Am still NOT back posting. Listed are a few events – there’s a section under actions on the Federal Death Penalty with articles, petitions etc
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These are JUSTICE and INCLUSIVE issues!
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. SFPD officer indicted by grand jury over Jamaica Hampton shooting – December 7, 2020
B. Suga repeats vow to host Tokyo Olympics despite coronavirus surge
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/…/suga-promises-tokyo…/
C.Backing Trump, Some Ex-Military Officers Spread Conspiracies, Urge Martial Law – December 5, 2020
D. Police Pushing Amazon Surveillance Cameras for Mission District Residents – December 4, 2020
E. Justice Department investigating potential presidential pardon bribery scheme, court records reveal – December 2, 2020
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/01/politics/presidential-pardon-justice-department/index.html
F. Supes approve police raises with final 9-2 vote – December 1, 2020
G. The Assassins & Iran – December 1, 2020
H. Palestinians demand “No more Partition Plans – November 29, 2020
Palestinians demand “No more Partition Plans” – Stop The Wall
I. VIDEO: Top Biden advisors Flournoy and Blinken promise smarter, more secretive permanent war policy
J. Tulsi Gabbard Urges Donald Trump to Pardon Edward Snowden and Julian Assange – November 26, 2020
https://www.newsweek.com/tulsi-gabbard-trump-pardon-edward-snowden-julian-assange-1550573
See event # 11
K. How a Deadly Police Force Ruled a City
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/23/how-a-deadly-police-force-ruled-a-city
ACTIONS
1. Stop the plan to shut down the SIP hotels!
SIGN: Stop the plan to shut down the SIP hotels! (actionnetwork.org)
See event # 5
2. Tell your Senators: BLOCK Trump’s $23 billion arms sale to the UAE
SIGN: Tell your Senators: BLOCK Trump’s $23 billion arms sale to the UAE | Win Without War
3. Congress: We demand diplomacy with Iran!
SIGN: Congress: We demand diplomacy with Iran! | Win Without War
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UPCOMING EXECUTION DATES:
See and Sign 3 petitions below list of upcoming executions
– December 10, 2020 of Brandon Bernard
– December 11, 2020 of Alfred Bourgeois
– January 12, 2021 of Lisa Montgomery
– January 14, 2021 of Cory Johnson
– January 15, 2021 of Dustin Higgs
Three Articles on Upcoming Executions this week
A. Brandon Bernard Is Scheduled To Be Executed. 5 Jurors Who Sentenced Him Don’t Think He Should Die. December 5, 2020
On Dec. 10, Brandon Bernard is scheduled to be executed. If the execution goes forward, he will die for acting as an accomplice in a crime that happened when he was 18. Five of the nine surviving jurors who voted 20 years ago to condemn Bernard to death now support sparing his life. So does a former federal prosecutor who defended Bernard’s death sentence on appeal.
B. Federal death row inmate seeks stay from Supreme Court – December 2, 2020
On December 11th, Alfred Bourgeois, 55, is scheduled to be executed.
The Eighth Amendment bans In a Supreme Court filing Wednesday, his attorneys said his execution would be unconstitutional because he is intellectually disabled and therefore can’t understand his punishment. They submitted evidence of IQ test scores of 70 and 75, as well as assessments by experts.executing people with such impairments as cruel and usual punishment.
C. New rule could allow gas, firing squads for US executions – November 27, 2020
New rule could allow gas, firing squads for US executions (apnews.com)
PETITIONS RE: Federal Executions:
1. Petition to President Trump:
President Trump: Please Stop the Federal Executions – Action Network
2. Petition to Congress – Abolish the Federal Death Penalty:
Tell Congress: Abolish the Federal Death Penalty – Action Network
3. Petition to – President-Elect Biden: Call Out Trumps Lame Duck Executions!
President-Elect Biden: Call Out Trumps Lame Duck Executions! – Action Network
Info regarding Execution of Lisa Montgomery (petition, YouTube, contact info)
Petition regarding execution of Lisa Montgomery :
Tell President Trump to Stop the Execution of Lisa Montgomery
SIGN: TELL PRESIDENT TRUMP TO STOP THE EXECUTION OF LISA MONTGOMERY | MoveOn
Lisa’s Song YouTube – turn on your sound
Lisa’s Song by Veronica Cinibulk – YouTube
Lisa’s execution is set for January 12, 2021
Lisa Montgomery, a victim of multiple rapes, child sex trafficking, and domestic violence. Lisa was sentenced to death by a jury that was never informed of the full extent and impact of the sexual violence and physical abuse she endured. As a result of her trauma, she is now so mentally ill that she must receive multiple medications to prevent full-blown psychosis.
