Periodic Announcements
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ARTICLES:
A. Is War With Iran on the Horizon? March 11, 2019
B. Israel Hammers Gaza in ‘Vigorous Response’ Ordered by Netanyahu
C. Saudi Coalition Airstrike Slaughters 20 Yemeni Women and a Child – March 10, 2019
D. SF to officially recognize incarceration as a public health issue – March 9, 2019
E. Severe Drinking Water Contamination Surfaces After Brutal Camp Fire – March 6, 2019
F. Chelsea Manning is Jailed for Refusing to Testify in WikiLeaks Case
Please see action item # 3
How to write to Chelsea (Info from Courage to Resist)
Address:
Chelsea Elizabeth Manning
A0181426
William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center
2001 Mill Road
Alexandria , VA 22314
Do’s
1. Address letter exactly as shown
2. Send letters or white paper
3. Use mail service to send letters
4. Include color drawings in your letters
5. Sparingly send 4×6 photos
Do Nots
1. Send cards, packages, postcards, photocopies, or cash
2. Decorate the outside of envelope
3. Send books or magazines
3 ACTIONS:
1. CHANGE CALIFORNIA’S DEADLY USE OF FORCE LAW
2. STOP the imminent deportations of all Cambodian Americans
3. Petition for Chelsea Manning’s release from jail (From Codepink)
SIGN: https://www.codepink.org/handsoffchelsea
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Tuesday, March 12 – Thursday March 14
Tuesday, March 12
1. Tuesday, 10:00am – 1:00pm, Stop the Sheriff from Torpedoing Decision to End Urban Shield
Alameda County Board of Supervisors
1221 Oak St.
Oakland
On February 26th, as a result of years of community organizing, the Board of Supervisors accepted 60 out of 63 community-supported recommendations for changes to emergency preparedness trainings under the Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) funding.
On Tuesday March 12th, Supervisors have the opportunity to take the next steps in making a community-led vision for safety and disaster response a reality. The Alameda County Sheriff is fighting tooth and nail to sabotage the path forward for community-supported emergency preparedness
The Supervisors will be discussing the UASI Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) – an agreement between other Bay Area cities and counties that informs funding and training exercises. The request put forth by the Sheriff is to renew the MOU while reversing all the decisions made by the Supervisors in the last year and to continue Urban Shield. We will be there to support and reinforce the County’s decisions to pave a new path forward for disaster preparedness without Urban Shield.
It’s time for Supervisors to make county-led community emergency preparedness a reality! We will continue to work with Supervisors to implement their decisions and make sure they walk the talk of ending Urban Shield as we demand they amend or reject the MOU if it still includes Urban Shield.
Sponsor: Stop Urban Shield
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/616465828776201/
2. Tuesday, 3:00pm – 6:00pm, Healthcare Rally and Hearing
State of California Building – in San Francisco
455 Golden Gate Ave.
SF
Where dd your raise go? Come ask the insurance industry!
Healthcare costs are killing workers’ wages. Salaries stay frozen while insurance rates have double or tripled or more over the last ten years.
In California we know that when we unite to fight the healthcare industry, we can win. In 2015, organized labor fought and won legislation, SB 546, which requires insurance companies and HMO’s like Kaiser to be more transparent about how they set their rates. Some of us even saw minimal healthcare cost increases last year. And in 2017, unions fought and won the most far-reaching prescription drug price transparency law in the country.
Join us for a rally and hearing to call out greedy insurance companies, monopoly hospital corporations, and drug companies. The fightback on healthcare begins now!
Sponsors: San Francisco Labor Council, SEIU Local 1021, Unite Here! Local 2, Teamsters Local 350, Teamsters 856
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/356206021898864/
3. Tuesday, 3:00pm – 6:00pm, Occupy The Police Station! We NEED Justice!
Meet at:
Sacramento Police Department
5770 Freeport Blvd, Suite 100
Sacramento
JUSTICE FOR STEPHON CLARK!
FIRE TERRENCE MERCADAL!
FIRE JARED ROBINET!
TAKE THEM OFF OF OUR STREETS NOW!!
THERE WILL BE NO PEACE TILL THERE IS JUSTICE!!
COME WHEN YOU GET OFF WORK
COME IF YOU AINT GOT NO JOB
COME WHEN YOU GET OUT OF CLASS
OR SKIP WORK AND SCHOOL TO FIGHT FOR JUSTICE
JUST BRING YA A$$!
