If you want others to participate in your actions – post them on Indybay even if event is digital: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12
See Indybay for other events.
Thank you to everyone for your activism and commitment for a better world.
ARTICLES
A. Black, Disabled and at Risk: The Overlooked Problem of Police Violence Against Americans with Disabilities – June 25, 2020
https://time.com/5857438/police-violence-black-disabled/
B. District police eliminated from Oakland schools: Board votes to abolish agency – June 25, 2020
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/District-police-eliminated-from-Oakland-schools-15364811.php
C. Tamir Rice’s Mom Reflects On His 18th Birthday As She Continues Fight Against His Killer – June 25, 2020
https://newsone.com/3881137/tamir-rice-birthday-mother-samaria/
D. Trump faces critical decision on Israel’s bid for annexation – June 24, 2020
E. Boston Becomes Largest City on East Coast to Ban Face Surveillance
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/boston-bans-face-recognition-surveillance
F. San Francisco School Board votes to cut ties and funds from police – June 23, 2020
G. Homeless sweeps come back to the Tenderloin – June 22, 2020
H. Israel leverages dubious ‘Nuclear Archives’ to re-enlist IAEA in campaign against Iran – June 22, 2020
I. From Peasant Organizations in Haiti: We Stand in Solidarity to Demand an End to Police Terror – June
J. The Caesar Act: The Latest Western Attack on Syria Didn’t Drop From a Plane
5 ACTIONS:
1. Ban Facial Recognition
2. Close Guantanamo
3. Tell Kirin: End Your Partnership With Burma’s Army
4. Cut Ties With the Fraternal Order of Police
SIGN: https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/cut-ties-with-the-fraternal-order-of-the-police
5. Support Peace in Korea
SIGN: https://www.womencrossdmz.org/take-action/
List of other Bay Area Protests & Rallies
EVENTS
Thursday, June 25 – Sunday, June 28
Thursday, June 25
1. Thursday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, Flatten ICE Panel: Freeing People from ICE Amidst Covid19
To RSVP:
Since we started the #flattenICE campaign, an effort demanding ICE to release folks at risk of COVID-19, twelve community members have come home.
Join our panel to celebrate the return of folks who were detained in ICE, our reflections on the campaign, and learn more about how we can #freethemall
We will hear from special guest speakers who were recently released from ICE and organizers.
Hosts: Asian Prisoners Support Committee, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity + 2 Other groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2966930710009143/
2. Thursday, 6:30pm – 9:30pm, Speak on Use of Force Policy at Police Commission Meeting
| Online EventZoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88092590965 Phone: 669 900 9128 – press# if asked for ID Meeting ID: 880 9259 0965 *Use raise hand function to speak from zoom or from phone press “*9” to raise hand. Public Comment is Item 8, to speak on all the points below. Item 9: Carotid Choke Hold The fact that Sgt. Joseph Turner is leading this use of force work is deplorable…APTP has called out his horrific history – he murdered Richard Perkins alongside three other officers and has engaged in drunken disorderly conduct. We demand he be removed from the use of force policy work. Item 10: New Crowd Management, Use of Force Restrictions and Mutual Aid Protocols This is an opportunity for the commission to step in and engage with Community to create a new OPD General Order! The policy OPD submitted to the Police Commission is not a new order as stated in the agenda. It’s the existing policy from 2013, and doesn’t respond to last week’s Police Commission unanimous order to OPD to bring a new policy (general order) that would end the use of tear gas and other militarized equipment against “unarmed citizens.” Prohibit use by OPD of tear gas, other chemical agents, rubber bullets, and flash bang grenades at demonstrations until the Commission approves new policies for Crowd Control and Specialty Impact Munitions (which include tear gas, launchers, and flash bang grenades). |
Item 11: Resolution Urging Civil Service Board To Reject Officers with Prior Misconduct
We agree with this concept and worry we’ve not had enough time to review to ensure there’s no loopholes.
