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ARTICLES:
A. Ten Years After Occupy Wall Street, Another World Is Still Possible – September 15, 2021
Ten Years After Occupy Wall Street, Another World Is Still Possible (truthout.org)
B. Biden announces joint deal with U.K. and Australia to counter China – September 15, 2021
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/15/biden-deal-uk-australia-defense-tech-sharing-511877
C. Benny Gantz war crimes case goes to Dutch appeals court – September 15, 2021
Benny Gantz war crimes case goes to Dutch appeals court | The Electronic Intifada
D. Report: State of Insecurity – The Cost of Militarization Since 9/11 – September 14, 2021
Report: State Of Insecurity – The Cost Of Militarization Since 9/11 – PopularResistance.Org
E. In a historic vote, the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board recommends commuting Julius Jones’ sentence from death to life – September 13, 2021
F. On the 20th Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks, the US Needs to Close Guantánamo and Bring to an End the Broken Military Commission Trials
G. Israel seeks revenge after Palestinian Great Escape – September 8, 2021
Israel seeks revenge after Palestinian Great Escape | The Electronic Intifada
See Action / Petition # 2
See Event # 4
H. Vandana Shiva on the Taking Down of Bill Gates’ Empires – September 5, 2021
Vandana Shiva on the Taking Down of Bill Gates’ Empires (organicconsumers.org)
I. US Airstrikes & Civilian Killings Since 9/11
US Airstrikes & Civilian Killings Since 9/11 – Consortiumnews
7 ACTIONS / PETITIONS:
1. Tell you lawmakers #BlockTheBombs
SIGN: Action Center – No Way to Treat a Child (dci-palestine.org)
On September 14, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, and Rep. Mark Pocan submitted an amendment to the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would require the Biden administration to halt the export of Boeing-made Joint Direct Attack Munitions and Small Diameter Bombs to Israel for a year.
Please contact your elected officials and urge them to add their names to the NDAA amendment to prevent more American-made weapons from getting into the hands of Israeli forces.
2. Respect for the human rights of prisoners
SIGN: https://chng.it/fTznfZhV5g
We call upon all international institutions to assume their responsibilities and save the lives of the newly arrested “Freedom Tunnel” prisoners.
The ‘Freedom Tunnel’ prisoners have been tortured – electrocuted, beaten
3. Urge Gov. Newsom to sign AB1194
SIGN: Sign AB1194 for attorney choice! (actionnetwork.org)
Send an email to Governor Newsom urging him to sign the bill into law to give disabled people and seniors the legal rights and resources to challenge conservatorship.
4. Stop Biometric Spread : Veto AB 751
Stop Biometric Spread : Veto Assembly Bill 751 (salsalabs.org)
5. Denounce Amazon’s plan to build a HQ on sacred Indigenous land!
South African Indigenous peoples — the Khoi and San — have battled colonialism for over 500 years. The area is a source of pride and cultural heritage, which also survived decades of oppression under apartheid. The earliest to inhabit that land, the Khoi and San people are now facing a huge challenge to their right to existence — they’re up against Amazon. Amazon is currently developing a new 70,000-square meter facility — an African headquarters for U.S. retail giant.
6. Help Ensure All Americans Have Safe Drinking Water
SIGN: Waterkeeper Alliance | Help Ensure All Americans Have Safe Drinking Water (quorum.us)
7. Petition to Nabisco: No contracts, no snacks
EVENTS
Friday, September 17 – Tuesday, September 21
Friday, September 17
10th Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street
1. Friday, 11:00am – 12Noon, Vigil For Abdulmalek Alsanabani
SF Federal Building
90 7th St.
SF
Vigil for Abdulmalek Alsanabani, Fresno man who was brutally murdered on his trip to Yemen by UAE backed forces, armed by the U.S.
Join us to remember Abdulmalek and to be an advocate for change to end the war machine on Yemenis.
Host: Yemeni Alliance Committee
Info: Vigil for Abdulmalek Alsanabani | Facebook or Vigil For Abdulmalek Alsanabani : Indybay
2. Friday, 11:00am – 1:30pm, Stop Funding Fossil Fuels @ Wells Fargo
In-person
Wells Fargo Global Hq.
420 Montgomery St.
SF
Wear masks / social distancing
Wells Fargo is the #1 funder worldwide of fracked oil and gas, the #2 US funder of the Line 3 pipeline currently being fought in Minnesota and the #3 private bank overall for funding fossil fuels. In a time when those supporting fossil fuels want you to give up hope, to believe that there is no point in taking action, that we are too late: we heed the call to RESIST … to rise up and ACT NOW for the hope of a better future.
