Events listed are for Friday & Saturday – will work on other events – tonight / tomorrow
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ARTICLES:
A. Missing Pieces: The Human Impact of Drone Strikes – February 20, 2019
B. Mexican activist shot dead before vote on pipeline he opposed – February 20, 2019
C. Arrest Of Heavily Armed Former U.S. Military Members In Haiti Sparks Many Questions – February 20, 2019
D. Green MEPs held after anti-nuclear protest at Belgian military base – February 20, 2019
E. The Arms Trade Is Intensifying Under Trump – February 20, 2019
F. House launches probe of US nuclear plan in Saudi Arabia – February 19, 2019
ACTION
1. Tell Congress: Don’t let Trump use the military to intervene in Venezuela
SIGN: https://act.credoaction.com/sign/venezuela-Cicilline?t=4&akid=31669%2E21110%2E1oDrXz
2. Tell the House of Representatives: Stand up for women. Pass the Women’s Health Protection Act.
SIGN: https://act.credoaction.com/sign/stand-up-for-women-2019?t=4&akid=31692%2E21110%2Edwr1i2
3. A Call for Accountability and Transparency: SFSU’s List of “Religious Holidays” Insults Muslims, Palestinians and Jews
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Friday, February 22 & Saturday, February 23
Friday, February 22
1. Friday, 11:30am – 2:00pm, Day two rally: taking on the billionaires (Oakland Teachers Strike)
Defremery Recreation Center
1651 Adeline St.
Oakland
On day two, we rally at Defremery Rec Center in West Oakland.
Join us in our fight for the soul of public education in Oakland. Billionaires have starved our schools for too long — it’s time to stand up and fight back!
Wear #RedForEd!!
Sponsor: Oakland Education Assoc.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/246442749626720/
2. Friday, 12Noon – 2:00pm Mothers on the March Against Police Murders – Week 125
Hall of Injustice
850 Bryant St.
SF
DEMAND POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY
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.
Calling for Justice for:
Joshua Smith, Kenneth Harding Jr., Peter Yin Woo, Steven Michael Young, Dennis Hughes , Pralith Prolouring, Dale Stuart Wilkerson, Alex Nieto, Giovany Contreras Sandoval, O’Shaine Evans, Matthew Hoffman, Amilcar Perez-Lopez, Alice Brown, Herbert Omar Benitez, Javier Lopez Garcia, Mario Woods, Luis Gόngora Pat, Jessica Nelson, Nicolas McWherter, Nicholas Flusche, Damian Murray, Keita O’Neil, Jesus Adolfo Delgado, Jehad Eid, and Derrick Gaines (killed by a police officer hired by SFPD)
The above named all were killed by SFPD during DA Gascon’s reign – NOT ONE police officer has been charged!
3. Friday, 6:30pm – 9:00pm, Lucha Obrera: Latinos and their Unions in San Francisco
ILWU Local 34
801 2nd St.
SF
ILWU Local 34 hall, 4 Berry Street, San Francisco (on the Embarcadero next to Giant’s Stadium, 2nd & King Streets)
Free and Open to Public | Wheelchair accessible
Labor Archives Annual Program
Historian Eduardo Contreras will discuss the centrality of unions and labor organizing in Latino life from the 1930s to the 1950s. Drawing on material from his new book, “Latinos and the Liberal City: Politics and Protest in San Francisco”, Contreras will explain how unionization transformed Latinos into political actors and how the pursuit of rights, power, and recognition emanated — first and foremost — from their unions.
Music by Familia Peña-Govea | Organizing Update from UNITE HERE Local 2
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2166520800107604/
4. Friday, 7:00pm – 8:30pm, “Reading Between the Headlines” on Ilhan Omar & Palestine
PSL
2969 Mission St.
SF
Wheelchair accessible
$3 – $10 donation – no one turned away
The ideas of an age are the ideas of its ruling class. Every day the media spins a story, a story shaped by the profit motive and capitalist politics. Sit down with activists, students and workers and read between the headlines to apply working class and socialist analysis about the events happening right here and right now that are affecting our lives. Collectively, we will investigate and discuss the biggest media topics of the day, but from a revolutionary perspective, not the one handed to us by the corporate media.
