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ARTICLES:
A. Kentucky lawmakers advance bill to criminalize insulting police – March 9, 2021
Kentucky lawmakers advance bill to criminalize insulting police | TheHill
B. Palestinians in Israel protest police brutality, neglect -March 9, 2021
Palestinians in Israel protest police brutality, neglect | The Electronic Intifada
C. Yemen’s Death Sentence
Yemen’s Death Sentence – CounterPunch.org
D. ‘Kill Me Instead’: Despite Nun’s Pleas, Military Junta Shoots Pro-Democracy Protesters in Myanmar – March 9, 2021
E. ‘Bloody Sunday’: Left Activists, Labor Leaders Executed in Philippines After Duterte Says ‘Finish Off’ the Communists – March 8, 2021
F. Judge permanently dismisses charges against Kenneth Walker, boyfriend of Breonna Taylor – March 8, 2021
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kenneth-walker-breonna-taylor-judge-dismisses-charges/
G. ‘Where do Palestinians go for accountability?’ AP asks a dozen times as state Dep’t flounders – March 5, 2021
H. Former Treasure Island residents report radiation and chemical poisoning during Feb. 8 SF Supervisors’ hearing – March 1. 2021
ACTIONS / PETITIONS
1. Tell the UN Human Rights Council session on March 18 to #SaveHumsa.
SIGN: #SaveHumsa: UN Human Rights Council has to act! – Stop The Wall
Humsa, a Palestinian community in the Jordan Valley, has been raided and demolished five times by Israeli occupation forces in February 2021
2. New TPS for Central American and Haitian nationals NOW!
SIGN: NEW TPS for Central American and Haitian nationals NOW! | Presente
3. Tell European agencies – No military ties with Israel. No drones for EU border control
SIGN: No Israeli killer drones for the EU – Stop The Wall
4. Don’t let Menendez & Graham undermine the Iran deal
SIGN: Don’t let Menendez & Graham undermine the Iran deal | Win Without War
5. Bipartisan bill for farm worker legalization re-introduced, could head to the floor shortly
SIGN: ACT NOW: Bipartisan bill for farm worker immigration introduced (seiu.org)
6. Tell Congress to Pass the Protect America’s Children from Toxic Pesticides Act!
7. Demand an end to political violence and violence against women in El Salvador
8. Restore Diplomatic Ties Between the U.S. and Cuba
EVENTS
Friday, March 12 – Tuesday, March 16
Friday, March 12
1. Friday, 11:30am, Defend Our City College: Pink Slip Action and Press Conference (Action & Press Conference)
Socially Distant Action: Polk St. Steps of City Hall
Zoom Press Conference:
RSVP:
SF City Hall (steps)
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl.
SF
Deliberate and chronic underfunding is hitting our City College hard.
When City College is under attack, what do we do? STAND UP! FIGHT BACK! Corporate-led, chronic underfunding of our California community colleges has left our CCSF facing a cut of at least 25%, and we need to take action. This week hundreds of full-time CCSF faculty are receiving “pink slip” layoff notices. This is unprecedented and will undermine City College of San Francisco’s essential mission: to provide an accessible and quality education to all San Franciscans, especially those most at risk.
Join event sponsors AFT 2121, Supervisor Hillary Ronen, and other allies for a socially-distanced
Info: DEFEND OUR CITY COLLEGE: PINK SLIP ACTION AND PRESS CONFERENCE! | Facebook
2. Friday, 12Noon – 1:30pm, Tell Morgan Lewis: Union Busting is Disgusting! Support the BAmazon Union Drive!
In-person
Morgan Lewis
1 Market St. (at Spear)
SF
Rally & Picket
Rally to Support Alabama Amazon Workers’ Union Drive. Morgan Lewis has been hired to conduct a racist, union busting campaign in Bessemer, AL.
Morgan Lewis has insidiously helped Amazon remain union-free for years. It blocked union organizing efforts by technicians in 2014, and more recently it defended the company against workers’ lawsuits over inadequate COVID-19 safety and charges of discrimination filed by pro-Black Lives Matter workers.
Amazon’s anti-union propaganda and efforts to delay the Bessemer union vote, manipulate the bargaining unit and appeal the NLRB ruling supporting a mail-in union election come straight from the Morgan Lewis playbook.
Morgan Lewis has had over six decades to hone its union-busting skills. In the 1970s, the company appeared frequently in the AFL-CIO’s “Report on Union Busting.”
