“As an adjudicated insurrectionist, Trump is an illegitimate president according to Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, and therefore every official act as president will be illegitimate.”
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The 14th Amendment states: “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”
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Here comes a generation of DSA big-city mayors.In the course of my roughly three-quarters-of-a-century-long life, I’ve lived in just three cities: Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, D.C. By year’s end, there’s a decent chance that all three of those cities will have a socialist mayor.
Just to be clear, despite the fact that I’ve been an avowed democratic socialist in all three cities—for all of my adult life, in fact—I’m claiming no credit for their new socialist proclivities.
Yesterday, the candidate running second in Tuesday’s D.C. Democratic mayoral primary conceded the race to the front-runner, city council and DSA member Janeese Lewis George. With three-quarters of the ballots counted, Lewis George has a 53 percent to 37 percent lead over the second-place finisher. (If she falls beneath 50 percent, the tabulators have to tally the results of the ranked-choice voting, but so far, she’s held steady at 53 percent and is sure to win even if her first-choice votes drop below 50 percent.)
As at least 90 percent of D.C. voters invariably cast their ballots for Democrats in partisan November runoffs, Lewis George is assured of becoming D.C.’s next mayor. As such, she’ll join New York’s Zohran Mamdani as a socialist atop city government—and as a candidate whose victory was made possible, in significant part, by the precinct walking and phone-banking of DSA members. That said, Lewis George’s ability to govern effectively will lag Mamdani’s, as D.C. is still under the sway of federal control, which Donald Trump will only intensify once a socialist is nominally in power. (For that matter, New York City was compelled to cede the power to enact taxes to New York state during its near-bankruptcy in the 1970s, an impediment to local control that Mamdani has been forced to navigate.)
In Los Angeles, the results of this month’s mayoral jungle primary pit DSA and city council member Nithya Raman against incumbent mayor Karen Bass in the November runoff. It’s not actually clear that Raman, if elected, would govern in a way that’s any more socialistic than the way Bass has been governing. Bass has brought her left values and her long history as a progressive community organizer to her subsequent political career (Speaker of the State Assembly, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, and four years as mayor), and Raman was one of her leading allies on the city council. Raman’s three council colleagues who are also DSA members have endorsed Bass for re-election—as did Raman until it became clear that Bass, though widely unpopular ever since she was out of the country when fires swept the Pacific Palisades, would run effectively unopposed for re-election unless Raman jumped in. Los Angeles DSA has yet to endorse Raman, as it’s dissatisfied with her decisions to keep funding the police and limiting the scope of the city’s tax on the sale of high-value properties.
But the only real reason why Raman is a DSA member and Bass is not is generational. Raman is 44; Bass is 72. When Bass was young, there was no viable socialist movement in the United States and most of the New Deal’s guardrails against capitalism running amok were still in place. Raman came of age when capitalism’s amok-ness was plain for all politically and economically sentient to see, and when Bernie Sanders had put democratic socialism on the American political map. When Bass was Raman’s current age, DSA had roughly 5,000 members and didn’t play in big-city elections. Today, it has about 100,000 members—enough to make it a player in any number of cities.
But Mamdani’s, Lewis George’s, and Raman’s political base isn’t confined to DSA members. DSA had 10,000 members pounding the pavement for Mamdani in last year’s mayoral election, but they comprised just 10 percent of the total number of Zohran’s volunteers. In that sense, DSA is just the tip of the spear of urban Gen Z and millennial voters—those young enough to be shelved in jobs for which they’re both overqualified and underpaid, and to be locked out of homeowning. The two issues that both Mamdani and Lewis George most stressed were making child care and homes affordable: issues that all but define the politics of young city residents, issues that highlight the market failures of current American capitalism and the need for higher taxes on the wealthy to provide badly needed social necessities. Which is why the future of most American big cities—most certainly, those that attract younger residents—is likely to be social democratic and often run by avowed socialists. The Bernies, Mamdanis, and AOCs won’t be the Democratic Party’s lonesome ends; they’ll be the party’s urban wing. The sooner the Democrats understand that—and the sooner they embrace many of that wing’s policies, however they choose to label them (and themselves)—the better. Harold Meyerson Editor at Large
Attendees cheer during an event supporting the California Billionaire Tax Act on February 18, 2026 in Los Angeles.
