Articles (in 2 groups) ~ Petitions ~ Events for Thursday, March 17 – Monday, March 21 (from Adrienne Fong)

NOT back posting on a regular basis

Please hold the following activist in your thoughts…

Cecile Pineda as she recovers from a stroke.

Refugio Nieto as he heals from surgery

Jackie Barshak as she is in treatment for Stage 3 lung cancer. She welcomes well wishes.

Melvin Starks as he continues to heal.

Renay Davisas she continues treatment for cancer.

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

Articles are in two groups – 2nd group is on Ukraine / Russia

ARTICLES

A. SFUSD missed a week of payroll for district teachers, educators sit-in at SFUSD headquarters – March 15, 2022

SFUSD missed a week of payroll for district teachers, educators sit-in at SFUSD headquarters (sfbayview.com)

B. City College faculty and students protest teacher layoffs – March 15, 2022

City College faculty and students protest teacher layoffs – 48 hills

C. Tensions over ethnic studies continue at SF State as president vetoes faculty decision siding with professor – March 15, 2022

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Tensions-over-ethnic-studies-continue-at-SF-State-17004728.php

D. Julian Assange denied US extradition appeal by UK’s top court  – March 14, 2022    

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/14/julian-assange-denied-us-extradition-appeal-by-uks-top-court

E. The Treasure Island toll is regressive, pointless—and still somehow alive  – March 13, 2022

The Treasure Island toll is regressive, pointless—and still somehow alive – 48 hills

F. Federal Court Instructs FCC To Review Electromagnetic Radiation Standards – March 9, 2022

FCC—Electromagnetic Radiation Standards | Washington Spectator

Ukranie / Russia

See Petition # 1 & # 2

 Events # 2, # 9

1. Geopolitics & Empire interviews Dmitry Orlov on Russian military operation in Ukraine – March 16, 2022

Geopolitics & Empire interviews Dmitry Orlov on Russian military operation in Ukraine – In Gaza (wordpress.com)

   Posted by Eva Bartlett

2. Censored Reports from Donbass Make Clear Ukraine and Not Russia Started the War—Eight Years Ago – March 13, 2022

Censored Reports from Donbass Make Clear Ukraine and Not Russia Started the     War—Eight Years Ago – CovertAction Magazine

3. NATO is arming and training Nazis in Ukraine, as US floods Russia’s neighbor with weapons – March 10, 2022

NATO is arming and training Nazis in Ukraine, as US floods Russia’s neighbor with weapons – Multipolarista

  By Ben Norton

4. Fox Business Guest Tells Truth About Ukraine President – March 8, 2022

Fox Business Guest Tells Truth About Ukraine President – YouTube

 Jimmy Dore

PETITIONS

1. Reject a No Fly Zone over Ukraine
  SIGN: Reject a No Fly Zone over Ukraine (everyaction.com)

   See events #2, # 9

2. Negotiate for peace in Ukraine!

Negotiate for peace in Ukraine! (codepink.org)

3. Time to End Title 42

  SIGN Time to End Title 42 (google.com)

  See event # 11

4. Demand President Biden Pardon Steven Donziger

  SIGN: Demand President Biden Pardon Steven Donziger – Action Network

5. Demand Congress stop Big Oil from profiting off the crisis in Ukraine!

  SIGN: FOE: Take Action

6. Unity Statement: Justice For the New Bataan 5!

  SIGN: Unity Statement: Justice For the New Bataan 5! (google.com)

   See events  # 4, & # 8

7. President Biden: Lift the Venezuela sanctions!

  SIGN: President Biden: Lift the Venezuela sanctions! CODEPINK – Women for Peace

8. Stop a Biotech Company From Releasing Genetically Engineered Mosquitos Into California!

  SIGN: Stop a Biotech Company From Releasing Genetically Engineered Mosquitos Into California! (centerforfoodsafety.org)

EVENTS

Thursday, March 17 – Monday, March 21

Thursday, March 17

1. Thursday, 2:00pm – 7:00pm, MAILING PARTY #2: #DefundClimateChaos Street Art Project #ArtNotWar

In person

Only At Bridge
23 Maine Ave.
Richmond

PASTING WORKSHOP: At 5:30-6pm we will have a short (wheat) Paste Up Training/Practice to learn how to make paste, and paste up on walls or or surfaces.