We ask Trump to grant a stay of execution. We believe Lisa deserves a full and fair opportunity to petition the courts to stay her execution, as well as an opportunity to present comprehensive arguments to you and your administration as to why her death sentence should be commuted to life imprisonment.
The story of Lisa’s life is worse than a nightmare. She was born with permanent brain damage caused by her mother’s drinking during pregnancy. A child of extreme poverty, she was repeatedly raped by her stepfather. She was routinely beaten and terrorized by her mother. Lisa’s mother trafficked her to men who were allowed to rape Lisa in exchange for utilities and other services. Although this was suspected or known by teachers, police, and the courts, nobody intervened to protect Lisa.
This horror continued when she married her stepbrother at the urging of her mother at the age of 18. He continued the cycle of abuse, raping and beating her. Not surprisingly, this lifetime of torture exacerbated Lisa’s genetic predisposition to mental illness, and caused her to develop a dissociative disorder in addition to complex post-traumatic stress disorder. Her severe trauma and mental illness led directly to the crime for which she was convicted – the murder of a pregnant woman and the kidnapping of her child.
Below info is from Toby & Susan
Letters can be sent to Lisa:
Please write on a plane piece of paper. NO CARDS, POSTCARDS, DRAWINGS OR ANY OTHER MATERIAL ALLOWED. Only words allowed!
A simple message can do wonders!
Lisa loves Christmas….so your words may want to reflect on that.
Suggestion: Choose a special stamp….to add color and vibrancy!
Mail to:
Lisa Montgomery, #11072 – 031
Federal Medical Center – Carswell
Ft. Worth, Texas 76127
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EVENTS
Tuesday, December 8 – Thrusday, December 10
Tuesday, December 8
1. Tuesday, 5:00pm-6:00pm (PT; 8:00pm – 9:00pm (ET) #FreeThemAll: A Future Without Incarceration
Webinar registration:
#nowaytotreatachild Webinar December 2020 – No Way to Treat a Child (dci-palestine.org)
Please join the #nowaytotreatachild campaign for our last webinar of 2020! On Dec. 8 at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT, we will connect our #nowaytotreatachild efforts with work in the United States to release people from prisons, jails, and detention centers—and move toward a future without incarceration.
Immigration activists, prison abolitionists, and those calling to defund the police are organizing across the country under the call to #FreeThemAll. The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), partners, and communities across the U.S. are coming together between Dec. 10-18 for AFSC’s National Days of Action to #FreeThemAll. During the days of action, AFSC will hold protests at prisons, jails, detention centers, ICE offices, statehouses, and city halls to demand the immediate release of people from incarceration. Join our webinar to learn how you can get involved in these days of action.
2. Tuesday, 5:00pm (PT); 9:00pm (ET), Why did 74 million people vote for Trump?
Online
Register: Why did 74 million people vote for Trump? (actionnetwork.org)
More people voted in this election than in any other election in U.S. history, but 74 million of them voted for a fascist incumbent whose regime has advanced a vicious program of white supremacy, misogyny and theocratic patriarchy, and “America First” xenophobia. 74 million people endorsed locking children in cages, throwing immigrants in concentration camps, and backing the most vicious white supremacy, including vigilante racist and anti-Semitic murderers. A political form of Christian fundamentalism makes up the most organized solid base of this fascist movement. The 74 million include millions deeply mired in a world of lies, crazy lunatic conspiracy theories and a vicious anti-science mindset that has already killed a quarter of a million people from COVID, with the pandemic now out of control.
