By Adrienne Fong
Am not back posting…
Please hold the following people in your thoughts:
Victor Picazo, dealing with health complications
Susan Witka, as she recovers from surgery
Jackie Barshak, battling stage 4 metastatic lung cancer, as she continues chemo therapy.
Melvin Starks recently released from the hospital!
– Still needs housing!
Rodger Scott as he gains strength. Open site to see telephone number Meal Train for Rodger Scott
He welcomes noon time visits
Good visiting time is early afternoon around 1pm to 2pm, please see calendar to choose a day. Also, Rodger has a meal service and bringing meals is not necessary.
Hold the people:
– in Pakistan, Mississippi and Florida in your thoughts
-in Africa in your thoughts as they are experiencing drought and famine..
–In Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic affected by Hurricanes
–in Yemen
THANK YOU to ALL who supported the Hunger Strike for Workers Justice to Organize –
– Hunger strike ended on Monday, October 3, day 14 of the hunger strike with the demands met!
ARTICLES
A. Letters: Fleet Week glorifies U.S. military’s warmongering and awful environmental, human rights record – October 6, 2022
B. “Complete Dissatisfaction with the Current Order”: Why Mahsa Amini Protests in Iran Are Not Slowing Down – October 6, 2022
C.. Despite Calls for Diplomacy to End War, US Confirms More Weapons Headed to Ukraine – October 4, 2022
D. Oakland again eyes Army base for temporary housing of homeless residents – October 4, 2022
Oakland again eyes Army base for temporary housing of homeless residents | Courthouse News Service
E. Explore: Every person killed in SF police shootings since 2000 – October 4, 2022
Explore: Every person killed in SF police shootings since 2000 – Mission Local
Note – some of the info is incomplete – Mission Local is seeking additional info.
F. Reporting on mayor and her appointees has been revelatory – October 3, 2022
Reporting on mayor and her appointees has been revelatory – (missionlocal.org)
G.Sacheen Littlefeather, actor and activist who declined Marlon Brando’s Oscar, dies aged 75 – October 3, 2022
H. Gas Leak Theory: Who Sabataged Russia’s Nord Stream Pipelines? The Most Likely Suspect Revealed = September 30, 2022
I. The “Leftism” of the Americas Collapses at the Door of Haitian Sovereignty – September 28, 2022
The “Leftism” of the Americas Collapses at the Door of Haitian Sovereignty | Black Agenda Report
J. FREE JULIAN ASSANGE
– Lyrics by Dennis Bernstein, Sung by Francisco Herrera
FREE JULIAN ASSANGE! – YouTube
See Event # 4
K. COP27 to be Held in Egypt amid Global Challenges – September 21m 2022
https://blackagendareport.com/cop27-be-held-egypt-amid-global-challenges
9 PETITIONS
1. Stand with Amazon Workers Shame on Bezos!
2. Bring humanity back to Whole Foods Market
SIGN: Bring humanity back to Whole Foods Market! | Coworker.org
See event # 7
3. President Biden: Close the door on Trump’s racist immigration bans!
SIGN: Pres. Biden: Close the door on Trump’s racist immigration bans! | Win Without War
4. petition to the Department of Justice: Govs. Abbott, DeSantis and Ducey must be investigated for their human rights abuses against migrants
