Am not back posting on a regular basis
– Please post your events on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12
Thank you to all who are doing this – you can also see listings for other events not listed here.
ACCESSIBILITY: Please include Accessibility Information on events!
KiDS Friendly / Childcare: Include info
ARTICLES:
A. Rojava Defends Feminist Revolution Against Turkish Invaders – October 10, 2019
See events #10 & #16
B. Inspector general report shows at least 16 officers involved in cover-up of Laquan McDonald shooting – October 9, 2018
C. Joshua Brown murder: 2 arrested in death of witness in Amber Guyger trial – October 8, 2019
This article is very suspicious – if Joshua Brown were involved with drugs, he would have been hesitant to testify in the Guyger case. His credibility would have been raised as a witness!
Rest in Peace and Power
♥ Joshua Brown ♥
Thank you for having the courage to speak out to tell the truth!
D. Fellow district attorney candidates turn ire on Suzy Loftus in SF Mission debate – October 8, 2018
E. ICE Moved 700 Women Out Of A Detention Center And Won’t Tell Lawyers Where They Are – October 8, 2019
F. Nearly 100 Protesters Dead as Calls Grow for Iraqi Government to Resign – October 5, 2019
G. Dakota Access Pipeline Activists Face 110 Years in Prison, Two Years After Confessing Sabotage
H. ICE arrests two Cambodians in SF as advocates protest deportations – October 3, 2019
I. The Bahamas Is Using Hurricane Dorian To Push Out Haitian Immigrants, Critics Say – October 3, 2019
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/haitian-immigrants-the-bahamas-dorian
J. Activists Who Confronted Mnuchin During UCLA Protest Now Facing Years in Jail – October 1, 2019
5 ACTIONS:
1. Congress: Add Sanctions on Saudi Regime to @LindseyGrahamSC Turkey Sanctions Bill
2. Protect Whistleblowers!
3. End Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration in America
https://www.signherenow.org/petition/end-mass-incarceration/civic-action/
4. Shut down unlawful surveillance
5. Demand Microsoft Stop Funding and Enabling AnyVisions surveillance of Palestinians
https://act.mpowerchange.org/sign/Microsoft_AnyVision/?t=4&referring_akid=8981.44226.Q0e1Xj
EVENTS
Friday, October 11 – Tuesday, October 15
Friday, October 11
1. Friday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, Mothers on the March Against Police Murders –Weekly action
Hall of Injustice
850 Bryant St.
SF
DEMAND POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY
Even though Gascon is resigning (last day is Oct. 18th) we still need to be present. Mayor Breed’s appointment of Suzy Loftus is NOT the solution!
All are invited to join us (Even if it’s for a few minutes) to demand that District Attorney George Gascon charge police officers with murder. Stand with ALL families who have lost loved ones to police murders. This is a movement towards police accountability. If we keep accepting the way things are, we’ll, never make any true progress that benefits the people. 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!
Host: Mother’s on the March Against Police Murders!
2. Friday, 3:00pm – 4:00pm, SF Speak Out at Japan Consulate: Stop Olympics in Fukushima- Defend Fukushima Families
Japan Consulate
275 Battery St. (nr. California)
SF
Stop PM Abe’s Big LIE and Fraud On The People Of The World That Fukushima is SAFE!
Join No Nukes Action NNA on its 85th action at the San Francisco Japanese Consulate to stop the Abe Japanese government’s restart of Japan’s nuclear plants.
The Abe government is telling the people of Japan and the people of the world that Fukushima has been decontaminated and is safe. The New York Times and other corporate media are telling people in the US that Fukushima is safe to go ignoring the continuing dangers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/travel/the-tokyo-2020-olympics-what-you-need-to-know.html
Abe also lied to the Olympic committee saying that Japan should get the Olympics since the Fukushima meltdowns had been resolved but the three reactors still have melted nuclear rods that they have not been able to remove. In addition, there are over 1 million tons of contaminated radioactive tritium water in thousands of tanks surrounding the broken nuclear plants in Fukushima. The government is pushing to release the water in the Pacific Ocean
there are still also thousands of bags in Fukushima filled with radioactive waste with no place to go and these bags are spread throughout the region making it a major health danger.
