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Listing of other Bay Area Protests & Rallies
ARTICLES:
A. Newsom signs California eviction moratorium for renters hurt by pandemic – August 31, 2020
B. Oakland group launches non-police mental health hotline – August 30, 2020
C. Why Police Unions Are Not Part of the American Labor Movement – August 27, 2020
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/08/27/why-police-unions-are-not-part-of-the-american-labor-movement/
See Event # 6
D. World Bank Suspends Doing Business Report – August 27, 2020
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/statement/2020/08/27/doing-business—data-irregularities-statement
E. Justice Department to Investigate Jacob Blake Shooting – August 27, 2020
See Action # 8
F. Police decertification bill amended after discussions with Newsom administration – August 26, 2020
California is currently one of just a few states without a law for decertifying police officers.
G.SF Landlords of Single-Family Homes Can’t Triple Rent to Force Tenants Out, Court Rules – August 25, 2020
H. Supes committee votes to slash police budget by $30 million
See Event # 5
I. Border Wall Construction Set to Begin Near Historic Cemeteries in South Texas – August 23, 2020
https://theintercept.com/2020/08/23/border-wall-construction-historic-cemeteries-texas/
J. Media Show Little Interest in Israeli Bombing of Gaza – August 21, 2020
ACTIONS:
1. Global Appeal to Nine Nuclear Governments
SIGN: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/global-appeal-to-nine-nuclear-governments?link_id=2&can_id=4d8abb95a7895a1648b41bfa1ad2bb3b&source=email-nukes-or-humanity-this-planet-is-not-big-enough-for-both&email_referrer=email_904301&email_subject=nukes-or-humanity-this-planet-is-not-big-enough-for-both
2. Stop Pollution, Environmental Racism, and Displacement in Bayview Hunters Point, SF, CA
See Event # 1
3. Sex Discrimination in Housing Has No Home Here
4. Tell Congress: Save Social Security from Trump!
5. Tell corporate landlords to cancel rent and stop evictions!
SIGN: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-corporate-landlords-to-cancel-rent-and-stop-evictions?clear_id=true&referrer=group-jobs-with-justice&source=direct_link
6. Petition to your U.S. senators: Demand a vote on emergency Postal Service funding bill
7. Tell Verizon Wireless: Stop fueling militarism, hate, and abuse
8. Justice for Jacob Blake, Shot in the Back 7 Times by Cops While His Children and Fiancé Watched!
EVENTS
Tuesday, September 1 – Saturday, September 5
Tuesday, September 1
1. Tuesday, 11:30pm – 2:30pm, BVHP WE CAN’T Breathe! Environmental Justice Protest – Press Conference
Press Conference & Speak Out
Livestream at: https://www.facebook.com/Greenaction4EJ
Martin Luther King / Bayview Park
3rd & Carroll St.
SF
Car caravan is postponed
Greenaction and the Bayview Hunters Point Mothers and Fathers Committee, along with our many community partners, invite you to join us for a community press conference and “speak out” to call for an end to pollution, environmental racism and displacement. If you cannot join in person, you can listen and watch a livestream of the event on Greenaction’s Facebook page.
Bayview Hunters Point residents will speak out at a press conference Tuesday, September 1st at 11:30 am to send Mayor London Breed and the Board of Supervisors a clear message that City Hall must stop systemic environmental racism, pollution and displacement that are every bit as deadly as police shootings of George Floyd and so many other unarmed black people.
Residents will specifically demand that City Hall and other government agencies:
Clean up radioactive and toxic waste at the Hunters Point Shipyard Superfund Site and other contaminated areas in the community, and Stop upscale developments that would pollute and displace people of color, including Lennar’s Shipyard development and the India Basin Mixed Use Development.
Hosts: Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, Literacy for Environmental Justice & Extinction Rebellion San Francisco Bay Area
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/282910279668538
2. Tuesday, 1:00pm – 2:0pm, Board of SuperMoms demands Homes Not Harm
1225 Oak St.
Oakland
There has not been a more stark example in recent history of militarized racism in housing than in the saga of Moms 4 Housing.
On January 14, 2020, in a pre-dawn raid of a residential home in Oakland, California, the Alameda County Sheriff’s spent tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to evict women and children from a vacant, speculator-acquired property. Tanks, military-styled officers, drones, robots, a battering ram and assault rifles were used to execute an eviction order on Black women and their children.
In the months since this brutal act of violence, the housing affordability crisis has only escalated under an unprecedented global pandemic. Thousands of Alameda County families are falling into significant debt and facing the threat of the same militarized eviction tactics that were used on the Moms at the house on Magnolia Street.
Moms 4 Housing and a growing community coalition are calling on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to invest in homes, not harm. The last thing our community needs right now is an occupying army. Our community needs housing, healing, and rent forgiveness. After voting to give this notoriously racist Sheriff Department a budget increase of over $100 million a year, the ACBOS has cancelled their meeting set for September 1st. We are in a crisis and this failure of leadership is unacceptable.
On September 1st, Moms 4 Housing and dozens of community allies will replace the Board of Supervisors with a Board of SuperMOMS – Black and Brown mothers who are most impacted by the county housing crisis.
