By Adrienne Fong
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ARTICLES
A. Washington ‘fanning the flames’ in Ukraine – Beijing – February 20, 2023
Washington ‘fanning the flames’ in Ukraine – Beijing — RT World News
B. Ceremony stirs sad memories of World War II internment camps for Japanese Americans –February 19, 29023
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/japanese-internment-remembrance-day-17789731.php
C/ WATCH: Anti-War Rally at Lincoln Memorial – February 19, 2023
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/02/19/watch-anti-war-rally-at-lincoln-memorial-live/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=3f5b8649-9b4e-4c98-8b77-569e32c8319a
“Anti-war advocates from left and right converge at the Lincoln Memorial Sunday to protest the “war machine”
D. Exclusive: S.F. District Attorney Brooke Jenkins shrank unit investigating police – February 18, 2023
E. WATCH: Sy Hersh on CN Live! — ‘American Sabotage’ – February 16, 2023
F. Report: Israel commits 3,532 violations in West Bank, Jerusalem in January – February 4, 2023
Report: Israel commits 3,532 violations in West Bank, Jerusalem in January – Middle East Monitor
– See Event # 6
G. MEMPHIS POLICE CHIEF TRAINED WITH ISRAEL SECURITY FORCES
Memphis Police Chief Trained With Israel Security Forces (theintercept.com)
– See Event # 6
PETITIONS:
1. Residents Feel Sick and Pets Are Dying After the Ohio Toxic Train Derailment
2. Tell the Army Corps of Engineers: Clear all bombs from Hawaii!
SIGN: ell the Army Corps of Engineers: Clear all bombs from Hawaii! | Win Without War
3. Urge President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas to not to move forward dangerous and restrictive asylum bans
Schedule Executions for February & March click on the name to sign the petition
February 23, 2023 at 6:00 pm ET:
Donald Dillbeck in Florida
March 7, 2023 at 6:00 pm CT:
Gary Green in Texas
March 9, 2023 at 6:00 pm CT:
Arthur Brown Jr. in Texas
March 29, 2023 at 6:00 pm CT:
Anibal Canales Jr. in Texas
EVENTS
(Tuesday, February 21 – Saturday, February 25)
Tuesday, February 21
1. Tuesday, 9:00am (PT); 12Noon (ET), Ukraine 1 year later
Webinar registration: Webinar Registration – Zoom
The war in Ukraine is reaching the first anniversary of Russia’s Special Military Operation. What is the status of the war now and what will happen in the future?
Speakers:
Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector in Iraq
Margaret Kimberley of the Black Alliance for Peace, Black Agenda Report and UNAC
Host: The United Anti War Coalition
Info: unac_010923 (nepajac.org)
2. Tuesday, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Can SF reparations & our response to police killing BIPOC begin to repair the damage done by racism?
Online
*Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86465752525?pwd=Tzh1YVh5SE9mdWkzdjI2clZrVEczdz09
Meeting ID: 864 6575 2525
Passcode: 465295
Dial by your location: 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)
Meeting ID: 864 6575 2525
Passcode: 465295
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kd8OWBYNPh
Dr. James Taylor and Chesa Boudin talk to the SF Gray Panthers.
Is our country on the verge of coming to terms with the deep damage caused by the enslavement of Africans and generations of subsequent US racism? Reparations are now being considered at the national, state and local levels. The horrendous pattern of police killings of people of color are forcing our society to reconsider the role of the police. What can we in SF do about this?
Speakers:
Dr James Lance Taylor, USF professor Professor of Political Science, African American Studies/Critical Diversity Studies with a Masters in Public Affairs and Urban Affairs; and is one of the 15 members of the SF Reparations Advisory Committee.
Chesa Boudin needs no introduction as San Francisco’s former ground-breaking, progressive SF District Attorney who was recalled from office last year by those (in and outside SF) who support misguided polices that are allegedly “tough on crime”. In office, he took action to implement bold, new humane polices for justice for all, from bail reform to addressing police accountability measures, such as filing charges against an SFPD officer in the first ever use-of-force case against an on-duty officer for excessive force.
3. Tuesday, 6:00pm – 7:00pm, Monthly Gathering at Alex Nieto’s Altar with Refugio and Elvira Nieto
In person
Bernal Hill – at Alex’s Altar
SF
On March 21, 2014, Alex was murdered by SFPD officers Jason Sawyer, Richard Schiff, Nathan Chew, and Roger Morse, with 59 bullets.
DA Gacon (at the time) declined to file criminal charges against the officers.
All are welcomed to stand with Refugio and Elvira Nieto, the parents of Alex.
