By Adrienne Fong
Not posting on a regular basis.
See list of Calendar of Events on Palestine from AROC: https://www.araborganizing.org/events/
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Many other events are listed on Indybay that might be of interest to you (many actions re Palestine in the South, North & East Bays are also listed)
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See Indybay for other listings of events
Many activist groups are now posting on INSTAGRAM and not using facebook nor Indybay
ARTICLES
A. Author Arundhati Roy lambasts ‘US and Israel’s genocide in Gaza’ at London award ceremony – October 31, 2024
Author Arundhati Roy lambasts ‘US and Israel’s genocide in Gaza’ at London award ceremony
B. Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: West DESTROYING Itself as Putin & BRICS Blow Up Dollar Dominance – October 31, 2024
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: West DESTROYING Itself as Putin & BRICS Blow Up Dollar Dominance
C. Genocide is embedded in US diplomacy – October 31, 2024
Genocide is embedded in US diplomacy – Middle East Monitor
D. U.N. General Assembly Votes to Condemn U.S. Embargo on Cuba for 32nd Consecutive Year – October 31, 2024
Only the U.S. and Israel voted against it.
E. 85 striking hotel workers arrested in San Francisco for blocking traffic | KTVU – October 30, 2024
F. South Africa’s legal team says ‘intent is clear’ in Israel’s Gaza genocide – October 28, 2024
South Africa’s legal team says ‘intent is clear’ in Israel’s Gaza genocide | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
G. Washington Post Brass Spiked A Story Linking Labor Leaders To DNC Assault October 28, 2024
Washington Post Brass Spiked A Story Linking Labor Leaders To DNC Assault
H. SF court is a circus today – October 24, 2024
I. Fighting for More Evidence of Assange’s Political Prosecution – October 23, 2024
Fighting for More Evidence of Assange’s Political Prosecution – o
J. How the Nobel Peace Prize Just Peacewashed the Genocide in Gaza – October 22, 2024
How the Nobel Peace Prize Just Peacewashed the Genocide in Gaza – CounterPunch.org
2 PETITIONS:
1. Email your Senators: No more weapons to Israel.
SIGN: Email your Senators: No more weapons to Israel. – JVP
2. Join the #BoycottChevron for Gaza campaign – and send a letter to Chevron CEO Mike Wirth now.
SIGN: Join the #BoycottChevron for Gaza campaign – and send a letter to Chevron CEO Mike Wirth now.
PETITIONS OF NOVEMBER SCHEDULED EXECUTIONS
November 1, 2024:
Richard Moore in South Carolina
November 13, 2024:
Thomas Creech in Idaho
November 21, 2024 at 6:00 pm CT:
Carey Grayson in Alabama
EVENTS / ACTIONS
Friday, November 1 – Wednesday, November 6
San Francisco Hotel Workers have been on STRIKE for 5 weeks! Please stop by one of the downtown hotels (Westin, Palace, Hyatt etc) to show support
Friday, November 1
1. Friday 7:00am – 10:00am, SAN FRANCISCO: DAY OF THE DEAD MARCH for IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
Meet at San Francisco Ferry Building at 7am.
Embarcadero & Market St.
Walk west on Pine St., then south on Powell St. until reach the corner of 5th and Market Streets,
outside the Democratic Party/Kamala Harris For President Headquarters to demand a citizenship pathway.
WHY: Presidential Candidate Donald Trump has put undocumented migrants at the center of his presidential bid. Migrants will voice that they will never tolerate his scapegoating of them, of mass deportations, and that they demand that Kamala Harris make a Path To Citizenship through the Registry process a priority during her first 100 days.
INFORMATION HERE: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=8039475459492259
FROM ALMAS ALMAS LIBRES / Raizes Collective: Immigrant Communities In The Greater Bay Area Hold Traditional Day Of The Dead Procession To Respond to Donald Trump’s Attacks Against Migrants He Has Placed At the Center of His Presidential Campaign.
