Periodic Announcements
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ARTICLES:
A. Israel wants to deport 300 refugees to one of the world’s most dangerous countries – February 17, 2019
B. NPR misleads public in report on AIPAC vs Ilhan Omar
C. Trump Block Back Pay for Contractors Who Worked During Shutdown – February 14, 2019
D. Haiti’s Unfolding Revolution Is Directly Linked to Venezuela’s – February 13, 2019
E. Israel Says it Wants ‘War with Iran’ and is meeting with Arab Countries to ‘Advance’ it – February 13, 2019
F. What boycott of Manny’s in the Mission is about – February 13, 2019
See item #15
4 ACTIONS
1. Revoke Trump’s national emergency declaration
2. Tell Your Senator: Stop Selling Arms to Saudi Arabia!
SIGN: https://act.amnestyusa.org/page/38482/action/1?ac=W1902EASHR1&ea.url.id=2012943
The House of Representative’s version passed on February 13, 2019
3. Revoke Trump’s Nuclear Authority
4. (New petition) DA Krasner: At long last, turn the page on Mumia Abu-Jamal case
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Tuesday, February 19 – Thursday, February 21
Tuesday, February 19
1. Tuesday, 8:45am – 10:45am, Tell DA O’Malley to Hold the Sheriff Accountable!
Rene C. Davidson Court House, Department 7
1225 Fallon St.
Oakland
Our youth deserve justice for the Sheriff’s Office’s egregious violation of their constitutional rights!
Rights Violated:
1. 4th Amendment (Search & Seizure)
2. 5th Amendment (Self-Incrimination, Due Process)
3. 6th Amendment (Right to Counsel)
4. Penal Code 632 (Eavesdropping)
Join Urban Peace Movement & the Justice Reinvestment Coalition of Alameda County as we demand that the District Attorney Nancy O’Malley do the following:
1. PROSECUTE Sergeant James Russell on the four counts of felony eavesdropping to the fullest extent of the law. No slap on the wrist.
2. INVESTIGATE the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office to determine the extent of this egregious violation of the United States Constitution, make public the results of the investigation, and file felony charges against Lt. Tim Schellenberg for his complicity, as well as all other officers involved in the recording of these constitutionally protected conversations.
The DA’s office should establish a commission to investigate the seemingly widespread violations of constitutional rights of our community by the Sheriff’s office immediately and pursue the appropriate criminal charges. This commission should have representation from community based and civil rights organizations.
For more information, please contact Urban Peace Movement at: info@urbanpeacemovement.org.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/306305226686314/
2. Tuesday, 5:00pm – 7:00pm, Citywide Parent Meeting/Junta general para padres de Oakland
Center of Hope Community Church
8411 MacArthur Blvd.
Oakland
Join parents and community groups from across Oakland to get the latest updates on the OEA teacher strike and share ideas on how to best support teachers on strike and mobilize parents at your school.
PLEASE SEND AT LEAST 1 parent and 1 teacher (who is working with parents) from your school site. We would love to have ALL school sites represented.
Breakout groups will include:
Organizing Parents 101 Mini Training
Sign Making
Phone Banking
Media Messaging Mini-Training
Solidarity Schools
Solidarity Parent-led Shares & Cooperatives
Food Distribution
Picket Line Support
Sponsors: Oakland Education Association, Oakland Rising, ACCE Action, Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/617507362021956/
3. Tuesday, 6:30pm – 8:30pm, Emergency Meeting: Trump/Pence Must Go!
Sports Basement – San Francisco
1590 Bryant St.
SF
Come to a special meeting of Refuse Fascism Tuesday night to discuss and make plans to mobilize opposition to the national emergency.
A fascist regime with a program of genocidal ethnic cleansing is making an unconstitutional power grab. That power grab must be resisted now, and even more essentially, this regime must be DRIVEN FROM POWER!
Trump’s declaration heightens the urgent need for RefuseFascism.org to organize a movement – aiming to bring hundreds of thousands and millions into the streets – to drive out the regime through massive, non-violent struggle.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2269842923253480/
4. Tuesday, 6:45pm, The Family of Agustin Gonsalez at Hayward City Council Meeting
Hayward City Council Meeting
777 B St. Hayward (nr. first Hayward BART Station – Stop after Bayfair)
Hayward
“Augie” was killed by Hayward police on November 2018.
