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Please post your actions on Indybay even if event is digital: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12
See Indybay also for other listing of events.
Listing of other Bay Area Protests & Rallies
ARTICLES:
A. Cameroonian Granted Humanitarian Release From U.S. Immigration After Revealing Her Fallopian Tube Was Forcibly Removed in ICE Custody – September 22, 2020
https://panafricanvisions.com/2020/09/cameroonian-granted-humanitarian-release-from-us-immigration-after-revealing-her-fallopian-tube-was-forcibly-removed-in-ice-custody/
B. DA says he’ll investigate ‘criminal offenses’ in San Francisco Department of Human Resources – September 21, 2020
https://missionlocal.org/2020/09/human-resources-forgery-alleged-rebecca-sherman-chesa-boudin/
C. JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank Named in Money Laundering Report – September 21, 2020
https://www.thestreet.com/investing/jpmorgan-jpm-deutsche-bank-db-money-laundering-report
D. ALLAN WERNICK: What you should know about Trump’s end to the Temporary Protected Status program – September 21, 2020
E. They Call for Assange’s Immediate Release: Lula, Rousseff, Morales, Zapatero, Corbyn, Correa, Paul, Galloway, Gravel, Varoufakis…– September 20, 2020
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/09/20/they-cal-for-assanges-immediate-release-lula-rouseff-zapatero-corbyn-correa-paul-galloway-gravel-varoufakis/
F. The Abraham Accords: A Fever Dream of Dictators, a Nightmare for Palestinians
https://portside.org/2020-09-19/abraham-accords-fever-dream-dictators-nightmare-palestinians
G. Four officers found to have committed misconduct escape discipline – September 18, 2020
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/four-officers-found-to-have-committed-misconduct-escape-discipline/
3 ACTIONS:
1. The people of Yemen deserve humanitarian assistance
SIGN: https://web.mercycorps.org/signup/2020_yemen_pledge/?source=EV0WUMSXNMNZZ0922202&utm_source=advocacy&utm_content=yemen%2Bhumanitarian%2Bpledge%2Bsep%2B22%2B2020&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=advocacy&t=8&referring_akid=11361.419023.w8PDcC
2. Tell Congress to pass funding to make sure kids can keep learning
3. Tell Congress: Abolish the Federal Death Penalty
Scheduled Federal executions:
William LeCroy, Jr., scheduled for September 22, in Georgia (Today)
Christopher Vialva, scheduled for September 24, in Texas
EVENTS
Tuesday, September 22 – Thursday, September 24
On going action:
Occupy Antioch Police Department – 24/7 Occupation
Antioch Police Dept. (outside)
300 L Street
Antioch
(nr. BART’s last stop in Antioch)
Hx:
On Friday, September 4th, five young activists from the City of Antioch—Shagoofa Khan, Maria Brown, Michelle Parmenter, McKenna Peterson, and Lacey Brown—and Michael James, a former resident of the Mission District of San Francisco, now an East Bay resident, began a hunger strike.
On September 9th the Hunger Strikers officially ended the Hunger Strike but continue to OCCUPY the front of the Antioch Police Department 24/7.
Demands:
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.”
Since the activist started their demonstration they have received multiple threats, have had eggs thrown at them and have also received death threats.
Support welcomed!
1.Tuesday, 8:00am, Indigenous Women of the Americas – Fall Equinox Treaty Action You can even do this after 8am!
Join the San Francisco Bay Area signatories on the Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty on this Fall Equinox as we take action on September 22, 2020 from wherever we are! The Treaty obligates us to conduct a nonviolent direct action to protect the sacred system of life each solstice and equinox. Everyone is invited to participate. And, while Mother Earth is encouraging us to take a time out now, it is important to connect with each other to protect and defend all we hold dear.
Please join us in the following:
1.) Email and Call: We know who is causing the harms leading to climate chaos. Choose a corporation, elected official, or policy maker (fossil fuel corporation, bank, climate denier elected official, etc) causing harm (climate change, wildfires, flooding, drought, migration due to climate change, extinction of species, etc.) in your community. Do your research and find contact information of those causing or allowing the harms to continue. Invite people you know to join you. Share your personal concerns (and outrage). Please post your messages on the group page here: https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/indigenouswomenequinox
Solidarity with Indigenous Women Defending Mother Earth Treaty.
