Articles ~ Petitions ~ Events for Thursday, June 29 – Monday, July 3

By Adrienne Fong

Am 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!!

*** ASL interpretation – Let me know if your event needs this service .***

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

 See Indybay  for  other listings of events

ARTICLES

A. Israeli Approves Massive Colony Expansion – June 28, 2023

Israeli Approves Massive Colony Expansion | – IMEMC News 

  See Event # 7

B. Activists at CAF’s shareholders meeting: Get out of occupied Jerusalem; get off the Apartheid Train! – June 26, 2023

Activists at CAF’s shareholders meeting: Get out of occupied Jerusalem; get off the Apartheid Train! | BDS Movement 

  See Event # 7

C. Wagner, I hardly Knew Ye – June 28, 2023

Wagner, I hardly Knew Ye – Scott Ritter Extra

   Scott Ritter 

D. Texas’ highest criminal court emphatically rejects death row inmate Rodney Reed’s claim of innocence – June 28, 2023

Texas appeals court rejects death row inmate Rodney Reed’s innocence claim | The Texas Tribune  

    See Petition # 2

E. Thousands Demonstrate in Ramstein Protesting against US Military Hegemony – 2 min. YouTube , June 25, 2023

Thousands Demonstrate in Ramstein Protesting against US Military Hegemony – YouTube

F. Montana Train Derailment Raises Fears of Similar Disasters on Proposed Uinta Basin Railway – June 24, 2023

Montana Train Derailment Raises Fears of Similar Disasters on Proposed Uinta Basin Railway (commondreams.org)

G. Ask The Standard: How Many of San Francisco’s Homeless Have Jobs? June 23, 2023

How Many of San Francisco’s Homeless People Have Jobs? (sfstandard.com)   

H. Man Shot Dead by San Francisco Police Struck Fear Into Elderly Parents, Family Dogs – June 22, 2023

San Francisco Police Shooting: Man Feared By Parents, Dogs (sfstandard.com)

  R.I. P.

♥ Marc Child, 37, ♥ 

  AS of this posting, the ‘Town hall’ by SFPD has not been announced. .

I. MAP (Medical Aid For Palestinians) calls for protection of health workers and civilians amid latest wave of Israeli military and settler violence – June 22, 2023

MAP calls for protection of health workers and civilians amid latest wave of Israeli military and settler violence – Latest News & Developments – Medical Aid for Palestinians 

  See Event #  7

Alex Saab, hostage of the hybrid war against Venezuela

Alex Saab, hostage of the hybrid war against Venezuela

Alex Saab, hostage of the hybrid war against Venezuela

Alex Saab, hostage of the hybrid war against Venezuela

Alex Saab, hostage of the hybrid war against Venezuela

Alex Saab, hostage of the hybrid war against Venezuela

J. 11 of the Most Powerful Quotes From Climate Activists at Power Our Planet: Live in Paris – June 22, 2023

11 of the Most Powerful Quotes From Climate Activists at Power Our Planet: Live in Paris (globalcitizen.org) 

K. Alex Saab, hostage of the hybrid war against Venezuela  

Alex Saab, hostage of the hybrid war against Venezuela | Morning Star (morningstaronline.co.uk)

6 PETITIONS 

1. Urge Biden & Blinken to Confront India’s Human Rights Abuses

  SIGN: Urge Biden & Blinken to Confront India’s Human Rights Abuses | Win Without War  

2. Rodney Reed is Innocent – Free Him Now!

  SIGN: Rodney Reed is Innocent – Free Him Now! – Action Network

3. Congress: Abolish the Federal & Military Death Penalty

  SIGN: Congress: Abolish the Federal & Military Death Penalty – Action Network 

4. Tell the USPS Inspector General and the Postal Regulatory Commission to Step in to Allow Public Feedback on Louis DeJoy’s ‘Dramatic Changes” Now!

