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Partial listing of events – Am not back posting!
Included are some current articles and ‘Actions’ that are needed.
For broader participation for your actions – post them on Indybay even if event is digital: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12
See Indybay for other events.
ARTICLES:
A. U.S. Children Demand the Release of Migrant Kids Held in Federal Custody – August 17, 2020
https://www.newsweek.com/u-s-children-demand-release-migrant-kids-held-federal-custody-1525543
B. A quiet, sweetheart deal for the cops – August 16, 2020
See Article E
See Action # 4
See Event #’s 4, 9, 12 & 13
C. Trump Says He Will ‘Take A Look’ At Pardoning Edward Snowden – August 15, 2020
D. United Arab Emirates sells out Palestine for Israel August 13, 2020
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/united-arab-emirates-sells-out-palestine-israel
E. SF cops to vote on delayed raises amid pandemic – August 12, 2020
F. Financial disclosures reveal postmaster general’s business entanglements and likely conflicts of interest, experts say – August 12, 2020
See Action # 1
See Events #’s 2 & 17
G. Trump Didn’t Invent State Violence Against Protesters — But He’s Escalating It
ACTIONS:
1. Call on Congress and the Trump administration to protect the USPS!
2. To Mayor Breed and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors: Establish the Workforce Education & Recovery Fund to protect essential services provided at City College
SIGN: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/to-mayor-breed-and-the-san-francisco-board-of-supervisors-establish-the-workforce-education-recovery-fund-to-protect-essential-services-provided-at-city-college?source=direct_link
3. Senate: Protect the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge
4. Email / Call SF Board of Supervisors to: Oppose SF Police Officers Association Contract!!
See Articles: B & E
Briefly, Mayor Breed, DHR and the SF POA have reached a proposed agreement on a contract without the knowledge of the San Francisco Police Commission and the SF Board of Supervisors nor the public.
This summer thousands of people in SF and around the Bay Area and nationally have called for DEFUNDING and ABOLISHING the police. This contract is a contradiction to what people, especially the youth are demanding.
There is no transparency with the negotiations. There will be a closed door session of the BoS meeting today
From article B. John Crew, retired ACLU lawyer:
“As Crew points out, the US Conference of Mayors, in a report issued just last week, calls for greater scrutiny of police union contracts:
“Over the years, police contracts — union CBAs (collective bargaining agreements) —have evolved into much more than standard labor contracts. They cover the expected areas—hours, wages, benefits—but many have grown to include substantial barriers to basic accountability.”
If you would like more info let me know
SF Board of Supervisors meeting begins at 2:00pm today,
SF Board of Supervisors contact info:
Matt Haney
Email: Matt.Haney@sfgov.org Tel: (415) 554-7970
Gordon Mar
Email: Gordon.Mar@sfgov.org Tel: (415) 554-7460
Dean Preston
Email: Dean.Preston@sfgov.org Tel: (415) 554-7630
Hillary Ronen
Email: Hillary.Ronen@sfgov.org Tel: (415) 554-5144
Catherine Stefani
Email: Catherine.Stefani@sfgov.org Tel: (415) 554-7752
Norman Yee
Email: Norman.Yee@sfgov.org Tel: (415) 554-6516
Rafael Mandelman
Email: MandelmanStaff@sfgov.org Tel. (415) 554-6968
Aaron Peskin
Emaill: Aaron.Peskin@sfgov.org Tel. (415) 554-7450
Sandra Lee Fewer
Email: Sandra.Fewer@sfgov.org Tel. (415) 554-7410
Ahsha Safai
Email: Ahsha.Safai@sfgov.org Tel: (415) 554-6975
Shamman Walton
Email: Shamman.Walton@sfgov.org Tel: (415) 554-7670
List of other Bay Area Protests & Rallies
EVENTS
Tuesday, August 18 – Saturday, August 22
Tuesday, August 18
1. Tuesday, 3:00pm, Tell SF Supes: Support the Health and Safety for All Workers Act!
Call in: (415) 655-0001
Meeting ID: 146 283 3792##
Call in to support a SF resolution in favor of SB 1257, The Health and Safety for All Workers Act. SB 1257 would ensure domestic workers have the same health and safety protections that most workers have under Cal/OSHA law. Domestic workers have been excluded from these vital protections too long – in a time of COVID and historic wildfires, they are more urgent than ever.