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/20/18821299.php
5. Friday, 7:00pm – 10:00pm, Benefit Concert: Stand with the Caravan
Redstone Buildingm Rm. 217
2926 16th St.,
SF
Tickets will be sold at the door for ten dollars cash or credit. Food and drinks will be sold
La Radio Flash is cosponsoring a musical benefit for the Martin Baró Clinic. Their current mission is to bring medicine to the caravan along the Mexican border.
We will be hosting this musical night with three magnificent local artists; Diana Gameros, Feña y Madeline, and Mercedez.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/379787816156461/
6. Friday, 8:00pm – 12Midnight, Party Fundraiser for the Teachers’ Strike!
Alan Blueford Center for Justice
2434 Telegraph Ave.
Oakland
Bring *cash* to donate at the door. All funds collected will be donated to Bread for Ed
Oakland teachers are striking to win the schools their students deserve! But they need your support to win—and you can help through the Bread for Ed campaign.
Bread for Ed will provide meals at solidarity schools, food trucks at picket lines, and more. There are 37,000 students and around 3,000 members of the Oakland Educators Association in this fight to defend the public school in Oakland. The vast majority of these students depend on free or reduced lunches, so this project is a critical show of solidarity with the Oakland community.
Calling all labor unions, decolonial activists, teachers, parents, community members, anarchists, socialists, beer enthusiasts, feminists, really, anyone that gives a damn about public education:
Come chill, listen to music, have some drinks, and raise funds for our comrade teachers who are striking
Your fabulous anti-criminalization advocates and Beats From Below radio show collective (Crossroads Radio/Poor Peoples News) –Rebecca Ruiz, Maria Moore, and Stasha Lampert will be hosting
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/535117046985250/
Saturday, February 23
7. Saturday, 11:00am – 1:00pm, Community Design Workshop: Housing at a bus yard?
Mission Arts Center
745 Treat Ave.
SF
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.
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.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2172227669772943/
8. Saturday, 11:00am – 8:00pm, Eighth Annual Films of Remembrance
New People Cinema
746 Post St.
SF
The cost of the first three film screenings at Films of Remembrance is $12 each, and $25 for the Showcase Film “Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066,” which includes the Filmmakers Reception. All-Day Passes are SOLD OUT. Nichi Bei Foundation member rates and student rates (with ID) are $10/$20.
Proceeds benefit the Nichi Bei Foundation’s Wayne Maeda Educational Fund.
For more information, including film synopses, trailers or to order tickets or sponsor, visit: www.nichibei.org/films-of-remembrance or e-mail programs@nichibeifoundation.org.
See site for film details
Several films focusing on the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II will be showcased at the eighth annual Films of Remembrance, to be presented by the Nichi Bei Foundation. Followed by a Filmmakers Reception from 8 p.m.
The event is held in conjunction with the annual Day of Remembrance, this year commemorating the 77th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066, which set the wheels in motion to forcibly remove some 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry — most of whom were American citizens — from the West Coast into American concentration camps.
Sponsors include the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the Aratani C.A.R.E. Award, and the California Civil Liberties Public Education Fund (of the California State Library).
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/524970481325707/
9. Saturday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, No War On Venezuela!
Oscar Grant Plaza
14th & Broadway
Oakland
Join the international day of protest on Feb. 23 (the one month anniversary of the US coup attempt) to stop US intervention in Venezuela. Organized by the Spring Action Antiwar Coalition and UNAC
Host: End the Wars at Home and Abroad + 5 Other organizations with many endorsers
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2106191902792503/
10. Saturday, 12Noon – 1:00pm We Cannot Be Erased: The Effects of Planning and Displacement
SF Public Library – Western Addition Branch
1550 Scott St. (@ Geary Blvd)
SF
Urban areas do not grow equitably, and San Francisco is no stranger to disturbing and unjust displacements and migrations. Speakers who live in and work with the Western Addition, Potrero Hill, and Visitacion Valley discuss the impact of displacement and gentrification on their neighborhoods and share perspectives on what the city as a whole can learn from their plight/flight.
