There are many important things from now till Wed. Hoping to send out some events for the weekend later on this week
NOT back posting on a regular basis
Please include Accessibility and ASL info in your events! And if your action is ‘child friendly’ This is a JUSTICE issue!!
*** ASL interpretation – Let me know if your event needs this service .***
Please post your actions on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12
See Indybay for other listings of events
ARTICLES
A. Global health champion Dr. Paul Farmer has died – February 21, 2022
Dr. Paul Farmer, global health champion, has died : Goats and Soda : NPR
R.I.P.
♥ Dr. Paul Farmer ♥
B. A deadline for police accountability – February 20, 2022
A deadline for police accountability – 48 hills
See Event # 10
C. With no more rent control for their refurbished apartments these S.F. tenants are seeing rents soar – February 20, 2022
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/With-no-more-rent-control-for-their-refurbished-16928236.php
D. A Victory! Professor Rabab Abdulhadi wins second grievance at SFSU – February 19, 2022
A Victory! Professor Rabab Abdulhadi wins second grievance at SFSU – Mondoweiss
E. Russia & Ukraine: The Critical Hour – A Light Conversation on Dark Subject – February 19, 2022
Russia & Ukraine: The Critical Hour – A Light Conversation on Dark Subjects – Ray McGovern
See Event # 9
F. Spiers beating footage: ‘This was f****d from the start – February 17, 2022
Spiers beating footage: ‘This was f****d from the start’ – Mission Local
See event # 3
G. What kind of ‘left’ attacks the working class as “fascist,” and pushes FOR the “vaccination” of the poor worldwide? – February 17, 2022
H. They Flipped these skoolz for a little bread – February 16, 2022
They Flipped these skoolz for a little bread | Poor Magazine
– Ziair Hughes is a youth scholar
See Petition # 2
6 PETITIONS
1.Take Action to Support Palestinian Human Rights
SIGN: Take Action to Support Palestinian Human Rights | New Mode
2. Help Us Stop All School Closures NOW!
SIGN: Help Us Stop All School Closures NOW! – Action Network
3. Demand All Government Agencies Drop ID.me
SIGN: Demand All Government Agencies Drop ID.me (dumpid.me)
4. Canada Has Finally Banned Conversion Therapy, Tell the U.S. to Do the Same!
5. Tanzania: stop the eviction of the Maasai from Ngorongoro!
Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater is renowned the world over for its wildlife and as the home of the indigenous Maasai people. To promote tourism, the government wants to enlarge the protected area – and evict more than 80,000 people, mostly indigenous Maasai. We cannot accept gross human rights violations under the guise of conservation.
6. Stop This Road From Slicing Through Wild Alaska
Stop This Road From Slicing Through Wild Alaska (biologicaldiversity.org)
EVENTS
Monday, February 21 – Wednesday, February 23
Monday, February 21
1. Monday, 4:00pm-6:00pm (PT); 7:00pm-9:00pm(ET), Critical Race Theory Forum: Let’s Talk
Online registration: Meeting Registration – Zoom
Critical Race Theory Forum: Let’s Talk
What Critical Race Theory IS and what it is NOT
Join us for this important discussion with experts and activists working on a daily basis to educate, organize and liberate the working class and oppressed peoples locally, nationally and globally.
There is a concerted attack on African and African American scholarship and literature represented by state legislatures banning the teaching of the actual history of the United States and the world.
What are these opponents of antiracist education afraid of? What implications are there for the further erosion of democratic rights and the escalation of state repression and imperialist war? Join us for discussions around these important questions.
Speakers for the webinar are as follows:
–Abayomi Azikiwe, Pan-African News Wire editor and Moratorium NOW! Coalition/MECAWI organizer
–Derek Grigsby, Moratorium NOW! Coalition/MECAWI organizer
–Atty. Mark Fancher, ACLU of Michigan Racial Justice Project
–Atty. Nancy A. Parker, Interim Managing Attorney at the Detroit Justice Center
–Sammie Lewis, Detroit Will Breathe (DWB) organizer, scholar, musician and Black Feminist
–Lloyd Simpson, Detroit Will Breathe organizer, militant opponent of police repression
This program is part of an ongoing educational series examining critical issues impacting society and world affairs.
