Periodic Announcements
Please encourage groups you are involved in to post events on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12
Thank you to all who are posting there!
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ARTICLES:
A. Editorial: Newsom’s suspension of the death penalty is bold — and just – March 13, 2019
B. Hundreds of thousands prepare for global #ClimateStrike – March 13, 2019
See announcement # 2
C. Fearing For His Life – March 13, 2019
D. 1.7 Million Students Attend Schools With Police But No Counselors, New Data Show – March 7, 2019
E. SF no longer has final say over police officer discipline — at least for now – February 20, 2019
4 – ACTIONS:
1. Support Microsoft Employees Who Refuse War Work
2. Protect Tenants Right to Organize
3. Hold the Trump Administration Accountable
4. Tell Europe’s Biggest Public Bank To #StopFundingFossils
SIGN: https://act.priceofoil.org/sign/EIB-stop-funding-fossils/?t=3&referring_akid=undefined
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Friday, March 15, – Monday, March 18
Friday, March 15
1. Friday, 9:00am – 1:00pm, Climate Justice Strike
2263 Santa Clara
Alameda
To elicit action towards the Green New Deal in the US, Alameda students will rally at City Hall and march to Crab Cove. Demonstrators will arrive at Crab Cove by 12:00pm, where there will be student speakers and activities.
Please join us for any portion of the event to support our students and the future of our world.
Wear green and blue to show your support for the Fridays For
Future Movement.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/363319737604866/
2. Friday, 10:00am – 12Noon, California Youth Climate Strike: San Francisco
Nancy Pelosi’s Office
90 7th St.,
SF
Join San Francisco youth as we strike for the Green New Deal and other necessary actions to solve the climate crisis. If you are unable to join us, consider organizing a strike, walkout, or other action on your campus! Learn more about our movement at youthclimatestrikeus.org
We, the youth of America, are striking because decades of inaction has left us with just 11 years (or less) to solve the climate crisis. We are striking because the necessary action to achieve the common-sense and vital goal of fighting climate change is not being prioritized. We are striking because marginalized communities across our nation —especially indigenous, black, and low income communities— are already disproportionately impacted by climate change, yet, few people in positions of power have acknowledged this reality, and even fewer have begun to confront it appropriately.
We are at a turning point in history. Our futures are at stake. We call for radical legislative action to combat climate change and its countless detrimental effects on the American people. We are striking for the Green New Deal, a fair and just transition to decarbonize the US economy, and other legislative action that combats the effects of climate change
Sponsor: California Climate Strike & US Youth Climate Strike
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/325603661416753/
3. Friday, 12Noon – 2:00pm Mothers on the March Against Police Murders – Nearly 130 weeks
Hall of Injustice
850 Bryant St.
SF
DEMAND POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY
All are invited to join us to demand that District Attorney George Gascon charge police officers with murder. Stand with ALL families who have lost loved ones to police murders. Since Gascon has been the DA in San Francisco, he has not charged any police officers.
Calling for Justice for:
Joshua Smith, Kenneth Harding Jr., Peter Yin Woo, Steven Michael Young, Dennis Hughes , Pralith Prolouring, Dale Stuart Wilkerson, Alex Nieto, Giovany Contreras Sandoval, O’Shaine Evans, Matthew Hoffman, Amilcar Perez-Lopez, Alice Brown, Herbert Omar Benitez, Javier Lopez Garcia, Mario Woods, Luis Gόngora Pat, Jessica Nelson, Nicolas McWherter, Nicholas Flusche, Damian Murray, Keita O’Neil, Jesus Adolfo Delgado, Jehad Eid, and Derrick Gaines (killed by a police officer hired by SFPD)
The above named all were killed by SFPD during DA Gascon’s reign – NOT ONE police officer has been charged!
4. Friday, 7:00pm – 8:30pm, Forum: From West Virginia to Oakland: Teachers Strike for Public Education
PSL
2969 Mission St. (nr. 26th St.)
SF
$3-10 donation, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Refreshments provided. Wheelchair accessible.