Item 13: Use of Force Engagement
To go through all the components of the use of force policy with the community input you seek by September is not a realistic timeline, especially given the additional workload during this national crisis
Host: APTP & Defund OPD – Invest in Community
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/583234902579698/
Friday, June 26
3. Friday, 9:00am (PT); 12Noon (ET), How the US killed democracy abroad & the existential threat of Bill Barr’s Justice Department
Join us for a special Lunchtime Live with Investigative Journalist Tim Shorrock.
Last month was the 40th anniversary of Gwangju Uprising, a pro-democracy mobilization in South Korea that was violently repressed. Tim will be discussing his decades-long efforts to expose US involvement in the repression of the democracy movement. Since 1996, Tim has received via FOIA over 4,000 declassified documents about the US role in the Gwangju Uprising, all of which he has made available online. Last month, he co-authored a piece with Injeong Kim “Two Days That Shattered Korean Democracy” outlining how recent revelations show that “the US response to a dictatorship’s repression in Gwangju in 1980 was even worse than we thought.” Tim will also be discussing his most recent piece for The Nation “How Bill Barr Became Trump’s Generalissimo.”
Tim is the author of Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing. He has been covering the intersection of national security and capitalism since the late 1970s. In addition to being the first journalist to interview the NSA 4 whistleblowers, he has authored groundbreaking exposes of the Carlyle Group, the Bush administration’s failed attempt to privatize Iraq, and the AFL-CIO’s intervention in Chile and other countries during the Cold War.
Host: Defending Rights & Dissent
4. Friday, 11:00am – 12Noon, The Stonewall Inn: Birthplace of the LGBTQ + Rights Movement
Online
Tune in on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/SanFranciscoLibrary
Celebrate Pride’s 50th Anniversary with the National Park Service. Catch scenes of NPS rangers and the Roving Ranger in the SF Pride Parade in 2016. Also, hear the moving personal story of the first NPS Ranger Jamie Adams at Stonewall National Monument and the importance of this location in the struggle for civil rights for the LGBTQ+ community.
The Stonewall Inn, a bar located in Greenwich Village, New York City, was the scene of an uprising against police repression that led to a key turning point in the struggle for the civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ+) Americans. In a pattern of harassment of LGBTQ+ establishments, the New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn in the early hours of Saturday, June 28, 1969.
The initial raid and the riot that ensued in response led to six days of demonstrations and conflicts with law enforcement outside the bar, in nearby Christopher Park, and along neighboring streets. At its peak, the crowds included several thousand people.
Before the 1960s almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ+) person was illegal.
Host: SFPL
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/23/18834518.php
5. Friday, 11:00am, Sutter Healthcare Needs to Act Now! Terminate Allison ‘Healthcare Karen’ Cook
Oakland Summit Hospital
350 Hawthorne St.
Oakland
She’s a risk to our Black and Brown patients. Bring signs
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/CB2dCWfBLQo/
6. Friday, 11:00am – 1:00pm, Black Lives Matter – Justice in San Francisco – Press Conference
SF City Hall
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl
SF
(Social distancing measures in place – wear a face covering)
Black San Franciscans need and deserve effective action in Justice reform at this critical time –
1. De-fund the police – fund critical needs in the Black community;
2. DOJ reforms – SFPD, state of California and City of SF have agreed to the federally defined reform measures – and they are still not done, not 1/3 complete. They MUST be completed;
3. The SF Police Officers Association (SF POA) has a long and sordid history of attacking the Black community and Justice efforts. We do not acknowledge any truth or sincerity in their current commitment to reform. We demand the POA be held to account and that they publicly comment on their history and culture of racism and attacks on the Black community.
