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ARTICLES:
A. Because of the shutdown, more than 1,000 affordable housing contracts have expired – January 8, 2019
B. Trump to address nation about ‘crisis’ at wall – January 7, 2019
See item # 4
C. Top Israel supporter launches bigoted attacks on Rashida Tlaib – January 7, 2019
D. Arrests at Gidumt’en Checkpoint, RCMP Raid Anticipated at Unist’ot’en Camp
See item # 3
E. SEE NO EVIL: PENTAGON ISSUES BLANKET DENIAL THAT IT KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT DETAINEE ABUSE IN YEMEN – 1/07/19
UPDATES / NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS
Tuesday, 1/8 – Friday, 1/11
1. Tuesday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, Stop Chase, Bank of Doom!
The Westin St. Francis (Union Square)
335 Powell St.
SF
Tell JPMorgan Chase to stop funding climate destruction!
Chase Bank is the biggest Wall Street funder of fossil fuels.
Chase continues to profit while Indigenous rights get trampled, and the climate sacrificed.
This is a defining moment for the climate.
Will they continue to finance the Keystone XL pipeline? Will they continue to fund toxic tar sands oil? Will they continue to fund Indigenous rights abuses? Will they continue to profit off climate chaos?
January 8th, we take to the streets to demand: Stop financing expansion of fossil fuels, starting with tar sands
Host: Rainforest Action Network
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/363929024165432/
2. Tuesday, 1:00pm – 3:00pm, Pack the Court to Free Aida – Hearing
630 Sansom St., Suite 650
SF
Vigil – Rain or Shine!
Thank you all so much for your support including, attending Aida’s community vigil, gifting items to her children, and donating to her GoFundMe campaign to help her 3-month-old baby and 4-year-old daughter with medical and transportation expenses.
https://www.gofundme.com/freeaida-her-children-need-community-support
Aida’s second master calendar hearing is scheduled for January 8, 2019
– After a month of continuously requesting documents regarding Aida’s detention, DHS attorneys finally disclosed the documents ICE used as a basis to detain Aida.
Without this information, Aida’s attorney could not accurately respond to DHS allegations, or prepare Aida’s bond hearing. DHS’s delay in giving this information further prolonged Aida’s separation from her children and loved ones;
– DHS submitted the actual red notice from Interpol, and a 2018 arrest warrant from El Salvador charging Aida and 30+ individuals with crimes. At the hearing, DHS claimed that Aida is a member of MS 13;
– As we know, Interpol red notices should hold little weight, as Interpol does not have investigative capacity, and only maintains a database of information that other countries upload without quality control from Interpol;
– The arrest warrant, issued 6 yeas after Aida fled from El Salvador, is vague and only lists the crimes that Aida is being charged with (robbery and theft); and
– Aida disclaims any membership in these gangs, and did not commit these crimes. Aida has not been in El Salvador since 2012, after she fled severe domestic violence.
Host: Pangea Legal Services
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1144339989048599/
3. Tuesday,, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Solidarity with Unist’ot’en, Wet’suwet’en- Canadian Consulate SF (TIME CHANGED)
Canadian Consulate
580 California St., Suite 1400
SF
Demonstration at the Canadian Consulate in San Francisco, Ohlone Territory, to oppose their violent RCMP attack on Wet’suwet’en sovereignty. The Wet’suwet’en people are peacefully protecting their home and the rest of the Salish Sea against the TransCanada pipeline project.
This is part of an international series of solidarity actions. For the main list, visit:https://www.facebook.com/events/2225649537692362/
Goal is to bring much-needed international media attention to the Unist’ot’en Camp and their work and challenge the perception that Canada is keeping their promises on climate change and Indigenous rights.
Action Protocols as laid out by the Gitimt’en:
-Take action against the provincial government in B.C, federal government of Canada, and Canadian consulate internationally.
-Demand that the provincial and federal government uphold their responsibilities to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and ‘Anuc niwh’it’en (Wet’suwet’en law).
-The Wet’suwet’en Access Point on Gidumt’en Territory are conducting peaceful actions as sovereign peoples on their territories, and ask that all actions taken in solidarity are conducted peacefully and according to the traditional laws of other Indigenous Nations.
What to Bring:
Signs or banners– “No Pipelines” “Support Unist’ot’en” “Support Wet’suwet’en” Messaging must be in alignment with the protocls listed above
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/279989672642100/
4. Tuesday, 5:45pm – 7:15Pm, Hell NO! to Border Atrocities (NEW)
SF Federal Building
90 7th Street
SF
5:45 PM – 6:00 PM: Opening remarks
6:00 PM – 6:20 PM: Broadcast of Trump’s speech
6:20 PM: Group Response; Open mic/megaphone
Trump will be making a major speech on the US/Mexican border and the shutting down of portions of the US government. Every major TV station will carry his foul words starting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, PST.
