By Adrienne Fong
Not back posting on a regular basis.
RESOURCES:
UPDATES WITH BAY RESISTANCE and get plugged to actions you can support, text “Resist” to 888-850-0928
GI HOTLINE (877) 477-4497
Center On Conscience and War: 800-379-2679 (toll free) In Washington DC
– Share these numbers to people who know active duty service members
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. US Senate Democrats block defence bill over Iran war, Israel integration – July 14, 2026
B. Dr. Feroze Sidhwa Reports On The Atrocities Being Committed In Gaza July 13, 2026
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa Reports On The Atrocities Being Committed In Gaza – PopularResistance.Org
See Petition # 1
See Event: 1
C. Developer Eyes Cow Palace In Plan to Build Data Centers at Eight Bay Area Fairgrounds July 9, 2026
Resistance to Data Centers is increasing in the U.S.
An unprecedented wave of local resistance has disrupted seventy five mega computing facilities across the United States in just three months. Over eight hundred active grassroots coalitions have successfully organized to freeze one hundred thirty billion dollars in planned infrastructure developments.
D. The Stud Alley Photos That The Media Left Out, And What It Tells Us – July 6, 2026
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/07/06/18887235.phphttps://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/07/06/18887235.php
E. Golden Gate Bridge Gaza Protesters: Jury Deadlocked on Felony Conspiracy Charges – July 2, 2026
Sentencing is in August – will post info then.
F. Politicians know they’ll get booed at Trans March; harassment from cops is real issue – June 29, 2026
Politicians know they’ll get booed at Trans March; harassment from cops is real issue – 48 hills
G. Trump Designated Antifa “Domestic Terrorists” – New Prosecutions Follow His lead – June 24, 2026
Trump Designated Antifa “Domestic Terrorists” — New Prosecutions Follow His Lead | Truthout
H. Prairieland Defendant Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison For Moving a Box of Antifascist Zines – June 23, 2026
Prairieland Defendant: 30 Years in Prison for Moving a Box of Antifascist Zines
I. Senate votes to direct Trump to withdraw troops from Iran conflict, 4 Republicans break ranks
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5936650-iran-war-powers-senate/
On Tuesday, the chamber voted 50 to 48 to pass the resolution, which had been approved in the House of Representatives earlier in the month.
J. San José State Professor Fired Over Campus Gaza Protests to Win Back Job – June 23, 2026
San José State Professor Fired Over Campus Gaza Protests to Win Back Job | KQED
K. New eyes in SoMa skies: SFPD to launch drone pilot this fall – June 16, 2026
https://missionlocal.org/2026/06/sfpd-soma-drone-pilot/
8 PETITIONS
1. Release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya!
SIGN” https://www.amnesty.org/en/petition/release-dr-hussam-abu-safiya/
2. Demand your members of Congress vote NO on $88 billion Iran War funding!
SIGN: Alert: Iran War $88 billion funding request – Peace Action
3. This is How We Stop Trump’s $1.5 Trillion Pentagon Plan
SIGN: This is How We Stop Trump’s $1.5 Trillion Pentagon Plan | Win Without War
4. Urge AG Bonta to Drop Charges Against Stanford 11
SIGN: https://nwmd.social/s/email/4wqFZEeLeuDKw7qLleg=/r
5, Stop DOE’s Multi-Million-Dollar Giveaway to a MAGA-Linked Coal Company
SIGN: Stop DOE’s Multi-Million-Dollar Giveaway to a MAGA-Linked Coal Company
See Event #
6. Demand that the ICE agent who killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo be arrested
7. US Fishes & Wildlife: No Land for Elon
SIGN: US Fisheries & Wildlife: No Land for Elon
8. Block Trump’s scheme to destroy Social Security
SIGN: Block Trump’s scheme to destroy Social Security | Demand Progress
PETITION for July Execution
July 28, 2026 at 6:00 pm ET:
Dominick Occhicone in Florida
EVENTS / ACTIONS
For Wednesday, July 15 – Saturday, July 18
Month of July Laborfest 2026 Calendar: https://laborfest.net/2026/
Wednesday, July 15
1. Wednesday, 8:00am -11:00am, Bay Area “Hour of Global Solidarity“ to Free Dr Abu Safiya!!! At UC Regents Meeting At UC
Rutter center – UCSF Mission Bay
1675 Owen St.
SF
Sorry to post this so late – I think the UC Regents are meeting the whole day.
