Articles~ Actions ~ Info on Venezuela Embassy Protection ~ Announcements – Wed. 5/8 – Tue. 5/14 (from Adrienne Fong)

Limited post of upcoming events. Am NOT back posting

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!

     Check Indybay for other events that might interest you. There are some important events coming up that are listed there

 ARTICLES:

A. Israel escalates deadly attacks in Gaza – May 6, 2019

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/israel-escalates-deadly-attacks-gaza

B. Named: The 31 people killed in Gaza and Israel this past weekend

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/names-and-faces-palestinians-killed-israeli-raids-gaza-strip

   See Action # 1

C. Bolton Threatens Iran As US Bombers Deployed to Middle East

D. WASHINGTON AIRPORT OPERATORS APPLAUDED FOR REFUSING TO SERVE ICE DEPORTATION FLIGHTS – May 3, 2019

https://www.newsweek.com/washington-airport-operators-applauded-refusing-serve-ice-deportation-flights-1413867

   See Action # 2

E. Did Berkeley target a homeless group for its political views? Jury will decide  – April 26, 2019

ACTIONS:

1. Tell Your Congress Person to Condemn Israel’s Latest Assault on Gaza

   SIGN: https://ifamericaknew.org/cur_sit/action-alerts.html?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=de7727fc-7be2-402e-a8db-05854d9677a0#/1

2. NO More Money for ICE & CBP

   SIGN: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/no-more-money-for-abuse-violence?source=direct_link&/?source=EM1&link_id=0&can_id=4d8abb95a7895a1648b41bfa1ad2bb3b&email_referrer=email_540484___subject_697310&email_subject=no-__more-__money-__for-__ice-cbp__

VENEZUELA:

Facebook:  Site for Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective – provides up to date info:https://www.facebook.com/ColectivosporlaPaz/

Petitions:

1. U.S. Hands off Venezuelan Embassy!

   SIGN: https://solidaritycenter.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/petition/sign?sid=8&reset=1

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

Other Actions RE: Venezuela:

1) Make a call: Contact the U.S. Secret Service at (202) 406-8800 or (202) 287-0001.

    -Tell them to respect the Vienna Convention and ensure the safety of all those inside the Embassy.

2) On Twitter: Share this letter that attorneys at @ThePCJF Partnership for Civil Justice Fund sent to the @DCPoliceDept, the@StateDept and the @SecretService asking them to do something about the violent mob trying to break into the Venezuelan Embassy.

3) Send an email: Tell Congress to support bills in the House and Senate to prevent military intervention in Venezuela by the Trump Administration.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Wednesday, May 8 – Tuesday, May 14

Wednesday, May 8

1. Wednesday, 7:00am, Extinction Rebellion – gathering on SF Ocean Beach near the gray whale

Extinction Rebellion SF Bay Area folks will be gathering near the gray whale that washed up on Ocean Beach. This is the 9 th gray area that washed up around Bay Area beaches in the last few weeks

Group will gather to pay their respects and recognize this symbol of the Extinction Crisis.

2. Wednesday, 12:00Noon – 1:00pmMinimum Compensation Ordinance Support Rally

Budget and Finance Committee., Rm 250

SF City Hall

1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl

SF

12 Noon – Rally

1:00pm – Meeting

On, Wednesday, May 8th the Minimum Compensation Ordinance will come before the Budget and Finance Committee. 

Come out to show your support for our City’s non-profit workers before the committee hearing. 

On March 27th, the MCO working group vote overwhelming voted for:
1. Full city funding support for MCO up to the 30.00 wage class.
2. Full city funding for SF based and SF located nonprofit programs for MCO, and proportionally up to 30.00. 
3. Moving recommendations forward to the Mayor. 

We need to show the Budget and Finance Committee and the Mayor’s Office that the community supports the MCO for the workers providing the social safety net for our City!

Contact the Mayor London Breed, 415-554-6141, MayorLondonBreed@sfgov.org.

Sponsors: OPEIU Local 29 – Legacy 3 + 3 Other groups

Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/427193638077559/

3.  Wednesday, 12Noon – 3:00pm, Uber Shut Down – National Day of Action

1455 Market St.

SF

12pm: protest in front of Uber HQ
12pm – 12am: app shut off

Drivers are organizing a national day of action against Uber on May 8. There are driver-led actions planned in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago, Boston and DC.