Modeling the City is part of Take Part, an artist project by Bik Van der Pol, commissioned by Public Knowledge, organized by SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in partnership with the San Francisco Public Library. For more information about Take Part, visit takepartSF.net
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/812933525717953/
11. Saturday 12Noon – 4:00pm, 2019 Dream Beyond Bars Summit: A Youth Vision for Alameda County
California Ballroom
1736 Franklin St.
Oakland
Youth & Young Adults Only
Free
Tickets by Eventbrite
A Youth Vision for Alameda County’s Justice System, an educational forum that will bring together young people, systems leaders, policymakers and community partners to learn about the findings of the Dream Beyond Bars Report. This participatory research highlights the harm of being incarcerated as a young person and the need for community based solutions. The goal of the Summit is to educate attendees on the findings and hear feedback from the community on the recommended solutions to better help mobilize for youth justice.
Sponsors: Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice and Urban Peace Movement
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/307146209933613/
12. Saturday, 1:00pm – 5:00pm, San Francisco City Workers Rise Up Against Racism
New Valencia Hall
747 Polk St. (@ Ellis St.)
SF
Wheelchair accessible
For information or childcare:
415-864-1278 · bafsp@earthlink.net · tinyurl.com/FB-BAFSP
Lunch served from 1:00-2:30 p.m. Donation $10
Program starts at 2:30 p.m.
San Francisco city workers are organizing against daily racist and sexist harassment on the job, dangerous working environments, and abusive conditions faced by long term at-will employees. This multi-racial panel features city employees who are building a movement to end these practices that endanger workers and the public alike.
In honor of Black History Month, come learn about their organizing efforts and why uniting workers of all colors to fight back together is the way to win changes for all.
Speakers:
– Brenda Barros, SEIU 1021 Chapter President, SF General Hospital and member of SF General Equity Council and Erase Racism.
– Lakisha Austin, co-founder of Strength in Numbers, decade-long employee of SF Public Utilities Commission and SEIU 1021 member. Strength in Numbers is a worker-led group of Water Department employees taking a stand against management abuse and bullying. SIN is committed to dealing with health, safety, racism, sexism, and contracting-out of public-sector jobs to private third-party employers with personal connections to SFWD bosses.
– Amy Gray-Schlink, Water Department plumber, member of Strength in Numbers and the Freedom Socialist Party.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2300867696614019/ and https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/16/18820423.php
13. Saturday, 5:00pm – 9:00pm, Third Annual BFP Gala: The Palestinian Expression
International House (Chevron Audit.)
2299 Piedmont Ave.
Berkeley
Tickets are $20 for students, $25 for non-students, and $30 at the door.
This years theme is: ‘The Palestinian Expression’. Join us in celebrating and embracing Palestinian culture with a night full of Palestinian music, speakers and entertainment.
We will be hosting various speakers, a dabke team, and musical troupes that we will be announcing shortly! Palestinian food, dessert, and coffee will be provided.
email info@bearsforpalestine.org with any questions or concerns.
Sponsor: Bears for Palestine
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2314392425252291/
14. Saturday, 6:00pm – 8:30pm, Film screening: “1948: Creation & Catastrophe”
The Way Christian Center
1305 University Ave.
Berkeley
free and open to the public.
Co-sponsored by The Way Christian Center, NorCal Sabeel and Jewish Voice For Peace-Bay Area
Through riveting and moving personal recollections of both Israelis and Palestinians, the film reveals the shocking events of the most pivotal year of the ongoing tragedy. It tells the story of the establishment of Israel as seen through the eyes of the people who lived it. This film is your chance to make sense of what is happening in Israel-Palestine today
6:00 PM Snacks & refreshments
6:30 PM Film screening
8:00 PM Q&A and discussion with the
filmmakers, Ahlam Muhtaseb & Andy Trimlett.
