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Calling all Bay Area journalists: May 11 marks 2 years since the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh. Had Israel faced accountability for her killing, maybe some 140 Palestinian journalists wouldn’t have been killed. Come gather and mourn at this family friendly vigil. Wear black. pic.twitter.com/R0ToMmaqdj
— Isabeau Doucet (@IsabeauD_) April 30, 2024
@google workers will lead URGENT #NoTechForGen0c1de rallies in NYC, Seattle, Sunnyvale to demand Google stop profiting from the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
This morning @TIME Magazine -confirmed that Google lied to its own workers, consumers & the public for years, is in fact providing direct cloud computing services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense & the Israeli Occupation Forces, and has ACTIVELY DEEPENED its partnership with Israeli military during the genocide in Gaza, signing a new $1M agreement as recently as 3 weeks ago: https://time.com/6966102/google-contract-israel-defense-ministry-gaza-war/
JOIN US TO STAND WITH PRINCIPLED GOOGLE WORKERS‼️✊🏽🍉
In January 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the appeal of Johnson v. Grants Pass, a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that barred municipalities across the western United States from punishing their unhoused residents for sleeping outside, even when there are no available shelter options. With its hard-right conservative majority, SCOTUS will likely overturn Grants Pass, creating a devastating ripple effect for homeless people across the country. Democratic leaders across local and state governments have submitted amicus briefs, or “Friends of the Court” briefs, in support of the overturning of Grants Pass– a deliberate attempt to use the hyper conservative court to enact violence on their poorest constituents.
On April 22nd, 2024, cities across the country will mobilize to show their support for the rights of unhoused people, demanding that the Supreme Court recognize sweeps without the offer of adequate shelter constitute cruel and unusual punishment, a violation of the Eighth Amendment. In San Francisco, where the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is located and the fight for the human rights of homeless people is most storied, join us in mobilizing from the Federal Building, to the State Building, and then ending at City Hall on April 22nd.
STOP THE SWEEPS!
🚨 This May Day, workers across the Bay Area and across the country will Rise for Palestine 🇵🇸 !
Join an action in Oakland or San Francisco, talk to your coworkers and get them involved.
Check this thread for Bay Area actions happening on 5/1! pic.twitter.com/2EatggvEX9
— East Bay DSA 🌹 (@DSAEastBay) April 26, 2024
Bay Area! The police & officials are attempting to surveil and disrupt our community with a $44 million Cop City in San Pablo. Come together in the nationwide fight to stop Cop City!
🌟Date: Thursday, May 16th
🌟Time: 3-6pm
🌟Location: Point Richmond (900 Dornan Dr, Richmond) pic.twitter.com/79sPjlhUwz— East Bay DSA 🌹 (@DSAEastBay) May 12, 2024
On May 22, @StrikeDebt is rallying in DC to demand Biden fund education NOT genocide. Join us!
Can’t make it in person? Support by sharing, liking, and telling your friends in the DC area to come out.
Cancel debt & defund the war machine.
RSVP here: https://t.co/FpecspnVui pic.twitter.com/tZT7SSYH9B
— magnetic deviation 🟥 (@thingsinthesink) May 13, 2024
Tonight, May 27th
All Eyes on Rafah
Vigil for Palestine
Lake Merritt Amphitheater
7:30pm@YallaBerkeley @AROCBayArea pic.twitter.com/kgafEG7Rv3— Mama Lisa (@LisTeague) May 27, 2024
In a San Francisco action connected to the Summer of Heat civil disobedience campaign on Wall Street, a lively, peaceful parade and rally in downtown San Francisco will tell Citibank – the biggest funder of fossil fuel expansion in the past eight years — that the future of the world’s children and grandchildren matter more than Citi’s profits.
Summer of Heat on Wall Street is a 13-week sustained campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience to end financing for fossil fuels. The second week of July is Elders Week, but Third Act Bay Area and 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations encourage people of all ages to join them in this local action.
Citibank is the main target of the Summer of Heat. Since the Paris Agreement, Citibank has bankrolled fossil fuel expansion to the tune of a whopping $204.5 billion! The campaign aims to stop business-as-usual at Citi, as the world suffers through what is expected to be another record-breaking hot year.
Meet at Embarcadero/Harry Bridges Plaza, then march to two nearby Citibank offices (including their California corporate office location) before returning to the Ferry Building. Live music, singing, puppets and a rocking chair brigade.
DID YOU KNOW?
The city spends almost $1,500 per hour
evicting folks living on the streets?
Affordable” housing in Oakland is for “low
income” folks who make $84,600 per year
and “extrememly low income” are folks
who make $32,700?
The City of Oakland’s blueprint to end
homelessness (the PATH Plan) has zero
units of permanent extrememly
affordable housing?
Let’s talk about what has worked and
what hasn’t worked in the City of
Oakland’s homeless industrial complex.
Its the last day that city council will be meeting.
The point of the speak out will be to hold space for unhoused folks and advocates to talk about what has worked/ what has not worked in the city’s homeless industrial complex, as well share real solutions to end homelessness.
