By Adrienne Fong
Subject: Articles~ Petition~ Events for Monday, 12/30 – Tuesday, 1/7 + Save the Dates
Please hold the family and friends of Renay Davis in your thoughts. (more info soon)
R.I.P.
Renay Davis
Not posting on a regular basis.
See list of Calendar of Events on Palestine from AROC: https://www.araborganizing.org/events/
If your post is about Palestine you can also list your action on the AROC calendar
Many other events are listed on Indybay that might be of interest to you (many actions re Palestine in the South, North & East Bays are also listed)
Please post your actions on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12
See Indybay for other listings of events
Many activist groups are now posting on INSTAGRAM and not using facebook nor Indybay
ARTICLES
A. Demand the reinstatement of Dr. Rupa Marya at UC San Francisco – December 29, 2024
Demand the reinstatement of Dr. Rupa Marya at UC San Francisco – Mondoweiss
See Event #k 5
B. IRGC chief lauds Yemen support for Palestine, Asserts Yemeni Victory against Israel amid Gaza crisis December 29, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfTYTG83MRE
C. Israel attacks Yemen’s main airport while UN health chief boards flight – December 28, 2024
D. Victory at Hilton Hotel – SF , December 24, 2024
Turn on your sound. SF Hilton was the last SF Hotel on strike for 93 days –
E. S.F. police shooting victim Pete Hodge idolized cops, law enforcement – December 24, 2024
R.I.P.
Pete Hodge idolized
F. DR Congo sues #Apple over alleged use of conflict minerals December 20, 2024
G. “Christ Is Still in the Rubble”: Bethlehem Rev. Isaac Calls on U.S. to Stop Funding Gaza Genocide
“Christ Is Still in the Rubble”: Bethlehem Rev. Isaac Calls on U.S. to Stop Funding Gaza Genocide
H. Slow Motion Genocide and Resistance in Haiti – December 19, 2024
Slow Motion Genocide and Resistance in Haiti – CounterPunch.org
I. How do events in Syria affect the struggle in Palestine? – December 12, 2024
How do events in Syria affect the struggle in Palestine?
J. RFS Song to the World – December 2023
PETITIONS
1. Stop US penalty on Spain for Blocking Weapons to Israel
SIGN” Stop US penalty on Spain for Blocking Weapons to Israel
EVENTS / ACTIONS
Monday, December 30 – Tuesday, January 7
Monday, December 30
Sorry for posting this one so late – SFPD will be posting a recording of their townhall
1. Monday, 3:00pm, SFPD Town Hall re Officer-Involved-Shooting
Virtual and Not in person! Info is from SFPD site
https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/news/officer-involved-shooting-ois-town-hall-meeting-scheduled
Also on SFPD’s Facebook site:
Officer-Involved Shooting (OIS) Town Hall Meeting | Facebook
As part of the San Francisco Police Department’s commitment to accountability and transparency with our community, a virtual town hall meeting will be held on Monday, December 30, 2024, at 3:00 PM to provide the community with an update on the investigation of the officer-involved shooting that occurred in the area of Grant Ave. and Post St. on Friday, December 20, 2024.
This virtual town hall will be streamed on SFGovTV’s YouTube page (https://www.sfgovtv.org/SFPDTownhall )
Following a presentation by the SFPD command staff, time will be allotted for viewers wishing to offer public comment. Viewers may call in at the following number:
Public Comment Call-In: 1-415-655-0001 / 1-408-418-9388
Access Code: 2663 292 6508##
Press *3 to raise hand and speak.
If you require language interpretation, please contact SFPD Media Relations at sfpdmediarelations@sfgov.org or call 1-415-837-7395.
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
2. Wednesday, 12Noon – 4:00pm, 16th Annual Oscar Grant Vigil
Fruitvale BART Station
Oakland
Join us in honoring Oscar Grant’s life and building community. Let’s reaffirm our commitment to uplifting our community and championing equity and justice.
Let’s come together to reflect and stand in solidarity. #OscarGrant #JusticeForOscarGrant #OaklandVigil #equityandjustice
Info: 16th Annual Oscar Grant Vigil : Indybay
Saturday, January 4
3. Saturday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, All Things Bayview’s Health Justice2 Rally
(Darling Animal Rendering Plant)
Join All Things Bayview and Gray Panthers of San Francisco
This is more than a rally—it’s a movement for health, dignity, and justice in Bayview-Hunters Point (BVHP). The Bayview Hunters Point community in San Francisco is in the grip of an environmental crisis born of decades of systemic neglect and environmental racism. This predominantly Black, Asian American/Pacific Islander, and Latinx, low-income neighborhood bears the crushing weight of toxic contamination and industrial pollution, with devastating impacts on their health, air, soil, and water. See the latest SF Public Press articles about radiation from the Hunters Point Naval shipyard.
For over 50 years, Darling Ingredients, Inc. has operated an animal rendering facility in BVHP, releasing noxious, gut-pinching* emissions into the air. Combined with pollution from other sources, including three concrete plants—two have operated without valid air quality permits—a sewage treatment facility, and a Superfund site contaminated with radioactive and toxic waste, BVHP ranks among the most polluted and hazardous communities in California. The soil is poisoned, the air is choked with toxins, and the water is contaminated, creating a perfect storm of environmental devastation.
