Brief HUFF agenda for its Thursday April 2nd meeting 1:30-3:30 PM at the Sub Rosa Cafe at 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church

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This a rough copy of the Agenda.  Additional items may be added at the meeting and additional time given to items presented by participants there.   
Coffee and munchables are typically available as well as brief shelter from storms, bathroom breaks, and plenty of chatter.
** indicates a New Item on the Agenda  Other items provide for updates and volunteer action. HUFF IN BRIEF 4-2-26  Additions…Messages…  Street Reports…. Reports from NO Kings Sat Rally and NO Pimps Sun Rally…John Doe13K Video & KSBW Coverage … **Imprompt phone-in meeting proposal….**Follow-Up Joint SCHU/HUFF  Coral St.T abling/Sweepwatch ….**laura’s new MHCAN Update .. ** Report from Krohn Mayoral Candidacy Kickoff…Local Shelter …City Council/Supes Reports 3-24 …Next HUFF meet 4-9 or 4-15-26? …** FM & People First (PF) Flyer Prep… …Rest = Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips…**Salinas Survival Camping Ban/Wes White call… QUICK UPDATES: RV Tow Bill LA News; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Update/Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations/Reggie M. Update …Jail, Court   **Upcoming weather …**Bathroom accessibility

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 3-29-26 Show features the “No Kings” somewhat anti-war rally and Flashbacks to April 15, 2004 with the 11th SAFE street strummers and May 13, 2004 show with Fresno’s Mike Rhodes, San Jose’s Jim Loese, and more

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The March 29, 2026 show includes:

  • Reading off the signs as they pass by at the “No Kings” rally
  • Occasional interviews with the walkers and sign-bearers
  • [throughout] AI Tsumo’s Epstein Empire: Guided Tour political rage in music
  • https://truthout.org/articles/top-house-dems-delay-iran-war-powers-vote-as-trump-threatens-ground-invasion/
  • [3-28]  Keith McHenry’s critical view of Indivisible as sacrificing anti-war activity for Democratic Party electoral organizing
  • Holly Hammer on Berkeley’s People’s Park Council on the upcoming People’s Park lookback
  • [3-7-26] McHenry tabling on Pacific Ave. for the March to End Anti-Homeless Poverty-Pimping + Solidarity with the Survival Encampments

The Flashback to the April 15, 2004 show includes:

  • Look-in on SAFE #11 (Society for Artistic Freedom of Expression aka Street Performers Against Foolish Enforcement) with Gabe, Jenny, Shane, Mama Val, & more
  • Interviews from the support march for the Oakland strikers on the docks
  • Copwatch Bob’s advice for Copwatch Tom at  Thursday’s FRSC Pacific Ave. live radio table
  • In-studio guest Buffalo on ex-SCPD Lieutenant “Jack Up the Joyful” Joe Haebe.

The Flashback to the May13, 2004 show includes:

  • Vinnie the V-Man and Skidmark Bob discussing the FCC raid on Santa Cruz’s FRSC Laurel St. station
  • Jim Loese working to decriminalize and make accessible medical marijuana in San Jose; HUFF’s “HUFF and Puff” plans (never realized) to distribute medical marijuana on the street
  • Fresno’s Miike Rhodes in the struggle to counter sweeps near the Poverello Houas leading to the Kinkaid lawsuit.
  • Late April: Corporate Pigs in Paradise—Oakland Anti-Iraq War Protest
  • https://chicago.indymedia.org/archive/newswire/display/41367/index.php   A Campaign Coasting Towards Disaster—Where is John Kerry?
  • Correspondence: D.C. Mayor Displaces Poor to Attract New Residents; Ralph Nader’s “Inhumane Treatment of Prisoners produces Blowbacks and Backlashes”—letter to Fuhrer Bush
  • 19-year old Damian on the street for a year claims severe medical problems
  • Non-updates on the Dominican Hospital-assisted deaths of Patches the squeegee worker; Linda CJ’s wife, Sideshow Bob (aka John)
  • [5-5] Unapologetic local smashes into Jessica the sparechanger without apology knocking her down.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 3-26-26 Show is a Flashback to June 28, 2012. It includes the Struggle Against the Aptos Rancho Del Mar Safeway, Red’s Recovery from Cancer, and Berkeley Mayor Bates’ attempt to ram through a No Sitting Initiative

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The  FRSC 3-26-26 show is a Flashback to June 28, 2012.  

