{"id":11012,"date":"2019-02-05T21:47:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T05:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=11012"},"modified":"2019-02-05T21:47:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T05:47:44","slug":"articles-4-actions-announcements-wed-feb-6-sun-feb-10-from-adrienne-fong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2019\/02\/05\/articles-4-actions-announcements-wed-feb-6-sun-feb-10-from-adrienne-fong\/","title":{"rendered":"Articles ~ 4 Actions ~ Announcements. Wed, Feb. 6 – Sun. Feb. 10 (from Adrienne Fong)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Periodic Announcements<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please encourage groups you are involved in to post events on Indybay: <\/strong>https:\/\/www.indybay.org\/calendar\/?page_id=12<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you to all who are posting there!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  <\/strong>Check Indybay for other events that might interest you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ACCESSIBILITY: <\/strong>Please include Accessibility Information on events! This is a JUSTICE  ISSUE!  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CHILDCARE <\/strong>Please indicate for events. This is a JUSTICE ISSUE!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARTICLES:<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

1. California Attorney General Refuses to Release Police Misconduct Files Despite New Law  <\/strong>– February 4, 2019<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/11723281\/california-attorney-general-refuses-to-release-police-misconduct-files-despite-new-law?fbclid=IwAR0M6ADFLtAZLWjV1G2jCjhx311AdDQ1Nf4ihhhUEzh-saOpXLvY6oiudOU\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

2. Former White House Chef Will Use Lottery Prize to Feed the Homeless<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/white-house-chef-wins-lottery\/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=US_Feb_1_2019_content_digest\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

3. The Pentagon will deploy another 3,750 troops to Mexican border<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/02\/03\/the-pentagon-will-deploy-another-3750-us-troops-to-mexican-border.html?__source=msn%7Cmoney%7Cheadline%7Cstory%7C&par=msn\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

4. Officers Accused of Abuses are Leading Chicago Police\u2019s \u201cImplicit Bias\u201d Training Program  <\/strong>– February 3, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/theintercept.com\/2019\/02\/03\/chicago-police-procedural-justice-training-complaints-lawsuits-racism\/?fbclid=IwAR12ErD8zF6uKjn68Rgwn9wMVI2JXFyrHpzM5Ig7-FsHY15GZNImixP10vE\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

5. US stops all aid to Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-47095082?fbclid=IwAR0499S91OSrO_ZHvkEWXPRmdaIftLAsko0veacYJZul2IkmIw5g-DkUSSU\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

4 – ACTIONS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Sign on as a citizen cosponsor of the Prevention of Arms Race Act to block Trump\u2019s banned nukes!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  SIGN: https:\/\/act.winwithoutwar.org\/act\/citizen-cosponsor-prevent-nuclear-arms-race?source=em20190201_2&t=6&referring_akid=3143.294094.jGIvXP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. End U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  SIGN: https:\/\/act.credoaction.com\/sign\/yemen-war-powers-2019?t=5&akid=31443%2E21110%2EljU4GO<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Keep the pressure on Congress to repeal the Muslim ban<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  SIGN:  https:\/\/act.credoaction.com\/sign\/no-muslim-ban-2019?t=2&akid=31438%2E21110%2EPB7qIH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years is too long<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump began separating and terrorizing Black and Brown families as soon as he took office. His Muslim ban was one of the first racist policies he enacted to attack our communities.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Fiscal Hawks in Congress: Keep your hands off Social Security!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  SIGN: https:\/\/secure.ncpssm.org\/content\/keep-your-hands-off-Social-Security0204201?utm_source=silverpop&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2019_February_04_Petition_INITIAL1&utm_content=&eml_name=2019_February_04_Petition_INITIAL1&eml_id=38755856&spMailingID=38755856&spUserID=Njc2ODQxMTYwODk4S0&spJobID=1460090964&spReportId=MTQ2MDA5MDk2NAS2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

31 – ANNOUNCEMENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, February 6 \u2013 Sunday, February 10<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, February 6<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Wednesday, 10:00am \u2013 12Noon, Our City Our Home ERAF Budget Hearing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SF City Hall, rm. 250<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The City recently discovered that they had extra funding ($185 Million!) from the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund. 

