Sorry to have spelled Don’s last name wrong this week. Several people have inquired if there will be a memorial for Don- please let me know if anyone knows of any and I’ll post the info.
Don Bechler has transitioned. Don was a long time activist – in recent years he has been a fierce advocate and the heart for Medicare for All and for Single Payer.
Rest in Peace & Rise in Power
♥ Don Belcher ♥
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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. US steps up deportation of Haitians ahead of election, raising Covid fears – October 29, 2020
B. S.F. will begin moving more than 500 homeless people out of hotels soon. Where will they go? – October 29, 2020
C. The UN Banned Nuclear Weapons, But the U.S. Isn’t Listening – October 28, 2020
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3anzm5/the-un-banned-nuclear-weapons-but-the-us-isnt-listening
D. Stop the Massacres in Haiti! End U.S. and UN Support for the Criminal Regime of Jovenel Moise – October 28, 2020
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/28/stop-the-massacres-in-haiti-end-u-s-and-un-support-for-the-criminal-regime-of-jovenel-moise/
See action # 4
E. Everything You Think You Know About The “Nuclear Button” Is Wrong – October 28, 2020 (3 min. Youtube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jiDio7S_7g
F. Trump’s Nuclear Weapons are Standing Up And Standing By – October 26, 2020
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/26/trumps-nuclear-weapons-are-standing-up-and-standing-by/
G. Many California farmworkers fear a winter of hunger and homelessness amid the pandemic –October 26, 2020
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-26/central-valley-farmworkers-hunger-evictions-coronavirus-covid19
ACTIONS
1. Tell Trump: Stop the Executions!
Three more federal executions dates are pending:
November 19th – Orlando Hall
December 8th – Lisa Montgomery
December 10th – Brandon Bernard
2. Say NO to more big oil in our national forests
SIGN: https://secure.tpl.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=991
3. Demand that PayPal cease all fundraisers to white supremacist causes!
SIGN: https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/paypal_bloodmoney/?t=5&referring_akid=47481.797581.m1m4fE
4. Make Calls for Haiti Demand that the UN Stop Supporting the G-9 Death Squad and the Dictatorship of Jovenel Moise!
Contact:
+ Michele Sison, US Ambassador to Haiti – phone: 011-509-2229-8000; email: sisonmj@state.gov ;
+ Michael Kozak, Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemispheric Affairs, US State Dept – phone: 202-647-6575; email: kozakmg@state.gov ; tweet: @WHAAsstSecty
Contact:
+ UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres – phone: 212-963-1234; tweet: @antonioguterres
EVENTS
Friday, October 30 – Monday, November 2
Friday, October 30
1. Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Demand the San Francisco Police Officers Association be Shut Down
SF Police Officers Assoc. (outside)
800 Bryant St. (@ 6th Street)
SF
Wear masks; practice social distancing
Every Friday
Stand with Mothers on the March, Black and Brown for Justice, Peace and Equality, and Community
– Demand the San Francisco Police Officers Association Be Shut Down!
– The SF Police Officers Association Be Declared a Non Grata Organization
– Demand the Police Officers Bill of Rights Be Abolished.
2. Friday, 2:00pm (PT), The Dangers of Nuclear War with China and Russia
Register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XqCDLunkRkWEKVra6kpFQw?timezone_id=America%2FLos_Angeles
The United States is on a path to war with both China and Russia. We are pushing up against the borders of both nations with increasingly aggressive military, political, propaganda, lawfare, and economic moves. Both nations are surrounded by our military and allied forces, and rather than seeking peace and stability, we are escalating confrontations, building up stronger forces which precipitate arms races, and funding internal subversion while declaring that we should dictate the type of governance and behaviors of all nations on earth and demanding that they bow to our will, or else. Doing this with small nations in the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, and elsewhere is illegal and immoral and has caused the destruction of entire nations and untold suffering; doing this with two large nuclear armed powers is risking an escalation that could well end in nuclear war and the termination of all human life on earth.
Four speakers will discuss the current situation: K.J. Noh and Col. Ann Wright will speak on China, and Bruce Gagnon and Ray McGovern will speak on Russia. Michael Wong, vice president of Veterans for Peace, San Francisco chapter #69, and a co-chair of the Veterans for Peace China Working Group, will MC.
3. Friday, 4:00pm, Po Peoples Candidate Forum to End Politrick
Online
A Candidate Forum led by poor, houseless, indigenous and disabled people about poverty, disability, housing and homelessness and the end to the criminalizaiton of poverty in this stolen land.
From Sweeps to Encampment Bans- All Across the Bay – its illegal, or dangerous to be a low-income/no-income tenant or be living without access to a roof. And no matter what the poltricksters say – they always seem to vote in favor of more LIEgislations that protect the scamlords, wealth-hoarders and the land-stealer class. For the last decade- POOR Magazine has held Candidate forums led by poor, houseless, disabled and poLice Harassed people.