5. Every child should have access to the resources they need to learn to read
6. Tell VA Department of Education: Reverse harmful policies on trans students
7. Amazon must reduce greenhouse emissions.
SIGN: Amazon must reduce greenhouse emissions. | Win Without War
8. Doctors To Be SILENCED By New California Law if Newsome Doesn’t Veto it
SIGN: Doctors To Be SILENCED By New California Law If Gavin Newsom Doesn’t Veto TODAY – YouTube
9. Tell President Biden to immediately open an investigation into Iran’s crimes against women
SIGN: https://www.thepetitionsite.com/214/867/382/?&src=ar_facebook_ads&campaign=sign_214867382&ad_id=23851764633770630&ad_set_id=23851764563680630&ad_campaign_id=23851764563540630&ad_name=Iran%E2%80%99s%20Crimes%20Against%20Women_GRP_1x1_3_Human%20Rights_214867382&ad_set_name=23851764563680630_18%20-%2065%2B_All_All%20mobile%20devices_All%20mobile%20OS_Conversions_US_*_&campaign_name=23851764563540630_Conversions_CBO%20off_Single&ad_placement=Facebook_Desktop_Feed&ad_site_source_name=fb&ad_petition_id=214867382&fbclid=IwAR0MDWvdsl1_rQiuc1wlOSwY9P0vjKaIuH_bMB-JHc87Z34zT25jw-Yi68k
EVENTS
Thursday, October 6 – Tuesday, October 11
Thursday, October 6
1. Thursday, 2:30pm, Dream Beyond Bars and Borders March & Rally
In person
Oscar Grant Plaza
(Frank H. Ogawa Plaza)
Oakland
Hosted by Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ) and Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA), as part of the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance’s 8th Membership Assembly.
The purpose of this march and action is simple: to lift demands to divest from systems of harm and invest in healing, wellness.
Bring your energy, flags, banners, signs, and chants. It’s long past time for community-controlled grassroots power!
Info: Dream Beyond Bars and Borders March & Rally | Facebook
Friday, October 7
2. Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, JUSTICE NOT Interim SF DA Brooke Jenkins
In person
SF DA Office
350 Rhode Island
SF
MUNI – # 22 & # 19 lines
Stand up for REAL JUSTICE NOT Brooke Jenkins! With Mothers On The March and the Community at interim Brooke Jenkins office.
We need to RESIST and expose her agenda:
– For not holding police accountable for abusing and executing people in our communities. She fired most of the lawyers who were working on cases involved in holding sfpd accountable.
– Two of the cases were in various stages of court hearings for trial
– For deceiving San Franciscans from the time the Guido trial didn’t go her way and she quit the DA’s office to work on the Recall Boudin campaign. Her campaign is based on many lies.
– For contributing more to AAPI hate and divisions between the Asian, Black and Brown communities.
– Her election has been supported by funds from the SF Police Officers Association.
All are welcomed.
Saturday, October 8
3. Saturday, 10:00am – 12Noon, Oakland: Women’s Wave Rally – Abortion is a Human Right! Yes on CA Prop 1!
In person
Frank Ogawa Plaza
436-476 14th Street
Oakland
Register & information: https://action.womensmarch.com/events/women-abortion-is-human-right-yes-on-prop-1
Join us for a Rally to protest the Supreme Court’s taking away legal abortion and to support expanding access to full reproductive care as part of the nationwide mass actions for reproductive rights!
Sponsored by Planned Parenthood, East Bay Democratic Socialists of America and a growing list of groups, union & community activists.
Info: Oakland: Women’s Wave Rally – Abortion is a Human Right! Yes on CA Prop 1! : Indybay
4. Saturday, 12 Noon – 1:00pm, Free Julian Assange NOW! Global Day Of Action (San Francisco)
In person
Harry Bridges Plaza
Between Ferry Building & Embaradero
San Francisco
Here in the Bay Area please join us as we participate in this worldwide solidarity event of the Surround Parliament human chain. We will meet at noon on October 8th at Harry Bridges Plaza in San Francisco. Bring #YellowRibbons4Assange, signs, your family & friends, or just yourself. We will form a human chain of yellow ribbons, come rain or shine. If you can’t make it to San Francisco, create a chain or stand alone in your city and let us and/or @Candles4Assange know about it.
STOP THE U.S. EXTRADITON OF ASSANGE!
U.S. government is prosecuting Julian Assange under the 1917 Espionage Act to criminalize anti-war journalism. Assange faces 175 yrs in a U.S. prison.
