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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)

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

Thursday, August 24, 2006
Download Show Updates...Phone interview with Jim Vivian, San Jose activist and security guard, on court struggle to dismiss a ticket for sleeping in the park during the day...Bruce Hedenberg interview on July 8 assault and false arrest by Deputy Eryavek (part 1)...1 hour long interview with Joe Williams, GI resistance activist, and Stephen Dunafer, free radio 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
Download Show [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
Download Show 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
Download Show [Wake Up call: Norse in studio with Leavitt on 1994 San Francisco Food Not Bombs Demo w/ Santa Cruz and Berkeley activists joining in...Leavitt reads Street Roots story: "London Calling" (new Dignity Village in London)]...Craig Canada's street report on threats from a family man for public medical marijuana use...midnight chat with Mr. Wescott...weedbay.net: DEA raid on Trichome Healing Center in Van Nuys...Riva Enteen and Steve Zeltzer--live conference phone interview on censorship & discrimination at KPFA against Labor Collective and its programming attempts...Hobo Lee live in-studio updating us on life on the rails...Sistani in Iraq abandons leadership role...Wescott chat continues... (approx 4 hours)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sunday October 1, 2006
Download Show [T.L.'s Wake Up Call plays July 1992 Santa Cruz City Council Debate on Investigation of SCPD Officer Loran "Butchie" Baker on charges of sexual misconduct (Part 1)...with Robert Norse..]..Medical marijuana update and critique of local dispensaries from Med-Ex Worker Anita Henry...To contact D.A. Bob Lee and demand medical marijuana 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
Download Show 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
Download Show [Wake Up Call had part 2 of the 1992 City Council hearing on the Commission for the Prevention of Violence Against Women's recommendations for suspending Officer Loran "Butchie" Baker pending investigatikon...Norse commentary]... Thomas Leavitt is co-host throughout the show...Norse and Leavitt debate supporting Bruce Van Allen for City Council..discussion of district elections and candidate statements on the Sleeping Ban at the Community TV forum..More interviews from Oct. 5 "World Can't Wait" anti-war demo...caller: U.S. hegemony or Ben Laden cali-phate...anti-war interviews cont...audio from anti-Buju Banton protest outside the Catalyst some days ago and in-studio discussion. [5 1/2 hours including the Leavitt show]

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

Sunday, October 15, 2006
Download Show [Wake Up Call has Part 3 of The Baker Cover-Up--Santa Cruz City Council.s 1992 Refusal to Appoint an Independent Investigator in the Sexual Misconduct Case of Officer Loran "Butchie" Baker]...Tim Rumford joins Norse as co-host, seeking volunteers for his Monday Pacific Avenue feed-the-hungry program: 831-464-8455 guitarandpen@hotmail.com or blog: humanityforhomeless.blogspot.com...Tim tells of Roger McGary, wheelchair guy with ostemy bag, locked out of Pleasant Care for a week and on the streets...Cosmic Chris goes to trial for Capitola cop's U-turn ticket where Chris is charged with "concealed weapon" for carrying a Luthiers Tool (a tool used to fashion guitars)...8:30 AM 10-16 Dept. 2...hour long call-in interview with Berkeley People's Park activist Dan McMullen [peoplesparkcommunity@yahoogroups.com] on gentrification and harassment of the homeless on Telegraph Avenue, the upcoming election, and 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
Download Show UCSC Sleeping Ban (Ordinances 51 and 57)...Interviews up at UCSC Volunteer Fair...Erin Dankman--UCSC activist against Regent ..critic's account of "Students Started the Violence" (subsequently deleted by indybay.org)... http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/18/18321441.php?show_comments=1#18321570...Report on Roger Mentch of Hemporium--2005 conviction overturned...Call-in from Mike Rhodes, Fresno Homeless Activist [559-978-4502.]on Federal Court victory enjoining police from seizing and destroying homeless property, now requiring them to catalog and store it...the Rescue Mission Racket...misinformation that homeless can't vote...Klan-style hate groups immediately follow after police round-up homeless...in Fresno...Washington Post gutlessness in coverage of Bush's Constitutional outrages--most recently the Military Commissions Act suspending the Constitution around detention, charges, and habeas corpus. [2 hours]