Drivers in San Francisco are calling for a protest at Uber HQ and an app shut off.

Sponsor: Gig Workers Rising

Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2338370199760843/

4. Wednesday, 5:30pm, SF Police Commission Meeting

SF City Hall, Room 400

1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Place

SF

Attention to item 5 on the Agenda and in the ‘closes session’ item 9a. Regarding the Mario Woods case

Agenda: http://sanfranciscopolice.org/meeting/police-commission-may-8-2019-agenda

Supporting docs : http://sanfranciscopolice.org/meeting/police-commission-may-8-2019-supporting-documents

Pledge of Allegiance; Roll Call

1.            Adoption of Minutes (ACTION)

                –              For the meetings of April 3rd, 10th, & 17, 2019

2.            Consent Calendar (RECEIVE & FILE; ACTION)

–              Request of the Chief of Police to accept a $10 cash gift from Ms. Belinda Chin for the “Socks for HSOC” Program

3.            Reports to the Commission (DISCUSSION)

a.            Chief’s Report

–      Weekly crime trends (Provide an overview of offenses occurring in San Francisco)

–      Significant Incidents (Chief’s report will be limited to a brief description of the significant incidents.  Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the incidents the Chief describes for a future commission meeting.)

–      Major Events (Provide a summary of planned activities and events occurring since the previous meeting.  This will include a brief overview of any unplanned events or activities occurring in San Francisco having an impact on public safety.  Commission discussion on unplanned events and activities the Chief describes will be limited to determining whether to calendar for a future meeting.)

–      Community Engagement Highlights – Youth Summer Programs (Provide a summary of the 2019 Youth Summer Programs coordinated by the Community Engagement Division.)

–      Status update regarding Electronic Controlled Weapons

–      Update on MOU between the SFPD and the District Attorney’s Office modifying DGOs 3.10, 6.20, 8.11, & 8.12

–      Presentation regarding the SFPD Behavioral Science Unit

                       b.            DPA Director’s Report

–      Report on recent DPA activities, and announcements (DPA’s report will be limited to a brief description of DPA activities and announcements.  Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future Commission meeting.)

c.             Commission Reports (Commission reports will be limited to a brief description of activities and announcements.  Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future Commission meeting.)

–      Commission President’s Report

–      Commissioners’ Reports

d.            Commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at future Commission meetings (ACTION)

4.            Discussion and possible action to Department Bulletin 19-092, Investigative Services Detail Internal Affairs – Criminal Unit Name Change and Responsibilities modifying DGOs 3.10, 6.20, 8.11, and 8.12 (DISCUSSION & POSSIBLE ACTION)

5.            Discussion and possible action on the release of certain police officer records pursuant to Senate Bill 1421 that would apply to the Police Commission, Police Department, and Department of Police Accountability.  The Commission will discuss two policy documents, Version A and Version B, and decide which version to adopt (DISCUSSION & POSSIBLE ACTION)

6.            General Public Comment

                (The public is now welcome to address the Commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight’s agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Commission.  Speakers shall address their remarks to the Commission as a whole and not to individual Commissioners or Department or DPA personnel.  Under Police Commission Rules of Order, during public comment, neither Police or DPA personnel, nor Commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public but, may provide a brief response.  Individual Commissioners and Police and DPA personnel should refrain, however, from entering into any debates or discussion with speakers during public comment.)

7.            Public comment on all matters pertaining to Item 9 below, Closed Session, including public comment on Item 8, vote whether to hold Item 9 in closed session.