  SIGN: Tell the USPS Inspector General and the Postal Regulatory Commission to Step in to Allow Public Feedback on Louis DeJoy’s “Dramatic Changes” Now! (actionnetwork.org)    

5. Every child’s school lunch should be free

  SIGN: Sign the petition if you agree: Every child’s school lunch should be free (dailykos.com)

6. Tell the Senate: Don’t make flying less safe!

  SIGN: Take Action! (actionnetwork.org)

EVENTS / ACTIONS

Thursday, June 29 – Monday, July 3

Thursday, June 29

1. Thursday, 9:00am, Court Hearing: Justice For Sean Moore

In person

Hall of Justice, Dept. 20 – 2nd Floor
850 Bryant St.
SF

Please join us for a court hearing on Thursday, where District Attorney Brooke Jenkins will decide whether or not to prosecute SFPD’s officer Kenneth Cha, who killed an unarmed Black man, Sean Moore. DA Jenkins may decide to allow more delays or to drop the charges against the officer.  We want to show up and express frustration at her inaction to hold police officers accountable for murder, and to show support for Sean Moore’s family.

During last month’s court hearing, the judge pointed out that there was a room full of people waiting to see what would happen with the case so it’s clear that our presence in court was noticed. Let’s keep up the support for Sean Moore’s family and raise the pressure on DA Jenkins to hold officer Kenneth Cha accountable for the murder of Sean Moore. 

Delays have been going on for over a year and a half. The family has shown up for every court hearing

You are welcomed to use the San Francisco Rising link to RSVP: https://mobilize.us/s/nEdR3f

Read more about Sean Moore’s story here:

https://www.kqed.org/news/11949359/i-need-to-be-able-to-go-on-with-my-life-sean-moores-mother-is-still-awaiting-justice-years-after-her-son-was-killed-by-sfpd

DA Jenkins has not held any police officers accountable. Her recent actions:

  On May 19th her office officially dismissed the case against former SFPD officer Christopher Samayoa, for the killing of Keita O’Neil

  On May 11, 2023, Jenkins dismissed the charges on SFPD’s officer Christopher Flores for the shooting of Jamaica Hampton 

2. Thursday, 10:00am – 11:30am, STOP The Madness-Newsom’s CPUC To Give Approval Of Hundreds of 24 Hour Robo Taxis In SF

In person

California Public Utility Commission
Van Ness St. & McAllister St.
San Francisco 

Or

Date 06/29/2023
Time 11:00 AM
Location Remote access only via webcast or phone
Call-in-Number (800) 857-1917
Participant PASSCODE 9899501#
Contact email VotingMeetingHelp [at] cpuc.ca.gov or call (415) 703-5263
Webcast http://www.adminmonitor.com/ca/cpuc

STOP Newsom’s Plan To Eliminate Taxi Workers & UBER/LYFT Drivers
The Newsom’s hand picked California Public Utility Commission are under orders to allow the introduction of hundreds of Robo Taxis in San Francisco despite the fact that they are dangerous to human beings and animals as well as their flagrant violations of the Vehicular code. Mayor London Breed and her police have refused to impound these vehicles when they stop traffic and emergency vehicles and put lives in danger in San Francisco. These AI vehicles are above the law for Breed, Newsom and Biden’s Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg which has allowed Elon Musk’s Tesla to kill drivers, passengers and pedestrians while testing his AI on human beings. It is all about profiting from AI even if you are murdering people on the roads.
It also also for the end of environmental protection of our city since there is no control of the number of vehicles in the road. This is the wild wild West to benefit the billionaires and the capitalist politicians take their orders from.

We must halt this AI insane profit drive to destroy the lives of Taxi drivers, UBER-LYFT workers and all delivery workers and make this a Amazon special zone for their plan to eliminate millions of workers and their jobs while profiting the billionaire class

See Indybay site for more info

Host: UFCLP

Info: STOP The Madness-Newsom’s CPUC To Give Approval Of Hundreds of 24 Hour Robo Taxis In SF : Indybay     

3. Thursday, 3:00pm -5:00pm(PT), 6:00pm – 8:00pm (ET), Building & Winning Abolitionist Campaigns:

On Zoom: RSVP here for the link (bit.ly/AbolitionistCampaigns)

*ASL Interpretation will be provided*

Prison industrial complex abolition as a political ideology and practice has opened up more space for our movements to make powerful gains against policing, imprisonment, and state violence, especially as “abolition” and demands to defund policing and other carceral institutions enter more into mainstream conversations. Grassroots campaign organizing is one of the strongest ways we can work to dismantle these systems.