– For those in the San Francisco Bay Area: In the SF Bay Area we are inviting you to contact the Refinery Manager at the Chevron refinery in Richmond –
2.) Create Art: Envision the safe, healthy, sustainable and equitable future that you long for. Create artwork such as drawing, sculpting, painting etc. Invite people in your family and community (especially children and young people) to participate.
Take a photo of your art and at the bottom please write out, “The healthy future I envision looks like (what that looks like for you).” with the hashtag #indigenouswomenequinox
Send a photo of your artwork along with the email you send on the equinox and post it to the Treaty group page: https://www.facebook.com/…/238480837538822/announcements
Host: Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/623780015004930
2. Tuesday, 9:00am – 10:00am, #DefundPalantir – Twitter account action
Action for those with Twitter accounts!
https://organiz.org/campaign/1598893733688-defundpalantir?emci=b9253b66-c1f7-ea11-99c3-00155d039e74&emdi=3f12c183-c1f7-ea11-99c3-00155d039e74&ceid=146122
Palantir, the data analytics company founded by Trump-supporter Peter Thiel, is going public on September 23.
Palantir has contracts with ICE that are “mission critical” to the agency, contracts it has defended for years despite pressure from immigrants, activists, professors, students, and even their own workers.
We want to make sure that, in the days before Palantir’s public listing, the company knows that there are thousands of people demanding that it stop working for ICE and stop facilitating surveillance, mass raids, deportations, and de facto family separation.
3. Tuesday, 10:00am – 11:00am (PT); 1:00pm – 2:00pm (ET), Indigenous Rights & Women’s Leadership are Central to Divestment Strategies
Online:
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webin ar/register/2015996599722/WN_TbIm23wcQEyUd1y8mP_J8Q
In light of the intensifying climate crisis and Covid-19 pandemic, it has never been more clear the importance of Indigenous rights and self-determination and women’s leadership as central strategies for justice and protection of Mother Earth. From the frontlines of extraction to the boardrooms of financial institutions to the halls of governments, Indigenous women are leading resistance efforts against the fossil fuel industry. Indigenous women and their allies are building critical strategies for divestment from fossil fuels, calling for justice and accountability from the financial sector, and advocating for a Just Transition that places people and planet first.
Worldwide, Indigenous communities are disproportionately affected by ongoing extractive industries, which endanger human rights and neglect Indigenous People’s right to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) as outlined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Fossil fuel extraction and pipelines often run through Indigenous territories where many Indigenous peoples have not given consent for extraction or construction, a clear violation of FPIC that puts Indigenous communities at risk of further environmental and cultural injustice.
Backed by banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions, fossil fuel companies continue to push forward projects, further exposing Indigenous communities to environmental pollution and now also COVID-19. Along with extraction and infrastructure, fossil fuel companies also develop ‘man camps’, which house workers from outside the community and have been directly linked with increased rates of drug use, sex trafficking and missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
Indigenous women and their allies are demanding that financial institutions adhere to the Paris Climate Agreement, protect the climate, respect the rights of nature, and the rights and lives of Indigenous communities experiencing the impacts of fossil fuel development. While much more is still needed, divestment advocacy, direct actions, and campaigning are having a critical impact on the fossil fuel industry regarding moving funds out from the dirty energy sector and generating policy changes to uphold Indigenous and human rights as we face the climate crisis.
Speakers include:
— Casey Camp Horinek, Ponca Nation, long-time Native rights activist, Environmental Ambassador and WECAN Board Member
— Charlene Aleck, Tsleil-Waututh Nation, former councillor with the Tsleil-Waututh Nation and Trans Mountain pipeline expansion opponent;
— Monique Verdin, Houma Nation, Director of The Land Memory Bank & Seed Exchange, Organizer with Another Gulf is Possible
— Michelle Cook, Diné, Founder of Divest Invest Protect, Founder and Co-Director of the Indigenous Women’s Divestment Delegations
with facilitation and comments by Osprey Orielle Lake, Founder of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Co-Director of the Indigenous Women’s Divestment Delegations.
