If this listing is too large and you need me to break it down let me know and I will be happy to do that.
NOT back posting on a regular basis
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Articles are in 2 sections – 2nd is on Ukraine / Russia.(not in mainstream media)
Special section PETITIONS regarding 6 UPCOMING EXECUTIONS – beginning this week
Please include Accessibility and ASL info in your events! And if your action is ‘child friendly’ This is a JUSTICE issue!!
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Please post your actions on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12
See Indybay for other listings of events
ARTICLES
A. UN: At least 35 presumed dead after boat capsizes off Libya coast – April 15, 2022
UN: At least 35 presumed dead after boat capsizes off Libya coast | Migration News | Al Jazeera
B. Opinion: Gutting City College’s teaching staff harms San Francisco’s economy and future – April 15, 2022
See Petition # 15
C. Family of Patrick Lyoya, man killed by Grand Rapids police officer, calls for justice – April 15, 2022
Patrick Lyoya, 26, father of two, Congolese immigrant and refugee, was killed by a police officer on Monday, April 4th, 2022
R.I.P.
♥ Patirck Lyoya ♥
– See Petition # 8
D. Joint US-Indonesia war games to expand to 14 nations as tensions simmer in Indo-Pacific – April 13, 2022
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/08/asia/indonesia-us-military-exercises-intl-hnk-ml/index.html
E. How the brutal clearing of an L.A. homeless encampment can teach S.F. what not to do in the Tenderloin – April 6, 2022
F. Refunding’ police isn’t working in California or anywhere else – April 4, 2022
‘Refunding’ police isn’t working in California or anywhere else (sfchronicle.com)
G. Immigrant Workers Organized to Win a Union on Staten Island – April 4, 2022
https://jacobinmag.com/2022/04/amazon-warehouse-alu-staten-island-immigrant-workers
H. Julian Assange’s lawyer reveals how the WikiLeaks founder is coping in prison / 60 Minutes Australia – March 27, 2022
Julian Assange’s lawyer reveals how the WikiLeaks founder is coping in prison | 60 Minutes Australia – YouTube (About 8min long)
UKRAINE / RUSSIA
1. Ukraine’s Non-White Refugees – April 13, 2022
Ukraine’s Non-White Refugees – Consortium News
2. Ukraine: A Conversation with Scott Ritter
Ukraine: A conversation with Scott Ritter – YouTube
3. Eva Bartlett in Ukraine, Tells A Very Different Factual Story that is Opposite from the Official Narrative – April 13, 2022
Eva Bartlett in Ukraine, Tells A Very Different Factual Story that is Opposite from the Official Narrative – Mark Taliano
4. US Troops to Train Ukrainians on Howitzers and Radars to Fight Russia in Major Shift – April 13, 2022
US Troops to Train Ukrainians on Howitzers and Radars to Fight Russia in Major Shift (yahoo.com)
“…The $800 million package — the latest in a total of $2.6 billion worth of war support since February — was approved by Biden on Wednesday…”
5. United States Admits To Spreading Lies About Ukraine War – April 11, 2022
United States Admits To Spreading Lies About Ukraine War – YouTube (YouTube about 18 min. long)
Jimmy Dore
6. 80% of humanity wants peace, not more sanctions and weapons” on Nury Vittachi. – March 28, 2022
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DEATH PENALTY
Article: 57 prosecutors pledge to work to eliminate the death penalty
57 prosecutors pledge to work to eliminate the death penalty – Death Penalty Focus
6 Upcoming Executions (Petitions)
Hold in your thoughts all the families / friends who have lost their loved ones to ‘murder’.
Hold all the people and their families who are scheduled to be executed in you thoughts
April 21, 2022, Thursday
1. Please Stop the Execution of Oscar Smith
SIGN: Please Stop the Execution of Oscar Smith (actionnetwork.org)
Mr. Smith is currently scheduled to be executed by the state of Tennessee on April 21, 2022. We are asking that Oscar be given an immediate reprieve to have his claims reviewed and that he be granted clemency on the grounds that his conviction was based, in part, on discredited junk science and at least two jurors have said they did not intend for Mr. Smith to be executed
Article: Tennessee Death Row Prisoner Seeks to Halt Upcoming Execution Citing New DNA Evidence from Murder Weapon – April 13, 2022
2. Stop the Execution of Carl Buntion in Texas
SIGN: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-the-execution-of-carl-buntion-in-texas/
Carl Buntion was convicted and sentenced to death in Texas for the 1990 murder of Houston officer James Irby. He is scheduled to be executed in Texas on April 21, 2022.
