By Adrienne Fong
Am not back posting on a regular basis
Please hold the following people in your thoughts:
Victor Picazo, dealing with health complications
Jackie Barshak, battling stage 4 metastatic lung cancer, as she continues chemo therapy.
Melvin Starks
– Still needs housing!
Rodger Scott as he gains strength. Open site to see telephone number Meal Train for Rodger Scott
He welcomes noon time visits
Good visiting time is early afternoon around 1pm to 2pm, please see calendar to choose a day. Also, Rodger has a meal service and bringing meals is not necessary.
Hold the people:
– in Pakistan, Mississippi and Florida in your thoughts
-in Africa in your thoughts as they are experiencing drought and famine..
–In Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic affected by Hurricanes
–in Yemen, Cuba
R.I.P
♥ John Crew ♥
San Francisco lost a warrior known for holding SFPD / SFPOA accountable
– Hold his daughters, family and friends in your thoughts
– John’s history of defending people and causes is long from standing up for the Muslim community, AID’s Activist, Housing etc.
4 Articles on John:
1. ‘He changed the world block by block’: John Crew, ACLU attorney who fought for police reform, dies – October 13, 2022
2. John Crew, SF’s relentless police reform advocate and mentor, dies at 65 – October 11, 2022
John Crew, SF’s relentless police reform advocate and mentor, dies (missionlocal.org)
3. John Crew, legendary police accountability activist (and wonderful guy) dies at 65 – October 9, 2022
John Crew, legendary police accountability activist (and wonderful guy) dies at 65 – 48 hills
4. John Crew, ‘Indispensable’ Voice for Police Reform in San Francisco, Dies at Age 65 – October 7, 2022
John Crew, ‘Indispensable’ Voice for Police Reform in San Francisco, Dies at Age 65 (sfstandard.com)
ARTICLES
A. Palestinian hunger strikes: growing resistance against growing Israeli crimes – October 13, 2022
B. Preemptive resignation letters called for at mayor’s sole discretion, board told – October 11, 2022
Preemptive resignation letters called for at mayor’s sole discretion, board told (missionlocal.org)
C. U.S. Supreme Court mulls Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed’s DNA testing bid – October 11, 2022
D. World-Wide Backing as Parliament Encircled for Assange –October 9, 2022
E. ‘End the War on Journalism and Free Assange’: Thousands Demand Release of WikiLeaks Founder – October 8, 2022
Short video from Great Britain – Human Chain surrounding Parliament: Facebook
F. Hundreds of SFPD, sheriff deputies’ psych exams under state audit – October 7, 2022
Hundreds of SFPD, sheriff deputies’ psych exams under state audit | News | sfexaminer.com
G. End Masafer Yatta nightmare, rights group tells ICC – October 7, 2022
End Masafer Yatta nightmare, rights group tells ICC | The Electronic Intifada
See Petition # 1
H. Doctors File First Lawsuit Challenging California Law That Seeks to Punish Physicians for COVID ‘Misinformation’ October 5, 2022
I. Criminal Charges in Zumbi Homicide Investigation Still Possible, Family Says – October 5, 2022
Criminal Charges in Zumbi Homicide Investigation Still Possible, Family Says | KQED
4 PETITIONS
1. Tell Congress: Stop Israel’s Home Demolitions in Masafer Yatta
SIGN: Tell Congress: Stop Israel’s Home Demolitions in Masafer Yatta (uscpr.org)
2. Meta Must Pay for its Role in a Genocide
SIGN: Meta Must Pay for Its Role in a Genocide. | Win Without War
3. Permanent protections for DACA recipients this year!
4. TO: Scotiabank and Scotia owned entities 1832 Asset Management and Dynamic Funds
SIGN: Why is Scotiabank the biggest shareholder of infamous weapons maker? (sumofus.org)
Scotiabank has quietly become the largest foreign shareholder in Elbit Systems, the infamous weapons manufacturer.
Elbit Systems is known primarily for its weapons used by Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip – Elbit weapons were heavily used during Israel’s 11-day onslaught against Gaza in May 2021 which left 248 people dead.
