By Adreinne Fong
Not back posting on a regular basis.
List of Calendar of Events on Palestine from AROC: https://www.araborganizing.org/events/
Many other 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
ARTICLES
A. When Israel slaughtered the starving – March 5, 2024
When Israel slaughtered the starving | The Electronic Intifada
B. Canada synagogue hosts sale of properties built on occupied Palestinian lands – March 5, 2024
Canada synagogue hosts sale of properties built on occupied Palestinian lands (youtube.com)
C. SFPD: WE WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED‼
https://www.instagram.com/p/C4JYfSBy96M/?img_index=3
D. Thousands march in San Francisco calling for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza – March 3, 2024
Thousands march in San Francisco calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza – NBC Bay Area
E. Ex-US soldier says Israel targets Gaza civilians on purpose – March 2, 2024
Ex-US soldier says Israel targets Gaza civilians on purpose (youtube.com)
American veteran Josephine Guilbeau, former intelligence officer US Army
F. US Complicity in Gaza Case Gets June Appeal Date – March 1, 2024
US Complicity in Gaza Case Gets June Appeal Date (consortiumnews.com)
While welcoming the news, the head of Defense for Children International-Palestine said that “each day that passes without an end to Israel’s genocidal campaign results in catastrophe for Palestinian children in Gaza.”
See Event # 13
G. Organizers Expand ‘Uncommitted’ Primary Campaigns to Push Biden on Gaza – February 29, 2024
https://www.commondreams.org/news/uncommitted-states
H. Both Dems and GOP ‘Completely Silent’ as Macy’s Guts Workforce After Rewarding Wall Street – February 29, 2024
I. Michigan Voters Made It Clear: Biden’s Gaza Policy Threatens His Reelection – February 28, 2024
Michigan Voters Made It Clear: Biden’s Gaza Policy Threatens His Reelection | The Nation
J. Kevin Cooper Fact Sheet
Kevin Cooper 2024 Fact Sheet FINAL March 1.pdf
“The State of California may be about to execute an innocent man.” –Judge William A. Fletcher, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
6 PETITIONS
1. The Shuar Arutam Have Already Decided: No Mining on Their Territory!
SIGN: The Shuar Arutam Have Already Decided: No Mining! | Amazon Watch
2. Olympics and FIFA: Ban Israel from international sports now
SIGN: Olympics and FIFA: Ban Israel from international sports now. (eko.org)
3. Stop giving Libs of TikTok a platform
4. Volkswagon: Stop using Uyghur forced labor
SIGN: Volkswagen: Stop using Uyghur forced labor – Action Network
5.TO: Governors and State Legislatures of AL, AR, FL, GA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, MS, MI, MT, NE, NV, NC, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, and WY STOP EXECUTIONS
SIGN: Abolish the Death Penalty | MoveOn
6. Tell Congress: Safeguard IVF Access!
SIGN: Tell Congress: Safeguard IVF Access! (actionnetwork.org)
EVENTS / ACTIONS
Wednesday, March 6 – Wednesday, March 13
Wednesday, March 6
1. Wednesday, 3:00pm – 4:00pm, Close Guantanamo
UN Plaza
SF Civic Center
SF
President Biden: CLOSE GITMO NOW!
30 prisoners remain at the US concentration camp opened in 2002, 16 of which have been cleared for release. “An aging, vulnerable population, all of whom are survivors of torture” suffering “real, deep, profound psychological trauma… of enormous anxiety and pain,” witnessed Fionnuala Ni Aolain last year, as the first UN expert to visit the detention facility.
Join the call to STOP TORTURE & 22 years of ongoing human rights violations!
President Biden campaigned to close the off-shore gulag, we must hold him to account.
More info: https://www.closeguantanamo.org/
Info: Close Guantanamo : Indybay
Thursday, March 7
2. Thursday, 10:00am, Emergency Press Conference & Rally: No More PG&E Rate Hikes!
In person:
CPUC Building
505 Van Ness Ave.
SF
Call-in:
1-800-857-1917, with passcode 9899501#.
The CPUC will vote to ratify further PG&E electricity rate hikes at a public meeting this Thursday, March 7th!
