By Adrienne Fong
Am not back posting on a regular basis.
RESOURCES:
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
There are many events listed on Indybay that might be of interest to you (many listings in the South, North & East Bays and beyond the bay area)
Please post your actions on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12
Bay Area Progressive Action Calendar
https://www.actiontogetherbayarea.org/calendar
Many groups are now posting on INSTAGRAM
ARTICLES
A. I Am Not Afraid of You,’ Freed Mohsen Mahdawi Tells Donald Trump – April 30, 2025
https://www.commondreams.org/news/mohsen-mahdawi-columbia
B. From Gaza to Vietnam, what is the value of a photo? – April 30, 2025
From Gaza to Vietnam, what is the value of a photo? | Opinions | Al Jazeera
C. Medicare for All returns to Congress as GOP pushes Medicaid cuts and corporate tax breaks – April 30, 2025
D. UN Experts: Trump Admin’s Deportations to El Salvador Violate International Law – April 30, 2025
E. Pentagon Swears Secrecy on Yemen War After Senators Press Admin on Civilian Harm – April 29, 2025
F. Palestinian Envoy to ICJ: Israel Using Starvation as ‘Weapon of War’ in ‘Genocidal Campaign’ – April 28, 2025
G. The FBI arrested a judge in an immigration dispute. California officials are livid — and watching closely – April 25, 2025
Trump’s FBI arrested a Wisconsin judge. Could it happen in California?
See Petiton # 3
University of San Francisco protest on April 29, 2025 for Palestine on Instagram
1. STUDENTS RECLAIM THE LIBRARY ATRIUM IN PROTEST OF USF’S COMPLICITY IN GAZA’S GENOCIDE. ADMIN HAS ALREADY TRIED TO BREAK IN.
Marking 1 year since the encampment, USF students answered Hossam Shabat’s call from Gaza. We will honor all our martyrs. We will not stop. We will not rest. Repression only makes us stronger.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJCTJFqJB1O/
2. STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO (USF) OUTSIDE PRESIDENT’S OFFICE TO DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR COMPLICITY IN GENOCIDE!
https://www.instagram.com/bayareapym/reel/DJC7lrEoDm2/
3. USF CALLS COPS
USF admin not only called the cops on their own students, but are clearly unaware of the law and LIED about it to trick students into getting punished for protesting the genocide on Gaza: they said we needed to identify ourselves legally, arrest or no arrest.
HOSSAM CALLS, USF ANSWERS. UNTIL DIVESTMENT, VICTORY, AND RETURN… In honor of our martyr, Hossam Shabat, the soul of our soul.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DJD0CuFOvLo/?hl=en
4. VICTORY! The University of San Francisco commits to divesting from four companies involved in the genocide of the Palestinian people.
On April 29th, 2025, students of courage and consciousness reclaimed the Gleeson Library atrium, renaming it the Hossam Shabat Atrium after the martyred journalist from Gaza. For 19 months, the Palestinian people have been facing an accelerated genocide at the hands of the Zionist occupation, fully armed and funded by the United States government and its offshoots, including institutions of higher education. As a community committed to the end of the genocide and a fully liberated Palestine, we made a clear demand of our university: divest from genocide.
It is our responsibility, as dissenters in the heart of the empire, to keep Gaza centered in every step we take. When Gaza called, we answered, and we encourage our comrades in the student movement to continue pushing, agitating, educating, and escalating against Zionism in all of its manifestations. The depravity of the occupation knows no limit, and Gaza has officially been declared without food by the United Nations.
The moment we are in seems dire, but our resolve remains unwavering, as the steadfastness of Gaza pushes us through any hardship, repression, and attempts at subjugation: Gaza is our moral compass. As a result of our direct confrontation with the university as a tool of state power, and with unwavering persistence at task-force meetings, the University of San Francisco has committed to divesting from GE Aerospace, RTX Corporation, Palantir, and L3Harris.
