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ARTICLES
A. Peru: Death Toll Tops 40 as Security Forces Crack Down on Protests over President Castillo’s Ouster – January 11, 2023
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/1/11/peru_protests_castillo_security_forces
See Event # 8
See Article E
B. U.N. Condemns Iranian Executions as Families of Death Row Prisoners Plead for Loved Ones’ Lives – January 11, 2023
See Event # 11
C. House GOP Says Pentagon Budget Is Safe—But Social Security and Medicare Aren’t – January 10, 2023
House GOP Says Pentagon Budget Is Safe—But Social Security and Medicare Aren’t (commondreams.org)
D. Number of Germans rejecting military service skyrockets – media – January 7, 2023
Number of Germans rejecting military service skyrockets – media — RT World News
E. ‘They Shot Them Down Like Animals’” Massacre in Peru’s Ayachucho – January 4, 2023
‘They shot them down like animals’: Massacre in Peru’s Ayacucho (therealnews.com)
See Event # 8
F. BlackRock Logo To Be Added To Ukrainian Flag
https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/blackrock-logo-to-be-added-to-ukrainian-flag-cf2814445202
G. US moving bioweapons research out of Ukraine – Moscow – December 24, 2022
US moving bioweapons research out of Ukraine – Moscow — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
H. Fusion Energy: The Nuclear Weapons Connection – December 24, 2022
Fusion Energy: The Nuclear Weapons Connection | Portside
I. As usual, defense bill gives millions of dollars to Israel, but no one tells Americans – December 23, 2022
Israeli media report that the 2023 defense spending bill just signed into law contains over $500 million for Israel (just the tip of the iceberg of billions of dollars for Israel)… AIPAC commended Congress…
The bipartisan defense measure authorizes $500 million in FY 2023 for US-Israel missile defense cooperation. This includes funds for Israeli procurement of Iron Dome, David’s Sling, and Arrow and for bilateral [sic] research, development, test, and evaluation.
J. U.S. Faith Leaders Call for Xmas Truce in Ukraine as Zelensky Visits D.C. Seeking More Arms & Money – December 22, 2022
K. Eugene V. Debs on the 1914 Christmas Truce
Eugene V. Debs on the 1914 Chri stmas Truce (jacobin.com)
L. Not a Joke, the Pentagon Wants to Name a Warship the USS Fallujah – December 17, 2022
The Pentagon Wants to Name a Warship the USS Fallujah (theintercept.com)
M. Oakland Demonstraton as Movement to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Gains Momentum – December 16, 2022
Oakland Demonstration as Movement to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Gains Momentum : Indybay
N. ‘A Moral and Political Disgrace’: Just 11 Senators Vote No on $858 Billion Military Budget – December 16, 2022
O. Biden Kills Senate Resolution To End Yemen Genocide –December 14, 2022
Biden Kills Senate Resolution To End Yemen Genocide – Caitlin Johnstone
Bernie Sanders has withdrawn his bill to end US support for the Saudi war on Yemen following reports that the Biden administration was working to tank the resolution, with White House aids reportedly saying they’d recommend the president veto it.
P. WE SAY NO TO MANDATES – – December 13, 2022
https://www.blackcaucusgreens.org/we_say_no_to_mandates
The National Black Caucus of the Green Party of the United States
PETITIONS
1. Demand amnesty & justice for political prisoners in the U.S.
SIGN: TAKE ACTION
2. Governor Newsom: Free 83 Year Old Prisoner Ruchell Magee! Unjustly Incarcerated for 59 Years!
3. President Biden: Work to Stop Executions in Iran and Worldwide
SIGN: President Biden: Work to Stop Executions in Iran and Worldwide. – Action Network
4. To: Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO, and Mellody Hobson, Chair of the Board
SIGN: An open letter to Starbucks from Californians | SumOfUs Petitions (controlshift.app)
5. Pass a billionaire’s tax
SIGN: Pass a billionaire’s tax! | Demand Progress
6. BREAKING: BAYER-MONSANTO’S TOXIC PESTICIDE COVER-UP EXPOSED!
SIGN: FOE: Take Action
Upcoming Executions in January & February (Click on name to sign petition)
January 12, 2023 at 10:00 am CT:
Scott Eizember in Oklahoma
February 1, 2023 at 6:00 pm CT:
Wesley Ruiz in Texas
February 7, 2023 at 6:00 pm CT:
Leonard Taylor in Missouri
February 8, 2023 at 6:00 pm CT:
John Balentine in Texas
February 16, 2023 at 10:00 am CT:
Richard Glossip in Oklahoma
EVENTS
Wednesday, January 11 – Tuesday, January 17
Wednesday, January 11
1. Wednesday, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Close Guantanamo/ Prosecute Yoo for Torture – Press Conference
In person
UC Berkeley Law School
Bancroft Way & College Ave.
