By Adrienne Fong
Not back posting on a regular basis. With the genocide going on in Palestine –am posting some updates & actions.
There are many events listed on Indybay that might be of interest to you, check it out!
Please post your actions on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12
See Indybay for other listings of events
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 .***
Articles in 2 sections – #2 is on Palestine
ARTICLES:
A. SF Supe Floats Sweeping Charter Amendment to Enhance Some Mayoral Powers, and Curb Ballot Box Governance – November 1, 2023
B. Testy Debate Over San Francisco Police Staffing Erupts at City Hall – October 30, 2023
San Francisco Police Staffing: Supervisors Hold Heated Debate (sfstandard.com)
C. Why California’s reinvestigation of an infamous quadruple murder case is a sham – October 28, 2023
Reinvestigation of an infamous California quadruple murder is a sham (sfchronicle.com)
D. SF to reopen shuttered jail as inmate population rises – October 27, 2023
SF to reopen shuttered jail as inmate population rises – Mission Local
E. Cruise pulls robotaxi fleets amid probes into SF incidents – October 27, 2023
Cruise pulls robotaxi fleets amid probes into SF incidents | Transit | sfexaminer.com
ARTICLES on PALESTINE
See Petition # 1 & 2
See Actions # 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 10
A. At US universities, free speech isn’t free for pro-Palestine activists – November 1, 2023
At US universities, free speech isn’t free for pro-Palestine activists | Middle East Eye
B. ‘The Palestine exception’: why pro-Palestinian voices are suppressed in the US – November 1, 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/01/palestine-us-activism-firings-speech#:~:text=The%20swift%20blowback%20against%20pro,Palestine%20exception%20to%20free%20speech%E2%80%9D.
B. Israeli delegates wear yellow stars at UN meeting on Gaza war | Al Jazeera – October 31 2023
Israeli delegates wear yellow stars at UN meeting on Gaza war | Al Jazeera Newsfeed – YouTube
C. House GOP unveils $14.3 billion Israel aid package – October 30, 2023
See Petition # 1
D. Jordanians boycott American brands over support for Israel • FRANCE 24 – October 31, 2023
Jordanians boycott American brands over support for Israel • FRANCE 24 English – YouTube
E. ‘This is a time for war’: Israel will not agree to ceasefire with Hamas, says Netanyahu – October 30, 2023
‘This is a time for war’: Israel will not agree to ceasefire with Hamas, says Netanyahu – YouTube
F. Code Pink Tells Pelosi: Ceasefire in Gaza Now – October 29, 2023
Code Pink Tells Pelosi: Ceasefire in Gaza Now! – YouTube
G. We shut down Grand Central station to demand a ceasefire – October 27, 2023
We shut down Grand Central station to demand a ceasefire. – JVP (jewishvoiceforpeace.org)
PETITIONS
1. Tell Congress Now:
Stop Funding Genocide of Palestinians
Demand a Ceasefire!
SIGN: Tell Congress: Stop Israel Aid, Support Ceasefire Not Genocide (everyaction.com)
2. SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER: DEBATE DR. NORMAN FINKELSTEIN
SIGN: The CEASEFIRE DEBATE
3. No mas fuerzas militares extranjeras en Haiti / No more foreign military forces in Haiti
4. Housing is a National Crisis!
5. Demand Congress repeal outdated war authorizations!
Call the President & your elected officials RE Palestine!
White House Comment Line
Open Tuesday-Thursday 11am-3pm EST
(202) 456-1111
Email Contact Page: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
Suggested demands:
-VOTE NO on 14.3 Billion Supplemental Appropriations Bill for Israel!Tell them you oppose the use of American aid to pursue inhumane collective punishment
-Prioritize the immediate delivery of humanitarian aid to alleviate the suffering in Gaza
-Ceasefire Now!
-Stop US funding of military aid and weapons to Israel
Senator Alex Padilla
(202) 224-3553 DC office
If voicemail box is full, try Senator Padilla’s other office locations: (415) 981-9369 San Francisco office; (916) 448-2787 Sacramento office, (559) 497-5109 Fresno office; (310) 231-4494 LA office; (619) 239-3884 San Diego office
Email Contact Page: https://www.padilla.senate.gov/contact/contact-form/
Senator Laphonza Butler
(202) 224-3841
https://www.butler.senate.gov/
Congressional Switchboard
(202) 224-3121
Nancy Pelosi’s Office
SF Office: (415) 556-4862
DC office: (202) 225-4965
Petitions: Scheduled Executions in November click on the name to sign.
