and citation for shoplifting at the Bookshop Santa Cruz...Zack and Ella Mae report police confiscated sleeping gear...Denver Post report from Rainbow Gathering of bad busts [about 4 ½ hours]

Thursday, July 10, 2008
Download Show [throughout: songs from The Capital Steps' Campaign and Suffering] ...Norse commentary... Street Interviews: Christine describes July 3rd New Leaf sidewalk evening cops massing against a cusser... "Got Food" signer BWN (Bad With Names) on the food scene... Van Dempsey trying to go through security at court, chronicles his successful fight against a "resisting arrest" charge...Phone interview with/reading from Berkeley poet Julia Vinograd...Street Interviews: "diabetic anything helps" sign panhandling ticket at the Boardwalk...5 Tickets for Barr-sleeping and other... positive reports on Officers Bush and Peabody...Jay's sleeping tickets...Ryan unwisely consents to a search... Robert Morgan believes Chief Ranger Wallace stole his and son's gear... "A" critiques Officers Sealey, Wilson, and Paco for improper searches and harassment in search of open container...[2 hours]

Sunday, July 13, 2008
Download Show (The Wake-Up Call: 1 ½ hours of Leavitt's Music and Comment, ½ hr on Covering for the SCPD on Racial Profiling in Santa Cruz)... Racially Based Policing: audio of a video...Santa Cruz City Council's Subservience to the SCPD...Joy Mesh of Felton on being homeless there... Christopher Robin reports on a Westside Tasering Incident...Wanda Knight phone interview on the Coalition for A Community Dialogue... HRO quits Firefly Cafe...Ben Ramsey criticizes flag burning, worries about Iran...Street Interviews: Officer Forbus on the “No Smoking” rule and bike riding against traffic on Pacific Ave...Cherokee: “cops beat me twice in one week”...philosophy writer Richard..Interview with Kristen Evju, author of Better the Devil You Know...Sidework Report from Alfresco's...Craig Canada Phone Update on Trial Dates...Sierra—homeless UCSC student on ranger harassment...(5 hours)

Thursday, July 17, 2008
Download Show [some Nader-McKinney garble]...Jonathan updates of the AFSCME strike up at UCSC...Linda Jolley, landscaper, calls in on her sleeping ticket struggle in Mountain view...Street Interviews: the New Leaf Chain and other topics... Homeless Courts Threat or Menace?...SF Coalition on Homeless on these courts: another story at http://cohsf.org/streetsheet/2007/06/01/poverty-courts-easy-answer-no-solution/#more-238 chat with Norwegian tourista Marianna at New Leaf sidewalk [2 hours]

Sunday, July 20, 2008
Download Show [1 3/4 hour of Leavitt's music]...Linda A. and others call in to update on the Chained Forbidden Zone in front of New Leaf...Audio of “Flex Your Rights” on You-Tube: traffic stop, party entrance... Throughout the show: songs from Menopause the Musical...Norse inveighs against Dems and Repubs... Tim Rumford's article on recent health cut backs “Keeping the Impoverished Poor Since 1935” http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/14/18516131.php ...San Jose activist “Dangerous John” T looks in...California Civil Rights Organizing Project [CCROP] Activist Tips from early in the decade...[approx 4 ½ hours]

Thursday, July 24, 2008
Download Show Lookout Linda A.'s downtown report on BamBam's service dog ticketed...Jhond Golder on Planning Commission and General Plan...Norse on Parking Lot Panic Law 6 month review....Landscaper Linda Jolley, woken in her car for snoozing, calls in from Redwood City...U.S. Vets from Iraq “Murderers”?...6/19 Downtown Commission discussion of Parking Lot Panic law—Chair Geri Mandel cuts back public comment...Commissioner Coonerty vs. SCPD...Extensive Norse commentary...Norse vs. Sgt. Harms (2 hours)

Sunday, July 27, 2008
  Download Show (Shorter show because of technical problems)...7-24 Downtown Commission: SCPD amazes Commissioner Coonerty in stonewalling on “crime” stats in the “forbidden” parking lots, closed to public assembly... 'Nuff Said' Nancy McCardie of Santa Barbara on Sleeping Ban, Homeless Housing, and the Homeless Courts there...Norse discusses possible boycott of New Leaf and other sidewalk-closing businesses...Street Sheet-- “Bush League Scarecrows Against Panhandling” [Other Street Sheet stories archived at http://cohsf.org/streetsheet/ ]...Jose Cruz Velasco on CHP ethnic stop...Craig Canada on his upcoming peepee trial: as well as other harassment charges: marijuana, battery...caller Aaron on homeless and diversity...Marilyn of Alfresco's on chaining off the sidewalk at night; the Sentinel's propaganda campaign...Street Interviews: Aisha on Vishnu tasering at Town Clock, K.C. 7-20 on Vet's Hall bathroom exclusion...Mama Val Promise on New Leaf Sidewalk Chaining...Sgt. Michael Harms “chats” with the masses at New Leaf... (Approx 4 hours)

Thursday, July 31, 2008
Download Show Wanda Knight—phone interview—on the Coalition for a Community Dialogue meeting on Racism, Police Abuse, etc and their latest public forum: .(http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/14/18516041..php )... ..chat with Sgt. Harms in front of New Leaf Market...Linda of Mountain View's successful fight against a ticket for sleeping in her car....(http://www.lindajolley9@yahoo.com.php )... 650-630-3021...Street Interviews: Sgt. Harms dialogue cont... Steve Lyle reports being stopped 8 times in 3 days on his first week in town...Robert Tillman claims Officer Wilson smashed his cell phone, got a restraining order against Officer Hoppe...Cops double park to drive on musicians on Pacific Ave, Miguel De Leon reports...John Clauer—beaten by police in handcuffs in 1989 reports on landlord abuse...Norse at the 7-24 Downtown Commission on Parking Lot Panic Law...songs by Roy Bailey...(2 hours)

Sunday, August 3, 2008
Download Show Norse and Leavitt on the Downtown Commission on the Parking Lot Panic Law, the Alarm newspaper of 2002... 7-24 Downtown Commission Hearing on PLP Law w/Norse commentary...SCPD Stonewalls Police Stats... the “summer crime” report from Zack Friend...FRSC broadcaster Doug Cronen (d-rail) in-studio guest...Attorney Ali suggests impartial commission to make recommendations to courts in individual cases...Business bathrooms open for $ to public?... Caller Richard notes jaywalking judges on Water St. don't get tickets...SCPD at Downtown Commission cont... (4 hours approx)

Thursday, August 7, 2008
Download Show Donna Deiss Update..Craig Canada on his City Council candidacy...7-24 Downtown Commission on Parking Lot Panic FYI “15 Minute Law”--SCPD propagandist Zack Friend vs. Downtown Commissioner Sheila Coonerty...Interview with Mendocino Medical Marijuana Patient Union's Jim Hill on Measure B unconstitutionally limiting patient cultivation and possession and Other Drug War skulldruggery (707 467-3888)...Downtown Commission testimony concludes...Street Interviews... (2 hours)

Sunday, August 10, 2008
Download Show Troublesome Thomas and Bathrobespierre Robert Review the Shitty Council Candidates...Alaska Psych Rites attorney Jim Gottstein ( http://psychrights.org/index.htm) joins Bob Whitaker, Mad in America author on his forthcoming book Anatomy of an Epidemic (http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/02/18522199.php )... Can SCPD deny info to the Downtown Commission—Tim Fitzmaurice's response... “Scope it Out” Scott Graham critiques the Recycled Council Candidates...(3 ½ hour)

Thursday, August 14, 2008
Download Show SEIU City Council Candidate Forum...Phone Interview with Sacramento Attorney Mark Merin on the Sleeping Ban lawsuit there...More of the SEIU Candidate Commentary...Street Interviews: Incident at Bad Ass Coffee (2 hours)

Sunday, August 17, 2008
Download Show The Wake-Up Call: Last half hour has Flashback from 2000: audio of a Club Cruz TV show with Norse interviewing Homeless Issues Task Force Chair Linda Lemaster with commentary from Norse and Leavitt (HITF report at(http://www.cabinc.org/Research/HTFFinalReport.htm ) .Interview with Ben Ramsey, formerly homeless Vet on poor Santa Cruz participation in the recent Stand-Down, reporting on the homeless in Monterey....Interview with Mike Rhodes on aftermath of the Kincaid $2.3 million settlement for the homeless in Fresno—more extensive background at ......( http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/06/18504842.php ) ...Police taser Joseph Ciampi in Palo Alto(http://groups.google.com/group/misc.legal/browse_thread/thread/4fcc413e0a30e10a ) Street Interviews with women panhandling on Pacific Avenue including Patti...Linda Jolley's Mountain View update...Chalk storm on Pacific Ave...Adam Taylor's Sleeping Ticket... “A Pawn in Their Game” --on the Russian-Georgian military confrontation......( http://www.counterpunch.org/tripathi08162008.html ) (apporx.4 hrs)

Thursday, August 21, 2008
Download Show [End of Sprouts show on history and hassles of NY street band:..http://www.hungrymarchband.com ...Phone Interview w/city council candidate Craig Canada on his upcoming court dates..http://.www.palmspringsbum.com/blog ...Street Interviews: Barr's tickets, Positive reports on Sgt. Bush, Officer Peabody, Jay's Sleeping ban tickets, Ryan spotlighted, cuffed, searched, jailed for cocaine, Kemo on scavenging tickets... Caller against Forced Drugging...In-studio guest: Linda Lemaster on Poverty Pimps...Santa Monica panhandlers-stand-up plan http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-panhandle15-2008aug15, 0, 5164705.story Street Interviews (7-8): Rober Morgan suspects Chief Ranger Wallace seized his and son Zachariah's survival gear... Tickets in August for “Looking for Breakfast” sign... Elliot from Vermont [2 hours]

Sunday, August 24, 2008
Download Show [The Wake Up Call-- In-studio guest “Billi” alleging harassment from SCPD Officer “Stay Out of Downtown” Winston]... Street Interviews at New Leaf (7-31): Jeremiah inside the Forbidden Zone, Conner's “Move-Along” report. Corey Ray & guitar --busted by deputies for singing...phone interview with Dr. Frank Lucido on medical marijuana and physician care in recommending it http://www.drlucido.com/ ...Pat Kittle: Homeless Activists Need to Clean Up the Forest!...Mayor Coonerty's Upcoming ACLU “Hammer of Justice” award plus a selection and commentary from “Coonerty's Greatest Hits”... http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2007/12/24/brb_sb_1.wma ...Phone Interview with Pebbles Trippet of Mendino Medical Marijuana Advisory Board .. ...[Approx 4 hours]

Thursday, August 28, 2008
Download Show Caller Lloyd Ellis 457-2406 for police abuse...Peggy Lee Kennedy, homeless activist from Venice/Santa Monica CA http://www.wetnostril.net/justice on RV harassment and Overnight Parking Districts (OPDs) to drive homeless out... encounter on Cathcart St. next to Taqueria Vallarta 8/21 stopping a black motorist; debate with Sgt. Harms on Officer Hernandez's directive to "keep moving"...Street Interviews: drummer Tamorack goes poetic about his latest court appearance..."Unreasonable noise" ticket discussion...Trey recalls he was kicked by the cops... Interviews: Ralph Sebastian, Don Webber on Protest Against the La Bahia Project, Shrinking Public Access at City Council [2 hours]