This U.S. prosecution of a journalist is a death blow to the First Amendment.
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, published the 2010 Iraq War Logs, showing evi- dence of U.S. war crimes.
These documents won international journalism and peace awards.
Assange “published,” he did not “hack.” Witnesses testified in September 2020, that As- sange was careful to redact names.
Pentagon testified in 2013 that these documents put no one in harm’s way. WIKILEAKS HAS 100% ACCURACY!
Here in the Bay Area please join us as we participate in this worldwide solidarity event of the Surround Parliament human chain. We will meet at noon on October 8th at Harry Bridges Plaza in San Francisco. Bring #YellowRibbons4Assange, signs, your family & friends, or just yourself. We will form a human chain of yellow ribbons, come rain or shine.
See site for more info
Host: Bay Action To Free Julian Assange
Info: Free Julian Assange NOW! Global Day Of Action : Indybay
5. Saturday, 12Noon, San Francisco: Legal Abortion Nationwide Now! Rally and March
In person – meet at:
Union Square
SF
WE MARCH for the 10-year-old little girl who was raped… then forced to travel to get an abortion because she was 3 days past the 6 week cut-off of a “heartbeat bill.”
WE MARCH for women like Mahsa Amini who are beaten by the morality police in Iran for showing a lock of their hair.
WE MARCH for the hopes & dreams of people to be free from all oppression.
Wear GREEN and join us in fighting for Legal Abortion on Demand & Without Apology Nationwide.
Forced motherhood is female enslavement. When women are not free, no one is free. This must never be accepted. It must be relentlessly resisted, repudiated, and reversed!
NOW is the time to hold nothing back.
NOW is the time to rouse thousands and soon millions in the struggle so that we can look every person in the eye with the promise in word and deed that they will have a future as full human beings.
NOW is the time to decide what side of history you stand on.
NOW is the time to Rise Up, together, as if our lives depend upon it—for, in fact, they do.
Join the Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights Bay Area Chapter and participating organizations at the march & rally in San Francisco on October 8th, in solidarity with Women’s March, and with the courageous uprising of the people of Iran.
TWT: @Rise4AbortionSF IG: @riseup4abortion_bayarea
TikTok: @RiseUp4AbortionRights Email: bayarea [at] riseup4abortionrights.org
Info: SF: Legal Abortion Nationwide Now! Rally and March | Facebook and SF: Legal Abortion Nationwide Now! Rally and March : Indybay
6. Saturday, 2:00pm – 4:00pm, “Anti-Chevron Day w/Steven Donziger” at the Green Film Fest of SF!
Roxie Theater
3117 16thSt.
SF
The Green Film Festival of San Francisco is welcoming my film, “Anti-Chevron Day w/Steven Donziger” and will show it in Roxie Theater 2. (Peter Menchini’s film)
Human rights lawyer Steven Donziger spent 993 days of detention stemming from his decades-long legal fight with Chevron, which deployed its vast resources in a campaign to destroy Donziger after he won a $9.5 billion settlement against the fossil fuel giant over its pollution of the Amazon rainforest.
My film, which features time lapse and aerial videography by Art Koch, plays with “Oyate”, a film about Indigenous People using their newfound platform to shed light on the wide array of injustices committed against them. They seek to wake up the world and embark upon the process of decolonization.
Host: Peter Menchini
Info: “Anti-Chevron Day w/Steven Donziger” at the Green Film Fest of SF! | Facebook
Sunday, October 9
7. Sunday, 11:00am – 1:00pm, Amazon and Starbucks Bosses: Stop Your Union Busting
In person
Picket at Whole Foods Store (Noe Valley)
3950 24th Street
SF
Out doors
Mask
Tell their bosses Stop Union Busting! Recognize the Unions Now!
Let Amazon and Starbucks workers know you have their backs. Picket and rally at Whole Foods owned by Amazon.
Warning: The worker organizing wave is in danger because of union busting!
