Please hold ♥ Clark Sullivan ♥ and ♥ Mike Zint ♥ in your thoughts. Both are hospitalized in the East Bay.
Am not back posting on a regular basis.
– Please post events on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12
Thank you to all who are – See Indybay for other events.
ACCESSIBILITY: Please include Accessibility Information on events!
ARTICLES:
A. How long must S.F. wait to root out police corruption? – February 6, 2020
B. Violent Arrest of Six Land Defenders on Wet’suwet’en Territories
“We are conducting peaceful actions as sovereign peoples on our territories, and ask that all actions taken in solidarity are conducted peacefully and according to the traditional laws of other Indigenous Nations. Forcible trespass onto Wet’suwet’en territories and the removal of Indigenous peoples from their lands must be stopped. Provincial and federal governments must be confronted.”
See Action # 4
C. FactChecking the State of the Union – February 5, 2020
D. ‘Majority of Mine Victims Are Children’: EU Condemns Trump Rollback of Landmine Restrictions – February 4, 2020
E.. As The Coronavirus Spreads, So Does Racism — Both Against And Within Asian Communities
F. UK organisations urge government to challenge US ‘Peace Plan’ – January 28, 2020
4 ACTIONS
1. Tell your Senators: Oppose S.3176 – No more aid to Israel! (New bill)
2. Ban facial recognition in schools!
3. No more tar sands tankers in SF Bay
Tell California decision makers to reject Phillip 66’s expansion
4. Phone Zap / Email for Wet’suwet’en
CALL BC GOV’T OFFICES TODAY AND TELL THEM TO CALL OFF THE RCMP FROM WET’SUWET’EN TERRITORIES! RCMP are actively attacking the Wet’suwet’en.
Information: Ask the recipient of your call / email that you’re asking their government to uphold its commitment to the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and respect Wet’suwet’en Law by withdrawing the RCMP from Wet’suewet’en Nation and cancelling Coastal Links Gas Permit!
Who to call.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/221856442184296/
John Horgan (Premier) Email: premier@gov.bc.ca; Phone: (250) 387-1715
Scott Fraser (Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconcilliation) Email: IRR.Minister@gov.bc.ca; Phone: (250) 953-4844
David Eby (Attorney General) Email: AG.minister@gov.bc.ca; Phone: (250) 387-1866
Mike Farnworth (Minister of Public Safety) Email: PSSG.Minister@gov.bc.ca; Phone: (250) 356-2178
(Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources) Email: EMPR.Minister@gov.bc.ca
EVENTS
Friday, February 7 – Monday, February 10
Friday, February 7
February is Black History Month
San Francisco Public Library List for Black History, Culture & Heritage:
https://sfpl.org/events/special-programs/more-month
Book Categories : Adult Fiction, Children’s Titles, Teen Fiction, LGBQ + Fiction, Afrofuturism, Art, Activism, On Race, Politics, Black Panther, History
Also listed are February 8th, Saturday events at various SF neighborhood libraries.
1. Friday, 12Noon – 1:00pm, San Francisco’s Black History Month 2020: Kick-off Celebration
SF City Hall – Rotunda
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl
SF
On behalf of the San Francisco African American Historical & Cultural Society; we invite you to a lunch time celebration of Black History Month 2020. This year’s Black History Month Kick-Off will highlight the theme, African Americans & The Vote: The Movement Lives On. We will have remarks from elected officials, empowering entertainment pieces and an inspirational keynote speech.
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/27/18830115.php
2. Friday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, Protest the San Francisco Police Officers Association – Weekly protest.
San Francisco Police Officers Association
800 Bryant @ 6th Street (outside)
SF
Mothers on the March Against Police Murders and Black and Brown for Justice, Peace and Equality
‘Declare the Police Officers Association a Non Grata Organization’
‘Jail Killer Cops!’
The Police Officers Association claims to be a union, in reality it is an organization that is based on racism, white supremacy and Nazi ideology. It protects police officers that come into our communities to terrorize and murder our black and brown brothers and sisters.
