By Adrienne Fong
Not back posting on a regular basis.
RESOURCES:
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There are 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
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
Bay Area Progressive Action Calendar: ATW Bay Area / NorCal — Action Together West
ARTICLES
A. ‘Living Hell’ – New B’tselem Report of Israel’s ‘Network of Torture Camps’
https://www.btselem.org/publications/202601_living_hell
B. “Catch of the Day”: Latest ICE Operation in Maine Targets Somali Community – January 22, 2026
“Catch of the Day”: Latest ICE Operation in Maine Targets Somali Community | Democracy Now!
C. Electronic Intifada: Board of Genocide (youtube) – January 22, 2026
Breaking news and analysis on day 839 of the Gaza genocide | The Electronic Intifada
D. Netanyahu to join Trump ‘board of peace’ despite previous objections – January 21, 2026
Netanyahu to join Trump ‘board of peace’ despite previous objections | Israel | The Guardian
E. ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials – January 21, 2026
F. Demonstrators Mark the Oakland Federal Building as a Site of ICE Operations – January 20, 2026
Demonstrators Mark the Oakland Federal Building as a Site of ICE Operations : Indybay
G. A War Without Headlines: Israel’s Shock-and-Awe Campaign in the West Bank – January 16, 2026
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/israel-shock-and-awe-west-bank
H. Japan’s Remilitarization Is A Danger To The World – January 9, 2026
Japan’s Remilitarization Is A Danger To The World – PopularResistance.Org
4 PETITIONS
1. Tell the House and Senate to block Trump’s war on Venezuela
SIGN: Tell the House and Senate to block Trump’s war on Venezuela | Demand Progress
The vote is TODAY!
2. Tell Apple & Google CEO’s: End your contracts with ICE NOW.
SIGN: Arsenal PAC
3. Tell Hilton: ICE out of our communities
SIGN: Tell Hilton: ICE out of our communities
4. Tell Target: ICE OUT NOW
SIGN: Tell Target: ICE OUT NOW – Action Network
See Events #’s 3, 4, 5 & 6
PETITION for January execution:
January 28, 2026 at 6:00 CT:
Charles Thompson in Texas
ACTIONS / EVENTS
Friday, January 23 & Saturday, January 24
Friday, January 23
No Work, No School, No Shopping
In Solidarity with the people in Minnesota
1. Friday, 10:15am, Pack the Court for the GG26
Hall of Justice
850 Bryant St.
SF
10:15am – Rally
11:00am – Court. Dept. 24
Come out and support the GG26 in their fight to reduce their charges from felonies to misdemeanors
The Golden Gate Bridge 26 stood up for justice, for Palestine, for liberation, and paid the price for it. They are still being targeted for exercising their right to protest and for standing against genocide and state funded violence. A number of the GG26 are still facing felony charges.
We won’t let them stand alone. A packed courtroom sends a clear message: the community is watching, and we will not be intimidated.
Show up.
Defend the right to protest.
Free Palestine
no more repression
(afterwards show up for Stanford 11)
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/DTwaBFSlJrE/?img_index=1
2. Friday, 10:30am-12Noon, Demo at Israeli Consulate
456 Montgomery St.
SF
‼Bring drums, noisemakers, banners and flags to make a proper ruckus. ‼️
FREE PALESTINE
Host: Noise Against Genocide
Info: Demo at israeli consulate : Indybay
3. Friday, 3:00pm – 5:00pm, Solidarity with General Strike Minneapolis, Rally in Palo Alto
855 Embarcadero
corner of El Camino Real and Embarcadero
Palo Alto 94303
(Town and Country Village shopping district)
For disability access contact the Grannies at info [at] raginggrannies.com
This Friday we protest with singing, chanting and sign waving to call attention to the fact that ICE is our communities. We’ve got signs but bring your own if you can.
Our brothers and sisters in Minneapolis are getting savaged right now by domestic terrorists who instead of doing 10 to 20 in a federal prison have been given masks and badges and guns and carte blanche to wreak murderous, violent havoc in that fair city.
In response, unions and activists and community groups are calling for a general strike in Minneapolis on Friday Jan 23rd.
Organized by The Wolves and the Raging Grannies.
Info: Solidarity with General Strike Minneapolis, Rally in Palo Alto : Indybay
4. Friday, 4:00pm – 5:00pm, Gays to ‘crush ICE’ on January 23: Solidarity with Minneapolis
Castro Memorial Corner,
501 Castro Street at 18th St
SF
Rally supporting the general strike in Minneapolis
Members of the newly-formed Gays Against Gestapo (GAG), will hold an action to crush ice cubes in strong solidarity with the city of Minneapolis, and also memorialize Renee Good who was murdered by an ICE agent and to demand his immediate arrest and prosecution. The action takes place in the heart of the LGBTQ Castro district.
