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ARTICLES:
A. SF to pay $13.1 million to man who was framed by cops – March 17, 2019
B. Christchurch mosque shooting: The faces of the victims – March 16, 2019
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12213358
• 50 confirmed dead, with victims ranging in age from 2 to older than 60
• 34 injured people remain in Christchurch Hospital, 12 are critical in intensive care
See item #8
C. STRIKE Wednesday, March 20 – Various UC locations
See items # 14 & #15
D. U.S. to restrict visas for International Criminal Court staff – March 15, 2019
E. The Truth About Radiation in Fukushima – March 14, 2019
F. Pentagon seeks base site to house 5,000 migrant children – March 12, 2019
2 – ACTIONS:
1. Thoughts and prayers are not enough. Repeal Trump’s hateful Muslim ban now.
2. Tell Your Representative and Senators to Say NO to Sanctions and War in Venezuela!
SIGN: http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/6099/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=26731
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Monday, March 18 – Thursday, March 21
Monday, March 18
1. Monday, 8:00am – 2:00pm, 3rd Day of march for Fossil Fuel Freedom (New)
8:00am Meet at:
On day 3 of this march we will start at:
1599 Alemany Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94112
You are welcome to join us for any part of the march and/or final rally at Wells Fargo World HQ at 420 Montgomery in San Francisco. Final rally starts at Noon.
Wells Fargo Bank has a dirty-energy secret: it’s a leading lender to the fossil-fuel industry. That’s why we’re ramping up our new campaign against “Oily Wells ” by marching 34 miles, from Palo Alto to San Francisco
*** Start marching at 8:00 AM, 1599 Alemany Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94112 (Excelsior District)
*** Make a couple of “stage coach stops” along the way.
See also: item # 4
Sponsor: 350.org Silicon Valley
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/09/18821778.php
2. 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/
3. 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
4. Monday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, Final Rally: March for Fossil Fuel Freedom
Meet at:
Montgomery St. BART
SF
March will go to Wells Fargo Headquarters
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/
5. 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/
6. 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/
7. Monday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, Rise For Rights Philippines Reportback (New)
SFSU, Library, Room 121
1600 Holloway
SF
Come hear the lessons and stories from those who went on the League of Filipino Student’s Baliksambayanan Exposure trip to the Philippines during the first few years of the fascist US-Duterte regime #OUSTDUTERTE
We will be fundraising for exposurists for the upcoming expo trip to the Philippines!
Join for a cultural component, a comprehensive program demonstrating the root problems and current conditions of the Filipino people from the integrations with youth and students, workers, indigenous peoples, peasants and urban poor.
The call of youth and students is to take back our education and to Oust Duterte!
*will be livestreamed
Sponsor: League of Filipino Students – SFSU and Anakbayan-USA
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/312059852844355/
8. Monday, 6:30pm – 8:00pm, Bay Area Vigil Against Islamophobia (New)
Lake Merritt Amphitheater
South side of Lake Merritt (between 12th Street & 1st Avenue)
Oakland
SF Bay Area Vigil Against Islamophobia In Solidarity With Our Brothers & Sisters in New Zealand
As we mourn the loss of life in New Zealand, let’s honor their lives by expanding, connecting and defending our movements. Join us Monday evening for community vigil against Islamophobia to express solidarity with our brothers and sisters in New Zealand, and all those targeted by white nationalism.
Sponsor: AROC
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/397047594445454/?active_tab=about
9. 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/
10. Monday, 7:30pm, Solitary Man: A Visit to Pelican Bay State Prison
Berkeley Marsh Cabaret
2120 Allston Way, Berkeley
(1 block from Downtown Berkeley BART)
Berkeley
Tickets: $15. Call 415-282-3055 or visit
www.themarsh.org/rising/rising/
Scroll down to Solitary Man, click on the purple bar
No host bar.