Berkeley
Meet 12:45pm at Caffe Strada, Bancroft Way @ College Ave.
Proceed together at 1pm to the Law School across the street.
We have Yoo posters, orange jumpsuits & hoods, letter to deliver to Yoo and Law School Dean Chemerinsky, flyers for law school students. Picket, speakers, songs for Yoo (come sing!), join letter delivery asking Yoo to contribute to the Guantanamo Survivors’ Fund Give to the Guantanamo Survivors Fund | No More Guantanamos:
Professor John Yoo is “the man who famously butchered the U.S. Constitution in order to give the CIA the legal authority to conduct medieval torture.” He continues to teach at UC Berkeley Law School. He should be prosecuted for complicity in torture and imprisoned. He gave legal justification for torturing Muslim men turned over for bounty to the military for CIA torture at Abu Graib, black sites, and Guantanamo. We are calling for his prosecution. Torture is NEVER legal.
This action on the 21st anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantánamo Bay will highlight Professor John Yoo’s complicity in U.S. torture and call for his prosecution. Yoo provided erroneous legal cover for the U.S. military and CIA to torture captured Muslim men, most of whom have never been charged with crimes, yet spent years at Guantanamo where they were treated inhumanely and tortured. There are less than 40 remaining prisoners. Professor Yoo should be prosecuted, not teaching law at our public university. We’ve invited Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky to speak. In 2014 Chemerinsky, then Dean of UC Irvine Law School, said in “Nation” magazine and in a KPFK interview that Yoo should be criminally prosecuted: “I think he [John Yoo] should be,” Chemerinsky said. “All who planned, all who implemented, all who carried out the torture should be criminally prosecuted. How else do we as a society express our outrage? How else do we deter it in the future, except by criminal prosecutions?”
Host: CodePink Endorsers: Berkeley No More Guantanamos, Progressive Democrats of America Oakland, Triple Justice, Extinction Rebellion Peace.
Info: Close Guantanamo/ Prosecute Yoo for Torture : Indybay
2. Wednesday 4:00pm – 5:00pm, STAND UP FOR JUSTICE, NOT JENKINS
In person
Herbst Theatre
San Francisco Memorial& Performing Arts Center
401 Van Ness Avenue
(nr.McAllister St. across the street from SF City Hall)
SF
Demo will be outside on the sidewalk
Public Transportation: MUNI #49 & #5
On Wednesday, DA Brooke Jenkins will be sworn into office by United States Senator Alex Padilla
Schedule:
4:00pm Doors open
5:00pm – 6:00pm Ceremony
6:00pm – 7:00pm Reception in the Green Room
Hold District Attorney Brooke Jenkins Accountable
Mothers On The March invite all to:
Hold DA Jenkins accountable to families whose loved ones have been killed or injured by the terror of the San Francisco Police Department
When DA Jenkins was appointed the interim DA by Mayor London Breed, she fired or reassigned attorneys who were working on cases involving SFPD’s
We will be calling out the names of many of the people killed by SFPD
Join the picket line with photos of those killed by SFPD and signs demanding accountability.
JAIL KILLER COPS!
DA JENKINS
DEFENDING KILLER COPS
IS NOT
JUSTICE!
ASIAN, BLACK,
BROWN or WHITE
HATE HAS NO HOME HERE
BROOKE JENKINS
LIES, LIES, LIES
DON’T BE FOOLED!
BREED & JENKINS:
(heart symbol) POLICE “UNIONS” &
CROOKED BILLIONAIRES
FOLLOW THE MONEY!
Info: Stand Up for Justice, Not Jenkins! : Indybay
3. Wednesday 5:30pm, ‘End Biased Stops’ – SF Police Commission Meeting
In person or Online
In Person
San Francisco Police Commission
City Hall, Room 400
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
SF
Stream at: www.sfgovtv.org | Watch on Webex: Link
Public Comment:
To dial in:
- Call 1 (415) 655-0001
- Enter the meeting ID, 2489 158 9096, then press #
- When asked for a participant ID number, just press # again
- You’ll hear a beep after you enter the hearing/meeting
To join the queue (“raise your hand”):
- To speak on a particular item, press *3.