Sponsors: Black Lives Matter Sacramento, Allies of Black Lives Matter and one more
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2374095922624465/
4. Tuesday, 5:30pm – 7:30pm, A Tribute to Jeff Adachi in Film: Presumed Guilty
SF Public Library
Main Library
100 Larkin St.
SF
Join the San Francisco Public Library as we pay tribute to Public Defender Jeff Adachi. View a free screening of Presumed Guilty: Tales of the Public Defender.
The movie chronicles a year of trench warfare in jails, holding cells, courtrooms, law offices and police stations, revealing the criminal justice system as never seen before. Presumed Guilty is a powerful look at the triumphs, defeats and moral dilemmas of a group of lawyers in the San Francisco public defender’s office. Directed by Pamela Yates, 2002, Skylight (1 hour, 56 minutes)
Note: Also see item # 11
More info at: https://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1037940401
Hosts: SF Public Library & SF Public Defender’s Office
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1109916992543513/?active_tab=about
5. Tuesday, 6:00pm – 7:30pm, Meeting: Proposed Navigation Center (Bryant and Embarcadero)
Delancey Street Foundation
600 Embarcadero
SF
The ongoing challenge in San Francisco is the fight for sufficient shelter and resources for those facing homelessness, because there is always push back. Join us at a neighborhood meeting to support expanded resources for our city’s homeless population.
For further information or to submit comments, please contact the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing atDHSH@sfgov.org .
Sponsors: Coalition on Homelessness, St. Anthony Foundation, Housing Rights Committee of SF, GLIDE, SF Tenants Union
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2198057747176701/
Wednesday, March 13
6. Wednesday, 8:00am – 12 Noon, Protect Refugees: Cambodian Deportation Defense Rally
ICE
630 Sansome St.
SF
We need your help! The Cambodian American community is under attack by ICE. ICE is scheduling check-ins for Cambodian Americans with deportation orders on March 13th at the San Francisco ICE building. WE NEED TO PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY FROM DEPORTATION. We are hosting a rally in support of impacted folks and their families who have check-ins that day. We need folks to:
– Support folks with check-ins by showing up and letting them know there is a community that supports, loves, and will fight for them
– Support impacted folks’ families the day of check-ins to let them know we are there for them
– Show up in numbers to let ICE know they cannot tear our families apart
This event is in conjunction, and in solidarity with the Stand up to Trump in court, in the streets, and beyond happening on the same day. Link provided below.
NOTE: 2 events happening in SF – regarding immigration at the same time! See posting below!
Sponsor: Asian Prisoner Support Committee
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2568099276593500/
7. Wednesday, 8:30am – 11:30am, Stand up to Trump in court, in the streets, and beyond
James R. Browning United States Court of Appeals Building
95 7th St.
SF
Every day the Trump administration and its white supremacist and nativist supporters scapegoat and attack immigrants.
In fact, despite a resounding defeat in a lower court, the Trump administration is still trying to challenge California’s “Sanctuary state” law, SB 54, and other pro-immigrant laws in court. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear the case
Sponsors: ICE Out of California, California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance, Free SF
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/290015418339666/?active_tab=about
8. Wednesday, 5:00pm – 6:30pm, Understanding and Organizing to End Racial Capitalism
Webinar
Register here:
SURJ works to undermine white support for racism, and broaden the base of white folks showing up for racial justice as part of a powerful multi racial movement for transformative change.
But what about this unjust economic system? How does racism help keep capitalism in place?
What examples do we have of poor and working class white people and People of Color joining together to challenge an unjust system?
Join a conversation with leading activist scholar Robin DG Kelley on what racialized capitalism means for our work and how class impacts white people’s role in the fight to end oppression.
Kelley’s work has explored the history of social movements in the U.S., the African Diaspora, and Africa; black intellectuals; music; visual culture; contemporary urban studies; historiography and historical theory; poverty studies and ethnography; and more.
Sponsor: SURJ
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1978030439173046/
9. Wednesday, 5:30pm – 6:30pm, Peace Vigil
Market & Montgomery St.
(on the steps facing Market Street, below Feinstein’s office,
directly above the Montgomery BART/Muni station).
SF
If it rains – Vigil will be held down the stairs.
Look for the PEACE banner!
Themes vary each week on topics for PEACE & JUSTICE
All are welcomed.
