By Adrienne Fong
Not back posting on a regular basis.
Next announcements will be posted on Thursday or Friday
RESOURCES:
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– Since the Iran War – there has been an increase of active duty service people applying for C.O. status
– Share these numbers to people who know active duty service members
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. “Children’s Peace Drawings Are Antisemitic!” – Says Israeli UN Ambassador – October 11, 2026
B. ‘We May’: Trump Says US Could Soon Start Bombing Yemen Again to Help Saudi Arabia – October 11, 2025
C. Netanyahu Orders Investigation, Prosecution of Interviewees in ‘NAZA’ Documentary
Netanyahu Orders Investigation, Prosecution of Interviewees in ‘NAZA’ Documentary – Israel Security
See Event # 3
D. Some in Tennessee governor’s office don’t want second Christa Pike execution: Cuomo
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/mid-south/tennessee-christa-pike-second-execution-attempt/#:~:text=According%20to%20her%20legal%20team%2C,execution%2C%20NewsNation%20affiliate%20WKRN%20reported.
E. POWERFUL MESSAGE: Navi Pillay Dedicates Nobel Peace Prize to Survivors of International Crimes| AC1C – October 10, 2026
F. Hundreds at FedEx Demand End of Weapons Pipeline for Palestine Genocide – October 10, 2026
G. Soldiers Are Already Looking for a Way Out of Hegseth’s Livestreamed Firing Squad – October 8, 2026
https://www.washingtonsun.com/defense/soldiers-fort-hood-nidal-mikal-hasan-pete-hegseth-livestream-firing-squad-execution
H. Pentagon says firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestream
I. SFPD beat city resident into near-coma in 2025 and DA ‘tried to cover it up,’ public defenders allege – October 8, 2026
J. Antisemitism Law Helped Get A Professor Fiered For Free Speech, Lawsuit Says – October 6, 2026
K. S.F. prosecutors again boycott judge over alleged anti-police, anti-DA bias – October 6, 2026
https://missionlocal.org/2026/10/prosecutors-boycott-judge-alleged-bias/
L. Israel is Arming Who???
ISRAEL IS ARMING WHO???? – YouTube
M, Bt Cotton in India: How did genetically modified seeds enter Indian fields before formal approval? – October 2, 2026
https://www.instagram.com/reels/Dd_odtTuCu_/
Dr. Vandana Shiva
N. Doctors and the Death Penalty: Panel Discussion – September 29, 2026
Doctors and the Death Penalty: Panel Discussion
O. Newly created viruses are a warning. We still have a window to stop AI-enabled bioweapons – September 4, 2026
Newly created viruses are a warning. We still have a window to stop AI-enabled bioweapons – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
PETITIONS
1. It is time Congress held Hegseth accountable for his moral failings and criminal acts
SIGN: It is time Congress held Hegseth accountable for his moral failings and criminal acts | Win Without War
2. Tell 2026 Senate Candidates: Tax the rich, don’t cut Social Security
SIGN: Take Action!
EVENTS / ACTIONS
Monday, October 12 – Wednesday, October 14
Monday, October 12
Indigenous Peoples Day
1. Monday, 4:00am – 8:00am, 47th Annual Indigenous Peoples Day Sunrise Gathering (See below for tickets & ferry times)
Alcatraz Island in
San Francisco (Yelamu)
Ticket info: https://alcatrazcitycruises.com/tickets/sunrise-gathering
Cost: Cost: $12.00 to $15.50 per person (round-trip boat transport; the event itself is free)
– Children free under 5 y/p
The Sunrise Gathering is open to the public, and all community members are welcome.
Boats will leave from Pier 33 in San Francisco at 4:15 AM, 4:30 AM, 5:00 AM, and 5:15 AM. Limited ferry tickets will be available for sale at the Pier 33 box office starting at 3:15 AM.
Participants are encouraged to purchase boat tickets in advance on the City Experiences website.
The gathering will also be broadcast live on KPFA Radio, 94.1 FM, and online at kpfa.org. IITC extends its appreciation to all those whose participation makes these events possible and thanks the San Francisco Arts Commission and Grants for the Arts for their support.
The gathering, co-hosted by IITC affiliate Indigenous Justice, will highlight Indigenous Peoples’ resilient living cultures in California and around the world. It will share our ongoing struggles to protect sacred lands and ways of life in the face of 534 years of genocide in the Americas, affirm “Truth in History,” and honor the original occupation of Alcatraz (1969-1971), which sparked the national and international Indigenous Peoples’ rights movements.
The 2026 Indigenous Peoples Day gatherings will be carried out in the face of many challenges. These include threats by the U.S. government to re-establish a federal prison on Alcatraz; threatened encroachments for mineral extraction on other sacred places, such as Chaco Canyon in New Mexico and Bears Ears in Utah; and U.S. military incursions threatening Tohono O’odham sacred places along the southern border to build a border wall.