A two person play with music performed by Fred Johnson and Charlie Hinton to celebrate Charlie’s 74th birthday and recovery from cancer
Music by City Jazz will follow the performance
In Solitary Man, Charlie travels to Crescent City to visit a lifer named Otis Washington (played by Fred). A 64 year old native of New York City, Otis has been imprisoned since 1975 and at Pelican Bay since it opened in 1989. They get to know each other during the visit, and Otis explains some of what he has learned and experienced.
Tuesday, March 19
11. Tuesday, 12 Noon – 1:00pm, Medicare for All Rally/Press Conference with Supervisor Fewer – Press Conf. & Rally
SF City Hall
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl
SF
the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote on a resolution in support of H.R.1384. Supervisors Sandra Lee Fewer and Gordon Mar are hosting a press conference and rally to announce that the City and County of San Francisco will vote on a resolution affirming the city’s position that healthcare is a human right, that H.R 1384, the Medicare for All Act, will address the health care needs of the people of San Francisco, and that the City and County of San Francisco will urge House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to support H.R. 1384.
Sponsors: Fight to Win Medicare for All & 5 Others
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2248480065410667/
12. Tuesday, 1:00pm – 3:00pm, What’s Happening with Single Payer Healthcare in California?
Unitarian Center, Kincaid Room
1187 Franklin St.
SF
Wheelchair accessible
Gray Panther Meeting.
13. Tuesday, 3:00pm – 6:00pm, Occupy The Police Station! We NEED Justice! JUSTICE FOR STEPHON CLARK!
Sacramento Police Station
5770 Freeport Blvd
Sacramento
FIRE TERRENCE MERCADAL!
FIRE JARED ROBINET!
TAKE THEM OFF OF OUR STREETS NOW!!
THERE WILL BE NO PEACE TILL THERE IS JUSTICE!!
COME WHEN YOU GET OFF WORK
COME IF YOU AINT GOT NO JOB
COME WHEN YOU GET OUT OF CLASS
OR SKIP WORK AND SCHOOL TO FIGHT FOR JUSTICE
JUST BRING YA A$$!
Meet us at the police station at 3pm!!
Sponsors: Black Lives Matter & 2 Other groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/504012213337355/
14. Tuesday, 6:00pm, Justice For augie
Hayward City Hall
777 B Street
Hayward
6:00pm – Rally
7:00pm – Meeting
We will be getting together at 6pm to Rally and let our voices be heard before the meeting!! Please meet us in the front!!
“Our family watched the police videos of Agustin’s murder from November 15, 2018. This was shocking because not only did we sit as a family to watch this video with the Chief of HPD, Mark Koller, and listened to him speak, but the Chief of HPD shared with us that he was unsure if Augie had the safety razor in his hand when he was shot and killed by the two officers. They found the razor blade under Agustin after he was already on the ground.
Augie was killed within 7 seconds of the cops arriving to the scene. It was devastating for us to watch. In the bodycam footage worn by Philip Wooley, you see him driving with his gun. At one point it is on the steering wheel, and he even opens the door with the same hand he is holding his gun with. This tells us that Philip Wooley came ready to shoot without assessing the situation.
Augie was 10-15 feet away with his both hands in front of him. Previous reports indicate that Augie had charged at the officers, the video shows otherwise. No time was given to assess the scene. Michael Clarke did not have his body cam on, however he is seen from Sergeant Decosta’s bodycam running into the scene firing his weapon without fully and properly assessing the situation. Not only is this irresponsible, but this is pure incompetence and a low standard that Hayward PD should not accept. How can you assess any situation in 7 seconds? The officers had tasers, why not use them? He didn’t have a chance! Philip Wooley and Michael Clarke shot Augie within 7 seconds, that included 13 rounds, striking his body 10 times!
PLEASE SHARE!! PLEASE INVITE YOUR PEOPLE!
#JusticeforAugie
#agustingonsalez
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/422437118492091/
Wednesday, March 20
15. Wednesday, 6:00am – 5:00pm, Join the UC STRIKE
UCSF – Mission Bay
1855 4th St.
