By Adrienne Fong

Not back posting on a regular basis

Please DO NOT hand me fliers and expect me to post them – please post on Indybay or do a FB event page!!

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Please post your actions on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12

 See Indybay  for  other listings of events

ARTICLES

A. AG wants time to review prosecution of cop — and DA’s handling of case – March 7, 2023

AG wants time to review SF cop prosecution, DA’s handling of case (missionlocal.org)

B. Breed doubles down on police spending, pressures supervisors – March 7, 2023

Breed doubles down on police spending, pressures supervisors | Politics | sfexaminer.com

  Demo and SF Sup hearing will be on March 15 – will post next week

C. Nothing about Brooke Jenkins’ move to dismiss charges in an SFPD shooting smells right  – March 7, 2023

DA Jenkins’ move to dismiss SFPD shooting charges doesn’t smell right (sfchronicle.com)

  Opinion article

  See Events  # 8 & 9

D. ‘Stop Cop City’ Week of Action Begins in Atlanta – March 4, 2023

https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/stop-cop-city-week-of-action-begins-in-atlanta/

  **NOTE A demo is being planned in SF for March 15, will post next week

E. Another Norfolk Southern train derails in Ohio; railroad says no toxins aboard – March 5, 2023

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/another-norfolk-southern-train-derails-ohio-company-says-no-toxins-aboard-2023-03-05/

  See Event # 14  & Article F

F. Plan to incinerate soil from Ohio train derailment is ‘horrifying’, says expert – March 4, 2023

Plan to incinerate soil from Ohio train derailment is ‘horrifying’, says expert | Ohio train derailment | The Guardian

G. Gates Funded WHO Seeks Increased Pandemic Powers – March 4, 2023

Gates Funded WHO Seeks Increased Pandemic Powers – YouTube

H. ASSANGE BELMARSH TRIBUNAL IN SYDNEY (RECORDING) March 2, 2023

WATCH: Assange Belmarsh Tribunal in Sydney (consortiumnews.com)

I. ‘NY Times’ buries Israeli military complicity in West Bank pogrom in paragraph 26 – March1, 2023

‘NY Times’ buries Israeli military complicity in West Bank pogrom in paragraph 26

  See Event # 10

   See Petition # 1

2 PETITIONS

1. It’s Time to End Israeli Impunity and Stop Continued US Military Funding Without Accountability!

  SIGN: https://secure.everyaction.com/AxS_LDZblU2D19oTNhL6Sw2?emci=0d7d7ea8-ecba-ed11-a8e0-00224832e811&emdi=5c3e062f-27bc-ed11-a8e0-00224832e811&ceid=317326

2. Tell Congress: Withdraw U.S. Troops from Syria!

  SIGN: Tell Congress: Withdraw US Troops from Syria (everyaction.com)

URGENT CALL YOUR REPRESTENTATIVE TODAY

 House Expected to Vote on Syria War Powers Resolution on Wednesday

House Expected to Vote on Syria War Powers Resolution on Wednesday – News From Antiwar.com

Contact your representative and tell them to support H. Con. Res. 21

The House is expected to vote on a War Powers Resolution this Wednesday introduced by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) that would order President Biden to withdraw all US troops from Syria.

Contact your representatives and urge them to support the resolution (H.Con.Res.21). Click here to find your representative, or call the House switchboard operator at (202) 224-3121.

EVENTS

Wednesday, March 8 – Monday March 13

Wednesday, March 8

International Women’s Day

1. Wednesday, 9:30am (PT); 12:30pm (ET), Virtual Discussion with Asmaa AbuMezied 

 Livestreamed on our YouTube and Facebook

Tomorrow, the Jerusalem Fund will commemorate International Women’s Day, which the world celebrates annually on March 8th in order to shed light on issues relating to gender and women’s rights, by holding a virtual discussion with Asmaa Abu Mezied, an expert in gender and economic justice, on the current realities facing Palestinian women.

Join us virtually to learn more about how Palestinian women and civil society are dealing with Israel’s ever-escalating occupation, how Israel’s attacks on Palestinian civil society organizations affect the implementation of the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Agenda, the role of the international community, and more.    