Posters of Renee Good will be taped to the railing at the corner, in honor of her life and legacy, and to demand justice over her murder. A multitude of ice cubes are to be crushed with a mallet and hammer, symbolizing the key demand: Abolish ICE. Join us!
Info: Gays to ‘crush ICE’ on January 23: Solidarity with Minneapolis : Indybay
5. Friday, 4:00pm, ICE Out for Good! Solidarity with Minneapolis
Meet at:
Target
4th St. & Mission
SF
Solidarity with Minnesota – to march on ICE profiteers.
What’s happening in Minnesota will shape all of our futures. On January 23rd, Minnesota is calling for a statewide shutdown. No school, no work, no shopping. ICE OUT. In the Bay Area, we’re coming together in solidarity with Minnesota to march on ICE profiteers on Friday, 1/23 at 4pm outside the Target on 4th & Mission. If we push the corporate pillars whose silence or collaboration is enabling the occupation of Minnesota, we can end ICE terror and topple corporate support for the MAGA regime.
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/DTxshxLDZXr/
6. Friday, 4:00pm – 8:00pm, Oakland: ICE Out of Everywhere / Rally & March
Meet at
Fruitvale BART
3401 East 12th St.
Oakland
The Bay Area working class stands with Minneapolis against Trump’s fascist ICE goons. Join East Bay DSA, Bay Area Labor for Palestine, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Palestinian Youth Movement, and others as we march and rally in Oakland to honor the historic Minneapolis general strike (Day of Truth and Freedom) called by Minnesota unions and the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation.
The working class and socialists stand for life. ICE and the fascists stand for death. Democratic politicians are still weighing the pros and cons. In the same city that rose up against racist cops after the killing of George Floyd six years ago, fascists are being deployed to murder, kidnap, and brutalize migrants and people of color.
We know we face the same enemies here in the Bay Area – from racist cops to ICE agents and the billionaires who want to deploy them both against everyday people. It’s up to US to stand up and fight back – sick out, walk out, and stand in solidarity with our siblings in Minnesota – honor their call and join us to rally and march
Host: Solidarity in the Bay Area
Info: Oakland: ICE Out of Everywhere : Indybay
CANCELLED:
7. Friday, 4:00pm, ICE Out Of MN-Support MN Gen Strike! Shut ICE Down NOW! SF Support Rally CANCELLED
California State Building
350 McAllister St.
SF
The fascist military occupation of Minneapolis and Minnesota is being opposed by unions and labor with a general strike on Jan 23. This occupation is aimed at crushing the working class and people of Minnesota and then expanding to other cities. Trump is preparing for martial law to stop any further elections using the Insurrection Act. The Democrats and Courts will not stop this fascist and his billionaire techno fascist cronies who are running the government.
Unions in NYC and other cities are calling for rallies on the same day and we need rallies and a general strike nationally.
In California, Governor Gavin Newsom is backing up ICE and says that it should not be abolished despite the murder of Renee Good and the terrorism of these goons. The murderous methods of this gestapo operation is also being expanded with the $170 billion passed in his budget
.We also need to demand the withdrawal of all US troops and military abroad. These imperialist wars are financed by both the Democrats and Republicans who passed a trillion dollar budget and now Trump is preparing for more wars abroad by expanding the military budget to $1.5 trillion.
WE need to unite our struggles and the way to shut down the fascist government is a mass national strike action closing the entire country.
Host: United Committee For A Labor Party
Info: ICE Out Of MN-Support MN Gen Strike! Shut ICE Down NOW! Join SF Support Rally : Indybay
Saturday, January 24
8. Saturday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, Unite to Fight the Right! Protest the ‘Walk for Life’ West Coast
Front steps
main SF library
Polk/Larkin.
SF
What we call for:
• Guarantee access to free contraception & safe, legal abortion on demand without apology
• Repeal the Hyde Amendment
• Overturn state barriers to reproductive choices
• Stop forced sterilization
• No to caged kids, forced assimilation, & child welfare abuses
• End medical & environmental racism; for universal healthcare
• Defend queer & trans families; guarantee gender-affirming care
• End gender stereotypes and discrimination based on age
• Ensure medically sound sex education & affordable childcare
• Sexual self-determination for people with disabilities
• Living wages for all, particularly family, domestic & institutional caregivers
• Uphold social progress with expanded voting rights & strong unions
Host: Mobilization for Repro Justice-SF
Info: Unite to Fight the Right! Protest the ‘Walk for Life’ West Coast : Indybay
9. Saturday, 1:00pm-2:00pm, Houseless People Create a Real Solution to Homelessness in San Francisco
3990 Cesar Chavez
(nr. 26th & 27th Sts.)
