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See Indybay also for other listing of events.
Listing of other Bay Area Protests & Rallies
ARTICLES:
A. Agreement signed to sell SF’s ‘Monster in the Mission’ site for affordable housing – September 4, 2020
B. Closure of Border to Refugees Spreads Misery as US Tourists Vacation in Mexico – September 3, 2020
C. “Where Is the Accountability?” 23 Deaths at Fort Hood Prompt Commander’s Removal, New Investigation – September 3, 2020
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/3/fort_hood
D. Officer charged in shooting death of Black man in a Walmart – September 2, 2020
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Officer-charged-in-shooting-death-of-Black-man-in-15538653.php
E. The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange (film – 38 min. long)
See event # 7
F. Can’t pay the rent? Here’s how California’s new pandemic eviction law affects you – September 1, 2020
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Can-t-pay-the-rent-Here-s-how-California-s-15534057.php
G. Bill to strip problem cops’ badges in California dies in Legislature – September 1, 2020
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Bill-to-strip-problem-cops-badges-in-15529324.php
H. A message from the most bombed nation on earth – August 29
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/message-bombed-nation-earth-200809112854257.html
ACTIONS:
1. Tell Twitch: Ban military recruitment now!
2. To Total CEO Patrick Pouyanné and all backers of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline
3. Urge Governor Newsom to sign AB2542. The California Racial Justice Act.
4. Demand corporations like Coca-Cola, Wells Fargo, and Target divest from police foundations and refuse seats on police foundations’ boards.
5. George Mason University must cut ties with the Koch network!
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/george-mason-university-must-cut-ties-with-the-koch-network/?link_id=3&can_id=4d8abb95a7895a1648b41bfa1ad2bb3b&source=email-what-would-a-world-with-corporate-liability-look-like&email_referrer=email_912617&email_subject=what-would-a-world-with-corporate-liability-look-like
EVENTS
Friday, September 4 – Wednesday, September 9
Friday, September 4
1. Friday, 5:00pm (STARTED!) Hunger Strike Antioch – To demand authorities end racial injustice and police brutality
Antioch Police Dept. (outside)
300 L Street
Antioch
For 6Forced2Strike: Michael, michael@eastbayresistance.net
Five young activists from the City of Antioch—Shagoofa Khan, Maria Brown, Michelle Parmenter, McKenna Peterson, and Lacey Brown—and Michael James, from SF now living in East Bay, will begin a hunger strike to demand that local authorities meet their demands to end racial injustice and police brutality.
Despite ongoing protests, an ongoing Change.org petition signed by thousands, hundreds of public comments sent in to City Council meetings, protests and an occupation of City Hall by several dozen citizens, the Mayor, the Chief of Antioch Police, and council members have neither acknowledged nor taken action to address protesters’ demands. At its end, the young people of Antioch feel forced to take this serious action in order to be heard. They are known as the 6 forced to strike. #6Forced2Strike.
Maria Brown said “We will be participating in our hunger strike until we are heard and our demands are met!” “The City of Antioch cannot continue to ignore our right to shape our future.
The 6 forced to strike demand the following:
1. The immediate termination of Officer Michael Mellone from Antioch Police Department for his known record of illegally using lethal force in the killing of Luis Góngora Pat in San Francisco, and new surfacing allegations of abuse of force in Antioch;
2. The immediate resignation of Steve Aiello as President of Antioch Police Officers’ Association for promoting violence against peaceful protesters;
3. The integration of community representatives as equal participants (unaffiliated with the City of Antioch & its government) to the “Bridging the Gap” forum during which a third-party facilitator will be assisting a discussion on racial injustice and police community relationships. We demand also that the next forum meeting happen within the following 30 days and be publicly announced through the appropriate outlets to maximize attendance.
