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Older Homeless Man Reports Being Driven Out Into the Rain Friday Craig Canada, a homeless blogger [http://www.palmspringsbum.com/blog/], reported yesterday by phone that during the heavy rain two SCPD officers drove him out from under the eaves of the flower shop on Cathcart between Pacific and Cedar Sts into the foul weather....
Posted: Sat, Jan 5, 2008 1:59pm PST
Parking Lot Panic Law Used to Disperse Drummers On two successive Wednesdays, police have ordered the peaceful drum circle to leave their traditional spot in the public parking lot behind Tacqueria Vallarta and Logos using Mayor Coonerty's Ban on Public Assemblies in parking lots. The new merchant-backed law prohibits lingering in a parking lot or garage unless you have a vehicle there (and then only for fifteen minutes). It removed ten blocks of public space from public use....
Posted: Thu, Jan 3, 2008 10:37am PST
Copwatch on New Year's Eve gather at 1330 Pacific Ave.: Coffee Roasting Company on Pacific Avenue in downtown Santa Cruz....
Event Date: Mon, Dec 31, 2007 6:30pm PST
Posted: Mon, Dec 31, 2007 12:18pm PST
The Perils of Filing an Appeal The following story, e-mailed to me by a friend, is a well-written, encouraging, and illuminating tale of the troubles you may face filing a appeal. It describes the combination of ignorance, pigheadedness, arrogance, and obstruction that can and do happen. These kind of hostile roadblocks are raised even in relatively simple matters where the law is on your side--perhaps particularly where the law is on your side. At this time, the author prefers to remain anonymous....
Posted: Fri, Dec 28, 2007 10:18pm PST
SCPD Covering Up False Police Report From Councilmember Mike Rotkin? The following correspondence between me and Trisha Husome, Records Keeper of the Santa Cruz Police Department shows their reluctance to release a public record documenting Councilmember Mike Rotkin's inappropriate call to the SCPD in order to demand my arrest for merely attending a public ACLU meeting with a sign. Could this be to protect the 3-time Mayor? It seems to have that effect....
Posted: Wed, Dec 26, 2007 10:32pm PST
Santa Cruz Mayor Lashes Out, Stonewalls on Public Meetings; Lethal SCPD Harassment Surges In response to repeated requests for his Public Meeting schedule, a list of prior meetings with lobbyists, and a face-to-face meeting, Santa Cruz Mayor Ryan Coonerty responds with the following letter cutting off discussion, stonewalling on information required by the Public Records and Sunshine laws, and attacking the journalist. Meanwhile police are stepping up Xmas-time harassment downtown....
Posted: Sat, Dec 22, 2007 5:31am PST
Street Spirit Editor Denounces Mayor Coonerty As "Repulsive" Street Spirit, a monthly newspaper sold by homeless newspaper,
recently published Humanity for Homeless activist Tim Rumford's
story about Mayor Ryan Coonerty and the Santa Cruz Sleeping Ban.
Editor Terry Messman gave me his permission to print his response
to Mayor Coonerty's subsequent e-mail on the subject....
Posted: Mon, Dec 17, 2007 6:50pm PST
"Coonerty's Greatest Hits": On FRSC Sunday AM & In Front of His BookStore Sunday PM Pirate (FRSC) Radio at 101.1 FM will be playing selections from Mayor Ryan Coonerty's November TV Debate on the Sleeping Ban. The clips and response from Bathrobespierre Robert Norse will air between 9 & 10 AM today Sunday December 16th. The clips will be rebroadcast as full video on the sidewalk shortly after 2 PM in front of Coonerty's Bookshop at 1520 Pacific later today. Come one, come all!...
Posted: Sun, Dec 16, 2007 7:59am PST
BathrobesPierre's Broadsides Interview with Canadian Homeless Activist 
BATHROBESPIERRE'S BROADSIDES - Free Radio Santa Cruz Sunday December 9th, Interview with homeless activists regarding sleeping laws, lawsuits and activism against Canadian police abuse, homelessness, poverty and the rights to use public space....
Event Date: Sun, Dec 9, 2007 9:30am PST
Posted: Fri, Dec 7, 2007 7:33pm PST
Santa Cruz Sleeping Ban Struggle (for Street Spirit newspaper) The December issue of the S.F. Bay Area homeless monthly newspaper will include the following story on the Sleeping Ban, championed by Mayor Ryan Coonerty. Street Spirit is available through HUFF (423-4833) as well as in the Main Branch of the city library....