Host: Wealth and Disparities in the Black Community — Founder, Phelicia Jones
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/264321227998698/
7. Friday, 11:00am – 1:00pm, Trans Intergenerational Virtual Event
JOIN LIVE STREAMING www.openhouse-sf.org/prideandprotests
This event will lift up and center Black, Indigenous and POC Trans and Gender Nonconforming seniors and youth who will share
performances, poems and words of leadership.
Host: Openhouse
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/261687805253193/
8. Friday, 11:00am – 2:00pm, UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
Meet at:
SF Ferry Building
Embarcaderro
SF
Advocacy for Humankind is an organization that seeks to eradicate crimes of coordinated stalking through public awareness, education and advocacy for victims. Please see more about our organization at the end of this press release.
We are gathering outside the Ferry Building and then we will line up along the Embarcadero in support of all victims and survivors of torture.
In March of 2020, Nils Melzer, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, published a report on psychological torture.
Melzer’s report defines psychological torture as including “all methods and circumstances that purposefully inflict, or intend to inflict, severe mental pain and suffering”. Methods cited in the report include the purposeful infliction of fear, depriving someone of control over their lives and disrupting a victim’s self-determination and autonomy; also procedures that directly target psychological needs such as security, self-determination, dignity, privacy (through constant audio-visual surveillance), social rapport and communal trust.
The report also states that “Sensory hyper-stimulation below the threshold of physical pain, such as constant bright light, loud music, bad odors, uncomfortable temperatures or intrusive “white” noise, induces progressively severe mental stress and anxiety, inability to think clearly, followed by increasing irritability, outbursts of anger and, ultimately, total exhaustion and despair.”
An alarming development that Melzer points to is “cybertorture.”
States, corporate actors and organized criminals, he says, “not only have the capacity to conduct cyber-operations inflicting severe suffering on countless individuals, but may well decide to do so for any of the purposes of torture while avoiding the conduit of the physical body.”
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/17/18834297.php
9. Friday, 4:00pm, Freedom Fridays, Family Walk + Chalk for Black Lives
Assemble under Fairyland Sign
Oakland
Mask & Social distancing
Amplifying voices of young Black people ages 8 – 12. All are welcomed.
Walk, bike, skate & stroller through Oakland. Start at Grand & Harrison St.
End with chalking at the Alameda County Court House.
Bring, drums, chalk and bubbles
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBuhscQB-l7/
10. Friday, 4:00pm (PT), Global Pride 2020: Exist, Persist, Resist (Worldwide 24hr livestream)
Online & accessible around the world
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GlobalPride2020
All you’ll need is
a mobile phone, tablet or computer.
Pride won’t be beaten by COVID19 – join us for the world’s first Global Pride!
When: 24hr livestream starts for the Pacific Coast on Friday, June 26 @ 4 PM PT
(International start time: Saturday, June 27, 2020 at 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM UTC+01)
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on Pride organizations worldwide with hundreds of marches and events cancelled or postponed. Global Pride provides an opportunity for the LGBTQIA+ community around the world to come together and celebrate diversity and equality during these challenging times.
Global Pride 2020 was launched on 1 April as a partnership between InterPride,
the European Pride Organisers Association, and national Pride networks in several countries.
It’s being led by a team of volunteers from every region of the world who are all committed to ensuring that everyone, everywhere, can take part in Pride this June 2020.
We will have speeches, performances, film and other content from Prides in Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and South, Central and North America. A worldwide team of more than
100 volunteers are reaching out to Prides around the world and we’re promising an amazing line-up of performances that you’d expect from a Pride event.
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/06/18833868.php
11. Friday, 4:00pm (PT); 7:00pm (ET), Film: Award winning documentary: “The Condor and The Eagle”
Registration to the North American Event
Suggested donation: $1 – $100
Presented by Extinction Rebellion. The climate crisis is not paused while we battle COVID-19.
The lands and water of Indigenous peoples are being threatened across the globe. Frontline activists are engaged in an urgent battle to save their communities from resource extraction and exploitation.
