By Adrienne Fong
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ARTICLES:
A. Stop Cop City Movement Embraces National Strategy as Permit Appeal Is Denied – April 13, 2023
Stop Cop City Movement Embraces National Strategy as Permit Appeal Is Denied – Truthout
B. Peace in Ukraine Is Too Important to Leave in the Hands of Arms Dealers – April 12, 2023
Peace in Ukraine Is Too Important to Leave in the Hands of Arms Dealers – Truthout
C. Filipino Activist Condemns U.S. Military Drills, Warns That War with China Would Devastate Philippine – April 12, 2023
D. The Espionage Act & the 4th Year of Assange’s Arrest April 11, 2023
The Espionage Act & the 4th Year of Assange’s Arrest (consortiumnews.com)
If Julian Assange is extradited he will face prosecution under a severe espionage law with roots in the British Official Secrets Act that is part of a history of repression of press freedom, reports Joe Lauria.
E. Youth vs. Apocalypse Puts Working-Class Young People of Color at the Heart of the Climate Fight – April 11, 2023
See Event #
F. Why Tortuguita’s murder is only the tip of the iceberg – april 7, 2023
Why Tortuguita’s murder is only the tip of the iceberg | Waging Nonviolence
8 PETITIONS
1. Tell the Natural Resources Committee – No New Nuclear Waste in California!
SIGN: No New Nuclear Reactors in CA – Tell Your Assemblymember TODAY (salsalabs.org)
2. Sign to demand President Biden free Native activist Leonard Peltier
SIGN: Sign to demand President Biden free Native activist Leonard Peltier (actionnetwork.org)
3. Tell President Biden: No family detention!
SIGN: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-president-biden-no-family-detention?source=2023FamilyDetention_EMR&referrer=group-18millionrisingorg&link_id=1&can_id=4d8abb95a7895a1648b41bfa1ad2bb3b&email_referrer=email_1871505&email_subject=firstname-default-friend-we-cant-believe-this
4. Protect Nursing Homes from Wall Street Greed!
SIGN:Take Action: Protect Nursing Homes from Wall Street Greed! (actionnetwork.org)
5. Tell the DOI to STOP putting our public lands in the hands of corporate polluters!
SIGN: FOE: Take Action
6. EXIT the WHO
SIGN: EXIT THE WHO | Stand for Health Freedom
7. Denounce Governor Greg Abbott and GOP-sanctioned violence
SIGN: Sign the petition: Denounce Governor Greg Abbott and GOP-sanctioned violence. (dailykos.com)
8. End Deadly Sanctions on Syria; Allow Earthquake Relief for Syrians
SIGN: End Deadly Sanctions on Syria; Allow Earthquake Relief for Syrians – Syria Support Movement
EVENTS
Tuesday, April 18 – Friday, April 21
Tuesday, April 18
Income Tax Day
1. Tuesday, 1:00pm – 3:00pm, Single- Payer Healthcare in California
Zoom: Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86465752525?pwdTzh1YVh5SE9mdWkzdjI2clZrVEczdz09
Meeting ID: 864 6575 2525; Passcode: 465295
SF Gray Panters Monthly Forum
SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH CARE IN CALIFORNIA:
How do we get there?
What works and what doesn’t?
Who do we listen to and what do we do?
Followed by Q&A Forum Portion: 1-2:30 PM. All are invited- plenty of time for questions and discussion. All interested people welcome.
Speakers:
Dr. Corinne Frugoni MD is a retired family physician living in Humboldt County. Before retiring she worked at a community clinic serving American Indians and at the Humboldt State University Student health clinic. She joined Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) in 1989 and has been working on Single Payer as the only viable solution to the horribly complex and lethal health care non-system that we are currently operating unde
Dr. Hank Abrons MD MPH graduated from Harvard College and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, followed by residency and fellowship training in New York City, Chicago, and at West Virginia University where he was Associate Professor of Medicine specializing in pulmonary disease and critical care. In 2001, he moved to Highland Hospital in Oakland and retired from clinical practice in 2007 to work for health care reform. He is a past board member and current advisory board member of Physicians for a National Health Program and served four years as president of the California chapter. He is PNHP-California’s representative on the board of the Healthy California Now coalition.
Info: Single-Payer Health Care in California : Indybay
2. Tuesday, 2:00pm(PT); 5:00pm(Et), Free the Santa Marta Water Defenders! Protect El Salvador’s Peace Agreement!
Online:
Online register: Meeting Registration – Zoom
Or Facebook: Free the Santa Marta Water Defenders! Protect El Salvador’s Peace Agreement! | Facebook
This webinar is organized by the International Allies against Mining in El Salvador and will take place in Spanish and English with simultaneous interpretation.
Join people around the world who have been raising their voices in support of the Santa Marta 5 who were unjustly arrested on January 11, 2023 and remain in pre-trial detention despite urgent risks to their health and safety.
With participation from:
• Vidalina Morales, Board member of Social & Economic Development Association of Santa Marta (ADES), El Salvador
• Pedro Cabezas, Coordinator of the Central American Alliance against Mining (ACAFREMIN) and International Allies Against Mining in El Salvador
• Luis Parada, International Lawyer that represented El Salvador in the successful 2016 arbitration case at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)
You will learn about the Santa Marta 5 and how their story is connected to the broader struggle of the Salvadoran people for peace and water.
3. Tuesday, 5:00pm, Rally for Palestine: NO TAX Dollars FOR ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINIANS
In person
Israeli Consulate
456 Montgomery St.
SF
Israel is the single largest foreign beneficiary of U.S. tax funding, receiving $3.8 Billion annually. Nearly all of it goes to fueling military violence against Palestinians. OUR tax dollars are enabling land theft, home demolitions, child detainment, mass imprisonment, bombings, blockades, cultural destruction, and ethnic cleansing in Palestine by the illegal Israeli Military Occupation.
