By Adrienne Fong
Am not back posting on a regular basis
THANK YOU to all that attended the SF Board of Supervisors meeting last Tuesday, December 5.
Many events are listed on Indybay that might be of interest to you
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 are divided into two groups. Second group is on Palestine
ARTICLES
A. WATCH: DC Belmarsh Tribunal for Assange – December 9, 2023
WATCH: DC Belmarsh Tribunal for Assange (consortiumnews.com)
B. War for Oil Fears Grow as US Holds Military Drills in Guyana Amid Venezuela Dispute – December 8, 2023
C. The ‘Cop City’ Mass Arraignment Circus – December 7, 2023
The ‘Cop City’ Mass Arraignment Circus (consortiumnews.com)
D. ExxonMobil wants to start a war in Latin America – December 5, 2023
ExxonMobil wants to start a war in Latin America : Peoples Dispatch
ARTICLES ON PALESTINE / GAZA
A. Israeli army accused of staging video showing surrender of ‘Hamas fighters’ – December 10, 2023
Israeli army accused of staging video showing surrender of ‘Hamas fighters’ (youtube.com)
B. At least 300 Palestinians killed since Biden admin vetoed UN ceasefire resolution – Day 64 – December 10, 2023
C. As the US vetoes UNSC ceasefire resolution, the people take the streets for Palestine – December 9, 2023
D. Starbucks Loses $11 Billion Due to Poor Sales & Boycotts over Israel War| Vantage with Palki Sharma – December 7, 2023
Starbucks Loses $11 Billion Due to Poor Sales & Boycotts over Israel War| Vantage with Palki Sharma – YouTube
E. Interfaith Walk Across Golden Gagte Bridge – Protesters Call for Ceasefire– December 6, 2023
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/interfaith-walk-golden-gate-bridge/3390744/
F. ‘We feared our govt would kill us and blame Hamas’: Released Israeli captive – December 6, 2023
‘We feared our govt would kill us and blame Hamas’: Released Israeli captive (thecradle.co)
G. Hundreds pack S.F. City Hall as supervisor introduces resolution calling for cease-fire in Israel-Hamas war
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-supervisors-ceasefire-18535295.php
H. SF Board of Supervisors Meeting RE: ‘Ceasefire Resolution’ – December 5, 2023
BOS Board of Supervisors – Regular Meeting (granicus.com)
Supervisor Dean Preston’s remarks at: 1:17:10
Public Comment at: 1:53
San Francisco Draft
Resolution calling for a sustained ceasefire in Gaza, humanitarian aid, release of hostages, and condemning antisemitic, anti-Palestinian, and Islamophobic rhetoric and attacks
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24190172/preston-ceasefire-resolution-draft-12-4.pdf
PETITIONS
1. No tax dollars for bombing civilians!
SIGN: No tax dollars for bombing civilians! | MoveOn
TO: President Biden, the Biden Administration, Members of Congress
2. Tell Congress: A vote for a ‘fiscal commission’ is a vote to cut Social Security and Medicare!
SIGN: Take Action! (actionnetwork.org)
3. Urge President Biden: Commute the Row, Demolish the Death Chamber & Abolish the Death Penalty
4. Stop Bill Gates and Other Corporate Investors From Goggling Up U.S. Farmland, Protect Family Farms!
SIGN: Farmland For Farmers Act – GMO / Toxin Free USA
5. Hold giant internet companies accountable!
Hold giant internet companies accountable! (consumerreports.org)
6. NO TO EXPANDING WARRANTLESS SURVEILLANCE, NO TO H.R. 6611
SIGN: No to Expanding Warrantless Surveillance, No to H.R. 6611 (salsalabs.org)
EVENTS / ACTIONS
Monday, December 11 – Thursday, Deceimber 14
AROC’s List of Bay Area Solidarity Events With GAZA
Arab Resource and Organizing Center (araborganizing.org)
Monday, December 11
1, Monday, 12Noon – 12:30pm, SF General Hospital Workers Rally For Contract
In Front of Hospital
Free Speech Area On Potrero Avenue
SF
SEIU 1021 HEALTH CARE WORKERS CHAPTER
Monday December 11,2023 12 Noon
There will be a 12noon to12:30 at SFGH 12/11/23 free speech zone near Potrero to send a message to management around bargaining.