Local endorsers include: California Prison Focus/KAGE Universal; Poor Magazine; CURYJ – Oakland; Terry Taplin, Berkeley City Council Member; Richmond People’s Strike; East Bay DSA; Socialist Viewpoint; SF Bay View National Black Newspaper; Western Workers Assembly; Workers World Party; United Front for a Mass Labor Party
Info: (1) Tell Morgan Lewis: Union Busting is Disgusting! Support the BAmazon Union Drive! | Facebook or Tell Morgan Lewis: Union Busting is Disgusting! : Indybay
3. Friday, 12Noon – 1:00pm, In support of Indigenous People’s Day 5 Webinar
Register at
Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/1coFrzqLw
The Indigenous People’s Day 5 are still facing charges from District Attorney Lori Frugoli’s office and the time to take action is now. Join us for a lunchtime webinar
We will gather virtually and learn more from our speakers and then take action together. Speakers include a member of the Indigenous People’s Day 5, Victoria Montano, as well as Reverend Deborah Lee, Executive Director, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, and more speakers TBA.
We hope you can join us for this webinar in advance of the Indigenous People’s Day 5’s next court date, which will be on March 18th. We need to take action NOW to make sure that DA Frugoli drops these charges!
“Without community, there is no liberation.” – Audre Lorde
Written and sent from Ohlone Land. Please consider supporting Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, the first Indigenous women-led, urban land trust.
Host: IPS Coalition.
Info: Indigenous People’s Day 5 Webinar | Facebook
4. Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Shut Down The Police Officers Association
In-person
SF Police Officers Associaiton (outside)
800 Bryant St. (at 6th St.)
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
5. Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Decolonization and Rematriation: Cultivating Roots for Connection and Healing with Lakota Harden
$5 – $25 (sliding scale)
This Women’s History Month, long-time organizer and community leader Lakota Harden (Minnecoujou/Yankton Lakota and HoChunk) draws on her life experiences, ancestral memory, and four decades in Native American struggles to look at how we can liberate ourselves, our society, and cultivate roots for connection.
Lakota uses the framework of decolonization to counter its manifestations in gender, race, knowledge, and educational systems as well as rematriation, the act of returning or aligning with a collective worldview under the stewardship and leadership of women. She discusses how we can right historic wrongs rooted in white supremacy, settler colonialism, and patriarchy by lifting up cultural practices that restore balance to our lives and all our relations – human and non-human relatives alike.
This powerful virtual event will help us reclaim our original way of being and feel revived, encouraged, and empowered to continue our walk on this earth with self-respect, love, and deeper connections on a path to healing ourselves and our world. Lakota Harden is the best medicine one could hope to receive!
Host: SpeakOut
Info: (1) Decolonization and Rematriation: Cultivating Roots for Connection & Healing | Facebook
6. Friday, 1:00pm, Bring Mumia Home Community Meeting and Rally to DA Boudin’s Office
Anyone on / off facebook
Meet at:
Jackson Park
1501 17th St.
SF
1:00pm – gather
3:00pm – march
MUMIA has been diagnosed with COVID-19 and connective heart disease.
MUMIA ABU-JAMAL’S LABORED BREATHING PROMPTS PRESS CONFERENCE AT D.A.’s OFFICE, CALL FOR END TO INHUMANE IMPRISONMENT OF ILL AND ELDERLY
Mumia Abu-Jamal—an innocent husband, father, grandfather, imprisoned radio journalist, “voice of the voiceless,” political prisoner, award-winning author of more than 13 books, 66 years old with liver damage and high blood pressure—is experiencing chest pressure, labored breathing, and a marked change in the distinctive tenor of his voice. After political pressure through phone calls to officials, Mumia was tested for COVID and its antibodies. The prison reports that both were negative. However, officials are not always truthful about Mumia’s health condition. We remain very concerned about causes of his current symptoms, which need immediate medical evaluation. We await direct communication from Mumia to further update his supporters.
Independent physician with decades of work in prison advocacy, Dr. Ricardo Alvarez, noted “Prisons are the physical manifestation of Racism. Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, urges the release of ” older detainees and those who are sick.” ()
At the start of the pandemic, Gov. Wolf promised to reprieve 1,800 prisoners but he has only granted 165 reprieves. Separately, 14 people sentenced to life in prison, mostly from Philadelphia, were pardoned to life on parole by Gov. Wolf on Dec. 19th. However, he waited until Feb. 12th to approve their releases
It’s a fact that guards from rural COVID “red zones” are bringing COVID into the prisons. Meanwhile, those in prison are forced to live in their cells 23 hours a day. As a means of quarantine, those infected are held in “the hole,” causing many to hide their symptoms to avoid such punitive treatment.
Free Mumia and all incarcerated people over 50 in Pennsylvania and every state prison immediately.
Host: Western Movement Assembly
Info: BRING MUMIA HOME COMMUNITY MEETING AND RALLY TO DA BOUDIN’S OFFICE | Facebook
Saturday, March 13
7. Saturday, 4:00pm, International Working Women’s Day 2021 Virtual Celebration
Anyone on / off facebook
Register Here: Meeting Registration – Zoom
GABRIELA Oakland alongside our incredible community partners invite you to a virtual gathering to commemorate International Working Women’s Day 2021, the 113th anniversary of the first women’s strike in NYC in 1908.
