By Adrienne Fong
Not back posting on a regular basis
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ARTICLES
A. ‘Pro-Chesa’ speakers screened at SF City Hall Tyre Nichols event – February 1, 2023
‘Pro-Chesa’ speakers screened at SF City Hall Tyre Nichols event (missionlocal.org)
B. 71 Commands in 13 Minutes: Officers Gave Tyre Nichols Impossible Orders – Updated February 1, 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/29/us/tyre-nichols-video-assault-cops.html
R.I.P.
♥ Tyre Nichols ♥
Also killed by police on the same day as Tyre:
R.I.P.
♥ Jaheim McMillian ♥
♥ Keenan Anderson ♥
♥ Ira Julian Wright ♥
C. California police fatally shoot Black double amputee: Video – February 1, 2023
California police fatally shoot Black double amputee: Video (presstv.ir)
D. Pfizer Vaccine Bonanza Slows — But Bill Gates Sold Early, Made Huge Profits – February 1, 2023
E. Assange Visitors Renew Request For CIA To ‘Purge and Destroy’ Files On Them – January 31, 2023
https://popularresistance.org/assange-visitors-renew-request-for-cia-to-purge-and-destroy-files-on-them/
F. Alameda County D.A. reopening investigations for 8 police shootings and in-custody deaths – January 31, 2023
G. My friend died at Laguna Honda, and he’d have wanted it saved – January 31, 2023
My friend died at Laguna Honda — he’d have wanted it saved | Forum | sfexaminer.com
See Event #1
H. Pivot To Asia Ramping Up Ominously – January 30, 2023
Pivot To Asia Ramping Up Ominously | went2thebridge.org
I. A bored hactivist browsing an unsecured airline server stumbled upon national security secrets including the FBI’s ‘no-fly’ list. She says what she found reveals a ‘perverse outgrowth of the surveillance state” – January 25, 2023
Hacktivist Finds US ‘No-Fly’ List, Reveals Systemic Bias, Surveillance (businessinsider.com)
PETITIONS
1. Petition: No police reforms that bloat police budgets
SIGN: Sign the petition: No police reforms that bloat police budgets (dailykos.com)
2. End Mass Surveillance: Tell Congress to Block Section 702 Reauthorization Until it Restores Americans’ Privacy
February IS Black History Month
EVENTS
Thursday,February 2 – Sunday, February 5
Thursday, February 2
1. Thursday, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Speak Out! Stop The Discharges At Laguna Honda Hospital! Discharges = Deaths
In person
Laguna Honda Hospital
375 Laguna Honda Blvd.
In Front of Laguna Honda Hospital Entrance
in front of Murals Across From Muni Forrest Hill Station
SF
MUNI – Bus lines 43, 44 & 36
Street Cars M, K
Despite unanimous opposition from the community and labor to the continued discharge of patients at San Francisco City’s Laguna Honda Hospital, Mayor London Breed and her hand-picked San Francisco Department of Public Health commissioners have decided that discharges will start again on February 3, 2023.
These discharges have already killed 9 patients of the Hospital. Further discharges will lead directly to more deaths, and they have been warned at DPH hearings. Nursing home workers are already overloaded with patients and not prepared for many of the fragile residents and patients at Laguna Honda.
The SF Board of Supervisors have also refused to stop the discharges, and Supervisor Mandelman wants to shut down debate by ending hybrid meetings where disabled, community, and labor members can participate remotely.
The fact is that there are not enough healthcare facilities like Laguna Honda. This same Board, and the Department of Public Health director Colfax knew that patients who needed care were being discharged despite needing the care at Laguna Honda. This board and DPH Director Colfax need to be held responsible for these deaths, and Mayor London Breed and the Board of Supervisors must STOP THIS NOW or be held responsible for any further deaths resulting from discharges.
We demand that Newsom and the State Department of Public Health along with US Secretary of Labor Xavi- er Becerra put a halt to these discharges. The Chair of Board Dan Bernal is the Chief of Staff for Nancy Pelosi and yet they are allowing the discharges to start again. Behind this is the drive to privatize the hospital and sell of the land for luxury condos which developers are already planning for. This also a boon for the private nursing home industry which Gavin Newsom and his state agencies refuse to properly regulate and provide oversight.
