By Adrienne Fong
See list of Calendar of Events on Palestine from AROC: https://www.araborganizing.org/events/
If your post is about Palestine you can also list your action on the AROC calendar
Many other events are listed on Indybay that might be of interest to you (many actions re Palestine in the South, North & East Bays are also listed)
Please post your actions on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12
See Indybay for other listings of events
ARTICLES
A. The Impact of Nuclear Weapons on Children – August 5, 2024
The Impact of Nuclear Weapons on Children (icanw.org)
– Report may also be listened to
NOTE: Some photos are disturbing and are the results of nuclear weapons
See Events # 1 & 2
B. What’s behind the spread of violent far-right protests in the UK? | Inside Story – August 4, 2024
C. ‘Dirty Move’: Pentagon Chief Ditches Plea Deals With Tortured 9/11 Defendants – August 3, 2024
‘Dirty Move’: Pentagon Chief Ditches Plea Deals With Tortured 9/11 Defendants | Common Dreams
See Event # 6
D. All Things Bugs: Bill Gates, U.S. Military Among Investors in GMO Insect Protein for Humans – August 2, 2024
E. Mayor makes inhumane, ineffective sweeps a major part of her re-election campaign – august 2, 2024
Mayor makes inhumane, ineffective sweeps a major part of her re-election campaign – 48 hills
F. Hezbollah chief says Israel pushed resistance to open battle ‘on all fronts’ – August 1, 2024
Hezbollah chief says Israel pushed resistance to open battle ‘on all fronts’ (thecradle.co)
G. Mayor issues homeless order: Bus tickets before anything as shelters near full – August 1, 2024
https://sfstandard.com/2024/08/01/mayor-san-francisco-homeless-bus-tickets-order/
H. Laguna Honda Hospital restarts admissions of new, former residents – August 1. 2024
https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/laguna-honda-cleared-restart-admissions-new-19613337.php
I. Bird Flu — Another Attempt to Control the Food System and Make a Profit – July 2024
Bird Flu — Another Attempt to Control the Food System and Make a Profit – Organic Consumers
J. Kamala Harris Is and Can Only Be an Enabler of Israel’s Genocide Against the Palestinian People – July 29, 2024
2 PETITIONS
1. Not Another Bomb! Kamala Harris, Pledge to Enact an Arms Embargo
SIGN: Not Another Bomb! Kamala Harris, Pledge to Enact an Arms Embargo (actionnetwork.org)
2. Demand Congress Force the Federal Reserve to Take Action on Dodd-Frank Section 956 Now
EVENTS / ACTIONS
Tuesday, August 6 & Wednesday, August 7
Tuesday, August 6
79th Anniversary of U.S. Bombing of Hiroshima
1. Tuesday, 8:30am – 10:30am, No Nukes! 79th Anniversary of US Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki – Livermore Lab
Livermore Lab–West Gate
From I-580 E, take the S. Vasco Rd. exit.
Stay on S. Vasco for 1.4 miles to West Gate Dr.
Park on side streets.
Or join via livestream
Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85817599403?pwd=G9jJdUURz4PrINbvuAISGv5wFZWono.1#success
FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/trivalleycares/
This year’s Livermore action is part of the national Back From the Brink Campaign, bringing communities together to prevent the growing threat that nuclear weapons pose to our health, environment and all we hold dear.
SPEAKERS:
Norman Solomon
Journalist, author and
media critic
Patricia Ellsberg
Social activist
Hideaki Ito
Director, “Silent Fallout”
Rev. Monica Cross
Quad-Chair, CA Poor
People’s Campaign
Maylene Hughes
Back from the Brink
Campaign
Scott Yundt
Tri-Valley CAREs
MCs
Patricia St. Onge and
Wilson Riles
After the rally there will be a traditional Japanese Bon Dance, inviting ancestors to join, followed by a nonviolent witness and direct action for those who so choose.
Info: No Nukes! 79th Anniversary of US Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki – Livermore Lab : Indybay
2. Tuesday, 3:00pm, On Anniversary of Hiroshima-Never Again! STOP Drive for Nuclear Weapons in Japan & Asia
In person
Japanese Consulate – San Francisco
275 Battery St. (nr. California)
SF
On The Anniversary Of Hiroshima-Never Again!
STOP The Drive For Nuclear Weapons In Japan & Asia-Action
End Militarization Of Asia & Shut Down All US Bases In Japan, Okinawa, South Korea & Philippines
Stop All Nuke Plants In Japan
Free the Unjustly Jailed Hiroshima Five Immediately
The Japanese government like the US government is driving towards militarization of Asia and moving toward a war with China. The US with the support of the Kishida LDP party is flagrantly violating Article 9 of the Japanese constitution that outlawed offensive military operations.
The government is also engaging in military operations around the world with the US and other NATO countries. This has nothing to do with protecting Japan but is part and parcel of the global war drive by war profiteers and governments that are controlled by the military industrial complex. They also are expanding nuclear weapons and more NUKE plants around the world.
