By Adrienne Fong
Please send healing thoughts to the following people:
Victor Picazo, dealing with health complications
Francis Collins, who remains hospitalized
Susan Witka, as she recovers from surgery
Jackie Barshak, battling stage 4 metastatic lung cancer, as she continues chemo therapy.
Melvin Starks recently released from the hospital!
– Still needs housing!
Rodger Scott as he gains strength. Open site to see telephone number Meal Train for Rodger Scott
He welcomes noon time visits
Good visiting time is early afternoon around 1pm to 2pm, please see calendar to choose a day. Also, Rodger has a meal service and bringing meals is not necessary.
Hold the people in Pakistan, Mississippi and Kentucky in your thoughts as they are experience extreme flooding
Hold the people in Africa in your thoughts as they are experiencing drought and famine..
Please include Accessibility and ASL info in your events! And if your action is ‘child friendly’ This is a JUSTICE issue!!
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See Indybay for other listings of events
ARTICLES
A. As Strike Looms, Sanders Blocks GOP Bill to Force Rail Workers Into Deal With No Sick Days – September 14, 2022
B. US-South Korea Provocations in the Pacific – September 14, 2022
C. ‘Do you feel safer?’ S.F. D.A. candidates spar in first debate as poll shows Jenkins leading comfortably September 14, 2022
See Event # 2
See Article E
D. Haitian journalists killed while reporting on violence in capital – September 13, 2022
E. S.F. D.A. Jenkins may seek charges of 16- and 17-year-olds as adults in some ‘heinous’ cases – September 13, 2022
Brooke Jenkins may charge teens as adults in some ‘heinous’ cases (sfchronicle.com)
See Event # 2
F. Supes advance SFPD surveillance policy despite pushback – September 12, 2022
Supes advance SFPD surveillance policy despite pushback (missionlocal.org)
G. “Ethically Unjustifiable” – Scientists from Harvard & Johns Hopkins Found Covid-19 Vaccines 98 Times Worse Than the Virus – September 12, 2022
H. 15,000 Minnesota Nurses Launch Historic Strike to Put ‘Patients Before Profits’ -September 12, 2022
15,000 Minnesota Nurses Launch Historic Strike to Put ‘Patients Before Profits’ (commondreams.org)
I. How Chevron Polluted the Amazon and Fought Environmental Lawyer Steven Donziger – September 11, 2022
J. After Queen’s Death, Victims of British Imperialism Share Why ‘We Will Not Mourn’ – September 9, 2022
After Queen’s Death, Victims of British Imperialism Share Why ‘We Will Not Mourn’ (commondreams.org)
K. As Taiwan Tensions Build, Concerned Okinawans Push For U.S. Military Base Closure – September 6, 2022
As Taiwan Tensions Build, Okinawans Push for U.S. Military Base Closure (theintercept.com)
5 PETITIONS
1. Jackson, MS resicents need reliable access to clean water
SIGN: Bottom of Form
Jackson, MS residents need reliable access to clean water! | OrganizeFor
2. Help stop 25 executions in Oklahoma!
SIGN: Stop Oklahoma Executions (salsalabs.org)
3. Pull Back The Curtains On Executions
SIGN: Pull Back The Curtains On Executions – Action Network
On July 28, 2022 at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama Department of Corrections officials strapped Joe James, Jr. to a gurney and prepared him to be executed. Normally this should take minutes, but those minutes dragged into several hours.
Regardless of where we stand on the death penalty, signers of this petition are united in demanding far greater transparency in the execution process.
One of the deepest moral beliefs we have in this country is a prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. We say we believe in freedom of information and informed participation in government. If that is true, the tragic lack of transparency that occurred at the execution of Joe James, Jr. must not be allowed to happen again.
4. Tell Governor Newsom: Sign Solitary Confinement Reform Bill
SIGN: Send a Message (fclca.org)
AB 2632 regulates the use of solitary confinement in California’s jails, prisons, immigration detention facilities
5. Tell Governor Newsom: Sign “Alternatives to Incarceration” Bill!
SIGN: Send a Message (fclca.org)
EVENTS
Thursday, September 15 – Sunday, September 18
Thursday, September 15
1. Thursday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, Stop the War in Ukraine Now! $$ for Climate & Healthcare, Not More Weapons!
