By Adrienne Fong
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Articles divided into two sections 2 section on SF related police, DA issues etc
ARTICLES
A. SCOTT RITTER: The Nord Stream-Andromeda Cover Up – March 14, 2023
B. Biden Denounced for ‘Appalling’ Approval of Willow Oil Project – March 13, 2023
Biden Denounced for ‘Appalling’ Approval of Willow Oil Project (commondreams.org)
C. Japan set to release treated water off Fukushima despite fears – March 13, 2023
Japan set to release treated water off Fukushima despite fears – The Mainichi
D. COP CITY AIMS TO TRANSFORM POLICE INTO A PARAMILITARY FORCE – MARCH 6, 2023
Cop City Aims To Transform Police Into A Paramilitary Force – PopularResistance.Org
See Petition # 3
See Event # 3
Africans’ Message to Imperialism: “We Are Not Your Flunkies!” – March 1, 2023
https://blackagendareport.com/africans-message-imperialism-we-are-not-your-flunkies
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ARTICLES related to SFPD $, DA Jenkins, Mayor Breed etc
See Event # 1 No to extra 27 Million Police Budget Supplemental
A. Yes, the SFPD has a staffing crisis- but that’s just the beginning – March 13, 2023
Yes, the SFPD has a staffing crisis — but that’s just the beginning – Mission Local
See Event #
B. Will S.F. Mayor Breed’s police overtime funding win support? Here’s where $27 million plan stands – March 10, 2023
Mayor London Breed’s push for overtime police funding gains support (sfchronicle.com)
C. Sparks fly between Breed, Preston amid public safety funding proposal – March 10, 2023
Friction between SF city leaders on public safety funding | Politics | sfexaminer.com
D. DA pulls medical records, delaying case vs. cop who shot Sean Moore – March 10, 2023
DA pulls medical records, delaying case vs. cop who shot Sean Moore (missionlocal.org)
E. D.A. Brooke Jenkins reverses position on sanctuary ordinance – March 8, 2023
D.A. Brooke Jenkins backs off sanctuary ord inance changes (sfchronicle.com)
F. Five-year memorial for slain Mission teenager Jesus Delgado – March 7, 2023
Five-year memorial for slain Mission teenager Jesus Delgado (missionlocal.org)
G. Questions raised about DA’s framing of Keita O’Neil case in AG meeting – March 6, 2023
Questions raised about DA’s framing of O’Neil case in AG meeting (missionlocal.org)
H. ‘Policing in red rather than blue’: S.F.’s street crisis response team is in crisis, members say – March 4, 2023
‘Policing in red rather than blue’: SF street crisis team is in crisis (sfchronicle.com)
– Opinion article
4 PETITIONS
1. Halt Expansion of US Military Bases in the Philippines
SIGN: Halt Expansion of US Military Bases in the Philippines – Action Network
2. Tell Congress to step up for the Myanmar people
SIGN: Tell Congress to step up for the Myanmar people – Action Network
3. No Massive Police Training Complex: STOP COP City!!
4. Tell our U.S. senators: Vote no on this attack on clean water
SIGN: Tell your U.S. senators: Defend the Clean Water Act (webaction.org)
EVENTS
Wednesday, March 15 – Saturday, March 18
Wednesday, March 15
1. Wednesday, 1:30pm, NO to extra $27Million Police Budget Supplemental –
In person or online for SF BoS Budget & Appropriations Committee Meeting
In person
SF City Hall
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl. , Rm 250
SF
Online meeting:
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: 2491 751 5889 # # (Press *3 to enter the speaker line)
Mayor London Breed recently proposed a $27.6 million budget supplemental for SFPD to fund police overtime. Meanwhile, DA Jenkins recently dropped the charges against Chris Samayoa who murdered Keita O’Neil, and has stood by while the hearings for Kenneth Cha, who murdered Sean Moore, gets delayed again and again. If SFPD officers aren’t being held accountable when they break the law, they should not continue to get budget supplementals.
Demand that the BoS needs to be accountable to the public and demand more answers from SFPD.
