By Adreienne Fong
Am not back posting on a regular basis.
RESOURCES:
See list of Calendar of Events on Palestine from AROC: https://www.araborganizing.org/events/
If your post is about Palestine you can also list your action on the AROC calendar
There are many events listed on Indybay that might be of interest to you (many listings in the South, North & East Bays and beyond the bay area)
Please post your actions on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12
Bay Area Progressive Action Calendar
https://www.actiontogetherbayarea.org/calendar
Many groups are now posting on INSTAGRAM
ARTICLES
A. Day 9 of the CSU wide hunger strike at SJSU‼ Faculty have joined the hunger strike at SJSU.
(Note: Students at students from CSU Long Beach, San Jose State, Sacramento State, and San Francisco State has grown. CSU Dominguez Hills and CSU East Bay joined the movement and Stanford. There are also students on the East Coast campuses that have joined the hunger strike
Students standing up for Palestine have been suspended (Columbia U.)
This week faculty members at SJSU have begun to strike as well in solidarity with both students and those starving in Gaza. The eyes of history are upon us, and our community is demanding action—divestment, transparency, and a clear stand for human rights. Those with power must listen to the voices rising from the heart of this campus and choose to stand on the side of justice. The students participating are struggling, some in very dire conditions. However, we will continue and we will persist, because that is nothing in comparison to those starving in Gaza.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DJnV0T5pTmt/
B. Burkina Faso’s 37-Year Old Leader Draws US Ire – May 13, 2025
C. US and Saudi Arabia agree to $142bn weapons sale during Trump visit – May 13, 2025
D. WATCH: White Afrikaners from South Africa arrive at Dulles airport to seek U.S. resettlement – May 12, 2025
E. Pentagon spent at least $21million on flights to Guantanamo, which currently holds 32 migrants – May 12, 2025
Pentagon spent at least $21 million on flights to Guantanamo, which currently holds 32 migrants
F. Johns Hopkins Students Met with Police Repression and Violence – May 11, 2025
Johns Hopkins Students Met With Police Repression And Violence – PopularResistance.Org
G. US abandons ‘Hamas disarmament’ demands in Gaza truce talks: Report – May 10, 2025
US abandons ‘Hamas disarmament’ demands in Gaza truce talks: Report
H. Explosive Materials Bound For Israel Are Flying Out Of JFK – May 10, 2025
Explosive Materials Bound for Israel Are Flying Out of JFK Airport
I. Mohsen Mahdawi tells Al Jazeera why he refuses to be afraid – May 9, 2025
https://www.aljazeera.com/#flips-6372595614112
J. Judge blocks deportation flight of Asian migrants to Libya – May 7, 2025
Judge blocks deportation flight of Asian migrants to Libya
See Petition #8
8 PETITIONS:
1. Bread Not Bombs l Let the Children Eat
SIGN: Bread Not Bombs | Let the Children Eat – Action Network
2. Take Action: AB 715 Threatens Ethnic Studies in California
SIGN: Take Action: AB 715 Threatens Ethnic Studies in California
3. Tell the California Teachers Association: NO on AB 715
SIGN: ell the California Teachers Association: NO on AB 715
4. End Family Detention
5. Tell Congress: Stop the IRS from collaborating with ICE
SIGN: Tell Congress: Stop the IRS from collaborating with ICE
6. All Eyes on Deck: Demand An Independment Investigation into the Attacks of the ‘Conscience’ and an End to Israel’s Blockade of Gaza
See section on Freedom Flotilla for info/resources
7. Tell Congress to stop Attorney General Pam Bondi from targeting reporters with subpoenas & search warrents
8. Congress: Ban Deportations to Countries With Documented Human Rights Abuses
EVENTS / ACTIONS
Wednesday, May 14 – Tuesday, May20
+ info on People’s Arms Embargo
+Info on Freedom Flotilla ‘Conscience’
Wednesday, May 14
1. Wednesday, 12Noon, Emergency Rally: Protect Public Services
SF City Hall
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl
SF
Emergency Rally to Protect Public Services! Public services are on the chopping block while wealthy corporations dodge their taxes and private contractors waste public dollars. As Mayor Daniel Lurie prepares to release his proposed budget, join San Francisco city workers in an emergency rally to say NO cuts and NO layoffs!
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/DJkK4wRAsYk/
2. Wednesday, 1:00pm (PT); 4:00pm(ET), 77 Years of Ongoing Nakba
Online registration: Webinar Registration – Zoom
This Nakba Day marks 77 years of the Palestinian people’s steadfast struggle against Israel’s violent colonialism and land theft. As we face one of the most brutal phases of this struggle—the ongoing genocide across Palestine, the forced famine and siege on Gaza, and the settler pogroms in the West Bank—we must recognize that these attacks are directly connected to our government’s repression aiming to break the growth of our movement here in the U.S. This webinar will explore lessons that the history of the Palestinian struggle offers us, as well as why mass organizing is our strongest defense. We will outline ways to take action, including the urgent demand for a full arms embargo on Israel. From the boycotts that impact corporate bottomlines, to the shift in public opinion across the U.S., to the historic port actions in Morocco two weeks ago, we will show how organized pressure works and why organizing is key to winning.