Carl Buntion has served 30 years in the harsh conditions of Texas’ death row. At age 78 he is too old and sick to pose any future danger: Buntion has hepatitis, arthritis, can barely walk
April 27, 2022, Wednesday
3. Melissa Lucio: Innocent Woman on Death Row in Texas
SIGN: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/melissa-lucio-innocent-woman-on-death-row-in-texas-2
Also: Visit the FreeMelissaLucio.org campaign website for more actions
April 29, 2022, Friday
4. Stop the Execution of Richard Moore in South Carolina
SIGN: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-the-execution-of-richard-moore-in-south-carolina/
Richard Moore is scheduled for execution in South Carolina on April 29 for the 1999 murder of James Mahoney while robbing a convenience store.
Moore, who is now 57 years old, has been on South Carolina’s death row for 21 years. SC Supreme Court Justice Kaye Hearn filed a dissent in Richard’s case arguing that he is clearly not the “worst of the worst”. Other Justices argued that he is eligible for a death sentence because the murder was aggravated during what became an armed robbery.
Richard Moore gets to “choose” between being killed by the electric chair or the firing squad by April 14th. He has an upcoming hearing before Judge Jocelyn Newman on Thursday the 14th to determine whether he can be forced to choose between the state’s electric chair and the firing squad. Moore is arguing that when he was sentenced in 2001, the state only had 2 methods of execution, lethal injection and electric chair, and his execution would have been carried out by lethal injection.
Article: SC death row inmate chooses firing squad for state’s first execution since 2011 – April 16, 2022
https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article260446992.html
May 3, 2022, Tuesday
5. Stop the Execution of Carman Deck in Missouri
SIGN: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-the-execution-of-carman-deck-in-missouri
Carman Deck is scheduled for execution in Missouri on May 3, 2022 for the 1996 murders of James and Zelma Long.
In continuing to schedule executions, Missouri makes itself an outlier in its use of the death penalty
for the last two years since the pandemic began, Missouri has been one of only five states that has carried out an execution – in both 2020 and 2021.
May 11, 2022, Wednesday
6. Stop the Executions of Clarence Dixon in Arizona
or his 1977 killing of Deana Bowdoin, a 21-year-old Arizona State University student.
If it takes place as scheduled, this would be the state’s first execution in eight years. Dixon has been on death row more than 40 years.
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17 PETITIONS
1. Tell Congress: It’s time to put the PEOPLE before the Pentagon!
SIGN: Tell Congress: It’s time to put the PEOPLE before the Pentagon! | Win Without War
President Biden’s proposed FY2023 Pentagon budget is $813,000,000,000 — an increase of $30 BILLION over last year
2. Do Not Use Ukraine as Excuse to Increase Pentagon Budget
SIGN: Do Not Use Ukraine as Excuse to Increase Pentagon Budget (salsalabs.org)
3. Tell Biden to help Ukraine by engaging in negotiations, not military escalation
SIGN: Tell Biden to help Ukraine by engaging in negotiations, not military escalation (codepink.org)
4. Tell Biden: We’re counting on you to seal the Iran deal!
SIGN: Tell Biden: We’re counting on you to seal the Iran deal! | Win Without War
5. Tell The Washington Post: No more op-eds from Warmongers!
SIGN: Tell The Washington Post: No more op-eds from warmongers! | Win Without War
John Bolton is someone whose beliefs, including the championing of the Iraq war, have proven outdated and harmful, yet your paper published his opinion piece decrying diplomacy with Iran on March 22, 2022.
It is irresponsible and outright dangerous for The Washington Post to give hawks like Bolton their platform to parrot the same failed talking points that lead us away from peace and push us toward war.
6. Tell Congress: Support Biden, end Trump’s xenophobic Title 42 now
SIGN: Tell Congress: Support Biden, end Trump’s xenophobic Title 42 now! (actionnetwork.org)
The Biden administration has announced that in May, it will end Title 42, a xenophobic Trump-era policy that has blocked people fleeing from wars, genocide, political repression, and persecution from lawfully applying for asylum at the US border.
