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. Pentagon to deploy Patriot missile battery, USS Arlington to Middle East amid tensions with Iran – May 10, 2019
B. The U.S. Names the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a Terrorist Organization and Sanctions the International Criminal Court = May 10, 2019
C. John Pilger on Julian Assange, latest in Venezuela
D. 1,000 Israeli Soldiers to Arrive in Honduras to Train Troops, Police on Border Protection – May 6, 2019
5 ACTIONS:
1. DEMAND JUSTICE FOR SANDRA BLAND
2. Global Petition to Dismiss Charges Against Anti-Nuclear Plowshares Activists Facing 25 Years
3. Tell Congress: Demand Israel allow medical supplies into Gaza to prevent hundreds of amputations!
4. Tell Homeland Security to cancel their contract with Palantir!
Palantir made millions of dollars supplying ICE with software used to target parents and relatives of children crossing the border. And played a crucial role executing Trump’s racist and horrific policy of separating children from their families at the border.
5. Close the Homestead Child Detention Center!
The U.S. government is currently holding over 2,000 child migrants, many of whom have been separated from their families by U.S. immigration officials, in a detention center in Homestead, Florida. Most have fled violence and poverty in Central America and are seeking asylum in the United States.
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CORRECTION:
Tuesday, 10:00am – 1:00pm, Water Walk 2019 (Correction – this is Tuesday NOT Monday as previously posted)
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/
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Monday, May 13 – Wednesday, May 15
Monday, May 13
1. Monday, 6:30am – 5:30pm, Lobby Day For AB392 – California Act To Save Lives in Sacramento
California State Capitol
1303 10th St.
Sacramento
The AB 392 Coalition Lobby Day is on Monday, May 13 at the State Capitol! Friendly reminder to REGISTER herehttps://forms.gle/Rv99wmMRNx7qnHQu8 by this Friday, May 10. We need everyone to register in order to sort you into Capitol lobby visits!
We passed AB 392 out the first committee! We dealt a huge blow to the law enforcement lobby on April 23 – Now we must overcome the biggest hurdle yet, the Assembly Floor.
While we know pushing for legislation isn’t the end all for our work, APTP is vehemently supporting AB 392 — the California Act to Save Lives —
As we’ve seen, police are quick to use deadly force against Black, Brown and Indigenous people in our communities, and similar reforms have been effective in reducing deadly use force in other cities, like Seattle, WA.
AB 392 is still the only bill that will meaningfully change the current use of force standard, which allows police officers to kill people even when it is not necessary to defend themselves or others.
If you can offer rides or need a ride, please message us and we will try to help coordinate. Anti Police-Terror Project may be able to offer gas cards for drivers. Also *Limited amount of travel stipends available* for those who (1) carpool and (2) register. Please contact Jennifer on May 13
For those in Sacramento or traveling on their own:
When: Monday, May 13 at 8:00am – 3:30pm
Where: Meet at 8:00am at SEIU Building (1130 K Street, Suite 300, Sacramento, 95814).
Lunch and ‘homebase’ at South Steps of Capitol (Intersection of 11th St. and N. St.)
Parking at Capitol:
–10th and L St., $20 / day
–14th St. — between H and I, $6 / day
–J and 11th St., ~$15 / day
If you can’t make it to Sacramento:
Call your assembly member: (855) 644 – 2258
Email you CA assembly member by clicking:
Sponsors: Anti Police-Terror Project & Justice Teams Work
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1176274515877129/
2. 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/
3. Monday, 11:00am, ILWU Rally To Defend Howard Terminal & Port of Oakland
Port of Oakland Offices
530 Water St.
Oakland
Join ILWU longshore workers, maritime workers and community members to protest the land grab by the owner of the A’s John Fisher who also owns the GAP and controls the KIPP and Rocketship charter school chain. They want to take over public port land that would threaten the jobs of longshore workers, truckers and other maritime workers as well as gentrifying West Oakland with 4,000 $1 million dollar condos on port property.
The Port of Oakland Board and Oakland Athletics are set to sign an exclusive four-year term sheet to lease the Howard Terminal waterfront property to the team for construction of a new waterfront ballpark. An item on the term sheet is scheduled to come before the Port of Oakland Board of Commissioners on May 13.
The A’s will pay the Port $100,000 for the right to continue negotiations over the purchase of the 50-acre property located west of Jack London Square. The team hopes to build a 35,000-seat ballpark on the site that also includes 3,000 housing units and retail. Under terms of the agreement, the A’s would pay an additional $150,000 to the Port if a deal is not consummated after one year; $200,000 after two years; and $250,000 after three years
For details see: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/05/12/18823397.php
4. 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
5. Tuesday, 8:00am, Defend West Oakland homeless
Raimondi Park
18th & Campbell St.
Oakland
The City of Oakland is planning to push homeless West Oakland residents onto a sanctioned site on May 14th. Residents that do not comply run the risk of arrest and having their property confiscated.
Join up with homeless residents, people in the area need support be it moving their things or in not complying with the city of Oakland unreasonable request
The new site is small and lacks many of the services that homeless residents have been demanding.
Contact : Larry (+1 (626) 841-9633)
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2330125843717672/
6. Tuesday, 10:00am – 1:00pm, Water Walk 2019 (Corrected)
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/
7. Tuesday, 12:30pm, 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
Host: Causa Justa Just Cause + 4 Other groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2256331494683418/
8. Tuesday, 1:00pm – 5:00pm, Still Fighting for #Justice4Sahleem Birthday Rally
West Oakland BART Station
1451 7th Ave
Oakland
Front area of West Oakland BART
Mothers Fight Back #Justice4Sahleem, Yolanda Banks Reed and Family Invite 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!