We must support and learn from those at the frontlines of ecological destruction
The film follows four Indigenous leaders embarking on a transcontinental adventure to document the Indigenous struggle to protect their land and water. Travel with them from the Canadian boreal forests to the heart of the Amazon jungle and learn more about the struggle for climate justice.
Host: Extinction Rebellion
12. Friday, 6:00pm – 7:30pm, Virtual Forum: From Stonewall to Minneapolis, it’s right to rebel!
Register at
Fifty-one years ago, LGBTQ people fought back against police brutality at the Stonewall Inn in New York City. Today we fight again.
A police raid sparked a rebellion that became a movement that has fought for decades for the rights of LGBTQ people and fundamentally changed consciousness in this country.
Today, we are in the third week of a nationwide revolt against racism that has brought a whole new generation of militant leaders into the streets in uprising against racism and police brutality.
From May 25 to Juneteenth, thousands and thousands of people have braved police repression and stood strong in their commitment to challenging racism and police brutality.
Join us for a local Bay Area virtual forum to discuss the incredible developments of the nationwide revolt against racism.
Host: PSL
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/23/18834516.php
13. Friday, 7:00pm – 8:30pm, Say Her Name x Affirming Our Ancestors: Solidarity 4 Black Lives
Lake Merritt Amphitheater
Oakland
A youth led socially-distanced vigil with Spanish and American Sign Language interpretation honoring Black women’s lives
Candles will be provided.
From 7:00PM-8:30PM the Radical Monarchs will hold their youth-created & led, Alumni-organized vigil honoring Black women’s lives “Say Her Name: Black and Brown Solidarity for Black Lives” with the solidarity of adult-ally partners: AF3IRM SF/BA, Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP), Psychologists for Social Responsibility (PsySR), and Justice Teams Network.
Radical Monarchs Alumni-organized vigil honoring Black women’s lives + 5 Other groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/260805041800937/ & https://www.instagram.com/p/CBtLKLQhI97/
Saturday, June 27
14. Saturday, 10:00am – 2:00pm, Berkeley United 4 Community Safety Gathering (online)
Zoom viawith password 621928.
To call in, dial 1-669-900-9218 and enter Zoom ID 918 0033 4054 and above password.
Be a part of a Historic Movement: Multicultural, Intergenerational Visioning
#BlackLivesMatter: Share your stories if profiled by Berkeley PD, and Solutions
A time to amplify Black voices and concerns; Persons with Disabilities; Indigenous People, Latinx and API and Allies Welcome
Event will also be live-streamed on Facebook and Instagram (Allies encouraged to participate on Facebook and Instagram) @BerkeleyUnited4CommunitySafety.
If you are unable to access a computer, please contact us at: BerkeleyUnited4CommunitySafety@gmail.com for accommodations. If you are aware of an elder or other person without computer or smartphone access, please assist them in gaining access to this meeting.
(Prior to Saturday: please read relevant documents on our Facebook including Center for Policing Equity Report, Racial Profiling Stop Data, CAHOOTS/Eugene Oregon’s Mobile Crisis, Proposed Berkeley Budget for FY 2021, and “BPD Timeline”)
AGENDA
[10:00am- 10:30am]
Welcome: Pastor Michael McBride, The Way Church/LIVE FREE
Opening Song: Ira X. Armstrong, Founder, PeaceOutLoud
Invitation to the Ancestors: Mama Ayanna Davis, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Strategic Advisor; Co-Founder of Black August Movement
[10:30am- 12:00pm]
Panel on Policing vs Community Care
1. Systemic Racism, America’s History / john a. powell, Director of the Othering and Belonging Institute, UC Berkeley
2. Recollections of former Berkeley P.D. / Former Mayor Gus Newport
3. Dangers of Militarization of Police / Cat Brooks, Anti Police-Terror Project Co- Founder
4. Personal Security/Collective Caretaking / Tur-Ha Ak, Community Ready Corps Founder
5. First Responders to Mental Health Crisis: Alternatives to avoid my sister Kayla’s Fate / Maria Moore, Justice 4 Kayla Moore Coalition
6. Faith Community’s Response / Mike Smith, Pastor at McGee Avenue Baptist Church and Executive Director, Berkeley Black Ecumenical Ministerial Alliance
[12:00pm- 1:30pm]
Breakout Rooms with Cal and BHS Black Student Union Youth Facilitators. Select Topic Area for Discussion Room prior to Saturday:
(1) Emergency non police response
(2) Budget priorities for reinvestment
(3) Demilitarization
(4) Police accountability (ex. audit, charter amendment)
(5) Community experiences with racial profiling and use of force
[1:30pm-2:00pm]
Report Back/Facilitators Provide Summary/ “Next Steps”
Hosts: Berkeley United 4 Community Safety + 4 Other groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2840832622811163/
15. Saturday, 11:00am – 4:00pm, Deep East Oakland Rising: Rally For Black Lives
Rally / March
Meet at:
73rd & Foothill Blvd.
