By Adrienne Fong
Am not back posting on a regular basis.
Please hold Jackie, Melvin and Rodger in your thoughts. Appreciation all who can support them.
Jackie Barshak, battling stage 4 lung cancer as she continues chemo therapy.
Melvin Starks recently released from the hospital!
– Needed is housing in SF
Rodger Scott is home from the hospital recovering. Meal Train has been set up for him: Meal Train for Rodger Scott
– He welcomes noon time visits (please see Meal Train calendar to choose a day and for more details) on Tues, Thursday or Saturday for now.
And he has some specific food restrictions – no cheese, no nuts or seeds and no alcohol. He is fond of plain yogurt, fresh strawberries, Breyers Vanilla ice cream, fresh blueberries. And visits from friends! For now, best if visits are not too long.
Please include Accessibility and ASL info in your events! And if your action is ‘child friendly’ This is a JUSTICE issue!!
*** ASL interpretation – Let me know if your event needs this service .***
Reminder to post your actions on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12
See Indybay for other listings of events
Articles are broken up into two listings – second listing is re SF new DA and the mayor.
ARTICLES
A. Rojava’s Experiment in Radical Democracy Braces for Turkish Invasion – July 23, 2022
Rojava’s Experiment in Radical Democracy Braces for Turkish Invasion (truthout.org)
B. ‘They don’t have any humanity’: Black immigrants in Ice custody report abuse and neglect – July 22, 2021
C. Israeli spyware maker behind new attack on journalists, cybersecurity firm says – July 21, 2022
Israeli spyware maker behind new attack on journalists, cybersecurity firm says | Middle East Eye
D. Police Departments Spend Vast Sums of Money Creating “Copaganda” – July 20, 2022
Police Departments Spend Vast Sums of Money Creating “Copaganda” (jacobin.com)
E. BAP Condemns 2022 Renewal of The United Nations Mission To Haiti – July 19, 2022
https://popularresistance.org/bap-condemns-2022-renewal-of-the-un-mission-to-haiti-binuh/
See event # 5
F. SFPD chief’s surveillance proposal to get more review by supervisors’ panel – July 18, 2022
https://www.ebar.com/story.php?317400
See event # 2
G. Judge finds sufficient evidence to continue Elijah McClain case – July 19, 2022
H. Portrait of controversy: San Francisco library caught in censorship debate over art exhibit – July 18, 2022
See petition # 1
I. New Records Detail DHS Purchase and Use of Vast Quantities of Cell Phone Location Data – July 18, 2022
J. The United States, Saudi Arabia And Israel, Responsible For Military Fiascos, Hundreds Of Thousands Of Deaths And Innumerable War Crimes In The Middle East, Are Now Plotting To Attack Iran. – July 16, 2022
https://popularresistance.org/war-with-iran-2/
K. City College labor leaders look to San Francisco (not the state) to restore funding – July 13, 2022
ARTICLES on new SF D.A. Brooke Jenkins & SF Mayor London Breed
See event #
1. Jenkins replaces head of investigations into police shootings, violence – July 21, 2022
2. SF Supes Call on New DA to Keep the Innocence Commission Set Up Under Boudin – July 20, 2022
3. Brooke Jenkins just fired me and 14 others. I have no idea how the D.A.’s office will run without us – July 20, 2022
4. Documents: Mayor’s office taking hands-on role with DA Brooke Jenkins – July 18, 2022
Documents: Mayor’s office taking hands-on role with DA Brooke Jenkins (missionlocal.org)
7 PETITIONS
1. San Francisco Public Library Censors Palestine. Demand the Reinstatement of the Mural Exhibit Now!
SIGN: Arab Resource & Organizing Center | Action Alert (araborganizing.org)
2. $839 Billion in Military Spending? Tell Congress this needs to stop.
SIGN: $839 Billion in Military Spending? Tell Congress this needs to stop. (everyaction.com)
The House of Representatives just authorized an increase of the bloated Pentagon budget to $839 Billion in a 329-101 vote. Not only does this represent a $67 Billion increase from last year, it’s $37 Billion more than Biden asked for! Let’s put that in perspective.
