If you wish to be removed from this list please notify afong@jps.net
*** ASL interpretation – Let me know if your event needs this service .***
Please include Accessibility and ASL info in your events! And if your action is ‘child friendly’
Am NOT back posting!
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. Trump Needs Accomplices at Every Level of Government to Pull Off a Coup – September 4, 2020
B. Gavin Newsom Ignores the Deparate Pleas of Hunger-Striking Disney Workers – October 1, 2020
C. Malaysia ratifies UN nuclear weapon ban treaty – September 30, 2020
https://www.icanw.org/malaysia_ratification
D. Philly Activists Reclaim 50 Vacant Houses, Creating a Model for Organizing as Mass Evictions Loom – September 29, 2020
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/29/keeanga_yamahtta_taylor_philadelphia_housing
E.. Morocco: No peace without recognition of Palestinian rights – September 28, 2020
F. He fought wildfires while imprisoned. California reported him to Ice for deportation – September 22, 2020
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/22/california-inmate-firefighter-ice-deportation
This is a repost from email that went out 9/28. Please see Action # 1
5 ACTIONS
1. Demand Gov. Newsom to #StopICEtransfers and Support Firefighter & Refugee Kao Saelee
2. Write your Rep: Help stop a new nuclear arms race
See event # 3
3. Petition to US Representatives Demand they defund ICE & Border Patrol
SIGN: https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/letters/sign-and-send-the-petition-to-your-us-representative-demand-they-defund-ice-border-patrol?detail=emailactionLL&link_id=1&can_id=4d8abb95a7895a1648b41bfa1ad2bb3b&source=email-danger-ice-is-involved-in-eugenics-they-must-be-abolished-action-needed-2&email_referrer=email_945206&email_subject=re-danger-ice-is-involved-in-eugenics-they-must-be-abolished-action-needed
4. Protect access to reproductive medical care
SIGN: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-protect-access-to-reproductive-medical-care?source=2020ProtectReproCare_DKc3s&redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fsecure.actblue.com%2Fdonate%2Fdkabortionfunds%3Frefcode%3D20200910SWProtectReproCare&link_id=0&refcodeEmailReferrer=email_945370&can_id=4d8abb95a7895a1648b41bfa1ad2bb3b&email_referrer=email_945370&email_subject=sign-the-petition-protect-access-to-reproductive-medical-care
5. Tell Amazon: Stop Endangering Our Elections
EVENTS
Monday, October 5 – Wednesday, October 7
Monday, October 5
1. Monday, 11:30am – 1:45pm, SF Protest Against McConnell-led Senate w/ Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign
Meet at: To be announced
Bay Area Car Caravan or on Foot
First stop, Senator Dianne Feinstein’s office at 1 Post, SF.
Even if you don’t have a car, you’re still welcome to attend — we’ll have a contingent on the ground in front of Senator Feinstein’s office you can be a part of. Get off at the Montgomery BART stop.
Following the powerful Moral Monday Caravans organized last week by the Kentucky Poor People’s Campaign at Mitch McConnell’s six offices and the DC Poor People’s Campaign’s caravan at his home on Capitol Hill, we are organizing national Moral Monday Caravans to Stop the Senate’s Sins, taking the fight to the home offices of Senators across the country. Can you join us for a car caravan in San Francisco to demand a full and just relief package, a stop to the cynical hypocrisy of stacking the Supreme Court a few weeks from the election, and justice for Breonna Taylor?
Host: California Poor People’s Campaign
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/29/18837153.php or https://www.facebook.com/events/747404996115817/
2. Monday, 12:30pm – 2:00pm (PT); 3:30pm – 5:00pm (ET), Nationwide Digital Protest Against Mitch McConnell-Led Senate w/Poor People’s Campaign
Register:
fb.com/anewppc and poorpeoplescampaign.org/livestream, where we’ll have live reports from each location and hold a massive call-in to your US Senator’s offices.
The digital event will be captioned and ASL interpreted.
Join the People People’s Campaign online in protest against the meanness, misery, and mayhem of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his Senate enablers.
