By Adrienne Fong
See list of Calendar of Events on Palestine from AROC: https://www.araborganizing.org/events/
Many other events are listed on Indybay that might be of interest to you
Please post your actions on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12
See Indybay for other listings of events
Additional Sections in this email:
a) Mumia Abu-Jamal
b) Site for updates on Freedom Flotilla to Gaza
c) Growing list of student solidarity encampments on college campuses
d) NLB Resources
ARTICLES
A. Britain planning large-scale deportation raids – media – April 28, 2024
Britain planning large-scale deportation raids – media — RT World News
B. Press Conference: Under Israeli Pressure, Guinea Bissau Moves to Withdraw Flotilla Flags April 27, 2024
See Petition # 1
C. Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal speaks to the CUNY occupation – urges them to demand more – April 27, 2024
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6QKP36MVQR/
See special section on Mumia – turning 70 y;/o
D. We are occupying Emory University to demand immediate divestment from Israel and Cop City – April 25, 2024
E. SHOCKING IDF LINK EXPOSED: Campus Riot Police Trained In Israel | Update To Julian Assange CIA Spying Case – April 25, 2024
Kim Iversen
F. Landmark Supreme Court homeless case may have paltry impact on San Francisco – April 24, 2024
Landmark SCOTUS homeless case may have paltry impact on SF (missionlocal.org)
G. “Get Off Our Campus!” Mike Johnson Met With Boos and Anger During Columbia Visit – April 24, 2024
“Get Off Our Campus!”: Mike Johnson Met With Boos and Anger During Columbia Visit – Mother Jones
H. Biden signs law securing billions in US aid for Ukraine, Israel – April 23, 2024
Biden signs law securing billions in US aid for Ukraine, Israel | Israel War on Gaza News | Al Jazeera
See Petitoin # 2
I. Will the Freedom Flotilla Sail to Gaza? – April 23, 2024
Will the Freedom Flotilla Sail to Gaza? ounterPunch.org
By Medea Benjamin
J. What does it mean to turn 70 in Prison? – April 22, 2024
MUMIA TURNS 70 (constantcontact.com)
See Petition # 3
K. Edward Said Warned Against Anti-Palestinian McCarthyism – April 21, 2024
Opinion | Edward Said Warned Against Anti-Palestinian McCarthyism | Common Dreams
L. Police Attack Palestine Labor Activists In Front Of Chicago Labor Notes Conference – April 20, 2024
Police Attack Palestine Labor Activists In Front Of Chicago Labor Notes Conference (youtube.com)
See Actions # 5 & 6
M. Germany buries the evidence of complicity in genocide: Nicaragua exposes it – April 17, 2024
Germany buries the evidence of complicity in genocide: Nicaragua exposes it | Dissident Voice
7 PETITIONS
1. US Boats to Gaza – Help Ensure Safe Delivery of Emergency Aid to Gaza! Protect civilians from Israeli violence as they sail to break Gaza blockade
SIGN: Take Action Now! Help Ensure Safe Delivery of Emergency Aid to Gaza! (adc.org)
2. U.S. support for Netanyahu’s war must have limits
SIGN: Act Now to Tell Congress: U.S. support for Netanyahu’s war must have limits | Win Without War
3. D.A. Larry Krasner Drop The Case Against Mumia Abu-Jamal
4. Tell Google: Don’t let your tech be complicit in war crimes!
SIGN: Tell Google: Don’t let your tech be complicit in war crimes! (actionnetwork.org)
5. Protect abortion and reproductive freedom. Repeal the Comstock Act now!
6. Demand Absolute Standards Stop Profiting From Executions
SIGN: Worth Rises — Demand corporations stop profiting from executions
7. World Bank: Stop Funding Factory Farming
SIGN: World Bank: Stop Funding Factory Farming (eko.org)
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MUMIA ABU -JAMAL: On April 24th Mumia turned 70 years old.
HOW TO CONTACT MUMIA and send letters, books, money, and/or photos!
Read “Mumia Turns 70: What does it mean to turn 70 in Prison?” by Prison Radio
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For Updates on Freedom Flotilla: https://freedomflotilla.org/
EVENTS / ACTIONS
Monday, April 29 – Thursday, May 2
Monday, April 29
1. Monday, 12Noon, Free Palestine: USF Divest from Israel
USF University Center
2130 Fulton St
SF
JOIN USF STUDENTS IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE NATIONAL STUDENT MOVEMENT TO STOP THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA AND TO DISCLOSE & DIVEST FROM THE GENOCIDAL ZIONIST ENTITY!
& Free Palestine: USF Divest from Israel : Indybay
2. Monday, 12:15pm, SFSU Rally for Solidarity with Gaza
The Quad
SFSU
SF
SFSU ALL OUT FOR GAZA!
There are no universities left standing in Gaza! SFSU community come to the quad Monday at 12:15 PM in solidarity with our fellow students and faculty in Palestine and across the United States to demand SFSU and the CSU system to divest from Apartheid Israel and stop investing our TUITION in genocide! Bring friends and signs!
& SFSU Rally for Solidarity with Gaza : Indybay
3. Monday, 6:00pm, Meet with hunger striker(s) opposing green bike lanes on Valencia St.
Companeros Del Barrio
474 Valencia St.
SF
Public Transportation:
– 16th Street BART
– MUNI – # 22, 49, 14 lines
All are invited to learn about this strike and why and how we can support it.
