Ruf  HUFF Agenda Suggestions 12-5-24
Due to late night return from a Berkely trip—securing some November Street Sheets and December Street Spirits the final agenda will be distributed at the Thursday meeting.  Due to the Thanksgiving meal at the Vets Hall, this Ruf HUFF agenda is largely the same as the earlier 11-21 Agenda.
Items followed by underlined on-line links can be viewed “at home” or  “in the library”.  Many items  are really reminders of where we’d be going if and when we find the person power, time, interest, and resources.  We are gathering information and evidence to challenge the Dominant (False) Narrative.  Organize! If anyone has questions, please raise them.
Top of the Agenda (Quick Announcements)
++++  Meeting etiquette: raise hands, stacker, time keeper
++++  Athena’s Asks Update
++++  Additions and Suggestions for Thomas’s Tips:  Salv Army Breakfast 9-11:30 AM (?)
++++  Berkeley Where Do We Go?  Updates from Andrea Hansen on Where Do We Go Berkeley facebook page.
++++  Reports from the Thanksgiving Meal  at the Vets Hall
++++  New Street Spirits available.  Street Sheet copies available on line Friday perhaps at https://www.streetsheet.org/read-our-full-issues/  Hard Copies of both also available at 903 Pacific and at the Food Not Bombs Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock—ask Drew  Contact Street Spirit and Street Sheet for local stories.
++++  Saturday Nov. 16  11 AM-12:30 PM Ocean and Water  Stop genocide and support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza now. No more tax dollars for Israel. End the occupation and the apartheid system. Free all hostages and prisoners. 11 am to 12:30 pm every Saturday. Help hold up banners. More info:  call Laura at 831-247-5332.
++++  U.S. Out:  Thursdays 3:30 to 4:30 pm  Morrisey Blvd overpass over hiway 1
++++  U.S. Out:  Tuesdays 4-5 at Mission & Lauren at base of UCSC with banners/signs 415-954-2763
++++  Chilly but no rain for Friday 11-22 through Friday 11-29 for next week.
++++  The usual crowded often full non-emergency winter shelter when temps drop below 38 degrees or two days rain run by "People First" + Brent's Warming Wednesdays 12-3 PM at 150 Felker St.
Standard Stuff: Regular Check-In’s
*++++  Passarounds:  Vallejo Handouts: TBA
++++    Street Reports: Threats of Sweeps?  Posted Notices?  Uncomfortable encounters
++++    Report from the library parking lot
++++    Seeking Info & Contacts: Tabling at Funding Matters [FM]/Soup Kitchen/ Outside Salva Army Breakfast
++++    Solidarity with Resistance to On-Campus Repression of Encampments & Protest—Developments?
++++    Vallejo: Background from 2021: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homelessness-wasted-millions-empty-hotel-rooms-police-evictions/  Eviction Sweeps in November 2024: https://www.vallejosun.com/state-local-agencies-remove-long-running-vallejo-homeless-encampment/  Chatting with the Sweepster Boss: https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2024/10/31/conversations-with-the-city-manager-homelessness-in-vallejo/  Vallejo’s Homeless File a Lawsuit: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homeless-union-members-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-encampment-eviction/
++++    Vasalia’s excuse for sweeps ?:  https://fresnoalliance.com/visalia-confronts-homelessness/
++++    Fresno: Way More Arrests than Treatment
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article293730944.html
++++  San Rafael: Lawsuit forces token costly tent program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uppRbWhhvEI