Ask that they VOTE NO and end complicity with SFPD , POA and current DA’s reign of terror on people in our communities – especially of Black and Brown people.
Not one SFPD police officer who has killed people in SF have been held accountable.
Police abuse in the past and present needs to be answered to
Agenda: https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/bac031523_agenda.pdf – Item # 2
230158 [Appropriation – General Reserve – Police Department – Overtime – $27,640,247 – De-Appropriation and Re-Appropriation – $31,151,450 – Releasing $7,430,008]
Sponsors: Mayor; Stefani, Dorsey, Engardio, Mandelman and Safai
Ordinance appropriating $27,640,247 of General Fund General Reserves to the Police Department; de-appropriating $31,151,450 from permanent salaries, mandatory fringe benefits, and overtime for increased overtime budget in the Police Department in Fiscal Year (FY) 2022-2023 as required per Administrative Code, Section 3.17, and releasing $7,430,008 from expenditure reserve; this Ordinance requires a two-thirds approval vote of all members of the Board of Supervisors pursuant to Charter, Section 9.113(c).
Contact info with Board of Sups on Committee
a. Supervisor Connie Chan Connie.chan@sfgov.org 415-554-7410
b. Supervisor Rafael Mandelman rafael.mandelman@sfgov.org 415-554-6968
c. Supervisor Shaman Walton shamann.walton@sfgov.org (415) 554-7670
d. Supervisor Hillary Ronen hillary.ronen@sfgov.org (415) 554-5144
e. Supervisor Ahsha Safai ahsha.safai.@sfgov.org (415) 544-6975
2. Wednesday, 2:00pm – 4:00pm, Bayview Hunters Point Environmental Justice Response Task Force Meeting
Via ZOOM
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84555330926
Meeting ID: 845 5533 0926
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To view the agenda please CLICK HERE.
3. Wednesday, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, From the Bay Area to Atlanta STOP COP CITY!
In person – meet at:
GI PARTNERS
4 Embarcadero Center (North side of building on Clay St.)
SF
These past few weeks, thousands have gathered from across the country to join the community defending Atlanta and its Weelaunee forest from the construction of “Cop City” – a massive 85-acre, $90 million urban warfare police training facility. Protests came to a head after a Georgia State Trooper shot and killed forest defender Manuel (Tortuguita) Terán on January 18th. This fight lies at the intersections of numerous issues: police expansion and violence, dirty corporate money, racial injustice, and of course, environmental destruction.
The Stop Cop City movement is bringing to light chilling rightwing shifts including increased police militarization and increased surveillance and criminalization of environmental activists.
Since December, Georgia law enforcement has arrested around 55 people defending Weelaunee forest, 43 of whom have been charged with domestic terrorism. The Atlanta Police Foundation, thanks to unchecked funding from massive corporations like SF-based Wells Fargo, has “donated” military gear and weapons which have been used to brutalize protestors. The violent tactics and treatment police are using against environmental activists reflect the policy shifts restricting the right to protest occurring across the country. Raising the legal stakes of protesting to absurd degrees is intended to dissuade participation in the movement or actions as well as fabricate a negative public image of protest efforts.
San Francisco is home to several of Cop City’s primary funders, financial partners, and general contract managers. We know exactly who is profting from this police playground and it’s time we paid them a visit. Join us for a gathering and tour of Cop City’s backers in the Financial District
Part of this event will be growing the community of people who believe there should be No Cop City there, or anywhere. As activists fighting for environmental and social justice, we must defend our own communities, as well, from infringements of police systems and restrictions on our right to take action.
From 350.org & XRSFBay
Info: From the Bay Area to Atlanta: Stop Cop City : Indybay
4. Wednesday, 6:00pm (PT), Webinar: Defunding Environmental Racism in the Gulf South
Online registration: Webinar Registration – Zoom
Despite their hollow climate pledges, big banks and insurers threaten to lock us into polluting LNG terminals for the next generation. Gulf South states like Texas and Louisiana continue to bear the brunt of the fossil fuel industry’s insatiable appetite for profit.
