By Adrienne Fong
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ARTICLES
A. Exclusive interview with mom of SF Walgreens shooting victim; witness reveals new details, video – May 11, 2023
https://abc7news.com/banko-brown-san-francisco-sf-walgreens-shooting-mother-witness/13232355/
See Event/ Action # 4
B. Daniel Penny to be charged with manslaughter in Jordon Neely subway chokehold death – May 11, 2023
C. Still no justice, a year since Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing – May 10, 2023
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/05/10/still-no-justice-a-year-since-shireen-abu-aklehs-killing/
D. All 11 supes are now challenging the DA on the Banko Brown case – May 9, 2023
All 11 supes are now challenging the DA on the Banko Brown case – 48 hills
See Event/Action # 4
E. Children “bear the brunt” as Israel targets Gaza homes – May 9, 2021
Children “bear the brunt” as Israel targets Gaza homes | The Electronic Intifada
See Event/Action #
F. Carbon Scam: Summit Carbon Solutions Sells Fictitious Credits – May 9, 2023
Carbon Scam: Summit Carbon Solutions Sells Fictitious Credits | The Oakland Institute
G. Affordable housing is critical infrastructure, and the city needs to invest now – May 9, 2023
Affordable housing is critical infrastructure, and the city needs to invest now – 48 hills
5 PETITIONS
1. Tell President Biden to restore the right to asylum! Stop Militarizing Our Border
SIGN: Sign the petition: Tell President Biden to restore the right to asylum! | American Friends Service Committee (afsc.org)
2. Mothers of the Disappeared in Mexico Need our Solidarity
SIGN: Mothers of the Disappeared in Mexico Need our Solidarity (google.com)
To the Government of Mexico
To the United States Government
3. Oppose the dangerous bill, H.R.2
SIGN: Oppose dangerous bill, H.R.2iAmerica (seiu.org)
4. Nearly One in Three Americans Has Medical Debt. Congress Must Cancel It.
SIGN: petition: Nearly One in Three Americans Has Medical Debt. Congress Must Cancel It. (thepetitionsite.com)
5. Stop the Port of Oakland’s pollution-generating expansion
SIGN: Stop the Port of Oakland’s pollution-generating expansion – Earthjustice
EVENTS / ACTIONS
Thursday, May 11 – Tuesday, May 16
Thursday, May 11
1. Thursday, 3:00pm (PT); 6:00pm(ET), WATCH: CN Live! — ‘Depleted Ukranium’ You can still view the video.
On line by Corsortium News: https://consortiumnews.com/2023/05/11/watch-cn-live-depleted-ukranium/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=e5387945-85ab-45a7-876b-9be170edd14d
John Pilger and Declassified UK’s Phil Miller join CN Live! to discuss depleted uranium shells for an offensive Ukraine and the West knows will fail. Will DU be used just to poison ethnic Russians in Donbass?
Depleted uranium shells have been sent to Ukraine, as confirmed by U.K. Armed Forces Minister James Heappey last week. Britain announced last month that it would send the munitions for use with Challenger 2 tanks in Ukraine, a move that immediately escalated nuclear tensions with Russia, with President Vladimir Putin threatening to place tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus just days later.
The U.K. move comes amid indications that Kiev is increasingly desperate, to the point of being willing to risk scorching the earth it is fighting for.
Over the last few months documents emerging as part of the Pentagon leak have shown Ukrainian forces are faring far worse than previously reported by corporate media. As reported by Consortium News, the leaked documents “show the long-planned Ukrainian offensive will fail miserably.”
Britain’s decision to send depleted uranium rounds to Ukraine represents more than a dangerous escalation in the West’s proxy war with a nuclear-armed power. It is an example of Ukraine’s willingness to target the ethnic Russian population in eastern Ukraine and poison the land it is attempting to retain, but knows it won’t be able to. Depleted uranium will have effects not only on Russian fighters but also on the civilian population for years to come.
Russia intervened in Ukraine after eight years of war by Kiev against the ethnic Russians in the east who declared independence from Ukraine after the U.S.-backed 2014 coup.