Host: No Nukes Action
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/07/18827113.php
3. Friday, 6:00pm – 9:00pm, Report Back: K-12 Teacher Trip to Palestine!
The Eric Quezada Center for Culture & Politics
518 Valencia St.
SF
MECA’s Teach Palestine Project organized a delegation of elementary, middle and high school teachers to Palestine this summer. The goal was to learn about Palestine firsthand, explore connections to the lives of their students in the US, and bring those insights back to their classrooms.
Come hear what they learned and experienced in Palestine, and how it’s changing their teaching. We’ll have Palestine food and crafts, too!
Host: Middle East Children’s Alliance
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/368231804087275/
Saturday, October 12
4. Saturday, 5:00pm – 8:00pm, CISPES/FMLN anniversary dinner/event
SEIU 1021 – San Francisco Hall
350 Rhode Island, (enter on Kansas St. – between 16th & 17th Sts)
SF
$10.00 Ticket – includes admission & dinner
39thAnniversary Dinner
“Tribute to the Indigenous Nations of the Americas”
In 1980, the Faribundo Marti Front for National Liberation (FMLN) was founded in El Salvador in the struggle for democracy and social and economic justice, and simultaneously, the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) was founded in the United States to stop U.S. military intervention in El Salvador aimed at crushing the liberation movement.
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/07/18827123.php
5. Saturday, 6:00pm – 9:00pm, Dinner Fundraiser for the Revolution Tour
Revolution Books
2444 Durant Ave.
Berkeley
International food, music & poetry
$15 students, $20 general
Get tickets in advance at Revolution Books.
Volunteers needed. Poets & musicians
Revolution – Nothing Less!
A Better World is Possible
Internationalism –
For a World Without Borders
A Benefit Dinner to Raise Funds for the
Revolution Tour
Let’s celebrate the possibility of a better world and get
organized to make it real!
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/699702993773578/
6. Friday, 7:00pm, SF Forum: Climate Solutions Beyond Capitalism
2969 Mission St.
SF
$3-10 donation, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Refreshments provided. Wheelchair accessible.
The recent worldwide protests, led largely by youth, have pushed the climate crisis into the spotlight. Last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that the window for action to prevent a runaway scenario will close in 12 years, yet world leaders fail to take any meaningful action. Why is this?
Join us for a discussion on the solutions to the crisis, how capitalism is incapable of addressing the necessary action, and how an eco-socialist society would transform humanity’s relationship to the planet.
Host: PSL
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/373890646898408/
Sunday, October 13
7. Sunday, 9:30am – 11:00am, UU Forum: La Colectiva: Immigrant Women standing up and Speaking out
Unitarian Universalist Society- MLK Room
1187 Franklin @ Geary
SF
Come engage with speakers from La Colectiva a worker-run collective that empowers immigrant women and connects them with jobs while training members on effective, safe cleaning techniques and workers rights. La Colectiva is a member of the International Domestic Workers Network, National Domestic Workers Alliance and the National Day Labor Organizing Network.
They are active voices in the community, involved in many movements and struggles from anti-war, environmental, immigrant rights, racial justice, and more recently, Out Now! the demand that the current government be removed from power.
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/08/18827142.php
8. Sunday, 9:30am – 11:30am, #Impeach Trump: Pacifica March to Impeach Trump
Linda Mar State Beach (North)
5000 Pacific Coast Highway
Pacifica
Our elected representatives have a choice: they can protect trump or they can protect the American people!
Trump and his administration have been wielding the executive branch to undermine our democracy, divide Americans against each other, and enrich and empower themselves. The latest incident with Ukraine is just further evidence of Trump selling out the American people in order to maintain his hold on power.
This event in Pacific is a peaceful event that is part of a day of marches and rallies nationwide
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/10/18827187.php
9. Sunday, 10:30am – 12:30pm, Support the Embassy Protectors Collective. U.S. Hands Off Venezuela
NPML
6501 Telegraph
Oakland
FREE – but we will have a joint fund appeal for ICSS
and the Embassy Protectors Defense Committee
Come hear Margaret Flowers, Kevin Zeese, and David Paul who each face one-year prison sentences and $100,000 fines based on the spurious charge of “interfering with government operations.