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“I want a Democratic party that will stand for the working class,” said Rep. Ro Khanna, a supporter of taxing billionaire wealth. “Whose side are you on?”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday refused to budge from his opposition to a proposed wealth tax on the Golden State’s billionaires, swiftly dismissing a union-led coalition’s effort to compromise by reducing its desired 5% rate by more than half.
In a letter to Newsom on Thursday, the Billionaire Tax Now coalition urged the governor and likely 2028 presidential candidate to support a “2% wealth tax on the state’s richest 200 billionaires.” The coalition’s demand came hours after organizers announced that they had collected enough signatures to get their proposed one-time, 5% tax on billionaire wealth on California’s ballot in November.
Newsom’s office made clear that the governor, who has been outspoken in his opposition to the proposed 5% wealth tax, would not support the compromise offer.
“The governor has been clear that he is strongly opposed to a California-only wealth tax,” Tara Gallegos, a spokesperson for Newsom, said in a statement. “Changing the tax rate doesn’t change this measure’s fundamental flaws that harm working Californians.”
The Billionaire Tax Now coalition on Thursday offered to withdraw its popular ballot initiative calling for a one-time 5% levy on California billionaires’ wealth if Newsom agreed to throw his weight behind legislation enacting a 2% wealth tax instead. Organizers and supporters say a tax on the vast fortunes of the state’s wealthiest residents would help avert a looming healthcare disaster spurred by federal Medicaid cuts that President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans passed last summer.
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“California is home to more billionaires than any state in the nation,” the coalition wrote in its letter to Newsom on Thursday. “Their wealth has grown a staggering 212% in the last six years alone to more than $2.2 trillion dollars. A 2% one-time tax on that accumulated wealth is modest by any objective measure, especially if it means keeping emergency rooms open and saving patient lives. It’s more than appropriate at a moment when every other Californian is being asked by Sacramento to sacrifice.”
“We need you to stand up against one of Trump’s worst and deadliest domestic policy blunders yet—the cuts to California healthcare contained in the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill,’” the coalition added. “Let’s save patient lives together.”
US Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), a Silicon Valley representative who has supported the proposed wealth tax in the face of angry billionaire backlash, expressed support for the 2% compromise offer in a social media post on Thursday, noting that “250 billionaires own half of California GDP.”
“Taxing them at 2% would save healthcare for millions. Healthcare workers have already compromised from 5%,” Khanna wrote. “I want a Democratic party that will stand for the working class. This is a moral test for our party. Whose side are you on?”
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Organizers with the Next250 initiative are seen at an event ahead of the coalition’s mass mobilization planned for June 27, 2026 in Washington, DC.
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The Next250 coalition is focused on building a future in the US in which Americans declare their “interdependence” and work together to secure economic justice and an inclusive democracy.
With the 250th anniversary of the United States’ independence approaching, much of the planned celebration has been centered not on highlights of the country’s history, the communities that changed the nation by demanding progress on voting and civil rights, or how far the US has come since the Declaration of Independence was signed.
Instead, President Donald Trump has increasingly placed himself and his own views on American history at the center of the semiquincentennial celebration—insisting on a “Freedom 250” UFC fight on the White House lawn, arranging for his own image to appear on US passports and commemorative gold coin, calling himself “the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World” as he stepped in to headline the Great American State Fair after numerous performers dropped out, and using taxpayer dollars earmarked for the 250th birthday to hold an event devoted to the absurd and ahistorical claim that the US was founded as a Christian nation.
Ahead of the official “Freedom 250” events planned for July 4, a coalition of progressive groups—including One Fair Wage, Workers Center for Racial Justice, the Council on American Islamic Relations, and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice—are mobilizing to direct the country’s attention away from Trump, Christian nationalism, and even the country’s history and its independence—and toward a future in which Americans celebrate their “interdependence.”
“Interdependence means recognizing that our lives, communities, and futures are connected,” reads the Next250 coalition’s website. “It means understanding that none of us are free, safe, or thriving alone, and that the well-being of our communities, democracy, environment, and future generations depends on how we care for one another now.”
