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Thank you to everyone for your activism and commitment for a better world.
ARTICLES:
A. Someone hung the photos of 6 Black victims of violence by nooses from a tree in Milwaukee – June 22, 2020
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Someone-hung-the-photos-of-6-Black-victims-of-15357599.php
B. Trading One Uniform for Another: Can Police Be “De-Militarized” When So Many Cops Are Military Veterans? – June 19
C. ‘He Ran Because He Was Scared’: LASD Deputies Shoot, Kill Auto Body Shop Security Guard In Gardena – June 19, 2020
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/06/19/lasd-deputies-shoot-kill-security-guard-gardena-andres-guardado/
Rest in Peace and Rise in Power
♥ Andres Guardado ♥
18 years old
D. With the World Focused on the Pandemic, Israel Prepares to Annex Large Swaths of the West Bank – June 18, 2020
https://theintercept.com/2020/06/18/with-the-world-focused-on-the-pandemic-israel-prepares-to-annex-large-swaths-of-the-west-bank/
See Action # 1
See Event # 1
See ‘Save the Date” for July 1
E. ICE Is Arresting And Deporting Undocumented Marchers Who Attend Black Lives Matter Protests – June 18, 2020
F. What One Alternative to Policing Looks Like – June 17, 2020
G. San Francisco police turned off body cameras before illegal raid on journalist, memo says
https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/San-Francisco-police-turned-off-body-cameras-15349795.php
H. Fear Grows of Modern-Day Lynchings as Five People of Color Are Found Hanged
I. Miners Out, COVID-19 Out: The Yanomami and Ye’kwana People of the Brazilian Amazon Launch a Global Campaign to Expel Miners from Their Territory – June 11, 2020
J. US sanctions block aid and wreak havoc
K. Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective wins legal victory in face of hostile Obama-appointed judge & govt prosecution – June 3, 2020
6 ACTIONS
1. Oppose Annexation of Palestinian Land
See Event # 1
See ‘Save the Date” info for July 1
2. Amazon: Cut Ties With Police & ICE!
SIGN: https://p2a.co/K52qGDR
3. Demand the Pentagon stop giving military equipment to police!
SIGN: https://p2a.co/gAr8prX
4. Free the Vote in California – Pass ACA 6
5. Free West Papua Political Prisoners
SIGN: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/free-west-papua-political-prisoners/
6. USDA: Reject Monsanto’s petition to approve this GE five-herbicide seed
List of other Bay Area Protests & Rallies
EVENTS
Tuesday, June 23 – Thursday, June 25
Tuesday, June 23
1. Tuesday, 10:00am (PT); 1:00pm (ET), Annexation: A Live Briefing
Hear from Hagai El-Ad, Executive Director of B’Tselem and Diana Buttu, attorney and analyst in a conversation moderated by Margaret DeReus, Executive Director of IMEU and Stefanie Fox, Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace as they talk about Israel’s plans for annexation, what it means and how we got here.
Hagai and Diana will talk about what no others are addressing in the media and will answer your urgent questions, including what they think are steps to take right now for justice, equality, and dignity for all in the region.
Host: Jewish Voice for Peace
Info: https://www.facebook.com/JewishVoiceforPeace/videos/258664238754275/
2. Tuesday, 12Noon, Day of Action to Save the Postal Service
Meet at:
175 Mendell St.
SF
Plan is to drive to different locations around SF
The San Francisco Local American Postal Workers Union will be participating in a caravan in support of the fight to Save the Postal Service and demand emergency relief and funding to keep the USPS from being destroyed due to the pandemic.
It is crucial we get the public involved to help get financial support for the Postal Service from Congress and contact their representatives.
The USPS provides essential services to the American people and is a national treasure that can not be allowed to be dismantled. We are calling on Congress to add provisions to the stimulus package such as a one-time funding of at least 25 billion dollar, Hazard pay for USPS workers who are essential workers that serve the American people, No strings attached for loans, and compensate the USPS for paid sick leave used due to COVID-19.
Get involved and come join us! For more info. Call Jose at (510) 677-6755
Info from SF Living Wage Coalition
3. Tuesday, 1:00pm – 4:00pm, March on MacArthur – Defund the Police
Meet at:
Eastmont Mall
Foothill / MacArthur top parking lot
Oakland
Will march down MacArthur to Youth Uprising.
