By Adrienne Fong
Not back posting on a regular basis
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ARTICLES
A. Biden’s Death Penalty Inaction Is Unacceptable – May 16, 2023
Biden’s Death Penalty Inaction Is Unacceptable – CounterPunch.org
B. Banko Brown video is horrifying—as is the response of the district attorney – May 15, 2023
See Event # 4
Will be posting a list of other articles from yesterday later today.
C. On 75th Anniversary of Nakba Speak Out In SF While SF Mayor In Israel Supporting Zionists – May 14, 2023
On 75th Anniversary of Nakba Speak Out In SF While SF Mayor In Israel Supporting Zionists : Indybay
D. Peace march held in Okinawa to call for removal of all U.S. bases – May 13, 2023
E. Africa Rising: Nkosi Mandela on South Africa Resisting Israeli Apartheid – May 12, 2023
Africa Rising: Nkosi Mandela on South Africa Resisting Israeli Apartheid – YouTube
F. Sudan’s crisis and the hidden hands of the IMF – May 11, 2023
Sudan’s crisis and the hidden hands of the IMF : Peoples Dispatch
G. DA Jenkins drops charges against officer who shot Jamaica Hampton – May 11, 2023
DA Jenkins drops charges against officer who shot Jamaica Hampton – Mission Local
H. 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
3 PETITIONS
1. Urge your members of Congress to support The Palestinian Children and Families Act today!
SIGN: Action Alert: Palestinian Families and Children Act (HR 3103) – Peace Action
2. Stop the Next Pandemic Before It Starts! Tell Congress to Pass the Viral Gain-of-Function Research Moratorium Act
3. Everyone deserves a living wage! Sign your name to demand an end to the subminimum wage
SIGN: Take Action! (actionnetwork.org)
EVENTS / ACTIONS
Tuesday, May 16 – Thursday, May 18
Tuesday, May 16
1. Tuesday, 12 Noon, Fund CART Now! (Compassionate Alternative Response Tean)
In person
SF City Hall (Steps)
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl (Polk St. steps)
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
2. Tuesday, 12 Noon, Virtual Press Conference – CURB RE Prisons
Online registration: Meeting Registration – Zoom
Prep for Governor Newsom to release his May revision of the state budget
We want to be sure to get our message out as part of this process to:
- Continue to push for prison closure
- Demand fewer dollars go towards the prison system.
3. Tuesday, 1:00pm-3:00pm Update on Laguna Honda Hospital
Online zoom:
s://us02web.zoom.us/j/86465752525?pwdTzh1YVh5SE9mdWkzdjI2clZrVEczdz09
Meeting ID: 864 6575 2525; Passcode: 465295
Contact Dr. Teresa Palmer, 415-260-8446, teresapalmer2014@gmail.com
San Francisco Gray Panthers presents a panel of concerned people providing updates on the Laguna Honda Hospital emergency, only three days before the federal Centers on Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is scheduled to begin closing the huge nursing home and sending hundreds of frail and indigent residents to dangerously understaffed for-profit nursing homes out of San Francisco County. Out of 56 residents similarly evicted last July, 12 died.
The panel:
- Myrna Melgar, SF Board of Supervisors District 7 (where LHH is located); Committees: Budget & Finance, Land Use & Transportation
- Pat McGinnis, Executive Director and founder of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR)
- David Elliott Lewis, Co-chair Tenderloin People’s Congress, Community Organizer; Ph.D Industrial Organizational Psychology
Paradoxically, CMS insists on LHH’s closure and dispersal of its residents as part of its plan to re-certify and reopen LHH and start readmitting residents. CMS paused resident dispersal following community uproar over last July’s deaths, but as of now (5/15/2023, 8:15 AM) CMS has given no indication of extending that pause past the scheduled May 19 closure and resident dispersal, even though Laguna Honda has largely met CMS’s schedule of mandated requirements for recertification
Laguna Honda is also threatened with losing 120 beds because of CMS beds-to-bathroom ratio regulations for new hospitals, which technically covers LHH because it is being recertified. Laguna Honda is only 15 years old and has spacious individual rooms, but some are connected through short corridors to common bathrooms. LHH should easily qualify for a waiver, but as of now CMS has given no indication that it would grant such a waiver.
San Francisco Gray Panthers insist upon no bed cuts, closure or evictions at Laguna Honda, and more nursing home beds, mental health and substance use treatment, and supports and home care services to all San Franciscans who need it.
More information at https://panther-gray.web.app/c…
See Event # 8
4. Tuesday, 6:00pm – Balloon Release – JIUSTICE FOR BANKO BROWN
In person
Walgreens
825 Market St.
SF
Confirmed with an organization by phone.
5. Tuesday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, Down with Biden/Trump Persecution of Immigrants! No Human Being is Illegal!
In person
Revolution Books Berkeley
2444 Durant Ave
Berkeley, CA
We don’t have an immigration problem, we have an imperialism problem. This SYSTEM Must Go!
Why are hundreds of thousands of desperate people at the US/Mexico border seeking to come to the US?
