There will be one more set of announcements after this one listing some upcoming events – then I will be taking an extended break.
Please encourage groups you are involved in to post events on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12
Thank you to all who are posting there!
Check Indybay for other events that might interest you.
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ARTICLES:
A. Chelsea Manning is being held in prolonged solitary confinement, a form of torture – March 24, 2019
B. Trump Set to Sign Official Paper Declaring Israeli Sovereignty Over Golan – March 22, 2019
C. Activists Left Water at the Border for Migrants, Then The Feds Swooped In – March 22, 2019
D. Why are Mission officers using more force than cops at any other SFPD station? March 22, 2019
See item # 7
E. Friends, family gather at Bernal Heights Park in memory of Alex Nieto – March 22, 2019
ACTIONS:
1. Stop the Deportation of Liberian DED Holders
2. Tell Amazon: Cancel their contract with ICE!
3. Everyone deserves clean water. Support the WATER Act
SIGN: https://act.credoaction.com/sign/water-act-2019?t=4&akid=32038%2E21110%2Ei_nihD
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Monday, 3/25 – Friday, 3/29
Monday, March 25
1. Monday, 10:45am – 1:00pm, No Go Roadshow! Lyft, we want a fair share.
555 California St.
SF
We’ll be outside of the Omni hotel for Lyft’s IPO roadshow luncheon to demand that Lyft give drivers, community members and housing activists OUR fair shar
Lyft just launched their IPO, which will put billions in the pockets of executives.
Join drivers, community members and housing activists to demand that Lyft give us our fair share.
Lyft executives and bankers are meeting with potential investors at the Omni Hotel on Monday for lunch as part of its national roadshow before going public. They’re pitching dozens of investors over 10 days in different cities across the country, persuading them to invest in the company before a possible $23 billion IPO as early as this month.
Sponsor: Gig Workers Rising and Jobs with Justice San Francisco
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/300165187344029/
2. Monday, 1:30pm – 2:30pm, Reclaiming the Truth: Press Freedom with Maria Ressa
Bayanihan Community Center
SOMA Pilipinas, Filipino Cultural and Heritage District
1010 Mission St
SF
If folks need a ride to the event, need child care, or have other accessibility questions,
please message us at Malaya Movement or email us at malaya.sbay@gmail.com. Thank you!
Event will be livestream at 1:30pm:
Reclaiming the Truth: Fighting Fake News
How Trolls and Bots Fuel the Rise of Global Fascism
Maria Ressa, arrested journalist and Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, will brief the community and press on her recent speaking engagement in San Francisco, which included top Democrats James Carville and Andrew Gillum. Ressa is the CEO of Philippine online news outlet Rappler. She was recently arrested for her organization’s critical reporting on Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte.
Ressa, a Filipino American, told the audience that the Philippines’ experiences foreshadow what happens in the U.S. “The Philippines is now the tip of the arrow in a global fight for democracy – from the weaponization of social media against perceived enemies like journalists to weaponizing the law against (political opponents)- and most recently, me,” said Ressa.
Ressa spoke on the parallels between Russian bots and pro-Duterte trolls that are weaponizing the internet, and how she holds social media giants Facebook and Twitter accountable as the new gatekeepers of truth.
In the Philippines, internet trolls were part of Duterte’s election strategy, and are widely accepted as the reason for his election victory.
Russian trolls and their role in Trump’s election are some of the subjects of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Ressa’s media outlet Rappler is Facebook’s fact-checking partner in the Philippines.
3. Monday, 7:00pm – 8:30pm, Oakland Uhuru solidarity Movement Open Meeting, Make America Pay…
2300 College Ave.
Berkeley
Join for a special Uhuru solidarity Movemnt open Meeting. We will be discussing the USM National convention with special guest, National Chair of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, Jesse nevel. Chair Jesse Nevel will be presenting an overview on USM and the upcoming National Convention, its theme, the question of reparations & how the Party led around the question of reparations historically going back to the tribunals in 1982.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1273658952810947/
4. Monday, 7:00pm – 8:30pm, March Meeting: Housing Crisis in San Francisco
SHARP
1736 Ninth Ave.
SF
Join us this month to talk about the current housing crisis in San Francisco and an innovative proposed solution.
NOTE: San Francisco Housing Action Coalition is a front group for developers!!!
� HOW DID THE CRISIS COME ABOUT
Corey Smith, Deputy Director of SFHAC (San Francisco Housing Action Coalition), a pro-housing non-profit, will speak on the political and neighborhood tensions that have diminished housing construction in face of the serious influx in high income jobs and population.
