By Adrienne Fong
Not back posting on a regular basis
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Articles are divided into 2 groups – 2nd group is on BANKO BROWN
ARTICLES
A. Group of Countries Led by Poland Secretly Urging Zelensky to End Conflict – Hersh – May 17, 2023
Group of Countries Aks Zelensky to End Conflict (sputnikglobe.com)
B. Biotech corporation withdraws permit for mass release of GE mosquitoes May 17, 2023
Biotech corporation withdraws permit for mass release of GE mosquitoes | NationofChange
C. International Health Regulations – May 16, 2023
International Health Regulations – YouTube
D. How People’s Movements Globally Are Resisting Western Imperialism – May15, 2023
How People’s Movements Globally Are Resisting Western Imperialism – PopularResistance.Org
E. LIVE: Oil Wars, Weapons & Africom Fueling Somalia Crisis (YouTube) – May 13, 2023
LIVE: Oil Wars, Weapons & Africom Fueling Somalia Crisis – YouTube
ARTICLES from May 16 & 17 on Banko Brown
Also see Event # 3
A. CBS interview with Terry Brown – Banko’s father – May 17, 2023
48 Hills:
B. Justice for Banko Brown coalition continues to grow—with pressure on Breed and Jenkins – May 17, 2023
Bay View Newspaper:
C. Banko Brown’s uncle responds to the murder video and DA Jenkins’ decision not to prosecute – May 17, 2023
Mission Local:
D. Allies of Banko Brown rally at DA’s office, demand prosecution of Walgreens guard – May 17, 2023
Allies of Banko Brown demand prosecution of Walgreens guard (missionlocal.org)
Mission Local:
E. Real SF dystopia: Two Black men fighting to the death over Walgreens snacks – May 17, 2023
Real SF dystopia: Two Black men fighting to the death over Walgreens snacks – Mission Local
Truthout:
F. The US Failed Jordan Neely and Banko Brown Long Before They Were Murdered – May 17, 2023
The US Failed Jordan Neely and Banko Brown Long Before They Were Murdered – Truthout
SF Gate:
G. Sustained outrage in San Francisco over Banko Brown Walgreens killing – May 16, 2023
Sustained outrage in San Francisco over Banko Brown Walgreens killing (sfgate.com)
SF Chron – Editorial
H. What does accountability now look like for the killing of Banko Brown? – May 16, 2023
Banko Brown shooting: What does accountability look like now? (sfchronicle.com)
3 PETITIONS
1. UC Invest in your employees, not corporations!
SIGN: UC say NO to Blackstone! — CALIFORNIA COMMON GOOD (cacommongood.com)
Chancellor Khosa at UCSD will receive a $500,000 raise on his annual base salary starting on May 1. You read it right: $500,000 to make a total of $1,141,324. He will be eligible for an additional 4.6 percent salary increase approved by the Regents this year.
2. Samling: drop the lawsuit against Borneo’s forest defenders
Samling: drop the lawsuit against Borneo’s forest defenders (eko.org)
Tell Shein: Stop Profiting from Uyghur Forced Labor
Tell Shein: Stop Profiting from Uyghur Forced Labor – Action Network
EVENTS / ACTIONS
Thursday, May 18
Thursday, May 18
LOCATION CHANGE!
1. Thursday, 4:00pm, SF Emergency Demonstration in Solidarity with the Haitian People
In person – meet at:
New Address
Simon Bolivar Statue at UN Plaza, Hyde and Fulton Sts
Civic Center BART
SF
March to SF Federal Building
Haitian Flag Day marks the day in 1803 when at the Congress of Akaye/Arcahaie the formerly enslaved by the French vowed to create a sovereign nation that they called Ayiti/Haiti rather than maintain any links to France. Today, while foreign powers occupy Haiti, this call for sovereignty remains as relevant as ever.