In person
12 Noon: Senator Padilla’s office
333 Bush St.
SF
1:00pm: Senator Feinstein’s office
One Post St.
SF
“Peace in Ukraine Coalition” rally and letter delivery to ask Senators Feinstein and Padilla to align with and support these demands: CEASEFIRE in Ukraine Now! DIPLOMACY! Negotiations, not weapons! $$$ for Climate, Healthcare & Housing, NOT Weapons for Endless War DO NOT RISK NUCLEAR WAR!
Join us to banner, rally, speak out, and deliver letters to the Senators with our demands.
Hosts: CODEPINK, Veterans for Peace, WILPF (Womens Int’l League for Peace & Freedom), DSA, Environmentalists Against War, XR Peace, PDA, SF Physicians for Social Responsibility, WSLF, United for Peace & Justice and others.
Info: Stop the War in Ukraine! Ceasefire Now! $$ for Climate & Healthcare, Not More Weapons! : Indybay
Friday, September 16
2. Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, JUSTICE NOT Interim SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins
In person
SF Interim DA Brooke Jenkin’s office
350 Rhode Island
SF
Public transportation: SF MUNI # 22 line
Mothers On The March and Community will be at interim DA Jenkins office! All are welcomed!
Since Mayor London Breed appointed Jenkins to replace DA Chesa Boudin, more of Jenkins deceit has been exposed. (See post from September 4th)
We need to resist and expose her agenda:
For not holding police accountable for abusing and killing people in our communities, she fired lawyers who were in various phases of the trial process of holding sfpd accountable for murdering people in our communities.
-For her deceit of San Franciscans, from the time the Guido trial didn’t go her way and she quit the DA’s office till the lies she continues to build in her campaign.
-For contributing more to AAPI Hate by dividing the Black, Brown and Asian communities.
3. Friday, 6:30pm, Sensible Cinema, “A Dangerous Idea: Eugenics, Genetics, and the American Dream”
On line
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81874845936?pwd=Y2RCOVV2UDlCNVhjMUd6TGdmOHpqZz09
Meeting ID: 818 7484 5936 Passcode: 205900
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+12532158782,,81874845936#,,,,*205900# US (Tacoma)
explores how biologically determined politics has disenfranchised women and people of color and provided a rationale for state sanctioned crimes and policies committed against America’s most vulnerable citizens.
Info: Read more
4. Friday, 7:00pm – 9:30pm, Best of Bernal features: “When Mama & Me Lived Outside”!
In person
3450 Folsom
SF
This is outside (just inside Bernal Heights Park), so please dress for an evening of San Francisco summer weather – that means layers. And bring a camping chair if you got one!
Doors open at 6pm; show at 7pm.
We’re so proud! We’ve just one our 10th award for “When Mama & Me Lived Outside”, now The Bernal Heights Outdoor Film Festival is awarding us their BEST OF BERNAL Award!
“When Mama & Me Lived Outside” is the true story of Tiny Gray-Garcia’s journey from being unhoused to becoming one of the Bay Area’s most important sheros. Featuring original artwork by Asian Robles and scored by Lottie Johnston
Hosts: Peter Menchini and Tiny Gray-Garcia
Info: Best of Bernal features: “When Mama & Me Lived Outside”! | Facebook
Saturday, September 17
Register in Advance for this:
5. September 17, 9:00am (PT) to September 18,8:00am – 12Noon (PT) 8th Soil Not Oil Gathering
Ticket info: Soil Not Oil 2022 Tickets, Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 9:00 AM | Eventbrite
Tickets are $100 – $300
In person
Tara Firma Farms
3796 I Street Ext
Petaluma, CA 94952
Soil Not Oil with talks and panels throughout the day and will end with a barn dance! Lunch and Dinner will be provided. Camping available!
Today more than ever -after the long confinement that alienates one from each other-, we must gather in person to reconnect and together discuss how to reinvent a reality in which we expect to shift ecological dynamics with solidary community and collective decision making.
Join us and let’s continue the struggle for a world in which all worlds can fit.
