Names of the people killed in Georgia. Please hold their families and friends in your thoughts and prayers.
May each of them Rest in Peace and Rise in Power!
♥ Soon Park ♥, 74
♥ Hyun J. Grant ♥, 51
♥ Suncha Kim ♥, 69
♥ Yong Yue ♥, 63
♥ Xiaojie Tan ♥, 49
♥ Daoyou Feng ♥, 44
♥ Delaina Ashley Yaun ♥, 33
♥ Paul Andre Michels ♥, 54
See Actions # 1 and Event # 3
Few items that might be of interest…Am NOT back posting on a regular basis
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ARTICLES:
A. After 30 Years of War Against Iraq, Americans Must Make Reparations – March 19, 2021
Opinion | After 30 Years of War Against Iraq, Americans Must Make Reparations (commondreams.org)
B. Canadians’ growing rebellion against draconian Covid restrictions – March 19, 2021
Canadians’ growing rebellion against draconian Covid restrictions – In Gaza (wordpress.com)
C. What We’re Really Seeing With All These Anti-China Narratives – March 19, 2021
What We’re Really Seeing With All These Anti-China Narratives – Caitlin Johnstone
D. What Happens When Our Faces Are Tracked Everywhere We Go? – March 18, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/18/magazine/facial-recognition-clearview-ai.html
E. Bernie Sanders rips into Jeff Bezos: ‘You are worth $182 billion…why are you doing everything in your power to stop your workers’ from unionizing?
Sanders criticizes Jeff Bezos for trying to stop Amazon union (businessinsider.com)
See events # 1 & # 4
F. Our Endless Wars Led to the Capitol Insurrection – March 17, 2021
Our Endless Wars Led to the Capitol Insurrection (thenation.com)
Article by Pat Tillman’s brother Kevin Tillman
G. Climbing without a map: Japan’s nuclear clean-up has no end in sight – March 14, 2021
Climbing without a map: Japan’s nuclear clean-up has no end in sight | Nasdaq
ACTIONS / PETITIONS
1. A Community – Centered Response to Violence Against Asian American Communities – Georgia
See Evemt # 3
2. Save the South/Southeast Asia Library at UC Berkeley
SIGN: Petition · UC Berkeley Library: Save the South/Southeast Asia Library at UC Berkeley · Change.org
3. Stop the unnecessary new navy nuke
SIGN: Sign Now: Stop the unnecessary new navy nuke | Win Without War
4. Hold the U.S. Accountable in Okinawa
SIGN: Take Action to Hold the U.S. Accountable in Okinawa (salsalabs.org)
5. Stand Up for Care Workers
SIGN: Stand up for Care Workers | National Domestic Workers Alliance (everyaction.com)
EVENTS
Saturday, March 20 – Tuesday, March 23
Saturday, March 20
1. Saturday, 10:00am – 1:00pm, Rally for Amazon Workers! – Press Conference & Rally
900 7th Street – at Berry
SF
Also see event #4
On March 20th, there will be an international day of action initiated by SupportAmazonUnion.org to back the 6,000 Bessemer Alabama warehouse workers who are voting this month for a union.
Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon who is worth nearly $200 billion, is spending tens of millions of dollars to fight their unionization, even
offering workers $2,000 to quit so they can’t vote in the election.
Host: For A Mass Labor Party in USA
Info: (1) Rally for Amazon Workers! | Facebook or SF Rally for Bessemer Alabama Amazon Workers! Stop Union Busting : Indybay
2. Saturday, 11:30am – 1:00pm (PT); 2:30pm 4:00pm (ET), End the Endless Wars: US Troops Out of the Middle East!
Webinar registration: Meeting Registration – Zoom
18 years after President Bush invaded Iraq on March 19, 2003, the US remains at war in Afghanistan and Syria. President Biden bombed Syria on February 25. The US continues to support the wars in Yemen and Libya, stations troops in Iraq and Somalia, and is selling arms to its allies Saudi, UAE, and Israel as they prepare to confront Iran. Syria and Iran are heavily sanctioned, including new “Caesar Act” sanctions which are devastating Syria’s civilian economy, and President Biden’s team is moving much too slowly to rejoin the Iran Nuclear Deal. Presidents change but the endless wars continue and escalate.
