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ARTICLES
A. Trump administration uses false argument to revoke transparency order on drone strikes – March 7, 2019
B. The Ilhan Omar controversy shows how little we care about Palestinian lives – March 7, 2019
C. JPMorgan to stop financing private prisons and detention centers after protests – March 5, 2019
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jpmorgan-stop-financing-private-prisons-detention-centers-after-protests-n97949
D. France’s Yellow Vests: Proving Police Are Indeed Part of the 1%
8,000+ arrested, 500 major injuries, 2,000+ imprisoned (as of Feb. 14), 1,500+ awaiting trials (Feb. 14), 12 deaths, 20+ blindings, 6 hands lost, 10,000+ rubber bullets fired. Cops never switch sides – they have too much to lose.
E. Statue of Liberty Climber Gets House Arrest After Texas Encore – March 1, 2019
ACTIONS:
1. Tell Congress: Pass the Families Belong Together Act
SIGN: https://act.credoaction.com/sign/families-belong-together-act?t=4&akid=31793%2E21110%2EkNPs1L
2. Tell Congress: Support the Save The Internet Act
SIGN: https://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_good_nn_bill?t=4&referring_akid=12318.9502321.kF2qzN
REQUEST: For Letters RE: 8th Anniversary of Fukushima See item #21 in announcements
Anniversary is Monday, March 11th.
Address letter to Japan’s Prime Minister Abe.
1. Letters don’t have to be long, they can be one or two sentences
2. Provide your name
3. Address can be provided or if you wish not to please provide your city and state
4. Letters should be sent to chizuhamada@gmail.com by Saturday evening, March 9th
5. Some letters will be read Monday, March 11th gathering. Letters will be sent to Prime Minister Abe through the SF Japanese Consulate.
– Fukushima and the surrounding areas are NOT safe or clean of radiation.
– There’s an increase of thyroid cancer in children
– The 2020 Summer Olympics is still scheduled for Japan. Some of the areas where the Olympics will be held is only 50 km away from Fukushima. This puts athletes and tourist at risk.
The Abe government is also pushing for militarization and removal of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution that prevents military interventions outside Japan. They are also pushing for a new US military base in Okinawa despite the opposition of the mass of Okinawan people and the governor. This base would also have US nuclear ships and weapons which is presently against the US Japan Security Agreement.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Friday, March 8 – Monday, March 11
Friday, March 8
1. Friday, 6:00am – 9:00pm, Facebook Infoshare: US-Israeli State Violence
Here is the link to the map – https://palestineishere.org/
Police militarization is rapidly escalating in the United States. From predictive policing to the use of drones to body cameras, new strategies and tactics are unfolding that further enhance law enforcement’s ability to stalk, brutalize, and criminalize. We now know that, frequently, U.S. law enforcement is learning strategies and tactics that are being used by the Israeli military against the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. U.S. law enforcement contingents are routinely traveling to Israel to study these strategies and tactics, and are then bringing them back to the U.S. for implementation.
Researching the American-Israeli Alliance has put together a digital mapping project titled “Palestine is Here” that shows where this collaboration has happened and is happening. You’ll find that there is a high-likelihood that this collaboration has happened with your local law enforcement. If it hasn’t, it’s reasonable to expect it will in the near future.
From Researching the American-Israeli Alliance: “Palestine is Here, a project of Researching the American-Israeli Alliance (RAIA), is a database tracking Israeli military ties to American local government, police departments, corporations, and academic institutions.
2. Friday, 7:00am – 5:00pm – thru March 31st, Resistance Is Life: Photographs from Kurdistan
Black Spring Coffee Company
2930 Telegraph Ave
Oakland
BAMSC invites you to a photography exhibition featuring photographs taken on both sides of the Turkish-Syrian border in 2015. The photographs attempt to illustrate the different aspects of the Kurdish freedom movement with images from the YPG in Rojava (Western Kurdistan – Northern Syria) and the youth movement in Bakur (Northern Kurdistan – Southeastern Turkey).
Sponsor: Bay Area Mesopotamia Solidarity
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/384676632386575/
3. Friday, 11:30am – 12:30pm, San Francisco-Compassion Has No Walls
ICE
630 Sansome St.
SF
Pardon is an act of compassion
We remain committed to stand in solidarity with our Southeast Asian refugees in their effort to receive pardon from Gov. Newsom to stop the deportations.
