By Adrienne Fong
Am not back posting on a regular basis.
RESOURCES:
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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 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
ATW Bay Area / NorCal — Action Together West
ARTICLES:
A. The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) coalition publicly announces key details of their upcoming maritime mission, including participating countries, coalition members and the projected departure window. – August 4, 2026
https://www.instagram.com/p/DM7o0l0oTX0/
There are people from 44 countries now participating and they have started training this past weekend.
– Dozens of boats will depart from Spain on August 31, with additional launches from Tunisia and others on September 4. Delegations from 44+ countries—including the U.S., Malaysia, Brazil, Italy, and Sri Lanka—will take part.
The flotilla will carry doctors, lawyers, journalists, and activists. Organizers say any Israeli interception would constitute piracy under international law.
Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim will flag off the Southeast Asian convoy on August 23.
B. Traoré Shuts Down All Israeli Businesses in Africa — Netanyahu Stunned – August 3, 2025
Traoré Shuts Down All Israeli Businesses in Africa — Netanyahu Stunned – YouTube – 7 min. YouTube
C. US labor activist intercepted by IDF during Gaza aid trip – August 3, 2025
ABC News – interview with Chris Smalls – about 9 min. long
D. Guess Who’s Eligible For Student Loan Forgiveness: New ICE Agents – August 2, 2025
Guess Who’s Eligible for Student Loan Forgiveness: New ICE Agents
E. Chris Smalls words arriving at JFK Airport August 1, 2025
https://www.instagram.com/p/DM1A1hwJpDk/
F. Ali Abunimah on: Why “recognizing” a Palestinian state effectively rewards Israel’s genocide – July 31, 2025
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DM3rwI8zw9-/
G. Chris Smalls Is Coming Home; Will This Shake the US Labor Movement Into Action on Gaza?
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/chris-smalls-labor-gaza
H. S.F. judge blocks Trump plan to revoke legal status for immigrants from three countries – July 31. 2025
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/tps-ruling-20794184.php
I. SF cops are already exceeding their OT budget—by arresting ICE protesters – July 31, 2025
SF cops are already exceeding their OT budget—by arresting ICE protesters – 48 hills
J. Largest Gaza freedom flotilla since start of Israeli siege set to sail – July 28, 2025
PETITiONS:
1. Enough Is Enough – No More Weapons to Israel
SIGN: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: NO MORE WEAPONS TO ISRAEL
2. Thank 27 Senators Who Voted to Block Weapons for Israel’s Genocide, Hold Others Accountable
Thank 27 Senators Who Voted to Block Weapons for Israel’s Genocide, Hold Others Accountable
A letter will go to both CA senators who voted against the bill and are complicit in genocide. This is from CAIR
3. Tell your state attorney general: Keep the military off American streets
SIGN: Tell your state attorney general: Keep the military off American streets
4. U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: End Your Silence on Gaza
SIGN: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ushmm01
5. Oppose Trump’s AI plan. Don’t give more power to Google & Musk’s xAI!
SIGN: Take Action
6. Demand Congress release the Epstein Files and stop protecting the wealthy elite
SIGN: Demand Congress release the Epstein Files and stop protecting the wealthy elite
PETITIONS of SCHEDULED EXECUTIONS in AUGUST – click on the name to sign
August 5, 2025 at 10:00 am CT:
Byron Black in Tennessee
August 19, 2025 at 6:00 pm ET:
Kayle Bates in Florida
August 21, 2025 at 6:00 pm CT:
David Roberts in Alabama
August 28, 2025 at 6:00 pm ET:
Curtis Windom in Florida
EVENTS / ACTIONS
Tuesday, August 5 – Saturday, August 9
Tuesday, August 5
1. Tuesday, 7:00am (PT); 10:00am (ET), The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: Aid as a Weapon
Register on line: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: Aid as a Weapon – crowdcast
In March, Israel shattered the ceasefire in Gaza by resuming its relentless bombing and imposing a total blockade on humanitarian aid—ushering in a new, even more brutal phase of the genocide.
