Periodic Announcements
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Thank you to those who are posting there!
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ARTICLES:
A. Israel to deport Human Rights Watch director – January 12, 2019
B. Rights group slams Pelosi and Democrats over ‘technological wall’ idea – January 12, 2019
C. Avoid these foods during the government shutdown, experts warn – January 12, 2019
D. Man dies after ‘encounter’ with SF police at Mission District hospital – Jan. 11, 2019
R.I.P.
♥ Christopher Kliment ♥
E. One Woman Killed and 145 Protesters Injured as Israeli Forces Shoot at Protesters in the Gaza Strip
“During the 42nd week of the demonstrations in Gaza, Israeli forces used lethal and other forms of excessive force Palestinian protesters. The documentation by Al Mezan Center for Human
F. France Moves to Ban All Protests as Major Crackdown on Yellow Vests Begins
G. Food stamp funding extended amid shutdown, but only through February – January 9, 2019
See Alert # 1
4 – ACTIONS:
1, Demand Congress Fund Foodstamps!!
2. Support the right to a lawyer in immigration proceedings.
SIGN: https://whiletheywait.org/?eType=EmailConfirmation&eId=f4e9d013-ac38-4616-860a-6d4920ea6067
3. Oppose Brasils new President Jair Bolsonaro’s decimation of Indigenous Rights and The Amazon
See announcement # 16
4. Stop the landfill of Henoko / Oura Bay until a referendum can be held in Okinawa
– There are over 207,000 signatures that have been collected – the petition is still open until the White House responds
29 – ANNOUNCEMENTS
Monday, January 14th – Monday, January 21st
Monday, January 14
1. Monday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, Border Legal Volunteer Report Back + Training
Qulture Collective
1714 Franklin St.
Oakland
ACCESSIBILITY: Venue is on ground floor; bathroom wheelchair accessible.
6:00pm Welcome and panel report back
6:45pm Breakouts + training for legal volunteers*
*Experienced immigration KYR/CFI trainers and experienced legal observers who are Spanish-speaking only
7:45pm Planning logistics + close
A report back from legal volunteers with NLGSF’s Immigration Committee who visited Tijuana, Mexico in November and December. Volunteers will share what they learned while volunteering at legal clinics/charlas and as legal observers. Legal volunteer trainings will also be offered during this session for those planning to volunteer at the border and with prior immigration legal experience.
Sponsor: National Lawyers Guild Bay Area
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/228820254705685/
Tuesday, January 15
2. Tuesday, 12:30pm – Thursday, Jan. 17th, 3:30pm, Save Berkeley People’s Park – UC Regents Meeting
UCSF – Mission Bay Campus
1675 Owens St.
SF
Upcoming UC REGENTS MEETING!
Get your comment into the public record!
Schedule:
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Time: 12:30 p.m.
Location: Fisher Banquet Room West
UCSF–Mission Bay Conference Center
1675 Owens Street, San Francisco
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Time: 8:30 a.m.
Location: Robertson Auditorium
UCSF–Mission Bay Conference Center
1675 Owens Street, San Francisco
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Time: Upon adjournment of the closed session meeting
(They say be there at 8:30 a.m)
Location: Robertson Auditorium
UCSF–Mission Bay Conference Center
1675 Owens Street, San Francisco
The UC regents call the shots and the buck stops with them. This is a rare opportunity to tell the regents in person what your feelings are about the park. They can stop Chancellor Carol Christ’s war on the park. The regents can change the student housing development plan so that park is no longer threatened. If you can’t make it, The best thing you can do is submit written comments ahead of time. Guidelines for this can be found herehttps://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/meetings/public-comment.html To make public comment, show up at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center at the beginning of the above meetings.
Sponsor: Save Berkeley People’s Park
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/297869027740239/
3. Tuesday, 5:30pm – 8:30pm, Kick Off Earth Strike – Rally
Oscar Grant Plaza (Frank H. Ogawa Plaza)
Oakland
General Strike to Save the Planet. We are demanding immediate action against climate change from government and will be holding an initial rally
See site for list of demands.
