By Adrienne Fong
Please hold all in North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia in your thoughts and prayers from the devastation of Hurricane Helene
Today hundreds of thousands of people globally have taken to the streets around the first anniversary of Genocide of Palestine. Tomorrow and all week there will be actions / resistance to Israel’s actions with the complicity of the US government.
See list of Calendar of Events on Palestine from AROC: https://www.araborganizing.org/events/
If your post is about Palestine you can also list your action on the AROC calendar
Many other events are listed on Indybay that might be of interest to you (many actions re Palestine in the South, North & East Bays are also listed)
Please post your actions on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12
See Indybay for other listings of events
Many activist groups are now posting on INSTAGRAM and not using facebook nor Indybay
ARTICLES
A. US Health Workers Back From Gaza Estimate Death Tol Is at least 119,000 – October 4, 2024
US Health Workers Back From Gaza Estimate Death Toll Is at Least 119,000 | Truthout
B. US-ISRAELI RAMPAGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST: BARRELING TOWARDS WWIII –– October 3, 2024
https://popularresistance.org/us-israeli-rampage-in-the-middle-east-barreling-towards-wwiii/
C. US leaves Hurricane Helene survivors behind while funding Israel’s genocidal war – October 3, 2024
D. S.F. mayor, city attorney broke law by deleting texts, task force says – October 3, 2024
SF mayor, city attorney broke law by deleting texts, task force says (missionlocal.org)
E. Council of Europe recognizes Julian Assange as a political prisoner – October 2, 2024
F. SFMTA approves new RV parking restrictions – October 1, 2024
New SF RV parking restrictions coming after SFMTA approves | Transit | sfexaminer.com
G. Active-Duty US Service Members Issue Appeal to Congress to Stop Funding Genocide – June 13, 2024
Active-Duty US Service Members Issue Appeal to Congress to Stop Funding Genocide | Truthout
As US military personnel are being deployed to the Middle East – this article from June gives another perspective from active duty service people.
PETITIONS
1, Tell the Pentagon: Stop funding Elon Musk’s anti-democracy power grab
SIGN: Tell the Pentagon: Stop funding Elon Musk’s anti-democracy power grab | Win Without War
2. Block $20 billion weapons sale to Israel. Back Bernie Sander’s legislation!
SIGN: Block $20 billion weapons sale to Israel. Back Bernie Sanders’s legislation! | Demand Progress
3. Stop Project 2025 from taking over Medicare!
/sugbL Take Action! (actionnetwork.org)
PETITIONS FOR OCTOBER EXECUTIONS (Click on the name to sign)
- October 17 at 6pm in Alabama – Derrick Dearman
- October 17 at 6pm in Texas – Robert Roberson
EVENTS / ACTIONS
Sunday, October 6 – Thursday, October 10
NOTE Listed are a few events that I could find – more keep surfacing..
❌ NO TO SF FLEET WEEK❌
1. CAMPAIGN AGAINST MILITARISM AND WAR WEEK OF ACTION BEGINS TODAY!
ILPS NorCal and Resist US-Led War invite all organizations, communities and individuals to join the No to Fleet Week Campaign with a Week of Action this October 4th through October 13th!
With the U.S. military and navy coming to the Bay Area’s own rooftops and backyards, join our organizations in taking up a week of action against Fleet Week and all manifestations of U.S.-driven war & militarization!
Despite the active defunding of social services and denial of federal assistance to communities in need of emergency relief from Hurricane Helene, Biden instead rampantly funnels millions of dollars to air shows and Fleet Week demonstrations. The US sends billions more to fund genocide and human rights violations in Gaza, Lebanon, the Philippines, and all across the world. Join the No to SF Fleet Week campaign in our political education and flyering activities to expose the true nature of Fleet Week and the U.S. military.
View the Week of Action digitally at: bit.ly/N2FWcalendar
No to SF Fleet Week!
Stop the glorification of war and militarism!
U.S. Out of Everywhere!
Info from: lps.norcaland4 others
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/DAuEJVpSSab/ (click to view clearer view of calendar)
Sunday, October 6
2. Sunday, 1:00pm, ALL OUT FOR PALESTINE AND LEBANON: ONE YEAR OF GENOCIDE, ONE YEAR OF RESISTANCE
16th & Valencia
SF
As we approach the one year mark of Israel’s genocide on Gaza, we join the national day of action for Palestine to salute our people’s steadfastness and resistance. We will take to the streets on October 6th to mark this brutal year where our people stood tall against Zionism and the Israeli war machine, as they have for nearly 100 years.