We need to stop the privatization of public health sys- tem and demand that nursing homes be run properly by the public without billionaires cutting costs for more profits. The outsourcing to consultants and the expenditures of millions of dollars as well has not been trans- parent, and instead of bringing in professionals, they are wasting more money. There are more than 80 billionaires in San Francisco yet we can’t keep a public hospital for rehabilitation and care?
Bring your community supporters of the hospital and union brothers and sisters and bring your signs & banners to this speak out.
Endorsed by:
Brenda Barros, SEIU 1021 SF General Hospital Chapter President
Cheryl Thornton SEIU 1021 Community Healthcare Chapter Vice Chair
UPTE-CWA 9119
United Front Commitee For A Labor Party
http://www.ufcllp.org
info [at] ufclp.org
We support the following demands:
Please Tell CMS and the Board of Supervisors:
1. Residents already discharged by force must be allowed to return.
2. No closure
3. Funding for existing residents must continue until recertification
4. No loss of beds in this nearly new facility
5. No evictions of Skilled-Nursing-Facility-eligible residents under any circumstances.
6. No eviction for non-SNF-eligible residents until safe and local arrangements are made.
7. We demand transparency in planning changes of Laguna Honda policies and operations.
8. Prevent inappropriate, unnecessary, illegal and unsafe nursing home
admissions. SFDPH must stop the “flow” project of ZSFGH patients and return admission decisions to dedicated LHH Staff who understand how a nursing home operates.
9. SFDPH and government agencies above it (including State and Federal) must provide sufficient mental health and substance use programs and residential beds to give people the care they need. Also, sufficient services must be provided for elders and people with disabilities to stay in their communities where possible.
10. Laguna Honda must be open to all San Franciscans who need nursing home care
11. Restore admissions to Laguna Honda Hospital.
Host: UF Committee To Stop Laguna Honda Closure
Info: Speak Out! Stop The Discharges At Laguna Honda Hospital! Discharges = Deaths : Indybay
2. Thursday, 4:00pm (PT); 7:00pm (ET), “LONG DISTANCE REVOLUTIONARY” movie about Mumia Abu-Jamal ~ Online Event
Online – register: Meeting Registration – Zoom
Also for anyone on/off Facebook
Watch this important, well-made film about Mumia Abu-Jamal – from Philly- a loving father, veteran Black Panther, brilliant and award-winning radio journalist and writer, and Political Prisoner of 41 years. [more in post below]
HOW YOU CAN HELP MUMIA: Go to lovenotphear.com and watch the 6 minute video of Judge Lucretia Clemons, who is Mumia’s judge now. After watching the video, write a letter to the judge and email to lovenotphear@gmail.com . We must get to the heart of Mumia’s judge.
ABOUT THE MOVIE: The movie Long Distance Revolutionary is the first of its kind about Mumia. Instead of focusing on Mumia’s case, this film focuses on his life, motivations, family, time in the Black Panther Party, his radio career, reporting on MOVE, his writing, and his life on Death Row. It’s an excellent, artfully made film about Mumia, who Angela Davis calls “the 21st Century’s Frederick Douglass.”
Cast includes Angela Davis, Cornel West, Dick Gregory, Alice Walker, Amy Goodman, and Rubin “Hurricane” Carter.
Hosts: Moratorium Now! Coalition, Prison Radio, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement – Detroit
Info: “LONG DISTANCE REVOLUTIONARY” movie about Mumia Abu-Jamal ~ Online Event | Facebook
3. Thursday, 4:00pm (PT); 7:00pm(ET), Myths, Realities, and Implications of China’s Nuclear Buildup
Online register: Webinar Registration – Zoom
The Pentagon’s annual report on Chinese military power, released at the end of 2022, claims that China’s nuclear stockpile will jump from some 400 warheads today to an estimated 1,500
warheads in 2035. This claim has been seized upon by military hawks in Congress to fuel their clamor for increased military spending, approving a record $858 fiscal year 2023 Pentagon budget–$45 billion more than President Biden requested. Most of the increased spending was earmarked for weaponry to counter China.
While most observers agree that Beijing is expanding and modernizing its very small–as compared to those of the U.S. and Russia–nuclear force, there is widespread debate as to the scale and rapidity of those endeavors.