These courageous Embassy Protectors defended the Washington, D.C. Venezuelan Embassy for 34 days at the request of the Venezuelan government and its only legitimate President Nicolas Maduro. They will be speaking about their experience that included having to defend themselves and the embassy against violent well financed right wing Venezuelans living in the US and the complicity of Federal Police. The three will also give an update on the details of their case and the struggle against the US imperialist drive to economically strangle the Bolivarian Revolution and its social gains.
The presentation at NPML is part of a Bay Area Tour that includes Sacramento, Berkeley, Oakland, Santa Rosa and San Jose.
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/03/18827027.php
10. Sunday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, Emergency Rally to Defend Northeast Syria (See item # 16)
Union Square San Francisco
SF
Turkey government is preparing to attack Northeast Syria, whose people made great sacrifices to defeat ISIS and build a free society in the midst of the Syrian conflict. This escalation will lead to nothing but destabilization and destruction in Syria, and increased repression and autocracy within Turkey. All supporters of peace and democracy must oppose it.
Host: California Kurdish Community Center
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2535401050029638/
11. Sunday, 12Noon – 3:00pm, Take to the Streets for Democracy
Harry Bridges Plaza
The Embarcadero
SF
Our Democracy is in grave danger, and Congress needs to hear from the people before they return to DC after their second undeserved recess. #VigilForDemocracy 🆘
Please register for a ticket; don’t simply click GOING. And check back at taketothestreetssf.eventbrite.com for agenda and exciting details as they firm up!
Wear red, the #coloroflove!
Hosts: Vigil for Democracy, By the People-Impeach Trump, Refuse Fascism, Resistance SF
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/674393689749746/
12. Sunday, 12Noon – 4:00pm, 2nd Annual Peace Flotilla or “Peace Fleet”
This weekend is “Fleet Week” in San Francisco.
Codepink, Veterans for Peace & Friends will be out on the bay with a flotilla of 3 peace decorated boats.
Needs:
1. More boats, kayaks and other water vehicles. Do you know a sympathetic boat owner, or kayaker, who might be interested in joining our Peace Flotilla?
Contact us asap: ratherbenyckeling@comcast.net
2. URGENT: Volunteers to be on land distributing leaflets to the spectators of Fleet Week this coming Sunday, noon to 4pm. Educational leaflets will be printed and ready to distribute, addressing the many costs of perpetual wars and global militarization, including the great threat to our climate! There will also be a counter-recruitment leaflet available to inform our youth about the risks of joining the military, and the caution needed regarding military recruiters.
Meet at front of Pier 39 at 11:30am.
Contact Fred ASAP, to join the land crew:<bialy10@comcast.net> 510-541-6874
13. Sunday, 1:00pm – 4:00pm, Kickoff: 24/7 Kaiser Mental Health Vigil – Oakland
1 Kaiser Plaza
Oakland
gather outside the Ordway Building
Kaiser mental health therapists are escalating their campaign to make Kaiser fix its broken mental health care system by establishing an ongoing presence outside Kaiser’s Oakland headquarters.
Therapists, patients, and community allies will gather to assemble a 60-foot-long patient memorial structure and hold a rally. There will be food and mental-health themed activities. Friends and families are all welcome.
Host: National Union of Healthcare Workers
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/499436847567418/
14. Sunday, 2:00pm – 4:00pm, Speaker Pennie Opal Plant on “Let Us Save the World Together”
Fred Weaver Resident Center
St. Paul’s Tower Second Floor
100 Bay Place (nr. 27th & Harrison St.j)
Oakland
Wheelchair accessible
Join the annual gathering of East Bay Peace Action to hear Pennie Opal Plant, indigenous grandmother, founder of Idle No More SF Bay, and signer of the Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty.
Her keynote address, “Let us Save the World Together,” will connect our work for the environment, climate, justice, and peace.
