Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides October 9, 2025 show is a Flashback to April 6, 2003 with strong anti-Iraq war voices including Steve Argue, Louis La Fortune, and Walter Millison

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The October 9, 2025 show is a Flashback to April 6, 2003. 

It includes:

  • Peace Activist and Walter Millison guest-hosts the show and
  • Beggarbacker Becky and Bathrobespierre Robert on Council clampdown, and City Council member “Two-Minute” Mathews” City-Wide Permit Parking Scheme
  • Matty Fitzgerald on Freedom for the Flowering Fence at the Town Clock
  • Walter recounts his time at the latest Sleeping Ban vigil.
  • Iraqi war exchange of views with “Battlin’ Bob Lamonica”

HUFF spits back at the new anti-RV law Thursday 10-9-25 at the Sub Rosa Cafe 1:30-3:30 PM 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church

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Agenda Suggestions for HUFF meeting 10-9-25

Run through items limited to 1 minute presentation unless the group wants more info. Flag items for more extended discussion.   The point is to maintain the real narrative not the one the City/County staff claims and to allow for any new input. Additional items can be added.  Please raise hands—look to the chair or whoever has the floor at the time so the rest of us can hear what’s being said.  Meetings are recorded for possible replay.  If something you want to say is not for netcast, ask that recorder be turned off.  An updated edition of this agenda will be available at the HUFF meeting 1:30 PM-3:30 PM  10-9-26 at the Sub Rosa Café.


Top of the Agenda

++++    Time Available for next week Needs & Wants

++++    Sneak County RV law passage: Upcoming 2nd Reading

++++    Street Reports: Coral St. Sweep; Berkeley’s Harrison & 8th RV resistance

++++    Flag New Possible Action Items Requiring Immediate Planning and/or Action

++++    Handouts: Agenda, TBA;   Passarounds HUFF Notes, Gaza Petition      Available on Request:  Shelter/Sweeps Questionnaire

Regular Reports(1 Minute per unless group wants more time)
++++   Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters, Church Groups

++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’s

++++   Any business bullshit or discrimination?

++++   Shitty Council Records Elimination

++++   Meetings/Events of Interest Upcoming

++++   216-8239 Property Seizure Reports Accumulation + FNB Poll Report: Updates?

++++   Clanging pots and pans rally against U.S. Funding Gaza Starvation and Local Unhoused Refugee Harassment

++++    Volunteer HUFF tabling up at UCSC Wednesday, October 29th, from 5:30-7:00PM at the Merrill Cultural Center 

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet

Thursday Oct 9  3:30-4 PM  Local Anti-Genocide/Anti-Sweeps Meet at Sub Rosa

Thursday Oct 9  5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room

Saturday  Oct 11   11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-Genocide Weekly   Palestine Justice Coalition   Remember the Free Palestine Anti-Starvation Flotillas      

Saturday Oct 11 & Sunday Oct 12 noon-3 PM FNB gathering and meal Town Clock; NEW Street Spirits & Street Sheets available; leave off or pick up shelter/sweep reports with Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices.

Saturday October 11 Saturday, October 11, 2025  9 PM  Concert, Meet Up with SC Renters Union

Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz

Monday October 13 Monday 4:30-5:30 PM  Indivisible  Protest         

Flock with the DesperateDems   Corner of Ocean and Water Streets in Santa Cruz    Good on Anti-Trump, Bad on Genocide

More check-in’s + Info

++++    Info Tabling:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested…Poll for Armory

++++    Armory complaints to (408) 761-9930; evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or  peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699; (Let us know how it turns out)

++++   Rain Monday (10-13) and Tuesday (10-14) and cooler the rest of the week say the weather sages

++++   Tips & Lifelessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Sagacity

++++   Reggie & Gaia’s report on Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”.

++++   Laura C.: legislative updates

++++   Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces?  Small Claims Court? DIY Injunctive Action

New Stories (TBA)

Old Standbyes 

++++Street Spirit archives on line: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22&sort=-date

++++    Recent stories on a variety of unhoused issues:   https://invisiblepeople.tv/   

++++    Overview: https://endhomelessness.org/resource/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights

++++    Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K” 

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides October 5, 2025 show features SF crackdown on RVs and rough sleepers + Flashback to March 14 and 18, 1999: Marco of TRUSC; S.C. “Progressives” Sell Out Sleeping Ban Reform; S.F.Biotic Baking Brigade Jailed; + more

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The October 5, 2025 show includes:

The Flashback to March 14, 1999 includes:

  • “Dirt-sifter” Doug McGrath on SCPD’s failure to respond to multiple calls to report a homeless beating.
  • Bathrobespierre’s critique of new “Progressives” Krohn and Sugar failures on promised Sleeping Ban reform
  • Silva on “Progressive” Coalition and the Chamber of Commerce analysis
  • “Bashful” Bernard Klitzner on strategic analysis, different Sleeping Ban strategies than electoral; Silva advises ”chill out!”
  • SF Coalition on Homelessness “Broken Hearts” Valentines Day Protest: March to the Supervisors & Open Mike
  • SF Food Not Bombs activist Christopher Crass and attorney Kim on the Biotic Baking Brigade for pieing the powerful.
  • SF Guardian story on Kim Malechsky, attorney for “Cherry Pie Three”, defendant Justin Gross

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides October 2, 2025 show is a Flashback to January 7, 1999 with an activist soup of James Nay, Chaz, David Silva, Bernard Klitzner, and Roxanne Acquistepache

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The October 2, 2025 show is a Flashback to January 7, 1999. 

It includes:

  • Former Armory manager and outraged HUFF activist James Nay on his false firing and donation sifting by 115 Coral St. employees.
  • “Fidget” inventor Chaz describes being thrown out of Mercury-News reporter Lee Quarnstrom’s office and reviewed his assault case against Boardwalk security thugs.
  • Merlin reports on more Boardwalk bullying and abuse on public property.
  • Silva & Norse have conflicting views of the new Council’s “public” process.
  • “Bashful” Bernard’s struggles for input to the Task Force to Examine the Camping Ordinance.
  • “Rough-Tongued” Roxanne refocuses on the emergency Winter Shelter crisis.
  • Uncle Dennis introduces “Earth First” show…

HUFF Reconvenes After a Week of Absence Thursday 1:30-3:30 PM October 2nd at the Sub Rosa Cafe next to the Bike Church 703 Pacific Ave.

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Agenda Suggestions for “Loose Cannons” HUFF meeting 10-2-25

Preliminary items might be limited to 1 minute presentation unless the group wants more info.  The point is to maintain the real narrative not the one the City/County staff claims and to allow for any new input, briefly summarized.   Additional items to be added at the Thursday [10-2] meeting.  Please raise hands—look to Chair Venus or whoever is speaking at the time so the rest of us can hear what’s being said.  Meetings are recorded for possible replay.  If something you want to say is not for netcast, ask that recorder be turned off. 


Top of the Agenda

++++   Reports on Current Projects; Time Available for next week for Needs and Wants

++++   Follow-Up on Last Week’s Projects

++++   Once Hot Issues: MHCAN Closure; County RV law

++++   Flag New Possible Action Items Requiring Immediate Planning and/or Action

++++   Handouts: Agenda, TBA;   Passarounds HUFF Notes, Gaza Petition      Available on Request:  Questionnaire

Regular Reports

++++   Street Sweeps in Last Week and Coming Up
++++   Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters, Church Groups

++++   Court cases past and future; 5150’s

++++   Any business bullshit or discrimination?

++++   Meetings/Events of Interest Upcoming

++++   216-8239 Property Seizure Reports Accumulation + FNB Poll Report: Updates?

++++   Clanging pots and pans rally against U.S. Funding Gaza Starvation and Local Unhoused Refugee Harassment

Free Events (for demonstrating, leafleting, polling, enjoying) [more TBA at HUFFmeet

Thursday Oct 2   5-6 PM  Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room

Saturday  Oct 4   11 AM- 12:30  PM Ocean & Water anti-Genocide Weekly   Palestine Justice Coalition   Remember the Free Palestine Flotillas       

Saturday Oct 4 & Sunday Oct 5 noon-3 PM FNB gathering and meal Town Clock; Street Spirits available; leave off or pick up polling sheets with Drew; Bulletin Board for posting notices; NO NEW Street Sheets and Street Spirits this week.

