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ARTICLES:
A. MLK, JFK, RFK, MALCOLM X Celebs and Fams of Kennedy, MLK Demand New Probes … ASSASSINATIONS WERE CONSPIRACIES –
https://www.tmz.com/2019/01/19/jfk-rfk-mlk-malcolm-x-murders-assassinations-conspiracies-reopen-trc/?fbclid=IwAR0pNVCxC9PlqQLat6nFx451tTC7_UmQOnIa-fSf5024MCHc838cmt90DFk
B. Trump’s Space Force: A Dangerous Lunacy – January 18, 2019
C. House Democrats Add $1 Billion in Border-Related Spending to Measures to Reopen Government
3 – ACTIONS:
1. Tell the House: Don’t Rubber-Stamp Laser Drones
Trump just announced a ludicrous and dangerous plan to build laser drones to fire at North Korean missiles.
2. FELONY charges, 7 yrs in prison, for a SILENT PROTEST in support of immigrants! #FreeMaya
3. Take action now: Tell Congress to speak out against the destruction of the Oura Bay! – From military destruction
SIGN: https://action.foe.org/page/8824/action/1?ea.tracking.id=Email&ea.url.id=184491
The U.S. military is attempting to build a new base in Okinawa, Japan. This base threatens precious ecosystems, endangered species, the democracy of the Okinawan people, and the livelihoods of its Indigenous community
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Monday, January 21 – Thursday, January 24
Monday, January 21
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday
1. Monday, 7:30am – 8:00am, Press Conf: Demanding Racial Justice on MLK Jr Day – Fire HR Dir
Marriott Marquis
780 Mission St.
SF
On MLK Jr. Day, SF City Workers Demand Board of Supervisors and Mayor Breed Fire HR Director Micki Callahan Involved in Racial Discrimination
How do local politicians of San Francisco observe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day? As they do every year, the who’s who of San Francisco politics will gather at the SF Labor Council Breakfast. They will make speeches on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; they will network; and they will swear they believe in racial justice. Then the event will conclude and they will go on their merry way, proceeding to do nothing to make a difference pertaining to racial injustices experienced by Black people in San Francisco. They will use this day not as a day to address racial injustices, but as a photo opp..
On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Wealth and Disparities in the Black Community – Justice 4 Mario Woods demands that Mayor Breed and the Board of Supervisors take real action, and fire Department of Human Resources Director Micki Callahan due to her documented involvement in systemic racial discrimination of Black city workers. WDBCJ4MW leader and SEIU 1021 steward Phelicia Jones said, “After this Press Conference, politicians of SF will have breakfast in this hotel with the Labor Council and pay lip service to Martin Luther King, Jr., as they do every year. Then they will walk away and do nothing for Black folks in San Francisco
We call on the Board of Supervisors to recommend that Callahan be fired and we call on Mayor Breed to fire her. According to United Workers for Public Action, Callahan has cost San Francisco taxpayers over $70 million from payments for settlements to workers and lawyers, many of those settlements related to race.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/596673777429386/
2. Monday, 8:30am – 10:30am, #Reclaim MLK Youth Teach-In & March- Updated
Frank H. Ogawa Plaza
1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza (nr. 12th St. BART)
Oakland
ASL interpreters provided
Teach-In with the Young Activists for Black Lives Coalition*!
This year’s Young Activists 4 Black Lives theme is We got the Power!
We got the power to end houselessness.
We got the power to abolish ICE.
We got the power to provide sanctuary for all.
We got the power to end police terror.
Programming tentatively includes music, movement, books and interactive activities on empowering youth of color leaders, self defense, labor strikes, talking about whiteness, and more.
Teach-In programming will be led by Abundant Beginnings, BoomShake, Sanctuary For All, Sama Sama, Oakland teachers, Showing up for Racial Justice.
Check back for more information on the day!!
Sponsors: Abundant Beginnings & APTP
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/304886996673683/
3. Monday, 11:00am –(See details below), The Peoples March – 5th Annual Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy – Updated
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 will be available for some parts of the day’s programming.
A free Healer Village will be operating from about 10am-5pm
Gather at 11:00 am
March at noon
Here’s more detail (still subject to change)
We are sorry, but there will not be a Sunrise Ceremony after all.
