Bathrobespierre's
Broadsides
2005
Thursday,August 4, 2005
Hotrod's HUFF report.. 6:15 PM-7:30 PM Live phone interview with
community activist Phil Baer on the Seaside Company's landgrab 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
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--aboutthe cooption
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
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
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
scindymedia 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 marijana, 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
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
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 actifvist 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...
AlexanderCockburn'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
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 interfviews--Tiffany and Nick on the
street scene. (2 hours)
Sunday,August 28, 2005
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
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
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
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...Vandweller 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
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, vandweller, critiques psychiatric
abuses against the homeless and inadequate response by local
activists...Bear, San Lorenzo Park Mayor, update...In-studio Guest
Box-Seat Bob Paton 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
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
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
Street tapes (ST): Roughrider Richard Quigley pre-death wake: BE Smith
on his federal jailtime 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
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
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..Natcho 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
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 proglems... Mickey Rat,
Alexander, cellist Brando, and Rico Thunder respectively sound off
...caller Mathew 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
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
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
...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
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
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
Thomas Leavitt co-host...Berkeley streetpoet 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 Bookkshop
Santa Cruz on Pacific Avenue...
2006
Sunday,January 1, 2006
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
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
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 survelliance 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
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
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, AnthonyCuchedr, Chris Krohn, Celia Scott, Sandino
Gomez, Rico Thunder, JohnThielking, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
recommewnding weorldcan'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
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
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 marke...Jolly Roger: FCC Training Session...Jeremy the
Jeweler and Deutschland Nick call in...Craig Canada of
www.palmspringsbum.com discusses public reacton 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
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
["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 overpolicing 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
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)
"It Isn't Nice" anti-psychiatry song by Morgan Firestar...demo prior to
the 3-29 Public SafetyCommittee [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
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
[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
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
[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
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
[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
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
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
[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
marijuanal...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
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
[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 destructgion 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
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 Parnoia: 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
(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....Granpa 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
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
Two Hours of The Wake-Up Calll...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
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
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
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
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 harrassment 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
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
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
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
Political Police Surveillance Update...Homeless elderly vandweller 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
[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
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
[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...Councilmember 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
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 fightback...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
[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
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
[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
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
[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
[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
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... BeeBee 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
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
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[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
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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 oldtimer 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
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[Two hours of Leavitt's Wake Up call: End of 1991 Earthbeat interview
with attny 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
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Intro and talk about Norse's upcoming criminal trial...interview with
attorney Kate Wells...Doug Cronen's "on the beach afterhours"
ticket...SAFE interviews...Crow, Condor, Deon, others give street
reports...Valery 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
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[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
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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
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[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
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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
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[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
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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
FeloniesOct. 16 trial for selling medical marijuana...[2 hours]
Sunday, September 24, 2006
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[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...Careprovider Anita Henry critiques S.C. medical
marijuana clubs...
Thursday, September 28, 2006
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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
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[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 distrib
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
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In-studio guest Tim Rumford discusses Lulu Carpenter owner Manifre
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
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[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
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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
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[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 fearmongering 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 cutbacks 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
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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
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[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
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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
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[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
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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
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[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 diabectic 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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[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
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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
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[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
www.uslaboragaisntwar.org
] [approx 6 hours]
Thursday,December 7, 2006
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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
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[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
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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
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[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
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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
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[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 & 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 ½ hours]
Thursday,December 28, 2006
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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
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[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
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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 & Valery Christie, ..Xmas at the Homeless Meal...(2
hours)
Sunday, January 7, 2007
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[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 Parde
with the Opera Lady, the Fire Juggler, Louis and Nancy La Fortune,
Cordelia, Becky Johnson, Bobby Ackerman & others...Interviews at
SAFE 1-2-07: Kenneth, Angie, and baby's shelter problems [approx. 4
hours]
Thursday, January 11, 2007
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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 Assasinations
in America] Reairing of the December 24th, 2006 show due to problems
with broadcast transmitter.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
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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, & 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
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[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
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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
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[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
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(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
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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
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(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 & 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 micrfophone...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 cantakerous
court...[Approx 5 hours with archives playing]
Sunday,April 1, 2007
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[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 backoff...seatbelt 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
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[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 & 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
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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
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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
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[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 sleepcrime 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 CoffeeCart
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 critiqueing 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
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[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 cannibis
edibles...Norse's "Heil Krohn" lawsuit dismissal attacked by law profs
Vikram Amar & Alan Brownsstein [http://writ.lp.findlaw.com/commentary/20070427_brownstein.html]..[approx
4 1/2 hours]
Thursday,May 3, 2007
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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 tentslashing 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
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[The Wake-Up Call w/Thomas Leavitt...replay of Bill Moyers interview
with John Stewart...http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04272007/watc |