By Adrienne Fong
Am not back posting on a regular basis
Please hold Francis, Jackie, Melvin, Rodger and Barbara’s family and friends in your thoughts.
BARBARA BRIGGS-LETSON passed away on August 17, 2022, in Switzerland
– She was an active member of CodePink locally, nationally and internationally.
– Her activism included her creative art.and displays.
– Her life was dedicated to working for PEACE and HUMAN RIGHTS
– She touched many lives till her last breath..
-Col. Ann Wright’s tribute to Barbara: https://usboatstogaza.org
R.I.P.
♥ Barbara Briggs-Letson ♥
Francis Collins, who is in the hospital
Jackie Barshak, battling stage 4 metastatic lung cancer, as she continues chemo therapy.
Melvin Starks recently released from the hospital!
– Still needs housing!
Rodger Scott as he gains strength. Open site to see telephone number Meal Train for Rodger Scott
He welcomes noon time visits
Good visiting time is early afternoon around 1pm to 2pm, please see calendar to choose a day. Also, Rodger has a meal service and bringing meals is not necessary.
Hold the people in Pakistan, Mississippi and Kentucky in your thoughts as they are experience extreme flooding
Hold the people in Africa in your thoughts as they are experiencing drought and famine..
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. Scott Ritter: The Death List – August 31, 2022
B. US Has Cut Water Supplies for 7 States During Climate-Induced Drought – August 31, 2022
US Has Cut Water Supplies for 7 States During Climate-Induced Drought (truthout.org)
C. Tangled Web: How All 3 Nonprofits That Paid DA Brooke Jenkins Have Links to the Chesa Boudin Recall
From a friend:
“As a Real Estate lobbyist Jung has also stopped lots of pro tenant legislation from winning at the ballot. Like Prop G the anti speculation tax that went down to defeat in November of 2014. She and her RE connections spent 2 million to defat Prop G. They were less than honest in how they depicted the Tax & many property owners were falsely told if it passed they would not be able to sell their property . That being said, I’m not surprised the role she has played in the Recall Boudin campaign .”
See Article D and Events #’s 3 & 7
D. Chesa Boudin wanted to free a man who says he’s innocent of murder. D.A. Brooke Jenkins had concerns – August 29, 2022
Brooke Jenkins reviews case from Chesa Boudin’s Innocence Commission (sfchronicle.com)
See Article C and Events #’s 3 & 7
E. CA Sen. Skinner Selling Out To PG&E By Giving $1.4 B To Keep Diablo Canyon Nuke Open With SB 846
See Petition # 1
F. Game of nuclear chicken in Zaporozhye – August 29, 2022
G. The Treasure Island mainstream media blockade is broken as islanders protest illegal eviction lotteries and tolls – August 28, 2022
H. “War Poisons Everybody”: Remembering Legendary Historian Howard Zinn on His 100th Birthday – August 24, 2022
I. Police, civilian protectors, permits, flea market: Residents discuss 24th St. BART plaza – August 24, 2022
J. The US Must Acknowledge the Role Racism Plays in Migration Policies – August 16, 2022
K. Why does Israel keep killing Palestinians? – August 15, 2022
Why does Israel keep killing Palestinians? | The Electronic Intifada
L. Pompeo Sued Over Surveillance of Assange Visitors – August 14, 2022
6 PETITIONS
1. Tell your legislators to reject Newsom’s Monster Nuclear Bailout!
SIGN: Tell your legislators to Reject Newsom’s Monster Nuclear Bailout! – Action Network
send a letter to your California legislators and tell them to vote no on any legislation to extend the lifetime of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. Californians deserve better than unsafe, unreliable, dirty energy. Newsom’s nuclear bailout upends the energy resource development needed to meet California’s clean energy and climate goals while conning ratepayers and taxpayers for billions of dollars of wasted and misdirected investment in nuclear energy.
2. Negotiations Urgently Needed to avoid a large-scale Nuclear Catastrophe
SIGN: Negotiations Urgently Needed to avoid a large-scale Nuclear Catastrophe in Ukraine (everyaction.com)
Both Russia and Ukraine have finally agreed to have the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), the UN’s nuclear watchdog, inspect the plant. IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi is leading a team of inspectors who arrived today in the city of Zaporizhzhiya, 34 miles from the plant.
Given the international concern about a potential catastrophe at Zaporizhzhia, we must do all that we can to urge our country to engage in Negotiation.