Massive military budgets have driven massive inequality in the US. We need to divert those funds to pay for COVID relief, health care, infrastructure and jobs, and to rapidly confront climate change.
Candidate Biden said it is time to “end the forever wars”, but President Biden’s response has so far been cautious.
Speakers:
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (US Army – Ret.) is distinguished professor of government and public policy at the College of William and Mary. He was Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2002 to 2005, during the start of the Iraq War.
State Sen. Jamie Eldridge is a leader of the progressives in the Massachusetts State House and a longtime advocate of ending endless wars and cutting the Pentagon budget to support domestic needs. This year, he introduced a bill to divest state pension funds from companies that produce nuclear weapons.Sen. Jamie Eldridge
Kathy Kelly is an American peace activist, pacifist and author, one of the founding members of Voices in the Wilderness, and, until the campaign closed in 2020, a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence. She has frequently visited Afghanistan, Iraq and many other countries affected by U.S. wars and occupations, and has often led nonviolent civil resistance actions.
Phyllis Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at IPS, focusing on Middle East, U.S. wars and UN issues. She co-founded the the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, and now serves on the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace. She has written and edited eleven books, including the just-published 7th updated edition of her popular Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Before & After: US Foreign Policy and the War on Terror, and Challenging Empire: How People, Governments and the UN Defy U.S. Power.
Danny Sjursen is a retired US Army officer, contributing editor at Antiwar.com, senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, and director of the Eisenhower Media Network. He served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and later taught history at West Point. He is the author of a memoir and critical analysis of the Iraq War, Ghostriders of Baghdad: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge and Patriotic Dissent: America in the Age of Endless War, and cohosts the podcast Fortress on a Hill.
Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian and journalist. He is the author of thirty books, including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. He is the Chief Correspondent for Globetrotter and a Columnist for Frontline (India) and Chief Editor of LeftWord Books (New Delhi).
Moderator: Kevin Martin, President, Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund. Kevin’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Village Voice, The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, The Progressive, and Z magazine. He has has traveled abroad representing Peace Action and the U.S. peace movement on delegations and at conferences in Russia, Japan, China,
Hosts: Massachusetts Peace Action, Chicago Area Peace Action, Maryland Peace Action, Peace Action Baltimore
Info: (2) Endless Wars = Few or No Gains for Working People | Facebook
3. Saturday, 12Noon – 2:30pm, From the Bay to Atlanta: A Safe Space for Asian Americans to Grieve and Rage
Portsmouth Square (in Chinatown)
On Kearny between Clay St. & Washington St.
SF
RSVP: From the Bay to Atlanta: A Safe Space for Asian Americans to Grieve and Rage – Action Network
This event will be delivered in Cantonese and English, and it will be a child and family friendly event. Ramps will also be accessible .
we will hold a community space to mourn the 8 people murdered during the mass shooting in Georgia, 6 of whom were Asian women, and we stand with the elderly woman who defended herself against the racist attack in SF earlier this week. Waves of attacks have been directed against all Asian American women and community- join us in creating a space where we vent, grieve, and show care for each other in the wake of what is happening, as we work towards safety for all.
We condemn all forms of racist and sexist violence. All of us, especially women and low-wage and essential workers, deserve to go about our daily lives – go to work and school, take a walk to get groceries – in a safe and healthy community without being afraid of injury or death. Racism, economic inequality, and gender-based violence are at the root of this problem, and our solutions to address this violence must address all in order to be truly safe.