We demand that the San Francisco Police Officers Association be shut down!
All are welcomed to stand with us even if you can only make it for a few minutes
3. Friday, 5:00pm – 7:00pm, The Terrible State of Oakland
Main Entrance of Oakland Museum (entrance)
1000 Oak St.
Oakland
The United Front Against Displacement and the West Oakland Wood St Community will rally on February 7th at 5 pm to condemn the Oakland State of the City Address (1000 Oak St, Oakland, CA 94607).
The City is in a terrible state. The State of the City Address is an opportunity for Mayor Schaff and the city administrators to lie about the horrendous conditions of the people of Oakland. The City of Oakland has invested millions in “managing” and sweeping homeless people out of site and done little to provide services, housing or employment opportunities to the thousands of dispossessed people of Oakland. Conservative estimates put over 4000 people on the streets of Oakland every night, actual figures could be twice as high! This does not account for the thousands more that are housing insecure. With the rising cost of housing, many are forced to live in cars, trailers or with friends and extended family.
This situation demands that people take action and organize to end homelessness.
The City of Oakland has consistently failed the West Oakland Wood st community and has instead chosen to collaborate with the surrounding real estate developers that seek to evict the community!
Mayor Schaff”s office has collaborated with Fred B Craves, a SF billionaire to develop an abandoned lot in West Oakland that sits at the heart of the West Oakland Wood st Community.
Craves and he City claim that they plan to build a “Safe Parking” lot on Wood st. What they leave out is that after the lease expires (18 months after its finalized) that Craves intend to develop the land at a profit and leave the community with nothing an nowhere to go!
Fred Craves has even enlisted the legal services of the Law Offices of Alan Horowitz, afirm that focuses on evictions and who describe themselves as “The Evictors”.
Host: The United Front Against Displacement
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/31/18830261.php
4. Friday, 5:30pm – 7:30pm, Back to Court: Impact CDCR’s Resentencing Process
The Ella Baker Center, 1419 34th Ave Suite 202
Oakland, 94601
Nr. Fruitvale BART
Wheelchair accessible
Help us get people back to court for resentencing and get people free! Come learn about CDCR’s re-sentencing process, and prepare comments and live testimony. We have 45 days to make public comments and testify at CDCR’s hearing.
Since June 2018, CDCR’s PC § 1170(d)(1) Resentencing “pilot program” formally tracked and reviewed over 1,800 cases and referred roughly 1300 people back to court for resentencing.
effective January 1, 2020, CDCR has updated its Title 15 regulations that govern the process and criteria CDCR staff use for making PC § 1170(d)(1) resentencing referrals. As we’ve seen with Proposition 57 parole board hearings, exclusionary criteria are now being applied that keep people incarcerated who should have a chance to come home. And the unclear referral process is contributing to confusion, unfairness, and missed opportunities for freedom.
Join us to prevent more people being left behind by broad exclusions.
Join us in person at The Ella Baker Center, or via video: email james@ellabakercenter.org for the link
Hosts: Ella Baker Center + 3 Other groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/610673799703108/
5. Friday, 6:30pm – 8:30pm, Tsuru Fold-In & Film Screening
Oakland Asian Cultural Center
388 – 9th St.
Oakland
FREE, $3-5 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds).
Never again is NOW.
Join OACC and Tsuru for Solidarity for a “Tsuru Fold In,” to fold cranes that will join the “National Pilgrimage to Close the Camps” in June 2020. This movement plans to bring 125,000 paper cranes, or tsuru, as expressions of solidarity with immigrant and refugee communities that are under attack today. Learn more at tsuruforsolidarity.org.
Accompanying this fold in will be a screening of the documentary, “And Then They Came For Us.”