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:
4:30pm-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
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
4. Monday, 3:00pm – 4:00pm, On MLK Day: SF Press Conference to demand that Gov. Newsom Fire Criminal Tetra Tech
California State Building
350 McAllister
SF
On MLK Day In SF Rally/Press Conference To Demand that Gov Newsom Fire Criminally Corrupt Clean-up Company Tetra Tech
OUTRAGED HUNTERS POINT RESIDENTS DEMAND
GAVIN NEWSOM FIRE TETRA TECH
Environmentalists Join Hunters Point Residents’ Demand That Newsom Rescind State Contract with Tetra Tech to Clean Up Butte County Camp Fire Debris
Residents will be joined at the press conference by community leader Christopher Muhammad of the Nation of Islam, former Black Panther leader Elaine Brown and Attorney Charles Bonner, who represents over 3,000 Hunters Point Plaintiffs in their $27 Billion lawsuit filed against Tetra Tech last year for its fraudulent reports that it had cleaned up a portion of the Shipyard. The residents’ demand is supported by renowned environmental and medical leaders, including Dr. Ahimsa Sumchai, Environmental Scientist Wilma Subra, Dr. Rupa Marya, Epidemiologist Mark Alexander, Green Action leaders Bradley Angel and Marie Harrison, Dr. Ray Tompkins.
Newsom, who had barely been sworn in as Governor when he appointed Jared Blumenfeld to head the Cal-EPA Agency, was a pivotal player in the deal the City of San Francisco made when he was Mayor with mega-housing developer Lennar to construct more than 10,000 housing units on the Shipyard. The Navy then engaged Tetra Tech to clean up the Superfund site for the Lennar development. Late last year, the Shipyard’s first homeowners sued Lennar, and now the Navy itself and the Department of Justice have sued Tetra Tech for its dangerously fraudulent practices. More, Congressional House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently echoed residents’ outrage, stating, “We are concerned that Tetra Tech continues to receive contracts amidst ongoing Department of Justice whistleblower lawsuits into their fraudulent work at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.” The Cal-EPA/CalRecycle contract with Tetra Tech was flagrantly entered into even as the U.S. Department of Justice filed its lawsuit against Tetra Tech
Corrupt CA Gov Newsom Who Covered Up $1 Billion Eco Fraud Scandal At Hunters Point Shipyard Gives Criminal Tetra Tech Another Huge State Contract To Clean-up Camp Fire After Committing Fraud At Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Clean-up
For details see: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/19/18820470.php
5. Monday, 5:00pm – 6:00pm, Stand with Refugio and Elvira Nieto – Monthly gathering at Alex Nieto’s altar – Updated
Bernal Hill
SF
Public transportation # 67 MUNI. Catch it on 24th St. at Mission across from McDonalds
On the monthly anniversary of Alex’s murder, the Nieto’s gather at the altar site on Bernal Hill.
All are welcomed
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.
UPDATES:
– January 2nd, Alex’s altar was removed by Park & Recs. From what I understand the Nieto’s don’t intend to rebuild the altar but will continue to meet each month at the site –
rain or shine
– January 17th, From Ben Bac Sierra: “Share good news:
Unanimous approval by the SF Arts Commission of the Alex Nieto Memorial!
Against the violence and injustice of 59 bullets, family and grassroots community rose to promote the positive spirit of a beloved young man, Alex Nieto, whose tragic death
sparked the biggest movement of diverse gente in the United States ever to defend the honor of a Latino victim of a police killing.
His blood was the roots; we are the flowers.
Amor for Alex Nieto.”
Next step is with Park & Recs. Notice will be given before this happens
FB site: https://www.facebook.com/groups/721427181211650/
Tuesday, January 22
6. Tuesday, 11:30am, Hands Off Our Park: Defend People’s Park From Cops And Chainsaws – Rally & March
People’s Park
2556 Haste St.
Berkeley
Last week, over 150 heavily armed police officers came with guns and chainsaws to cut down our trees and trash our homes. Six people – community members and students – were violently awoken and handcuffed at 5 am, on charges of “illegal camping” – because they had put up tents and tarps as shelter from the rain. All of their belongings were seized or trashed.
We reject the UC’s claim that this is about sick trees. This is about razing one of Berkeley’s few public spaces to turn it into privatized, luxury dorms. Some trees were supposedly removed because they were “too close to other trees”. Others were completely removed over health issues that are normally solved by removing a branch. The only thing “wrong” with those trees was that they stood in the way of the construction equipment the UC intends to bring in.