The ruling class has been on an offensive to privatize public education by closing schools, attacking teachers, and diverting funds to charter schools. Over the past year, we have seen teachers’ strikes across the nation win gains for themselves and their students. In Oakland, after a 7-day strike, teachers won major concessions from the district. How can we continue to build the movement to defend public education and why is it important to all workers?
Join us for a special guest speaker from the Oakland teachers’ union to discuss their recent victory as well as presentations on the right to public education and the nationwide fightback movement.
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/06/18821708.php
5. Friday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, Environmental Catastrophe & the REAL Revolutionary Solution
Revolution Books – Berkeley
2444 Durant Ave.
Berkeley
State of Emergency!
The plunder of our planet,
the environmental catastrophe,
and the REAL Revolutionary Solution!
We will show this excerpt from Bob Avakian’s talk Why We Need an Actual Revolution and How We Can Really Make Revolution”
And discuss how to STOP capitalism-imperialism from destroying our planet!
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/598889503872051/
Saturday, March 16
6. Saturday, 8:00am – 5:00pm, Indigenous People March for Fossil Fuel Freedom! – 3 Day march (starts in Palo Alto, March is 3/15, 3/16 & 3/17)
March will end in SF on Monday 3/17.
Saturday Day 1:
Starts at 8:00am”
Parking lot of PF Chang’s, 900 Stanford Shopping Center, Bldg. W, Palo Alto CA.
Sunday Day 2
On day 2 of our 3 day march we start in San Mateo at 8am.
On day 3 of this march we will start at 8:00am:
1599 Alemany Blvd, San Francisco
See announcement # 16
See Indybay for:
Saturday details: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/09/18821776.php
Sunday details: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/09/18821777.php
Monday details: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/09/18821778.php
March ends in SF 12 Noon Rally at Wells Fargo Headquartes
Register here for details: oilywells.com/register-to-march/
34 mile walk.
Here is our Marcher Toolkit. We recommend reading it through to best prepare for the march.
Here’s an invitation to our slack. This is the best way to get updates about the march.
If you’d like to march yourself, please sign up here.
Idle No More SF Bay is calling Indigenous people to rise for clean air, water, soil and a sustainable future at The March for Fossil Fuel Freedom: A 34-mile Walk to Expose Oily Wells being organized by our friends at 350 Silicon Valley.
The March is focused on Wells Fargo. Indigenous people have been invited to lead the march in prayer with other people of faith, similar to the Idle No More SF Bay Refinery Healing Walks. The women of Idle No More SF Bay who are signatories on the Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty have decided that this March will be the Spring Solstice action – more info about the Treaty here: www.indigenouswomenrising.org.
The demands of the March for Fossil Fuel Freedom are listed below.
People may come to all or part of the March. Lodging and some meals will be provided. There will be an optional nonviolent direct action at the end of the March at Wells Fargo in San Francisco.
DEMANDS:
Stop financing Enbridge, builder of the proposed Line 3 tar sands pipeline across Minnesota;
Withdraw funding from all fossil fuel infrastructure, starting with projects related to tar sands oil (one of the most polluting sources of fuel);
Work with communities and climate advocates to invest in clean energy alternatives and sustainable enterprises.
Divest from inhumane private prisons and detention centers… because healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our planet.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2346129798954019
7. Saturday, 2:00pm – 4:00pm, High Voltage Women Book Launch
Bird & Beckett Books
653 Chenery
SF
Free
Refreshments
A Women’s History Month salute to “High Voltage Women”
We proudly announce Red Letter Press Books‘ publication of labor historian Ellie Belew’s latest book, “High Voltage Women: Breaking Barriers at Seattle City Light,” the story of ten women who entered the utility’s male-dominated electrical trades beginning in the 1970s.
Megan Cornish, the pioneer tradeswoman who was one of the pathbreakers at City Light, will present on this immensely inspiring true story based on her firsthand experience.