Sunday, August 31, 2008
Download Show [No Wake-Up Call]...Skidmark Bob's updates on the Democratic and Republican Conventions www.popdefectradio.blogspot.com .... Flashback: Sherry Conable's Suppressed Resolution Seeking to Mandate Fair and Equal Enforcement of the Laws Downtown at the last meeting of the Citizens Police Review Board in the winter of 2002 (hard to hear): Greg Kindig... Wikipedia on Joe Hill...CPRB meeting cont.: Paul Brindel, Sherry Conable, Becky Johnson, ...$43 Mil Cedar-Cathcart Garage Proposal http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/09/01/18531701.php ... June 19 Downtown Commission on the Garage Proposal and Staff Stonewalling...John Clauer (victim of 1989 SCPD beating while in handcuffs) talks about his marijuana bust that sent him to the pen... "Butterfly" and friends claim federal drugging and mind control program in Santa Cruz...Corey Nathanial Chesney ("Billi") reports Officer Winston kicked him in the face 8-30 as he lay down trying to sleep on the side of the levee...Andrea reports by phone that cops [subsequently identified as Sgt. LeMoss by victim PGJ/Jason] violently brought down and piled on a man near New Leaf, witnessed also by "Mr. TV"; another man seized by Officer Winston around 10 PM...[approx 4 hours]

Thursday, September 4, 2008
Download Show In-studio guest: Report of Sgt. Le Moss roughing up and arrest PBJ Jason last Saturday night near Cafe Campesino in a bogus "drunk" charge...reports of Drum Circle harassment 9-3... www.indybay/santacruz censorship...Becky Johnson reports on proposed $43 million parking lot at Transportation Forum where city council candidates spoke...Attorney Meyberg's e-mail on the Drum Circle... ..Street Interviews: Elliot Wilkinson from Richmond, Vermont on sleepwarning in a park...panhandling less than 14' diagonally from Marini's ice cream patio...Officers Sims and Forbus reportedly ticket "Got Breakfast?" sign holder for sitting on an out-of-operation water fountain, report Jerome, Devin, and Spike...Corey Nathanial Chesney aka "Billi's" sworn-under-penalty-of-perjury complaint that Officer Winston kicked him in the face...prior interviews with Billi/Corey whose sign says "mentally ill...disabled"-two tickets from panhandling twice in the same day and repeated stops on Pacific Avenue...Interview with Kelios, witnessed to Winston's "didn't I tell you I didn't want to see you" comments to Billi... other intrviews by Ash Donahue, and Michael Hawk in Louden Nelson Park.. [2 hours]

Sunday, September 7, 2008
Download Show [no Wake-Up call show]...In-studio guest: attorney David Meyberg on the Drum Circle situation...Visionsong Valerie call on 9-3 SCPD occupation of the Drum Circle area, who later joins Meyberg and Norse in studio...Skidmark Bob calls in to report on being arrested in years past for singing such songs as "Shoplifting at the Bookshop Santa Cruz"...Mattison's report on Corey aka Billi's harassment by Officer Winston and others subsequent to the "kicking in the face" incident...Crazy Mary on 9-3 Drum Circle harassment...Urbana of the Arcada People's Project calls in lawsuit against police repression of a May 2007 homeless protest...[707-618-9185 http://www.peopleproject.wordpress.com ... ] ...upcoming City Council meeting..August 6 Street Drumming...Mary Kourie update...[3 ½ hours]

Thursday, September 11, 2008
Download Show Drum Circle Victory 9-10...Dave Derick discusses police driving away drummers 9-3... Officer Forbus's reported harassment of panhandling on Pacific Ave...Mama Val offers to mediate Drum Circle... Home careworker "Mother Jones" critiques Mayor Coonerty for his opposition to raising minimum wage...Sgt. Harms tickets Wes Modes for expired registration...Sgt. Harms explains why he and his police are here...Phone interview from Alaska with Jim Gottstein of www.psychrights.org on strategic legal campaign against forced drugging and ECT along with forced incarceration and involuntary outpatient commitment, fielding caller questions...Sgt. Harms defense of police stalking of the Drum Circle cont...More 9-10 Drum Center reporting ...[2 hours]

Sunday, September 14, 2008
Download Show [Thomas Leavitt's the Wake-Up Call--2nd hour discussion of Public Assembly Surivival at the Drum Circle interspersed with music] ...Leavitt feels Police Repression Has Already "Won" at Drum Circle...Visionsong Valerie and Sgt. Harms speak up at the 9-10 Drum Circle...Drug War Drivel at the Drum Circle...Dialogue with St. Harms...Shane on Police Recruiting Informants...Behind the Scenes at the Tow company, reports a victim Chris...Tom Noddy on police "fencing" strategy...Attempting to make a citizen's arrest of a "15 Minute Law Violater"--police refuse...Remarks on Councilmember Tony Madrigal...Rev. Oracle on Board of Supes mythological Building Appeals Board that hasn't met in nearly a decade...Phone Interview with magician Tom Connor...More Drum Circle dialogue with Becky Johnson...Debate with Sgt. Harms on his "voluntary compliance" with dispersing the drum circle...[approx 4 ½ hours]

Thursday, September 18, 2008
Download Show [music from Roy Bailey's Sit Down and Sing throughout the show]...Defending Public Assembly at the Drum Circle... 9-17 Phone Interview with community activist Fred Geiger on City Council candidates...Officer Winston , Sgt. LeMoss, and two others harass, brutalize, and arrest PBJ and Adam, released later without charges near Cafe Campesino 9-6, reports Robert and Cameron...Robert reports 4th of July harassment from Winston & other "move on" harassment... Jason's "Food Please" signer reports being interrogated w/o reasonable suspicion by Police Officer Laura... $200, 000 bailed local Clive Bustrade discusses his recent arrest(http://www.libertyforlife.com www.coppercards.com ) Sgt. Harms weighs in on Officer Laura's interrogation of Jason...Analysis of Sentinel's Genevieve Bookwalter's Police PR story of the 9-17 Drum Circle(http://www.topix.net/forum/source/santa-cruz-sentinel/TUQRQQM76C30K4GE4/p17#c404 ...for story and comments)...phone chat with Tenderfoot Tim on Drum Circle and other protests...Sgt. Harms and Norse discussion continues...More street interviews on Pacific and at Farmer's Market on the Drum Circle...Rebecca, Police the Egg Woman, and Sandra Ward, Farmer's Market Board member, interviewed…..[2 hrs]

Sunday, September 21, 2008
Download Show [2 hours of The Wake-Up Call which includes 15 minutes of commenary on the Drum Circle issue] ...[music by Roy Bailet's Sit Down and Sing throughout the show]...9-10 post-Drum Circle debate between Sgt. Harms, Norse, Shane, and Mary on Mary's question "can I play the drums here next week?"...9-17-the day of the police melee-interview with Sandra Ward Farmer's Market Board of Directors...Interviews with some Farmer's Market Vendors Near the Drum Circle... Interviews in Parking Lot #4 with Whitney and others critical of the police presence...On-air call leaving a message for Sgt. Harms asking for stats on Parking Lot #4...Caller Gary on police harassing, assaulting, and arresting him at 3 AM... Discussion of Coonerty's public comment-clipping procedure at City Council...calls from Eric, Madcap Mattison, and others... More interviews from the Wednesday Drum Circle under siege...Drums Against Oppression...Upcoming City Council Agenda Review... Drums Survive the Police Assault...[3 ¾ hours]

Thursday, September 25, 2008
Download Show Norse commentary on Drum Circle......In-studio guest Crow, talking about "snitching at the 9-24 Drum Circle" for trying to remove a public nuisance---poles and mesh fencing blocking parking spaces after the fencing was rolled up and removed from blocking the public space there... 9-23 City Council Oral Communications stalled until the end of the meeting... 9-17 Drum Circle interviews...J.P. Downtown report...Friday night Copwatch in front of Jack's Hamburgers...[2 hours]

Sunday, September 28, 2008
Download Show [1 ¾ hours into The Wake-Up Call ...Flashback: Berkeley attorney Osha Neumann on his Cal-Trans vs. homeless 1993 court victory, comments on "the Naked Guy" trial, and other antiquities]... Callers Rory and son Chris Carter on Drum Circle repression... "Margueritte" calls in... Osha Neumann interview cont...Drum Circle Audio 9-24...FNBer Jack Russ, Jane the critic, & others...Fresno activist Mike Rhodes on the successful Kinkaid decision, noting initial distribution of money to homeless plaintiffs, free speech fights in Fresno, http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/09/26/18541448.php ...Phone Interview w/ Pebbles Trippet of the Mendocino Medical Marijuana Advisory Board on recent court decisions expanding rights of patients http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/09/28/18541739.php }...(approx 4 hours)

Thursday, October 2, 2008
Download Show Fund-raising drive...Street Interviews: Positive report on Officer Burnham...Donny, Kianti's Drug Bust of the Sealman, Downtown Fred, Hotspur, and others give accounts... "Crazy" Mary calls in...10-1 Drum Circle interviews and reports before and after the fence went down....In-studio guest: Simba Kenyatta, interviewed by Becky Johnson and Whitney Wild...(2 hours)

Sunday, October 5, 2008
Download Show (2 hours of the Wake Up Call...Thomas Leavitt interviews City Council candidate Jay Cabera: City Budget, Day after the Election plans, Police Budget] T.L. and Norse continue with questions Selective Enforcement, Drum Circle Controversy, Health Care, Exclusion from Other Forums, Public Spaces, Making Temporary City Employees Permanent, Reexamining City Attorney and City Manager, Homeless Issues, Environmentalist vs. Homeless Concerns, and other questions... Street Interviews: Nemo reports 8 police officers versus one man with a plastic rubber dart gun...(Cabrera stays in studio as commentator)...More questions for Cabrera on City Council procedure, New Leaf Chaining Off Sidewalk...Interviews in front of Coonerty's Bookshop Santa Cruz: Vet's Hall update., etc...Visionsong Valerie on the Drum Circle...discussion outside city council 9-23 with Sgt. Michael Harms, Whitney Wildes, and Norse...Sleeping Ban foe Mike Glassel reports severe beating and death threats from Monerey county cop John Onlee...Monterey report......more of the Harms dialogue... Mendicino activist Pebbles Trippet reports on the Kelly, Phomphakdy & Urziceanu decisions expanding medical marijuana patient rights...fighting the conservative backlash in Mendicino County...still more of the Harms dialogue as the good Sgt. tries to beat a retreat & other pre-council interviews...Officers Forbus and Burnham ticket David Espinoza for erasable chalk on the sidewalk 10-3 at the complaint of Steve of O'Neill's...[5 hours approx.]

