RUF Agenda Suggestions for HUFF 8-21-25 For those wearied or impatient with the repeated Agenda, most of them except those flagged as action or discussion items might be limited to 1 minute presentation unless the group wants more info. Top of the Agenda ++++ Reports on Current Projects; Time Available for next week; Needs and Wants ++++ Follow-Up on Last Week’s Projects ++++ Flag Possible Action Items: ++++ Possible Handouts: Agenda, Revised Poll/Flyer, 216 Flyers, Vehicular Crunching Flyer; Passarounds HUFF Notes, Gaza Petition Available on Request: Shelter/Sweep Questionaire ++++ This Morning’s Coral Crackdown (if anyone went) ++++ Successful Protest at Tuesday’s Board of Supervipers; Follow-Up ++++ Wednesday’s Keeley Backslapping Affair ++++ Other Protests: 8-14 Thur Red Line on Beach; 8-20 ++++ Other Street & sweep reports from the last week ++++ Shelter reports from 1220, Overlook, Housing Mutters ++++ Court cases past and future; 5150’s ++++ Federal and State Policing updates ++++ Meetings Upcoming ++++ 216-8239 Sick Sweeps and Property Seizure Reports Accumulation ++++ 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 august 21 5-6 PM Food Not Bombs meeting El Rio Mobile Home Community Room Saturday august 23 11 AM- 12:30 PM Ocean & Water anti-war “Free Palestine” Summer Show Fund-raiser for Palestine 5 PM-9 PM Barrios Unidos 1817 Soquel Ave. Could be free. Saturday august 24 and Sunday august 25 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. More events t B A 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 as well as evan@peoplefirstscc.org or peoplefirstscc.org as well as 216-8239 (Google complaint record); Jeremy shelter line: 359-5996; Emergency Shelter: 325-2699; ++++ Temperate cloudy weather for the next week (says on-line weather report) ++++ Tips & Lifelessons for and from Thomas’s Tipzine and other Urban Nomad Sagacity ++++ Reggie & Gaia’s report on Selective Ticketing for Homeless “Crime”: Volunteers? ++++ Laura C.: legislative updates ++++ Check-in’s: anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian local forces? Small Claims Court? New Stories : Next week perhaps ++++ “Santa Cruz County proposal could allow the destruction of homeless RVs” at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/18/18879067.php?show_comments=1#18879071 Old Standbyes ++++ Hard Copies of Street Spirit available Saturday/Sunday meals at Town Clock 12-3 PM—ask Drew at the Food Not Bombs. Both want stories & news accounts: contact paper directly or Robert Norse (423-4833). Pick up or leave off Armory polls with Drew as well. ++++ 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"