Periodic Announcements
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ARTICLES:
A. U.S. Suspends Nuclear Arms Control Treaty With Russia – February 1, 2019
B. Vallejo Police Assaulted Me While I Was Filming Them – January 31, 2019
“…Vallejo PD officer David McLaughlin…has been involved in lawsuits related to his brutality including the fatal shooting of Jeffery Barboa on August 3rd, 2018…)
C. Trump administration secretly shipped plutonium to Nevada – January 30, 2019
D. How Police, Private Security, and Energy Companies are Preparing for A New Pipeline Standoff – January 30, 2019
E. Israel’s Ire With Ireland
F. ‘More AIPAC Than J Street’: Kamala Harris Runs to the Right on Foreign Policy – January 28, 2019
H. Trudeau Pushes Trump’s Regime Change in Venezuela
ACTIONS:
1. Tell JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo it’s time they divest form private prisons
2. Congress must cancel Puerto Rico’s mountainous debt
3. LGBQT Equality At-Risk
SIGN: https://action.eqca.org/page/s/equality-act-now
4. Demand the U.S. rejoin the Paris Climate Accord!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Sunday, February 3 – Tuesday, February 5
Sunday, February 3
1. Sunday, 9:30am – 11:00am, Tim Redmond: What’s Up for 2019
First Unitarian Universalist Society of SF
1187 Franklin St.
SF
Wheelchair accessible
Breakfast served for nominal price.
Tim Redmond has been an investigative reporter in San Francisco for the past 30 years and was formerly Executive Editor of the SF Bay Guardian newspaper. He is the founder and editor of the popular online newsletter, 48 Hills, https://48hills.org
Tim will present an insider’s look at our new SF Board of Supervisors, discuss solutions to our homeless and housing crises, and discuss the emerging contenders for the 2020 national election.
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/31/18820915.php
2. Sunday, 11:00am – 5:00pm, Art Build with 350 Silicon Valley: Expose “Oily Wells” Fargo
Bridgemakerarts
23 Maine Ave.
Richmond
We will make art to support the 350 Silicon Valley (and partners) campaign to get Wells Fargo to stop investing in climate chaos. Wear your painting clothes.
OILY WELLS FARGO
Wells Fargo Bank has a dirty-energy secret: it’s a leading lender to the fossil-fuel industry.
350 Silicon Valley has launched a campaign to expose “Oily Wells.” Our upcoming event is the March for Fossil Fuel Freedom, a 3-day, 34-mile march from Palo Alto to the bank’s San Francisco headquarters on March 16-18.
The pilgrimage will offer a chance to meet other concerned folks (from partners such as Idle No More SF Bay and the Sierra Club) and act as a human billboard to the climate crisis. We’ll have “stagecoach stops” and presentations by partners and Oily Wells himself. Learn more and register now at www.OilyWells.com.
Host: 350 Silicon Valley
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2261401207435335/
3. Sunday, 1:30pm – 4:30pm, Allied Agenda for Troubling Times: Talk, Panel, Songs
SF Main Library
Latino Room 100 Larkin St.
SF
“Allied Agendas for Troubling Times: A Talk, a Panel & Songs,”
featuring Jewish labor historian Tony Michels on “Socialism and Jews at a Crossroads: Learning from the ‘40s”; klezmer singer Jeanette Lewicki; group singing in English and other languages; Gayle McLaughlin on “Unified People Power”; and Bay Area activists from:
— Bend the Arc,
— California Labor Federation,
— California Progressive Alliance,
— Council on American-Islamic Relations,
— Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, and
— the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.
Sponsor: Workmen’s Circle of Northern California
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/23/18820642.php
4. Sunday, 4:00pm – 5:00pm, Grandma Kim Memorial Ritual
“Comfort Women” Memorial
St. Mary’s Square
651 California St.
SF
Grandma Bok-Dong Kim, a human rights activist and survivor of the Japanese military sexual slavery, euphemistically called the “Comfort Woman” died on January 28 in Korea. She was 93.
For the last twenty years, Grandma Kim demonstrated every Wednesday at the ‘comfort women” memorial in front of the Japanese consulate in Seoul. She is familiar in the US as she has flown twice to Glendale, CA to advocate for the successful building of the ‘comfort women” memorial in Glendale.
She spoke out most strongly against the 2015 now-defunct agreement between the former President Park Guern-Hae government and Prime minister Abe of Japan.
Sponsor: Comfort Women Justice Coalition
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1914557428666512/
5. Sunday, 5:00pm – 7:00pm, Silent Killer: THE PTSD of Being Black
Free
Event is in South Berkeley.
