Many people DO NOT have internet access during this time; since libraries and other public places are closed they are unable to do ‘ZOOM’ actions!! Some are able to do phone actions! Many people are not on facebook either!
– Please post events on Indybay even if event is digital: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12
Thank you to all who are – See Indybay for other events.
♥ Hold in your thoughts all parents and children – especially single parent households that are “Sheltering in Place” ♥
NOT back posting on a regular basis.
ARTICLES:
A. U.S. Airstrikes Hit All-Time High as Coronavirus Spreads in Somalia – April 22, 2020
B. Trump tweets that he’s instructed the Navy to ‘destroy’ any Iranian gunboats that harass US warships – April 22, 2020
C. U.S. Citizens Married To Immigrants Are Blocked From Getting Stimulus Checks – April 22, 2020
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/u-citizens-married-immigrants-blocked-145343198.html
D. Updated: SFPD in hours-long standoff with Tenderloin suspect after officer-involved shooting
Update: April 22, 2020, 7 p.m.: Medical evaluations have indicated that the suspect was not struck by gunfire during the officer-involved shooting. He remains hospitalized for non-life-threatening injuries. SFPD will hold a town meeting within the next 10 days to discuss the incident in more detail.
E. Body Bags Delivered to Trump Properties and Government Offices – April 21, 2020
F. New map of coronavirus cases show low-income people of color most impacted (in SF)– April 20, 2020
G. ‘Don’t shoot him no more!’ California police face backlash over killing of man in Walmart – April 20, 2020
https://www.yahoo.com/news/dont-shoot-him-no-more-212738692.html
Rest in Peace and Power
♥ Steven Taylor ♥
See Article I
See Action # 1
See Event # 8
H. US and Russia blocking UN plans for a global ceasefire amid crisis – April 19, 2020
I. Video: Police shoot and kill bat-wielding man in San Leandro Walmart – April 18, 2020
Rest in Peace and Power
♥ Steven Taylor ♥
J. Pandemic Is a Portal: Arundhati Roy on COVID-19 in India, Imagining Another World & Fighting for It – April 16, 2020
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/4/16/arundhati_roy_coronavirus_india
ACTIONS
1. Demand a special prosecutor to get justice for Steve Taylor
2. TPS for Venezuela now!
3. Mayor London Breed: Sign the Emergency Hotel Ordinance Now
4. Kids can’t socially distance in refugee camps
5. Demand Healthcare Access for COFA Residents
Residents in the United States that come from the Marshall Islands, Palau, and Micronesia—areas in which the United States tested nuclear weapons—are eligible to work and live in the US because of the injustice of their homelands being ravaged.
But they are ineligible for government healthcare—meaning that the most vulnerable cannot get tested or treated for COVID-19. This injustice hurts ALL Americans.
6. Pass Medicare for All and the Essential Workers Bill of Rights now!
https://advocacy.organicconsumers.org/page/18622/action/1
7. Tell Zoom to stop putting people in danger during the COVID-19 crisis
EVENTS
Thursday, April 23 – Sunday, April 26
Thursday, April 23
1. Thursday, All Day – Shut Down KKR – #WetsuwetenStrong
we’re flooding the US-based investment firm KKR &Co with calls, emails, and tweets to stop the company from buying the Coastal GasLink pipeline.
The Coastal GasLink pipeline threatens Wet’suwet’en land, water, air, and people.
KKR has plans to purchase 65% of the Coastal GasLink pipeline with Alberta Investment Management Corp (AIMCo). KKR is a US-based private equity firm with an atrocious record of putting profits over people.
The good news? The sale won’t close til June. Which means we still have time to stop it.
join the KKR communications blockade TODAY and #ShutDownKKR:
- Email KKR today by using our easy messaging tool by clicking here.
- Call KKR by dialing 1-888-593-5407 and following the instructions you hear from us. Need some talking points for your call? No problem. See below.
- Tweet at @KKR_Co and tell them just how awful they are for ignoring Wet’suwet’en concerns about their rights, the climate, land air and water. Need some tweet inspiration? See below!