SF
With prayer and permission from First Nations land protectors, indigenous, houseless, and formerly houseless families and elders reclaim a tiny triangle of Mama Earth in occupied Yelamu (San Francisco) to build a healing solution to homelessness.
What: Prayer Ceremony & Press Conference announcing HOMEfulness in Yelamu
“We are dying just trying to be housed,” said Walter, a houseless RoofLESS Radio reporter for POOR Magazine and longtime San Francisco resident.
As one of the coldest winters in the Bay Area and across the U.S. bears down, homelessness among families and elders continues to rise. Meanwhile, the primary “solution” offered by local, state, and federal governments remains the same: the erasure of houseless bodies from public space through violent police-led “sweeps”—a chilling, hygienic metaphor used to justify the physical removal of human beings from the environment.
After years of surviving poverty and homelessness, tiny and her mother Dee, a disabled artist, began articulating the vision of Homefulness. That vision’s first iteration emerged in 1996 with the launch of POOR Magazine, an intentionally glossy literary magazine co-created by houseless artists, poets, and journalists working out of community centers, shelter beds, and jail cells.
There is now a small triangle-shaped lot in Yelamu that POOR Magazine can begin the process of spiritually and legally unSelling and building Homefulness—which will include the Homefulness healing center, educational space, sliding scale cafe/free market, and housing for over 30 houseless residents.
Because POOR Magazine understands that Mama Earth is not a commodity, they worked with revolutionary legal advocates at the Sustainable Economies Law Center to establish the first-ever Liberation Easement, permanently removing Homefulness land from speculation and profit. A similar Liberation Easement is now being shaped in partnership with Ramaytush Ohlone leaders in so-called San Francisco.
View site for more info
Since the 2024 Supreme Court ruling in Grants Pass v. Johnson, houseless people have lost constitutional protections, leading cities across California to dramatically increase sweeps—each one more dangerous and deadly than the last.
HOMEfulness is an answer to the immediate emergency of homelessness. But it is also healing medicine—not only for houseless elders, families, and disabled people, but for all of us, housed and unhoused, who are in need of hope, repair, and home.
Host: POOR Magazine
Info: Houseless People Create a Real Solution to Homelessness in San Francisco : Indybay
10. Saturday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, Trump Regime Takedown (every Saturday)
Van Ness & O;Farrell (corner)
SF
We do not consent to Trump and his billionaire allies taking a chainsaw to our government and our economy for their benefit! San Francisco is a sanctuary city and We the People need to defend the values that make it so. Let’s stand united and oppose the endless assaults on our communities, our civil rights, the rule of law, and our democracy.
Keep democracy alive every Saturday by showing up, taking a stand, and sticking together for the long haul. Standing together is better than standing alone. Let’s get together and call out the Trump/MAGA regime as a community. Plus, it’s fun! Think of it as our democracy corner—a place for you to voice your opinion, hang out with like-minded fellow protesters, and experience a cathartic moment together.
What you can do:
• If you’ve got signs, flags, cardboard cutouts, or any protest visuals you want to make, bring ’em! We also have spare signs to lend.
• If you have whistles, drums, cowbells, or other noisemakers, bring ’em!
• Musicians are welcome and encouraged. Sing the song of democracy!
• Many of our regular protesters are part of local activist groups who are happy to chat with anyone who wants to pair their indignation with direct action beyond street protest.
Host: Indivisible
Info: Trump Regime Takedown (every Saturday) : Indybay
11. 80th WWII Anniversary: Remember “Comfort Women” (Exhibit ends February 1)
SF Main Library
100 Larkin St.
SF
International Center Exhibit Space – 3rd Fl
On the 80th Anniversary of the end of WWII, we honor the history and legacy of the “comfort women,” the hundreds of thousands of women and girls who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese Imperial Army during the Pacific War. The survivors are also called the “grandmas.” Although most of them perished, those who did survive became spokespeople for women’s rights and were instrumental in changing International Law, making sexual slavery and sexual violence during war a crime against humanity and a war crime. This exhibition, with photos and original artwork by the survivors, highlights the “grandmas” history, activism and their ongoing struggle for redress and justice.