On June 27, a week before Independence Day, people from across the US are planning to attend a national mobilization in Washington, DC where the coalition will “reckon with our nation’s history and simultaneously declare a shared vision for the future of the country.”
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The event will amplify the Declaration of Interdependence, a document that focuses on the “collective destiny” of everyone in the US.
“We are one nation, interdependent, woven together by the strength of our ideals, our shared history, and the extraordinary land we live on—stewarded since time immemorial by Indigenous nations whose sovereignty and leadership continue today,” reads the declaration. “We can bring this vision to life only by recognizing our common destiny, honoring our shared humanity, and working together.”
“Today, too many people in the United States are struggling to meet their basic needs, while a tiny few have more money than nations,” the document continues. “Too many of us are feeling disconnected from our neighbors, have lost faith in government, and are longing for community. People do not feel safe from violence. Wildfires, floods, and extreme weather are destroying whole communities. We join together in our shared values to carve a path toward a better future for ourselves and each other.”
The declaration pledges to look ahead and build a nation where:
All people are treated with dignity and respect;
Everyone feels safe in every community;
Access to clean, green spaces is abundant;
Every person who works earns a living wage and benefits that allows families work-life balance.
The mass mobilization planned for June 27 has been years in the making. Key organizers—including political activists Linda Sarsour and Carmen Perez-Jordan and One Fair Wage president Saru Jayaraman—have gathered inspiration for the gathering and the declaration from communities across the country at town halls in Hartford, Detroit, and New York City, as well as “listening sessions” in dozens of states.
The town halls, like the event planned for the 27th, have included music and art exhibitions as well discussions about a more inclusive and democratic future for the US.
The organizers, Sarsour told Common Dreams, “really tried to use the themes, the words that came out of those listening sessions, and to develop this Declaration of Interdependence.”
“What it really reaffirmed for me personally and for the folks that were involved is that majority of people agree on very fundamental universal values and principles,” Sarsour added. “People want safety. People want dignity. People want to thrive. People are tired of just the survival mode.”
The coalition found that “living wages” were an issue that people across the country “fundamentally agree on.”
“Everyone, regardless of political party, regardless of where you live in the country, no one wants to work three jobs to support their families,” said Sarsour. “So this idea of economic justice and living wages is actually a universal principle and value that people hold in this country.”
“I think that when you have conversations about universal values, the question is like, ‘What do you think your neighbors want?’” said Sarsour. “And I think everyone is like, ‘Yeah, of course, why wouldn’t my neighbor want to also make a living wage? Why wouldn’t my neighbor also want to have access to healthcare?’ It’s just, we just never give the opportunity to our people to, to think about these things or ask them, prompt them on these questions about others.”
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As US senators pushed the Department of Defense to release unedited footage of the boat bombings the Trump administration has carried out in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean since last September, US Southern Command on Thursday announced that it had killed three more people in the operation that some international law experts have said amounts to mass murder and an extrajudicial killing spree.
As with the other announcements of boat bombings, at least 65 of which the US has now carried out, Southern Command released no evidence Thursday night of its claim that the vessel it bombed was “operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations,” “engaged in narco-trafficking operations,” or that the three people killed were “narco-terrorists.”
Victims of the previous boat bombings have included fishermen and other people who had no involvement with drug trafficking, according to legal complaints filed by families.
Ben Saul, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism, called on international governments to “break their silence and jointly condemn these murders,” noting that the death toll of the administration’s operation is now at least 211 people.
Some international officials, including French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot and Colombian President Gustavo Petro, have strongly denounced the boat bombings and accused Trump of breaking international law. Some countries have ended or dialed back intelligence sharing with the US. But human rights groups have called on the international community to take a unified stance against the boat strikes.
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“Sick of hearing, ‘I didn’t know those boat strikes are still happening. Silence leaves the impression that this is somehow OK,” said Adam Isacson of the Washington Office on Latin America on Thursday, adding that the US Coast Guard had called off its search for two survivors of an earlier boat bombing this week, potentially bringing the total death toll to 213.
