By Adrienne Fong
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ARTICLES:
A. Lockheed Martin Selected To Develop Nuclear-Powered Spacecraft – July 26, 2023
Lockheed Martin Selected to Develop Nuclear-Powered Spacecraft – Jul 26, 2023
B. SFPD confirm an officer shot and killed a man in the Bayview District – July 26, 2023
SFPD confirm an officer shot and killed a man in the Bayview District (ktvu.com)
C. Failed Fukushima System Should Cancel Wastewater Ocean Dumping – July 25, 2023
Failed Fukushima System Should Cancel Wastewater Ocean Dumping – CounterPunch.org
D. UPS & Teamsters Reach Tentative Deal, Averting Strike July 25, 2023
E. Kaiser Permanente employees prepare to picket throughout Bay Area – July 24, 2023
See Action # 1
F. FROM OSLO TO UNITY: REIMAGINING PALESTINE SOLIDARITY FOR THE FUTURE
https://www.mintpressnews.com/oslo-to-unity-reimagining-palestine-solidarity-for-future/285337/
SEE ACTION # 3
SEE PETITION # 4
G. Knives Are Out Again for Those Advocating For Peace on the Korean Peninsula – July 23, 2023
By Ann Wright
H. Kagame and Other Stooges Do U.S. Bidding in Haiti – July 19, 2023
Kagame and Other Stooges Do U.S. Bidding in Haiti | Black Agenda Report
PETITONS:
1. Tell Senate Vote NO on Massive Pentagon Increase
SIGN: Tell the Senate: Vote YES on Peace Amendments (everyaction.com)
2. DEMAND WORKERS’ RIGHTS FOR ALL
SIGN: Demand workers’ rights for all (oxfamamerica.org)
3. Tell Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Administrator Michael S. Regan: Act NOW for a Safe, Comprehensive Nuclear Waste Clean Up
4. Amazon: Listen to your workers and stop doing business with Israeli apartheid
SIGN: Amazon: Listen to your workers and stop doing business with Israeli apartheid – Action Network
See Action # 3
5. Say NO to a national abortion ban!
6. Tell FERC: Deny the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s Southgate Extension!
2 PETITONS for scheduled executions in August Click on the name to sign
August 1, 2023 at 6:00 pm CT:
Johnny Johnson in Missouri
August 3, 2023 at 6:00 pm ET:
James Barnes in Florida
EVENTS / ACTIONS
Thursday, July 27 – Friday, August 4
July Listing of: LABORFEST 2023 Events: LaborFest 2023 | LaborFest 2023
Thursday, July 27
1. Thursday, 11:00am – 1:30pm, Support Kaiser Permanente employees picket in SF
In person
Kaiser Hospital (in front)
2425 Geary Blvd.
SF
More than 85,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers will picket local hospitals across California, Washington, Oregon, and Colorado this week as their contracts are set to expire at the end of September.
The picket results from chronic understaffing after years of the COVID pandemic, according to a release issued by the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions on Monday. “Understaffed hospitals and clinics are unsafe and can lead to long wait times, mistaken diagnoses, and neglect, making it harder to give patients quality care,” the coalition said in a statement.
In the Bay Area, demonstrations will take place in front of 17 different facilities spanning from the East Bay to San Jose from Tuesday to Friday
2. Thursday, 7:00pm, Special Board of Trustees Meeting to Address the Waitlist Crisis at City College of SF
In person or via ZOOM
In person:
Ocean Campus
MUB 140
SF
just over a week ago, we broke the unfortunate news that mass waitlists were building at City College, with over 1,600 students already waiting for spots in classes with no seats and over 6,000 students expected to be in the same position by the end of August. We also shared that City College’s Chancellor, David Martin, was refusing to take prompt and effective action to address this crisis.
In May, CCSF’s Board of Trustees advised Chancellor Martin to rehire the full-time faculty he laid off a year prior. Prompt action on this front is pivotal because starting this process allows departments affected by layoffs to immediately begin hiring part-time faculty in order to meet student demand.
Chancellor Martin, however, has failed to act quickly to add courses and faculty, and this is fueling a growing waitlist crisis at City College, with thousands of students waiting for seats in English, Construction, Business, & so much more. As the union of City College’s instructors, counselors, and librarians, we called on our Board of Trustees to take urgent action to hold the Chancellor accountable
Chancellor Martin’s mismanagement of our schedule left thousands of students locked out of class last year, and now the problem stands to get worse. City College has the resources right now to meet student demand, and it is imperative that our leaders add the classes and faculty necessary to do so. City College students deserve nothing less.