With many in Washington now citing the Pentagon’s claims of a Chinese nuclear buildup to justify the further expansion of America’s already vast nuclear arsenal, it is essential to interrogate the claims of the China Military Power report lest we all be drawn into a new, profoundly dangerous arms race.
The Committee for a Sane U.S.-China Policy invites you to join three outstanding experts to learn more about China’s nuclear buildup, the debate over its scale and intent, and how all this
might inform U.S. foreign and military policy.
Michael Klare is co-chair of the Committee for a Sane U.S.-China Policy and a senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association in Washington, D.C.
Hans Kristensen is director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists and coauthor of the Nuclear Notebook, a column in the Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists that includes an annual review of Chinese nuclear forces.
Zhao Tong is a senior fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a visiting research scholar at Princeton University’s Science and Global
Security Program.
Initiated by the Committee for a Sane U.S.-China Policy. Co-sponsored by the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security
4. Thursday, 6:30pm – 8:00pm, Essential: How the Pandemic Spurred A Radical New Phase in the Labor Movement with Author
In person
The Green Arcade
1680 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Presented by The Labor & Community Studies Department of City College of San Francisco & The Green Arcade. How essential workers’ fight for better jobs during the pandemic revolutionized US labor politics
Essential workers’ fight for better jobs during the pandemic revolutionized US labor politics. Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, essential workers lashed out against low wages, long hours, and safety risks, attracting a level of support unseen in decades. This explosion of labor unrest seemed sudden to many. But Jamie McCallum’s book Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight For Worker Justice
reveals that American workers had simmered in discontent long before their anger boiled over.
Decades of austerity, sociologist McCallum shows, have left frontline workers vulnerable to employer abuse, lacking government protections, and increasingly furious. Through firsthand research conducted as the pandemic unfolded, he traces the evolution of workers’ militancy, showing how their struggles for safer workplaces, better pay and health care, and the right to unionize have benefitted all Americans and spurred a radical new phase of the labor movement. This is essential reading for understanding the past, present, and future of the working class. This is essential reading for understanding the past, present, and future of the US working class.
Info: Essential: How the Pandemic Spurred A Radical New Phase in the Labor Movement with Author : Indybay
Friday, February 3
5. Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Shut Down the SF Police Officers Association (SFPOA)
In person
SF Police Officers Association (Outside)
800 Bryant St.
SF
All are welcomed to stand with Mothers On The March and people from the community
Demands:
– The Police Officers Association be Shut Down!
– The SFPOA Be Declared a Non-Grata Organization
– Abolish ’The Police Officers Bill of Rights’ This has been used to protect police from being prosecuted and jailed.
– Jail Killer Cops – killer cops need to be charged, convicted and jailed for murder.
– Abolish the Police! The current entity of policing needs to be abolished!
Names of a few people killed by SFPD:
Isriss Stelley, Sean Moore, Keita O’Neil, Alex Nieto, Angel Brown, Kenneth Harding Jr., Jesus Adolfo Delgado, Mario Woods, Nelson Szeto, Amilcar Perez-Lopez, Jessica Nelson, Luis Gongora Pat, Ajmaal Amani, Matthew Hoffman, Herbert Benitez, O’Shaine Evans, Peter Woo, Joshua Smith, Filimoni Raiyaawa, Jehad Eid, Nicholas Flusche
Saturday, February 4
6. Saturday, 12Noon – 6:00pm, Giant Used Book Sale to Benefit Putting Revolution on the Map in 2023 (Also Sunday)
In person
Revolution Books Berkeley
2444 Durant Ave.
Berkeley
In a Time When the Future Hangs in the Balance
When Solutions Offered End Up with the Horrors
Going On and On…
There Is Hope, and a Roadmap to the Emancipation of Humanity
Come, hang out, and get some great used books at Revolution Books in Berkeley and contribute to something truly emancipating: The proceeds will go to the $100,000 http://www.revcom.us fund drive. Already, $64,933 has been raised.
100’s of Books on History, African American history and culture, Art, Ethnic Studies, Fiction, more!…
Your contribution will spur and accelerate the movement for liberating fundamental change, for a real revolution to cast off the system that is hurtling humanity towards the brink.