This year it became known that Ofc. Mellone left the San Francisco Police Department on August 18th—a day before SFPD’s Internal Affairs was set to hand down a historic suspension for violating almost every SFPD rule in the book when he fired two different lethal weapons that resulted in the killing of Luis Góngora Pat—and began working days later with the Antioch Police Department. According to San Francisco D.A. Boudin “…the timing makes very clear that the resignation was aimed at and was effective at avoiding accountability.”
The 6Forced2Strike recently learned first hand of new allegations of excessive use of force by Ofc. Mellone since he was rehired by APD. These allegations are made by two men of color, one who was homeless during the time of his encounter with Mellone.
Host: Hunger Strike Antioch
For detailed info and updates: https://www.facebook.com/hungerstrikeantioch
Saturday, September 5
2. 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
3. Saturday & Sunday, 12Noon – 5:00pm, Carnaval San Francisco
Harrison St – Between 18th & 20th Streets
SF
Education, Health / Testing, Employment, Free Groceries
Resources: https://www.facebook.com/CarnavalSanFrancisco/photos/pcb.4971799406178861/4971768986181903/
Host: CarnavalSanFrancisco
Info: https://www.facebook.com/CarnavalSanFrancisco
4. Saturday, 3:00pm – 6:00pm, LIFE OVER RENT/ Nuestrxs Vidas Si Renta No
Alameda County Superior Court (outside)
1225 Fallon St.
Oakland
Wear a mask at all times, and stand at least six feet apart.
LIFE OVER RENT: A start of the month rally — Our needs come before our landlord’s profits.
A March for Life over Rent
What we want:
1. Cancel Rent: Demanding rent during the pandemic is cruel and threatens to intensify our homelessness crisis, particularly for Black and brown working class communities.
2. Landlords Must Negotiate: Thousands of tenants have organized collectively to demand rent relief — landlords must negotiate with these tenant councils or face consequences.
3. Services Not Sheriffs: Governments must prohibit evictions and expand unemployment and food stamps for the working-class people hit hardest by our joint economic and health crises.
Any economic crisis is an opportunity for change. The 2008 recession showed this well: the rich became richer while the working class faced higher rents and precarious jobs. We saw this in Oakland, as landlords gobbled up foreclosed homes and then doubled the rents.
In 2020, we face down an even larger recession. Who will come first during this pandemic and economic crisis? Who will benefit, and who will be thrown aside? We must not be thrown aside again.
Hosts: TANC, SMC Tenants Council + 3 Other groups
Sunday, September 6
5. Sunday, 12Noon – 3:00pm, Free the Land-Listen to Our Ancestors- ComeUnity Mural on BlackArthur
POOR Magazine
76th & MacArthur Blvd
Oakland
Socially distance event
No experience necessary
Food & Snacks
Free the Land- Listen to Our Ancestors- is a series of murals dedicated to Painting/Honoring Our Ancestors – In the Tradition of POOR Magazine’s /Homefulness Multi-nationed ancestors-honoring in 2011 when houseless and indigenous, Black, Brown, disabled, criminalized, incarcerated and evicted youth and elders, with permission and guidance from 1st Nations Ohlone/Lisjan leaders launched the UnSelling and DegentriFUKing of Deep East Huchuin (Oakland) on Blackarthur ( MacArthur)
Our goals are to stabilize/stay communities who were already here & take back/reclaim & UnSell Hoarded Mama Earth so unhoused /evicted/indigenous communities now living in these streets in a pandemic can be re-housed.
We will be launching this 2nd small part of UnSelling of Mama Earth with art dedicated to our Liberation ancestors from all four corners .Pls join artists #artistik, Muteado Silencio, Tiny, Evri Kwong and more as we lift another small part of Mama Earth off the Real eSnakkke market and dedicate her to the people
Hosts: POOR Magazine, Homefulness, Stolen Lands Hoarded Resources Decolonization and Community Reparations
6. Sunday, 3:00pm – 5:00pm, Listen Up, Libby
Meet at:
Dimond Park Playground
Oakland
ASL Interpreted
Last Saturday we witnessed police terrorism and brutality from OPD with the full consent and support of Oakland Mayor, Libby Schaaf. This Sunday we will speak out against her oppressive administration and make her listen to the youth’s demands to defund and abolish the Oakland Police Department.