Refuse Fascism has joined with a call from Christina DiEdoardo and is calling for everyone to come out to protest.
There is widespread speculation that this will be an announcement of a national emergency. Whether Trump announces an emergency or not, he will vilify and attack migrants, use this to further rally and consolidate his fascist social base, and drive forward the regime’s overall fascist agenda.
This speaks to the extreme times we are in and the challenge this puts to us all. We must take to the streets to build for the time when we can rally millions to drive out the regime. We are canceling the regularly scheduled Refuse Fascism meeting, and urge everyone to join us in the streets.
revcom.us commented on the wall, Trump, and the Democrats (https://revcom.us/a/577/trumps-wall-and-border-security-of-the-democrats-en.html):
“This fascist wall must not be built, period. If this wall gets funded, in whatever form and with whatever concessions, it will represent a major escalation in the attack on immigrants. Even if it is seen as “symbolic”—and that will be what the Democrats tell you when and if they cut a deal with Trump—what it will symbolize will be that the tens and hundreds of millions of people seeking refuge from conditions created by this imperialist system are subhumans who must and will be kept out of the “gated community” of the very countries at fault for the disasters. Symbols are symbols because they mean something. After all, forcing Jews in Nazi Germany to wear “yellow stars” could be seen as “symbolic”—but what did they symbolize? A program of genocide.”
Sponsors: Christina DiEdoardo and Refuse Fascism
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/07/18820165.php
Wednesday, January 9
5. Wednesday, 5:00pm – 8:00pm, Mass mobilization to tell the school board no cuts no closures
1050 2nd Avenue
Oakland
5:00 Rally/Press Conference
5:30 School Board meeting begins
6:30 The scheduled time for public comments
Public education in Black and Brown communities is under attack. We must not just defend and keep our schools open, we must demand sustainable community schools and create the schools we deserve.
There will be at least two big items on the school board agenda:
1. Cutting $30 million from the 2019-20 budget, including $8.6 million directly from schools.
2. The closure of ROOTS Academy and the end of this school year and closing over 20 other schools over the next 5 years.
We need everyone to come to the school board meeting on January 9th. We need parents, students, teachers, alumni, and community members. We need every school represented. We need the organizations that say they care about equity and opportunity to show up. We need to pack the meeting and as a united community to tell the school board
Sponsor: Oakland Public Education Network (OPEN)
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/281353305857839/
6. Wednesday, 6:00pm – 7:15pm, First Mission Nightwalk of 2019
Meet at:
Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist
Julian Ave. & 15th Street
SF
As we look back on 2018 with both gratitude and sadness we also look to 2019 with hope and determination. Our message remains simple, clear, and very much needed: “We care,” and “Stop the violence.”
Host: Mission Nightwalks
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/365682310649481/
7. Wednesday, 6:30pm, Community BOYCOTT of Manny’s! –Stop the Woke-Washing of the Mission!Weekly protest
3092 16th St. (nr. Valencia)
SF
We call for a community boycott of “Manny’s” at 3092 16th St in the Mission District of San Francisco. “Manny’s” as a gentrifying wine-bar, cafe and fake “social justice” space in the Mission District, will only accelerate the raising of rents and the displacement of Black, Latinx, disabled and trans/queer people in the Mission. Additionally, the proprietor of Manny’s, Emmanuel Yekutiel, has unequivocally espoused racist, Zionist, pro-Israel ideals that we will not tolerate or accept in our community.
Further, “Manny’s:
· Claims to be a “community” space, yet no one in the Mission, long a poor and working-class, Latinx and black community, asked him to open this gentrifier wine bar. In fact, Emmanuel Yekutiel previously attempted to open Manny’s in the Bayview and the Tenderloin but was told to leave by community members and organizations.
· Even with no community support and no connection to the Mission, Manny’s was given a “reduced rate rent” by Sam Moss, executive director of Mission Housing, the landlord of the space.
· Claims to be a “cultural space” specifically for the local community of San Francisco and the Mission District. However, so far, the space has almost exclusively hosted Washington DC politicos TED-talks catering to the ruling-class Tech-elite. As longstanding Mission District cultural spaces like Galería de la Raza are forced out of their spaces due to the eviction crisis, the owner of Manny’s, a well-connected, Washington DC corporate and political consultant for companies like Facebook and the Hilary Clinton campaign are helping turn the Mission into a rich-only zone fueled by tech-gentrification.
We will not tolerate gentrifiers and Zionists attempts at invading and destroying our community through “woke-washing”!! The Lucy Parsons Project from this moment forth is calling for a boycott of Manny’s, at 3092 16th St., until the space is shut down!!