8.            Vote on whether to hold Item 9 in Closed Session, including vote on whether to assert the attorney-client privilege with regards to Item 9(a) & (b) (San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.10) (ACTION)

9.            Closed Session

                Roll Call;

a.            CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL – Existing Litigation.  Pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9(d)(1) and San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.10(d)(1): 

                Gwendolyn Woods v. City and County of San Francisco et. al, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California Case 15-cv-05666, filed December 11, 2015 (ACTION)

b.      CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL – Anticipated Litigation.  Significant exposure to litigation as defendant in one case pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9(d)(2) and San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.10(d)(2): 

                San Francisco Police Department received a written communication from a potential plaintiff threatening litigation alleging the Department’s failure to comply with California Family Code section 6228 (DISCUSSION)

c.             PERSONNEL EXCEPTION.  Pursuant to Government Code Section 54957(b)(1) and San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.10(b) and Penal Code Section 832.7:

                Discussion and possible action to accept or reject settlement agreement filed in Case No. DPA 0252-16 IAD 16-002, or take other action, if necessary (DISCUSSION & POSSIBLE ACTION)

d.            PERSONNEL EXCEPTION.  Pursuant to Government Code Section 54957(b)(1) and San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.10(b) and Penal Code Section 832.7:

                Status and calendaring of pending disciplinary cases (ACTION)

Open Session

10.          Vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion on Item 9 held in closed session (San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.12(a)) (ACTION)

5. Wednesday, 7:00pm – 8:00pm, Boycott Manny’s and its “Woke-Washing” of the Mission

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

6. Wednesday, 7:00pm – 10:00pm, Commemorating the Nakba

Berkeley City College, Auditorium

2050 Center St.

Berkeley

Wheelchair Accessible; for ASL interpretation, contact Penny@mecaforpeace.org by April 24

Tickets: $15 – $50

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/commemorating-the-nakba-movement-building-for-collective-liberation-tickets-60162749403?aff=efbeventtix&fbclid=IwAR2bMy1yxGHoV8QkljT4Wz3Lhr27OEgtiPL0cfsZB2PaR193PKuhMPl7Tws

Commemorating the Nakba: Movement-Building for Collective Liberation
Indigenous, Palestinian, and Black Liberation

Featuring:

NICK ESTES
Co-founder of the Red Nation, author of “Our History is the Future,” and assistant professor of American studies at the University of New Mexico. Nick is a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe.

LARA KISWANI
Executive Director of the Arab Resource & Organizing Center, from Beit Iksa & Aqir, Palestine.

KRISTIAN DAVIS BAILEY
Co-founder of Black for Palestine, journalist, and co-author of the 2015 Black Solidarity with Palestine Statement.

Benefit for the Middle East Children’s Alliance. 

For more info: 510-548-0542, meca@mecaforpeace.org.

Sponsor: Middle East Children’s Alliance

Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/360354414580757/

7. Wednesday, 7:30pm – 9:30pm, Shaping SF Public Talk: The Women of Los Siete

The Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics

518 Valencia St.

SF

50 years after the arrest of seven young men from the Mission District galvanized a movement, women gather who were active in creating the multi-faceted community response that grew out of the Los Siete Defense Committee. From Basta Ya!—the newspaper—to Centro de Salud and La Raza Information Center and a free breakfast program, explore a lasting legacy in this plática including Donna James Amador, Yolanda M. Lopez, Judy Drummond, Maria Elena Ramirez, Nilda Alverio, and author Marjorie Heins (Strictly Ghetto Property). Eva Martínez moderates.

Co-hosted by California Historical Society

Part of a series of events commemorating 50 years since the formation of the Los Siete Defense Committee.

Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2302861769963215/

Thursday, May 9

8. Thursday, 10:30am – 3:00pm, Homeless Mother’s Day Action + Budget Lobby Day!

Meet at:

Coalition on Homelessness

468 Turk St.

SF

Join the Coalition on Homelessness as we celebrate homeless mothers through a brunch at 10am followed by a lobby day at City Hall. After the brunch, you will have an opportunity to learn more about the HESPA (Homeless Emergency Service Providers Assocaition) budget which provides over $12 million for housing subsidies, mental health services, right to counsel, and more!

Let your voice be heard at our rally at noon and then we will go inside to lobby the supervisors in support of the HESPA budget! Ask the supervisors and Mayor Breed: WHY WAIT? HOUSING NOW?

Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/560060834513943/

9. Thursday, 6:00pm, SF Food Not Bombs Food Share 

16th & Mission BART Plaza

SF

For information or to volunteer:  send email to sffnbvolunteers@riseup.net.

Cookhouse:  Station 40, 3030B 16th Street (between Mission and Julian).