The situation in Haiti today could not be more dire. The unelected and illegitimate US-backed prime minister Ariel Henry remains in power despite continuous mass protests demanding his ouster. Journalists, clergy, peasant-farmers, students, workers and others raising their voices in protest have been met with beatings, incarceration, rape, assassinations and mass killings.
Trotting out the familiar argument that “gang warfare” is the root of Haiti’s problem, the US and Canada are ramping up funding and training for Haiti’s notorious and corrupt national police force, including sending tactical and armored vehicles. As they did during the notorious Lasalin massacre, police, security forces and affiliated paramilitary forces terrorize opposition neighborhoods, most recently Bele, murdering and sexually assaulting residents, kidnapping, wrecking homes and accelerating land grabs.
We demand:
- Stop the massacres. Stop using our tax dollars to fund the brutal Haitian police and affiliated death squads
- Stop supporting the Ariel Henry dictatorship
- Stop attacking and deporting Haitian refugees
- Support the Haitian people’s struggle for liberation
- End the occupation. Sovereignty and self-determination for Haiti
Info from Haiti Action Committee
2. Thursday, 4:00pm, Rally To Stop The Laguna Honda Discharges
In person
375 Laguna Honda Blvd across from Forrest Hill Muni Station
San Francisco
Defend Laguna Honda Hospital-Stop The Discharges & Murders Discharges = Death
Working People Need To Unite For Our Public Hospital
Discharges = Death
Despite mass opposition, Newsom’s Department of Public Health, Secretary of Health & Education Xavier Becerra and SF Mayor London Breed’s
Director Department of Pulblic Health and Health Commissionn Board are allowing the patients to be terrorized again by threatengng to discharge
them on May 19. 2023.
The City refuses to ask for an exemption that would allow Laguna Honda to have three patients to a room and also to allow the many patients who are waiting for care at the hospital to be admitted.
Instead they are playing games with the workers, patients and their families to threaten even more discharges and deaths.
Director Colfax and the Board of Health Commission Dan Bernal, who is chief of staff for Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi gave the go ahead for the discharge of patients which led to their deaths. Some were driven to homeless shelters. These discharges were death sentences and to threaten similar discharges and deaths.
There is an emergency in our private nursing home care system. The homes are run by billionaires with little to no oversight have terrible working conditions for the residents and the workers. The Newsom administration and the Federal government are demanding that the patients and residents be pushed into these homes where much of the care is substandard.
We need to demand that Newsom and Becerra along with London Breed be held accoutable for this travesty.
No bed cuts,
No closure and No evictions,
Reopen admissions, and provide, in safe and appropriate locations, mental health and substance use treatment and supports and home care services to all San Franciscans who need it.
Initiated By United Front Committtee for A Labor Party
Info: Rally To Stop The San Francisco Laguna Honda Discharges Defend Laguna Honda Hospital : Indybay
Friday, May 19
3. Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Revolution Friday: JUSTICE NOT JENKINS! DEMAND! JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS OF POLICE TERROR!
In person
DA Brooke Jenkins office
350 Rhode Island (outside)
SF
Public transportation: MUNI # 22 & # 19
All are welcomed to participate in Revolutionary Friday’s. This week we will be at SF DA Brooke Jenkins office.
Demands:
– Recall Brooke Jenkins!
– Justice For Banko Brown!
– Charge / Prosecute Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony with murder of Banko Brown!
– Charge & Jail All Killer Cops with Murder!
– Abolish The Police – Create a new unarmed entity controlled by the COMMUNITY they are to serve and protect
– Declare the Police Officers Association A Non-Grata organization
– Abolish The ‘Officers Bill Of Rights’ – this has been used to protect officers from prosecution
Info: Recall Jenkins : Indybay
4. Friday, 4:00pm – 5:00pm, SF Speak Out At SF Chinese Consulate- Hands Off Namibian Labor Lawyer Beukes & Miners
In person
San Francisco Chinese Consulate
Laguna and Geary St.