Host: Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/330575185049215
4. Tuesday, 4:00pm, TPS Forum
24th Street BART
SF
Info: TPS Northern California
5. Tuesday, 4:00pm – 6:00pm, The nursing home crisis: What’s gone wrong? Can we fix it? If so, how?
Online
Zoom in: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86278508874?pwd=OXN0eHljNDlBekUxSWdabmEvUUFlQT09
or call in: 1 669 900 9128; Meeting ID: 862 7850 8874; Passcode: 491972
SF Gray Panthers Monthly meeting.
The current model of nursing homes is a deadly mess, failing residents workers and our society. What can we do about it?
Speakers:
Pat McGinnis, executive director of CANHR (California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform);
Jodi Reid, executive director of CARA (California Alliance for Retired Americans); and
Marilyn Albert, a retired registered nurse, and former health care union staff member who works with HCN (Healthy California Now);
All will talk about the struggle for aging in place with dignity and good care for elders and the disabled.
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/21/18836807.php
Register for Zoom:
https://nwttac.dci-palestine.org/nwttac_webinar_20200922
Further info will be given after registration
Please join #nowaytotreatachild campaign co-leaders from Defense for Children International – Palestine and American Friends Service Committee. We will share updates on local advocacy efforts to end Israeli military detention of Palestinian children and tips on debunking opposition talking points.
BACKGROUND
Approximately 2.9 million Palestinians live in the occupied West Bank, of which around 45 percent are children under the age of 18.
Palestinian children in the West Bank, like adults, face arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment under an Israeli military detention system that denies them basic rights.
Since 1967, Israel has operated two separate legal systems in the same territory. In the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers are subject to the civilian and criminal legal system whereas Palestinians live under military law.
Israel applies civilian criminal law to Palestinian children in East Jerusalem. No Israeli child comes into contact with the military courts.
Israel has the dubious distinction of being the only country in the world that automatically and systematically prosecutes children in military courts that lack fundamental fair trial rights and protections. Israel prosecutes between 500 and 700 Palestinian children in military courts each year.
Ill-treatment in the Israeli military detention system remains “widespread, systematic, and institutionalized throughout the process,” according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report Children in Israeli Military Detention Observations and Recommendations.
Children typically arrive to interrogation bound, blindfolded, frightened, and sleep deprived.
Israeli military law provides no right to legal counsel during interrogation, and Israeli military court judges seldom exclude confessions obtained by coercion or torture.
Info: https://nwttac.dci-palestine.org/nwttac_webinar_20200922
7. Tuesday, 5:30pm – 8:30pm, How to Change the World in One Generation – DxE Intro Workshop
Online
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84012361059
Meeting ID: 840 1236 1059
Please sign up to our email list before you attend this event:
dxe.io/signup
Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) is a grassroots network of animal rights activists. Through open rescue, demonstration, and disruption, we are creating a world where every animal is safe, happy and free.
Workshop was created by DxE co-founder and former Northwestern law professor Wayne Hsiung.
DxE cultivates a welcoming and supportive community. We ask that all those who attend our events (online and offline) respect our Code of Conduct which can be reviewed at dxe.io/conduct
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/744193692817425/ or https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/31/18836334.php
8. Tuesday, 6:30pm, Virtual Narcan Training by Punks with Lunch
Online via zoom – will be posted before event
How do I know if someone is overdosing? What’s narcan? How do I use it?
Punks with Lunch be answering these questions and guiding you through how to prevent and reverse an opiate overdose.
We will be providing specific information about where to get narcan in Oakland and the Bay Area, but the overdose prevention and reversal training will be relevant to any location.
This is not just for people who use drugs or have friends who use drugs because you never know when an overdose may cross your path.
Anyone can be a life saver!
