Category Archives: Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides Radio Show

The 5-17-26 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show features a lengthy Coral St. sweep report and a full Flashback to 3-19-17 with Carol Denney, Abbi Samuels, Keith McHenry, Wes White, Mike Zint, Brent Adams, & the Freedom Sleepers

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

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

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 5-14-26 Show is a Flashback to August 2, 2001 with Street Newspaper interviews and August 16, 2001 perspectives on Camp Paradise from Richard P., Shelly, Dirtclod, and others

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The Flashback to August 2, 2001 included:

  • Interviews with North American Street Newspaper Organizations (NASNA) in San Francisco
  • Correcting the San Francisco Chronicle’s  anti-homeless stereotypes: Interviews with the NASNA  protesters
  • “Dangerous” John Thielking’s report on the latest “Free Mumia Abu Jamal” protest
  • “Justman’ Jim Cosner in Elmwood Jail
  • Gordon from the Tucson Union of the Homeless
  • Ken Moshesh’s successful struggle in Berkeley according to Poor magazine
  • Jaywalker Jubee in Santa Cruz tale of police justice

The Flashback to August 16, 2001 (partial) included:

  • Street Roots writer and street activist Bryan discusses Dignity Village, a homeless-run encampment which became a permanent feature of Portland, OR
  • Shelly and Richard Posner, new arrivals to Santa Cruz’s Camp Paradise [CP], Larry Templeton’s camp under the Hiway 1 bridge on the San Lorenzo river
  • Single mom Michelle, SC City Council gadfly Michael Tomasi, and other Santa Cruz locals sound off.
  • Ben, John, Dirtclod, and other CP residents with brief stories
  • Glen Mowrer, former head of the Santa Barbara Public Defenders office, with a history of defending people sleeping in vehicles.
  • “Jesus Loves You” traveling kitchen Gina on their multi-vehicle DIY service providing actual rather than paper assistance and community to street residents

Meetings coming up: 

Sun May 17th  10-12 PM  People’s Aid : Solidarity & Services for those outside Green Gate Golf Club Drive.       

noon-3 PM  Soupstock:  San Lorenzo Park Food Not Bombs celebration

Wed May 20th  3:30 PM  Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless  returns at the Little Red Church (Cavalry Episcopal at Lincoln and Cedar) in the Fireside [side] room                             

6 PM     Restoring Homeless Civil Rights and Services in Santa Cruz—-Questioning the local Candidates also at the Little Red Church.

Thursday May 21st 1:30 -3:30 PM HUFF meets at 703 Pacific (Sub Rosa Cafe) as usual.

The 5-10-26 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show has two Flashback shows to December 31, 2000 and January 4, 2001 as well as clips from the police riot on Jan 1, 1994

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The Flashback to December 31, 2000 includes;

  •  History of Santa Cruz’s First Night on New Year’s Eve: Adrienne Boles eye-witness to 1994’s 1-1-94 police riot
  • [at various points]  On the Edge: Selections from Ewan McColl, Peggy Seeger, and Charles Roberts Radio Ballots
  • “Battling” Bob Lamonica on an impotent S.C. ACLU
  • Street Interviews with survivors of the January 1, 1994 New Year’s Eve: Lisa Gillespie, Darren W. Crow, Dave “Won Ton” Jacobs, “Red top” Robert Flory,  Victoria de la Torrey at the “SleepCrime in Progress” Vigil
  • Conflicting reports of the Pacific Ave. riot and its aftermath
  • “Shelter beds stay empty as  Homeless resist confinement” (L.A. Times  Dec. 27,1993)

The Flashback to January 4, 2001 includes:

  • Report from Steve of San Rafael near the Ritter House
  • Dallas homeless newspaper (“Endless Choices”) vendors work day
  • “Scope it Out” Scott Graham on Mercy Housing/City Council resident eviction and Fitzmaurice’s KoffeeKlatch Injunction
  • “Taken from the Streets: Freezing Weather Prompts City to Remove Homeless” in NYC
  • Harassment of Street Paper Vendors in Santa Cruz—a Lookback
  • Accomplishments in Santa Cruz based on Homeless Activism
  • Graham In-Studio; Silva on lines from Elected Forum

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 5-7-26 Show is a Flashback to April 8, 2001 with elder activist Ed Davidson, rent controlster Bob Lamonica, Attorney Ed Frey, exposing Mercy Housing and City Council capers

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The Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides 5-7-26 show is a Flashback to April 8, 2001.  It includes:

  • “Battling” Bob Lamonica on Rent Control, his upcoming S.C. Hempo expo, and the fate of Hemp nationwide
  • Former Planning Director and Housing Advocate  Ed Davidson on City’s buying 211 Gault St. for Mercy Housing Corp [MHC]-run Senior Housing  and the MHC-run Rex/Dolphin/Lee
  • Attorney “eggbeater” Ed Frey defending Tenants demanding relocation funding in a Mercy Housing  Mackintosh Mobile Home Project
  • Tucson Street Newspaper Hawker banned from Medians
  • Subpoena for Mayor Tim Fitzmaurice in the Koffee Klatch TagTeam Teach In—Attorney Catnip Kate Wells’ brief