By Adrienne Fong
Am not back posting on a regular basis.
Please send healing thoughts to the following people:
Victor Picazo, dealing with health complications
Francis Collins, who is still hospitalized
Susan Witka, as she recovers from surgery
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ARTICLES
A. Mossad chief warns US during visit – September 9, 2022
Mossad chief warns US during visit — RT World News
B. Class action accuses San Francisco sheriff of illegal search and surveillance practices – September 9, 2022
C. US drops another $2.2 billion on Ukrainian military – September 8, 2022
US drops another $2.2bn on Ukrainian military — RT World News
D. Fifty years on, Matthews and Collett are owed an apology for their Olympic expulsion – September 8, 2022
E. DA Jenkins, in the Mission, gives few clues on potential police prosecutions – September 7, 2022
DA Jenkins, in the Mission, gives few clues on potential police prosecutions – Mission Local
F. 24th St. BART Plaza has become the Mission’s Tenderloin – September 6, 2022
24th St. BART Plaza has become the Mission’s Tenderloin – Mission Local
“Fifty vendors have applied for permits. Public Works has approved four. Enforcement begins Sept. 12.”
G. Haney, Ting, and Wiener all back $1.4 billion PG&E nuke bailout bill – September 5, 2022
Haney, Ting, and Wiener all back $1.4 billion PG&E nuke bailout bill – 48 hills
H. Israel lobby fury as Jewish leftist elected to Labour’s ruling body – September 2, 2022
Israel lobby fury as Jewish leftist elected to Labour’s ruling body | The Electronic Intifada
I. Jon Stewart and the Pentagon honor Ukrainian Nazi at Disney World – August 31, 2022
Jon Stewart and the Pentagon honor Ukrainian Nazi at Disney World – The Grayzone
J. The Psychology of Totalitarianism – August 29, 2022
The Psychology of Totalitarianism (substack.com)
K. Courageous whistleblowers — salute and defend them!
Courageous whistleblowers — salute and defend them! – Freedom Socialist Party (socialism.com)
7 PETITIONS:
1. Tell Your Rep: Put the people over the Pentagon
Tell Your Rep: Put the people over the Pentagon | Win Without War
2. Help amplify the refusers’ voice!
Help amplify the refusers’ voice! – Action Network
This week, four 18 and 19-year-old Israelis will be imprisoned because they refuse the military draft opposing the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian people
3. The EPA is planning to approve bee-killing pesticides for another 15 years!
SIGN: FOE: Take Action
4. Stop Manchin’s Dirty Deal. Congress cannot sacrifice our communities and our climate for oil, coal, and gas industry profits
5. Tell Unilever you support Ben & Jerry’s decision not to profit from illegal Israeli settlements
6. Tell Pres. Biden: Free Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale!
Tell Pres. Biden: Free Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale! (salsalabs.org)
Drone whistleblower Daniel Hale has just filed a commutation petition.
Daniel is currently in a Communications Management United serving a 45 month-sentence for working with the media to alert the public about the human cost of US drone warfare and the terror watch list. He is one of a number of courageous whistleblowers prosecuted under the draconian and grotesquely misnamed Espionage Act.
7. Urge Congress: Reject Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ban on trans affirming care
EVENTS
Saturday, September 10 – Tuesday, September 13
Saturday, September 10
1. Saturday, 10:30am – 12:30pm, Stop the Violence – Solidarity Now: Forum 1
In person
Pacific Renaissance Plaza
388 Ninth Street, Suite 290
Oakland
The “Stop the Violence – Solidarity Now!” project is a BAMC social action initiative launched in response to the violence against the Asian community, particularly those attacked by African American males in Oakland’s Chinatown.
The way these incidents have been covered in the media has created a divide among African Americans and Asians throughout Oakland, particularly in Chinatown and surrounding communities. In an effort to take positive strategic action to address the severed relationship between African Americans and Asians in Oakland, BAMC is dedicated to leading efforts that build positive relations between these two racial groups.
Forum 1 – Continuing the discussion regarding the need for Black and Asian Solidarity
Info: Stop the Violence – Solidarity Now! Forum 1 – Oakland Asian Cultural Center (oacc.cc) or Stop the Violence – Solidarity Now! Forum 1 : Indybay
2. Saturday, 11:00am – 2:00pm, Lit Drop Mobilization for Proposition O&M!
In person – meet at:
Sunset Reservoir
24th Ave. & Ortega
SF
Yes on O for City College!
3. Saturday, 1:00pm(PT); 4:00pm(ET), 9/11 Symposium 2022 – Lawyers Committee for 9/11 Inquiry
FREE Online: Register Now! | Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry (lawyerscommitteefor9-11inquiry.org)
PRESENTERS:
.Mick Harrison, Esq.
