By Adrienne Fong
Am not back posting on a regular basis.
Things are changing rapidly, faster than what is posted. RESISTANCE matters!!!
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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. ICE protester charged with federal misdemeanors in S.F– August 21, 2025
ICE protester charged with federal misdemeanors in S.F.
B. ICE pepper sprays protesters and press at S.F. immigration court – August 20, 2025
ICE pepper sprays protesters and press at S.F. immigration court
See Events # 1 & 13
C. Teen Immigrant’s Release Propels Lawsuit to End ICE’S Courthouse Arrests – August 19, 2025
Teen Immigrant’s Release Propels Lawsuit to End ICE’s Courthouse Arrests – The Intercept
D. Navy Plans Blowing Up Radioactive Buildings in SF Hunters Point – August 19, 2025
Blowing Up Radioactive Buildings in SF Hunters Point Contaminating the Community & Workers : Indybay
E. UN rapporteur: Hamas is an elected political force, not a band of murderers – August 18, 2025
F. Netanyahu is on a mission to seize the Middle East. Will anyone stop him? – August 18, 2025
Netanyahu is on a mission to seize the Middle East. Will anyone stop him? | Middle East Eye
G. Hamas is a Political Movement Not a Band of Murderers, Says UN Albanese – August 17, 2025
H. Mayor Lurie takes credit for immigrant legal aid he had little to do with – August 15, 2025
Mayor Lurie takes credit for immigrant legal aid he had minor role in
I. The Fall of the Israel Lobby Has Begun — And This Is Just the Start | Denzel Washington speech – 3 weeks ago
The Fall of the Israel Lobby Has Begun — And This Is Just the Start | Denzel Washington speech
PETITIONS
1. Trump is Withholding School Funding to Pay for Billionaire Tax Breaks
SIGN: Trump is Withholding School Funding to Pay for Billionaire Tax Breaks
2. Save the Social Security Administration!
SIGN: Take Action!
3. Keep PragerU away from public education!
SIGN: Keep PragerU away from public education! | Demand Progress
EVENTS / ACTIONS
Friday, August 22 – Tuesday, August 26
Friday, August 22
1. Friday, 8:15am – 4:15pm, ICE out of San Francisco courts!
SF ICE Court
100 Montgomery St.
SF
1 block from Montgomery BART
Join neighbors, activists, grassroots organizations in resisting ICE abductions happening at immigration court hearings!
We meet every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday outside of one of the SF immigration court buildings to:
- deter ICE from taking people
- accompany people to their court proceedings (if/as requested)
- walk people to their transportation home (if/as requested), to reduce their chances of being abducted in transit
- encourage oncoming traffic to honk in support 🙂
- share art, literature, and snacks
Court is in session from 8am – 4pm. Including cleanup & last call for accompaniment home, we’re outside from 8am to 4:30pm / 4:45pm.
Serious violence against protestors has occurred, but most days thus far have passed without incident.
Everyone is welcome and every one is vital, even if you can only participate for a little bit.
Info: ICE out of San Francisco courts! : Indybay
2. Friday, 9:00am, ALERT – Golden Gate 26: Show Up for the Golden Gate 26 — Rally and Public Comment! (NEW)
In person:
Golden Gate Bridge Welcome Center
SF
Coffee/pastries provided
9:00am – Rally
10:00am – Golden Gate Bridge District Meeting
Pack the Public Comment!
Submit public comment during the Bridge District’s Board meeting at 10am in person. You can submit public comment via phone on the 22nd or via email by 5pm on Aug 21st . More details shared below, and talking points are in the link in our bio!
Call-in info: Call (415) 569-6446 at 9:45am to be let into the 10am meeting
Logistics and Sample Script are outlined in the Public Comment Toolkit:
– https://bit.ly/GG26toolkit
Coming from the East Bay? Coordinate rides here:
– Rideshare Spreadsheet: https://bit.ly/PublicCommentRideshare
– If you can make public comment on 8/22, it would be ideal if you could also email your statement by 5 PM the day before (Thursday, 8/21) to districtsecretary@goldengate.org . This will ensure that they will see your message even if public comment is cut short or canceled.✨
The Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District and DA Brooke Jenkins are using a $163K restitution claim to bolster a politically charged prosecution against the Golden Gate 26. They want to dissuade our community members from taking action against genocide, and we won’t let them!