Info from: Jobs with Justice San Francisco
2. Tuesday, 3:00pm – 5:00pm, SF Gray Panthers Tuesday, August 18 meeting
Zoom:
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Meeting ID: 890 3675 5652
Passcode: 609806
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Meeting ID: 890 3675
3 topics:
The US Postal service in crisis—a Portland activist’s perspective;
Portland Gray Panther convener on “What’s going on in Portland?”; and
A UC Berkeley sociologist on the left/right divide in US politics and on how to handle COVID-19: Can the divide be bridged? And if so, how?
Timeline:
2:45 on: Please arrive a bit early so we can catch up with each other and be ready to listen to our first speaker at 3 pm:
3:00 pm: Jamie Partridge, retired Portland letter carrier and organizer with Communities and Postal Workers United on the US Postal Service Crisis
3:30 pm: Lew Church, convener of the Portland Gray Panthers on what’s going on in Portland
4:00 pm: Arlie Hochschild, UC Berkeley sociologist and author of “Strangers in their own Land*” to to talk about her book and help us answer the question: “Can we bridge the political divide between politically progressive and conservative working class people in the US (on how to deal with COVID-19 and seemingly everything else); and if so, how?”
Info: Gray Panthers SF
3. Tuesday, 3:00pm – 6:00pm, No More Tech Office Spaces In The Mission
Public comment:
1(415) 655-0001
ID: 146 427 5376 ##
Join the battle for racial equity by telling the Board of Supervisors the development of 2300 Harrison into a larger Tech Hub will harm our communities of color!
*2300 Harrison Street is a tech-office project that will directly connect with an existing tech office building that was illegally converted to offices in the late 90s. The two buildings combined will create nearly 100,000 sq. ft. of tech offices.
The project gained approval by the Planning Commission by exploiting a state density bonus law, meant for housing, not offices, by building a tiny amount of housing on top of a huge office building in order to abuse the intent of the law to maximize profits.
As many as 650+ tech workers could be added along with 24 units of housing are proposed for this enormous influx of upscale workers! The project will only cause more displacement and hyper-gentrification. They propose only 6 moderately-affordable housing units to house our threatened Mission families.
Communities of color are severely underrepresented in the tech industry and this project contains NO EQUITY COMPONENTS to provide opportunity for our low-income and working-class communities of color.
Projects like these continue to displace our most vulnerable neighbors and must be stopped. We’ve already lost 8,000 Latinos from the Mission!!!
Hosts: United to Save the Mission, Media Alliance + 9 Other groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2896563950449363/
4. Tuesday, 6:00pm, “Defund SFPD Now” Direct Action & Protest
Meet at:
Holly Park,
424 Holly Park Circle
SF
Why This Direct Action?
· The goal: The goal of this event is to amplify voices asking for defunding the police and encourage Supervisor Ronen to be our champion in the Defund SFPD movement. She is well-positioned to do so, as a member of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, with Democratic Socialist values. We’re looking for our leaders to advocate for public safety for everyone, including Black, Brown, and Trans folx, and get police officers off the streets this budget year.
· Our asks: While Supervisor Ronen has stated public support for cutting some funds from the police, she has not yet committed to advocating for specific cuts & uplifting the calls to fire and remove officers or deputies in the 2020-2021 budget. We have shared with Supervisor Ronen a list of demands found ; we’ve also invited her to join us at the gathering if she commits to a portion of those demands in advance of our direct action—specifically, if she 1) commits to publicly advocating for 200 police officer/Sheriff’s deputy cuts this fiscal year (current police officers/Sheriff’s deputies, not to include vacant positions), 2) commits to voting against any budget that does not cut at least 200 officers in this budget cycle, and 3) tweets, returns our signed demands, and/or issues any public statement about these commitments from her official accounts.
We’ll meet in Holly Park, hear a few opening remarks, and center ourselves on the goals of achieving public safety for all—including Black, brown, and trans folx. We hope to hear from the Supervisor as a collaborator in this effort, potentially remotely
· bring: a sign, a friend, a little cash and an I.D., hand sanitizer, a mask (and a couple to share if you have them!), a small umbrella, snacks and water, and closed-toe shoes.
· Tech recommendations: We recommend putting your phone in airplane mode, and turning off face and touch unlock. Use encrypted messaging apps, disable location services, and remove faces from any photos and videos you take before you post them on social media.