This militarization of Asia is a major drive towards world war and the US already has a war in Ukraine and is supporting the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
The war profiteering by the military industrial complex and the trillions spent for war comes out of the health and safety of the US people.
The Japanese government is also stepping up repression in Japan against anti-nuclear and anti-war activists. On February 28 the Japanese police organized a national raid against the August 6 Hiroshima Grand Action Organizing Committee. Five members of this committee were arrested and charged with violating the Act on Punishment for Physical Violence and Others of 1926.
The fact is that there was no violence except that the organizers protected their rally from far right groups like Nippon Kaigi which is supports Constitutional revision and nuclear rearmament.
The Japanese government, like the US government, is using more and more overt repression against peaceful student encampments for Palestine and attacks on unions such as UAW 4811 at UC.
The continued restarting of nuclear power plants and the militarization of Okinawa with the construction of more US military bases further threatens the people of Japan and the world. The Japanese government and TEPCO have still, after 12 years, been unable to remove the melted nuclear rods at Fukushima and the people of Okinawa are opposed to all US and Japanese bases on the Island which makes them a target in a new war.
Host: No Nukes Action
For more info see: On Anniversary of Hiroshima-Never Again! STOP Drive for Nuclear Weapons in Japan & Asia : Indybay
3. Tuesday, 3:00pm – 4:30pm (PT); 6:00pm – 7:30 (ET), Overcoming Death by Incarceration: The Path to Freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal
Online registration: Overcoming Death by Incarceration: The Path to Freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal (everyaction.com)
Presented by the Abolitionist Law Center (ALC) this webinar will present important information on the path to freedom for one of our longest serving political prisoners. The panel includes Saleem Holbrook, ALC Exec. Director; Bret Grote, ALC Legal Director; Ghani Kempis Songster, former Juvenile Lifer and organizer; Journalist & Professor Linn Washington, Jr., and Dr. Jennifer Black co-editor with Mumia Abu-Jamal of the recently released Beneath the Mountain (City Lights 2024). Plus a special message from Mumia Abu-Jamal.
The webinar link will be emailed to registered participants.
4. Tuesday, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, 5th ANNIV of Brandon’s Survival & ILPS Norcal Solidarity Night
518 Valencia St.
SF
RSVP: bit.ly/NorCalSolNight24
Due to the current spike of COVID-19 cases in the Bay Area, this is a masked event. Rapid testing 24 hours beforehand is highly encouraged. Please do not attend if you are experiencing symptoms the night before. Thanks for your consideration.
This August 6th International League of Peoples Struggle (ILPS) Northern California will host a night of solidarity, stories, poems, art, music & food. As we continue our collective fight, let us highlight our people-oriented culture of struggle for dignity, rights, and total liberation. Member organizers with ILPS will be sharing back stories and struggles from the 7th International Assembly of ILPS in Malaysia, and there will be cultural performances throughout the night showcasing the strength and creativity of our movements.
August 6th is a significant date as it marks the 5th year anniversary of the assassination attempt on Brandon Lee’s life. 5 years later Brandon continues to be a voice for internationalist solidarity and defense of indigenous lands. Join us for our solidarity night to celebrate our defenders and people’s anti-imperialist struggles throughout the globe.
Host SFCHRP
Wednesday, August 7
5. Wednesday, 3:00pm (PT); 6:00pm (ET), Not Another Bomb – Digital Day of Action
Online registration: Webinar Registration – Zoom
Register to join our weekly #NotAnotherBomb Digital Action Session
6. Wednesday, 6:00pm, Restore Habeas Corpus Rights to Guantanamo Captives
In person
Harry Bridges Plaza (Traffic Island)
Outside SF Ferry Building
SF
Join World Can’t Wait and Amnesty International to deliver this message:
It takes a lot of work by the state, over time, to corrode perceptions of “right” and “wrong.” For example, our government has done its best to hide the torture practiced at Guantanamo. Ten years after investigative reporter Jason Leopold filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request concerning the ‘forced feeding’ of desperate hunger strikers making a ‘last ditch’ effort to free themselves from indefinite detention, he received copy of a letter sent to Senator Dianne Feinstein by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter in defense of the practice.
Exposure and protest of prisoner abuse over two decades has failed to force closure of America’s Gulag. Today’s survivors truly can’t wait for remedy—if that is even possible at this point—of extra-judicial incarceration. We refuse to accept further excuses for delay. President George W. Bush declared his wish to shut the prison he had opened. Both Obama and the current president promised to do the same. The tail end of Biden’s administration may well be the last chance for Guantanamo closure; Trump had planned to enlarge the facility for more ‘bad guys’; Kamala Harris has been mum on the issue. But Biden still has a chance to follow his word. In the face of Israeli torture of Palestinians in a manner resembling the notorious US prison, I think it’s the least he can do.
