By Adrienne Fong
Not posting on a regular basis.
Hold all people, animals in S. Calif. In your thoughts. Many things do not add up and on many levels sound like a repeat of Maui fire. Keep an open mind and ask questions!!
Hold the people of Tibet and Nepal who experienced a 7.1 earthquake and many aftershocks
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. Government Quietly Announces Dangerous New Plan for More Plutonium at Livermore Lab to Increase its Nuclear Weapons Activities – January 14, 2024
Government Quietly Announces Dangerous New Plan for More Plutonium at Livermore Lab to Increase its Nuclear Weapons Activities – Tri Valley CAREs
B. Why the West is wrong about Hamas – January 14, 2025
Why the West is wrong about Hamas | The Electronic Intifada
C. Insidious Zionist Organization Attacks Doctors Against Genocide – January 13, 2024
Insidious Zionist Organization Attacks Doctors Against Genocide – YouTube
8 min youtube of Chris Hedges with Dr Rupa (this is one of 3 interviews)
D. LA wildfire victims face exploitation as landlords hike rents in violation of emergency laws – January 13, 2025
E. Despite repression, the campus movement for Palestine remains strong – January 12, 2025
Despite repression, the campus movement for Palestine remains strong – Mondoweiss
F. Slow motion genocide and resistance in Haiti – January 11, 2025
Slow motion genocide and resistance in Haiti
G. Plastic Garbage containers don’t burn in LA fires? (30 seconds) – January 11, 2025
Palisades Fire Update: Impact on Los Angeles Community | TikTok
H. Judge threatens to break the UK’s wall of secrecy around Assange’s persecution – January 10, 2025
Judge threatens to break the UK’s wall of secrecy around Assange’s persecution
See Petition # 4
I. Lancet Study Finds Official Gaza Death Toll Likely a 41% Undercount – January 10, 2025
Lancet Study Finds Official Gaza Death Toll Likely a 41% Undercount | Common Dreams
J. How research at MIT abets Israel’s genocide in Gaza – December 27, 2024
How research at MIT abets Israel’s genocide in Gaza | The Electronic Intifada
PETITIONS
1. Stop US penalty on Spain for Blocking Weapons to Israel
SIGN: Stop US penalty on Spain for Blocking Weapons to Israel
2. End weapons sales to Netanyahu!
End weapons sales to Netanyahu! | Demand Progress
3. Urge Biden: Grant Leonard Peltier Clemency Now
SIGN: Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund
4. Urge President Biden to pardon Julian Assange by adding your name to the letter emailed directly to Pardon Attorney Elizabeth Oyer.
SIGN: The Assange Campaign | Send the open letter | Pardon Julian Assange
5. Tell Biden: Pardon Steven Donziger!
SIGN: Tell Biden: Pardon Steven Donziger!
– After securing a landmark judgement against Chevron, environmental lawyer Steven Donziger was convicted in a private prosecution led by a law firm with ties to the oil and gas industry. Tell Biden to pardon Donziger!
6. Wealthy Nations Must Step Up for Tibet and Nepal After Earthquake Claims 120 Lives
SIGN: petition: Wealthy Nations Must Step Up for Tibet and Nepal After Earthquake Claims 120 Lives
7. IT’S TIME TO STRENGTHEN 24/7 ACCESS TO CARE
PETITION for Scheduled Executions in January
January 31, 2025 at 6:00 pm ET:
Marion Bowman Jr. in South Carolina
EVENTS / ACTIONS
Wednesday, January 15 – Saturday, January 25
Wednesday, January 15
1. Wednesday, 6:00am – 8:00am (PT); 9:00am – 11:00am(ET), Zoom Press Conference: Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal Final Verdicts
Online registrationto receive link: Zoom Press Conference: Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal Final Verdicts
On January 15 at 9:00am Eastern Time the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal in a worldwide live-streamed Zoom press conference will conclude its three-year investigation of United States weapons makers Lockheed Martin, Boeing, RTX (Raytheon), and drone maker General Atomics, charged by the Tribunal with conspiring to commit War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity, and Genocide, all in violation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
During this event, the Tribunal will present its final report as well as the verdicts from all ten judges of the Tribunal. Speaking will be Col. Ann Wright (U.S. Army), Emerita Professor of Law Marjorie Cohn, and World BEYOND War Executive Director David Swanson.
Evidence has been presented to the public and to the judges during the last three years containing interviews with retired military officials, international lawyers, award-winning journalists, doctors, and victims of war.