                                                   Possible Action Items

++++  Scheduling and strategy for confronting officials at Public events
++++  Next Shitty Council meeting—Tuesday, December 10th
++++  Volunteer for connecting with  Vasalia, Fresno, Vallejo, San Rafael activists
++++  San Francisco Cover-Up of Property Destruction: https://www.streetsheet.org/resolution-on-seizure-of-homeless-peoples-property-in-the-works/
++++    Preliminary refutation of excuses used to destroy survival encampments locally such as the Camping Services and Standards Ordinance (“the Camping Ban”)
++++  Spying Back on Surveillance Camera Location yet (thru direct inquiry, observation, and public records)
++++  Tracking court cases?
++++  Armory/1220 Expedition to check out Athena’s Asks; any new info?
++++  Exposing MC 6.36 and other sweep pretexts: Documenting the Deception
Setting Up  Signposts to Stop the Nasty New Narrative/Tasks in Search of Takers
++++  Stop the War Against the Poor Sweeps/Raids + Gaza Genocide Lanyards?
++++  New  Strategies for Documenting Property Loss:  Case #, Receipts, Audio recordings
++++  WARMING CENTER OPENINGS?
++++  Focused Demands? (Stop the Sweeps, Reapportion funding to service existing camps; Walk-in Shelter)
++++  Govt. Reports:  (City Council, Board of Supes, Mental Health Advisory Board)
++++  Incidents from PovertyPimp Palaces (Housing Matters, Armory) & Service Agencies (MH CAN, Grey Bears, FNB, etc.)
++++  Future Targets:    City Mangler’s office…Police Station…Coastal Commission Office… City Hall…​Emeline/TelcCare/Supes
++++  https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/09/09/18869216.php  Civil Rights Groups Sue UCSC for Unlawful Campus Bans and Response to Student Protests
https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2024/09/09/final_2024.09.03_ucsc_exclusion_notice_complaint-final.pdf
Archived Net-Show Access and older Rough Agendas:
To read summaries of the shows and past rough agendas go to: https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/
To hear the shows go to https://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html

                                     More Resources & News

• https://www.hrw.org/report/2024/08/14/you-have-move/cruel-and-ineffective-criminalization-unhoused-people-los-angeles  The Cruel and Ineffective Crimminalizaton of Unhoused People in L.A.  Tip of the hat to Laure C for this item and the ProPublica item below
• https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homeless-union-members-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-encampment-eviction/  Recent lawsuit by Ca Homeless Union against Sweeps
• https://thestreetspirit.org/2023/02/07/berkeley-94700/  The Poor Tour & 1st  They Came for the Homeless
• https://www.codepublishing.com/CA/SantaCruz/#!/SantaCruz06/SantaCruz0636.html#6.36 : One of Santa Cruz's excuses for its anti-homeless sweep/raids
• https://projects.propublica.org/homeless-encampment-sweeps-taken-belongings/: ProPublica’s detailed analysis of property stolen and hardships incurred nationwide
• https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-migrants-city-merge-new-arrivals-shelter-program-state/15450230/ : Come Freeze in Chicago This Winter!

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NO REGULAR HUFF MEEETING THIS WEEK  The next HUFF meeting will be Thursday December 19th 1:30 PM-3:30 PM at the Sub Rosa Cafe as usual at 703 Pacific next to the Bike Church.

Instead folks interested in joining the HUFF caravan should contact Athena at 661-621-5502.  You can also show up at the Green Gate on Golf Club Drive at the entrance to the Pogonip Thursday December 12th at 10 AM when she will be leaving with possible space in her vehicle to caravan over to Watsonville for the hearing in Small Claims Court.

You can also join Troy Mason's supporters in Small Claims court in Watsonville:  Dept A, 3rd floor.  The Court is at 2nd and Main, 1 2nd St.  Turn left when you get off the elevator. The parking garage is free for the 1st 2 hours, $5 for the day.  Gaia may offer caravan service if you call her before 9 a.m. on Thursday morning (Dec 12th) at 477-9017.

Those seeking Street Spirits or Street Sheets to vend should call Bathrobespierre Robert at 831-423-4833 (no texts, it's a landline).  The latest Street Spirit is available at the Mian Branch of the Public Library.  It and Street Sheet can also be found on line.

++++  Berkeley Where Do We Go?  Updates from Andrea Hansen on Where Do We Go Berkeley facebook page.

POTENTIAL PROTESTS (around U.S.-funded wars in the Middle East)
++++  Saturday Nov. 16  11 AM-12:30 PM Ocean and Water  Stop genocide and support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza now. No more tax dollars for Israel. End the occupation and the apartheid system. Free all hostages and prisoners. 11 am to 12:30 pm every Saturday. Help hold up banners. More info:  call Laura at 831-247-5332.
++++  U.S. Out:  Thursdays 3:30 to 4:30 pm  Morrisey Blvd overpass over hiway 1
++++  U.S. Out:  Tuesdays 4-5 at Mission & Lauren at base of UCSC with banners/signs 415-954-2763

Though Rain is predicted for Thursday, Saturday, and Monday, there is still no walk-in Winter Shelter in Santa Cruz.  No Emergency Shelters have been opened.

