Articles, Actions, Events
Am 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. Solidarity means insisting on Palestinian right of return – May 14, 2020
https://electronicintifada.net/content/solidarity-means-insisting-palestinian-right-return/30191
See events #’s 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
B. ‘No Excuse’: Senate Slammed for Reauthorizing Government Spy Powers Without Crucial Privacy Protections – May 14, 2020
“The USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act of 2020 (H.R. 6172) reauthorizes three controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorities that expired on March 15: Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 as well as the “lone wolf and “roving wiretap” powers. The legislation now heads back to the Democrat-majority House, which is under pressure to further amend it.”
C. San Francisco Shifts From Trashing Homeless Camps To Sanctioning Them Amid COVID-19 – May 14, 2020
D. Pandemic Policing Is Expanding the Use of Surveillance Technology
E. ‘Sleeping while black’: Family seeks justice for Breonna Taylor, killed in her bedroom by police – May 13, 2020
https://news.yahoo.com/asleep-while-black-family-seeks-justice-for-breonna-taylor-killed-in-her-bedroom-by-police-210858395.html
Rest in Peace & Power
♥ Breonna Taylor ♥
See Action # 2
F. Amazonian indigenous community wins 24-year lawsuit against illegal loggers – May 13, 2020
https://megaphone.upworthy.com/p/amazon-ashaninka-tribe-wins-lawsuit?fbclid=IwAR3rgNtHXzwZSvAooE5r1fLixc2q9OpaWWdIpAUk59EHZlefOnvzAzS69Gs
G. Border wall construction ramps up during coronavirus pandemic – May 13, 2020
H. SF supervisors cast final vote to close jail at Hall of Justice by November – May 12, 2020
I. SFPD Chief: Restaurants and Cafes That Refuse to Accept Cash Are Breaking the Law– May 12, 2020
J. Meet the 8-Year-Old Climate Activist Cleaning Up India – May 11, 2020
K. Armed activists escort black lawmaker to Michigan’s Capitol after coronavirus protest attended by white supremacists
L. Homeless Activists’ Latest Tactic: Occupying Hotel Rooms – May 11, 2020
M. Sioux tribe rejects South Dakota governor request to remove Covid-19 checkpoints– May 10, 2020
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/09/us/south-dakota-sioux-tribes/index.html
See Action # 3
4 ACTIONS:
1. Oppose HR 6666 the TRES Act Please Act Immediately
The petition I originally posted re HR 6666 was removed. HR 6666 is still in committee, Keep your eyes / ears open – this is a dangerous!!!
2. Demand the officers are fired, and the charges are dropped against her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker
3. Tell South Dakota to Respect Tribes and Public Safety
SIGN: https://www.lakotalaw.org/our-actions/covid-noem
4. BlackRock: Stop financing the climate catastrophe!
BlackRock’s annual meeting is next week, and now is the time to turn up pressure to push BlackRock’s $6 trillion in assets into our best weapon in the fight against climate change.
EVENTS
Friday, May 15 – Sunday, May 17
Nakba events 1 – 7 are listed together.
Other events follow.
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Friday, May 15
Palestinian Nakba
1. Videos and selfies are a great way to express solidarity online! Create a short video clip or hold up a sign supporting the Palestinian people and their resistance through 72 years of ongoing Nakba. Your Tweets, Facebook, Instagram and other social media posts throughout the week can emphasize the critical importance of the Palestinian struggle! Use the hashtags #Nakba2020 #PalestinianResistance #PalestinianStruggle and tag us at @SamidounPP on Twitter so that we can re-share and boost your solidarity efforts.
2. Friday, 11:00am (PT); 2:00pm (ET), Join actions to end the ongoing Palestinian Nakba
Register:
You’ll then receive a confirmation email with a link to join the rally.
Join the global online Nakba Day Rally on May 15th 2020. We’ll be hearing from Palestinian speakers, performers and artists, as well as key figures in the solidarity movement!