States across the nation are taking the fight to their Senators’ offices with car caravans,
as well as a massive, at-home call-in campaign to all US Senators demanding they stop McConnell’s cynical and hypocritical Supreme Court nomination process and
pass a full relief COVID package now!
We protest: Stacking the Supreme Court, Suppressing the Vote, Sabotaging the USPS,
Stopping the Stimulus, Stealing Healthcare, Stifling Living Wages, Separating Families
and the infection and virus of greed, lust for power, and racism.
Hosts: Poor People’s Campaign
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/799733180795917/ or https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/04/18837252.php
3. Monday, 4:30pm – 5:30pm (PT); 7:30pm – 8:30pm (ET), Are Nuclear Weapons an Absolute Evil?
Virtual event
Register now to attend >>>
Featuring The Most Reverend Joseph Mitsuaki Takami, Archbishop of Nagasaki and President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan
In a speech before the United Nations in 2010, the Archbishop stated, “The cruelty of an atomic bomb is in its capability of mass destruction and murder. An atomic bomb means a total denial of the dignity of a human person.” During this virtual event, the Archbishop will offer personal reflections on the atomic bombings, as well as his perspective on the moral and policy challenges of pursuing a world free of nuclear weapons.
Other speakers include:
· Drew Christiansen, S.J., Senior Research Fellow, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University
· Maryann Cusimano Love, Associate Professor, Institute for Policy Research, The Catholic University of America
· Hirokazu Miyazaki, Kay Davis Professor; Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University
· Moderator: Gerard Powers, Director, Catholic Peacebuilding Studies; Coordinator, Catholic Peacebuilding Network, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
Host: KROC Institute For International Peace Studies
Info: https://kroc.nd.edu/news-events/events/2020/10/05/are-nuclear-weapons-an-absolute-evil/
Tuesday, October 6
4. Tuesday, 2:00pm – 3:30pm, “How We Go Home”: Indigenous Women on the Modern Struggle to Save Native Lands & Lives
Panel Discussion
“How We Go Home” shares contemporary Indigenous stories in the long and ongoing fight to protect Native land and life. In myriad ways, each narrator’s life has been shaped by loss, injustice, resilience, and the struggle to share space with settler nations whose essential aim is to take all that is Indigenous.
“ ‘How We Go Home’ is a testament to modern-day Indigenous revitalization, often in the face of the direst of circumstances. Told as firsthand accounts on the frontlines of resistance and resurgence, these life stories inspire and remind that Indigenous life is all about building a community through the gifts we offer and the stories we tell.”
— Niigaan Sinclair, Winnipeg Free Press
PANEL SPEAKERS:
Sara Sinclair
Sara Sinclair is an oral historian, writer, and educator of Cree-Ojibwe and settler descent. Sara teaches in the Oral History Masters Program at Columbia University. She has contributed to the Columbia Center for Oral History Research’s Covid-19 Oral History, Narrative and Memory Archive, Obama Presidency Oral History, and Robert Rauschenberg Oral History Project. She has conducted oral histories for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City Department of Environmental Protection, and the International Labor Organization, among others. Sara is co-editor of Robert Rauschenberg: An Oral History, published with Columbia University Press in 2019.
Gladys Radek
Gladys Radek (Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en First Nations) is a tireless grassroots advocate fighting for justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) in Canada. Gladys’ niece Tamara went missing in 2005 at age 22 along the notorious Highway of Tears. This inspired Gladys to become a community activist and eventually a Family Advocate for the National Inquiry into MMIWG in Canada. Gladys is a co-founder of Walk4Justice, an organization created to fight for the families and all women who went missing or were found murdered, as well as to get all of the answers they deserve. With Walk4Justice, Gladys has crossed the country 7 times and has spoked to thousands of families whose lives have been impacted by violence perpetrated against Native women and girls.