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

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

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

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

Sunday,November 5, 2006
Download Show [Thomas Leavitt's Wake Up Call: Audio of "To Serve and Protect"--UCSC student late 90's video of abuses in the SCPD and attempted community control...Leavitt reports second-hand police beating...Phone Interview with City Council candidate Bruce Van Allen] Callers Mattison and Earthmommer praise and critique Bruce Van Allen...Local election issues...Skidrow L.A. article...Street Interviews: Halloween downtown w/Condor, Theodora...Co-Host Tenderfoot Tim...Wheelchair Roger on the streets in the rain, evicted resident of Pleasant Care Nursing Home on Soquel Extension for having a 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
Download Show Various archival marijuana songs throughout the show...co-host: Condor...articles from the Counterpunch website on election results by Joshua Frank and Bruce K. Gagnon...laws against the poor in Santa Cruz...Sleeping Ban petition asking City Attorney to suspend ticketing as L.A. and San Diego have done...Phone interview with attorney Kate Wells on the election, custodial arrests for infractions, and other legal updates..street interviews: Nickolas still dodging bill collectors from a five year old sleeping ban ticket...Ben Rice, attorney for Hemporium founder Roger Mentch, gives updates on Mentch's case, discusses punitive county measures against local growers and users. [2 hours]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sunday,December 24, 2006
Download Show [Thomas Leavitt's The Wake-Up Call...Leavitt's rap on Sleeping Ban...Norse co-host...Police Surveillance of DIY Last Night 2005 Scandal discussion...Audio track Part One of Voices Community TV show with host Mark Halfmoon interviewing former Mayor Chris Krohn, activist Sherry Conable vs. former Mayor Mike Rotkin and Councilmember Ed Porter]...Valerie Christy live on guitar with "O Little Town of Santa Cruz"....Tonee Mello, Oaxaca activist setting up Free Radio stations there tonee@riseup.net 415-587-6275...Oaxaca update: check narconews.com and www.radiotupa.org...Norse on "Week of Winter Woe"....Craig Canada on the ISSP program and his recent kidnapping by police and incarceration in Dominican Psych Ward ...V. Christy's "Homeless Jingle Bells"....12-22 Homeless Demo in front of City Attorney's Office urging him to stop issuing sleeping tickets: Steve Argue and Emily Malone on Mumia Abu-Jamal, Jumbogumbo Joe Schultz on the Sleeping Ban, Melissa & 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
Download Show Street Interviews [SI]: Intro song: "Not My Fight" from Election Day U.S.A. collection ...Uncle Dennis the Bard (www.quetzalcoyotl.org) on Halloween police and Lulu Carpenters ranting...Norse updates... SI: Halloween Downtown cont.: critique of police presence, sheriffs pass on an open container ticket...8-17-06 Jeremiah on Harmonica: "It Ain't No Crime to Play My Tune on the Street"--beer break citations from Kline and Hoppe...12-22-06: Interviews from the Sleeping Ban Demo in front of Bookshop Santa Cruz: Brandy lesbian mom on street survival; 56-year-old Ted on crutches critiques the Armory...Paul Sanford (died supposedly a suicide 12-24-06) remembered... ..Juan Cole on "Top Ten Myths About Iraq" [http://www.juancole.com/ at Dec 26, 2006]...More Demo Interviews: Pam from Camp Paradise, Douglas on the Cecile White Act...Backpacker Johnny claims Ranger Wallace stole his stuff twice. [2 hours]