But how do we build robust, sustained campaigns and coalitions that can build power? What do abolitionist strategies look like? How do we win our campaign demands?

Join us for a virtual event on Thursday, June 29 that will feature seasoned organizers who have waged successful abolitionist campaigns against policing, imprisonment, and sentencing. 

Speakers include Rachel Herzing, representing Critical Resistance organizing with Stop the Injunctions Coalition’s campaign in Oakland, CA; Judah Schept, representing the fight to stop a new federal prison in Letcher County, KY; and Sharlyn Grace, representing the effort to pass strong bail reform in Illinois.

Host: Critical Resistance

Info: Building & Winning Abolitionist Campaigns – Critical Resistance 

4. Thursday, 5:00pm (PT); 8:00pm (ET), Resisting Cop City & Corporate Power

Online registration: Resisting Cop City & Corporate Power – Move to Amend

Cop City is a massively corporate-funded urban warfare training center for police forces. We must see this for what it is: an issue of racism, police militarization, colonialism, gentrification, and reckless environmental destruction in the face of impending climate collapse.

#StopCopCity has had opposition from a large and diverse coalition that included environmental justice organizations, the Mvskoke Creek Nation, clergy, abolitionists, local neighborhood associations, and more.

Hear from one of the #StopCopCity on-the-ground leaders on what’s happening now and how you can support this important movement for justice, a livable world and self-determination/democracy.

Kamau Franklin is the founder of Community Movement Builders, Inc. Kamau has been a dedicated community organizer for over thirty years, beginning in New York City and now based in Atlanta. For 18 of those years, Kamau was a leading member of a national grassroots organization dedicated to the ideas of self-determination and the teachings of Malcolm X. Kamau has coordinated and led community cop-watch programs, liberation/freedom schools for youth, electoral and policy campaigns, large-scale community gardens, organizing collectives and alternatives to incarceration programs. Kamau was an attorney for ten years in New York with his own practice in criminal, civil rights and transactional law. He also served as the south regional director of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). 

Host: Move To Amend 

5. Thursday, 5:00pm – 6:30pm (PT); 8:00pm – 9:30pm (ET), Report Back from International Women’s Network Against Militarism Meeting in Philippines

Zoom ID is 852 0893 8546

Also the session will be recorded.

Host: Women for Genuine Security

Info: Reportback from Network Meeting in Philippines Poster(1).png (1728×2304)

Friday, June 30

6. Friday, 12Noon, It wasn’t the fire: Binational Action in solidarity with migrants

In person

Consulate of Mexico
532 Folsom St.
SF

We say NO MORE. No more violence. No more terror. No more impunity.

The governments of the United States and Mexico are both responsible for the massive violations of human rights and state crimes against migrants such as the fire in Ciudad Juárez which left forty people dead, as well as the record number of migrant deaths in the border region over the past year.

On June 30th, The People’s Movement for Peace and Justice is mobilizing a binational day of action – with protests and rallies planned for Mexico City, New York, San Francisco, Florida, Tijuana, and Tapachula.

The People’s Movement for Peace and Justice is a binational movement working to bring accountability, justice, and transparency to the U.S./Mexico policies that impact our communities and lives on both sides of our shared border.

We are activists, community leaders, victims and survivors of violence, migrants, members of diverse ethnic groups, communities of color, LGBTQIA+ communities from throughout Mexico, the United States and across the Americas.

On June 30th, we will make our demands heard loud and clear:

An end to the current migration system with its deportation, detention, and cruelty – resulting in the tragic and unnecessary death of migrants. An expansion of asylum. Truth, justice, and reparation. Labor agreements that protect workers and the environment.

Info: Facebook

7. Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Revolutionary Friday: FREE PALESTINE!

In person

Israeli Consulate
456 Montgomery St.
SF

Revolutionary Friday will be outside the SF Israeli Consulate in front of the Israeli Consulate with  signs, flags, banners and chalking to demand an end to the horror inflicted on Palestinians by the Zionist Israeli government and settlers.