The U.S. and British corporate media appear to dismiss concerns of Russian nuclear escalation in response to the use of depleted uranium rounds, and the official line in the West is that such weapons represent a low environmental risk.
However, there are compelling reasons to question the official stance. Depleted uranium rounds were used by U.S. forces in both Iraq wars, as well as in the Balkans in the 1990s. Depleted uranium munitions are heavier than lead and are typically used to pierce the armor of tanks. On impact the metal shears, burns and vaporizes. This process produces toxic radioactive dust.
A 1999 report by The Guardian related the sentiments of scientists speaking in regards to bombing Kosovo with depleted uranium: “One single particle of depleted uranium lodged in the lymph node can devastate the entire immune system.”
In John Pilger’s film documenting Iraq after the first Gulf War, Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq, he spoke with doctors in Basra where they reported a 10-fold increase in cancer deaths. Pilger also spoke with an Iraqi pediatrician who described an influx of congenital deformities never seen before the war.
In the case of the second Iraq War, the most striking reported effects of depleted uranium and other toxic substances were seen in Fallujah, where U.S. forces bombed mercilessly in 2004.
The rise in birth defects in Iraq have been called “catastrophic,” and The Guardian went so far as to publish a piece in 2014 that accused the World Health Organization of covering up the “nuclear nightmare” left behind in Fallujah by the U.S. and U.K. Others have compared the city’s health crisis with that following the U.S. nuclear attack on Hiroshima
Is this the future faced by generations of ethnic Russians in Ukraine?
2. Thursday, 4:30 (PT); 7:30 (ET), U.S. Women Need What Cuban Women Have: Socialism
Online registration: Webinar Registration – Zoom
Hear speakers on: Cuba’s New Family Code, healthcare, reproductive justice, housing, education, trans rights, climate change and more.
Video footage featuring Federation of Cuban Women.
Sponsor: Workers World Party’s Women and Gender Oppressed Caucus
Info: https://iacenter.org/2023/05/07/thurs-may-11-webinar-u-s-women-need-what-cuban-women-have-socialism/
Friday, May 12
3. Friday, 6:00pm – 9:00pm, The Big Oil Resistance Tour, in Oakland
In person
Tickets: The Big Oil Resistance Tour, in Oakland with Bill McKibben – Action Network
– Scroll down the page to get tickets
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Governor Newsom is talking tough on Big Oil and trying to stop them from fleecing us at the gas pump. But, we need him to truly move California beyond fossil fuels once and for all – by ending neighborhood drilling, halting all new fossil fuel permits, and supporting a full, coordinated, and just transition off of fossil fuels to give workers and communities clear timelines to plan.
Join frontline community members, organizers, and movement leaders for a dynamic evening in Oakland to learn what Governor Newsom must do next to protect our communities and our climate and to join the broad-based movement that we’re building to demand action. Featuring:
· Alfredo Angulo (Communities for a Better Environment)
· Cemre Gonen (Youth vs. Apocalypse)
· Cesar Aguirre (Central California Environmental Justice Network)
· Chirag Bhakta (Food & Water Watch)
· Isabella Zizi (Idle No More SF-Bay)
· Jennifer Esteen (SEIU 1021)
· Michelle Mascarenhas (Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project / Sierra Club)
· Shoshana Wechsler (Sunflower Alliance)
· Lu Aya (The Peace Poets)
· And, longtime activist, author, and co-founder of organizations like 350.org and Third Act – Bill McKibben!
4. Friday, 1:00pm-2:00pm, Recall Brooke Jenkins!
RECALL BROOKE JENKINS!
Friday, May 12
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Brooke Jenkins home
325 China Basin Street, 207 (outside)
San Francisco
Public transit: MUNI #22 #15 and T Third light rail
REST IN POWER
♥ ♥ BANKO BROWN ♥ ♥
For Jenkins to make the assumption that the Murder of Banko Brown was a matter of self defense is ludicrous. How dare she appoint herself as judge, jury, and endorser of the execution of Banko Brown!