Upon arrival at Youth Uprising will have performances in solidarity from the different communities of Oakland
Mask required; respect social distance
organized by @nojusticenopeaceoak #bayarea #protest #blm #blacklivesmatter #bayareaprotest #oakland #oaklandprotest
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBh3O9RB6hq/
4. Tuesday, 3:00pm – 5:00pm, Abolish SFPD, Stop Hastings: Black Unhoused Lives Matter Rally
Meet at
McAllister & Hyde St.
SF
March is to Tenderloin Police Station
We invite you to join us by taking action and attending our rally and march. Please wear masks and prepare to socially distance!
In a city where Black people represent only 6% of the general population, they amount to over 37% of the homeless population. We cannot have a conversation about police violence or abolition in San Francisco without centering the voices of unhoused Black people. Join us to demand that San Francisco:
ABOLISH SFPD AND FUND HOUSING FOR ALL SAN FRANCISCANS
BLACK UNHOUSED LIVES MATTER
San Francisco’s police-first response to homelessness criminalizes those living on the streets through cruel and violent harassment, citations and move along orders. Police escort Department of Public Works (DPW) during “encampment clearances” and are integral members of the Healthy Streets Operation Center (HSOC). Moreover, studies show that Black and Brown unhoused people, especially those who are Queer and/or with disabilities, are more likely to be stopped by and face violent actions from police than their white counterparts. As gentrification continues to plague San Francisco, police violence only increases. In response to the nationwide protests of George Floyd’s murder, police racism and brutality, Mayor Breed announced four potential reforms, including ending the use of police to respond to non-criminal activity-including homelessness. But since then, police have been spotted in the Tenderloin and across the city, engaged in much the same violence they were before Breed’s statement.
BEING HOMELESS ON STOLEN LAND IS NOT A CRIME
It isn’t just Breed who has failed unhoused San Franciscans. Despite the global pandemic, UC Hastings sued the city to remove the tents in the Tenderloin, a call which necessitates increased policing. On May 4th, Hastings filed a lawsuit demanding the city “end the dangerous and illegal conditions” in the TL by removing tent encampments without real solutions for the over 2,000 unhoused San Franciscans in the area. Hastings Chancellor David Faigman summarized the lawsuit thusly: “We want [to] clear the streets.”
On January 11th, without approval from the court or the Board of Supervisors, Mayor Breed and David Faigman announced a ‘settlement’. The unapproved settlement stipulates that the city will transition approximately 375 people or 18% of the Tenderloin unhoused to hotels and safe shelter villages in an attempt to clear the tents. Furthermore, the settlement states that the city and university share a “goal of permanently reducing the number of tents, along with all other encamping materials and related personal property, to zero.”
We are left to wonder: where will everyone go? What will SFPD do when the unhoused people of the Tenderloin do not disappear?
TELL UC HASTINGS TO DROP THEIR LAWSUIT.
POLICE VIOLENCE IS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS.
BLACK UNHOUSED LIVES MATTER.
Hosts: Coalition on Homelessness + 6 Other groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/953344321803354/
5. Tuesday, 3:00pm (PT); 6:00pm (ET), , Surveillance Pandemic, a conversation with Naomi Klein and Edward Snowden
Register for the event here.
Spanish translation available
A pandemic is raging while Black and brown communities disproportionately bear the worst of its health and economic impacts. Black Lives Matter protests have taken place globally, demanding justice for the victims of police violence and calling for police to be defunded.
In the background, the surveillance state is capitalizing on these crises to expand its powers. Tech companies have received millions to track and analyze outbreaks — with few if any privacy protections. Customs and Border Protection has flown surveillance drones to monitor Minneapolis protesters marching against the police killing of George Floyd. These technologies and so many more have been especially developed by tech companies for law enforcement use. Our communities have felt the devastating impacts of these technologies and we have questions.
It’s time to center communities most impacted by the surveillance state and discuss tech company and government partnerships as well as the different technologies being used right now in the United States — against Black Lives Matters protesters, undocumented immigrants, and all of us. These technologies threaten not just our civil liberties, but our lives.
Host: Mijente
6. Tuesday, 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PT); 7:00pm – 9:00pm (ET), Taking Children: A History of American Terror- Laura Briggs
Watch here: https://www.facebook.com/revbooksnyc/live/
“Taking Children: A History of American Terror” argues that for four hundred years the United States has taken children for political ends.