No matter what we face, we will never abandon Palestinian liberation.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DJEzCEDpK7O/
8 PETITIONS:
1. Sen. Bill Cassidy and Sen. Bernie Sanders: Oppose the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act!
SIGN: Sen. Bill Cassidy and Sen. Bernie Sanders: Oppose the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act!
opposes S. 558, the Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2025 (AAA)
2. Stop the $5.58 Billion Dollar Arms Sale to the Philippines
SIGN: Stop the $5.58 Billion Dollar Arms Sale to the Philippines! – Action Network
3. Add Your Name: Condemn Trump’s arrest of Judge Dugan
SIGN: Add Your Name: Condemn Trump’s arrest of Judge Dugan
4. Don’t let the GOP hand Trump more power — oppose the No Rogue Rulings Act!
Sign: Don’t let the GOP hand Trump more power — oppose the No Rogue Rulings Act! | Demand Progress
5, Defend Social Security against DOGE, Musk, and Trump
SIGN: Take Action
6. Tell the Smithsonian: Stand strong against the Trump administration’s attempts to erase U.S. history
SIGN: Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund
7. Tell Wells Fargo: We Won’t Let You Backslide Into Climate Chaos and Corporate Authoritarianism
8. This bill can block billionaire insiders from pocketing public funds.
SIGN: This bill can block billionaire insiders from pocketing public funds. | Win Without War
Petitions for Executions in May (Click on name to sign)
May 1, 2025 at 6:00 pm ET:
Jeffrey Hutchinson in Florida
May 15, 2025 at 6:00 pm ET
Glen Rogers in Florida
May 20, 2025 at 12:00 am ET
Benjamin Ritchie in Indiana
May 20, 2025 at 6:00 pm CT:
Matthew Johnson in Texas
May 22, 2025 at 6:00 pm CT:
Oscar Smith in Tennessee
EVENTS / ACTIONS
May 1 – May 5
May 1, 2025
International Workers’ Day
NOTE: There are many actions for May Day around the Bay Area (See IndyBay
1. Thursday, 10:00am – 2:00pm, Join UC Workers on the Strike Line – Host: May Day Strong
UCSF Mission Bay Hospital
1855 4th St.
SF
Honor International Workers’ Day, Join UC Workers on the Strike Line May 1st Workers are the backbone of our families, communities, and the FUTURE. For the past four years, UC has failed to address its staffing crisis. UC’s recent announcement of a hiring freeze is yet another attack and insult to frontline workers. Worse, UC has failed to give fair pension benefits to workers from the newly acquired hospitals outside of UCSF. That’s why our union filed unfair labor practice (ULP) charges against UC.
UC holds billions in unrestricted reserves, has invested billions more in recent years to acquire new facilities, has increased its ranks of high paid executives by 42%, and has granted these same elites hundreds of millions of dollars in obscene raises and housing assistance they don’t need—all while refusing to make any meaningful investment in us. Frontline UC workers deserve better! Join us to support UC workers!
Info: Honor International Workers’ Day, Join UC Workers on the Strike Line May 1st · Mobilize
2. Thursday, 11:00am, Demand UC Invest in Workers and Divest From Lockeed Martin
Sproul Steps
UC Berkeley
May Day is International Workers’ Day‼️ As the UC system continues to neglect its workers, the Divestment Coalition demands the UC to divest $72.5 Million from Lockheed Martin and invest in its workers instead. Lockheed Martin is one of America’s largest weapons contractors manufacturing the Typhon Missile and THAAD weapons systems directly endangering and stoking war upon the people of the Philippines, Korea, Palestine, and many other countries all for profit! Our people are viewed as disposable. Our migrant workers here on campus are forced to leave from war torn living conditions. As the UC refuses to pay its workers livable wages, the UC chooses to instead invest in Lockheed Martin.
US Out Of Palestine, Korea, Philippines, and Everywhere
Host coalition: LFS, Gabriela, K4D, SOL, SJP, and YDSA!
Info: League of Filipino Students @ UC Berkeley | Mobilize This Thursday on May Day (5/1) @11am at Sproul Steps to DEMAND the UC invest in its workers and Divest from Lockheed Martin!… | Instagram
3. Thursday, 12Noon – 1:00pm, Black May Day & Solidarity With All Workers at SF General Hospital
In front of SF General Hospital at rally at Porero St entrance, SF
Black workers, community members and striking UC AFSCME and UPTE CWA workers will be rallying against the systemic discrimination against Black workers and the privatization and attack on union and all working people. There will also be speakers against the US funding the genocide in Gaza by Israel and the attack on healthcare workers who speak out for Palestine and against the genocide
1. Build True Independent Oversight – Not just another office
2. Make Inequities Public
– No more hidden data
3. Demand Real Consequences for Disparities
Info: Black May Day & Solidarity With All Workers at SF General Hospital : Indybay
4. Thursday, 1:00pm – 3:00pm, Workers Fight Back Against Trump’s Agenda
Meet at: San Francisco Tesla Dealership
999 Van Ness Ave. (@ O’Farrell)
San Francisco
Public transporation: MUNI # 49 & 38
Meet at: San Francisco Tesla Dealership
999 Van Ness Ave. (at O’Farrell St.)
San Francisco
March to: San Francisco Federal Building
90-7th Street
San Francisco
We are all workers! As workers in this nation, we need to make it clear that we refuse to be divided on the basis of identity “struggles.”