Some Questions
What accounts for this? What are its roots and how deep are they? Is it an historical aberration? Will this movement fade away with Trump out of office, or be further filled with revanchist determination? What is the danger and what do we do about it?
Panelist:
Michael Coard, attorney and columnist for Philly Tribune, host of WURD’s Radio Courtroom
Coco Das, National Editorial Board of RefuseFascism.org
Chrissy Stroop, writer, scholar, ex-evangelical, co-editor of Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church
Andy Zee, host of The RNL – Revolution Nothing Less – Show; co-initiator of RefuseFascism.org; spokesperson for Revolution Books.
Host: Refuse Facism
3. Tuesday, 5:30pm – 7:30pm, Abolition in Action: Building Healing Collectives
Online
Sign up here: bit.ly/sf-abolition-7
Accessibility: This event will have closed captioning and live interpretation in Spanish and ASL. Please tell us about your access needs on the registration form so we can best support your participation.
Join us for a virtual community event where we will learn from a panel of grassroots experts on creating community solutions to interpersonal harm. We’ll also get skilled-up through a training on accountability tools that we can use in each of our own communities.
We are all intimately familiar with harm and violence; each one of us has committed harm and has been harmed in one way or another. And when harm happens or conflicts escalate, it’s often because our needs aren’t being met — and that’s when many people have turned to the prison industrial complex (PIC) for answers. But the PIC leaves us unsupported and fails to address any deeper social and economic problems behind why harm happens. In fact, the PIC’s interventions create more harm instead of reducing it. So we need to build solutions to violence and harm outside the PIC if we want to truly end harm. How can we do that?
How can we respond to harm and violence in ways that minimize and prevent further harm? How can we take care of each other in ways that fully meet our needs? And how can we build toward a world where our communities are able to take care of and sustain themselves?
These are big questions, but we can learn how to address them from the organizations and communities who are answering them today.
This is the seventh event of No New SF Jail Coalition’s Abolition in Action Series, a monthly series of community events and workshops on different topics related to building a jail-free, police-free, self-determined, equitable, and sustainable San Francisco. We launched the series in May with a People’s Assessment of our #ShutDown850 Ordinance, followed by a webinar on reentry services and supports in San Francisco. We’ve also hosted: a community visioning workshop on how budget advocacy can be an abolitionist organizing strategy; a panel discussion on harm reduction and decriminalization; and a resource fair supporting our unhoused community members. The Abolition in Action Series is sponsored by member organizations of the No New SF Jail Coalition, HOMEY, and BYP100.
For more information on the Abolition in Action Series, visit our website: www.nonewsfjail.org
Host: No New SF Jail Coalition
Info: (3) Abolition in Action: Building Healing Collectives | Facebook
4. Tuesday, 5:30pm – 7:30pm, Tenants Together Collective Support & Tenant Clinic/ Clínica de Apoyo Colectivo y Derechos de Inquilinas/os
Register Here:
Join if are a tenant and/or a tenant advocate with questions about your rights and to learn about what is happening regarding our #CancelRent campaign!
EVERY other TUESDAY from 5:30pm – 7:30pm
What to expect:
* Share updates on local, regional, state and national policies
* We will answer questions and concerns
* It will be space for sharing stories and popular education
* Collectively strategize to #CancelRent
Wednesday, December 9
5. Wednesday, 3:30pm – 7:00pm, Stop the Shut Down of the SIP Hotels!
Online event
To join our zoom watch session, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZUpf-6ppzMoG9dKBULePrTDd…
PUBLIC COMMENT CALL-IN
1 (415) 655-0001 / Meeting ID: 146 414 8528 # #
Watch at sfgovtv.org
The Board of Supervisors budget committee will be holding a hearing on legislation, sponsored by Supervisor Haney, that will mandate that the hotels stay open and remain housing people until an adequate plan with real housing options is developed.
Watch the Board meeting with us and give public comment supporting the legislation and let the Mayor know that the dismantling of the hotels during a corona virus surge must stop.
