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Norse Hearing Postponed from Friday June 16th to early August TBA A hearing prior to the jury trial of Robert Norse (aka Robert Norris Kahn) to investigate complaints against arresting officer Steve Clark will be postponed from Friday June 16 to early August time TBA....
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 4:58pm PDT
Parking Garage Paranoia Law Stalls Again The Parking Lot Trespass Law as Amended and its Final Passage Again Delayed Until the Next City Council Meeting on May 23rd. It will probably happen at another hard-to-attend afternoon session....
Posted: Thu, May 11, 2006 5:03pm PDT
Parking Garage Paranoia Law Stalls Again The Parking Lot Trespass Law as Amended and its Final Passage Again Delayed Until the Next City Council Meeting on May 23rd. It will probably happen at another hard-to-attend afternoon session....
Posted: Wed, May 10, 2006 9:33pm PDT
Parking Lot Panic at City Council Tuesday May 9th The Fifteen Minute Trespass Law has its final reading as item #17 on the afternoon agenda at Santa Cruz City Council Tuesday May 9th. A protest with food and frolicking will precede the Council rubberstamp at 2:30 PM. Item #17 on the City Council agenda will come up sometime after 3 PM (anywhere from half an hour to several hours)....
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2006 9:42pm PDT
Parking Lot Panic Law: Training Tutorial Downtown 3 PM Saturday Satirical and Serious Protest Against the Latest Anti-Homeless Law, the Fifteen Minute Parking Lot Trespass Law coming up Saturday. Bring your parasols, lawn chairs, wits, cameras, and friends to the Pacific Avenue sidewalk in front of Artisans at 1368 Pacific. Edibles also welcome. At 4 PM the merriment will move to Bookshop Santa Cruz a block away (no demos for more than one hour in Santa Cruz in any one spot!)....
Posted: Fri, May 5, 2006 12:45pm PDT
Fifteen Minute Parking Lot "Panic" Law At Council Today (4/25) Everyone's invited to a 2:30 PM protest today (4-25) at City Hall (809 Center St.) against the Fifteen Minute Trespass law. The second and final reading will happen at the afternoon session of City Council at 3 PM (the item to reach the agenda probably sometime between 3:30 and 5 PM). Public comment can also be made, after the fact, at 7 PM during Oral Communications....
Posted: Tue, Apr 25, 2006 8:47am PDT
Norse Trial Postponed To May 22nd Originally scheduled for this week, my trial for "disrupting a public meeting" (i.e. standing at the podium of a City Council meeting and asking for my two minutes to speak) and "resisting arrest" (i.e. not leaving the room until I was told I was under arrest, in spite of a painful come-along hold by Lt. Clark that injured my left hand), has been rescheduled for May 22nd....
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 2:36am PDT
Federal Court Overturns Sleeping Ban Enforcement in Skid Row in L.A. ...
Posted: Fri, Apr 14, 2006 6:42pm PDT
Anti-Homeless "Parking Lot Peril" Law at Council 3 PM 4-11 Ignoring public requests for a thorough examination of alternatives, lacking substantiation that there's a "crime wave" downtown, reversing decades of Santa Cruz traditional use, directly targeting the homeless, but impacting every member of the community, Councilmember Coonerty's "Fifteen Minute Trespass" law will slide through City Council Tuesday Aprill 11th shortly after 3 PM. Be there to give them some indigestion as they chew up and swallow public spaces and human r...
Posted: Sun, Apr 9, 2006 8:48am PDT
Parking Lot "Homeless Cleansing" Likely on April 11th Agenda According to Public Works Parking Authority Czar Matt Farrell, the Ten-Minute Trespass Law (which may be modified to allow a 'generous' 15 minutes) should hit the City Council agenda on April 11th, second Tuesday in April, at the Council's next Council meeting....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 8:54pm PST
Anti-Homeless "No Smoking" Measure on 3-28 Council Agenda Item #20 on the Tuesday March 28th Afternoon Council session will ban smoking in San Lorenzo and Grant Ave. Parks. Community activist Sherry Conable wrote the following letter to City Council opposing it. Go thou and do likewise. The measure is likely to come up between 3 and 4 PM....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 12:36pm PST
Downtown Commission's "Debate" on Ten Minute Rule 7:30 AM 3-26 FRSC will be playing tapes of the special meetings of the Downtown Commission meetings of 3-16 and 3-23 and commentary by Robert Norse and other listeners on Sunday March 26th, starting at 7:30 AM and running to 1 PM...