NO FUNDING FOR GENOCIDE, OCCUPATION And APARTHEID Of PALESTINE!

FREE PALESTINE

BOYCOTT, DIVEST AND SANCTION ISRAEL

BOYCOTT BIRTHRIGHT

THERE ARE NO “CHOSEN PEOPLE”

Host: Revolutionary Workers United Front

Info: Free Palestine! : Indybay 

Saturday, July 1

8. Saturday, 12Noon – Sunday, July 2, 6:00pm, Big Book Sale to put real Revolution on the map

Revolution Books Berkeley
2444 Durant Ave.
Berkeley, CA

12-6pm both days!
For book lovers, supporters of revolution, everyone who wants to see a whole, new emancipating way to live.

Hundreds of books & sheet music, including Native American history and culture, politics, history, fiction, and lots of new poetry, some new art books. $2-$10 

Info: Big Book Sale to put real Revolution on the map | Facebook   or  Benefit Book Sale for the 100K REVCOM Fund Drive : Indybay

Sunday, July 2

9. Sunday, 1:00pm – 5:00pm, Housing – photo exhibit

Fremont Main Library
2400 Stevenson Blvd.
Fremont, CA 94538 

Exhibit on display: Sunday, July 2 – Monday, July 31, 2023
Fremont Main Library hours: M-Tu 12 noon – 8 pm, W-Th 11 am – 6 pm, F-Sa 10 am – 5 pm, Su 1-5 pm

Housing is a human right! Everyone needs housing!

In the midst of the greatest concentration of productive wealth in human history in the High Tech industry, we see all around us a relentless escalation in homelessness. Throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, tens of thousands of people are unhoused, hundreds of people die on the streets every year, and the numbers just keep growing.

It is said that these people are “homeless,” but in reality their home is wherever they sleep, be it in a tent, a non-functioning vehicle, or a sheet of cardboard. They are “unhoused.”

Behind every tent and behind every vehicle is a human face – a human being who was once a neighbor, once a co-worker, once a schoolmate, a mother, a father, a daughter, a son. Every human face is a human being with thoughts and feelings, with pain and laughter, with aspirations and dreams. 

Sponsored by Class Conscious Photographers

Info: HOUSING! – A photo exhibit : Indybay 

Monday, July 3

Julian Assange’s Birthday

10. Monday, 9:00am – 10:00am, Julian Assange Birthday Banner Drop

Pedestrian Overpass at Hwy. 880 in Berkeley, at the foot of University Avenue.

Berkeley

Julian’s Birthday Banner Drop and Letter Campaign July 3, 9-10am Across the nation and around the world activists will be dropping banners reminding the world and the Biden Administration that “Journalism is Not A Crime”. That if we wish to have a free and open press Julian Assange MUST BE FREED NOW!

Info: Julian Assange Birthday Banner Drop : Indybay

11. Monday, 12Noon – 2:00pm,  Rally On Julian’s Birthday To Free Julian Assange & IFJ Journalist Mumia Abu-jamal

In person

Harry Bridges Plaza
Across The Street From Ferry Building
San Francisco 

Julian Assange has been imprisoned in the UK for charges of espionage in the US for publishing WikiLeaks and faces extradition to the US and this is a threat to all journalists. The San Francisco Labor Council has supported him as well as journalists around the world. Even the New York Times, The Guardian and Washington Post are calling for his freedom since they could also be prosecuted.

The International Federation of Journalists IFJ is supporting freedom for Assange and also calling for the release of journalist Mumia Abu-jamal who was a reporter at Philadelphia public radio and NPR where he provided commentaries. He has also won a Peabody award for his work and was a member of CWA NABET.
Journalists and defenders of the rights of all journalists here and around the world will be speaking out.
Initial Speakers:
Edward Hasbrouk, National Writers Union
John Holmes, PFT Executive Board Member

See Indybay site for more info.

Sponsored by National Writers Union, WorkWeek, Bay Action To Free Julian Assange

Info: Rally On Julian’s Birthday To Free Julian Assange & IFJ Journalist Mumia Abu-jamal : Indybay

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