This is a monthly interfaith ceremony to demonstrate our solidarity for immigrant justice. This is also an educational opportunity for the community to learn about how current immigration policies impact our neighbors. We end to invite the audience to get involved in concrete ways.
Sponsors: Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity & Thrive Street Choir
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/371521976963104/?event_time_id=371521986963103
4. Friday, 12Noon – 2:00pm Mothers on the March Against Police Murders – Nearly 130 weeks
Hall of Injustice
850 Bryant St.
SF
DEMAND POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY
All are invited to join us to demand that District Attorney George Gascon charge police officers with murder. Stand with ALL families who have lost loved ones to police murders. Since Gascon has been the DA in San Francisco, he has not charged any police officers.
Calling for Justice for:
Joshua Smith, Kenneth Harding Jr., Peter Yin Woo, Steven Michael Young, Dennis Hughes , Pralith Prolouring, Dale Stuart Wilkerson, Alex Nieto, Giovany Contreras Sandoval, O’Shaine Evans, Matthew Hoffman, Amilcar Perez-Lopez, Alice Brown, Herbert Omar Benitez, Javier Lopez Garcia, Mario Woods, Luis Gόngora Pat, Jessica Nelson, Nicolas McWherter, Nicholas Flusche, Damian Murray, Keita O’Neil, Jesus Adolfo Delgado, Jehad Eid, and Derrick Gaines (killed by a police officer hired by SFPD)
The above named all were killed by SFPD during DA Gascon’s reign – NOT ONE police officer has been charged!
5. Friday, 5:00pm – 7:30pm, International Women’s Strike Bay Area
Oscar Grant Plaza
14th & Broadway (nr. 12th St. BART)
Oakland
Childcare provided
Family friendly
join us in reclaiming International Women’s Day and honoring its radical legacy. We are speaking out against sexism, racism, colonialism, capitalism and exploitation. We are coming together to listen to each other, heal, celebrate our resistance and invigorate our movement. In the spirit of the International Women’s Strike, we join women and non binary people worldwide in the fight for:
– an end to gender violence
– freedom from borders
– reproductive justice for all
– labor rights
– environmental justice for all
– an antiracist and anti-imperialist feminism
PROGRAM
5:00-6:30pm Speak-Out
6:30-7:00pm Open Mic
7:00-7:30pm Music and Performances
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Sara Wielner, OUSD Teacher
Chaz Garcia, OEA Organizer
Rabab Abdulhadi, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas/Race and Resistance Studies, SFSU
Huma Dar, South and South East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
Sthefany Bautista, El/La Para TransLatinas
Genuine Security
SF WAR & BA WAR
Maria Moore
Rachel West, US Prostitutes Collective
Margie Wilkinson, labor activist, South Berkeley
Jane Welford, Global Women’s Strike
CO-ORGANIZERS:
Colectiva Feminista Sur, East Bay Democratic Socialists of America, Socialist Feminist Caucus, Berkeley High Women’s Student Union,
Global Women’s Strike, Poor People’s Campaign, US Prostitutes Collective, Priority African Network, Transnational Decolonial QTPOC
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/585372258593064/
6. Friday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, Community Forum: Current Challenges in Immigrant Communities
St. John’s Presbyterian Church
2727 College Ave.
Berkeley
EBCS invites you to a bilingual immigration community forum where we will discuss:
• EBSC vs. Trump Lawsuit
• Temporary Protected Status (TPS) Campaign & Delegation Report from the TPS Summit in Washington DC
• DACA Campaign for Residency
• Crisis on the Southern Border and Its Causes
• Know Your Rights
The forum will be in English and in Spanish.
Sponsor: East Bay Sanctuary Covenant & St. John’s Presbyterian Church
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/552813158460297/
7. Friday, 6:30pm – 9:00pm, Stop Fossil Fuels! Scaling Up the Climate Resistance!
The Eric Quezada Center for Culture & Politics
518 Valencia St.
SF
DONATE: $5-20 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds.
San Francisco: Stop Fossil Fuels! Scaling Up the Climate Resistance- Strategies and Stories from the German Climate Justice Movement”
join Diablo Rising Tide as we host climate organizers with the German anti-coal direct action group Ende Gelande to discuss their epic campaign to stop the coal mines of the Rhineland region and protect the Hambach Forest.
