Am not back posting on a regular basis. Apologies to groups who had events for Wed. Computer was acting up today.

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Please include Accessibility and ASL info in your events! And if your action is ‘child friendly’

  These are JUSTICE and INCLUSIVE issues!

Please post your actions on Indybay even if event is digital: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12

 See Indybay also for other listing of events.

Listing of other Bay Area Protests & Rallies

Upcoming List of Bay Area Protests (Jan. 13-31)

ARTICLES:

A. 7^th Annual MLK Weekend (Video by CRC Media Corps – 2min 23sec. long)

Facebook

See events # 7 & 16

B. Police Commissioner’s brother, an SFPD sergeant, has a history of shootings and excessive force complaints  – January 13, 2021

Police Commissioner’s brother, an SFPD sergeant, has a history of shootings and excessive force complaints

C. Lawyer for Lisa Montgomery Condemns ‘Craven Bloodlust’ of Trump Administration as DOJ Executes Mentally Ill Woman  – January 13, 2021

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/13/lawyer-lisa-montgomery-condemns-craven-bloodlust-trump-administration-doj-executes

Please hold the family of Lisa Montgomery and the family of Bobbie Jo Stinnett  in your thoughts

 Lisa Montgomery was executed early this morning. The Supreme Court voted 6-3 to lift the ‘stay of execution’ that was place by two courts. I don’t know if she ever was evaluated psychologically as one court ordered for the stay.

      Rest in Peace

 ♥ Lisa Montgomery ♥

Hoping that the scheduled executions of Corey Johnson and Dustin Higgs will not happen this week or next and that the Supreme Court does not over rule the ruling of a lower court. Yesterday, the U.S. District Court for The District of Columbia  because both Johnson and Higgs have Covid ordered:

 “…It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants (along with their respective successors in office,

officers, agents, servants, employees, attorneys, and anyone acting in concert with them) are

enjoined from executing Plaintiffs Dustin Higgs and Cory Johnson until March 16, 2021.”

D. COVID outbreak — and media crackdown — at private halfway house in Tenderloin – January 11, 2021

COVID outbreak — and media crackdown — at private halfway house in Tenderloin | 48 hills

Keith “Malik” Washington is the new editor of the SF Bay View newspaper. He was released from federal prison last September to The Taylor Center in San Francisco’s tenderloin district, a halfway house run by private prison contractor GEO Group, a billion-dollar corporation that operates 129 prisons as well as ICE detention facilities. After Malik spoke with a journalist about a recent COVID-19 outbreak at the Taylor Center, substantiated by a letter posted to residents that threatens to send residents back into prison custody, his cell phone was confiscated and he was given a disciplinary write-up for “unauthorized contact with the public,

See action #  1

E. Uganda bans social media ahead of presidential election – January 11, 2021

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uganda-election/uganda-bans-social-media-ahead-of-presidential-election-idUSKBN29H0KH

F.Trump Administration Says the Inconvenience of Rescheduling Executions Outweighs the “Harm” to Prisoners Set to Die – January 11, 2021

Trump Administration Says the Inconvenience of Rescheduling Executions Outweighs the “Harm” to Prisoners Set to Die — ProPublica

G. Democrats Unveil Legislation To Abolish The Federal Death Penalty  – January 11, 2021

Democrats Unveil Legislation To Abolish The Federal Death Penalty : NPR

H. FYI Trump’s Latest Yemen Move Is Far Worse Than The Capitol Riot  – January 11, 2021

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/512290-caitlin-johnstone-trump-yemen-capitol/

I. Civil Society Groups Warn Against Anti-Protest Legislation Following Siege of US Capital – January 8, 2021

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/01/08/civil-society-groups-warn-against-anti-protest-legislation-following-siege-us 

J. War Heroes in New Battles for India’s Farmers – January 8, 2021

War Heroes in New Battles for India’s Farmers

K. BART to hire social workers instead of filling police officer vacancies to deal with social problems

https://www.lmtonline.com/bayarea/article/BART-to-hire-social-workers-instead-of-filling-15857032.php

L. Stopping Trump’s Last Pipeline Will Take All of Us – January 7, 2021

Stopping Trump’s Last Pipeline Will Take All of Us (thenation.com)

M. Covid camps? Put disease ‘carriers’ in DETENTION CENTERS, proposed New York law suggests – January 2, 2021

https://www.rt.com/usa/511357-new-york-covid-detention-health-bill/

N. Joe Biden should end the US pretence over Israel’s ‘secret’ nuclear weapons – December 31, 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/31/joe-biden-us-pretence-israel-nuclear-weapons

ACTIONS:

1. Release Keith Malik Washington to home confinement not back to prison

http://chng.it/DrfJhZTyF6.

