* * * *ALL N. California events with ANN WRIGHT are postponed due to a family emergency. Please keep Ann’s brother-in-law and her family in your thoughts. * * * * Will send out a notice if /when events will be re-scheduled.
Warning – Saturday a.m. 11:45 Update: @ Civic Center Park. Tried to steal tent.
SF: 2 groups Nazis harassing homeless people: 1 group started on Market near main Library & headed to tenderloin, other on Hyde headed east. About 30 of them, splintering & regrouping. Share with SF peeps.
Here’s the article about their leader: FAR RIGHT, ANTI-MUSLIM ACTIVIST IS COMING TO “CLEANUP” SF HOMELESS CAMPS
“ Scott Presler is a far-right agitator who has worked for the anti-Muslim hate group ACT for America, which has ties to Neo-Nazis.
“Presler will follow the event with an LGBT #WalkAway Town Hall, also at an undisclosed location.”
Am not back posting on a regular basis.
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ARTICLES:
A. Critics Charge Trump Expansion of Muslim Ban Continuation of ‘Cruel, Inhumane, Bigoted’ Policies – February 1, 2020
B. Trump “peace” deal is Israel’s apartheid blueprint – February 1, 2020
C. Trump lifts restrictions on US landmine use – January 31, 2020
D. NILS MELZER UN rapporteur: Assange being set up to be ‘burnt at the stake’ – January 31, 2020
E. All Eyes On Oakland: Moms 4 Housing Continues To Fight – January 31, 2020
F. A New Air Force Video Game Lets You Drone Bomb Iraqis and Afghans – January 31, 2020
G. As The Coronavirus Spreads, So Does Racism — Both Against And Within Asian Communities – January 30, 2020
H. U.S. Announces Three New Bases in Iraq After Iraqis Demand Full Withdrawal – January 29, 2020
I. Hundreds of Palestinians march through checkpoint to protest Trump plan
J. Guantánamo Testimony Exposes Role of Doctors in C.I.A. Interrogations – Jan. 27
3 – ACTIONS:
1. Investigate the Afghanistan Papers NOW!
2. Save California Ethnic Studies
3. Congress: Fight for Better Trade Deals!
FEW EVENTS
Saturday, February 1
1. Saturday, 2:00pm – 4:30pm, The Haitian Revolution of 1804
Starry Plough Pub
3101 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley
Speakers:
– Pierre Labossiere, Co-Founder of the Haiti Action Committee (HAC) and the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund (HERF)
– Gerald Smith, co-founder of the Oscar Grant Committee
“The impact of the Haitian Revolution was immeasurable. It was significant to the history of the Atlantic slave system, to the history of de-colonial and anti-imperial struggles, to the history of France, and to the history of the United States. To other slave societies, the Haitian Revolution became an example of what could be accomplished and a source of hope that figured prominently in the imaginations of enslaved peoples across the New World.”
— Ashleigh Shoecraft
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/20/18829945.php
2. Saturday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, Climate Disruption, Migration, and the Rise of Walls
2939 Ellis St.
Berkeley
As global warming accelerates, tens of millions of people are displaced all over the world every year. In response, governments have intensified their construction and expansion of border walls along with their criminalization of immigrants. And the U.S. only leads the charge in these dehumanizing policies.
Join us to discuss these important issues with Todd Miller, journalist and author of Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the US Border Around the World (2019) and Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security (2017).
Host: Revolutionary Workers Group & Sunflower Alliance
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1455508807936922/
Sunday, February 2
3. Sunday, 10:30am – 12:30pm, The Haitian Revolution of 1804
NPML
6501 Telegraph
Oakland
Speakers:
– Pierre Labossiere, Co-Founder of the Haiti Action Committee (HAC) and the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund (HERF)
– Gerald Smith, co-founder of the Oscar Grant Committee
“The impact of the Haitian Revolution was immeasurable. It was significant to the history of the Atlantic slave system, to the history of de-colonial and anti-imperial struggles, to the history of France, and to the history of the United States. To other slave societies, the Haitian Revolution became an example of what could be accomplished and a source of hope that figured prominently in the imaginations of enslaved peoples across the New World.”