Join the Our City Our Home Coalition and ask the City’s Budget & Finance Committee to use some of this windfall funding to go towards housing and homelessness!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact Sam Lew at slew@cohsf.org<\/a> for more info.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sponsor: Yes on C Our City Our Home SF + 6 Other groups<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Info: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/2174841939446512\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Wednesday, 5:30pm \u2013 6:30pm, Peace Vigil<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Market & Montgomery St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(on the steps facing Market Street, below Feinstein\u2019s office, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

directly above the Montgomery BART\/Muni station).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If it rains \u2013 Vigil will be held down the stairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look for the PEACE banner!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Themes vary each week on topics for PEACE & JUSTICE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All are welcomed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Wednesday, 6:30pm \u2013 7:30pm, Boycott Manny\u2019s and its \u201cWoke-Washing\u201d of the Mission<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manny\u2019s<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16th<\/sup> & Valencia St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

STOP THE WOKE-WASHING OF THE MISSION 

We are a group of black and brown folks, Jews, Mission Housing tenants, trans and queer people, and many others, who are committed to collective liberation. We are 
calling for a community boycott of Manny\u2019s (3092 16th at Valencia, SF) because this new upscale wine bar is yet another gentrifying attack on our community. While Manny\u2019s bills itself as a \u201ccommunity space\u201d, it\u2019s marketed toward white ruling class techies, and its programming often features right-wing politicians who are supported by the luxury condo industry. While Manny\u2019s is on the ground floor of a low-income building run by Mission Housing, its residents had no say in its placement. While countless Latinx cultural spaces are evicted from the Mission, Sam Moss who runs Mission Housing, gave Manny\u2019s a reduced rent. 

The owner of Manny\u2019s has worked with Bay Area Zionist organizations. Zionism is a racist ideology that believes Palestinian people have no claim to their land. Zionists, through the state of Israel, enforce this ideology by murdering, arresting, torturing, and displacing generations of Palestinian people. We stand against Zionism, gentrification, anti-Semitism, and all other forms of oppression. 

Manny\u2019s is part of a systematic attempt to make gentrification and racism seem \u201ccool\u201d through woke-washing. Woke-washing is the strategy of putting a \u201csocial justice\u201d fa\u00e7ade on oppressive politics. 

JOIN US EVERY WEDNESDAY 6:30PM 

Endorsed by 
Black and Brown for Peace Justice and Equality; 
The Lucy Parsons Project; 
Palestinian Youth Movement – Bay Area; 
Brown Beret National Organization; 
National Brown Berets; 
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network; 
Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism; 
Jews Against Zionism; 
GAY SHAME: A Virus in the System 

Please honor this Boycott!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, February 7<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Thursday, 10:00am \u2013 11:00am, 2 years & 10 Months \u2013 Celebration of Luis G\u00f3ngora Pat\u2019s Life<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Altar site<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shotwell & 19th<\/sup> Street<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the monthly gathering at Luis\u2019s altar site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: <\/strong>At this writing I have NOT seen an official FB announcement. If it is NOT happening, I\u2019ll update.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can also check : https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/230409604013458\/<\/a>  for updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Thursday, 2:30pm \u2013 7:30pm, Monster in the Mission – Public Hearing \/ Audiencia Publica<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mission High School<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3750 18th<\/sup> St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wheelchair accessible<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  as is the auditorium where the hearing will be held. There are accessible and gender neutral bathrooms as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Childcare, food, and interpretation (Spanish, Cantonese and ASL) will be available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

first public hearing about the Monster in the Mission! 

Join us at Mission High School for and have the opportunity to speak directly to the Planning Commission and demand that they make the right choice and take a stand against the Monster in the Mission and support the 100% community developed affordable housing!

Planning should always be a public and accessible process where the people most impacted by a project should be able to authentically inform the decision. This hearing is a real example of how planning decisions should be made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sponsors: Plaza 16 Coalition, Mission Economic Development Agency, Housing Rights Committee of SF, PODER (SF), The Women\u2019s Building- SF, Faith in Action Bay Area, Causa Justa Just Cause, H.O.M.E.Y., Mission Housing Development Corp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Info: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/277890739546685\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two other groups have also posted on the above meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

6a) Planning Commission Meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  <\/strong>Please join with us at a public hearing to voice our support for new housing at 16th and Mission St. Let\u2019s let the Planning department know that we support the best community benefits package that has ever come with a new development in the Mission.
\u2022 Providing over 300 new rental apartments, housing for all: the very low income, the middle class, and market rate.