Sponsor: Earthstrike Cali
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/796012320740697/
4. Tuesday, 6:30pm – 8:30pm, Trump/Pence Must Go! Organizing Meeting
Sports Basement – San Francisco
1590 Bryant St.
SF
Join the movement to STOP the Trump/Pence Fascist Regime & drive it from power, through SUSTAINED, Non violent, MASS protests in the streets.
In the face of this fascist regime continuing to consolidate their power, while they continue to criminalize immigrants & viciously attack the Central American caravan of refugees who are fighting for their lives, while they just put into place a FASCIST Supreme Court, by bringing in Brett Kavanaugh, while they viciously go after women, LGBTQ, the environment, the people of the world & the planet it self, we MUST NOT sit silently to the side and allow them to consolidate their program, it CAN BECOME TOO LATE!
Sponsor: Refuse Fascism Bay Area
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2103309246646737/
5. Tuesday, 6:45pm, Hayward City Council Meeting – Justice for Augie Gonzalez
Hayward City Hall
777 B St.
Hayward
Please come and join the family and friends of Augie Gonzalez who was killed by Hayward PD officers Clark and Wooley on Nov 15, 2018 while he experienced a mental crisis.
Mental distress must NOT amount to a death sentence !
The family demand answers, police transparency and accountability and non violent de-escalation of people in mental distress.
Please line up for 2 minute public comments, no signs inside the building, love and respect to the family !
NATIVE LIVES MATTER
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/308401463131024/
Wednesday, January 16
6. Wednesday, 5:00pm – 6:00pm, RepealtheBan: SF Community Gathering and Press Conference
SF Federal Building
90 7th St.
SF
We are calling on the San Francisco/Bay Area community to join us at Nancy Pelosi’s office to urge lawmakers to defund the Muslim Ban and support efforts to #RepealtheBan. Last June, we saw the Supreme Court uphold the racist and Islamophobic ban on our refugee, Muslim, and immigrant communities. We know the Supreme Court has been wrong in the past – from cases like Dred Scott to Korematsu.
With the Executive branch as the architect of the Muslim Ban, the Legislative branch has an opportunity to reverse the damage caused by the Trump administration and SCOTUS. Congress can directly impact the lives of members of our communities, so join us January 16th to call on our representatives to do the right thing—repeal and defund the Muslim Ban.
Join us for a community speak-out and press conference to #RepealtheBan
Sponsors: MPower Change, AROC, NIAC, SWANA Alliance, Yemeni Alliance Committee, CAIR – SF Bay Area
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/580489449090780/
7. Wednesday, 6:00pm – 8:30pm, Latinos and Homelessness Panel
The Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics
518 Valencia St. – (nr. 16th St. BART)
SF
The Latino Democratic Club will be hosting a panel on Latino and Homelessness.
The panel will focus on the intersection of Latinos and homelessness.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/777216365961187/
8. Wednesday, 6:30pm, , Community BOYCOTT of Manny’s! –Stop the Woke-Washing of the Mission!Weekly protest
3092 16th St. (nr. Valencia & near 16th St. BART)
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!!
This site 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.
This is a Justice issue!
9. Wednesday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, Stand with Striking Los Angeles Teachers! Solidarity with UTLA!
The Women’s Building
3543 18th St.
SF
The teacher’s rebellion that started last year in West Virginia. Some 34,000 teachers in Los Angeles are preparing for a strike in the second largest public school district in the United States. Their strike follows the wake of the nation’s first Charter School strike in Chicago and a wildcat strike of high school teachers in Oakland, CA.
Union members everywhere have a stake in supporting Los Angeles teachers in their fight against privatization and disinvestment in public schools. A victory for the United Teachers of Los Angeles will be a victory for the entire labor movement, and will continue to raise people’s confidence around the country that if our side fights back, we can win.
Sponsor: International Socialist Organization – Northern CA
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2236056243311832/
10. Wednesday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, PG&E / Green New Deal Campaign Kickoff
Sports Basement Berkeley
2727 Milvia
Berkeley
We demand:
No bail-out of PG&E
Public and worker control of PG&E
A Green New Deal
The profit-driven management of Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), our region’s investor-owned energy utility, has created severe disasters for the health and safety of California’s working class.