But now, members of Congress are sponsoring legislation to keep Title 42 in place, even threatening to block funding for coronavirus prevention until this xenophobic policy is extended.
7. Do not Dump Radioactive Contaminated Water into the Ocean!
SIGN: Petition · Do not Dump Radioactive Contaminated Water into the Ocean! · Change.org
8. Justice For Patrick Lyoya
SIGN: https://www.change.org/p/recuse-kent-county-prosecutor-becker-from-the-patrick-lyoya-case
demand Prosecutor Chris Becker recuse himself from the investigation of the murder of Patrick Lyoya.
9. Support Maria Ressa and independent media in the Philippines
SIGN: #HoldTheLine: Sign to support Maria Ressa and independent media in the Philippines | RSF
10. To Congress: Pass a War Powers Resolution to end US involvement in the war in Yemen
11. Tell the Pentagon: Investigate civilian casualties in Yemen!
SIGN: Tell the Pentagon: Investigate civilian casualties in Yemen! | Win Without War
12. Take Action Today To Restore The Right Hold Police Accountable!
SIGN: #EndQualifiedImmunity (salsalabs.org)
13. Stop Oxitec’s Risky and Unnecessary GMO Mosquito Experiments in California!
SIGN: tinyurl.com/StopGMOMosquitoesCA
14. Do not Dump Radioactive Contaminated Water into the Ocean!
SIGN: Petition · Do not Dump Radioactive Contaminated Water into the Ocean! · Change.org
15. CCSF Trustees: CCSF’s current budget does not mandate layoffs
SIGN: CCSF Trustees: CCSF’s current budget does not mandate layoffs (actionnetwork.org)
16. Oppose “The Death of the Mission” – Luxury Development on 22nd & Mission
SIGN: Oppose “The Death of the Mission” – Luxury Development on 22nd & Mission | MoveOn
17. Defund the Digital Border Wall
SIGN: Defund the Digital Border Wall (fightforthefuture.org)
EVENTS
Monday, April 18 – Saturday, April 23
Monday, April 18
1. Monday, 6:00pm, No Money for Bloodshed: Where are our taxes going?!
In person – gather at:
Powell & Market Sts.
SF
A coalition of grassroots Bay Area organizations representing countries living under US-supported dictatorships and war torn regions invite you to protest US tax dollars funding military aggression and repression around the world.
LEARN: how US tax money funds repression and dictatorships around the world
MOBILIZE: To build the movement & rise up against US imperialism!
DEMAND: how you would spend your tax money if you had a say!
Co-Organizers
Save Myanmar
San Francisco Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines
Malaya Movement SF
Bay Area Black Alliance for Peace
Anakbayan Daly City
If you would like to endorse or co-organize, please contact wearesfchrp@gmail.com!
Host: SF Committee on Human Rights in the Philippines
Info: (2) Facebook
Tuesday, April 19
2. Tuesday, 4:30pm (PT); 7:30pm (ET), USA v Jessica Reznicek: Fighting the criminalization of Water Protectors
Online – register: Meeting Registration – Zoom
Since the No-DAPL movement dozens of states have passed critical infrastructure laws increasing criminal penalties for anyone taking action against destructive fossil fuel projects. In 2017 80 Republicans and 4 Democrats asked the Justice Department to prosecute Jessica Reznick and the valve turners as terrorists. Last year the justice department answered the call and applied a terrorism enhancement to Jessica’s case, doubling her sentence. In this webinar you will hear the voices of those standing up against criminalization of climate action.
on April 19th, the Campaign to Free Jessica Reznicek is marking our friend’s 250th day in prison by bringing people together across the continent to show solidarity with those incarcerated for their actions to resist violent corporations. The campaign will explain the significance of her case and its connection to a global trend against climate action and in the U.S. against movements led by Black and Indigenous peoples for liberation.