Info: African American History Month 2022–Webinar On Critical Race Theory | Facebook
Host: Moratorium NOW Coalition
2. Monday, 6:00pm – 7:00pm, Monthly Gathering at Alex Nieto’s Altar with Refugio and Elvira Nieto
In person
Alex’s Altar
Bernal Hill
SF
All are welcomed to stand with Alex’s parents Refugio and Elvira Nieto,
Alex was murdered by SFPD officers Jason Sawyer, Richard Schiff, Nathan Chew, and Roger Morse, with 59 bullets.
The DA’s office under George Gascon at the time declined to file criminal charges against the officers.
March 4th is Alex’s Birthday
March 21, 2022 will be Alex’s 8th Angelversary.
Please hold this date from 4pm-7pm
Tuesday, February 22
3.Tuesday, 8:30am – 11:45am, Stop The Sellout! Caravan For Housing Equality
Register:
Gather at CCSF Parking lot
11 Frida Kahlo Way
SF
Dozens of grassroots organizations from across San Francisco have joined forces to form the Race & Equity in all Planning Coalition (REP-SF) with one major purpose: to ensure a future with diverse communities, stable, affordable housing and equitable access to resources and opportunities.
REP-SF envisions a San Francisco that empowers historically marginalized communities– BIPOC, immigrant, low-income and no-income residents, seniors, and people with disabilities– to determine our futures. We envision planning that puts the expertise of our communities at the forefront to solve issues of displacement, unaffordability, and inequality. We envision housing that we can afford, close to where we work, beautiful and culturally responsive design, and community and public land ownership. We envision new systems that prioritize the dignity, health, stability, and aspirations of our communities, and place the needs of the people over profit.
4. Tuesday, 9:00am, Trial of SFPD’s Terrance Stangel
In person
Hall of Justice
850 Bryant St. (Dept. 27 – 2nd Floor)
SF
You do NOT need ID to enter the building!
Case NumberCase Title PurposeLocation DeptTime
20013301 STANGEL, TERRANCE JTRIAL 850 BRYANT ST270 9:00 AM
The defense will be presenting their case in defending sfpd’s officer Stengal.
Please come if you can to support the prosecution. There’s only been 1-4 people supporting the prosecution in the room the rest have been sfpd folks supporting Stangel.
5. Tuesday, 4:00pm – 6:00pm, Virtual Author Event: The Prophets with Robert Jones Jr.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RevolutionBooksNYC or
register with Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-virtual-rb-evening-with-robert-jones-jr-and-his-novel-the-prophets-tickets-268082691547
Two enslaved youth, Samuel and Isaiah, find love with each other on a brutal Mississippi plantation called Empty. This is their story, the story of those who know and care for them, of those who use them and those who betray them. A story of then and now.
Robert Jones, Jr. is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Prophets, which was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction. He has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, Essence, and The Paris Review. He is the creator and curator of the social-justice, social-media community Son of Baldwin, which has over 290,000 followers across platforms.
Host Revolution Books
Info: Virtual Author Event: The Prophets with Robert Jones, Jr. : Indybay
6. Tuesday, 5:00pm(PT); 8:00pm(ET), The Military Industrial Complex and our Culture
Online register: Meeting Registration – Zoom
We talk a lot about the military-industrial complex, but what exactly is it, who makes it up, and why are they so important? At this webinar we’re going to look at the effect these companies have on our culture and how their influence has entered the world of sports, movies, charities, universities, and the media.
We’ll be joined by David Swanson of World Beyond War, Marcy Winograd of CODEPINK, and Chris Velazquez of Veterans for Peace/Gamers for Peace to get some answers!
Info from: Massachusetts Peace Action
7. Tuesday, 6:00pm – 7:00pm, W.E.B. Du Bois: Early 20th Century Philosopher & Writer as Contemporary to Our Time (POSTPONED)
Online RSVP: https://citylights.com/events/nahum-dimitri-chandler-with-judith-butler-and-robert-gooding-williams/
BOOK: “Beyond This Narrow Now” Or, Delimitations, of W. E. B. Du Bois”
by author, Nahum Dimitri Chandler (pub. Duke University Press)
Discussion Host: City Lights Booksellers
PANEL:
Nahum Dimitri Chandler is Professor in the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine,
Judith Butler is a philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminism, queer theory, and literary theory.