� “PARIS-IN-THE-SUNSET”: HOW THE SUNSET CAN HELP TO SOLVE THE HOUSING CRISIS
Eugene Lew, AIA and former head of a S.F. architectural firm, will share his ideas on Dom-i-City, a program to address housing needs that has been characterized by some as “Paris-in-the-Sunset.” With a slide presentation he will show how housing that effectively addresses family needs, neighborhood concerns, affordability and efficient land use can resolve tensions. And how this housing will lead to a better quality of life for all while diminishing damage to the planet.
� WHAT IS BEING DONE TO IMPLEMENT DOM-I-CITY?
Corey Smith will close by sharing the progress to date in implementing Dom-i-city, as well as pointing out why neighborhood groups have a vital stake in helping to solve the crisis. Q and A discussion follows.
Sponsors: SHARP & San Francisco Housing Acton Coalition
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2307813526133516/
5. Monday, 8:00pm – 9:00pm, Talk by Odile Hugonot-Haber: From a war system to peace culture – lift and shift
Long Haul Infoshop
3124 Shattuck Ave. (across from La Pena)
2 blocks from Ashby BART
Berkeley
Odile is the co-chair of the US Middle East Committee of the Women International League for Peace and Freedom.
She was helped maintain the Long Haul between 1987-1993 and can tell stories about Long Haul before the Infoshop and was also involved in the radical homeless movement in the 1980s/90s as well as the struggle to defend People’s Park She was a “participant in the crowd” in Paris 1968.
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/24/18822196.php
Tuesday, March 26
6. Tuesday, 3:00pm – 6:00pm, Occupy The Police Station! We NEED Justice!
300 Richards Blvd.
Sacramento
Meet us at the police station at 3pm!!
FIRE TERRENCE MERCADAL!
FIRE JARED ROBINET!
TAKE THEM OFF OF OUR STREETS NOW!!
THERE WILL BE NO PEACE TILL THERE IS JUSTICE!!
COME WHEN YOU GET OFF WORK
COME IF YOU AINT GOT NO JOB
COME WHEN YOU GET OUT OF CLASS
OR SKIP WORK AND SCHOOL TO FIGHT FOR JUSTICE
JUST BRING YA A$$!
JUSTICE FOR STEPHON CLARK!
Sponsors: Black Lives Matter Sacramento & 2 Other groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/316891552348875/
7. Tuesday, 6:00pm – 7:30pm, Ask Mission Police Station Why they are use more force than other police stations
Mission Police Station
630 Valencia St. (@ 17th St.)
SF
See Article: D
I’m just one person affected by this and I might be too intimidated to speak up if no one else comes, but I’d like for some of us to go to the monthly Police Captain meeting at Mission Station and ask why there are so many more police who use violence at Mission Station than other cop shops.
This meeting is usually taken by the people who ask, I saw homeless, or people who don’t dress well, can you chase them away, and I hope it can instead be a meeting saying, police you have been acting badly, and the district supervisor might get on our side
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/22/18822140.php
8. Tuesday, 6:00pm, SHOW UP SPEAK OUT: Rise for Berkeley RV Neighors! TUESDAY, March 26th is the final vote.
1231 Addison
Berkeley
ON TUESDAY, MARCH 26th,
Berkeley City Council will vote on “Managing Recreational (RV) Parking:”
Berkeley Municipal Code 14.40.120 bans “parking between two a.m. and five a.m” for ALL RVs and VAN and CAR CAMPERS. City Council already voted on February 28th to PASS THIS ORDINANCE with a 6-3 vote.
TUESDAY, March 26th is the final vote.
It’s time for Berkeley residents to show up and demand their neighbors not be displaced! We will protest at city council and demand our voices be heard. Sanctuary for who? The many not the few!
Sponsors:
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/423061278471721/?notif_t=plan_user_invited¬if_id=1553460403922960
9. Tuesday, 6:30pm – 8:30pm, Event on Honduras with Neesa Medina
Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library
6501 Telegraph
Oakland
Join us to Hear an Update on Honduras from Honduran feminist, Neesa Medina. She is a Honduran feminist with 10 years of experience in violence against women, sexual and reproductive rights, strategic communications and advocacy. In recent years, she has testified as an expert on more than a dozen cases of women seeking asylum in the United States. Currently she is the communications director of Somos Muchas, the national coalition against unsafe abortion in Honduras, is the Latin America representative in Equal Measures 2030, and is also the Central America advocacy & research director in Venture Strategies for Health & Development.
Sponsor: International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity, Haiti Action Committee, Task Force on the Americas
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2260752634245803/
10. Tuesday, 7:00pm, the Navy’s Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) Meeting
Building 1, Room 117
One Avenue of the Palms
Treasure Island
For meeting minutes from past meetings and other Treasure Island information, see the Navy’s website: www.bracpmo.navy.mil. Click on the map and select Former NS Treasure Island in the Prior BRAC dropdown menu. You can also call and leave a message with your questions about the cleanup (415) 308-1458.