180 Democrats, the party that has cuts in military spending in their platform, voted for this increase. Only 39 voted no.
149 Republicans voted for the increase and 54 voted no.
3. Pass a War Powers Resolution to help end the war in Yemen!
SIGN: Pass a War Powers Resolution to help end the war in Yemen! | Demand Progress
4. No more weapons sales to Saudi Arabia!
SIGN: No more weapons sales to Saudi Arabia! | Win Without War
5. Fire and Prosecute the 8 Officers Who Executed Jayland Walker
SIGN: Fire and prosecute the 8 officers who executed Jayland Walker | Grassroots Law
6. Petition calling on President Biden and DHS Secretary Mayorkas to terminate this deadly policy once and for all
7. Petition to President Biden: No barriers to student debt relief
SIGN: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-president-biden-no-barriers-to-student-debt-relief?source=2022SDMT_CA&referrer=group-civic-action-2&redirect=https%3a%2f%2fsurveys.signforgood.com%2fca-2022-q3-no-barriers-student-loans%3fcode%3djtk563-ja-fl&emci=18c0d0b7-6508-ed11-b47a-281878b83d8a&emdi=232750c1-ca09-ed11-b47a-281878b83d8a&ceid=483844
EVENTS
Sunday, July 24 – Friday July 29
June 29 – August 14, Exhibit: Waging Peace in Vietnam: US Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War
San Francisco Veterans Gallery
401 Van Ness Avenue, first floor
Open 1-6pm, Wednesday – Sundays
Free Admission
Sponsored by Veterans For Peace Chapter 69
Info: https://wagingpeaceinvietnam.com/exhibits
July 1 – July 31, 2022 – San Francisco 29th Annual LaborFest Schedule : LaborFest 2022 | LaborFest 2022
Sunday, July 24
1. Sunday, Bike and Walk for Reproductive Rights (Action is in 2 parts)
In person
TWO PARTS: Join one or both…..
-11:00 am: Bike along SF Waterfront, Embarcadero to Golden Gate Bridge.
-Noon: Rally and March on Golden Gate Bridge
WEAR GREEN 4 ABORTION RIGHTS…..and a flash of PINK!
Bay Area Codepink Monthly Golden Gate Bridge Walk for Peace
UPDATE: WEAR GREEN for Abortion Rights! We want to stretch from tower to tower on the Golden Gate Bridge! Bring green scarves, strips of fabric, green hats! I hear there’s a trumpeter coming….maybe more! Bring drums, noise-makers.
SPECIAL NEED: Green Fabric (Bright green best, all shades useful, even prints…old sheets work too)…please contact Toby if you can offer Green Fabric….we will cut into strips to help us reach the towers: OUR BRIDGE, OUR BODIES, OUR CHOICE!
Bike Ride:
Decorate your bike for Reproductive Rights, let’s be LOUD and JOYFUL!
Optional: Wear GREEN & Pink, Attach signs to your bike and/or pin cloth sign onto your back with a short message: My Body, My Choice; Abortion Access 4 All; Hands Off My Uterus; PRO- CHOICE; Right to Choose, etc.
10:45: Gather with bike at Justin Herman Plaza across from SF Ferry Bldg; Near Embarcadero BART station.
11:00: Begin Bike Ride to Golden Gate Bridge along Embarcadero…mostly a flat/easy bike ride (a couple of hills), then, join rally at bridge at noon.
GG Bridge Rally & Walk:
Please bring signs….up to 3×2 ft. allowed on bridge.
11:45 am: Gather at the bridge plaza on the SF side, near the eastern walkway of the Golden Gate Bridge. ARRIVE EARLY TO ALLOW FOR PARKING or better, take public transportation (see bus below). Note: Many of the closer parking lots are closed on weekends! The open lots require time to walk to bridge plaza.
Noon: Short Rally, then Walk on the eastern walkway to the middle of the bridge and back.
FMI & carpooling: Toby, Toby4Peace@sonic.net
Info: NO WAR on WOMEN: Bike & Walk for Women’s Reproductive Rights : Indybay
Monday, July 25
2. Monday, 10:00am, SFBoS – Rules Cmte. Mtg – Surveillance Technology Policy for Police Department Use of Non-City Entity Surveillance Cameras
In Person Meeting
San Francisco City Hall
Room 250 (Legislative Chamber)
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Place
SF
Please attend in person if you can. Last week there were only 4 people present.