Thursday, October 9, 2008
Download Show Phone Interview with Wanda Knight on the Community Dialogue [against racism and police abuse] and upcoming conclucidng forum ...Jay Cabrera calls in reporting on the two election forums...Interviews in Louden Nelson Park: Irish (claims he was beaten by Officer Winston), Jordan the singer, Jacob on more problems with Winston...end of the 10-8 Downtown Association City Council candidate forum —Kenyatta, Coonerty, and others conclude...[2 hours]

Sunday, October 12, 2008
Download Show [Various Wake-Up Call Numnums...Flashback: June 2001: Interviews during another attack on drummers and nearby “free” vendors and leaflers near the Santa Cruz Downtown Wednesday Farmer's market]...Flashback cont w/Thomas L. and I comparing then and now, discussing upcoming council election...[songs by Peggy Seeger throughout]...call-in from Fencefilching freedomlover “Crow”... Flashback: Janet Blaser, 2001 Farmer's Market Manager Way Back interviewed and then publicly criticized...Phone Interview w/Clair Machado on Barriors and Illegalities to Building on County Property...Flashback from 2001 cont....Billi/Corey update from Mattison...Vet Robert “Hutch” Hutchinson's account of a brutal arrest for a Tim Bratton Vet's Hall restraining order in early September...Chatter after the 10-8 Downtown Asssociation Candidates forum...City Council 10-14 preview...Portland homeless report on Sit/Lie law http://www.streetroots.org/past_issues/2008/10_01/10_01_2008.pdf .[approx 4 hours]

Thursday, October 16, 2008
Download Show In-studio guest “Black Rose” Rebecca who was violently arrested by police 10-14 by Borders after being approached for “singing after sunset” ...Street Interviews: 8/9-08: Six-Pack reports Officer Winston detained his marijuana.. Suzanne the Drum Criminal on BamBam's dog chewing tires at the Drum Circle...Mama Val Promise on police violence against Black Rose, “shrieking but not resisting...[2 hours]

Sunday, October 19, 2008
Download Show [2 hours of T.L.'s The Wake-Up call] Flashback: June 1990 Rehersal for KSCO Interview with homeless activist Barbara Haaglund. Street Interviews: 10-18 Swami—judging the root of suffering; Val Promise on the violent arrest of Rebecca “Black Rose on 10-14... reports on increased fear of the SCPD and violence...Drum Circle interviews from 10-15 recovery of the public space: Dave Derek, Fred Geiger, Crow, anonymous “fence remover”, Karliana, Jena, Donna Deiss, “Noone”, Thomas, India Joze...Jane's Flour Art in the parking lot...10-16 Street Interviews: Sherry arrested and Pounder the dog gets away...Robert & Marshall comment on police questioning.. .Officer Winston gives what Turtle terms a “false” citation for being 14' away from a cafe..Dana Feldman gets a marijuana ticket from Winston... 10-18 Pavement Patty on Winston harassment falsely using the “Move Along Law”... “Noone” on Officer Seiley's photo portfolio of “undesirables”... Interview with Councilmember Tony Madrigal on union, police review matters. [3 ½ hours]

Thursday, October 23, 2008
Download Show SC Neighbors Candidate Forum Update...Street Interviews: “Ten O'Clock Club” in front of New Leaf—Travis's Hitchhiking Report, Roughedges Ron... “Hutch” Interview: Adventures with Vet's Hall Manager Tim Bratton, harassment by Trader Jo's Security guards and Officer Winston... Rising Marijuana Arrests Nationally (1991: 288, 000; 2006: 830, 000)...Coonerty, Kenyatta, at Candidate forum...”Why I'm Not Voting for Obama” by Todd Chretien [http://www.counterpunch.org/chretien10232008.html] ...[2 hours]

Sunday, October 26, 2008
Download Show [the Wake-Up Call...Thomas L. on more public space downtown...ABC—Anybody But Connerty...]...Good Times story on Repressive newly implemented UCSC Educational Code 924440 [ http://www.gtweekly.com/20081020267121/news/activism/speak-here-or-forever-hold-your-peace?comment_id=402&joscclean=1]...Interviews from 10-12 Bookshop Coonerty protest: “Greenhat” and his many trips to SCPD to get back his property...Jobseeking Kent outside Borders...Street Interviews: J.P Freeman on salmon & homeless harassment; Ranger Wallace: “Every morning, I will harass you.”...Officer Burnham and the 10:00 club...Tom the Old-Timer...Robert the Iraqi Vet's tale...Frances Boyle: “A War Crime in Real Time— Obliterating Falluja” [http://www.counterpunch.org/boyle11152004.html] ... Where's the New Picasso?Fallujah, the 21st Century Guernica By Saul Landau [http://www.counterpunch.org/landau11272004.htmll] ...Nader: “Convergence and Avoidance in the Presidential Campaign: the Song Remains the Same” [http://www.counterpunch.org/nader10222008.html] ...More interviews: Mark—police waking and handcuffing benchsleeper at 7 AM...BamBam2 reports cops tackled and tased a guy.. .Positive report on Officer Winston...Victoria Court Decision Overturns Park Camping Ban...City Council Preview...Flashback: April 1990—Supporting Homeless People Harassed by Cops on Orders of the World Bank across the street from the Post Office Homeless Table w/Jane Imler and bank officials...[approx 4 hours]

Thursday, October 30, 2008
Download Show Dana's positive street report...Kent with a “Worker” sign...Black Rose update—Nov. 19th courtdate for “singing after dark”...Election eve reflections... 10-29 John Tems on way to demand D.A. return his medical marijuana...Interview with (successful) state assembly candidate Bill Monning... “Scope it Out” Scott Graham nails the election prospects...(2 hours)

Sunday, November 2, 2008
Download Show [Wake Up Call: ...T.L. Gives his view of Propositions and Candidates... Flashback: March 1990: Keith McHenry rallies Food Not Bombs supporters, then gives a history lesson and answers questions in Municipal Court in Mayor Agnos's attempt to criminalize feeding people...] Electionbabble...Street Interviews on Morning before Halloween: the Corey report: 3 incidents of harassment including drying a guitar in the alcoves, Dustin reports ID checks by 3 cops for “loitering”, Walder—ticketed for spitting on the sidewalk in the rain; two squad cars for a wrong-way-on-Pacific bike ticket; disabled Jerry Leon Wilkerson—assaulted at Jeffrey's, police didn't offer to call medic; trespass at HSC; “Fifth” on his marijuana ticket; Forrest on another marijuana ticket; BamBam banned from Coffee Roasting Company for spitting by Manager Sara Crosby Baker; Australian Beerkeg Crime...David Date and Rashid Watkins describe police break-in under unruly party law and beating of homeless-looking man on sidewalk...African-American Mark Halfmoon—harassed twice for vansleeping by friendly neighbors...Cynthia McKinney audio...Five Years on the Street by Tom Hunter [http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2008/oct/29/five-years-street/] ... [approx 4 ½ hours]

Thursday, November 6, 2008
Download Show BamBam excluded from Coffee Roasting Company for spitting in the sidewalk cafe area... Stopping the Religious Propaganda being broadcast live and amplified via the Transit Authority speakers on 11-2-08, followed by my (non-custodial) arrest by a National Security Institute (Metro) guard and the SCPD [incident is written up at “Tickted for Standing and Talking at the Metro Bus Stop Sunday”]...Interviews with homeless Jack on prior harassment at the Metro, Pogonip harassment by rangers and police...Further audio on Metro security and SCPD ticketing and forcing me off the property. [2 hours]

Sunday, November 9, 2008
Download Show [The Wake-Up Call: Leavitt analyzes the election results]...Analysis of the Metro incident from previous show... Flashback: January 1990: cops Seize Homeless Table #4; Sgt 'Don't Fuck With Me” St. Onge Strikes... Caller David: “Santa Cruz has more of a homeless problem because of its relatively lenient police policy?” discussion...Caller Matthew : “24-Hour Shelters as a solution elsewhere?” chat....Audio on the Metro incident cont.: taped conversations with Nat Sec Institute guard Anny Delgadillo, SCPD's Sgt. Swaneck, and Delgadillo's supe, during and after my arrest/ticket...Reports from the Street: Miguel de Leon and Anna Richardson report being beaten, tased, and jailed for talking back after a sleeping ticket at the Town Clock [approx 4 hours]

Thursday, November 13, 2008
Download Show Homeless guests Les and Eaglefeather...E reports 5 cops ticketed 6 sleepers out of the area in front of Greek Orthodox Church, though they'd slept there for weeks...Sentinel anti-homeless article of 11-11—since removed, but comments still available at [http://www.topix.com/city/santa-cruz-ca/2008/11/cleaning-up-downtown-santa-cruz ] ... activist Becky Johnson joins the in-studio crowd on “the Panhandling Menace”...Les and Lee report on religious food servers ticketed in front of Borders from santacruzrevival [http://www.santacruzrevival.com ] )...Officer Inhouye interrogates African American “bunny-ears” Mike at Soquel and Pacific, threatening him with a drug test for protesting...Boulevardbystander Bill...[2 hours]

Sunday, November 16, 2008
Download Show [The Wake-Up Call]...2:10 [2 hours and 10 minutes into the audio file] Flashback: Jane Imler at Santa Cruz City Council in March 1990 on the end of Calamity's Cupboard and the beginning of A Free Meal...Street Interviews:..Mistress K, Uncle Dennis of FRSC...Felony on 8-copcar arrest in early November near the main library....Brandy, Joe, Merryweather Mike... Confessions of a Cheesethief...Blues Man Cisco, Jazzed-Up Jimmy...Iraqi Christian street musicians... Dreamcatcher bereft of his tools...Bicyclist and worker Erin sees and experiences barrage of bike tickets... Les wakened in the wee hours in a parking lot...BamBam: 4 tickets and counting...Drum Circle Interviews on Happy John Death Day (11-12)...Longtime guitarist Jay goes to court 12-15...Ricky Bell's documentary... More interviews: Crow (Michael Charles Liebeck) in-studio guest, , goes to court for Drum Circle defense 12-11 in Dept. 1... Tasering Incident Downtown: witnesses Leloni, Logan, John J., and Peter c. Brown... Craig Canada update...Street responses to 11-12 anti-homeless Sentinel story: C.J. Stock...R.D. Morgan... Lester Sinclair...R. Duck..Les Ward...In studio guests: BamBam, Moonmaid, and her son Jessee...[approx 4 hours]

Thursday, November 20, 2008
Download Show Budget Cuts Coming Up...”Dangerous” John T. reports on San Jose Token Tent City...Phone Interview with Fresno's Mike Rhodes on new lawsuit against povertypimps harassing homeless outside their Rescue Mission...dispersing the $1.5+ million to the homeless from the Kinkaid settlement...Update on New Jack City and a second encampment there...the “Housing First” proposal... [http://www.fresnoalliance.com/home] .City on a Hill Press's Naomi phones in—asking the success of homeless activism in Santa Cruz...Mia Cook reports getting sleeping tickets in front of the Greek Orthodox Church in spite of permission from the pastor on 11/12...street jeweler Sequoia who lives out of her car notes harassment for displaying her artwork...Alice with service dog Buddy reports cops harassing Coral the foodserver on 11/13 in front of New Leaf Market...Coral's direct report...[2 hours]

Thursday, December 18, 2008
Download Show “Vandweller tasered by Palo Alto police wins suppression of evidence hearing”; attorney David Beauvais discusses the Joseph Ciampi case in phone interview [http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=10448 ] ...Berkeley poet Julia Vinograd[ http://www.juliavinograd.com/ ]and her new book America is Hiding Under My Bed. [1630 University Ave., #34 Berkeley, CA 94703]...Linda A.'s street report of a demo around Chuck, the single Dad's, complaint he got a bogus urine test positive as part of the Rebele Family Shelter... Phone interview with Fresno's Mike Rhodes reporting from Madera and 60 homeless people protesting at last night's City Council meeting [http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/12/23/18556161.php] ...Street Interview: 12-11: Mark's jaywalking ticket near Taco Bell's—panhandling with “broke and hungry” sign, 2 hours with no luck, notes folks get lots of sleeping tickets...Strummer with bunnies...[2 hours]

