By Adrienne Fong
Not back posting on a regular basis.
RESOURCES:
UPDATES WITH BAY RESISTANCE and get plugged to actions you can support, text “Resist” to 888-850-0928
GI HOTLINE (877) 477-4497
– Share this number to people who know active duty service members
There are events listed on Indybay that might be of interest to you(many listings in the South, North & East Bays and beyond the bay area)
Please post your actions on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12
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
Bay Area Progressive Action Calendar: ATW Bay Area / NorCal — Action Together West
ARTICLES
A. As the US Ramps Up Its Attacks on Cuba, Support for Its Revolution Grows – February 16, 2026
As The US Ramps Up Its Attacks On Cuba, Support For Its Revolution Grows – PopularResistance.Org
See Article D
B. Peter Thiel Is Unleashing a Neocolonial Billionaire Fantasy in Honduras – February 16, 2026
Peter Thiel Is Unleashing a Neocolonial Billionaire Fantasy in Honduras | Truthout
C. Judge declares mistrial in Stanford student pro-Palestinian protests case – February 14, 2026
D. Cuba-bound humanitarian aid flotilla organized as economic sanctions tighten – February 14, 2026
E. Thousands Take to Milan Streets to Protest Olympics’ Environmental and Social Harms, ICE – February 8, 2026
F. Failing to extend the enhanced ACA premium tax credits is an attack on working-class Black families and major metro areas – February 6, 2026
G. Mediterranean dockworkers launch historic international strike – February 6, 2026
H. Pentagon Makes Largest Known Arms Purchase From Israel – For Banned Cluster Weapons – February 6, 2026
Pentagon Inks Massive $200 Million Deal to Buy Israeli Cluster Weapons
See Petition # 1
I. Trump Admin gets LOUDLY BOOED at WINTER OLYMPICS – February 6, 2026
Trump Admin gets LOUDLY BOOED at WINTER OLYMPICS
7 PETITIONS
1. Block Trump’s 6.5 billion weapons sale to Israel
SIGN: Block Trump’s $6.5 billion weapons sale to Israel. | Demand Progress
2. Block the Pentagon’s Purchase of Deadly Cluster Munitions
SIGN: Block the Pentagon’s Purchase of Deadly Cluster Munitions | Win Without War
– Disturbing reports have revealed a deal between the Pentagon and an Israeli government-owned weapons firm for $210 million in advanced cluster munitions.
3. Tell State Lawmakers to Keep ICE Out of Public Schools
SIGN: Public School Strong
4. Tell Attorney General Pam Bondi to drop the charges against Georgia Fort and Don Lemon now
SIGN: Tell Attorney General Pam Bondi to drop the charges against Georgia Fort and Don Lemon now
5. Tell Target: ICE OUT NOW
SIGN Tell Target: ICE OUT NOW – Action Network
6. Protect Haitian TPS. Stop the next ICE siege.
SIGN: Protect Haitian TPS. Stop the next ICE siege.
7. Ban Tear Gas! Not for the battlefield, not for our streets
SIGN: Ban Tear Gas! Not for the battlefield, not for our streets. | Win Without War
EVENTS / ACTIONS
Tuesday, February 17 – Saturday, February 21
February is Black History Month
Today is Lunar New Year
Today is the beginning of Ramadan
Tuesday, February 17
1. Tuesday, 4:30pm(PT); 7:30pm(ET), Veterans Speak: GI Resistance to Trump’s Illegal Orders
Register for link: Veterans Speak: GI Resistance to Trump’s Illegal Orders – Action Network
– View site for list of speakers
Join us for the second in a new webinar series exploring the intersection of the U.S. military, democracy, world peace, and the climate crisis. Hosted by Third Act Union, Veterans For Peace, and Veterans and Labor for Sensible Priorities, this timely conversation centers the voices of U.S. military veterans confronting unlawful and immoral uses of military power.
Across the United States, anti-war and pro-peace veterans are drawing on their lived military experience to resist rising authoritarianism, oligarchy, and fascism—at home and abroad. Veterans and active-duty personnel are essential to the broader democratic resistance to Trump-era militarism, including illegal orders to deploy troops in U.S. cities, target civilian populations, or escalate wars in the Americas and beyond. As new conflicts unfold—such as war with Venezuela and threats toward Iran, Mexico, Colombia, and Cuba, and the annexation of Greenland—veterans are helping expose the human costs of militarism and the dangers it poses to democratic institutions.