About Ende Gelände: Over the last ten years, a strong and diverse radical climate justice movement has been growing in Germany, founded on principles of frontline struggles, mass mobilization, direct action, and cooperation across organizational and tactical differences.
Focusing on tangible examples, the tour aims to advance ideas for mass mobilizations and build bridges between international approaches for climate justice.
Sponsors: Diablo Rising Tide & Rising Tide North America
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/232894320982912/
8. Friday, 7:00pm – 8:30pm, Int’l Women’s Day Forum “A Women’s Place is in the Struggle”
PSL
2969 Mission St.
SF
$3 – $10 donation – no one turned away
While carrying out a vicious assault on women’s rights here, the Trump administration is threatening a new war on Venezuela. Such a war would cause immense suffering for the Venezuelan people, particularly women. The vital social programs established by Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution that provide free education and healthcare, and subsidized housing and food programs will be overturned. Women have played a key role in building these revolutionary programs and are standing along with their brothers against U.S. threats.
Throughout history, women have led struggles for justice, not just for their own liberation but for the liberation of all workers, from the abolition of slavery to anti-colonial struggles to women’s equality and workers’ rights. Join us for presentations on women fighters of the past and present at home and abroad.
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/28/18821518.php
Saturday, March 9
9. Saturday, 11:00am – 1:00pm, Rally and Candlelight Vigil For Willie McCoy
Taco Bell
974 Admiral Callaghan Lane
Vallejo
Rally 11am – 1:00pm
Candlelight Vigil 7:00pm – 9:00pm
There will be a rally and vigil this Saturday at the Taco Bell where Willie McCoy was murdered one month ago by 6 police officers.
Join us in solidarity as we show our support for Willie McCoy’s loved ones as they seek justice for his senseless murder.
Sponsor: Vallejo for Racial Justice
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/539662659859521
10. Saturday, 11:00am – 4:00pm, International Working Women’s Day March & Festival
Fruitvale Village
International Blvd. & 34th Ave
Oakland
*Note* This will be a family friendly march and celebration that will be accessible for children, elders, and people with disabilities. We will also be organizing our own community safety/security team.
Members of GABRIELA Oakland and our allies invite you to join us for a Rally, March & Resource Festival on Saturday, March 9th to commemorate the 111th International Working Women’s Day anniversary in honor of the first women strikers in 1908. Join us as we RISE, RESIST, and UNITE to build our collective Resistance here and abroad!
Sponsors: GABRIELA, Mujeres Unidas y Activas, Causa Justa Just Cause
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2421951308091177/ or https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/13/18821147.php
11. Saturday, 12 Noon – 3:00pm, SF March & Rally: Hands Off Venezuela! NO coup, war or sanctions
Meet at:
Civic Center / UN Plaza Station
355 McAllister St.
SF
Join us on March 9 for a march and rally against the Trump administration’s effort to engineer a coup in Venezuela and a new devastating war there. The aggressive policy against Venezuela repeats the ugly pattern of wars for regime change in the oil-rich countries of Iraq and Libya.
National Security Advisor John Bolton is reading from the same script, declaring a “troika of tyranny” in Latin America (like George W. Bush’s “axis of evil”) as a precursor for regime change first in Venezuela, and then Cuba and Nicaragua. Trump officials are openly talking about seizing Venezuela’s vast oil reserves — the largest in the world.
NO to the newest example of the “Monroe Doctrine,” which the U.S. government has used for over two centuries to repeatedly invade Latin America and Caribbean, control its politics and extract its resources.
The White House aims to overthrow the government of President Nicolás Maduro and replace him with Juan Guaidó. Guaidó is a U.S.-trained operative who was unknown to the vast majority of Venezuelans before he proclaimed him-self president — at Vice President Mike Pence’s urging. Although Guaidó has the backing of Trump, the CIA, and the Republican and Democratic Party leaderships alike, huge numbers of Venezuelans have marched to reject this coup and defend their independence.