Host: International Indian Treaty Council (IITC)
Info: IITC’s 2026 Indigenous Peoples Day Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island Will Take Place on October 12, 2026 | International Indian Treaty Council
2. Monday 12Noon – 4:00pm 8th Annual Indigenous Peoples Day in Yerba Buena Gardens
Yerba Buena Gardens
Mission St. (between 3rd & 4th Sts.)
SF
Join us in celebration of San Francisco Indigenous Peoples Day with a magnificent profusion of Native American art, music and vendors. The event highlights the vastly diverse and talented community of Indigenous artists in the Bay Area, California and the Americas. Presented on Yelamu, Ramaytush Ohlone Territory, in partnership with the International Indian Treaty Council, the program at Yerba Buena Gardens follows the Annual Indigenous Peoples Day Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz – please check the IITC website for updates. Schedule to be announced
A groundbreaking Indigenous musician whose art flows directly out of his cultural activism, tenor Jeremy Dutcher is a conservatory-trained Canadian composer, musicologist and performer who has turned European classical music into a vehicle for language preservation. A member of Neqotkuk First Nation in Eastern Canada now based in Montréal, Québec, Dutcher catapulted to renown with his debut album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, which won the 2018 Polaris Music Prize and the Juno Award for Indigenous Music Album of the Year at the Canadian equivalent of the Grammys in 2019. The project unearthed century-old archival recordings of his ancestors, which he turned into collaborative compositions on piano. Sung entirely in Wolastoqey, his endangered mother tongue, the album led to collaborations with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma and Feist.
Lyla June is musician, scholar and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Influenced by her work in Human Ecology, Indigenous Pedagogy and her traditional upbringing, Lyla’s multi-genre presentation style has engaged audiences across the globe towards personal and collective healing.
The Neighborhood Kids are a collective from Southern California, blending powerful lyricism, high-energy hip-hop and punk influences into an explosive live show. Rooted in culture, community and resistance, The Neighborhood Kids bring an unapologetic energy to the stage with music that speaks to identity, social justice and the power of the people.
SH1NE L1GHT is a life-long writer whose music is raw and deeply intentional. He blends radical honesty and spirituality to foster connection, community and healing. Catch him and his 7-piece band bringing a hip-hop jazz infused set on to the YBG Festival stage.
Info https://www.eventbrite.com/e/indigenous-peoples-day-with-jeremy-dutcher-at-ybgfestival-tickets-1986360842752
3. Monday, Film: NAZA at Roxie in the Mission (October 12 – October 22)
Roxie
3125 16th St.
SF
Tickets: https://roxie.com/film/naza/#showtimes
In secret conversations on the rooftops of Tel Aviv at night, the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza are revealed by the people who designed and operated them.
Directors Note:
We made this film out of a sense of obligation to use our position as Israeli filmmakers and journalists to examine the systems behind the mass killing of Palestinian civilians for which our country is responsible. While filming members of Israel’s military on rooftops at night in Tel Aviv over the past three years, we found ourselves asking the very questions that were asked by our grandparents’ generation and throughout the 20th century: how does one group of people allow the total dehumanisation of another?
What do the inner workings of such a system look like? Many of the revelations in the film were published almost immediately as we learned of them, in the months following the October 7th attacks, by The Guardian (one of NAZA’s producers), in collaboration with reporting partners +972 Magazine and Local Call. The film lets us explore something deeper than we could in our investigative journalism alone: not only the words being said but also those that are not said, the silence. It is up to all of us to break that silence.
– Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
Tuesday, October 13
4. Tuesday, 3:00pm-5:00pm(PT); 6:00pm – 8:00pm(ET), Press Conf: The Petition on the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention for Freedom of MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
In person:
Grace Congregational Church of Harlem
310 West 139th St,
New York, NY 10030
Live stream Online with YouTube: tinyurl.com/Oct13-Mumia
SPEAKERS
MC: Sophia Williams
Rev. Dr. Nigel A. Pearce
Bret Grote, ALC Legal Director and Mumia Abu-Jamal’s lead attorney
Mumia Abu-Jamal, expected to call in
Dr. Ricardo Alvarez, Abolitionist Physician and Mumia’s medical consultant
Pastor Keith Collins, Abolitionist, Practitioner of Liberation Theology and Decolonization
Special Invited Guest: Mama Pam
Contact: Suzanne Ross (917) 584-2135, Sophia Williams (917) 806-0521
New York—For more than 44 years, U.S. citizen Mumia Abu-Jamal has been arbitrarily detained in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Today, the Abolitionist Law Center and a national coalition of other human rights organizations – American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Constitutional Rights, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, and Release Aging People in Prison Campaign – submitted a petition to a United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention seeking relief. The submission provides evidence of the state of Pennsylvania violating international standards by consistently denying Mr. Abu-Jamal a fair trial and appellate process, by applying torturous conditions of confinement, and condemning him to a death by incarceration sentence that prevents him from ever leaving prison alive.