Unfortunately, President Biden last week announced a further $3 billion in military aid, which will further prolong the war. He announced no new diplomatic initiatives.
3. To: All speakers at Saudi’s Global AI Summit 2022
SIGN: Global AI Summit speakers: Free Salma (sumofus.org)
4. SFHA Reverse Illegal Eviction
SIGN: Petition · SFHA Reverse Illegal Eviction · Change.org
Years of displacement, public housing teardowns, bad policy favoring property owners, gentrification and structural racism has decimated our African American population in San Francisco.
LaKetha Pierce loves San Francisco and has spent her adult life giving to this city, as a caregiver in health care, as a service provider to unhoused people and today as a leader fighting for housing and human rights for impoverished San Franciscans. In 2010, during a time of personal struggle with postpartum depression, she was illegally evicted from public housing. Eviction proceedings were filed against her for owing $250, and she and her family members attempted to pay several times before the Sheriff got there and were refused by property management.
Since then her family has suffered homelessness, living in cars, in shelters, in hotels, moved out of the city on a temporary housing subsidy twice and became homeless again each time when the subsidy ended. The whole time she continued working in San Francisco
Please sign this petition calling for the Housing Authority to rescind the eviction and move Laketha and her sons back home in public housing!
5. Kaiser, Don’t Deny Patients Need Access to Timely and Consistent Mental Health Services
SIGN: KAISER THERAPISTS ON STRIKE – Kaiser, Don’t Deny – National Union of Healthcare Workers (nuhw.org)
6. Demand Congress regulate chemicals that contaminate our food and drinking water and jeopardize our health
EVENTS
Thursday, September 1 – Tuesday, September 6
Thursday, September 1
1. Thursday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, Pelosi & Feinstein: Stop the Dirty Pipeline Deal! (SF Rally)
In person
RSVP: Senator Feinstein: Stop the Dirty Pipeline Deal! (SF Rally and letter delivery) (actionnetwork.org)
Senator Feinstein’s Office (outside)
1 Post St. (at Market St.)
SF
Wear RED-ORANGE for climate fires and disasters!
A broad coalition will descend on 1 Post Street in San Francisco to demand that our elected officials here in California hold the line against any dirty side deal with Manchin and the fossil fuel industry. If passed this deal that would sacrifice frontline communities, fast-track dangerous fossil fuel projects, and gut bedrock environmental laws for environmental review and community input on infrastructure projects.
Join us in a rally on Thursday, Sept 1st outside Senator Feinsteins office to demand that she take action to stop this dirty deal. We can’t allow communities to be sacrificed to more fracking, pipelines, and climate disasters.
Hosts: Sunrise Movement Bay Area, Oil & Gas Action Network, Food & Water Watch – Bay Area, 350 Bay Area
Info: Pelosi & Feinstein: Stop the Dirty Pipeline Deal! (SF Rally) | Facebook
2. Thursday, 4:00pm – 5:30pm (Pt), 7:00pm – 8:30pm (ET), Inflation & Recession – Made on Wall Street: Solution – People’s Price Controls
Online register in advance: Meeting Registration – Zoom
Presentation will be by Chris Fry, member editorial staff of Fighting-Words.net online journal.
There will be a discussion following the presentation, which all participants are invited to join.
We invite you to review the following articles, authored by Chris Fry, in advance of the meeting – but not required. You’re welcome to join whether or not you’ve had time to review them:
https://fighting-words.net/2022/08/06/inflation-and-recession-roots-in-imperialism-part-3/
https://fighting-words.net/2022/06/27/inflation-and-recession-roots-in-imperialism-part-2/
https://fighting-words.net/2022/06/20/inflation-and-recession-rooted-in-imperialism-part-1/
https://fighting-words.net/2022/02/03/inflation-capitalist-robbery-of-the-oppressed-and-working-class/
Host: Communist Workers League
Info: Inflation & Recession – Made on Wall Street: Solution – People’s Price Controls | Facebook
Friday, September 2
3. Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, STAND FOR JUSTICE NOT INTERIM SF DA BROOKE JENKINS
In person
SF Interim DA Jenkins Office (outside)
350 Rhode Island
SF
SF MUNI # 22 Line
Event is outdoors on the sidewalk on a slight hill.
Mothers On The March will be at interim SF DA Brooke Jenkins office.
Since Mayor London Breed appointed Jenkins to replace DA Chesa Boudin, more has been exposed about Jenkins lies and deceit.