Sponsor: East Bay Democratic Socialist of America
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/603851046738371/
11. Wednesday, 7:30pm – 9:00pm, APTP General Meeting: Organize for #ThePeoplesMarch on MLK Day
East Side Arts Alliance
2277 International Blvd.
Oakland
We’ve established several committees who are working hard to plan this major event. There’s still lots more work to do and plenty of room for you to join in, if you’ve not yet been able to get involved. We’d like to invite back those of you who are already plugged into a committee and all those who were unable to make it, but would like to help us make this a powerful action.
Working committees are policy & program, outreach, logistics & security, media, and fundraising. If you have some time before the 16th, please dm us if you’d like to jump in to one of these committees right away.
This year in addition to marching for our list of demands, we will be holding it down at Oscar Grant Plaza (14th & Broadway) for 10 hours in honor of Oscar Grant with breakfast, live performances, people’s assemblies, and sunrise and sunset ceremonies.
Join us to help plan #ThePeoplesMarch – the Fifth Annual March to #ReclaimMLK‘s Radical Legacy … A mass mobilization!
Sponsor: Anti Police – Terror Project (APTP)
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1122364054613052/
Thursday, January 17
12. 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/
13. Thursday, 6:30pm – 8:30pm, Resisting Imperialism: Voices from the Migrant Caravan
The Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics
518 Valencia St.
SF
Join us Thursday, January 17th for political education that will connect the struggles of the migrant caravan at the US-Mexico border to other anti-imperialist border struggles in El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Yemen and Palestine.
We will also be fundraising to help support the needs of the migrant caravan at our border. See below for where to send your donations today.
Interpretation will be available.
SPEAKERS:
Veronica “Beby” Aguilar – Pueblo Sin Fronteras
Chris Lopez- School of America Watch, East Bay Coordinator
Pierre Labossiere – Haiti Action Committee
Ashwak Hauter, former AROC Collective member
Carlos Manuel Martinez – Ashwak and Carlos recently returned from Tijuana, after close consultation with organizations providing legal and medical support for migrants and asylum seekers.
Make donations to:
Al Otro Lado: https://alotrolado.org/take-action/donate/
and
Enclave Caracol through “Cash App” using @enclavecaracol@gmail.com
Enclave Caracol, an autonomous project in Tijuana, organizes material support for the caravan and coordinates with Al Otro Lado, an NGO that provides free legal support to asylum-seekers and coordinates volunteer efforts on the ground.
Sponsor: AROC
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/294605714733671/
14. Thursday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, Trump’s Wall Is a Fascist Monstrosity and Must Not Go Up!
Revolution Books – Berkeley
2444 Durant Ave.
Berkeley
Trump’s Wall Is a Fascist Monstrosity and Must NOT Go Up…But the “Border Security” of the Democrats Is ALSO a Machinery of Heartless Persecution, Demonization, and Deportation
For more event information: https://www.revolutionbooks.org/
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/12/18820300.php
15. Thursday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, Restore Our Rights! – Panel Discussion & Strategy Session
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
Booth Auditorium, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
2745 Bancroft Ave,
Berkeley
Free event – space limited
RSVP / Registration: https://prisonerswithchildren.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=1
*No food or drink allowed in the Auditorium. Thank you!
Join us for a discussion and strategy session—building on recent victories in Florida and Louisiana—on felony disenfranchisement, jury service, running for political office, and other rights we need restored in California.
Speakers:
Desmond Meade, Florida Rights Restoration Coalition (FRRC)—spearheaded the campaign to pass Amendment 4 that will restore the rights of 1.4 million Floridians with felony convictions on January 8, 2019.
Norris Henderson, Voice of the Experienced—New Orleans (VOTE-NOLA)—campaigned to successfully pass Amendment 2, requiring Louisiana juries to have unanimous verdicts. Currently, Oregon is the only state in the U.S. with Jim Crow non-unanimous jury verdicts.
Taina Vargas-Edmond, Initiate Justice—campaigning to restore voting rights for all Californians, regardless of conviction or incarceration status.
Dauras Cyprian, All of Us or None—leading AOUON’s “Let Me Vote” campaign, currently on parole and thus ineligible to vote.
The discussion will be moderated by Aminah Elster—after spending over 15 years incarcerated in California prisons, Aminah is currently on parole and thus ineligible to vote.