10. Wednesday, 5:30pm – 6:30pm, El Cerrito Shows Up Every Wednesday
7000 El Cerrito Plaza
El Cerrito
two blocks from El Cerrito Plaza BART and directly across the street from Peets
Children welcomed
East Bay activists from El Cerrito Progressives, Indivisible East Bay, Together We Will Contra Costa, Indivisble Kensington, and others are starting up our weekly rallies on Wednesday, March 13, at 7000 El Cerrito Plz, in front of the Diaso Store, at the west entrance to the El Cerrito Plaza. Our main goal is to highlight the corruption and immoral acts of this Administration.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/332157884102183/
11. Wednesday, 5:30pm – 7:30pm, A Tribute to Jeff Adachi in Film: Defender & Racial Facial
SF Main Library
100 Larkin St.
SF
Join the San Francisco Public Library as we pay tribute to Public Defender Jeff Adachi with free screenings of his movies: Defender and America Needs a Racial Facial.
Defender is a film about the critical role that public defenders play in fighting for racial and social justice in America. Adachi tells the story of how public defenders came to be, and why they play a critical role as the watchdogs of a system that over-incarcerates people of color and poor people. Co-directed by Jeff Adachi and Jim Choi, 2017 (70 minutes)
America Needs a Racial Facial is a short film about race in America. It provides a blur of fascinating images and video – historical and contemporary – depicting both the division and blending that has characterized the history and treatment of people of color in this country. Written and directed by Jeff Adachi, 2016. (8 minutes)
More information at https://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1037940501
Sponsors: SF Public Library & SF Public Defender’s Office
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/380882952748787/
12. Wednesday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, Rainbows Not Walls: A Bay Area Forum Supporting Trans Immigrants
Sha’ar Zahav
290 Dolores St.
SF
Join faith and community members to hear more about how you can help welcome transgender members of the migrant caravans, who are already here and those on their way to San Francisco. Find out how congregations, community groups and individuals can help provide sponsorship, accompaniment and vital resources so that other members of the Migrant Exodus can be immediately released from ICE detention.
We’ll have a presentation from the Santa Fe Dreamers Project, and will also hear from Charlotte and other members of the first Trans Caravans, who have recently been released from ICE detention.
We’ll also be fundraising to support the Trans Caravan members who are currently in ICE detention and those who have already been released
Co-sponsored by 10 Faith related groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/358483224744056/
13. Wednesday, 6:30pm – 7:30pm, Boycott Manny’s and its “Woke-Washing” of the Mission
Manny’s
16th & Valencia St.
SF
STOP THE WOKE-WASHING OF THE MISSION
We are a group of black and brown folks, Jews, Mission Housing tenants, trans and queer people, and many others, who are committed to collective liberation. We are
calling for a community boycott of Manny’s (3092 16th at Valencia, SF) because this new upscale wine bar is yet another gentrifying attack on our community. While Manny’s bills itself as a “community space”, it’s marketed toward white ruling class techies, and its programming often features right-wing politicians who are supported by the luxury condo industry. While Manny’s is on the ground floor of a low-income building run by Mission Housing, its residents had no say in its placement. While countless Latinx cultural spaces are evicted from the Mission, Sam Moss who runs Mission Housing, gave Manny’s a reduced rent.
The owner of Manny’s has worked with Bay Area Zionist organizations. Zionism is a racist ideology that believes Palestinian people have no claim to their land. Zionists, through the state of Israel, enforce this ideology by murdering, arresting, torturing, and displacing generations of Palestinian people. We stand against Zionism, gentrification, anti-Semitism, and all other forms of oppression.
Manny’s is part of a systematic attempt to make gentrification and racism seem “cool” through woke-washing. Woke-washing is the strategy of putting a “social justice” façade on oppressive politics.
JOIN US EVERY WEDNESDAY 6:30PM
Endorsed by
Black and Brown for Peace Justice and Equality;
The Lucy Parsons Project;
Palestinian Youth Movement – Bay Area;
Brown Beret National Organization;
National Brown Berets;
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network;
Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism;
Jews Against Zionism;
GAY SHAME: A Virus in the System
Please honor this Boycott! By NOT attending or scheduling events there. Let Manny know why.
14. Wednesday, 7:30pm – 9:30pm, Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in San Francisco & Bay Area
518 Valencia St.
SF
Author and historian Peter Cole will discuss his new book, Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area. This book largely focuses upon the long history of activism by members of ILWU Local 10 for racial equality locally and nationally and against apartheid internationally. It also compares and contrasts the fascinating, unknown history of docker activism in the port of Durban, South Africa.
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/02/18821548.php
Thursday, March 14
15. Thursday, 9:00am – 12Noon, Rally on One Year Anniversary of Marielle Franco’s murder
Brazilian Consulate
300 Montgomery St.
SF
Marielle was a Black politician, a human rights activist, a feminist and a lesbian. She was from the Maré favela in Rio de Janeiro as well as a councilwoman. Marielle spoke out against police violence and fought for black and indigenous women’s rights, LGBTQ rights and marginalized communities. Tens of thousands of people marched in rage when she was murdered in 2018.