San Francisco
Public transportation: MUNI # 38
The largest investor in Namibia is now the Chinese government and private Chinese capitalists and they are engaged in busting the Mineworkers Union of Nambia MUN by firing union leaders and are targeting labor lawyer Hewat Beukes who has been defending these and other workers.
The Chinese National Nuclear Corporation of China CNNC bought the Rossing mine from Rio Tinto in 2019 promising to abide by labor contracts and labor law. Instead they tried to bribe the union leaders and demand that they make concessions on their healthcare. They also violated labor law and the union contract by illegally bringing in Chinese nationals to replace Namibian workers at the mine. They now control the entire Namibian uranium industry and are using their power to bust the unions and bring back contract labor that was used under apartheid.
When the union leaders protested at the Rossing mine, the 9 branch union leaders were fired and they have been fighting for their jobs back since 2020. They CNNC want to starve them out and have blacklisted them from working at other companies.
At another MUN Swacop mine, a similar action was taken against MUN Swakop uranium miners by the Beifang Mining Service company. This private subcontractor was hired by Swakop which is 90% owned by the Chinese government and the SWAPO government of Namibia. They illegally fired workers at the Swakop uranium mine and the government controlled labor agencies refuses to defend the workers who were illegally fired.
Beifang Mining Service is also replacing union miners with permanent temporary contract workers and at the Rossing mine they are laying off 400 miners while hiring contract workers to replace them. This is a capitalist union busting tactic by both the Chinese and Namibian government.
Doing the bidding of these bosses the Namibian judicial system want to jail labor lawyer Hewat Beukes with false charges. They have also shut off water and electricity to his house and office. This staged hearing is part of the frame-up to prevent Hewat Beukes to representing the unions and working people in Nambia.
Host: United Front Committee For A Labor Party
Info: SF Speak Out At SF Chinese Consulate- Hands Off Namibian Labor Lawyer Beukes & Miners : Indybay
5. Friday, 4:00pm (PT); 7:00pm (ET), Webinar with Protesters at the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan
Online register: Webinar Registration – Zoom
The G7 countries (The United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Japan, with the EU in observer status), which represent the biggest Western economies will be meeting this month in, of all places, Hiroshima, Japan. We can be sure that high on their agenda will be financing more killing and war in Ukraine.
Ironically, they chose to meet in Hiroshima where the US dropped the first nuclear bomb on people. Today, the war in Ukraine brings us ever closer to a nuclear war that could destroy the planet and everyone on it.
Additionally, sanctions, many tied to the Ukraine war, have brought countries together to resist this attack on their economies and people. Alternative banking, trade and economic institutions are coming together and are challenging US and Western hegemony.
The G7 meeting in Japan comes at a time that the US is threatening China and moving more forces and bases to Asia. At the last NATO summit in Madrid, they decided that NATO should become a world-wide military alliance with Russia and China as its main targets.
Progressive forces will be protesting the G7 in Japan calling for an end to their wars and economic bullying. There will be protest marches and an alternative summit meeting. UNAC administrative committee member and spokesperson for the Filipino alliance BAYAN. USA, Rhonda Ramiro will be present along with other people from the US and from many other countries.
6. Friday, 6:00pm, Chief Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela (@nkoszwelivelile), Grandson of Nelson Mandela as part of NAKBA 75
In person RSVP tickets: Mandela Nakba Day Tour – SAN FRANCISCO (zeffy.com)
– Free – advise to get tickets
San Francisco State University
KNUTH Hall
1600 Holloway Ave
SF
BAY AREA: The PYM Bay Area is proud to share that Chief Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela (@nkoszwelivelile), grandson of Nelson Mandela, is coming to San Francisco on May 19, as part of the #Nakba75 U.S. tour, organized by our comrades in @USPCN & @NAARPR
Info: Facebook
7. Friday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, Haight Ashbury Peace Vigil – May 2023
In person
Corner of Masonic and Fell
Golden Gate Park Panhandle
SF
Haight Ashbury Peace Vigil, 6 to 8 pm (Pacific Time) Friday, May 19, and the third Friday of every month, at the corner of Masonic and Fell, in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle, San Francisco.