President Donald Trump has claimed the US is engaged in an “armed conflict” with cartels in Latin America and has said the boat bombing campaign is aimed at stopping illegal drugs like fentanyl from flowing into the US. According to the US State Department’s 2025 report on international narcotics control, Mexico is the “only significant source of illicit fentanyl and fentanyl analogues significantly affecting the United States,” with the drug mainly entering the US via the southern border.
In an analysis of Customs and Border Protection data in April, Isacson emphasized that the lethal boat strikes have not stopped drugs from entering the US.
Even if the administration were targeting drug traffickers as it claims, bombing vessels involved in the drug trade is a violation of international laws protecting civilians from military force. Since the US is not officially engaged in an armed conflict with drug cartels, the accused “narco-terrorists” the Trump administration has killed have all been civilians.
Legal experts also say that US Southern Command’s killing of survivors of initial strikes by bombing them again, would also be war crimes in an armed conflict.
Earlier this week, after another boat bombing that killed at least one person, Saul called for “those who ordered and carried out these crimes to be investigated, prosecuted, and punished, in line with international law.”
On June 24, the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights are set to argue before the US District Court for the Southern District of New York for the immediate release of a secret legal memo authored by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, which the Trump administration has repeatedly claimed gives the president and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth the authority to kill people at sea.
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A surge in demand for AI infrastructure is fueling a boom in data centers, such as this 33-megawatt facility with a closed-loop cooling system in Vernon, just south of downtown Los Angeles. That could mean more data centers near the state’s high-speed rail line.Mario Tama/Getty Images
One day, bullet trains could zip from a palm-lined street in Anaheim to the foot of Salesforce Tower in SoMa.
Along the way, they may pass through a new kind of California landscape: vast acres of warehouses, all humming with servers. These buildings could be essential to the rail system’s survival.
That’s the dystopian future that Visalia (Tulare County) resident Joseph Mello conjured when he addressed the High-Speed Rail Authority board on June 1. Mello said he had read the draft business plan the board was set to approve that day, and one particular element struck him. The plan proposed leasing land or providing energy for data centers that could be built in the Central Valley, fueling a massive tech boom up north.
“As a potential rail user,” Mello said, “I do not want to ride through a valley of data centers.”
He was not alone. Much of the public comment period during the board’s June 1 meeting zeroed in on this new form of industrial development, and how high-speed rail might shape it. People worried that data centers would consume staggering amounts of water, release toxins into the soil, create noise, cause runaway fires should their battery storage ignite, and despoil the loamy, farm-checkered land. They echoed the concerns of small towns across the country whose councils are banning these facilities, viewing them as symbols of techno-colonialism.
Officials at the High-Speed Rail Authority see it differently. After the Trump administration yanked $4 billion in federal funding, California was left on its own to lay 171 miles of track from Merced to Bakersfield, then extend it north to the Bay Area, and south to Los Angeles, at a cost of $126 billion. The agency’s only option, according to CEO Ian Choudri, is to monetize every asset associated with the nascent rail network, from land along the right-of-way to surplus electricity to fiber-optic connections. Developers of “hyperscale” data centers are a perfect market for these resources, and many of them are eyeing the rural hinterlands where high-speed rail is currently under construction.
“We do have a corridor that will have fiber connectivity, renewable power and clean power available,” Choudri said during the June 1 board meeting. “We heard that some of these hyperscalers are actually having active discussions in the Central Valley about their intent to provide data centers.”
Choudri told the Chronicle that he had heard of one such discussion underway between officials in Kern County and a prospective data center developer, though he was not directly involved in the conversation. (Representatives of Kern County did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment.)
To pave the way for potential leases of land, fiber or electric transmission along the corridor, the rail authority has signed a co-development agreement with a consortium of infrastructure investors. They would act as a kind of intermediary for the rail line, helping match assets in the rail right-of-way with companies that would pay to use them. Within a few months Choudri expects to finalize a second agreement with another group of investors, this one focused on generating revenue from the solar arrays, wind farms, substations or batteries that will power the trains. The deals represent a strategic response to a harsh economic reality. Transit can only earn so much from the fare box. For high-speed rail to be self-sufficient, every piece of the system must be treated as possible income.