As pandemic scare prevails in some sectors, we have decided, with the support of our longtime allies and co-organizers Tara Firma Farms, to move the conference to their farm, which counts with a large barn that they have used for large events and gatherings and that among their facilities include a large functional kitchen to feed attendees and an experienced team that will make public feel home in a safe and healthy environment.
Speakers:
Calla Rose Ostrander, Natural and Working Lands Climate Change Coordinator at California Natural Resource Agency.
Author and energy expert Richard Heinberg kindly accepted our invitation to talk about Our Shifting Energy Terrain.
Dr. Elaine Ingham who uncovered the Soil Food Web 4 decades ago.
Pamm Larry the initial instigator of Prop. 37 will join us to recount her experiences after 10 years of that historic battle between consumers and corporations.
Other confirmed speakers include author, teacher and ecofeminist Starhawk, Dr. Ignacio Chapela, filmmaker John D. Liu, Stacy Malkan, Author Jeffrey Smith, Diana Donlon, MD. Michelle Perro, Miriam Vola and more.
Host: Soil Not Oil
Info: (1) 8th Soil Not Oil Gathering | Facebook
6. Saturday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, How the end of Roe created 2 Americas-Fault Lines Documentary
In person
Revolution Books Berkeley
2444 Durant Ave.
Berkeley
This documentary is important and yet almost unbearable to watch. There are 2 Americas and one is hellbent on enslaving women.
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, abortion rights are now left up to each state to decide, opening the floodgates for bans across the country.
Fault Lines traveled to Texas, where the landmark case was born in 1970, and where abortion is now illegal in nearly all cases.
‘The End of Roe’ follows a doctor, staff and patients in an Austin clinic in the immediate days after the decision as they navigate the legal chaos and uncertainty of a post-Roe America. It also follows a group of women who had to cross state lines to access abortions and finds that, for many, this journey is not possible. With more states instituting bans and little support from the government, people are often left with no choice over their reproductive health.
Come, watch the film, confront the implications of the bitter reality now unfolding, and stay for the discussion after this film. The film shows one way the USA is tearing apart. Where is this heading, and what is at stake not just for people here, but for the world? How do we fight, yes, for safe, legal abortion – but even more for a revolutionary future people would want to live in?
Watch this preview:
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1565436714838937600/pu/vid/480×270/_gdTW-NKH2Gzy8jX.mp4
Info: How the end of Roe created 2 Americas-Fault Lines Documentary : Indybay
Sunday, September 18
7. Sunday, 9:30am – 11:00am, The U.S. War with Mexico, Manifest Destiny and the Rise of the U.S. Empire
In person or Zoom
Unitarian Universalist of San Francisco
1187 Franklin St. (MLK Room)
SF
Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/91297649127pwd=eitYTk1nVVFPdVlYK2VoWXQ2TjNHZz09
With Amy S. Greenberg, George Winfree Professor of American History
Amy Greenberg is an historian of antebellum America (1800-1860) with a particular interest in the relationship between the United States and the rest of the world in the decades before the Civil War.
Amy has published five books. Among them are
• Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk
• A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico
• Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire
• Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion: A Brief History with Documents
Professor Greenberg has written powerfully on Manifest Destiny and its role in arousing public sentiment for expansionism and imperialism which foreshadows what we see today in the movement stoked by white supremacy. She is also intrigued by partisan politics and the growth of America’s empire.
See site for more info
Info The U.S. War with Mexico, Manifest Destiny and the Rise of the U.S. Empire : Indybay
8. Sunday, 10:00am – 12Noon, (PT); 1:00pm – 3:00pm (ET), Ukraine, The Working Class, Russia, China & US Imperalism – A Global Working Class Panel
Online
To register:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89698353349?pwd=VmhPNWpiZXMwdGU4L3JKc1Z5WkRydz09
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The war in Ukraine is a critical question for the working class not only of Ukraine and Russia but the working class of the world.
This panel will have speakers reporting the nature of the war, the political role for the working class around the world and the struggle between Russia and China with the United States.
