By Adrienne Fong
Not back posting on a regular basis
Please include Accessibility and ASL info in your events! And if your action is ‘child friendly’ These are JUSTICE issues!!
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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 are in 2 sections – 2nd is on Julian Assange
ARTICLES:
A. NATO to hold largest ever aerial war games – April 9, 2023
NATO to hold largest ever aerial war games — RT World News
B. SCOTT RITTER: The Future of US Nuclear Strategy – April 7, 2023
C. Tesla’s cameras are reportedly spying on customers, but it’s not just a Tesla problem – April 6, 2023
Tesla’s camera spying scandal isn’t just a Tesla problem – Vox
D. Palestine in Pictures: March 2023 – April 5, 2023
Palestine in Pictures: March 2023 | The Electronic Intifada
“Israeli occupation forces and settlers killed 24 Palestinians during March, all but one in the occupied West Bank. Additionally, a Palestinian man died from injuries sustained in February.
With three more killed since the beginning of April, a total of 94 Palestinians, including 17 children, have been killed by Israeli soldiers, police and armed civilians so far this year, or died from injuries sustained previously, according to The Electronic Intifada’s tracking.
There have been three times the number of Palestinian fatalities during the first quarter of 2023 than there were during the same period last year.”
See Petition # 2
See Event # 8
E. SJ cop union funded ‘law-and-order’ as exec accused of running dope ring – April 4, 2023
SJ cop union funded ‘law-and-order’ as e–+xec accused of running dope ring (missionlocal.org)
See Event # 7
Committee Reviewing COVID Vaccine Injuries Meets Behind Closed Doors – March 31, 2023
4 ARTICLES ON JULIAN ASSANGE
A. Turning Tides: the US Congress and Julian Assange – April 6, 2023
Turning Tides: the US Congress and Julian Assange – CounterPunch.org
B. Assange Is The Greatest Journalist Of All Time: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix – April 5, 2023
C. Row Breaks Out Over Assange in Australian Senate – April 3, 2023
Row Breaks Out Over Assange in Australian Senate (consortiumnews.com)
D. CIA’s surveillance methods on Assange revealed – April 2, 2023
CIA’s surveillance methods on Assange revealed — RT World News
4 PETITIONS
1. Tell the FDA: Use All Available Emergency Powers to Protect Access to Mifepristone Now!
See event # 2
2. Tell Congress: Stop funding Israel’s massacres of Palestinians
SIGN: https://act.uscpr.org/a/%20stop-funding-israels-massacres
3. Keep GREEDY CORPORATIONS off our public lands!
SIGN: FOE: Take Action
4. Say NO to Mass Surveillance in California: Oppose AB 642
SIGN: Say NO to Mass Surveillance in California: Oppose AB 642 (actionnetwork.org)
2 SCHEDULE EXECUTIONS for APRIL (Click on the name to sign the petitions)
April 12, 2023 at 6:00 pm CT:
Louis Gaskin in Florida
April 26, 2023 at 6:00 pm CT:
Ivan Cantu in Texas
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Special Requests to Support Youth Activist on Friday, April 21st (East Bay & San Francisco)
“Friends,
I’m reaching out to you in hopes you can help provide food for the amazing
Youth Vs. Apocalypse Climate Strikers as they fight for a just and livable future.
They’ll be holding a major Earth Day action on Friday, April 21, 2023. (Details below.)
We will be providing lunches, water and snacks for about 500 students who need a “school lunch” alternative.
Because there will be so many lunches for this large action, we are trying something new:
To supplement the 300 hot lunches we’ll serve, we are looking for volunteers to prepare small batches of sandwiches on Friday morning to deliver to the action. (Please recruit a friend to join in the fun!)
The best ways to help are:
• Set up and serving at the action, San Francisco Civic Center, Friday 4/21 10 am – 2 pm (or some portion)
• Preparing hot lunch, washing fruit, etc. Thursday afternoon in Berkeley (outdoors), 1-5 pm
• Preparing 10-20 sandwiches in your home on Friday morning, and delivering to an East Bay or SF location.