Dispatches From the Battlefield:
Board Member & Litigation Director Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going
Christopher Giola
9/11: 21 Years Later
Fmr NY Fire Commissione
9/11: Crime Scene to Courtroom
Richard Gage, ATA
Board Member & Technical Adviser
Erik Lawyer
Never Again
Founder, Firefighters for 9/11 Truth
Charlotte Dennett, Esq.
Board Member, Author
Follow The Pipelines: Key to 9/11
and The Global War on Terror
Barbara Honegger, M.S.
Board Co Chair, Author
Anthrax Links to the Day of 9/11
Daniel Sheehan, Esq-
Advisory Committee Member
What It Takes to Win Historic Cases
MC:
Kristina Borjesson
Board Co-Chair & Host of PRN’s ‘The Whistleblower Newsroom’
SPECIAL SEGMENTS:
. Legal Strategies and Advocacy Tools for 9/11 Truth Advocates
. Q&A – Speakers and Online Participants
4. Saturday, 1:00pm – 3:00pm, Teach-in People’s Assembly (focus on climate crisis)
Online via ZOOM
Register: Meeting Registration – Zoom
Are you concerned about the future of the planet and all life on it? are you concerned about the IRA? you are invited to a free Teach-in on People’s Assembly Saturday September 10th, from 1 to 3pm PST on zoom. Local Celebrities, Alycee Lane, & Jeremy Lent (authors) will be presenting as well as Yusra Bitar & Derek Seidman of littlesis. This Teach-in is free and open to the public.
Host: triplejustice
Info: Teach-in People’s Assembly (focus climate crisis) : Indybay
5. Saturday, 2:30pm – 4:30pm, Housing Commodity or Human Right?
Online registration: Meeting Registration – Zoom
Keeping rental housing empty is one way landlords manipulate the housing market. At this forum we will discuss local ballot measures for an empty homes tax. We will also examine rent control and other affordable housing policies, and look at the battle over Howard Terminal in Oakland, which is really about gentrification and real estate profit, not about a ball park.
Moderated by Marsha Feinland, former Berkeley Rent Board Commissioner
Gwen McLaughlin – San Francisco Democratic Socialists of America Electoral Board Member, Field Director for Yes on M! Fill Empty Homes Campaign
Steve Barton – retired City of Berkeley Housing Director and Deputy Director of the Rent Board; currently on the Board of the Bay Area Community Land Trust
Michael Rubin – member of the Socialist group Solidarity and the Oakland Greens
John Marc Chandonia – San Francisco Green Party
sponsored by the Oakland Greens, Bay Area System Change Not Climate Change, and the Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party.
Info: Housing: Commodity or Human Right? : Indybay
Sunday, September 11
21st Anniversary of 9/11
6. Sunday, 10:00am (PT); 1:00pm(ET), 9/11 Truth Film Festival 2022
Online
Register/donate:: Donate (paypal.com)
Link will be sent day before event.
Event Schedule (PT)
10:00 am – Opening by Richard and Gail Gage – RichardGage911.org
10:15 am – LIVE: Mick Harrison, Esq. – Lawyer’s Committee for 9/11 Inquiry
11:00 am – FILM: 9/11 Questions (2021) – by Chris DiMartini
12:00 pm – FILM: 9/11: A Conspiracy Theory – by James Corbett
12:05 pm – Tribute to David Ray Griffin – by Richard Gage
12:30 pm – FILM: 9/11: Myth & Reality – featuring David Ray Griffin
12:45 pm – Is Osama bin Laden Dead or Alive? Thom Hartmann interviews David Ray Griffin
12:55 pm – Osama in Abbottabad on “BBC Reports” – Bin Laden Neighbors testify on the 2011 raid
1:00 pm – Elizabeth Woodworth LIVE, 9/11 Consensus Panel
1:50 pm – 9/11: Crime Scene to Courtroom – Update by Richard Gage – An Invitation to Co-Produce
2:30 pm – FILM: False Flags: Part 2: The Secret History of Al Qaeda by James Corbett
4:30 pm – LIVE: James Corbett – Introducing tonight’s Premier
5:00 pm – Premier: False Flags: Part 3 – The Secret History of Al Qaeda by James Corbett
7:00pm – Q&A & Wrap-Up with Richard and Gail Gage
More info: 2022 Film Festival (richardgage911.org)
7. Sunday, 4:00pm(PT); 7:00pm(ET), The Other 9/11 – the AFL-CIO’s support for the 1973 US coup in Chile betrayed worker
Online –ZOOM day / time of event:: Launch Meeting – Zoom
On September 11, 1973 the US government the CIA with the support of the and AFL-CIO overthrew the elected socialist Allende goverenment and supported a fascist military dictatorship.