While facing the daunting impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and Israel’s #CoronaRacism, Palestinians everywhere are commemorating the 72nd anniversary of the Nakba–the pre-meditated and violently executed ethnic cleansing of a majority of the Indigenous Palestinians from our homeland in 1948, at the hands of Zionist militias, to make room for an exclusionary, settler-colonial state.
Join the webinar on connections between struggles to end the ongoing Nakba and those of refugees, migrants and others without adequate housing
To help end the ongoing Nakba against the Palestinian people, we call for strengthening campaigns to end international complicity in Israel’s regime of oppression, particularly cutting military-security trade with Israel.
We reiterate our call for boycott/divestment pressure on complicit Israeli and international corporations, like those listed in the UN database or still omitted from it, like G4S, Hewlett Packard companies, Elbit Systems, Caterpillar, Hyundai Heavy Industries, Volvo, Heidelberg Cement, Cemex, CAF, PUMA, AnyVision and the NSO Group.
Guest: DAM // MANDLA MANDELA // JANNA JIHAD // DIANA BUTTU // ROGER WATERS // KEN LOACH // TRIO JOUBRAN // GHADA KARMI // REMI KANAZI // YARA HAWARI
Hosts: Palestinian BDS National Committee, Jewish Voice for Peace
3. Friday, 11:00am (PT); 2:00pm (ET), Discussion with Nakba Survivors
Register:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RkoZpKolSaecC0qNyCUN8Q?timezone_id=America%2FLos_Angeles
Nakba Day – May 15th – commemorates the catastrophe (‘Nakba’) of the Palestinians people ethnically cleansed, driven by planned massacres, from their homes and till this day denied the right to return to their own properties in their own homeland.
You
are invited to join the webinar discussion between Musheir El Farra
in Sheffield and Ghalaya Abu Moustafa (aged 81) and her cousin
Muhammad Sayyid Abu Moustafa in Gaza, Palestine.
Glalaya and
Muhammad are Palestinian refugees who witnessed the Nakba
Co-hosted
by Sheffield PSC and Scottish
PSC
https://www.facebook.com/sheffieldpalestine/
https://www.facebook.com/scottishpsc
Info from Samidoun – Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
FB: https://www.facebook.com/SamidounPrisonerSolidarity
4. Friday, 15:00- 17:00 –GMT (can’t figure out US time) Nakba72: The Continuation of Colonisation – Annexation and Peace
Free tickets:
With the Nakba playing a central role in the process of expulsion and dispossession, this webinar seeks to discuss themes past and present across a forum in which: a) the displacement of Palestinians as an inevitable consequence of Zionism will be discussed; b) the ‘new nakba’ and Israel’s colonisation of the West Bank (including how the Nation-State Law facilitates such colonisation) will be interrogated; and, c) the future of the international community’s Palestine policy and the prospects for a robust European and international opposition to annexation will be dissected.
The unity deal signed between Prime Minister Netanyahu and Blue and White Chairman Benny Gantz on 20 April 2020 has all but sealed the fate of the largely defunct two-state paradigm, and has opened the doorway for Israel to initiate legislation to annex large parts of Area C of the West Bank. Starting July, the process of annexation is one that many analysts expect to happen and one that will leave Palestinians with only 15% of historic Palestine and with no control over its borders.
What is more, out of the 120 members of the Israeli Knesset 68 MKs are pro-annexation without condition while 34 MKs are pro-annexation (with conditions); only 18 MKs, 15% of the overall Knesset, are anti-annexation.
All of the conditions are in place, therefore, for the continued colonisation of Palestinian land. This process of colonisation, however, is one that is by no means novel and its roots can be traced back to the ethnic cleansing and enforced displacement of Palestinians in the 1948 Palestine War (including both the 1947-1948 Civil War and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War).