People involved in the megaproject hope these public-private transactions will get the Merced-Bakersfield portion in service by 2033, enabling a quick expansion to Gilroy so the full San Francisco-Los Angeles railway could open seven years later. That timeline would be welcome news for Gov. Gavin Newsom, who needs to show progress toward California’s most ambitious transportation dream should he decide to run for president. Choudri, meanwhile, has offered a practical rationale for courting the private sector. Once the track and stations are built, state law requires high-speed rail to fund its own operations. Data centers could supply a financial lifeline. Project insiders believe, moreover, that if tech companies have a vested interest in high-speed rail, they could help boost its political support.
“This is where AI in Silicon Valley is going,” Choudri said in an interview. “We just need to be mindful that if they’re doing something in the Central Valley, and they need some support services from us, we are going to put that on the table for our investors.”
Still, at least one observer acknowledged Newsom’s fragile position. Always an evangelist for innovation and new mobility, the governor now has to display “serious policy chops” if he’s making a bid for the White House, said David McCuan, a political science professor at Sonoma State University.
“He has a time frame that’s measured in months” to get the project under control, McCuan said. “And that means he has to embrace the latest, greatest, most divisive devil in politics, which is data centers.”
Steve Kawa, the new High-Speed Rail Authority board chair who served as Newsom’s chief of staff when the governor was mayor of San Francisco, said adamantly that the authority is “not proposing to build or operate data centers,” even though data centers built by others could be part of its commercial strategy.
“Let me be clear,” Kawa wrote in a statement, “the first and only priority is building out a world class high-speed rail system in California. All the work of the Authority is done in service of that goal.”
The challenge for the rail authority is winning over cities that wanted trains, not tech infrastructure. Madera Mayor Cecilia Gallegos insisted her city would reject any plans for data centers because of their heavy water consumption. A spokesperson for Bakersfield said city leaders had not heard information about “proposals to lease land” for data centers around the high-speed rail corridor.
Article continues below this aMerced Mayor Matthew Serratto recalled a hearing vague rumor that data centers might rise on the outskirts of Merced County. He mistrusts them for many of the reasons his constituents cited, including the scarcity of water and strain on the grid. Serratto noted, further, that Central Valley residents do not want outside forces “dictating” land-use decisions in the region.
“Ian’s got big ideas,” Serratto said, referring to Choudri. “He’s very plugged in with the Silicon Valley types. He’s a move-fast, visionary kind of guy, and he wants this project to pay for itself.”
Serratto managed a dry laugh.
“But really,” he said, “just build the train, dude.”
Vice President JD Vance stunned observers on Thursday with some of the bluntest criticism issued to Israel by a US presidential administration in recent memory as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues his attempts to sabotage peace with Iran.
Noting the indignance and defiance of Netanyahu and his cabinet in response to the memorandum of understanding signed this week by Trump—which calls on Israel to withdraw from Lebanon and end its ethnic cleansing campaign there—Vance said Israel’s leaders were in the midst of a “weird panic” and “freakout” during a New York Times interview on Thursday.
It comes on the heels of Trump’s own criticism of Israel’s tactics in Lebanon earlier this week, describing its bombing of an apartment building—one of countless attacks on civilian infrastructure—as “vicious” and “too much,” before claiming that “without me, there would be no Israel.”
Vance went even further later on Thursday during a press conference at the White House, reminding Israel’s leaders that they’ve made their country an international pariah.
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“My message to them would be twofold. No. 1: Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time,” Vance said. “If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world.”
In a style reminiscent of his infamous Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last year, he later took Israel’s leaders to task over what he described as ingratitude for America’s support, which has included roughly $4 billion in military assistance each year and even more since Israel began its genocidal military campaign against Gaza in 2023 in response to Hamas’ October 7 attacks.
The weapons Israel uses, Vance stressed, “have been built by American hands and paid for by American tax dollars.” He added, “The problem for Israel is not Donald J. Trump and anybody in Israel who thinks their biggest problem is the president of the United States needs to wake up and smell the reality of the situation that the country is in.”
In a marked shift from earlier this year, when the administration had cosigned Israel’s attacks on Lebanon even at the cost of ceasefire negotiations, Vance on Thursday called on Israel to “respect this peace process” and called Israel’s attacks on civilians “unacceptable.”