\u2022 Providing 159 rent subsidies for long time Mission residents being threatened with eviction from SRO\u2019s!

\u2022 Providing much-needed expansion and beautification of the Bart Plaza!

\u2022 Providing local artists with opportunities to display their work throughout the project!

\u2022 No resident displacement!

\u2022 100\u2019s of good jobs and 100% local union labor!

Mercado on the ground floor with 10% free space and rent subsidies and more\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Post by: Mission For All<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Info: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/371602400318650\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

6b) 979 Mission Street Planning Commission Hearing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come learn about a proposal to build 331 new homes on top of a BART station at 16th and Mission! Zero residential displacement. The proposal includes an additional 192 below market rate homes in the neighborhood. 

**In total, the proposal will provide 523 new homes at all levels of affordability.**

Improvement to the Bart Plaza!

Local artist and local hire opportunities!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Posted by: San Francisco Housing Action Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Info: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/348744395719177\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. Thursday, 5:00pm \u2013 7:00pm, Demand Safe Nurse Staffing at CPMC\u2019s New Hospital<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

California Pacific Medical Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geary Blvd. & Van Ness Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CPMC is hosting a glitzy opening party ($500\/ticket) for the opening of its new Cathedral Hospital at Van Ness and Geary, but it’s instituting new reduced-staffing protocols that have resulted in increased falls and preventable infections at CPMC’s newly opened Mission-Bernal campus (St. Luke’s Hospital).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Info: http:\/\/graypantherssf.igc.org\/19-02-07-CNA-CPMP.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

8. Thursday, 6:00pm \u2013 9:00pm, ArtBuild Session 2, Hosted by XR & David Solnit<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bridge Storage and ArtSpace<\/p>\n\n\n\n

23 Maine Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South 1st<\/sup> Street & Maine Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richmond<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We still have banners, flags, and patches to complete. This will also be an opportunity to touch base in general for February 16th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Park outside facility and walk in\/bring bikes in. 
It’s a couple miles from Richmond BART–bikeable but far to walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sponsor: Extinction Rebellion SF Bay Area<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Info: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/363548844479523\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, February 8<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

9. Friday, 11:30am \u2013 12:30pm, Compassion Has No Walls <\/strong>(monthly gathering)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ICE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

630 Sansome St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCompassion Has No Walls:Remembering the Incarceration of Japanese-Americans\u201d 

This is a monthly interfaith ceremony to demonstrate our solidarity for immigrant justice. This is also an educational opportunity for the community to learn about how current immigration policies impact our neighbors. We end to invite the audience to get involved in concrete ways

In February, we commemorate the history of February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 called for the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during WWII. This lead to denial of civil liberties and detention of among Japanese Americans. We remember this historical moment to call for the end of family separation and detention at the border and around the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 co-sponsored by: Buena Vista United Methodist Church, San Francisco Day of Remembrance Organizing Committee, Japanese American Religious Federation, Pine United Methodist Church, Nikkei Resisters, and Hand-in-Hand: The Domestic Employers Network<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Info: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/371521976963104\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10. Friday, 12Noon \u2013 1:00pm, FreeRaul: Flood the Courtroom!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ICE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

630 Sansome St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12Noon \u2013 Rally<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1:00pm – Hearing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

***BOND HEARING DATE AND TIME HAS CHANGED***

Thanks to the growing outpour of community support and Raul’s incredible legal team, Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim ordered immigration courts to grant Raul a new bond hearing and an opportunity to prove rehabilitation is possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

YOUR SUPPORT IS MORE IMPORTANT NOW THAN EVER. With liberation so close to Raul, we must show the tremendous amount of community he will have awaiting him when released. Join us as we FLOOD the courtroom!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sponsors: California Youth Justice Alliance & 2 Other groups<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Info: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/283416592352761\/?active_tab=about<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11. Friday, 12Noon \u2013 2:00pm, Mothers on the March Against Police Murders \u2013 Week 122<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hall of Injustice<\/p>\n\n\n\n