HELP: ship out thousands of street art posters printed as newspapers for the #DefundClimateChaos Week of Art Action, April 2-10, 2022. We will be assembling papers, packing and taping envelopes to be shipped. We will be working out doors, so please dress for it.

GET ART: Pick Up Poster Art: Come get copes of the poster art to get up during the week of action to past, use in action or in Pop-Up Art Exhibits.

POP-UP ART SHOW: World-wide premier art exhibit of the giant poster art designs together with artists statements. The Pop-up Are show is available for Bay Area use at public events, in neighborhood or in front of banks.

(April 2 – 10,   #DefundClimateChaos  Week of Art Actions info: DEFUND CLIMATE CHAOS STREET ART KIT – Google Docs )

Host: David Solnit

Info: (1) MAILING PARTY #2: #DefundClimateChaos Street Art Project #ArtNotWar | Facebook

2. Thursday, 4:00pm (PT); 7:00pm (ET), War with Russia? with Ben Norton

Online register: Meeting Registration – Zoom

Join us for a webinar about the US Cold War on Russia with Ben Norton. Ben Norton is an independent journalist who is the founder and editor of https://multipolarista.com/ Multipolarista is an independent news outlet documenting the transition to a multipolar world.

Host Massachusetts Peace Action

Info: https://masspeaceaction.org/event/us-cold-war-on-russia-and-china-with-ben-norton/

3. Thursday, 4:30pm (PT); 7:30pm (ET), Global Solidarity with Women and Gender Oppressed Workers

Online register: Webinar Registration – Zoom

The panel, discussing struggles and how they relate to an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist perspective, will include:

Norma Pérez from A Call to Action on Puerto Rico and a former teacher

Kisha James, a leader of the United American Indians of New England and a member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag/Oglala Lakota tribal nations

Marie Kelly, a registered nurse and an at-large member of National Nurses United.

The panel will be co-facilitated by:

mYia X, a member of the Disability Justice and Rights Caucus

Ted Kelly, co-chair of the Prisoners Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party

There will also be a tribute to the Memphis 7, Black and Brown workers who were fired attempting to organize a Starbucks union at their work place in Tennessee.

Host: Workers World Party – Women and Oppressed Gender Caucus

4. Thursday, 5:30pm, Planting and Healing Ceremony followed by a teach-in

In person or ZOOM

2969 Mission St.
SF

Register for Zoom: Meeting Registration – Zoom

  Please also see Friday Event # 8

New Bataan 5 Teach-in

From February 28 to March 4, thousands of Filipinos and allies across the U.S. mobilized in a National Week of Action from demanding Justice for the New Bataan 5: Chad Booc and Jurain Ngujo (volunteer teachers with indigenous Lumad schools), Elgyn Balonga (a community health worker), and Robert Aragon and Tirso Añar (their two drivers). The New Bataan 5 were civilians targeted, red-tagged, and killed on February 24 by the Armed Forces of Philippines (AFP) for the “crime” of tireless service to Lumad indigenous communities long-neglected by the Philippine government. Despite the AFP’S claims framing the massacre as an “armed” encounter, on March 10, results of an independent autopsy report confirmed that the military fired at Chad Booc with a clear “intent to kill.” Testimonies from Jurain Ngujo and Elgyn Balonga’s families also revealed that they had been brutally tortured, including peeling off of skin, severing of limbs, and tearing off of the jaw. The autopsy report ruled Chad’s death as homicide

Host: SFCHRP

5. Thursday, 5:30pm – 7:45pm, Foundations of Decolonization & Pathways to Mutual Liberation Workshop

Online registration: Foundations of Decolonization & Envisioning Pathways to Mutual Liberation Tickets, Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 5:30 PM | Eventbrite 

Cost: $40 – $160

Decolonize Together invites you to join us for an interactive masterclass delving deeply into the history and foundations of colonization accompanied by an expert panel on envisioning the future of decolonization and mutual liberation. This workshop is designed for participants from every background and personal location better understand their role, responsibility and tools to enact equity within the ongoing context of colonialism and the lasting legacy of systemic racism and intergenerational inequity. Our participatory curriculum is designed to empower every participant to discern tangible strategies to enact anti-racism and decolonizing practices within their own everyday work and personal lives.