November 9, 2023 at 6:00 pm CT:
Brent Brewer in Texas
November 16, 2023 at 6:00 pm CT:
David Renteria in Texas
November 16, 2023 at 6:00 pm CT:
Casey McWhorter in Alabama
November 30, 2023 at 10:00 am CT:
Phillip Hancock in Oklahoma
EVENTS / ACTIONS
Thursday, November 2 – Sunday, November 5
Thursday, November 2
1. Thursday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, Dia de los Muertos Vigil for Gaza (set up)
Balmy Alley -SF
Mission District
Procession begins 7pm 22nd & Bryant
Stops at Balmy Alley for vigil 7:30pm
Altar break down at 9pm
Altars specifically honoring the lives of massacred Palestinians will be set up at Balmy Alley in the Mission District. Please come share space to mourn and be in solidarity. If you’d like to make an altar please contact cialu415@gmail.com or DM @cialuart.
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/CyhsAxHrrMS/
2. Thursday, 5:00pm, SF Rally – End the Blockade of Cuba + the Siege on Gaza!
SF Federal Building
90 7th St.
SF
On November 2nd, for the 31st straight year, a resolution to oppose the cruel U.S. blockade of Cuba will be passed nearly unanimously at the United Nations General Assembly. Once again we will see that the whole world agrees on the need to Let Cuba Live!
The only consistent supporters of the blockade each year in the UN General Assembly vote are the US and apartheid Israel, who are also responsible right now for the genocidal bombing campaign and blockade of life-sustaining goods and electricity into Gaza.
We join the people of the world who have been in the streets these past several weeks in solidarity with the Palestinian freedom struggle and say: End the Siege on Gaza! End all US aid to Israel!
Endorsers: ANSWER Coalition Bay Area, Palestinian Youth Movement, Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee, Bay Area Cuba Solidarity Network, Party for Socialism and Liberation – Bay Area, Venceremos Brigade Bay Area Committee, 4 Nations Solidarity Committee
3. Thursday, 5:30 (PT), 8:30pm (ET), Filipinos for Palestine (Teach-in)
Online registration: Webinar Registration – Zoom
Join BAYAN USA, Malaya Movement USA, and the Palestinian Youth Movement for an urgent teach-in on the history and current moment in the Palestinian people’s resistance movement. The Palestinian and Filipino peoples’ movements for liberation are intertwined. Learn about their parallels and particularities, toward building genuine solidarity and taking immediate action to end the escalating genocide happening against the Palestinian people.
Info from Malaya Movement
Friday, November 3
4. Friday, 8:00am – 10:00am, Vigil and Rally at Senator Padilla’s Office
333 Bush St.
SF
Walking distance from Montgomery BART
Call for an immediate CEASEFIRE and an END to AID for Israel!
Wear white or light colors
Don’t know who is calling for this here’s the poster:
5. Friday, 12Noon, SFGH Healthcare Workers Walk Out – In solidarity to End Healthcare Crisis in Gaza
Meet at
Baby / Mother Statue
SFGH
1001 Potrero
SF
All are welcomed.
We are a collective of Healtcare workers from the heart of San Francisco.
* Call on Representative Nancy Pelosi and on healthcare workers around the country
– to denounce war crimes of attacks on hospitals, healthcare workers ambulances schools
– Immediately support “Ceasefire Now” resolution
– allow the immediate entry of humanitarian and medical aid into Gaza
– demand an end to the U.S. govt’s funding of Israel
– demand and end to the siege on Gaza, and
– an end to the occupation of Palestine.
Info: Facebook
6. Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Revolutionary Friday: Stop The Genocide Of Palestine! End The Occupation!
SF Federal Building
90 7th Street
SF
Revolutionary Friday, will be at the SF Federal Building this Friday, outside Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s office. Representative Pelosi continues to vote for funds for military aid to Israel. She also is resisting the peoples call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Nancy Pelosi is complicit in Genocide of the Palestinian People!
All are welcomed to join the Revolutionary Workers Front and Mothers On The March, at the SF Federal Building to demand and end to the continued genocide, illegal and violent occupation and apartheid inflicted on Palestinians by the Zionist Israeli government.
UPDATE from Defense of Children International – Palestine: As of November 1, 2023, Palestinian child fatalities climb to 3,650, with more than 1,000 missing under the rubble of apartment buildings and refugee camps across the Gaza Strip, Israeli settlers and soldiers are unleashing violence and cruelty against Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank.