Just as observers have been bewildered by Trump’s sudden acknowledgment of Iran’s rights to possess ballistic missiles and to pursue nuclear energy, many were similarly caught off guard by Vance’s abrupt acknowledgment of truths about Israel that have been apparent to most of the world for years.
JD Vance is not changing the conversation about Israel in the US. He is changing the entire paradigm:
He is reminding the Israelis that they are alone and – though he doesn't use this word – much disliked internationally. Israel should not undermine the only strong friend they… pic.twitter.com/ZnqVTjve9R
“JD Vance is not changing the conversation about Israel in the US. He is changing the entire paradigm,” said Trita Parsi, the executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. “He is reminding the Israelis that they are alone and—though he doesn’t use this word—much disliked internationally. Israel should not undermine the only strong friend they have left.”
Washington Post columnist Shadi Hamid agreed that it was “probably the toughest public criticism offered by a US administration towards Israel in my lifetime,” adding that “we’ll see if it gets translated into action or if it’s just rhetoric, but it’s still much more than the Biden administration could ever manage.”
The naked cynicism of the flip-flop was apparent to many, given the Trump administration’s slavish deference to Israel up to the point that it became political poison.
College students who have said similar things to Vance about Israel’s killing of civilians have found themselves facing deportation, while International Criminal Court officials who have attempted to hold Israeli officials criminally liable for war crimes have found themselves sanctioned by the US.
That is to say nothing of Trump’s willingness to follow Netanyahu’s lead into a disastrous and unpopular war with Iran despite warnings from his own cabinet that he was being manipulated.
“It would be nice if they had this posture from January 2025,” journalist Zaid Jilani said of Vance’s comments on Thursday. “Might have helped save Trump’s presidency.”
Alexander Langlois, a contributing fellow at the anti-interventionist think tank Defense Priorities, described it as a deeply calculated maneuver to simultaneously show Israel who is boss in front of a nation growing wary of its influence while also reiterating America’s support.
“Vance is drawing a line. The White House is absolutely trying to use its power and influence to get not only Republicans, but Israel, in line,” he said.
Still, despite doubts, it was hard to overstate the gravity of the shift underway, at least rhetorically.
“It could all lead to nothing, or worse—a joint US-Israel resumption of the war,” said journalist Glenn Greenwald. “But there hasn’t been a week where American leaders have spoken so sternly, clearly, truthfully and decisively about Israel since… well, perhaps ever.”
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1. Thursday, 4:00pm – 6:00pm, Tell Target to Stand Up To ICE! Metreon Target: 789 Mission Street. Meet on the sidewalk by the Mission Street entrance. SF
Tell Target: We will boycott until they Stand Up To ICE!
Join us to say: Until Target acts to protect its workers and guests from ICE, we will not shop at Target! We will hold signs, hand out flyers, and explain why we must all boycott Target until they Stand Up To ICE. Bring a sign if you have one.
2. Friday, 10:30am – 12:30pm, Demo at Israeli Consulate
Israeli Consulate – SF 456 Montgomery St. SF
The terrorist apartheid colony is daily murdering, kidnapping, torturing and dispossessing people in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon. Come and show the zionist entity that the Bay Area is sick of all their crimes.‼
Bring drums, noisemakers, banners and flags to make a proper ruckus. FREE PALESTINE FREE LEBANON
This Friday June 19th /esté viernes 19 de junio Juneteenth ! Last survival poetry workshop at HOMEfulness Yelamu (SF) 3390 Cesar Chavez st nr mission At 12 noon With yummy free , healthy lunch at the sliding scale cafe ! @poormagazine
4. Saturday, 12Noon – 4:00pm, Public Memorial: Nellie Wong – ¡Presente!
Oakland High School, Multi-Purpose Room, Oakland CA
Entrance & Parking Lot: Put “51 Home Place E” in your GPS
Public transportation: The 18 Montclair AC Transit bus goes very close to Oakland HS from 13th & Broadway (near 12th St Oakland BART).
The stop at Park Blvd and 28th St is a 2 minute walk from the school.