Oakland
Masks required
11 AM – blessing and meetup @ Black Cultural Zone Lot, corner of 73rd Ave & Foothill Blvd.
12 NOON – march through Deep East Oakland – 73rd Ave to E.14th to 98th Ave & B Street
2-4 PM – Black joy celebration at Wilkins Memorial Park @ 98th Ave & B Street
Deep East Oakland Rising – Rally for Black Lives is a peaceful rally, march and Black joy celebration bringing together residents of Deep East Oakland in solidarity and unity for Black lives. We are gathering for our healing, wellness, economic freedom and calling for police reform and the end of state sanctioned violence.
This is a march for everyone who can no longer be silent against racial injustices that plague our Black neighborhoods and our Black residents in this country and right here, in Deep East Oakland
COVID-19 safety recommendations \\
1) If you have high risk health conditions or have a compromised immune system, please stay home. We will try to broadcast or live stream the march and rally.
2) Masks are required to participate in the march and rally. Extra masks will be available for distribution.
3) Practice physical distancing.
4) Consider wearing disposable gloves. Extra gloves will be available for distribution.
Hosts: East Oakland Collective + 8 Other groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/342107666772426/
16. Saturday, 1:00pm – 3:00pm, Say Her Name
Gather at:
Berkeley High School
180 Allston Way
Berkeley
From Berkeley HS to Willard Park
In honor of the one year anniversary of Shukri Abdi’s being found. In recognition of all the identities which have been neglected in the fight
against police brutality and systemic racism.
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBrZhGEhm_a/
17. Saturday, 1:00pm – 4:00pm, Call to Action “None of Us Are Free Until All of Us Are Free”
Civic Center Plaza
Polk St.
SF
Please practice Covid-19 guidelines for everybody’s safety.
There will be a call to action via speeches, music, community organizations, and other educational resources as we honor those lost to police/state-sanctioned violence.
Volunteers needed. Movements or organizations interested in participating focused on wellness and justice for black and brown and LGBTQ+ POC contact: Eric at change@revofevnow.com
We call on all queer communities and our accomplices that are fighting for a future without white supremacy and the structures that support it. Join us in the streets so we can reclaim Pride!
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/263138771799040/ or https://sf.funcheap.com/call-to-action-none-of-us-are-free-until-all-of-us-are-free/
18. Saturday, 1:30pm – 5:00pm, “Take Back Pride” Brown Love & Black Pride March
15th St. & Harrison
Oakland
We will be honoring safety solidarity & physical distancing with 6ft apart and bring /wear your mask.
Brown Love, Black Pride (BLBP); Oakland to Stonewall is a day-long action in Downtown Oakland, on Saturday, June 27th, 2020. BLBP is a centering of Queer Trans Black Indigenous People of Color’s (QTBIPOC) Love, Resistance, and Solidarity.