EVENTS
Friday, October 14, – Wednesday, October 19
NOTE: Events for Mumia Abu-Jamal are on
Saturday, October 15; Tuesday, October 18; Wednesday, October 19
Friday, October 14
1. Friday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, “Defuse Nuclear War!” Say “NO” to Nukes
In person
12 Noon: Senator Feinstein’s Office, One Post St., SF
1 PM: Senator Padilla’s Office, 333 Bush St., SF
Join an informational picket line at our Senators’ offices to demand that they truly make efforts to significantly reduce the risk of nuclear war. We demand that Feinstein and Padilla do the following: End the Policy of “First Use”; Rejoin Nuclear-Weapons Treaties the U.S. Pulled Out Of, Take U.S. Nuclear Weapons Off Hair-Trigger Alert; Get rid of ICBMs (land-based nuclear missiles); Support Congressional Action to Avert Nuclear War; Move the Money to Human Needs, Not War. October 16th will mark 60 years since the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Right now is the closest the world has been to a nuclear war since then. Very few members of the House and Senate have risen to the occasion by speaking out and working for measures to de-escalate tensions between nuclear powers.
Host: C. Papermaster
Info: “Defuse Nuclear War!” Say “NO” to Nukes! : Indybay
2. Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Shut Down the SF Police Officers Association! ~ JUSTICE YES; JENKINS NO!
In person
SF Police Officers Association
800 Bryant St. (@ 6th St. – outside)
SF
All are welcomed to stand with Mothers On The March and people from the community.
Interim DA Brooke Jenkins
Since Mayor London Breed appointed Jenkins to replace DA Chesa Boudin, more of Jenkins deceit has been exposed. We need to resist and expose her agenda:
– For not holding police accountable for abusing and killing people in our communities, she fired or reassigned attorneys who were in various phases of the trial process.
– For her deceit of San Franciscans, from the time the Guido trial didn’t go her way and she quit the DA’s office till the lies she continues to build in her campaign.
– For contributing more to AAPI Hate by dividing the Black, Brown and Asian communities
The Police Officers Association has made a donation to the election of interim District Attorney Brooke Jenkins.
Article:
S.F. November election: Here’s how much D.A. and supervisor candidates have raised so far – September 30, 2022
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-November-election-Here-s-how-much-D-A-17479232.php
“…Jenkins, who was appointed to the district attorney job by Mayor London Breed after the successful June recall of progressive Chesa Boudin, raised about $126,500 through Sept. 24 and ended the reporting period with about $61,700 in the bank after accounting for expenses. Her notable donors include Breed, Police Officer Association President Tracy McCray and some lawyers from the District Attorney’s Office…”
On July 21, SF BoS approved a two-year, $14 billion budget that includes the hiring of 220 police officers to fill vacancies within the San Francisco Police Department – This was Mayor Breed’s proposal.
No accountability measures were part of this bill.
Only one supervisor voted against this – Supervisor Dean Preston.
Our Demands:
– JUSTICE YES; JENKINS NO!
– The Police Officers Association be SHUT DOWN!
– Abolish the ‘Officers Bill of Rights’
– Jail Killer Cops – we demand killer cops be charged with murder
– Abolish the Police
3. Friday, 8:00pm – 10:30pm, Empowering Womxn of Color Open Mic
La Peña Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley
Tickets: Empowering Womxn of Color Open Mic! Tickets, Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 8:00 PM | Eventbrite
This Open Mic event provides a space to celebrate the voices of womxn of color that enact and highlight the beauty of our cultural diversity. This time, we will highlight performances with an emphasis on the experiences of Indigenous womxn in honor of Indigenous Peoples Day. We welcome ALL who experience life through the lens of womxn in body, spirit, identity – past,
Info: Empowering Womxn of Color Open Mic : Indybay
Saturday, October 15
4. Saturday, 10:00am – 4:00pm(PT); 1:00pm – 7:00pm (ET), Mumia Read-A-Thon ~ FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL!
Anyone On/Off facebook: Mumia Read-A-Thon ~ FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL! | Facebook
On Saturday, reading Mumia’s books and listening to his radio commentaries from prison will inform and invigorate us to fight for his release
Event is live in Detroit: at the General Baker Institute (GBI) on Saturday, Oct 15 to read Mumia Abu-Jamal’s books, share passages out loud, listen to Mumia’s radio-smooth voice and sharp commentaries, learn from each other, and celebrate our brother and elder, Mumia Abu-Jamal – to bring him home.
Mumia has been a US Political Prisoner since December 1981. He is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, an award-winning journalist, a father, grandfather, and loving husband. Mumia is a kind human being who makes it a priority to use the power of his voice to uplift all others and the issues negatively impacting them. Though his work to expose police violence and the many injustices Black and other oppressed people face has made him a target, and thus has spent much of his life in prison, he continues to courageously write and report from “the bowels of the modern-day slave ship”, on the important matters of our lives.
The people’s movement got Mumia off Death Row after almost 30 years. Now we much get him out of prison!