Speakers:
Prof. Ilan Pappe – Ilan Pappé is a professor with the
College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the
University of Exeter. He was formerly a senior lecturer in political
science at the University of Haifa. He is the author of The Ethnic
Cleansing of Palestine, The Modern Middle East, A History of Modern
Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples, and Britain and the Arab-Israeli
Conflict.
Dr. Yousef Jabareen MK – Yousef Jabareen is a Palestinian member of parliament in Israel with the Joint List and has been a member of the Israeli Knesset since 2015. Jabareen is a qualified attorney and has filed numerous motions in Israel’s High Court on issues regarding Arab equality
Dr. Salman Abu Sitta – An engineer by profession, Salman Abu Sitta is best known for his cartographic work on Palestine and his work on the Palestinian Right of Return.
Dr. Hatem Bazian – Hatem Bazian is a co-founder and Professor of Islamic Law and Theology at Zaytuna College, the 1st Accredited Muslim Liberal Arts College in the United States.
In addition, Prof. Bazian is a lecturer in the Departments of Near Eastern and Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Bazian between 2002-2007, also served as an adjunct professor of law at Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.
Host: EuroPal Forum
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/595772341287413/
5. Friday, 5:00pm (PDT); 8:00pm (EDT), Friday Night Forums: Palestine and the Blockade on Gaza
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fSQJFHRzROKHyMqyqfM7Vg
On the 72nd commemoration of al-Nakba, marking the colonization of Palestine, join AROC, CPE and The Red Nation for a Friday Night Forum on Palestine and the Blockade on Gaza.
Featuring:
Osama
Tanous, Palestine-based pediatrician, masters student in Public
Health
Noura Erakat, Human Rights Attorney, Assistant
Professor at Rutgers University
Ziad Abbas, Middle East
Children’s Alliance
Panelists will be discussing COVID-19 amid apartheid and occupation, community-based responses, and lessons for international solidarity with Palestine. Moderated by Lara Kiswani.
6. Friday, 7:00pm (PT); 10:00pm (ET); 9:00pm (CT), Nakba: Never Forgotten / 72 Years of Resilience
LIVE on Zoom.
May 15th is recognized as a day that people across the globe commemorate as the Nakba, the greatest catastrophe that has ever befallen the Palestinian people. It has been more than seven decades since the State of Israel began its institutionalized theft of Palestinian land and oppression of the Palestinian people. Despite blow after blow and catastrophe after catastrophe, the Palestinian people have remained resilient and have never given up.
feature renowned speakers such as renowned Palestinian historiographer, Salman Abusitta and Palestinias from across the diaspora including Jerusalem, Gaza, and the refugee camps of Lebanon to discuss the important work that AMP is doing here in the US.
Host: American Muslims for Palestine
Saturday, May 16
7. Saturday, 11:00am (PT), Palestinian Youth Movement and National SJP present: From Nakba to Return: The ongoing struggle for Palestinian liberation
Register:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gi0y8B7rQlCPIc0QandOvQ
The
Palestinian Youth Movement and National Students for Justice in
Palestine invite you to a community event in honor of the 72nd
commemoration of the Nakba: From Nakba to Return: The ongoing
struggle for Palestinian liberation.
We will be joined by
Palestinian researchers, organizers, and artists for this community
event to discuss and highlight the ongoing struggle in Palestinian
refugee camps, the Right of Return, and our role as Palestinians and
Arabs in the diaspora.
We are excited to be hosting:
Dr.
Salman Abu Sitta, Palestinian author, founder of the Palestine Land
Society, and researcher known for his groundbreaking work of mapping
the return of Palestinian refugees to historic Palestine;
Nadia
Younes, Palestinian community organizer and co-founder of Al Naqab
Center for Youth Activities in Lebanon whose doctoral research
focuses on decolonizing education for Palestinians in Lebanon;
Susan
Abulhawa, Palestinian writer, political activist, and author of the
international bestsellez, Mornings in Jenin, and several anthologies
and poetry collections;
Lina Abojaradeh, Palestinian-Jordanian
artist and PYM Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Scholar who uses
poetry, painting, videos, and comics to tell the story of Palestine
and the Middle East.