Her campaign for DA, funded by right wing financiers was a true manifestation of corruption and power grabbing.
Her alignment with the POA is evidence of corruption as well.
San Francisco needs:
-JUSTICE, NOT JENKINS!
– Michael Earl-Wayne TO BE CHARGED!
-POLICE WHO HAVE KILLED PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITIES TO BE CHARGED & JAILED
Info: Recall Brooke Jenkins! : Indybay
Saturday, May 13
5. Saturday, 12:30pm – 3:00pm, Special Screening of the acclaimed documentary: Tales of the Grim Sleeper
In person
St. Francis Lutheran Church
152 Church Street
San Francisco
Nr. Safeway on Market & 14th St.
Doors open at 12:30
Light refreshments and networking
Film begins promptly at 1pm
The acclaimed documentary, Tales of the Grim Sleeper, tells the story of the 200 impoverished Black women and girls murdered or disappeared in South Los Angeles since the 1980s
Info: Special Screening of the acclaimed documentary: Tales of the Grim Sleeper : Indybay or Special Film Screening of Tales of the Grim Sleeper | US PROS Collective
6. Saturday, 2:00pm, BAY AREA – ALL OUT FOR PALESTINE! #NAKBA75
In person
518 Valencia, St.(in front)
SF
Nakba Day commemorates the ongoing displacement and dispossession of Palestinians as a result of Zionism and its collaborators. Generation after generation, Palestinians continue to resist Israeli military occupation, colonialism, exile, and ethnic cleansing.
This May marks the 75th anniversary of the Nakba–75 years of ethnic cleansing and forced displacement of the Palestinian people from their homelands. 2023 has been the deadliest year for Palestinians in 2 decades with Netanyahu’s fascist regime only escalating its violence.
Yesterday alone, the Israeli military bombed Gaza and killed 14 Palestinians with attacks and numbers still growing. An entire family was martyred last night with 4 children killed in their sleep. As Bay Area residents, we are outraged with our governments complicity in this ongoing brutality in Gaza and all over Palestine!
Wear your keffiyehs and bring your flags! We call on the Bay Area community and all supporters of the Palestinian cause to show up and send a clear message – the Bay Area says NO to Zionism, occupation, and racism! After 75 years, Palestinians continue to demand return and liberation!
Glory and love to Khader Adnan and all our martyrs and freedoms fighters.
Generation after generation, until total liberation and return
Host: Palestine Action Network
Info: BAY AREA – ALL OUT FOR PALESTINE! #NAKBA75 | Facebook
7. Saturday, 5:30pm, CROSSINGS – Documentary film –
In person – tickets: Center for Asian American Media – Crossings (agileticketing.net)
-(get $2 off with the code RB784)
The Great Star Theater
636 Jackson St.
SF
Film is part of the CAAMFEST
Award-winning documentarian, Deann Borshay Liem (GEOGRAPHIES OF KINSHIP), documents Women Cross DMZ’s historic mission to cross the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea to call an end to the unresolved 70-year war. Their story is punctuated by newsreels and historic accounts of the treacherous roller-coaster ride of US-North Korean relations. The women peacemakers, including renowned activists Christine Ahn and Gloria Steinem, tackle political hurdles, bureaucracy and widespread controversy with a fierce rigor to forge a path towards solidarity and peace. This is for all the activists and organizers building movements in seemingly impossible conditions but also everyday folks who are inspired to make a monumental change despite the odds.
Filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem, producer Sarah S. Kim, and activist Christine Ahn expected to attend for a post-screening Q&A
Info: Women Cross DMZ | Facebook
Sunday, May 14
8. Sunday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, Mother’s Day Golden Gate Bridge Walk for Peace
In person
Meet at the Plaza on the San Francisco Side of the Golden Gate
Golden Gate Transit Buses 10, 70, 80
and SF Muni Bus 28 stop at the bridge (SF side).
CODEPINK returns to the Golden Gate Bridge!