Using both a systemic analysis and culturally-informed perspectives, this masterclass will guide participants into a deepened sense of understanding, compassion, and agency in dismantling harmful systems of oppression; for both the healing of every individual and the collective.

Presenters & Facilitators

Lisa Betty, PhD Candidate in History at Fordham University. She teaches on themes of land, labor, migration, and diaspora in the Americas, the Caribbean and Africa

Pamphinette Buisa, organizer, activist, and Olympic Athlete

Jordan Chaney, Poet

Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Founder of Sacred Earth Solar, Co-Founder and Senior Director of Indigenous Climate Action.

Miigwan Reine, spiritual advisor, Decolonize Together

Nikki Sanchez, Founder & director, Decolonize Together

Shayla Stonechild, Founder & Host, Matriarch Movement

The event will take place on a Zoom Video Webinar. We will also send out a recording to the attendees for those that can’t make it.  

Friday, March 18

6. Friday, 9:30am (PT), The International People’s Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades, and Economic Coercive Measures

Online registration Introductory webinar: Webinar Registration – Zoom

Presently, the United States, with the support of the United Nations and European Union, has imposed sanctions and other economic coercive measures on over 30 percent of the global population, mostly located in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Sanctions are one of the key tools of U.S. imperialism, leading to mass starvation and suffering of peoples in the Global South, while opening up markets to U.S. and European corporations.

The International People’s Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades & Economic Coercive Measures will challenge the economic atrocities committed by the United States through the use of the law, highlighting the unlawful, unjust, and colonial nature of economic coercive measures.

The webinar will feature:

·       Eva Nanopoulos, Senior Lecturer in Law at Queen Mary University in London,

·       Carlos Ron, President of the Simón Bolívar Institute for Peace and Solidarity Among Peoples and Venezuela’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for North America,

·       Vira Ameli, Interdisciplinary Researcher focused on Public Health in Iran and the Middle East,

·       Grasian Mkodzongi, Executive Director at Tropical Africa-Land and Natural Resources Research Institute in Zimbabwe,

·       Maria Lucrecia Hernández, Attorney and Director of ONG Sures in Venezuela,

·       Motee Abumusabeh, Political and Media Activist in Gaza, Palestine, and

·       Moderator: Helyeh Doutaghi, Doctoral Candidate in Law & Legal Studies at Carleton University in Canada

The People’s Tribunal will last for six months, from January to June 2023, and will host expert witnesses, international legal jurists, and rapporteurs from thirteen countries currently targeted by US sanctions.

The Tribunal is co-sponsored by organizations located throughout the world, including the Committee of Anti-Imperialists in Solidarity with Iran, the Simón Bolívar Institute for Peace and Solidarity Among Peoples, National Lawyers Guild, the International Association for Democratic Lawyers, Al-Awda Palestinian Right to Return Coalition, Samidoun Palestinian Political Prisoner Solidarity Network, Black Alliance for Peace, ANSWER Coalition, People’s Forum, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, CodePink, Sanctions Kill, Frantz Fanon Foundation, Al Massar Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, Qiao Collective, and the Alliance for Global Justice.

7. Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Shut Down the San Francisco Police Officers Association

In person

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

RESIST with Mothers On The March  and Families whose loved ones have been killed by SFPD and other law enforcement agencies.

After the verdict of the Stangel case it’s even more important that we need to stand together against police terror.

Our Demands:

 – The Police Officers Association be Shut Down

 – The SF Police Officers Association Be Declared a Non Grata Organization]

 – We call for the abolishment of the ‘Officers Bill of Rights’

 – Jail Killer Cops – we demand killer cops be charged with murder.

 – Abolish the Police!

The POA has defend people that have executed and terrorized 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!!