850 Bryant St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All are invited to join us  to demand that District Attorney George Gascon charge police officers with murder. Stand with ALL families who have lost loved ones to police murders. Since Gascon has been the DA in San Francisco, he has not charged any police officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calling for Justice for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joshua Smith, Kenneth Harding Jr., Peter Yin Woo, Steven Michael Young, Dennis Hughes , Pralith Prolouring, Dale Stuart Wilkerson, Alex Nieto, Giovany Contreras Sandoval, O\u2019Shaine Evans, Matthew Hoffman, Amilcar Perez-Lopez, Alice Brown, Herbert Omar Benitez, Javier Lopez Garcia, Mario Woods, Luis G\u03ccngora Pat, Jessica Nelson, Nicolas McWherter, Nicholas Flusche, Damian Murray, Keita O\u2019Neil, Jesus Adolfo Delgado, Jehad Eid, and Derrick Gaines (killed by a police officer hired by SFPD)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The above named people all were killed by SFPD! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

12. Friday, 1:00pm, 2 Year Angelversary for Michael Barrera – Online only event<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2\/8\/19 marks two years to the death of my brother, Michael Barrera. 

I\u2019m creating this online (only) event to honor Michael\u2019s memory, to share his story and to raise awareness on police brutality and killings that are going on daily, across the country.

Join me in lighting up a candle, sparking a blunt and\/or taking a shot for Michael!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Info: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/311228829505143\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

13. Friday, 1:30pm \u2013 3:30pm, Cops challenge SB1421<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martinez Superior Court Department 12<\/p>\n\n\n\n

725 Court Street<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Martinez<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police associations all over the state of California are denying the will of the people by challenging SB1421 which recently passed and is now LAW and which requires prior infractions and violence by police to be public record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

— from the family of Pedie Perez, killed by Richmond police — come to the courthouse to join activists and ACLU in ensuring the court hears the voices of the people and denies cops’ attempts to nullify this law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Posted by: Wealth and Disparities in the Black Community \u2013 Justice for Mario Woods<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Info: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/370028483621257\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

14. Friday, 5:00pm \u2013 7:00pm, People’s Park Campus Solidarity Meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

UC Berkeley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

350 Eshleman Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berkeley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A weekly discussion meeting to promote student solidarity and involvement in the struggle to save People’s Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sponsor: People\u2019s Park Committee, Berkeley People\u2019s Park<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Info: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1996436167118664\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

15. Friday, 5:00pm \u2013 7:00pm, Strike Ready Happy Hour: How Can We Support Students & Teachers?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oakland Museum of California<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1000 Oak St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oakland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come learn about the Oakland teacher’s strike that may be right around the corner and how we can support!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oakland Unified School District is filled with overcrowded classrooms, unsafe caseloads for support staff, and underpaid educators. Meanwhile OUSD is spending far more than comparable school districts on administration and consultants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oakland students deserve better, and teachers are ready to fight to change these realities! They are prepared to strike for the schools that Oakland students deserve.

Oakland educators are fighting for smaller class sizes, more support for students, and a living wage for teachers. And we can make a HUGE difference by showing that the community has their back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow Oakland Education Association to stay updated on the strike: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OaklandEA\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sponsors: Bay Resistance + 5 Other groups<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Info: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/293034828024280\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

16. Friday, 7:00pm \u2013 10:00pm, Jackson: The Place With One Clinic – film & discussion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Revolution Books \u2013 Berkeley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2444 Durant Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berkeley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At one time Mississippi had fourteen abortion clinics. Now only one remains. 