We need comprehensive culturally responsive victim support, resources for community-based safety and prevention programs in Asian American communities, and continued organizing in our communities. For our voices to be heard together, we must heal and tend to the wound in our communities and beyond together. Let’s come together to make art, be in community and support one another.
** This space is will center targeting our immigrant, Asian-identified folks, while non-Asian allies are also welcome. It will be safely socially distanced and family friendly. This event will be delivered in Cantonese and English, and it will be a child and family friendly event. Ramps will also be accessible.
See site for list of co-sponsors
Host: Chinese Progressive Associaiton
Info: (2) From the Bay to Atlanta: A Safe Space for Asian Americans to Grieve and Rage | Facebook
4. Saturday, 1:00pm – 4:00pm, March 20 Day of Action: Fight Racism and Union Busting!
Meet at: Lake Merritt BART Parking lot
8th & Oak St., Oakland
2:30pm – Ending rally at Snow Park (19th & Harrison)
Cravan to several Oakland Amazon Hubs for 2:30pm ending rally at Snow Park (19th and Harrison)
Contact Support Amazon Workers – Bay Area at bayarea@supportamazonworkers.org or 510-813-4687
These predominantly Black workers who have in recent months formed the BAmazon Workers Union, are on the cusp of launching a history-changing workers organization against one of the biggest and most powerful transnational corporations in the world, and its super rich union busting owner, Jeff Bezos. In addition, these workers are standing up to the racist, anti-union laws that suppress labor across the South.
Solidarity from every corner of the labor and progressive movements is needed now to show the workers in Bessemer that they are not alone
Facebook: March 20 Day of Action: Fight Racism and Union Busting! | Facebook or MARCH 20 Oakland Solidarity With BAmazon Workers : Indybay
5. Saturday, 2:00pm, International 5G Awareness & Action Day
Meet at:
Verizon Store (outside)
2209 Shattuck (at Allston Way)
Berkeley
Mask / social distancing
We’ll protest there awhile, then march to a couple of nearby cellphone stores. Verizon is big on beaming 5G from satellites in space, which will connect with approximately one million new cell antennas in the US.
action to raise awareness and oppose the rollout of 5G and the launching of thousands of 5G satellites that will
surround the planet, causing unimaginable harm to the Earth and all of her inhabitants.
6. Saturday, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Building A Revolutionary Movement
Companeros Del Barrio PreSchool (meeting is in a courtyard)
474 Valencia St. (nr. 16th St.)
SF
Mask / Social distancing
Public Transportation: 16th St. BART; SF MUNI: #22, #49 # 14 buslines
We must Unite, Organize and Resist.
All are invited and needed to build a much needed revolutionary movement in this time of history.
Flier at: https://www.instagram.com/p/CMfR2eqhCgF/
7. Saturday, 6:45pm, Virtual Vigil to Protect the Sacred
Anyone On/Off facebook
Indigenous and Interfaith leaders will be Joining us at 6:45, on facebook live
As the sun sets this Spring Equinox, we invite you to join a virtual candle light vigil to protect the West Berkeley Shellmound Sacred Site, currently surrounded with barbed wire fencing as we await the appeals court decision.
Join online from wherever you are, offer a prayer, a message of support, light a candle, take a moment to honor the lans you are on and all of its history.
Save the West Berkeley Shellmound.
Host: Save the West Berkeley Shellmound
Info: Virtual Vigil to Protect the Sacred | Facebook
Sunday, March 21
8. Sunday, 10:00am, Art Against Imprisonment Launch Event – From Palestine to the U.S.
Zoom
Register: Webinar Registration – Zoom
Please Join The Palestinian Youth Movement, Addameer, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Freedom Archives, The Arab Resource and Organizing Center and US Palestinian Community Network for Art Against Imprisonment, a Virtual Art Exhibit, that features art from incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people
in Palestine and in the US. As a small testament to their creativity, imagination, and expressions of solidarity!.
