Articles (in two groups) ~ Actions / Petitions ~ Events for Friday, May 14 – Monday, May 17 (from Adrienne Fong)

Periodic posting

NOTE: Articles are divided in two sections  – there’s a section of articles on Palestine / Israel

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ARTICLES:

A. Papua New Guinea Cracks Downs on Logging Companies – May 13, 2021

Papua New Guinea Cracks Downs on Logging Companies | The Oakland Institute

B. Opinion: My father paid his dues but he will be deported next month – May 13, 2021

Opinion: My father paid his dues but he will be deported next month – East Bay Times

C. Sierra Leone government moves to abolish death penalty   May 12, 2021

Sierra Leone government moves to abolish death penalty (msn.com)

D. A pesticide linked to brain damage in children could finally be banned – May 12, 2021

A pesticide linked to brain damage in children could finally be banned – NationofChange

E. Okavango, Oil Drilling, and the Tragedy of Africa  – May 12, 2021

Opinion | Okavango, Oil Drilling, and the Tragedy of Africa (commondreams.org)

F. For Yemenis fleeing war, US peace efforts offer only faint hope – May 11, 2021

For Yemenis fleeing war, US peace efforts offer only faint hope | Reuters

ARTICLES on PALESTINE / ISRAEL

  See Action #  1

  See Events #’s 2, 7 & 11

A. Israel threatens Gaza with ground attack amid air strikes – May 13, 2021

Israel threatens Gaza with ground attack amid air strikes: Live | Conflict News | Al Jazeera

“The latest fatalities bring to 113 the official death toll, including at least 31 children.”

   More than 600 people have been wounded

  “ At least six Israelis and one Indian national have also been killed…”

B. Palestinian Solidarity Demonstrations Erupt Worldwide as Israeli Violence Intensifies – May 13, 2021

Palestinian Solidarity Demonstrations Erupt Worldwide as Israeli Violence Intensifies | Common Dreams News

C. Statement in Solidarity with the People of Palestine in their Struggle Against the Settler Colonial State of Israel – May 13, 2021

   Statement from National Lawyers Guild

D. In Pictures: Ruins and devastation as Israeli attacks pummel Gaza – May 13, 2021  

In Pictures: Ruins and devastation as Israeli attacks pummel Gaza | Gallery News | Al Jazeera

E. Al-Aqsa attacks: How the media gives Israel a free pass  – May 12, 2021

Al-Aqsa attacks: How the media gives Israel a free pass | Middle East Eye

F. Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s statement RE: Israel / Palestine – May 11, 2021

https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/51121-0

ACTIONS

1. Tell Congress: End U.S. complicity in Israel’s abuses of Palestinians

  SIGN: Tell Congress: End U.S. complicity in Israel’s abuses of Palestinians (everyaction.com)

It is long past time to call for sanctions on Israel. The least we can do is demand Congress take action now and revoke the $3.8 billion in annual military funding for Israel.

This petition is to Congresssupport HR 2590. Other petitions have been to President Biden 

2. Bring Sundiata Home

  SIGN: Bring Sundiata Home | OrganizeFor

3. Senate: Pass the Violence Against Women Act immediately

  SIGN: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-and-send-the-petition-to-the-us-senate-pass-the-violence-against-women-act-immediately?source=2021VAWA_DKPACs&redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fsecure.actblue.com%2Fdonate%2Fsexualviolence2021%3Frefcode%3D20210427SWVAWA&link_id=1&refcodeEmailReferrer=email_1174243&can_id=4d8abb95a7895a1648b41bfa1ad2bb3b&email_referrer=email_1174243&email_subject=sign-the-petition-to-the-us-senate-pass-the-violence-against-women-act-immediately

4. Farm Workers Deserve Overtime

  SIGN: Tell your US Representative farm workers deserve overtime (seiu.org)

EVENTS

Friday, May 14 – Monday May 17

Some events for Friday & Saturday have be updated

Friday, May 14

1. Friday, 8:30am (PT); 11:30 (ET), Live From the Ground: Gaza Under Attack (NEW)

Online – anyone on/off facebook

RSVP for Zoom link: Live From the Ground: Gaza Under Attack – CODEPINK – Women for Peace

Join CODEPINK for an urgent webinar on the horrific ongoing assault of Gaza. We will be joined by Asmaa Tayeh and Aziz Abuzayed, reporting live from Gaza. Aziz is a contributor to and Asmaa is the operations manager of We Are Not Numbers, an organization that empowers Palestinians to tell their own stories in their own words. They will illuminate for us what life is like in Gaza today, in the midst of shocking violence and turbulence. History is being made in Palestine right now — don’t miss this timely and important webinar. Please RSVP for the Zoom information

Info: Live From the Ground: Gaza Under Attack | Facebook

2. Friday, 9:00am (PT); 12Noon (ET), We Will Not Be Erased: Ongoing Nakba (NEW)

Register: We Will Not Be Erased: Ongoing Nakba Tickets, Fri, May 14, 2021 at 12:00 PM | Eventbrite

  $0 – $25

Join Mohammad El-Kurd, Majd Kayyal, Sandra Tamari, and Sumaya Awad as they unpack and the history and ongoing reality of the Nakba.