SF
&
UCSF Med Center – Parnassus Campus
The #SFLabor Council, AFL-CIO, has sanctioned a strike on March 20th where research workers, technical and healthcare workers will be walking of the job after 20 months of negotiations. These brave workers are members of UPTE-CWA and they need our solidarity across the state and in San Francisco.
Locally, picket lines will be up at 6 AM at Mission Bay and Parnassus Campuses.
This is a massive fight to preserve retirement security, overtime, living wages and basic union rights.
Sponsors: SF Labor Council, Jobs with Justice SF, AFSCME 3299
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1938875909573489/
16. Wednesday, 7:00am – 5:00pm, UCBerkeley on Strike!
2495 Bancroft Way
Berkeley
12 Noon – Guest speaker
UPTE is fighting for equality at UC. Last year, our brothers and sisters of UPTE struck twice in solidarity with us. Now the time has come for us to strike in solidarity with them–because an injury to one is an injury to all!
Sponsor: AFSCME 3299
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/316538409006584/
17. Wednesday, 2:00pm – 4:00pm, Bayview Hunters Point/Southeast San Francisco Environmental Justice Response Task Force!
Radio Africa Kitchen
4800 3rd St,
SF
Monthly meeting.
Local, Regional, State and Federal Government officials will be present to hear your concerns about pollution in the community. Let them know you care and what you want them to do about it!
FILE POLLUTION COMPLAINTS ONLINE
Visit www.bvhp-ivan.org to file a complaint about illegal dumping, water & air pollution, diesel truck idling, or other pollution issues.
Contact the Task Force c/o Greenaction for Health & Environ mental Justice (415) 447-3904 x 103 ● dalila@greenaction.org
18. Wednesday, 6:00pm – 9:00pm, Honoring the Legacy of Cesar Chavez
518 Valencia St.
SF
At this week’s LDC meeting, we will be honoring Cesar Chavez’s with a panel focused on the impact of Chavez’s legacy. We will be joined by Carlo Gomez Arteaga, an immigrant rights Organizer and Activist, José Padilla, Executive Director of California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA), and Kimberly Alvarenga, Director of the California Domestic Worker’s Coalition. These three guest will discuss how Chavez influenced their work, their reflections on Latinx organizing, and how we can carry the fight for dignity and respect in our city and in our work.
Sponsor: SF Latino Democratic Club
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2858905657456620/
19. Wednesday, 7:00pm – 8:00pm, Boycott Manny’s and its “Woke-Washing” of the Mission (New time)
Manny’s
16th & Valencia St.
SF
STOP THE WOKE-WASHING OF THE MISSION
We are a group of black and brown folks, Jews, Mission Housing tenants, trans and queer people, and many others, who are committed to collective liberation. We are
calling for a community boycott of Manny’s (3092 16th at Valencia, SF) because this new upscale wine bar is yet another gentrifying attack on our community. While Manny’s bills itself as a “community space”, it’s marketed toward white ruling class techies, and its programming often features right-wing politicians who are supported by the luxury condo industry. While Manny’s is on the ground floor of a low-income building run by Mission Housing, its residents had no say in its placement. While countless Latinx cultural spaces are evicted from the Mission, Sam Moss who runs Mission Housing, gave Manny’s a reduced rent.
The owner of Manny’s has worked with Bay Area Zionist organizations. Zionism is a racist ideology that believes Palestinian people have no claim to their land. Zionists, through the state of Israel, enforce this ideology by murdering, arresting, torturing, and displacing generations of Palestinian people. We stand against Zionism, gentrification, anti-Semitism, and all other forms of oppression.
Manny’s is part of a systematic attempt to make gentrification and racism seem “cool” through woke-washing. Woke-washing is the strategy of putting a “social justice” façade on oppressive politics.
JOIN US EVERY WEDNESDAY 7:00PM
Endorsed by
Black and Brown for Peace Justice and Equality;
The Lucy Parsons Project;
Palestinian Youth Movement – Bay Area;
Brown Beret National Organization;
National Brown Berets;
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network;
Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism;
Jews Against Zionism;
GAY SHAME: A Virus in the System
Please honor this Boycott! By NOT attending or scheduling events there. Let Manny know why.