We will have our usual signs, music, candles, and snacks.
Join us for the whole two hours or for just five minutes.
Everybody welcome!
Info: Haight Ashbury Peace Vigil – May 2023 | Facebook
8. Friday, 7:00pm – 8:00pm, Remembrance Rising: In Tribute to the World War II Comfort Women
In person
Manilatown Heritage Foundation
868 Kearney St.
SF
An interdisciplinary work featuring poetry, dance, and music in dialogue with the public art piece Comfort Women Column of Strength Memorial in St. Mary’s Square in San Francisco Chinatown. Featuring composer/saxophonist Francis Wong, dancer and poet Lynn Huang, dancer Flora Hyoin Kim Han, tuba performer William Roper, violinist Sandy Poindexter, and multi-percussionist Karen Stackpole. Parallel to the performing arts work is a companion zine set, created and illustrated by Katie Quan, focusing on the experiences of comfort women, Jan Ruff-O’Herne and Maria Rosa Henson.
Info: Remembrance Rising: In Tribute to the World War II Comfort Women | Facebook
Saturday, May 20
9. Saturday, 2:00pm – 3:00pm, Remembrance Rising (@ St. Mary’s Square)
In person – Free
651 California St.
SF
Remembrance Rising: In Tribute to the World War II Comfort Women is an interdisciplinary work featuring poetry, dance, and music in dialogue with the public art piece Comfort Women Column of Strength Memorial in St. Mary’s Square in San Francisco Chinatown.
Featuring composer/saxophonist Francis Wong, dancer and poet Lynn Huang, dancer Flora Hyoin Kim Han, tuba performer William Roper, violinist Sandy Poindexter, and multi-percussionist Karen Stackpole. Parallel to the performing arts work is a companion zine set, created and illustrated by Katie Quan, focusing on the experiences of comfort women, Jan Ruff-O’Herne and Maria Rosa Henson.
Info: https://allevents.in/san%20francisco/remembrance-rising-st-marys-square/10000633018153337
Sunday, May 21
10. Sunday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, 10th Annual Global Anti-Chevron Day
In person – rsvp: 10th Annual Anti-Chevron Day – Richmond, CA (actionnetwork.org)
Gate 14th – Chevron Refinery• castro street,
Richmond, CA 94801
On the eve of Chevron’s annual shareholder meeting, frontline communities have a message for Chevron’s senior management, board of directors, and shareholders: clean up your act, and stop profiting off the destruction of communities and the environment.
Communities from across the globe speak out about Chevron’s harms to the environment, their communities, and their rights.
We will gather in front of Gate 14 of the Richmond refinery (right under the 580 freeway on Castro Street) to hear speakers from local affected communities about the ways Chevron has harmed the environment. Speakers will share stories from Ecuador, Myanmar, Richmond, and its attack on advocates.
Sponsoring groups include: Communities for a Better Environment | Sunflower Alliance | Amazon Watch | Fossil Free California | Rainforest Action Network |350 Bay Area |Oil and Gas Action Network | XRSFBay | Idle No More SF Bay |Breathe – Network for Racial, Environmental, and Climate Justice | Direct Action Everywhere | Silicon Valley – Climate Action Now! | Rich City Rays | Diablo Rising Tide | Plastic Free Future
Info: 10th Annual Anti-Chevron Day – Richmond, CA (actionnetwork.org)
11. Sunday, 6:00pm – 7:00pm, Monthly Gathering at Alex Nieto’s Altar with Refugio and Elvira
In person
Alex’s Altar
Bernal Hill
SF
All are welcomed to join Alex’s parents Refugio and Elvira Nieto as they remember Alex and their call for justice.
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.