Join us in launching this exhibit with former political prisoners: Hafez Omar, Linda Evans, and Oscar Lopez Rivera. Also, we will have and Anmar Rafeedie, cultural worker and long time member of El-Fanoun Palestinian Dance Troupe; and a message from Kevin Cooper currently on California’s death row.
with musical artist:Naima Shaloub; and with more to come.
For more information, please contact palyouth.usa@gmail.com
Info: Art Against Imprisonment Launch Event | Facebook
9. Sunday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, California College of the Arts Street Mural Action – Big Banks Out of Higher-Ed!
First Republic Bank
101 Pine St.
SF
RSVP: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/savecca
Masks / social distancing
The Board of Trustees and the administration at California College of the Arts (CCA) are willingly saddling the institution with massive amounts of debt through their relationships with First Republic Bank and developers. They have continued to balance CCA’s budget on the backs of students and workers while decreasing resources to students, cutting staff positions, and increasing tuition and housing costs. If we don’t intervene and stop the madness, CCA is fated to collapse like San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) leaving workers without a livelihood and students without resources and access to higher-ed.
Join students, supporters, and CCA union members as we call out the administration at CCA and demand an end to the corporatization of CCA: transparent decision-making, transparent finances, a fair contract, tangible racial and social justice practices, and demand an end the suppression of workers organizing for their rights.
Hosts: SEIU: Local 1021 and CCA Staff Union
Info: California College of the Arts Street Mural Action – Big Banks Out of Higher-Ed! | Facebook
10. Sunday, 1:00pm – 8:00pm (PT); 4:00pm – 11:00pm (ET), The Cold War Truth Commission
Come Spend The Day While We Put: “THE COLD WAR ON TRIAL”
The Speakers We Have So Far:
Medea Benjamin, Daniel Ellsberg, Kathy Kelly, S. Brian Willson, David Swanson, Norman Solomon, Peter Phillips, Jeff Cohen,
Ann Wright, Peter Kuznick, Roy Bourgeois, Bruce Gagnon, Joel Andreas, Gerald Horne, Matthew Hoh,
David Vine, Mickey Huff, Eric Mann, Jodie Evans, Gerry Condon, Carl Boggs, Jim Lafferty, John Parker
Marcy Winograd, Jeremy Kuzmarov, Alice Slater, Michael Novick, Carley Towne, Ed Rampell & Others.
program and resources here!
Hosts: Witness For Peace Southwest, CODEPINK & Addicted To War
11. Sunday, 1:30pm – 3:30pm, Black Women Stirring the Waters
Register: Black Women Stirring the Waters Tickets, Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 1:30 PM | Eventbrite
Black Women Stirring the Waters (BWSTW) March Discussion Group Meeting – African American Women Living Internationally – Motivation, Journey and Experience
In acknowledgement of International Women’s Day, March 8, BWSTW will host a panel of dynamic African American women who are living and working internationally. Through this panel discussion and conversation, we’ll hear about what motivated each of the women to live outside of the United States of America, what their experience was as they journeyed towards this international lifestyle and what experiences were most memorable as they established lives in other countries.
Join us for this insightful journey through the lens of experience of these dynamic women.
Black Women Stirring the Waters (BWSTW) was established June 24, 1984. Black Women Stirring the Waters name was adopted in 1985 from the quote above attributed to Sojourner Truth a 19th Century abolitionist, suffragette and former slave.
12. Sunday, 6:00pm – 7:00pm, Seventh Anniversary of Alex Nieto’s Murder by SFPD
Alex’s Altar
Bernal Hill
SF
Gather with Refugio and Elvira Neito as they remember Alex on the 7th anniversary that SFPD murdered him.
On March 21, 2014, Alejandro “Alex” Nieto 28 years old, was killed when he was struck by 14 – 15 bullets (of a total of 59 shots) fired by four San Francisco Police Department officers, on Bernal Hill Park, without justification. The officers who killed Alex Nieto are: Sgt. Jason Sawyer (then lieutenant. He is also the killer of John Smart in 1998!), Officer Roger Morse, Officer Richard Schiff and Officer Nathan Chew.