Sponsor: People’s Park Committee and Berkeley People’s Park
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/613591639063640/
7. Tuesday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, Liberate The Caged Voices
The Octopus Literary Salon
2101 Webster St.
Oakland
Join us for this interactive event centered on the letters, commentary and poetry of our caged community members. Your active participation is encouraged as we fulfill the wish to bring forth the voices of those most impacted by the Prison Industrial Slave Complex and heed their call to awareness and action.
A guest speaker TBD
Sponsor: California Prison Focus
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/220510795530944/
Wednesday, January 23
8. Wednesday, 10:00am – 12Noon, Sit-In: DA Wagstaffe’s Office to Demand Release of Videos of Okobi’s Death by Sheriffs
400 County Centerm 3rd Floor DA’s Office
Redwood City
Allow time to go through security – please be in the office by 10am
It has been over four months since the murder of Chinedu Valentine Okobi at the hands of San Mateo County Sheriff’s officers.
Currently, there has been:
No response by the DA to the calls and requests by the SMC community to release the videos, and the 911 calls on Oct 3, 2018.
No corrections of the lies in the first report released by the Sheriff’s Office about Mr. Okobi’s death.
No public statement by the Sheriff or the DA.
No action on, or commitment to, any legislation regarding a moratorium on Tasers by the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors.
No requests by any San Mateo County Supervisors to the DA or Sheriff to release the video, the call logs or correct the lies of the first report by the Sheriff’s office on this death, as we the community have repeatedly requested of them since October 2018.
In addition to this complete disregard for interests of justice, all five (5) deputies are back on duty.
We demand the release of the videos of Okobi’s murder and the release of the 911 Call logs, immediately.
It is time to disrupt business as usual at the DA’s office!
Sponsor: Justice4Chinedu/Regina Islas
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/14/18820380.php
9. Wednesday, 12Noon – 1:00pm, Stop Privatization At SFGH! Press Conf To Stop Privatization of SF General Hosp Pharmacy
SF General Hospital
In Plaza between Building 5 & 25
Near 23rd & Utah
SF
1/23 SF General Speak-out Press Conference To Stop Privatization of SF General Hospital Pharmacy And Other Departments, Workplace Bullying and Systemic Racism
Stop Privatization, Workplace Bullying , Racism, Retaliation and Union Busting!
The City and County Of San Francisco is moving to privatize thousands of jobs through the EPIC program and the LEAN plan while outsourcing city jobs to non-union low paid workers.
Part of this outsourcing drive is taking place at the San Francisco General Hospital renamed Zuckerberg pharmacy where the DPH management and San Francisco Human Resource DHR Director Micki Callahan are intent on more privatization and outsourcing the pharmacy for more profits. The City has pushed for privatization of the entire hospital and renamed it the Zuckerberg Hospital despite opposition by CCSF workers and the community. SF City top officials and executives want to turn it into a privatized revenue producing operation instead of a public hospitaly and communit healthcare centers for the poor and working people.
Speakers will report on who is doing this privatization and what the cost of the city and health system will be. This outsourcing is escalating and is also taking place in other hospitals including Highland Hospital in Oakland and the threat to outsource pharmacy jobs at Kaiser. This is combined with attacks on whistleblowers and a racist workplace bullying attack on African American and other minority workers as well as senior workers. African American workers many of whom testified at CCSF Board Of Supervisors hearing who are being illegally harassed and terminated out of their jobs for more profiteering by the privatizers while millions more are being spent on consultants.
The San Francisco Labor Council has also called for an end to privatization and the bullying of CCSF DPH workers and other workers.
Speakers will include
Brenda Barros, SEIU 1021 SF General Hospital Chapter Chair and COPE co-chair
John Wadsworth, SEIU 1021 General Hospital VP
Cheryl Thornton, SEIU 1021 Steward and SF Potrero Hill Community Healthcare Worker
Lisa Milos, CWA UPTE UCSF rank and file member
Theresa Harris, SFGH SEIU 1021 Nurse
Sponsored by
United Public Workers For Action
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/18/18820450.php
10. Wednesday, 5:00pm – 5:30pm, Invasion of the Tent Snatchers II (WeSearch Release)
SF City Hall
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Place, Front steps
SF
As a follow-up to our October 2018 WeSearch Release- Poor, Unhoused (unbedded) San Francisco residents will release our 2nd WeSearch (Poor People-led research) data on the ongoing theft of 410 tents belonging to houseless residents by the new Mayoral administration of San Francisco
POOR Magazine is a poor and indigenous people-led movement dedicated to providing media, education, art and solutions for and by Poor folks ourselves- Pnn-Kexu 96.1fm-Po Peoples Revolutionary radio/TV launched ROOFless radio and the WeSearch project 3 years ago to ensure that poor peoples voices and data were collected, reported and speaking for ourselves about things that impact us 1st and worst.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2292240137467065/
11. 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!