Click ticket RSVP info to get location! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/silent-killer-the-ptsd-of-being-black-tickets-55063304827?aff=efbeventtix&fbclid=IwAR2vODervYIbB3NDc5MWS4RiXmG1RiWUGttF1fsOpHeZB1tvAugBan1gTrA
The Silent Killer: The PTSD of Being Black is an engaging live lecture and learning experience where we will explore the things that affect blacks who encounter hostile encounters, trauma, and overwhelming violence in their community. When people encounter these things and don’t deal with it they can encounter PTSD. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder hampers people from living full productive lives.
Having a conversation with Ms. Wanda Johnson the mother of Oscar Grant and Ms. Gwen Carr the mother of Eric Gardner about what is happening with our community after the trauma we see.
Sponsor: Mental Health in the churc
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/363518514226383/?active_tab=about
Monday, February 4
6. Monday, 2:00pm, Refugio and Elvira Nieto’s Meeting with SF Park & Rec.
Bernal Hill
Site of proposed Memorial (further up from current altar site)
(Over looking the Mission)
SF
Public transportation # 67 MUNI. Catch it on 24th St. at Mission across from McDonalds
The Nieto’s are scheduled to meet with the San Francisco Park & Rec. department. All are welcomed to support the Nieto’s at this next phase.
7. Monday, 5:45pm – 7:00pm, Transit Justice for All Rally
16th Street Mission Station
SF
Come stand with us for Transit Equity as we demand equitable changes to our current transit system!
We demand:
– Free and reduced fares for all
– Reliable, frequent, and accessible service
– Equity for seniors and people w/ disabilities
– No private buses on red lanes
– A living wage for all transit workers
– Equitable transit-oriented development for communities who need it the most.
For more info, please contact Mary Claire Amable at (415) 255-7693 or email mamable@somcan.org
Sponsors: South of Market Community Action Network, San Francisco Taxi Workers Alliance, United to Save the Mission
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/422247141847250/
Tuesday, February 5
“State of the Union” Address Today
8. Tuesday, 1:00pm – 3:00pm, Our Wheels Our Home- MTA Board Meeting
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA)
SF City Hall, Room 400
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Place
SF
The City continues to attempt to expand parking restrictions that have a detrimental impact on people who reside in their vehicles. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) have yet more parking restriction on the agenda that would displace more people who live in their vehicles.
This hearing is likely to be well-attended by members of the Palega neighborhood. We encourage RV residents and allies from all over SF to join the Coalition to voice your experiences, concerns and opposition to further bans.
Join us to implore the board to stop the expansion of harmful policies and instead focus energy on cultivating solutions that respond to all the needs of our city and not just the desires of a few.
The Coalition on Homelessness has worked closely alongside the vehicularly housed community for 6+ years now fighting the expansion of the Parking Restriction that impact people who live in their vehicle. Throughout this process COH has offered solutions, perspectives, and ideas for responding to the very real needs and issues posed by large vehicles and vehicle dwellers.
The recommendations presented by COH for solutions to the collective problem are:
• City should establish a safe parking program to establish lots/locations for the vehicularly housed community to live in.
• Review and audit current police code prohibiting habitation in a vehicle. We have a housing crisis in San Francisco, and until every human has a safe place to sleep, they should not be criminalized for taking care of their basic need for rest.
• City should determine a mechanism for dropping tow charges for any vehicle towed that is also someone’s home.
• Audit and reassessment of parking restrictions in San Francisco.
Not a single recommendation has been effectively explored or implemented. Instead, they just continue to increase the parking restrictions.
Sponsor: Coalition on Homelessness
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/374917309989095/
9. Tuesday, 2:00pm – 5:00pm, New Board. New Bank. Pack the chamber to demand a Public Bank!
SF City Hall
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl
SF
Rally in front of City Hall and then pack the Board of Supervisors meeting to demand they put a charter amendment on the November 2019 ballot that would move SF to create a public bank!
We have a little over 100 days before the deadline to put a charter ends. It’s time we occupy public comment and demand each supervisor make this charter a priority!
We demand a public bank because we need a bank to invest back into our communities. Things such as:
* low-interest student loans
* homeless shelters and services
* affordable/public housing
* renewable energy to fund a Green New Deal
* public transit and infrastructure
We will start with a rally outside of city hall then pack the chamber for general public comment!
Sponsors: SF Public Bank, PODER, Coalition on Homelessness + 2 Other groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/832736717077732/
10. Tuesday, 4:30pm – 8:00pm, Call on the City Council to support Oakland Teachers
Oscar Grant Plaza
14th St. & Broadway
Oakland
4:30pm – Rally
5:30pm – Council meeting
Oakland city council-members: which side are you on? Oakland students, parents, teachers, and community members are eager to learn where you stand in the fight to save public education in Oakland.
The Oakland City Council will be considering a resolution to support the OEA’s contract demands, stand against school closures and fully fund our public schools.