- You’ll hear an automated confirmation that “your hand has been raised to ask a question.”
- If you don’t, press *3 again. If needed, hang up and call again.
- If you’re not sure whether you’re in line, press ** and listen to the menu options.
To speak:
- When you hear “your line has been unmuted,” that means it’s your turn to speak.
Agenda: January 11, 2023 Police Commission meeting | San Francisco (sf.gov)
Info: Coalition To End Biased Stops
Thursday, January 12
4. Thursday, 9:00am – 10:30pm, Rally & Press Conference Demands More Prison Closures Across California
In person
California State Capitol (West Steps)
1315 10th St
Sacramento, CA 95814
Community organizers call for at least 7 more state prisons to be closed by 2025
WHO: Organized by Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) and the #CloseCAPrisons campaign
Prison closure advocates are holding a rally and press conference to share a community roadmap demanding more prison closures be included in Governor Gavin Newsom’s 2023-2024 final state budget.
DETAILS: There will be upwards of a 100 people in attendance with signs and banners. Speakers will be available for photo and interview opportunities.
AGENDA:
9:00am Guest & Press Arrival Time
9:30am Rally & Press Conference
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
Amber-Rose Howard, Californians United for a Responsible Budget
Marlene Sanchez, Ella Baker Center
Yoel Haile, ACLU of Northern California
Michaé De La Cuadra, Budget 2 Save Lives
Genevieve Romero, Care First Coalition
Woods Ervin, Critical Resistance
Hosts: Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) and the #CloseCAPrisons campaign
Info: Rally & Press Conference Demands More Prison Closures Across California : Indybay
5. Thursday, 5:00pm (PT); 8:00pm (ET), The U.S. Prosecution and Persecution of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange
ZOOM event: Click here for Zoom connection
Featured speakers:
Ellen E. Taylor, retired Physicians Assistant living in Petrolia California. Lived in Nuremberg, Germany where her father, Telford Taylor, was Chief Prosecutor for the U.S. War Crimes Tribunal, 1945-46; Author, “The Entrapment of Julian Assange: The Star Chamber Nears,” published in CounterPunch
Vincent De Stefano, National Organizing Director, AssangeDefense.org; President, Pasadena/Foothill chapter, ACLU; Amnesty International activist for the past four decades
Stephen Rohde, Constitutional lawyer, lecturer, writer and political activist; Former Chair, ACLU Foundation of Southern California; Vice-Chair, Interfaith Communities United for Justice; Chair, Death Penalty Focus; Author, “American Words of Freedom”
Moderator: Jeff Mackler, National Administrative Committee, United National Antiwar Coalition; National Secretary, Socialist Action; Author, “Whistleblower Julian Assange and the CIA’s Daily Wars Against Humanity
Host: Socialist Action
Info: Socialist Action
Friday, January 13
6. Friday, January 13 – 8:00am (PT) – Monday, January 16 – 4:00pm – 9th Annual Weekend & March to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy
In-person & Virtual
Anti Police-Terror Project
Schedule of events & RSVP: 9th Annual Weekend & March to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy (actionnetwork.org)
On January 13-15, 2023 we will host a weekend of (online and offline) teach-ins, trainings, film screenings, healing justice workshops, and actions in King’s honor, and we will end with a caravan and march on MLK Day.
Join us to recommit to the path of revolution and liberation laid out for us by Dr. King and the long lineage of Black freedom fighters who came before us. Not the white-washed, sanitized version of King that the US capitalist state has co-opted and sold back to us, but rather the radical, anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist revolutionary who called for an all out war against poverty
Dr. King’s legacy of radical direct action teaches us that real change comes from the people. And it’s going to take all of us coming together more united in struggle and liberation.