The national wave of union organizing and militancy spearheaded by Starbucks workers and Amazon workers is the biggest upsurge in worker organizing since the 1930s and 1940s. The organizing wave has spread to Trader Joe’s, Chipotle, Apple, REI and a growing list of chain stores and industries.
However, this uprising of workers, which holds the potential of not only saving the labor movement but transforming it, is under life-threatening attack. We must unite in defense of the brave young workers that are the vanguard of this transformative workers struggle.
This action is part of a nationwide campaign to build solidarity with the workers who are fighting to unionize against vicious union busting tactics by their bosses.
Check out this new Solidarity Network and sign up to get involved.
For more information: Https://support Amazon workers.net
Host Support Amazon Workers Bay Area
Info: Support Amazon Workers Picket Whole Foods : Indybay or Tell Amazon and Starbucks: No Union Busting! Recognize the Unions Now! | Facebook
Monday, October 10
Indigenous Peoples’ Day
&
World Day Against the Death Penalty
8. Monday, 6:00am – 8:00am, Annual Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz – Commemorating 530 years of Indigenous Resistance, Cultural Resiliency, and Survival in the Americas
ADVANCE TICKETS: Indigenous Peoples Sunrise Gathering | City Experiences
See boat schedule below.
BOATS DEPART FROM PIER 33, TICKET OFFICE OPENS AT 4:00 AM, BOATS DEPART AT
4:30, 4:45 AND 5:15 AM, ALL BOATS RETURN BY 9:00 AM.TICKETS $11.00, CHILDREN
UNDER 5 FREE.
Walk-up tickets will be available for purchase the morning of the event. However, tickets are limited and we can not guarantee availability the day of the event. We strongly recommend arriving as early as possible.
The Indigenous Peoples’ Day Sunrise Gathering on October 10th, and the Indigenous Peoples’ Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering on November 24th, are organized by the International Indian Treaty Council commemorating the 1969-71 occupation of Alcatraz by the Indians of All Tribes. These are one-day events and are not the standard Alcatraz Island tour; all areas except for where the ceremony takes place will be closed and inaccessible to the public.
October 10th Event:
The ticket booth opens at 3:30 AM and boats will depart Pier 33 at approximately 4:30 AM, 4:45 AM, and 5:15 AM. We encourage you to purchase and print tickets on the web. Tickets can also be purchased by calling 415-981-7625 (ROCK) or from the ticket booth at Pier 33 Alcatraz Landing. General admission is $11.00 per person. Children under 5 years of age are free.
Host: International Indian Treaty Council
9. Monday, 11:00am (PT); 2:00pm (ET), DPA World Day Against the Death Penalty
Online register: Webinar Registration – Zoom
Description
BROTHERS ON DEATH ROW
Featuring Rodrick Reed, Charles Keith & Abraham Bonowitz
Lawyers are arguing to stop the execution of Rodney Reed at the US Supreme Court on October 11th. Kim Kardashian’s new podcast (“The System” is available on Spotify starting Oct 3) exposes the mistakes of our criminal legal system through the lens of Kevin Keith, who came within 13 days of execution in Ohio. Join these men’s strongest advocates – their brothers – for a conversation about wrongful convictions, racism, the lasting legacy of slavery, and the collateral damage of our criminal legal system. Also participating: Abraham Bonowitz, executive director of Death Penalty Action, the national organization shining a spotlight on executions in the United States.
Host: Death Penalty Action
10. Monday, 12Noon – 3:30pm, 4th Annual San Francisco’s Indigenous Peoples Day
Yerba Buena Gardens
Mission St. Betweren 3rd & 4th Streets
SF
Join us in celebration of San Francisco’s Indigenous Peoples Day at Yerba Buena Gardens with Native American art, music and vendors. The program highlights the vastly diverse and talented community of Indigenous artists in the Bay Area, California and beyond.