For questions, please email palyouth.usa@gmail.com
Info from: Jewish Voice for Peace
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Friday, May 15
8. Friday, 12Noon – 1:00pm,(PT)) We Take Care Of Us Webinar #2: Youth Justice Coalition & Cat-911
Register:
second webinar in our series #WeTakeCareofUs: Community Crisis Response! We’re delighted to host our friends Elizeth Virrueta and Anthony Robles from the Youth Justice Coalition, who’ll be talking to us about their inspiring and innovative model, CAT-911: Community Alternatives to 911. Come learn how they are training teams in the community to respond to neighborhood emergencies without calling 911, including sexual assault, domestic violence, inter-neighborhood conflict, substance abuse and overdose, wounds and injuries requiring emergency medical care, mental health crises, and police violence.
*About
the Series*
Each week we will showcase an innovative model from
across the state of how communities are stepping up to address crises
themselves without relying on the police.
Our six-week series
will lift up alternative responses to mental health crisis,
intercommunal violence, substance abuse, and intimate partner
violence. These approaches center healing and transformative justice
and prove that we don’t need cops when we have community.
#WeTakeCareOfUs
Hosts: Justice Teams Network & APTP
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1143322482696117/
9. Friday, 12Noon – 3:00pm, Emergency Rallies / Press Conferences & Car Caravan to Stop the Destruction of CCSF
12:00
pm Mission Campus (1124 Valencia)
12:45
pm Car caravan to Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture
2:00
pm Fort Mason Campus (2 Marina Blvd., Building B)
These
actions will be streamed live on Facebook and available on Zoom
CCSF
administrators with the support of the SF Community College Board of
Trustees are eliminating hundreds of classes without transparency or
a democratic process. They are planning massive layoffs of ESL
faculty which will prevent thousands of immigrant and undocumented
students – Asian, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and more – from
getting critical classes at CCSF. This follows the decimation of the
Older Adults program in Fall 2019 when the administration, on the eve
of registration, gutted 20% of the class offerings.
Moreover,
the interim chancellor is attempting to shutter the Ft. Mason
campus and possibly sell off the Civic Center campus too.
Furthermore, the Board of Trustees is allowing the
privatization of the PUC-owned Balboa Reservoir which the college has
leased since 1946. Currently used for essential parking for thousands
of working class community college students who do not have other
transportation options unless Bart and Muni increase their capacity.
These
rallies, press conferences and car caravan will inform the people of
San Francisco of the various threats to their beloved community
college and alert them to the need to defend it before it is
destroyed.
San Francisco is a city with over 70
billionaires. They need to pay their fair share to keep City
College’s campuses and classes that serve the communities in San
Francisco who desperately need them.
These actions are
sponsored by Higher Education Action Team (HEAT). HEAT supports fully
funded SFCCD, SFUSD and all public services.
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/13/18833019.php
10. Friday, 2:00pm – 3:30pm, Teach-In: Building Working Class AAPI Political Power in CA
As
we celebrate APA heritage month, it’s important to recognize that
Asian American and Pacific Islander communities possess not only a
culturally dense and diverse history, but also that our peoples stem
from histories of resistance, survival, resilience, and power. Join
us as we share and celebrate our communities’ history of building
power for working class Cambodian, Chinese, Hmong, Filipino, Lao,
Mien, Khmu, and broader Asian American and Pacific Islander
communities throughout California.
We are a united front of
people who come from farmworkers, domestic workers, and refugees.
Time and time again, our communities have fought to gain political
influence. We’ve battled the greed of corporate interests, the
racism and xenophobia of white supremacy, and the intersectional
struggles of sexism, homophobia, and other oppressive structures that
attempt to divide us and disempower us. But our common histories and
values unite us in the fight for a better California that represents
working class AAPIs.