Info: Stop the Shut Down of the SIP Hotels! | Facebook
6. Wednesday, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Rise Up for Justice: The Surveillance State, Social Safety, and Building Power
Livestream: https://www.facebook.com/otheringandbelonging/
RSVP for reminder: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-surveillance-state-social-safety-and-building-power-tickets-131080414047
More info at http://www.riseup4justice.org
Advances in technology over the past few decades have improved our lives in countless ways. Yet, these advances have come as a double-edged sword.
While technology has made it easier to connect with faraway family and friends and gain access to the world’s libraries of information, it has also led to a stark loss of privacy through widespread data collection and surveillance by both government agencies and for-profit companies, including the imposition of electronic monitoring at workplaces.
This livestream event will feature representatives of organizations using research, community organizing, and policy advocacy to expose and challenge the inner workings of the corporations and government agencies that are tracking us every day.
FEATURING:
Moderator: Jennifer Jones, Technology and Civil Liberties Fellow, ACLU Northern California
Hamid Khan, Coordinator, Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
Sheheryar Kaoosji, Executive Director, Warehouse Workers Resource Center
Jacinta González, Senior Campaign Organizer, Mijente
Nash Sheard, Associate Director of Community Organizing, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Hosts: Othering & Belonging Institute of UC Berkeley and ACLU Northern California
Info: Rise Up for Justice: The Surveillance State, Social Safety, and Building Power : Indybay
7. Wednesday, 5:00pm – 6:30pm, National Digital Rally to #StopLine3 w/ Indigenous Frontline Water Protectors & More
Registration Link: https://tinyurl.com/StopLine3Rally
We will be joined by organizers from Minnesota and feature speakers from the frontlines fighting this deadly, colonial black snake that threatens water, Indigenous rights, and the climate. Register to join us and find out how you can support the frontlines in the fight to #StopLine3.
Speakers:
– Winona LaDuke (White Earth Nation), Honor the Earth
– Tara Houska (Couchiching First Nation), Giniw Collective
– Rep. Ilhan Omar, U.S. House member from MN-05
– Bill McKibben, writer & co-founder 350.org
– Mahyar Sorour, Sierra Club
– Sam Grant, MN350 — MC
Hosts: Sierra Club North Star Chapter, Rainforest Action Network + 5 Other groups
Info: National Digital Rally to #StopLine3 | Facebook or National Digital Rally to #StopLine3 w/ Indigenous Frontline Water Protectors & More : Indybay
8. Wednesday, 5:00pm – 7:30pm, International Migrant’s Day Celebration
Zoom Link: https://
Meeting ID: 919 1590 9124
Call-in lines / Líneas de llamada:
– Para español: (425) 436-6318 | código de acceso: 155943
– Chinese: (425) 436-6345 | access code : 2737398
– Arabic: (425) 436-6321 | access code: 7916098
– Tagalog: (425) 436-6305 | access code: 7223906
Join SFILEN online on December 9th in our annual celebration of International Migrant’s Day. Come celebrate with Zumba, origami, music, and more! Together, we’ll build community, share struggles and victories, and uplift all of the ways that Immigrants Are Essential.
9. Wednesday, 5:00pm, Stand Together SF: Systemic Racism and How it has Affected the Asian and Black Communities
Register:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZWqh71FcRLeqO9ajnV1_8Q
Featuring a showing of the film Systemic Racism in America, and be followed by a conversation with:
o Jon Osaki, Director, Japanese Community Youth Council
o Jenny Lam, Commissioner, SFUSD Board of Education
o Reverend Dr. Amos C. Brown, NAACP and SF’s Third Baptist Church
Host: SF Human Rights Commission
10. Wednesday, 7:00pm – 8:30pm, DPH Must Divest Forum: Community-Based Alternatives to Sheriffs
Online
Register: DPH Must Divest Forum: Community-Based Alternatives to Sheriffs Tickets, Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite
DPH Must Divest is a coalition that seeks to remove San Francisco Sheriff’s Department from the city’s Department of Public Health (DPH) clinics and San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH). We aim to reinvest the divested funds in our community and systems committed to trauma informed care, de-escalation, and community accountability. We welcome all patients, community members, staff, and healthcare workers to come learn about how we can keep us safe by divesting from police and investing in care.
