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Listing of other Bay Area Events
ARTICLES
A. India’s Farmer Strike: “We Have Marched Before, We Will March Again” – January 28, 2021
India’s Farmer Strike: “We Have Marched Before, We Will March Again” – CounterPunch.org
B. SF Police Sued Over Public/Private Camera Use To Surveil BLM Protests – January 27, 2021
SF Police Sued Over Public/Private Camera Use To Surveil BLM Protests | Oakland Privacy
C. A 9-Year-Old Boy Was Released From Government Custody After Being Separated From His Brother – January 27, 2021
Haitian Boy Separated From Brother Released From Detention (buzzfeednews.com)
Thank you to everyone who made calls and signed petitions.
D. EU partners with hate group to commemorate Holocaust – January 27, 2021
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/eu-partners-hate-group-commemorate-holocaust
E. As World Demands Peace and Aid for Yemen, Biden Told to ‘End Every Aspect of This War’ – January 26, 2021
F. The ‘Humanitarian’ Left Still Ignores the Lessons of Iraq, Libya and Syria to Cheer on More War – January 25, 2021
G. Independence is the Progressive Solution to US Colonialism in Puerto Rico – January 23, 2021
Independence Is the Progressive Solution to US Colonialism in Puerto Rico (truthout.org)
H. US, South Korean and International Civil Society Organizations call for the suspension of US-ROK Combined Military Exercises – January 23, 2021
See Action # 2
I. Fremont School Board reverses course, will bring cops back to campuses
J. WHO Finally Admits COVID-19 PCR Test Has a ‘Problem’ – January 21, 2021
WHO Finally Admits COVID-19 PCR Test Has a ‘Problem’ • Children’s Health Defense
ACTIONS
1. Demand DHS halt ALL deportations and return iAero Airways Flight 3562 passengers back to the U.S.
SIGN: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-the-petition-demand-dhs-halt-all-deportations-and-return-iaero-airways-flight-3562-back-to-the-us-2/?fbclid=IwAR1jbljwNplAe2GqG3TzF7T1ZHmbJS9UKX47oBGZ8Gn445IFTDk0PX6OOkE
On January 28, 2021, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) hurriedly deported a group of chained and horrified Black immigrants from Alexandria, Louisiana to Kingston, Jamaica.
2. Call for the Suspension of Military Exercises in South Korea
SIGN: Suspend US-South Korea (ROK) Combined Military Exercises! (salsalabs.org)
3. EU: Protect People Before Profits!
SIGN: Avaaz – EU: PROTECT PEOPLE BEFORE PROFITS!
calling for the strongest possible law to hold companies accountable for their human rights and environmental abuses, wherever they occur
4. President Biden, Honor the Treaties & Cancel the Enbridge Line 3 Pipeline
SIGN; Tell President Biden: #StopLine3 pipeline (actionnetwork.org)
5. Tell U.S. Coast Guard and Maritime Administration: Stop Texas GulfLink
SIGN: Tell U.S. Coast Guard and Maritime Administration: Stop Texas GulfLink! | Oil Change International (priceofoil.org)
6. President Biden and Congress must pass recurring $2,000 checks
SIGN; President Biden and Congress must pass recurring $2,000 checks (actionnetwork.org)
EVENTS
Friday, January 29 – Wednesday, February 3
Friday, January 29
1. Friday, 9:00am – 10:00am, DeWayne Ewing Falsely Convicted by Nancy O’Malley – Press Conference/Rally
Alameda County Courthouse
1225 Fallon St.
Oakland
DeWayne’s attorney, Jeffrey Mendelman, has filed a motion to withdraw DeWayne’s plea deal and ask that any DNA evidence that remains be re-tested. The judge will set the briefing schedule on Friday, January 29.
We are also asking the public to call District Attorney Nancy O’Malley’s office at (510) 272-6222 to support letting Dewayne withdraw his plea, give him a fair trial, and re-test the DNA.
Confirmed speakers:
Jeffrey Mendelman, DeWayne’s attorney
Sharon Chatoo Ewing, DeWayne’s wife
Oscar Grant’s Uncle Bobby
For more information, please refer to the post, “The Found Condom: A DeWayne Ewing Mystery” on DeWayne Ewing’s Facebook page (Ione, CA
Info: Press Conference/Rally | Facebook / Demand justice for Dewayne Ewing : Indybay
2. Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Shut Down the Police Officers Association
In person
SF Police Officers Association (outside)
800 Bryant St. (at 6th Street)
SF
Wear masks; social distancing
RESIST with Mothers on the March, Black and Brown for Justice, Peace and Equality, Family’s who loved ones have been killed by SFPD, 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.