Posted: Sat, Mar 25, 2006 8:32am PST
Ten-Minute Tyranny Liberalized to Fifteen Minutes The Downtown Commission dropped its mask and voted 5-1 to support a complete ban on the use of all city parking lots and garages unless you're parking a car or bike. If you're doing so, you will not be allowed to be in the lot (or in your vehicle) for more than 15 minutes but must exist on pain of $100+ citation....
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 12:49am PST
Police Auditor's Report Reportedly Available In Main Library Police Auditor Bob Aaronsen's report on Spygate Santa Cruz--the SCPD snoop operation against Last Night-DIY, the New Year's Eve Peaceful Parade--is reportedly in the main library, released Tuesday afternoon....
Posted: Tue, Mar 21, 2006 10:50pm PST
Downtown Merchants, Councilmember Coonerty Will Be At Ten Minute Law Meeting Merchants at the Tuesday morning (3-21) monthly meeting of the Downtown Association discussed the Ten Minute Trespass law. They heard from City Council member Coonerty and decided to attend the Thursday morning (3-23) 8:30 AM Downtown Commission final hearing. The merchants will then meet again after the DC hearing (probably around 10:30 AM) on 3-23 to make a final decision on whether to support the anti-homeless law....
Posted: Tue, Mar 21, 2006 6:56pm PST
Ten Minute Trespass Law + Protest March 23 8:30 AM The repressive Ten Minute Trespass Law proposed for all city garages and parking lots received an initial hearing before the advisory Downtown Commission last Thursday. On Thursday March 23 8:30 AM, the public hearing will continue (though with additional public testimony banned or restricted) at 809 Center St. in City Council Chambers. Activists will supply chow; you supply the bodies!...
Posted: Sun, Mar 19, 2006 7:41pm PST
No Poor in the Parking Garages! (3/16) Downtown Commission to Consider New Anti-Homeless Law
Parking Lots & Garages to be Off-Limits to the Poor!
Speak Out and Chow Down !
OUR FREE FOOD AND YOUR FREE SPEECH
7:45 AM Thursday 3-16 City Hall 809 Center St....
Posted: Mon, Mar 13, 2006 7:44pm PST
Ten Minutes then Jail 
Santa Cruz considers making it illegal to remain
in parking lots or garages for longer than 10 minutes
"Your city already has too many laws that target homeless people."
--- Michael Stoops, acting Ex. Dir. of the National Coalition for the Homeless...
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 12:40am PST
Mayor Mathews Interview On FRSC Sunday 10 AM HUFF, the Human Rights Organization, SAFE, and Housing Now! in Santa Cruz sent two letters to Mayor Cynthia Mathews urging fairer treatment and an end to repressive behavior at City Council. Instead of answering our phone calls and letter, Mathews agreed to meet. The meeting was taped and will be replayed 10 AM Sunday February 19 on Free Radio Santa Cruz. A shorter segment will be played on Thursday evening at 7:30 PM....
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2006 10:50pm PST
Santa Cruz "Spygate" on Free Radio Santa Cruz Thursday & Sunday Selections from the "Delay is Okay" Santa Cruz City Council's Public Safety Committee meeting of Tuesday Feb. 13th and a subsequent interview by Police "Auditor" Bob Arenson will play and be up for discussion on Bathrobespierre's Broadsides at 101.1 FM Thursday 6:30-8 PM and during the Sunday Feb 18 9:30 AM - 1 PM show. Call in at 831-427-3772 and listen on the net at www.freakradio.org Shows archived at www.huffsantacruz.org....
Posted: Tue, Feb 14, 2006 5:19pm PST