In response to growing international outrage, the Israeli government rolled out the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)—a program designed not to deliver meaningful relief, but to mask and maintain its policy of collective starvation and forced displacement.
Through GHF, Israel has restricted access to aid distribution points, collapsed the reach of UN agencies, and funneled desperate Palestinians toward four isolated aid sites near Gaza’s southern border—pushing them closer to Egypt in what increasingly looks like a strategy of mass expulsion.
Behind this policy lies a network of private actors and US-based contractors who are profiting from what is, in reality, a death trap masquerading as humanitarian assistance
Yara Asi is an Al-Shabaka member and an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida’s School of Global Health Management and Informatics. She serves as co-director of the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights. Yara is also a non-resident fellow at the Arab Center in Washington, DC.
Alexandra Feagans is a researcher at the Adalah Justice Project, currently investigating the GHF’s finance structure and the private interests behind the initiative. She recently received her Master’s degree in Public Administration and International Affairs from Columbia University, where she served as president of the Palestine Working Group.
Tariq Kenney-Shawa is Al-Shabaka’s US Policy Fellow and co-host of Al-Shabaka’s Policy Lab series. He holds a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University. Tariq’s research and writing have covered a range of topics, from the role of open-source intelligence in exposing Israel’s war crimes to analysis of Palestinian liberation tactics.
Info from Adalah Justice Project The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: Aid as a Weapon – crowdcast
2. Tuesday, 8:00am – 4:30pm. Mobilize Against ICE
SF Immigration Court
100 Montgomery St.
SF
CE continues abducting our neighbors but mass mobilizing has kept ICE away!
Join DSASF & other groups on TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS at the immigration court on 100 Montgomery to keep ICE out of SF
Whether you can show up for 1 hour or more, it all helps and we need all hands on deck!
Help is needed to:
– Hand out fliers
– Recording ICE activity
– Courtroom observation
– Showing ICE they aren’t welcome
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/DM9JIe8JYFo/
3. Tuesday, 10:00am, Golden Rule anti-nuclear sailboat has arrived in San Francisco
Pier 39 (J Dock)
SF
The public and media are cordially invited to attend. The 34-foot wooden ketch and her 4-person crew will sail around San Francisco Bay throughout August, making stops in multiple cities, including San Francisco, Alameda, Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond and San Mateo. The public will be invited to visit the boat and a lucky few will even go out sailing on the Bay.
The Golden Rule peace boat is famous for attempting to sail into the Marshall Islands in 1958 to stop nuclear bomb testing. The U.S. had exploded 67 nuclear bombs in the Marshall Islands. Now a national project of Veterans For Peace, her red sails are emblazoned with the organization’s distinctive logo, as well as with the universally known peace sign, which was originally the symbol of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the UK.
Public meetings with local organizations will feature film screenings and speakers warning about the growing danger of nuclear war. Speakers will also call for an end to U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza and ICE attacks here in the U.S.
The Golden Rule peace boat will sail around Alcatraz on Friday afternoon, August 8, with Dennis Bernstein and KPFA’s Flashpoints team on board, followed by a live broadcast from the boat at 5 pm
A new film about the Golden Rule will be screened at the New Parkway Theater in Oakland, 474 24th Street, on Sunday, August 10, at 12:30 pm.
Info: Facebook
Wednesday, August 6
80th Anniversary of U.S. Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
4. Wednesday, 9:00am, Never Again! 80th Anniversary Commemoration of US Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Lawrence Livermore Lab – West Gate
cross streets of West Gate Dr. (end of Daphne Dr.) and S. Vasco Road
Livermore, CA
9:00am – Rally
10:30am – symbolic, group “die-in” in the road (which will be closed), led in traditional Japanese Bon Dance (inviting our ancestors to join us), and nonviolent witness and direct action those who so choose.
JOIN US at the Westgate entrance to Livermore Lab on this historic 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to support global nuclear abolition at the location where horrific new warheads are being designed today.