Sponsors: Freedom Socialist Party Bay Area, Radical Women U.S., Bird & Beckett Books
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/399306620834076/
8. Saturday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, Building Sanctuary for Migrants Arriving in the Bay Area
Kehilla Community Synagogue ]
1300 Grand Ave.
Piedmont
Thousands of migrants are fleeing rampant violence and abject poverty, and are headed to the Bay Area. How do we open space for them? How do we strengthen existing organizations and networks who welcome migrants and asylum seekers to the Bay Area? How does defending sanctuary and asylum laws against Trump’s Administration contribute to the larger struggle against racism and white supremacy in the United States?
Join SURJ Bay Area, SURJ San Francisco, the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, and the Kehilla Community Synagogue for an evening of solidarity and action as we:
-Learn about the experience of asylum seekers who have traveled as part of a caravan.
-Explore how white supremacy enables and perpetuates the current humanitarian crisis at the border and the increasingly militarized response by the US government.
-Learn about and sign up for direct, concrete ways to support those seeking asylum in the US.
Confirmed speakers include:
-Chris Lopez from School of the Americas Watch
-A representative from the Haiti Action Committee
-A representative from the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
Attendees are encouraged to donate as they are financially able
Donations will be given to Al Otro Lado and Enclave Caracol, organizations directly supporting migrants and migrant legal defense.
Al Orto Lado is a bi-national, direct legal services organization serving indigent deportees, migrants, and refugees in Tijuana, Mexico. They also assist families with reunification in Mexico and work with non-custodial deported parents to ensure their rights as parents are protected in the United States family court system.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/865872820430237/
Sunday, March 17
9. Sunday, 9:30am – 11:00am, Women’s History Month – Shari Halliday-Quan
Unitarian Universalist Society – SF, MLK Room
1187 Franklin St.
SF
Women’s History Month invites us to explore the ways extraordinary women and everyday communities have cast off the oppressive limitations placed on them by wider society based on their gender. This celebration of transcendence continues today in the pursuit of gender justice, and this liberation work takes many forms: moving beyond the gender binary is one way that people, young and old alike, are getting freer.
Shari Halliday-Quan is this year’s ministerial intern at UUSF.
10. Sunday, 12Noon – 4:00pm, Tsuru for Solidarity – Help us send 1,000 cranes to Texas!
100 Montgomery St – in the Presidio
SF
Transportation Info:
The PresidiGo Downtown Shuttle provides FREE roundtrip service to the Presidio. The shuttle picks up at the Transbay Terminal or Embarcadero BART (Hyatt Regency exit)
If you are driving, be sure that you’re are driving to the Presidio (zip code 94129) not the 100 Montgomery that is downtown.
Accesibility:
Ramp access is available at the in the back of the building on Taylor Road between Sheridan Road and Bliss Avenue. This building is ADA compliant.
On March 30th, Japanese Peruvian and Japanese American incarceration survivors and allies will be staging a peaceful protest at at the South Texas Family Residential Center where some two thousand Central American women and children seeking lawful asylum are being confined.
Organizers are aiming to collect 10,000 tsuru (cranes) from around the world to hang around the fences circling the detention center as a show of solidarity in protest of the thousand of families separated and unjustly incarcerated.
Our goal is to fold 1,000 cranes this Sunday! Bring your family and friends!
No prior origami skills necessary! We will have folks onsite to help fold!
This program is held in conjunction with “Then They Came For Me: Incarceration of Japanese Americans During WWII and the Demise of Civil Liberties”, a special multimedia exhibit featuring imagery by noted photographers commissioned by the U.S. government’s War Relocation Authority
Sponsors: Then They Came For Me, Nikkei Resisters
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/263223504622348/
11. Sunday, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Climate Change Decompression
Franklin Square
1800 Bryant St.
SF
Temperatures warming, ice caps melting, politicians dawdling, species dying… it seems every day climate change gives you another thing to feel hopeless about. But you are not alone!
Join the Climate & Environmental Justice Committee for our monthly Climate Change Decompression in Franklin Park on Sunday (we’ll meet on the grass near the playground in the SE corner of the park. We will be near a wheelchair accessible path but you may need to off-road a little to get to us).
We’ll be unpacking our feelings around climate change in a supportive, safe, environment, and sharing the things that give us hope. Potluck rules — have a snack, bring a snack, share with comrades.