GUEST! Julia Wright, daughter of acclaimed writer Richard Wright, and a long-time activist, poet and essayist in her own right, will Zoom in from France to the General Baker Institute during the Read-A-Thon. About 2-3pm EST, Julia will share a few of her poems written for Mumia. Julia and Mumia have been comrades for many years. [see Julia’s remarkable bio in the post below]
Within days of the Read-A-Thon, a judge in Philadelphia will decide if Mumia’s case from over 40 years ago- a case full of glaring injustices – can be re-opened due to new evidence.
Host: Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Detroit and Moratorium Now
Info: Mumia Read-A-Thon ~ FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL! | Facebook
5. Saturday, 11:00am, Proposition O Mobilization
In person – meet at:
Dolores Park
Corner of 19th St & Dolores
SF
Join AFT 2121 and SEIU 1021 to drop literature!
Host: SF WERCS
Info: Proposition O Mobilization | Facebook
6. Saturday, 12Noon, Back to the Streets! Say NO to U.S. Wars!
In person
Oakland Federal Building
1301 Clay St.
Oakland
Today working people face escalating costs of food and energy, recession, growing insecurity and attacks on efforts to unionize. The continuing wars and military provocations, have brought us to the brink of nuclear war. Yet, during this election period, imperialist foreign policy has been getting little attention. It is time for us to be back in the streets to demand an end to US wars and provocations.
While the U.S. pours more weapons into the proxy war in Ukraine – holding open the possibility of direct confrontation with nuclear-armed Russia – the war fanatics in Washington seem determined to start even more fires around the world. The U.S. continues to financially bolster the reactionary Duarte regime in the Philippines and the repressive Haitian government. Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan; hints that the U.S. may be moving towards
confrontation with China as well as strikes against Iran; and reports that new U.S./South Korea war games will practice a “decapitation” strike
against the north (DPRK): all show the urgent need to speak out.
Stop US wars, threats of war, and sanctions from Cuba and Palestine to Africa/Somalia, Latin America, the Middle East/Syria/Iraq to Russia and China. Stop the war on Black, Latinx and Indigenous communities. Black Lives Matter! Stop the attacks on women, trans youth and the entire LGBTQI+ community. $Billions for Housing, Health Care, Jobs and Climate NOT for War Profiteering. No to NATO! No to Africom! No to all U.S. wars against working people at home and abroad.
For information and to endorse contact jmackler@lmi.net or judygreenspan1952@gmail.com.
Host: The United National AntiWar Coalition
Monday, October 17
7. Monday, 9:00am, Defend Windy Howard
In person court support:
1415 Truxtun Ave.
Bakersfield, CA
Info for Audio-stream: Metro Division Dpt 4 Audio Streaming | Superior Court of California | County of Kern
Wendy is a victim of domestic violence.
The prosecution rested their case today (Thursday, October 13), and the trial will resume on Monday at 9 a.m. Thank you for your continued support of Wendy and her family. This whole experience has been tremendously difficult for all of them, and we are maintaining hope that Wendy will be free at the end of this.
ARTICLE:
Advocates call on DA to drop murder charge against Tehachapi woman accused of killing ex-husband
“…Howard is accused of killing her former husband, Kelly Rees Pitts, 59, after confronting him about sexually abusing her daughter, according to Tehachapi Police Department offense reports filed in Kern County Superior Court. Kelly Pitts denied the allegations, called Howard a liar and began yelling at her after she confronted him, the court reports state.
Howard said Kelly Pitts then attempted to “lurch” a quad at her and she shot him, the court documents state. The defendant said to police in the reports she was threatened by Pitts and carried a gun to protect her family.
The Tehachapi Police Department was investigating Kelly Pitts over sexual assault allegations made by Howard’s then-16-year-old daughter. Pitts’ eldest daughter accused him of sexual abuse from 2002 to 2005, according to The Californian’s previous reporting….”
for updates on twitter, facebook, and instagram
Tuesday, October 18
8. Tuesday, 4:00pm, SF – Full Health Commission
In person
101 Grove St, rm 300 (@ Polk St.
SF
phone in, Instructions will be available here on October 15. (To give public comments please use a phone, Webex is unreliable.
Talking points and more are at
Info from: Gray Panthers
9. Tuesday, 4:00pm (PT); 7:00pm (ET), “LONG DISTANCE REVOLUTIONARY” movie about Mumia Abu-Jamal ~ Online Event
FREE Online event register: Meeting Registration – Zoom
Watch this important, well-made film about Mumia Abu-Jamal- brilliant radio journalist and writer, veteran Black Panther, and longtime Political Prisoner from Philadelphia. [more in post below]
SPECIAL GUEST: Jamal Jr, Mumia’s grandson, will address the attendees of the online film screening.