Schedule of Meeting on Wed. 7/15 & Thurs. 7/16: https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/meetings/agendas/july26.html
Come by…
As part of a day of global solidarity to save the life of Palestinian doctor Dr. Abu Safiya, there will be an action at the UC Regents meeting at the Mission Bay. You can sign up to speak at the Regents meeting. The Regents have taken action to stop Palestinian action and terminating faculty and staff who have challenged the genocide in Gaza.
Healthcare workers will rally at the Mission Bay between 8AM and 11AM and healthcare workers will speak out at the UC Regents meeting during public comment.
WHAT: We are gathering as Health Care Workers and community who demand the Freedom of Dr Abu Safiya and all abducted health care workers. He has been tortured by the Israeli police and is near death.
Healthcare Workers For Palestine will have a banner and flyers outside of the UC regents meeting.
Info: Bay Area “Hour of Global Solidarity“ to Free Dr Abu Safiya!!! At UC Regents Meeting At UC : Indybay
2. Wednesday, 4:00pm(PT); 7:00pm (ET) Trojan Horse: US-Israel Military Cooperation Initiative
Webinar Registration: Meeting Registration – Zoom
An unobtrusive section of the proposed FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), carefully masked in opaque legislative language, is called The United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative. Which seems almost benign – what’s wrong with cooperation, right? Until you consider that the U.S.-Israel alliance is (a) an ongoing perpetrator of genocide and endless war and (b) already closely connected with each other militarily in matters of weapons, technology, intelligence, and more.
This section of the law, Section 219, requested by Benjamin Netanyahu, is indeed exceptional – and dangerous. Notably, it will, if enacted, establish a so-called Executive Agent (EA) who can overrule other Pentagon agencies, especially with regard to the transfer of technology and information between the two nations. It is meant to integrate Israel into US military supply chains, constituting a marked shift in the relationship between the two countries. Instead of Israel having to go through a Congressional process of review and oversight to receive U.S. funding, it would be merged right into the US war economy itself, moving from outside to inside the Pentagon. Once this is done, Israel’s influence in the U.S. will massively increase and will be very difficult and costly to reverse.
At a time when support for Israel is declining in the U.S., this appears to be a stealthy way to avoid continued public debate about aiding and abetting Israel and to cement an ongoing, tighter than ever, merging of the two militaries and economies.
This webinar will explore the implications and likely consequences of this proposal if it becomes law.
Presenters:
Ben Freeman is director of the Democratizing Foreign Policy program at the Quincy Institute.
Matt Hoh is a disabled Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War and former Afghan War State Department Officer.
Host: War Industry Resisters Network
Info: Webinar: Trojan Horse: US-Israel Military Cooperation Initiative : Indybay
Thursday, July 16
3. Thursday, 4:00pm – 6:00pm, Tell Target to Stand Up To ICE!
Metreon Target:
789 Mission Street. Meet on the sidewalk by the Mission Street entrance
SF
Join us to say: Until Target acts to protect its workers and guests from ICE, we will not shop at Target!
We will hold signs, hand out flyers, and explain why we must all boycott Target until they Stand Up To ICE.
Bring a sign if you have one.
This is a peaceful protest.
Info: Tell Target to Stand Up To ICE! : Indybay
4. Thursday, 6:30pm, Organizing Meeting: No Coal In Oakland! No ICE In The Bay! No Cuts To Healthcare!
Oakland Peace Center | Shelton Hall
111 Fairmount Ave.
Oakland
$5.00 Donation requested. No one turned away
While we face increasing attacks across the country, there are two projects that impact the Bay Area under consideration – a massive coal terminal in West Oakland, and an ICE detention facility in Dublin.
Join us to learn more and get involved to oppose these initiatives and hear about the latest update in the fight against the layoffs in the Alameda Health System.