Presented in partnership with the International Indian Treaty Council with generous support from the San Francisco Arts Commission.
Info: San Francisco’s Indigenous Peoples Day | Facebook
11. Monday, 12:00Noon (PT); 3:00pm (ET), Webinar – Torture and the Death Penalty: in Recognition of World Day Against the Death Penalty
Register: Webinar Registration – Zoom
you are invited to join us for “A Conversation with Death Penalty Focus President Mike Farrell and Professor Juan E. Mendez, former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture.”
DPF Executive Director David Brazil will moderate the discussion.
Professor Juan E. Mendez
Professor Juan E. Mendez was the Special Rapporteur at the United Nations from November 2010 to October 31, 2016. He is currently Faculty Director of the Anti-Torture Initiative at American University Washington College of Law. Professor Mendez is a native of Argentina, where he dedicated his legal career to the defense of human rights. As a result of his work representing political prisoners, he was arrested by the Argentinean military dictatorship and spent more than a year in prison, where he was tortured. He was expelled from Argentina in 1977 and moved to the United States.
Death Penalty Focus President Mike Farrell
President of the Board of Death Penalty Focus, Mike Farrell is also a spokesperson for Concern America, an international refugee aid and development organization, Co-Chair Emeritus of the California Committee of Human Rights Watch, and, occasionally, a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
DPF Executive Director David Brazil
David Brazil is a grassroots and professional community organizer with a long-standing commitment to transforming the criminal legal system. As the coordinator with Faith Alliance for a Moral Economy (FAME), the interfaith project of the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE), he was instrumental in winning groundbreaking protections against employment discrimination for formerly incarcerated people in Oakland. As a grassroots organizer, he co-founded Abolition Apostles, a national jail and prison ministry connecting incarcerated people with volunteer pen-pals
Host: Death Penalty Focus
Tuesday, October 11
12. Tuesday, 12 Noon, Stop Wiener’s Corrupt Gutting of Bill To Give PG&E $1.4 billion & To Keep Diablo Nuclear Plant Open
In person
California State Building
455 Golden Gate Ave
SF
Repeal SB 864 and Shut Down Diablo Canyon nuclear plant NOW!
On Sunday September 11, Democratic party leadership of the Senate printed Scott Weiner’s bill SB 864. Without any notice to
the people of California, Scott allowed his bill for drug treatment to be gutted and replaced with language that gave $1.4 billion
to keep the broken PG&E Diablo Canyon plant going for another five years and maybe longer.
The corrupt Democratic controlled legislature uses this sneak procedure to get around the 30 day notice on a bill to the people
of California so they have time to learn about legislation that will effect their lives.
Ratepayer are already paying to decommission the plant in a deal that was reach in 2016 with energy to be replaced by solar and
other non-fossile fuels.
Under Biden’s climate bill, the nuclear industry stuck in billions of dollars in subsides to keep aging nuclear plants operating.
The nuclear industry and PG&E with the support of Governor Newsom, Scott Weiner and the Democrats and Republicans have
pulled a fast one on the people of California to stall moving to solar and alternative energy. Newsom and his pro-nuclear CPUC
want to tax residents who have solar even more to punish them.
Just this week it was also announced that even more dangerous earthquake faults have been discovered near Diablo Canyon.
The lessons of Fukushima have been ignored by Governor Newom and the State Legislature.
We call for the repeal of this bill and for the $1.4 billion to be used for further solarization and batteries to store the energy.
We cannot afford another Fukushsima on the coast of California.
Host: No Nukes Action Committee
13. Tuesday, 1:00pm, Don’t Wait Until We Break: Rally & March!
In person
Meet at “
SF City Hall
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl.
SF
Join us, allies, and families in demanding a fair and effective system for housing!
We will be kicking things off with speakers on the steps of City Hall. After we hear from speakers, we will be marching to the HSH building at 440 Turk Street.
Host: Coalition on Homelessness
