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Articles are divided into 3 sections
– Second section is on SFPD Officer Stangel Trial
-Third section is on Ukraine
ARTICLES
A. U.S. Carries Out First Airstrike in Somalia Since August – February 24, 2022
US Carries Out First Airstrike in Somalia Since August – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
B. 3 officers found guilty on federal charges in George Floyd’s killing – February 24, 2022
C. Police chief has to back down, agrees to let deal with DA’s Office stay in place – February 23, 2022
SFPD Officer Stangel Trial on Use of Force Violations
See Event # 12
1. SFPD beating trial heads to closing arguments – February 24, 2022
https://missionlocal.org/2022/02/sfpd-beating-trial-heads-to-closing-arguments/
2. Officer Terrance Stangel takes the stand in his own defense – February 23, 2022
https://missionlocal.org/2022/02/officer-terrance-stangel-takes-the-stand/
Ukraine
1. The US-Backed Eight Year Fascist War In Ukraine The US Media Ignores (about 7 min. audio)
▶ The US-Backed Eight Year Fascist War In Ukraine The US Media Ignores (spreaker.com)
2. Russian military attack on Ukraine: How we got there – February 24, 2022
Russian military attack on Ukraine: How we got there — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
3. The Crisis in Ukraine Is Not About Ukraine. It’s About Germany – February 12, 2022
The Crisis in Ukraine is not about Ukraine. It’s about Germany, by Mike Whitney – The Unz Review
PETITIONS
1. No arms for Egypt
SIGN: No arms for Egypt (oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net)
2. Affirming the US-China Joint Shanghai Communique: Peace & Cooperation Now!
See Event # 10
3. Cambodia: Release jailed union leaders and drop all charges unconditionally
4. Tell Hershey’s CEO Michele Buck you stand with workers and demand anti-union tactics stop now
Friday, February 25
1. Friday, 11:00am (PT); 2:00pm (ET), the Belmarsh Tribunal
Online register: Belmarsh Tribunal NYC (progressive.international)
20 years ago, the United States opened a detention camp at the Guantanamo Bay Navel Base on the east coast of Cuba.
Over the course of two deades, the US tortured hundreds of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay without charge or trial
Two decades later, Guantanamo Bay is still in operation. The architects of the War on Terror walk free, while the whistleblowers have been sent to prison.
Too often when people expose war crimes, they are the ones put on trial. The Belmarsh Tribunal changes this. Inspired by the famous Russell-Sartre people’s tribunal, which examined US war crimes in Vietnam, it is named for the London prison where Julian Assange is held as he faces extradition to the US. As the US government seeks to persecute a publisher for exposing war crimes, we are turning the tables and putting the War on Terror on trial.
Belmarsh Tribunal NYC (progressive.international)
2. Friday, 11:30am – 12:30pm, Stop Racist Attacks, Discrimination and Union Busting By SF MTA Bosses & City
In person
SF MTA Headquarters
1 South Van Ness / Market
SF
Press Conference/Rally On Systemic Racism, Bullying & Illegal Physical & Verbal Abuse Against SF MTA Workers
SF MTA 250a transit worker April Chandler Shannon and other workers have faced a systemic verbal and even physical assaults on the job.
They have also faced retaliation for speaking out against health and safety violations.
Other workers including car cleaners have also faced illegal discrimination and health and safety violations. Numerous complaints have been made to SF City agencies but the City regulatory and oversight agencies have failed to do their job and defend the health and safety of the workers.
Cal-OSHA and other state agencies have also failed to address these issues.
SF MTA employees will speak out about the specific issues and call on the management to be held accountable to these labor and human rights violations.
Sponsored by United Front Committee For A Labor Party
http://www.ufclp.org
info(at)ufclp.org
Info: Stop Racist Attacks, Discrimination and Union Busting By SF MTA Bosses & City : Indybay
3. Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Shut Down the SF Police Officers Association!
In person
SF Police Officers Association
800 Bryant St. (@ 6th St)
SF
RESIST with Mothers On The March, Black and Brown For Justice and Equality, Family’s whose loved ones have been killed by the police from SFPD, and the Community.
– Demand the San Francisco Police Officers Association Be Shut Down!
– The SF Police Officers Association Be Declared a Non Grata Organization
– Call for the abolishment of the ‘Officers Bill of Rights’
– Jail Killer Cops – demand killer cops be charged with murder.
– Abolish the Police!
The POA has supported and defended officers w ho have executed people in our communities
If you can’t attend contact Mayor London Breed and the SF Board of Supervisors – Tell them that you OPPOSE funding for the SFPD:
Mayor London Breed
Tel: (415) 554-6141
Email: MayorLondonBreed@sfgov.org
Contact list of SF Board of Supervisors
https://sfbos.org/roster-members
Saturday, February 26
4. Saturday, 9:00am (PT); 12Noon(ET), 15th Education Webinar | Israel’s Crime Against Humanity: Apartheid in Palestine
Online – On or Off Facebook (U don’t need to have FB to participate)
15th Education Webinar | Israel’s Crime Against Humanity: Apartheid in Palestine | Facebook
Apartheid is a crime against humanity and is prohibited under customary international law. This means that States are bound by its prohibition and must therefore adhere to its obligations.
