October 27, 2021
ARTICLES
A. Federal appeals court temporarily halts executions of John Grant and Julius Jones in Oklahoma – October 27, 2021
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/court-temporarily-halts-executions-john-grant-julius-jones-oklahoma/
See Death Penalty Petitions / Update section
B. POSTPONED! – October 26, 2021
POSTPONED!. Friend, | by Death Penalty Action | Oct, 2021 | Medium
C. ’70s radical David Gilbert granted parole in Brink’s robbery – October 26, 2021
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/70s-radical-david-gilbert-granted-parole-brinks-robbery-80798613
D. An SF courtroom veteran says the Chron is missing the point (and the facts) on Boudin – October 25, 2021
An SF courtroom veteran says the Chron is missing the point (and the facts) on Boudin – 48 hills
E. Risen from the ashes: mural painted using ash marks Brazil’s wildfire tragedy – October 24, 2021
See event #
F. Exposed: How Pfizer Exploits Secretive Vaccine Contracts to Strong-Arm Governments – October 19, 2021
G. Public health or private wealth? How digital vaccine passports pave way for unprecedented surveillance capitalism
H. ‘Historic Victory’: US Judge Rules Guantánamo Detainee’s Imprisonment Illegal – October 21, 2021
‘Historic Victory’: US Judge Rules Guantánamo Detainee’s Imprisonment Illegal (commondreams.org)
I. Homeless Activists Call on San Francisco to Keep Shelter-in-Place – October 20, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovs2f8hjNgw (SF Chron)
Articles on Julian Assange
See event # 6
A. DAY ONE: Assange Lawyer in Fiery Rebuttal at Day’s Conclusion – October 27, 2021
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/10/27/day-one-assange-lawyer-in-fiery-rebuttal-at-days-conclusion/
B. ‘You can’t pretend it didn’t happen’: Labor MP calls on government to press US on alleged Assange plot – October 26, 2021
Labor MP Julian Hill calls on government to press US on alleged Julian Assange plot (smh.com.au)
C. Assange supporters rally in London – October 23m 2021
Assange supporters rally in London – YouTube
5 ALERTS / PETITIONS
1. Tell the White House and Congress: Cut wasteful, corrupt nuclear bailouts in the Build Back Better Act
SIGN: National Bailout Action Alert – October Update (salsalabs.org)
2. Tell UBS and JPMorgan Chase to Exit Amazon Oil and Gas NOW!
SIGN: Tell UBS and JPMorgan Chase to Exit Amazon Oil and Gas NOW! | Amazon Watch
3. Demand Congress end the US surveillance state permanently — end the Patriot Act and fight warrantless surveillance everywhere it occurs
4. Stop offshore drilling now!
5. End the Robotexts
SIGN: End the Robotexts (consumerreports.org)
Death Penalty Petitions / Updates
10th Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a temporary STAY in the cases of #JuliusJones and #JohnGrant.
This is developing. Expect state to appeal to #SCOTUS, where anything can happen.
Lawyers in the case think it may come down to the wire again. The two men killed recently in Missouri and Alabama waited hours beyond their scheduled execution time before SCOTUS refused to stop the executions
Click on the names to sign the petitions
- Stop the execution of John Grant in Oklahoma on 10/28
A note about John Grant. He has expressed deep remorse for his murder of Gay Carter. While nothing excuses that, we must understand that John is one of many death sentenced prisoners who fell through the cracks of state systems. He was only 12 when he entered state custody. Get the details here
- Stop the execution of David Cox in Mississippi on 11/17
- Stop the execution of Ramiro Gonzales in Texas on 11/17
- Stop the execution of Julius Jones in Oklahoma on 11/18
Julius Jones is scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma on November 18, 2021, despite maintaining his innocence and compelling evidence that he was wrongfully convicted for the murder of Paul Howell in 1999. A commutation hearing was held on September 13th resulting in a favorable vote of 3-1 with one likely supporting vote abstaining. On September 28, Governor Stitt declined to act on the commutation recommendation
EVENTS
Wednesday, October 27 – Monday, November 1
Wednesday, October 27
All events have happened – am leaving them in case there are recordings of the events
1. Wednesday, 3:00pm – 5:00pm, Hoodwinked in the Hothouse Part II: Frontline Voices of Indigenous Resistance beyond Climate False Solutions
Online register: ONLINE | Hoodwinked in the Hothouse Part II: Frontline Voices of Indigenous Resistance beyond Climate False Solutions (newschool.edu)
This panel was preceded by Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: Examining False Corporate Schemes being advanced through the Paris Agreement. The recording of this event is available here.