• Preparing homemade cookies/muffins/bars and delivering to an East Bay or SF location
Instructions:
If you can help out with any of these tasks, please sign up here”
– Request is from 1000 Grandmothers – you don’t have to be a grandmother to support / participate
EVENTS
Monday, April 10 – Sunday, April 16
Monday, April 10
1. Monday, 8:30am – 5:00pm (Mon thru Fri), Eviction Support Needed – Wood Street Community
In person
During the next two weeks please show up at
1707 Wood Street in West Oakland any time between Monday and Friday, 8:30am to 5pm to witness and support!
**Critical mass is needed first thing tomorrow morning and for press conference at 10am**
APTP recognizes that all violence is state violence. The state has created the conditions for violence to exist and persist in our communities through a combination of neglect, chronic divestment and over-criminalization. The safest communities have the most resources, not the most cops. That’s why, in addition to fighting against police terror, we are fighting for investment in our communities so we can all thrive.
Our unhoused neighbors being evicted by the City of Oakland with no permanent housing options to turn to is state violence! The expansive Wood Street settlement used to span for 25 blocks and had an estimated 300 residents. Now the upwards of 60 residents who remain are being forced out.
There will be a resource table close to the site (near 18th & Wood St) where you can drop off donations and find a point person who can give volunteers further direction
Bring ready charged phones and be ready to document, please focus the view on law enforcement and city workers.
Wear closed toe shoes, masks, gloves recommended.
People are needed: Copwatching, moving support, ready to eat food delivery, water and more.
Info from APTP on facebook: Facebook
2. Monday, 5:00pm – 7:00pm, Protest Illegitimate Banning of the Abortion Pill
In person invite to – meet at:3 Bay Area locations:same time
Ferry Building, The Embarcadero, San Francisco
San Pedro Square Market, 87 N San Pedro St, San Jose
Downtown Berkeley BART, 2160 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley
On Friday April 7, the federal judge hand-picked by anti-abortionists to ban the abortion drug mifepristone, did so.
This decision is ILLEGITIMATE!
LEGAL ABORTION ON DEMAND & WITHOUT APOLOGY NATIONWIDE
Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights!
The San Francisco protest is being held with the support and participation of these groups: National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice-SF Chapter, Raging Grannies Action League and Revolution Club-Bay Area.
Host: Rise Up Bay Area
Info: Protest Illegitimate Banning of the Abortion Pill : Indybay
Tuesday, April 11
3. Tuesday, 1:00pm, STOP THE EVICTION SURGE
In person
1425 Harrison St.
Oakland
Oakland City Council Meeting – 4pm at City Hall (start gathering at 2pm)
Oakland City Hall
1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza
Oakland
Landlords are mobilizing against permanent tenant protections and your voice is needed on Tuesday, April 11!
Black renters are TWICE as likely to face eviction as white renters. The eviction moratorium will soon end in Oakland and we are calling on all tenants and allies to come out in person to Oakland City Hall to speak in support of strengthening permanent tenant protections to help prevent an eviction tsunami!
We are calling on all tenants and allies to come out in person to City Hall to speak in support of Nikki Fortunato Bas, Council President 勵琪 and CM Kalb’s proposal to phase out the COVID Eviction Moratorium while strengthening permanent tenant protections. proposal is hardly radical and is more than fair to landlords, they are guaranteed to turn out in numbers to oppose it. If YOU are a tenant and the eviction moratorium has helped you, your voice is needed!
If you are a tenant who has been helped by the moratorium, or if you’ve ever been impacted by an eviction, please come out and tell your story. Make your voice heard!
Host: Moms 4 Housing
Info: Facebook & Speak Out for Tenant Protections | Facebook (Oakland Tenants Union)
4. Tuesday, 6:00pm – 7:30pm, El sur resiste: Updates on Zapatista & Indigenous struggle against mega-projects + Music & Poetry
In person
Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore and Gallery
3036 24th Street
SF
PROGRAM
* La poética resistencia: Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo, Arnoldo Garcia. . .