Various human rights organizations have detailed Israel’s apartheid regime in Palestine, Amnesty International being the latest.
In short, as Amnesty International said in its report, Israel “seeks to establish and maintain Jewish hegemony wherever Israel exercises effective control,” which includes all of Palestine from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
It is no longer anathema to refer to Israel’s structure and policies as apartheid in nature. Our job is to push the envelope and expose Israel’s crime against humanity of apartheid and change the legislative and executive agenda toward holding Israel accountable for its crimes against the Palestinian people. It’s time that the United States and the world recognize, as Amnesty International noted, the “full extent of the crimes that Israel perpetrates against eh Palestinian people.”
Speakers:
– Maen Hammad: Regional Campaigner with Amnesty International’s International Secretariat in the organization’s Middle East and North Africa Regional Office
– Katherine Gallagher: Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights
– Dr. Virginia Tilley: Writer/Professor of Political Science, human rights, Middle East, Israel-Palestine, indigenous peoples, race/ethnicity.
– Wesam Ahmed: Head of Center for Applied International Law in Al-Haq
Info: 15th Education Webinar | Israel’s Crime Against Humanity: Apartheid in Palestine | Facebook
5. Saturday, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, March & Rally in Solidarity with the People of Haiti
In person – Meet at:
SF Federal Building
90 7th St. (corner)
SF
Join Haiti Action Committee for a February 26th march and protest commemorating the 18th year of continued US neo-colonial intervention and occupation of Haiti since the Feb. 29th 2004 coup that overthrew Haiti’s democratic government. Since then, the US government has backed a series of corrupt and brutal regimes which have brought Haiti nothing but misery, violence and chaos.
Across Haiti, popular organizations are calling for the end of the US-backed regime and the installation of a transitional government. Yet the Biden Administration continues to insist on its choice of prime minister, Ariel Henry, who has no mandate and no legitimacy.
As it attempts to thwart moves towards ending dictatorship in Haiti, the Biden Administration has deported more than 20,000 Haitian refugees, in one of the speediest mass deportations in US history. Having fled from conditions produced by US policy in Haiti, they are now being sent back into the US-created nightmare they fled.
Please call, tweet and/or email President Biden to demand:
Stop the expulsions and deportations of Haitian refugees! End all support for the Ariel Henry dictatorship!
Call the White House 11am-3pm ET 202-456-1111; tweet @JoeBiden
Sponsor: Haiti Action Committee
Info: (1) Facebook & Solidarity with Haiti March and Rally : Indybay
6. Saturday, 1:00pm – 4:00pm, First Responders Training
Online – Register in advance: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYuce-hrDkuH9ZESGdxCwL8hWTvU5biRDLf
Join us on Saturday, February 26, from 1-4 PM for APTP First Responders training. This training draws upon over ten years of experience of investigating incidents of police terror and providing support to impacted families.
A collaboration between APTP in Oakland and Sacramento, this event will focus on copwatching and independent people’s investigations. Future trainings will become available to cover family and jail support.
7. Saturday, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, A Deeper Investigation Into Covid-19, the Truths, the Falsehoods & Cover-ups
The Black & Brown Social Club
474 Valencia St.
SF
Public transportation: Near 16th Street BART, MUNI # 22, 14, & 49 lines
Black and Brown Social Club, invite you and your friends to join us in a round table discussion about the TRUTHS, the LIES and the COVER UPS of Covid and the pandemic.
8. Saturday, 5:30pm, 7th Anniversary of Amilcar Perez-Lopez killed by SFPD
In person – meet at:
Folsom (between 25th & 26th where Amicar was killed)
SF
This Saturday marks 7 years since SFPD killed Amilcar, and a few of us thought it would be good to gather for a short remembrance.
We’ll share poetry, song, a few words from Amilcar’s family, and memories–the kind that strengthen us for the ongoing struggle. Because, although our specific work for Amilcar and his family is now largely complete, the larger struggle to end police brutality continues, and many of you are deeply engaged. Thank you! Please tell us about your important work!
Info: This Saturday, 02/26, 5:30pm: Remembering Amilcar 7 years later (mailchi.mp)
Sunday, February 27
9. Sunday, 11:30am – 12:30pm, Speak Out At St. Mary’s for Reproductive Rights
In person
Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption
Intersection of Geary Blvd. & Gough St.