  See article: D

2. Cancel Rent Cancel Mortgage

PETITION – Cancel Rent/Cancel Mortgage (everyaction.com)

   On January 31^st, the CDC National Eviction Moratorium expires with no national and almost no local protections for up to 40 million renters at risk for eviction.

3. Demand Congress add checks and balances to our nuclear system and enact No First Use!

4. Tell the U.S. government to terminate its involvement with a deadly coal plant in India!

FOE: Take Action

5. Tell the U.S. government: Reject financing for oil and gas projects in Mexico!

FOE: Take Action

EVENTS

Wednesday, January 13 – Tuesday, January 19

Wednesday, January 13

1. Wednesday, 5:00pm(PT); 8:00pm (ET), Trump & the Whole Fascist Cabal Must Go Now!

RSVP  Trump & the Whole Fascist Cabal Must Go Now (actionnetwork.org)

Will also stream on: Twitter & Facebook

Roundtable discussion sponsored by @RefuseFascism

Featuring:
Rosie O’Donnell, actor & comedienne
Jason Stanley, author, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us & Them
Andy Zee, co-initiator RefuseFascism.org; host, The RNL Show on Youtube
hosted by Sunsara Taylor, We Only Want the World, WBAI & WPFW

from Andy Zee, co-initiator of RefuseFascism.org:

The Trump/Pence regime must be thoroughly repudiated. Those who counsel that impeachment will further divide the country fail to face the reality that the country is already profoundly divided. Appeasing this neo-Confederate fascist movement – a movement that is still in congress as well as the streets – is what led to the deadly and failed coup attempt led by Trump.

History shows that a failed coup that is not thoroughly repudiated down the road can lead to a successful coup or a “legitimate” return to power fueled by vengeance. It is only the action of the millions of people who desire a just world taking to the streets in non-violent protest that can compel those in power to be resolute and remove Trump from power now.

Sponsor: Refuse Fascism

2. Wednesday 5:00pm-7:30pm, (PT), This is Not a Movie: Robert Fisk and the Politics of Truth

Online event

This is Not a Movie: Robert Fisk and the Politics of Truth | Arab Cinema ReImagined (eventive.org)

$10. donation

NOTE: After this content becomes available January 13th at 5:00 pm PST, you’ll have 4 days 6 hours to start watching. Once you begin, you’ll have 24 hours to finish watching the film. The January 13th at 5:00 pm live stream can be viewed anytime until January 17th at 11:45 pm.

A special tribute screening to the late Robert Fisk, hosted by the Middle East Children’s Alliance and the Arab Film & Media Institute. Robert Fisk died on October 30, 2020 in Ireland at the age of 74. 

ABOUT THE FILM:
For more than 40 years, journalist Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent and divisive conflicts in the world. Yung Chang’s This Is Not a Movie captures Fisk in action—feet on the ground, notebook in hand, as he travels into landscapes devastated by war, ferreting out the facts and firing reports back home to reach an audience of millions.

“In response to the idea that journalism is or should be ‘objective,’ Fisk said, “I always say that reporters should be neutral and unbiased on the side of those who suffer. If you were covering the 18th-century slave trade, you would not give equal space to the slave-ship captain. … At the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut in 1982, I did not give equal time to the Israeli army who watched the killings and whose Lebanese allies committed the atrocity.”

Info: (1) Virtual Screening “This is Not a Movie: Robert Fisk and the Politics of Truth” | Facebook

3. Wednesday, 6:00pm – 7:30pm, HRCSF Member Meeting / Reunion de Membresia

Register here / registrarse aquí: 

For all – on or off facebook

Host Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco

Info: (1) HRCSF Member Meeting / Reunion de Membresia | Facebook

Thursday, January 14

4. Thursday, 4:30pm (PT); 7:30pm (ET), “Care is Essential”

Tele-Town Hall

Register: RSVP Today: “Care is Essential” | National Domestic Workers Alliance (everyaction.com)

“Care is Essential” campaign to ensure that Care work is an essential part of rebuilding our economy.