Host: Defund SFPD Now / Afro Socialist and SOC Caucus DSA SF
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/718892438966697/ https://sf.funcheap.com/defund-sfpd-direct-action-protest/
Wednesday, August 19
5. Wednesday, 8:30am – 9:45am (PT); 11:30am – 12:45pm (ET), The Right to Narrate: No Justice Without Palestinian Voices
Webinar registration:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tENrgi_ERp-wRxt8krc89A?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=6da1cae6-0487-4d8e-b465-cc2d900ae55d
Eyewitness Palestine is co-sponsoring and taking part in the people’s policy roundtable
In 1984 the late Edward Said would write that Israeli colonization and dehumanization of Palestinians in Western and Israeli media would continue so long as Palestinians were denied “permission to narrate.”
In this moment of global fascism and a racial justice uprising in the US, the majority of Congress is working to increase US-funding of Israeli state violence (S. 3176) and ignoring the McCarthyist tactics to which advocates for Palestinian rights and freedom have long been subjected. Organizers demanding an end to funding injustice must faces the blacklist site Canary Mission, and state legislation criminalizing BDS. All of this makes it painfully clear that Palestinian voices are still considered a threat to an oppressive status quo.
Join us for a policy roundtable by Palestinian grassroots organizers and advocates about what it means for Palestinians to claim our right to narrate, to tell our stories, and to speak back with clear demands for an end to US complicity in Palestinian oppression.
We are excited to be joined by the following speakers:
–Yara Hawari, Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network
–Tala Alfoqaha, Youth organizer at University of MN
–Nas Abd Elal, alQaws
–Amira Mattar, Palestine Legal
–Sahar Francis, Addameer: Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association
–Facilitator: Omar Zahzah, Eyewitness Palestine & Palestinian Youth Movement
Hosts: Friends of Sabeel North America, Adalha Justice Project & 2 Other groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/889057848250544/
6. Wednesday, 10:00am – 12Noon (PT); 1:00pm – 3:00pm (ET), Indigenous, Black and Brown Liberation: Abolition, Reparations, and Resistance
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://sfsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fYYUZkHtRT6vUf6A5-O0_Q
This roundtable will be simultaneously streamed live on the AMED Studies and Al-Adab Journal, and Dar Al-Adab publishing house Facebook Pages.
Please join Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies Program and Al-Adab Journal in the roundtable on “Indigenous, Black and Brown Liberation: Abolition, Reparations, and Resistance”
This second “US in Depth” roundtable will focus on resistance to settler colonialism, white supremacy, anti-Blackness and imperialism, from the Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Patrols, and COINTELPRO to contemporary mass incarceration; and from racial, gendered and sexualized violence to invasions and detention of protesters and activists on the streets of Portland, Seattle and Palestine.
Movement leaders will also share historical accounts of strategies of resistance from different struggles, including Alcatraz; Wounded Knee; the Black Panther; Movement for Black Lives; Chicano Moratorium; Raza Education; Puerto Rican Independence; reparations; and the abolition of the prison industrial complex.
Panelist:
* Guadalupe (Lupe) Carrasco Cardona, Co-Chair, 50th Chicano Moratorium Committee & Chair, Raza Educators LA
* Charlene Carruthers, Founding National Director, Black Youth Project 100 & Executive Director, Chicago Center for Leadership and Transformation
* Emory Douglas, Revolutionary Artist & Minister of Culture, Black Panthers Party, 1967-1980s
* Oscar Lopez Rivera, Longest held (35 years) Political Prisoner in the history of Puerto Rico; Initiator, Fundación OLR Libertá
* Claude Marks, Co-founder, Freedom Archives & Co-Director, “COINTELPRO 101”
* Madonna Thunder Hawk (Oohenumpa Lakota), Lakota People’s Law Project & American Indian Movement
Hosts: Al-Adab, Yalla, Indivisible + 9 Other groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2844506909151861/
Zaina Alsous, an organizer with the Dream Defenders
Nyle Fort, a minister, activist, and Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University
Derecka Purnell, human rights lawyer, organizer, and writer.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/309660000467180/
8. Thursday, 5:00pm (PT); 8:00pm (ET), COVID can be defeated: Cuba, China, Venezuela, Vietnam
Webinar registration:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_W2hj_uoGRZuu3z4jFquj1g
Speakers:
China – Siu Hin Lee – China US Solidarity Network, National Immigrant Solidarity Network
Cuba – Rosemari Mealy – NY-Jersey Cuba Si Coalition, Board of IFCO/Pastors for Peace
Venezuela – William Camacara – Bolivarian Circle Venezuela Solidarity
Vietnam – Ngô Thanh Nhàn – Viêt Solidarity & Action Network, Vietnam Agent Orange Relief & Responsibility Campaign
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage uncontrollably in the U.S., we must understand that it doesn’t have to be this way. Many countries around the world, and above all countries building socialism, have been able to effectively combat the pandemic, using the tools of a planned economy and robust national healthcare system to prioritize the health of their populations. Here in the U.S., the health and survival of working and oppressed people is secondary to profits for the ruling class. While more than 160,000 have died, millions have lost their jobs and many renters face eviction, the wealth of U.S. billionaires has grown at least $637 billion during the pandemic!