SF
Meet at the corner near the church plaza and be prepared for a spectacle. This testimony occurs at the entrance of St. Mary’s Cathedral the home church of Archbishop Cordileone, a zealous crusader for the Catholic Church and its dark ages morality including extreme patriarchy. Street theater, handmaids, Raging Grannies, more.
To build for mass protests on March 8, International Women’s Day, Sproul Plaza UC Berkeley ,
We are calling on women who suffered before abortion was legalized, along with their daughters, granddaughters, partners and all who care to:
Speak out at Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption—
Were you disgusted by the recent the Walk for Life that invaded our city busing in “the faithful” from far points to denounce reproductive choice? Are you against the enslavement of women? Do you refuse to let the Supreme Court dismantle Roe v. Wade?
Women’s rights are in a state of emergency.
We will not be silenced~
— All the Supreme Court Justices likely to uphold the restrictive Mississippi abortion ban that would gut abortion rights are deeply informed by the anti-abortion teachings of the Catholic Church.
Join us to testify to bring alive the violence done to women when they are denied access to abortion and forced to have children against their will. This is the dismantling of our right to privacy, marriage equality, fertility treatments the Catholic Church objects to as well as appropriate healthcare for people with uteruses.
Youth and age together in action!
Speakout with recollections of the not too distance past before Roe was law of the land. We remember!
Info: Speakout at St. Mary’s : Indybay
10. Sunday, 1:00pm, Rally in San Francisco – Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Shanghai Communique
RSVP Here:
In person meet at:
SF Main Library
100 Larkin St.
SF
Honor the Shanghai Communique: One China – Peace Not War!
Join us for events in San Francisco and Washington D.C. on the 50th anniversary of the Shanghai Communique demanding Peace, not war with China:
On February 28, 1972, the US and China issued the Shanghai Communique at the end of Nixon’s path-breaking visit to the People’s Republic of China. As we mark the 50th anniversary of this historic breakthrough in the relationship between our countries it is a time to recall and reaffirm the guiding principles which were established in the bilateral statement agreed to by both sides.
The binding obligation of both the US and China is to “…conduct their relations on the principles of respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all states, non-aggression against other states, non-interference in the internal affairs of other states, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence.”
Additionally, the US government declared that it “…acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. The United States Government does not challenge that position. It reaffirms its interest in a peaceful settlement of the Taiwan question by the Chinese themselves.”
In recent years, the US government has moved rapidly to adopt an increasingly antagonistic posture towards China. As Americans who urge peace and cooperation than to promote war with China, we urge US politicians to respect and affirm the joint Shanghai Communique, withdraw US troops from Taiwan, cease provocations in the Taiwan Strait, and allow the question of Taiwan to be resolved by the Chinese people on both sides of the Strait themselves, without outside interference and manipulation.
Host: Pivot To Peace
11. Sunday, 1:00pm – 3:00pm, Dangerous Truths! New Perspectives on U.S. History
Online ZOOM: https://zoom.us/j/94599924862?pwd=K2FKRUsrdWYyajI5eGhhQ2s2dDUrQT09
The Human Rights Working Group and the Forum Committee of the First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco will present new perspectives about the history of our country, and why this causes conflict in our educational system.
New research is exposing facts about white supremacy, colonization, and a Eurocentric dominant culture; and recent scholarship contradicts long-held prior narratives about our country’s history.
Speakers will uncover truths about the beginnings of our American history and our current cultural discourse on these subjects:
1:00pmPaul Magid, on The Doctrine of Discovery
2:00pm Judge Angela Robinson (Ret.) on Critical Race Theory
Info: Dangerous Truths : Indybay
Monday, February 28
12. Monday, 9:00am, Closing Arguments on “Excessive Use of Force” on Dacari Spiers by SFPD Officer Terrance Stangel
Hall of Justice
850 Bryant, Dept. 27 (2nd Floor)
SF
You do not need to show your ID to enter the building
Terrance Stangel is the first SFPD officer to face a criminal trial for use-of-force violations while on duty.
Monday, closing arguments and jury instructions will be given.
This is the first time in San Francisco that the District Attorney has charged and bought to trial a police officer.
There has only been 1-4 people present to support the prosecution. There have been many police officers and the Police Officers Association folks in the court room
Please come out to support the prosecution.
Police Brutality Needs to STOP!!
SAVE the DATE
4th Angelversary of Jesus Adolfo “Dolpher” Duarte Delgado
Friday, March 4th
1:00pm – 3:00pm
SF Police Headquarters
1251 3rd St.
SF
Public Transportation: MUNI – K-T street car
Jesus Adolfo Duarte Delgado was murdered by SFPD on March 6, 2018. He was shot at by 10 SFPD Officers 99 times/
Actual Angelversary is March 6th.
Maria (the mother) and Victor (the brother) have requested that the Angelversary be held at SF Police Headquarters. They plan to have Aztec Dancers and more.
You are invited to bring flowers, candles but most important the honor of your presence.