Some of the group will be joining the city council meeting to speak in the Homeless State of Emergency. programming in front of city hall will continue for folks who do not want to go to city hall.
we hope you can make it out.
Vallejo community vigil tomorrow at 5. Come pray for our city with us! pic.twitter.com/JRd16IUpiC
— Melissa Nold, Esq. (@savage_esquire) July 26, 2024
BAY AREA: ALL OUT TO DEMAND THE ARREST OF NETANYAHU 🚨
🗓️Saturday, July 27
⏰1:30pm
📍SF Federal Building, 90 7th St., SF pic.twitter.com/IdQ80gUOjq— CAIR-SFBA (@CAIRSFBA) July 26, 2024
National Day of Mourning: Justice for Sonya Massey & Alexander Antonio Lopez
On July 6, a 36-year-old Black woman, Sonya Massey, called 911 to report a suspected intruder at her home. Her first words when she opened her front door to them were “don’t hurt me.” Instead of protecting her, Springfield, Illinois police shot and murdered her inside of her own home. The sheriff who killed her, Sean Grayson, was on duty in his 6th policing job of his career after being disciplined in five previous police departments.
Sonya is more than a victim of the police state. She was a mother, a sister, a daughter and a loving community member. We say her name as we continue to rebuke the paradigm that dying at the hands of the state is an unpreventable leading cause of death for our people.
Join us on Sunday for a vigil, healing ceremony and community gathering. There will be speakers, performers, healing justice practitioners and an open community mic.
As we join in this national day of mourning, we also want to honor the life of Alexander Antonio Lopez who was murdered right in our backyard by SFPD just last weekend.
Antonio was killed in the Tenderloin, in an area where homeless folks are frequently swept. As the state cracks down on people sleeping in the streets with nowhere to go, we call out this murder as part of the state’s efforts to disappear our people in the name of maintaining the illusion that the status quo of white supremacy and violence works for us all. It never has and it never will. We rebuke it in the name of our divine humanity.
Sonya Massey should still be alive. Alexander Antonio Lopez should still be alive. We continue to fight for a better world in their names.
We gather every Friday morning in front of the office building at 1528 El Camino Real in San Mateo, the location of the office of US Representative Kevin Mullin between 9 and 11 AM to demand he take a strong stand for a permanent ceasefire and no more weapons for Israel. He represents District 15, which includes San Mateo County, and now these neighborhoods of San Francisco: Crocker Amazon, Excelsior, Little Hollywood, Mission Terrace, Oceanview, Outer Mission, Portola, and Visitacion Valley. Various groups are represented at our weekly protest including San Bruno Ceasefire and Peace Action San Mateo. Please join us.
SAN FRANCISCO EMERGENCY ACTION: US OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST! STOP FUELING REGIONAL WAR!
Join us in protest as we pass 300 days of continued Zionist violence and atrocities against the Palestinian people. Israel, with full backing from the United States, has continued its genocide against Palestinians with total impunity. With continued escalations in Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iran, and Iraq, the Zionist occupation has made clear how desperate it is to spark a regional war before putting an end to the genocide of Palestinians.
We call on our community to mobilize and demand that the US stop fueling regional war with the Zionist entity: Hands off Gaza, hands off Lebanon, and hands off the Middle East—US out of the Middle East! US out of everywhere! For our martyrs. For our prisoners. For Gaza. For the struggle towards a better world!
Oakland: Kamala, stop sending bombs for genocide!
Sun 8/18 11am
Lake Merritt Amphitheater
Masks required
Covid surging in the bay per wastewater data. Respect your & your comrades' health. Covid is a vascular disease that continues to damage years after infection. pic.twitter.com/wzlne1xl6v— Cisten Schmidt (@TristenSchmidt) August 15, 2024
Pro-Israel lobby sways Berkeley councilmembers to replace commissioners on the Peace & Justice Commission that was scheduled to discuss a Gaza Ceasefire reso tonite. Mtg canceled due to bogus technicality. Rally ON! pic.twitter.com/6b0NmfrEuf
— Elana Auerbach (@elana4berkeley) September 3, 2024
Bay Area: please show up for the Global Monthly Vigils happening around the world on the first Wednesday of the month, every month, as we urgently tell President Biden: Close Guantánamo NOW and release the 16 Muslim men who have been cleared for release—some for well over a decade.
Biden must follow his own words and CLOSE GITMO ASAP!
“America will not torture. We will uphold the rights of those who we bring to justice. And we will close the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay…. [W]e say to our friends that the alliances, treaties and international organizations we build must be credible and they must be effective. That requires a common commitment not only to listen and live by the rules, but to enforce the rules when they are, in fact, clearly violated”
~US Vice President Joe Biden, February 2009
President George W. Bush declared his wish to shutter the prison that he had opened. Both Obama and Biden promised to do the same. NOW may well be the last chance for Guantánamo closure; Trump had planned to enlarge the facility for more ‘bad guys’; Kamala Harris has thus far been quiet on the issue.
Please join World Can’t Wait, Amnesty International and the many co-sponsoring organizations worldwide to deliver that message on Wednesday, September 4, 3PM at the traffic island (Harry Bridges Plaza) outside the SF Ferry Building.