Host: anti_bay_area_intifada
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/CEsdO8shdHq/?igshid=154yrqexs652f and https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/04/18836423.php
Monday, September 7
7. Monday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, Global Stand 4 Assange – Save His Life & Journalism
British Consulate – San Francisco (outside)
1 Sansome St. (nr. Market St.)
SF
Please bring signs/banners/fliers if you have them, but mainly just show up. Safe distancing and masks please.
Sadly, the show trial of Julian Assange marches on, and intensifies our need to ACT to save his life – along with saving our freedom of speech & journalism worldwide. His extradition hearing starts on September 7, 2020 at the Old Bailey in London. It is anticipated to last for three weeks.
Julian Assange, journalist and Wikileaks founder, is being charged under the 1917 Espionage Act by the United States for publishing U.S. WAR CRIMES and human rights abuses. He revealed the brutal killing of unarmed civilians and the torture of innocent people. Not one person has even been brought to charge for these crimes. Instead, Assange has been continuously and relentlessly pursued.
The use of Espionage charges against a journalist/publisher is unprecedented. This puts all of journalism at risk with precedent for any country to charge any journalist in the world for what it deems unlawful by its own metrics. Julian Assange faces 175 years in prison if extradited to the U.S. based on contrived, archaic charges, per this extradition request. He has been jailed and tortured (documented by and objected to by several reputable organizations) for over 16 months, in solitary confinement 23 hours/day, under high-risk for COVID exposure, in one of the worst prisons in the UK, under maximum penalty for “skipping bail.” After that charge expired, he was held merely as a political prisoner of the U.S. for activities of journalism that were also published by the Washington Post, The NY Times, and others.
Julian’s farce trial is set to go on for weeks; any action you may take on any day will add to the cumulative difference. But NOW is the time.
Please let us know & we’ll be glad to post it on the website & promote it via adding your city to the global protests list on @Candles4Assange, #Unity4J, and @action_4assange.
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/01/18836374.php
Tuesday, September 8
8. Tuesday, 5:00pm – 7:00pm, Attica Means Fight Back: Cultivating Resistance Then & Now
Online event
REGISTER HERE –>
*This event is part of a national month of actions marking the Attica uprising and demanding decarceration now!
September 9-13, 2020 marks the 49th anniversary of the Attica Prison Rebellion. In 1971, united around demands for better healthcare, education and against unrestrained violence by the state, over 1200 incarcerated people of all races rebelled, took hostages and occupied parts of Attica Prison. For four days, prisoners worked collectively to negotiate the end of the inhumane conditions at the prison. An invasion by the New York State Police Troopers ordered by Governor Rockefeller resulted in the deaths of 43 people – 33 prisoners and 10 correctional officers. 49 years later, Attica serves as a rallying cry for those working for self determination inside of prison walls, an essential lesson in state violence and an enduring symbol of resistance and unity.
Today the conditions in U.S. prisons are more barbaric than in 1971 with massive overcrowding, extreme sentencing, gendered violence, and a health care crisis made much worse by the COVID pandemic.
Join The California Coalition for Women Prisoners and the Freedom Archives as we host a panel discussing the historical legacy of the Attica Prison Rebellion
Featured panelists:
• Romarilyn Ralston — Lead Policy Analyst, formerly incarcerated, California Coalition for Women Prisoners
• Paul Redd — Formerly incarcerated organizer, one of the leaders of the historic CA prison hunger strikes
• Michael Deutsch — One of the main lawyers for the Attica prisoners following the 1971 uprising
Wednesday, September 9
9. Wednesday, 5:00pm – 6:00pm, Virtual Town Hall with San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin
Free
Join San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin for a virtual town hall.
To submit questions for the DA, please email: tommy.mcdonald@sfgov.org
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1454841754701614?active_tab=about