Sponsors: Mothers Fight Back #Justice4Sahleem and Karim “Hard Hitta” Mayfield
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2187767324637040/
9. Tuesday, 5:30pm – 9:30pm, Vallejo For Racial Justice Rally To Demand Justice
555 Santa Clara St
Vallejo
Press Conference & Rally
Please join Vallejo For Racial Justice, Anti Police-Terror Project, the family of Angel Ramos, the family of Ronell “Catdaddy” Foster, the family of Willie McCoy and Deyana Jenkins, Adrian Burrell, the family of Carlos Yescas, Justice Teams Network, Attorneys from the Law Office of John Burris, Mothers Fight Back #Justice4Sahleem, Families United 4 Justice – California, March For Our Lives, & Move On for a press conference and rally for families of Vallejo police violence before the Vallejo city council meeting.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/414261206093484/ or https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/05/10/18823384.php
10. 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/
11. Tuesday, 7:30pm & Wednesday, May 15, 2:30pm, Candlelight March/Vigil/Memorial for Departed Homeless
CANDLELIGHT MARCH from City Council meeting (Addison & Bonar)
Tuesday, May 14th 7:30PM to Civic Center (Milvia & Center)
VIGIL Civic Center steps until
MEMORIAL Wednesday, May 15th at NOON with speakers and the press.
Sponsor: Consider the Homeless
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/448444639062474/
Wednesday, May 15
12. Wednesday, 8:15am – 10:00am, Stop UC Partnership with Catholic Healthcare!
Mission Bay Conference Center and UCSF
1675 Owens St.
SF
Sign up here!
For any questions, or if you are interested in giving public comment, please reach out to Amanda at ayoung@aclunc.org.
UCSF plans to partner with Dignity Health, a Catholic healthcare system that DENIES reproductive and LGBTQ healthcare based on religious restrictions. UC is also talking about expanding the partnership beyond UCSF to the entire UC system, impacting ALL of California.
Join us in protest at the next UC Regents Meeting— this might be the last opportunity for us to protest before they vote on the partnership. We must make our voices heard and demand that UC upholds its values of equity and inclusion!
PUBLIC COMMENTS: Meet at 8:15 a.m. outside of Robertson Auditorium (light breakfast, signs, buttons, and stickers will be provided).
DEBRIEF: After the public comment period ends, around 9:30 a.m., we’ll reconvene outside of the Conference Center to learn about campaign updates.
Host: ACLU
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/726257277790003/
13. Wednesday, 5:30pm – 6:30pm, Peace Vigil
Downstairs from Montgomery BART/ MUNI Station
SF
Join us to hand out fliers.
Topic each week vary on Peace & Justice issues
14. Wednesday, 6:00pm – 7:30pm, Bring Down MUNI Fares Campaign Kick-Off
South of Market Community Action Network
1110 Howard St.
SF
In 2018, the Board of Supervisors approved SFMTA’s operating budget for 2019-2020 and in their proposal was
ANOTHER fare increase that will incrementally increase fares ($3 cash fares, $81 Adult M pass, and $102 Adult A pass)
by 2020. MUNI fares have increased every year since 2016 disproportionately impacting working class people and city college students the most.
Surveys conducted by SOMCAN in 2018 show an overwhelming amount of disapproval amongst fare increases by MUNI riders. Survey takers expressed transportation becoming a financial burden for them and their families.
Join us next Wednesday to discuss possible next steps and to see results of the survey SOMCAN conducted.
Just because SFMTA can increase fares doesn’t mean they should! We must demand that the SFMTA stop burdening the working-class with fare increases and demand no more increases now and for future years to come.
For more information contact Claire at mamable@somcan.org or 415-255-7693
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/676134796140164/
15. Wednesday, 6:00pm – 8:30pm, Public Plática: 50 years of Defending Black and Brown Youth
Accion Latina
2958 24th St.
SF
Join us for our free public platica, 50 years of Defending Black and Brown Youth, from Los Siete to Alex Nieto, Luis Góngora Pat and Mario Woods. A night of intergenerational conversations on youth criminalization, gentrification, and displacement.
Featured speakers currently include:
Donna Amador (educator, Los Siete), Nesbit Crutchfield (therapist, Third World Strike), Adriana Camarena (Justice for Luis Góngora Pat)
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/880682945657487/
16. 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
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To purchase advance tickets see info below…
SAVE the DATE
Sunday, June 9, 2019
2:30pm – 4:30pm
Soar, Torian, Soar
with
Filmmaker Q&A!
Roxie Theater
3117 16th Street
SF
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/429793221147446/?active_tab=about
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/304771123?fbclid=IwAR1RLitkJMGz2FeoIa2qQEU9syJKWL7WgP2Xawzto6oiYbZO6IXJ7Ftvy2s
Tickets:
Audrey Candy Corn is a West Oakland native, “Sister LoveOlutionary,” and organizer for justice. When her son Torian is murdered, she uses her phone to document her own darkest moments. While laying bare her struggles with grief, poverty, and raising her remaining two children, the film reveals the enduring spirit of a woman who went on to request leniency for her child’s killer.
Q&A with Audry Candy Corn, Ziair Cornish Hughes, Amir Hughes Cornish and Peter Menchini,
Many of you know Peter Menchini’s work by his photographs and videos in the Occupy movement as well as in many actions around the Bay Area.