Why at Livermore Lab?
Founded in 1952 to speed the development of new “generations” of nuclear weapons, the Livermore Lab is one of two locations where all U.S. nuclear weapons are designed. Livermore Lab is currently spending billions to develop a new warhead for U.S. Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, another new warhead for a surprise nuclear attack to be launched by airplanes, and a third new warhead for small submarines that do not presently carry any nuclear weapons. This is the place to be to stop nuclear weapons and demand their total elimination!
Speakers:
Arjun Makajani, PhD. (Director of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research in Washington, DC)
Helen Jacard (Veterans for Peace and the Golden Rule peace ship),
Reverend Michael Yoshii (United Methodist Church and thinker on Japanese internment),
Reverend Monica Cross (CA Poor Peoples Campaign),
Patricia Ellsberg (peace activist and wife of the late Daniel Ellsberg),
Marylia Kelley (Senior Advisor of Livermore-based Tri-Valley CAREs).
Info: Never Again! 80th Anniversary Commemoration of US Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki : Indybay
5. Wednesday, 12Noon, Confront Scale AI
650 Townsend St.
SF
RSVP for Aug 6 Protest Scale AI: http://tinyurl.com/ProtestScaleAI
Scale AI is part of the web of billionaire tech, fossil fuel corporations, and the U.S. military making BILLIONS off human rights abuses, global power struggles, climate destruction, and the repression of Filipino communities.
On Wednesday, August 6, we’re confronting these supervillains at their HQ in San Francisco. Join us to say:
PUT PEOPLE & PLANET OVER PROFIT!
NO TO SCALE AI TECH FOR US WAR!
U.S. OUT OF THE PHILIPPINES & EVERYWHERE!
JUSTICE FOR BRANDON LEE & LAND DEFENDERS!
Speaker line up: @bayan_usa , @ichrp_us , @nodutdol , @pop4climate_bayarea
Info: Facebook
6. Wednesday, 4:30pm – 5:30pm (PT); 7:30pm – 8:30pm (ET), Virtual Sudan Teach-In
ZOOM registration: Meeting Registration – Zoom
Learn about the occupation of Sudan, how the international community is involved, and what we can do to support the Sudanese people; presented by a Sudanese advocate and student activist
Info: Virtual Sudan Teach-In : Indybay
7. Wednesday, 6:00pm, Monthly Close Gitmo Vigil
Mission St. & 22nd Street (corner)
SF
Please join us in San Francisco in solidarity with human rights defenders around the world for the coordinated monthly global vigils calling to end the ongoing human rights abuses at Guantánamo! Stop the cruel, inhumane, unlawful detentions and deportations NOW! Shut down “Alligator Alcatraz” NOW!
Close Gitmo! Dismantle the mass deportation machine! Invest in our beloved communities NOW!
Info: Close Guantánamo & Dismantle the Inhumane Deportation Machine NOW! : Indybay
Thursday, August 7
8. Thursday, 7:00pm – 8:30pm, Community Vigil for Awdah Hathaleen
Lake Merritt Amphitheater,
Oakland, CA
Join us as we gather in community to honor the life and legacy of Awdah Hathaleen, a beloved Palestinian activist, teacher, and voice of steadfast resistance from Masafer Yatta.
Awdah had deep ties to the Bay Area. Over the years, he collaborated with local organizers, educators, and solidarity groups, inspiring many with his unwavering commitment to justice. His words and witness helped shape our understanding of the Palestinian struggle—not as something distant, but deeply connected to the fight for liberation everywhere.
In June he and his cousin were scheduled to speak in the SF Bay Area. They were detained at SFO and deported back to their homes.
On July 28th, Awdah was killed by an Israeli settler, another life stolen in a system of apartheid that continues to dehumanize and dispossess. His murder is not an isolated tragedy—it is part of a violent structure that we must name, challenge, and dismantle.