Now, she has entered the November election.
The Chinatown Townhall that SFPD Chief Scott and Interim SF DA Jenkins held – was a public relations event for SFPD and for Jenkins upcoming election.
Both were advocating for more police, more $$ for SFPD and increase surveillance without dealing with the root causes of ‘Asian Hate’.
They are causing more hate and divisions between the Asian, Black, and Brown communities.
The event was Jenkins 4th or 5th appearance in SF Chinatown since becoming the DA.
All are welcomed to RESIST with Mothers On The March and People from the Community
JUSTICE: YES
JENKINS: NO!
BREED, JENKINS & SCOTT:
BAD GOVERNMENT
POLITICS OVER PEOPLE
NO to HATE
In Our
ASIAN, BLACK, BROWN & WHITE
COMMUNITIES!
BROOKE JENKINS
LIES, LIES, LIES
DON’T BE FOOLED!
4. Friday, 7:00pm – 9:30pm, Free Them All Movie Night! Let t he Fire Burn
In person
Parker Community School
7929 Ney Ave.
Oakland
The Bay Area Chapter of Black Alliance for Peace invites you to a screening of the documentary film Let the Fire Burn.
Let the Fire Burn tells the story of the 1985 bombing of the headquarters of the revolutionary MOVE organization by the Philadelphia Police Department, which killed 11 MOVE members (including 5 children), destroyed 61 neighboring homes, and displaced more than 250 Black residents.
Join us to explore this history of radical Black resistance against militarized domestic state repression and to discuss how it informs our ongoing struggle against the permanent war agenda of the U.S. state globally.
Info:Free Them All Movie Night! Let the Fire Burn : Indybay
Saturday, September 3
5. Saturday, 11:30am, People First San Francisco Kickoff Rally and Lit Drop
In person
Meet at:
9th Avenue & Lincoln Way
SF
Join us this Saturday for the kickoff rally and lit drop for People First San Francisco, DSA SF’s campaign for three ballot measures to build worker and tenant power here in San Francisco:
– Yes on M, Empty Homes Tax: This measure will tax big landlords who leave apartments empty to raise money for affordable housing. It is put forward by DSA SF with help from groups like Faith in Action
– Yes on O, City College Measure (SF WERCS): This measure will institute a graduated parcel tax (big parcels pay more) to fund City College of San Francisco, and is put forward by the city college faculty and staff unions!
– Yes On H, Double The Vote: This measure will move important city elections to even years in order to increase turnout. It is put forward by Supervisor Dean Preston, a member of DSA SF
We’ll meet for a rally and then drop literature to get the word out about the ballot measure campaigns.
Facebook info from DSA
Info: People First San Francisco Kickoff Rally and Lit Drop | Facebook
6. Saturday, 3:00pm, People’s Assembly – read and discuss the Communist Manifesto
474 Valencia-Companeros Del Barrio
SF
Learn about countries that had communist revolutions: China, Cuba, North Korea, and the Soviet Union
· What worked, what were the mistakes
If you would like a copy of the Manifesto let me know and I’ll send it to you via an attachment
Bring your comments and questions
Tuesday, September 6
7. Tuesday, 5:30pm, Protest SF Interim District Attorney Brooke Jenkins – at Manny’s (More info this weekend)
In person
Manny’s
3092 16th St. (@ Valencia)
SF
Public transportation: 16th Street BART, SF MUNI: # 22, 49 & 14
If you wish to attend inside:
SF Interim District Attorney Brooke Jenkins will be at Manny’s for a “Fireside Chat w/ SF DA Brooke Jenkins”
Event is from 6:00pm – 7:00pm (We are asking people to be outside at 5:30pm to protest)
All are welcomed to RESIST with Mothers On The March and People from the Community
Since Mayor London Breed appointed Brooke Jenkins as the interim SF DA, there has been many questions raised about her from the reason she left the DA’s Office to her role in the recall campaign of DA Chesa Boudin.
There are even more questions raised of some of her decisions since being in the DA role!
JUSTICE: YES
JENKINS: NO!
BREED, JENKINS & SCOTT:
BAD GOVERNMENT
POLITICS OVER PEOPLE
NO to HATE
In Our
ASIAN, BLACK, BROWN & WHITE
COMMUNITIES!
BROOKE JENKINS
LIES, LIES, LIES
DON’T BE FOOLED!