2 Articles:
Manny’s builds a real-life space for civic discourse in SF – Jan. 1st written by Emmanuel Yekutiel (owner of Manny’s)
Mission District civic engagement space met with protests, calls for boycott – January 4, 2019
I will NOT be posting programs that groups/ people are holding inside Manny’s to honor the Boycott and to support the Palestinian People, and against the continued Gentrification of the Mission!
Please DO NOT attend programs that are scheduled there and tell Manny why!! Let groups / people that U know who have scheduled events there to also CANCEL.
Silence is Complicity!
Thursday, January 10
8. Thursday, 9:30am – 11:00am, Tell CPUC: No PG&E Bailout! (Round 2) (NEW)
CPUC
505 Van Ness Ave.
SF
Public Meeting
Last November, we showed up to demand justice for the 100+ people killed and the 1000s displaced by back-to-back, avoidable wildfires caused by PG&E’s criminal negligence. Now, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is officially considering public control as one option for our utilities. That alone is a victory, but a taxpayer-funded bailout for PG&E is still on the table.
Join us in telling CPUC loud and clear that a bailout for PG&E is completely unacceptable. PG&E has failed to keep the residents of Northern California safe — from the San Bruno gas explosion to last year’s North Bay fire to the ongoing Camp Fire — all because they prioritize shareholders’ profits over public safety. They have failed to maintain their equipment, resulting in hundreds of lives lost and homes destroyed. A bailout doesn’t belong in any rational discussion of the future of our energy.
The executives and investors who have reaped unearned bonuses and disgusting profits while our neighbors in Paradise and Chico lose their homes and their lives must be held accountable for their murderous management. We refuse to pay for their ongoing destruction of our environment and lives.
We demand, clean, safe, public utilities NOW! This is an open call for everyone concerned about all those impacted by the fires and smoke.
Sponsor: Democratic Socialist of America – SF
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/380942959321809/
9. Thursday, 3:00pm – 6:00pm, STOP the Luxury Takeover of the Mission!
SF Planning Commission
SF City Hall, Room 400
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl
SF
*3140 16th St large auto body garage across from the Roxie that wants to convert into a 3-story entertainment space including a rooftop bar is still on and must be stopped!
This area is already overcrowded with a imbalance of food and drink spaces (55%) and we need to keep our blue-collar spaces. A Subaru dealer, in fact, wants to run a repair shop at this space and is happy to work with us to get our Mission folks into these good-paying jobs.
*344 14th St is a luxury housing project that is currently offering only the bare minimum of affordable housing plus high-tech manufacturing space 90% of which will be at market-rate prices. This project will add to the displacement and gentrification of this blue-collar area of the Mission!
Sponsors: United to Save the Mission, Calle 24 Latino Cultural District, Cultural Action Network, Our Mission NO Eviction
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/484880375354099/
10. Thursday, 6:00pm, SF Food Not Bombs Food Share
16th & Mission BART Plaza
SF
For information or to volunteer: send email to sffnbvolunteers@riseup.net.
Cookhouse: Station 40, 3030B 16th Street (between Mission and Julian).
Food Pickups: Help Needed!
Cooking: 3030B 16th Street–3:00 pm to 6:00 pm–Ring doorbell for entry–Help Needed!
Sharing: 16th and Mission BART Plaza — 6:00 pm–Help Needed!
Webpage: https://sffnb.org/serving-schedule/
11. Thursday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, The People vs. Wall Street: SF Public Bank Coalition Launch
Women’s Building
3543 18th St.
SF
1st Floor – wheelchair accessible
– LEARN how a city-owned public bank can bring San Francisco’s $11 billion budget “From Wall Street to Our Streets!”
– EAT good food surrounded by good people from a wide range of divestment, racial justice, economic justice, and environmental justice movements across San Francisco!
– DANCE to old and new jams!
– STRATEGIZE with working groups on student debt, affordable housing, green energy, or something else!
Sponsors: SF Public Bank & 14 Other groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/190975971823539/
12. Thursday, 6:00pm – 9:00pm, Our struggles are connected: Update from the US-Mexico Border
Asian Resource Gallery
317 9th St.
Oakland
* Live from the Border: Pedro Ríos from the American Friends Service Committee Border Program, San Diego, will speak via Skype on the current struggle for rights of the Migrant Caravan at the Tijuana-San Ysidro border wall.
* Catherine Tactaquin, from the National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights (NNIRR) on the current struggles for the rights of migrants and refugees.
* Art and poetry to help us further connect the struggles of our communities across borders.
Come see the art on display at the Asian Resource Center Gallery:
“GRAFFIKA URBANA” | Prints by Noel Rodriguez from Mexico City
“PRESENTE! Defend Puerto Rico” | Puerto Rican Photographers
Sponsored by East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation East Side Arts Alliance
Chiapas Support Committee
Class Conscious Photographers
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/773688856336596/
Friday, January 11
13. Friday, 11:30am – 12:30pm, Compassion Has No Walls, Monthly Interfaith Vigil (NEW)
ICE
630 Sansome St
SF
Join us for our first Interfaith Vigil of 2019, #CompassionHasNoWalls, My Soul Cries Out For Justice.