Asmaa AbuMezied is an economic development and gender justice expert working to address issues of gender, development, and climate change. Her main area of focus is women’s economic justice through gendered economic policies, women’s rights in economic sectors, unpaid care and domestic work campaigning, inclusive markets, and feminist economics in fragile and conflict areas. Her work is published in different spaces such as Oxfam policy and practice, Development and Gender Journal, Al-Shabaka, and the World Economic Forum. 

2. Wednesday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, Break All the Chains! Unleash the Fury of Women as a Mighty Force for Revolution!

In person meet at:

24^th & Mission St
SF

Capitalism and Patriarchy-You Can’t End One Without Ending the Other
Abortion on Demand and Without Apology
Forced Motherhood is Female Enslavement
IF you are infuriated by the Supreme Court overturning the right to abortion…
IF you are inspired by the women of Iran and Latin America rising up for women to be free…
IF you have ever wondered if women could be liberated from a world of exploitation, male supremacy and all forms of gender oppression…    

Host: Revolution Club

Info: International Women’s Day : Indybay  

3. Wednesday, 12:30pm – 1:30pm (PT); 3:30pm – 4:30pm (ET),  International Women’s Day: End Women’s Poverty – Invest in Caring, Not Killing w/ PPC     

Online  RSVP: Meeting Registration – Zoom

The California Poor People’s Campaign and national partners are hosting a nationwide online event for International Women’s Day to recognize the struggles and contributions of women to the economy, communities and movements. The event’s theme, End Women’s Poverty, Invest in Caring Not Killing, will focus on women’s poverty and its impact on our families and wider communities, as well as the impact on women and children of all the PPC pillars. Women’s unpaid caregiving work alone contributes $1.5 trillion to the US economy, yet in the US women and children make up 70 percent of the nation’s poor. You’ll hear from women impacted by racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the distorted moral narrative that blames women for our poverty. 

You’ll hear from women impacted by racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism
and the distorted moral narrative that blames women for our poverty.

Organizer: CA Poor People’s Campaign & PPC National & many co-sponsors

Info: International Women’s Day: End Women’s Poverty – Invest in Caring, Not Killing w/ PPC : Indybay  & Facebook    

4. Wednesday, 5:00pm, Film Screening: Inside Hotel Iroquois 

In person

SF Main Library, Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin St.
SF

Join us for a screening of the groundbreaking film, “Inside Hotel Iroquois,” an unprecedented, intimate journey inside a supportive housing residence in San Francisco through the voices and stories of its tenants. A panel discussion will delve into supportive housing as an essential part of our solution to homelessness, its challenges and what we can do to affect positive change.

Moderator: Sara Shortt, HomeRise

Speakers:

Margot Kushell, UCSF, Benioff Initiative

Rachel Wallace, Iroquois resident and film star

Joel Yates, Supportive Housing Tenant

Tremecia Garner, Swords to Plowshares, Co-Chair, Supportive Housing Provider Network

Hosts: Coalition on Homelessness and ABD Productions

Info: Film Screening: Inside Hotel Iroquois | Facebook

5. Wednesday 6:00pm, Celebrate International Women’s Day

In person or On/Off facebook

Revolution Books Berkeley
2444 Durant Ave.
Berkeley 

(Also see Event #

If you are infuriated by the Supreme Court overturning the right to abortion…

If you are inspired by the women of Iran and Latin America rising up for women to be free…

If you have ever wondered if women could be liberated from a world of exploitation, male supremacy and all forms of gender oppression… 

Come be part of International Women’s Day!

We need a revolution – nothing less – to free women from centuries of oppression as part of freeing humanity from all forms of oppression.

Unleash the Fury of Women as a Mighty Force for Revolution  

Info: Celebrate International Women’s Day | Facebook

6. Wednesday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, Living Wage Coalition Meeting 

ZOOM

egister in advance for this meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkf-irqTgvEtGnqFfCh1TyMpFqlQodb7hb

Thursday, March 9

7. Thursday, 6:30pm – 8:00pm, What Would It Take To Topple Amazon? Author Reading Discusses How To Do It!

In person

The Green Arcade Bookstore
1680 Market St.
SF 

Mask & vaxxed

What would it take to topple Amazon? To change how health care works in America? To break up the media monopolies that have taken hold of our information and imaginations? How is it possible to organize those without hope working on the margins? In Labor Power and Strategy, legendary strategist, historian, and labor organizer John Womack speaks directly to a new generation, providing rational, radical, experience-based perspectives that help target and run smart, strategic, effective campaigns in the working class.

