Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides March 19, 2026 show is a Flashback to the April 18, 2002 show with in-studio guests Lydia Heraree on Drug Abuse outside and Brother John from Las Vegas with an alarming report from the Las Vegas homeless community

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The March 19, 2026 show is a Flashback to April 18, 2002. 

It includes:

  • In-studio guest Lydia Heraree, UCSC researcher working on Drug Use in Jail and Among the Homeless
  • Lydia on the recent herstory of Pamona Food Not Bombs
  • Update on the False arrest lawsuit against SC City Council (the “Heil Krohn!” case)
  • Steve Weiss of UCSC HUFF reports
  • Further Heil Krohn! Discussion re: City Council’s legal reply to the lawsuit: the Norwalk court decision & other defenses
  • Officers Brandt and Baker violate state law by refusing to take Norse’s citizen’s citation against Mayor Krohn
  • Brother David Bear of Las Vegas on harassment of homeless on the street because of bed shortage, forced removal of portapotty, Palm Sunday deportations

HUFF hides from the heat at its usual 1:30 PM time at 703 Pacific Ave. next to the Bike Church at Sycamore and Pacific Ave

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An abbreviated version of the HUFF agenda, free events, and volunteer spots is below.  A fuller edition will be available at the meeting as well as cookies, coffee, community, and productive confusion.   Our main focus is seeking restoration of Homeless Human Rights.  The meeting lasts 1-2 hours depending on the desires of the participants.

HUFF IN BRIEF 3-19-26   [** New Items on the Agenda]… Pass Arounds; Additions…Messages …**VOTE to Sign on to 3-29 March ….**VOLUNTEER for Joint SCHU/HUFF  Coral St`Tabling/Sweepwatch ….**laura’s Look: Fresno-EREN/AB647 report- …Local Shelters…** Alicia call/MHCAN/SCHU Update …City Council/Supes Reports 3-10 .… Street Reports…. **Sean Dougherty candidacy demands…Reports from anti-ICE/anti-War protest/SCHU actions/plans … … …Next HUFF meet 3-26-26 …** FM & People First (PF) Flyer Stats… …Rest = Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips…**Salinas Survival Camping Ban/Wes White call… RV Tow Bill LA News; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Update/Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations/Reggie M. Update …Jail, Courts reports?… **mild weather ahead, …Hobo Jim’s Cabrillo Case postponed…

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

Thursday March 19   5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meets El Rio Mobile Home Park Community Room

**Friday March 20   4-6 PM   Free Food Church FELTON Fridays 4-6+pm  Hallcrest Vineyards, 379 Felton Empire Rd. Felton

Saturday March 21   11 AM- 12:30  PM Protest Israel/U.S. Bombing of Iran Ocean & Water End the War  

Sat 3-21 & Sun 3-22  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; NEW Street Spirits & Street Sheets; leave off or pick up forms to record shelter and police abuse; Bulletin Board for posting notices.

Sun 3-22   10-12 PM  People’s Aid : Solidarity & Services for those outside Green Gate Golf Club Drive.                   

2 PM  “Rest is Resistance” street huddle & book reading at the dinosaur statue or at Jamba Juice across from the Post Office downtownTues 3-24  thru

Thurs 3-26 10 AM until the food’s gone Bread & Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot       

**3-24  9 AM   S.C.  Stupidvipers 701 Ocean County Bldg Community Room       

**3-24  1 PM  11:30 a.m. or thereabouts S.C. Shitty Council  809 Center St. City Hall

Wed  3-24   3:30 PM  Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless Little Red Church  Cedar & Lincoln Sts. Fireside Room

Sun 3-29 noon beginning at Spruce & Pacific in front of Sub Rosa Café March to End Homeless “Funding Matters” and “People Someday”] Pimpery, Waste4, and Abuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

++++   PREPARATION/PARTICIPATION in large protests as at anti-War, anti-ICE, and anti-Sweep events