Info: AFT 2121
Friday, July, 28
3. Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Revolutionary Friday: FREE PALESTINE
In person
Israeli Consulate
456 Montgomery St.
SF
Join Revolutionary Workers United Front this Revolutionary Friday on the sidewalk in front of the Israeli Consulate with signs, flags, banners and chalking to demand an end to the horror inflicted on Palestinians by the Zionist Israeli government.
NO U.S. FUNDING FOR GENOCIDE, OCCUPATION And APARTHEID Of PALESTINE!
FREE PALESTINE
BOYCOTT, DIVEST AND SANCTION ISRAEL
BOYCOTT BIRTHRIGHT
THERE ARE NO “CHOSEN PEOPLE”
Check Indybay for Revolutionary Friday’s events
Info: Free Palestine! : Indybay
4. Friday, 5:00pm – 6:30pm, Exhibition Opening – 1973 Durban Working Class Uprising against apartheid & 1984 ILWU Boycott Apartheid South African Cargo
ILWU Local 10
400 North Point
SF
This year is the 50th anniversary of the workers’ rebellion against apartheid in Durban, South Africa. This was the first most important workers struggle to smash the apartheid regime. Labor organizer, researcher and photographer David Hemson documented this. Also there will be a photo exhibition of the ILWU 1984 boycott of South African cargo at Pier 80 in San Francisco.
Host: LaborFest
5. Friday, 7:00pm, Cuba Lives and Cuba Resists!
In person or via ZOOM
In person:
PSL
2969 Mission St.
SF
ZOOM: registration: Webinar Registration – Zoom
Earlier this year, organizers from the Party for Socialism and Liberation and other organizations in the United States traveled to Cuba to commemorate International Workers’ Day with representatives from peoples’ movements around the world. As part of the International People’s Assembly delegation, participants witnessed the incredible advancements of the Cuban people in medicine, education, culture, and democracy.
Join us for an eyewitness report back from members of the PSL Bay Area to discuss the remarkable displays of solidarity and resilience made possible by Cuba’s socialist system, and how we can fight back against the US blockade that aims to overthrow the Cuban revolution. This event will also raise medical solidarity funds for the Hatuey Project (@hatueyproject).
Saturday, July 29
6. Saturday, 2:00pm – 6:00pm, LaborTech Conference – AI & Labor
In person
518 Valencia St. (Nr. 16th St.)
SF
LaborTech Conference:
AI is an existential threat to all workers not just in the US but throughout the world. The strike of the Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA workers in part on the issue of AI is not unique. Longshore workers, truckers, taxi workers, healthcare workers, education workers, public workers and many other workers and industries face massive job losses as the billionaires drive AI. This panel will at what AI is, how workers can confront it and who should own and control it.
Speakers:
Professor Peter Mantello, Department Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University College of Asia Pacific Studies, Founder of ethikal.ai, a research lab devoted to the development of human-centric artificial intelligence
Chris Silvera, IBT 808 New York
Edward Escobar, Alliance For Independent Workers, Organizer on AI and Worker
Mark Gruber, Taxi Workers Alliance
Robert Ovetz, Lecturer in Political Science at San Jose State University (US). He is the author of When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 (Brill, 2018 and Haymarket, 2019 and Columnist at The Chief In New York
Peter Racioppo, UAW 2865 UCLA Phd Student Studying AI
James Dalessandro, WGAW past Bay Area Picket Captain and filmmaker
Cheryl Thornton, SEIU 1021 SF Community Healthcare VP Chapter
Steve Zeltzer, WorkWeek, LaborNet
Host: LaborFest
Info: LaborFest 2023 | LaborTech Conference – AI & Labor
Sunday, July 30
7. Sunday, 12Noon, Theater of the POOR – free workshops – for 4 weeks
In person
Redstone Building
2940 16th St.
SF
Create your own theater for healing, life, and change.
Theater of the Poor / Teatro de los Pobres Magazine begins its free workshops for low/no income/Houseless survivors of the ongoing war ON the poor
Lunch and stipends offered
Monday, July 31
8. Monday, 4:30pm (PT); 7:30pm (ET), Lenin and the Working Class – Advancing the Struggle for Workers Power
Webinar registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DREgsl8MRPu8vZZeBbiknw
We would like to invite you to attend a webinar on Monday, July 31, with the theme of “Lenin and the working class.” This program is being presented by Workers World Party and will help launch the International Assembly Against Imperialism scheduled for January 20-21 to commemorate the centennial of the death of Vladimir Lenin. We will have a panel of working class activists, followed by discussion. We hope you can attend.