The family is demanding:
– Accountabilty
– An independent investigation
– Officers Michael Clark & Phillip Wooley be removed from serving in operational capacities pending an independent criminal and administrative investigation
Sponsor: Justice 4 “AUGIE” Agustin Gonsalez, 29, Killed by Hayward PD November 2018
Info: https://www.facebook.com/groups/305220756860184/
5. Tuesday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, A Night Called Freedom
St. Cyprian’s Center
2097 Turk and Lyon
San Francisco
Doors open at 6:00pm
Suggested donation: $25 – no one turned away
SAINT JOHN COLTRANE Global Spiritual Community celebrates its 50th anniversary presenting the first in a year-long series of events.
we cordially invite you to a very special performance of John Coltrane’s Civil Rights Era composition, “Alabama,”� in commemoration of the four girls in Birmingham who passed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963. Composed to the cadence of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s eulogy for Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robinson, and Cynthia Wesley, Coltrane’s lament to the state of Alabama during the watershed years of the freedom movement is an acknowledged standard in the freedom music canon.
“It is most important in our struggle for spiritual purity and intellectual clarity that we understand the connection and the oneness and unity of the messages of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Coltrane,”� says Archbishop Franzo W. King, co-founder of the Coltrane Church.
Joining the Coltrane Church Ensemble for this extraordinary evening of words and music will be saxophonist Richard Howell, guitarist Pascal Bokar, vocalist Ann Mack and other special guests. Dr. King’s words will be re-enacted by Robert Fisher and Dr. Gene Mabry; the Keynote Speaker for the event is Dr. Nicholas Baham III, author of The Coltrane Church: Apostles of Sound, Agents of Social Justice.
“St. John Coltrane’s “Alabama” is a crucial link in the chain of human responses to violence so senseless, it remains to this day one of the cruelest and most unthinkable acts of inhumanity,” says Rev. Wanika K. Stephens of the Coltrane Church. “The bombing of the church gave wings to the Civil Rights Movement, calling a nation to rally for Justice Now.”
6. Tuesday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, Oakland is Strike Ready
East Bay Community Space
507 55th St.
Oakland
** All are welcome. If you are an Oakland Parent, please consider attending the Citywide Parent Meeting/Junta general para padres de Oakland organized by the Oakland Education Association at 5pm this same day**
After almost 2 years of negotiations with a billionaire-backed school board, Oakland teachers are going on strike this Thursday, February 21st. When they do strike, it will not just be against the injustice of a district that remains unwilling to act on crowded classrooms, deteriorating conditions, and abysmal pay; it will not just be for the demands of more student support, and greater investment in Oakland schools; when Oakland teachers strike, it will be against the billionaires and privatizers who are at war with public education in Oakland, California, and across our country. The teachers of Oakland are fighting for a world that puts students, parents, and educators above the profits of the hyperwealthy.
Sponsor: East Bay – DSA
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/248340132756460/
Wednesday, February 20
7. Wednesday, 8:15am, OUR FAMILY NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT! RE: Fernando’s case
ICE (Immigration & Customs Enforcement)
630 Sansome St.
SF
9:00am hearing
Last week, Fernando’s attorney contacted us to let us know that sadly, the Board of Immigration Appeals has reversed the Judge’s decision in Fernando’s case. What this means is that as of right now, his protection against deportation has been revoked. This hit our family extremely hard because just when we thought that we could be heading towards some sense of normalcy, this cruel system continues trying to destroy families like ours.
An ideal outcome for this hearing, would be that another hearing is scheduled so that our attorney has the opportunity to present new evidence to support Fernando’s case. However, in current times, there is a high risk that ICE could try and detain him until the appeal case is finalized.
Host: Free Fernando
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/440832419988598/
8. Wednesday, 9:30am – 11:45am, Rally to stop the unjust eviction of Tamal Griffin
61 Santos St. (In Sunnydale Housing Project)
SF MUNI – # 8 Bus – to Santos & Brookdale
SF
(Sulaiman Hyatt) wanted to alert you to a high profile eviction that is happening this Wednesday. Tamal Griffin, a differently-abled (disabled) Black Grandmother with her 4 grandchildren are being evicted from her home in SF by the San Francisco Housing Authority.
I am mobilizing folks to show up and rally/protest to stop the Sheriffs and SFHA from doing the eviction. The more people that show up the better chance we have at stopping the eviction. No one will be at risk of arrest for being present.
SFHA has falsely accused Tamal Griffin of subleasing her unit, and of forging paperwork. Both of these accusations are unsubstantiated and have been disproved by her lawyer.