It includes:

As major catastrophe threatens in the Middle East, HUFF rages on 1:30 – 3:30 PM Thursday March 26 at the Sub Rose Cafe next to the Bike Church at 703 Pacific

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[** New Items on the Agenda]    HUFF IN BRIEF 3-26-26  Street Reports…. **Contact if for future Anti-War protests…**Flyers for No Kings Protest 3-28 and Stop the Sweeps, Audit the Pimps 3-29 Pass Arounds… Additions…Messages … ….**VOLUNTEER for Joint SCHU/HUFF  Coral St`.Tabling/Sweepwatch ….**laura’s new MHCAN Update …Local Shelter …City Council/Supes Reports 3-24 …Next HUFF meet 4-2-26 …** FM & People First (PF) Flyer Prep… …Rest = Resistance & Other Reading….Thomas’s Tips…**Salinas Survival Camping Ban/Wes White call… QUICK UPDATES: RV Tow Bill LA News; Funding Matters March Closure…216 Update/Posting at Armory bus pick-ups; collating citations/Reggie M. Update …Jail, Court   **Wet weather Tu/Wed/Thur …London Nelson bathrooms still locked to those not in programs…

FREE EVENTS         (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying)**Thursday March 26  1:30 to 3 PM. In front of Santa Cruz County Courthouse (Panetta’s office inside) at Ocean and Water Streets.. Stop funding war. Bring signs for peace and ending bombing in Iran or supplying arms to Israel for attacks on Iran, Lebanon, Gaza                                          5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meets El Rio Mobile Home Park Community Room

Thurs, March 26, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM    Panel Discussion   Santa Cruz Personal Rapid Transit (SCPRT)\    (RCNV)   612 Ocean Street

Fri March 27   2pm-?till food gone  BoulderCreek  13080 Hwy 9 between Jenna Sue’s Cafe and the taqueria
                           4-6 PM   Free Food Church FELTON Fridays 4-6+pm  Hallcrest Vineyards, 379 Felton Empire Rd. Felton

Sat March 28   10 AM San Lorenzo Park  3rd  “No Kings” March—Turn An Oligarchic Dem/Repu Anti-Trump Rally into an Anti-War Rally

Sat 3-28 & Sun 3-29  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 3-29   10-12 PM  People’s Aid : Solidarity & Services for those outside Green Gate Golf Club Drive.

Sun 3-29  Noon  Sycamore and Pacific near the Sub Rose Café at 703 Pacific:  Demand Real Homeless Services; Stop the Sweeps; Audit the Pimps March                      

2 PM  “Rest is Resistance” street huddle & book reading at the dinosaur statue or at Jamba Juice across from the Post Office downtown

Tues 3-31  thru Thurs 4-2 10 AM until the food’s gone Bread & Roses chowdown Dragons Head bridge across from Trader Joe’s Parking Lot

Wed  4-2 3:30 PM  Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless Little Red Church  Cedar & Lincoln Sts. Fireside Room around the side

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 3-22-26 Show includes Meta and others at the Town Clock and a Flashback to August 24, 2003 featuring Rough-Tongued Roxanne and parents Stacy & Orly Jones roasting CPS, & Paul Sanford on the “Fuck the Pigs” Maurer case

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The Flashback is a bit choppy at a few points.

The March 22, 2026 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:

The Flashback to August 24, 2003 includes:

  • River’s journey thru S.C. justice via court and cops: directed to leave town, then dragged back.
  • Ken, Hairdresser Ray, Worldweary Joe Williams,  and other voices from the street
  • Attorney/Activist Paul Sanford, his client John Maurer defending a “Fuck the Pigs” sign, and Good Times reporter Laurel Chesky
  • Eleanor supporting rights under Worker’s Compensation
  • Rough-tongued Roxanne Acquistapache on CPS Abuses against Stacy and Orly Jones & their kids
  • A long musical cut from Skidmark Bob’s show

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