Will post a few Earth Day Events – by Monday eve.
NOT back posting on a regular basis.
– Please post events on Indybay even if event is digital : https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12
Thank you to all who are – See Indybay for other events.
ARTICLES:
A. Government “Gives Away” 200,000 Acres of Public Land While Americans Shelter in Place – April 18, 2020
B. Mayor Breed Nominates 2 To Serve On Police Commission – April 17, 2020
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Mayor-Breed-picks-2-to-serve-on-SF-Police-15210111.php
C. San Francisco to Enforce Face Mask Requirement as Bay Area Strengthens Mandates
https://www.kqed.org/news/11812863/san-francisco-to-enforce-face-mask-requirement-as-bay-area-strengthens-mandates
D. Colin Kaepernick Launches COVID-19 Relief Fund For Black And Brown Communities – April 17, 2020
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/colin-kaepernick-launches-coronavirus-relief-fund-aid-black-brown-communities-n1186421
E. SF to settle whistleblower retaliation lawsuit against former DA Gascon for $400K
F . The Criminalization of South Sudan’s Gold Sector: Kleptocratic Networks and the Gold Trade in Kapoeta – April 9, 2020
https://enoughproject.org/reports/criminalization-south-sudans-gold-sector
ACTIONS
1. Protect the Mission!
SIGN: https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/stop-sf-planning-pre-application-processes-until-shelter-in-place-has-been-lifted-1?share=8d31316e-22d1-4cdf-9d13-4239fb813baf&source=rawlink&utm_source=rawlink&fbclid=IwAR12JJkEyEmN71deYfKdU5e9r7yfQ3vhUPJSEl1fTuWqA-yg_pniy6VtIpY
2. Call on the DOJ and House Judiciary Chairman Nadler to seek the immediate release of human rights lawyer Steven Donziger!
SIGN: https://www.makechevroncleanup.com/?utm_source=Amazon+Watch+Newsletter+and+Updates&utm_campaign=c223650af1-2019-04-25-blk%2B_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e6f929728b-c223650af1-339828874&mc_cid=c223650af1&mc_eid=ded1714210
3 . Free all political prisoners in the Philippines amid the global pandemic #SendThemHome
SIGN: https://www.change.org/p/president-rodrigo-duterte-sendthemhome-free-all-political-prisoners-in-the-philippines-amid-the-global-pandemic
4. Protect Wildlife Refuges From GMOS and PESTICIDES
SIGN: https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/actions/5988/protect-wildlife-refuges-from-gmos-and-pesticides?emci=d23c2300-c980-ea11-a94c-00155d03b1e8&emdi=d53c2300-c980-ea11-a94c-00155d03b1e8&ceid=574402
5. Open Letter to the Government of the United States and the United Nations
SIGN: https://uspeacecouncil.org/4724-2/
Updated resource:
Here’s where kids can get free meals during Bay Area school closures April 17, 2020
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/free-meals-students/?fbclid=IwAR0JDaZTP6DylRrvCDATghpaRe5CTzO479S4TWLpAQb07qdGVA58q8IFvXU
EVENTS
Sunday, April 19 – Tuesday, April 21
Sunday, April 19
1. Sunday, 12Noon (PDT), The Prosecution of Julian Assange and the Fight For Free Speech
Zoom webinar registration here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Xh2EsZbrTtOq1FZifgfIlw
Live streams on this Facebook event page and on YouTube:https ://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zb1Rg8CiAO9Ff8kLlXXiQ
An online panel discussion of leading attorneys, human rights defenders and social justice activists as the London trial of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is underway. If Assange is extradited to the United States, he faces the first-ever charges under the Espionage Act of 1917 for the publication of truthful information in the public interest. Speakers will present the critical legal and policy issues involved as well as rebut government efforts to undermine the reputation and credibility of Assange. In these difficult times for civil liberties and democratic rights we demand: Free Julian Assange! Defend Free Speech and the First Amendment!