The City is already threatening workers with layoffs and cutbacks while they are already understaffed. They also are outsourcing and contracting out.
12/11 – 1pm – 3pm
The union will also have a meet and greet with the bargaining team members.
12/11/23 1-3pm building 5 7E12 come by on your break and talk to the bargaining team members and what fights are ongoing.
Host: SEIU 1021 SF General Hospital Chapter
Info: SF General Hospital Workers Rally For Contract : Indybay
2. Monday, 12Noon, SF Gray Panthers Annual Public Reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
SF City Hall (outside – Polk St. side)
1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Pl
SF
Email pianosonatabook5@gmail.com with “UDHR” in subject line, for more info on our public reading
Tuesday, December 12
3. Tuesday, 8:45am, San Francisco Stop Funding Genocide
Please RSVP using this form to receive the location of our meeting spot for the picket, rally, and grief circle at 8:45 AM on Tuesday morning.
RSVP for info: RSVP for San Francisco: Stop funding genocide. – Action Network
On Tuesday, we’re turning out in-person as mamas, teachers, immigrants, workers, and Californians of all faiths and homelands for a picket, rally and grief circle to call for an end to U.S funds for genocide.
We’re uniting our voices behind the following demands:
1. Immediate and permanent ceasefire now.
2. No new weapons or military funding to Israel.
3. No increased funds for U.S border militarization or inhumane detention.
4. Support the entry of humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Host: East Bay For a Ceasefire Now
4. Tuesday, 9:00am (PT); 12 Noon (ET), No Way To Treat A Child Webinar
Online registration: #nowaytotreatachild Webinar December 2023 (dci-palestine.org)
join the #nowaytotreatachild campaign co-leaders from Defense for Children International – Palestine and American Friends Service Committee for a 2023 Year-In-Review webinar.
2023 has been a devastating year for Palestinian children from Gaza to Jerusalem to Jenin. During this webinar, we’ll review human rights violations against Palestinian children in 2023 as well as advocacy efforts in motion to hold Israeli authorities and forces accountable.
Background
Approximately 2.9 million Palestinians live in the occupied West Bank, of which around 45 percent are children under the age of 18.
Palestinian children in the West Bank, like adults, face arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment under an Israeli military detention system that denies them basic rights.
Since 1967, Israel has operated two separate legal systems in the same territory. In the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers are subject to the civilian and criminal legal system whereas Palestinians live under military law.
Israel applies civilian criminal law to Palestinian children in East Jerusalem. No Israeli child comes into contact with the military courts.
Israel has the dubious distinction of being the only country in the world that automatically and systematically prosecutes children in military courts that lack fundamental fair trial rights and protections. Israel prosecutes between 500 and 700 Palestinian children in military courts each year.
Ill-treatment in the Israeli military detention system remains “widespread, systematic, and institutionalized throughout the process,” according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report Children in Israeli Military Detention Observations and Recommendations.
Children typically arrive to interrogation bound, blindfolded, frightened, and sleep deprived.
Children often give confessions after verbal abuse, threats, physical and psychological violence that in some cases amounts to torture.
Israeli military law provides no right to legal counsel during interrogation, and Israeli military court judges seldom exclude confessions obtained by coercion or torture.
Info: No Way To Treat A Child Webinar : Indybay
Wednesday, December 13
5. Wednesday, 10:30am-11:30am (PT); 1:30pm – 2:30pm(ET), Fighting Antisemitism Through the Lens of Collective Liberation
Online registration: Register now – Fighting Antisemitism Through the Lens of Collective Liberation – YouTube, Wed Dec 13, 2023 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM (tickettailor.com)
ACCESSIBILITY: This event will also be recorded and captioning will be provided
Please join Haymarket Books, Jewish Voice for Peace, and PARCEO for a timely conversation on fighting antisemitism through a collective liberation lens
As Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians rages on with full backing of the US government, we are also witnessing a terrifying rise in anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, and antisemitic bigotry and violence here at home.