– Jail Killer Cops – we want killer cops to be charged with murder.
– Abolish the Police – Fund life affirming care
3. Friday, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Rally to Save Peoples Park
Peoples Park
Corner of Dwight & Bowditch Way
Berkeley
Join text alert list: text “SAVETHEPARK” to 81257
Tag photos with #peoplesparkberkeley
Stand in socially-distanced solidarity with our unhoused neighbors and prevent displacement. Protest the fence in People’s Park.
Bring your own signs if possible
food provided by Food not Bombs
Meeting held afterwards if interested
Instagram: @peoplesparkberkeley
Host: Peoples Park Committee
Info: (3) Rally to Save People’s Park! Mask Up! | Facebook / Rally to Save Peoples Park : Indybay
4. Friday 5:00pm, Solidarity Speaker: POOR Magazine – Prensa Pobre
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81800722999
Join us to learn and listen with our solidarity speaker Tiny of POOR Magazine!
Tiny (aka Lisa Gray-Garcia) is a formerly unhoused, incarcerated poverty scholar, revolutionary journalist, poet, and single mama of Tiburcio, daughter of a houseless, disabled mama Dee, and co–founder of POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE/PoorNewsNetwork. She has authored over 200 stories on poverty, incarceration, and displacement. She co-founded PeopleSkool- a poor and indigenous people-led school. She co-launched Homefulness – a homeless peoples solution to homelessness, a liberation school for children, Deecolonize Academy and in 2019 is releasing a PeoplesTextbook with Leroy Moore and POOR Magazine poverty skolaz – Poverty Scholarship- Poor People-led Theory, Art, Words and Tears Across Mama Earth.
Host: Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) is a grassroots network of animal rights activists
Info: (1) Solidarity Speaker: POOR Magazine – Prensa Pobre | Facebook / Solidarity Speaker: POOR Magazine – Prensa Pobre : Indybay
Saturday, January 30
5. Saturday, 11:00am – Sunday, Jan. 31, 3:00pm, PeopleSkool DegentriFUKation/Decolonization Seminar on Zoom
Registration required
Registration Applications are available at www.racepovertymediajustice.org
After you have done the application – we will send you a link to register – if u cant find the link – pls email poormag@gmail.com
Schedule:
Day 1- Sat January 30th 11-4pm
Day 2- Sun January 31st 10-3pm
Day 1&2 (Both Days) is required for Folks with Race, Class & or Formal Education Privilege
Day 1 is the only day req’d for poverty/migrant/Indigenous skolaz wit no formal education
This two day seminar is geared to bring/teach the medicine of hoarded wealth/inherited blood-stained dollars redistribution, settler colonizer decolonization, the ongoing violence of the Charity Industrial Complex, The Real Esnakkke industry and the revolutionary liberation of Community Reparations to as many folks as possible because poltrickster solutions are NOT solutions and we MUST spread POOR Magazine’s poverty skola-led solutions in this time of so much mass distraction, unhoused, gentriFUKEd, criminalized, mass incarcerated,racism/wite supremacized miseducated, silenced and intentionally dismantled peoples- in the triple pandemics of Covid19, Poverty, PoLice Terror and Colonization
“Gray-Area Warning”:
An application and sLiding Scale Tuition is Required and is the first part of each participant’s decolonization. Please go to www.racepovertymediajustice.org to download an applicaition for folks with Race,class and/or formal education privilege or an application for Poverty Skolaz. We will go lower than the listed tuition – as low as $1.00 per person and you can also make payments, but please pay what is truly possible -and poverty skolaz in poverty pay nothing- but in the end, this is your decision, and your first part of Truthteaching/degentriFUKing/Healing Please email the filled out applicaiton and/or any questions to us at poormag@gmail.com
If you are confused which category you fall in – first of all you can be both things- but if you are both things- then do the application for prvileged skolaz- and just indicate you have also fall into the other category because….
And no matter what being CONfused is also ok- kkkolonization and Settler colonizer theft is CONfusing- Race and/or class privilege and blud-stained dolla hoarding is CONfusing- its meant to be. Capitalism and all this stolen land is intentionally CONfusing- so come and begin the Healing-and climb with us out of the vortex of so much pain – into interdependence, transformation and redistribution
Host: POOR Magazine, Homefulness, Stolen Land/Hoarded Resources, Decolonization & Community Reparations Tour
Info: (2) PeopleSkool DegentriFUKation/Decolonization Seminar on Zoom | Facebook
6. Saturday, 12Noon 2:00pm, Cancel the Rents! Oakland Rally & Car/Bike Caravan
Meet at:
San Leandro BART
Join the caravan and ride with us to demand:
Cancel the Rents and Mortgages!