Thursday, December 25, 2008
Download Show Berkeley attorney David Beauvais discusses Joseph Ciampi victory—where Ciampi was harassed in his van in Palo Alto, a city with no homeless sleeping ban, tricked out of his van, then tasered, and arrested. Charges were dismissed after Beauvais's cross-examination of the cops involved at a suppresion of evidence hearing...ACLU lawsuit against the Sleeping Ban in Laguna Beach...Caller Josh reports harassment from Chief Ranger John Wallace: $250 ticket on the levy while eating a lunchtime burrito in the “no access” zones...Street Interviews: 12-9 sit tickets near Borders during the Human Rights Sleepout...Drum Circle defense report... Visionsong Valerie's carols...12-9 City Council meeting: Madrigal's oath of office followed by my “liar” comment Councilmember Madrigal swore to uphold the Constitution...12-21 Officer Winston's false info to Sassysong Suzanne to drive away singers...Ed Davidson commenting on City Council coronation night...[approx 2 hours]

Sunday, December 28, 2008
Download Show [The Wake Up Call: R. Norse on 12-9 City Council meeting: Oral Communications segment—Gillian Greensite, R. Norse, and BamBam...Street Interviews: 12-21: Lee of Santa Cruz Revival on restoring right to sing and feed in front of Borders...Sean Concilla says she was evicteed from Palomar for “Praise the Lord”ing the management and writing a pro-Prop 8 letterto Metro S.C].... Berkeley attorney and advocate Kathy Zatkin on drug company profits, Laura's law increasing forced psychiatric drugging, H&S 5150.05 adding past lack of compliance...Alaska attorney and psychiatric survivor Jim Gottstein on alternatives like Soteria-Alaska, establishing your right to choose your own medication... ...Berkeley attorney and Electroshock survivor Ted Chabasinski on these issues...More from Kathy Zatkin on exposing drug company involvement in government oversight and programs.. 12-9 “Meet the New Council” pastryfest at the Civic Auditorium...Micah Posner, Grant Wilson critique my saying “liar” as Councilmember Tony Madrigal gave his oath of office...HRO's Bob Patton reports pastor Dennis Adams and his Sunday meal evicted from Vet's Hall by building manager Tim Bratton...Back at the Civic: Discussion with Sgt. Michael Harms on his early December Drum Circle policing...[4 ½ hours]

2009

Thursday, January 1, 2009
Download Show Laguna Beach ACLU Files Lawsuit Against Sleeping Ban...12-30 Copwatch-on-Pacific-Avenue Interviews Mark—ticket for panhandling in a group...Ernie Johnson, mall musician, now unemployed...Pythonwearer got ticket from Officer Sanchez...Fat Eddie volunteers... Visionsong Valerie sings “Downtown”, HUFF style...Michele B...Airplane Bob complains of Business bathroom discrimination...Becka supports Copwatch...Guitarslinging Marvin Meccam...Bernard and Robert on Copwatch following Sgt. Harms and Officer Kline...BamBam vs. Cops on “blocking the sidewalk”...John supports the cops...Felton panhandler praises the town...Drummer Dave at Parking Lot #4 Drum Circle describes cops driving away circle on Xmas eve... Anonymous regular on cop presence downtown...J.P. Freeman's First Arrest in 2 Decades, compliments of Officer Winston on 12-26...poet Julia Vinograd's “Bubbles and Bones”.. New Year's Eve DIY parade...Beggarbacker Becky and Visionsong Valerie surveys the crowd.cops, & klieglights...Lisa Luck complains of instrusive spotlights...Sgt. Bush explains why he's videotaping the peaceful crowd...Skidmark and Norse banter in the studio...(2 hours)

Sunday, January 4, 2009
Download Show [The Wake Up Call: Flashbacks May 1991 KZSC interview of SPAN—Stop Police Abuse Now!--activists “Nutcracker” Nick Whitehead, “Bathrobespierre” Robert Norse, Linda “the Lark” Edwards, “Redtop”Robert Flory... Officer Kern selectively targets Norse's car, Sgt. Aluffi threatened to impound camera if pictures taken] Flashback cont.:... responding to police misconduct...police brutality at the Town Clock World Peace Vigil against “Won Ton” Dave Jacobs...Linda Edwards on witnessing police arrests... Lightfoot Linda Aubell denied recuperative housing after eye surgery reports on Armory Winter Shelter conditions...The Coonerty Accomplishments—Leavitt's analysis... 1991 Flashback cont: Fighting selective enforcement...Street Interviews: 12-31 Last Night-- Sgt. Bush photographing celebrants...Officer Forbus's explanation for putting foot on cement planter, for ticketing Gary for giving a HUFF card to two “suspects”, for giving six “sitting in the shade” tickets last summer, and more!..David Paul Allen Date follows up on Halloween account of police raiding a party at his house, breaking in, roughed him up, filed misdemeanor interfering with arrest charges later dropped...Venice's Peggy Lee Kennedy on food server crackdown there (part 2)...West Palm Beach food law struggle...Phone Interview with Pastor Dennis Adams of the Pastor's Hand on Tim Bratton forcing their group out of the Vet's Hall for Sunday meal over the objections of supportive Vets groups...report on harassment of Pastor Ron's S.C. Revival group harassed and ticketed inf ront of Borders for singing religious songs “too loud”...Madera homeless

Thursday, January 8, 2009
Download Show [songs from Roy Bailey's Coda throughout] Stories on the BART police murder of Oscar Grant on New Year's Day...Street Interviews: 12-11—homeless Sky reports homeless people help after attack and $994 robbery in early October but police were unhelpful; Officer Paco refused to make out a police report;...paddywagon arrests on the beach...Mia criticizes Hope and Victoria, Armory Winter Shelter monitors, notes cops ticketed homeless sleeping in front of Greek Orthodox Church...santa cruz indymedia censorship...”NoOne” previously Casey, reports being arrested daily without cause, deciding to fight back and has renounced his citizenship...12-22 at the Ten O'Clock Club in front of New Leaf: Arkansas gal, Adam, and others report in...1-6: Fish & Sam: fear of police creating homeless-free Pacific Ave...Justin and Micah discuss the New Year's Eve “Sgt. Harms vs. Sub Rosa cafe folks” encounter... another Oscar Grant story...Postal service cuts off SRO tenants...[2 hours]

Thursday, January 15, 2009
Download Show (songs from the 2008 Mel Brooks musical Young Frankenstein interspersed) Samilia, a Las Vegas woman brutalized by a pimp, seeking funds to return home, tells her story... first info and City Attorney stonewall on upcoming info on Downtown Ordinances...1-13 Copwatch: Aleena Hobbs signs petition against abusive police, recalls being harassed when homelss, pregnant, and 14 years old, a year ago; dry tasered in a camping arrest.out in De La Viega; Chief Ranger John Wallace and female cop ran her name, falsely told her and partner Jesse Whitnam they were camping out on “private property”, taken into custody and held for a couple of weeks—on camping and resisting arrest; charges dropped w/ Maya Norberg her public defender, ...Water polo player Lindsay Mellum reports her arrest and psychiatric incarceration in Campbell, w/8 cops; reports SCPD police overpoliced (8 cops, 5 cop cars against a Catalyst heated argument)...Hale's tale about John Wallace pursuing him into the Staff of Life bathroom...” Palestinians and American Indians Russell Means Breaks the Silence on Obama” By BRENDA NORRELL [ http://www.counterpunch.org/norrell01122009.html] ...Floyd & others reports 1-9 police assault on “Irish” on the riverbank, for refusing to pull his hands out of his pocket, chin busted up, taken to hospital, witnesses threatened with tasers, according to Brian, Floyd, and Irish himself...Oscar Grant, killed by BART cop, discussion...Street Sheet 3-08 “Police Kill Man Panhandling, No Charges filed” [http://cohsf.org/streetsheet/2008/03/01/police-kill-man-panhandling-no-crimes-charged/#more-443 ] ...More Copwatch: Debating Sgt. Michael Harms on the Downtown Ordinances: behavioral laws or anti-homeless focus? ...Commending Sgt. Harms for dealing with an intoxicated bicyclist some days ago and helping Brian to get medication...Female panhandler with spange signs 3' apart, given further separation by Sgt. Harms; Harms replies ...Laguna Beach ACLU sues to end Sleeping Ban there...Hawk's Street Report on Officer Seilly at Homeless Service Center...(2 hours)

Sunday, January 18, 2009
Download Show [songs from the 2008 Mel Brooks musical Young Frankenstein throughout] [The Wake-Up Call: Norse is guest-host; Flashback: Xmas eve sleeping tickets for “Shoeless Joe” Parker 12-24-89 and “Jailtime” Judith Beinert—Ray Grueneich's interrogation and argument at trial]..the “lost” 12-15-08 Measure K Committee meeting which the City didn't record or allow oral communications at ...Street Interviews: “Trash” reports cop told him to “get out of town”...J.P. Freeman on Chief Ranger Wallace & Crews throwing out homeless gear along the levy, throwing it for disposal into locked dumpster (1-5)...Jason Daniels reports Joshua Merritt (Irish) slammed to the ground by SCPD (including Officer Chavez) and beaten on morning of 1-9 near Soquel bridge near the levy for not removing his hands from his pockets quickly enough, witnesses (Brian, Mark, numerous others) menaced with tasers, Irish taken to the hospital... Attorney and Writer Osha Neumann on Obama and the Gaza Invasion:[http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2009-01-15/article/31990?headline=The-Silence-of-Barack-Obama ] ...Critic Becky Johnson responds...Tex from the 2003 Santa Cruz Vigil Against Two Wars, reports on Dem Convention protest, critiques street scene...Officer Forbus tickets Nicole and Eric for sitting on the edge of a planter box...reportedly advises Brian “let me do my business or you'll get tazed or geaten down”... recycler Dave on scavenging tickets...Michelle Doyka describes Straight-Talkin' Suzanne resisting nighttime harassment the day before Xmas from Officer Winston in an “unattended property” ticket...12-6 Copwatch/Chowdown/Sleepout ...interview with hammer dulcimer guy Mikael Maesli at[http:// www.artistgeneral.com ] ...sex worker Tara .....Black Rose recaps her “singing after sunset” takedown in front of Borders...reports from Tess, Patric, Isaac the Lyrical eye, Anonymous, B.O.B., Taz, and Joe the Pendulem Pusher ...all at the Copwatch table...[approx 4 hours]

Thursday, January 22, 2009
Download Show {Selections from “ Young Frankenstein” the Musical throughout) Fresno writer and activist Mike Rhodes on the Fresno Homeless Czar Greg Barfield's holding off the cops from the Railroad Homeless Encampment where houses with frames are being built... Central California Legal Services in a new lawsuit against Rescue Mission on behalf of the homeless... Fresno's designated $3 million unspent on the homeless, $2 million last year...Report from Madera (Vernon Price): MacDonald's Discrimination and Merced [ “Why Does McDonald's Hate the Homeless?” http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/02/15/18571176.php] ...Downtown Ordinances Preview...Rabblerouser Mike from St. Louis, MO: 47 homeless counted in a city of 1.5 million...counting the homeless to get more money while chauffeured by cops who will bust up squats... [http://www.ksdk.com/news/national/story.aspx?storyid=166628&catid=28] ..more downtown Ordinance talk: (2hrs)