Info: https://www.workers.org/
Tuesday, August 1
9. Tuesday, 11:00am (PT); 2:00pm (ET), Resisting Cop City & Corporate Power
Online registration: Resisting Cop City & Corporate Power – Move to Amend
Cop City is a massively corporate-funded urban warfare training center for police forces. We must see this for what it is: an issue of racism, police militarization, colonialism, gentrification, and reckless environmental destruction in the face of impending climate collapse.
#StopCopCity has had opposition from a large and diverse coalition that included environmental justice organizations, the Mvskoke Creek Nation, clergy, abolitionists, local neighborhood associations, and more.
Atlanta City Council recently approved $30 million for its construction of the $90 million facility – the balance coming from the corporate-funded Atlanta Police Foundation.
The Atlanta Police Foundation was created in the wake of the 2020 George Floyd uprisings, and has a board of directors that include CEOs from multinational corporations including Coca-Cola, Bank of America, Deloitte, Verizon, and more. Foundations created ways for these corporations to directly impact policing in ways that are not accountable to the general public.
But, folks are fighting this. We have the honor of hosting one of the on-the-ground leaders, Kamau Franklin, to hear more about the resistance to Cop City
Hear from one of the #StopCopCity on-the-ground leaders on what’s happening now and how you can support this important movement for justice, a livable world and self-determination/democracy.
Kamau Franklin is the founder of Community Movement Builders, Inc. Kamau has been a dedicated community organizer for over thirty years, beginning in New York City and now based in Atlanta. For 18 of those years, Kamau was a leading member of a national grassroots organization dedicated to the ideas of self-determination and the teachings of Malcolm X. Kamau has coordinated and led community cop-watch programs, liberation/freedom schools for youth, electoral and policy campaigns, large-scale community gardens, organizing collectives and alternatives to incarceration programs. Kamau was an attorney for ten years in New York with his own practice in criminal, civil rights and transactional law. He also served as the south regional director of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC).
Host Move To Amend
10. Tuesday, Aug 1, 4 PM, SF Health Commission Meeting. (Agenda and call-in instructions will be posted here Friday afternoon, 7/28/23.) (Analysis of latest developments and suggested comments will be posted here by Sunday, 7/30/23.) Read our Call to Action
· Ongoing concerns: How to save our historically excellent public nursing home intact? How to resume and maintain access to Laguna Honda for disabled and elderly San Francisco residents?
· Recent development: CMS has ordered Calif DPH to submit a plan for (deadly) LHH Evictions and Closure by July 31, but as of July 18, CDPH had not done so. Will this “force” CMS to close LHH and evict the residents? (See the comment on CMS’s May 18 letter in our Call to Action.) Where will 500 frail nursing home residents be sent?
· Recent development: The Health Commission is considering giving discharged SF General Hospital patients 2nd highest priority for LHH admission, over many SF residents needing nursing home care, See proposal. SFDPH must find places for discharged SF General patients, but not by displacing or preventing admission of SF residents needing nursing home care.
From Gray Panthers
Friday, August 4
11. Friday, 9:00am – 10:30am, Abolish Nuclear Weapons at Livermore Lab & Globally – Hiroshima & Nagasaki Vigil
In person
West Gate of Lawarence Livermore Lab
7000 East Ave
Livermore CA 94550
The Livermore Lab West Gate is located at Vasco Road and Westgate Drive. You can park in the residential area off of Daphne Dr., which is on the opposite side of Vasco Road from the Lab entrance.
Peace Action in Remembrance of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki Atomic Bombings WWII
We invite you to mark the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the Livermore Conversion Project, a collaborative of Bay Area peace groups including Tri-Valley CAREs.
At this years’ event at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab we will honor the life of our dear friend and nuclear disarmament champion, Daniel Ellsberg.
We will gather at the West Gate of the Lab at 9 am on Friday, August 4, for a solemn silent vigil to remember Dan and demand dismantlement of what he termed the “Doomsdav Machine” – starting at the Livermore Lab, which continues to design and develop new nuclear warheads.
If you can, please wear something black or white, which are significant colors for mourning in Japanese culture.
We have chosen August 4 so that our presence will be witnessed by Livermore Lab workers entering and leaving the classified bomb Lab.
Following a 30-minute silent vigil at 9 am, from 9:30-10:30 am at the West Gate we will debut a new video compilation of Dan’s most compelling and inspiring talks from past rallies at the Lab.
For more information: https://trivalleycares.org/2023/join-us-on…
Info: Abolish Nuclear Weapons at Lawrence Livermore Lab & Globally – Hiroshima-Nagasaki Vigil : Indybay