Carey Dall recently returned to the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) from the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way (BMWED-IBT), where he was the Organizing Director for 7 years. The BMWED represents track and structure maintenance workers on the major railroads in all of the lower 48 states. He got his start in the labor movement as a “Salt” working with the ILWU to organize bike and driver messengers in the SF Bay Area. He contributed an essay to Labor Power and Strategy.

Gifford Hartman is a Certified Trainer and Instructional Assistant for the Global Labour University and a member of the San Francisco Bay Area-based Global Supply Chain Study/Research Group. Over the last 25 years he has been an adult educator, labor trainer and working class historian. He has helped organize workshops, seminars, conferences and educational training sessions for unions, labor activists and environmental organizations in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America.

Peter Olney, co-editor of Labor Power and Strategy, is a retired director of organizing for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). He was Associate Director of the University of California’s Institute for Labor and Employment (ILE). Olney holds a master’s in business administration from UCLA and resides in San Francisco. Olney teaches building trades union organizers as a member of the faculty of the Building Trades Academy at Michigan State University. Olney is an editor of The Stansbury Forum.

Info: What Would It Take To Topple Amazon? Author Reading Discusses How To Do It! : Indybay

8. Thursday, 7:00pm, Raymond Lotta, Industrialization of Sexual Exploitation and Global Capitalism.

In person

Revolution Books Berkeley
2444 Durant Ave.
Berkeley

Raymond Lotta, spokesperson for Revolution Books in Harlem, gave a talk on 3/1:
“The Industrialization of Sexual Exploitation and Global Capitalism… OR Why “Sex Work” is NOT “Agency” But Degradation and Nightmare… And Why We Need Revolution”

Watch the video and join the discussion and controversy at Revolution Books

Raymond Lotta writes:

The commercial sexual exploitation of women (and of young girls and boys) has reached massive proportions. What is euphemistically referred to as the “global sex industry” has evolved into a highly profitable segment of individual national economies and the world imperialist economy…

“Sex work” is, in its essence, the marketed degradation and organized sexual submission of women to male domination.

Info: Raymond Lotta, Industrialization of Sexual Exploitation and Global Capitalism. : Indybay

Friday, March 10

9. Friday, 9:00am, Court Hearing of SFPD’s Officer Cha for Homicide of Sean Moore ~ Support the Moore Family!

In person

Hall of Justice
850 Bryant St. (Dept. 20 – 2^nd Floor)
SF

Elevator access

Court support request for Sean Moore’s family.

Sean Moore an unarmed man was shot in his own home by SFPD officer Kenneth Cha in 2017. In 2020 Sean died of his wounds.

For over a year the Moore Family have attended monthly hearings with delay tactics by the defense attorney for Cha. On Cha’s first day back after administrative leave, he killed another man and shot him in the back.

All support is welcomed. 

JUSTICE FOR SEAN MOORE!

JUSTICE FOR ALL VICTIMS OF POLICE TERROR!.

9. Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Shut Down the SF Police Officers Association

In person

SF Police Officers Assoication
800 Bryant St. at 6^th St. (outside)
SF

All are welcomed to stand with Mothers On The March and People from the Community.
We stand with signs and banners and chalk the sidewalk, bringing attention to the crimes of the SFPD.
Our Demands:
-The Police Officers Association be SHUT DOWN!
-The SF POA Be Declared a Non-Grata Organization
-Abolish the ‘Officers Bill of Rights’ – This has been used to protect officers in abusing our communities!
-Jail Killer Cops – we demand killer cops be charged and convicted with murder
-Abolish the Police! A new community based entity needs to be established!

-Recall SF DA Brooke Jenkins!