Co-presented by Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Tsuru for Solidarity, and Oakland Public Library.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/596110070959304/
6. Friday, 7:00pm, SF Forum: Eyewitness Venezuela
PSL
2969 Mission St.
SF
Eyewitness Venezuela: World Anti-Imperialist Meeting
The World Anti-Imperialist Meeting was held in Caracas, January 22 to 24, with 403 international delegates and 2,096 national delegates participating. Party for Socialism and Liberation presidential candidate Gloria La Riva attended as a delegate and witnessed many of the efforts of the Maduro government and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) to defend the Bolivarian Revolution and their country against U.S. imperialist attacks.
Plus – Trump/Netanyahu colonial “Peace Plan” for Palestine
On Jan. 28, after years of delay, Trump stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Israeli prime minister Netanyahu announcing Part II of his “Deal of the Century”, furthering the attacks on the Palestinian people.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2968273966530108/ or https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/02/18830314.php
7. Friday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, After Impeachment, urgently needed: struggle in the streets
Revolution Books Berkeley
2444 Durant Ave.
Berkeley
Come to a discussion drawing on this article from revcom.us:
Urgently Needed: Struggle in the Streets
The Senate Vote to Suppress Witness Testimony Is a Victory for Fascism
Friday, January 31, the Senate voted 51 to 49 to refuse to hear further witnesses in the impeachment trial of Trump. Every Republican senator, with two exceptions, voted against hearing witnesses. They did this despite the fact that John Bolton, one of the former top officials of the Trump/Pence regime, had offered to testify. By all accounts, Bolton was ready to verify that Trump had personally admitted to him withholding military aid to force Ukrainian president Zelensky to publicly announce an investigation of Trump’s political opponent Joe Biden for corruption. In other words, Bolton would have likely given first person direct evidence that Trump was corruptly and illegally using the power of the presidency for personal gain to discredit his main political rival in the upcoming presidential election.
Prior to this, a large part of Trump’s defense had rested on the fact that no witness had yet been able to testify that Trump had directly stated to them his motive for withholding aid. Why? Because Trump refused to cooperate at all with the impeachment inquiry. He forbade anyone in his administration from testifying. In other words, Trump’s lawyers and Senate Republicans had said that Trump should not be impeached because there were no direct eyewitnesses. Now, when a credible eyewitness presented himself, they refused to let that witness testify and scurried to end the trial!
A Big Step Towards Fascism
An acquittal of Trump on these terms is a big step towards a fascist America. Conducted by craven fascist Republicans, this trial seriously undermined the rule of law. The trial legitimated the dangerous idea that truth has no role in governing with the result being that whatever Trump, or any president says and does, goes.
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/05/18830395.php
Saturday, February 8
8. Saturday, 12:00am – 11:55pm, Michael Barrera 3YR: Share a post, light a candle, say his name!
Online ONLY Facebook Event
February 8th, 2020 marks 3 years to the day, Michael Barrera, was killed by officers of Woodland Police Department in Woodland, CA. And unfortunately, Michael is only 1 of many victims of police killings.
He was unarmed and in handcuffs when he was brutality assaulted and suffocated to death at the hands of officers Hannah Gray, Parveen Lal, Davis Krause, Thomas Davis and Richard Wright.
As normal procedures, when police kill, there hasn’t been any accountability, transparency or JUSTICE. The officers are still employed and working directly with the public!
Our family has been fighting hard, along other impacted families, in bringing the truth to light and fighting for changes.
Please join us on this day to honor Michael on this day. Asking you to share a post, light a candle and/or say his name!
This have been a tough fight, at times unbearable experience that no family should ever have to experience… So we fight for all victims and families of police brutality.. and those to come.
Please share/invite with others who are impacted and those who would like to support. I’ll be sharing more about Michael and updates on the case and fight.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2182271205415844/
9. Saturday, 3:00pm – 5:00pm, Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign Meeting
Redstone Building
2940 16th St. (nr. 16th Street BART)
SF
Today, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival has picked up the unfinished work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s 1968 Poor People’s Campaign. We are creating a new fusion politics to change the moral narrative of the country.