This 2017 award winning documentary tells the story of three women in Jackson, Mississippi. It gives an intimate and deep look into the struggle to defend the right to abortion, revolving around access to the only remaining abortion clinic in the whole state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Info: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/288357675171275\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, February 9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

17. Saturday, 1:00pm, U.S. Hands Off Venezuela Rally<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lake Merritt Columns<\/p>\n\n\n\n

599 Embarcadero<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oakland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rally to demand U.S. Hands Off Venezuela in support of the elected Maduro Bolivarian government at The Lake Merritt Columns\/Pergola\/ThePillars, 599 El Embarcadero, Oakland
We demand:
No U.S. Coup!
– No troops
– No sanctions
– Return Venezuelan money to the legitimate Maduro government
– No proxy interventions (i.e. through Colombia or Brazil)
Recognize the elected Maduro Bolivarian government 
No recognition of the self-imposed, rogue Guaid\u00f2 “government”.
Initiated by:
We Are All Venezuela<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sponsors: We Are All Venezuelans + 3 Other groups<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Info: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/366629640735843\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

18. Saturday, 1:00pm \u2013 3:00pm, March from People’s Park<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

People\u2019s Park Berkeley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2556 Haste St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berkeley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rally at People\u2019s Park \u2013 March in Protest<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On January 22nd, supporters of People’s Park marched down Telegraph Avenue to Sproul Plaza to protest the University’s overwhelming police response to the protest defending the trees. This peaceful protest was interrupted by a reckless driver who pushed up on the protesters and struck a sleeping homeless man as he fled the scene. Police have refused to release the identity of the driver or respond to this blatant attack on the poor people of Berkeley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sponsor: People\u2019s Park Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Info: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/581189292397037\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

19. Saturday, 1:30pm \u2013 3:00pm, Divest to Invest – In a Healthy Future!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

West Berkeley Public Library, Community Rm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1125 University Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berkeley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

hear why personal divestment is a powerful tool in the struggle for climate justice. This 90-minute workshop will explain why fossil fuel divestment matters, the role divestment has played in civil rights movements throughout history and how you can do it! This workshop is for everyone even if you are thinking about opening your first bank account or have been investing for many years.

We will be highlighting clean investment tools, our divestment mentorship program and local climate and divestment activism<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sponsored by Fossil Free CA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Info: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/981263452058671\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

20. Saturday, 2:00pm \u2013 4:00pm, Black Panther History with Saturu Ned<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Golden Gate Branch Library<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5606 San Pablo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oakland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join us in conversation with Saturu Ned, former member of the Black Panther Party, for a discussion of Black Panther Party organization, methods, and the Ten-Point Party Platform.

How can the Panthers’ revolutionary message inform the organizers and activists of today? This event is a presentation and a skill-sharing workshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturu Ned (then known as James Mott) joined the Black Panther Party in 1968 while attending Sacramento City College. He was a member of the Black Panther Party singing group called the \u201cLumpen\u201d and was a teacher at the award winning Oakland Community School and Learning Center that was started and run by Black Panther Party Members. Today he continues the ideology and practice of Real Power to The People through his work to reestablish the connection of the proven process and application of creating self-sufficiency, self-determination and economic freedom for our families, friends and our communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Info: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/216243969320395\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

21. Saturday, 2:00pm \u2013 4:00pm, Eyewitness Gaza: Palestinian Children Under Siege<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Omni Commons<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4799 Shattuck Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oakland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heather La Mastro, a school teacher in Berkeley, recently traveled to occupied Palestine. She visited several refugee camps, hospitals and pediatric mental health care programs in the West Bank and Gaza Strip administered by the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF). Heather will share her stories meeting Palestinian people, especially her students’ Palestinian pen pals in Gaza. 

She will be joined by Priscilla Wathington, the Managing Editor for Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP), an independent, local Palestinian child rights organization based in Ramallah. Priscilla will speak about the most pressing human rights concerns facing Palestinian children living in the Gaza Strip at this juncture and the grave number of child fatalities at the hands of Israeli forces that DCIP documented in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organized by ISM-NorCal https:\/\/ism-norcal.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Info: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/328766551180558\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

22. Saturday, 5:30pm \u2013 7:30pm, Artivism: Destigmatizing Abortion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Revolution Books Berkeley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2444 Durant Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berkeley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join us as we seek to use art as a medium for normalizing abortion and furthering the public discussion about reproductive justice. Students United for Reproductive Justice is partnering with national organization Advocates for Youth and local activist hub Revolution Books to put on an abortion storytelling photo exhibit. There will be stories from people who have had abortions, as well as refreshments, speakers, and a safe space for talking about abortion issues and stigma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sponsors: Students United for Reproductive Justice at UC Berkeley & Revolution Books<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Info: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/357977414786686\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