Food Pickups: Help Needed!

Cooking:  3030B 16th Street–3:00 pm to 6:00 pm–Ring doorbell for entry–Help Needed!

Sharing: 16th and Mission BART Plaza — 6:00 pm–Help Needed!

Webpage: https://sffnb.org/serving-schedule/

Friday, May 10

10. Friday, 9:00am – 1:00pm, Public hearing: Stop the class cuts at CCSF!

SF City Hall

1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl.

SF

9:00am – Press Conference – Polk St. Steps

10:00am – Hearing – Room 263

Stop a 1/3 cut to City College of San Francisco. Protect the City College San Francisco deserves! Smaller departments such as social justice studies and ethnic studies, which close equity gaps, are at risk of being eliminated. 

City Hall press conference and hearing convened by Supervisor Matt Haney

We ask you to join City College faculty and students to demand that our elected Board of Trustees and our Chancellor uphold the College’s core mission: providing access to higher education for all.

The Grow our CCSF Coalition is Jobs with Justice, AFT 2121, Community Housing Partnership, San Francisco Rising Alliance, and the CCSF Student Assembly.

CANT COME TO THE HEARING?

Please complete and share the survey about class reductions!

-Class cuts survey (English): https://forms.gle/Uuej7zsZ4F494RUj8
-Class cuts survey (Spanish): Https://forms.gle/Ln4mWTgu2LmHYNUE8
-Class cuts survey (Chinese): https://forms.gle/kcpdaf8wyEWC2npx5

Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/896198400733442/

11. Friday, 11:30am – 12:30pm, Immigrant Mothers Prayer Vigil- Compassion Has No Walls

ICE

630 Sansome St.

SF

This May 10th, Mother’s Day in Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador, join us for our monthly Prayer Vigil outside ICE Headquarters in downtown San Francisco.

We will remember and honor all the mothers who have been detained by ICE and the ones who have had their sons and daughters-children in many cases-placed in ICE detention, and we will continue to demand an end to the unjust persecution and detention of immigrants by ICE which is separating families.

Join us as First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Francisco leads us in this Prayer Vigil to reflect on the suffering of so many mothers who have sacrificed for their children, only to have their hopes and dreams shattered by the cruel and unjust treatment and persecution by ICE agents.

Come out and join us as we demand an end to ICE detentions and the private prisons that are profiting from family separations.

Sponsor: Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity

Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/297568377802909/  orhttps://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/05/05/18823207.php

12. Friday, 12Noon – 1:00pm, Permanent Residency for DACA and TPS recipients now!

SF City Hall

1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl.

SF

More than 1.1 million women and men stand to lose their work authorization and legal status in this country unless Congress takes steps to defend recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Temporary Protected Status (TPS), and Deferred Enforced Departure (DED), whose protections have been canceled by the Trump administration.

Join us in a rally to urge Congress to honor the hard work and contributions of the DACA and TPS recipients by acting to pass the Dream and Promise Act of 2019,
H.R. 6.

Sponsor: San Francisco Living Wage Coalition and NorCal TPS Coalition

Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/569451010244182/

13. Friday, 12Noon – 2:00pm,  Mothers on the March Against Police Murders

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! 

14. Friday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, Film & discussion: Rosewood directed by John Singleton

Revolution Books Berkeley

2444 Durant Ave.

Berkeley

Rosewood is an unforgettable film directed by John Singleton, who died too young at 51 on April 29th. Singleton was a trailblazer, breaking down barriers as a young filmmaker. He was the first African American nominated for an Academy Award as Best Director in 1991 for Boyz n the Hood. (And to this day, no Black director has won Best Director). He was an inspiration to young filmmakers and was loved by many who saw themselves in his films.

Set in the small, mostly Black town of Rosewood, Florida, this 1997 film tells the true story of the Rosewood Massacre when people in this Black town were attacked by white mobs in 1923. Black people stood up against these attackers, but the town was burned to the ground and its residents were permanently driven out. The story itself was buried for over 60 years.

Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/05/03/18823134.php

Saturday, May 11

15. Saturday, 3:00pm – 4:00pm, Stop Restarting of Japanese Nuke Plants & Olympics in Fukushima

San Francisco Japanese Consulate

275 Battery St. (nr. California)

SF

Join No Nukes Action NNA on it’s 80th action at the San Francisco Japanese Consulate to protest the continued Japanese Abe government to force Japanese children and their families back to Fukushima. The government claims that Fukushima has been “decontaminated” but the three reactors still have melted nuclear rods which they have not been able to remove. In addition that is over 1 million tons of contaminated radioactive tritium water in thousands of tanks surrounding the broken nuclear plants in Fukushima. The government is pushing to release the water in the Pacific Ocean despite the opposition of fisherman associations and the public.


There are also thousands of bags in Fukushima filled with radioactive waste with no place to go and these bags are spread throughout the region

the Abe government has lied to the Olympic committee that not only is Japan safe but Fukushima should host the baseball games and special Olympics. It is spending tens of millions of dollars preparing the Azuma sports stadium to push a big lie that everything is OK.

The government also plans to bring in immigrant workers as contract laborers and use them for the clean-up without proper training and safety.

The Abe government is also pushing for militarization and removal of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution that prevents military interventions outside Japan.

Sponsor: No Nukes Action

Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/05/06/18823258.php

16. Saturday, 3:00pm – 5:00pm,  Haiti Report Back

The Eric Quezada Center for Culture & Politics

518 Valencia St.

SF

$10 – $20 – no one turned away

With Seth Donnelly – Haiti Action Committee; Pierre Labossiere – Haiti Action Committee; Judith Mirkinson – National Lawyers Guild; Margaret Prescod – Sojourner Truth Radio; Walter Riley – Haiti Emergency Relief Fund.

A delegation of Haiti solidarity and human rights activists recently returned from Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, will report on the grassroots uprising and the brutal repression trying to stop it. Their focus was on graduation ceremonies at the University of the Aristide Foundation and meetings with residents in the impoverished community of Lasalin. This insurgent community is a stronghold of grassroots Lavalas resistance and the scene of a state-sponsored massacre of hundreds of people last November. You will hear a first-hand report about this ongoing human rights crisis which has been completely ignored by the United States, UN, international community, diplomats and the mainstream media. Here is a brief interview with Judith Mirkinson and Seth Donnelly on Sojourner Truth Radio: 

Sponsors: Haiti Action Committee & 2 Other Groups

Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2323976324557969/

Sunday, May 12

17.Sunday, 12 Noon, Codepink Mother’s Day March: Walk for Immigrant Mothers and their Families & for Peace

Golden Gate Bridge

11:45 am:  Gather at the SF or Marin end of the eastern walkway of the Golden Gate Bridge.

       Noon:  Walk on the eastern walkway from the north or south ends to converge in the middle for World Peace.  Then march to the SF side for rally.

   1:30pm:  Rally on SF side after the bridge walk.  We will read the names and stories of some of the victims of the cruel U.S. border policies that have separated families.

                  MIC Check reading of Julia Ward Howe’s 1870 Mother’s Day Proclamation

  -End Family Separation

  -Close All Detention Centers Now!

  -Immigration is NOT a Crime

Mother’s Day was originally founded post-Civil War, as a call to organize women around the world to unite to abolish war.  CODEPINK has been honoring that original pledge every Mother’s Day since 2007, bringing our messages of peace & justice to the Golden Gate Bridge.

We live in dark times today, with immigrant children being cruelly torn apart from their parents, and placed indefinitely in detention centers, traumatizing them with long-lasting psychic wounds, ending in death for some.  There are thousands of immigrant children right now suffering in detention centers right now, without their parents.

This Mother’s Day we will walk in solidarity with immigrant mother’s who are separated from their children, or who are threatened to be separated.  This is also to support a national call to action against these inhumane ICE and U.S. policies.  

We will also carry messages to express our passion for PEACE!  MOTHERS SAY NO WAR!

All are welcomed.

FMI & carpooling:  Toby, 510-215-5974  

ratherbenyckeling@comcast.net

Monday, May 13

18. Monday, 10:00am – 12Noon, Speak Out: SB 1045 Conservatorship Vote at Rules Committee

SF City Hall, Room 263

1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl.