Sponsors: DSA – SF
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/405450373613777/
12. Sunday, 3:00pm – 5:00pm, From the Front Lines of Resistance with Cristina Palabay
Bethany UMC
1270 Sanchez St.
SF
This forum comes at a time when the humanitarian crisis in the Philippines is at an all-time high, even worse than under Marcos. Three priests were killed in the Summer of 2018 alone with over 200 activists slain during that year. Over 27,000 people have been executed on the streets and in their homes without trial in the War on Drugs. Cristina Palabay has come to the US on invitation by Amnesty International and ICHRP US International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines and in coordination with Malaya Movement. She’ll share how Americans are tied to these atrocities and what we can do to stop it.
Cristina Palabay is the Secretary General of the Filipino human rights coalition called KARAPATAN (Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights). She is a Regional Council member of the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development and an advisor to the Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights.
Palabay has participated in numerous rapid response, fact-finding and humanitarian missions to document and investigate human rights violations, conduct advocacy activities and lead mass actions, and assist the victims of rights violations and their families. She has provided paralegal assistance to victims and kin in filing cases and complaints to courts and other redress mechanisms, initiated dialogues with government institutions and inter-governmental bodies, conducted lobby efforts for the enactment of various legislation for human rights such as the Bill for the Protection of the Rights of Human Rights Defenders
She is also known for her advocacy for women’s rights as among the founders and later on the Secretary General of the Gabriela Women’s Party. Palabay is also a lesbian activist, having been a Board Member of Kapederasyon,
Host: San Francisco Committee on Human Rights in the Philippines, Malaya Movement, International Coalition for Human Rights in the Phillipines
Co- Sponsored by many other groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/430735437498928/
13. Sunday, 6:00pm – 9:00pm, Justice for Stephon Clark & Willie McCoy – We Need a Revolution
Revolution Books – Berkeley
2444 Durant Ave.
Berkeley
JUSTICE FOR STEPHON CLARK! JUSTICE FOR WILLIE MCCOY! THE WHOLE DAMN SYSTEM IS GUILTY AS HELL! WE NEED A REVOLUTION!
Discussion, and video on police murder and revolution from Why We Need An Actual Revolution And How We Can Really Make Revolution, a speech by Bob Avakian
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/374744249744084/
Monday, March 18
14. Monday, 10:00am – 12Noon, Demonstration & Nonviolent Direct Action at Lockheed Martin
Meet at:
the corner of North Mathilda Ave and West Java Drive
Sunnyvale, CA
Join us at Lockheed Martin, the largest military weapons contractor in the world, to say no to nuclear weapons, no to war and no to war profiteering.
Bring banners, signs and songs!
Sponsored by Pacific Life Community, Catholic Workers, and Code Pink.
For more information, call 650-366-4415.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/313231829549684/
15. Monday, 12Noon – 1:00pm, Free Chelsea Manning & Assange – Stop Government Attack on Journalist & Whistleblowers
SF Federal Building
70 7th St.
SF
The jailing of whistleblower and human rights activist Chelsea Manning is a threat to all people of the United States. She is being imprisoned again because she stood up for human rights and against the war crimes of the United States. After serving 7 years in jail the US government want to punish her again. She refuses to accept the Grand Jury’s right to interrogate her about Julian Assange who the US government wants to jail. She has already been interrogated by the US government authorities and this fishing expedition is only to further the attack on her for standing up for justice and human rights.
WikiLeaks has been an important resource for the people of the United States in exposing the systemic US intervention against the peoples of the world and the role of the corporations and politicians who have been involved in these crimes. The action to imprison Chelsea Manning must be answered by people throughout the United States and the world. Also labor and the trade unions must stand up for Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning. The attack on journalists and whistleblowers is attack on all democratic rights.