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 8 4:30-5:30 PM  Indivisible  Protest         Indivisible Civil Rights Group        Corner of Ocean and Water Streets in Santa Cruz    Dem Party soft on Genocide

More check-in’s + Info

++++    Info Tabling:  Weekends Town Clock; Any Day Water St. Bridge Bus Stop: Call 423-4833 if interested…Poll for Armory

++++    Armory complaints to (408) 761-9930; evan@peoplefirstscc.org  or  peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699; (If you use it, let us know how it turns out)

++++   Rain possible today (11-2) then cooling for the next week (says on-line weather report—good luck)

++++   Tips & Lifelessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Sagacity

++++   Reggie & Gaia’s report on Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”:

++++   Laura C.: legislative updates

++++   Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces?  Small Claims Court? Newer Storieshttps://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/cesear-chavez-encampment-clear-newsom-21051443.phphttps://thestreetspirit.org/2025/10/01/dispatches-from-the-sweep-zone-looming-escalations/https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/10/01/exactly-who-is-entitled-to-live-in-albany-ca/https://www.streetsheet.org/mayor-signs-settlement-with-coalition-on-homelessness-winning-significant-protections-for-san-franciscos-unhoused-peoples-property-rights/

Old Standbyes 

++++   Street Spirit archives on line: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Street+Spirit%22&sort=-date

++++    Recent stories on a variety of unhoused issues:   https://invisiblepeople.tv/   

++++    Overview: https://endhomelessness.org/resource/why-criminalization-doesnt-work-research-policy-insights

++++    Wes White’s Video Work: Go to You-Tube then Check out “John Doe13K” 

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides September 28, 2025 show notes small legal victories in Vallejo and Berkeley+ Flashback to organizing against Council hypocrisy in the 12-20-98 show

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The September 28,2025 show includes:

The Flashback to December 20, 1998 includes [some musical distortion removed]: 

  • Bathrobespierre [BP], “Lighthouse” Linda, “Tufluv” Tucker on fears of FCC shutdown of FRSC & the new Council’s twists to keep the Sleeping Ban & ignore winter shelter needs.
  • “Bashful” Bernard on “Don’t Sleep Tonite” Night; “Catnip” Kate’s call to the outgoing City Council on winter shelter; “Crossroads” Chris on his police-stolen van.
  • Bike ticketing Broadside at Lincoln & Pacific
  • Donna Deiss of Tenants Rights Union (TRUSC) dealing with their own 3rd eviction threat.
  • Berkeley literature vendor John Vance: phony felony grass charges to expel street youth
  • SCAN (Santa Cruz Action Network)’s failure on Sleeping Ban Repeal & ending cop abuse
  • Pursuing the vehicular refugees: Kaska’s kids and Dennis Reim’s court case
  • Voices and Vectors of Protest: Norse to the old Council, “Beggarbacker” on SF homeless dumping; Van’s $365 ticket; 12-27 threat to close down FRSC
  • Exposing Mayor “Birdseed” Beiers in song and story: BP sings “Away on Vacation”
  • Florida’s powerful Pottinger decision vs. Santa Cruz’s Xmas upsurge in tickets.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides September 25, 2025 show is a Flashback to September 12, 2002 with many bits from Joe Barker, Ed Frey, Michael Tomasi, Preacher Mike, David de Fasio on police plaguing Pacific Ave.

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The September 25, 2025 is a Flashback to September 12, 2002. 

It includes:

  • Street interviews on the first day of the intensified anti-homeless Downtown Ordinances with Surf Shop owner Christina
  • “Hackeysack” (aka Timothy James South) says no to repeated targeted Obstructing the Sidewalk citations outside the Pacific Trading Company 
  • “Excessive noise” cites for a Japanese flautist and Mu the piccolo player
  • Voices of Joe Barker, Ed Frey, Michael Tomasi, & Pastor Mike
  • Calling out cop harassment of street hemp jewelers
  • Tale of Beggarbacker Becky Johnson and Tokin’ Tim Rinker for erasable sidewalk chalking directing people to a public meeting.

HUFF taking a respite this Thursday (9-25) (NO MEETING) but due back again at the Sub Rosa Cafe next Thursday (10-2) with more coffee and clamor.

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For sleepy stragglers who haven’t heard the news, a few die-hard HUFFsters may be keeping company with the coffee pot to lend a listening ear to rumors and reports + take the pulse of victims of the latest police outrages. 

Jacine—groundskeeper and librarian of the Sub Rosa Cafe at 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church—will likely have coffee available with some of the usual left-over delicacies possibly provided by HUFF loyalists.  No guarantees though.