Thursday, January 25, 2009
Download Show [The Wake Up Call...Forbidden “no sitting” zones around Public Art...Flashback: “Jabberwocky” Jay Green speaks to City Council in March 1990 on police harassment under the Camping Ban, “Paddywagon” Pete Pascoe, Brian Koepke of the Homeless Alliance] ... 1-20: Sgt. Harms and Officer Wilson outwait a group of hangerouters in front of Rosie McCann's including Jackson, J.P. Freeman, Emily, Valorie, and Suzanne the Drummer...John praises Wilson & Harms...Michelle praises Harms...Street Interviews: Panhandler Dustin, Teague the photowoman on Obamamania: penny spiraling on the sidewalk...Harms v. Freeman on the Downtown Ordinances... “Mama Val Promise” on the controversy... Randy Wallberger from Side by Side in Santa Monica and HOPE (Helping Other People Eat)... history of homeless feeding programs driven inside...Randy's capsule modules (from Japan) as a shelter solution [rwshelters@verison.net ] ...General Doegun of LA Community Action Network: on racial anti-homeless harassment: 24, 000 tickets and 19, 000 tickets in a community of 13, 000 people in a 15-block area: update on the Jones settlement overturning Code 4118d... Jim Crow laws on Skid Row [stever@cangress.org ] ...struggle to convince the people to stand up and fight...caller Becky Johnson recalls Jason Paschal hassled by O'Neill's sports shop as Brent Adams the drummer was more recently... [“O'neill's Surf Shop, Police Hassle Street Performers, Collude to Thwart City Ordinances” [http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/19/18564527.php ] “Freedom Man - All Charges against dropped against Jason Paschal”[http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/29/18495698.php ] 2-24 SF Chronicle “UCSF Study Raises Doubts about Stun Gun Safety” by Elizabeth Fernandez [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/23/BARC15G532.DTL ]... Menlo Park report from Linda Jolley: counting the homeless, but no campground...(approx 4 hours)

Thursday, January 29, 2009
Download Show Songs by Jim Hinde...Norse on the proposed Downtown Ordinance changes...Human Rights Organization activist Bernard Klitzner asks the Community TV Board of Directors to sever its subservience to City Council orders in the bi-weekly filming of City Council meetings... More on the specifics of the ordinance changes...Caller Andrea reports being warned by police that it's illegal to give a blanket....Mayor Matthews at 1-27 Council meeting and withholding her correspondence...Street Interviews: Tina the Sparechanger w/kitty Scuzzy... 1-18: Dreamcatcher and Black Rose give the Upchuck Report from the HSC...In the New Leaf sidewalk “No Trespassing” zone...Jan 20th Copwatch...Carol slept in her vehicle illegally in the public parking lot...Sgt. Harms challenging the homeless account of an alleged Friday morning police assault on “Irish”...Void, an eyewitness, gives another account....[2 hours]

Sunday. February 1, 2009
Download Show [The Wake Up Call: Norse and Leavitt on the Backroom “Gotcha” Process for the Latest Downtown Ordinance Changes... Flashback: June 1990 Discussion “Homeless Congress”, 4th of July Rally....Obit for Raymond Grueneich Jr....1990 Sleeping Ban Trial of Joe Parker]... Deconstructing Sgt. Harms as he chats W/Copwatcher (1-20)...Thomas G. complains Harms “treated me like a dog”...Steve the first-time caller critiques police...Dave the Drummer on the Drum Circle Fate during the Farmer's Market vacation... .Street Interviews: Loggan Grittam on cops using “car will be towed” ruse to lure him out of house for a retaliatory false arrest...[http:// www.RonPaul.meetup.com/87 ] O, My Sole customer Mariola and her companion Joelle complain of abuse from manager Eric and subsequent police excessive force from Sgt. Harms...disabled Matthew Hastings talks of Sleeping ticket harassment, police seizing property... Sgt. Harms' account of Eric v. Mariola incident at O, My Sole...Merryweather Mike reports BamBam refused right to announce City Council meeting at the Soup Kitchen..More 1-20 accounts: Police problems in San Jose; Santa Cruz Revival ticketed in November for singing Amazing Grace and feeding homeless in front of Borders...Josh commends Sgt. Harms...”Barack Obama International Terrorist”--confronting the Obamatons on Coronation Day... "How Obama's New Rules Keep Intact The Torture Ban That Doesn't Ban Torture” By Allan Nairn at ...[http://www.counterpunch.org/nairn01262009.html ] ....Curbsquattor Colin reports on local Democratic Party driving away poor and homeless from Obama Day feed...1-21 Drum Circle chat...Interviews from 12-12-08: Michael Maisley's hammer culcimer... Autumn's SitBan and Panhandling tickets—for holding a cardboard sign at night...Drummer Tamarock's full-moon update—a ticket for jaywalking with a drum...Lt. Martinez's Update in front of New Leaf... Sam reports wheelchair Wheels's hassle and smoking ticket from Officer Forbus (?); woman's life on the streets...Jay's sings “One of These Days...Donny's Street Rap.... Terry and John's mall-and-food service report; praise for Officer Peabody...Brent Adams phone report Brandt/O'Neill's Sports Shop harassment... Vice-Mayor Rotkin interview on the Downtown Ordinance changes (Part 1) [approx 4 hours]

Thursday, February 5, 2009
Download Show Phone Interview with 'Nuf Said Nancy McCradie in Santa Barbara: new laws banning homeless Rvs from being within 500' of any place with children...In-studio guests David and Yasenia of MECHA looking for a Copwatch [459-3496, meets Tues 8 PM Conference Room Cervantes Velasquez]...[David's FRSC show is Thursdays 1-3 PM] 2-1 Street Interview: Hosts harassing a hammer dulcimar musician (Michael M) in front of Borders.. .Caitlan—female Pacific Ave. panhandler on Harms' surveillence [http://www.gtweekly.com/20090126338611/news/politics/cleaning-up-downtown-santa-cruz#comment-698 ] P.J. and Tia scoff at the anti-homeless hysteria...Mike M. on the Hosp-tility crew moving musicians...Drummer Dave on 2-4 marijuana bust near drum circle that took an hour...Interview with Vice-Mayor Mike Rotkin on the Downtown Ordinances...Street Interviews cont....More cops hassling street musicians...November 2008 Downtown Commission's report on the upcoming ordinance...[2 hours]

Sunday, February 8, 2009
Download Show [Thomas Leavitt's The Wake-Up Call Downtown Ordinance Discussion..: Flashback: Spring 1990 sleeping ban trial with attorney Ray Grueneich defending “Shoeless” Joe Parker and “Jailtime” Judith Beinert using the “involuntary sleep” defense] ...In-studio guest Drummer Dave... Downtown Ordinances' bans sitting, sparechanging, tabling, and performing in Forbidden Zones not “bad behavior” as advertised—discussion...Street Interviews: Panther at the 1-28 Drum Circle....1-27 City Council Evening Oral communications: Robin's on the Right to Sell Your Own Art; Norse on the Sleeping Ban...Drummer Dave's Street Report...Norse on the Downtown Ordinances and Abuse... “Marking 100 Years of Failed Drug Prohibition: The Opium Exclusion Act of 1909” by Dale Gieringer at [http://www.counterpunch.org/gieringer02062009.html ]...Discussion with Councilmember Katherine Beiers on the Homeless and the Downtown Ordinances ...”Dangerous John T.” survey for the Cournalist on Downtown Ordinances [http://cournalist.com/2009/02/09/new-downtown-ordinance-revisions-unpopular-with-majorities-of-poll-respondents-survey/ ] ...Pendulem pusher with ticket calls in...[4 ½ hours]

Thursday, February 12, 2009
Download Show In studio guests: Zoran, Nina, and Eric...Eric's Report on Mayor Matthew's Downtown Ordinance Correspondence...PoliceAbuse, Selective Enforcement, and the Ordinances... Call-In's from David, Drummer Dave, Alonee Spirit, Donna Deiss...The Rotkin Interview-Part 2 on Norse's Metro Bust and the Downtown Ordinances...[2 ¼ hours]

Sunday, February 15, 2009
Download Show [Thomas Leavitt's Wake Up Call: Norse and Leavitt on the proposed Smoking Ban....]...Forbidden Zones Downtown: discussion...Flashback: On Trial 1990 “Jailtime” Judith Beinert” and “Jabberwocky” Jay Green for December 1989 Protest Sleeping w/attorney Ray Grueneich ...poetry from Julia Vinograd's Bubbles and Bones CD...On Councilwoman Katherine Beiers discusses Downtown Ordinances w/HUFF activists (2-2)...Phone Interview with Gillian Greensite: UCSC colleges ignore rape education (http://cityonahillpress.com/article.php?id=1584 ) ...FRSC Broadcaster and Signflyer Dana Cruz Assaulted in Boulder Creek...Eric the Unstoppable co-hosts on recently being assaulted by police near The Food Bin...[Approx 4 hours]

Thursday, February 19, 2009
Download Show On 2-2 Councilmember Don Lane grilled by HUFFsters...Linda Lemaster, chair of the former Homeless Issues Task Force is co-host...”Yoyo” in-studio guest, reports that Officer Brandt drove him and others out into the rain... Eric and Zoran describe “Hands Off California” Initiative that Eric seeks to put on the ballot to stop police from laying hands on persons until reasonably suspected of a crime or summoned by a court....Don Lane Interview cont ....Lemaster on the HITF Follow-up....Zoran seeks answers on rights of pyschiatrically disabled in Santa Cruz...More from Lane interview (2 hours).

Sunday, February 22, 2009
Download Show [The Wake Up Call Flashback: A Visit to the Homeless-Run Camp Paradise 6-21-01 with Mike Schmidt, Don Dible, Larry Templeton, and others]...Flashback cont....Drummer Dave's report... Copwatch on 2-21 in front of Borders: Burna on police problems at the Drop-In Center...Sherry and the Fuzz...Fresno activist Mike Rhodes on Aftermath of the Police Beating of Glen Beaty and update on Homeless Tent Cities [http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/02/13/18570224.php ] ...”Wake Up Obama: Afghanistan is No Threat to America “ by Dave Lindorff [http://baltimorechronicle.com/2009/012609Lindorff.shtml ] ...More Copwatch Interviews...Don Lane Interview cont. from 2-2...[approx 3 ½ hours]

Thursday, February 26, 2009
Download Show Street Interviews of the Last Week on Copwatch Saturday 2-21: Catman back in Santa Cruz w/Baby...Jenny strums “Surrender to the Music”...Colin C. Clyde's Class Commentary on Downtown Ordinances ...Lather, the criminal “Pendulem Pusher...2-22: Lawrence MacGregor claims Red Church discrimination in a questionable account...2 Open Container Tickets on their birthdays by Officer Forbus and Winston 2-24: Handicapped Bill (aka Gabriel) claims false arrest for drunk in public downtown and bogus jaywalking ticket...2-25: Robin reports 4 days in jail for vandalism for white handmark on wall ...Nick reports ticket for musical horn “attitude” downtown..”Scope it Out” Scott reports on Madcap Mattison's arrest for slashig her own tires to stop a tow on her own car...Michigan couple (Sam and Annie) misses Mommy, panhandling and strumming their way back....Benches cleared out—critique from a local...Del Mar panhandler and poochholder Kool-Aid with pup Gonzo...Void reports 2-23 morning sweep under the Soquel bridge—Chief Ranger Wallace drives 10 squatkids out into the rain...Drummer Dave reports parking lot dispute...Uncle Dennis denounces standing in parking space to save it for a car ....Repressive “green is the new red” laws and arrests of animal-right leafleters and speakers: statement of Will Potter: [http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/02/23/18572759.php ] ...Sentinel police/D.A. PR on “legal help” against poor folks arrested as drunk downtown [http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_11788034] ....Office Forbus debates locals...[2 hours]