Adriano Magalhães da Nóbrega, former police captain in Rio de Janeiro, and believed leader of “Escritório de Crime,” or the Office of Crime, the militia’s tactical wing, is the man who pulled the trigger killing Marielle.
Nóbrega’s wife and mother were both employed by the state Assembly Office by Flavelo Bolsonaro, the eldest son of Brasil’s President, jair Bolsonaro who has admitted to being pro torture. . This connection is undeniable and considering the statements, politics, and actions of the president Jair Bolsonaro:
His plan to decimate the Amazon Forest for agriculture and mining interests threatens all life on Mother Earth, especially the indigenous peoples who have protected the forest since time immemorial Eliminating protections to indigenous peoples, including uncontacted tribes, is genocide. This means over 900,000 people, over 274 individual languages, and over 305 tribes.
Sponsor: Brasil Solidarity Network
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2354556227901857/
16. Thursday, 10:00am – 1:00pm, Hearing on Homelessness, Mental Health, & 5150s
Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee
San Francisco City Hall, Room 250
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl
SF
As per the agenda, there will only be Catherine Stefani‘s mental health and homelessness hearing at the March 14th meeting, it will be Item 3 on the agenda
Sponsors: Coalition on Homelessness & 2 Other groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2036860513093589/?active_tab=discussion
17. Thursday, 1:00pm – 3:00pm, Stop SB50 Developer Giveaways in the most unequal city in the US
SF Planning Commission Hearing
SF City Hall, Rm. 400
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl.
SF
San Francisco has the highest rents and the highest inequality gap in the country, as well as an incredibly high number of folks experiencing evictions and homelessness every day. Incentivizing more luxury development throughout 96% of the city (the area covered by SB50) will only make matters worse!
SB 50 is SB 827 wrapped in the language of “equity.” Unwrap this bill and you get the same displacement and devastating impact on low-income, working class tenants that we would have seen with 827.
Turn out this Thursday and oppose this developer giveaway! SF is already meeting approximately 100% of its need for luxury housing and drastically falling short on building for middle and low-income residents. This bill suggests it has renter protections, but SF doesn’t have a rental registry, and thus, has no mechanism to enforce such proclaimed protections.
Sponsors: Housing Rights Committee of SF , SF Tenants Union, SF Anti-Displacement Coalition
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/825610747781817/
18. Thursday, 2:00pm, Press Conference SF Treasure Island-DANGER TO THE STUDENTS, RESIDENTS & WORKERS
Life Learning Academy
651 8th St. Bld 229
Treasure island San Francisco
ISSUE:
The “clean-up” by Tetra Tech and Test America of San Francico Treasure Island has found to be fraudulent and faked by these companies. Tetra Tech workers like Robert McLean discovered significant highly radioactive contamination in the former US Navy Testing and Training Center for dealing with radioactive contamination from nuclear radioactive material. Thousands of sailors were contaminated as well as their families who lived on the Island the the residents of Treasure Island.
Tetra Tech who presently has two managers in prison for coercing Tetra Tech workers to falsify information at the testing at Hunters Point. Tetra Tech along with the Navy has publicly argued that the Island is now “safe”. Participants in the press conference will discuss the continued health and safety dangers including at the charter school Life Learning Academy where young students have been subject to contamination from the shipyard radioactivity and the toxins being released in the present redevelopment plans.
Mayor London Breed, Governor Gavin Newsom, Senator Kamala Harris, Senator Diane Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi have all been involved in the development of Treasure Island and are aware of growing number of residents who have become sickened from contamination and Tetra Tech and Test America Whistleblowers who protested the failure to properly clean up the shipyard. They continue to support the billion dollar development of the shipyard with City, State and Federal funds including the over $300 million of US Navy funds spent on the cleanup.
Cal-OSHA and Federal OSHA at present have refused to do any oversight of the health and safety problems for workers and the residents despite their legal responsibilities at this Superfund site. This will also be illuminated at the press conference.
The California Department of Education which has oversight of this charter school has also failed to investigation the dangers to the students as a result of the serious health and safety problems at the charter school which is funded by public funds from the SFUS
Initial Speakers:
Dr. Larry Rose, former Cal-OSHA Medical Director
Carol Harvey, Investigative Journalist
19. Thursday, 3:30pm – 5:00pm, Decolonizing World History with Philosopher Dr. Enrique Dussel
Latinx Research Center
2547 Channing Way
Berkeley
Join the Latinx Research Center and the Chicana/o Studies Program in hosting two historical events with a major Latin American and Third World intellectual. Dr. Enrique Dussel is an early critic of Eurocentric philosophy produced in the West and has become an invaluable archive to intellectuals of the global “south,” and people of color throughout the United States.