All candidates from all across the bay and all Communities of truth-tellers, voters and poltrickster resistors are invited- SO far Candidates from District 1 and 4 in Oakland have confirmed-email poormag@gmail.com to RSVP if you are a candidate
Host: POOR Magazine
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/391715835167523
4. Friday, 6:00pm (PT); 9:00pm (ET), Fright Night: Racism, Corporate Power, and other Horrors
Online
Zoom link will be sent after U register
Join us this Friday as we explore how horror movies reflect culture, attitudes, and social values, and how they help people endure racism and oppression. We will screen classic cult and horror films and discuss together how these films highlight systemic racism and social justice issues in the United States.
The whole event will run about 3 hours as we watch one 30-minute segment from Tales From the Hood II and the entirety of They Live. The films will be followed by a lively discussion led by National Board members and horror film aficionados, George Friday and Daniel Lee.
Host: Move to Amend
5. Friday, 7:00pm – 7:30pm, Racism is a Public Health Crisis – CNA Nurses will hold a Rally & ‘Candlelight Vigil
UCSF Medical Center – at Mission Bay
1825 4th Street
SF
Join fellow UCSF nurses and frontline workers for a peaceful protest demanding justice for our Black, Native American, and Latinx communities. During the COVID-19 pandemic we have seen firsthand how Black, Latinx and Indigenous communities have been disproportionately harmed by lack of access to health services, exposure to the virust, lack of PPE, lack of testing and economic peril due to historic racial disparities; As Union nurses our patient advocacy extends beyond the bedside and we will collectively work toward ending structural racism in all its social, economic, and cultural forms, including opposing the normalization of racist behavior in all levels of society.
6. Friday, 7:00pm – 8:30pm, The Night of the Living Nextdoor
Meet at:
24th Street BART
SF
7:00pm sharp!
The demons on Nextdoor use their wicked powers of policing and evictions to remake the city in their devilish image.
Let’s come together to cast them out forever!
We will assemble at the 24th BART station at 7pm sharp on Friday and begin our paranormal procession through the Mission.
Stay masked, get distanced, and show out in your hottest cannibalistic Karen couture or ghoulish gentrifier getup.
HEX THE CONDOS/ CURES THE COPS/ GENTRIFIERS OFF THE BLOCK
Host: Gay Shame
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/11/18837498.php
Saturday, October 31
Set your clocks one hour behind tonight.
7. Saturday, 3:00pm, Handmaids: Stop a Fascist Coup
Meet at:
Harvey Milk Plaza
Castro & Market St.
SF
Handmaid costumes will be loaned out.
All are invited to participate
We must vote in big numbers. But, the reality is that voting alone will not stop Trump. The illegitimate rushed confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett, a theocratic fascist, to the Supreme Court is for the immediate purpose of throwing the election to Trump should he lose. This is an outrage that cannot stand!
Trump and Amy Coney Barrett have refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power.
Coups… thefts of power… are stopped when people:
[1] plan and act BEFORE the coup… and
[2] build in the streets the unity and determination while working together… and
[3] establish before the eyes of the world the righteousness of their demand.
This is what we accomplish by being in the streets every day before the election.
Host: Refuse Fascism – Bay Area
Sunday, November 1
8. Sunday, 11:00am – 2:00pm (PT), From Vietnam to Palestine: The New York Times Black Statement 50 Years Later
Online
Register: https://forms.gle/HmePkDkKMjhLHwiU8
What does the 1970 New York Times Black Statement on Palestine tell us about US politics, internationalist solidarities, coalition tensions and contradictions? Join the Open Classroom of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies and the National Black Education Agenda, and IFCO for oral histories and critical analysis by Black leaders who edited, signed and published the statement.
Panelists:
Sam Anderson, Professor, National Black Education Agenda, co-edited the statement and was one of the earlier unsung heroes who was penalized by losing his job at Sarah Lawrence College as a result.
Frances M. Beal, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Third World Women’s Alliance
Phil Hutchings ), Chairman of Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) when SNCC adopted its statement on Palestine and lost a lot of its funding.
Robert F. Van Lierop, Ambassador, Esq, Secretary Treasurer of C.O.B.A.T.A.M.E
Gail Walker, Executive Director, IFCO/Pastors for Peace
Moderators:
Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi
Host: AMED Studies – SFSU
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/355713952382126
9. Sunday, 12Noon – 3:00pm, March 4 Our Future
Meet at:
Embarcadero Plaza
SF
March to:
SF Civic Center (Rally)
SF
Wear masks
Youth led.
For questions, please contact @youthadvocatesforchange @march4ourfuture.ya4c
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/CG3y5LUBXqC/
Monday, November 2
10. Monday, 6:00pm, Ofrenda for Adolfo
21st Street & Capp St. (site where Adolfo was killed)
SF
Please wear a mask.
The set up should be done around 6pm.
Please feel free to share this information with others. If you would like to bring anything to add to the ofrenda please bring it. If you have any questions please feel free to reach out.
Thank you to everyone who still keeps Adolfos name alive.
Please be mindful and respectful Adolfo’s parents will most likely be there.
Jesus Adolfo Delgado was killed by SFPD on March 6, 2018.