Sunday, March 1, 2009
Download Show [Thomas Leavitt's The Wake-Up Call...Thomas's Local Updates from[http://www.indybay.org/santacruz] ...Leavitt interviews Rena Ruez Program Director for the Beach Flats Community Center]...Sax street musician Peter Lindener discusses his citation for “unreasonable noise” from Melody S. --local property manager above Borders Book Store...Interview with Mike Schmidt, former CEO of the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce, calling in from Bend, OR on struggle for a safe place to sleep in Santa Cruz 2000-2002...Phone interview with Med-Ex medical marijuana distributor Anita Henri on the recent arrest of Felton Hemporium operator Roger Mentch.. [ http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/02/27/18573755.php] [http://www.palmspringsbum.org ]marijuana activist Craig Canada: outrage at costly prices locally, no response yet to his Measure K.. SCPD using bogus public intoxication arrests? :“San Jose public-drunkeness arrests tumble after public attention” (3-1-09 SJ Mercury News) [http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_11800913?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com ] ...Matthew Roth, Roger Mentch's neighbor, calls in to report on his arrest several weeks ago...Part 3 of the 2-2 Don Lane Interview (Part 1: 2-19, Part 2: 2-22)...Pendulem Pusher Lather calls in ...Report from Drummer Dave...[3 ½ hours]

Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Special “Catch-Up” Edition of Bathrobespierre's Broadsides Download Show [End of Democracy Now! On the Walsh Whitewash of Guantanamo]...One hour Interview with Councilwoman and former Mayor Katherine Beiers on 2-18 around the Sleeping Ban and the recommendations of the 1999 Santa Cruz City Council Homeless Issues Task Force [http://www.cabinc.org/Research/HTFFinalReport.htm ] ...Street Interviews: Saturday 1-24 Musician C.J. Stock on new 1-hour limit sitting on city benches...homeless Robert Blindbear with his mobile 5-pole teepee on top of 5-sided cart, reports cops stopped guitars-and-drums in front of New Leaf. though their noise level was “pretty quiet” ..Yoyo munching popcorn in his chair in front of Del Mar stoned reports Casey several days ago asking for pennies after dark, then Officer Winston and two others hassled Casey for “panhandling after dark”, screamed “how many times am I to be arrested for nothing?”, nose reportedly bloodied at police station...Amber seconds Yoyo's story about Casey...Bobby reports a camping ticket from state Ranger Grili under CCR 4451A, reports gun drawn...successful stairwall squatter from Colorado...Casey gives his own account... 2-27: Joseph the Recycler got scavenging tickets during the day from two cops...Copwatch interviews: Scott from Bonnie Doon critiques Downtown Ordinances...T...Kendall the corporate critic...Mike in a wheelchair...Tamiia from Humboldt County ...Sara Newman, back after 6 months, on the Drum Circle...Ali and Amber young cheeky sidewalk chalkers on economic crisis forcing their moms to move...Norma Jean on the death of attorney Laney... Selection from Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America by Kristian Williams (2 ¾ hours)

Thursday, March 5, 2009
Download Show Councilwoman Katherine Beiers phone update: P & R citations for Sleeping/Camping will be included in future; homeless possessions routinely trashed by P & R clean-up crews after 72 hours or more....Downtown Ordinance discussion...Sidewalk breakfasters... Gladys on her electric sidewalk scooter on downtown scene.....Michelle from Arcata hassled by Sgt. Harms as she tries to get donations for her t-shirt artwork; dialogue w/Harms...Michelle sent by Harms the day before to City Hall in a goosechase looking for a permit... “If nobody says anything to the dickheads, they'll abolish the Constitution.”....BamBam reportedly busted; new “no parking after sunset” in 3-Trees Parking Lot near Lighthosue Field: Donna Deiss got a ticket from state rangers...Fuzzy on bogus “drunk in public” busts w/ property held for days in PD station...Feb 4th: Report from Wes Modes that Trash Orchestra rehersal driven from River St. Parking Garage under Parking Lot Panic Law by Officer Kline... Daniel sleeping in a vacant store busted by gun-toting SCPD who jailed him for 3 days for “trespass”, though never asked to leave... Jeremiah Bullfrog on the Bench out near Stagnaro's on the wharf making straw roses and crucifixes, downtown falsely told he had a search clause by Officer Seiley, searched, marijuana seized... Letter to Mayor Mathews and her response...3-5 Chronicle on Oscar Grant protest: “Protests Plan to Shut BART Station”...”You're acting like Nazis” salute to City Council case goes back to court June 12th...Drummer Dave's Update... Wildfire Whitney Wilde 2-4 at the Farmer's Market Drum Circle declares a “free speech” zone...Dennis the Bard Holt on Drum Circle: “Assembly Required; Batterys Included”...[approx 2 hours]

Sunday, March 8, 2009
Download Show [The Wake-Up Call—lots of stuff with Thomas Leavitt] Flashback: “Jabberwocky” Jay Green, “Paddywagon” Calvin Pete Pascoe, Robert Norse in March 1990 at Wormhoudt City Council denouncing the Sleeping Ban as law that drove a native from town...1-20 Obama Coronation in Santa Cruz...Phone interview with activist, poet, and writer Peter Marin (author of “Helping and Hating the Homeless” https://www.msu.edu/~jdowell/135/PMarin.html) on Santa Barbara homeless—playful antipathy between authorities and homeless has degenerated into “homeless as garbage” gentrification clean-up, streets as conveyance belt for customers or public nuetral space for various activities...SB trying to jail 100 worst alcoholics, raising infraction crimes to misdemeanors, opposite of the “Housing First” model, new police chief wants to force homeless into programs, hypocritical liberals on Council who want to appear liberal with carrot in one hand and big stick in another, ACLU's lawsuit against SB Sleeping Ban, some monies freed up by stimulus plan, ..and much more...Norse on City Council upcoming meeting...LLather the pendulum pusher calls in... Berkeley BART murder of Oscar Grant update (“Suit Says BART Cops Affair Set Stage for Fatal Shot” [http://www.masstransitmag.com/web/online/Top-Transit-News/Suit-Says-BART-Cops-Affair-Set-Stage-for-Colleagues-Fatal-Shot/3$8112 ] ....Street Interviews: Fred at Louden Nelson Center reports on lady friends Shayn, Suzanne and two dogs woken up twice for sleeping outside under railroad tressel by the bike park by two cops for first ticket, second ticket later in the day by three cops, for drinking in public but not intoxicated, open container, but not drunk... Curly Estremiras calls in on his assault by Richmond police [http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/01/18574234.php][3 ½ hours approx]

Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Special “Catch-Up” Edition of Bathrobespierre's Broadsides Download Show 11-5-08 Vet Robert “Hutch” Hutchinson reports 4th of July lockout by Tim Bratton, for which Hutch called the cops; Hutch got restraining order...ticket for sitting on blanket near the San Lorenzo levy for “camping” at 10 AM and other cites... Downtown Commission's sole unagenda-ized discussion of the new Downtown Ordinances in November w/Norse commentary: June Hoffman's report from the Downtown Association [DTA]... Caller discussion on Parking Lot Panic law...More DC on the Ordinance discussion....FRSC Broadcaster (10-12 PM Wednesday) Dana Cruz calls in...P (Pacific Avenue) cases w/stay-away orders: Jennifer of the DC discusses them...Drummer Dave calls in...Chip of the DTA seeks more “tools” to deal with 'loopholes' street people have found...New report on Hosts falsely warning activists bubble-blowing is illegal.. .Julie H. and Marlin G. report on Downtown Improvement Task Force (the secretive City Council group)...Street Interviews: 2-17: Nathan vs. Chief Ranger Wallace under the Soquel Bridge: threatened “littering” “disobeying a police officer” and “camping” citations in response to Nathan's refusal to show ID, threatened to “shove face into the dirt”, but backed off when Nathan threatened to sue...Nathan notes Officer Winston gave him 2 different tickets for leaning against his backpack (“laying down”) plus a cite for camping from a female officer...Nathan's history...Sgt. Bush reportedly cites Lather for criminal “pendulum pushing” near Pacific Trading Company, while tourists were ignored doing the same thing, according to Alice...Sgt. Harms defends Buddy, Alice's service dog's right to be on Pacific and inside Hoffmann's....J.P. Freeman's report... pregnant Paula reports no tickets, commends Armory...disabled Vet Terry (Terrence Reno) claiming Chief Ranger Wallace's seized his property w/o ticket outside his jurisdiction...[3 hours]

Thursday, March 12, 2009
Download Show Adrienne Stone, gypsyCruzer and 70's medical marijuana patient, is in-studio guest...Drummer Dave's Drumcircle Update/Cops at Red church instead...Carrie & Nick under the eaves in the rain...early March: Officer Winston grills 3 benchsitters w/open container at Pacific and Cathcart; a homeless woman defends the police...what to do when the police do you wrong...BigCity Brent reports on tapemeasure protesters against Downtown Ordinances...Pendulumpushing on Pacific...Shay Gonzalez defends homeless, criticizes intrusive searches...Fish and Sam report being driven off Pacific Ave; Officers Winston and Warren “move them along”...Metro security guard's tale...Phone interview with Curly Estremeras armed with police report describing ordeal with the Hayward police and medical abusers (http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/01/18574234.php)...[2 hours]

Sunday, March 15, 2009
Download Show [First two hours of Thomas Leavitt's The Wake-Up Call has no discussion or flashbacks re: homeless topics] Flashback: 3-12-90: Successful demonstration outside the “Cattleprod Cafe”--the County Building Cafeteria—protesting exclusion of homeless people there...Drummer Suzanne reports on citations given street musicians in February, including sexy Sax player Peter... Shyco the Daddyo newly in from San Diego...2-27: Copwatch Table reports; Saxy Peter's report on his sex ticket, given by Melody Szarzt woman on floor above Borders w/o warning—Officer Forbus #199 reportedly tried to talk her out of signing the ticket for “unreasonable noise” under MC 9.36...saxy Peter Lindner reports being intimidated... two puppy-paws-near-the-pavement citations...Talk of citation of Peter L-sax musicain....Anna, restaurant worker, able to rent her own place downtown, felt unsafe with her children...Curtis Reliford (246-4240) of [http://www.followyourheartactionnetwork.com ] ...Visonsongf Valerie sings “They Dont Allow..” Anony. “Unknown” reports on Officer Black's threatening to write “the fattest ticket he can”... Report on Chief Ranger Wallace's patroling edge of Pogonip., confronting Anonymous with hand on gun...Nathan reports on Wallace threats and harassment under Soquel bridge...Officer Winston's two tickets to Nathan for “leaning against backpack” on Pacific Ave., and a third—a camping ticket by a female officer...Drummer Dave's call-in: the Parking Lot Panic law...Report on Officer Kline arresting an irritated wet-in-rain guy “with attitude”...Nathan follow-up on returning to sleep under Soquel Bridge...Metro Security Guard describes his escorting a guy who gave him “attitude” in the bathroom off the property, the guard's previous security experience in Vasalia, Metro rules...Linda Jolly calls in her Redwood City report...EDAR (“Everyone Deserves a Roof”) expensive survival gear scam...People Power Micah Posner calls in with report on bike campaign to make King St. a bike route as well as the right to ride Mission St., police static, and upcoming petition gathering and events planned (contact: 425-0665)...anti-war protest down south with military families speak out... “Obama's New Detainee Policy” by William Douglas..[3 ½ hours]

Thursday, March 19, 2009
Download Show Norse monologue on Curtis Reliford's 3-17 court hearing against Starbucks (http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/17/18578624.php) ...Reports from the HUFF meeting: 2-18: Yoyo reports Officer Brandt yelling “scum” at pregnant “Dutch” and telling her and companion to “get out of town” near Cafe Campesino...Warren West reports being charged for slamming down phone when he was frustrated trying to get his property at the police station...Councilwoman Beiers e-mail reports City now tracking Parks and Rec Sleeping Ban citations...Yoyo recounting Metro harassment incident this summer...Report from NYC of homeless taking over buildings... Rent parties—2009 Capitalist style...Santa Barbara Biz owners denounce homeless services...(2 hours)

Sunday, March 22, 2009
Download Show [Thomas Leavitt's The Wake-Up Call...Sentinel smear and prosecution pogrom against Miguel deLeon and Anna Richardson: [http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/01/18574234.php, Replay with commentary of part one of Voices from the Village 3-15 Channel 27 panel on the Downtown Ordinances with peace activist Sherry Conable, legal worker Ray Glock-Grueneich, musician Kim Dowling, attorney Ed Frey, and talk show host Louis La Fortune... Curtis Reliford's 3-17 court hearing: tape and commentary; Sentinel story at[http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_11947127 ...Phone interviews with eyewitness Steffan and Curtis...[http://www.followyourheartactionnetwork.com ] 831-246-4240... Jason, amateur juggler, calls in with report that police{falsely} told him that he couldn't juggle anywhere on Pacific Ave, but juggling is legal... Songs from the Mamas Movement...Street Interviews: 3-21: Magicsplash reports police returned his grass pipe... Dustin, who fell from a bridge, in Dominican Hospital....John reports police, deputies, rangers, and other PD's working together to chase people off Hiway 1... Interview with Anna Richardson, subject of a city injuction against her and DeLeon for Sleeping, Sitting, and homeless tickets...[3& 3/4 hrs.]