This month our collective souls cry out for justice, as we grieve and protest the deaths of children and other migrants and caravan members, so come out and join us as we honor their memory and ultimate sacrifice, giving up their lives for the human right to migrate, to not be separated from family, to find a place to call home and live with dignity.
During the month of December, we were horrified by the news of the deaths of four minors who were either in the custody of ICE, or living in the caravan settlement in Tijuana, waiting for their chance to request asylum at the U.S. border. Their four names add to the list of previous deaths at the hands of ICE officials, in their inhumane detention centers, or during their ruthless, brutal operations.
At the January Interfaith Vigil we will call out their names: 7 year-old Jakelin Caal ♥, and 8 year-old Felipe Gomez Alonso ♥from Guatemala; 16 year-old Jorge Alexander Ruiz Duban ♥ and 17 year-old Jasson R. Acuña Polanco ♥ from Honduras. Earlier in the year, in the late spring also 20 year-old Claudia P. Gomez Gonzalez ♥ from Guatemala and the 33 year-old trans woman from Honduras Roxana Hernandez ♥, are only some of the names of people who have paid the ultimate price, and become victims of inhumane government policies and inaction on immigration.
Come out and stand with us as we provide a space for regular public witness to our interfaith community, as we pray in remembrance of the victims of senseless violence and oppression by those in power. Come be with us as we stand outside the ICE Headquarters, seeking to connect with and offer support to families affected by ICE detentions, as well as to educate folks about the most current immigration situation about the wall and ICE enforcement issues surrounding it. Come and stand with us as we stand in front of the ICE building, to show that we will not condone their heartless, abusive, inhumane policies and tactics
Sponsor: Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2165979273730366/
14. Friday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, Mothers on the March Against Police Murders – Week 118
Hall of Injustice
850 Bryant St.
SF
All are invited to join us to demand that District Attorney George Gascon charge police officers with murder. Stand with ALL families who have lost loved ones to police murders. Since Gascon has been the DA in San Francisco, he has not charged any police officers
15. Friday, 3:00pm – 4:00pm, Speak Out at Japan Consulate Against Restarting of Japan NUKES and Defend the Children (NEW)
SF Japanese Consualte
275 Battery St. (nr. California)
SF
The Japanese Abe government continues to restart nuclear plants throughout the country. At the same time they have accumulated over 1 million tons of radioactive water at the Fukushima plant which they want to release into the Pacifica ocean. It contains tritium which the government is saying is safe in “small amounts”.
The government has also covered up the statistics of thyroid cancer in children in order to continue the cover-up of the dangers of Fukushima. 3.11 Fund for Children With Thyroid Cancer has said that children who have cancer are not being counted by Fukushima Medical University which is controlled by TEPCO and other supporters of nuclear power.
The danger of another major earthquake that threatens another Fukushima and also would release millions of tons of radioactive water into the ocean.
At the same time the government is pushing ahead to build a new military base in Henoko that will have US nuclear weapons despite mass opposition from the people of Okinawa. The same Abe government is pushing ahead to remove Article 9 that forbids expansion of Japan’s military role around the world.
Stopping another Fukushima and more militarization are part and parcel of the same struggle.
For more event information: http://nonukesaction.wordpress.com
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/07/18820166.php
16. Friday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, SF Forum: Trump & the Fight Within the Ruling Elite (NEW)
PSL
2969 Mission St.
SF
$3 – $10 Donation – no one turned away
Wheelchair accessible
The recent resignation of Defense Secretary Mattis, the proposed troop withdrawal from Syria and Afghanistan, the government shutdown, and the open fight between Trump and the Federal Reserve Chairman signal a sharpening divide within the ruling elite. How does this rift affect the working class and the people’s movement? How do the latest developments in the so-called “Russiagate” affairs impact alternative media and independent political organizing?
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/02/18820065.php
17. Friday, 7:00pm – 10:00pm, I Am Not Your Negro – film & discussion
Revolution Books – Berkeley
2444 Durant Ave.
Berkeley
Toward the end of his life, James Baldwin, novelist, essayist and poet, wrote notes for a book he had wanted to write about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. Raoul Peck’s film uses these notes to jump through time, in a blazing examination of the history of race in America.
“I Am Not Your Negro, an Oscar-nominated documentary by Raoul Peck, is a must see. If you think you know the reality of the brutal depth and horror of white supremacy in America, if you think you’ve seen it all and even if you have, you’ve not seen it delivered like this.”
Andy Zee, New York Revolution Books