From Alaska to Arkansas, the Bronx to the border, people are coming together to confront the interlocking evils of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism. We understand that as a nation we are at a critical juncture — that we need a movement that will shift the moral narrative, impact policies and elections at every level of government, and build lasting power for poor and impacted people.
Please join us and the movement as we build towards a Mass Assembly and March on Washington, June 20, 2020. We welcome your participation at the next Steering Committee meeting of the Poor People’s Campaign Bay Area Supporters
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/02/18830324.php
10. Saturday, 5:00pm – 8:00pm, Report from 2nd International Gathering of Women in Struggle
Omni Commons
4799 Shattuck Ave.
Oakland
In December 2019 Zapatista Women organized the Second International Gathering of Women in Struggle in Chiapas Mexico. At least 4,000 women attended from all over the world. The gathering was dedicated to struggle to end gender based violence. Women who attended the gathering will share their experience, feelings, thoughts, and analysis. Participants include the Chiapas Support Committee, Sogorea Te Land Trust, the Sexta National and International, etc.
Host: Chiapas Support Committee – Oakland
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/178129566625020/
11. Saturday, 6:00pm – 9:00pm, My Homies Are My Heroes exhibit reception
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St.
SF
MyHomiesAreMyHeroes: For The People is an art exhibit curated by artist and activist Nancypili Hernandez who will mark her 40th revolution around the sun with a community gathering to celebrate wins and lessons learned from her participation in Bay Area movements for social and environmental justice. Nancy curates an installation of works and process techniques by her local heroes and sheroes. Bay Area artivists who have fought for Ethnic Studies, Immigrant Rights, Police Accountability, Safer Streets, Bike Equity, Green Spaces, Youth Services, Affordable Housing, and Cultural Preservation will highlight their use of visual arts in building the future they want to see.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/517118612256124/
12. Saturday, 7:00pm – 9:30pm, All Are Welcome: Migrant Solidarity from the Border to the Bay
South Berkeley Senior Center
2939 Ellis St.
Berkeley
Proceeds from this event will benefit Al Otro Lado Border Rights Project, an organization that provides legal services for migrants and asylum seekers based in Tijuana, Baja California Norte, México. Suggested Donation: $10-$25. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Language justice information: Simultaneous Interpretation of the English portion of the program will be available for Spanish speakers. A portion of the program will be in Spanish, with consecutive interpretation into English provided for the general audience.
Accessibility info: There is one permitted parking space in the facility parking lot to the left of the building, accessible from Ellis Street. Another permitted space is available on Ellis in front of the building. Entrance is accessible via an ADA-compliant ramp or six (6) steps and a railing. Inside, event room is on the ground floor with no steps. Bathrooms are on the ground floor, ADA-compliant with no steps. HOH info: The program will be amplified via a mic/speaker system.
As the Trump administration escalates its xenophobic war in the Middle East, it continues its brutal war on immigrants. Thousands of migrants await justice in shelters, border camps, and private detention facilities across the U.S and México. In spite of the inhumane immigration policies, people are still arriving at the border seeking asylum and 25,000 migrants are waiting in Mexico to begin their asylum process.
Join the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC), the Interfaith Movement 4 Human Integrity (IM4HI), and SURJ-Bay Area for an evening of sharing, solidarity and action to address the following questions:
What’s *really* happening in Border cities from California to Texas? How are migrants successfully negotiating the new normal along the border?
How are everyday people building solidarity with migrants and asylum seekers under the conditions that have been newly imposed in Mexico and in the US?
What are the links between Trump’s war on immigrants with the Administration’s foreign policy agenda in Latin America, the Middle East and beyond?
What can I do to support asylum-seekers and migrants at the border and here in the Bay Area?