Physically isolated by two major freeways, BVHP is a glaring example of environmental racism, where decades of governmental inaction and regulatory laxity have allowed industry after industry to poison the community unchecked*.
Info from Gray Panthers of San Francisco
Sunday, January 5
4. Sunday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Queers For A Free Palestine
Castro & Market Sts.
SF
Join Gay Shame and @queersunderminingisraeliterror for a Queers for a Free Palestine mellow demo.
Meet at Castro and Market in SF.
This will be a stationary action (not a march, more of those soon!).
Come masked and ready to remind the horrible gays of the Castro that trans and queer people demand boycott, divestment, sanctions and more until a liberated Palestine.
#gayshame #Castro #LGBT #freepalestine #queer #trans #sanfrancisco #QUIT! #untilvictory
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/DD3mNEtxVmF/
Monday, January 6
5. Monday, ALL Healthcare workers & allies Sick From Genocide – Call Out Sick
We are broken. After 15 months of witnessing genocide in Gaza, we can no longer continue. We are sick from genocide, sick from complicity, and sick from silence.
On January 6th, we take Sick Leave. To all healthcare workers, professionals, and allies—stand with us. Pause. Grieve.
Demand an end to the Genocide.
We escalate.
Free Dr Abu Safiyeh!
Free Palestine!
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/DELEIImSCEu/
Tuesday, January 7
6. Tuesday, 4:00pm Health Commission Meeting
Agenda will come out the Friday pm prior (Friday Jan 3): this is a general health commission meeting and may have limited information about LHH. Agenda will be posted at https://www.sf.gov/departments/san-francisco-health-commission/upcoming-meetings
Brief Concerns about Laguna Honda:
1. There is lack of transparency about the admissions process. There are multiple empty beds (over 300) with very slow admission rates. Is Laguna Honda/SFDPH really reaching out to those in need in the community
2. Focus on short term post acute rehab will not fill the beds, or meet the needs of many San Franciscans: In order to generate more revenue, there has been a focus by the SF Health Dept. and the Health Commission on short term post acute “rehab” stays (generates the most dollars, especially for patients insured by Medicare and/or private insurance).
LHH post acute rehab is surely needed. However, our public facility should serve the nursing home needs of all San Franciscans and not just the ones with short term post-acute rehab needs
3. San Franciscans are aging and need long term beds: Long term or “custodial” stays at a nursing home are paid for (at lower rates than “rehab”) only by Medi-cal(Medicaid), only partially by expensive long term care insurance which few can afford, or cash. Medicare and other health insurance does not pay for long term care. Yet, in a city with an aging population, the need for long term nursing home care is increasing. Multiple nursing home beds have closed in the past 20 years. San Franciscans who need nursing home care and don’t get it are at risk of suffering and dying at home or in residential facilities (which are non medical).
4. Why are ALL types of admissions so slow? As of the end of November, less than 420 of the 769 licensed nursing home beds were occupied.
5. Has a decision been made to “lose” 120 nursing home beds? CMS (the federal government) will not allow Laguna Honda to fill 120 licensed nursing home beds because of a 2016 regulation that says all nursing homes opened after 2016 have to have no more than a 2 bed to bathroom ratio. Although Laguna Honda has been continuously open (despite being decertified in April 2022), CMS is using the decertification to treat LHH like a new nursing home. In fact the LHH building was finished about 2010. The 120 3 bed suites are spacious, airy and private although they do share a bathroom. SFDPH leaders have stated in the past that CMS is likely to grant an application for a “waiver” to this regulation only when LHH “proves” that improvement is “sustained.” Only then can those 120 beds be filled. At this time quite a few state and federal surveyors have come and gone. LHH has been fully certified for months.
Info from Gray Panthers SF
SAVE THE DATES
1. Sunday, January 19, 1:00pm, We Fight Back
Civic Center Plaza
335 McAllister St.
SF
The day before Inauguration Day, January 19th, people from across Northern California will come together in San Francisco to demand a future that centers the needs of the people over the interests of the wealthy elite. With voices raised for workers’ rights, immigrant rights, environmental justice, and an end to the genocide in Gaza, we will stand for working people, not a billionaire’s agenda-from the local to the global, from defending people at home to ending the U.S. war machine.
Info: We Fight Back : Indybay
2. Monday, January 20, March & Actions to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy (This is also Inauguration Day of Trump)
Details soon!
SAVE THE DATE! Inauguration Day falls on MLK Day and we are ready to start the new year building towards liberation with our Annual March and Week of Action to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy!
Are you enraged because of the deep
ening facism and police state in this country? Disgusted and heart sick by the ongoing genocide in Palestine? Appalled at the attacks against our unhoused neighbors?
Oakland will not concede to fascism. We knew no matter the outcome of this election, this system was never meant to serve the people: WE take care of US.
See you in the streets on January 20th!
Info: Facebook