Tuesday, April 30
4. Tuesday, 6:45pm – 9:45pm, The Occupation of the American Mind Film Screening for Palestine Solidarity
510 Firehouse
815 Alice St.
Oakland
Space is limited. Please register here. https://www.eastbaydsa.org/events/67/2024-04-30-film-screening-occupation-of-the-american-mind/
We hope you’ll join us for a two-part series about the history of Zionism, capitalism, and Palestinian resistance. On Tuesday April 30th at 7:00 pm we’ll watch “The Occupation of the American Mind,” a documentary that exposes the Zionist propaganda machine in the US. We’ll serve Palestinian food and have time to discuss the film after watching.
A week later we’ll meet at the same time and place to dig deeper into the history of the Zionist project and Palestinian resistance to colonialism in the context of global capitalism.
Host: East Bay DSA
Info: The Occupation of the American Mind Film Screening for Palestine Solidarity : Indybay
Wednesday, May 1
International Workers Day
See Indybay for other May Day Actions
5. Wednesday, 12:30pm, May Day General Strike to Stop Genocide & Rally at Harry Bridges Plaza
Harry Bridges Plaza
In front of Ferry Building
SF
*We must call for a national strike demanding an end of the United States financing of the genocide, occupation, and war against Palestinian people.
We demand tax money be used to house the homeless, guarantee free universal healthcare, quality education, and good paying jobs for all!
Stop privatization, outsourcing & union busting!
“On International Workers Day
Palestinian General Federation
of Trade Unions
Brothers and Sisters of unions and other labor organizations in the United States of America:
In the midst of pain and blood, in the displacement camps, amidst the rubble, and the ruins of our homes, workshops, factories, stores, and institutions destroyed by the “Israeli” occupation, using U.S.-made weapons, in the name of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU), we call on you for solidarity.
Instead of celebrating with you on May 1st, International Workers Day, we are busy shrouding dozens of people who are being killed around the clock in the middle of a genocidal war against our people – in every sense of that word. This has led to the destruction of everything in the Gaza Strip (hospitals, health centers, schools, universities, streets, water purification, sewage, and other infrastructure, factories, shops, cultural centers, mosques, churches, and even unborn children), none of which were spared by the occupation’s bombs, missiles and shells (including internationally banned weapons, like white phosphorus).
We are living through wholesale slaughter and forced dislocation – ethnic cleansing – committed against us. This devastating war and its catastrophes have forced upon us in the PGFTU in Gaza great responsibilities to collect the broken bodies and even pieces of our people, healing the wounded and trying to ease their pain (without anesthetics, antibiotics or other medicine), dealing with the psychological trauma (especially of the children), while trying to convey the truth of this suffering and the humanitarian and environmental catastrophe to the world.
Since the beginning of the aggression, we in the PGFTU have considered ourselves an integral part of our people – not separated from their reality. We have suffered and lost thousands of members, union offices, facilities, and other institutions.
Despite our efforts to provide relief to our people with the limited support we have received and to raise the voice of our people loudly in international forums, we have encountered shocking silence and neglect by the international labor movement. However, we recognize there have been some exceptional examples of unions, clearly demonstrated in leading protests denouncing the Zionist war of genocide being waged on the Gaza Strip.”
Endorsers:
Mothers on The March , The Revolutionary Workers Front, United Front Committee for A Labor Party, HEAT
Info: May Day General Strike to Stop Genocide & Rally at Harry Bridges Plaza : Indybay
6. Wednesday, 4:00pm, Oakland Port Shutdown
Meet at West Oakland BART
Oakland
UPDATES: TEXT 833-633-0604
This May Day, we rise to the call to action by workers of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions. Palestinian workers urge us “to stand in solidarity with our struggle and take decisive action to honour the countless martyrs lost and the families torn apart, and build pressure for a free Palestine.”
There will be no business at the Port of Oakland this May Day while Palestinians in Gaza are being massacred in by Israel. We will unite with working people from all across the Bay Area, marching in solidarity with May Day actions in San Francisco and Oakland, to shut down the Port.
Time and time again, the Bay Area has risen up to say NO to genocide, NO to apartheid, and to call an end to the US government’s complicity in the Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians. As students rise to fight for divestment from Israel, working people will rise to demand the same. Free Palestine!
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6IU_JtO9UZ/ & May Day Port Shutdown: Rise for Palestine : Indybay
Thursday, May 2
7. Thursday, 5:30pm (PT); 8:30pm (ET), US Healthcare is failing patients and physicians
Via Zoom – Registraiton: Meeting Registration – Zoom
Take a step your single payer journey and share space with others interested in expanding their knowledge of single payer. This talk will highlight shortcomings in the current healthcare system and explain why single payer is the best solution to many of those issues – and how it would work! Speaker: Dr. Diljeet K. Singh, MD, DrPH
Host: Physicians For A National Health Program
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Sunday, April 28, 2024, Student Gaza Solidarity Encampments (From CAIR)
This is a growing list of college campuses in the US
Known International Universities (encampments)
1. Science Po Paris, France
2. Warwick University, UK
3. University of Sydney, Australia
4. University of Melbourne, Australia
5. Concordia University, Canada
6. Mc Gill University, Canada
NLG Further Resources:
Know Your Risks at Campus Protests Infographics
NLG Know Your Rights for Campus Protests Guide
NLG MA and CAIR MA KYR for Student Disciplinary Hearings
