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9:30 AM- 1 PM
Bathrobespierre's Broadsides: Civil Rights on the Street 96.3 FM www.freakradio.net

Live studio call-in at 831-427-3772. E-mailin questions to rnorse (at) hotmail.com during the show.
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Featuring:

Report on the Tuesday Press Conference--Santa Cruz Unlucky 13th Meanest City in the Country?

Update and Discussion of the Santa Cruz Bill of Rights Committee's move to put teeth in the anti-Patriot Act resolution of November 12, 2002 including the full City Council discussion of that issue. (Next meeting of the SCBORD committee Monday 6 PM August 11th--second floor of the downtown library.

Arcata Freedom Fighters Struggling to Legalize the Right to Sleep

Advance information: go to www.arcataeye.com, click on Feature Stories, then on 7-23-03 "Right to Live" Activists Mount Marsh Protests

10:30 AM
Tad Robinson, jailed for non-violent political struggle for the homeless of Arcata
Roger Herick, ACLU activist, concerned with local civil rights struggles

11 AM
Dave Meserve, Arcata City Councilmember bringing the issue of the Sleeping Ban to the August 20th City Council session. Author of the gutsy anti-Patriot Act of Arcata. Talks about both issues.

11:45 AM Sally Zinman, Executive Director of the California Network of Mental Health Clients, discussing the new "needles on wheels" forced treatment bill AB 1421, passed last year by the California Legislature and signed into law by Governor (Thorazine for All!) Davis.

Other issues:

Stopping the Food Not Bombs Meals and the Bigotry Brownies Giveaways: The new Downtown Association move to criminalize free food serving onthe sidewalk.

Privatizing the public sidewalk in front of O'Neill's--the next step in the merchant Culture War against the poor, the weird, and the traditional Santa Cruz counterculture.

Victory in court! City drops chalking charge against Bathrobespierre for chalking 'No War!" on Pacific Avenue.

Crackdown on Campers: Big Boot tells us the cops have trashed the campsites at Poverty Hill and near Carbonera Creek, seizing and destroying homeless property with no warning.

HUFF booth at Santa Cruz Night on Tuesday August 12th downtown (5-8 PM): Is Santa Cruz the 13th Meanest City in the U.S. in its treatment of homeless people as the annual "Illegal to Be Homeless" report says? Call in and tell us!

Street Performers Getting Together! Want to be a part of the September 5-6 Louden Nelson shows? What can be done about increasing police repression on the streets? Meeting at Tom Noddy's House Tuesday night after the Santa Cruz Night Out 322 Maple St.


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