In the span of one year, the Gaza Health Ministry has released the names of over 40,000 martyrs, with updated projections estimating over 189,000 martyrs. Amidst this genocide, our people in Gaza, across Palestine, and across the world remain steadfast in our resistance.
The genocidal Zionist project has passed a point of failure beyond which there is no return, due in no small part to our movement. The Bay Area has fought hard for Palestinian liberation. Our communities have built a broad intersectional movement of anti-racists, abolitionists, students, and labor unions to stand up against war, militarism, oppression, and exploitation here and in our homelands.
The tide has turned: Zionism and Israel’s system of apartheid and colonialism have been exposed for the whole world as unjust and untenable. Millions of workers, students, families, and people of conscience around the globe have joined the movement for Palestinian liberation in the last year.
The Bay Area will honor our martyrs in Palestine, we will demand an end to the US’ complicity in Israel’s crimes against Palestine and the world, and demand an arms embargo on Israel. Palestine will be free, and we will continue to march, organize, and fight.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DAccM6hP9Gu/?hl=en
3. Sunday, 6:00pm, HAITI SOLIDARITY – Concert & Fundraiser to Benefit the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund
La Pena Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley
Today, the situation in Haiti could not be more dire. Government backed paramilitary groups continue to terrorize opposition neighborhoods. Six hundred thousand people have had to flee their homes in the wake of this violence. Food insecurity now threatens nearly 5 million people, including 2.4 million children, in a country of 12 million. Donations to the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund go directly to grassroots organizations in Haiti that are the hope for Haiti’s future. Your funds support internal refugees who have been driven from their homes and those fleeing Haiti. They help sustain grassroots women’s organizations, mobile health clinics and literacy programs in Haiti’s poorest communities. Your donations will help support the University of the Dr. Aristide Foundation (UNIFA), which has opened a new teaching hospital under the most challenging conditions. Your funds will aid the growth of independent community-based media, so critical in a society where the rich control almost all sources of information.
Info: Haiti Solidarity: A Concert and Fundraiser to Benefit the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund : Indybay
Monday, October 7
4. Monday, Oct. 7 – Oct. 11 at USF: FOR GAZA WE RISE!
As we near the one year mark of the onset of the Zionist genocide on Gaza, our student intifada continues with the same rage and energy as the first day of this genocide. Join us for a full week of mobilization, education, and action for Palestine — wear your kuffiyeh or red triangle pin all week to show your solidarity!
Check our stories/this caption for more details on each day!
Monday, 10/7- Political Education
Tuesday, 10/8- One Year of Genocide, One Year of Resistance Memorial
Wednesday, 10/9- Fundraising for Palestine & Lebanon- 2-6 pm, outside Lo Schiavo
Thursday, 10/10- Israelism Film Screening- Cowell Hall 107, 6pm
Friday, 10/11- Student Led Teach-In: The Intergenerational Resistance of the Palestinian People- Location TBD
Host:USFstudents4palestine & psausfca
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/DAqxkscSpGo/
5. Monday, Oct. 7 – Friday Oct. 11, UC Berkeley
Monday marks a year since the start of this leg of the genocide. As the Zionist terrorists expand their monstrous war machine, we cannot remain idle. The movement for Palestine at UC Berkeley, alongside students across the nation and @nationalsjp , are answering our people’s call for a week of rage.
Glory to our people in Palestine and Lebanon. Victory to our Resistance.
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/DAwyMWqSrRc/ (clidk Instagram to go to site with info of place etc of events)
Tuesday, October 8
6. Tuesday, 7:00am – 5:00pm, FULL DAY OF ACTION AT SFSU
SFSU
SF
we will be striking classes & picketing all day so that money will go towards issues here at SFSU instead of towards adding to the death toll of the estimated 200,000 Palestinian martyrs
Check in at the Quad to participate, MONEY FOR JOBS AND EDUCATION NOT FOR WAR AND OCCUPATION ‼
https://www.instagram.com/p/DAwNB5cS1HC/
7. Tuesday, 12 Noon – 1:00pm, HEALTHCARE DIE-IN
Kalmanovitz Library
Parnassus St.