REMOTE ACCESS
WATCH SF Cable Channel 26, 28, 78 or 99 (depending on provider)
WATCH www.sfgovtv.org
PUBLIC COMMENT CALL-IN 1 (415) 655-0001 / Meeting ID: 2495 080 3849 #
Item # 6
[Administrative Code – Surveillance Technology Policy for Police Department Use of Non-City Entity Surveillance Cameras] Sponsor: Mayor Ordinance approving Surveillance Technology Policy for Police Department use of non-City entity surveillance cameras.
Agenda: ttps://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/rls072522_agenda.pdf
This is the third meeting of the Rules Committee regarding this ordinance. New amendments will most likely be presented at the meeting.
SFPD is organizing!!
This is a very DANGEROUS ORDINANCE! This will give SFPD 24/7 access of all the cameras in the city including private residences and business cameras when every they want..
Recording from July 18, Rules Committee Meeting: https://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/player/clip/41701?view_id=13&redirect=true
– Go to 1:24:32 to listen / view item. Or on the left side of the screen click https://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/player/clip/41701?view_id=13&redirect=true
Contact the supervisors on the committee with your opinion! Tell the to VOTE NO!!
Supervisors on the committee:
Aaron Peskin
Email: Aaron.Peskin@sfgov.org
Voice: (415) 554-7450
Rafael Mandelman
Email: MandelmanStaff@sfgov.org
Voice: (415) 554-6968
Connie Chan
Email: ChanStaff@sfgov.org
Voice: (415) 554-7410
Clerk:
Victor Young
Email: Victor.Young@sfgov.org
3. Monday, 1:00pm, Reject & Fight the US – Marcos II Regime! – Northern California United People’s State of the Nation Address 2022
In person
Philippine Consulate
447 Sutter St. (between Powell & Stockton Sts)
SF
RSVP TO ATTEND/VOLUNTEER:
https://forms.gle/ds8uymCQvPzFgXsb7
CO-SPONSOR/ENDORSE:
https://forms.gle/Rynnt6Sy2RJMLWBw6
Join Bayan USA, the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP), Malaya Movement, and grassroots Philippine organizations across the San Francisco Bay Area, we would like to formally invite you to attend the People’s SONA, short for People’s State of the Nation Address
People’s SONA (PSONA) functions as an alternative to the president’s State of the Nation Address, and aims to condemn the incoming Marcos/Duterte regime. In response to their lack of transparency regarding the stolen elections and the rewriting of history especially that of Marcos’s father who instituted Martial Law, our proposed call is to reject the illegitimate Marcos-Duterte tandem! Through PSONA, we aim to bring together as many people as possible to show that we will not sit idly by as the Marcos-Duterte regime kills, imprisons, and neglects the Philippine masses.
PSONA is a worldwide event, with Filipino-led organizations and allies from all over the globe uniting to call out the lies and offenses of the Duterte regime. By uniting behind and centering the voices of those oppressed and dispossessed by the incoming Marcos/Duterte tandem, we address the true state of the Philippines, that which Marcos’’s State of Nation Address hides behind faux nationalism and countless other falsehoods.
We call Filipinos and Friends across the Nation who realize the value and necessity of Human Rights & National Independence to unite for systemic change desperately needed in the Philippines. This means fighting for National Sovereignty and Genuine Democracy within the Philippines! End tyranny in the Philippines!
Info: (1) Northern California United People’s State of the Nation Address 2022 | Facebook
Tuesday, July 26
4. Tuesday, 12Noon – 1:00pm, Justice for Sergio Sosa Committee – Stand For Workers’ Rights!
In person Picket Line
La Raza Community Resource Center
474 Valencia St. (Outside)
SF
Support workers at La Raza Resource Center – especially those that have been fired for protesting.
La Raza’s executive director has intimidated his workers who have protested and supported fellow employees who were fired.
-He also has not been honest with the public about the situation at La Raza.