Orgs involved in advocating on behalf of Tamal Griffin: Housing Rights Committee of SF, Bay Area Legal Aid, Mayors Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD)
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/607492286391036/
9. Wednesday, Feb. 20 – 4:15pm – Friday, Feb. 22, 8:00pm, Anti-Black State Violence Across the Americas Symposium
UC Berkeley, Multicultural Center
220 MLJ Jr. Student Union
UC Berkeley
Berkeley
All events are wheelchair accessible. Please fill out our Event Registration form so we can accommodate any additional access needs.
RSVP for individuals events and workshops: https://goo.gl/forms/par3FykAT2mJtRCe2
UC Berkeley is hosting influential scholars and social movement leaders from Brazil and the United States—homes to the two largest Black populations outside the continent of Africa.
Guest Speakers include:
Cat Brooks (Anti Police-Terror Project)
Ericka Huggins (Black Panther Party)
Vilma Reis (Movimento de Mulheres Negras)
Alicia Garza (Black Lives Matter)
Asha Ransby-Sporn (Black Youth Project 100)
Djamila Ribeiro (Movimento de Feministas Negras)
Andreia Beatriz & Hamilton Borges dos Santos (Reaja ou Será Mort@)
Christen Smith (UT Austin)
Tina Sacks, Leigh Raiford & john a. powell (UC Berkeley)
Camila de Moraes and more throughout this three-day symposium!
In 2019, a U.S. congressional session begins with more women and non-white members than ever before amid a contentious executive branch, and Brazil’s far-right president-elect begins his first term despite anti-Black, -LGBTQ, and -woman rhetoric. The symposium on “Anti-Black State Violence in the Americas” will facilitate transnational coalitions, engagement, and learning. Taking place over three days, scholars, scholar-activists, and organizers will discuss the intersecting challenges of addressing anti-black state violence through workshops on topics including: policing and democracy; historical foundations of Black struggle; wellness and healing; sustainability and social movements; cultural media production; education in today’s socio-cultural contexts; pathways to contesting racialized forms of violence, and, many others.
Email: antiblackstateviolence2019@gmail.com
Sponsors: Anti-Black State Violence Across the Americas, UC Berkeley Multicultural Center, Center for Latin America Studies – UC Berkeley, Institute for International Studies, UC Berkeley, + 4 Other groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2167341300171859/
10. Wednesday, 5:00pm – 6:30pm, Stand Up Fight Back! Educators vs. Privatizers
Berkeley City College Auditorium
2050 Center St.,
Berkeley
FREE
Public education is under attack! Come learn about the ways Oakland educators, union members, students, and parents are fighting back against billionaire privatizers and austerity politicians. We’ll hear from Paul Antony-Levine on why he and other teachers are ready to strike. Peralta Federation of Teachers president Jeniffer Shanoski will speak on the funding crisis at local community colleges, and how the struggles are connected. OUSD parents Maureen Boyd and Heather Dodge will speak on why they’re supporting Oakland teachers. Presentation followed by Q&A.
Co-hosted by Berkeley City College Young Democratic Socialists of America, Oakland Education Association, Peralta Federation of Teachers.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/283149339047792/
11. Wednesday, 5:30pm – 6:30pm, Peace Vigil: Theme this week is Venezuela
Market & Montgomery St.
(on the steps facing Market Street, below Feinstein’s office,
directly above the Montgomery BART/Muni station).
SF
If it rains – Vigil will be held down the stairs.
Look for the PEACE banner!
Themes vary each week on topics for PEACE & JUSTICE
All are welcomed.
12. Wednesday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, San Francisco Living Wage Coalition Meeting
2940 16th Street, Rm. 301 (nr. 16th Street BART)
SF
Everyone Welcome Refreshments childcare if reserved by Monday
For more information, call 863-1225 or email sflivingwage@riseup.net or visit www.livingwage-sf.org
The Living Wage Coalition is building a grassroots movement of low-wage workers and their allies to win economic justice. Anyone who works full time should be able to survive on what they earn and support themselves and their children. We are engaged in a transformative rethinking of the economy that makes the goals of public policy living wage jobs for all. Come to be a part of discussing next steps in pursuing an economic justice agenda.
13. Wednesday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, Malaya Movement SF
Bayanihan Community Center, Todco Rm.
1010 Mission St
SF
Various San Francisco organizations are coming together to discuss how to forward the campaign to end US support of the Duterte Regime.