Speakers:
Memetlwe Sebei, President of General Industrial Workers of South Africa GIWUSA
Guiillermo Kane, Workers Party Argentina
Roberto Luzzi, Si Cobas International Secretary Italy
Aaaron Wright, ILWU Local 10 Executive Board Member
John Harris, Boston May Day Coalition
Burak Sayim DIP Turkey
Steve Zeltzer, UFCLP
Host: United Front Committee For A Labor Party
Info: Ukraine, The Working Class, Russia, China & US Imperialism-A Global Working Class Panel : Indybay
UPCOMMING EVENTS
Thursday, September 22
Thursday, 12Noon – 1:00pm, SF Chronicle: End Your Silence On The Jailing and Extradition of Julian Assange!
In person
Press Conference/Speak Out at SF Chronicle on September 22, 2022 12:00 Noon.
The continued incarceration and possible extradition of Australian journalist and publisher Julian Assange is a threat not only to all journalists in the world but publishers such as the SF Chronicle.
Using the Espionage Act, even though he is not a US citizen, the US government is prosecuting the supposed crime of releasing documents that expose war crimes and atrocities committed by the US war machine in Iraq.
Of course the perpetrators of the US crimes in Iraq have never been proscuted but the whistleblower Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, is being prosecuted.
We must raise our voices to defend whistleblowers and independent journalists being censored and persecuted for revealing the truth and reporting on issues that people need to know.
Assange is a member of the Australian journnalist’s union MEAA member since 2007. The Pacific Media Workers Guild, which represents journalists at the San Francisco Chronicle, and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) have also calld for his freedom. Nearly all journalist unions throughout the world are demanding his freedom.
We urge the San Francisco Chronicle and all news publishers both print and online to join the call for his freedom.
Host: Bay Area Committee to Free Julian Assange
Saturday, September 24
Saturday, 1:00pm – 3:00pm, Standing Tall Demanding Justice Celebrating The “Comfort Women” Memorials Anniversary
In person
St. Mary’s Square
California & Quincy
SF
SF 5th anniversary and the 3rd anniversary of our sister statue in Seoul
Hear from our keynote speaker, Chief Justice Abby Abinanti, as well as others
Celebrate the determination and resistance of the “comfort women” survivors who continue to demand justice and full accountability from Japan.
Together we recommit ourselves to fight for an end to racial and gender violence
Host: Comfort Women Justice Coalition
Info: Comfort Women Justice Coalition | Facebook
Saturday, 2:00pm – 3:00pm, Abort the “Walk for Life” organizing meeting
In person
17th Street & Folsom (inside the park)
SF
Meeting is outside – wear mask
Every January since 2005, San Francisco has been invaded by fascistic fetus worshippers for what they call the “Walk for Life.” In 2008, over 10,000 fetus fascists were bussed in from all over California and beyond. In 2011, 40,000 people showed up. They do this because they are dedicated to controlling our bodies and upholding imperialist traditions of Christo faschism.
They are returning on January 21, 2023, this time emboldened by the Supreme KKKourt.
These fetus fetishists do not act alone, and the spread of their harmful and homicidal ideas are aided by the State, city officials, and all forms of police. For them “life is precious”, unless that life is a woman, Black, brown, Indigenous, poor, unhoused, mad, queer, trans, and/or locked up. The last thing these fascistic monsters want us to do is bridge the connections between gender self-determination and all forms of body autonomy.
The recent abortion ruling is connected to the rise of anti-gay and anti-trans bills . These laws expand the State’s ability to terrorize trans people (especially young people) by further restricting and criminalizing already insufficient gender affirming care. Make no mistake, it’s going to be the police coming for people—trans or not—for having abortions and/or receiving gender affirming care. The same police that kill Black and brown trans people, sweep the lives of our unhoused neighbors, lock us up for using drugs, being mad and poor, all while they steal billions while being backed by tech and celebrated by politicians.
Trans liberation, pro-abortion politics, and prison abolition are connected to all these histories and futures that we care about.
These “pro-lifers”, Christo fascists, and politicians think they’ve already made all these decisions for us, but we are here to tell them how fucking wrong they are. For us, for our safety, and the safety of our communities.
If we want to organize against these fetus worshippers, we need strength in numbers—a coalition to confront the fascists in January 2023. If you are in the Bay Area, come to our first coalition meeting. We will have an agenda, so email us what you think should be on it!
RSVP at GAYSHAME@RISEUP.NET .
Host: Gay Shame
Info: Abort the “Walk for Life” organizing meeting : Indybay