Schedule:
FRIDAY, JANUARY 13
· Noon: Opening Ceremony (more details TBA)
· 6pm: Standing on their Shoulders: Lessons from the Black Party Survival Programs
SATURDAY, JANUARY 14
· 11am – 3pm: The People’s House Grand Opening Block Party
· 11am – 4pm: Healing Justice Portal at Tha People’s House
· 8pm: Virtual Film Festival feat. Behind the Shield
SUNDAY, JANUARY 15
· 11am – 1pm: Copwatch Training
· 11am – 4pm: Healing Justice Portal at Tha People’s House
· 1pm – 3pm: First Responders Training
· 1pm – 3pm: CRCAA presents Intro to the 5 Methods Webinar
· 3pm – 5pm: Medic and Narcan Training
· 6pm – 11pm: Virtual Film Festival feat. Copwatch and Judas and the Black Messiah
Monday, JANUARY 16
· 11am – 4pm: 9th Annual March and Car Caravan to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy
· 11am – 4pm: Healing Justice Portal at Tha People’s House
7. Friday, 9:00am, Court Hearing for SFPD’s Officer Kenneth Cha for Homicide of Sean Moore
Hall of Justice
Department 20 (2nd Floor –elevator access)
850 Bryant St.
SF
All are welcomed to attend and support the Moore family.
| Case Number | Case Title | Purpose | Location | Dept | Date | Time |
| CRI-21010958 | CHA, KENNETH | 850 BRYANT ST | 20 | 2023-01-13 | 9:00 AM |
This will be the second in-person hearing on this case since DA Jenkins became the DA.
Families of men killed by SFPD say DA Jenkins is blowing them off – November 17, 2022
Families of men killed by SFPD say DA Jenkins is blowing them off (missionlocal.org)
8. Friday, 11:00am – 12:30pm, SF Rally-Smash US Supported Coup In Peru, US Gov & Biden Get Bloody Hands Off Peru (Time Change & Correct Address)
In person
Peru Consualte
870 Market St. (nr. 4th & 5th St.)
SF
Solidarity Action
On December 7, a US supported coup took place in Peru that the US was intimately involved in. The right and the media attacked Castillo’s government and were building day by day the viability of the parliamentary coup d’état that ended up
taking place on December 7.
Also, on the eve of the coup, U.S. Ambassador Lisa Kenna met with Defense Minister Gustavo Bobbio, who, like Córdova, resigned on December 7. According to the Lima newspaper, the last phone call Castillo took before leaving the presidential palace came from the U.S. embassy. The Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, had blessed the coup and recognized Boluarte.
It was also the United States who was behind the appointment of the new head of the National Intelligence Directorate, retired Colonel Juan Carlos Liendo O’Connor, former liaison officer in the Pentagon’s Southern Command, closely linked to the dictatorship of Alberto
Fujimori and his alter ego, Vladimiro Montesinos, both imprisoned for crimes against humanity” . Liendo guarantees the ongoing repression and militarization in Peru.
A large part of Peru is now militarized and in a state of emergency to crush the working people and poor. Tanks, together with groups of soldiers and assault police, patrol the streets daily, seeking to intimidate the protesters and the people who come out to join them. The regime has even started labeling protesters “terrorists,”.
The newly US supported puppet President Dina Boluarte has been responsible for murder of youth, workers and indiginous people. She has also jailed the real former president Pedro Castillo
We demand an end to US intervention and the removal of the coupsters and their prosecution for the coup and the murders of more than 20 youth and people of Peru in their illegal seizure of power.
The people and workers of Peru have a right to their own self government without US imperialist intervention. This also follows the US supported coup in Bolivia on November 19, 2019. That coup was also supported by Trump and Tesla Twitter billionaire Elon Musk who wanted the lithium which is an important resouce of Boliva. Peru as well has important deposits of copper, iron, lead, zinc, bismuth, phosphates, manganese and lithium.
The role of both the Democrats and Republicans is to continue the coups and looting of Latin America. This is also the 50th anniversary of the US supported coup in Chile in 1973. This coup was also supported by the AFL-CIO bureaucrats and the AIFLD. Today the AFL-CIO through the NED funded “Solidarity Center” with $75 milllion is still supporting coups in
Venezuela and around the world.
No More US Supported Coups in Chile, Latin America and the World.
US Workers Support The Workers and Unions In Peru
An Injury To One Is An Injury To All!