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 3-15-26 Show includes voices against the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, and a 12-18-08 Flashback with Attorney David Beauvais on Palo Alto’s Joseph Ciampi, Julia Vinograd, and Mike Rhodes’ Fresno Update

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The March 15, 2026 show includes:

  • Keith McHenry on recent and prospective anti-war activity.
  • Rovics award for “No Contract, No Coffee” in support of Starbucks strikers
  • [3-9] Joe Schultz, Mark Ginsberg, a Quaker couple, one of the 77 Wonders, a near anti-VAXer, and others at the U.S. Out of the Middle East protest at Ocean and Water
  • [3-1] Anti war thoughts:  Bill, Keith M., Pat Kittle, Shalom Dreampeace Compost,

The Flashback to December 18, 2008 includes:

  • Vandweller Joseph Ciampi’s illegal Palo Alto arrest dismissed by Judge Barrett: https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2008/12/17/assault-on-an-officer-charges-dismissed-in-palo-alto-taser-case/
  • Attorney “Bedrock” David Beauvais outlines Ciampi’s defense and the substance of his subsequent suit
  • Beauvais on how far you can resist an unlawful arrest.
  • “On the Street” and other poems; poet Julia Vinograd phones in with recent published and unpublished poetry
  • Linda from the Streets on the Rebele Family Shelter protest
  • Fresno’s Mike Rhodes on Police Violence in Madera
  • The Santa Cruz ACLU and the Sleeping Ban
  • Mark:  Jaywalker Crime in front of Borders Book Store

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides March 12, 2026 show is a Flashback to the December 7, 2008 show with in-studio guests Penelope Jernberg, on Needle Exchange; Mike Rotkin debating free speech repression, and the UN Human Rights Day Sleep-Out

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The March 12, 2026 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show is a Flashback to December 7, 2008. 

It includes: [with low volume in places]

  • [10-6] Aftermath of and interviews with the previous night’s UN Human Right’s Day  Sleep-Out
  • In studio guest Penelope Jernberg—Police Harassment around Santa Cruz Hard Drug Use
  • In-studio guest Councilmember Mike Rotkin on the Public Safety Committee’s reaction to the SCPD and campus vs. Council free speech protecton.
  • [12-9] Sitting Ban lessons for Officer Winston on Pacific Avenue at a Sleeping Ban protest with Beth, Grifter, Naomi, and Mia
  • German resident Nick Fuller’s phone exchange
  • More Sleeping Ban static from SCPD Inouye.

HUFFmeet for Thursday March 12 cancelled; next meeting Thursday March 19 1:30-3:30 PM at the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church ; more events below

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Wednesday, March 11 3:30-5 PM Santa Cruz Homeless Union [SCHU] meets at Calvary Episcopal (the little Red Church) at Lincoln and Cedar Sts in the Fireside Room.  We will make protest signs to protest the Housing Matters (more accurately known as Funding Matters) cut-off of services at the end of March as well as the takeover of the previously client-run Mental Health Clients Action Network [MHCAN] by the failed People First (more accurately known as People Someday.   Pizza and drinks will be available.  Sign up for a petition to replace the notorious Shelter Gatekeeper Jeremy Leonard.  Join up.  Other agenda items TBA. 


Thursday, March 12, 2026 8 AM Coral St. and Hiway 9 SCHU banner display to publicize and document a scheduled survivalgear-destroying sweep of the Tent Community in front of Funding Matters at 150 Coral St.   Also protests the closing of day services and attempts by the Poverty-Industrial Complex [People First] to take over MHCAN.  See https://santacruzlocal.org/2026/03/04/mhcan-people-first-offers-temporary-takeover/
Thursday, March 12, 2026 1:30 – 3:30 PM HUFF MEETING CANCELLED.


Thursday, March 12, 2026 6 – 8 PM  at the SC MAH (Front & Cooper Sts)  Picture This: Belonging Builds Community, a fundraising event by the service-slashing Funding Matters “will explore the themes of belonging, connection, and the shared responsibility” FM plans to dump services to 1700 homeless community members for mail, elec outlets, showers, toilets, and water on March 31st.  Pay $10 to get in or stand outside and give them an earful. 