As people of conscience in the Bay Area, we come together to say: We will not forget. We will not be silent. We will demand justice. Bring candles, signs, your voice, and your heart.
Host: International Solidarity Movement
Info: Community Vigil for Awdah Hathaleen : Indybay
Friday, August 8
9. Friday, 8:00am – 4:30pm, Mobilize Against ICE
SF Immigration Court
100 Montgomery St.
SF
CE continues abducting our neighbors but mass mobilizing has kept ICE away!
Join DSASF and others on TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS at the immigration court on 100 Montgomery to keep ICE out of SF
Whether you can show up for 1 hour or more, it all helps and we need all hands on deck!
Help is needed to:
– Hand out fliers
– Recording ICE activity
– Courtroom observation
– Showing ICE they aren’t welcome
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/DM9JIe8JYFo/
Saturday, August 9
80th Anniversary of U.S. Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki
10. Saturday, 10:00am – 2:00pm, Fundraiser for Palestinian Women Workers and Liberation
350 Rhode Island
SF
Bay Area Labor for Palestine and 1021 Members for Palestine will be hosting a hybrid event, via Zoom and in person, to raise funds for the Palestine New Federation of Trade Unions. No one will be turned away for lack of funds, but RSVP is required please.
Mark (Osta) Ostapiak, an eligibility worker in San Francisco, said, “I’m excited about this event because it sets an example for the kind of international labor solidarity that is a prerequisite for building mass labor power to stop genocide in Palestine and the attacks on the most vulnerable workers in the U.S. Union and community members should attend this event in order to hear directly from women trade union members in the West Bank about how we can support their struggle for Palestinian liberation and workers’ power.”
A member of an East Bay schools chapter named De said, “I am attending this fundraiser and meeting because of 1021’s call in 2023 for a ceasefire. That 1021 members and 1021 as an organization stood up so fast and so early to take a moral stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters across the world, simply because it was the right thing to do, filled me with pride and restored my faith in collective action, and I hope it does the same for my brothers and sisters in SEIU 1021.”
The program will include a conversation between Hanan Salman and women leaders in the Palestine New Federation of Trade Unions, and all funds raised will go directly to the PNFTU.
For more information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLS…
Host: Bay Area Labor for Palestine
Info: Fundraiser for Palestinian Women Workers and Liberation : Indybay
11. Saturday, 12Noon – 4:00pm, 80th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki Commemoration
Reserve tickets: “Eyewitness for Peace’ – 80th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings Tickets
– Free admission – donations suggested
– 80th Anniversary of the WWII U.S. Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Reservations accepted till 11:59pm on Thursday, August 7
Commemorate the atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WWII, the first nuclear destruction of a civilian population in the world, and hear the urgent message for peace by the hibakusha, or atomic bomb survivors.
Presented by the Nichi Bei Foundation and Friends of Hibakusha in collaboration with the Japanese American Religious Federation of San
COMMEMORATION PROGRAM:
12 p.m.: Special Screening of “White Light / Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki” (2007, 86 min.)
Primetime Emmy Award winning-film introduced by filmmaker Steven Okazaki
2 p.m.: 80th Anniversary Commemoration of Atomic Bombings
• Interfaith Blessing – Japanese American Religious Federation
• “A Girl From Hiroshima”(2022, 5:22) by Cynthia Liu
• Keynote Presentation: Manon and Kanon Iwata, founders of Teens 4 Disarmament & Nonproliferation
• Reflections of Hibakusha
• Lanterns of Remembrance Ceremony
From July 11, visit the exhibit: “Latent August: Legacy Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki” at NJAHS Peace Gallery, 1684 Post St. and MIS Historic Learning Center at Building 640.
ORGANIZATIONS
Nichi Bei Foundation
Friends of Hibakusha
Eyewitness for Peace Consortium:
Japanese Religious Freedom Federation
Genryu Arts
National Japanese American Historical Society
Japantown Taskforce
Info: San Francisco: 80th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki Commemoration : Indybay