Panel Speakers:
Sponsors: Bay Area Julian Assange Defense Committee • National Lawyers Guild Bay Area • Courage Foundation • United National Antiwar Coalition
Initial co-sponsors: CodePink Bay Area • Social Justice Center of Marin • Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, US Section • Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance, advisory board, Courage Foundation, past Steering Committee member Chelsea Manning Support Committee • Marin Peace and Justice Center • Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Host: Bay Area Action Committee to Free Julian Assange
2. Sunday, 1:00pm – 1:30pm, Nationwide Body Bag Deliveries Demanding: Trump/Pence #OutNow
SF Federal Building 70 – 7th St. SF
Small numbers of people are doing car caravans & short dramatic actions this weekend. Most of us will be supporting remotely. Follow @RefuseFascism on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.
RefuseFascism supporters will deliver home-made body-bags to Trump properties (or in this case the Federal Building) observing social distancing and safe practices, saying, “We recognize the Trump/Pence regime, with its opposition to science and its fascist program now poses an even greater danger to humanity due to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/291682715154713/?notif_t=event_calendar_create¬if_id=1587233936767470
3. Sunday, 1:00pm – 3:30pm, Covid-19: Capitalist Crisis & Socialist Solutions
Advance Registration: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYof-mhqjwsjeCVfc5xIsy7Yuf-wngN4g
Join Marxist scholar and retired New York City public hospital doctor Susan Williams for this interactive online forum (via Zoom). She will analyze the coronavirus emergency and the economic meltdown, offering concrete proposals to address both crises. Share your thoughts in the discussion that follows.
Host: Freedom Socialist Party – Bay Area and New Valencia Hall
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1876875672619847/
4. Sunday, 1:00pm – 7:00pm, Earth Day 50: Virtual Kick-Off Event for Earth Week 2020
Registration: https://whova.com/portal/registration/march_202004/?fbclid=IwAR2CBmPcdpguNmOnnAfQrTVEodtlrhHvGd6SIT1rC7l215mg_kqF5qrSHrQ
For the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, Earth Day Initiative and March for Science NYC will demonstrate what we can do to empower one another and connect with people around the world to make positive steps forward, even when circumstances on the ground make it difficult to be with each other in person. In this uncertain time, we are using the technology and tools available to us to demonstrate what activism can look like in the 21st Century.
VIRTUAL STAGE: featuring high-profile speakers, including public officials, activists, scientists, and performers
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/933352253748335/ or https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/04/18832104.php
5. Sunday, 6:00pm, From Katrina to Corona: GentriFUKing Oakland Streets
Join Zoom Meeting
From Katrina to Corona- government Solutions to Homelessness & Covid 19 series continues –
Host: POOR Magazine + 2 Other groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/262413095150868/
Monday, April 20
6. Monday, Call-In to Cancel Rent! National Day of Action
Call your governor by clicking here: https://cancelrent.us/call-your-legislator/
with thousands across the country by contacting your representatives and telling them to cancel rent, mortgage and utility payments. Together we are building a powerful movement of renters, homeowners and community members across the country to win homes for all.
with over 22 million people filing for unemployment, it has become even more crucial that the demands to cancel rent, mortgage and utility payments are met. The Beyond Recovery campaign demands are not just to help our communities get through this crisis, but to ensure a #DebtFreeFuture and healthy, safe, thriving communities for us all.
Hosts: Right to the City Alliance and Homes For All
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/255718972229136/
7. Monday, 3:00pm (PDT), How Strikes & Community Coalitions Can Address The Crises We Are Facing
Webinar registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qqDL0bqUSJCZl-Hi7EcgQQ
Online Panel Event
This moment in our history is exposing the cracks in the system that we all live in under. But before and after COVID-19, we have other existential crisis facing our communities.
We will have a conversation with members and leaders of SEIU Local 26 along with representatives from the Youth Climate Strike MN, were one of multiple environmental justice organizations to link their fights with these commercial janitors to win what otherwise would have felt impossible
Speakers:
Info from “The Leap”
Tuesday, April 21
8. Thursday, 10:00am (PDT), Earth Day 2020: Health, humanity, and the climate emergency
NOTE: After you register, you’ll receive an email confirmation with the Zoom link to attend online.