Friday, March 13, 2026 4:30 – ? PM (Al Quids Day) at Ocean and Water Sts.  U.S. Out of the Middle East protest

Wednesday, March 18 3:30-5 PM Santa Cruz Homeless Union [SCHU] meets at Calvary Episcopal (the little Red Church) at Lincoln and Cedar Sts in the Fireside Room.


Thursday, March 19, 2026 1:30 – 3:30 PM HUFF meeting Sub Rosa Cafe at Pacific and Spruce Streets, 703 Pacific, next to the Bike Church.


Sunday, March 29, 2026 12:00 noon  starting at Pacific and Spruce Streets:  Stop the Sweeps  Open Day Services for the Homeless   Audit the S.C. Homeless Industrial Complex

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 3-8-26 Show includes Erin Spencer of Berkeley’s Harrison & 8th Encampment, Anti-War Tabling on Pacific + a March 11, 2004 Flashback on City Council’s Attack on Clearview Court Rent Control , & SAFE musical event #6

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The March 8th Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:

  • [3-2]  Anti-war voices from Food Not Bombs [FNB] and Indivisible joint rally at Ocean & Water with Andrea Tishler, Doug, Keith,
  • https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2026/03/03/community/berkeley-harrison-encampment-closure-march-9-deadline/
  • Erin Spencer, long-term Harrison encampment resident after losing his vehicle describes property loss, and survival struggle
  • [3-7] Abe on the goods and bads of the past week; Paul pity platitudes; Dick on collecting trashed food from the FNB meal, Anthony, Drew, and more
  • Phil Baer on Iran War; Raging and Joshing with Keith at the anti-war table on Pacific

The Flashback to March 11, 2004 includes:

  • Struggle to resist abolition of Rent Control for Clearview Court: City Council clips
  • Society for Artistic Freedom and Expressin [SAFE] #8 taking back performance rights on Pacific
  • HUFF doing a live radio table on Pacific Ave: V Man interviews Visionsong Valerie
  • Eleanor on Governor’s attempt to cut support for disabled
  • Buffalo on harassment from Lt. Joe Haebe
  • A Taste of Uncle Dennis’s Cream to the Dregs  Thursday night show

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides March 5, 2026 show is a Flashback to the August 10, 2003 show featuring Arcata activists Dave Meserve and Tad, guests Scott and Alicia, and psych rights activist Sally Zinman

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The March 5, 2026 show is a Flashback to the August 10, 2003 show. 

It includes:

HUFF endures the War Against the Poor here and in the Middle East, meets March 5th 1:30 -3:30 PM at Sub Rosa Cafe next to the Bike Church at 703 Pacific

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HUFF IN BRIEF 3-5-26   [** New Items on the Agenda]… Pass Arounds; Additions…Messages …Sign on to 3-29 March ….** Joint SCHU/HUFF  Coral St`.Tabling/Sweepwatch ….City Council/Supes 3-10  …**Laura’s Look: AB647 Report… Street Reports…. **Sean Dougherty candidacy demands…Reports from anti-ICE/anti-War protest/SCHU actions/polans …Alicia call/MHCAN/SCHU Update…Shelter Reports…Berkeley Report…Next HUFF meet 3-12-26 …** FM & People First (PF) Stats… …Rest = Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips…**Salinas Survival Camping Ban/Wes White call… RV Tow Bill LA News; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Update/Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations/Reggie M. Update …Jail, Courts reports?… **mild seather ahead, …Hobo Jim’s Cabrillo Case postponed…

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

Thursday March 5   5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs NO MEETING TODAY**

Friday March 6   4-6 PM   Free Food Church FELTON

Fridays 4-6+pm  Hallcrest Vineyards, 379 Felton Empire Rd. Felton

Saturday March 7   11 AM- 12:30  PM Protest Israel/U.S. Bombing of Iran Ocean & Water End the War  

Sat 3-7 & Sun 3-8  noon-3 PM FNB gathering & meal Town Clock; NEW Street Spirits & Street Sheets; leave off or pick up forms to record shelter and police abuse; Bulletin Board for posting notices.

