By Adrienne Fong
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ARTICLES
A. 22 Years of Drone Warfare and No End in Sight – September 6, 2023
22 Years of Drone Warfare and No End in Sight – CounterPunch.org
B. ‘We are starving to death:’ Residents of Nagorno-Karabakh fear for future under blockade – September 6, 2023
See Article I
See Event # 7
C. Revisiting John Pilger’s 2016 Warnings About US Warmongering Agaisnt Russia And China – September 6, 2023
D. More than 60 Atlanta training center activists named in RICO Indictment – September 5, 2023
More than 60 Atlanta training center activists named in RICO Indictment (ajc.com)
See Event # 9
E. Israel’s “democracy” protests defend an apartheid system – September 5, 2023
Israel’s “democracy” protests defend an apartheid system | The Electronic Intifada
F. ‘Obama’s man in Africa’ under house arrest as popular coup rocks Gabon – August 31, 2023
G. US to Begin Sending Controversial Depleted Uranium Shells to Ukraine – September 2, 2023
US to Begin Sending Controversial Depleted Uranium Shells to Ukraine (commondreams.org)
See Petition #2
H. Facial recognition-equipped robot dog to prowl US sporting venue – September 1, 2023
Facial recognition-equipped robot dog to prowl US sporting venue | Biometric Update
I. Active Genocide Alert Azerbaijan – in Artsakh – August 18
Active Genocide Alert Azerbaijan – in Artsakh (lemkininstitute.com)
3 PETITIONS
1. Let’s rein in wasteful spending on weapons and war. Co-sign the Streamline Pentagon Budgeting Act!
2, Ban cluster bombs!
SIGN: Ban cluster bombs! | Demand Progress
3. Tell Starbucks to come clean on cocoa
SIGN: Tell Starbucks to come clean on cocoa (actionnetwork.org)
“Starbucks claims to source its cocoa responsibly. But when it comes to paying cocoa farmers a living income, addressing child labor, or protecting forests, Starbucks is evading accountability and hiding behind grand claims it cannot substantiate.”
EVENTS / ACTIONS
Thursday, September 7 – Wednesday, September 13
Thursday, September 7
1. Thursday, 3:00pm – 5:30pm, SFPD Virtual Town Hall – RE SFPD ‘Officer – involved -shooting on August 28 in Tenderloin
Site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVh80e9-WHY
Or on Facebook:
(1) O.I.S. Town Hall Meeting | Facebook
2. Thursday, 4:00pm (PT); 7:00pm (ET), Missile Offense: Raytheon and the Cost of Missile Defense
Online registration: Missile Offense: Raytheon and the Cost of Missile Defense (everyaction.com)
Technologies that defend against enemy missiles (nuclear ICBMs, etc.) have had a fraught history throughout the Cold War period and up until the present day. While many may view offensive weapons as belligerent and immoral, ballistic missile defense (BMD) systems are often viewed as protective and, even, moral. This webinar will address misconceptions about BMD and seek to show why such systems can be considered belligerent in their own right. This webinar will address the history of BMD; its role in nuclear strategy; its cost and effectiveness; and its role in escalating tensions in Ukraine and in outer space.
Furthermore, the role of defense contractors, like Raytheon, in developing these technologies will be discussed.
Speakers:
Richard Krushnic writes about military corporate influence over U.S. foreign policy, the Ukraine War and Raytheon Technologies. He continues to be involved in the community development financing in Cambridge, MA and Nicaragua. He works with MAPA’s Nuclear Disarmament and Latin America and Caribbean working groups, and Mass Public Banking.
Patrick Moran is a member of the Nuclear Disarmament Working Group of Mass Peace Action and a graduate student in the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science. He lives in Cambridge, MA.
Subrata Ghoshroy is a research affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society. He is also a specially-appointed Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. Earlier, he was for many years a senior engineer in the field of high-energy lasers. He was also a professional staff member of the House National Security Committee, and later a senior analyst with the Government Accountability Office.
Host: Massachusetts Peace Action
3. Thursday, 5:00pm (PT); 8:00pm(ET), Celebrating Black August and Women Political Prisoners
Online registration: Meeting Registration – Zoom
Women United Against Genocide Invites All Sisters to Our September Monthly Zoom Meeting
Honoring the courage, determination and resilience of political prisoners and their vital contributions to resistance and revolution
With Special Guest Speakers Thandisizwe Chimurenga and Laura Whitehorn
Thandisizwe Chimurenga is a longtime activist, independent grassroots journalist and Revolutionary New Afrikan Nationalist, based in South Central Los Angeles, California. She is a writer, creator and co-creator of grassroots community media including newspapers, cable tv, and radio. Her activism includes electoral organizing; anti-police terror work; freedom for political prisoners and prisoners of war and opposing violence against women .She will be speaking on the history and present day activities celebrating Black August.