This panel features Indigenous organizers from frontline communities that are disproportionately impacted by false solutions to the climate crisis. From Mapuche communities in Chile, to Dine communities in Southwest Turtle Island, climate false solutions such as nuclear power, megadams, fracking, and many more continue to cause displacement and disaster in Indigenous communities worldwide.
Speakers will share stories from the frontlines about their efforts to stop the ongoing impacts of false climate solutions such as nuclear power and radioactive waste dumps, enhanced oil recovery for fracking in the Bakken Oil Shale, tree plantations & hydroelectric plants affecting Mapuche communities in Chile, and hydroelectric plants & mega dams built on the land of First Nations tribes in Quebec. We will also hear from a delegate of Minga Indígena, a collective & delegation of groups, organizations and communities from Indigenous nations throughout Abya Yala at upcoming COP 26.
Climate false solutions such as nuclear power, hydropower, biofuel, fracking and enhanced oil recovery, carbon offsets, carbon capture, biodiversity offsets, and nature based solutions are sold by corporations and NGOs alike as ways to combat climate change that also boost the economy. “Solutions” rooted in growth and profit will not solve the climate crisis and will continue to enact violence on the natural world and on frontline communities across the globe.
This panel will focus on Indigenous organizations that are contributing to movements for systemic change and climate justice, led by frontline communities and nurtured through processes of resistance, resurgence and decolonization
Speakers:
Kandi
White, Indigenous Environmental Network
Leona Morgan, Diné No
Nukes
Rubén Sánchez Curihentro, Observatorio Cuidadano
Lucien
Wabanonik, Anishnabeg Tribe and Innu First Nations
Mindahi
Bastida, Minga Indígena and The Fountain
Moderators: Shehla Arif, Engineering Social Justice and Peace; Gopal Dayaneni, Movement Generation: Justice and Ecology Project; & Leonardo Figueroa Helland, Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment.
Host: Indigenous Environmental Network
2. Wednesday, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Solidarity Rally For Fired Namibian Rossling Miners
In person
San Francisco Chinese Consulate
1450 Laguna St. / Geary Blvd.
SF
Nine Executive union members of the Mineworkers Union of Namibia Rossing Branch were fired September 2020 by the Chinese National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) Rossing Uranium Limited which wanted them to give healthcare concessions, give-backs and also allow the Chinese workers to be brought in outside the contract and labor laws undermining the conditions and benefits of Namibian workers.
The arbitration hearing on this illegal discharge of the entire union leadership will be held on October 27, 2021 in Nambia.
See site for details
Hosts: UFCLP, FSP, Si Cobus,
Info: Solidarity Rally For Fired Namibian Rossing Miners : Indybay
3. Wednesday, 5:00pm (PT); 8:00pm (ET), Educational Webinar Program to Promote Peace Between U.S. and China
Online register: Webinar Registration – Zoom
Info will be provided after registering
Speakers:
Hong Kong – Judge Julie Tang (retired), who was born and raised in Hong Kong, came to America, and eventually became a judge in the San Francisco Superior Court. She has traveled widely in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
Xinjiang – Dr. Don Tow, retired physicist and engineer, who has lived and worked in both America and China.
Other dates for topic: November 3, 10 & 17
Host: Coalition Peace Initiative
4. Wednesday, 6:00pm – 7:00pm, Reject the Babu Settlement: Teach-In Oct. 27th
Online register: Reject the Babu Settlement: Teach-In Oct. 27th | National Lawyers Guild – Bay Area Chapter Powerbase (ourpowerbase.net)
Come
to one of the teach-ins to learn why and how you can made your voice
heard!
The one-hour teach-in will provide an overview of what the
Babu v. Ahern settlement is and why we should fight it.
Babu
v. Ahern is a class action lawsuit (filed on behalf of all adults who
are currently or will in the future be incarcerated in Alameda County
Jail) claiming that the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO)
fails to provide adequate mental health care at Santa Rita Jail
(SRJ). The lawsuit was filed in 2018 by the law firm Rosen Bien
Galvan & Grunfeld, LLP (RBGG), who recently entered into a
settlement with Alameda County.
THE
SETTLEMENT IS UNACCEPTABLE AND PRIORITIZES FUNDING FOR THE SHERIFF,
AND WILL NOT IMPROVE THE HEALTH AND OR WELL-BEING OF INCARCERATED
PEOPLE AT SRJ.
But, in partnership with lawyers from the
National Lawyers Guild and other partner organizations, you can file
a legal objection as well as participate in actions to make your
concerns known.
Host: National Lawyers Guild
Thursday, October 28
5. Thursday, 11:30am – 1:00pm, This Halloween – Treat Us with Dignity! HCBS Now!
RSVP today! www.bit.ly/HalloweenHCBS (Can’t join in person? There’ll be a zoom component. RSVP for details.)
Meet at
Civic Center
UN Plaza
SF
Not
enough Home and Community Based Services is SCARY!