— Ashleigh Shoecraft
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/23/18830053.php
Monday, February 3
4. Monday, 6:30pm – 8:30pm, Be Water: Civil Disobedience & Fight for Democracy in Hong Kong
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission St.
SF
Tickets $12
film screening followed by panel discussion.
A curatorial collaboration with Alex Yong Kang Chow, former Hong Kong student activist sentenced to prison for seven months for his political participation in the 2014 Umbrella Movement and current UC Berkeley Geography Phd student, this program brings together films, performance, and discussion that prioritize the lived experience of protesters.
Stuck between its British colonial past and a future ruled by communist China, Hong Kong’s young people are taking to the streets to fight for the autonomy and democracy they were promised. Attitudes to resistance, protest strategy, and tactics differ between generations and the leaderless demonstrators themselves. How do they manage the nuances of building a democratic movement? How are they using creative strategies in the arts, technology, and in the streets, as crucial communication tactics?
Panelists:
– Jeffrey Hou, Professor and Director of Urban Commons Lab at the University of Washington, Seattle
– Poets/Activists from the Bauhinia Project
– Conversations with the Courageous (CwC)
– Alex Yong Kang Chow, Hong Kong Action Association of Berkeley
– Brian Ng, Lausan Collective
Co-Presented by Hong Kong Community Cinema
Curation by Alex Yong Kang Chow, Susannah Smith & Robin Abad Ocubillo
Host: SF Urban Film Fest
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1244746142392637/
Tuesday, February 4
5. Tuesday, 12Noon – 1:30pm, No to U.S. Aggressions and Interventions
SF Federal Building
90 7th St. (7th & Mission St.)
SF
Mothers on the March and Black and Brown for Justice, Peace, and Equality Demand:
– An End to the Genocide in Palestine, Yemen and of Native Americans.
– An End to the United States government’s interference in Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Iraq, Iran etc.
– An End to the United States funding of aid to these fascists governments and the $40 Billion to Israel.
We demand that United States of North America, military budget given to these governments be used in the U.S. to fund homes for the homeless and for healthcare for all, and NOT to fund the killing of people around the world!
All are welcomed – weekly demonstration every Tuesday.
6. Tuesday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Press Conference / Rally Mayor Breed Sign the Oridinace for $2.7 million & Supervisors Support it!
SF City Hall
Polk St. (entrance near McAllister)
SF
Rally Press Conference-Mayor Breed Sign The Ordinance For $2.7 Million
& Supervisors Mandelman, Yee, Peskin & Stefani Change Your Vote To Back CCSF Students, Faculty and Staff!
1:00 pm Press Conference & Rally – outside
The San Francisco Community College is facing a massive attack by Chancellor Mark Rocha enabled by the CCSF Board of Trustees.
The most recent cut of 300 classes virtually eliminated the Older Adults Program which helps seniors survive and grow. In a union-busting move, Mayor London Breed and her supporters on the Board of Supervisors, including Mandelman, have announced plans to outsource the classes to non-profits instead of CCSF.
The vote by 7 SF Supervisors to provide emergency funding to restore these classes is a lifesaver. It is supported by the San Francisco Labor Council. We call on SF Mayor London Breed to sign this funding ordinance.
WE need this money NOW to stop the liquidation of our college
which is resulting in shutting down vocational education classes, ethnic studies classes and classes students need for graduation. The cuts are destroying the lives of our students and part-time faculty who are losing their jobs and healthcare.
We also want an independent forensic audit to verify our tax money for the college is being properly spent.going. We also favor the repeal of the State legislation written and pushed by the Lumina Foundation and ALEC that reduces funding for the education of working-class and students of color, which is based on a so-called student-centered funding formula.
Host: HEAT (Higher Education Action Team with support of students, faculty, and staff.)