Join us at the Wells Fargo world headquarters in San Francisco for the kickoff of a new round of actions demanding Wells shifts away from funding fracking and tar sands — and into clean energy and the green economy.
In the wake of record wildfires, hurricanes, heatwaves and drought this summer, we need to send a strong message to “WELLS FRACKO” that they’ve gone too far. To empower anyone not willing to wait for their bank to clean up its act, we’ll be educating Wells customers about ways to move their money into credit unions or good green banks.
Banks are sensitive to the sentiment of their customers, so let’s make some noise and let the customers and employees of Wells know that they need to FORGO FRACKING, cancel funding for Line 3 and make measurable commitments to divesting their portfolio from planet-heating, ecosystem-destroying, treaty-violating fossil fuels.
SCHEDULE:
11:00 am — protest and public outreach in front of Wells Museum on Montgomery St., and the Wells HQ entrance on California St, join us for carnival games illustrating how Wells’ investments have been fueling climate disaster.
12:00 pm — campaign kickoff in front of Wells HQ on Montgomery with speakers, a “Never Wells Again” banking pledge and more.
– Messaage from David Solnit: Help create a wall of art in front of Wells world headquarters
Hosts: Sunrise Movement Bay Area, Climate Creative + 10 Other Groups
Info: (1) Stop Funding Fossil Fuels @ Wells Fargo | Facebook or Stop Funding Fossil Fuels at Wells Fargo : Indybay
3. Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Shut Down the San Francisco Police Officers Association
In-person
SF Police Officers Association (outside)
800 Bryant St.
SF
RESIST with “Mothers On The March”, “Black and Brown for Justice and Equality”, Family’s whose love ones have been killed by cops from SFPD, and the Community.
– Demand the San Francisco Police Officers Association be Shut Down!
– The SF Police Officers Association Be Declared a Non Grata Organization
– Call for the abolishment of the ‘Officers Bill of Rights’
– Jail Killer Cops – demand killer cops be charged with murder.
– Abolish the Police
The POA has supported and defended officers who have executed people in our communities.
Weekly
4. Friday, 3:30pm, Protest for Palestinian Prisoners, our Symbol and Hope for Liberation!
In-person – meet at:
Montgomery & Market Sts. (Montgomer Street Station
SF
Note: facebook site says 4:00pm
Join us to show that the Bay Area stands with the freedom of ALL our prisoners! Bring a spoon!
On September 6, 2021, six Palestinian captives managed to pull off the “Great Escape” from the notorious, high-security Gilboa Prison via an underground tunnel, liberating themselves and embodying and symbolizing hope and freedom for all Palestinians.
Join us to stand with Palestinian political prisoners who have always been on the front lines of the Palestinian struggle for freedom and liberation.
Hosts: AROC, Palestinian Youth Movement, Al-Awda, US Palestinian Community Network, Jewish Voice for Peace + Other groups
Info: Protest for Palestinian Prisoners, our Symbol and Hope for Liberation! | Facebook
5. Friday, 6:30pm (PT), A Conversation on The Black Panther Party Legacy
Tickets: A Conversation on The Black Panther Party Legacy Tickets, Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite
$5 – $550
Ticket prices are sliding-scale and 100% of the proceeds go to the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation: The Huey P. Newton Memorial Bust, The Black Panther Party Memorial Art Installation, and The Black Panther Party Visitors Museum.
A recording of the event will be sent to all ticketholders.
ACCESS
This event will take place as a Zoom webinar. Automated captioning will be provided.
A Conversation on The Black Panther Party Legacy with Fredrika Newton, Katherine Campbell, and Asali Dickson, hosted by Carroll Fife
LEGACY. As defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, legacy is a “gift by will..something transmitted by, or received from, an ancestor or predecessor or from the past.”
At this special event celebrating the 55th anniversary of the Black Panther Party’s founding, Carroll Fife will interview Fredrika Newton (Co-founder of the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation, Black Panther Party member and widow of Minister Huey Newton) and long-time Party members Katherine Campbell and Asali Dickson on the importance of continuing the work and legacy of Dr. Huey.
The conversation will highlight the importance of carrying forward the gifts transmitted by our freedom-fighting ancestors and will include special guests and updates on the Dr. Huey P. Newton National Monument.
