The May 31st show features:

• Katzenjammer Keith McHenry  at 46th Annual Soupstock May 17th speaking on Food Not Bombs history and the Iran-U.S./Israel War
•  McHenry reports on earlier and recent arrests of FNB across the nation 
• Wandering Whipmaster Wes White on current history and status of the Salinas chapter of the California Homeless Union; Salinas sweeps
• E. Market Street Smash & Grab Uncoordinated & Unnoticed Sweep Against the Paperless in Salinas, CA  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwA5va-k7Wo 
• [throughout] David Rovics commentary and music from “In Our Dreams” tour
• Attacks on Pajaro encampment near Watsonville; other legal defenses against camp destruction in Berkeley and elsewhere
• [throughout] Audio tracks of the pro-Iranian Lego videos by Iron Verdict
• [5-24-2026]  Catch-Me-Not Cooper on Coral St. Cut-Offs and Prisoners of the Court; Snakey’s Coral St. report
• https://lookout.co/citing-budgetary-woes-housing-matters-moves-to-decrease-capacity-at-rebele-family-shelter-and-recuperative-care-center/story   https://lookout.co/the-mail-room-at-housing-matters-is-more-than-a-free-post-office-for-many-its-a-lifeline/story
• Summary of the  Feb 2, 2014 Flashback which follows
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVyHBSfhyOw  Soupstock 2026- Food Not Bombs 46th Anniversary Concert for Peace (McHenry—first 20 minutes; Peace and Love—Revolution street band with Valerie, Chris, Joyful, Irish & others

The Flashback to Feb. 2, 2014 includes:

• [in-studio visitors]  Michael O’Grady (“Doc Mike”) and Pat Colby (“Put ‘em in their Place” Pat)
• The Human Statue (also street blues singer of “I can’t get no dough to get a burrito”) interview from San Francisco on his exclusion from Santa Cruz
• Doc Mike’s difficulties at the Abbey Church/Café
• Pergolesi Café—Liberal or “Luck ‘em out” for homeless looking?  A Report from Mark Waller, Colby, and others. Non-discrimination pacts.
• Backpack bigotry:
• SF Human Rights Day Protest chaired by Paul Boden in support of a California Bill of Rights in January 2014 with 200 people in the streets: Many speeches
• S.C. Mayor Robinson supporting SCPD Bike Barricade against the Bike Church

Always up for suggestions and input.  Contact me at rnorse3@hotmail.com or call 831-423-4833.  Or show up at a HUFF meeting 703 Pacific (Sub Rosa Meeting Space) next to the Bike Church 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM Thursdays.   Or leave a note with workers at Food Not Bombs [FNB] 12 noon-3 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays at the Town Clock where Street Spirit and Street Sheet newspapers are available.

Weekly predictions:  More phony ceasefire as U.S. and Israel ignore the Iranian redlines while rearming.  Continued Iranian blockage of the Gulf of Hormuz, intensifying war threats, bullying, and bombing by the U.S. and Israeli government.   Unavoidable famine becomes increasingly likely overseas (and scarcity at home) in the weeks ahead due to the US regime’s desire to appear “victorious”.  Escalating Israeli massacres in Gaza and Lebanon as U.S. troops remain in the Middle East–the real news not the Trump or mainstream media pronouncements.    Some antiwar protests mark the weekend in Santa Cruz  If you start or hear of one, let me know.

Reported continued lockout of the unhoused community from Coral Street’s “Funding Matters” bathrooms, water, trash disposal, phone charging,—now reserved for clients only.  Similarly with the London Nelson bathrooms.  See also “In Response to “Housing Matters” Service Cut-Off on April 1st” at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/04/06/18885442.php .

Other meetings/events coming up: 

FREE EVENTS (for more info go to indybay.org/santacruz; click Calendar)       

Sun 5-31  10:30-12:30  PM  People’s Aid : Solidarity/Services for those outside Green Gate Golf Club Drive                           

noon-3 PM  Food Not Bombs still relocated to the post office with its Community Bulletin board, no-cost food, and Street Spirit newspapers    

Tues 6-2  thru Thurs 6-4 10 AM until the food’s gone Bread & Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot    

Wed  6-3  3:30 PM  Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless Little Red Church  Cedar & Lincoln Sts. Fireside Room         

Thur 6-4 7 AM   Support for the Coral St. encampment in event of another police sweep down at Coral St. and Limekiln.   For more info call 831-423-4833             

1:30 PM-3:30 PM  Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom   Sub Rosa Cafe/Courtyard Pacific & Spruce              

5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs volunteers meet at El Rio Mobile Home Park Community Room,       

Fri 6-5 2pm-?till food gone  BoulderCreek  13080 Hwy 9 between Jenna Sue’s Cafe and the taqueria             

Sat 6-6  11 AM – 12:30 PM  Anti-war elders and loyalists gather with signs at Ocean and Water Sts. gathering honks as gas and food prices jump upward                           

noon- 3 PM another Community meal with Food Not Bombs

The Flashback to November 15, 2007 includes:

• Denita Chesick on LBAM kicks off the LBAM (Light Brown Apple Moth) Checkmate spray’s toxic effect discussion
• Theodora Kerry on the struggles of the (fairly) new Measure K Commission monitoring police activity against privately used cannabis
• Uncle Dennis Davie corrects a misquote: he does NOT support the LBAM spraying.
• [Nov. 12, 2007] at the City Council public forum on LBAM spraying with Aubray Bilgard and Marilyn Garrett
• Battleready Bob Patton at the Vets Hall with Veteran Resisters and Courage to Resist’s Jeff Patterson with  “Breaking Ranks” film on soldiers gone AWOL to Canada
• [11-4-07]  Boycott Bigotry—sidewalk tabling in front of the Bookshop Santa Cruz—Tenderfoot Tim Rumford “everyone else in HUFF” banned “for life”
• Passerby opinion on the Coonerty Book Store’s support for the Sleeping Ban
• A clip from Uncle Dennis Davie’s “From the Cream to the Dregs” show

The May 24, 2026 edition of Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides includes:

• Restseeker Robert Aguirre on Gilroy’s Camp Hope and San Jose Sleepbusters
• “Guts & Gusto” Gaia reviews the latest expensive Funding Matter  follies as well as her Trailer Park tug-of-war with a predatory landlord
• “Whipmaster” Wes White on Camp Hope (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwuARogSMtI&t=622s ); Watsonville’s Hope Village; Sunday’s Soupstock, & the Salinas “no notice” traintrack sweep.
• Swift-tongued Steve Pleich on his resumed Homeless Persons Legal Assistance project

The Flashback to June 1, 2017 includes:

• Massive police pressure against Freedom Sleepout #99 with new green restrictions discouraging public assembly
•  “Dangerous” John Thielking on the activist history of “Bashful” Bernard Klitzner who recently died.
• “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson’s more extensive herstory  of Klitzner in the Koffee Klatch TagTeam  Koffee Klatch
• Bella, one of Bernard’s intimates and partners, has a memorial.
• Red Church roundtable:  Sexton Steve the bouncer; Julie Shaul of RV Fulltimers; Sonny, Cooper, & Co Late Night Singers; Cassidy, Devon Pierce
• Pleich considers a challenge to City Mangler Martin Bernal’s new “no sitting, no lying” rules around City Hall

The May 21, 2026 show is a Flashback to May 28, 2017. 

It includes

• Sherry Sheree on her troubled night of a Survival Sleeper at City Hall
• Kyle Henderson trollbusted near Mission St. McDonalds; cops use “anti-lodging” law against outdoor sleepers
• Chief, Professor Hi Speed, “Backstory” Brent Adams, and other voices at Sleepground Zero at City Hall
• Critiqueing the “Coffeetalk” fluff-and-chat at the library with Anonymous, Mary Jane, & Shelterstall at City Council
• Court Trial of one of the 1990 Post Office Homeless tabler  “Shoeless” Joe Parker with people’s attorney Ray Glock-Grueneich
• [5-27-17] Katzenjammer Keith McHenry on the Crackdown at City Hall’s Survival Speakers –100th Freedom SleepOut coming up
• Jeffrey’s account of the 17 Survival Sleepers the Night Before City Council’s Meeting and Freedom Sleepout #98
• Sherry preps for City Council testimony, exposes the myth of public bathroom closure “because of homeless vandalism”.
• Ismail and Nasura on Islamaphobia, Katzenjammer chuckles at selective enforcement of forbidden sitting on low-lying City Hall wall
• Kyle Henderson’s violent encounter on Mission St.;
• Jeffrey and Stanford’s wake up chat at the library after nighttime tumult
• Billy Lowry on City’s seizure of homeless clothes, ignoring “private property” labels

The May 17, 2026 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:

• A community volunteer’s account of a recent police raid [5-15] on the survival encampments along Coral St. in front of  Housing Matters (more properly known as Funding Matters), whose millions of dollars in budget does not include continuing water, handwashing, mail, toilet, and other services for the unhoused majority.
• Several news stories about ICE (Immigration Control & Enforcement) shooting and extralegal false imprisonment of Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/14/fbi-arrests-california-man-shot-ice-assault
• Work Begins on Planned ICE Site: https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/05/14/ice-detention-facility-gilroy-santa-clara-county/

The March 19, 2017 Flashback show includes:

• [throughout]  Musical broadsides by Ryan Harvey
• Activist Abbi Samuels with residents from the Survival Sleepers and Freedom Sleepout #88
• “Cornerstone” Carol Denney on the Poverty Tour campsite that kept reappearing in Berkeley
•  Police shooting in Antioch; the Romero shooting in Vallejo
• Salinas crackdown on the Chinatown encampment
• Freedom Sleepout#89 and the start of the nightly Survival Sleepers
• Street Spirit  newspaper distributor J.C. Orton on the Berkeley Shelter situation
• Berkeley imitates San Francisco’s phony sidewalk-to-sidewalk Navigation Center as a cover for removing encampments without housing
• First They Came for the Homeless Michael Zint, Michael Lee, and others
• Right to Dream Encampment activist history in Portland, OR
• Brent Adams Santa Cruz report
• Dreamcatcher on the trail of his Ranger-swiped bedding