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

2007

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

Sunday, January 7, 2007
Download Show [The Wake-Up Call includes interview with two Berkeley marchers & Santa Cruz supporters in the Peoples Park Demos in 1991...the first part of a Norse interview with Larry Hildes, homeless attorney in 8 1/2 month long 1996 City Hall Sleepers protest; then-Mayor Rotkin tried to secure an injunction the homeless vigil anywhere in the downtown; Norse channels Rotkin...Interview with Fresno activist Mike Rhodes on anri-war protests, barbed-wire drunk detention camps, and the homeless situation there...http://indybay.org/newsitems/2007/01/02/18343438.php... Street Interviews: Stonemason busted in has car for less than an oz. of grass...poets outside the E3 Playhouse...December 31--Last Night 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
Download Show Guests Kate Horner and Tokin' Tim Rinker of Santa Cruzans for Sensible Marijuana Policy...Discussion of Measure K--the successful "lowest priority for marijuana" initiative voted in...1-9 City Council passes $700,000 grant to maintain emergency shelter at its current 5-10% level...$700,000 appropriation for more Parks and Recreation Ranger busts of the poor...Sam reviews Fresno situation...[approx 2 hours]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sunday, February 18, 2007
Download Show (The Wake Up Call includes SPAN (Stop Police Abuse Now!) 11-91 Forum ...police harassment then and now..."Nutcracker" Nick Whitehead host.... Berkeley Copwatch with Suzanne & 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
Download Show [The Wake-Up Call co-host Rober Norse...Leavitt and Norse critique Rep. Farr's Pro-Iraq War vote [http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/03/27/18383959.php]...Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry: Part 2 of his Porter College Presentation 3-16: questions from the audience...More on Farr...Zinn the Supplemental Iraqi Funding]...Interviews at antiwar protest at County Building and at Farr's Office 2-16, Steve Argue.. A. Cockburn: "The Fake Fight Over the Iraqi War"... Norse at City Council on dogs, lawsuit, and upcoming Rotkin-Myberg debate...in-studio guest David Myberg, local attorney and surfer, discusses law expanding Parks and Recreation power to tax and regulate surf school access to the beach...cranky courtmaster Jhon Golder joins as in-studio guest...Norse commentary on lawsuit, harassment at the Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting Company...caller Carolyn urging late-night downtown drummers on Pacific Avenue to 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
Download Show [Thomas Leavitt's The Wake Up Call...guest: Robert Norse...dialogue on the usual no shelters, no shitters, for the poor...Tac Ice Cream Squad's "Know Your Rights" Presentation at UCSC, Part 2...Berkeley Copwatch Andrea Prichard's Critique of Community Policing]...Tigger on problems doing Community Service...Rotkin & Norse spar...Forum/Debate: Attorney David Meyberg, Councilmember Mike Rotkin, and Advocate Jhon Golder on Proposed Expansion of Power for Parks and Recreation to Regulate students/instructions for surfing school crossing the beach... [for remainder of show go to www.huffsantacruz.org and scroll down for April 8, 2007 show,which didn't get properly recorded] [2 1/2 hours]

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

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

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

Sunday,April 22, 2007
Download Show [Guest host Robert Norse takes over The Wake-Up Call, playing Matt Marks Cabrillo College Homelessness forum from 4-21, part 1 with commentary from Norse and Human Rights Organization activist Bob Patton; Patton reports of renewed 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
Download Show [Thomas Leavitt's The Wake Up Call...Reversing the National Security State and the Iraqi War...Legal eagle Ray Glock-Grueneich defends Brian Flanegan Staley in flashback tape from March 1989 and Staley's conviction for serving the homeless free food at the Town Clock...Staley's phone interview after he was sentenced to 6 months in jail..]...1989 Norse interview about S.C. Sentinel slandering Staley...January S.F. U.S.-Out-Of-Iraq January 27th protest...Co-host Craig Canada [www.palmspringsbum.org]...sleeping hassle this morning...discussion of homeless services and Karen Gillette..."poverty court" in S.F...bannerdrop on April 26th in Senate chambers favoring impeachment...attack on medical 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
Download Show In-studio interview with 65-year old James Sherman, homeless volunteer at the Homeless Services Center and Human Rights Organizationista Bob Patton on recent ranger crackdown and 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
Download Show [The Wake-Up Call w/Thomas Leavitt...replay of Bill Moyers interview with John Stewart...http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04272007/watc