Robert Gooding-Williams is the M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American Studies and Professor of Philosophy and of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University
See site for complete bios.
Info: W. E. B. Du Bois: Early 20th Century Philosopher & Writer as Contemporary to Our Time : Indybay
Wednesday, February 23
8. Wednesday, 9:00am, Pre-Trial for SFPD’s officer Kenneth Cha for homicide of Sean Moore
In person
Hall of Justice
850 Bryant St. (Courtroom 9)
SF
| 21010958 | CHA, KENNETH | PRETRIAL | 850 BRYANT ST | 9 | 09:00 AM |
The Moore Family will be present. Please come out to support them, either inside the court room or outside. If you are outside please bring signs.
This will be the third court appearance – Cha was not present at the first to hearings. I don’t know if he will be present here. His attorneys kept trying to push the case back in hopes that there will be a new DA.
9. Wednesday, 11:30am – 1:00pm, No to Normalizing Apartheid, Yes to human rights for all. Oppose HR 2748
1002 4th St.
San Rafael
Just days after Amnesty International, the most well-respected international human rights organization in the US, joins longtime Palestinian voices in exposing Israel’s apartheid, a separate-and-unequal system of domination rooted in settler colonialism, Congress (including Rep. Huffman) is primed to pass H.R. 2748, the Israel Relations Normalization Act, or as we call it, the Normalizing Israeli Ethnic Cleansing Act.
During a time when we should be demanding accountability ASAP to stop Israel’s crimes, Congress is promoting Trump-era weapons deals, which give authoritarian regimes weapons in exchange for political support for Israeli violence against the Palestinian people.
There’s nothing normal about Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing and apartheid. Tell Congressman Huffman to vote NO on the Normalizing Israeli Ethnic Cleansing Act.
Info: No to Normalizing Apartheid, Yes to human rights for all. Oppose HR 2748 | Facebook or No to Normalizing Apartheid, Yes to human rights for all. Oppose H.R. 2748 : Indybay
10. Wednesday, 4:00pm (PT); 7:00pm (ET), Ray McGovern on the US/Russia/Ukraine Conflict
Online registration: Meeting Registration – Zoom
US and Western policies are increasing tension between the US and Russia, further escalating the Cold War. Ray McGovern will provide an analysis of events regarding Ukraine, Russia, NATO, and the US.
Ray McGovern is the co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). Previously, he worked for the CIA for 27 years. He is an expert on Russia, Ukraine, the Cold War, and more. Cosponsored by Veterans for Peace (Chapter 9).
Host: Massachusetts Peace Action
11. Wednesday, 5:30pm Special SF Police Commission Meeting (RE: MOU)
Online
REMOTE MEETING VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE
WATCH: San Francisco Cable Channel 26
WATCH: www.sfgovtv.org
Members of the public may also watch the meeting through Webex at: https://ccsf.webex.com/ccsf/onstage/g.php?MTID=e28895e29a61b032dda74563498deefb2
To listen to the audio or provide Public Comment Call-In: 415-655-0001 Access Code: 2481 404 2242
AGENDA: Police Commission – February 23, 2022 – Agenda | Police Commission (sfgov.org)
Pledge of Allegiance; Roll Call
1. Discussion and possible action regarding the Chief’s Notice of intent to terminate the MOU with the District Attorney’s Office to investigate independently officer-involved shootings, in-custody deaths, and uses of force incidents that result in serious bodily injury (DISCUSSION & POSSIBLE ACTION)
2. Adjournment (ACTION ITEM)
12. Wednesday, 7:00pm – 8:30pm, “Radical Redistribution: Reparations for the Black Descendants of Enslaved Africans” with Dr. Cornel West
In person
University of San Francisco
McLaren Conference Center, Room 250
2130 Fulton Street
SF
Renowned intellectual Dr. Cornel West in discussion with USF Provost Chinyere Oparah about reparations for the Black descendants of enslaved Africans, moderated by exceptional USF senior undergraduate student Natalya Bomani.
Dr. Cornel West is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary. Dr. West teaches on the works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, as well as courses in Philosophy of Religion, African American Critical Thought, and a wide range of subjects — including but by no means limited to, the classics, philosophy, politics, cultural theory, literature, and music.