The movie Long Distance Revolutionary is the first of its kind about Mumia. It came out in 2013, and instead of focusing on Mumia’s case, it focuses on his life, motivations, family, time in the Black Panther Party, his radio career, reporting on MOVE, his writing, and his life on Death Row. It’s an excellent, artfully made film about Mumia, who Angela Davis calls “the 21st Century’s Frederick Douglass.” Cast includes: Cornel West, Alice Walker, Dick Gregory, Angela Davis, Rubin Hurricane Carter, and Amy Goodman.
“If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to kill him and shut him up?” – John Edgar Wideman, Professor, Brown University
Host: Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Detroit and Moratorium Now
Info “LONG DISTANCE REVOLUTIONARY” movie about Mumia Abu-Jamal ~ Online Event | Facebook
10. Tuesday, 6:30pm, San Francisco: Hy Thurman and Kwame Shakur in Conversation
Green Arcade Books
1680 Market St.
SF
Masks required
Hy Thurman was the co-founder of The Young Patriots Organization, a group of poor white people who organized alongside the Chicago Panthers and Young Lords in the original Rainbow Coalition. He is the author of “Revolutionary Hillbilly.”
Kwame Shakur learned revolutionary politics while in prison through self-education. He is currently the Minister of Culture for the New Afrikan Black Panther Party. His first book is “My Search For Answers, Truth and Meaning.”
Info: San Francisco: Hy Thurman and Kwame Shakur in Conversation | Facebook
Wednesday, October 19
11. Wednesday, 5:30am (PT); 8:30am (ET), Come out for Mumia Abu-Jamal
If you can’t be there in person – check info below
On / Off facebook: YouTube live stream link: [LIVE] Mumia Abu-Jamal Court Hearing (Oct 19th) – YouTube
Mumia Abu-Jamal
• A Black Panther Party veteran, writer and community activist.
• Unfairly convicted by Philadelphia’s racist injustice system in 1982 and sentenced to be executed.
• The people’s movement forced the state to take him off death row in 2011 but he still faces Death by Incarceration.
• New evidence found in hidden boxes at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office in 2018 could prove his innocence.
• An October 19 court hearing may rule that Mumia has a right to reopen his case in Common Pleas Court to hear the new evidence.
• If so, the resulting court procedures could finally release him after 40 years behind bars.
Host: Mobilzation4Mumia
Info: (1) Come out for Mumia Abu-Jamal | Facebook
12. Wednesday, 12 Noon – 2:00pm, Mumia in court, Oct. 19 (Oakland event)
In person
Oakland Federal Building
1301 Clay St. (@ 14th St.)
Oakland
1 block from BART (get off at the front of the train)
After more than four decades, 14 000 days, spent far away from his family, the case of Mumia ABU-JAMAL will be heard in the Philadelphia, PA Court of Common Pleas. The same court system that had sentenced him to die by lethal injection, then to death by incarceration. The evidence that has now come to light — but was long kept in the dark by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office — should enable his release !
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal is the cry heard around the world for 40 years. It will reverberate in Philadelphia on Oct. 19. Here in the Bay Area we are calling for freedom for Mumia.
Host: The Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Info: Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! : Indybay
13. Wednesday, 5:00pm (PT); 8:00pm (ET), Topic Decolonial Solidarity Organizing Call
Organizing call sign up: Webinar Registration – Zoom
The government of BC has acted in bad faith and failed to meet its obligations under the memorandum of understanding they signed in 2020.
Funders of this project have repeatedly peddled lies about its legitimacy. Not least the fact that the 20 First Nations it holds up do not have jurisdiction over the pipeline-crossed land.
Together, we will stop this pipeline and assert Indigenous rights in the face of overwhelming greed and corruption of the Canadian government
FR S’EN SUIT. WEBINAIRE BILINGUE.
Join Gidimt’en checkpoint spokeswoman Sleydo’ and chiefs Na’Moks and Madeek as well a Decolonial Solidarity’s core team for an organizing call to build the Indigenous solidarity movement!
Drilling has started under Wedzwin Kwa. Gidimt’en checkpoint is fighting for Wet’suwet’en sovereignty against the threat of the Coastal Gaslink pipeline. They need us to respond.
We will hear from the frontlines and see how RBC is one of the major funders of the pipeline and how forcing it to leave the project would lead other investors to leave.
You will be invited to take action to respond to drilling and join the movement by organizing in your community.
Together, we can build concerned settlers into a massive organized political force that will support the fight for Decolonization.
Host: Gidimt’en Checkpoint