-There is concern that he will ruin La Raza and this will deprive the community of vital services La Raza has provided for over 50 years.
–The call is for the resignation of La Raza’s executive director Gabriel Medina
-In March, workers of Companeros del Barrio, were asked by workers at La Raza Community Center to support their struggle against La Raza’s management
Now the workers at La Raza have been intimidated by management to not protest
-Workers of Companeros del Barrio, have been participating in the picket during their lunch hour
‘Mothers On The March’ and other community members are also participating in the picket
SUPPORT is welcomed. Come learn about this struggle for workers rights
Thursday, July 28
5. Thursday, 4:00pm, France Pay Your Debt to Haiti! – Protest at French Consulate & Citibank
In person
88 Kearny St. (nr. Post St.)
SF
July 28th is the anniversary of the 1915 US Marines invasion of Haiti. The 19 years of US military occupation that followed – with its attendant martial law, conscripted labor, corporate land grabs, Wall Street profiteering, white supremacy – emerged as a blueprint for US/western intervention throughout the Americas and the impoverishment of Haiti that continues to this day.
Join us to demand that France pay its debt to Haiti. France forced the Haitian people to pay what amounted to over $21.7 billion in today’s money as “restitution” to their former French enslavers, robbing Haiti of billions of dollars that could have developed the Haitian economy and infrastructure. In 2003, the democratically elected government of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide announced that it was pursuing this demand; this was a key factor in France’s cooperation and support for the U.S.-orchestrated coup that overthrew Aristide’s government and launched another foreign occupation in Haiti. Join us to condemn the ways in which the US and France continue to exploit Haiti’s resources, dominate its political life and prop up the tiny, violent and corrupt Haitian elite that now rules the country.
Join us to affirm our solidarity with the powerful Haitian grassroots movement that continues to fight for democracy and true sovereignty.
The Ransom Is Still Being Paid! Reparations Are Long Overdue!
Host: Haiti Action Committee
Info: France, Pay Your Debt To Haiti! : Indybay
6. Thursday, 7:30pm, Protest SF New DA Brooke Jenkins
In person
Imperial Palace
818 Washington St. (between Stockton & Grant Ave)
SF
DA Brooke Jenkins is invited as a guest to this event “Fight Asian Hate Party” Fight Asian Hate: Celebrating API Empowerment:
On July 28th, in Chinatown, the new “district attorney “ is supposed to be a guest. It is promoted as an “Anti- Asian Hate” event but in actuality it is the movement behind the recall of Chesa Boudin.
Some of the sponsoring groups are also involved in the hate messages to Supervisor Gordon Mar.
This is really dangerous. We know that they have been using “Anti – Asian Hate” to build facsism right here in San Francisco
We need people to clearly denounce how the Asian community is being used by the 0ppolitivians in the city taking advantage that many do not speak English and are brought to vote and to protest against all progressive measures without them even knowing what they are doing. Much of their campaign is based and elevating fear amongst the Asian Community
We need people to clearly denounce how the Asian community is being used by the 0ppolitivians in the city taking advantage that many do not speak english and are brought to vote and to protest against all progressive measures without them even knowing what they are doing.
Will post any updates
Friday July 29
7. Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Shut Down the SF Police Officers Association
In person
SF Police Officers Association (outside)
800 Bryant St. (at 6th St.)
SF
RESIST with ‘Mothers On The March’, Families whose loved ones have been murdered by SFPD (or other law enforcement), and the Community.
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 defends police officers that have executed and terrorized people in our community. Currently there are 5 spfd officers that have been charged under DA Chesa Boudin.
SFPD officers need to be held accountable to people in our communities.
The new SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has disbanded the
If you can’t attend, please contact SF Mayor London Breed and the SF Board of Supervisors. Tell them you OPPOSE their funding for the SFPD.
On July 21, SF BoS approved a two-year, $14 billion budget that includes the hiring of 220 police officers to fill vacancies within the San Francisco Police Department – this was Mayor Breed’s proposal.
Only one supervisor didn’t vote for this – Supervisor Dean Preston
Mayor London Breed:
Tel: (415) 554-6141
Email: MayorLondonBreed@sfgov.org
Contact for SF Board of Supervisors