Calling all artists, organizers, educators, professionals & concerned people! Please join us to learn about the Malaya Movement San Francisco and contribute to a national movement to cut U.S. aid to the Trump-Duterte administration directly involved in the extra-judicial killings in the Philippines
· Over 23,000 lives have been taken under Duterte’s “drug war” campaign.
· 172 farmers massacred, women burned and youth killed
· Lawyers, peace advocates and human rights defenders assassinated in broad daylight
And our U.S. tax dollars – $185 million – is helping fuel these human rights violations.
It will take a movement to stop the killing of the Filipino people. It will take you to bring much needed change to the Philippines!
Sponsor: San Francisco Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (SFCHRP)
14. Wednesday, 6:00pm – 9:00pm, People’s Park Campus Solidarity Meeting
250 Eshleman Hall
Berkeley
A weekly meeting to promote campus solidarity and student involvement in the struggle to save People’s Park.
Sponsor: People’s Park Committee
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/542352996262218/
15. Wednesday, 6:30pm – 7:30pm, Boycott Manny’s and its “Woke-Washing” of the Mission
Manny’s
16th & Valencia St.
SF
STOP THE WOKE-WASHING OF THE MISSION
See Article F.
We are a group of black and brown folks, Jews, Mission Housing tenants, trans and queer people, and many others, who are committed to collective liberation. We are
calling for a community boycott of Manny’s (3092 16th at Valencia, SF) because this new upscale wine bar is yet another gentrifying attack on our community. While Manny’s bills itself as a “community space”, it’s marketed toward white ruling class techies, and its programming often features right-wing politicians who are supported by the luxury condo industry. While Manny’s is on the ground floor of a low-income building run by Mission Housing, its residents had no say in its placement. While countless Latinx cultural spaces are evicted from the Mission, Sam Moss who runs Mission Housing, gave Manny’s a reduced rent.
The owner of Manny’s has worked with Bay Area Zionist organizations. Zionism is a racist ideology that believes Palestinian people have no claim to their land. Zionists, through the state of Israel, enforce this ideology by murdering, arresting, torturing, and displacing generations of Palestinian people. We stand against Zionism, gentrification, anti-Semitism, and all other forms of oppression.
Manny’s is part of a systematic attempt to make gentrification and racism seem “cool” through woke-washing. Woke-washing is the strategy of putting a “social justice” façade on oppressive politics.
JOIN US EVERY WEDNESDAY 6:30PM
Endorsed by
Black and Brown for Peace Justice and Equality;
The Lucy Parsons Project;
Palestinian Youth Movement – Bay Area;
Brown Beret National Organization;
National Brown Berets;
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network;
Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism;
Jews Against Zionism;
GAY SHAME: A Virus in the System
Please honor this Boycott! By NOT attending or scheduling events there. Let Manny know why.
16. Wednesday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism & the Difference Between the Two
Revolution Books Berkeley
2444 Durant Ave.
Berkeley
Discussion! Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism and the Important Difference Between the Two.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2358126587552268/ orhttps://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/13/18821157.php
17. Wednesday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, APTP General Membership Meeting
Eastside Arts Alliance
2277 International Blvd.
Oakland
Wheelchair accessible
Anti Police-Terror Project meets on the third Wednesday of every month.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2137389973015135/
18. Wednesday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, Oakland, Merritt College and the Origins of the Black Panther Movement
Children’s Hospital of Oakland Research Institute (CHORI),
Little Theater (enter from the back of the building)
5700 Martin Luther King Jr. Way (use the parking lot behind the building, accessible from Aileen Street)
Oakland, CA 94609
$10 – $15
The Black Panther Party is synonymous with Oakland and the Black radical tradition, and Oakland’s Merritt College has been called the “Home of the Panthers.” What was the role of Merritt College in the formation of the Panthers? And why did Merritt move from the flatlands of North Oakland to the hills of the east? Learn more about the post-World War II Oakland that gave rise to a global movement.
Speaker: Rasheed Shabazz is a journalist, historian, and photographer. He was born in Oakland and grew up in West Alameda
Sponsor: Oakland Heritage Alliance
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/314073372784250/
Thursday, February 21
19. Thursday, 12Noon – 1:00pm, San Francisco 2019 Contract Campaign Kickoff Rally
SF City Hall
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Place
SF
This year more than 20,000 workers united in SEIU 1021 enter contract negotiations: from nonprofit, courts, and Housing Authority workers, workers at elementary schools, high schools, and City College, to those who care for the sick and the elderly at our clinics, Laguna Honda, and SF General, MUNI/SFMTA workers in the streets and underground, and the city and county workers from Civic Center to Hetch Hetchy who ensure that all residents have access to quality public services.