While banks bail out big corporations instead of supporting small businesses in the midst of COVID-19, our community groups are delivering care packages to elders, providing work-from-home employment opportunities for youth, and setting up emergency stabilization funds.
Hosts: AAPIs for Civic Empowerment coalition, which consists of Khmer Girls in Action, Chinese Progressive Association, Filipino Advocates for Justice, Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN), and Hmong Innovating Politics (HIP).
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/715738762576495/
11. Friday, 3:30pm (PT); 6:30pm (ET), Renter Nation Training Series – Power To The People: Organizing 101
Webinar registration:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6l98KtgWR9GErUmTRRZ8Cw
Do
you believe that housing is a human right? Do you want to fight to
protect that right?
Are you new to tenant organizing? Do you
want to learn about the historic and current struggles around land
and housing in the United States?
Do you want to better
understand how race, class, and gender under capitalism intersect
with the housing system?
Join us for our weekly Renter Nation
Training Series on Friday nights and spend your end-of-the-week happy
hour with other renters, homeowners, and community members to grow
the movement to win #HomesForAll!
May 15: Power To The People:
Organizing 101
May 22: The Politics of Housing: Past and
Present Struggles and Victories
May 29: Why Do We Pay Rent?
Land and Housing under Capitalism
June 5: The Great Land
Robbery: Land and Housing under Racial Capitalism
June 12:
Power of the Renter Nation – How to Build a Tenant Union Part 1
June
19: We Shall Not Be Moved – How to Build a Tenant Union Part 2
From: Right to the City Alliance
12. Friday, 5:00pm – 6:00pm, Online Panel: press freedom and human rights in the Philippines
TO RSVP CLICK THE GREEN SAVE MY SPOT BUTTON AT: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/bulosancenter
Watch the documentary beforehand, it is available free on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r1Zoa8KPYw
Join
the Bulosan Center for Filipinos Studies at UC Davis, along with our
partners, for an interactive discussion with Raffy Lerma, acclaimed
photojournalist and main subject of the National Geographic
documentary The Nightcrawlers.
An unflinching, verité-style
exposé, The Nightcrawlers follows a determined group of
photojournalists on their mission to chronicle the deadly battle
being waged against the Philippines’ drug epidemic — and the
tragic cost of this brutal crusade. The group continues to cover the
crisis under increasingly adverse conditions — Amnesty International
recently reported that President Duterte extended his ‘shoot to
kill’ mandate in the midst of the pandemic.
Hosts: Bulosan Center for Filipinos Studies, Rise Up Yolo County, ICHRP US International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines, Philippine National Day Assoc.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1758502814292221/
Saturday, May 16
13. Saturday, 9:00am – 10:00am (PT); 12Noon – 1:00pm (ET), DISARM & DIVEST DURING COVID-19 – Part 2
Click
the link below to join the webinar on
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Webinar ID: 816 7974
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International numbers available:
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Kings Bay Plowshares Pre-Sentencing Gathering
The panel will continue and expand their discussion of the need for civil resistance disarmament actions such as the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, the continued build-up of militarism, and the destitute condition of our world before and during the pandemic. They will also speak on divesting military funding to serve human needs during COVID-19 and beyond.
The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 are scheduled for sentencing for their nonviolent symbolic disarmament action at the largest nuclear sub-base in the world, on April 4th, 2018. Kings Bay is the Atlantic home port to a fleet of Trident submarines that contain one-quarter of the U.S. deployed nuclear weapons. Their action occurred on April 4, 2018, the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
It’s time to wash our hands of Trident, to demand that money should be directed towards health care for all, particularly during the COVID-19, for all future pandemics, for all human needs, and to cut funding for the military. The next generation of Trident submarines will cost $1.2 Trillion over the next ten years. The Nobel Prize-winning International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) has pointed out that the U.S. spent $35.1 billion on nuclear weapons in 2019. This could have provided: 300,000 intensive care beds, 35,000 ventilators, and the salaries for 150,000 nurses and 75,000 doctors. Furthermore, if only a small portion of conventional weapons spending were redirected many more resources could be available to provide for the rest of the world’s survival needs rather than the endless wars our government pursues now. Our world would discover its real security lies in shared humanity, not in nationalist arrogance or domination.