Following in the footsteps of our queer ancestors for Equality and Liberation, we take back Pride, remembering that Pride is a Protest! We aim to uplift and amplify, specifically, the QTBIPOC community and voice against police brutality, white supremacy, capitalism, patriarchy, and transphobia.
Info: https://sf.funcheap.com/pride-brown-love-black-pride-march/
19. Saturday, 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Mama’s IV Justice March
Gather at:
McClymonds High School
2607 Myrtle St.
(Between 28th & Filbert – the parking lots)
Oakland
March to DeFremery Park, 1651 Adeline St., Oakland
There will be a peaceful protest led by mothers. They will march from McClymonds High School to DeFremery Park.
Following the march, we will have phenomenal speakers, and reading materials to give away that will assist in the continued fight for justice and equity. Please wear mask and practice social distancing.
Info: https://sf.funcheap.com/mamas-iv-justice-march/
20. Saturday, 7:00pm – Sunday June 28 – 9:00pm, Pride OutRage Festival 2020
Free – $50.
This is Borderless Identities first self organized event. We decided to go public with our first online arts festival that represents us at its core: Pride!
But pride isn’t the only thing we have. It’s empathy, compassion and a need for social justice!
Something we wan’t to be clear about this time around is that there isn’t Pride without Black Trans Lives. And that is why we are hosting this 51 years (almost to the dot) from the Stonewall Riots of 1969.
This event is entirely free (with optional donations included in the ticket options). Once you checkout with one of the tickets, you will receive an email with an RSVP confirmation, a zoom link and a password for said Zoom Link.
Host: Borderless Identities
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/306580850364153/
Sunday, June 28
21. Sunday, 11:00am – 2:00pm, Rally for Afro-American Unity and Economic Emancipation
Martin Luther King Swimming Pool
5701 3rd St.
SF
Malcolm X on June 28th 1964, upon his return from Africa, announced the formation of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (which was modeled after the Organisation of African Unity). That unity is needed more than ever as the many disparities adversely affecting African Americans and their communities are being highlighted. Without unity, we may miss our opportunity to create a lasting impact to benefit not only us, but the generations to come.
According to Dr. Claud Anderson’s PowerNomics, group economics is the first significant step towards gaining political power. He also states that our lack of political power is the primary reason for the many disparities that plague our communities. It is time to change that! Join us as we rally for Unity and Economic Emancipation!
Topics to include:
Jobs
Supporting existing black businesses
Garnering support and resources for community members to start businesses
Breaking into the tech industry
Police brutality and mass incarceration
Health disparities and access to quality foods
There will also be a PPE station with free masks, hand sanitizer and etc., and masks are highly encouraged!
Hosts: Conscious Minds at Work + 4 Other groups
Info; https://www.facebook.com/events/s/rally-for-afro-american-unity-/365932737711437/
22. Sunday, 10:30am – 3:00pm, People’s March & Rally – Unite to Fight! – Sunday, June 28th
Gather at:
1800 Polk St. (@ Washington)
SF
10:30am – Gather
11:00am – March to Civic Center
We will begin at Polk and Washington Streets and end at SF Civic Center for the rally.
A call for action from Juanita MORE! and Alex U. Inn. All Black Lives Matter! On Sunday, June 28th, at the site of the very first Pride March, 50 years ago, we will roar our voices in solidarity with our Black, Brown, Indigenous Trans and Queer family, friends, lovers, and neighbors. We stand in protest of racial injustice, police violence, unjust healthcare, and inadequate unemployment relief. We demand changes!
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/916899325492684/
23. Sunday, 12Noon, Socialist Feminist Contingent at “Pride is a Riot” March
Gather
19th & Dolores St.
SF
12Noon – Rally
2:00pm – March
March with a Socialist Feminist Contingent and Demand Queer Liberation!
FSP Bay Area is organizing a Socialist Feminist contingent to participate in the autonomous multiracial trans/queer “Pride is a Riot” march and we invite you to join us.