SAVE the DATE: March 21, 2023, is the 9th Angelversary of Alex’s murder –for community updates on the new memorial!
Thursday, February 23
4. Thursday, 5:30pm (PT); 8:30 (ET), From US to the Philippines: A Panel on Labor Solidarity
Online register: Meeting Registration – Zoom
On behalf of Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU), BAYAN-USA, the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP-US), we invite you to attend an educational event and discussion between labor organizers in the US and the Philippines!
With this sharing, we hope to give a platform for workers in the US and the Philippines to speak on the importance of building international solidarity for trade union organizing and struggles in the Philippines, the United States, and all over the world.
Participating unions and organizations from the Philippines in this event include:
· Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU)
· Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT)
· BPO Industry Employees Network (BIEN)
· Concerned Seafarers of the Philippines
Repression against workers organizing in the Philippines continues to heighten under President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos Jr. A joint report published by the the International Labor Organization and Trade Unions in the Philippines highlights recorded violations of international labor standards and rights including cases of illegal arrest and detention, state interference with the right to self organize through threats and intimidation, terror tagging, forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings of labor leaders. Most recently, Cebu-based labor organizers April Gumanao and Armand Dahoya were abducted by state forces and held in detention where they were subjected to emotional and psychological torture.
While workers in both the US and the Philippines are suffering from low wages and poverty, unstable employment, understaffing, inhumane working conditions and attacks on the right to unionize, we must strengthen our solidarity between the workers of our countries and our shared fight for workers rights across the world!
Friday, February 24
5. Friday, 12Noon, Take Action For Peace in Ukraine
In person
1 Post St. (Senator Feinstein’s Office)
SF
Peace In Ukraine
Ceasefire Now
Negotiations to End the War, Not Weapons for Endless War
February 24th 2023, marks the 1-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine. Now, one year later. with estimates of hundreds of thousands of military casualties, several thousand civilian deaths, millions of people displaced, extensive physical and environmental damage, and no end in sight. All of this while the very real danger of nuclear war looms larger than ever. And in the Global South, and around the world, the war has spiked inflation, disrupted deliveries of life-sustaining food and fuel, and derailed aid to developing economies.
On this day peace organizations in the US and all over the world will be taking action to call for an immediate ceasefire and negotiations to end the war and a halt to arms shipments that escalate and prolong the war.
Here in the Bay Area we will gather outside Senator Feinstein’s San Francisco office at 1 Post St. (at Post & Market) at noon. Feinstein has voted repeatedly for over $115 billion for the war, mostly for weapons and military purposes. Aspirants for her Senate seat, Representatives Lee, Schiff and Porter have also voted for more weapons and more war. None of them have made serious calls for diplomacy to end the war. Neither has Alex Padilla, California’s other Senator.
Info:
Info: Take Action for Peace In Ukraine : Indybay
6. Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Free Palestine
In person
SF Israeli Consualte (outside)
456 Montgomery St.
SF
We will be on the sidewalk in front of the Israeli Consulate with signs, banners and chalking to demand an end to the horror inflicted on Palestinians by the Zionist Israeli government.
FREE PALESTINE!
BOYCOTT, DIVEST AND SANCTION ISRAEL!
BOYCOTT BIRTHRIGHT!
There are no “chosen people”
Thanks to the Mayor of Barcelona for endorsing BDS!
STOP US Funding of Israel’s military!
All are welcomed to participate
Host: Mothers On The March
Info: Free Palestine! : Indybay
Saturday, February 25
7. Saturday, 6:00pm – 8:30pm, Film Showing: COUP 53-Old Secrets Cast Long Shadows, A benefit for Revolution Books
In person
Revolution Books Berkeley
2444 Durant Ave.
Berkeley
COUP 53- A new documentary about the US and British coup in Iran
While making this new documentary about the US/British coup in Iran in 1953, Iranian director Taghi Amirani and editor Walter Murch discovered never seen before archive material that brings to light explosive revelations about dark secrets buried for 67 years….
The cold-blooded maneuvering by the US and Britain to install the tyrannical and pro-imperialist Shah of Iran in 1953 foreshadows this urgent moment.
Right now, in the midst of the heroic uprising of the Iranian people for Woman, Life, Freedom, the son of that old Shah is making a big move to replace the Islamic Republic of Iran and to force a different tyrannical, pro-imperialist government on the Iranian people.
Come to watch this crucial film, and to discuss what happened then and what we can and must do now to support the people of Iran.
Watch the trailer. (official trailer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSK6wdqo0xY
Info: Film Showing: COUP 53-Old Secrets Cast Long Shadows, A benefit for Revolution Books : Indybay