No evictions!
No foreclosures!
House the homeless in vacant housing
Neither the $600 or $1400 stimulus check is enough. One-third of people are struggling to pay their bills and are unable to catch up with rent. The eviction moratoriums nationally and locally have stopped millions of evictions but rent debt is still piling up. The looming eviction crisis will hit oppressed communities, already unevenly affected by the pandemic, the hardest.
Big landlords are abusing loopholes and filing eviction lawsuits against families regardless of the moratorium. While the Oakland moratorium currently extends to March 31st, the official rent and mortgage moratorium for the rest of the United States expires on January 31st.
Despite all their claims to the contrary the government can immediately cancel rents and mortgages, house the homeless and stop evictions. Yet they choose to bail out the corporations and the banks. The money is there to give the people what they need to survive this pandemic
Sunday in SF
Host: PSL
Info: Cancel the Rents! Oakland Rally & Car/Bike Caravan | Facebook
7. Saturday, 1:30 (PT); 4:30pm (ET), No War on Iran!
Online – anyone on/off facebook
Register: Webinar Registration – Zoom
**Note – Zoom page has PT starting time as 1:30pm; FB page has beginning time as 1:00pm
Join Youth Against Empire for this webinar and calls to action!
Hosted by:
Kala Craddock – Pan African Community Action, Black Alliance for Peace
Speakers:
Margaret Flowers – Popular Resistance, UNAC Administrative Committee
Nikki P – ANAKBAYAN
Autumn Lake, Minnesota Anti-War Committee, UNAC Administrative Committee
Ted Kelly, International Action Center
The U.S and its allies have been itching for a war with Iran for years, resorting to illegal sanctions and assassinations, and attempting to stoke civil discord within Iran. The US has also surrounded Iran with dozens of active, armed military bases.
This bipartisan war of words and deeds against the people and government of Iran has nearly reached a tipping point, with the US attacking top generals, scientists, and military bases in just the last year alone.
The American people have time and time again said NO to U.S. threats of war against Iran. Now more than ever, it is vital that we hold the new Biden administration accountable
Host: United National Antiwar Coalition
Info: (1) No War on Iran! | Facebook
Sunday, January 31
8. Sunday, 10:30am – 12:30pm, Master of Space: Corporate plans for the militarization & privatization of space
Zoom meeting – Log in: ICSSMARX.ORG
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DESCRIPTION:
Bruce Gagnon will reveal the deadly connections between the corporate drive to ‘control and dominate’ space as spelled out in the US Space Command’s 1997 planning document called Vision for 2020. https://thecommunity.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Vision2020.pdf
The gold rush is now underway as space technologies have matured to the point where mining the sky for precious resources becomes possible. Corporate forces intend to use the newly formed ‘Space force’ to guard the front gate on and off Earth to ensure that only ‘authorized’ companies and nations would be allowed to access space.
This vision was first spelled out before Congress in the early 1950’s when former Nazi Maj. Gen. Walter Dornberger shared his vision of orbiting battle stations in space to control the pathway on and off our planet
BIO: Bruce Gagnon is the Coordinator (and Co-Founder) of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. He is a Vietnam war-era veteran and began his organizing work with the United Farm Workers Union
Host Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library
Info: Master of Space: Corporate plans for the militarization & privatization of space : Indybay
9. Sunday, 11:00am, Newsom, Stop The Executions!
Middle Harbor Shoreline Park
2777 E. Harbor Rd.
Oakland
Public · Anyone on or off Facebook
As of 1/18/21, Newsom and CDCR are responsible for murdering 175 incarcerated people since the beginning of the pandemic.
Join us in holding Newsom accountable and DEMAND MASS RELEASES NOW!
Mass incarceration in California created the ideal conditions for a predictable and preventable mass outbreak of COVID-19 in state prisons. Currently, every California State Prison is responding to a wave of active cases of COVID-19. Recent major surges occurred at Ironwood State Prison, California Men’s Colony, Central California Women’s Facility, and CTF Soledad.
California has reduced its prison population since the beginning of the pandemic, but not nearly enough. Nine prisons remain at over 120% of capacity and 7,000 people in county jails await transfers to state prisons.
We gather on Jan 31 to demand No State Execution by COVID-19! The only humane response is to decarcerate and remedy California’s legacy of mass incarceration. Governor Newsom must grant mass releases now to stop the rising death toll.