This webinar will explore:
· How veterans confront and reach out to active-duty personnel to help them navigate illegal or immoral orders, including being used to police civilian communities or to carry out extrajudicial violence.
· How militarism, climate catastrophe, and democratic backsliding are deeply intertwined—and what that “existential” relationship means for movements for peace and climate justice.
· How veteran-led organizations are challenging endless war, opposing the normalization of state violence, and redirecting public priorities toward meeting real human needs, including healthcare, housing, food security, education, climate justice, and employment that provides a living wage and economic well-being.
· How non-military allies and organizations can stand in solidarity with troops who resist illegal orders and support veterans working to defend diversity, inclusion, civil liberties, immigrant and refugee communities.
Info: Veterans Speak: GI Resistance to Trump’s Illegal Orders – Action Network
Wednesday, February 18
2. Wednesday, 10:00am – 12Noon, Bayview Hunters Point Enviromental Task Force Meeting
Join Zoom Meeting
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Thank you all for being part of the EJ Task Force as we continue working together to protect the health of Bayview Hunters Point residents by reducing pollution.
3. Wednesday, 6:00pm, Report – SFPD 2025 Use of Military Equipment
In person
SFPD Headquarters
1225 Third St.
SF
This will be the second meeting; the first was on Feb. 9th
If anyone can go, it’s an opportunity to raise questions and concerns. Contact John Lindsay Poland at the AFSC (510) 282-8983
Here are some initial information takeaways from the SFPD report, which you can fashion into comments:
- SFPD owns 96 machine guns – one of which was used in a police shooting last year -, and plans to acquire more (it doesn’t say how many, at what cost, or why). This is an extreme outlier compared to other agencies, most of which, if they have submachine guns, own a number in the single digits. Among county sheriffs in California, only Los Angeles has more machine guns (220) than SFPD – but LA Sheriff Dept, more than four times as large as SFPD, and is not exactly an agency to emulate.
- SFPD also excludes assault rifles from its reporting, though we know it owns more than 200 of them.
- The Department used its LRAD once a week in 2025, while it detonated flashbangs 31 times “to de-escalate” (!!) and fired impact projectiles 38 times.
- It used breaching equipment – used to blow open doors – 11 times in 2025. This is more than any other department I have seen across the state; the vast majority don’t use this explosive equipment at all.
- SFPD wants to buy another BearCat armored vehicle “should it be determined fiscally feasible”. It also plans to get another command & control vehicle, with grant money. It also plans to obtain more launchers for impact projectiles and chemical agents, but it does not say how many it wants to acquire, nor with what funds (as required by AB481).
- SFPD has 98 drones, purchased using a private donation, and which it used 1,122 times in 2025 (you’ll see drones referenced often in SFPD’s social media feeds as having been key for detaining a suspect).
Info from John Lindsay Poland
4. Wednesday, 6:30pm – 8:00pm, Fighting Modern McCarthyism: Lessons from Yesterday
In person:
New Valencia Hall
747 Polk St.
SF
For online participation, register at: https://bit.ly/FightMcCarthyism
Donation $3-5/session
Wednesdays, February 11- March 11
Fighting Modern McCarthyism: Lessons from Yesterday
McCarthyism never died — it evolved. Today a familiar playbook comes roaring back. A new wave of suppression by the Trump regime adds terrorist-baiting and demands loyalty to every tenet of white supremacy, patriarchy, xenophobia, and transphobia. In this discussion group, we will study the history of resistance to McCarthyism to arm ourselves with strategies for today. Together we will answer: How do we go on the offense against government attacks to our rights and our lives?
At the second session, on February 18, participants will discuss these two linked readings:
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/weiss/1954/01/mccarthy.htm
https://socialism.com/fs-article/excerpt-hot-war-cold-war-and-irrepressible-revolution/
Host: Freedom Socialist Party
Info: Fighting Modern McCarthyism: Lessons from Yesterday : Indybay
Thursday, February 19
5. Thursday, 12Noon (PT); 3:00pm(ET), Critical Minerals Grab: From the DRC to Greenland
Online registration: Webinar Registration – Zoom
Depending on how they’re written, Critical Minerals Agreements can help countries meet shared climate, job creation and sustainable development goals — or they can accelerate exploitative models of resource extraction harmful to workers, communities and the environment.