Despite the COVID-19 crisis, TC Energy is still going ahead with Coastal GasLink pipeline construction and sending more workers and federal police officers onto Wet’suwet’en territories, putting communities at even more risk. Billionaire oil and gas CEOs see the COVID-19 crisis as an opportunity to push through whatever they can when the world is looking the other way.
KKR must be held accountable for ignoring the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs, putting Indigenous land and people at risk, endangering Indigenous women by building man camps along the route, and fueling the climate crisis.
Here’s a facebook event link for today’s communication blockade, if you’d like to share with your friends.
Info from: Rising Tide North America
2. Thursday, 12Noon – 1:00pm, Demand that Governor Newsom #FreeThemAll: COVID-safe Car Rally!
Meet at:
“Pioneer Monument” – roundabout between the museum and the library.
147 Fulton St.
SF
This is a COVID-safe, car-only rally! We will be driving to the San Francisco Office of the State of California to demand that Governor Newsom take immediate action to protect immigrants from this virus, for their own safety and for public health.
There are 38,000 undocumented immigrants in detention right now across the country.
Right now in California, well over 6,000 immigrants are being held in detention centers without adequate health and sanitation measures in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Most of these centers are run by private corporations, and some are county and municipal jails. In the past weeks we’ve seen as the immigrants inside have taken to sit-ins and hunger strikes to sound the alarm as public health and safety concerns have been confirmed: dozens of people inside ICE detention centers have tested positive for COVID-19, and it’s clear that many more cases are being covered up or not tested. Yet conditions remain unchanged.
Make signs, art and banners to attach to your cars! Post to social media @CAGovernor and @GavinNewsom using the hashtags #FreeThemAll #DetentionIsDeadly and #ReleaseThemNow
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/901264940295775/
3. Thursday, 1:00pm,(PDT), Public Health, Inequality and COVID-19
More info at https://socialjusticeaftercovid.weebly.com/public-health-inequality-and-covid-19.html
Join the live stream on Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 4 pm ET, 1 pm PT https://www.facebook.com/YorkUFES/
In order to deepen public understanding of the health dimensions of the current crisis, the panel will address public access to healthcare and social justice issues associated with COVID-19, as well as the insecurity of the broader system that this pandemic makes more visible.
Presenters, including analysts and activists of the health care system and physicians from Canada and the US, will discuss how they see COVID affecting their community and/or area/region of research, including how health care cuts or insufficient access to publicly funded medicine and employment insecurity influence our healthcare systems’ ability to respond.
Presenters
· Natalie Mehra, Ontario Health Coalition
· Ritika Goel, Toronto Family Physician and Activist
· Heather Hastings, Health Manager, Tsartlip First Nation
· Tish Lopez, Assistant Professor, Geography, Dartmouth College
· Rupa Marya, Associate Professor, Medicine, University of California
· Abigail Neely, Assistant Professor, Geography, Dartmouth College
Facilitated by Prof. Tracey Osborne, University of California Merced.
Info from Do No Harm Coalition
4. Thursday, 5:00pm (PDT), The Fascist Threat: A Working Class Response
Register to participate
Zoom Video conference
Speakers:
Chris Smalls – Amazon worker fired for organizing for safe working conditions
Trent Willis – President, Local 10 International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU)Monica Moorehead – Editor, Marxism, Reparations and the Black Freedom Struggle. Managing Editor of Workers World newspaperMakasi Motema – People’s Power Assemblies NYCLyn Neeley – Portland May Day organizer, Workers World Party, Portland, OR
Over the past week, demonstrations by openly white supremacist, fascist forces have been held across the U.S. demanding an end to COVID-19 quarantine measures, and that workers be sent back to work immediately.
How can working and oppressed people respond to these reactionary demonstrations, advocate for policies that would result in mass death and suffering in the name of ruling class profits?
Host: Workers World Party
Friday, April 24
5. Friday, 9:00am (PDT), ADC’s Housing & Tenants Rights Webinar!
Registration:
– As part of a continued effort to update the community with important information during the COVID-19 crisis, ADC will be hosting a webinar to discuss tenant and housing rights. ADC is proud to host Mr. Morgan Williams, General Counsel of the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA), a proud partner of ADC.