Sat 3-7 4 PM – 7 PM   Party/Street Party  Quaker Meeting House 225 Rooney Street.

Sun 3-7   10-12 PM  People’s Aid : Solidarity & Services for those outside Green Gate Golf Club Drive.                    

2 PM  “Rest is Resistance” street huddle & book reading at the dinosaur statue or at Jamba Juice across from the Post Office downtown (may be cancelled due to Hometown Homeless event]

Tues 3-9  thru Thurs 2-26 10 AM until the food’s gone Bread & Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot           

3-9  9 AM  Stupidvipers 701 Ocean County Bldg Community Room           

3-9  1 PM (time uncertain) Shitty Council  809 Center St. City Hall

Wed 3-10   3:30 PM  Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless Little Red Church  Cedar & Lincoln Sts. Fireside Room

Sun 3-29 noon beginning at Spruce & Pacific in front of Sub Rosa Café March to End Homeless [FM and PF] Pimpery  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides March 1, 2026 show show features the Brian Barth panel of Wood Street Commons former residents + a Flashback to the October 28, 2003 show with writer Robert Whitaker grilled by Coral Brune, Jennifer Gosk, & Bathrobespierre

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The March 1, 2026 show includes:

  • [throughout the show]   AI Tsuno and David Rovics, Jesse  songs
  • [2-27]  Brian Barth , author of Front Street, a study of the Oakland Wood Street Commons Encampment, and three former residents  there as well as Funding Matters PRster Don Lane and Santa Cruz Homeless Union President Alicia Kuhl  https://santacruzpl.libnet.info/event/15732988
  • [2-28]  https://www.antiwar.com/past/20260301.html  Anti-war researcher Dave de Camp’s
  • Iran war news

The Flashback to October 28, 2003 contains:

  • Paul Mercelin Sampson of the MetroRiders Unions on the Metro Board agreeing after months of stalemate that flyer distribution allowed, to reconvene at the Board meeting in 90 days
  • Jennifer Gosk, Coral Brune, and Bathrobespierre interrogate author Robert Whitaker on his book Mad in America  Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill 
  • Implications of Whitaker’s research for “mentally ill” as labels for the homeless and the real impact of drugs and lack of housing
  • Historical develoopments and regressions in “treatment” of the “mentally ill”.
  • Van Jones, supporter of Ariana Huffington for Governor, on police abuse in San Francisco and Huffington’s position on homeless civil liberties issues
  • Berkeley’s Jolly Roger Comedy Troupe  “Video Tour on City-funded Berkeley Shopping”, “FBI’s rationale for Selective Surveillance”, and more.
  • De Anza Mobile Home Park sell-out update with Beggarbacker Becky Johnson

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides February 26, 2026 show is a Flashback to the October 29, 2017 show featuring RV struggle at Lapis Road; Mike Zint on First They Came for the Homeless, Brent Adams, Mama Shannon, and many more

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The February 26, 2026 show is a Flashback to October 29, 2017.

It includes:

  • Lapis Road RV HomeDwellers Association  30 Day Updatehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By3CuDOGMVo
  • Activist and communitarian camper Mike Zint’s “Here…There” Berkeley Update
  • Berkeley’s KPFA Up Front: Eviction of homeless during the Hepatis outbreak.
  • Demands for a Rent Freeze at Santa Cruz Shitty Council
  • Brent Adams Warming Center Update
  • Food Not Bombs meal update  Rioberto, Ricardo Lopoez, Abbi Samuels, and others
  • Renters and Homeless: When Can Folks Unite?: Affordable Housing Chitter Chatter: Lady Jane Ann & Jimmie Jones
  • Mama Shannon:  Perjury by Park Rangers