The Trump administration’s pursuit of new Critical Minerals Agreements has been all about the latter. These deals are designed to grant well-connected billionaires and corporations privileged access to mining and processing operations across the globe, while running roughshod over Indigenous rights, national sovereignty, labor interests and climate justice.
Join this month’s Trade Justice Power Hour for a deep dive on how the critical minerals grab is playing out in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and what this frontline case reveals about a broader global scramble for critical minerals, from Greenland to the Asia-Pacific. We’ll explore how these dynamics are shaped by trade policy, corporate power, and geopolitics, and what it will take to build a more just and sustainable clean energy transition.
This month’s presenters include:
–Maurice Carney, co-founder and executive director of the Friends of the Congo;
–Frédéric Mousseau, Policy Director at the Oakland Institute and co-author of Shafted: The Scramble for Critical Minerals in the DRC;
–Mira Rubio, coordinator of the California Trade Justice Coalition and director of CRITICAL MINERALS: Creating a Just & Sustainable Clean Energy Transition.
Host: Trade Justice
6. Thursday, 3:00pm – 5:00pm, Panel: CWA 1104 Educational Division Panel on Working-Class Struggle against Fascism
Register At https://tinyurl.com/Feb19CWAPanell
Following Max Horkheimer’s insight “Whoever is not willing to talk about capitalism should also keep quiet about fascism,” in his latest book Late Fascism, Alberto Toscano writes “Whoever is not willing to talk about anti-capitalism should also keep quiet about anti-fascism.”
In the midst of internal repression, imperial war and anti-worker policies, and attacks on democratic institutions and popular will we witness growing everywhere, many talk about development of fascism and resistance against it. However, what really is fascism and why is working class struggle against it as a class struggle necessary and fundamental? How is what we are facing a class oppression against the working class that needs to be opposed and overcome by working class power? What kind of dangers await us in the upcoming process, including the next elections, and how should the working class develop power for these dangers in the future? How can we create broad solidarity against the roots of these crises in a profit-oriented system that has no care for human life?
(See Indybay for list of panel)
After contributions from our panel, we will have an open discussion on capitalism, fascism, and advancing working-class power. We invite all unionists, workers, and supporters from our union and beyond to this discussion and others in the future to develop class consciousness and strategy together in our current moment.
Info: Panel: CWA 1104 Educational Division Panel on Working-Class Struggle against Fascism : Indybay
7. Thursday, 3:30pm – 5:30pm, CNA UCSF Parnassus Day of Action Against ICE
UCSF – Parnassus Campus
SF
The CNA at UCSF at Parnassus will be rallying at the Parnassus campus against ICE and the attacks on hospitals
Info: CNA UCSF Panassus Day of Action Against ICE : Indybay
Friday, February 20
8. Friday, 6:30pm -8:00pm, Know Your Enemy (Teach-in & discussion about ICE)
RSVP for location: https://tinyurl.com/220ICEPrimer
Join SFCHRP, PRISM and the Defend Migrants Alliance to learn about ICE and the history of border policing in the U.S., how movements across the world have been resisting state repression and what we can do here to protect our communities. We will also be making whistle packets to distribute at local actions, events and around the neighborhood.
Host: SF Committie for Human Rights in the Philippines (SF CHRP)
9. Friday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, CA Dems for a Free Palestine
Oasis Grill
711 Market St.
SF
fellow Democrats and those who care for a free Palestine. Please join us to hear from incredible speakers, have amazing Palestinian food, and learn about the work we can do together to help us advocate for a free Palestine
Speakers:
Anthony Aguilar, Whistleblower and retired Army Lieutenant Colonel
Samer Araabi, Co-founder Arab Resource and Organizing (AROC) Action
Prof. Sang Hea Kil, Advocate and Unjustly Terminated at San Jose State Universit
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/DUtJ97_kTqd/
Saturday, February 21
10. Saturday, 11:30am – 1:00pm, Human Banner
Ocean Beach (Stairwell 17
Across from Beach Chalet
SF
RSVP on Mobilize. https://buff.ly/NGJVgtI
Join peaceful people from San Francisco Bay communities and all walks of life for a family-friendly, inclusive and peaceful event where we will create a new work of human art together on Ocean Beach.
The exact design for this banner is still being determined, though we do know that the message’s theme (always subject to last-minute changes) will most likely feature the story that refuses to die: EPSTEIN!