Info: POA: Shut it Down! : Indybay  

10. Friday, 4:00pm – 6:00pm, Hands Off Hawara | Hands Off Palestine ~ Bay Area for Palestine 

In person 

Israeli Consulate
456 Montgomery St.
SF

The Israeli army killed 11 Palestinians in Nablus (West Bank) on February 22. Sixty Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of the year. What is the cause of this escalation?

Join us Friday at the Zionist consulate to demand justice and accountability!

This week Zionist settler mobs protected by Israeli Occupation Forces stormed the occupied village of Huwara, surrounded it and attempted to burn it to the ground.

Israeli human rights group @btselem and many others have called the settler attacks a “pogrom” to describe the attacks on the village. Pogrom is a Russian word meaning “to wreak havoc” and typically describes the violence by Russians against Jewish people, particularly officially-mandated slaughter.

Many are blaming the new Israeli government as the cause of the unimaginable violence towards Palestinians, but the origin of these atrocities is not the Israeli government but Zionism. This isn’t a “loss of control” this is exactly what Israeli control looks like. The settlers carry out the attack, the military secures it, the politicians back it. It’s a synergy.
After Jenin and Jericho, it was in Nablus, in the north of the West Bank, that the Israeli army unleashed its violence, leaving 11 dead and more than 100 injured. B’Tselem, the main Israeli human rights organization denounced this assault: “Israeli forces have killed 60 Palestinians since the beginning of 2023, an average of more than one murder per day. The international community is allowing this, and the United States has just covered for Israel at the UN Security Council.” (February 23) 

Info: Hands Off Hawara | Hands Off Palestine : Indybay and Emergency Protest: Hands Off Huwara, Hands Off Palestine | Facebook

Saturday, March 11

11. Saturday, 6:30am (PT), Rights of Nature Tribunal: Dangers of Tren Maya Mega Project to Ecosystems & Indigenous

Online globally

Zoom: Webinar Registration – Zoom

The Rights of Nature Tribunal will be holding its eighth local hearing in Yucatan, Mexico from March 9-12, 2023, for the case of the Tren Maya, a rail transportation mega project that puts Mexican ecosystems and communities at serious risk of destruction.
The case will be presented by impacted local communities and experts from around the world, and will be heard by a panel of world-renowned judges, who will examine and rule from a Rights of Nature perspective.

The Tren Maya mega project is not limited to the infrastructural aspect, but also proposes a territorial reorganization focused on the urbanization of indigenous and peasant regions.

This train will travel 1,500 km and will cross five states in southeastern Mexico: Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan and Quintana Roo. The construction of this rail transportation project requires an investment of 200 billion pesos and is expected to be completed by the end of 2023.

Under the excuse of generating half a million jobs during the construction of the project, this "land use planning" project has major consequences for the destruction of ecosystems and communities. The train route covers regions that are considered great habitats of biodiversity, territories of the Mayan communities that have inhabited them since ancestral times, and that to this day maintain their traditional practices in harmony with Nature.

Host: International Rights of Nature Tribunal

Info: Rights of Nature Tribunal: Dangers of Tren Maya Mega Project to Ecosystems & Indigenous : Indybay

12. Saturday, 10:30am – 12Noon, ILWU 10 Meeting On Mumia & Report From Trip To South Africa

In person

ILWU Local 10 Henry Schmidt Room
400 North Point St.
San Francisco

ILWU 10 meeting for Mumia with presentation on ILWU Local 10 delegation to South Africa and Durban Commemoration conference on 50th anniversary of Duban working class uprising about apartheid.

The program will begin at 10:30 with a report back from the ILWU, Local 10 delegation’s successful trip to South Africa to build international support for Mumia’s defense campaign in Africa and around the world.

And then watch a live stream of a program

Bearing Witness in the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal

 Join us for a historic and important program, as we lay out the legal, political and moral grounds for political prisoner, Mumia Abu-Jamal, to be released from prison after almost 42 years or given a new trial.

During a hearing on Dec. 16th, 2022, Judge Lucretia Clemons said that she would allow 60-90 days for further examination of critical evidence in Mumia’s case. As we near the moment where a decision may be made, it’s crucial for our community and concerned citizens – including activists, clergy, educators, scholars and more – to gather and build so that the truth is told and Judge Clemons understands that she must do what is right.