Hosts: Community READY Corps, Anti Police-Terror Project, CRC Allies and Accomplices, Carroll Fife
Info: A Conversation on The Black Panther Party Legacy | Facebook
6. Friday, 6:30pm – 8:30pm, Abortion Rights Film on Zoom: “Reversing Roe”
Online – Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81483938785?pwd=aS9iYUs2VUxwU3c4d1RnSGNsNURFZz09
Meeting ID: 814 8393 8785 Passcode: 215376
“Reversing Roe”, looks at the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision establishing the legality of abortion in America through clips and interviews. It brings us up to date with what has happened to chip away at women’s control of their own bodies. The film casts us into today’s political battles and into the future. The right to an abortion is argued, pro-and-con from both sides. The film takes the viewer from the operating room to the court room by way of the streets on a very stimulating trip.
The film was directed by Rickie Stern and Anne Sundberg. It premiered in 2018 and was nominated for the Emmy’s Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary Award. Reversing Roe can leave one astonished at the importance the abortion has in America. Perhaps it defines political polarization in the country.
Host: Unitarian Universalist – Sensible Cinema
Info: Abortion Rights Film on Zoom — “Reversing Roe” : Indybay
Saturday, September 18
7. Saturday, 10:00am – 3:00pm (PT); 1:00pm-6:00pm (ET), : National Summit for Human Rights & Democracy in the Philippines
Online registration: National Summit for Human Rights and Democracy in the Philippines Tickets, Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 10:00 AM | Eventbrite
-Sliding scale $5 – $20
The National Summit aims to bring together all individuals and organizations who care about human rights, democracy and sovereignty in the Philippines together and build unities towards ensuring the end of the Duterte regime.
With less than one year left in office, the fascist Duterte regime is growing even more desperate to cling to power. Duterte is actively maneuvering to circumvent the constitutional limitations on presidential term by running for Vice President. Meanwhile, human rights violations continue and attacks against activists escalate. The Philippines is at its worst economic situation since World War 2. Persistent attacks on progressive groups with the Anti-Terror Law. Growing number of political prisoners. Assassination of human rights defenders, activists, and peace panel members. The list of Duterte’s crimes against the Filipino people goes on.
National Summit will be an opportunity to learn about the worsening situation in the Philippines, and to unite on ways to collectively take action in this critical election year from abroad.
The National Summit will feature keynote speakers and messages from the Philippines and the United States, as well panels and workshops covering a variety of issues and campaigns from different organizations
Schedule – there will be breaks and cultural performances throughout the day!
Welcome
Session I: Panel Discussions
- Countering the Counterinsurgency: The Fight Against the Crackdown on Dissent
- Political Repression and the Human Rights Crisis in the Philippines
- In the Time of COVID: Pandemic Response, Vaccines, Health Care, and Community Pantries
- Forging Democracy: 2022 Philippine Elections
- From Migrant Workers to Peasants: Kalusugan, Kabuhayan, at Karapatan
- Land is life: Indigenous Resistance to State Repression
- Guilty Verdict: The Legal Fight Against Duterte’s Tyranny
Session II: Building the Mass Movement | Sectoral and Issue Based Caucuses
- Workers and Migrants
- Women
- People of Faith
- Lawyers
- Artists
- Healthcare Professionals and Workers
- Youth and Students
- International Solidarity
Keynote Speaker: Former Congressperson, Atty. Neri Colmenares
Closing Plenary: Duterte Wakasan Na! How can we end the Duterte regime? What is the alternative?
Info from Malaya NorCal
8. Saturday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, Net Zero Carbon Emissions: A Beginner’s Guide to An Imperialist Fraud
Revolution Books – Berkeley
2444 Durant Ave
Berkeley
Presentation and discussion
We confront a planet on fire, and a global system of capitalism-imperialism that has done nothing to stop climate change except inject more and more carbon into the air. “Net zero” is NOT the answer, why this is so, and why revolution is what we need.
Info: Net Zero Carbon Emissions: A Beginner’s Guide to An Imperialist Fraud : Indybay
Sunday, September 19
9. Sunday, 10:00am – 12Noon, International Day of Peace: Ending the Afghan War & Beginning the Rescue
Virtual event – register:
Free
Humanitarian experts with connections to Afghanistan explore the rapidly developing systems to avert a colossal humanitarian disaster.
Please join the United Nations Association San Francisco on the International Day of Peace as we focus efforts to rescue Afghan Allies from grave danger during growing chaos
and civil unrest.
The panel of humanitarian experts on Afghanistan will explore the rapidly developing systems that are adapting to avert a colossal humanitarian disaster.
MICHAEL HARTMANN, J.D., Former UN Prosecutor with UNMIK (Kosovo), and Director, Rule of Law, UNAMA.