Laura Whitehorn spent 14+ years in federal prison as a political prisoner for actions against the U.S. invasion of Grenada, police killing of Black grandmother Eleanor Bumpurs and in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle and more. She continues today to defend political prisoners and helped found RAPP, Release Aging People in Prison. She will speak on her experiences and those of late Black Panther political prisoner and organizer Safiya Bukhari, including from Safiya’s book Laura edited, “The War Before.”
Friday, September 8
4. Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Revolutionary Friday: Shut Down the San Francisco Police Officers Association
SF Police Officers Association (Outside)
800 Bryant St. (@ 6th St.)
SF
Action is outside at the corner on the flat sidewalk (no incline)
All are welcomed.
This week we’ll be at the POA, with signs, banners and bringing attention to the crimes of the SFPD, and calling District Attorney, Brooke Jenkins to Resign!
Demands:
– Charge & Jail All Killer Cops with Murder!
– Abolish The Police
–Create a new unarmed police entity, responsible to the communities they are to serve and protect.
– Declare the Police Officers Association A Non-Grata organization
– Abolish The ‘Officers Bill Of Rights’
– this document has been used to protect officers from prosecution
– Call on SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins to RESIGN!
Brooke Jenkins says she advocates for police accountability, she has failed to commit to her word.
Her recent actions:
On July 18, 2023, Darby Williams from Brooke Jenkins office had the case against SFPD Kenneth Cha officially dismissed for the homicide of Sean Moore.
On May 15th, Jenkins announced that she would not be filing charges against Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony, the private security guard who shot Brown.
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
When REEMS Restaurant in SF re-opens please support them for taking a stand against armed police in their restaurant!
Host: Revolutionary Workers Front
Sunday, September 10
5. Sunday, 12Noon – 1:30pm, Q&A Discussion of 2 films (on Palestine)
Zoom registration: Meeting Registration – Zoom
Watch the 2 films at your convenience before the event. Then join us with your thoughts and questions for our speakers at the Q&A Discussion.
The 2 films are
“Between the Lines”
“The Fight Against Israeli Propaganda in Virginia Textbooks
What are the occupied Palestinian territories? Where is Palestine? What is the Palestinian-Israeli struggle about? Do teaching materials in U.S. public schools and Jewish private schools provide accurate answers to these questions? Probably not.
People who seek to maintain US support for Israel, both within the Jewish community and in the larger US population, have profoundly shaped the teaching of Israeli and Palestine. VFHL examines this issue through two films. “Between the Lines” presents interviews with students and teachers at American Jewish Day Schools about “Israel education.” “The Fight Against Israeli Propaganda in Virginia Textbooks” reveals the behind-the-scenes efforts of an Israeli affinity group to erase Palestine from U.S. public school teaching materials and reduce Palestinians to peasants and terrorists.
Info: Q&A Discussion of 2 films : Indybay
6. Sunday, 12:30pm, Evolving IRELAND, What is New? Horst Bansner, speake
First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco
1187 Franklin Street/Corner Geary Blvd.,
SF
Lunch
Horst Bansner’s talk about his recent visit to Ireland, and the changes that have come about within its government for this often celebrated and unique little country. Ireland has had a tumultuous history. From its earliest beginnings of Celtic, Viking and Norman invasions, and later, suffering imperialist policies imposed by its neighboring island – it has yet produced an enviable and rich culture. Ireland is credited with saving Western Civilization during the Dark Ages, by preserving classical writings in its monasteries. In the last few decades, Ireland has changed tremendously and we may learn from Ireland’s transformation!
Info: Evolving IRELAND, What is New? Horst Bansner, speaker : Indybay
7. Sunday, 2:00pm, Rally For Life; End the Blockade!
Meet at:
Union Square
SF
Dear Bay Area Friends,
On September 10 come to Union Square in San Francisco and raise your voice for our people in Artsakh. We need to unite and support our brothers and sisters.