Our RESISTANCE to the U.S. policy makers is important to stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine / Gaza.
All are welcomed to bring your own homemade messages. We have banners, chalk for your sidewalk messaging.
Stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine!
WE CALL FOR:
• AN END TO ALL U.S. MILITARY AID AND WEAPONS TO ISRAEL
• AN END TO THE BLOCKADE OF PALESTINE
• A CEASEFIRE on the Palestinian People by the Zionist government.
• END THE APARTHEID / COLONIALIZATION OF PALESTINE
VIVIA PALESTINA!
Info: Stop The Genocide of Palestine! End The Occupation : Indybay
Saturday, November 4
7, Saturday, 1:00pm, SF: International Day of Solidarity; No More Aid To Israel; Lift The Siege on Gaza Now
Meet at Civic Center
SF
Last weekend, we hit 20K at our mass protest, and took the freeway. We are just getting started. The ground invasion by the Israeli military is HAPPENING. They want to continue the genocide in SILENCE. We cannot let up. Our allies are mobilizing in Washington D.C. and San Francisco will lead the West Coast.
Say NO to Genocide. NO to US funding for Apartheid. CEASEFIRE NOW.
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/CzC_a6_LuA5/
8. Saturday, 2:30pm – 4:30pm, The Fight Against Police Brutality
The Starry Plough Pub
3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705
also online
The Oscar Grant Committee against Police Brutality and State Repression was formed in 2010 after the one-day shutdown of the Port of Oakland demanding Justice for Oscar Grant. Since then, the committee has been involved in struggles for justice for families of victims of police violence, opposition to police attacks on rallies and demonstrations, and assisting the International Longshore and Warehouse Union #10 with May Day rallies.
The panelists will talk about the history of the committee, the increased militarization of the police, The fight against the fake science of “exicted delirium” to justify abuse by police, and the ongoing gross police violence in Vallejo and Antioch. Speakers include:
Melissa Nold – civil rights attorney in Vallejo, California
Richard Tan, attorney, speaking about Stop Cop Campus, San Pablo, California
Robert Collins – Angelo Quinto Foundation
*Organizations listed for identification purposes only.
Info: The Fight Agains Police Brutality, Past and Present : Indybay
Sunday, November 5
9. Sunday, 3:00pm – 5:00pm, APEC, Labor & Imperialism-An Attack On The Working Class & Oppressed
518 Valencia St. Near 16th St.
San Francisco
APEC is Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation is an organization based on making capitalism more profitable in the Asian rim. It has pushed privatization of public resources, joint labor management partnerships and the outsourcing of jobs to make more profits.
It is also linked to the World Trade Organization WTO which has imposed austerity on people around the world.
Today the US is pushing privatization of all public services through outsourcing of public jobs and turning public jobs over to “non-profits”. In San Francisco thousands of workers at lower pay and benefits are doing public work from cleaning the streets to maintaining housing for poor and oppressed people.
This meeting will report on the economic polices of the APEC and also how it is affecting people such as Mexico, Peru, Chile, South Korea and China. When APEC last met in China, the US was pushing China to have more private public partnerships and outsource more jobs. This is a major goal of APEC.
We will also have speakers about the struggle against the layoffs at Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation TNDC where 30 workers were laid off without notice. While these non-profits are laying off worker the Mayor proposes more police and repression.
The trade unions in San Francisco and nationally have dropped any pretense of fighting this capitalist union busting organization which is attacking workers around the world.
APEC is also funded by the union busting corporations in San Franciso. Mayor Breed and the Democrats have millions for APEC because the want to further gentrify San Francisco and drive poor and working class people out for developers who run San Francisco and other cities in the US.
They are also pushing militarization of the police as their economic policies destroy the lives of working people and the poor.
There will also be music and video of the the protests against the WTO in 1999
Host: United Front Committee for a Labor Party
For info: APEC, Labor & Imperialism-An Attack On The Working Class & Oppressed : Indybay
10. Sunday, 6:15pm, Rally Outside the Friends of Isreal Defense Forces Gala
Hiller Aviation Museum
601 Skyway Road
San Carlos, CA 94070
NO GALAS FOR GENOCIDE! This Sunday: If you’re in the Bay Area, we need you now. The Friends of the IDF is having a 75th anniversary gala “honoring the brave men & women of the Israeli Air Force.”
We are hosting a mass rally to oppose it.
Host: Jewish Voice For Peace Bay Area