Jewish communal spaces have been graffitied with swastikas; neo-Nazis have marched through Madison; Palestinian college students are experiencing mass censorship; three Palestinian college students were shot; a six-year-old Palestinian child was murdered; and rightwing white supremacists are gaining wide audiences. In this moment, the only answer is solidarity among our communities and a true commitment to collective liberation.
But a coordinated campaign from the Israeli and US governments and organizations like the Anti Defamation League (ADL) is aiming to misstate and even legally redefine antisemitism in order to buffer the Israeli government from accountability for its war crimes.
We see this from the House of Representatives regularly pushing forward dangerous and harmful conflations between antisemitism with criticism of Israel, to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer delivering a speech on the Senate floor that misstates what antisemitism is and largely ignores the central threat of white nationalism in the fight against antisemitism.
We need to understand what antisemitism is (and what it is not) so that we can fight it effectively, along with all forms of injustice.
SPEAKERS:
Barry Trachtenberg, Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History at Wake Forest University.
Nyle Fort, Assistant Professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies,
Columbia University
Beth Miller, Political Director, Jewish Voice for Peace Action
Moderator:
Nina Mehta, co-director of PARCE
Info: Fighting Antisemitism Through the Lens of Collective Liberation : Indybay
6. Wednesday, 3:30pm, Youth Call To Action –
555 Franklin St.
SF
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA‼️ Join us on Wednesday to show that youth from all walks of life are UNITED. WE WILL NOT BE CENSORED. The youth stand united for Palestine. Bring your friends and classmates
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/C0lV1f6uWbz/
7. Wednesday, 5:00pm (PS); 8:00pm (ES), Power to the People: How Grassroots Power Overcomes Big Nuclear
Online registration: Webinar Registration – Zoom
Celebrate NIRS’s 45th anniversary with an exciting event about the power of grassroots organizing to bring about a nuclear-free, fossil-free world.
Our upcoming webinar, “Power to the People: How Grassroots Power Overcomes Big Nuclear,” will explore the vital intersection of environmental justice, energy democracy, and the grassroots advocate’s path to a sustainable energy future. As a valued supporter of NIRS, we invite you to join us for an engaging and informative discussion.
Key Highlights:
Insights into the fight for environmental justice and its impact on communities
Strategies for promoting energy democracy and inclusive decision-making
A glimpse into the roadmap for a sustainable energy future
Thursday, December 14
8. Thursday, 4:30pm, SHUT DOWN GOOGLE – NO AI FOR GENOCIDE‼
Meet at:
1 Market St.
SF
Mask required
Google is profiting off of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians!
This has been named the first AI-powered genocide. Google’s “Project Nimbus” is a 1.2 Billion dollar contract that provides powerful AI tools to Israel, making Google directly complicit in this genocide.
As the brutal military siege on Gaza has escalated and taken tens of thousands of Palestinian lives, Google has ramped up internal pressure within the company to silence the voices of workers of conscience demanding an end to Project Nimbus.
Host: Palestinian Youth Movement, Jewish Voice for Peace, No TECH For Apartheid
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/C0sCHLgSH9U/
9. Thursday, 5;00pm (Pt); 8:00pm (ET), Rush To Kill: Trump’s Federal Execution Spree Revisited
Online registration: Webinar Registration – Zoom
We will be joined by George Hale and others who bore witness to the federal execution spree. George Hale is a reporter with Indiana Public Media who covered the thirteen federal executions that took place in the final six months of the Trump Administration. Listen to his fascinating eight-part podcast here (https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1205108509/w-f-i-u-rush-to-kill), which notes Death Penalty Action’s leadership in opposing the executions in episode eight!
Host: Death Penalty Action