12. Wednesday, 7:00pm – 8:30pm, From Women’s Rights to Trans Liberation
The Women’s Building
3543 18th St.
SF
The fight for reproductive rights is a fight for bodily autonomy, which also underpins demands for trans liberation and sexual freedom. The possibilities for our bodies and our lives are limited under capitalism. The socialist impulse is to fundamentally change this condition. Socialist emancipation involves an emancipation from the way capitalism organizes gender and alienates our bodily life. For that reason, the defense of trans rights must be a principle for the movement that we want to build today.
Sponsor: ISO
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/348058092591875/
Thursday, January 24
13. Thursday, 12Noon – 1:00pm, Rally Against The Attack On The Poor
SF City Hall
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl
SF
As DPW continually confiscates property at the behest of the city govt, the BOS appears poised to enact SB-1045, a dangerous bill meant to conserve homeless folks with a prior history of 5150 holds in mental institutions without their consent. The city puts these efforts into attacking the poor while the Bayview is still without even a full service shelter after decades of broken promises. The people of SF demand housing and appropriate services.
Join the Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance in exposing these actions of the city of SF, Oakland and Berkeley. Let’s come together and fight back!
This Rally will create an opportunity for folks to speak on their experiences being harrassed by the Department of Public Works, The police and their local city Government. The scheduled speakers will include Gwendolyn Westbrook (CEO of the United Council of Human services), representatives of the United Front Against Displacement, Berkeley Friends on Wheels, Neither Here nor There.
However, this event is open to all to participate!
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2338216829793842/
14. Thursday, 6:00pm, SF Food Not Bombs Food Share – Weekly
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/
15. Thursday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, The Yemen Tragedy: America’s Role
SF Public Library – Park Branch
1833 Page St.
SF
A talk by Stephen Zunes
Co-sponsored by Education Committee, SF Democratic Socialist of America
How U.S. policy helped undermine a nonviolent pro-democracy struggle, empower extremists, provoke a civil war, and support a bombing campaign resulting in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
Saudi Arabia has come in for worldwide condemnation for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but far less has been said about its much broader war crimes — and about the U.S. role in facilitating them — in the four-year war in Yemen that has killed an estimated 50,000 people and threatens as many as 12 million with starvation.
Is there now light at the end of the tunnel? On the one hand, the Senate has invoked the War Powers Act of 1973, which requires the president to consult with Congress “in every possible instance” before sending troops into conflict. But on the other, the US Air Force has subsequently issued a request for suppliers to provide airplane parts to keep Saudi F-15 jet fighters flying.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2218046491777152/
16. Thursday, 7:30pm – 10:15pm, Empowering Womxn of Color Open Mic Series
La Peña Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley
Tickets by Eventbrite
DOORS OPEN AT 7:30PM / PERFORMANCES AT 8PM
Suggested Donation: $5-$10 sliding scale (No one turned away for lack of funds!) All proceeds go towards covering the costs of presenting this event.
La Peña Cultural Center and UC Berkeley Womxn of Color Initiative present: The Empowering Womxn of Color Open Mic Series!
Back by popular demand, this open mic series provides a space for performances celebrating the voices of women of color and will include one featured artist per month!
Come support local Bay Area talent or sign up to perform!
Sign up for the January 24th open mic here:
Performers, come dazzle the crowd with your talent and get in touch with the local artist community each month.
This series leads up to the Empowering Womxn of Color Conference at UC Berkeley on March 16, 2019!
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2336320789924134/
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SAVE the DATE
Calling For
‘Handmaids’
To oppose the so called
“Walk for Life”
Saturday, January 26th
12:30pm
Meet at Powell & Market St.
&
March together to
One Post Plaza
SF
Costumes will be loaned out
If you are interested or have questions contact: afong@jps.net
The “Walk for Life” happens each year in San Francisco
Anti-abortionist march must be met with counter-protest.
The so-called “March for Life”, attacking the right of women to be people, to chose, will organize tens of thousands to march down Market St. as they do every year. We must mount a powerful counter-protest. Please join us!
This is being organized by: Refuse Fascism