In this online forum we will share 10 alternatives to sheriff presence which were developed from our community forum and community engagement survey. We will facilitate small group discussion and answer questions about proposed alternatives. We welcome all willing to engage in conversation.
Learn more about DPH Must Divest: https://www.dphmustdivest.com/
Mail: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/dph-must-divest-email-list/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/dphmustdivest/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/dphmustdivest
Info from Do No Harm Coalition
Thursday, December 10
International Human Rights Day
11. Thursday, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Nancy Pelosi Support US HR 1175 & 1162 Drop Charges Against Assange & Snowden part 1 is in Oakland; part 2 in SF)
National Actions To Support the Campaign For US House Resolutions To Drop the Charges Against Julian Assange & Edward Snowden – JOINS GLOBAL ACTIONS #Candles4Assange to stand for Julian Assange’s lacking Human Rights on Human Rights Day
Listing for Bay Area Actions & Representatives info:
2 Part event in Oakland / San Francisco
First part in Oakland 11:00am 12Noon
Barbara Lee’s office in Oakland at 11AM at the Oakland Federal Building
1301 Clay St.
Oakland
Barbara Lee Support US HR 1175/1162: Drop Charges Against Assange & Snowden
Info: Barbara Lee Support US HR 1175/1162: Drop Charges Against Assange & Snowden : Indybay
Second part in San Francisco 3:00pm- 4:30pm:
Nancy Pelosi’s house:
2640 Broadway at Scott St.
SF
Nancy Pelosi Support US HR 1175/1162: Drop Charges Against Assange & Snowden
Info: Nancy Pelosi Support US HR 1175/1162: Drop Charges Against Assange & Snowden : Indybay
join us LIVE, if you can, at Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s house and stand for Julian Assange and Edward Snowden in peaceful protest and educating the public with fliers and information. It will take place on Thursday December 10, 2020 at 3pm. Please contact organizers for details on location.
If you cannot join us in Oakland @11AM at Barbara Lee’s Offc or San Fancisco @3pm for this event, or San Jose 12/11/20 between Noon-6PM @Zoe Lofgren’s Offc, please consider joining us in solidarity at your local Representative’s office and call or write your Representative urging them to support H.Res. 1175.
On November 23, 2020 Stella Moris, Julian’s fiancé, tweeted that over 70% of prisoners in Julian’s Belmarsh Prison wing were infected with COVID-19. His life is in imminent danger and depends on us acting urgently!
In October, Tulsi Gabbard and Thomas Massie introduced House Resolution 1175, a bill calling for the United States to ensure the release of Julian Assange. She introduced a similar bill, House Resolution 1162, with Matt Gaetz aimed at dropping criminal charges against Edward Snowden. With Tulsi Gabbard leaving Congress it is imperative to ensure that H.Res 1175 and H.Res. 1162 do not die with the start of the 117th Congress.
Please bring signs/banners/fliers if you have them, but mainly just show up. Safe distancing & masks please.
Host: Bay Area Action to Free Assange
12. Thursday 12/10 – Wednesday 12/16, Haitian Lives Matter! Join Week of Action in Support of Today’s Black Jacobins
From Dec 10 (Intl Human Rights Day) to Dec 16 (30th anniversary of Haiti’s first democratically elected government)
Today, Haitians are in revolt against a corrupt government backed by the US and other western powers. As the movement has grown, the government has unleashed death squads reminiscent of the worst days of the Duvalier dictatorships. People around the world are asked by the Haitian movement to act in solidarity with them December 10-16th.
On December 16, Haitians will commemorate the first free election which brought Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the people’s party, Lavalas, to power after decades of brutal dictatorship. Within seven months, a US-orchestrated coup ousted Aristide and installed a military dictatorship that murdered thousands; re-elected in 2000, Aristide was removed by US marines in 2004 as Haiti celebrated the bicentenary of its revolution.
Host: Haiti Action Committee
Info / Actions: Stand With Haiti, Dec. 10-16th (haitisolidarity.net)
More information Haiti Action Committee
Global Women’s Strike (GWS) gws@globalwomenstrike.net
Women of Color/GWS womenofcolour@globalwomenstrike.net