We demand the CPUC reject the proposed 7.8% rate hike and repeal the 12.8% rate hike that went into effect on January 1st. Utilities are already a heavy burden on the working people of California, and PG&E’s rates are the most expensive in the country. Now, the average Californian household is facing a $53 increase to their monthly bill this year and small businesses will be hit even harder. This is so that PG&E can pay damages for the deadly fires caused by their negligence.
PG&E made 2.2$B in profit in 2023 – a 25% increase from the previous year. The CPUC, the body responsible for the public regulation of utility rates, has allowed PG&E to raise rates uncontested for years. We say no more.
Info from: PSL
3. Thursday, 6:00pm – 7:00pm, Do you still want San Francisco to be a Sanctuary City?
St. Anthony’s Catholic Church
3215 Cesar Chavez St.
SF
Please RSVP so that room size will be adequate: RSVP to “No More Children Living in the Streets” (google.com)
We need you to join us this Thursday at. Anthony’s Catholic Church, 3215 Cesar Chavez Street, so we can raise our collective voices and hold our City government accountable to making Sanctuary a reality! At least two City Supervisors and representatives from the Department of Homelessness plan to attend.
This Thursday’s meeting will be facilitated by our Recently Arrived Families Committee of unhoused immigrant leaders. They will share personal testimonies and lay out their research exposing the reality that right now, the City of St. Francis is a “Sanctuary City” in name only. New arrivals with small children are being abandoned to sleep under gas station roofs, in vehicles, and on MUNI.
For more details on the immigrant leaders’ experiences and their cost-effective plans to solve the problem of unhoused families living on the streets, please visit https://faithinactionba.org/sanctuary.
Friday, March 8
International Working Women’s Day
4. Friday, 1:00pm, , Revolutionary Friday: Stop U.S. Funding for Genocide; End the Occupation
San Francisco Federal Building
90 7th Street (Corner of Mission & 7th Sts.)
San Francisco, CA
It’s now 5 months, 150 days of Israeli ongoing aggression that has killed at least 30,534 (including 12,300 children) and more people missing in Gaza; and at least 420 (including 110 children) and more missing in the West Bank. Every day, the bombing, killing and maiming of Palestinians continue.
Many other countries have withdrawn their $$ support and weapons to Israel, including supporting sanctioning and boycotting Israel. Some have take cases of GENOCIDE against Israel, US and UK to the ICJ.
The US is doing token ‘air drops’ of supplies to Gaza but continues to send weapons and push for over 14Bil. To Israel and votes against UN Resolutions.
We need to end this carnage by calling for a GENERAL STRIKE!!
Our elected federal officials, President Biden, Senators Padilla, Butler and Representative Pelosi, continue to vote for Aid and Weapons to Israel. All are complicit in genocide.
All are welcomed to stand with the Revolutionary Workers Front, Aaron Bushnell Brigade, and Mothers On The March at the SF Federal Building to demand an end to the genocide, illegal and violent occupation and apartheid inflicted on Palestinians by the Zionist Israeli government by the federally elected officials.
We have banners, signs, and chalk for sidewalk messaging. You are also welcomed to bring your own homemade messages.
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
– A GENERAL STRIKE
ViVa ViVa PALESTINA!
5. Friday, 1:00pm – 3:00pm, Third World Women Resist! – International Working Women’s Day
Meet at:
SF Civic Center
SF
Join us at the International Working Women’s Day march and rally on Friday
In the spirit of third world internationalism, this International Working Women’s Day, Bay Area working women, gender-expansive folks, and grassroots women’s organizations will march together in unity for Palestinian resistance and liberation. We demand an end to the genocide actively being waged against Palestinians in Gaza. The liberation of Palestine is directly connected to the liberation of all oppressed people across the world.