Join us in discussing and organizing around these demands:
1. An end to the genocide in Gaza;
2. A full and immediate two-way arms embargo on Israel;
3. The release of all Palestinian political prisoners;
4. Lift the siege on Gaza and allow immediate humanitarian aid and reconstruction;
5. An end to the Zionist occupation of all Palestinian land.
Host: U.S. Campaign For Palestinian Rights
Thursday, May 15
3. Thursday, 12Noon, Hearing RE: Luxury Development on 22nd St. & Mission
SF City Hall
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl (Room 400, 4th Fl)
SF
Oppose “La Muerte” de la Mision (The Death of the Mission) – Luxury Development at 22nd & Mission. 2588 Mission St. – the fire at the site happened in 2015
Please submit a letter to oppose and attend the hearing.
You could cut and paste from below.
Send to:
daniel.lurie@sfgov.org
moises.garcia@sfgov.org
jackie.fielder@sfgov.org
jennifer.ferrigno@sfgov.org
lydia.so@sfgov.org
katherin.moore@sfgov.org
derek.braun@sfgov.org
amy.campbell@sfgov.org
theresa.imperial@sfgov.org
gilbert.a.williams@sfgov.org
sean.mcgarry@sfgov.org
commissions.secretary@sfgov.org
Suggested letter:
“Mayor Lurie, Supervisor Fielder and Planning Commissioners,
Please oppose the new proposed 181-unit, 10 story luxury development at 2588 Mission St. @ 22nd A major fire destroyed the original iconic building killing 38 yr. old Mauricio Orellana, injuring 6 residents, displacing 60 residents, and destroying 26 small businesses in 2015.
The Mission District has seen over 10,000 Latinos displaced since the onset of the tech boom and there is growing evidence that luxury development causes displacement and harmful impacts to communities of color. The City should be pursuing the rights of Mission residents and holding the developer to his responsibility to build housing that meets the needs of this community and furthers fair housing instead of furthering displacement.
There are compliance issues with civil-rights-based Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) laws. The site is in a State and City designated Priority Equity Geography, and the proposed luxury development does not meet the requirements of our community and violates AFFH laws. Cities are not allowed to implement only parts of the Housing Element and not others when proposed projects are moved forward.
Sincerely,”
4. Thursday, 4:30pm, Nakba Day Protest – 77 Years of Genocide
San Bruno City Hall (in front of)
567 El Camino Real
San Bruno
77 years of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and occupation.
77 years of steadfast resistance.
A short video of one of the demos at San Bruno City Hall with some of the many photos with stories of children martyered. Facebook
All are welcomed to participate with the Palestinian community.
Host: San Bruno for Palestine
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/DJTHShBxWxH/
5. Thursday, 5:00pm – 6:00pm (PT); 8:00pm-9:00pm (ET), Mass Call to Action: Hands Off Our Health Care! No Gutting Medicaid!
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/workingfamilies
No need to RSVP. Just join in via YouTube.
Trump and Republicans in Congress want to cut taxes for billionaires and big corporations—and pay for it by gutting Medicaid.
Info: Mass Call to Action: Hands Off Our Health Care! No Gutting Medicaid! : Indybay
Saturday, May 17
6. Saturday, 2:00pm, Trump Must Go NOW! Rally & March
Meet at:
Civic Center Plaza,
335 McAllister
SF
Join the call from Refuse Fascism nationwide to raise an urgent and unifying demand:
TRUMP MUST GO NOW!
The Trump/MAGA fascist regime represents an unprecedented threat to the future of people here and all around the world. But there are tens of millions of decent people in this country who hate what Trump is doing! They need to be mobilized NOW to stop this fascism in its tracks and create the conditions where Trump is removed from power.
Come together with others who refuse to be silent and complicit, uniting all who can be united from a broad diversity of perspectives to raise and win the demand: The Trump Fascist Regime Must Go NOW!!!”
Host: Refuse Faciscm NorCA
Info: Trump Must Go NOW! Rally & March : Indybay
7. Saturday, 2:30pm, BAY AREA: ALL OUT FOR NAKBA 77 — THE PEOPLE STAND WITH PALESTINE
Meet at:
16th & Valencia St.