Additional info:
https://mronline.org/2022/12/18/peru-coup//
Counterinsurgency War; US Bases and Troops in Peru prt. 1
https://resumen-english.org/2022/12/counterinsurgency-war-us-bases-and-troops-in-peru-prt-1/
The Roots and Results of the Parliamentary Coup and the People’s Uprising in Peru
https://www.leftvoice.org/the-roots-and-results-of-the-parliamentary-coup-and-the-peoples-uprising-in-peru/
‘They Shot Them Down Like Animals’: Massacre at Peru’s Ayacucho
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/05/they-shot-them-down-like-animals-massacre-at-perus-ayacucho/
Host: United Front Committee For A Labor Party
Info: SF Rally-Smash US Supported Coup In Peru, US Gov & Biden Get Bloody Hands Off Peru : Indybay
9. Friday, Mothers On The March will NOT be at the SFPOA this week.
Mothers will be at the Peruvian Consulate to stand in solidarity with the Peruvian people and against the Peruvian police and military terrorizing the people
Saturday, January 14
10. Saturday, 12 Noon, Anti-War Demo – Peace in Ukraine — Yes! NATO Expansion — NO! Fund people’s needs – Not war!
In person
Meet at Market & Powell St.
SF
Rally & speakout – Rain or shine
action on January 14 is in conjunction with the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend to honor his true anti-war legacy.
Honoring Dr. King in a meaningful way means to build an ever stronger movement for peace and against social and economic injustice. This must include using society’s vast resources to fund healthcare, housing, education and to save the environment – rather than the bloated war machine.
Info: https://www.answercoalition.org/2023_01_14_sf_peace_in_ukraine_action
11. Saturday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, Film Screening:The Circle, banned in Iran, directed by Afar Panahi, imprisoned in Iran
In person
Revolution Books Berkeley
2444 Durant Ave.
Berkeley
This fi showing is a benefit for Revolution Books as part of a fund drive to raise $5,000 by mid-February.
The Circle weaves together the tales and struggle of multiple women over the course of a single day and night in Tehran.
Stay for a discussion on the film, the current uprising, the responsibility of people here at this moment, and the potential of a real revolution in Iran.
Director Jahar Panahi has been arrested multiple times and in 2010 was convicted of “assembly and colluding with the intention to commit crimes against the country’s national security and propaganda against the Islamic Republic.” He was sentenced to 6 years in prison and banned for 20 years from making or directing any movies. But he continued to direct while under house arrest. In July ’22, he was arrested again and is now in prison.
Revolution Books supports the courageous uprising in Iran sparked by the murder of Mahsa Amini for wearing an “improper hijab.” For over 3 months, thousands of people throughout Iran have taken to the streets defying the government’s increasing repression.
Info: Film Screening:The Circle, banned in Iran, directed by Afar Panahi, imprisoned in Iran : Indybay
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
12. Monday, 9th Annual Relaim MLK’S Radical Legacy: March and Caravan (Oakland)
Meet at
Middle Harbor Shoreline Park
2777 Middle Harbor Rd.
Oakland
Caravan & Virtual action
RSVP for details / Updates; Reclaim MLK 2023 — APTP (antipoliceterrorproject.org)
Tuesday. January 17
13. Tuesday, 4:00pm, Health Commission Meeting – Laguna Honda Hospital
Remote meeting only:
To testify: Call 415-655-0001 (Access Code from meeting’s agenda), # #. Raise your hand (*3 on the phone) as soon as our item is called!
To supply written testimony for the record: Email Your 150-word statement to mark.morewitz@sfdph.org —specify the date, agenda number, and that you want your testimony in the minutes. You may both testify and supply a written statement. See example of a statement.
Update: as of the January 10, 2023 Health Commission/Laguna Honda Joint Conference Committee Meeting, the Federal CMS has NOT given a postponement on restarting deadly discharges and LHH closure on February 2, 2023. The City Attorney is in the process of reviewing and sending a letter to higher government authorities requesting a reprieve. How can you fix a facility full of vulnerable people by closing it? Speak out to stop this cruel and dangerous exercise!
Background: As of this writing, DPH says closure and deadly discharges will resume February 2, 2023. The cut of 120 badly needed nursing home beds is still on the table. The October 12 LHH Settlement stipulates that closure and discharges could be postponed if the Settlement requirements are adhered to. But what are they? So far, SFDPH is keeping federally required plans and documents secret, including its Revised Closure Plan, its Root Cause Analysis, and its Action Plan, pending CMS approval. All discussion has been done in Closed Session by the Health Commission – excluding the public. Read more here.
We demand, on behalf of all San Franciscans: No secrecy, No closure, no discharges, No bed reduction! You can’t open a hospital by closing it!
Info: SF Gray Panthers