20. Wednesday, 7:00pm, APTP General Membership Meeting
East Side Arts Alliance
2277 International Blvd.
Oakland
APTP meets the third Wednesday of every month. This month we’ll be talking about Oakland’s Police Commission and our state and local campaigns to limit the police use of force. We’ll also have some updates on organizing in Vallejo in response to multiple police killings and brutality.
Join us to find out how you can get involved.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2207441492611620/
21. Wednesday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, On Ohlone Land
Diamond Library
3565 Fruitvale
Oakland
Join us for a presentation from Indian People Organizing for Change (IPOC)* to learn about Ohlone history and how their members created the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, the first urban indigenous women-led land trust in the country that is working to regain access to their land and preserve their traditions and cultural heritage.
This event, like all of our bi-monthly community meetings, is free and open to the public.
*Indian People Organizing for Change (IPOC) is a community-based organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. Its members, including Ohlone tribal members and conservation activists, work together in order to accomplish social and environmental justice within the Bay Area American Indian community.
Sponsors: Friends of Sausal Creek, Sogorea Te’ Land Trust
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/848671298798490/
Thursday, March 21
22. Thursday, 10:00am – 12Noon, Free School: Housing Policy 101
Hospitality House
290 Turk St.
SF
ADA accessible space.
Bag lunches will be provided.
Classes will be in English with Spanish translation.
This will be a basic course on housing policy covering the different types of housing, the preservation and building debate, area median income, and below market rents and affordable housing and what this all means!
Sponsor: Coalition on Homelessness
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/248572026032869/
23.Thursday, 4:00pm – 7:00pm, Protest the Berkeley RV Ban
Meet at:
People’s Park
2556 Haste St.
Berkeley
Berkeley residents will be marching to Berkeley City Hall, opposing the Berkeley RV ban and holding a vigil for all the poor and unhoused Bay Area residents being told to leave town.
On Feb. 28, Berkeley City Council voted for a proposal that bans vehicle dwellers from the streets. Despite all the calls for humane treatment, Council voted poor people out of the city. “No house car or camper for human habitation will be allowed within the City limits.”
We invite you to march for humane treatment of the poor and unhoused, for alternative housing and self-determination.
Sponsor: Berkeley Friends on Wheels
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/11/18821853.php
24. Thursday, 6:00pm – 9:00pm, 5th Year Alex Nieto Angelversary
Bernal Heights Park
Bernal Heights Blvd.
SF
Amor for Alex Nieto: March 4, 1986 to March 21, 2014
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.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/621594534948401/?active_tab=about
25. Thursday, 6:30pm – 10:00pm, Film Screening :: The Hate U Give
Bayview Opera House
4705 3rd St.
SF
Free
Doors at 6:30pm
Film at 7:00pm
Directed by: George Tillman Jr.
Screenplay by Audrey Wells
Starr Carter is constantly switching between two worlds — the poor, mostly black neighborhood where she lives and the wealthy, mostly white prep school that she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is soon shattered when she witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend at the hands of a police officer. Facing pressure from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and decide to stand up for what’s right.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/802512683449633/
26. Thursday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, Concert for Juarez
San Francisco Living Wage Coalition
2940 16th St., Suite 301
SF
Tickets: $ 10 pre-sale & $15 at the door
Benefit concert to expose the effects of free trade agreements on workers in Mexico in exacerbating poverty wages, and forcing people to migrate to the United States. Join us to enjoy live music and guest speakers.
Live music will be performed by/Música en vivo:
• Francisco Herrera
• Elizabeth, Nancy and Mario Esteva
• Duoto Arte: Manuel Trujillo and Artemisa Flores
• Old Soul Kollective
• Mercedes Perez
Guest speakers will include/Oradores:
• David Bacon (photo journalist and author)
• Jaime Gonzalez
• Instituto Laboral de La Raza
• Will Wiltschko
• California Trade Justice Coalition