Please join Moms 4 Housing, Community Ready Corps, the Anti Police-Terror Project, CURYJ, Ella Baker Center, and the People’s Strike at 1225 Oak Street for a socially-distanced rally and action
See site for agenda
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1229388384077080
Wednesday, September 2
3. Wednesday, 12Noon, Campaign Launch: SF Domestic Work Dignity Council
Click: FB Live Press Conference
The CA Domestic Workers Coalition is organizing to establish a SF Domestic Work Dignity Council. The Council will be made up of domestic workers, employers and elected officials who will set industry standards to achieve:
- livable wages and benefits
- healthy working conditions
- safety-net benefits
- racial equity
- training for domestic workers
- education for employers on obligations
- community-based enforcement for an isolated workforce
Domestic workers in SF are struggling to survive and are experiencing high rates of wage theft, while working in isolated conditions that make it difficult to collectively advocate for better workplace conditions. SF has the opportunity to support a groundbreaking, industry-specific strategy to lift up the domestic work industry.
Info: Jobs with Justice San Francisco
Thursday, September 3
4. Thursday, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Rapid Response & Strategic Advocacy Webinar
Online with Facebook Live
https://www.facebook.com/events/229252731799322
Join us for a training that recounts the rapid response and strategic advocacy work that was done during the July 2019 immigration raids. The training will focus on how rapid response networks, attorneys, and advocates can coordinate affirmative and strategic responses in the face of raids. The training is open to everyone and will discuss organizing, communications and legal work.
Panelists:
– Sean Riordan, ACLU of Northern California
– Lisa Knox, Centro Legal de la Raza
– Katie Kavanagh, California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice
– Edwin Carmona-Cruz, Pangea Legal Services
– Hamid Yazdan Panah, Immigrant Defense Advocates
– Itzel Nuño, California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice
Hosts: California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice & Pangea Legal Services
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/229252731799322
5. Thursday, 6:00pm, March to Defund SFPD
(as of 8/31 – check FB site / RSVP for changes)
Meet at Mission High School
Dolores & 18th St.
SF
RSVP – to get text/email reminders
Join our march to demand public safety for all and fire cops this year!!
The Board of Supervisors Budget and Appropriations Committee approved a budget that only cuts $44M–6.3%– of the $700M police budget. Despite our calls to action, they are firing ZERO officers or Sheriff’s deputies this year.
Over the past decade police violence against Black and brown people has become hypervisible via social media. Just a few days ago Jacob Blake was shot 7 times by police officers in Kenosha, WI and left paralyzed from the waist down. Jacob Blake. Breonna Taylor. Jamaica Hampton. George Floyd. Eric Garner. Jessica Williams. Luis Gongora Pat. Alex Nieto. Mario Woods. Sean Monterrosa.
Every day that the BoS refuses to defund the SFPD, they are prioritizing police employment over our lives. They have the power to change the system, but instead they bend over backwards to preserve a system that harms us.
And yet as the movement for Black lives grows, nothing has changed. People are still being harmed, traumatized, and killed every day and our elected officials are doing nothing.
What do you think it feels like to be Black, brown, or people of color and having nothing change? This is violence. This is what racism looks like.
This is unacceptable, and is not public safety for all. Black, Brown, trans, and unhoused folks need *real change*, not false promises. There’s still time to fix this budget as the full Board of Supervisors won’t vote on it until 9/22. Let’s show up and make it crystal clear that we need to defund, disarm, and disband the SFPD now, in this year’s budget
Hosts: Defund SFPD Now, and AfroSocialist and SOC Caucus DSA
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/952435531932935/
Friday, September 4
6. Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Demand the San Francisco Police Officers Association Be Shut Down!
San Francisco Police Officers Association (outside)
800 Bryant St. (6th St. & Bryant)
SF
Wear masks; practice social distancing
Mothers on the March, Black and Brown for Justice, Peace and Equality:
– Demand the San Francisco Police Officers Association Be Shut Down.
– The SF Police Officers Association 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.
Saturday, September 5
7. Saturday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, United Nationwide Mass Protest: Demand Trump Pence Out Now!
Meet at:
Embarcadero Plaza
SF
March to Civic Center
RefuseFascism.org has issued a call for nationwide protests:
“September 5th, we must make a LIVING DECLARATION to the world that we are uniting, we are organizing, we are determined, we are preparing to struggle with all we’ve got, starting now and not stopping until the Trump/Pence regime is driven from power and its fascist program brought to a halt.”
RefuseFascism.org continues:
We are at a “stop everything” moment in history.
The Trump/Pence regime is on a trajectory to consolidate fascist rule and hammer in a nightmare for humanity.
September 5 needs to be a significant outpouring of mass protest inspiring 60 days of struggle. If every attempt by the regime to subvert the election, to repress protest, to implement new fascist measures is met with growing numbers demanding Trump/Pence OUT NOW! we could force a different political equation going into November, constraining Trump’s ability to easily postpone or subvert the election.
This is a moment when every movement for justice must act on the understanding that we are at a “Both”/“And” Moment – for immigrant, women’s, or Black, brown, native people’s rights AND for driving out the regime working to demolish those rights; for climate change action AND demanding Trump/Pence OUT NOW as the regime tears up environmental laws. This is not a time for “either/or,” my struggle not yours.
See site for detailed info:
–Wear cloth face coverings/masks;
–Practice physical distancing, staying more than six feet away from people who are not a part of your household, if possible.
–Use hand sanitizer often.
–Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands.
If you have the following symptoms, please DO NOT participate in person. Even if you test negative for COVID-19 but have these symptoms, please refrain from in-person actions:
–Fever, shortness of breath, cough, headache, loss of smell / taste
Hosts: Refuse Fascism Bay Area, Vigil for Democracy, Wall of Many, United Native Americans.org, Resistance SF
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/301028291223801 or https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835792.php