SPOJMIE NASIRI, J.D., Afghan American Immigration Lawyer
EDITH KINNEY, J.D., PH.D. Ast. Professor, Justice Studies, San Jose State University, College of Social Sciences
HALIMA KAZEM-STOJANOVIC, B.S., M.A., Investigative Journalist & Professor, Justice Studies San José State University.
MARK WARD, Grandpa and Former Director of the International Medical Corps in Afghanistan
HEATHER HANSEN, Interim Director, Northern California Region, International Rescue Committee
Musical Interlude by Hamid Mujadiddi Playing Afghan Folk Music on the Armonia Partners: Veterans for Peace Chapter 69 and the International Rescue Committee
Info: International Day of Peace: Ending the Afghan War & Beginning the Rescue : Indybay
10. Sunday, 1:00pm, Stop the giveaway of City College (CCSF)
New Valencia Hall
747 Polk St. (@ Ellis St.)
SF
Limited in-person seating
Masks required
For Zoom register: Meeting Registration – Zoom
City College of San Francisco (CCSF) has been under attack for nearly a decade as part of the attempts to privatize public education. But faculty, staff, students and community members have been able to stave off the attempts to decertify the college and lay off full time faculty.
Join CCSF activists who will discuss strategies to ensure that the college is able to maintain and expand courses and programs that working class residents depend on. Share your thoughts in the discussion that will follow and join in the fight.
Host: Freedom Socialist Party
Info: Stop the Giveaway of City College (CCSF) : Indybay
11. Sunday, 2:00pm – 4:00pm, Vigil for Peace in Pacifica
The Pier in Pacifica – nr the Chit Chat Café
2100 Beach Blvd.
Pacifica
In honor of International Peace Day coming up on 9/21 we will be displaying the HATE HAS NO HOME HERE banner and distributing flyers on the pier in Pacifica.
We must reduce the Pentagon budget to invest in what really makes us safe: Medicare for All; a Green New Deal; housing for all; full employment; great public education and much more. The need for global diplomacy and cooperation in the face of an existential climate crisis is more urgent now than ever.
Info: Vigil for Peace in Pacifica : Indybay
Tuesday, September 21
United Nations International Day of Peace
12. Tuesday, 12Noon (PT); 3:00pm (ET), Grassroots Feminist Visions: A Way Forward from the War on Terror
Online Registration: Webinar Registration – Zoom
Nearly 20 years after President George W. Bush made countries like Afghanistan, North Korea, Iran and Iraq targets of his administration’s “War on Terror,” what has been the impact of US militarized policy on the people of these countries and on those living in the United States? What is the Biden administration’s policy towards these countries, and what would a truly feminist foreign policy look like? Join the Feminist Peace Initiative in a discussion with leading feminists working to transform US foreign policy away from militarism and endless wars and towards a feminist understanding for peace and justice.
Panelist:
– Christine Ahn: Executive Director of Women Cross DMZ
– Spojmie Nasiri: Immigration Attorney at Nasiri Law
– Hoda Katebi: Abolitionist Organizer and Creative Educator
– Yanar Mohammed: President of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq
– Brittany Ramos Debarros: Organizing Director at About Face: Veterans Against the War
– Diana Duarte: Director of Policy and Strategic Engagement at MADRE
Hosts: Women Cross DMZ, MADRE, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
Info: FPI Social Media Toolkit 9/21 – Google Docs
13. Tuesday, 4:00pm – 6:00pm, War Is Killing the Planet / International Day of Peace
Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s house (outside)
2640 Broadway St.
SF
“War is Literally Killing the Planet”. The war economy is brought to you by these players: Speaker Nancy Pelosi, BlackRock Worldwide Investments, Lockheed Martin, and Chevron, and you and I bought front row seats. We’re funding it.
With our votes and taxes, we are enabling the destruction of life on earth. We need a peace economy…
Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s majority in Congress siphons over 50% of our federal budget to fund the skyrocketing costs of war and Pentagon operations with their huge greenhouse gas emissions. Pelosi insists on spending our money on continual wars and refuses to support Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, affordable housing, education, elder and child care, clean water, air, and food — the things that give life and peace a chance.
See site for details: War Is Killing the Planet/ International Day of Peace : Indybay
14. Tuesday, 6:00pm – 7:00pm, Remembering Alex, with Refugio and Elvira Nieto
Alex Nieto’s Altar
Bernal Hill
SF
On the monthly anniversary of Alex’s murder by SFPD on the 21st day of each month, gather with Alex’s parents Refugio and Elvira Nieto at Alex’s Altar. All are welcomed.
If you can’t attend, light a candle on for Justice for Alex and ALL the lives of people that have been taken by the police.
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 Ales 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