For more information, contact AOUON Senior Organizer
Dauras Cyprian:daurus@prisonerswithchildren.org / 916.513.8364
Sponsors: .UC. Berkeley Law School Clinical Program • All of Us or None • American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California • American Friends Service Committee • Asian Prisoners Support Committee (APSC) • Bay Area Black Worker Center • California Coalition For Women Prisoners • Causa Justa::Just Cause • Centro Legal de la Raza • Choices for Freedom • Community United for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ) • Critical Resistance • East Bay Community Law Center • Ella Baker Center for Human Rights • Initiate Justice • Justice Now • Lawyers Committee For Civil Rights • Legal Services For Prisoners With Children • National Justice for Criminal Justice Reform (NICJR) • Oakland Community Organizations (OCO) • Oakland Rising • Place4Grace • PolicyLink • PUEBLO (People United for a Better Life in Oakland) • Root & Rebound • S.F. State University Project Rebound • Showing Up For Racial Justice • Street Level Health Project • Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice • Time For Change • UnCommon Law • Underground Scholars Initiative • Urban Strategies Council • Young Women’s Freedom Center
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/594529024319666/
Friday, January 18
16. Friday, 10:00am – 12Noon, Solidarity Action w Brazil and the Amazon against Destruction
Brazilian Consulate
300 Montgomery St.
SF
Indigenous people and allies across the Americas are strongly opposing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro movements to eliminate the rights of indigenous people and commit genocide, while opening up the Amazon to corporate interests.
1- Bolsonaro has plans to close the Environment Ministry, which is mandated to protect the environment, and instead fold it into the Agriculture Ministry, which tends to favor the interests of those who would convert forests into farmland. Converting forests into farmland (deforestation) raises multiple issues 1. It’s cutting down precious trees in the Amazon. 2. This territory is more often than not indigenous territory. 3. Cutting down trees emits a LOT of carbon. At the rate that Brazil already emits carbon as the 6th largest country of carbon emissions, it will be impossible for the world to stay in the limits of the Paris Agreement.
2. Within hours of swearing in Bolsonaro broke up FUNAI. FUNAI was designated for overseeing initiatives for indigenous people. Eliminating protections to indigenous people, including uncontacted tribes, is genocide. This means over 900,000 people, over 274 individual languages, and over 305 tribes.
3- Bolsonaro has stated plans to identify rights activists as terrorists. This includes allies as well as indigenous peoples standing up for their sovereign rights in territory that has been theirs for as long as the Amazon has had guardians.
4- Bolsonaro is openly racist against black people, and indigenous people. Saying both ‘”It’s a shame that the Brazilian cavalry wasn’t as efficient as the Americans, who exterminated their Indians” and that “They don’t do anything. I don’t think they’re even good for procreation any more” referring to the descendants of the African slaves.
5- Bolsonaro supports militarizing the government towards a fascist dictatorship.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/354812221969033/
17. Friday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, Mothers on the March Against Police Murders – Week 119
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
18. Friday, 4:00pm; Sat. 1/19, 10:00am; Sun. 1/20, 10:00am, Oakland Art Build for Public Education
Oakland Education Association
272 E. 12th St.
Oakland
RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe2ZPaL84lBfkmahsmA9voC1Zgcj62WG6c3o52QTnaAdsOu5w/viewform
The Oakland Education Association is holding a community Art Build for public education January 18th-20th The Art Build is modeled after the Milwaukee, Minneapolis and L.A. Art Builds for Public Education held over the last year. No Art Experience Needed. We are calling on teachers, students, allies in public education and beyond to produce images to be used in the struggle to defend and promote public schools. All the images people create will be displayed and some used on banners, drop banners, parachute banners, screen printed posters, t-shirts, and screen-printed picket signs.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/898032460388676/
19. Friday, 6:30pm – 8:30pm, Sensible Cinema Presents: Film Premiere Eyes of Mississippi
Unitarian Universalist Center
1187 Franklin St.
SF
Sensible Cinema presents the West Coast Premiere of the award winning documentary Eyes Of Mississippi by filmmaker Ellen Ann Fentress the story of the impact of one relatively unknown reporter Bill Minor.
