By Adrienne fong
Am not back posting on a regular basis.
RESOURCES:
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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
There are events listed on Indybay that might be of interest to you(many listings in the South, North & East Bays and beyond the bay area)
Please post your actions on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12
Bay Area Progressive Action Calendar
ATW Bay Area / NorCal — Action Together West
ARTICLES
A. Trump seizes control of Washington DC police and deploys national guard – August 11, 2025
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/11/trump-washington-dc-crime
See Petition # 2
B. Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera staff killed by Israel in Gaza – August 10, 2025
See Event # 2
C. Video: ICE officers tackle and detain San Francisco protesters – August 8, 2025
Video: ICE officers tackle and detain San Francisco protesters
See Events # 1 & 5
D. 80 Years of Lies: The US Finally Admits It Knew It Didn’t Need to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki – August 6, 2025
Eighty Years of Lies: Why the US Really Nuked Japan
E. Labor Leader Chris Smalls Describes Israeli Arrest & Assault After Military Raids Gaza Flotilla – August 5, 2025
F. Research Increasingly Links Pesticides to Neurological Disorders – August 4, 2025
Research Increasingly Links Pesticides to Neurological Disorders • Children’s Health Defense
2 PETITIONS:
1. Congress Must Defund the GHF and Restore a UN-Led Humanitarian Response in Gaza
SIGN: Congress Must Defund the GHF and Restore a UN-led Humanitarian Response in Gaza | Win Without War
2. No federal militarized takeover of our nation’s capital!
SIGN: No federal militarized takeover of our nation’s capital! | MoveOn
EVENTS / ACTIONS
Tuesday, August 12 – Saturday, August 16
Tuesday, August 12
1. Tuesday, 8:15am – 4:15am, ICE out of San Francisco courts!
100 Montgomery St.
SF
1 block away from Montgomery BART (or only a few steps away, if you take the stairs at the 44 Montgomery exit).
Note: Have been informed that ICE cops take a ‘lunch break’ from 12Noon – 1pm
Join neighbors, activists, grassroots organizations in resisting ICE abductions happening at immigration court hearings!
We meet every Tuesday and Friday outside of one of the SF immigration court buildings to:
- deter ICE from taking people
- accompany people to their court proceedings
- walk people to their transportation home, to reduce their chances of being abducted in transit
- encourage oncoming traffic to honk in support 🙂
- share literature and snacks
Court is in session from 8am – 4pm. Including cleanup & last call for accompaniment home, we’re outside from 8am – 4:30pm / 4:45pm.
Serious violence against protestors has occurred, but most days thus far have passed without incident.
Everyone is welcome and every one is vital, even if you can only participate for the better part of an hour.
Host: Autonomous + DSA
Info: ICE out of San Francisco courts! : Indybay
2. Tuesday, 6:00pm, BAY AREA: ALL EYES ON GAZA, RISE UP FOR OUR MARTYRS!
Union Square
SF
With an impending ground invasion in Gaza City, the occupation deliberately targeted journalists in Gaza including Anas al-Sharif in a calculated assault aimed at silencing Gaza’s voice. The occupation is attempting to sever Gaza’s lifeline to the world by targeting journalists and to isolate Gaza completely.
These are the names of the latest Journalists targeted for covering the on-going genocide in Gaza
REST IN POWER
Anas Al-sharif
Ibrahim Zaher
Mohammed Noufal
Moamen Aliwa
Mohammed Qreigeh
The Israeli military made a statement after the assassination, claiming responsibility for the intentional targeting of Anas. Before he was martyred, Anas was warning about the impending ground invasion in to Gaza City, calling on the world to take action. We must take action.
The Bay Area is answering the call to action to rise up for our martyrs. Join us TOMORROW to demand accountability for the assasination of journalists and an end to the genocide in Gaza
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/DNOgp_iSG_y/
Wednesday, August 13
3. Wednesday, 6:00pm, Justice for Zumbi
Clarion Alley
(between Mission and Valencia Streets and 17th and 18th Streets
SF
Bring candles. Bring your love. Bring your voice.
we gather as family, friends, and community to honor the life of our brother Zumbi, murdered inside Alta Bates hospital on August 13, 2021.
Nearly 4 years later, the truth is still buried. No accountability. No justice.
We refuse to stay silent. We will stand in love, in power, and in unity. There will be music, candles, stories, and the spirit of Zumbi alive in every beat.
Info: Justice for Zumbi : Indybay
Thursday, August 14
4. Thursday, 11:30am – 1:00pm, Protect Social Security Benefits and Staff – Celebrate SSA’s 90th Birthday
SF Federal Building
90 7th St.