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/01/18830284.php
7. Tuesday, 7:30pm – 9:30pm, Peter J Honigsberg & Steve Wasserman: Forgotten Voices From Guantanamo
Hillside Club
2286 Cedar St.
Berkeley
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents:
PETER JAN HONIGSBERG
A Place Outside the Law: Forgotten Voices From Guantanamo
with Steve Wasserman
advance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores, $15 door, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM info: kpfa.org/events
On January 11th, 2002, the first planeload of twenty detainees from Afghanistan arrived at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Eventually 780 Muslim men were held at Guantanamo, many for ten years or longer, and nearly all were never charged with a crime-a violation of America’s foundational belief in due process and the rule of law. Forty men are still imprisoned at Guantanamo today; twenty-six of them are considered “forever prisoners” who will likely die at Guantanamo, having never been charged, tried, or convicted of any wrongdoing.
Now, in A Place Outside the Law, Peter Jan Honigsberg, a professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law and the founder and director of the Witness to Guantanamo Project, offers the most comprehensive picture to date of the lives that were deeply and often traumatically transformed by Guantanamo. From how alleged terrorists were captured in Afghanistan and Pakistan and sold to the US to the Bush administration’s use of the term “enemy combatant” to bypass the Geneva Conventions, Honigsberg details how the law was broken in the name of protecting Americans-and how that lawlessness was experienced by everyone who came into contact with Guantanamo.
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/15/18829772.php
Wednesday, February 5
8. Wednesday, 1:00pm. Speak-Out Against Another Charter School on Radioactive SF Treasure Island
SF City Hall, Rm. 400
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl.
SF
Stop Poisoning the Students, Teachers & Staff!
Join United Public Workers For Action UPWA, Defend Public Education NOW! and other community members and trade unionists protesting the decision of London Breed’s Treasure Island Development Authority Board to approve a charter at the radioactive contaminated Treasure Island. There has been a decades-long cover-up of the dangers at the Island that continues today. Tetra Tech radiation health and safety inspectors were illegally fired and bullied after reporting the falsification of testing and dangerous radioactive materials on the island. This radioactive material still exists on the island and is a threat to health and safety. This is a super-fund site that has not been cleaned up despite the efforts of agencies like SFUSD, DPH, and TIDA to declare that this site and Hunters Point is safe.
This charter school which they now say they want to open up on a closed public school is a serious danger to the lives of the students, faculty and. staff. It had previously been shut down by SFUSD because of serious and deadly health and safety issues for the students, staff, and teachers. The conditions at the public school when it was operating will also be reported on at the press conference.
Despite calls by UPWA and others about these dangers, there continues to be another charter on the Island. Speakers will report on the highly dangerous site and the systemic cover-up of the radioactive dangers including to residents of the island and how this is a threat to any potential students at this charter, the other charter and the lack of protection for the residents and tenants at the island.
Initiated by United Public Workers For Action
For more information
info@upwa.info
Endorsed by
Defend Public Education NOW!
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/18/18829846.php
Thursday, February 6
9. Thursday, 9:00am, JUSTICE FOR JENNIFER
Hall of Justice, Dept. 22, 3rd Floor
850 Bryant St.
SF
Jennifer Chilaca Basilio has been incarcerated in San Francisco County jail for FOUR YEARS. Her case has been put over on the calendar 61 times with no resolution.
Jennifer was only 18 years old when she defended her life against a group of older men.
Enough is enough, we can’t let her fall through the cracks of the system!! Jennifer has already lost four of her youthful years to incarceration, and we believe that it’s time she is seen for the young person she is and is reunited with her loved ones.
Take action by emailing the prosecutors below and urging them to bring justice to Jennifer’s case:
Diane Knoles, Homicide Unit Supervisor
Diane.P.Knoles@sfgov.org
Chesa Boudin, District Attorney
chesa@sfgov.org
In your message include:
* Your name and/or organization you belong to (if any)
* Request for Jennifer’s release
* Expedite the process to release her
Info: Young Women’s Freedom Center
SAVE the DATE
Global Protest
Don’t Extradite Assange
Monday, February 24
12 Noon
British Consulate
1 Sansome St.
SF
Join us in solidarity and protest on the first day of the UK Extradition Hearing for Julian Assange.
YouTube: https://www.facebook.com/GreenweaverArch/videos/10156664752346129/
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/06/18829479.php