No matter what color, nationality, religion, gender or immigrant status, we are in this struggle against the parasite class.
We need to be a United Front Against Facism!
All are welcomed.
Info: Workers Fight Back Against Trump’s Agenda : Indybay
5. Thursday, 3:00pm – 7:00pm, Oakland: Sin Fronteras May Day March for Labor & Immigrants
Meet at Fruitvale Plaza
3401 East !2th St.
Oakland
March to San Antonio Park
International Workers’ Day March & Resource Fair
While the United States is one of the few countries that doesn’t recognize May 1st as International Workers’ Day, each year our communities join millions of others across the world in uplifting working peoples’ struggles against the oppression and exploitation of peoples, lands, and nations. This year, we will continue that tradition and echo calls for the end to the violence of racism, imperialism, and capitalism. We also mark May 1st as a celebration of working people globally and their enduring struggles for justice, democracy, right relation to land, self-determination, and liberation.
This May Day we will gather in Oakland on Indigenous Ohlone land to show our support for working class struggles here at home, and beyond. We will march with particular urgency in solidarity with the Palestinian people and heed the call from the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions to stand with Gaza on May Day. We will join workers and peoples across the country and the world calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire to Israel’s war against Gaza, and for an immediate end to our government’s complicity in genocide.
Why a Resource Fair
From the increasing criminalization of houselessness, to city workers facing mass layoffs, to shameful inequalities in the cost of living, to disappearing funding for resource centers and social services vital to working people– profit-before-people policies and priorities have brought our beautiful city to a tipping point. Following our May 1st March, we will hold a resource fair by and for Oakland’s working communities.
Host: Sin Fronteras Oakland coalition
Info: Oakland: Sin Fronteras May Day March for Labor & Immigrants : Indybay
6. Thursday, 4:00pm, San Francisco: May Day March & Rally for Immigrant & Workers Rights
Meet at:
SF Civic Center Plaza
Larkin Street between McCallister St. and Grove St.
San Francisco,
May 1st, or May Day, is International Labor Day – the day commemorates a long history of workers’ resistance and building labor power. This year, we continue to fight back!
By launching severe attacks on every aspect of working class life, with attacks on immigrant workers being at the forefront of the agenda, Trump, the right wing, and billionaires believe they can silence and intimidate us.
But we know that workers united and organized can win! Join a broad coalition of labor unions, immigrant rights groups and other community organizations in the streets this May Day to say NO to the attacks on labor, immigrants, students, and the global working class.
Host: Mission Action SF & many more
Info: San Francisco: May Day March & Rally for Immigrant & Workers Rights (Civic Center) : Indybay
Friday, May 2
7. Friday, 12Noon – 1:00pm, Federal Building Fridays – Save Our Public Services!
San Francisco Pelosi Federal Building
90 7th St.
SF
The Trump-Musk regime is laying off tens of thousands of federal workers, cutting vital services, and handing the levers of power to billionaires and MAGA extremists. This isn’t about “efficiency”—it’s about erasing democratic institutions and replacing them with unchecked oligarchic rule.
That’s why we’re joining a nationwide wave of Federal Building Fridays, standing shoulder to shoulder with the federal workforce and every community targeted by this authoritarian agenda.
Why We Protest
Federal workers are being illegally fired and silenced.
Public agencies are being dismantled and handed to private profiteers.
Veterans, disabled Americans, low-income families, and students are losing essential support.
Musk’s DOGE agency is a wrecking ball dressed in tech jargon, backed by power-hungry elites who want to rule like kings.
Why We Fight
Because democracy only survives when people defend it.
Because public service matters.
Because our voices are louder when we rise together:
Bring your voice, your signs, and your solidarity.
No more purges. No more billionaire takeovers. No kings—then, now, or ever.