Defendants: Carmen Trotta of NYC St. Joseph House Catholic Worker; Mark Colville of New Haven, CT Amistad C.W.; Clare Grady of Ithaca C.W.; Fr. Steve Kelly, S.J. (held for the last two years in GA county jails); Martha Hennessy of NYC Maryhouse C.W. and a granddaughter of Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement; Elizabeth (Liz) McAlister of Baltimore’s Jonah House and widow of Phil Berrigan, and Patrick O’Neill of Fr. Charlie Mulholland C.W. in Garner, N.C. The sentencing recommendations call for 18 months for Liz McAlister (already served 17 months), up to 47 months for Steve Kelly (served 2-yrs), and up to 27 months for the others. We do not know at this time if the sentencing will take place in person on May 28 and 29 in the Brunswick, GA courtroom or remotely by video conferencing.
14. Saturday, 10:00am – 10:45am (PT); 1:00pm – 1:45pm (ET), PCRF Virtual Benefit
Register
for FREE
here:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0AtDk7FxRViSphTeVBUuSQ
The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund is excited to announce our first virtual benefit event.
Guests
will include PCRF leadership, and recorded endorsement friends of
PCRF will be featured.
*Congresswoman
Rashida
Tlaib
*Theoretical Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist &
historian
Prof. Noam Chomsky
*Palestinian leader,
legislator, activist, and scholar
Dr. Hanan Ashrawi
*Physician,
Author & Humanitarian
Dr. Mads Gilbert
*Chaplain, The
Islamic Center at NYC
Imam Khalid Latif
*Human rights activist
& writer, Author of “The General’s Son,”
and
“Injustice.”
Miko Peled
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/165839498163765/
15. Saturday, 10:00am – 2:30 (PT); 1:00pm – 5:30pm (ET), What Road to Socialism? Workers World Party Meeting
Register:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_txXfYQgpSq6RhiWlc2xgaw
As
the worldwide capitalist crisis continues to deepen, the question is
now more pressing than ever:
What Road to Socialism?
Join
Workers World Party for a special, extended webinar
covering:
•COVID-19 and the current capitalist
crisis
•Announcing a new book from WWP: What Road to
Socialism?
•Who is the working class?
•The
crucial role of the working class in overthrowing capitalism
•Why
international solidarity against imperialism?: Defending socialist
countries, the right of oppressed nations to self-determination &
connecting the war at home to the war abroad
•What is
fascism, & how do we fight it?
•The Science of Change:
Dialectical Materialism
•Workers’ Resistance &
Organization:
Why We Need Workers’ Assemblies
Rent
Strikes
Organizing retail and grocery workers
Health Care
Workers
Mutual Aid
Bus Drivers
The Role of a Leninist Party
& Leninist Newspaper
While COVID-19 prevents us from
gathering in large numbers, WWP remains committed to advocating for
revolutionary socialism, and organizing working and oppressed people
to overthrow capitalism. We hope you can join us Saturday, May 16 for
this special webinar.
Host: Workers World Party
16. Saturday, 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Krip-Hop Nation’s Covid19 Virtual Benefit.
Tickets:
Free
Krip-Hop
Nation, Disability Justice Culture Club & the Longmore Institute
on Disability Present: Krip-Hop Nation’s Covid19 Virtual Benefit.