The very dangers we face in this moment of extreme crisis and sharp irreconcilable divisions in U.S. society holds the potential for what has seemed impossible to become possible.
The main project of this fund drive is to get the recent interviews with BA—Up Close and Personal with Bob Avakian, Heart and Soul & Hard-Core For Revolution—out there to many more people and into society overall.
This fund drive also supports The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show on YouTube and the http://www.revcom.us website. And it supports the efforts of the National Revolution Tour to dynamically spread the word (including through debate and discussion), and to organize people and stand up and fight the power—all to prepare for revolution
Info: Giant Used Book Sale to Benefit Putting Revolution on the Map in 2023 : Indybay
7. Saturday, 2:30pm – 4:30pm, Haiti: Past, Present, and Future
In person and online
Online Register: Meeting Registration – Zoom
In person
3101 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley
Black History Month is a product of the struggle for African and African American liberation. The Haitian Revolution, which took place from 1791-1804, marked the beginning of liberation movements by and for African and all enslaved peoples in the Western Hemisphere. We will look back at this significant event, and its continuation as Haiti bears the brunt of capitalist domination.
The forum will include an update on the case of U.S. political prisoner Mumia
Speakers:
Pierre Labossiere – Co-Founder of the Haiti Action Committee (HAC) and the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund (HERF)
Robert Roth – Co-Founder of the Haiti Action Committee
Gerald Smith – Co-Founder of the Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality (OGC) and an activist in the struggle to Free Mumia Abu Jamal
*Organizations listed for identification purposes only
Please help us celebrate our return to the Starry Plough by ordering food and/or drinks. Please try to arrive early to place your order so that you do not miss any of the presentation. An open discussion will follow the presentations. We will be accepting donations which will be divided among the sponsoring organizations. This event is sponsored by the Oakland Greens, Bay Area System Change Not Climate Change, and the Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party. For more information email <info@sudssnackssocialism.org
Info: Haiti: Past, Present, and Future : Indybay
Sunday, February 5
8. Sunday, 9:30am – 10:45am, Uprising in IRAN: What it Means, What We Can Do to Support It
In person
UUSF – TSK Room
1187 Franklin St.
SF
On Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95452963262?pwd=Y2V6cHl4RjRlOE0wZTFWcktOaFZpdz09
An unprecedented, sustained, vibrant uprising of the people of Iran has unleashed the people’s spirits, minds, and dreams…
• What does it represent?
• How broad is the movement and what are its goals?
• What kind of regime is ruling in Iran and how did it come to power?
• Why are hundreds of peaceful protesters being killed on the streets, thousands arrested, tortured and subject to sham trials and executions?
• Who are the thousands of political prisoners in Iran’s prisons?
It’s urgent that people around the world, especially in the U.S. step up support for the uprising itself, and to oppose the repression of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
What can and should people of conscience here in the U.S. do to support the just struggle going on in Iran and stop the repression and free all political prisoners?
These and other questions will be addressed.
Presenters:
Live: Mitra Akhtari: Bay Area International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners (IEC) Plus other local IEC activist
On Zoom: Jamileh Davoudi: a women’s rights activist, leader of the Zanan Group in No. California which is a member of Collective Action of Independent Iranian Women Organizations. Producer and host of “Zanan, Niemeh Barabar” or “Women, the Equal Half” program in Radio Pooya for the past 7 years. She also contributes articles to “Pezhvak of Persia” monthly magazine.
And: Larry Everest: national spokesperson of the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners (IEC). Author of Oil Power and Empire, Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda.
Info: Uprising in IRAN: What it Means, What We Can Do to Support It : Indybay
9. Sunday, 1:00pm – 3:00pm, Confronting capitalism’s crises with bold, revolutionary leadership
In person
New Valencia Hall
747 Polk St.(@ Ellis)
SF
Zoom option: register at
Report-back from Freedom Socialist Party convention
Confronting capitalism’s crisis with bold, revolutionary leader ship
At the recent Freedom Socialist Party convention, members assess the turbulent times of war, social and environmental crisis. At this report-back, find out what steps party activists decided on to meet the global challenges with confidence. Share your thoughts during discussion on how to end capitalist destruction and inhumanity.
Info: Confronting capitalism’s crises with bold, revolutionary leadership : Indybay