Speakers:
Bill Quigley: Longtime attorney of Jessica Reznicek
Water Protector Legal Collective: Nizhóní Begay
Diné/Quechua WPLC Communications Coordinator & Jaden Cowboy Diné/Nahiłii WPLC Community Legal Liaison the criminalization of water protectors since NoDAPL and beyond
Cherri Foytlin and Cindy Spoon – L’eau Est La Vie and the federal lawsuit against critical infrastructure bills
Alex Marquardt- Attorney form Climate Defense Project on the abuse of the terrorism enhancement
Monty Hollywood from The Campaign to Free Jessica Reznicek
Hosted by The Campaign to Free Jessica Reznicek
3. Tuesday, 6:00pm-8:30pm, One Year Angelversary of Mario Gonzalez murdered by the Alameda Police Department.
In person
Scout Park (where Oak St. meets Powell)
Alameda
If you plan to drive and are able, please park across the street at Southshore.
Mario Gonzalez was murdered by the Alameda Police Department. We hope you’ll join us in holding space to honor his life.
Together we can lift Mario’s family up in love and support, and honor Mario’s memory. They have asked that we “fill the park” to show that Mario is loved. They also encourage people to bring offerings for the altar. Flowers, or small gifts for Mario are welcome.
Host: Transform Alameda
Info: (2) Facebook
Wednesday, April 20
4. Wednesday, 2:00pm – 4:00pm, Bay View Hunters Point Enviromental Justice Response Task Force
Online meeting
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81003595541
How to join the Zoom meeting online:
1. Go to www.zoom.com
2. Click “Join a Meeting”
3. Enter Meeting ID: 810 0359 5541
How to join the Zoom meeting on the phone:
1. Call +1 408 638 0968
2. Enter Meeting ID: 810 0359 5541
To view the meeting agenda, click here.
5. Wednesday, 3:00pm (PT); 6:00pm (ET), Migrant Organizing and Resistance in the face of Climate Crisis
Virtual register: Webinar Registration – Zoom
Info will be provided after U register
This conversation will be held in Spanish with English interpretation.
For too long, U.S. immigration policy and climate policy has failed to acknowledge climate migration. It’s time we hold leaders accountable and urge them to address this existential crisis, while ensuring that Black and Brown immigrant communities are being centered in climate justice efforts.
Hear from Black, Mexican, and Central American migrants who organized their communities in the wake of Hurricane Mitch in 1998 and from migrants who were recently forced to migrate after Hurricanes Eta and Iota devastated countries in 2020. We will discuss the parallels between migration after climate disaster and time, emphasizing that migration is a form of adaptive resistance to the worsening climate crisis and that the U.S. must prepare itself to support present and future migrants displaced by the crisis. Lastly, we will learn about how migrant and Latinx communities in the U.S. have organized themselves to support climate migrants after migration and Latinx communities in their neighborhoods.
The featured speakers include Alejandra Girón, an organizer at Familias Unidas en Acción1 (FUA), Julio Guity, managing director of Sustainable Development and Climate Change, Inc. (SUDECC)2 and member of Central American Black Organization (ONECA), Alejandro Rodriguez, a coordinator at Living Hope Wheelchair Association3, and Carlos Lam, executive director of Association Guatemalans Without Borders.4
Host: ALIANZA AMERICAS
Info: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=353024343529461&set=a.324847906347105
6. Wednesday, 3:00pm, SF Food Not Bombs Food Sharing
In person
For information or to volunteer: send an email to sffnbvolunteers@riseup.net or send a text message to 415-656-8168. Web: https://sffnb.org/serving-schedule/
Cookhouse: St. John The Evangelist Church, 110 Julian Avenue (at 15th). Please ring the doorbell at the door on Julian closer to 15th Street.
Food Pickups: 110 Julian Avenue-3:00PM to 4:00PM–Help Needed!
Cooking: 110 Julian Avenue–4:00 PM to 6:30 PM–Help Needed!
Sharing: 16th and Mission BART Plaza–6:30 PM–Help Needed!
Cleaning Up: 110 Julian Avenue–after Cooking–6:30 PM – 7:30 PM–Help Needed!
Thursday, April 21
7. Thursday, 9:00am – 2:00pm, SFILEN’s 15th Annual Immigrant Family Day
In person (outdoors)
SF City Hall
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl.
SF
This event will be held in English with interpretation into Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, and Tagalog.
Join the San Francisco Immigrant Legal & Education Network (SFILEN) for our 15th annual celebration of Immigrant Family Day, a day of community building and civic engagement. This event will either be held in-person outdoors at San Francisco City Hall. Please continue checking this page for more information.