 Featuring:

*Rev. Judge Wendell Griffen: Retired State Court Trial Judge, Arkansas

 *Dr. Cornel West: Philosopher and Theologian, Union Theological Seminary

*Pedro Polakoff: First Photographer on the Crime Scene, 1981

*Dr. Johanna Fernandez: Historian, Movement Liaison to Abu-Jamal Legal Team

*Gabriel Bryant: Philadelphia Based Organizer *Dr. Marc Lamont Hill: Professor, Author, Activist

MODERATOR: *Linn Washington, Jr.: Professor of Journalism, Temple University

See Indybay for Resolution

Host: Labor Action Committee for Mumia

Info: ILWU 10 Meeting On Mumia & Report From Trip To South Africa : Indybay

13. Saturday, 1:00pm – 3:00pm, No Dumping Radioactive Water Into The Pacific -No Restarting Nukes In Japan, STOP Militarization & War

In person

Japanese Consulate
275 Battery St. (nr. California St.)
SF

3/11/23 is the 12th anniversary of the Japan Fukushima tsunami and the meltdown of three nuclear reactors at the TEPCO plant. TEPCO would have gone bankrupt without a state take-over of the company. All Japanese governments since that disaster including Abe and the present prime minister Kishida have claimed that the nuclear catasptophe is no longer a danger and Fukushima has been “decontaminated”. 

In fact the opposite is the case. The melted nuclear rods remain in the reactors 12 years after the disaster and they still need to be cooled by water causing further contamination.  

There still is 407,000 tons of radioactive waste stored in Fukushima and throughout Japan. Now the Kishida government is set to release over 1.3 million tons of contaminated water with tritium into the Pacific Ocean. This is opposed by the people of Japan and many countries in Asia. 

At the same time the LDP government is flagrantly violating Article 9 of the Constitution which prevents offensive war by Japan.

The past Abe government and now Kishida are expanding the Japanese military including joining the US controlled imperialist NATO around the world.

The US and Japanese people must stand against opening more nuclear plants, dumping radioactive water into the Pacific and for all US bases out of Japan.

Join No Nukes Action & Speak Out

Info: At Fukushima, No Dumping Radioactive Water Into Pacific Ocean & No Restarting Nukes : Indybay

Monday, March 13

14. Monday, 4:00pm, Press Conf/ Rally: From Hunters Point To E. Palestine Prosecute & Jail Tetra Tech & Norfolk Southern CEOs

In person

San Francisco Federal Building
450 Golden Gate
San Francisco, CA

Stop the Coverup!

Immediate Evacuation of The People & Workers Of East Palestine & Full Compensation By Norfolk Southern
Nationalize The Railroads Under Workers Control To Protect Communities, Workers & The Public

The criminal cover-up of the Hunters Point supposed clean-up and remediation by Tetra Tech which cost over $1 billion is now directly connected to the man made catastrophe and poisoning by the Norfolk Southern railroad wreck in East Palestine, Ohio.

Despite the fact the the Department of Justice DOJ has joined a lawsuit against Tetra Tech for falsifying records at Hunters Point shipyard and retaliation against over 10 whistleblowers, the Region 5 EPA in Ohio has allowed Norfolk Southern railroad company to hire Tetra Tech for air testing in East Palestine.

Not surprisingly all the tests came back negative and the railroad and EPA are saying that it is safe. This criminal cover-up by the railroad and Tetra Tech is being allowed by not only EPA officials including EPA administrator Michael Regan but by Biden’s Department of Transportation led by Pete Buttigieg. Why are they protecting these environmental criminals who are poisoning the community and workers?

They have also allowed the Norfolk Southern police to take over the control of East Palestine. They are deciding who goes where to protect their liability and profits.

press conference will connect the dots between the Hunters Point catastrophe and what the people and workers are going through now in East Palestine.  we will discuss the deadly record of the deregulated railroad industry and how the need now is for the nationalization of the industry to protect communities, workers and the public

Speakers from Hunters Point/Bay View and trade unionists

Host: United Front Committee For A Labor Party

Info: From Hunters Point To E. Palestine Prosecute & Jail Tetra Tech & Norfolk Southern CEOs : Indybay