We’ll read: Julia Ward Howe’s (1870) Mother’s Day Proclamation
We’ll sing John Lennon’s Imagine, one of Francis’ favorite songs!
Francis Collins Presente!
Bring your mamas & grandmamas, sons & daughters, and grandchildren….bring the entire family, and friends too! War is not healthy for children and other living things!
ABOLISH WAR NOW!
War poisons earth, air, water and people.
Peace in Ukraine, Peace Everywhere!
Info: Mothers Day Golden Gate Bridge Walk for Peace : Indybay
Monday, May 15
9. Monday, 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Hearing: Stop SF Mayor Breed From Union Busting & Attacking The Civil Service Merit System
In person
SF City Hall (Rm 400 – 4th Floor)
Elevator Access
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl.
SF
MAYOR BREED IS USING HER 48TH EMERGENCY DECLARATION TO PROMOTE RACIAL EQUITY AS A PHONY EXCUSE TO:
BYPASS SENIORITYü
DESTROY FAIR HIRING OF CITY WORKERSü
HIRE AND PROMOTE THE LEAST QUALIFIEDü
DENY FAIR APPEAL PERIODS FOR TESTINGü
MINIMIZE TIME FOR JOB ANNOUNCMENTSü
SELECTIVELY ANNOUNCE JOB OPENINGS TOü
HAND PICKED CANDIDATES
THE INSANITY MUST BE STOPPED! TELL MAYOR BREED, AND HER MERIT SYTEM BOWLING BALL (DHR DIRECTOR), CAROLE ISEN AND, THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION THAT DESTROYING THE MERIT SYSTEM IS THE WRONG WAY TO PROMOTE RACIAL EQUETY!
JOIN THE “COALITION OF THE UNWILLING” TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE ATTACKS AGAINST CITY WORKERS AT THE CIVIL SERVICE HEARING
Initiated by San Francisco City Workers United
Info: Hearing: Stop SF Mayor Breed From Union Busting & Attacking The Civil Service Merit System : Indybay
10. Monday, 7:00pm, Indigenous Justice with Morning Star Gali
Anyone On/Off Facebook: Indigenous Justice with Morning Star Gali | Facebook
Did you know that California is one of the top 10 states that Indigenous women are facing a crisis of survival? Are you aware that Indigenous youth in California face some of the most disproportionate numbers of school suspensions and juvenile detentions? It is not surprising if you haven’t, as issues facing Indigenous peoples are severely underrepresented in news/media platforms and typically have a very low degree of cultural competency. Join us to learn more about how we can all assist tribal communities in the creation and protection of a better future that we know to be possible.
Host: Silicon Valley Dem. Club
Info: Indigenous Justice with Morning Star Gali | Facebook
Tuesday, May 16
11. Tuesday, 12 Noon, Fund CART Now! (Compassionate Alternative Response Team)
In person
SF City Hall (Steps)
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl
SF
Get CART Rolling; Fund CART Not COPS!
CART is the alternative to police when resolving street concerns with unhoused community members.
Join the CART campaign and community advocates in DEMANDING that the city funds CART
We need a better way to respond to situations involving unhoused San Franciscans. CART, which stands for Compassionate Alternative Response Team, is a program that would divert non-violent 911 and 311 calls regarding homelessness to a team who is specially trained to de-escalate conflict and connect people to services and support.
The problem? Mayor London Breed refuses to fund this effective solution.
The League of Women Voters of San Francisco has been part of the CART Coalition for several years. LWVSF supports CART because of our commitment to public safety for all and our advocacy work on community safety. CART is about a future of care, not criminalization.
What’s the problem?
It’s been two years, and CART has yet to be funded or implemented. Instead, the city has come up with a different street response that would be operated under the Department of Emergency Management, called the Community Response Team, or CRT.
CRT is certain to be a failed response and is another misuse of city dollars. Worse yet, CRT as it is currently structured will lead to additional harm and trauma towards unhoused community members, which is the exact opposite of what our city needs.
Info: https://lwvsf.org/home/f/sf-must-fund-cart-the-compassionate-response-to-homelessness