Featuring disabled Hip-Hop Artists, DJs, Poets and Visual
Artists from around the world. This virtual concert will raise funds
for people with disabilities in New York and Detroit. Come for the
cypher, stay for the dance party. This concert is Krip-Hop’s first
international virtual event. ASL interpreted. Please contact Emily
Beitiks at beitiks@sfsu.edu
if you have any other access needs
Hosts: Krip Hop Nation World-Wide, Disability Justice Club, Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at SF State Univiersity
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/564292740870972/
17. Saturday, 4:00pm – 6:00pm, (PT); 7:00pm (ET), COVID-19: Global Pandemic & Climate Disruption With Mike Davis
Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86502661479?pwd=Z3ZDeTJPaGF0U1NPWE9RaVdjdkdnUT09
Meeting
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The
COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the nature of the capitalist system for
all to see. It has revealed the vulnerability of the poorest people
in society. It has shown clearly who is essential to our health and
well being, and who is not. As the pandemic impacts societies across
the globe, it gives us a glimpse of what massive climate disruption
could also bring. The choice in front of us is clear – we have to
organize our forces to save ourselves and life on our planet.
Join
us for a discussion with Mike Davis, activist, professor and author
of many books and articles about the impact of capitalism on the
lives of working people and on the planet. As always, you will have
an opportunity to ask questions and share your experiences from your
workplace and community.
Host: Socialist Speak Out
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/10/18832968.php
18. Saturday, 6:00pm (PT); 9:00pm (ET), #ReflectWithRashida event: How COVID-19 Disproportionately Impacts the Black Community.
What do Dr. Cornel West, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Marc Lamont Hill, and Phil Agnew all have in common? We’ll be joined by leaders in the Black community, including those mentioned above and Dr. Bernadette Atuahene, Lauren Hood, Devita Davison, and Arthur Bowman. And local Black organizations—that are fighting against systemic racism widened by COVID-19 and serving our families most in need—will join us, too, including Black Youth Project 100, Detroit Action, Brightmoor Food Alliance, and Operation Refuge.
We’re coming together in solidarity to highlight the disproportionate havoc COVID-19 is wreaking on our Black communities.
Here in Wayne County, our communities with the largest Black populations—Highland Park, Redford Township, Ecorse, River Rouge and Romulus—have roughly double the rate of infection as the rest of the county.
This is the same county that has a COVID fatality rate at 20%—more than four times the Michigan state average. And within Michigan overall, Black people make up 15% of the total population but 40% of the people who’ve died from COVID. This is outrageous, and we need to reflect on what’s going on and what we can do about it.
Sunday, May 17
19. Sunday, 10:30am – 12:30pm (PT), U.S. Sanctions – The Weaponization of the Global Financial System
Zoom
Meeting ID: 873 3950 1810
Password: 795705
Join
Zoom meeting:
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While
wars have historically been fought with soldiers and guns, the sole
superpower has realized its monopoly ability to wage financial war
through sanctions and embargoes against its perceived enemies around
the world, such as Iran, North Korea, China, Cuba, Venezuela,
Nicaragua, Russia, Syria, Gaza, and many others. How and why does the
United States alone exercise this extraterritorial power to such
devastating effect?
Dr. Sharat G. Lin has written and lectured on global
political economy, public health, labor migration, social movements,
and the arts of protest. He is with the San José Peace and Justice
Center and the Initiative for Equality.
Host: Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library is sponsored by the Institute for the Critical Study of Society
20. Sunday, 1:00pm, Safety First, Not Profit: Frontline Essential Workers Speak Out!
Zoom & Phone
REGISTER HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkf–orzwjGNOuIDGLCR57lBK3KCTKiaYP
From
healthcare providers to grocery clerks, to utility workers, people
staffing essential services are being asked to sacrifice safety to
reduce costs and protect profits. But there’s more than enough
wealth to provide the equipment, procedures, and distancing necessary
to stop COVID-19 and all other workplace hazards.
Hear San
Francisco Water Department plumber Amy Gray-Schlink and Amazon-Whole
Foods shopper Sam Rubin describe efforts to fight for worker
protections at their jobs, and what it will take to win. Add your
examples and ideas in the discussion that will follow.
Host: Freedom Socialist Party Bay Area & New Valencia Hall
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/687933212006548/ or https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/11/18832988.php