Treat us this
Halloween with full funding for HCBS!
You’re
invited!
Let’s ensure that the Build Back Better Infrastructure
Plan with full funding for Home and Community Based Services (HCBS)
is passed this Fall.
Join us as we pass out a sweet call to action, deliver treats to Speaker Pelosi for her leadership on Build Back Better & Share Our HCBS stories.
Dress up in something spooky and bring signs with hashtags: #BuildBackBetter #HCBS #CareIsEssential #BeBraveDontCave #TreatUsWithDignity
After months of negotiations, Congressional Democrats and the White House have negotiated a deal to pass a major infrastructure package that includes a critical investment for Home and Community Based Services (HCBS). That’s why we’re dressing up and delivering some treats to Pelosi and San Francisco residents saying- we can’t stop now! Let’s pass this bill and help ensure homecare providers and consumers get the support they need.
Organized by the Long-term Services and Supports for All Grassroots Coalition, including: CA Alliance of Retired Americans (CARA), the Disability Organizing Network, the CA Domestic Workers Coalition, The San Francisco Women’s Collective, Senior and Disability Action, United Domestic Workers AFSCME, Jobs with Justice SF, SEIU 1021 Retirees, SEIU 2015, the Gray Panthers, California Foundation for Independent Living Centers (CFILC), Caring Across Generations, Filipino Advocates for Justice, and Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network.
Info: (4) This Halloween – Treat Us with Dignity! HCBS Now! | Facebook
6. Thursday, 12Noon (PT); 3:00pm (ET), Reactions and Analysis of the Assange Extradition Appeal
Online register: LIVE: Reactions & Analysis of the Julian Assange Extradition Appeal (rightsanddissent.org)
Live reaction of the Julian Assange extradition appeal in London on Thursday, Oct. 28. Reactions from Chip Gibbons, Kevin Gosztola, Stefania Maurizi, and more.
Featuring:
Kevin Gosztola is managing editor of Shadowproof. He also produces and co-hosts the weekly podcast, Unauthorized Disclosure. Kevin attended Assange’s initial hearings (first in person and now with COVID virtually) and reported on them daily. He also extensively covered Chelsea Manning’s court martial.
Stefania Maurizi is an investigative journalist for Il Fatto Quotidiano has worked with Julian Assange and “WikiLeaks” since 2009, teaming up with large teams of international media to cover and investigate all WikiLeaks’ secret documents: from the secret files on the war in Afghanistan (Afghan War Logs) to the US diplomacy cables (Cablegate), from the files on the Guantanamo detainees (Gitmo Files) on up to the most recent revelations about the European military mission against boats travelling from Libya to Italy smuggling migrants and refugees and the espionage activities against French and the European leaders by the National Security Agency (NSA).
Chip Gibbons (Moderator) Chip is the policy director of Defending Rights & Dissent. He authored the report Still Spying on Dissent: The Enduring Problem of FBI First Amendment Abuse and hosts DRAD’s Still Spying podcast. As a journalist and researcher focusing on the abuses of the US national security state at home and abroad, his writings have been featured in The Intercept, The Nation, Jacobin, and In These Times.
Info from Defending Rights & Dissent
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7. Thursday, 4:00pm – 8:00pm, Rally to ReStore Muni Lines!
In person
Grove Street between Van Ness & Polk Sts.
SF
Join
a CITY-WIDE coalition of riders from different neighborhoods to
demand SFMTA to restore all lines to pre-pandemic levels!
For
more info: equitywithmuni
Info: Rally to ReStore Muni Lines! : Indybay
8. Friday,9:00am – 1:00pm, Global Day of Action to Defund Climate Chaos and Fossil Fuels
BlackRock Headquarters
400 Howard St. (at 1st Street)
SF
(nr. Embarcadero or Montgomery BART)
Mural Action: Help paint a block-long street mural using paint made from ashes for CA wildfires
Hosts: Idle No More SF Bay, BlackRock’s Big Problem + 10 Other groups
9. Friday,1:00pm – 2:00pm, Shut Down The Police Officers Association
San Francisco Police Officers Association (outside)
800 Bryant St.
SF
– 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.
The POA has supported and defended officers who have executed people in our communities.
If you can’t attend contact Mayor London Breed tell her that you oppose funding for SFPD:
Telephone:
(415) 554-6141
Email: MayorLondonBreed@sfgov.org
Revolution Books – Berkeley
2444 Durant Ave.
Berkeley
Set your clocks back one hour tonight!!
11. Saturday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, Day of the Dead Vigil and Rally for Medicare for ALL in San Francisco
Alta Plaza Park
Jackson & Steiner Sts.