The film will show how the impact of one reporter determined to call out racism and government during the Civil Rights Movement of – the South carries uncanny resonance in the nation today .
There will be a panel discussion after the screening with the filmmaker Ellen Ann Fentress moderated by Professor James Taylor of the University of San Francisco.
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/10/18820262.php
20. Friday, 7:00pm – 8:30pm, Socialist Analysis & Discussion: “The Fight for Women’s Equality”
PSL
2969 Mission St. (nr. 24th St. BART)
SF
Wheelchair accessible
$3- $10 donation – no one turned away
Women’s access to abortion and reproductive health services is continuing to be eroded throughout the country. This past mid-term election saw restriction to abortion access pass in Alabama, West Virginia and Oregon, along with right-wing gubernatorial victories in Florida, Iowa and Ohio. The women’s movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s won great victories, but we are now seeing those gains taken away. How can we build a new diverse working-class women’s movement to take back and further our rights? How is women’s equality addressed under a socialist system vs. capitalist?
Join us for historical analysis of women in struggle with a look at the life of feminist labor organizer Lucy Parsons and discuss the present-day struggle
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/09/18820189.php
21. Friday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, Film Showing: Roma
Revolution Books – Berkeley
2444 Durant Ave.
Berkeley
Roma is a film of breathtaking beauty. Cleo, an indigenous woman from Oaxaca, is the heart of the film as the nanny and domestic worker for a middle class family in Mexico City. Set in the early 70’s, a time of student rebellion and government repression. Oscar winner Alfonso Cuaron wrote, directed and filmed this masterpiece, winner of the 2019 Golden Globes for Best Foreign Film and Best Director.
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/11/18820279.php
Saturday, January 19
22. Saturday, 11:00am – 3:00pm, BASMC 2 Hr First Aid Training
Omni Commons
4799 Shattuck Ave.
Oakland
Event is SOLD OUT – Keep in mind for future trainings!
The Bay Area Street Medic Collective (BASMC) is a collective of folks active in various Community Defense organizations and projects in the Bay Area.
Our fundamental goals are to offer basic medical skills training and provide access to information, supplies, resources, communication, and networking to all members of our communities to take care of ourselves and each other and help to decolonize health care.
23. Women’s March Info in California
Listed on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12
Sunday, January 20
24. Sunday, 10:00am – 5:30pm, Oakland Permaculture Action Day w/ Lead to Life
319 105th Ave.
Oakland
In honor of the annual “Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy” weekend 2019:
Lead to Life & Permaculture Action Network invite you to the Sogorea Te Land Trust and Planting Justice Nursery in East Oakland for a Permaculture Action Day.
This is a free, family-friendly event filled with ecologically regenerative hands-on projects, workshops & skill-shares, music, and a community meal. This is the sister event to this past April’s Lead to Life series in Atlanta, Georgia, where 50 guns were melted down into 50 shovels to plant 50 trees in honor of the 50 years since MLK’s assassination.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/312730559343629/
25. Sunday, 12Noon – 6:00pm, People Get Ready II Conference
UC Berkeley, Dwinelle Hall
Berkeley
RSVP & Details: https://politicaleducation.org/people-get-ready-ii-pre-registration/?fbclid=IwAR2_5I3frFznw7cpTbRq4kH2rIURcwH1VXldBdNxYPv4_eHW-EaoEVvNp3E
People Get Ready 2, a one day conference organized by Center for Political Education, will offer discussions directly assessing the current political terrain while engaging local, national, and international struggles around militarism, worker-organizing, and displacement that shape our world and struggles to come.
Hosts: Center for Political Education + 10 Other groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1228006993991214/
26. Sunday, 2:00pm, Eyewitness report from Tijuana
New Valencia Hall
747 Polk St. (nr. Ellis)
SF
As the new year started, San Francisco queer Chicanx paraeducator Norma Gallegos teamed up with other grassroots activists at the U.S.-Mexico border to provide legal support to Latin American asylum seekers. At a monthly Freedom Socialist Party meeting, she will discuss her experiences, political analysis and solutions. Come share your thoughts on how to best defend immigrants and guarantee the rights of refugees.