Sponsor: ANSWER
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/250117469231219/
12. Saturday, 12:30pm – 3:30pm, Meeting for April Global Uprising
Berkeley Finnish Hall
1970 Chestnut
Berkeley
From April 15 – 22nd, people around the world will be out in the streets demanding action in the name of Extinction Rebellion. Please join XR SF Bay this Saturday, for an action-packed planning meeting for the April Rebellion! We strongly encourage everyone who wishes to contribute to XRSF Bay to attend, there will be opportunities to join working/ affinity groups planning actions for April.
PLEASE RSVP if you are planning on attending, we are trying to get a sense of numbers.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2289833347958813/
13. Saturday, 6:30pm – Build a Peace Economy Yes We Can!
Sharp Park Library
104 Hilton Way
Pacifica
6:30 – doors open
7:00 – program starts
Pacifica Peace People invites you to join the conversation.
“U.S. Military Spending Explained with Legos”
“Real Harm of Global Arms Trade”
Sunday, March 10
14. Sunday, 10:00am, March 10 Uprising Day (Tibet)
Meet at:
SF City Hall
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Place
SF
Please join us and join the movement. This year marks 60 years anniversary of bloodshed and torture under Chinese rule in Tibet since 1959. Let’s go to Chinese Consulate and let our voices be heard.
Agenda draft –
10 am at City Hall, San Francisco
12 pm March to Chinese Consulate
1-30 pm March to Union Square
5pm Union Square evening program till 7.30pm.
Sponsor: SFRTYC
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2242471276020898/
15. Sunday, 11:45am – 1:30pm, Codepink Golden Gate Bridge Walk
11:45 am: Gather at the SF or Marin end of the eastern walkway of the Golden Gate Bridge. Parking available on all 4 “corners”, just remember to take the last exit on hwy 101 as you approach the bridge, or the first exit after you leave the bridge. Arrive early for best parking.
Noon: Walk on the eastern walkway from the north or south ends, to converge in the middle. Short, silent vigil in the middle.
1:30 pm: Rally on SF side after the bridge walk.
USA: KEEP YOUR BLOODY HANDS OFF VENEZUELA!
US OUT of VENEZUELA!
NO BLOOD for OIL!
RESPECT Sovereignty!
HANDS OFF VENEZUELA!
STOP EMPIRE MADNESS!
1st Casualty in WAR: The Truth
FMI: ratherbenyckeling@comcast.net
16. Sunday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, Fascism: What It Is and How To Fight It – A discussion
Communist Workers League
1305 Franklin, #411
Oakland
Wheelchair accessible.
To get in the building, dial 411, or scroll for “Solidarity Center” on the intercom at the outside entrance.
Join us to talk about this important topic. We will have a couple of short presentations, and then open the floor for discussion.
Among the readings we will refer to are:
– Leon Trotsky’s “FASCISM: What It Is and How To Fight It”
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944/1944-fas.htm
– Sweezy on the Rise of Fascism – A synopsis by Fabian Van Onzen, including Paul Sweezy, Georgi Dimitrov, and Samir Amin
https://portside.org/2019-02-23/sweezy-rise-fascism
– George Jackson
Readings not required to attend.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/301515917200739/
17. Sunday, 1:00pm – 4:00pm, Direct Action Training: East Bay
Omni Commons
4799 Shattuck Ave.
Oakland
This training is in preparation for a nonviolent direct action March 18 in San Francisco but everyone is welcome, even if you can’t participate that day. With wildfires and weather disasters all around us, and just 12 years left to address the climate crisis (per IPCC report), we’ll have many opportunities to stand up for future generations and a sustainable world. We especially encourage anyone willing to serve in support roles (not risking arrest) to join us.
The action will occur during our March for Fossil Fuel Freedom culminating rally, noontime Monday Mar 18 at “Oily Wells” Fargo headquarters, to spotlight the bank’s role as a leading funder of climate chaos. Participants need to attend one of two mandatory training sessions. Click link to RSVP and learn more:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSexjCjWP46xrrXUuDqKj5Dn3OaQRhHDprcp8UbvMmF3WJxAuQ/viewform
Sponsors: 350 Silicon Valley & 8 Other groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1892946844147009/
18. Sunday, 1:00pm – 4:15pm, March Meeting: The Truth About Venezuela
New Valencia Hall
747 Polk St. (nr. Ellis)
SF
Wheelchair accessible
Come early for home-cooked lunch served at 12:15!
(for $8-10 donation)
Come to FSP Bay Area’s monthly public branch meeting!