In the spirit of the first women’s strike in NYC in 1908, we are united in upholding the legacy and power of women’s resistance here and in Palestine, and we demand an end to the inhumane genocide that is being funded by our U.S. tax dollars
Join us! RSVP at the link in bio or bit.ly/rsvp-iwwd-2024
Hosts: co-organized by @asata_bayarea, @gabrielaoakland, @ggjalliance, @mujeresunidasyactivas, @palestinianfeministcollective, @cal_nev_pstf @survivedandpunished, @tuwusf, @uspcn
Info: Third World Women Resist for International Women’s Day : Indybay
6. Friday, 4:00pm – 6:00pm, Global Day Of Action On Women’s Day For Women Journalists In Gaza
SF Chronicle
5th & Mission Sts.
SF
Palestinian Journalists Call For Action On Women’s Day
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate and International Federation of Journalists are calling a global day of action for Women journalists in Gaza and Palestine
To mark International Women’s Day, celebrated on 8 March, the International Federation of Journalists’ (IFJ) Gender Council will put women journalists and media workers reporting from Gaza at the centre of its campaign. We pay tribute to the courage of brave women journalists reporting from Gaza and seize this opportunity to reiterate our call for safety and an end to war atrocities, after five months of hostilities.
Take a look at our campaign page ‘8M: Women journalists in Gaza’
https://www.pjs.ps/?page_id=965&lang=en
https://twitter.com/infopjs
X @IFJGlobal
For more information: https://www.pjs.ps/?page_id=965&lang=en
Host: National Writers Union, UPTE For Palestine
Info: Global Day Of Action On Women’s Day For Women Journalists In Gaza : Indybay
Saturday, March
7. Saturday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, IWD 2024: March for GAZA on the Golden Gate Bridge
Gather 11:30am at:
Welcome Center Plaza
SE end of Golden Gate Bridge
SF
RSVP: https://www.codepink.org/sf309
For public transit options: http://tripplanner.transit.511.org
Golden Gate Transit Buses 10, 70, 80
and SF Muni Bus 28 stop at the bridge (SF side).
FMI and Carpooling: Toby · toby4peace [at] sonic.net
GATHER: 11:30 am: Gather at Welcome Center Plaza, Southeast end of GG Bridge
NOON: March begins on Eastern Walkway
1:30pm: Rally at Welcome Center Plaza after the march.
FEMINISTS STAND FOR PEACE, Not Genocide & Occupation
FREE PALESTINE NOW!
Join CODEPINK SF Bay Area as we RISE UP FOR GAZA on the Golden Gate Bridge for International Women’s Day 2024. Echo our demands for reproductive justice in Palestine and every where else!
Reproductive justice includes the right of all to raise a family in a safe and healthy place: END THE SEIGE ON GAZA; Stop the Bombing! PERMANENT CEASEFIRE FOREVER! Israel Stop Blocking Humanitarian Aid NOW! No to 21st Century Holocaust!
Bring friends, family, keffiyehs, and signs. (Maximum Signs allowed on bridge: up to 2×3).
Reproductive Freedom for All and CEASEFIRE EVERYWHERE!
Honoring Aaron Bushnell’s Ultimate Sacrifice:
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be FREE!”
FREE PALESTINE!
Info: IWD 2024: March for GAZA on the Golden Gate Bridge : Indybay
8. Saturday, 1:00pm – 3:00pm, International Women’s Day 2024
Meet at
24th & Mission
SF
Be there at 12:30pm to help build crowd for 2:00pm protest rally.
Women Are Not Bitches, Ho’s, Punching Bags, Sex Objects or Baby-Making Machines!
Women Are Full Human Beings!
Forced Motherhood Is Female Enslavement!
Abortion on Demand and Without Apology!
We Need and We Demand Revolution—A Whole New Way to Live,
A Fundamentally Different System!
From Iran to Latin America to the U.S. and Everywhere on the Planet:
Break the Chains! Unleash the Fury of Women as a Mighty Force for Revolution!