Sunday, March 26, 2009
Download Show In-studio guest Jonathan Gettleman, attorney for Anna Richardson, homeless musician, threatened with downtown injunction against nighttime sleeping [ “Santa Cruz seeks injunction against homeless couple” [http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_11964700?IADID=Search-www.santacruzsentinel.com-www.santacruzsentinel.com.. “As We See It: Downtown laws take precedence: Rights of homeless couple clash with public's rights” w/comments at [http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_11998876 ......Drummer Dave's “fences NOT up” for first time in 6 months at the Wednesday Farmers Market Drum Circle... Poet and zinecompiler Christopher Robin reports local Alpha Graphix refused toprint prison zine [http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/23/18581283.php... .Despite Obama's Promises, Combat Forces will Remain in Iraq: The Big Con on Iraq by Gareth Porter [http://www.counterpunch.org/porter03262009.html ...& other Iraq stories...Boom-Boom Brent Adams phones in on his mediation efforts with Sgt. Harms, DTA Director Chip, and Councilmember Don Lane around street performers [approx 2 hours]

Sunday, March 29, 2009
Download Show [Thomas Leavitt's The Wake-Up Call..Part 2 of replay of Voices from the Village—see 3-22-09 show above-- with additional commentary from Leavitt and drummer/mediator Brent Adams; producer Charlie Phillips calls in with comments]... Becky Johnson phones in on inaccuracies in the Hosts new “Downtown Ordinance” flier...Oakland Attorney David Beauvais joins Brent as in-studio guest on “designated free speech zones” and “panhandler gauntlet”...Brent on continuing police harassment of street musicians on Pacific Ave and a revived Street Performers Guild...Drummer Dave on exemption zones...Caller Eric on youth clustering downtown...[approx 4 ½ hours]

Sunday, April 2, 2009
Download Show Reliford Wrapup Sunday Street Interviews on 3-22 Becky Johnson on 70's Mayor Bert Muhly's song getting first Sleeping Ban citation in 1978...at Curtis's panorama protest display near Jamba Juice..246-4240 [http://www.followyourheartactionnetwork.com ...Norse's “Vanishing Benches” on Pacific Ave. report...Curly Estremeras Update [http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/01/18574234.php... ...Student Steve Jones denounces new Cabrillo College requirement that you show ID and log -in as police state measure... [http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/25/18582254.php... ...Interviews cont.: Lyrical Eye's “Property is Destroying the U.S.A.”...Daniel & Evan w/sign and walking cane moved along by cop for “leaning against backpack” on the curb.. .Beggerbacker Becky's new blog: [http://www.beckyjohnsononewomantalking.blogspot.com/ ...Alaska Admits It Is Incapable of Protecting Children and Youth in Its Care from Harmful Psychiatric Drugging . [http://www.psychrights.org/index.htm ... ...”Zen Busking and Anarchy” by Park Burgess. [http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=2092 ... .Drummer Dave Drawls... In-studio guest: ”Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster, on recent homeless povertypimperee...”ACLU: Mich. funeral protest law unconstitutional” ... [.http://original.antiwar.com/barr/2009/04/01/calling-the-us-bankrupt-is-insulting/ ...“MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION IN MEXICO? Mexico's legalisation solution By Ioan Grillo in Mexico City “...Fresno activist Mike Rhodes on homeless activism controversy over the City's latest “vouchers-for-a-few” plan... [2 hours]

Friday,April 3,2009
Special “Catch-Up” Edition of Bathrobespierre's BroadsidesDownload Show Special Edition Blogs to post on: [http://santacruzcopwatch.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html http://cournalist.com] ..3-22: Becky Johnson on her interview with Anna Richardson (“Anna Banana”) and Miguel deLeon (“Lito”)' and her criminal napkin filtching at Lulu Carpenter's and the proposed “no sleep downtown” injunction... [ http://beckyjohnsononewomantalking.blogspot.com/ becky_johnson222@hotmail.com ...... 3-25 outward-bound Nathan has pro-Sgt. Harms: comments... J.P. reports Officer Winston told him “leave the Avenue til midnight or you will be arrested for drunk in public” one morning... New Leaf employee charged with putting up “no trespass” chains ... J.P. Boasts 115 outstanding citations--none for drunk in public, all for open container, sleeping..... Michael ticketed for “open container” but was recycling....Farmer's Market Interviews: ..Chip, Exec Dir. Of the Downtown Association's survey...Sgt. Harms describes the September 17th massive police response to September 17th Drum Circle incident...Pregnant with twins, Ashley, reports Officer Hoppe forced her to move from camp near hiway 1, saying, “get the fuck out” ...Videojournalist Tim rinker, mama Amy interviwed...street musician Brianna:cited for playing within 14' of Del Williams Jewelers back on Jan 30th --$248 bail is as much as her rent, compliments of Officer Warren...[approx 2 hours]

Sunday, April 5, 2009
Download Show [The Wake-Up Call]...Unusable excessive noise law: Saxy Peter's ticket update...Barefoot Brad, Mu, and Judicious John in Street Interviews from 3-13; Copwatch 3-15 interviews: Seattle Melissa howdy's, cops illegally advise musicians they can't be in exempt “Musical Saw” statue exempt zone...Homelessness marathon creator and Fresno watcher Jeremy Alderson calls in from upstate NYC asks what will be timetable on the 200 motel vouchers for 13, 000 homeless in Fresno out of $6.9 budget—need to get everyone in a safe situation whether it be homes, apartments, or tent cities..[http://www.homelessnessmarathon.org/ ...Mike Rhodes of Fresno publicly affirms Jeremy's “with political will, Fresno could solve problem of homelessness”..Homeless activists and succesful plaintiffs Al Williams and Cynthia Green discuss the looming April 7th eviction of the H-Street Encampment and organizing prospects there... Melissa, Pat, G call in.. SJMN on front page sunday story on selective enforcement of “resisting arrest” .[http://www.mercurynews.com/topstories/ci_12073517... ...Street interviews: “Flapjack” the dog “meanmugged” by officers downtown...Officer Winston claims “dogs held in arms” are illegal on Pacific Garden mall; poet Lex reports he beat up “anarchists” at the Sub Rosa Cafe several Thursdays ago and police released him without chages and with praise...Lex also complains of sheriff non-consensual search, seizing his weed and stomping it on the ground...Artist complain cop blocked his selling his artwork... a 'criminal sitter in front of the Hat Company on cement lip around a tree ticketed...Officer Kline accused of pushing R through a window....Nathan: ticket for riding bike on sidewalk by Officer Winston.. [3 ½ hours]

Thursday, April 9, 2009
Special “Catch-Up” Edition of Bathrobespierre's Broadsides(morning)Download Show Susan, restaurant worker and working mom, dismissed “panhandling problem” 3-26: Guitar, Jimbay, and Drum; J.P Freeman .discusses Metro Goldie awards...Kiwi the Service Pooch and owner Gene; Delilah Hartman reports Calvary Episcopal (“red church”) profiling tatoos-on-face guy... Copwatching 2 police officers in search of Suzanne the drummers...Robert reports repeated difficulties from sheriffs in hitching out of town; his last ride got titcketed, and he got drunk in public ticket though released before jail by jailers...Brian reports jailed for trying to unicycle in park; reports Officer Jones directed him to wake up park-sleeping buddy Irish; Brian declined, in retaliation given a probation search, came up with above alcohol level, so taken to jail, but PD told him after 4 hours in court, he was only up for fine infraction violations—so no real probation violatio charge. 3/28: Satuday Copwatch---Gene (w/pooch Kimi) reports Officer Warren ticketed him, threatening to give him three tickets that would produce a misdemeanor if unattended to...Visionsong Valerie sings “Sleep out for your rights!”... David reports Officer Winston treateded him as a priori guilty for pot smoking, found an empty pot pipe which he didn't confiscate...Zack defends the police...UCSC student Jimmy signs Bounce Back Against Bigotry petition...C.J. Stock's tickets for sitting on a bench...Shannon, aka poet Mrs. B, reports son Cody released from CPS, new baby Alex...Eli deep-voiced Burrito Man told to move by Officer Winston, claims Winston lied in saying he was warned...[songs from Young Frankenstein] .. 3-14: Anony report that Vet got his benefits, 100% disability after years of getting nothing...3-19 Thursday: Boris reports cop in car yelled at him from car ordering him off sreet after he picked up a cigarette butt one morning at Locus & Pacific... intoxicated-sounding Irish reports Officer Warren was one of those who smashed his face into the sidewalk...Natasha the guitarist with pooch chained on side street told by Sgt. Harms she couldn't have pooch there...previously woken, ticketed, w/o complaint or warning, for sleeping under the Soquel bridge in the rain—4-5 officers say after St. Patrick's Day, cops calling them slobs...Guy Graunt on vets needs for 24-hour mental health advocacy centers and a PEI (early intervention)... Fish and Sam on Calvalry Episcopal rules...black Barr, jailed for not finishing 10 horus of Community Service....3-20: Daniel Hanson's report...Hoyt Shepard up at Wendy's in Scotts Valley reports refused ice cream cause he tried to tie his dog Loki outside, helped by local cop...[More songs from Young Frankenstein] [approx 3 hours]