The prosecution of the GG26 is occurring within the context of escalating repression, from the revocation of student visas to the detention and deportation of individuals speaking out for Palestine. This restitution claim isn’t about toll fees-it’s about using institutional power to silence dissent and punish those who fight for collective liberation. The Bridge District now has a choice: to uphold its responsibility to the public, or to align with a conservative prosecution aimed at silencing their constituents.
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/DNmZQqrJgop/
3. Friday, 10:00am – 12:30pm, NOISE AGAINST GENOCIDE (NEW)
Israeli Consulate
456 Montgomery St.
SF
Israel is about to complete their final genocidal solution with a massive ground invasion after horrific months of bombing, murder, starving civilians, blocking food, water, and aid.
F@ck these psychopathic monsters. Refuse to stay silent.
Bring noisemakers:
megaphones, pots and pans, drums, whistles, and your loudest voices.
Wear your keffiyehs, wave your Palestinian flags, and show up in solidarity with Gaza.
This ongoing effort is being organized by an autonomous group of activists
Please Join This Weekly Collective Action of Rage Against Genocide
4. Friday, 11:00am, Thiel Takedown – People Over Billionaires
RSVP & info: https://actionnetwork.org/events/thiel-takedown-action-at-founders-fund
Founders Fund (One of Peter Thiel’s primary venture capital vehicles and a key early investor in Palantir.
Lyon & Lombard St.
SF
MUNI # 43
Peter Thiel is the co-founder and chairman of Palantir – the company that’s:
· Enabling ICE to locate and kidnap immigrants
· Helping the Israeli military automate its “Kill Chain” in Gaza
· Building a mega-database for Trump containing your private personal information
A long-standing backer of authoritarian ideas, he was an early donor also to the political careers of Donald Trump and JD Vance. Now, between Palantir’s massive government contracts and Trump’s assaults on democracy, he’s getting a handsome return on his investment.
Through vehicles like Founders Fund and companies like Palantir, Thiel aims to make his dystopian business plans a reality
Info: Facebook
5. Friday, 4:30pm – 6:30pm, Stop AI Protest at OpenAI
Open AI Offices
1455 3rd St
SF
Help us say, “Close OpenAI!” OpenAI is the company leading the race to smarter-than-human AI, also known as Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), i.e., an AI that is smarter than all human experts across all technical domains. Although libertarians have long espoused that technology always generally benefits workers, AGI would leave humans out of the loop in every major industry, and, ultimately, have no need for humans to repair or improve itself. AGI would mean mass unemployment, and a massive transfer of wealth to the 1%.
AI developers like OpenAI have stolen copyrighted works from creatives without their consent, and actively refuse to share royalties with any of them. It is ludicrous to think they’ll start sharing wealth with anyone who they’ve caused to be unemployable. If the rich no longer need human workers or human soldiers, and everyone but them is homeless, what will stop the rich from throwing out the trash? It is the job of the people to reserve their right to strike, and protest the corporations that are trying to lead us to this catastrophe.
Furthermore, OpenAI continues to work with military defense contractor Andurill to develop increasingly advanced AI weapons for the United States and Israel. There is no world where putting extremely smart AIs in military weapons is a good idea.
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-anduril-defense/
2,700 cited AI researchers said in a poll that there is a 19% chance of AGI causing human extinction, and Geoffrey Hinton, who won the Nobel Prize for his work in AI in 2024, says there is a 50% chance of AGI causing human extinction. Some experts, like Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, say the risk of extinction is 99.99%. Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, when asked about the worst case for AGI, said it could be, “lights out for all of us,” and later said AGI will arrive in 2025. It is impossible to have experimental evidence that the behavior of an AGI will stay safe indefinitely and that AGI will never want something that will lead to our extinction similar to how we often caused the extinction of many less intelligent species.