READING MATERIALS  (Read up and shock your neighbors!)
++++    Vallejo: Background from 2021: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homelessness-wasted-millions-empty-hotel-rooms-police-evictions/  Eviction Sweeps in November 2024: https://www.vallejosun.com/state-local-agencies-remove-long-running-vallejo-homeless-encampment/  Chatting with the Sweepster Boss: https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2024/10/31/conversations-with-the-city-manager-homelessness-in-vallejo/  Vallejo’s Homeless File a Lawsuit: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homeless-union-members-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-encampment-eviction/
++++    Vasalia’s excuse for sweeps ?:  https://fresnoalliance.com/visalia-confronts-homelessness/
++++    Fresno: Way More Arrests than Treatment
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article293730944.html
++++  San Rafael: Lawsuit forces token costly tent program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uppRbWhhvEI
++++  San Francisco Cover-Up of Property Destruction: https://www.streetsheet.org/resolution-on-seizure-of-homeless-peoples-property-in-the-works
++++  https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/09/09/18869216.php  Civil Rights Groups Sue UCSC for Unlawful Campus Bans and Response to Student Protests
++++  https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2024/09/09/final_2024.09.03_ucsc_exclusion_notice_complaint-final.pdf
++++  https://www.hrw.org/report/2024/08/14/you-have-move/cruel-and-ineffective-criminalization-unhoused-people-los-angeles  The Cruel and Ineffective Crimminalizaton of Unhoused People in L.A.  Tip of the hat to Laure C for this item and the ProPublica item below
++++  https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-homeless-union-members-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-encampment-eviction/  Recent lawsuit by Ca Homeless Union against Sweeps
++++  httpshttps://thestreetspirit.org/2023/02/07/berkeley-94700/://thestreetspirit.org/2023/02/07/berkeley-94700/https://thestreetspirit.org/2023/02/07/berkeley-94700/  The Poor Tour & 1st  They Came for the Homeless
++++  https://www.codepublishing.com/CA/SantaCruz/#!/SantaCruz06/SantaCruz0636.html#6.36 : One of Santa Cruz's excuses for its anti-homeless sweep/raids
++++  https://projects.propublica.org/homeless-encampment-sweeps-taken-belongings/: ProPublica’s detailed analysis of property stolen and hardships incurred nationwide
++++  https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-migrants-city-merge-new-arrivals-shelter-program-state/15450230/ : Come Freeze in Chicago This Winter!    
Archived Net-Show  (Listen up for fun and fury)
To read summaries of the shows and past rough agendas go to: https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/
Recent shows:  Sunday December 8, 2024 show features Robert Whitaker, Steve Pleich, and Scott Graham & a Flashback to September 28, 2014 with the anti-homeless electioneers getting grilledhttps://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/bathrobespierres-broadsides-sunday-december-8-2024-show-features-robert-whitaker-steve-pleich-and-scott-graham-a-flashback-to-september-28-2014-with-the-anti-homeless-electioneers-getting-gril/ including:
https://podfollow.com/1654047988/episode/8d2a9c89f11b42e68663c98df8cb3b483d8894a2/view  Where is my Mind?: Bad Science with Robert Whitaker                                                                                                                                                                                  “Scope It Out” Scott Graham & Bathrobespierre Robert take pot shots at the Santa Cruz Shitty Council’s 12-10-24 agenda            “Silver-Tongue” Steve Pleich sometime houseless local activist covers a wide variety of “then and now” topics
T he Flashback to September 28, 2014 includes:

• [throughout] Analysis of the proposed police-powered Stay-Away Order expansion, repression of audio recording at City Council, the Parking lot Panic law.
• Protest, Speak-Out for the first SC Council meeting in September 2014;
• Update on Assistant City Manager Scott Collins’ Anti-Homeless “Mosquito” “No Loitering” shrill sound devices
• Former Mayor Bruce Van Allen’s Kick-off Rally and other electoral speeches
• Vehicular habitation interviews: Graham Pruss (Road to Housing program Seattle  ), Julie Schaul, J.M. Shall, Sherry Decker, and others grahampruss@compasshousingalliance.orgmailto:grahampruss@compasshousingalliance.org
• Julie S. on anti-homeless neighbor Pressure on Circle Church to drive away the early morning center
• Jerry Fall on “progress” towards a De Sal project
• Candidate Lannie Sherman and other speakers at the rally.
• Updates from post-Michael Brown police slaying in Ferguson, MO
• John Crawford, black man, shot dead in Ohio Walmart: Implications in Santa Cruz; Lessons from the Benchlands SC-11 Clearing.
• “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster on the SCPD, the proposed Homeless Bill of Rights, her “Smart Solutions to Homelessness” group and Upgrading HUFF

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