Mr. Abu-Jamal, a 72-year-old award-winning broadcast journalist and prolific author, has been incarcerated for more than four decades, since December 1981. He was arrested and charged with murdering a police officer after being found at the scene, also shot. After being convicted and given the death penalty, he was held in solitary confinement on death row (1983-2011) for 29 years, a gross violation of the international Mandela Rules limiting solitary confinement to 15 days. Throughout, Mr. Abu-Jamal has been targeted for his political expression, associations, and his race—prior to his arrest, at trial, and over the course of his incarceration, appeals, and postconviction proceedings, including repeated attempts to censor and silence his political writings and speech.
“Mumia’s case exemplifies the racism endemic to the criminal punishment system in Philadelphia in the 1970s and 1980s, and the use of incarceration as a tool of political repression,” said Saleem Holbrook, Executive Director of the Abolitionist Law Center, the public interest law firm that represents him. Police, prosecutorial and judicial misconduct plagued his conviction. Mr. Abu-Jamal’s 1982 trial, according to Amnesty International, “failed to meet minimum international standards safeguarding the fairness of legal proceedings.” The UN submission clearly documents the racial discrimination Mr. Abu-Jamal has been subject to along with deprivation of his right to represent himself, deprivation of adequate time and facilities to mount a proper defense, and political interference. “At every step, the case against Mumia violated fundamental legal principles. He would be free if courts applied the law to his case instead of playing politics with the Constitution,” said Abolitionist Law Center Legal Director Bret Grote. “We are seeking a ruling from the United Nations that exposes the bias, racism, and cruelty of the judicial system in Mumia’s case.”
Mr. Abu-Jamal has diligently pursued a new and fair trial through appellate and post-conviction proceedings in both state and federal court, but has exhausted all legal avenues for relief. Though his death penalty was overturned, Mr. Abu-Jamal’s sentence of life without parole – also known as death by incarceration (DBI) – is torture: a cruel, inhumane, and degrading punishment that violates international law. “The inherent arbitrariness of an indefinite DBI sentence, which allows no periodic review of continuing need or reasonableness, in combination with Mr. Abu-Jamal’s many years served to date, advanced age, declining health, and lack of risk to the public violates multiple provisions of international law,” said Samah Sisay, Staff Attorney at Center of Constitutional Rights. Now an elderly man, Mr. Abu-Jamal has endured multiple near-death medical crises, including hepatitis C, congestive heart failure, a preventable hyperglycemic emergency that threatened his life, and multiple ophthalmic conditions that, due to inadequate medical care by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, pose a significant risk of permanent blindness. As the submission states, Mr. Abu-Jamal is one of a staggering number of individuals in the United States condemned to die in prison. As of 2020, more than 200,000 people in the United States were serving life or virtual life sentences, of whom nearly 8,300 were in Pennsylvania; more than 56,000 people in the U.S. are serving formal sentences of life without parole, of whom more than 5,000 are in PA. Black people comprise only about 1 in 9 of incarcerated people in PA, but 2/3 of those serving life sentences. A growing consensus of international authorities has condemned DBI sentencing in the U.S. as violating international prohibitions on racial discrimination. In November 2023, the United Nations Human Rights Committee recommended that the United States “establish a moratorium on the imposition of sentences to life imprisonment without parole.”
The July 28 submission to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention can be found at alcenter.org.
5. Tuesday, 5:00pm – 6:30pm (Pt); 8:00pm-9:30pm(ET), Webinar: U.S. Military Spending and How to Stop It
Webinar registration: Webinar: U.S. Military Spending and How to Stop It
A 90-minute live event with 45 minutes for Q&A — Bring your best questions!
· U.S. military spending is twice what we’re ever told and more than the rest of the world’s combined
· It’s over three-quarters of proposed discretionary spending and stripping funding from urgent needs
· It’s driving a global arms race, wars, and the risk of nuclear war
· We have the power to reverse
Speakers:
David Vine is the author of a trilogy of books about war and peace including The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State. David is a founder and steering committee member of the Network to Dismantle the Military Industrial Complex, among other projects. David is a fellow at the Transition Security Project and a contributor to TomDispatch.com and Foreign Policy in Focus. David has also worked and published with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, the Institute for Policy Studies, and the Center for International Policy. David was a professor of anthropology at American University in Washington, DC for 18 years before resigning with the rank of full professor in 2024.