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Encouraging news to chew on in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Grants Pass v. Johnson slamdown of the homeless right to live last summer.  These stories aren’t new, but they be the harbinger of cooler weather for hot griddle attacks on homeless encampments: 

xxxx https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/09/04/berkeley-homeless-union-wins-new-restraining-order-delaying-encampment-closure-at-eighth-and-harrison/

xxxx https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/08/06/two-vallejo-lawsuits-test-legal-protections-for-unhoused-residents-post-grants-pass/    

xxxx https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/03/vallejo-injunction/ And some of the not-so-good news from recent edicts in nearby California communities by local bigots-in-power.

xxxx Scwarz et al v. Town of Fairfax et al, 

xxxx https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/07/09/ohlone-park-encampment-sweep


Meanwhile, keep your eye on the Board of Supervisors, meeting perhaps next Tuesday with a possible rewritten blank check for “law enforcement” to seize and tow and/or destroy “abandoned” or illegally parked vehicles.  The next meeting of this shifty group has shifted to Watsonville, presumably next Tuesday, but their agenda doesn’t usually come out until Friday.
Let us know if anyone’s raising the roof about the shutdown of MHCAN in spite of the funding that is available.  
Updates and alerts can be posted on the Food Not Bombs bulletin board at the Saturday and Sunday meals noon-3 PM at the Town Clock.
It may still be helpful to provide sweep warnings to HUFF at 831-423-4833 and/or reports of inappropriate police, sheltersheriff, or other authoritarian behavior to the 831-216-8239 line.
Got time on your hands and want to help on existing but dormant HUFF projects?  Give a call to HUFF, or start something yourself and let us know!

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides September 21, 2025 show features interviews with David Beauvais, Becky Johnson, Wes White, and Hurricane Helga + Flashback to Hopes & Illusions at the 12-13-98 show

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The September 21, 2025 show features:

  • Civil Rights Attorney “Bedrock” David Beauvais heads for Argentina; Farewell Flurrie on Domestic Doomsdays
  • Beauvais’s changing view of “Globalism” and open borders
  • https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jewish-professors-urge-uc-regents-not-to-negotiate-with-trump/ar-AA1MCuO5 
  • Beggarbacker Becky Johnson remembers her activist days with “Catnip” Kate Wells—dead recently at 79.
  • BJ on Wells’ pioneering attempts around medical marijuana obstructed by the City.
  • “Whip ’em into Shape” Wes White reports on the Santa Cruz Bernie Sanders boosters; videoing peekaboo politicians like Monterey County’s Supervisor Vallejo;   
  • “Hurricane” Helga on the recent Coral street and the “Beyond the Green Gate”  homeless scene.

The Flashback to December 13, 1998 includes: [occasional sound distortion may require adjustment]

  • Homeless guy says he & his friend companion John took away Happy John Dine’s gun on November 12, the day Dine was shot dead by police some time before that happened
  • Hopeful chatter about upcoming informal meetings with Councilmembers after Councilman Sugar’s proposal to stop Sleeping Ban enforcement.
  • V-Man’s account of Officer Baker’s “give me your name” harassment at City Council
  • Phil Free & Bathrobespierre [BR] on “Catsclaw” Kitten Reynolds checkered herstory.
  • BJ’s Analysis of Darrell Cole’s article in the SC Sentinel on the Sleeping Ban debate.
  • Lighthouse Linda on “uncurable” warrants from the 1996 City Hall Sleepers Protest
  • Copwatcher Bob Duran’s on the 12-12 Free Mumia! march.
  • “Dead on” David Silva on police harassment of needle exchange & the “common ground” issue of accessible restrooms.
  • Lamplight Lucy Kemnitzer  on exploding the anti-homeless myths.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides September 18, 2025 show is a Flashback to November 25, 2012 featuring Red of the Road on Cancer Survival Tactics, Silver-tongued Steve Pleich on the De Sal Delusion, and more…

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The September 18, 2025 show is a Flashback to November 25, 2012. 

It includes:

  • In-studio guest/hosts Red of the Road and “Cry of the Dawn” Red have a merry exchange with Crow on an incident near the Main Bench; Red’s autobiographical account of her homeless struggle with cancer
  • [throughout at various points] Next to Normal–the musical
  • “Scope it Out” Scott at on newly elected Micah Posner, the De Sal hoax, and the Housing First/Smart Solutions diversion from real support for those outside.
  • Pacific Ave. Interviews: guitarist Ricardo Lopez, portraitist Santiago; anonymous visitor from Santa Monica; Yoyo 3-days in jail plus sock theft for charges dropped; 
  • https://www.police1.com/legal/articles/mich-man-accused-of-murder-at-14-to-get-11m-ugho8P9f70U376iF/  and more
  • Oakland Police Department facing federal takeover, with support by other cop bureaus