For information: 415-864-1278 · bafsp@earthlink.net· tinyurl.com/FB-BAFSP
Monday, January 21
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday
27. Monday, 9:00am – 11:00am, Reclaim MLK – Teach-In & March for Young Activists
Frank H. Ogawa Plaza
1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza (nr. 12th St. BART)
Oakland
Teach-In will be led by Youth and Youth workers for young activist 2-12+ yeas old and their adult allies. This will be a wonderful opportunity for families to honor the histories of Black and Indigenous resistance.
Check back for more information on the day!!
Sponsors: Abundant Beginnings & APTP
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/304886996673683/
28. Monday, 11:00am –(See details below), The Peoples March – 5th Annual Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy
Oscar Grant Plaza
14th & Broadway St. (12th St. BART)
Oakland
Accessibility:
Plenty of seating at Amphitheater
Plan is to have vehicles to follow march
We try to pace the march for children, elders, etc. to be able to keep up. The march will be generally in the greater downtown area, so no difficult terrain.
ASL interpretation for about 4 hrs of program
We will hold Oscar Grant Plaza from sunrise to sunset. For the march,
Detail (still subject to change)
7:20 am – 7:45 am – Sunrise Ceremony
8:00 am – 9:00 am Morning meditation and sound healing – Free Breakfast Program until the March
9:00 am – 10:30 am – youth teach-in and march around the plaza
11:00 am – 1:30 pm – Program & March!
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm – March ends in celebration, music and dance
2:30 pm – 4:30 pm – People’s Assemblies & Lunch:
:30pm-5pm – Last torch is lit, chanting Oscar Grant’s name as well as the names of all of the other victims of police brutality over the last ten years, gong is hit, we move into sunset ceremony
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Sunset ceremony by Lead to Life
ASL interpretation will be available for some parts of the day’s programming.
For the 5th consecutive year, the Anti Police-Terror Project calls the Bay Area into the streets for the People’s March to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy.
MLK’s legacy has been whitewashed for many decades. The state would have us believe he was a passive figure. The truth is he was a radical leader, unshakable in his demands for rational change: an end to capitalism, to war, to empire, to poverty, and to white supremacy. We take this opportunity every year to celebrate the true spirit of this revolutionary
On Jan. 21, we march for justice for all victims of police terror and their families. We march for housing as a human right. We march for a just economy that meets everyone’s human needs. We march for real community safety, which means defunding the police to invest in our communities. We march for quality education for all our kids. We march for real sanctuary in the Bay. We march for a sustainable climate and healthy environment for all families.
Demands:
– Justice for ALL victims of police terror and their families
– Housing as a human right: truly affordable housing for all in need, immediate shelter for our unhoused neighbors, and public land for public good.
– A just economy that works for everyone, puts people over profits, provides living wage jobs with dignity for all, requires corporations to pay their fair share to do business in our cities, and ensures that any development benefits the community.
– Community-based public safety: Invest in prevention, not criminalization; make all police use of force transparent and accountable.
– Quality education for all: Fair pay for teachers. No cuts, no closures, no more charters.
– Real sanctuary for all: Abolish ICE, end criminalization of our most marginalized, and guarantee the safety of all queer, Black, Brown and Indigenous communities.
– Environmental justice: clean, air, water, and safe food supplies for all.
Indigenous sovereignty and respect for sacred sites.
Sponsor: APTP
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/306880009918687/?active_tab=discussion
29. Monday, 5:00pm – 6:00pm, Stand with Refugio and Elvira Nieto – Monthly gathering at Alex Nieto’s altar
Bernal Hill
SF
Public transportation # 67 MUNI. Catch it on 24th St. at Mission across from McDonalds
On March 21, 2014, Alejandro “Alex” Nieto, 28 years old, was killed when he was struck by 14 to 15 bullets (of a total of 59 shots) fired by four San Francisco Police Department officers, on Bernal Hill Park, without justification. The officers who killed Alex Nieto are: Sgt. Jason Sawyer (then lieutenant. He is also the killer of John Smart in 1998!), Officer Roger Morse, Officer Richard Schiff, and Officer Nathan Chew.
On the monthly anniversary of Alex’s murder, the Nieto’s gather at the altar site on Bernal Hill.
All are welcomed