Black children, Native children, Latinx children, and the children of the poor have all been seized from their kin and caregivers.
As Laura Briggs’s sweeping narrative shows, the practice played out on the auction block, in the boarding schools designed to pacify the Native American population, in the foster care system used to put down the Black freedom movement, at the border where children are ripped from their parents…
“Taking Children offers an alarming new perspective on US child welfare policy as political state violence and dispels the still common and misguided view that it is a form of benevolent protection of children. Laura Briggs’s framing of child removal as a repressive response to social movements and rebellions by oppressed people is especially enlightening.”
–Dorothy E. Roberts, author of Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare
Laura Briggs is Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is also the author of “How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump.”
Hosts: Revolution Books New York & Berkeley
Info; https://www.facebook.com/events/250547826257364/
Wednesday, June 24
7. Wednesday, 9:30am, On the Road to Justice – Nationwide Caravan in Support of TPS Community
Meet at:
St. Anthony Padua Church
3215 Cesar Chavez St.
SF
Respect social distancing and wear mask
#AlwaysEssentialTPS
#ResidencyNow
#TimeforPermanentStatus
8. Wednesday, 12Noon – 1:00pm, Uber Drivers to Protest Outsice Uber CEO’s Mansion in Pac Heights
Drivers will meet up at the Marina at 10:30 AM and by 11:30 they will be outside Dara’s house. Each driver will post a “grievance note” on Dara’s garage door detailing what they’ve had to go without because of Uber’s refusal to obey basic labor protections for drivers.
On Wednesday at 12 noon PST approximately 100 drivers will caravan outside one of Uber CEO’s Dara Khosrowshahi’s homes, a San Francisco estate purchased for $16.5 million. A mansion like this can be purchased because companies like Uber steal from workers.
In a recent survey of California app drivers, 67% of respondents report that it is unlikely that they would be able to pay their mortgage or rent in May. When asked about how they would pay for an emergency expense of $400, 71% indicated that they would not be able to pay for that expense right now. 83% of respondents say they needed emergency funds to cover bills, food, and other necessities right now.
This action is organized by Gig Workers Rising & We Drive Progress, two groups who advocate for workers’ labor rights in California.
This action follows an open letter published on Juneteenth which nearly 500 drivers have now signed. The letter calls out how hypocritical Black Lives Matter gig company statements are in light of the fact that their drivers, significant portions of which are POC, are not treated with dignity and respect by the gig platforms.
The action is part of the campaign to defeat the ballot proposition put forth by the gig companies where they aim to deny workers the most basic labor protections. The companies are spending $110m on this campaign while drivers struggle to survive or access adequate PPE. Not only are the companies stealing from drivers, they’re also stealing from California tax payers to the tune of $413m, according to a recent report from the Berkeley Labor Center.
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/22/18834465.php
9. Wednesday, 5:00pm – 6:00pm, (PT) NAACP Town Hall: A Legal Perspective on Disparities & Systemic Racism in America
Livestream: https://naacp.org/call-to-action-program/
Featured speakers will provide a legal perspective on the global public health crisis, protests, and incidents of hate crimes, which have laid bare the disparities and systemic racism present throughout our nation. The conversation will be moderated by Sunny Hostin, Journalist and Host of The View (ABC), and will provide an opportunity for audience questions.
FEATURING:
–Letitia James, Attorney General, New York
–Rachael Rollins, District Attorney, Massachusetts
–Marilyn Mosby, State’s Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland
–Alfreda Robinson, President, National Bar Association
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/22/18834467.php
10. Wednesday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, Seeding Hope: Women Warriors
Free
At this time of pandemic and unrelenting settler colonial violence in our world, we invite you and your families to join our conversation with three internationally recognized Indigenous women leaders at the forefront of decolonization movements.
Please join us for Women Warriors: Indigenous Women protecting the sacred with Chief Caleen Sisk, (Winnemem Wintu), Kumu Pua Case (Kanaka Maoli) and Tribal Spokeperson Corrina Gould, (Lisjan Ohlone).
Through their respective and collective work, they protect their ancestral Sacred sites: Hawaiʻi’s Mauna Kea, the McCloud River in Northern California, and the West Berkeley Shellmound located in the Bay Area, California. These Indigenous women leaders will talk about their formative work as culture bearers in Indigenous-led movements that center Indigenous knowledges and protocols, land rematriation, and Indigenous cultural practices. Through their work they build and inspire intergenerational, multi-racial, local, and global movements to protect the Sacred in their various homelands. Most importantly, these leaders will highlight the significance of creating collective and collaborative movements that honor Indigenous women’s leadership, and they will show examples of their collaborations and relationships of reciprocity.