Info: Dia De Los Muertos Protest March for Immigrant Rights – San Francisco : Indybay or Facebook
2. Friday, 12Noon – 1:00pm, Dia de Los Muertos/Day of the Dead
SF City Hall
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl
SF
Please join us in a ceremony remembering and honoring the people we once loved and cared for — those who lost their lives to homelessness, those whose medicine was taken in a sweep and died, those whom the streets of losing their RV home is killing. Let’s demand fair treatment for our community. Let’s seek justice for those whose voices were silenced.
Host: Coalition on Homelessness
Info: Dia de Los Muertos/Day of the Dead : Indybay
3, Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm. Stop U.S. Funding for Genocide; End the Occupation
SF Federal Building
Corner of 7th & Mission Sts.
SF
Israel has expanded its bombing campaign to Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iran and continues its genocidal campaign in occupied Palestine.
There have been no aid trucks entering Palestine in October!
All are welcomed to join the Revolutionary Workers Front and Mothers On The March, on Fridays at the SF Federal building.
We have banners, signs, and chalk for sidewalk messaging. You are welcomed to bring your own homemade messages.
We Continue to Call on the elected Federal officials to:
– End ALL U.S. Military Aid and Weapons to Israel
– End the Blockade of Palestine
– End the Apartheid / Colonialization of Palestine
We must call for a GENERAL STRIKE TO STOP THE GENOCIDE! (since elected officials won’t stop funding genocide)
We must call for a national strike demanding the United States of North America’s financing of the genocide, occupation and war against Palestinian people
STOP IMMEDIATELY!
We demand $ be used to guarantee:
Affordable housing, house the homeless, free universal healthcare, quality education, & good paying jobs for all
From Gaza’s Ministry of Health – October 7, 2023 – October 29, 2024
Each day the accountable death toll increases
Saturday, November 2
4. Saturday, 1:00pm, BAY AREA: NO VOTES FOR GENOCIDE!
SF City Hall
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl
SF
Join us Saturday, November 2, 2024 at San Francisco City Hall as we mobilize with tens of thousands across the United States under the banner of No Votes for Genocide.
For over a year, we have been mobilizing to demand an end to the US funded and supported Israeli genocide in Palestine and Lebanon. The current administration has the ability to enact an arms embargo that would put an end to this genocide but refuses. We know the US’s direct role in the genocide of our people, and refuse to sit idle as political parties across the spectrum, especially the Democrat and Republican parties, parade around in a desperate attempt to garner votes without meeting the demands of the people or ending US complicity in genocide.
As the US continues to directly fund the destruction, deadly bombings, and massacring of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians, we will continue to demonstrate against the Biden-Harris administration, the congressional representative and all political officials for their complicity. Join us, as we make it clear to the American ruling class that genocide is unavoidable and their complicity will follow them wherever they go. We demand an ARMS EMBARGO NOW and an END TO THE SIEGE ON GAZA!
5. Saturday, 3:00pm, March for Timmy
3:00pm: meet @ Concord Rainbow Community Center
2380 Salvio St, Suite 301
Concord, CA
3:30pm: march to Concord BART parking lot (half mile) followed by a candle light vigil at the tree
March to remember, Timothy Charles Lee, a Black/Native American gay man. Timothy was a successful fashion design student, who had just won a fellowship to study in Milan, Italy. He was an activist, that participated in the Alcatraz occupations of the 1970s.
Timothy was found, hung from a tree at the Concord BART station. That same night, two young Black men were stabbed by two white men in KKK robes just 2 miles away. There was no justice for Timothy!
March to remember & REOPEN THE CASE!
Info: March for Timmy : Indybay
6. Saturday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, Direct From Palestine…
Black & Brown Social Club
474 Valencia St.
SF
Wheelchair accessible
Public Transportation:
16th Street BART
MUNI: #22, #49, #14
Direct From Palestine
Comrade Hassan
From the Jordan Valley’s Ikhilia Association
Will be speaking about the resistance in Palestine (This is a rare opportunity)
All are invited to a
Discussion & Potluck
Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, the Whole System Equals Genocide
Info: Direct From Palestine… : Indybay
Sunday, November 3
7. Sunday, 8:00am-10:00am (PT); 11:00am-1:00pm (ET), Stop the Genocide
Register online: Stop the Genocide
This 120-minute, live event is free and open to the public.