Go to bit.ly/BA-break to find out why ending the oppression of women by men is at the heart of this revolution
Host: The REVCOM CORPS
Info: International Women’s Day 2024 : Indybay
Sunday, March 10
9. Sunday, 9:30am – 11:00am, Fred Glass “California Labor: Yesterday & Today”
In person or via Zoom
Unitarian Universalist of SF
1187 Franklin St.
SF
Zoom
https://zoom.us/j/91759639495?pwd=ZkViMWRyblZpRS8rTjdYSjBOTVQ2dz09
What makes California different from other states? The cultural template stamped in the Gold Rush has remained in place ever since: “Come Here, Get Rich”, a dream and location where anything is possible. Or so goes the myth. The reality is more complex. Yes, there was gold, wheat, oil, Hollywood, aerospace, Silicon Valley—recurrent gold rushes still happening today, still making some people rich. But this talk explores the path taken by the vast majority of newcomers—immigrant workers—who perpetually recompose the state’s working class and generate the wealth of the lucky few who grab California’s golden ring. The lens of California labor provides an alternative view of history, the kind that occurs when workers engage in collective action—through unions, politics, strikes, and a variety of organizing strategies seeking common ground among diverse communities to achieve economic fairness and social justice. In the current national resurgence of labor California is once again taking pride of place, with teachers, Hollywood unions, hotel workers and graduate students leading the way. Why did it happen before, and why is it happening now?
Fred Glass served as the communications director for the California Federation of Teachers for nearly thirty years. He taught night classes in labor history at City College of San Francisco until spring 2023.
He wrote and directed Golden Lands, Working Hands, a ten-part video series on the history of the California labor movement, shown on public television stations in California and distributed to every public high school in the state. His book, From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement, was published by the University of California Press in 2016. A short animated cartoon he wrote and directed, with the voice of Ed Asner, Tax the Rich: An Animated Fairy Tale, received a million YouTube views in 2012 and was the subject of unhappy Fox News commentary. His most recent video is We Mean to Make Things Over: A History of May Day. Fred is a member of AFT Local 2121 and serves on the State Committee of California DSA.
Info: Fred Glass “California Labor: Yesterday & Today” : Indybay
Monday, March 11
10. Monday, 12Noon – 1:00pm, Fukushima Action in SF 13 Years After the Meltdowns-Stop Dumping Tritium into the Pacific
SF Japanese Consulate
275 Battery St.
SF
(Few blocks from Embarcadero BART)
On The 13th Anniversary Of The Fukushima NUKE Disaster
Don’t Nuke the Pacific Ocean! Protect Our Oceans & Stop The Nukes
On the 13th anniversary of the man made disaster in Fukushima and the catastrophe continues. Over 800 pounds of radioactive waste continues to reside in the broken nuclear plants and it may be 30 years before they are removed and the site is “decontaminated”. The previous Prime Minister Abe lied to the International Olympics Committee that it had already been “decontaminated” but this obviously not the case.
The Japanese government and TEPCO despite opposition of people in Japan, Asia and around the world is also releasing millions of tons of tritium into the Pacific Ocean. This is contaminating our oceans and the government is not only going forward but is opening more NUKE Plants but is remilitarizing Japan and is sending armaments around the world.
The Japanese Kashida government is working with the US and Korea to militarize Asia and surround China to prepare for war. They are continuing to build and expand US military bases in Okinawa and threatening the people of Japan with the dangerous Osprey helicopters that fly in the middle of major cities and in Okinawa ignoring the dangers to the people of Japan and Okinawa.
Let us join together to demand the halt to release of tritium water from Fukushima, No restarting NUKE plants and opposing US Korea war militarization in Asia.
See site for more info
Host No Nukes Action
Info: Fukushima Action in SF 13 Years After the Meltdowns-Stop Dumping Tritium into the Pacific : Indybay
Wednesday, March 13
11. Wednesday, 6:00pm, Gaza Community Forum (part 3)
Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore/Gallery
3036 24th Street
SF
RSVP: camilo@nlgsf.org
What can we do to activate and mobilize our collective duty to prevent and punish genocide, in the U.S and throughout the world, from the perspective of the Global South?
URGENT UPDATES on Gaza genocide cases at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and in U.S federal court, and the impact of a possible cease-fire
PLEASE JOIN US with invited guests from the Palestinian Youth Movement, Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC), Global Exchange, Haiti Action Committee, SF International Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP), Myanmar Student Union, Code Pink, and the Chiapas Support Committee
Co-sponsored by: National Lawyers Guild-San Francisco Bay Area (NLG-SFBA) and Global Exchange