Host: Speak Out Socialist
Info: Organizing Meeting: No Coal In Oakland! No ICE In The Bay! No Cuts To Healthcare! : Indybay
5. Thursday, 7:00pm, Haiti and the Crisis in the Caribbean
518 Valencia St.
SF
Join Haiti Action Committee, for an evening of education, strategizing, affirming our solidarity with Haiti, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and all peoples confronted by U.S. empire’s ever-growing aggression
Speakers:
Pierre LaBossier, Co-founder Haiti, Action Committee. Long time human rights activist who has worked tirelessly for the liberation of his homeland, Haiti and of all oppressed people.
Dr. Franke Ramos, Bay Area Activist and Educator, Long time Bay Area Puerto Rican independence activistand cultural worker committed to liberation and self determination
Corina Nolet, Co-Executive Director of Global Exchange. She returned from the March 2026 Nuestra America convoy to Cuba.
Info: https://haitisolidarity.net/july-16th-event-haiti-and-the-crisis-in-the-caribbean/
Friday, July 17
6. Friday, 10:30am – 12:30pm, Noisemakers Against Genocide Protest at the Israel Consulate
Israeli Consulate
456 Montgomery St.
SF
Friday July 17th marks 1,014 days since the beginning of Israel’s siege of Gaza. For 1,014 days healthcare workers, teachers, humanitarian workers, journalists, faith leaders, families and children have been killed by Israel Offense Forces and settlers.
Join Noisemakers Against Genocide (NAG) and the Revolutionary Love Brigade in protest outside the Israel Consulate. Israel Consulate Out of San Francisco! Share your commitment to bearing witness to genocide.
Make good noise in protest of 1,014 days of genocide. Bring what you’ve got to make a ruckus, we love banners, drums, whistles, horns, flags and chalk. Free Palestine! We’ll have an open mic and a news roundup blast broadcasted to the downtown.
Bring your thoughts, poetry and prose. This week we will be honoring the memory of Gaza poets murdered by the IOF, those like the courageous Rafaat Alareer and Heba Abu Nada, and lifting up living Gaza poets such as Mosab Abu Toha and Abu-al Sheikh. These poets defy the cultural genocide intent on destroying their resistance. We invite you to bring a poem written by a Gaza poet to read.
Info: Noisemakers Against Genocide Protest at the Israel Consulate : Indybay
7. Friday 6:00pm – 8:00pm, Haight Ashbury Peace Vigil
Corner of:
Fell & Masonic (Panhandle)
SF
This is held outdoors, please dress for the weather.
We will have signs, candles, music, and snacks. We invite you to join us for 5 minutes, or for the whole two hours.
This vigil is held on the the third Friday of the month.
Pictures from our previous vigils can be seen here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/haightpeacevigil/
Info: Haight Ashbury Peace Vigil : Indybay
8. Friday, 7:00pm-9:00pm, Discussion: Pt.3 Declaration of Independence:Inventions & Distortions of Reality & History
Revolution Books Berkeley
2444 Durant Ave.
Berkeley
Read this article and come with your questions and comments. revcom.us
Excerpt from part 3:
“What Was “Brought Forth” through the American Revolution Was Not a New Nation “Conceived in Liberty,” and Not a Nation “Dedicated to the Proposition that All Men Are Created Equal.”
What I have already indicated here (and examined more fully in the previous article in this series) reveals clearly that neither the American Revolution of 1776, nor the Civil War in the 1860s, was actually fought to establish, or to preserve, “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” The essential “liberty” brought about through the American Revolution was the removal of the constraints that the British empire enforced on the slave-owners and developing capitalists in the colonies, who were the “fathers” and basic beneficiaries of this Revolution.
And as for today:
Finally, and most importantly: The crucial question is not comparison with past oppressive and murderous countries and empires, or with other oppressive regimes in the world now (although U.S. capitalism-imperialism far surpasses its rivals now in terms of war crimes and crimes against
humanity). The decisive question is: what is now possible for humanity, in terms of actual and fundamental emancipation—in opposition to the way that this system of capitalism-imperialism stands as the direct barrier to the achievement of unprecedented emancipation, and the fact this system is, in an all too real and terrible sense, force marching humanity toward the abyss.
Info: Discussion: Pt.3 Declaration of Independence:Inventions & Distortions of Reality & History : Indybay
Saturday, July 18