We will have interpreters providing live interpretation of the whole event into English, Arabic, and Spanish.
Please be aware that in North America everyone turns their clocks back an hour during the night prior to this event.
Global Solidarity for Peace in Palestine (GSPP) is a coalition of organizations from around the world committed to defending the rights of Palestinians and ending the occupation. Our movement is built on the principles of justice, human dignity, and respect for international law.
Join us for this important action webinar to help stop the genocide in Gaza.
Click the “Register” button to sign up and get the Zoom link for the event!
Speakers:
Raji Sourani, General Director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights; Coordinator of the Palestinian legal team representing victims before the international Crimimal Court; a member of the South African Legal team in the Genocide case before the International court of justice.
Ann Wright (born 1947) is a retired United States Army colonel and retired U.S. State Department official, known for her outspoken opposition to the Iraq War. Wright was also a passenger on the Challenger 1, which along with the Mavi Marmara, was part of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Ann Wright continues to organize Gaza Freedom Flotillas and, with CODEPINK, demands that U.S. officials acknowledge and immediately end their complicity with Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians.
Ms. Amal Siam, Director of Women Affairs Center (WAC): Born in the Gaza Strip into a Palestinian refugee family who was uprooted from its hometown during the 1948 Nakba. Holder a a BA degree in Social Development and a Master Degree in Human Resources Management. A human rights activist and advocate of women’s rights and gender equality. Amal Is currently working as a director of WAC, one of the oldest CSOs in the Gaza Strip and in the past, she worked as trainer and programs Director as well. She is an authorized member of the Palestinian Independent Commission of Human Rights.
Leo Gabriel, a journalist and anthropologist, Leo is part of the Prague Spring II network and a member of the IC of the World Social Forum.
David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is executive director of World BEYOND War and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson’s books include War Is A Lie and When the World Outlawed War. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org. He hosts Talk World Radio.
Kathy Kelly is board president of World BEYOND War. From 2022 to the present, she has co-coordinated the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal. Since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, she has co-coordinated an international network to assist young Afghans forced to flee their country. She made over two dozen trips to Afghanistan from 2010 – 2019, living with young Afghan Peace Volunteers in a working-class neighborhood in Kabul. With Voices in the Wilderness companions, from 1996 – 2003, she traveled twenty-seven times to Iraq, defying the economic sanctions and remaining in Iraq throughout the Shock and Awe bombing and the initial weeks of the invasion. She joined subsequent delegations to the West Bank’s Jenin Camp in 2002 during and after Israeli attacks, to Lebanon during the 2006 summer war between Israel and Hezbollah and to Gaza, in 2009, during Operation Cast Lead and following the 2013 Operation Pillar of Defense. Kathy has been an educator for most of her life, but she believes children of war and those who are victims of violence have been her most important teachers.
Wednesday, November 6
8. Wednesday, 3:00pm – 4:00pm, Monthly Close GITMO Global Vigil
SF Castro Farmer’s Market (Noe St @ Market St)
SF
President Biden has this critical window of opportunity to close Guantánamo! Remind him to follow his own advice:
“America will not torture. We will uphold the rights of those who we bring to justice. And we will close the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay…. [W]e say to our friends that the alliances, treaties and international organizations we build must be credible and they must be effective. That requires a common commitment not only to listen and live by the rules, but to enforce the rules when they are, in fact, clearly violated”
~U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, February 2009
As a reminder, 30 Muslim men remain at Guantánamo Bay Detention Center. Sixteen of the men have been cleared for release, some for over a decade. TELL BIDEN TO FOLLOW THROUGH ON HIS PROMISE AND CLOSE GITMO NOW!!!
Host: Amnesty International and World Can’t Wait
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