The COVID pandemic has demonstrated that the work of caring for our loved ones is crucial life-saving work. It’s time to invest in our sector by ensuring that these are good jobs and that people have the care that they need.

an opportunity for care workers and supporters to hear our unified vision, progress on the campaign, and take action.

Host: National Domestic Workers Alliance

5. Thursday, 5:00pm (PT); 8:00pm (ET), Workers Can Defeat Fascism & Racism

Online

Register: Webinar Registration – Zoom

Join us we discuss how workers can organize to defeat fascism and racism!

The coup attempt in Washington, D.C., and the mobilization of a fascist mob numbering in the tens of thousands, must be viewed with the utmost seriousness. These white-supremacist forces pose the greatest threat to the working class, especially the most oppressed. Their political aim is to crush with an iron fist every expression, even the most modest, of workers rights, social justice and Black Lives Matter.

Capitalist politicians in both major parties are falling all over each other to disassociate themselves from the would-be coup makers — and from Trump the instigator. But the failure of the state apparatus especially the police to prevent an outright invasion — however short-lived — of the citadel of U.S. political power shows that those in power are unreliable, inept and in no way up to the task of beating back a fascist threat. 

We — the workers and oppressed within the U.S. — cannot depend on the state to prevent violent, KKK-like attacks, especially those on workers of color who are and always have been the fascists’ primary targets. When have the Democrats and Republicans ever offered any real protection?

Host: Workers World Party

Info: (1) Workers Can Defeat Fascism & Racism! | Facebook

6. Thursday, 6:00pm, Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present

Online

Register for info (Free):

Mary Ziegler with Becca Andrews / Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present | Event Details | Passage – Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office. (gopassage.com)

Link will be sent after U register

Just us for a virtual event with Mary Ziegler for her new book “Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present”. She’ll be in conversation with Mother Jones reproductive rights reporter Becca Andrews.

Hosts: Mother Jones & Booksmith

Info: Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present : Indybay 

Friday, January 15 – Sunday, January 17

7th Annual Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy Weekend

7. Friday, 8:00am – Sunday,11:45pm(PT), 7th Annual Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy Weekend

It’s that time of year again! The 7th Annual Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy Weekend will take place January 15th-18th 2021.

This year’s theme is Re-Imagine. Reimagine and remember King’s unrealized dream.

We are asking organizations to organize events over the weekend on January 15, 16, or 17

 But please reserve Monday, January 18, MLK Day itself, for the 7th Annual Day of Action to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy — Car Caravan: 

(1) 7th Annual Day of Action to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy – Car Caravan Edition | Facebook

Events should be virtual or absolutely ensure safe social distancing and adherence to COVID-19 precautions. We will post events here as we learn of them.

See you online and in the streets

Oaklanders have a dream:

We dream of a total transformation of how Oakland defines and implements public safety.

We dream of REfunding our communities with 50% of OPD’s dollars to create true public safety.

We dream of housing our unhoused.

We dream of being able to afford our rent.

We dream of an equitable and competent response to our most COVID-19 impacted communities.

We dream of communities that are not terrorized and traumatized by gun violence.

We dream of a 100% progressive city government that reflects the values that are the heart and soul of Oakland.

We are making our dream the collective lived reality of our City.

Host: Anti Police-Terror Project

Info: (1) 7th Annual Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy Weekend | Facebook

8. Friday, 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PT); 7:00pm – 9:00pm (ET), Honoring MLK Jr. & Movement to End Poverty ‘Then and Now

Register at: 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfh89fkUeX49Lk4Zeinx_81-vxYPQqvfLlsbeKarzEFNViOIQ/viewform

Direct FB livestream here: https://www.facebook.com/NationalUnionoftheHomeless/

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCg1sQ5ALv-Z3bLMsajHCkA

Come join the National Union of the Homeless, the Non-Violent Medicaid Army,
and the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival on the birthday
of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in honor of his legacy.