There will also be a program and EBPA board elections.
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/09/18827165.php
15. Sunday, 4:00pm – 8:00pm, Santa Rita Jail Support
Meet at
Lake Merritt BART Station
800 Madison St.
Oakland
Join APTP in sharing hot food, drinks, and solidarity with folks visiting loved ones at and getting released from Santa Rita Jail!
Let us know you’ll be there by sending us a text at (510) 686-3284.
Prisons function to repress, warehouse and extract labor from primarily those of us who are Black or poor. We believe that solidarity is a weapon of resistance, and that we must respond to the basic needs of our community while also confronting state terror.
In honor of Dujuan Armstrong Jr. who entered Santa Rita Jail for a weekend sentence and never came home, APTP is providing material support and direct care to folks at Santa Rita Jail as a small but meaningful way to address the harm caused by incarceration in our community. We do not positively engage with the racist pigs who work at the jail,
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/440269236840683/
16. Sunday, 5:00pm – 8:00pm, Save Rojave
Union Square
SF
Light installment and flyering in support of Rojave and against Turkish transgression and genocidal agenda.
Host: Bay Area Light Brigade
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/383292845907513/?notif_t=plan_user_invited¬if_id=1570740530068413
17. Sunday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, From Angel Island To Adelanto
Unitarian Universalist Center
1187 Franklin St.
SF
Potluck will start at 6:00 (bring something to share if you are able)
the program will start at 6:30 P M .
On the eve of Indigenous People”s Day join us as we explore the immigration/detention experience through live performance
of spoken word and music.
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/08/18827148.php
Monday, October 14
Indigenous Peoples’ Day
18. Monday, 6:00am – 9:00am, Indigenous Peoples’ Day Sunrise Gathering
Alcatraz Island
SF
Tickets / Info: https://www.alcatrazcruises.com/checkout/?id=1000025&fbclid=IwAR1_zezX4TD42b7DWdOlh0ClkxSnCBXtIODMsctIptZmQAKsRkaBzfbwnO0#hb-commerce-sdk-root
Still tickets available for 5:45am departure!
Commemorating 527 years of Indigenous resistance and honoring 50 years since the Occupation of Alcatraz in 1969. Our struggles, culture and sacred ways of life continue! With Indigenous cultural presentations and special guests.
Boats depart from Pier 33 at Fisherman’s Wharf starting at 5:00 AM in October and 5:15 AM and 5:45. All participants will arrive back to Pier 33 by 9:00 AM.
Simulcast on KPFA 94.1 FM and online at http//www.kpfa.org
For more information contact the IITC San Francisco Office: (415) 641-4482, iitc@treatycouncil.org or rochelle@treatycouncil.org
Host: International Indian Treaty Council
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/494351088027305/
19. Monday, 12:00Noon – 3:30pm, Indigenous Peoples Day, Free Program
Yerba Buena Gardens
760 Howard St.
SF
Join us in celebration of San Francisco’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day at Yerba Buena Gardens Festival with Native American art, music and vendors. Jonathan Cordero (Ramaytush Ohlone) begins the celebration with an opening and land acknowledgement. The program highlights the vastly diverse and talented community of Indigenous artists, featuring performances from:
Round Valley Traditional Dancers & Round Valley Feather Dancers (Pomo)
Pura Fé (Tuscarora)
Raye Zaragoza (Akimel O’otham descent)
Hinewirangi Kohu (Maori)
Ostwelve (Stō:lo)
Pamyua (Inuit)
Teokalli Aztec Dancers
Emceed by Jackie Keliiaa (Washoe and Paiute)
Presented with support from the San Francisco Arts Commission and in partnership with International Indian Treaty Council, American Indian Contemporary Arts and the Consulate General of Canada.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/508102676688705/
20. Monday, 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Day of Action: Close the Camps Now!
Meet at:
Rincon Park
Embarcadero & Folsom Sts
SF
San Francisco Tour of Shame: End Corporate Profiteering Off Detention and Deportation! Close the Camps Now!