Hanna Homestead (she/her) is a policy analyst and strategist with over a decade of experience spanning grassroots organizing, international development, and electoral and issue-specific campaign work. She served as a congressional staffer, a Global Health Corps fellow in Uganda, and worked on the intersection of climate crises and militarism at the Center for International Policy. In her current role at the Institute for Policy Studies, she researches federal budget priorities and the costs of war, with the goal of moving tax dollars from the Pentagon to beneficial public goods. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and Politico. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master’s degree from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).
John Reuwer is Treasurer and a Member of the Board of Directors of World BEYOND War. He is a retired emergency physician whose practice convinced him of a crying need for alternatives to violence for resolving tough conflicts. This led him to the informal study and teaching of nonviolence for the last 35 years, with peace team field experience in Haiti, Colombia, Central America, Palestine/Israel, and several U.S. inner cities. He worked in South Sudan with the Nonviolent Peaceforce, one of the few organizations practicing professional unarmed civilian peacekeeping. He also serves on the Committee to Abolish Nuclear Weapons with Physicians for Social Responsibility educating the public and politicians about the threat from nuclear weapons, which he sees as the ultimate expression of the insanity of modern warfare, so blatantly displayed in the current war in Ukraine.
Sunjeev Bery serves as People Over Pentagon campaign director at Public Citizen, where he coordinates a coalition of hundreds of organizations, advocates, and scholars working to reduce wasteful Pentagon spending and redirect resources toward critical human needs. Over the course of his career, Bery has held a range of advocacy and campaign leadership roles focused on democracy, human rights, climate, and education. As a regional director for the American Civil Liberties Union, he organized and advocated on civil rights issues including post-9/11 government surveillance, immigrant rights, and police accountability. As executive director of Freedom Forward, he built and led international human rights and climate campaigns focused on ending U.S. alliances with repressive oil monarchies in the Middle East. As advocacy director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International USA, he lobbied U.S. and international officials, diplomats, and policymakers on foreign policy and human rights concerns during the Arab Spring. Bery has also worked as a lobbyist on college affordability issues and as a fundraiser and digital campaigner for environmental organizations. Bery holds a B.A. from UC Berkeley and an M.P.A. from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a Harvard Public Service Fellow. He is a recipient of the 2007 Asian Law Alliance Community Impact Award and has received commendations from the California State Senate and State Assembly for his human rights advocacy. He has spoken widely in national and international media, and his commentary on U.S. foreign policy and human rights has appeared in a wide range of newspapers and other publications.
Moderated by David Swanson. David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is executive director of World BEYOND War and campaign coordinator of RootsAction.org. Swanson’s books include War Is Still A Lie. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and hosts Talk World Radio.
Host: World Beyond War
Info: Webinar: U.S. Military Spending and How to Stop It : Indybay
Wednesday, October 14
6. Wednesday, 10:00am – 12Noon, Protest Flock CEO Appearance at “Disrupt TechCrunch” Conference
Moscone Center
747 Howard St.
SF
Disrupt TechCrunch, a conference highlighting tech and start ups, will feature Flock Safety, Inc. founder and CEO Garrett Langley at its annual event this year, to be held at San Francisco’s Moscone Center.
Flock’s mass surveillance network statistically has NOT increased safety. Instead, it has been abused by local police departments to track down women fleeing domestic violence and has falsely accused people of a variety of crimes.
We will be demonstrating to highlight the absolute incoherence of inviting Garrett Langley, CEO of surveillance tech company Flock Safety, to speak at an event in San Francisco while ICE is leveraging Flock technology to terrorize communities throughout California in particular and across the nation.
The Wolves are supported in this protest by co-sponsors Bay Resistance, the Raging Grannies, DSA Silicon Valley, DeFlock SF, SOS Safety Over Surveillance and Peoples Aid amongst others.
Our protest outside Moscone Center where the conference is being held will feature multiple speakers, 1984 movie audio clips, banners, signs, surprise art visuals, and an opportunity for community members to express their outrage against Flock and other automated license plate readers (ALPR’s). Flock Safety, Inc. has been at the forefront of this industry holding approximately 80% of the US market based on mapping data.
Info: Protest Flock CEO Appearance at “Disrupt TechCrunch” Conference : Indybay
7. Wednesday 6:30pm, Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State
Please email contact [at] oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to get up-to-date location information or obtain Zoom meeting access info.
Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police militarization and ICE, and to advocate for privacy, surveillance regulation of both corporations and the state, and government transparency, around the Bay and nationwide.
We fight against spy drones, facial recognition, tracking equipment and online tracking, police body camera secrecy, anti-transparency laws, and requirements for “backdoors” to cellphones; we oppose “pre-crime” and “thought-crime,” — to list just a few invasions of our privacy by all levels of Government, and attempts to hide what government officials, employees and agencies are doing.
We draft and push for privacy legislation for City Councils, at the County level, and in Sacramento. We advocate in op-eds and in the streets. We pursue lawsuits as necessary to protect our rights. We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and believe no one is illegal.
Info Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State : Indybay