The US government and major US corporations were unhappy with the move by the Allende government to take state control over private enterprises that controlled chile’s copper mines and telephone communications. Tens of thousands were arrested and tortured and thousands were murdered with the support of the US government.
It also brought in right wing economist Milton Friedman and the Chicago boys who privatized the pension system, destroyed unions, worker organizations and attacked the left.
The AFL-CIO has yet to confront and take responsibility for this history as it continues international operations in 60 countries through the “Solidarity Center,” funded by the US government through the National Endowment for Democracy. US workers need to call the AFL-CIO to account.US working people and trade unionists need transparency and accountability for their unions here and
around the world.
Speakers:
Ernesto Rojas Urbina, Director of the Committee For Human and
Union Rights CODESH Chile
Liisa Milos, CWA UPTE UCSF Member and SFLC Delegate
Carol Lang, AFT PSC Professor & with LEPAIO
Host: Labor Education Project on AFL-CIO International
Info: The Other 9/11 – the AFL-CIO’s support for the 1973 US coup in Chile betrayed workers : Indybay
8. Sunday, 5:00pm (PT); 8:00pm (ET), International Solidarity Against Martial Law
Online registration: Meeting Registration – Zoom
As we continue to prepare for mass actions across the US on Sept 20th to protest Bong Bong Marcos’ and Sara Duterte’s UN visits to NY, and as we approach the 50th Anniversary of Martial Law this September, International Coalition of Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP), along with Katarungan DC, Hawaii Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines, and San Francisco Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines invite you to:
Featured speakers:
- Pam Tau Lee: Pam Tau Lee is the chair of the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines. Pam is a long-time Bay Area activist and co-founder of the Chinese Progressive Association. Pam has dedicated her life to fighting oppression and injustice. She has been involved in many struggles over the decades, and now is involved in environmental and indigenous rights advocacy.
- John Witeck: John Witeck has co-founded solidarity organizations for the Philippines and has been a member of Friends of Filipino People (Hawaii), Philippine Workers Support Committee (with our newsletter Philippine Labor Alert and our Adopt a KMU Organizer program), and the Church Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines. He helped raise about $160,000 for our Negros Food and Freedom Fund to support the NFSW-KMU and Bacolod Diocese’s farmlot project for sugarworkers & their families.
Sponsoring org. Alliance of South Asians Taking Action, Haiti Action Committee
Hosts: ICHRP=US, SF Committee on Human Rights in the Philippines, + 2 Other organizations
Info: ICHRP US International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines | Facebook
9. Sunday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, Biden’s Imperialist Climate Bill: The Devil Lies in the Big Picture
In person
Revolution Books
2444 Durant Ave.
Berkeley
Some environmentalists herald Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which contains $369 billion of climate spending measures over the next 10 years, as a “watershed moment, a critical turning point that has changed history” that will bring about a clean energy future. Others in the environmental community say that “while the bill is far from perfect, it is at least a start” that could propel the development of solar, wind, and geothermal renewable energy.
What’s really going on?
“When the Biden climate bill is analyzed and measured against
1) the enormity of the problem of global warming caused by the use of fossil fuels;
2) the outsize role that the U.S. has historically played, and continues to play, in heating up the planet;
3) the scale and speed of measures needed to actually cope with this accelerating crisis; and
4) what is not only necessary but actually possible on the basis of a revolution, and a radically new socialist state power and mode of production, as concretized in the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America, authored by Bob Avakian—it becomes clear that this legislation falls massively and obscenely short of what is needed. Worse, this climate bill actually prolongs the dependency of the U.S. economy on fossil fuels.
In plain words, this bill is part of the problem of global warming, not the solution.”
Info: Biden’s Imperialist Climate Bill: The Devil Lies in the Big Picture : Indybay
Monday, September 12
10. Monday 10:00am, ALERT: Surveillance debate continues in SF BoS Rules Committee – Your voice is needed!
In-person
SF City Hall – Room 250
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl
SF
Remote Access:
WATCH SF Cable Channel 26, 28, 78 or 99 (depending on provider) WATCH www.sfgovtv.org
Public Comment:: PUBLIC COMMENT CALL-IN 1 (415) 655-0001 / Meeting ID: 2496 266 4190 # #
Press *3 to enter the speaker line)
Agenda: Meeting Agenda (sfbos.org)
Members: Aaron Peskin, Rafael Mandelman, Connie Chan
The rules committee of the Board of Supervisors will be again taking up whether or not to let the SFPD use privately owned camera networks to monitor the streets in real time.
While we have won important concessions on the retention time for historical video and sharing with out of state or federal agencies; the fix is in regarding letting cops commandeer private cameras for real time viewing. SF surveillance ordinance sponsor and chair of the rules committee, Supervisor Aaron Peskin, has a deal with SFPD and mayor London Breed for a year-long pilot program to authorize real-time live monitoring.