Is it because the US is the greatest country in the world? Or is it because they are seeking to escape horrible violence, crushing poverty and environmental disaster – caused by a global order which the US dominates and enforces?
Why has Biden continued the policies of mass expulsion of immigrants started by Trump? (Trump expelled hundreds of thousands, Biden over 2 million.)
Should people escaping inhuman conditions be seen as “criminals” and “animals”? or as human beings, our brothers and sisters?
Why will it take a revolution to put an end to the inhuman treatment of immigrants, and why and how would a revolutionary society welcome immigrants?
Info: Down with Biden/Trump Persecution of Immigrants! No Human Being is Illegal! : Indybay
Wednesday, May 17
6. Wednesday, 4:00pm (PT); 7:00pm (ET), U.S. Hands Off Korea
Webinar registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UPGsIoHxQHqfVJq1x7gS5g#/registration
The United States has conducted another round of “War Games” with the South Korean military. This is clearly a threat to the North Korean government. Additionally, the South Korean President, Yoon Suk Yeol, has recently visited the U.S. where Biden told him that the U.S. will keep a nuclear submarine in Korea and Yoon Suk Yeol made threats of acquiring nuclear weapons that could be aimed at North Korea. This escalation is part of the general aggression and militarization of Asia that is aimed at provoking a war with China.
Speakers:
K. J. Noh: Author Archives, journalist, political analyst, writer, and teacher specializing in the geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific region.
Sara Flounder: Member of UNAC Administrative Committee, Coordinator of the International Actions Center who will be speaking from China
Riley Seungyoon Park: Nodutdol for Korean Community Development
NO WAR GAMES!
NO NUCLEAR SUBS!
NO SANCTIONS ON NORTH KOREA!
Host: The United National AntiWar Coalition
Info: unac_010923 (nepajac.org)
Thursday, May 18
7. Thursday, 4:00pm, SF Emergency Demonstration in Solidarity with the Haitian People
In person – meet at:
SF UN Plaza
355 McAllister St.
SF
March to SF Federal Building
Haitian Flag Day marks the day in 1803 when at the Congress of Akaye/Arcahaie the formerly enslaved by the French vowed to create a sovereign nation that they called Ayiti/Haiti rather than maintain any links to France. Today, while foreign powers occupy Haiti, this call for sovereignty remains as relevant as ever.
The situation in Haiti today could not be more dire. The unelected and illegitimate US-backed prime minister Ariel Henry remains in power despite continuous mass protests demanding his ouster. Journalists, clergy, peasant-farmers, students, workers and others raising their voices in protest have been met with beatings, incarceration, rape, assassinations and mass killings.
Trotting out the familiar argument that “gang warfare” is the root of Haiti’s problem, the US and Canada are ramping up funding and training for Haiti’s notorious and corrupt national police force, including sending tactical and armored vehicles. As they did during the notorious Lasalin massacre, police, security forces and affiliated paramilitary forces terrorize opposition neighborhoods, most recently Bele, murdering and sexually assaulting residents, kidnapping, wrecking homes and accelerating land grabs.
We demand:
- Stop the massacres. Stop using our tax dollars to fund the brutal Haitian police and affiliated death squads
- Stop supporting the Ariel Henry dictatorship
- Stop attacking and deporting Haitian refugees
- Support the Haitian people’s struggle for liberation
- End the occupation. Sovereignty and self-determination for Haiti
Info from Haiti Action Committee
8. Thursday, 4:00pm, Rally To Stop The Laguna Honda Discharges
In person
375 Laguna Honda Blvd across from Forrest Hill Muni Station
San Francisco
Defend Laguna Honda Hospital-Stop The Discharges & Murders Discharges = Death
Working People Need To Unite For Our Public Hospital
Discharges = Death
Despite mass opposition, Newsom’s Department of Public Health, Secretary of Health & Education Xavier Becerra and SF Mayor London Breed’s
Director Department of Pulblic Health and Health Commissionn Board are allowing the patients to be terrorized again by threatengng to discharge
them on May 19. 2023.
The City refuses to ask for an exemption that would allow Laguna Honda to have three patients to a room and also to allow the many patients who are waiting for care at the hospital to be admitted.
Instead they are playing games with the workers, patients and their families to threaten even more discharges and deaths.
Director Colfax and the Board of Health Commission Dan Bernal, who is chief of staff for Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi gave the go ahead for the discharge of patients which led to their deaths. Some were driven to homeless shelters. These discharges were death sentences and to threaten similar discharges and deaths.
There is an emergency in our private nursing home care system. The homes are run by billionaires with little to no oversight have terrible working conditions for the residents and the workers. The Newsom administration and the Federal government are demanding that the patients and residents be pushed into these homes where much of the care is substandard.
We need to demand that Newsom and Becerra along with London Breed be held accoutable for this travesty.
No bed cuts,
No closure and No evictions,
Reopen admissions, and provide, in safe and appropriate locations, mental health and substance use treatment and supports and home care services to all San Franciscans who need it.
Initiated By United Front Committtee for A Labor Party
Info: Rally To Stop The San Francisco Laguna Honda Discharges Defend Laguna Honda Hospital : Indybay