Ashley Hemmers
Ashley Hemmers is an enrolled member of the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe, whose reservation spans the states of California, Arizona, and Nevada. Ashley is a strategic specialist in multi-state cross-jurisdictional Development and Management of Tribal Economies. She holds over 10+ years of experience in Tribal Enterprising including fiscal and capital wealth strategies. In addition to capital projects and operational development, Ashley is experienced in grants administration and administrative oversight in the areas of Telecommunications, Tribal Law, Critical Infrastructure, Emergency Management, Public Safety, Healthcare, Systems of Care, Education, Intervention, and Community Relations. During her time within Tribal Government, she has worked to strengthen Tribal/Federal and Tribal/State partnerships by developing strategic models of performance for service areas within the Tribal organizational structure. Ashley graduated with her B.A. from Yale University and a Graduate Certificate in Non-Profit Management & Masters of Public Administration from the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
Suzanne Methot
Suzanne Methot is the author of the non-fiction book Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing, co-author of the Grade 11 textbook Aboriginal Beliefs, Values, and Aspirations, and a contributor to Scholastic’s Take Action series of elementary classroom resource books. She is a social historian and speaker on human rights, pedagogy, Indigenous literatures, Indigenous worldviews, Indigenous approaches to health and wellness, trauma- and healing-informed practice, and decolonization. She also designs programs and facilitates change-making sessions for the education, health care, environmental, and museum sectors. Suzanne is Asiniwachi Nehiyaw (Rocky Mountain Cree) of mixed Indigenous and European heritage.
Hosts: Haymarket Books, Fernwood Publishing and Voice of Witness.
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/28/18837096.php
5.Tuesday, 11:00am – 12:30pm, Racism and the Death Penalty (Webinar #6)
Free
Do Black Lives Matter in A World with Capital Punishment?
In Webinar #6 we step into the heart of the Racial Justice Movement. We explore the role of racism in critical aspects of death penalty cases. What role does racism play in death penalty prosecution? What role does a defendant’s race play in the decision to seek the death penalty? What role does a victim’s race play in seeking the death penalty? We ask, “in the world of death penalty prosecution, do Black Lives Matter?”
How are jurors selected in death penalty cases, and how does race influence who serves as a juror in a capital case?
We know that systemic racism infects the very soul of the criminal justice system. All available evidence suggests that the effects of systemic racism are at their peak in death penalty prosecutions, trials, and appeals.
Guests:
Michael Radelet, Ph.D, Death Penalty Scholar, Advocate, Educator, Scientist, University of Colorado, Boulder
Sister Helen Prejean, C.S.J., Award-winning Abolition Activist Advocate, Teacher, Author
Brendon Woods, J.D., Racial Justice Advocate, Criminal Defense Attorney, Alameda County Public Defender
Host: Death Penalty Focus
6. Tuesday, 5:00pm (PT); 8:00pm (ET), The Assange Extradition Update with Kevin Goztola
The United States government has requested the United Kingdom extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to stand trial in the US. Assange is the first person to ever be indicted for publishing truthful information under the Espionage Act. Assange’s extradition wrapped up on October 1 and a decision is expected after the US election.
Defending Rights & Dissent will be joined by Kevin Gosztola, managing editor of Shadowproof, for an update on Assange’s extradition hearings. Kevin has been attending Assange’s hearings (first in person and now with COVID virtually) and reporting on them daily. He also extensively covered Chelsea Manning’s court martial.
The US government’s case against Assange centers around the publishing of a trove of U.S. secrets turned over by whistleblower Chelsea Manning. WikiLeaks from 2010 to 2011 worked with news outlets spanning the globe, including The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spegel, Le Monde and Al Jazeera, to publish information giving the world a look into the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, and more.
Press freedom groups have warned that this indictment sets a dangerous precedent as newspapers like The New York Times also publish stories based on classified information. Given the global nature of the case, Assange is an Australian national who the US is seeking to have extradited, the ramifications for press freedom are truly worldwide.
Host: Defending Rights & Dissent
7. Tuesday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, Frank Wilderson III: Afropressimism
Webinar
KPFA – with Davey D.
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/frank-wilderson-afropessimism-tickets-118749128841?aff=ebdssbeac
$ 5- 20.