Join us as we Uphold the Legacy and Power of Women’s Resistance Here & Abroad! Together, we will be lifting up the internationalist struggles and stories of women workers, human rights defenders and Trans, and Gender Non Conforming communities around the world.
Let us gather together to RISE Up to demand an end to gender based violence against women and TGNC communities, RESIST militarization and displacement, and UNITE for relief, adequate protections. and mental health support for all workers.
Our #IWWD201 Points of Unity are:
1) We believe in open borders and rise up against the violences of immigration, forced migration, and displacement which make unwilling detainees and refugees of our communities and rip our families apart.
2) We are committed to exposing, fighting and dismantling imperialism, militarism, and state repression-. We echo the calls to Defund the Police, and invest in community-led public safety, which does not seek to silence or control us.
3) We are in solidarity with Black, Brown, and Indigenous women from Oakland to Palestine and the Philippines, demanding sovereignty and self-determination for their peoples,
4) We support women and TGNC
communities who are fighting economic injustice in the face of institutions and governments that value profit and political dominance, even in the midst of a deadly global pandemic, over the health and safety of their people.
5) We resist the extractive industries who control our current global economy and know that in order to secure a just and equitable future, we must combat the climate crisis.
We would also like to extend the invitation for your organization to support this year’s International Working Women’s Day celebration. Please fill out this form https://forms.gle/nJCk51rRKT1kk1su6.
Info: International Working Women’s Day 2021 Virtual Celebration | Facebook
8. Saturday, 4:00pm – 6:00pm, SF Rally & March to Demand Justice for Breonna Taylor Now One Year Late
Meet at:
Mission High School (steps)
3750 18th St.
SF
4:00pm – Rally
5:00pm – March
Masks / Social distancing
Now One Year Later and STILL NO JUSTICE for Breonna Taylor!
Bring sign, noise makers and candles!!
#JusticeForBreonnaTaylor
#SayHerName
#StillNoJustice
#BreonnaTaylor
#BreonnaTaylorWasMurdered
#WomensHistoryMonth2021
Host: Women’s March SF
Info: SF Rally & March to Demand Justice for Breonna Taylor Now One Year Late : Indybay & (2) Women’s March San Francisco | Facebook
9. Saturday, 4:30pm – 6:00pm, Women Rise Up Globally Against Femicide: International Women’s Day Celebration
Online
Register in advance at
This international Zoom celebration of the socialist-inspired day to honor working women will bring together feminists of different nations and regions to discuss the massive cross-border upsurge in defense of women’s lives and address how to stop the epidemic of violence against women.
Speakers:
Amelia Kirk-Harkin, Australia, union activist, tradeswoman and artist, Melbourne Radical Women
Eréndira Munguía, Mexico, college mathematics professor, Partido Obrero Socialista (Socialist Workers Party)
Earth-Feather Sovereign, Confederated Colville Tribes, founder of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Washington
Charlotte Strauss Swanson, U.S. Radical Women, doctoral researcher in psychology, gender, social justice at University of Tennessee
Host: Radical Women
Info: Women Rise Up Globally Against Femicide: International Women’s Day Celebration | Facebook or International Women’s Day Celebration: Women Rise Up Globally Against Femicide : Indybay
Monday, March 15
10. Monday, 4:00pm – 6:00pm, The Democratic Party and the Left
Zoom
What was the historical relationship between the Left and the Democratic Party, and what can that tell us about the problems and tasks we inherit from the 1920s-30s Old Left, the 1960s-70s New Left, and even earlier?
Panelists:
Harvey Kaye (Professor Emeritus of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, contributor to Jacobin magazine’s YouTube channel)
Reid Kotlas (Platypus Affiliated Society, Socialist Legacy)
Wayne Price (revolutionary anarchist)
Gerald Smith (Oscar Grant Committee, Berkeley Copwatch, ex-Black Panther Party)
Host: Platypus Affiliated Society
Info: The Democratic Party and the Left : Indybay
Tuesday, March 16
11. Tuesday, 4:00pm (PT); 7:00pm (ET), BDS 101: How to Join the Movement
Webinar
Register: Webinar Registration – Zoom
In this one-hour session, you’ll be introduced to the foundations, goals, and history of the BDS movement. Olivia Katbi Smith, North American organizer for the BDS Movement, will tell us about how Palestinian civil society is leading the movement. You’ll also hear about some of the products which are being boycotted, and learn about the parallels with the boycott of apartheid in South Africa.
Importantly, you will also learn how to participate in BDS campaigns yourself! We’ll introduce you to CJPME’s new boycott campaign against Pillsbury, and we’ll discuss the campaign against Canada’s drone contract with Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons company.
Host: Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East