If you can’t attend contact Mayor London Breed and the SF Board of Supervisors – Tell the that you OPPOSE funding for the SFPD:

Mayor Breed

Tel: (415) 554-6141

Email: MayorLondonBreed@sfgov.org

Contact info for SF Board of Supervisors

https://sfbos.org/roster-members

8. Friday, 4:00pm, Justice For New Bataan 5 Mobilization San Francisco

In person – meet at

SF Union Square (prior to 4pm)

Action at:

SF Philippine Consualte
447 Sutter St, (nr. Stockton / Powell)
SF

Condemn the brutal murder and torture of the New Bataan 5 by the 10th Infantry Division (ID) of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) as a violation of International Humanitarian Law and basic human rights. 

Chad Booc and Jurain Ngujo (volunteer teachers with indigenous Lumad schools), Elgyn Balonga (a community health worker), and Robert Aragon and Tirso Añar (their two drivers). The New Bataan 5 were civilians killed by the Philippine military on February 24, 2022.

 Join us for a MOBILIZATION on this National Week of rage at the Philippine Consulate in San Francisco.

Stand with us against the fascist U.S.-backed Duterte regime and the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and in our demands for an independent and thorough investigation now! Justice for the New Bataan 5 and all victims of state-sponsored killings! AFP Panagutin! Save Lumad Schools! Stop Lumad Killings! Stop the Killings in the Philippines! Pass the PHRA!

The AFP continues to receive millions of our U.S. tax dollars in the form of free military assistance, despite national calls to cut aid to the Philippines.

Hosts:  Anakbayan-USA, the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP), Kabataan Alliance, and the Malaya Movement

Info: (1) Justice for the New Bataan 5 Mobilization San Francisco | Facebook

9. Friday, 5:00pm, No War, No Imperialism: NATO, Russia, and Ukraine Community Teach-in

Online Register to join us via Zoom: https://bit.ly/NoImperialism

Spanish language translation will be provided.

Join the Albuquerque Anti-War Coalition, the Black Alliance for Peace and the Red Nation for a virtual community teach-in about what’s really happening in Ukraine, in clear and accessible language. If you’ve been concerned and confused about world events and are looking for more political and historical context and an understanding of how this will impact our communities, this is the place for you!

Info: (2) No War, No Imperialism: NATO, Russia, and Ukraine Community Teach-in | Facebook

Saturday, March 19

10. Saturday, 12 Noon, Virtual Rally to Free Ruchell Magee!

Online register: Webinar Registration – Zoom

Ruchell Magee is turning 83 years old on March 17, 2022. We believe it is a national tragedy that an elder is still imprisoned unjustly. After 59 years of imprisonment stemming from a marijuana charge, our brother Ruchell Magee needs our support!

Speakers include: Angela Y. Davis, Chairman Fred Hampton Jr., Jalil Muntaqim, Melina Abdullah, Eugene Puryear, Dr. Jared Ball, Yasmeen Majid, Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley, Empress Chi, Diane Fujino, and more!

Monday, March 21

11. Monday, 12Noon, Rally to #EndTitle42 and #WelcomeWithDignity

In person

SF Federal Building
90 7th Street (7th & Mission)
SF

Please WEAR RED to show your solidarity with migrant organizers in Mexico and communities mobilizing around the United States on Monday. 

On the two-year anniversary of Title 42, show up for people seeking asylum and demand the Biden administration end its deadly expulsion policy.

Join immigrant rights advocates, faith leaders, public health practitioners, and people directly impacted by Title 42 for a rally

Let’s show the Biden administration that the Bay Area is ready to give asylum seekers a #WelcomeWithDignity

To learn more, visit: https://welcomewithdignity.org/take-action/

Partner organizations include the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, Central American Resource Center, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, MomsRising/Mamás con Poder, Priority Africa Network, the Women’s Building, and the #WelcomeWithDignity Campaign.

Host: Women’s Building of San Francisco, Center for Center and Refugee Studies

Info: Rally to #EndTitle42 and #WelcomeWithDignity | Facebook

12. Monday 5:00pm, Alex Nieto 8 Year Angelversary

In person

Alex’s Altar
Bernal Hill
SF

8 years ago Alex Nieto was murdered by the SFPD. Still no justice has been served for the family.

Please join family, friends & community as we gather to remember Alex Nieto.   

There will be food, drink & good vibes.

Feel free to bring flowers.

It will be windy. Dress warm.

Info: (1) Alex Nieto 8 year angelversary | Facebook

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