New LNG projects mean more climate chaos for frontline communities already hit hard by climate impacts. Now is the time to take collective action and defund environmental racism
We invite you to hear directly from Black and Indigenous leaders of the Gulf frontlines about their experiences of environmental racism and take digital action in solidarity with them.
Black and Indigenous people in the Gulf South have historically and continue to bear the brunt of the fossil fuel industry’s insatiable appetite for profits. As Stop the Money Pipeline continues our years-long fight on Wall Street to end the flow of financing to the fossil fuel industry, we invite you to hear directly from leaders of the Gulf frontlines about their experiences of environmental racism and take digital action in solidarity with them.
hear from John Beard of Port Arthur Community Action Network (Texas), Roishetta Ozane of the Vessel Project (Louisiana), Michael Esealuka of Healthy Gulf (Louisiana), RISE St. James, and Juan Mancias of Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe (Texas) on their ongoing fight for clean air, water, and land.
Host: Stop The Money Pipeline
Friday, March 17
5. Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Shut Down the SF Police Officers Association
In person
SF Police Officers Association
800 Bryant St. (@ 6th Street) outside
SF
All are welcomed to stand with Mothers On The March and People from the Community.
We stand with signs and banners and chalk the sidewalk, bringing attention to the crimes of the SFPD.
Our Demands:
-The Police Officers Association be SHUT DOWN!
-The SF POA Be Declared a Non-Grata Organization
-Abolish the ‘Officers Bill of Rights’ – This has been used to protect officers in abusing our communities!
-Jail Killer Cops – we demand killer cops be charged and convicted with murder
-Abolish the Police!
-Recall Brooke Jenkins
Host: Mothers On The March
Info: POA: Shut it Down! : Indybay
6. Friday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, Haight Ashbury Peace Vigil – March 2023
In person
Corner of Masonic & Fell St.
(In Golden Gate Park Panhandle)
SF
We will have our usual signs, music, candles, and snacks.
Join us for the whole two hours or for just five minutes.
Everybody welcome!
Sunset is now around 7:20 pm, so this will be a mostly daytime vigil.
The forecast is for cloudy skies with temperatures starting in the mid fifties and dropping to the low fifties. Please dress for the weather.
Info: Haight Ashbury Peace Vigil – March 2023 | Facebook
Saturday, March 18
7. Saturday, 12Noon – 2:30pm, Peace in Ukraine! Fund people’s needs, not the war machine!
In person meet at:
24th & Mission BART
SF
Coinciding with the 20th anniversary weekend of the criminal U.S.-invasion of Iraq, the ANSWER Coalition and dozens of other organizations will gather on Saturday March 18 at the 24th & Mission BART, SF for a rally demanding “Peace in Ukraine – Say NO to Endless U.S. Wars” and “Fund People’s Needs, Not the War Machine.”
Since 2003, the U.S. has engaged in sanctions (economic war) on more than 40 countries. Even in the wake of the worst disasters, like the recent deadly earthquake, Washington keeps its cruel sanctions in place against Syria.
U.S. bases and “commands” blanket most of the world. It is a global empire.
The Biden administration is determined to escalate the Ukraine war. The real goal of the massive arming and training of Ukrainian forces has nothing to do with the interests of Ukrainian, Russian or American people. The aim instead is to “weaken Russia” as stated by the U.S. Secretary of Defense himself, even at the risk of a catastrophic nuclear war that could end life on Earth.
A U.S. General commanding 50,000 troops in the Pacific also issued a letter to his sub-commanders in recent days informing them that he believes that the United States will be at war with China within two years. The danger of global war is growing! The people must act!
Our demands:
Peace in Ukraine – Negotiations not escalation!
Abolish NATO – End U.S. militarism and sanctions
Fund peoples needs, not the war machine
No war with China
End U.S. aid to racist aparthaid Israel
Fight racism and bigotry at home
U.S. hands off Haiti
End AFRICOM
For list of endorsers go to site
Info: Peace in Ukraine! Fund people’s needs, not the war machine! : Indybay