(Note: Last week Oakland Unified School District’s school board has voted to close Roots International Academy against the efforts of teachers, parents and students who’ve rallied for the district to keep the middle school open. )
Please join Oakland teachers, families and community members to support this critical resolution as we gear up for a potential strike.
Sponsor: Oakland Education Associaiton
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1223055054510935/
11. Tuesday, 5:30pm – 7:30pm, State of the Union Protest: Trump/Pence Must Go!
Geary & Powell St
(Union Square)
SF
Wheelchair accessible sidewalk & plaza
State of the Union?!
How about the state of HUMANITY?
In the name of humanity, THIS IS A CALL for a night of Refusal and Rejection of a Fascist America during Trump’s State of the Union
NO TO TRUMP’S FASCIST WALL AND THEIR PROGRAM OF ETHNIC CLEANSING!
NO TO ALL ATTACKS — on immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers (a lynchpin and a battering ram of the Trump/Pence Regime’s entire fascist program), on women, on LGBTQ, on the Black masses, on people all over the world, and on science and the earth itself.
ENOUGH OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY’S COMPLICITY on “border security,” family separation and asylum seekers. High tech drones, sensors, satellites, enhanced fencing and more border patrol agents is their plan for keeping immigrants out. We also must reject this plan, since it also leads to atrocities and is complicit with Trump’s program of ethnic cleansing.
NO MORE RELYING ON SAVIORS TO OUST A FASCIST REGIME and of passivity rooted in illusion, of failed predictions that this fascist regime will self-implode any day or be swept aside by those at the top of this society. No more of that! Fascism can come to power through the ballot box but fascism cannot be voted out ~ the people must drive it from power.
In the name of humanity, THIS IS A CALL FOR A NIGHT OF REFUSAL AND REJECTION OF A FASCIST AMERICA during Trump’s State of the Union.
On Tuesday before, during, and after the State of the Union:
GET ONTO STREET CORNERS…LET’S TAKE HISTORY INTO OUR OWN HANDS. Get your friends, colleagues and neighbors together and lets get the hell onto the streets, in two’s…three’s…twenty’s and hundreds, with posters, banners, projections, noise-makers (pots and pans and musical instruments…), expressing our REFUSAL to Accept a Fascist America.
Let’s drown them out and powerfully snatch the spotlight, with a massive and loud refusal and rejection of the entire fascist direction of this society and this world.
Sponsor: Refuse Fascism
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/380078302545730/?active_tab=about
12. Tuesday, 6:00pm – 7:30pm, SFGFF Presents: Encore Screening of Warrior Women
SF Main Library
Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin St.
SF
Green Film Fest for a free Encore Screening of Warrior Women
From directors Christina King and Elizabeth Castle, this inspiring film traces the untold story of countless Native American women struggling for their people’s civil rights through the figure of Lakota activist and community organizer Madonna Thunder Hawk.
Spanning several decades, Christina D. King and Elizabeth A. Castle’s documentary charts Thunder Hawk’s lifelong commitment, from her early involvement in the American Indian Movement (AIM), to her pivotal role in the founding of Women of All Red Nations, to her heartening presence at Standing Rock alongside thousands protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. She passed her dedication and hunger for change to her daughter Marcy, even if that often meant feeling like comrades-in-arms more than mother and child.
Sponsored by the Green Stacks program of SF Public Library.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2007026939416213/
13. Tuesday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, Towards an abolitionist practice of public health
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
426 17th St., # 500
Oakland
PLEASE RSVP at: https://goo.gl/forms/PE96N1PDg6OvMkpT2
CR Oakland and Public Health Justice Collective (formerly Occupy Public Health) are excited to invite you to join us for a learning and strategy session for ending the violence of policing in our communities.
What does the fact that the American Public Health Association (APHA), a network of over 25,000 public health professionals, overwhelmingly adopted a policy statement that identifies the violence of policing as a public health issue? How can we use this statement and its recommendations for decriminalization , divestment from law enforcement, and alternatives to policing to strengthen our campaigns? Join us to learn more about this win and identify how we can use as an organizing tool.
We particularly invite people involved in campaigns against policing and criminalization to join us and to bring folks organizing with you!
Sponsor: Critical Resistance Oakland
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/554919811675775/?active_tab=discussion
14. Tuesday, 7:00pm – 10:00pm, U.S, Hands Off Venezuela – Emergency Discussion
Revolution Books Berkeley
2444 Durant Ave.
Berkeley
Republicans AND Democrats are backing the gangster-like powerplay by the US to oust Venezuelan President Maduro.
U.S. hands off Venezuela!
The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism-imperialism and political structures to enforce that capitalism-imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism.
—Bob Avakian