Wednesday, March 27
11. Wednesday, 6:00pm – 7:30pm, Beds for Bayview Coalition Meeting
SF Public Library – Bayview Linda/Brooks-Burton Branch
5075 3rd St.
SF
Wheelchair accessible – meeting room is on the ground floor
Help us develop our plan for environmental justice, an end to displacement, and for shelter beds in the Bayview!
At this meeting, you can learn the latest developments in our work for justice for Bayview. Bring your ideas for how you can help us spread the word and build our campaign!
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/266492337612923/
12. Wednesday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, Food Sovereignty, Agroecology, & Peasant Organizing in Nicaragua
MESA Program
2362 Bancroft, # 202
Berkeley
A report from the January 2019 Friends of the ATC Delegation to Nicaragua. Five of us from the Bay Area will report on our
experiences with campesino communities, their use of agroecology and their current economic and political reality
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/539221369818758/
13. Wednesday, 7:00pm – 8:00pm, Boycott Manny’s and its “Woke-Washing” of the Mission (New time)
Manny’s
16th & Valencia St.
SF
STOP THE WOKE-WASHING OF THE MISSION
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 7:00PM
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.
Thursday, March 28
14. Thursday, 5:30pm – 8:00pm, APSC card-signing event for Thai, Lao, Cambodia New Year
Institute for Research on Labor & Employment
UC Berkeley
2521 Channing Way
Berkeley
Join Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC) for a special card-signing event for Thai, Lao, Cambodia New Year. We will mail New Year greetings to incarcerated community members in state prisons and immigration jails. We will also share a sneak peek of “Hope Is Contagious” — a collection of artwork, interviews, and writings from the anti-deportation movement.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/251999402347863/
15. 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/
Friday, March 29
16. Friday, 8:00am – 11:00am, Pack the Court – Aida’s Asylum Hearing
ICE
630 Sansome St.
SF
Aida’s asylum hearing has been rescheduled for Friday, at 8:30AM
There were two main reasons why the judge decided to reschedule her hearing: 1) the Government attorney did not show up to court, and the substituting attorney (who arrived 20 minutes late) was not ready to proceed; 2) the judge decided that she did not have enough time to read the materials that were submitted by her attorney the day before.
The immigration judge told Aida that the evidence we submitted was prolonging her detention, but in reality, Aida’s detention has been prolonged because this judge denied her bond request. Further, we were prepared to move forward yesterday, but the government attorney was not ready.
This hearing happening on March 29th, is an individual hearing where Aida will testify on the merits of her asylum claim, where the judge could be making a decision on that day. The legal team is preparing to explore additional legal avenues, since regardless of the outcome of Aida’s hearing on the 29th, she will continue to be detained. We are gearing up to support Aida’s case and need the community’s support!
Sponsors: Free and Reunite Aida, California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/316413679018940/
17. Friday, 9:00am -11:00am, 2019 Cesar Chavez Holiday Breakfast
400 North Point
SF
Info/RSVP: 415-621-2665
cesarchavezday@gmail.com
Commemorate & celebrate the life and work of Labor & Civil Rights Leader Cesar E. Chavez.
Proceeds benefit the Cesar Chavez Holiday Parade & Festival 4/13/19.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/357779475065805/
18. Friday, 12Noon – 2:00pm Mothers on the March Against Police Murders
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!
19. Friday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, Red Power, Internationalism, and National Liberation
Eastside Arts Alliance
544 International Blvd
Oakland
Wheelchair accessible
Featuring Nick Estes (Lower Brule) and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Followed by a screening of WARRIOR WOMEN as part of East Side Arts Alliance‘s Final Fridays.
Join Center for Political Education in celebrating the release of Nick Estes’ new book Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance.
Estes will be joined in conversation by Roxanne Dunbar-Oritz, public historian and author of An Indigenous Peoples’
History of the United States. The authors will discuss the internationalist history of Red Power and struggles
for national liberation today.
Nick Estes is Nick Estes is Kul Wicasa and a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. He is assistant professor in the American Studies Department of the University of New Mexico and is a member of The Red Nation, a coalition dedicated to the liberation of Native peoples from capitalism and colonialism through direct action, advocacy, mobilization and education. Estes’ work focuses on colonialism and global indigenous histories, particularly on decolonization, environmental justice, anti-capitalism, and the Oceti Sakowin.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is an historian, author, memoirst, and speaker who researches Western Hemisphere history and international human rights.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/550503202111324/
20. Friday, 7:00pm, From Palestine, to San Francisco. A documentary night
Black & Brown for Justice and Peace
474 Valencia St. (nr. 16th St. BART)
SF
This is a community event to help connect dots from the genocide happening in Palestine by the Israel Government, to the gentrification going on in San Francisco – Bay Area.
We will be presenting a documentary, with a Q&A session in hopes that we can make the Bay Area a better place for black and brown people.