23. Saturday, 6:00pm \u2013 9:00pm, African American Arts and Cultural District Celebration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bayview Opera House<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4705 3rd<\/sup> St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reserve you free ticket now:
https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/celebrate-aaacd<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doors open 5:30pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Local vendors and food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join us as we celebrate Black History and Bayview Hunters Point history in the making! This year San Francisco recognized Bayview Hunters Point as San Francisco’s African American Arts + Cultural District. This recognition has been a long time coming and now, we celebrate. Featuring performances by 

Fely Tchaco
Akinyele Sadiq
Tribe SF
Cheri Miller
Dee Hillman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photographs by the official photographer of Bop City, Steve Jackson Jr. Jackson’s work as the official photographer at Jimbo\u2019s Bop City appears in the book \u201cHarlem of the West, The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era\u201d by Elizabeth Pepin and Lewis Watts. The exhibition has been kindly lent to us by the authors. 

We are pairing these photos from a historic moment in San Francisco’s African American history with contemporary images of our current BVHP community members and friends from our We Are Bayview event because WE ARE HISTORY IN THE MAKING!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supported by:
Invest in Neighborhoods, OEWD, San Francisco Arts Commission, Grants for the Arts, San Francisco Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Info: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/383219122451104\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

24. Saturday, 7:00pm \u2013 9:00pm, The Fight for Quality Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Berkeley Senior Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2939 Ellis St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berkeley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$5.00 suggested donation \u2013 no one turned away<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public education has been under attack for decades. But last year some things began to change. Teachers in West Virginia went on strike and were joined by school cooks, secretaries, janitors, and bus drivers. Their example spread to schools across the country, including Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Arizona. Now it\u2019s our time! Oakland teachers are preparing to fight back. 

Come to a discussion with activists in the fight for decent education in Oakland about what we can do to stand up to these attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sponsor: Revolutionary Workers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Info: https:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2019\/01\/26\/18820841.php<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, February 10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

25. Sunday, 7:00am \u2013 12Noon, Feed the Hood 9: Bag Lunch & Hygiene Kit Distribution<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cristo Rey de la Salle High School (Saint Elizabeth campus)
1530 34th Ave.,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Oakland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RSVP:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

**Event is family friendly (kids of all ages welcome to attend with their parent(s) or guardian). 
**Coffee\/tea and continental breakfast will be served for volunteers. 
**Venue is wheelchair accessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join The East Oakland Collective for their large scale community service opportunity to prepare and distribute 3,000 lunches and hygiene kits to our unhoused brothers and sisters across Oakland. This Feed the Hood is paying respect and homage to the Black Panther Party, who fed, clothed and provided resources to the community without government assistance. 

<< At-A-Glance Agenda for Feed the Hood >> 

7 AM: Volunteers arrive. Volunteer breakfast. 
7 AM – 9 AM: Prepare bag lunches and hygiene kits 
9 AM – 9:30 AM: Program and instruction 
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Load caravans 
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM: Caravans head out to distribute bag lunches and hygiene kits across Oakland and parts of Berkeley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sponsors: The East Oakland Collective and Black Joy Parade<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Info: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/359809058142034\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

26. Sunday, 9:30am \u2013 11:00am, UU Forum:  We saw Fascism voted in, can we vote it out?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

First Unitarian Universalist Society of SF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1187 Franklin St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barry Thornton of RefuseFascism.org will speak and lead a discussion on the question: 
Can Fascism be voted out?<\/p>\n\n\n\n


These are times when we must confront the bitter reality \u2013 the world as we have known it is being torn asunder, a fascist regime holds the reins of power and is moving to consolidate a regime with horrific consequences for the world and its people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 
We need to organize for the time when we can launch massive, sustained nonviolent protests in the streets of cities and towns across the country day after day that don\u2019t stop, creating the kind of political situation in which the demand that the Trump\/Pence regime be removed from office can be realized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Info: https:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2019\/02\/03\/18820971.php<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