Host: Merchants of Death Crimes Tribunal
Info: Online Press Conference: Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal Final Verdicts : Indybay
2. Wednesday, 10:00am-11:30am (PT); 1:00pm – 2:30pm(ET), Migrants and Muslims at Guantanamo: A history of demonization, social control and resistance
Online registration: Migrants and Muslims at Guantanamo: A history of demonization, social control and resistance
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21sNvIB6fNc
January 11th, 2025 will mark 23 years since the Guantanamo Bay prison was repurposed to house Muslim men and boys captured in the “War on Terror.” The prison has long served as an emblematic example of institutionalized Islamophobia and also represents the U.S. government’s ongoing vilification and incarceration of different marginalized communities.
Recent reports that the US government has been violating the rights of refugees and asylum seekers detained at the base’s Migrant Operations Center have revived the brutal history of Guantanamo, harkening back to its initial use in the 90s to house Cuban and Haitian refugees and asylum seekers. Though the US government has ensured that the prison is kept out of sight and out of mind, dismantling and abolishing the prison is ever more urgent given the capacity and interest of the powerful to recycle the prison as a detention site for the most criminalized and demonized groups.
To explore these connections, Guantanamo’s legacy, and how the entrenched image — that the prison houses the “worst of the worst” – justifies its existence and evolution, join Muslim Counterpublics Lab, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Amnesty International, and the National Immigrant Justice Center for a virtual panel
The panel will also address the logics and operations of Guantanamo as part of the US carceral state beyond domestic borders. Finally, the panelists will speak to how we can unify our collective resistance and advocacy efforts to: 1) ensure the closure of the prison and the Migrant Operations Center, and 2) protect all of our communities from the brutality that Guantanamo represents.
Panelist Bios:
Mansoor Adayfi is a writer, artist, human rights advocate, and former prisoner who spent over 14 years at Guantánamo Bay Prison Camp without charges or trial.
His first book titled, “Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo,” was published by Hachette and met with critical acclaim with reviews in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and numerous others. Mansoor is also a co-founder and the outreach director for the Guantanamo Survivors Fund.
Erik Crew is a Staff Attorney at Haitian Bridge Alliance, now leads HBA’s impact litigation docket and HBA’s work in international legal fora. Prior to HBA, Erik was a Bertha Justice Fellow with the Institute of Justice & Democracy in Haiti and the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He is a member of the New York State Bar and a registered practitioner with the Department of Justice’s Executive Office of Immigration Review.
Dr. Maha Hilal is the author of the book Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11 and her writings have appeared in Vox, Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, Newsweek, Business Insider, The Daily Beast, and Truthout, among others. She is also the founding Executive Director of Muslim Counterpublics Lab. Dr. Hilal is also an Adjunct Professorial Lecturer at American University in Washington, DC where she also earned her doctorate in May 2014 in Justice, Law, and Society.
Jesse Franzblau is the senior policy analyst for National Immigrant Justice Center’s (NIJC) D.C.-based Policy Team. He works on NIJC’s Transparency and Human Rights Project and conducts investigative research on human rights abuses at the U.S.-Mexico border. Previously, Jesse worked at Open the Government, directing the FOIA projects and specializing in open government laws to increase access to information on immigration policies, and has published articles with Al Jazeera, The Nation, The Intercept, Truthout, Huffington Post, Michigan Journal of Public Affairs, Proceso (MX), the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, and other outlets.
Moderator Bio:
Nadia Ben-Youssef is the Advocacy Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She directs all advocacy around issues related to the promotion of civil and human rights.
ASL Translation and live transcription will be provided for this event.
Info: Facebook
Host: Muslim Counterpublics Lab
Thursday, January 16
3. Thursday, 9:00am-11:00am(PT); 12Noon-2:00pm (ET): The Crisis of Public International Law: The Case of Palestine and Impunity for Genocide
Register for Zoom: Webinar Registration – Zoom
Fifteen months of Israel’s accelerated genocide against the Palestinian people, unrestrained by effective legal prophylaxes or accountability, has exposed to the world a terrible crisis in international law. The International Court of Justice has ordered preliminary measures, declaring that South Africa’s case against Israel for genocide is plausible, while the International Criminal Court Office has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
he International Court of Justice, in a July 2024 Advisory Opinion, determined that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian Territory, including Gaza, West Bank and East Jerusalem, continues, is illegal and must stop. Against this backdrop of legal decisions and incontrovertible evidence of genocide, the US, Germany and other states have continued to provide Israel with billions of dollars in weaponry, and the US invited Netanyahu and other Israeli politicians to be honoured at the US Congress. The illegality of Israel’s war against Palestinians is at the same time obscured by claims advanced by the US and other states that the Israeli war, determined as ‘plausible genocide,’ is just part of a so-called “rules-based international order.” Domestic and international institutions and legal systems have appeared largely co-opted by the US.