SF
For 77 years, the Palestinian people have been subjected to genocide, siege, dispossession, and forced displacement, enduring unfathomable brutality at the hands of the zionist colonial project. This year, the Palestinian people commemorate the 77th year of ongoing Nakba under the zionist entity’s murderous genocidal conditions. The Bay Area must rise up on Nakba day alongside cities across the world to declare: THE PEOPLE STAND WITH PALESTINE, AND THE WORLD REJECTS ZIONISM!
Yet, despite decades of zionist aggression, for 77 years, Palestinians continue to resist, fighting for their land, their liberation, and their return. As the genocide in Gaza intensifies, violence in the West Bank escalates, and attacks on our movement grow, now is the time to show the ruling class that the world rejects Zionism—and that the masses stand with Palestine.
This Nakba 77 March will bring together people from across the world to demand:
1. An end to the genocide in Gaza;
2. A full and immediate two-way arms embargo on Israel;
3. The release of all Palestinian political prisoners;
4. Immediate humanitarian aid and reconstruction for Gaza;
5. An end to the Zionist occupation of all Palestinian land.
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/DJh00jTBzCS/
Tuesday, May 20
8. Tuesday, 4:30pm, URGENT SOS for Haiti
Meet outside:
Citibank Building,
88 Kearny St (corner of Post)
SF
*Demand Restitution and Reparations Now
*Demand the Right to Asylum for Haitian Refugees
*Demand Stop the Flow of US Made Weapons
In 1804, the Haitian revolution successfully destroyed slavery in Haiti and won independence from France. In 1825, the French government sent warships to force the Haitians to pay their former French enslavers 150 million gold francs for their “lost property” or face an invasion. Paying off this “debt,” which was taken over by Citibank and estimated in today’s market to be up to 115 billion dollars, is what impoverished Haiti. In 2003, President Jean Bertrand Aristide demanded that France pay restitution. Nine months later he was overthrown in a coup orchestrated by France, US and Canada.
Today in Haiti, slow motion genocide is deepening as paramiliary death squads, funded by the Haitian elite and equipped with US-made weapons, are running rampant. Massacres and systematic rape are relentless. One million people have been internally displaced and more than half of the population is suffering from acute hunger. Now the Trump administration plans to deport half a million Haitian migrants back to this situation by the end of the summer.
Facing all this, the popular movement continues to fight back, but our solidarity is critical. May 18th is celebrated throughout the Haitian diaspora in commemoration of the creation of the Haitian flag in 1804.
Info: https://haitisolidarity.net/urgent-sos-for-haiti-sf-protest-may-20-430pm/
Important info for The People’s Arms Embargo – Saturday, May 31, 10:00am – 1:00pm
Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, CA
For bus to Travis from Oakland/Berkeley register by May 20th: Register NOW
Tell TRAVIS: Stop Arming Israel – End the Genocide
Tell TRAVIS: Stop Mass Deportations – End Ethnic Cleansing
Let’s make this visually stunning and powerful!
Please practice the dance (learn it now!) and if you can, wear red, white, green, and black clothing. Bring flags, keffiyehs, and signs
For more info & updates: www.peoplesarmsembargo.org
Contact: WendyPalestine@gmail.com or Toby4peace@sonic.net
Information & Resources on Freedom Flotilla ‘Conscience’
On May 2, 2025 The Freedom Flotilla’s ship, the ‘Conscience’ was attacked twice in an unprovoked, illegal drone attack while in international waters off the coast of Malta, causing a fire and serious hull damage, disconnecting the ship’s signal. It is believed that the attack was done by Israel.
On the Conscience were over 20 nationalities of volunteer medics, educators, engineers, farmers, students, activists, social workers and community organizers
Website: The Freedom Flotilla Coalition
Freedmon Flotilla Coalition on Facebook
Instagram: Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition
https://www.instagram.com/gazafreedomflotilla/
Instagram: Bay2gazamutualaid
https://www.instagram.com/bay2gazamutualaid/
Press Statement – May 4, 2025
Press statement 04-05-2025 – Freedom Flotilla
AJ+ – May 5, 2025 on Instagram
Activists on a Gaza aid ship hit by a drone strike near Malta spoke exclusively to AJ+.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DJR5vtjMIQK/
This ship was loaded with food to take to Gaza, in defiance of Israel’s blockade. Then it was bombed by drones in a suspected Israeli attack.
The ship was in international waters just off Malta’s coast.
From AJ+: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJKv56oRumq/
The president of the @mavimarmaratr, @behesti.ismail, documents the extent of the damage aboard the Conscience following the drone attack of last night in which Israel targeted and attempted to sink the vessel carrying aid and bound for Gaza
https://www.instagram.com/p/DJKHf9WieG-/
Bay Area protesters demonstrate outside the zionist consulate in San Francisco to demand SAFE PASSAGE for the Freedom Floatilla to deliver aid to Gaza – May 5