Israel’s founding in 1948 was a result of premeditated ethnic cleansing campaigns across historic Palestine with the goal of displacing and dispossessing the indigenous Palestinian population of their land. The violence of the 1948 Nakba didn’t stop. In fact, successive Israeli governments, with the financial and political backing of the US, have given Israel the green light to expand and entrench its colonial project.

Colonialism is alive and well in the 21st century. The Nakba is not a thing of the past, but an ongoing reality.

About the speakers:

Sandra Tamari is a Palestinian organizer and the Executive Director of Adalah Justice Project (AJP). Prior to her work with AJP, Sandra worked for 10 years in higher education as a immigration specialist, and before that as a Senior Program Manager for AMIDEAST, the Assistant Director of Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, and a grant writer and researcher for Al-Jana, Arab Resource Center for Popular Arts in Beirut. She is a co-founder of the St. Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee and was co-chair of the Steering Committee for the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights from 2015-2018. She was a lead organizer of the Palestinian contingent to Ferguson October in 2014.

Mohammed El-Kurd is writer and poet from Jerusalem, occupied Palestine.

Majd Kayyal is a Palestinian novelist and journalist born in Haifa to a family displaced from al-Barwa. He studied philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of The Tragedy of Sayyed Matar (2016), which won the Qattan Foundation Award, and Death in Haifa (2019).

Sumaya Awad is a Palestinian writer and socialist organizer based in New York City. Her writings focus on Palestine, anti-imperialism, Islamophobia, and immigration, and have been featured in the Feminist Wire, In These Times, Open City, and Jacobin, among others. She is currently Director of Strategy at the Adalah Justice Project. Sumaya is the co-editor of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction.

 co-sponsored by Haymarket BooksAdalah Justice ProjectCenter for Constitutional RightsUS Campaign for Palestinian RightsUprooted and Rising, and Jewish Voice for Peace

3. Friday, 12Noon, The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Online

 the video in the Discussion tab here and on the Videos tab of our page on Friday at 12pm. (Facebook page)

Signed into law on May 6, 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was one of many discriminatory laws enacted by the U.S. government, and banned immigration from China to the U.S. An emblem of the racist period known as the “Yellow Peril,” the law was supported by many prominent San Francisco business leaders. Levi Strauss later condemned the Act, but its passage had long-lasting impacts on the early Chinese community in the U.S. In this talk, take a deeper look at an often-overlooked story with educator Sharon Lee-Nakayama, who will chart the chronology of the Exclusion Acts, the history behind them, and their effects on the early Chinese community in the United States.

This talk is presented in partnership with the San Francisco Chinese Historical Society.

Host: Comtemporary Jewish Museum

Info: (4) The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 | Facebook

4. Friday, 12Noon – 5:00pm, Giant Book Sale to Benefit the Revolution Tour (NEW)

Revolution Books
2444 Durant Ave
Berkeley

The Revolution Books 3-Day Used Book Sale for a very special effort: as part of the National Fundraising Week to Raise MAJOR Funds for the National Revolution Tour. Funds will go to the revcoms working night and day to spread and organize a real revolution.

► Bring your great used books anytime during our open hours, Friday-Sunday, 1-6pm and ask your friends and colleagues to do the same or arrange by calling 510-848-1196.

► Organize, promote and spread the word for folks to come on May 14-16!

► Volunteer to sort books and to set up and staff the book sale.

Call or email us to volunteer: 510-848-1196 revolutionbooksberkeley

 [at] gmail.com

Info Giant Book Sale to Benefit the Revolution Tour : Indybay

UPDATE:

5.  Friday, 1:00pm-2:00pm, Shut Down the Police Officers Association (NO POA this week)

SF Police Officers Association
800 Bryant St. (@ 6th St)
SF

Wear mask / 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

After the trial of Chauvin in MN it is clear that ABOLISHION of the police with community control is the solution!

Saturday, May 15

6. Saturday, 11:00am – 12:30pm, Stop The Attack On Our Community Colleges Panel

Online register: Meeting Registration – Zoom

California Community Colleges particularly in urban area face major threats of mass layoffs, destruction of classes and corporate take-overs in California using the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges ACCJC. This panel will discuss the issues facing faculty, students and what needs to be done.

Our community college system is being decimated in San Francisco and Peralta Community College District and threatened throughout the state despite a state $15 billion surplus. In CCSF, classes and whole departments face liquidation including Ethnic Studies, Music, Vocational training, Nursing and LBGTQ.

This panel will look at the attacks on what is going on, and how we can fight privatization and union busting including the Lumina supported funding formula legislation that punishes working class students and com- munity colleges. This was passed by a Democratic controlled legislature & Democratic governor.

These attacks are also taking place throughout the country as well and are part and parcel of systemic racism hitting Blacks, Latinos, Asians, and all working class and poor students who deserve the right to go to college.