Mr. Morgan directs NFHA’s efforts to pursue pioneering litigation under the federal Fair Housing Act. Morgan coordinates NFHA’s actions to file amicus briefs. He also provides technical support to local fair housing centers across the country on investigation and enforcement strategies, across a range of complicated and emerging topics.
Have a topic you think ADC should cover? Feel free to let us know what you would like us to discuss.
Host: American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
6. Friday, 5:00pm – 6:00pm, (PDT) Friday Night Forums: COVID-19 in Indian Country
Register:
Friday Night Forums are one-hour panels with two presenters and a moderator live streamed on Zoom. Each panelist will present for 20 minutes followed by a 10-15 minute Q & A with the moderator and the audience.
The Red Nation in partnership with the Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC) and the Center for Political Education is hosting a series of critical conversations on settler colonialism, US imperialism, and decolonization. The COVID-19 pandemic is global, and so our response to it must also be global. Friday Night Forums feature anti-imperialist perspectives and lessons on organizing from around the world, with an eye toward decolonizing Turtle Island.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1553642318117753/
Saturday, April 25
7. Saturday, 10:30am – 1:30pm (SF), East Bay 9:30am, All out to demand Cancel the Rents! Housing for all!
Meet ups
SAN FRANCISCO:
1875 Marin St., on the street, 10:30 AM for a press conference.
EAST BAY:
West Oakland, 900 Market parking lot, 9:30 AM
Fill out form to participate: https://www.canceltherents.org/
Join us in your car to demand the cancellation of rents and mortgages statewide, immediate housing for all, and full aid and rights for the undocumented!
Let’s make some noise, plaster “Cancel the Rents” and “CancelTheRents.org” on our cars and windows, and make our voices heard! It’s time to send the signal that the working class is fighting back!
While we and society recognize the First Amendment and the exercise of First Amendment rights as essential, our April 25, 2020 “Cancel the Rents” car caravan will practice the socially responsible regulations outlined in the statewide “shelter-in-place” executive order, including physical distancing and mask-wearing. We believe that we must act now to defend the essential right of all people to housing during and after the COVID-19 crisis.
Demands:
– Cancel all rents and mortgages for homeowners, small landlords, and small businesses, for the duration of the pandemic – no debt accumulation!
– No shutoffs of any utilities.
– Eminent domain over vacant buildings, homes, hotels, to house the homeless or people in precarious housing, such as victims of domestic violence.
– Give full access to housing, income-assistance to all undocumented and informal workers.
– Housing must be a human right, regardless of employment or citizenship status.
The government measures taken so far do not protect tenants for the long term. There is a “moratorium on evictions,” but what will happen when the COVID-19 crisis starts to fade out and we are months late on our rents? There is nothing protecting us from being evicted then. The one time $1200 emergency relief for working class and poor Americans is not enough – and millions of undocumented workers won’t receive any aid at all.
As the capitalist crisis worsens, millions are in danger of being displaced out of their homes. Even after the pandemic eases, workers will be forced to pay thousands of dollars in debt to their landlords making their already unstable housing situation even more precarious.
Host: PSL
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/22/18832578.php
8. Saturday, 2:30pm – 4:30pm, Ride for Justice for Steven Taylor! – (Car Caravan Action)
24 Hour Fitness – San Leandro
304 Bay Fair Mall
San Leandro
(Exact meeting location TBA
On Saturday, April 18, 2020, Steven Taylor was shot and killed unnecessarily by a San Leandro Police Department Officer. On this Saturday, April 25th – one week after his brutal murder – at 2:30pm, the Anti Police-Terror Project will convene a car caravan to demand justice for him and his family.
Up to 50% of the people killed by law enforcement are in the middle of a mental health crisis. Law enforcement agencies are not equipped to handle these calls, they don’t have adequate training and many of them don’t want the job. These result in unnecessary deaths, trauma and pain. And those that are killed disproportionately Black.
“We are past the time for a shift in how we respond to mental health crises,’ said James Burch of APTP. “That’s why APTP Sacramento launched MH First to create a community-lead response to mental health that responds with compassion and care, not a badge and a gun.”