Sponsor: SEIU Local 1021
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/777790002598807/?active_tab=about
20. Thursday, , 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 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.
From Ben Bac Sierra
“The officially submitted language, approved by the Nietos, for the Amor for Alex Nieto plaque, which will be on the memorial at Bernal Heights Park, San Fran Frisco:
March 4, 1986 to March 21, 2014.
Against the violence and injustice of 59 bullets, family and grassroots community arose as a movement to promote the positive spirit and to defend the honor of a beloved young man, Alex Nieto, who was killed by the police.
Amor for Alex Nieto.”
21. Thursday, 6:00pm – 7:30pm, Beds for Bayview Coalition Meeting
SF Public Library – Bayview Linda Brooks-Burton Branch
5075 3rd St.
SF
Wheelchair accessible
We’re working to get the word out to the community about our demands for environmental justice, and end to displacement, and for shelter beds in the Bayview.
Join us to learn the latest developments in our work for justice for Bayview, and then share your ideas for how you can help us build our campaign!
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/698776757182906/
22. Thursday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, Conservatorship, Mental Health & Homelessness: A Public Forum
St. John’s Episcopal
1661 15th Street (@ Julian)
SF
What is conservatorship? What does the mental health system look like in SF for homeless people? What is SB 1045 and why do so many mental health and civil rights organizations oppose it? How can we humanely and effectively address mental health conditions for people experiencing homelessness?
Join us for a public forum on conservatorship, mental health, and homelessness
A new law, SB 1045, is being considered in San Francisco which will endanger the civil liberties of homeless people with mental health conditions.
Speakers include:
Jenny Friedenbach, Coalition on Homelessness
Susan Mizner, ACLU Disability Rights Program
David Elliott Lewis, Mental Health Association SF
SB 1045 is a bill that passed at the state level to expand conservatorship law, using the number of psychiatric holds initiated by police (“5150s”) as a measure of eligibility. A conservatorship is a court order that takes away all your civil liberties, including your right to control your own health care, your own finances, and even where you live. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is now considering implementing this new program.
Come learn about how conservatorships now work, how this bill would change the laws, and share your opinions on the proposed change.
Planned by the Voluntary Services First Coalition. We are pushing for voluntary housing, mental health services, and drug abuse treatment. We want people to get the help they need and not just be pushed out of sight. More information at.
This event is being hosted by:
** Voluntary Services Coalition
** Senior & Disability Action
** HealthRIGHT 360
** Coalition on Homelessness
** ACLU Northern California
and more!
ALERT from Do No Harm Coalition:
Call Supervisor Rafael Mandelman’s office at 415-554-6968 to express your thoughts. Rafael Mandelman pushing for SB1045 in SFand we need folks from healthcare to express these concern (it sounds like his office thinks most of the opposition is from groups kind of the fringe so having a lot of voices from healthcare would be super helpful!!). It would only take a few minutes to call his office. Here are some key points:
· Mention you’re with UCSF or other healthcare related fields
· Some patients experiencing homelessness may have multiple 5150s; but what they really need is stable housing and healthcare and food and other basic services, not conservatorship
· You’re especially concerned about the 5150 clause because 5150s can be initiated by people outside of the mental health care profession (i.e. police officers)
Even if you are not in the health care field please call!
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/786011675114687/?active_tab=about or https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/17/18821227.php
23. Thursday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, Community Design Workshop: Housing at a bus yard? | February 21
Mission Arts Center
745 Treat Ave. (between 20th & 21st Streets)
SF
Workshop will also be held on Saturday, Feb. 23rd , 11:00am – 1:00pm
If you require translation services or other accommodations please call 415.646.2573 or email Bradley.Dunn@SFMTA.com up to 48 hours before the event to ensure accommodation. Spanish translation will be provided.
Potrero Yard Modernization Project Community Design Workshops: Housing on top of a rebuilt Muni yard?
The SFMTA is modernizing Potrero Yard at 17th and Mariposa into a new three-story building, and is considering building housing on top of the new yard.
Join staff and neighbors at our workshop on either Thursday, February 21 or Saturday, February 23 to share your neighborhood housing priorities. At the workshop, you can also provide input on the best way for the building to fit into the neighborhood, and how to move residents and employees to and from the site.
To learn more about the project, visit SFMTA.com/PotreroYard
Sponsor: SFMTA