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/earth-day-2020-health-humanity-and-the-climate-emergency-tickets-102738080364?aff=email&source=CMG2004U1D01&utm_medium=email&utm_source=SFMC&utm_campaign=2020-04-Comms-Climate-Health-Webinar-Panel-Email-Invite
Free
An online chat about how Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) responds to the adverse effects of climate change on health.
Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) invites you to join us for a live online chat about the health impacts of the climate emergency. As a medical humanitarian organization that works in climate hotspots around the world, MSF is preparing for cascading crises. Our teams provide medical aid in response to natural and human-made disasters, severe drought and flooding, and infectious disease outbreaks–challenges likely to grow and multiply without urgent action to reduce carbon emissions. As people further disrupt fragile ecosystems, some scientists say we can expect to see more zoonotic diseases that jump from animals to humans, like COVID-19. Poor and marginalized communities face compounded risks due to climate change and lack of access to health care.
Join our panel of experts as they discuss the medical and humanitarian consequences of climate change and environmental degradation. Speakers include Carol Devine , MSF Canada’s humanitarian affairs advisor and a research fellow at York University’s Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research; Dr. Maria Guevara , MSF senior operational positioning and advocacy advisor in Geneva; and Dr. Edward Xie , emergency physician and assistant professor at the University of Toronto. MSF-USA Executive Director Avril Benoît will moderate the discussion and take your questions.
9. Tuesday, 12Noon – 1:00pm (PDT), Seeking Justice: Sexual Assaults by Police
Act & Learn Webinar:
Register: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/4679424037496159756?link_id=1&can_id=4d8abb95a7895a1648b41bfa1ad2bb3b&source=email-youre-invited-to-seeking-justice-sexual-assaults-by-police&email_referrer=email_774747&email_subject=youre-invited-to-seeking-justice-sexual-assaults-by-police
Sexual assault is the second most frequently reported type of misconduct by police. [1] Predatory members of the police often prey on people who use drugs, people who have prior arrest records, immigrants, people with disabilities, and sex workers. [2] However, the harm done to individuals and communities through police sexual misconduct is felt by everyone. When we speak out against police violence, we must include sexual assault and harassment.
Confirmed speakers include:
We will dive deep into the issue of sexual misconduct by police, and learn from activists seeking justice for survivors in the courts and through grassroots organizing. 1. https://rewire.news/article/2018/04/03/survivors-sexual-violence-police-need-quick-fix/ 2
. https://www.npr.org/books/titles/561961940/invisible-no-more-police-violence-against-black-women-and-women-of-color#excerpt
Host: Reproaction
10. Tuesday, 6:00pm, Monthly gathering with Refugio and Elvira Nieto – (Light a candle in remembrance of Alex)
Alex’s AltarBernal Hill SF
On the monthly anniversary of Alex’s murder on the 21st day of each month, Refugio and Elvira Nieto will gather for a brief time at Alex’s altar – observing ‘social distancing”
Light a candle this evening for Justice for Alex and all others who lives have been taken by the police
If U would like to send a brief message to the Nieto’s email: afong@jps.net
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.
11. Tuesday, 7:00pm – 8:30pm, Online Study Group: What Will It Take to Save a World in Crisis?
Chose either Tuesday or Wed. event.
Register for Tuesday evening group: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/uJIodeugpzIjL2iIS4RaP3622wOaZ1FZmA
The global pandemic, impending economic collapse, and the survival of the earth itself at risk—with stakes this high, how do we focus our organizing? Can the course reversal we need be achieved through piecemeal reforms and voting in democratic socialists? Or will it take a complete transformation away from the current capitalist system?
Host: Freedom Socialist Party- Bay Area & New Valencia Hall
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/530159031229663/?event_time_id=530159034562996