SF
Join us Aug. 14 as we demand Social Security Administrator Frank Bisignano:
– Fully staff the Social Security Administration to reduce wait times and ensure high quality service delivered by professionals, not machines.
– Protect the private information that millions of Americans have entrusted to the Social Security Administration.
– Make the rich pay their fair share so that we can expand Social Security and keep it strong for the next 90 years.
Host: AFGE Local 3172
Info: Protect Social Security Benefits and Staff – Celebrate SSA’s 90th Birthday : Indybay
Friday, August 15
5. Friday, 8:15am – 4:15pm, ICE out of San Francisco courts!
100 Montgomery St.
SF
1 block away from Montgomery BART (or only a few steps away, if you take the stairs at the 44 Montgomery exit).
Join neighbors, activists, grassroots organizations in resisting ICE abductions happening at immigration court hearings!
We meet every Tuesday and Friday outside of one of the SF immigration court buildings to:
- deter ICE from taking people
- accompany people to their court proceedings
- walk people to their transportation home, to reduce their chances of being abducted in transit
- encourage oncoming traffic to honk in support 🙂
- share literature and snacks
Court is in session from 8am – 4pm. Including cleanup & last call for accompaniment home, we’re outside from 8am – 4:30pm / 4:45pm.
Serious violence against protestors has occurred, but most days thus far have passed without incident.
Everyone is welcome and every one is vital, even if you can only participate for the better part of an hour.
Info: ICE out of San Francisco courts! : Indybay
6. Friday, 8:30am, Mass Action at Wells Fargo’s Global HQ
333 Market St.
SF
We’re shutting down Wells Fargo again.
A couple weeks ago, we put Wells Fargo on notice. Protestors blockaded every entrance to their global corporate HQ for hours, keeping dozens of employees from helping their bosses bankroll fossil fuels and genocide. Then, last week, a rowdy picket line and noise demo caused a serious commotion, calling out Wells Fargo for financing Palantir and Elbit Systems, companies enabling the genocide and mass starvation in Gaza.
Now we’re coming back and turning the pressure up even higher.
We’ll shut them down again with a powerful, noisy action that involves delivering a petition with tens of thousands of signatures, demanding that Wells Fargo:
*Reinstate its climate targets
* Stop union busting
* Back off our public post office
* Commit to racial equity
*And stop financing ICE contractors and weapons manufacturers carrying out atrocities in Gaza
Joining us will be delegates from the Gulf South, a region on the frontlines of climate disaster, representing communities hit hardest by the fossil fuel projects that Wells continues to underwrite. And Scientists Rebellion will speak out on how Wells’ investments are pushing us deeper into ecological and social collapse.
Wells Fargo is a key player in the web of billionaire finance, corporate violence, and climate destruction. We’re demanding accountability and directly challenging their role in rising authoritarianism and repression.
Host: Stop Billionaire Summer
Info: Mass Action at Wells Fargo’s Global HQ : Indybay
Saturday, August 16
7. Saturday, 12 Noon, 80 Years of Occupation – US Out of Korea
Eastshore Park
Oakland
SIX cities across the US will mark the 80th anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonialism with a national day of action for the US Out of Korea campaign.
August 15, known as Liberation Day in Korea, marks the end of the Japanese occupation of Korea in 1945. Liberation Day is bittersweet for the Korean people, because as Japanese colonialism ended, the ongoing US occupation and division of our homeland began.
August 15th also marks the start of the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises, a massive series of US-led war games in Korea that rehearse invasion, regime change, and war crimes.
While the US claims these exercises as “defensive”, the real content of these war drills proves otherwise—during Ulchi Freedom Shield, the US and South Korea will deliberately provoke Pyongyang with simulated invasions of North Korea, which in the past has included drills practicing the use of nuclear weapons against the Korean people.
In response, progressive organizations, trade unions, and political parties in South Korea will mobilize hundreds of thousands of people on August 15th to demand an end to US-ROK military exercises and protest the recent US-ROK tariff deal, which plunders hundreds of billions of dollars from the South Korean economy to pad the pockets of US corporations.
Popular anger against Trump and the US is spreading in South Korea. As our people mobilize, we in the belly of the beast must answer in turn: join Nodutdol and allied organizations on August 15th as we echo their demands in NYC, Philly, DC, Seattle, Oakland, and Los Angeles!
Info: Facebook
8. Saturday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Bearing Witness for Palestine
498 Haight St (corner of Haight & Fillmore
SF
We stand on the corner of Haight and Fillmore Streets (Lower Haight, San Francisco) for one hour every month to bear witness for Palestine and the Palestinian people.