On this month’s agenda, we will have a special presentation and discussion on the situation in Venezuela.
See our statement here:
https://socialism.com/statement/end-us-imperialist-intervention-in-the-venezuelan-crisis/
For information:
415-864-1278 · bafsp@earthlink.net · tinyurl.com/FB-BAFSP
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1914816425312589/
19. Sunday, 6:00pm – 9:00pm, The New Communism and the Liberation of Women
Revolution Books – Berkeley
2444 Durant Ave.
Berkeley,
“The New Communism and the Liberation of Women”
Film clips and discussion on the occasion of International Women’s Day. A critical component of the new communism brought forward by Bob Avakian is the recognition of the need to give the fullest expression to the struggle for the emancipation of women and its critical and pivotal role in relation to the overall struggle for the complete emancipation of humanity.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/256017305285286/ or https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/05/18821677.php
20. Sunday, 7:30pm – 9:00pm, Bystander Intervention Training
Finnish Hall
1970 Chestnut
Berkeley
Join us for this interactive Bystander Intervention Training! This training will be led by the Council on American-Islamic Relations. During the training, participants will learn about the history and principles of nonviolence, and will practice specific de-escalation techniques as a bystander in a variety of scenarios.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/284255922257518/
Monday, March 11
21. Monday, 3:00pm – 4:00pm, On the 8th Anniversary of Fukushima – STOP the NUKES
Japanese Consulate
275 Battery St (nr. California)
SF
Also see item # 24
This is the 8th anniversary since the meltdowns of three nuclear reactors in Fukushima. Despite over 8 years the melted nuclear rods have yet to be removed and there are thousand of tons of radioactive water in tanks surrounding the plant. The Abe government has said told the world and the Olympics
Committee that Fukushima has been decontaminated. This is a falsehood. The government has also raised the acceptable levels of radioactive contamination for the area and are demanding that families and children return or they will lose the subsidies for housing.
There has been an increase level of thyroid cancers on children and people in the region and the government has sought to censor this increasing rate of cancer.
On the 8th anniversary there will be several events in the bay area that we urged you to attend.
Sponsor: No Nukes Action Committee
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/05/18821674.php
22. Monday, 5:30pm – 6:30pm, San Francisco Immigrant Rights Commission Special Hearing
SF City Hall, Rm. 416
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl
SF
wheelchair accessible
Language services are available for this meeting.
Please contact the Office of Civic Engagement & Immigrant Affairs at (415) 581.2360 for assistance.
The San Francisco Immigrant Rights Commission invites you to attend a special hearing featuring testimony from Bay Area Yemeni community members on the impact of the Civil War in Yemen and their inability to send money for food, medicine and basic needs of their family members.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2168163919909343/
23. Monday, 6:30pm – 8:30pm, Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice
4400 Market St
Oakland
All of Us or None is thrilled to welcome in conversation Danielle Sered, George Galvis, and Malachi Scott to talk about transformative responses to violence and building a movement to end mass incarceration that includes everyone—including people who commit violence. We know too well that all too often our movement draws lines between people convicted of non-violent and violent offenses that often leave people convicted of violence with little of the relief being sought administratively, legislatively or through the ballot box.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2121293587961083/
24. Monday, 6:30pm – 9:30pm, San Francisco Screening of “Beyond The Wave” about the life of anti-nuclear Japanese actor and Diet member Taro Yamamoto
Millennium School
245 Valencia St.
SF
A documentary about a Japanese parliament member, Taro Yamamoto, who has been fighting against the Abe governing and right wing parties. He has opposed the re-opening of Japanese nuclear plants and opposes militarization of Japan.
For more information:
Japan Diet Member Taro Yamamoto On Fukushima, War, Privatization & TPP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bySXUAXt5hE&t=359s
Japanese independent Diet member Taro Yamamoto was elected as an opposition candidate to nuclear power and against the reopening of Japan’s more than 40 plants.
He became politically active in Japan after the Fukushima TEPCO nuclear plant meltdowns. In this interview he compares the Fukushima to the Hiroshima and
Nagasaki bombing. He also discusses the rise of militarization, the building of a US base in Okinawa and why the Japanese people are against the Trans Pacific
Partnership TPP agreement along with the dangers of privatization
Sponsor: Earth Gathering
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/20/18821304.php