We say this:
* It’s wrong without an immediate threat to life (an exigent circumstance) — and the SF Bar Association agrees
* SFPD plans to real-time monitor “significant events” to assist with crowd control are unacceptable
* Such a pilot must have specific metrics for impact, including reductions in crime clearance rates, increases in police reponse to crime reports, and evidence of real time arrests made or it is just an excuse for more police surveillance. Where are the metrics for provable public safety impact in this pilot?
Info from Oakland Privacy: Action Alert: San Francisco and Berkeley (mailchi.mp)
11. Monday, 3:00pm – 10:00pm, Why 9/11 Truth Still Matters
In person only
Grand Lake Theatre
3200 Grand Ave.
Oakland
$20.00 at door – no one turned away
This event is in-person only no online version
2022 9/11 Truth Film Festival Schedule
3:00 Core of Corruption (2009)
4:30 Break (20 minutes)
4:50 Explosive Evidence (2012)
5:50 Flight 93 (2021)
6:10 Break (20 minutes)
6:30 The Miracle of the Pentagon (2001)
6:35 Tribute to David Ray Griffin (2022)
7:00 9/11 Questions (2021) 8:00 Break (30 minutes)
8:30 Fabled Enemies (2008) 1
0:00 End
Host: Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance
Tuesday, September 13
12. Tuesday, 9:00am (PT)’ 12Noon (ET), No Way To Treat A Child – Accountability for Palestinian Children & Human Rights Defenders
Webinar registration: #nowaytotreatachild Webinar September 2022 – No Way to Treat a Child (dci-palestine.org)
Please join the #nowaytotreatachild campaign co-leaders from Defense for Children International – Palestine and American Friends Service Committee for a webinar
August was a dark month for Palestinian human rights. On August 5, the Israeli military launched a massive military offensive on the Gaza Strip, resulting in the killings of 17 Palestinian children, whose deaths DCIP continues to investigate. Less than two weeks later, Israeli forces raided the Ramallah-area offices of the six Palestinian civil society organizations criminalized by the Israeli government last October. Israeli forces welded the office doors shut and gave official notice declaring the organizations illegal. A few days later, two of the organizations’ directors, including DCIP general director Khaled Quzmar, were summoned for interrogation by Israeli forces.
This webinar will discuss how you can advocate for accountability for both Palestinian children, especially those injured and killed in Gaza, as well as the Palestinian human rights defenders standing up for them.
13. Tuesday, 6:30pm – 8:30pm, Day of Reparations to African People
In person
Akwaaba Hall at Uhuru House
7911 MacArthur Boulevard
Oakland, CA 94605
Chairman Omali Yeshitela returns to Oakland’s Uhuru House, headquarters of the African People’s Socialist Party in the 1980s from where he rebuilt the Black Power Movement out of the ashes of COINTELPRO. Black Panther Party founder Huey Newton made his last public appearances at the Uhuru House shortly before his assassination in 1989.
In Oakland, Yeshitela led campaigns that put a Community Control of Housing initiative on the ballot, took over parks and an abandoned building to serve those without homes and built black community economic institutions including Uhuru Foods & Pies and Uhuru Furniture & Collectibles.
He’ll be back in Oakland to speak at the September 13th “Day of Reparations to African People – Oakland”, an annual Uhuru Solidarity Movement event to raise reparations from the white community for Uhuru Movement programs around the U.S. and the world, including community gardens, an African women’s health center, “One Africa, One Nation Marketplaces”, a community basketball court and outdoor event venues, workforce training and housing for African people coming out of prison, along with a community radio station and licensed community kitchens.
At 5am CDT on Friday, July 29, 2022, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), aided by local police, raided the offices and homes of members of the Uhuru Movement in St. Petersburg, Florida and St. Louis, Missouri, including Chairman Omali Yeshitela’s home.
They broke down doors, broke windows, used flashbang devices and drones and threatened residents with automatic weapons, handcuffing them and temporarily detaining them. They stole computers, hard drives, phones, office equipment and files—both business and personal.
According to Yeshitela, “This is an attempt by the U.S. government to attack, discredit and isolate the African Revolution at a time when it is growing in strength and winning on so many fronts. One of the aims of this attack is to cut off the resources, and that is why reparations is more important than ever.”
Another speaker at the event will be Penny Hess, Chairwoman of the African People’s Solidarity Committee and author of “Overturning the Culture of Violence”, who states,
“White people have a responsibility to prevent the state from moving to attack the African People’s Socialist Party in the same way that they have attacked African leaders in the past such as Malcolm X, Patrice Lumumba, Marcus Garvey and others.”
Donations raised through this speaking tour benefit the Uhuru Wa Kulea Health Center.
For more info see site