Panelist:

Madelein Mueller,  CCSF Music Dep Chair
John Holmes, History Lecturer & PFT Adjunct Representative
Rika Yonemura-Fabian, Ph.D. Skyline AFT 1493 Chapter Co-Chair
Karyn Panitch, PFT Adjunct Rep ESL Instructor Laney
Rick Baum, CCSF AFT 2121 HEAT
Carol Lang, CUNY AFT PSC, Adjunct Lecturer

Sponsored by HEAT Higher Education Action Team CCSF

Info: Stop The Attack On Our Community Colleges Panel : Indybay 

UPDATED:

7. Saturday, 2:00pm – 5:00pm, San Francisco Protest for Palestine

2:00pm

Gather at Valencia & 16th Street – Rally & March

  (march will be about 4 blocks to mural site on Valencia & Liberty Sts.)

12Noon –

Community street art  Valencia & Liberty Sts. (Between 20th & 21st)

Family friendly…

Sanitizers and masks will be available, and we will be following CDC guidelines.

As we approach the anniversary of the Nakba, the colonization of Palestine and forced expulsion of Palestinians continues. This is apparent everywhere in occupied territories, its most clear in the heart of Jerusalem, Palestine’s capital: in a town called Sheikh Jarrah, where Palestinian families are being expelled from their homes by the Israeli regime and its colonial settlers.

This past week, Palestinians in Jerusalem have experienced some of the worst violence in recent history. On the last Friday of Ramadan, Israeli forces stormed the Al-Aqsa mosque and fired tear gas and live ammunition at the worshipers. And in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in east Jerusalem, Palestinians continue to resist violent and illegal attempts to forcibly expel them from their homes. All of this is funded by US tax dollars.

As we mark 73 years of Nakba, we also celebrate 73 years of resistance and struggle for liberation.

Note: There are actions happening nationally

Hosts: Palestine Action Network, AROC & 6 Other groups

Info: San Francisco Protest for Palestine | Facebook   /   San Francisco Protest for Palestine : Indybay

8. Saturday, 1:00pm – 6:00pm, First Responders Training

Register: Meeting Registration – Zoom

We will share materials including our confidentiality agreement, investigation form, flyer, and a training manual.

Here’s an overview of what this training will cover:

Host: APTP (Anti Police-Terror Project)

9. Saturday, 5:00pm – 8:00pm, Solidarity Action: Justice for Mario Gonzales

Meet at:

Corer of Otis Drive & Park St. (Where Mario was killed)
Alameda

Mario Gonzalez was murdered by Alameda police in a public park on Monday, April 9th. Please join us in taking action and in solidarity with Mario and his family.

Host: TeleJaguar and Oakland Brown Berets

Info: Solidarity Action: Justice for Mario Gonzales : Indybay    or  Solidarity Action: Justice for Mario Gonzales | Facebook

10. Saturday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, Peace n’ Justice Walk

Meet at:

Drivers Plaza
Adeline St. & Stanford Ave.
Oakland

Covid 19 Safety Procedures must be followed (Mask Required). Practice physical distancing mindfulness.

Mask, Sanitizer, snacks and refreshments will be available

This is a North Oakland Restorative Justice Council and Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth’s Community Invitation.

Come and join us as we walk for Peace and Justice in Oakland and beyond. We will honor the lives of those who have passed on and transitioned during the pandemic.

The opening ceremony will begin at Driver’s Plaza (6pm) on Adeline and Stanford Avenue in Oakland.

Info: Peace n’ Justice Walk | Facebook

Sunday, May 16

11. Sunday, 11:00am, Palestine Rising – 73 years of Nakba, 73 years of Resistance

Online

Watch us live on Facebook:
https://facebook.com/AlAwdaPRRC
or on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN6_Drm3qnH65kNpp2fDsMA

Join Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, for a incisive webinar with analysis and information on the situation today in Palestine and the historical context of the rising throughout Palestine today, from the river to the sea.

Speakers:
Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi
Ziad Abbas
North America Nakba Tour

Info: Palestine Rising – 73 years of Nakba, 73 years of Resistance | Facebook

Monday, May 17

12. Monday, 6:00pm – 7:00pm, U.S. Native History and Building Relationships for Effective Climate Work

Online register: Buy: U.S. Native History and Building Relationships for Effective Climate Work – Monday, May 17th, 2021 at 6 P.M. PDT (force.com)

In a special program co-presented with the Climate Reality Project Bay Area Chapter, join us for an up-close and personal talk with Jim Warne of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Nation about the history of Native Americans and the work of building relationships with native communities to produce effective climate progress. The multitalented Warne is a motivational speaker, president of Warrior Society Development, WSD Productions; the community engagement & diversity director for the USD Center for Disabilities Oyata’ Circle; and creator of the award-winning documentary “7th Generation” and the NFL Social Justice Series’ “Oyate’ un Ito’wapi–Pictures of My People,” which was featured on Fox.

Host: Commonwealth Club

Info: U.S. Native History and Building Relationships for Effective Climate Work | Facebook

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