Throughout his career, Dussel has sought to open a space for articulating new possibilities for humanity out of, and in light of, the suffering, dignity, and creative drive of those who have been excluded from Western Modernity and neoliberal rationalism.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/581731139009103/
20. Thursday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, Social Movements and Elections in El Salvador
San Francisco Bay Area C.I.S.P.E.S.
2940 16th St., # 301
SF
Report Back, where we will be going over the recent elections, Nayib Bukele, the FMLN, social movements, labor unions, and other topics that you won’t hear on mainstream corporate outlets. We will also be featuring various artists from poets to musicians, all together with extremely delicious food as you participate in international struggle and solidarity!
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2400687126829674/
21. Thursday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, Affordable Housing 101: What the *Bleep* does Affordable Mean!?
Richmond Republic Draught House
642 Clement St.
SF
Neighbors, join Richmond District Rising for a special Affordable Housing 101 event!
Richmond District Rising, an affiliate of San Francisco Rising Alliance, is committed to equitable communities, and building electoral and political power for working class people, people of color and other marginalized communities in the Richmond District.
This event will feature speakers who will work to demystify “affordable housing” and discuss what affordability looks like in the Richmond District.
Sponsors: Richmond District Rising & SF Rising Alliance
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/250693779189663/
22. Thursday, 6:30pm – 8:00pm, Rally in Honor of Marielle Franco
Oscar Grant Plaza
14th St. & Broadway
Oakland
a rally to remember Marielle Franco: a Brazilian councilwoman, elected by the city of Rio de Janeiro, who was brutally executed on March 14th, 2018.
As a black, lesbian, single mother—born and raised in the Maré—she worked against racism, inequality, and homophobia in a country mired by the consequences of white supremacy, hetero-patriarchy, with high rates of feminicide and violence against LGBTQI+ communities.
an evening of demonstrations, drumming, and solidarity as we unite our voices with others around the world who are demanding justice for Marielle.
Sponsors: Coletivo Disbordor & Brasil Solidarity
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2310928498965063/
23. Thursday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, Film screening: ‘Naila and the Uprising
Berkeley City College
2050 Center St.
Berkeley
TICKETS $15, $25, $50, and at the door — Benefit for MECA (Sliding scale)
When a nation-wide uprising breaks out in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, a young woman in Gaza must make a choice between love, family, and freedom. She embraces all three, joining a clandestine network of women in a movement that forces the world to recognize the Palestinian right to self-determination for the first time.
Naila and the Uprising chronicles the journey of Naila Ayesh and a fierce community of women on the front lines, whose stories weave through the most vibrant, nonviolent mobilization in Palestinian history – the First Intifada in the late 1980s.
For International Women’s Day! A local Palestinian activist panel will speak briefly after the film.
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/21/18821321.php
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SAVE the DATE
5th Year Alex Nieto Angelversary
Thursday, March 21
6:00pm
Bernal Heights
San Francisco
Amor for Alex Nieto: March 4, 1986 to March 21, 2014
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/621594534948401/
We were born the day our brother Alex Nieto was unjustly killed.
Join us on Thursday, March 21 at 6:00 p.m. at Bernal Heights to celebrate our community creativity and to learn about the final steps for the Alex Nieto memorial, which should be installed by August of this year, right in time for the new academic school year so that our students can finally learn truth! We invite all coalitions and community members, all loved ones to this important event. We will share soul and also provide the community with what we need from them so that we obtain the ultimate victory: posterity.
We will meet at the makeshift memorial site we have had for the past five years on the north side of the hill and share food, music, poetry, a lowrider bike show, y mas; then together we will walk over to the actual memorial site, where we will all share a moment of silence at 7:18 p.m., the moment that Alex Nieto was killed. From there we will hear some speeches from the family and community and update you all about the very important action you can take in these final stages of the memorial installation.
Once the memorial is established, community members will hike up to that mountain and pray like Alex did and look out over the beautiful view of San Francisco and be inspired by our community resilience. Students will travel up to that hill for field trips and to learn about the history and creativity of our community; they will write thousands of educational essays. Families will pilgrimage hands together and love each other at the place where Alex breathed his last breath. This will be a place of peace, of inspiration and amor.