Public Memorial: Nellie Wong ¡Presente! 1934-2026
Please join us in honoring the life of Nellie Wong, Asian American socialist feminist trailblazer. A celebrated working class poet, fierce labor movement fighter, and revolutionary role model to generations, Nellie’s life was a vibrant tribute to the joy of collective struggle in creating a new world.
5. Saturday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, Film Showing: The Seed of the Sacred Fig, directed by Mohammad Rasoulof
Revolution Books 2444 Durant Avenue Berkeley
The Seed of the Sacred Fig was filmed secretly in Iran. A lawyer named Iman, a staunch believer in the oppressive and patriarchal Islamic Republic, has just gotten a promotion which gives him authority over defendants’ life and death. But he must rubber stamp judgments without looking at the evidence. As he confronts his new role, Iran’s streets are filled with the Women Life Freedom movement. His own daughters are riveted on the protests – what to believe? The official government lies, or the reality they see out their window?
Mohammed Rasoulof is an influential Iranian filmmaker known for his thought-provoking and politically charged cinema. He has faced constant threats and persecution from the Iranian government.
In 2024, The Seed of the Sacred Fig was nominated at the Cannes Film Festival for the Palm D’Or. Days before the screening of the film, the Islamic Republic of Iran sentenced him to 8 years in prison, whipping, and a fine because of his films and political activism. Rasoulof fled on foot to Germany where he now lives in exile.
Our screening is dedicated to the people of Iran, as they face the onslaught of war by the US and Israel and at the same time have been living under and struggling against the repressive Islamic Republic.
6. Sunday, 6:00pm – 7:00pm, Monthly Gathering at Alex Nieto’s Altar
Bernal Hill Site near where Alex was murdered SF
MUNI # 67
All are welcomed to join Alex’s parents Refugio and Elvira Nieto on the 21st of each month as they remember Alex. It’s been 12 years since Alex was killed.
On March 21, 2014, Alex was murdered by SFPD officers Jason Sawyer, Richard Schiff, Nathan Chew, and Roger Morse, with 59 bullets.DA Gacon (at the time) declined to file criminal charges against the officers. .
When Chesa Boudin was SF DA (short term) He had is staff to do an investigation in Alex’s and other victims of police brutality cases. When Brooke Jenkins became the DA she dropped the investigations and either re-assigned or let the staff working on cases go.
There is still no justice for SFPD’s execution of Alex nor of any other victims of SFPD’s executions.
Monday, June 22
7. Monday, 9:00am, Sentencing of AI Protester: Wynd Kaufman
Monday, June 22 – 26, Haiti TPS Week of Action June 22nd-26th
Did you know the Supreme Court Is Deciding the Fate of 350,000 Haitians currently living in the US under Temporary Protected Status?
What is TPS? TPS allows foreign nationals from designated countries to live and work in the United States temporarily due to unsafe conditions in their home countries, such as ongoing armed conflict or an environmental disaster that would prevent them from returning home safely.
Now, Trump – with openly racist animosity towards Haitians – wants to end TPS for Haiti and 16 other countries. It was to have ended on February 3rd, but has been in the courts on appeal and is now before the Supreme Court which is expected to rule by the beginning of July.
At the same time, on April 16th the House passed HR 1689 which would extend TPS for Haitians for three years. The bill is now in the Senate.
What You Can Do:
· Join Haiti Action Committee in bannering “TPS 4 Haitian & All Refugees: NO RACIST DEPORTATIONS.” Week of Action June 22nd-26th. Post photos of your banners to social media and send them to us at action.haiti@gmail.com
· Call your Senators to urge them to vote yes on H.R. 1689’s accompanying Senate bill.
· Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121
· After the Supreme Court ruling, demonstrate (or celebrate) at 4:30pm day of [if the decision is announced before noon PDT] or day after [if announced later] at the SF Federal Building, 7th & Mission, San Francisco
· “Haiti and the Crisis in the Caribbean!” Join us for an educational evening affirming solidarity with Haiti and all peoples confronted by US empire’s cruelty, greed and deadly aggression. Featuring speakers on Haiti, Cuba and Puerto Rico. Thursday, July 16th, 7pm at 518 Valencia in SF. Donation $10-20, no one turned away.