27. Sunday, 11:00am \u2013 1:00pm, Why We Remember the Japanese American Incarceration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Japanese Community Youth Council<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2012 Pine St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JCYC is ADA accessible to the third floor via elevator. In addition, refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please join the Japanese Community Youth Council (JCYC)<\/a> and Nikkei Resisters<\/a> for “Why We Remember,” a gathering catered for youth and young adults to learn about the Japanese American incarceration experience in preparation for annual Day of Remembrance (DOR) events across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DOR is an important way to commemorate the signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19th, 1942, effectively forcing over 120,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast to detention centers and incarceration camps across the country. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress authorized these actions solely on the basis of race without evidence of wrongdoing, charges, or hearings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given today’s political climate, we hope to take a step back together and ask, \u201cWhy is it important to remember?\u201d The incarceration happened over seven decades ago, but its legacy is still ever-present in similarly haunting immigration rhetoric and policies today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No prior knowledge of Japanese American history is necessary and you do not need to identify as Japanese American to attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

co-sponsors: Japanese Community Youth Council (JCYC)<\/a>, Nikkei Resisters<\/a>, and the National Japanese American Historical Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Info: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/816887328643291\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

28. Sunday, 11:45am \u2013 1:30pm, Codepink Golden Gate Bridge Peace Walk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:45 am:<\/strong>  Gather at the SF or Marin end of the eastern walkway of the Golden Gate Bridge.  Parking available on all 4 “corners”,  just remember to take the last exit on hwy 101 as you approach the bridge, or the first exit after you leave the bridge.  Arrive early for best parking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noon:<\/strong>  Walk on the eastern walkway from the north or south ends, to converge in the middle.  Short, silent vigil in the middle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1:30 pm: <\/strong> Rally on SF side after the bridge walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Theme: USA: KEEP YOUR BLOODY HANDS OFF VENEZUELA!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US OUT of VENEZUELA!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NO BLOOD for OIL!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RESPECT Sovereignty!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HANDS OFF VENEZUELA!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

STOP EMPIRE MADNESS!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Info: ratherbenyckeling@comcast.net<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

29. Sunday, 3:00pm \u2013 5:00pm, Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign Steering Committee Meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Citizen Engagement Lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1330 Broadway, 3rd<\/sup> Floor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oakland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please let us know if you will need childcare by February 7th<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Poor People’s Campaign, A National Call for Moral Revival (PPC) focuses on fighting the four pillars of evil: poverty, systemic racism, the war economy and environmental devastation, and on shifting the moral narrative. PPC supporters in the Bay Area have come together to form the Bay Area PPC Steering Committee and hope you can join this effort and share this information with others who may be interested.

In the PPC, people directly impacted by the 4 pillars of evil are
central in our work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


We look forward to your participation as we move forward to build the PPC campaign here in the Bay Area and help grow this exciting new movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Info: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1370365386438538\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

30. Sunday, 5:00pm \u2013 7:00pm, Poverty Scholarship \/POOR Press Book Release Events<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

City Lights Books<\/p>\n\n\n\n

261 Columbus Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poverty Scholarship-Poor People Create their own Theory, Textbook & Solutions to Poverty & Homelessness

Poor, Unhoused and Disabled “Poverty Skolaz” release a book sharing their truly innovative solutions to homelessness and poverty and launch a national theatre production on poverty, homelessness and criminalization of poor people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Us poor and homeless people in the US are in a state of emergency- between the demolitions of thousands of units of public housing,the extreme rise in gentrification and evictions of low-income and working class elders and families and the concurrent rise in the criminalization of unhoused encampments and our bodies, which is why it is so urgent for people to listen to our own innovative solutions to poverty and homelessness-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This will also be held at the SF Main library on Feb. 24th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See FB site for details: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/539746629828364<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

31. Sunday, 5:00pm \u2013 8:00pm, Liberated Lens nilm night: free screening of Roma & discussion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Omni Commons<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4799 Shattuck Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oakland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the biggest film awards contenders (including the upcoming Oscars) this year is likely to be Roma, the latest film from Gravity and Children of Men director Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n, but it\u2019s nothing like either of those two films. Instead, the filmmaker has crafted a family drama that many critics are calling a masterpiece. The film is inspired by Cuar\u00f3n’s life and portrays a year in the life of a middle-class family’s maid in the political turmoil of Mexico City in 1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Info: https:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2019\/02\/04\/18820978.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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