By Adrienne Fong
Event update and events are only Wed. & Thursday. Hope to have more info available Wed. / Thursday.
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.
ARTICLES
A. Haiti Action Condemns Expanded Foreign Military Occupation of Haiti – October 18, 2022
No To Expanded Foreign Military Occupation of Haiti – Haiti Action Committee (haitisolidarity.net)
B. Blood tests detect high levels of PFOS in residents near U.S. bases – October 16, 2022
C. Mass protests against NATO and EU erupt in France, Germany and parts of Europe – October 15, 2022
Mass protests against NATO and EU erupt in France, Germany and parts of Europe – YouTube
D. D.A. Jenkins, police nearing new agreement on police use-of-force investigations – October 14, 2022
D.A. Jenkins, police nearing new agreement on police use-of-force investigations (sfchronicle.com)
E. State Bar complaint filed against SF interim D.A. Jenkins by retired judge – October 13, 2022
State Bar complaint filed against SF interim D.A. Jenkins by retired judge (ktvu.com)
F. From Wood Street to where do we go? October 12, 2022
From Wood Street to where do we go? (sfbayview.com)
PETITIONS
1. President Biden: Allow entry to families denied by Trump’s Muslim and African Bans
SIGN: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-president-biden-allow-entry-to-families-denied-by-trumps-muslim-and-african-bans?source=direct_link&referrer=group-mpower-action-fund
2. President Biden: Rein in secret money in politics
3. Demand communities of color have a seat at the table when it comes to clean water
EVENTS
Wednesday, October 19 – Thursday, October 20
Wednesday, October 19
CHANGE IN DATES FOR MUMIA ABU-JAMAL – events no longer for Oct. 19th. due to change in court hearing date!! Two events are now for Wednesday, October 26.
. 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: Come out for Mumia Abu-Jamal | Facebook
. Wednesday, 12 Noon – 2:00pm, Mumia in court, Oct. 19 (Oakland event) Changed to Wed. October 26
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
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Wednesday, October 19
1. Wednesday, 5:00pm – 6:00pm, It’s a Workers’ Issue: Abortion Access, the Right to Healthcare, and Labor Unions
Online
RSVP for Zoom here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/workers-issue
Unions Keep Up the Fight for Reproductive Healthcare for All!
Please join us for a special online event hosted by our friends at the Labor Committee for Single Payer to hear more about how union Medicare for All activists are leading the fight for access to reproductive healthcare in the post-Roe US:
A panel of labor organizers from different sectors across the U.S. will be discussing
the critical issue of reproductive justice, in the wake of the Supreme Court decision
overturning Roe v. Wade.
–Sara Nelson (International President of AFA-CWA)
–Dee Dunn (BMWED/IBT)
–Maggie Carter (Starbucks Workers United, Knoxville),
–Martha Valadez (News Guild, CWA Michigan)
–Rebekah Nelson (Minnesota Nurses Association)
Speakers will share:
–What unions have been doing in response to the Supreme Court decision
–Why it’s bad to rely on your employer for reproductive health coverage
–How single-payer / Medicare for All will cover not only abortion access but the broader scope of reproductive rights such as wellness visits, birth control, in vitro fertilization, and gender-affirming care.
The Campaign will be sharing resources for individuals and unions to use to help fight for these fundamental rights.
Host: Labor Committee for Single Payer
Info: It’s a Workers’ Issue: Abortion Access, the Right to Healthcare, and Labor Unions : Indybay
2. Wednesday, 5:00pm-6:00pm (PT); 8:00pm – 9:00pm (ET), Paid Jailer Teach-In: How Sheriff Campaign Dollars Shape Mass Incarceration
Online registration: Paid Jailer Teach-In: How Sheriff Campaign Dollars Shape Mass Incarceration · Common Cause (mobilize.us)
Have accessibility questions? Reply to your registration email to confirm your requirements or request more information.
Our country’s law enforcement shouldn’t be up for sale to the highest bidder.
On Oct 19th, we’re exposing the corporations that profit from the devastating mass incarceration of our nation’s marginalized communities.
There’s too much at stake in this year’s elections to miss this. It’s time to end these dangerous conflicts of interest and get jail money out of sheriff elections.
Join Common Cause, Color of Change, and Communities for Sheriff Accountability as we teach attendees how to research who is donating to your local sheriff.
Thursday, October 20
3. Thursday, 10:00am, Support Victims of Police Violence – Rally and Press Conference: Rest in Power Keita O’Neil, Luis Gongora Pat and Sean Moore
In person
SF interim DA Brooke Jenkin’s Office
350 Rhode Island (we will be on Kansas side of building)
SF
Please join us this Thursday, 10/20 at 10am, to support the families of police shooting victims, Keita O’Neil, Luis Gongora Pat, and Sean Moore who are demanding that DA Brooke Jenkins follow through with the prosecution of the SFPD officers who murdered O’Neil, Gongora Pat, and Moore.
Our support is needed now more than ever to ensure the DA holds these police officers accountable
Host: San Francisco Rising Alliance
Info: (4) Rally and Press Conference: Rest in Power Keita O’Neil and Luis Gongora Pat | Facebook
4. Thursday, 1:00pm, Honoring the Life of John Crew (August 20, 1957 – October 7, 2022)
In person
San Francisco Botanical Gardens
Celebration Garden (nr. Main Gate)
(Entrance Martin Luther King Jr. Dr.)
SF
I don’t know if fees will apply – here’s general info about fees from the garden’s website:
Adults (February – October) $13
Adults (November – January
Youth & Seniors $7
(Ages 12-17 and 65+)
Children (Ages 5-11) $3
Toddler (Ages 4 and under) FREE
Families $21
(2 adults and all children under 17 residing in the same household)
Garden Members, School Groups, Veterans, Museums For All, San Francisco Residents
(with proof of residency) FREE
Info: Facebook
5. Thursday, 6:45pm – 8:15pm, “When Mama and Me Lived Outside” at the SF Latino Film Fest!
In person
Roxie Theater
3117 16th Street
SF
We’re so honored to have won our 15th award! If you haven’t already seen our film, the true origin story of Tiny, Poor Magazine and Homefulness, please join us at the Roxie Theater for a showing of our, based on Tiny’s children’s book of the same name.
Check the link below to read about the other films showing with ours, and how you can buy tickets.
Hope to see you there!
Event by Peter Menchini and Tiny Gray=Garcia
Info: “When Mama and Me Lived Outside” at the SF Latino Film Fest! | Facebook