How to write to Chelsea (Info from Courage to Resist)
Address:
Chelsea Elizabeth Manning
A0181426
William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center
2001 Mill Road
Alexandria , VA 22314
Do’s
1. Address letter exactly as shown
2. Send letters or white paper
3. Use mail service to send letters
4. Include color drawings in your letters
5. Sparingly send 4×6 photos
Don’ts
1. Send cards, packages, postcards, photocopies, or cash
2. Decorate the outside of envelope
3. Send books or magazines
Sponsor: Bay Area Free Julian Assange Action Committee
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/14/18821908.php
16. Monday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, Final Rally: March for Fossil Fuel Freedom
Meet at:
Montgomery St. BART
SF
Join the culminating rally of the March for Fossil Fuel Freedom spotlighting “Oily Wells” Fargo with speeches, prayer, music and a performance by the San Francisco Mime Troupe. We’ll gather at the Montgomery St. BART plaza before marching a few blocks to bank headquarters.
Sponsors: 350.org + 11 Other Groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/350233775701310/
17. Monday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, Candlelight Vigil for Stephon Clark
People’s Park
2556 Haste St.
Berkeley
A candlelight vigil to honor Stephon Clark on the anniversary of his death, to mourn his murder at the hands of the police, and to demand police accountability in matters of deadly force.
Sponsors: People’s Park Committee, Berkeley People’s Park
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2702541016452855/
18. Monday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, One Year Later! Take These Streets For Stephon Clark!
Meet at:
Sacramento Light Rail – Meadowview Station
Meadowview & Tisdale
Sacramento
It will be one year on March 18th, since the Sacramento Police Department took Stephon Clarks life!
WE ARE STILL FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE
BUT WE NEED TO TAKE A MOMENT TO COMMEMORATE HIM!
We will be marching from the Meadowview LightRail Station, where we held the first vigil for #StephonClark, and close to his home…to Meadowview Park on 24th and Meadowview Rd. (1.2 miles)
When we get to the park we will take a moment to remember him and lift his name.
Sponsors: Black Lives Matter Sacramento + 2 Other groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/394574064433995/
19. Monday, 7:00pm – 8:00pm, Errol Chang’s Five Year Vigil & Memorial
384 San Pedro Ave.
Pacifica
Please join us for a candlelight vigil for Errol
It has been five years since Errol was murdered by the Pacifica Police and the Daly City SWAT team. It is important that we not forget who he was as a person, and also important not to forget the failed mental health system and over-militarized state violence that lead to his death.
In the five years since Errol’s death, we have continued to see the police and sheriff’s departments in San Mateo County execute its most vulnerable people, Yanira Serrano Garcia, Warren Ragudo and Chinedu Okobi to name a few. The District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe cleared all of the officers involved in all of these killings. How many more people must die? We ask our community to please join us and demand accountability
Sponsor: Justice For Errol Chang
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2010552892327967/
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SAVE the DATE
5th Year Alex Nieto Angelversary
Thursday, March 21
6:00pm
Bernal Heights
San Francisco
Amor for Alex Nieto: March 4, 1986 to March 21, 2014
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/621594534948401/
We were born the day our brother Alex Nieto was unjustly killed.
Join us on Thursday, March 21 at 6:00 p.m. at Bernal Heights to celebrate our community creativity and to learn about the final steps for the Alex Nieto memorial, which should be installed by August of this year, right in time for the new academic school year so that our students can finally learn truth! We invite all coalitions and community members, all loved ones to this important event. We will share soul and also provide the community with what we need from them so that we obtain the ultimate victory: posterity.
We will meet at the makeshift memorial site we have had for the past five years on the north side of the hill and share food, music, poetry, a lowrider bike show, y mas; then together we will walk over to the actual memorial site, where we will all share a moment of silence at 7:18 p.m., the moment that Alex Nieto was killed. From there we will hear some speeches from the family and community and update you all about the very important action you can take in these final stages of the memorial installation.
Once the memorial is established, community members will hike up to that mountain and pray like Alex did and look out over the beautiful view of San Francisco and be inspired by our community resilience. Students will travel up to that hill for field trips and to learn about the history and creativity of our community; they will write thousands of educational essays. Families will pilgrimage hands together and love each other at the place where Alex breathed his last breath. This will be a place of peace, of inspiration and amor.