Thursday, April 9, 2009
Regular Evening Edition(same day as above)Download Show [This show was neither broadcast or streamed because of a power outage] 3-18:  C.J. (Charles Joseph) Stock ticketed thrice for bench-crime...3-15:  Briam Helmle of San Jose Copwatch discusses police accountability, public defender incompetence/cowardice ... [http://www.siliconvalleybug.com]... ...Rodney Avery on the case of false arrest and broken ribs for Sara for "possession of a dangerous drug" in home invasion by police and "public pretender" Art Dudley who, she says, dumped her.. Inside California's Tent Cities Residents of Sacramento’s Tent City to Move to Fairground [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/us/26tents.html?hp ].. "ed Murder of Oscar Grant  By Reiko Redmonde and Larry Everest [http://www.counterpunch.org/everest03202009.html ]... Avery's account cont...Santa Cruz poet Bert Glick "How's It Going?"...Briana B. on ticket inside Del Williams alcove at night when closed...3-11: Daniel on folks driven from lawn of Cavalry Episcopal...Doggie-on-the-lap ticket... Pasta: Officers Winston and Warren twice in same day pursue and pounce on puppy Gonzo and pal Kool-Aid...Aaron White reports Saturdayanti-Downtown Ordinanceprotest in front of New Leaf--blowing bubbles, distributing leaflets, chalking on sidewalk --warned by Hosts they had to stop...Drum Circle interviews:  Lighthouse Field camping ticket...Police Incident at Cavalry Episcopal Lawn at Lincoln and Center--J.P. reports...[2 hours]

Sunday, April 12, 2009
Download Show [The Wake-Up Call: Norse vs. Leavitt on the value of the local Green Party] Flashback: Dec 1991: Norse before City Council on the 200th Anniversary of the Bill of Rights—Tour of Shame//Roster of Fame Through Santa Cruz... Return of Police Review Proposal Before City Council Kennedy, Beiers, Lane, Rittenhouse, police reps, Simba Kenyatta, Sgt. Steve Clark, Attorney Margaret Marr...Becky Johnson calls in with critique of Officer “Robocop” Perry in his recent shooting at a car [http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_12095637]... comments [http://www.topix.com/forum/life/TT6C7IJTS74DKSU03/p4 ]... ...Street Interviews: Music by cymbolom player Michael Masley... Roughvoice Ron ticketed for refusing to pick up a Snickerbar wrapper from Officer Kline; nathan's ticket for bike on the sidewalk from Officer Winston..Marijuana Updates: [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/12/MNF0170FPU.DTL ]... &[http://www.counterpunch.org/gardner04102009.html ]... Street Interviews: 4-6 Downtown 'round midnight on Pacific Ave...4-8: Interview with Matthew of The New New Deal, formerly the Wired Wash Cafe..Drum Circle 4-8: Disabled and pregnant w/twins Ashley reports harassed for sleeping and told to move 3 times in the rain...Guy describes Crow's Nest ticket...Mira and friends critique police...[Approx 3 ½ hours]

Thursday, April 16, 2009
Special “Catch-Up” Edition of Bathrobespierre's Broadsides(morning)Download Show

Thursday, April 16, 2009
Special “Catch-Up” Edition of Bathrobespierre's Broadsides(afternoon))Download Show

Thursday, April 23, 2009
Download Show Interviews with Anna Richardson and Miguel De Leon on the day of the Sentinel story (facing injunctive ban from sleeping and court-ordered “obey all laws”, I.e. No sleep anywhere in Santa Cruz)... Sacramento's “Safe Ground” Rally: Jeremy Alderson's nterviews with attorney Mark Merin, Connie Hobson, Sandy Perry, Rodney Monadjem, & others [http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/23/18590901.php ] ...Kristian Williams, author of Our Enemies in Blue, speaks in Oakland 3-31: [http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/01/18585333.php ] ...encouraging Supreme Court ruling in Arizona v. Gant, limiting vehicle searches...[2 hours]

Sunday, April 24, 2009
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Sunday, April 26, 2009
Download Show [The Wake-Up Call: Activist Becky Johnson calls for santa cruz indymedia to remove article at [http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/19/18590404.php]... discussion of new HSC director Douglas Loisel as quoted in[http://www.gtweekly.com/20090420411961/news/housing/the-political-science-of-sleep]... the Good Times article: ...Copwatch Interviews from 4-25: magician Tom Connor on the Pendulum art piece downtown as an attractive nuisance [http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/14/18588724.php ]... , [http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_12148597 ]... ......Edee from San Jose faces SJPD with guns drawn...Ben Rice, attorney for elderly disabled activist Donna Deiss update w/trial May 4th...Russell denouncing SCPD poochnapping.... Jack's testimony in upcoming Norse Metro transit case—trial May 15th 1:30 PM Dept. 1...Copwatch 4-25 cont.: .. Homeless-looking woman on a bench reportedly locked out by the young women she was living with 6 years ago... Shanton O-Poukan, teacher, contrass SCPD with violent Chicago and rural California Pds....Traveler tales: tree-shaking ticket ...youths.Kelsay (13 years) and Nick (15 years) criticize Scotts Valley PD for braking down door, harassment, arresting mom in domestic violence case.. Late March Oakland speech by anarchist author Kristian Williams, founder of Portland's Rose City copwatch [http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/01/18585333.php ]... ...Street Interviews 4-24: Streetsign Sam reports Jack's Burgers turning away homeless systematically to punish hanger-outers at Calvalry Episcopal Church across street...Free Radio broadcaster Dana Cruz (show airs Wednesday morning 10-noon) reports explicit homeless appearance discrimination at Bad Ass Coffee on Pacific Ave....caller asks about getting restraining order on police officer...(approx 3 ½ hours)

Thursday, April 30, 2009
Download Show [Songs from Mama Cass Elliot's The Road Is No Place for a Lady ] ..4-17 Street Interviews; Streetsign Sam questions police phototaking...Berkeley activist Stephen Pearcy calls in.... Phone interview with author Kristian Williams on the history of policing, policing as class control, anti-homeless implications, alternatives to police violence [http://www.monthlyreview.org/1203williams.htm ]... [http://www.kristianwilliams.com].... ...Interviews cont: The Unpaid Bill, Miguel de Leon (“Lito”) on court-ordered “no sleep”, banned from Scope Park, sitcrime in alcove near Quiznos, his own experience of sleeprunning...(2 hours)

Thursday, May 21, 2009
Download Show Street Interviews: 5-17 SCPD reportedly threaten marijuana legalization table at Lincoln and Pacific because of reports of grass smoking nearby....Interview with Greenpeace tabler Matt Silver; “Gun for Taser mistake in Oscar Grant Slaying” [http://www.sfbayview.com/2009/did-bart-cop-who-killed-oscar-grant-mistake-gun-for-taser/ ] In-studio interview with Jonathan Gettleman, attorney for Anna Richardson fighting the anti-homeless Injunction pushed by City Attorney John Barisone; Berkeley attorney David Beauvais joins the discussion by phone; Beauvais discusses his defense of the Norse trespass ticket on Friday May 15th (2 hours)

Sunday, May 24, 2009
Download Show [Some discussion in The Wake-Up Call of the upcoming Richardson/deLeon Injunction hearing]...Carl, El Dorado resident, phones in, upset at his overdrugging, discusses his psychiatric history... Street Interviews: May 5: Dreamweaver, “Dakota Gulp” on Las Vegas homeless scene, “Fish” and Sam on being turned away from Jack's Hamburgers...5-7: Brent Adams Street Report... Jack's Management's Letter Responding to Wednesday's Forthcoming Protest...Street Interviews: 5-17: Charlie :”cops such sad sacks”, Vet Hutch sees Manager Tim Bratton changing tune... Students educating on AIDS, ..Phone Interview with Alaska attorney Jim Gottstein on Friday's William S. Bigley v. Alaska Psychiatric Institute decision and the massive screening and overdrugging of children and youth [http://psychrights.org/ ]... Street Interviews: Miguel deLeon on Insomnia Training...David Jones, peaceful panhandler,...brief memory of Michael Tellaga, died recently... 5-22; Interviews with Richardson/deLeon supporters Gabriel and Colin Camel Clyde at the Courthouse breezeway...Vet panhandler chat...Kitty Skuzzbucket and her owner...[3 ¾ hours]

Sunday, May 31, 2009
Download Show [Norse hosts The Wake-Up Call as an expanded edition of Bathrobespierre's Broadsides, with Leavitt away from town:[ www.drugtruth.net ]... “Cultural Baggage” w/ Dean Becker on the Nightmare Drug War...David Rosenblum (President of CASA, substance abuse organization as anti-marijuana advcoate) ... Walt Whitman's birthday...5-19 Street Interviews: Jason the jobseeker explains his “This Could Happen to You” sign...Shelly A. reports on Paul Lee Loft, rules, some abuse, advice to homeless women...5-20: Drum Circle interviews...Jack and Ariel claim Jack's discrimination...Angela and Tammy hassled on the road... Anonymous reports of homeless survival structures trashed by police agencies...Open container ticket...]...Electra supports Anna//Miguel... ”Big Drum” Brent Adams report on Drum Circle Diplomacy...brief hello from Mad Mike “the Wonderdog” Balderos..Donna Deiss trial update... memorial mention of Gale Goldman Nubower...Phone Interview with attorney Jonathan Gettleman on the Friday Injunction granted against Anna/Miguel...activist Becky Johnson joins us in the studio [http://beckyjohnsononewomantalking.blogspot.com/]... ...Taylor, Miguel de Leon's daughter, who had never seen him before, calls in..Phone Interview with Brent Adams on concerns from some Farmer's Market merchants about Food Not Bombs taking away business...Callers including Drummer Dave...Part Two (actually the first half hour) of 1993 KSCO show hosted by Norse on the City's attempt to enjoin Food Not Bombs...Phone Interview with Bill and Gary of the Alliance for Change on the Santa Cruz Board of Supervisors attack on the new Appeals Board trying to oversee the County Planning Department...Claire of the Alliance follows up... [www.straighttalknews.org ]... ...Street Interviews: 5-20: Another Jack's turnaway noting UCSC friends trying to buy a meal for him was turned away without explanation 5-28: Dani and shnookums with 2 camping tickets over 3 months, “a break” from Chief Ranger Wallace....5-21: Fish and Sam estimate turned away 8-12 times at Jack's...Phone in from resident Rick, concerned about 3 AM marauding of SCPD Lt. Joe Haebe photographing cars and banging on them. [5 ½ hours]

Thursday, June 11, 2009
Download Show [http://www.drugtruth.net ]...Days in History...drug war news.. In-studio guest Linda Andre, author of Doctors of Deception: What They Don't Want You To Know About Shock Treatment at .... Report on Rev. Joel Miller's evicting homeless meeting from Calvalry Episcopal lawn organziing a human rights protest..6-1 Interviews at Calvary Episcopal: Logan's open container citations after he slipped a bottle he was carrying broke...phone report from “Big Drum” Brent on the Street Performers Guild...(2 hours)

Sunday, June 21, 2009
Download Show [Thomas Leavitt's The Wake Up Call Flashback: 3-19-85 Board of Supervisors Public Hearing on making Camping a county-wide misdemeanor: Sheriff Al Noren, Jesus Santos, Judith—Calvalry Episcopal minister, Mr. Alexander—UCSC research student, Dan Wilson, Judy Lindmore] Flashback cont.: Christina Bowman—UCSC student teacher, Ray Grueneich—lawyer, Charles Wilson...”‘The Responsible Left’: Funding Obama’s Expanding Wars” by Jeremy Scahill...Ron Paul on Iran.......Street Interview: ”Matchstick”In-studio guest Becky Johnson on Donald Schmdit and judicial abuse by former D.A. Ariadne Symons and D.A. Bob Lee [http://www.beckyjohnsononewomantalking.blogspot.com] ...Brent Adams report from the Downtown Association meeting...compassionman@hotmail.com .. Tokin Timothy on Artwork protecting Downtown Musicians....Emergency Moratorium on Medical Marijuana Dispensaries [http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/20/18603119.php?show_comments=1#18603385 ]... [http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_12657969 ]... [4 hours approx]