This Indigenous Peoples’ Day weekend let us act together – whether with a march, vigil, rally or direct action– against those who would give us a future of division and white supremacist hate. It’s only fitting to have these actions on Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Many immigrants crossing the border are indigenous and are not given proper translators in their indigenous languages. The current colonial border between the U.S. and Mexico were imposed upon Indigenous Peoples on both sides. They didn’t cross the border, the border crossed them
From the day he took office, Donald Trump escalated a failed and cruel immigration policy into an all-out war against immigrants, banning Muslims, slamming the door on refugees, tearing children from their parents’ arms.
Tentative Schedule:
2pm – Meet at Rincon Park
2:45pm – March
4:15pm – Rally at Ending Point
If you would like to get involved, please contact immigration@dsasf.org
Hosts: DSA – SF, PSL-SF, Coalition to Close the Concentration Camps – Bay Area, Movement for Peoples Party
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/360055594879186/
21. Monday, 5:00pm – 7:00pm, Rally for DACA, TPS & DED Protections!
Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park
2151 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Berkeley
More than 1.1 million women and men stand to lose their work authorization and legal status in this country unless Congress takes steps to defend recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Temporary Protected Status (TPS), and Deferred Enforced Departure (DED), whose protections have been canceled by the Trump administration.
Join Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin, Berkeley City Council members, the Sanctuary City Task Force, DACA and TPS holders, unions and community organizations in a rally to urge the U.S. Senate to honor the hard work and contributions of DACA and TPS recipients by acting to pass a bill like the House of Representatives’ Dream and Promise Act of 2019, H.R. 6.
Hosts: East Bay Sanctuary Convenant & NorCal TPS Coaliton
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2374621495940987/
Tuesday, October 15
22. Tuesday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, Everyday is Indigenous Peoples Day Rally
Sproul Plaza
Bancroft Way
Berkeley
UC Berkeley’s students call for UC-wide action to stand in solidarity with indigenous peoples protecting their sovereign rights and sacred sites.
This event follows the Hawaiian Kapu Aloha code of conduct of mutual respect in engagement.
Host: Mauna Kea Protectors – UC Berkeley
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/544555269634605/
23. Tuesday, 12:30pm – 1:30pm, Boycott Manny’s – Weekly protest
16th & Valencia St. (outside)
SF
From Black & Brown For Justice Peace and Equality / Mothers On The March Against Police Murders.
Why Are We Boycotting Manny’s?
The owner of Manny’s is occupying a place that the Latino community fought for! Residents of the Mission community have fought for many years to make sure that community organizations create venues/space that would benefit the black and brown community. We believe that this should be a cultural center for the youth of this area, especially at a time when so many are being displaced.
The owner of Manny’s also supports the occupation of Palestine by a so-called Zionist state of Israel that is committing genocide of the Palestinian People. Zionist also are involved with training police in the US and in other countries – like the Philippines
Support the BDS movement!
All are welcome to join us, Stop the Displacement of Black and Brown People from the Mission, help us denounce Zionism and help raise awareness and STOP the GENOCIDE of the Palestinian People by the state of Israel.
24. Tuesday, 7:30pm – 9:30pm, For the Record: Eyewitness Testimonies of a Police Killing – Luis Góngora Pat
Eric Quezada Center for Culture & Politics
514 Valencia St.
SF
Free
Spanish interpretation provided with headphones
Luis Gongora Pat, a Mayan indigenous man, was murdered by San Francisco police officers on April 7, 2016 on Shotwell near 19th Street in the Mission. His killing came in the wake of other homicides by police of Black and Brown communities members.
His family pursued every legal avenue available, including a civil case which was settled in January 2019. Three and a half years later, the story at risk of being buried because the primary eyewitnesses never got their day in court. But Luís’s story must be told.
Two primary eyewitnesses—Christine Pepin and S. Smith Patrick—will present their testimony in an open setting, getting the facts onto a public record even if they couldn’t provide it in court. Adante Pointer—the family’s civil rights lawyer—will attend to support the narrative with facts on the record.
Hosts: Shaping San Francisco, San Francisco Public Library, MAYAN WAR ROOM: In honor of Luis Góngora Pat