Join the Monique and Roland Weyl People’s Academy of International Law for an informative, analytical and practice-oriented seminar and discussion on what meaningful utility remains for international law and legal institutions in a time of genocide and impunity.
Faculty: Raji Sourani, Director of Palestinian Centre for Human Rights;
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories;
Maria LaHood, Deputy Legal Director at Center for Constitutional Rights;
Shahd Hammouri, Lecturer in Law at Kent Law School in the UK;
Moderated by Dean Marjorie Cohn
Info: The Crisis of Public International Law: The Case of Palestine and Impunity for Genocide : Indybay
4. Thursday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, Panel: Media in a Time of War and Resistance
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalist
1924 Cedar
Berkeley
RSVP: Panel: Media in a Time of War and Resistance – Action Network
$5-$20 sliding scale at the door, no one turned away for lack of funds. All proceeds to cover the cost of the event.
The panelist:
Join us as we discuss media in the age of war and resistance, why it matters and how to stand in solidarity with those on the frontlines.
Bio// Nora Barrows-Friedman is an associate editor at The Electronic Intifada and the co-host of the weekly EI Livestream. She has been reporting on Palestine for more than 20 years, and worked with Dennis Bernstein at Flashpoints from 2003-2010.
Bio// Dennis Bernstein is a poet, human rights reporter, host of Flashpoints on KPFA 94.1 Pacifica Radio. He is the author of Notebook 19, Five Oceans in a Teaspoon, and Special Ed: Voices from a Hidden Classroom.
Bio//Robert Buzzanco is co-host of the Green and Red Podcast, a professor of history at the University of Houston, and author of Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era, Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life, and American Power, American People.
Event hosted by the Green and Red Podcast, Aid and Abet, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Social Justice Committee, Oil and Gas Action Network and Mt. Diablo Rising Tide
Info: Panel: Media in a Time of War and Resistance with Dennis Bernstein, Bob Buzzanco, others : Indybay
Saturday, January 18
5. Saturday, 11:00am People’s March San Francisco (See Indybay for other Bay Area listings)
Meet at:
24th & Bryant St. (intersection)
SF
March to Dolores Park for rally
March is set to step off at 12:00 PM SHARP from 24th and Bryant
Route:
24th & Bryant
24th & Mission 16th & Mission
16th & Valencia
18th & Valencia
18th & Dolores
WE’RE NOT GOING BACKWARDS! UNITED, WE MARCH FORWARD TOGETHER!
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” — Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
We all march for different reasons, but we march for the same cause: to defend our rights and our future.
If you believe that decisions about your body should remain yours, that books belong in libraries, not on bonfires, that healthcare is a right, not a privilege for the wealthy; if you believe in the power of free speech and protest to sustain democracy; or if you want an economy that works for the people who power it—then this march is for you.
The People’s March is about one thing: our power.
Host: Multiple SF community groups
Info: People’s March San Francisco : Indybay
Sunday, January 19
6. Sunday, 9:30am – 1:30pm, In person Non-Violent Direct Action Training (For Travis AFB action on 1/23)
Register: Registration for NVDA Training
See item # 11
Planning meeting and NVDA training.
This nonviolence direct action training will be given on Sunday, January 19, 2025 from 9:30AM-1:30PM
The location will be emailed to you beforehand.
The purpose is to prepare our community for action at Travis Air Force Base on January 23, 2025, and beyond.
We request that you wear a mask or test for Covid before coming.
7. Sunday, 12Noon (PT); 3:00pm(ET), Military Law Task Force Information Session
RSVP – Register: Meeting Registration – Zoom
Webinar for training of GI lawyers and counselors
Active military and veterans of conscience have resisted the U.S. war machine for generations and the fight continues. With the threat of mass mobilization for military actions like mass deportation, protest repression, and more, we understand that the need for capacity to support service members resisting unethical or illegal orders will only increase in the coming months.