Open the road to life Lachin Corridor Nagorno-Karabakh
Info: Facebook
8. Sunday, 4:00pm -5:30pm (PT); 7:00pm – 8:30pm (ET), Waging Peace: Embodying the Spirit of JFK’s American University Speech with Scott Ritter
Online registration: Waging Peace: Embodying the Spirit of JFK’s American University Speech with Scott Ritter (everyaction.com)
Scott Ritter is a staunch advocate for peace and peaceful coexistence, a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, a former UN weapons inspector, and the author of numerous books including Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika: Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union and Waging Peace: The Art of War for the Antiwar Movement.
Host: Massachusettes Peace Action
9. Sunday, 4:00pm (PT); 7:00pm (ET), Every City is Stop Cop City
Online
Zoom registration:
A conversation of abolition leaders across the Country Hosted by the League of Revolutionaries for A New America
A conversation with abolition leaders across the Country
Abolition Leaders include:
· Chabon Kernell, Seminole/Mvskoke Traditional Practitioner // Southeastern Indigenous Rematriation
· Matthew Johnson, interim executive director of Beloved Community // Atlanta
· A comrade from No Cop Academy, Chicago
We’ll attempt to collectively explore:
· How is Stop Cop City a fight FOR rematriation of Muscogee and indigenous lands?
· How is Stop Cop City a fight FOR community reinvestment in basic needs?
· How is Stop Cop City a fight FOR freedom everywhere and in the South?
· How is this a fight AGAINST militarization of police?
· How is this a fight AGAINST the police as a political force?
· How is this a fight AGAINST ecological devastation?
Info: https://lrna.org/every-city-is-stop-cop-city/
Monday, September 11
10. Monday, 3:00pm, 19th Annual 9/11 Truth Film Festival
Doors open at 2:30pm
Grand Lake Theatre
3200 Grand Avenue
Oakland, CA 94610
The 19th Annual 9/11 Truth Film Festival will be held Monday, at the Grand Lake Theatre, 3200 Grand Avenue, Oakland. Three films will hold their US premieres, including two presentations originally given at the Grand Lake Theatre. The Film Festival is dedicated to the memory of David Ray Griffin, Graeme MacQueen and Allan Rees, great champions for 9/11 Truth who have passed away, since last year’s film festival.
“The Mysterious Collapse of WTC 7”[ See Trailer] is based upon a book and lecture by the late David Ray Griffin. The subtitle is “Why the final official report about 9/11 is unscientific and false.” Griffin was a renowned theologian and scholar and one of the most influential intellectuals of his era. Author of over 50 books, nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize, compared to Martin Luther King and Gandhi for his courage and dedication to seeking truth, his voice was notably censored when he began turning his attention to the shadow side of the American Empire. He wrote a large number of books on the subject and delivered this particular lecture in 2009.
“War on Democracy” features a 2016 presentation by Canadian Graeme MacQueen, who received his Ph.D. from Harvard, and taught at McMaster University for 30 years. He lead their Peace Studies program and co-directed peace-building projects in Sri Lanka, Gaza, Croatia, and Afghanistan. He was an editor for the Journal of 9/11 Studies, a major organizer of the Toronto Hearings held on the 10 year anniversary of 9/11. He authored several books, including “The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy” which he addresses in the film.
“Peace, War, and 9/11” also features Graeme MacQueen, but encompasses a larger, deeper understanding of wars, peace, and the forces that steer the public mind. The film will also premiere in Toronto a few days before the film festival.
“9/11: High Crime to Courtroom” is a work in progress, spearheaded by Richard Gage, AIA, founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. Richard Gage will also be doing public presentations in the Bay Area on his West Coast Tour this September.
For more info see: 19th Annual 9/11 Truth Film Festival : Indybay
Wednesday, September 13
11. Wednesday, 5:30pm – 6:30pm, Understanding Your Utility Bill and Accessing Support Programs
Online – ZOOM registration: Understanding Your Utility Bill and Accessing Support Programs | TURN – The Utility Reform Network
Are you interested in understanding your utility bills & learning about the discount programs available to California utility consumers? Join the TURN team as we help you break down your utility bills & identify the programs you may qualify for to help safeguard your access to energy and telecom services.
Host: TURN
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SF Board of Supervisors Hearing on
Laguna Honda Hospital
Tuesday, September 26
3:00pm
SF City Hall, Room 250
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl
SF
Info: City and County of San Francisco – File #: 230035 (legistar.com)
Hearing – Committee of the Whole – Laguna Honda Hospital’s Strategy for Recertification and the Submission of a Closure and Patient Transfer and Relocation Plan –