SF
Next week marks one year since the beginning of the most recent phase of genocidal violence in Palestine. We are calling on our fellow healthcare workers and community members to join us for a die-in on Oct 8, 12-1pm at Kalmanovitz Library. This die-in is meant to obstruct the visual and sensory, reminding those navigating around it that Gazans are being slaughtered as we speak. It is also a homage to the ones who remain in Palestine and Lebanon, facing an imperial, genocidal war machine alone.
If you are a healthcare worker, please make sure to wear related clothing (e.g. scrubs, white coats)!
We hope to see you there- until liberation
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/DAruc8fSZt5/
8. Tuesday, 12Noon, Demand:Alameda Health System, Stop Supporting the War and Occupation in Palestine!
Highland Hospital (outside)
31St & Stuart
Oakland
Rally outside
Join healthcare workers from SEIU and CIR to demand:Alameda Health System, stop supporting the war and occupation in Palestine!
No more investments in corporations profiting from war crimes!
No more repression of AHS workers who are organizing to defend Palestine!
Host: hcw4palestine
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/DAuUo_oS8Dc/
Image: Hands holding up KeffiyehsImage: SEIU 1021 and CIR union logos
9. Tuesday, 5:00pm – 7:00pm, Palestine Rally: Public Tashlich In Protest—Cast Off Zionism!
121 Steuart St.
SF
Wear black.
Access info: Wheelchair accessible location, 7 minute walk from Embarcadero station and public bathroom within walking distance, optional choreographed movement in stationary location (not a march), wheat/gluten bread will be thrown in a designated space, masks are required for COVID-19 and surveillance safety, please reach out to @yentlsvengeance.88 on signal with any additional access questions!
Tashlich is a Jewish atonement ritual performed during the High Holy Days on Rosh Hashanah. The name comes from the Hebrew word meaning “to cast”, referring to the intent to cast away our sins via this meaningful and ancient custom common to both Ashkenazi and Sephardic communities. Please come wearing black.
On the one year commemoration of the Gaza genocide and heightening West Bank pogroms, join us in a public tashlich to Cast off Zionism.
We will be exposing the sins of the JCRC and the Jewish federation, which include defending genocide, sabotaging ethnic studies programs in SFUSD and promoting rampant anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab racism locally. We demand our electeds know the JCRC does not speak for the Bay Area Jewish community.
Host: IJAN & JVP
Info: Palestine Rally: Public Tashlich In Protest—Cast Off Zionism! : Indybay
Wednesday, October 9
10. Wednesday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, Election 2024: Trump’s Fascism, Harris’ War crimes, and the Interests of Humanity
Revolution Books – Berkeley
2444 Durant Ave.
Berkeley
Come to this presentation and discussion.
In a recent social media post (#88), Bob Avakian cited this comment from someone arguing that we must vote for Kamala Harris:
“If Democrats lose [the upcoming election] there is no fighting for a new system as the other side already has their new authoritarian system planned out and ready to roll it with project 2025. Battles are how you win wars and losing this election means the initial war is over and lost. Then a much harder war begins that we can’t win without great casualties.”
Avakian responded:
“This utterly fails to actually think outside the framework, and confines, of this system. It ignores—or downplays, and does not really come to terms with—this important reality, which I emphasized in my message number 85: As horrific as Trump is, supporting Harris and the Democratic Party means enlisting as willing accomplices in the crusade of U.S. capitalism-imperialism to remain the world’s number one exploiter, oppressor and plunderer of people and the environment, even at the cost of risking the future, and the very existence, of humanity.”
Are you disgusted by the prospect of voting for either Trump or Harris? But cannot see any other real choice except Harris? Then you need to come to Revolution Books and be part of digging into what is real and what is not (hint: revolution in the USA is a lot more possible and real than Kamala Harris acting in the interests of humanity.) Come hear why these are rare times when an actual revolution is more possible.
Info: Election 2024: Trump’s Fascism, Harris’ War crimes, and the Interests of Humanity : Indybay
Thursday, October 10
11. Thursday, 4:30pm, One Year of Genocide – Community Vigil
San Bruno City Hall
567 El Camino Real
San Brunoi
We will honor our martyrs.
Bring flowers, artwork toys, photos of departed loved ones for the altar.
Hosts: San Bruno for Palestine, 4Daly City, & Chane SSF
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/DAOXbN4v0JV/