The Military Law Task Force plays a critical role in supporting these service members whose rights are being violated or who are facing consequences for their resistance. Join us for an information session on how to get involved with the Military Law Task Force to support military free speech and the right to resist illegal and unethical orders. Lawyers, legal workers, and volunteers are welcome.
Info: Veterans For Peace National Office
https://www.veteransforpeace.org/
8. Sunday, 1:00pm, We Fight Back
Meet at SF Civic Center Plaza
355 McAllister
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.
Sponsored by multiple organizations
Info: We Fight Back : Indybay
Monday, January 20
Martin Luther Jr. King Day & Inauguration of Donald Trump
9. Monday, 11:00am, Anti Police-Terror Project’s 11th Annual Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy March & Events
Meet at:
14Th & Broadway (Oscar Grant Plaza)
Oakland
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!
ACCESSIBILITY: Rapid covid tests before action and N/KN95 masks strongly encouraged. KN95 masks will be distributed throughout march. The route should be approximately 4 miles long. There will be a disability contingent at the front of the march and vehicles available to support those who cannot engage in the full march.
Livestream of all speakers with ASL interpretation will be available via Zoom.
Click in red box below to see schedule of related events with APTP week of actions from Thursday, January 16 – Saturday, January 25, to reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy
The state would have us forget who MLK the revolutionary was, as they sell us back a whitewashed, perverted version of King that’s palatable to empire, to capitalism and to white supremacy.
For over a decade, the Anti Police-Terror Project has called a mass march on MLK Day to Reclaim the true revolutionary spirit of Dr. King. Towards the end of King’s short life he had moved towards a politic rooted in Black liberation and freedom—and he vociferously rejected war, capitalism, and white supremacy.
“The time has come for America to face the inevitable choice between materialism and humanism. We must devote at least as much to our children’s education and the health of the poor as we do to the care of our automobiles and the building of beautiful, impressive hotels. We must also realize that the problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
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.
Host: APTP
Info: Anti Police-Terror Project’s 11th Annual Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy March : Indybay
10. Monday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, Protest Fascist Trump’s Inauguration
Entrance to UC Berkeley (Bancroft Way and Telegraph Ave)
Berkeley
Join us for a dramatic protest at the entrance to UC Berkeley at Bancroft Way and Telegraph Avenue in response to the inauguration of Donald Trump, marking the beginning of Trump/MAGA fascism 2.0—a regime backed by all three branches of government and driven by a cabinet that epitomizes racism, misogyny, and anti-science policies.
We’re calling for nonviolent mass actions to announce to the world that a powerful movement is forming—one that can create a political crisis significant enough to prevent the implementation of Trump’s fascist program. We also urge people to question the system that has allowed such a regime to come to power and to consider the need for revolutionary change to create a fundamentally different way of living.
As part of this nationwide call to action, the protest at UC Berkeley will stand as a declaration against a fascist America, inviting all to join in proclaiming:
NO! IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY, WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT A FASCIST AMERICA!
THIS WHOLE SYSTEM IS ROTTEN AND ILLEGITIMATE! WE NEED AND WE DEMAND A WHOLE NEW WAY TO LIVE, A FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT SYSTEM!
For more information: http://bit.ly/m/revcomlinks
Host: Revcom corp Bay
Info: Protest Fascist Trump’s Inauguration : Indybay
Thursday, January 23
11. Thursday, 10:00am, Shut Down Travis Air Force Base – People’s Arm Embargo
Rally at Main gate:
Air Base Parkway & Parker Rd.
Fairfield, CA
Flier: PAE_2025-01-23_Action-FLYER (3).pdf
with banners, flags, keffiyehs, and our bodies for nonviolent action to stop the arms flow
For info: The People’s Arms Embargo – If governments won’t stop genocide, the people will!
Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, CA is the largest AFB in the country and an important transport base. There is concrete evidence that in October-December 2023, there were planes clearly labeled as coming from Travis AFB that delivered weapons to Israel.
There has been Facebook postings from servicemen on the base boasting of sending these weapons.
Saturday, January 25
12. Saturday, 10:00am, Taxpayers Against Genocide national webinar
Register: Webinar Registration – Zoom
This webinar will provide information about how grassroots activists across 10 different counties in Northern CA organized and launched the Taxpayers Against Genocide (TAG) class action lawsuit against their members of Congress. The webinar is the beginning of a nationwide network supporting taxpayer’s efforts to hold our elected officials across the US accountable for illegal use of our tax dollars that make us complicit in genocide.
Host for webinar: Roots Action