Posted: Fri, Nov 30, 2007 8:31pm PST
Banned and Blue at the Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue in front of Mayor Ryan Coonerty's Bookshop Santa Cruz workplace and family business....
Event Date: Sun, Dec 2, 2007 2:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Nov 30, 2007 11:37am PST
9 AM Sunday 11- 18 UCSC Instructor Franklin Williams Tackles Hypocrisy at the HSC Kresge course instructor Franklin Williams puts his class to work doing community service work. For some time, sitting on the HSC Board of Directors, Franklin kept a close eye on gthe Homeless Servics Center (HSC). In this in-studio interview he exposes health, safety, and candor problems that the Board continues to ignore. 9 AM on Free Radio Santa Cruz 101.1 FM and www.freakradio.org . Call in: 831-427-3772....
Posted: Sat, Nov 17, 2007 9:42pm PST
Crippled Measure K ("Lowest Priority Enforcement Marijuana by SCPD") meets 6 PM today The much battered, delayed, and diluted Measure K Commission meets today (Wednesday November 14th) at City Hall in the Planning Department Conference Room (Room 107 of the City Hall Annex--the building next door to City Hall towards Mission St....
Posted: Wed, Nov 14, 2007 4:24pm PST
Sleeping Ban Debate – Broadcasted on Community TV. Voices of the Village (video/x-ms-wmv 48.8MB) Vice Mayor Ryan Coonerty, Civil Rights Attorney Kate Wells and local ACLU representative Don Zimmerman debate the Sleeping Ban live with call-ins and public questions....
Posted: Wed, Nov 14, 2007 3:28pm PST
The Homeless & LBAM Spraying: Accounts from the Community on Free Radio Thursday 6-8 PM Interviews with plaintiffs and victims of the Light Brown Apple Moth "Checkmate" pesticide spraying will be aired Thursday 11-15 at various points between 6 and 8 PM. Call-in at 427-3772 to comment or add your experience.
Particular focus: the City's failure to provide for emergency shelter for the most vulnerable population: homeless people....
Posted: Tue, Nov 13, 2007 4:15am PST
Coonerty Watch on the Sidewalk Downtown and Sleeping Ban Debate on Community TV Sunday Balloting on SCPD Racial/Class Profiling Continues Downtown Today in Front of the Bookshop Santa Cruz at 2 PM at 1520 Pacific Avenue. Tonight at 7 PM on Community TV's Voices from the Village Live! Louis La Fortune hosts a discussion (debate?) on the Santa Cruz City Sleeping Ban (MC 6.36.010a) between Vice-Mayor Ryan Coonerty, ACLU attorney Don Zimmerman, and Sleeping Ban Lawsuit lawyer Kate Wells on Channel 27....
Posted: Sun, Nov 11, 2007 5:43am PST
Waiting for Tony Madrigal On Sunday afternoon Councilmember Madrigal set up a table on Pacific Avenue in front of O'Neill's sports shop and began distributing gauze masks as protection against the LBAM Checkmate spraying (a publicity device, presumably rather than real protection).
When I asked him whether he'd support emergency shelter measures to protect the homeless during the nighttime spraying, he was evasive and seemed uncomfortable. Rowland Morin forwarded me their e-mail exchange below....
Posted: Wed, Nov 7, 2007 2:46am PST
Local Medical Marijuana Provider Gets a Year in the Pen--Call Bob Lee and Ask Why! The Sentinel reports today that Edwin Hoey got a yar in jail for being caught with 100 pounds of pot and $500,000 in cash in a storage locker. According to the story he was adamant it was for medical marijuana. Prosecutor Bob Lee is using the toxic theory that any marijuana club or seller is illegal unless he is a close caregiver. Unless people speak out about this, we can expect an expansion and continuation of the Drug War here, probably to keep his government grants rolling in....
Posted: Thu, Nov 1, 2007 3:12pm PDT
Halloween Copwatch Meet in front of the Pacific Coffee Roasting Company on Pacific Avenue in downtown Santa Cruz between Soquel and Cooper Sts....
Event Date: Wed, Oct 31, 2007 8:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Oct 30, 2007 11:51am PDT
Copwatch the New Order Downtown Halloween Night Copwatchers will gather at the Coffee Roasting Company downtown on or slightly before 8 PM Wednesday October 31st to monitor police and take reports of excessive police exuberance....
Posted: Tue, Oct 30, 2007 11:50am PDT