The National Union of the Homeless and the Nonviolent Medicaid Army, as part of the
2020 NUH Winter Offensive, will host a gathering lifting up the revolutionary work of
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King as he build the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign.

This event will highlight the original PPC and the organizing efforts today to build a movement to end poverty led by the poor and dispossessed that builds on the historical work of MLK during the last three years of his life (1965-1968) that ultimately led to his assassination.

We will be featuring speakers from the NUH, NVMA, and the Poor People’s campaign:
A National Call for Moral Revival reading and reflecting on some of MLK’s more famous
quotes during his move from Civil Rights to Human Rights and his goal to build the Poor Peoples Campaign; a new and unsettling force!

Info: Honoring MLK Jr. & Movement to End Poverty Then and Now w/ NUH, NVMA & PPC : Indybay

Friday, January 15

9. Friday, 9:00am – 10:00am, Ringing in a New Era of Accountability

Free online event:

(2) Ringing in a New Era of Accountability | Facebook

A political panel focusing on ways non-profits and citizens can hold the new administration accountable

Host: Communities United Against Police Brutality (CUAPB)

10. Friday, 11:00am (PT); 2:00pm (ET), Fire Drill Friday with Jane Fonda and Quannah Chasinghorse and Jayeesha Dutta

Anyone on or off Facebook

RSVP: https://greenpeace.zoom.us/…/WN_wvH_3WnRTq6GawB7F9mFPQ

Greenpeace and allies have identified 25 specific executive actions Biden must take within his first 100 days in office to prevent climate chaos, end fossil fuel racism, and improve well-being for millions of people. On Friday, we’ll be discussing an executive action to end new fossil fuel leasing on our public lands and waters and why it’s necessary. We’ll be joined by frontline activists Quannah Chasinghorse and Jayeesha Dutta to hear how this impacts communities from the Arctic to the Gulf.

Info: (4) Fire Drill Friday with Jane Fonda and Quannah Chasinghorse and Jayeesha Dutta | Facebook

11. Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Shut Down The Police Officers Association

Police Officers Association (outside)
800 Bryant St. (@6^th Street)
SF

Wear masks; social distancing

RESIST with Mothers on the March, Black and Brown for Justice, Peace and Equality, Family’s who loved ones have been killed by SFPD, and Community

   – Demand the San Francisco Police Officers Association Be Shut Down!

   – The SF Police Officers Association Be Declared a Non Grata Organization

   – Demand the Police Officers Bill of Rights Be Abolished.

   – Jail Killer cops – we want killer cops to be charged with murder.

   – Abolish the Police

Saturday, January 16

12. Saturday, 10:00am – 12Noon, Congress of the People on Health Care

After registering confirmation email will be sent

Join us for a discussion on the crisis in health care and what can be done about it on the federal, state and local level

More long-term unemployed people are losing their employer-sponsored health insurance. The pandemic has caused long-term health complications. With the shortage of hospital beds and difficulty in getting appointments, people have forgone medical treatment, exacerbating other medical conditions and increasing future needs for health care.

sponsored by the Alliance for Social and Economic Justice, 415-863-1927, asej@riseup.net  

Notice received from Living Wage Coalition

13. Saturday, 11:00am (PT); 2:00pm (ET), Hunger Ward – Film (40min)

virtual ticket: Hunger Ward – Gathr At Home™ – Gathr Films

Panel discussion with U.S. House Representative Ro Khanna, U.K. Member of Parliament Andrew Mitchell, director Skye Fitzgerald from Spin Film, and others. 

Hosts: Yemeni Alliance Committee, Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation

Info: (1) Virtual Film Screening: Hunger Ward | Facebook

14. 12Noon – 3:00pm, #ForwardTogether: Mass Organizing for Racial Justice, Climte, LGBTQIA+, Economy, more

Virtual event:

RSVP: #ForwardTogether | The Frontline

Will receive event invite after registration

Ahead of the inauguration this month, we’ll gather virtually to plan how we continue to push together.