8. Wednesday, 12Noon – 1:00pm, Rally at SF City Hall, Bayview-Hunters Point Calls for Mass Mobilization Over Shipyard
SF City Hall (Steps) 1 Dr. Carleton Goodlett Pl SF
CALL TO ACTION
Bayview-Hunters Point Community Calls for Mass Mobilization at San Francisco Hall Over Radioactive Contamination, Environmental Racism, and the Future Hunters Point
Issued by the Marie Harrison Community Foundation and Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice
San Francisco stands at a moral crossroads.
For decades, the people of Bayview-Hunters Point have lived in the shadow of one of the most contaminated former military sites in the United States: the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Superfund Site. Generations of residents have been forced to live, work, raise children, and struggle for survival amid radioactive and toxic contamination associated with the Shipyard, industrial facilities, diesel corridors, hazardous waste sites, and cumulative environmental exposure.
These dangers are not confined to the past.
Recent discoveries of additional radiological materials at Hunters Point, combined with longstanding concerns about cleanup fraud, delayed disclosures, unresolved contamination, and aggressive redevelopment pressure, have intensified community demands for truth, accountability, and justice. For Bayview-Hunters Point residents, this crisis is not about one isolated incident. It is about the cumulative burden of decades of exposure to environmental hazards, documented disparities in asthma and respiratory illness, adverse birth outcomes, economic hardship, and the repeated devaluing of Black, Brown, low-income, and working-class lives in District 10.
The Marie Harrison Community Foundation and Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice are calling on concerned residents, public health advocates, scientists, labor leaders, students, faith communities, environmental organizations, civil rights groups, and community allies across San Francisco and beyond to stand with Bayview-Hunters Point in a united public demonstration for environmental justice.
DEMANDS
1. Health Reparations for Impacted Residents
Residents who have lived, worked, gone to school, and raised families in the shadow of contamination deserve recognition, resources, and meaningful remedies for the health, emotional, and economic harms inflicted over generations. Justice requires more than acknowledgment. It requires repair.
2. Independent, Community-Supervised Retesting of the Entire Shipyard and Impacted Areas
The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and adjacent impacted areas must undergo comprehensive retesting under full community supervision. This process must include independent technical review, split-sample testing, transparent public reporting, and unrestricted oversight by trusted community representatives.
3. Public Funding for Independent Community Experts With Full Site Access
The City, State, and federal government must provide funding so community organizations can hire independent technical experts of their own choosing. Those experts must be granted full and unrestricted access to the Superfund site, the right to review records, the ability to obtain split samples, and the authority to collect independent samples. The community must not be forced to rely solely on agencies or contractors whose credibility has already been called into question.
4. Cleanup to the Highest Protective Standards for Residential Safety
The community demands cleanup standards that truly protect present and future generations, including removal of contamination wherever technically feasible. Simply capping contaminated areas, especially near the shoreline, is unacceptable given serious concerns about sea-level rise, groundwater intrusion, erosion, and climate-related risks.
5. No Transfer or Development of Contaminated Land
The City and County of San Francisco must reject the transfer, approval, or development of any parcel from the Shipyard unless it can be independently verified as safe and free from contamination that could threaten public health. Hazardous materials that cannot be safely treated onsite must be removed and disposed of at properly permitted facilities.
6. Long-Term Health Monitoring and Community Investment
The people of Bayview-Hunters Point deserve comprehensive long-term health monitoring, expanded healthcare access, environmental health research, pollution prevention investments, workforce development, and permanent community-led oversight mechanisms to ensure that future generations are never again placed in harm’s way.
This is not a call against development. This is a call for truth. This is a call for science. This is a call for transparency. And above all, this is a call for environmental justice.
The East Bay is rising up to stop a proposed coal terminal that would blanket our communities in toxic dust. Come learn how you can fight coal at this community meeting. We’ll catch you up on our decade-long campaign opposing a proposed coal terminal in West Oakland. We’ll share updates on the campaign, and brainstorm ways to take action in small groups. The coal terminal would bring mile-long coal trains along the East Bay shoreline, from Martinez to Oakland, sending toxic coal dust through our communities. This coal terminal is everyone’s problem–and it’ll take all of us to stop it. Learn more about the campaign at nocoal.org.
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