Speakers include:
* Reverend Deborah Lee (MC) – IM4HI – Executive Director
* Leila Sayed-Taha – AROC – Immigration Attorney, volunteer Attorney for Tijuana-based Al Otro Lado
* Dr. Amy Argenal, Adjunct Professor of Migration Studies at USF, volunteer with Bay Area Border Relief, which recently led a trip to Matamoros to support a camp of 1000+ migrants
* SURJ Bay Area representative who recently volunteered at Al Otro Lado in Tijuana to provide legal support for migrants and asylum seekers
* A recently arrived migrant will speak firsthand of their journey and the systemic hurdles they’ve had to cross
There will be discussion groups at the end of the program for people who want to learn more about sponsorship, accompaniment, and volunteering at the border.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/599718660839237/
Sunday, February 9
13. Sunday, 9:30am – 11:00am, City College of San Francisco – The Shattering of a Gem
Unitarian Universalist Society – SF
1187 Franklin St. (MLK Room)
SF
Wheelchair accessible
Light breakfast for
City College of San Francisco (CCSF) long one of the great institutions in San Francisco and in the country has, since 2012, come under intense pressure to reduce itself from a place of community enrichment to something that serves a narrow corporate agenda. Why and how is this happening?
Presenters:
Rick Baum, Marcos Cruz and Harry Bernstein from CCSF will talk about the attacks on the college, how they particularly hurt people of color, what’s behind them and what’s being done to defend against them.
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/30/18830219.php
14. Sunday, 11:00am. Codepink Golden Gate Bridge Walk
10:45 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.
11:00 pm: Walk on the eastern walkway from the north or south ends, to converge in the middle. Short, silent LOVE FEST in the middle.
12:30 pm: Rally on SF side after the bridge walk.
Wear pink and red –
In the spirit of Valentine’s Day and the month of Love, we are asking everyone to make their own signs and fill in the blank: LOVE NOT ____________!
PLEASE send Toby the message you will carry so we know we’ll have diversity!
Some suggestions:
LOVE NOT BOMBS
LOVE NOT HATE
LOVE NOT RACISM
LOVE NOT DETENTION CAMPS
LOVE NOT PRISONS
LOVE NOT GREED
Info: Toby, ratherbenyckeling@comcast.net
15. Sunday, 1:00pm – 4:00pm, Rally to Protect People’s Park Art Build
Peoples Park
2556 Haste St. (meet nr. People’s Park Stage – west end of park)
Berkeley
Come to People’s Park, Sunday, February 9 at 1:00pm to help us create signs and posters for the Rally to Protect People’s Park at the MLK Student Union on Monday, February 10 at 4:00pm.
Hosts: People’s Park Committee & Berkeley People’s Park
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/214026906299850/
16. Sunday, 3:00pm, The Fight For Our Lives Rally – Rally / Press Conference
974 Admiral Callahan Lane
Vallejo
3:00pm – Press Conference
4:00pm – 6:00pm – Willie McCoy Candlelight Vigil
Ronell, Angel, Eric, Willie – all killed by Vallejo Police
Come out and support the families as they demand police reform and accountability from the corrupt Vallejo Police Dept. and compromised Solano County District Attorney’s Office
Info: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2738529586222932&set=a.202675059808410&type=3&theater
Monday, February 10
17. Monday, 4:00pm – 8:00pm, Show Up Speak Out – regarding People’s Park
2495 Bancroft Way
Berkeley
UC Capital Strategies is asking for public comment on the plan to develop People’s Park
A public forum on People’s Park. Mayor Arreguin and UC Berkeley’s Chancellor Christ are hosting a public forum to rally support for the final devastation of People’s Park. Along with the development plan, they will discuss what the mayor calls “the displacement plan”. There is no particular reason why the dorm must be built on People’s Park. UC Berkeley does have other locations to build a dorm.
There are no plans for a replacement park. Despite owning several empty lots in Berkeley, the UC has not offered one to be a replacement user-developed, community open space. Such an issue circles back to the question: if there are empty lots, why not build there instead?
Attend this meeting to challenge their narrative.
Host: People’s Park Defense
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/475523859758726/ or https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/04/18830370.php