#FederalBuildingFridays
#HandsOff
#StopProject2025
#HandsOffOurDemocracy
#HandsOffSocialSecurity
#HandsOffOurPublicLands
#HandsOffOurUnions
#HandsOffOurMedicare
#HandsOffFederalWorkers
#HandsOffVeteransServices
#HandsOffImmigrants
#HandsOffReproductiveRights
#HandsOffUSMail
#HandsOffEducationDept
#HandsOffOurConstitution
Host: We Support Federal Workers SF
Info: Federal Building Fridays – Save Our Public Services! : Indybay
Saturday, May 3
8. Saturday, 11:00am – 12Noon, On World Press Freedom Day May 3, 2025, Stop The Genocide Against Palestinian Journalists
Harry Bridges Plaza
Across for Ferry Building
SF
Stand Up To Protest The Genocide Against Palestinian Journalists, Their Families and the Defense of All Journalists Around the World & In The US
Free The Journalists NOW!
May 3, 2025 is recognized as World Press Freedom Day. It comes as the horrific targeting, arrests, torture and murder of Palestinian journalists by Israel with the support of the United States continues unabated.
Over 180 journalists have been murdered in Gaza and the West Bank and the arrests and murders continue.
Many journalists have also been arrested and jailed by the Israeli government such as Nablus journalist Samer Khuwaira.
The growing fascist movements around the world have also been a deadly threat to journalists globally and the attack on US journalists who have been labeled scum by President Trump.
We must stand together to remember the Palestinian journalists and their families who have lost their lives because these journalists were prepared to give up their lives to break the information blockade by the Israeli government and the corporate media who have helped do damage control for these crimes.
We urge all journalists and their unions to join this fight for journalists and the right to report without fear of imprisonment and death.
Sponsored by WorkWeek, UPTE Members For Palestine, United Front Committee For A Labor Party, Pacific Fight Back
Info: On World Press Freedom Day May 3, 2025, Stop The Genocide Against Palestinian Journalists : Indybay
Sunday, May 4
9. Sunday, 1:00pm – 3:00pm, Boycott Chevron!
Temescal Chevron
5500 Telegraph Avenue
Telegraph & 55th,
Oakland
Join a monthly demonstration at the Chevron in Temescal
Signs and chants will be provided. Bring your energy!
Israel’s genocide machine couldn’t run without power from Chevron. Israel’s war on Gaza and Occupation of Palestine contributes to the climate catastrophe. Chevron supplies light and energy via it’s operation and co-ownership of two major Israeli-claimed fossil gas fields in the Mediterranean.
Chevron’s extraction activities are funneling millions of dollars in tax revenues to Israeli government coffers, directly fueling Israel’s system of settler colonialism and violence against all Palestinians. In 2022, those revenues amounted to over $462 million.
BDS is a global nonviolent Palestinian led movement, we demand that Chevron immediately cut its contracts with genocidal Israel, and end its role in climate
devastation globally.
Following in the tradition of the anti-apartheid gas station boycotts of the 60s & 70s, Palestinians and allies are building a global movement to hold Chevron accountable for its crimes through a coordinated boycott of Chevron gas stations and products around the world.
Join the campaign: Pledge to #BoycottChevron now at bit.ly/boycottchevron.
Info: Boycott Chevron! : Indybay
Monday, May 5
10. Monday, 12noon – 1:00pm, Takedown Musk! Stop the Attack on Federal Workers!
SF Tesla Showroom
999 Van Ness, Avenue
SF
Or
11:30am , Meet at SF Federal building
90 7th St.
And march up to Tesla by noon.
Join us protesting at the Tesla dealership 12 noon every Monday in Support of Federal Workers!
Host: We Support Federal Workers SF
Info: Takedown Musk! Stop the Attack on Federal Workers! : Indybay
11. Monday, 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PT); 7:00pm-9:00pm(ET), Palestine: the Moral Issue of Our Time with Gabor Maté and Chris Hedges
Livestream Tickets: Palestine: the Moral Issue of Our Time with Gabor Maté and Chris Hedges Tickets, Mon, May 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite
Join MECA at the New York Society for Ethical Culture’s Adler Hall at 7pm on May 5, 2025 for a thought provoking conversation between Chris Hedges and Gabor Maté.
We’ll also be welcoming the talented Mona Miari for a special musical performance.
Host Middle East Children’s Alliance