For the last six years, APTP has been on the Bay Area frontlines in responding to state violence. In the time of COVID-19, organizers have had to shift strategies and tactics. To that end, we will do everything to keep people safe, using social distancing and keeping people in their cars.
We are asking folks to respect the following:
This will be a car caravan to avoid transmission of COVID-19 among participants and the public. We apologize to those who are denied access because of this, and we are looking for ways to make our actions more inclusive during this time.
– We ask everyone to bring masks. We ask folks who want to have their windows down to wear their masks.
– We ask everyone to only ride with folks with whom they are sheltering in place.
– We ask everyone to stay in their cars.
– We ask everyone to follow the lead of our identified security
Host: APTP
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/592418494955053/ or https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/23/18832586.php
Sunday, April 26
9. Sunday, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Tsuru for Solidarity Virtual Fold-In, Hosted by Berkeley JACL
Event over Zoom!
Email berkeleyjacl@gmail.com or message us in order to get the link to join the meeting. Write “Tsuru” in the subject line
The cranes will be contributed to the Tsuru for Solidarity goal of gathering 125,000 cranes to take to a march in Washington DC in 2021 to protest the detention of migrant children and families in U.S. detention camps.
Host: Berkeley JACL & Tsuru for Solidarity
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/238395044154736/?active_tab=about
EVENTS for NEXT WEEK
Wednesday, April 29
Wednesday, 4:00pm – 5:00pm (PT), Colonialism & Contamination: Mapping U.S. Military Injustices on the Chamorro People of Guam
Register – free webinar:
Join World BEYOND War for a free webinar on April 29 at 7pm Eastern as part of our “Close Bases” campaign! We’ll be joined by speakers Dr. Sasha Davis & Leilani Rania Ganser to talk about the negative impact of U.S. military bases in Guam. We’ll explore how the military presence threatens the indigenous Chamorro culture and people, as well as the environmental impacts of the weapons stored on the bases.
Panelist:
Dr. Sasha Davis has a PhD from Penn State University, completing his dissertation on the effects on nuclear contamination on the Bikini Atoll, on the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. He has done extensive research on matters of militarization in the Pacific and contamination caused by military bases. He is a professor at Keene State College in New Hampshire, where he teaches courses in Human Geography, Tourism, and Recreation
Leilani Rania Ganser is the Grants and Impact Coordinator at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Her experiences as a person who identifies as Chamorro and Kanaka Maoli have encouraged and inspired her to include indigenous methods of storytelling in her writing and in public conversation. Her activism spans multiple social issues, and she studies colonial violence and gendered violence as well as interactions between indigenous communities and the military. Prior to working with the Pulitzer Center, she served as an advocacy intern for the Gateway Center for Domestic Violence Services, and a climate justice intern for the Institute for Policy Studies
Wednesday, 4:00pm (PT), Popular Resistance May Day General Strike Call
Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEF2NNPQ2iHhHqO0ySqsMAUG6CErvU9zS52TFi3aD984Svvg/viewform
learn how to participate in the general strike from home
Host / Info: Popular Resistance
Wednesday, 6:00pm – 7:30pm, TLM Online Presents: Sex Workers and the COVID-19 Crisis
Zoom link will be sent on the day of the event to those who register.
Suggested donation: $0 – $10
Due to lack of support from the government, workers face the difficult choice of sheltering-in-place and losing income or having to work and risk exposure to COVID-19. Beyond the impacts on other industries, sex workers are further marginalized by stigma, explicit exclusion from federal relief efforts, and criminalization.
For sex workers and other workers in informal economies, governmental relief has been insufficient to meet need—but as with all workers, sex workers need economic relief so they can shelter in place and help all of San Francisco stay home.
Join the Tenderloin Museum for a digital panel in which sex workers and community organizers from the Rad Mission Neighbors, US PROStitutes Collective, and St. James Infirmary speak out on the urgent need for the decriminalization of sex work and how organizing around sex workers’ needs makes the city safer for all its residents. Moderated by local historian and activist Ivy Anderson, participants will learn about local legislative measures aimed at ensuring the support and safety of sex workers—and how to join the mutual aid effort to provide emergency aid to sex workers now.
Info: US PROStitutes Collective