SF

Urge Supervisors to vote “NO” on the implementation of SB 1045 in San Francisco!

The Board of Supervisors will be voting on whether or not they would like to implement the state Senate Bill 1045 in San Francisco. It must first go through the Rules Committee (which Supervisors Mar, Ronen, and Walton sit on) before it can be passed onto the full board for a vote.

SB 1045 would allow the city to create a new form of conservatorship, which moves us away from long standing practice of only placing people in locked facilities when they present a harm to self and others and instead using 8 detentions under the 5150 code as the criteria. This is a new legal process through which an individual can lose the right to make decisions about their housing, finances, and medical care.The bill targets homeless people with severe mental illness and substance addictions. While claiming to be a solution to chronic homelessness, this bill provides no funding for housing or mental health treatment.

For more information, visit https://sdaction.org/conservatorship-sb-1045/.

See site for list of organizations oppose to SB 1045 and organizations that support it

Sponsors: Coalition on Homelessness and 9 Other Groups

Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2140139276082603/

19. Monday, 10:00am – 1:00pm, Water Walk 2019

Meet at Ocean Beach

Stairwell 20

SF

The Water Walk reminds us of the sacredness of the water and creates an awareness of our responsibility to care for the water.

Women, it is culturally appropriate to wear a skirt during the walk. 

Visiting the site beforehand to give an offering with your prayers is encouraged.

Refreshments Provided
For More Information contact:
Michele Maas or Aurora Mamea at email:
Michelem@nativehealth.org 415-621-4371
Auroram@nativehealth.org 415-660-2700

Sponsor: Native American Health Center

Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/349056815705879/

20. Monday, 12:30pm – 4:00pm, CloseTheLoopholes in Oakland Rent Control

Community & Economic Development Committee Sgt. Mark Dunakin Room – 1st Floor

Oakland City Hall

1 Frank H. Ogawa Plz

Oakland

Did you know that if a tenant lives in a duplex or triplex in Oakland & the owner or their relative moves into one of the units ALL of the tenants lose rent stabilization & protections from both harassment & landlords that refuse to make necessary repairs?

Do you think that the housing affordability crisis in Oakland is out of control and that all tenants in Oakland deserve strong protections against displacement, homelessness, and rent gouging?

Then come out and demand City Council close a loophole that already exempts ~3,000 units in Oakland from rent control and that threatens the future stability of thousands more.

Landlords have been turning out to protest this ordinance in mass and we have to show City Council that they must act to protect the diversity of our city.

Sponsors: Causa Justa Just Cause, ACCE, East Bay Community Law Center

Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2256331494683418/

Tuesday, May 14

21. Tuesday, 1:00pm, Still Fighting For Justice Birthday Rally

West Oakland BART Station

1451 7th Ave

Oakland

Front area of West Oakland BART

Mothers Fight Back Invites You To A Rally And Protest On The Birthday Of Our Beloved Sahleem Tindle

We Will Never Stop Fighting For The Life That Was Taken By Bart Officer Joseph Mateu Jan 3rd 2018.We request everyone to come out,wearing WHITE to commemorate The LIFE AND SPIRIT OF SAHLEEM TINDLE on his birthday and come in support of all families that have lost their loved ones due to Police Incompetence.

HAKI KWA SAHLEEM,HAKI KWA MKUU SAHLEEM.Stand Up For Life!

Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2286713491540612/

22. Tuesday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, Poverty Skolaz- a Theatre of the Poor workshop & play

2940 16th St., Suite 301

SF

Please call or email to register 510-435-7500 poormag@gmail.com – child care provided – but pls confirm

Poverty Skolaz
A Theatre of the POOR production
A Free three week bi-lingual Theatre workshop that includes a stipend , healthy meals and inclusion in a play of the same name

What is a Poverty Skola?
Have you struggled/lived thru/survived poverty, homelessness, eviction, displacement, incarceration, racial profiling, police harassment racism, disability and/or colonization. This 4 week workshop is focused on healing, telling your story in your own words – for unhoused, criminalized, evicted, displaced, disabled, very low-income, bordered, and/or indigenous folks

Play will be on June 7

Sponsor: POOR Magazine and Homefulness

Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/526374567892042/

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