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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
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 Congress, support 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
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 Books, Adalah Justice Project, Center for Constitutional Rights, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Uprooted 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
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
– 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.
6. Saturday, 11:00am – 12:30pm, Stop The Attack On Our Community Colleges Panel
Online register: Meeting Registration – Zoom
Sponsored by HEAT Higher Education Action Team CCSF
Info: Stop The Attack On Our Community Colleges Panel : Indybay
7. Saturday, 2:00pm – 5:00pm, San Francisco Protest for Palestine
Gather at Valencia & 16th Street – Rally & March
(march will be about 4 blocks to mural site on Valencia & Liberty Sts.)
Community street art Valencia & Liberty Sts. (Between 20th & 21st)
Sanitizers and masks will be available, and we will be following CDC guidelines.
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
- Independent Investigations: This part focuses on conducting independent people’s investigations including considerations on how to build your team, security and Know Your Rights considerations, required skills and infrastructure, preparation, identifying witnesses, trauma-informed interviewing, cultural humility, collecting evidence, and documenting investigations. We will use case studies from our investigations in Oakland, and provide time for knowledge and skill sharing, and discussion.
- CopWatching: In the great tradition of our Oakland’s Panthers, Brown Berets, and other radical grassroots community groups, we need to Police the Police! Learn how to observe and document police harassment in our communities, advocate for someone under arrest, and deescalate police intervention.
- Family Support: This part will cover the principles of our work with families impacted by state terror, the introduction to our trauma-informed family support model, an overview of typical challenges and current needs faced by the families. Family support is on-going relationship building, long term advocacy and partnership with families impacted by police terror as they seek justice, navigate the legal system, cope with trauma, and create community with other impacted families.
- Jail Support: Jail Support Training will cover the structure and procedures of our program providing community care and support for people released from Alameda County Jail (Santa Rita).
Host: APTP (Anti Police-Terror Project)
9. Saturday, 5:00pm – 8:00pm, Solidarity Action: Justice for Mario Gonzales
Corer of Otis Drive & Park St. (Where Mario was killed)
Alameda
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
Drivers Plaza
Adeline St. & Stanford Ave.
Oakland
Mask, Sanitizer, snacks and refreshments will be available
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
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