Melvin Starks was released from the hospital!!!
– Needed is housing in SF
Rodger Scott is home from the hospital recovering. Meal Train has been set up for him: Meal Train for Rodger Scott
– He welcomes noon time visits (please see Meal Train calendar to choose a day and for more details) on Tues, Thursday or Saturday for now.
And he has some specific food restrictions – no cheese, no nuts or seeds and no alcohol. He is fond of plain yogurt, fresh strawberries, Breyers Vanilla ice cream, fresh blueberries. And visits from friends! For now, best if visits are not too long.
Please include Accessibility and ASL info in your events! And if your action is ‘child friendly’ This is a JUSTICE issue!!
*** ASL interpretation – Let me know if your event needs this service .***
Reminder to post your actions on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12
See Indybay for other listings of events
ARTICLES
A. Assange Makes Final Appeal Against US Extradition – July 1, 2022
Assange Makes Final Appeal Against US Extradition (commondreams.org)
See Petition # 2
See Event # 1
B. SF Protest Demands National Abortion Rights – July 1, 2022
SF Protest Demands National Abortion Rights : Indybay
See Event # 4
C. As US Guts Reproductive Rights, Sierra Leone Moves to Decriminalize Abortion – July 1, 2022
D. Haiti: The ransom is still being paid – June 30, 2922
Haiti: The ransom is still being paid (sfbayview.com)
E. San Antonio Tragedy: “Traffickers Know The Likelihood of Trucks Being Inspected Is Very Low” – June 29, 2022
F. Mayor Breed reaches S.F. budget deal with supervisors that keeps police hiring plans, boosts affordable housing – June 28, 2022
SF Board of Supervisors are expected to vote on July 12th on this budget. Call / Email them with your opinion
Roster of SF Supervisors: https://sfbos.org/roster-members
PETITIONS
1. Tell Congress: It’s time to repeal the 2002 AUMF!
SIGN: Tell Congress: It’s time to repeal the 2002 AUMF! | Win Without War
2. Release Julian Assange
SIGN: https://www.codepink.org/assange
EVENTS
Sunday, July 3 – Tuesday, July 5
July 1 – July 31, 2022 – San Francisco 29th Annual LaborFest Schedule : LaborFest 2022 | LaborFest 2022
Sunday, July 3
1. Sunday, 10:30am – 12:00pm, Julian Assange Birthday Rally #FreeAssangeNOW
In person
Meet at Harry Bridges Plaza
The Embarcadero at Market St. – Across from the Ferry Building
SF
Please join us to celebrate Julian Assange’s birthday and rally for his freedom! His life- along with our future freedom of Speech and Journalism- depends on it.
Julian Assange is an innocent journalist, jailed and tortured for revealing TRUTH. Global citizens deserve to know of the US/UK war crimes done in their names and with their tax dollars. Julian remains held on remand, at the behest of the USA, in Belmarsh Prison, London.
If the USA succeeds in his extradition, he will serve 175 years in the worst kind of prison; pursued under the 1917 Espionage Act. This sets a dangerous History- changing precedent for any journalist anywhere in the world and forever threatens Journalism and Freedom of Speech.
What Can You Do?
If you can’t join us for an event, consider taking a stand to educate others on your own or with friends. We’d love to promote your event on the website & social media to inspire others. Informing others, calling your Representatives & signing petitions are powerful actions.
Resources:
https://bayaction2freeassange.org/resources/ https://assangedefense.org/take-action/
Info: Julian Assange Birthday Rally #FreeAssangeNOW : Indybay
2. Sunday, 3:00pm – 6:00pm, Come Out July 3 For Mumia Abu-Jamal
In person
Meet at
Dolores Park (By Tennis Courts)
SF
There will be a march…
July 3, 2022 marks 40 years (July 1982) since journalist and Black Panther Political Prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal was sentenced to death in Pennsylvania, framed in the government war on Black Liberation activists. Mumia is still in prison today, now an elder. There is an “All Out For Mumia” call for 40 cities to unite against 40 years of injustice on Sunday, July 3rd. From Philadelphia to San Francisco to Paris and Berlin, people are organizing to make visible, strong acts of solidarity and education in the movement to free Mumia on July 3rd.
Mumia is a brilliant writer, journalist, and thinker, known as the “voice of the voiceless” for his truth-telling, profound political analysis, courageous words, and humanity reaching out from what he calls the bowels of the modern slave ship – U.S. prisons. Year after year, from prison, Mumia continues to teach, report, and analyze current day events.
The SF event is being organized by Mumia’s grandson
Info: https://fighting-words.net/2022/06/27/come-out-july-3rd-for-mumia-abu-jamal/
Monday, July 4
3. Monday, 2:00pm (1:30pm- music), Back To The Way Things WERE – Mime Troupe
In Person
Dolores Park
19th St.
SF
In a country where we can finally stop wearing masks to get pizza and go to the movies, and where we again have a president who isn’t dumb as a two dollar ham, hard-working, middle-aged liberals Ralph and Alice wistfully yearn for The before Times, when things seemed normal. But for Zoe – their twenty-something daughter who grew up in a world of climate change, housing crashes, student debt, the rise of dictatorships and the fall of democracies – there is no “better” to go back to. For her the purgatory of the last two years was just a pause from life in Hell. So what’s the point? Isn’t it easier to just give up?
Written by Michael Gene Sullivan with Marie Cartier
Music & Lyrics by Daniel Savio
Directed by Velina Brown
Musical Direction by Daniel Savio
BACK TO THE WAY THINGS WERE featured Andre Amarotico, Lizzie Calogero, Norman Gee, Alicia M.P. Nelson, and Keiko Shimosato Carreiro.
And band members William Durkee, Daniel Savio, and Jason Young
Host: Mime Troupe
Info: Back To The Way Things Were (sfmt.org)
4. Monday, 5:00pm – 6:00pm, July 4 Protest “When Women Are Not Free, No One is Free” at Ferry Bldg (SF)
In person
Ferry Building
SF
When Women Are Not Free, No one is Free
Gather at the San Francisco Ferry Building, 5pm for the July 4 National Day of Protest–When Women Are Not Free, No One is Free! INTO THE STREETS to demand the Federal Government must restore Nationwide Legal Abortion Now Abortion Rights Parade!
Bring bullhorns, drums, signs, banners, and your walking feet. Costumes especially welcome. A creative non-violent visible, truth-telling public action which aims to shake the conscience of everyone involved, and everyone watching. Wear & spread #Green4Abortion, the international symbol of abortion rights. protest.
Host: Rise Up For Abortion Rights Bay Area
Info: July 4 Protest “When Women Are Not Free, No One is Free” at Ferry Bldg (SF) | Facebook & Abortion Rights Parade: “This is What America looks Like” Call for Nationwide Legal Abortion Now : Indybay
Tuesday, July 5
Tuesday, 12 Noon -1:00pm, Justice for Sergio Sosa Committee – Stand For Workers’ Rights!
In person picket
La Raza Community Resource Center
474 Valencia St. (Outside)
SF
Support workers at La Raza Resource Center – especially those that have been fired for protesting.
La Raza’s executive director has intimidated his workers who have protested and supported fellow employees who were fired.
-He also has not been honest with the public about the situation at La Raza.
-There is concern that he will ruin La Raza and this will deprive the community of vital services La Raza has provided for over 50 years.
–The call is for the resignation of La Raza’s executive director!
-Workers of Companeros del Barrio, decided to join that demonstration in support of the workers’ struggle.
It is done during their lunch time.
‘Mothers On The March’ and other community members are also participating in the picket
SUPPORT is welcomed. Come learn about this struggle.