Info: (2) SFILEN’s 15th Annual Immigrant Family Day | Facebook
8. Thursday, 6:00pm – 7:00pm, Monthly Gathering at Alex Nieto’s Altar with Refugio and Elvira Nieto
In person
Alex’s Altar
Bernal Hill
SF
All are welcomed.
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.
Friday, April 22
9. Friday, 10:00am, People’s Earth Day for Environmental and Climate Justice (SF)
In person, assemble at:
UN Plaza above Civic Center BART Station
SF
March around ending at SF City Hall around 12 Noon for rally
We’re joining friends at Bayview/Hunters Point Mothers and Fathers Committee, Greenaction, Youth vs Apocalypse and more to put the politics back into Earth Day! Enough with snacking on hamburgers made from all-organic grass-fed pedicured goats while people suffer and die from the toxic side effects of a production system that values neither the planet nor the human beings who live here.
Contamination at the Hunter’s Point Shipyard goes back to World War II – time to clean up. Instead of a center of toxic contamination, Bayview can be the birthplace of the real changes in distribution, consumption, investment and production we need to really move us toward the halving of our fossil fuel emissions that the climate situation demands.
This Earth Day, we call on those in the climate justice movement to fight with us to demand the cleanup of radioactive and toxic waste from our city. We call on those that recognize that at the root of the issues we face as low-income people, Black, Brown, Indigenous people, and as LGBTQ+ people, is a system profiting off of our struggles. We call on San Francisco to acknowledge our plight with climate injustice through actions.
We demand the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Mayor Breed, the USEPA, State Department of Toxic Substances Control, the State Water Quality Control Board, and all elected officials for the:
– Retesting with independent community oversight of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Superfund site & adjacent areas
– Full and comprehensive cleanup of all contamination due to community vulnerability and due to the threat posed by rising sea levels and groundwater rise
– Full reparations including financial compensation and lifetime health services for all residents, ex-residents and workers exposed and impacted by Shipyard contamination
Info: People’s Earth Day 2022 (youthvsapocalypse.org) or People’s Earth Day 2022 | Facebook or SF: People’s Earth Day : Indybay
10. Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Shut Down the San Francisco Police Officers Association
In person
SF Police Officers Association
800 Bryant St. (at 6th Street)
SF
RESIST with Mothers On The March, Families whose loved ones have been killed by SFPD, and other law enforcement agencys.
Our Demands:
– The Police Officers Association be SHUT DOWN!
– The SF Police Officers Association Be Declared a Non Grata Organization.
– Abolish the ‘Officers Bill of Rights’
– Jail Killer Cops – we demand killer cops be charged with murder.
– Abolish the Police!
The POA has defended police officers that have executed and terrorized people in our communities.
If you can’t attend please contact Mayor London Breed and the SF Board of Supervisors tell them you OPPOSE funding for the SFPD
Mayor London Breed:
Tel: (415) 554-6141
Email: MayorLondonBreed@sfgov.org
Contact info for SF Board of Supervisors:
Roster of Members | Board of Supervisors (sfbos.org)
Saturday, April 23
11. Saturday, 12:30pm, San Francisco People Power for Hope and Democracy!
In person
Yerba Buena Gardens
SF
Calling all Kakampinks, ka-tropa, at kababayan! Sali na for a GRAND RALLY for hope and democracy in the as the Presidential elections are under way in the Philippines! Help build the San Francisco People
Info: (1) San Francisco People Power for Hope and Democracy! | Facebook
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SAVE the DATE
Haitians Voices of Resistance Today
Saturday, April 30
11:00am-1:00pm (PT); 2:00pm-4:00pm(ET)
Register: Webinar Registration – Zoom
Haitian Voices of Resistance Today:
A Webinar Featuring Dr. Maryse Narcisse, Coordinator of Fanmi Lavalas and Joel Edouard “Pacha” Vorbe. Both are Members of the Executive Committee of Fanmi Lavalas.
Learn about the courageous and deepening struggle by the Haitian people to remove the US-backed dictatorship of Ariel Henry and to end the US/ UN occupation of Haiti.
Proceeds from this event will benefit the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund.
For more information, go to www.haitisolidarity.net or email action.haiti@gmail.com .