In the tradition of Edward Said’s Orientalism and Franz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks, Afropessimsm is a brilliant account of the experience of being black. The black radical tradition has drawn upon the term as a way to acknowledge the power, depth, and vitality of the resilience and radical imagination of people of African descent.
Frank B. Wilderson III, professor and chair of African American Studies, and a core faculty member of the Culture & Theory Ph.D. Program at UC Irvine; is an award-winning writer whose books include Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid; and Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms.
A seminal work that strikingly combines groundbreaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir, Afropessimism presents the dynamic principles of an increasingly influential Intellectual movement that theorizes blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery.
Rather than interpreting slavery through a Marxist framework of class oppression, Frank B. Wilderson demonstrates that the social construct of slavery, as seen through pervasive , anti-black subjugation and violence, is hardly a relic of the past but an almost necessary force in our civilization today, and that black struggles cannot be conflated with the experiences of any other oppressed group.
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/12/18836603.php
Wednesday, October 7
8. Wednesday, 8:00am – 9:00am, Wednesday Moring Vigil with UUSF – Never Again
Steps of UUSF
1187 Franklin St.
SF
Street parking
We are at a real turning point in history when the choices we make as individuals and as a country will have major lasting implications and effects. We cannot afford to be silent. We invite you to join fellow UUs and other people of faith and conscience as we gather together with signs and banners in front of the church.
We will have some banners and signs but feel free to make and bring your own addressing whatever aspect of the current crises you want to highlight – Immigration Justice, Black Lives Matter, Environmental Crises and Environmental Justice, Opposing Fascism, Respecting Science in the Fight Against COVID-19, Protecting / Expanding Access to Healthcare, Protecting “Essential” Workers, Highlighting Economic Inequities, addressing the Environmental Crisis and Climate Change, and the Extreme Importance of VOTING this fall…
This week’s special focus is on the many current threats to the health of our populace – the unnecessarily large number of lives lost to COVID-19 in this country caused by the lack of timely and appropriate actions, lies, and disrespect for science by the current administration, the disproportionate numbers of Black and Brown lives and lives of “essential” workers lost to the virus, the current threats to women’s reproductive rights ranging from attacks on Roe vs. Wade to shocking allegations of forced / uninformed sterilization of women in immigration detention, and the threats to access to healthcare for hundreds of thousands of Americans through attempts to repeal the affordable care act, pre-existing condition insurance rules, and Medicaid. Again, the list could go on and on
SAVE the DATE
Friday, October 9
Friday, 7:00pm, Celebrating Ruth Bader Ginsburg (See Note if U are interested in being a “Handmaid”)
Meet at:
Castro & Market Sts.
SF
7:00pm The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will be hosting an event celebrating Ruth Bader Ginsburg
You can join the event in two ways:
* If you’re in San Francisco, you can join us in person (wearing a mask and respecting the 6ft distance from each other) at the corner of Market st & Castro
* online, via a live feed on our page (
Join Sisters from all over the world coming together to celebrate Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
After many conversations with local rabbi and other Jewish community members, the Sisters have decided that we will Saint Justice Ginsburg on October 2, 2020, 7pm. There was a lot of deliberation about whether Sainting her was appropriate or not, and we feel it is. It’s our highest honor and how we as an Order canonize our (s)heros.
The Sisters are not a religious organization, and our organization is made up of people representing many religions, spiritual practices, and faiths. We do recognize and respect that RBG was proudly Jewish, and we do not feel by Sainting her that we are in any way disrespecting her faith.
We love, cherish and honor Justice Ginsburg for her countless contributions. We affectionately will Saint her as “Saint Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Mensch of Magistrates, Mamele of Justice, and Tzadik Notorious RBG of the Divine Striking Dissent.”
Host: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/329894368231230 or https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/30/18837202.php
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Additional info:
All genders welcomed.
Please contact afong@jps.net if you or anyone you know are interested in participating as a “Handmaid” so that enough costumes will be available.
Handmaid costumes will be on loan from Refuse Fascism Bay Area