Stonewall was a riot! Now we need a revolution!
For a multiracial movement to disarm, demilitarize, and defund the police!
Over 50 years ago, Black trans women led other LGBTQ folks in defending the community against police terror at NYC’s Stonewall Inn and SF’s Compton Cafeteria. It’s time to rekindle that militancy.
Info: Email: bayareaFSP@socialism.com
https://www.facebook.com/events/278601983291537/
24. Sunday, 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Drive for Justice Voter Registration Drive
Oakland
We’ll stage at 6 different TBD locations, and caravan to Libby’s and 5 council members’ homes
RSVP or check the Facebook event for updates on how to join in person or online
Yesterday five council members pushed through a budget devoid of public support and in direct opposition to the thousands of people in Oakland calling on them to divest from police
forces and invest in programs that really keep us safe.
The budget pushed forward by Councilmembers McElhaney, Taylor, Gallo, and Reid was brought to the council in the late afternoon of the 22nd, whichthey fast-tracked by manipulating procedures put in place due to COVID. And in a shocking move, Council President Rebecca Kaplan joined the moderates on the council to force through this pro-police, anti-public services budget.
After nearly unanimous public comment from thousands of constituents over multiple weeks calling for a cut of $150 million (50%) from the Oakland Police Budget — backed up by recommendations from the Oakland Police [Oversight] Commission — the alternate budget passed by Kaplan and the four moderates only cuts $2.5 million from OPD — less than 1%.
Hosts: APTP + 6 Other grops
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1925721074244152/
25. Sunday, 8:00pm – 9:00pm, Honor Lives Lost – Candle Lighting Ritual to #FreeThemAll
How to Join:
A ritual of remembrance towards releasing people incarcerated in California – #FreeThemAll
We invite you to the launch of #HonorLivesLost, an online weekly candle-lighting ritual to uplift incarcerated people we have lost to COVID-19 and #DeathbyIncarceration in California.
These gatherings will take place every Sunday at sunset via Zoom in both English and Spanish, and include an #HonorLivesLost facilitator and a rotation of experienced healers. They will also be live-streamed through the Ella Baker Center’s Facebook page. Organizers and advocates across the state have created this space so we can come together to mourn the lives of people we have lost and send light and love to families grieving the unnatural deaths of their loved ones
What to Bring:
1.) A candle
2.) Water
3.) A rock, stone, crystal, etc… something with weight
4.) Essential oil, herb, flower, or citrus… something to ignite the senses
Hosts: Ella Baker Center for Human Rights + 7 Other groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/248860039548027/
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UPDATE
Day of Rage
No to Annexation of Palestinian Land!
Wednesday, July 1
4:00pm – 6:00pm
Meet at Civic Center
San Francisco
Car Caravan Only
to
Israeli Consulate
456 Montgomery St.
SF
Due to the sudden and dramatic spike in Covid cases in California, event organizers of the 7/1 Day of Rage have decided to make the primary focus of this action to be a car caravan.
We apologize to those that don’t have access to a vehicle, however we want to ensure the utmost health and safety of our community first and foremost. We are making arrangements for an alternate online rally that you can plug into remotely.
The San Francisco/Bay Area Chapter of Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition and the Palestinian Youth Movement and the Palestine Action Network call 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. 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!
On July 1st, Israel is set to begin the formal annexation of 30% of the West Bank. The West Bank has been occupied since 1967 and the settlements that exist there already are illegal by international law. These further encroachments on Palestinian land are unacceptable. Annexation is nothing new in Occupied Palestine; the entire Zionist project has depended on land and resource theft, the displacement of indigenous Palestinians, military occupation, imprisonment, and colonial violence. The continued expansions of Jewish-only settlements on occupied land, the US embassy move to Jerusalem, the so-called “Deal of the Century”, and the formalization of annexation are the latest manifestations of Zionist colonial rule.