Host: Workers World Party
9, Thursday, 6:00pm, Coalition Meetings: Slash SFPD’s Stash!
Online meeting.
To register: bit.ly/Slash-SFPD-Budget
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/290228442247728/
10. Friday, 12Noon – 1:00pm, Divest and Invest Rally: Let’s Make This a Healing Space – Rally
Meet at:
The Mother & Child Statue
San Francisco General Hospital
1001 Potrero Ave
SF
Join us as we call on the SF Dept of Public Health and City Leaders to Divest from Law Enforcement in our Hospitals and Clinics, and Invest in Healing and Community-driven Alternatives. We want a safety strategy that works for EVERYONE on DPH campuses
Host: DPH Must Divest
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/755799341900315/
11. Friday, 12Noon, Black Lives Matter – Vehicular Hands Around Lake Merritt, Oakland
Get in your car and join MAAFA SF Bay Area and Wanda’s Picks in a Vehicular Hands Around Lake Merritt, 1st & 3rd Fridays at 12 p.m.
Make signs with SIMPLE MESSAGING. BE CREATIVE. IF you are directly impacted by police violence, list your names. Also list the names of Bay Area citizens & others killed by police.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/
Bay Area: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/tag/police-shootings/
Suggestions: “CHARGE Derek Chauvin WITH 1ST DEGREE MURDER”; “ARREST & CHARGE OFFICERS: Thomas Lane, J.A. Kueng and Tou Thao”; “8 MINS. 46 SECS”; BLACK MEN CAN’T BREATHE; CHECK YOUR RACISM; CHECK YOUR WHITENESS; I LOVE BEING BLACK; BLACKNESS IS NOT THE PROBLEM; ORGANIZE, ORGANIZE, ORGANIZE; BLACK LIVES MATTER; SAY IT LOUD: BLACK LIVES MATTER; SAY IT LOUD: I’M BLACK AND I’M PROUD!; STRUCTURAL RACISM IS REAL; REGISTER TO VOTE & VOTE; NO MORE POLICE STATE; FISTS UP FOR BLACK LIVES; BLACK PEOPLE COUNT: COMPLETE THE 2000 CENSUS
Put the name of organizations you are affiliated with on your car signs so bystanders can join the movement. We will have a soundtrack. We will make one revolution starting at Our Lady of Lourdes Church, we will creep around the Lake slowing traffic (5 miles an hour). For information call Ms. Sabir, 510-255-5579 or email: racewoman@gmail.com
Host: MAAFA Commemoration SF Bay Area
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2074221202721339/?event_time_id=2074221222721337
12. Friday, 12Noon – 3:00pm, March & Rally to Slash SFPD’s Stash!
Meet at
SF City Hall
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl.
SF
March to:
Hall of Justice
850 Bryant St.
SF
Join Slash the SFPD Stash coalition, as we march to demand that the Board of Supervisors and the Mayor’s office slash the SFPD’s budget by at least 50% and reallocate the money to housing, education, healthcare, jobs and other vital services that benefit the community!
We’re meeting at SF City Hall, and marching to the Hall of Justice at 850 Bryant St. to make our voices heard!
We will have speakers at both Civic Center and the Hall of Justice, and will have an open mic so that the community can make their voices heard.
We invite everyone who is interested in making sure San Francisco’s budget serves the people!
Please join us as we March in solidarity for BLM, Abolish I.C.E, Justice for Breonna Taylor, Black Trans lives, and the Portland Protests.