Hosts: No Justice Under Capitalism, Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice & Critical Resistance
Info: (4) Newsom, Stop The Executions! | Facebook
10. Sunday, 2:00pm – 4:00pm, Cancel the Rents! SF Rally & Car/Bike Caravan
Meet at:
Fedex,
1875 Marin St.
SF
For description see event # 6
Join the caravan and ride with us to demand:
Cancel the Rents and Mortgages!
No evictions!
No foreclosures!
House the homeless in vacant housing
Hosts: PSL – Bay Area, Cancel the Rents
Info: (1) Cancel the Rents! SF Rally & Car/Bike Caravan | Facebook
Monday, February 1
11. Monday, 12:30pm (PT)’ 3:30pm (ET), Call to Action: 100-Day Moral Monday Plan of Action w/ Poor People’s Campaign
Watch via Facebook: fb.com/anewppc or on our website: poorpeoplescampaign.org/livestream
*This event will be ASL interpreted and open captioned.*
Join the Poor People’s Campaign as we launch Moral Mondays during the first 100 days of the Biden-Harris administration to push for the passing of bold and historic legislation to relieve the suffering poor and low-wealth people in America.
Regardless of who’s in power, we need to take action in support of the agenda of the poor and low-wealth people across this country. Recent events only embolden our resolve to put an end to policies that leave out the poor and challenge at every turn the narrative that blames poverty on the poor, a narrative with bipartisan support. As we’ve said since launching this Campaign, this is not about right versus left, but about right versus wrong.
On February 1, the anniversary of the launch of the sit-in movement in Greensboro, NC in 1960, the Poor People’s Campaign will launch a new series of Moral Mondays to push Democrats, Republicans and Independents to pass bold and historic legislation to relieve the suffering of our people.
Info: Call to Action: 100-Day Moral Monday Plan of Action w/ Poor People’s Campaign : Indybay / 100-Day Moral Monday Plan of Action | Facebook
Wednesday, February 3
12. Wednesday, 6:00pm – 7:00pm, Talk on the Mothers of the Civil Rights Movement w/ Author Anna Malaika Tubbs
RSVP: https://commonwealthclub.secure.force.com/ticket/#/instances/a0F3j00001GYEUaEAP
Free
New Book: “The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X,
and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation”
Much has been written about James Baldwin, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X,
but virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them
to be the leaders they became.
Join us in conversation with Anna Malaika Tubbs as she celebrates Black motherhood in her new book, “The Three Mothers”. Baldwin’s mother Berdis, King’s mother Alberta, and Malcolm X’s mother Louise raised their sons with the hope of helping them to survive in a society that would deny their humanity from the very beginning. The Black mothers who raised America’s most pivotal heroes each represent a piece of history left untold and a celebration of
Black motherhood long overdue.
Host: Commonwealth Club
Info: Talk on the Mothers of the Civil Rights Movement w/ Author Anna Malaika Tubbs : Indybay
13. Wednesday, 7:00pm- 9:00pm, Behind the Mask: Community Forum on Racist Policing in Berkeley During COVID-19
To join the Zoom event:
Zoom link:
Meeting ID: 894 1304 1160
Passcode: justice
Dial in: +1 253 215 8782 US
Meeting ID: 894 1304 1160
Passcode: 3604527
Content Warning: This event will discuss and show video of police violence against people of color.
While thousands of Berkeley residents were taking to the streets demanding an end to police terror, the Berkeley Police Department continued to target, harass, and violently attack people of color. Since March 2020, there have been at least five incidents in which Black individuals were held at gunpoint or shot with lethal or potentially lethal munitions.
Berkeley Copwatch invites you to see and hear for yourself whether Berkeley Police officers are really as expert at “de-escalating” incidents as they so often proclaim.
During the event, some of the people who were targeted by BPD will share their stories. Evidence will be presented regarding each of the five incidents, and we will be joined by members of the NAACP, Berkeley Community Safety Coalition, and National Lawyers Guild as we analyze these incidents.
Troubling questions arise:
– Why is there so little time between when officers arrive on scene and when they deploy force?
– Is there any accountability from the department when they use force in this way? Have any officers been disciplined?
– What has the department done to address the issues of racial profiling and racist policing?
Despite the department’s claims that they employ “progressive” policing tactics, these five incidents clearly show a pattern of BPD unnecessarily escalating interactions and using or threatening to use deadly force.
Host: Berkeley Copwatch
Info: (1) Behind the Mask: Community Forum on Racist Policing in Berkeley During COVID-19 | Facebook / Behind the Mask: community forum on racist policing in Berkeley during COVID-19 : Indybay