SF
we will be mourning the unnecessary deaths of 68,000 Americans annually due to lack of healthcare and also the estimated 285,000+ deaths for the same reason since the beginning of the pandemic. We will carry a life-size coffin with the number “68,000” painted in red in the style of a funeral procession to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s residence.
we will have a speaker lineup of local activists, representing medical professional, communities of color, immigrants, LGBTQ+ communities and leaders in SF neighborhoods which have been most affected by COVID-19 deaths.
We demand Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
1. Co-sponsor H.R. 1976 immediately
2. Support to bring the bill onto the floor of the seven committees of jurisdiction for hearing (No More Sabotage!)
3. Proactively build support for H.R.1976 among her democratic colleagues
4. Proactively work to build support for H.R 1976 among her republican friends
5. Hold hearings on CMMI and DCEs, which are handing traditional Medicare to Wall Street
6. Take a public pledge not to accept money from health-related industry
Please bring a photo of your loved ones who have been deceased. Please bring a copy of your medical bills, so Speaker Pelosi may visualize the amount of your pain and suffering. We will recite the names of the deceased.
Confirmed
Speakers
Ana Malinow (SF physician, lifelong organizer for
Medicare for All, former president of Physicians for a National
Health Program)
Cynthia Papermaster (SF activist, CodePink
Golden Gate/Extinction Rebellion)
Eric Curry (SF activist,
currently running for congress in CA-12)
Dr. Joe Jarvis
(Author of “The Purple World, Healing the Harm in American
Healthcare” https://josephqjarvis.com/)
Kristina
Lee (Reproductive Justice Activist and Writer, Freedom Socialist
Party and Radical Women)
Laura Fielding (Executive Director,
Red Berets Medicare for All & Board Member of Whole
Washington)
Patrick Cote (a.k.a. Pat the Berner, Host of Punch
Up Pod)
Scott Desnoyers (Healthcare justice
activist, https://heal-ca.org/grieving-dad-wont-stop-fighting-for-medicare-for-all/)
Shahid
Buttar (SF activist, congressional candidate in CA-12)
This
event is co-sponsored by:
CodePink Golden Gate/Extinction
Rebellion, Freedom Socialist Party/Radical Women, Physicians for a
National Health Program (PNHP) and Santa Clara County Single Payer
Health Care Coalition.
Info: Day of the Dead Vigil and Rally for Medicare for All in San Francisco : Indybay
12. Saturday, 1:00pm, Striketober – Workers Rise Up!
Motivãt café (nest to it)
1528 Webster St.
Oakland
This meeting will take place in the open meeting area next to Motivãt cafe,
Why are workers rising up? What can we do to support these strikes and actions?
Info: Workers World Party – Bay Area | Facebook
13. Saturday, 3:00pm – 6:00pm, Mural Unveiling on Dia de los muertos/Day of the Dead in the Diaspora
POOR Magazine
8032 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland
Info: Mural Unveiling on Dia de los muertos/Day of the Dead in the Diaspora | Facebook
14. Saturday, 6:00pm – 7:00pm, No Cops No Fee Make Bart & Muni Free
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/CU8z0P-lO2F/
Sunday, October 31
15. Sunday, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, SF Speakout/Rally: Let Cuba Live, Stop the U.S. Blockade, No CIA Coups!
Powell & Market St.
SF
the
delta variant of COVID became the dominant strain worldwide, Cuba
also suffered a significant spike in positive cases and deaths. But
thanks to Cuba’s own vaccines and free, universal public health
system, the island is coming out of the pandemic crisis.
By
Nov. 15, 92% of the whole population will be fully vaccinated, with
all children 2 years old and up also benefiting. Yet, this is
precisely the reason that the U.S. government is threatening Cuba
with more sanctions, and is funding right-wing, counterrevolutionary
groups to try to recreate the chaos they attempted on July 11.
Sponsored by: Answer Coalition – Bay Area, Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee
Info: SF Speakout/Rally: Let Cuba Live, Stop the U.S. Blockade, No CIA Coups! : Indybay
Monday, November 1
16. Monday, 4:00pm (PT); 7:00pm (ET), Dia de los Muertos Prayer Vigil: for those who died in ICE detention
Virtual vigil registration: Webinar Registration – Zoom
Since President Biden took office, five people have died in ICE custody.
Last year was the deadliest year in ICE detention since 2005. 21 people died in ICE detention, including eight from COVID.
People are losing their lives to a detention system that does not need to exist.
President Biden promised to end for-profit incarceration, including detention for undocumented immigrants, and to bring justice and fairness to the immigration system. Instead, we are seeing his administration increasing the use of immigration detention, filling private prison beds, and siding with private prison companies against communities fighting to close detention facilities. People are deprived of their liberty, separated from their loved ones, and excluded from their communities by institutions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) .
Host: Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