Host: West Oakland Punks with Lunch
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/246644466549318
Wednesday, September 23
9. Wednesday, 8:00am – 8:00pm, Facebook Stop Censoring Palestine
Online
Digital action to bring attention to censorship of Palestinian voices and Palestine advocate
Host: Stop Censoring Palestine, Jewish Voice For Peace+ 12 Other groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/384398352565884/
10. Wednesday, 12Noon – 1:00pm (PT); 3:00pm – 4:00pm (ET), BlackRock: Stop Forest Destruction
Online rally
RSVP here: tinyurl.com/DefundDeforestation
we head to Boston and Liberia as Climate Finance Action, Friends of the Earth US, and Amazon Watch present Alfred Brownell, Liberian activist and scholar, and experts on the role of giant asset managers on global deforestation before we take action together calling and targeting BlackRock and other asset managers.
Hosts: BlackRock’s Big Problem, Friends of the Earth U.S., Amazon Watch, Stop the Money Pipeline,
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2737527229862448/ or https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/12/18836596.php
11. Wednesday, 12:30pm – 2:30pm (PT); 3:30pm – 5:30pm (ET), Whose Narratives? Gender, Justice, & Resistance: A conversation with Leila Khaled
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://sfsu.zoom.us/…/register/WN_ycpMqzqcReO3HCQJKShi5g
Join the open classrooms of Professor Rabab Abdulhadi (AMED Studies) and Professor Tomomi Kinukawa (Women and Gender Studies) for a historic roundtable conversation with Palestinian feminist, militant, and leader Leila Khaled, followed by Q&A discussion with students, activists, and scholars
Participants:
Leila Khaled
Rula Abu Dahou, Acting Director, Institute for Women’s Studies at Birzeit University, Palestine
Ronnie Kasrils, Palestine solidarity anti-Zionist Jewish activist and member of uMkhonto we Sizwe, 1961-1990
Sekou Odinga, Black Liberation Army, 1960s & ‘70s, and 33-year prisoner in US jails
Laura Whitehorn, anti-Zionist Jewish activist, Co-founder of Release Aging People in Prison, RAPP, and 14-year-captive political prisoner
Moderators:
Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi
Dr. Tomomi Kinukaw
Co-Sponsors:
Al-Awda: The Palestinian Right to Return Coalition, Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine, Eyewitness Palestine,
Jewish Voice for Peace- Bay Area, Jewish Voice for Peace- Boston, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
SJP at UCLA, Workers World Party, Within Our Lifetime, Yalla Indivisble
Info:https
://www.facebook.com/events/754000115385200
Register for the event on Eventbrite here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/…/crossing-borders-in-age-of…
Watch the event on Wednesday on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/revbooksnyc/live/
Watch it on youtube here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtpDI5pAGG5tNM3zXxow8MA
Part of the 60 Defiant Days from Revolution Books:
Talks, Dialogue, Performance — In the Name of Humanity, The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!
Hosts: Revolution Books NY & Revolution Books Berkeley
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/754000115385200
Please register:
Aziz Fall, Group for Research and Initiative for the Liberation of Africa (GRILA)
Bahman Azad, Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases
Danny Haiphong, No Cold War (China)
Affiong L. Affiong, Moyo Pan-Afrikan Solidarity Centre
MODERATOR: Margaret Kimberley, BAP Coordinating Committee
Host: Black Alliance for Peace, Institute for Policy Studies + 6 Other groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1025938371185414
14. Thursday, 2:00pm – 3:00pm (PT), State of Immigration & Asylum in the U.S.
RSVP at
Join us for a panel on the state of immigration policy and asylum in the US.
Including testimony of MPP Family on Remain in Mexico Program
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/655309845191411
15. Thursday, 6:00pm, Slash SFPD Stash – Guns & Cash (meeting)
Online
REGISTER here: bit.ly/Slash-SFPD-Budget
Join with community members and activists in the Slash SFPD’s Stash coalition, which is calling on the San Francisco city government to make major cuts to the police budget and to disarm the cops.
By decreasing the cops’ allotment by half or more, the racist practices of the police can be reined in. Funds should be re-directed to provide jobs, training programs, housing, education and healthcare, including mental health and nutrition programs, to the city’s most underserved communities.
All are welcome. Come share your ideas for making police disarmament and slashing SFPD’s budget to re-fund social services a reality.
RSVP to Virtual Speak Out : https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqdOmsrjouHNPeasrQyqOvsuyxr_yKSsFu
Host: ACLU Northern California
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/17/18836711.php