* Music by Francisco Herrera
* Updates on what’s happening in the Zapatista struggle & movements for autonomy & land justice in Mexico by members of the Chiapas Support Committee
* How we connect: El Sur Resiste | The South Resists:
Launched by the Congreso Nacional Indígena (CNI, Indigenous National Congress), the CSC is supporting and inviting everyone to join us in the campaign against the capitalist mega-projects “Maya Train” & Inter-Oceanic Corridor devastating Indigenous people’s lives and livelihood in Southeast Mexico.
–Short film interviews about the effects of these mega-projects on communities and on the CNI.
Chiapas Support Committee: www.chiapas-support.org
Host: Chiapas Support Committee –Oakland
Wednesday, April 12
5. Wednesday, 6:30pm – 8:30pm, Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State
Location Details:
Please email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to get up-to-date location information or obtain Zoom meeting access info.
Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police militarization and ICE, and to advocate for surveillance regulation around the Bay and nationwide.
We fight against spy drones, facial recognition, tracking equipment, police body camera secrecy, anti-transparency laws and requirements for “backdoors” to cellphones; we oppose “pre-crime” and “thought-crime,” — to list just a few invasions of our privacy by all levels of Government, and attempts to hide what government officials, employees and agencies are doing.
Info: Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State : Indybay
Thursday, April 13
6. Thursday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, No Dumping Radioactive Water Into The Pacific No Restarting Nukes In Japan
In person
San Francisco Japanese Consulate
275 Battery St. (California St.)
SF
This is the 12th anniversary of the Japan Fukushima tsunami and the meltdown of three nuclear reactors at the TEPCO plant. 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.
The Kishida government is set to release over 1.3 million tons of contaminated water with tritium into the Pacific Ocean despite the opposition of the people of Japan and many countries in Asia.
The US and Japanese people must stand agains opening more nuclear plants, dumping radioactive water into the Pacific and for all US bases out of Japan.
Host: No Nukes Action
Info: No Dumping Radioactive Water Into The Pacific No Restarting Nukes In Japan : Indybay
Friday, April 14
7. Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, SHUT DOWN THE SAN FRANCISCO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION (SFPOA)
In person
SF Police Officers Association (Outside)
800 Bryant St. (at 6th St.)
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.
The SFPOA, has also been the recipient of funds from the San Jose POA. (See Article: E)
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
(SFPOA defends cops that have terrorized people in our community)
-Abolish the Police!
-Recall Brooke Jenkins
Info: POA: SHUT IT DOWN! : Indybay
Sunday, April 16
8. Sunday, 12Noon (PT); 3:00pm (ET), Q&A Discussion of the film “Marketing the Israeli Occupation – Part One”
Online registration: Meeting Registration – Zoom
Watch the film at your convenience before the event. Then join us with your thoughts and questions for our speakers at the Q&A Discussion
Film on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1OgxfCT044
“Support for Israel” is often called the third-rail of U.S. politics. Any elected official daring to criticize Israel in any way will get “burned.” Why is that? What exactly is the Israel Lobby, and what is the extent of its power?
“Marketing the Israeli Occupation – Part One” “Support for Israel” is often called the third-rail of U.S. politics. Any elected official daring to criticize Israel in any way will get “burned.” Why is that? What exactly is the Israel Lobby, and what is the extent of its power?
When Al Jazeera produced a 4-part documentary series on this lobbying “industry,” it received such intense pressure it was forced to cancel the broadcast. Then, The Electronic Intifada posted a leaked copy. THE LOBBY–USA, Episode 4 of series follows an undercover journalist posing as a pro-Israel volunteer who gets unprecedented access to the operations of Israel lobby groups in Washington, D.C. We watch as Israel’s covert campaign strives to influence partisan politics, campus life, major network news reporting, and social media in America. This will be the first in a series of VFHL salons on the theme “Marketing the Israeli Occupation.”
More info: Q&A Discussion of the film “Marketing the Israeli Occupation – Part One” : Indybay