We demand that workers, within their respective industry, are given the right to vote on what level of AI they are ok with, to stop themselves from becoming increasingly unemployable. We demand an end to the integration of AI into militaries worldwide. We demand that the US government shut down OpenAI, close any other company building AGI, and permanently ban the development of AGI.
Info: Stop AI Protest at OpenAI : Indybay
6. Friday, 5:00pm, Vigil for GAZA (NEW)
Cortland & Andover
SF
Stand with your neighbors!!
Host: Bernal Bay Resistance
7. Friday, 5:30pm, Make Noise for Gaza (NEW)
Grand Lake Theater (in front)
Oakland
Make some noise for Gaza! Please join us at 5:30 at the Grand Lake Theater for a kid-friendly action. Bring pots, pans, signs, snacks, and chalk! We can march around the intersection with the lights
Every Friday!
Info: Facebook
Saturday, August 23
8. Saturday, 11:00am – 12Noon, Protest Up Zoning
SF City Hall
Plaza side (Civic Center)
SF
Find out what actions you can take to stop the demolition of our cities.
Mary Lurie’s harmful upzoning has residents outraged – and now Senator Wiener is pushing even more height and density with zero affordability!
Speakers:
Aaron Peskin – former President Board of Supervisors
Lori Brooke – Neighborhoods United SF
Stephen Torres – Neighborhood Activist
Christin Evans – Small Business Forward
Peter Stevens – Affordable Housing Developer
Among others
In San Francisco, opponents warn SB 79 could open the door to 7- to 15- story towers across 95% of the city, permanently reshaping neighborhoods with no guarantees of affordability, safety, or infrastructure.
SB 79 ignores San Francisco’s earthquake vulnerability, narrow streets, and aging infrastructure. Without necessary upgrades, density increases pose serious safety hazards.
SB 79 allows developers to build large-scale, high-density projects based solely on proximity to transit stops—even proposed, not-yet-built ones. It has already passed the State Senate and now faces a vote in the Assembly.
San Francisco is Not Exempt
To secure votes, Senator Wiener is dangling a so-called “conditional exemption” for cities with housing elements as extreme as SB 79. For San Francisco, this is not relief — it is a trap.
The north and west sides already face Mayor Lurie’s aggressive upzoning maps, which satisfy Wiener for now. Meanwhile, residents of the Mission, Bernal Heights, Potrero, and other eastern neighborhoods were promised relief from further upzoning after years of major changes. Historic neighborhoods like Chinatown and North Beach are in the path of 79 too.
SB 79 breaks that promise subjecting these communities to further upzoning that drive demolitions, displacement, the loss of small businesses, and make neighborhoods even less affordable.
Residents call this a betrayal of public trust — broken promises that divide the city while handing Senator Wiener, and his YIMBY lobbyist, exactly what they want.
https://www.livablecalifornia.org/
Info: Protest Up-Zoning | Facebook or Protest Up-Zoning : Indybay
9. Saturday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, San Francisco: Tesla Takedown!
SF Tesla Dealership
999 Van Ness (corner of O’Farrell)
SF
Tesla Takedown continues!
This is a peaceful protest.
Info: San Francisco: Tesla Takedown! : Indybay
Sunday, August 24
10. Sunday, 12Noon – 1:30pm, Public Discussion- Fight the Cuts: Disability Justice Now!
New Valencia Hall
747 Polk St. (nr. Ellis)
SF
Also on Zoom — Register at https://bit.ly/DisabilityJusticeNow
Wheelchair accessible
seven blocks from Civic Center BART & on or near Muni bus lines #5, 19, 31, 38 & 49
Lunch and socializing afterwards
Door donation $3-5 Lunch donation $10-15
Fundraiser for the Freedom Socialist newspaper
– Restore & expand healthcare and benefits
– Why an inclusive movement is key
– The key leadership of people with disabilities
– Build for a general strike
Speakers:
Brittanie Hernandez-Wilson — Disability Justice activist and community organizer
Sam Rubin — Disabled socialist feminist and former Special Education teacher
Host: Freedom Socialist Party
Info: Public Discussion — Fight the Cuts: Disability Justice NOW! : Indybay
11. Sunday, 3:00pm, Defend Workers
UNITE HERE – Local 2 Hall
209 Golden Gate Ave.
SF
Brought to you by Bay Area Labor for Palestine, hear from a panel of six working class activists from across social movements on the repression and attacks being faced by working people today under the Trump administration. Speakers will discuss the Palestine solidarity movement, immigrant rights movement, and the movement to defend ethnic studies. Panelists will share stories of workers organizing against the attacks and the connections we can draw across sectors to build a fight back to the attacks on our civil rights.
Panelist:
Sang Kil, Professor at San Jose State Univerisity
Mike, AFGE – defending federal workers
Roslta, CNA defending the right to protest
Sergio, UESF, Defending ethnic studies
Floricil and Papeles Para Todos, defending immigrant workers
For more information: https://www.instagram.com/p/DNJ1DLhhPj5//
12. Sunday, 7:00pm – 8:30pm, From the Frontlines to Our Hearts
Berkeley Finnish Hall
1970 Chestnut St.
Berkeley
a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear from someone like Sandra Adler Killen — a nurse and lactation consultant who, who with immense courage and compassion walked straight into a war zone (and will soon return) to support new mothers and babies. Sandra will share her experiences, along with the daily messages she continues to receive from colleagues on the ground in Gaza. Together we will gather in community — to hold our heartbreak and explore how we can meaningfully show up for the ongoing humanitarian crisis.
This evening also serves as a fundraiser for the Gaza Infant Nutrition Alliance, directly supporting mothers and babies in Gaza.
We’ve also launched a new Instagram where we share the messages Sandy receives: @motherhoodunderseige.
Info: From the Frontlines to Our Hearts : Indybay
Tuesday, August 26
13. Tuesday, 8:15am – 4:15pm, ICE out of San Francisco courts!
SF ICE Court
100 Montgomery St.
SF
1 block from Montgomery BART
Join neighbors, activists, grassroots organizations in resisting ICE abductions happening at immigration court hearings!
We meet every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday outside of one of the SF immigration court buildings to:
- deter ICE from taking people
- accompany people to their court proceedings (if/as requested)
- walk people to their transportation home (if/as requested), to reduce their chances of being abducted in transit
- encourage oncoming traffic to honk in support 🙂
- share art, literature, and snacks
Court is in session from 8am – 4pm. Including cleanup & last call for accompaniment home, we’re outside from 8am to 4:30pm / 4:45pm.
Serious violence against protestors has occurred, but most days thus far have passed without incident.
Everyone is welcome and every one is vital, even if you can only participate for a little bit.
14. Tuesday, 9:00am-10:00am (PT); 12Noon – 1:00pm (ET), Detained, tortured, disappeared: The Israeli military’s targeting of Palestinian children
Zoom registration:
https://www.dci-palestine.org/detained_tortured_disappeared_20250826
Israel is the only country in the world that systematically detains, tortures, prosecutes, and imprisons children in a military detention system. Around 500 to 700 Palestinian children are targeted by this system each year, and the brutal abuse they face by Israeli forces has severely intensified since October 7, 2023. Now, Israeli forces are detaining, torturing, and disappearing Palestinian children from Gaza, with no accountability.
This webinar will train attendees on the basics of Israel’s military detention system and how it targets Palestinian children to exert control over the Palestinian people. Attendees will hear directly from Defense for Children International – Palestine about the hurdles faced by lawyers trying to provide legal aid for child detainees. This training will also include actions to take in support of Palestinian child detainees from the United States, United Kingdom, and other places around the world.
For more information: https://www.dci-palestine.org/
Info: Detained, tortured, disappeared: The Israeli military’s targeting of Palestinian children : Indybay