See site for bios
Host: Sogorea Te Land Trust
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2366630773644449/
11. Wednesday, 6:30pm – 8:00pm, Alternatives to Policing; A Latino/a/x Conversation
Webinar on Zoom & Facebook live
While police brutality has been at the forefront for many of us in the last few weeks, for these activists it’s been their life’s work. For decades, many of them have fought and advocated for restorative justice instead of incarceration, support for victims of police brutality, mental health instead of jails, and for a system that prioritizes investments back into our community-housing, health, jobs, trauma informed services, not policing. Hear from them on what this means for the Latino/a/x community and for Black/Brown unity.
Host: East Bay Latino/a Democratic Club
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/266397434636446/
Thursday, June 25
12. Thursday, 1:00pm (PT); 4:00pm (ET), All of Us: Out + Essential Town Hall
RSVP
In this moment, when a global pandemic and the subsequent economic fallout are disproportionately impacting LGBTQ people and people of color, we are reminded that the labor movement, the LGBTQ equality movement and the civil rights movement have an intertwined and shared history. As protesters demand accountability from police and proclaim that Black lives matter, it helps to remember that all three movements have seen violence at the hands of police in order to win our rights. And just this month, the Supreme Court ruled that the prohibition on sex discrimination in the workplace that was included in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 applies to LGBTQ people as well.
With all of this in mind, we will engage in a discussion with leaders and workers at the intersection of these movements about how we can continue to lift up the lives of marginalized communities.
Host: AFL-CIO
13. Thursday, 5:00pm – 7:00pm, 70 Year Korean War Friendship Forum
Online event (check FB for info)
coast-to-coast live online event — the 70 Year FRIENDSHIP FORUM commemorating The Korean War. This online event is designed to educate and create awareness across generations of the “Forgotten War” and how it has shaped the lives of Koreans living around the globe.
The event, hosted in joint sponsorship with the Korean Consulate General in San Francisco – 주샌프란시스코총영사관 and Ethnic Media Services, and WDCT 1310 has partnered and is organized with the award winning filmmaker, Christopher H K Lee of the film “Fading Away” who will work to convey the true meaning of Korean “han” (or 한) – a symbol of resilience as well as stories and tears of Koreans living in the aftermath of the unresolved conflict.
moderated LIVE by Korean-American Emmy Awarding Winning Journalist, Sue Kwon (English) and Radio Free Asia (RFA) broadcaster, Jinkuk Kim (Korean).
Participants and invited VIPs include:
Ambassador of the Republic of Korea, Lee Soo Hyuck
State Assemblyman Steven Choi (CA)
Congressman Ami Bera
Former U.S Ambassador to the Republic of Korea and President & CEO of the Korean Economic Institute, Kathleen Stephens
Congressman Andy Kim of New Jersey
Caroline H. Hume Music Director Designate of San Francisco Opera (2021), Conductor Eun Sun Kim
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/192976828663544/
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Save the Date
International Day of Action in Defense of Palestine
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
4:30pm – 6:00pm
Israeli Consulate
456 Montgomery Plaza
San Francisco
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1623575157796326/
The San Francisco/Bay Area Chapter of Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition calls upon all Palestinians and supporters of freedom, equality and justice – in Palestine and around the world, to protest the planned annexation of more Palestinian land on July 1st. We call on the Palestinian community, and those engaged in indigenous/anti-colonial, anti-racist/anti-white supremacist struggles against state violence and racial oppression, to link arms and struggle together in an act of international solidarity!
Join us in person, with social distancing, OR in a car caravan around downtown San Francisco, in support of demonstrations across the U.S. and throughout the world. July 1st let’s take a unified stand against racism and the wars on our communities – locally and abroad, from ongoing and ever increasing racist settler-colonial violence.
We are seeking organizational endorsements to confront the latest U.S.-Israeli efforts to liquidate the Palestinian cause and people.
Let us stand together in demanding an end to US militarism locally and imperialism abroad, and instead of sending billions in financial aid to Israel and in war and militarism – to spending on our communities at home!
To endorse this action, please email your organization’s name and contact info to: sfbay@al-awda.org .