Justice for Alex Nieto and All that have been killed by the police.
Monday, March 22
13. Monday, 8:30am – 12Noon, AAPI Solidarity #JusticeForVicha Rally
Hall of Justice
850 Bryant St.
SF
The last rally was a pre-trial. This time please join us at the actual trial of Antoine Watson who killed Grandpa Vicha with malice. Join us as we demand justice and hold the district attorney Chesa Boudin accountable. Bring sings and show your solidarity as we honor the life of Vicha Ratanapakdee.
DA Chesa Boudin will be speaking to the Thai community!
Host Stand for Asian Solidarity
Info: AAPI Solidarity #JusticeForVicha Rally | Facebook
14. Monday, 9:00am – 9:00pm, Dr. Nicole Fleetwood Tourof Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Suggested donations from $7.50 (schools, non-profits, groups) to $150, or amount of your choice. No one turned away.
Donate at Eventbrite now, and on Monday, March 22 you will receive access to view Dr. Fleetwood’s 56-minute online video tour of Marking Time any time through March 29.
March 22-29
Special Benefit to Support Revolution Books
Online video guided tour
by Dr. Nicole Fleetwood of the exhibit
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration.
“Being Sentenced to prison you experience being labeled as not fit for belonging to society… Art is all about dreaming and creating and doing things that are counter to that and go up against all that…”
-Nicole Fleetwood in the special video guided tour of the exhibition Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, commenting on the work of the artist Ronnie Goodman. Ronnie died homeless on the streets of San Francisco in August 2020.
Open at MoMA PS1 through April 4, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration shows the powerful and inspiring art created by 44 men and women in the hellish conditions of the U.S. prison system — holding more than 2 million people, more than any other country in history, in the “land of the free.”
Dr. Nicole Fleetwood, noted art scholar and Professor of American Studies and Art History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, curated this unique exhibition.
Host Revolution Books
Info: Dr. Nicole Fleetwood Tour of Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration : Indybay
15. Monday, 4:00pm (PT); 7:00pm (ET), Water, Health and Human Rights: Marking World Water Day, from the U.S. to Palestine
Webinar registration: Webinar Registration – Zoom
There are so many important aspects of the Palestinian liberation struggle, and water justice is one of them. To name but one example: according to the Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine, “depriving Palestinians of water plays an essential role in Israel’s ethnic cleansing of parts of the 62% of the West Bank classified as Area C by the Oslo Accords.”
Presenters:
Monica Lewis-Patrick, We the People of Detroit
Mahtowin Munro, United American Indians of New England
Nidal al-Azraq, 1for3.org
Jehad Abusalim, American Friends Service Committee
Wayland ‘X’ Coleman, Deeper than Water
Keynote: Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), sponsor of Emergency Water is a Human Right Act
Host: Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine
Tuesday, March 23
16. Tuesday, 12Noon (PT); 3:00pm (ET), Let’s map e-carceration together and build a world with #NoDigitalPrisons
Register: Let’s map e-carceration together and build a world with #NoDigitalPrisons (p2a.co)
Join MediaJustice Tuesday, March 23 at 3 pm EST for the launch of our NEW electronic monitoring hotspots map, the first national database and archive of lived experiences involving electronic monitoring! We’ll be joined by activists from Chicago Community Bond Fund, Freedom to Thrive, EXPO of Wisconsin, and Mijente to share insights on our collective fight towards a world with #NoDigitalPrisons.
Over the last few years, our Challenging E-Carceration project has tracked national trends and local struggles against electronic monitoring (EM) and other punitive forms of e-carceration
The corporations that market this technology have powerful protections and zero transparency. State and local governments generally release little to no information.
Host: Media Justice