We’re in need of folks to help support with
-water
-security
-first aid
-social media visibility
Host: Slash SFPD Stash
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/233072681179770/
13. Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Demand the San Francisco Police Officers Association Be Shut Down!
San Francisco Police Officers Association
800 Bryant Street
6th Street & Bryant
San Francisco
Wear masks; practice social distancing
– Demand the San Francisco Police Officers Association Be Shut Down
– Be Declared a Non Grata Organization
– Demand the Police Officer Bill of Rights be Abolished
Stand with Mothers on the March, Black & Brown Unity, BBNO and community supporters.
14. Friday, 4:00pm – 7:00pm, Filmmakers Altan & Cediel discuss Covid’s Hidden Toll
Watch this at https://www.facebook.com/revbooksnyc/. You don’t have to have Facebook to watch it.
Join Rev Books for a discussion of the Frontline documentary, Covid’s Hidden Toll, with the filmmakers Daffodil Altan and Andrés Cediel.
Do you know what is happening to the people who put the food on your table? This documentary, completed in the midst of the pandemic is a visceral and shocking window into how the developing crisis of Covid 19 has hit vulnerable immigrants and undocumented workers: how an estimated 10s of thousands have been infected, and 100s have died. And it exposes the cold negligence and brutality of the ag industry, the government institutions, and Trump.
We will show clips from the film –powerful interviews with the workers which reveal in the most gut-wrenching, and moving, way how their lives in the fields and meat processing plants-already among the most exploited workers in this country-have been made exponentially worse by this pandemic, and by the way they are being treated by multi-million dollar agricultural and meat-processing businesses.
Farm and meat plant workers tell about having to choose between their health and their jobs – and about a lack of protection from their companies.
Investigative journalist Daffodil J. Altan is an Emmy-nominated producer and correspondent for Frontline PBS. She produced, directed and was the correspondent for the FRONTLINE documentaries, Kids Caught in the Crackdown (2019), and Trafficked in America (2018). She is a lecturer at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Andrés Cediel is a documentary filmmaker and professor of Visual Journalism at UC Berkeley. He produced Rape in the Fields and was a writer and producer of Rape on the Night Shift, which brought to light rampant sexual assaults of immigrant women in the agricultural and janitorial industries. He was a producer of Kids Caught in the Crackdown.
Hosts: Revolution Books New York, Revolution Books Berkeley
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1159738331069186/
15. Friday, 5:30pm – 9:00pm, SF March For The Dead Fight for the Living- Golden Gate Bridge
Tickets:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sf-march-for-the-dead-golden-gate-bridge-tickets-116385240387?aff=efbeventtix&fbclid=IwAR0IXK2e9k_ic1TbtMnQBDph_Se1fJqooIfBvzJr0r8BaPCPcR62tAmmoB4
Meet at:
Crissy Field Warming Hut
983 Marine Drive
San Francisco, CA 94129
Masks required, and please maintain physical distance during rally and march.
Meet at Crissy Field for a ceremony honoring lives lost to the two pandemics in America. March to the Golden Gate Bridge for a vigil.
join us in a march that will honor the dead by fighting for the living. 1,000+ Americans are still dying every day. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Around 6pm, we will march across the Golden Gate Bridge in solidarity with Americans marching across their own crumbling iconic bridges:
· NYC, Brooklyn Bridge
· Seattle, Montlake Bridge
· San Diego, Cabrillo Bridge
· Several other cities, at 6pm local time
See marchforthedead.org for our list of demands, starting with Donald Trump’s resignation.
Wear yellow. Bring flowers or art to leave behind. Come early to write a loved one’s name on a yellow umbrella to carry across the bridge.
Hosts: Vigil for Democracy, Wall of Many
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1166710827031893/
16. Friday, 6:00pm – 7:00pm, , Monthly gathering with Refugio and Elvira Nieto
Saturday, August 22
17. Saturday,11:00am, #SaveThePostOffice Day of Action
Click below to find an action or to organize one near you:
At this writing there are actions listed for Berkeley, Oakland and Palo Alto
RuralOrganizing.org will be joining forces with Indivisible, the Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights, MoveON, the NAACP, Service Employees International Union, Vets for the People, and the Working Families Party to mobilize people across the country in defense of the USPS.
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/17/18835952.php