The Frontline is partnering with Women’s March, Rising Majority, the Movement for Black Lives, Working Families Party, United We Dream and others to continue to mobilize thru #ForwardTogether, an unprecedented Mass Organizing Virtual Event 

This mass organizing meeting will gather organizers and everyday people who made these electoral wins possible to discuss the issues that the new Administration and Senate Leadership need to center in their policy agendas: Racial Justice, Climate, Trans Rights, the Economy, and more

Host: The Frontline Coalition

Info: #ForwardTogether: Mass Organizing for Racial Justice, Climate, LGBTQIA+, Economy, more : Indybay

Sunday, January 17

15. Sunday, 1:00pm – 3:00pm, Andy Worthington on America’s Torture Colony: 19 Years of Guantanamo

Live Online event:

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/RevolutionBooks1

Andy Worthington, the British journalist and co-founder of Close Guantanamo, will be giving a virtual talk from London  on the history and continuing horror of the Guantanamo detention camp.​

He will be joined by Shelby Sullivan-Bennis, lawyer for several Guantanamo prisoners and victims of U.S. drone strikes outside of war zones.

In January 2002, President George W. Bush set up the military prison within the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. The vast majority of those held there from its beginnings were picked up without any incriminating evidence. Guantanamo prison is a shameful icon of torture, including water boarding, and of indefinite detention without charge or trial. It violates basic human rights — and has been a vital tool of U.S. imperialism’s “wars without end” in the Middle East, Central Asia, and parts of Africa.

Andy sent RB these thoughts: “After four long and horrible years in which Donald Trump essentially sealed Guantanamo shut, the arrival in the White House of Joe Biden offers a glimmer of hope that prisoner releases will resume, and that there will be movement towards the eventual closure of the prison. However, as with Obama, it may well be a struggle to get the administration to prioritize the expenditure of political capital doing what is right and necessary.”

Host: Revolution Books – Berkeley

Info: Andy Worthington on America’s Torture Colony: 19 Years of Guantanamo Online Event : Indybay

Monday, January 18

16. Monday, 12Noon – 4:00pm, 7th Annual Day of Action to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy – Car Caravan Edition

Meet at:

Port of Oakland
Oakland

This year’s Reclaim “march” will be a car caravan that begins at the Port of Oakland, makes its way down International/E14 and ends in East Oakland with a short program.

Also see event # 7

Host: Anti Police-Terror Project

Info: (1) 7th Annual Day of Action to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy – Car Caravan Edition | Facebook

17. International Commission of Inquiry to Open Hearings on Racist Police Violence in the US on MLK Day

Register:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScBdN9_bKrVl6nov6lRtTvF3Oac0VzfUouDu3nCVWqxOe9lFw/viewform

The International Commission of Inquiry on Systemic Racist Police Violence Against People of African Descent in the United States will broadcast live hearings online with testimony from victims’ families and lawyers beginning January 18, 2021, which is the the day that the United States will commemorate the birthday of civil rights legend Martin Luther King, Jr. The hearings come to a close on February 6, 2021.

Hosts: National Conference of Black Lawyers, International Association of Democratic Lawyers, National Lawyers Guild

Info: https://iadllaw.org/2021/01/international-commission-of-inquiry-to-open-hearings-on-racist-police-violence-in-the-us-on-mlk-day/

Tuesday, January 19

18. Tuesday, 5:00pm (PT): 8:00pm (ET),Advocating for Palestinian Children During the Biden Administration

Webinar

Register: #nowaytotreatachild Webinar January 2021 – No Way to Treat a Child (dci-palestine.org)

For this webinar, we will be using the Zoom platform. Additional instructions and details for joining the webinar will be shared by email with individuals that have registered.

Please follow the campaign on Facebook: No Way to Treat a Child | Facebook

 and Twitter so you don’t miss anything!

 Join the #nowaytotreatachild campaign for our first webinar of the year! We will share updates, opportunities, and plans for engaging the 117th Congress and the incoming Biden administration to end Israeli military detention of Palestinian children.

Approximately 2.9 million Palestinians live in the occupied West Bank, of which around 45 percent are children under the age of 18.Palestinian children in the West Bank, like adults, face arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment under an Israeli military detention system that denies them basic rights.

The new year presents new opportunities to advocate for Palestinian children who endured grave violations of their rights at the hands of Israeli forces throughout 2020. You can read Defense for Children International – Palestine’s year-in-review to prepare for this webinar and learn what we’re up against.

Host: Defense for Children International – Palestine