This year is set to be amongst the most deadly for Palestinians, with already 93 martyrs at the hands of Israel. During the holy month of Ramadan, Zionist occupation forces have repeatedly stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, brutally assaulting over 500 Palestinian worshippers inside while currently detaining over 400 Palestinians, most of whom are youth.
This tax day, we are taking action outside of the Israeli consulate in San Francisco to demand an end to the ongoing Israeli Military violence and genocide of Palestinians funded by our tax dollars
No more tax dollars for Ethnic Cleansing! Hands of Al-Aqsa, Hands of Gaza! We must hold the United States accountable in its complicity in this oppression. 75 years of colonial occupation is 75 years too long! We demand an end to our tax dollars being used for war and occupation. We demand an end to apartheid an occupation!
Host: Palestine Action Network, AROC, MECA, Jewish Voice For Peace, & Other groups
Info: NO TAX DOLLARS FOR ETHNIC CLEANSING! | Facebook
Wednesday, April 19
4. Wednesday, 2:00pm – 4:00pm, Bay View Hunters Point Environmental Justice Task Force Meeting
In person
Alice Griffith Community Room
2600 Arelious Walker Dr.
San Francisco
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5. Wednesday, 5:00pm, FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
In person
U.S. Courthourse
95 7th Street (at Mission)
SF
WE MUST DEMAND HIS FREEDOM.
On Friday, March 31, Philadelphia Judge Lucretia Clemons dismissed Mumia Abu-Jamal’s appeal for a new trial.
Judge Clemons dismissed evidence, the case was tainted by judicial bias, police and prosecutorial misconduct, and that key witnesses were bribed or coerced
He has been imprisoned for 41 years, and has always maintained his innocence.
Info
From Love Not #Phear: Crushing Blow: New Trial Denied to Mumia Abu-Jamal (mailchi.mp)
From Prison Radio on Facebook: Prison Radio | Facebook
JOIN US. LET US FIGHT FOR JUSTICE.
Mumia is a political prisoner.
He is in jail not only for his beliefs but because he keeps fighting for Justice, Peace, and Equality For All of Humanity.
Info: Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! : Indybay
Thursday, April 20
6. Thursday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, Rally to Protect Our Rights to Free Speech
In person rsvp: Rally to Protect Our Rights to Free Speech · Greenpeace USA (mobilize.us)
Oakland Federal Building Conference Center
1301 Clay St. (Outside)
Oakland
On Thursday, April 20, 2023, Greenpeace USA will argue its motion for summary judgment in federal court in Oakland, CA, making its case that the lawsuit brought by Resolute Forest Products should be resolved in Greenpeace USA’s favor once and for all.
Come and show your support for and solidarity with Greenpeace USA in our fight against corporate attacks against our voices. Come and learn more about this growing threat to free speech and what individuals and impacted communities are doing to assert our First Amendment Rights to speak out when corporate actors try to shut down environmental advocacy.
Info from Amazon Wathch
7. Thursday, 2:00pm – 4:00pm, On Water Justice: Kali Akuno Speaks
In person
Alice Griffith Community Room
2600 Arelious Walker Dr
San Francisco CA 94124
Part of the “People’s Earth Day for Water Justice” events
Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson will speak in a Bayview-Hunters Point San Francisco community venue highlighting efforts to clean up and access clean water. Organized by Renay Jenkins of the BVHP Mothers and Fathers Committee with assistance from John Torok, SEIU Local 1000 DLC 743 (for identification purposes only).
~ Water Is Life ~ Earth Day event ~
Water Justice: The View from Flint, New Orleans, and Jackson, Mississippi proposes to situate the environmental injustices at Bayview Hunters Point in the broader context of racist neglect of some other Black communities elsewhere in the country. Attention will be drawn to the intersection of class, gender and race and historical injustices.
Info: On Water Justice: Kali Akuno Speaks : Indybay
Friday, April 21
8. Friday, 11:00am – 1:00pm, People’s Earth Day March and Rally with Youth vs. Apocalypse
In person meet for rally & march at:
Meet at Civic Center Plaza
SF
March to California State Building (2 blocks away)
Youth vs Apocalypse will be in the streets demanding climate and environmental justice as part of the People’s Earth Day movement!
addressing oil drilling setbacks, migrant justice, and fossil fuel divestment.
9. Friday 1:00pm – 2:00pm, SHUT DOWN THE SAN FRANCISCO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION (SFPOA)
In person
SF Police Officers Association
800 Bryant St. (at 6th St.)
SF
All are welcomed to stanc with Mothers On The March and People from the Community.
We call attention to crimes of SFPD with signs and banners, and chalking on the sidewalk.
DEMANDS:
-The Police Officers Association be SHUT DOWN!
-The SF POA Be Declared a Non-Grata Organization
-Abolish the ‘Officers Bill of Rights’ – This has been used to protect officers in abusing our communities!
-Jail Killer Cops – we demand killer cops be charged and convicted with murder
(SFPOA defends cops that have terrorized people in our community)
-Abolish the Police!
-Recall Brooke Jenkins
10. Friday, 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 join Alex’s parents Refugio and Elvira Nieto as they remember Alex and their call for justice.
On March 21, 2014, Alex was murdered by SFPD officers Jason Sawyer, Richard Schiff, Nathan Chew, and Roger Morse, with 59 bullets.
DA Gacon (at the time) declined to file criminal charges against the officers.
