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This will be the Court’s first serious return to the issue of abortion since overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022. If successful, this case can impact healthcare access for millions of women across the US —INCLUDING IN STATES WHERE ABORTION IS LEGAL.
People with disabilities and people of color are disproportionally underserved with reproductive care. Speakers will address this as well as the legal and political problem of the Supreme Court having agreed to hear this case. The abortion pill mifepristone has been proven effective and FDA approved for almost 25 years. It is safer than either viagra or tylenol.
Join us for a rousing rally that will include speakers, open mic and music to get us revved up by the Raging Grannies with Brass Liberation Orchestra (together again!)
Sponsored by a coalition of organizations and spearheaded by National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice San Francisco Chapter.
If your group would like to table at and/or endorse this action please email us. There is power in numbers. Join us everyone!
Photo by: Leon Kunstenaar, ProBonoPhoto
Ryan Gainer was a 15-year-old child with autism who was senselessly murdered by San Bernardino Sheriffs after his family called 911.
Murdering a 15-year-old Black boy experiencing a crisis is enraging and another example why the carceral system must be dismantled. Black people with disabilities face compounded risks when interacting with police.
Black neurodivergent children who are having an episode deserve to live. Black children deserve to live. PERIOD. We shouldn’t have to say anymore names. No one should have to bury their child. Ryan Gainer should still be here.
Join the Anti Police-Terror Project, Disability Justice Culture Club, Disability Justice League Bay Area, and the Center for Independent Living this Sunday
Accessibility: The amphitheater is a wheelchair accessible space, we will have ASL available and will be livestreaming the event. Bathrooms are available at the public library across the street which will be open till 5:30pm. Mask up!
We will have a brief program of speakers who will connect the dots between our interconnected struggles, there will be space for young people and healers, and we will close with a short de-escalation training and seed planting.
Abolition is a disability justice issue. The solutions we need require centering the needs, ideas and testimonies of neurodivergent and/or disabled people. Abolition cannot wait. Justice for Ryan Gainer!
In service and solidarity,
APTP
On March 8, community members served a subpoena to Eric Swalwell for his support for the ongoing illegal genocide in Gaza. Two weeks later, Swalwell doubled down and voted to defund UNRWA, which provides vital aid to Palestinian refugees
ATTEND THE TRIAL: https://t.co/L2asDl7mDL pic.twitter.com/0mZu5uHpfx
— East Bay DSA 🌹 (@DSAEastBay) March 27, 2024
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!
Wednesday 5/1: May Day General Strike to Stop Genocide & Rally at Harry Bridges Plaza https://t.co/ohbvkOKm6i
— Indybay (@Indybay) April 6, 2024
🚨 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
Emergency Call to Action!
All out for Rafah!
Sproul Plaza, at UC Berkeley!
Tuesday, May 7th at 4pm! pic.twitter.com/aCQ3WVzhfI— Mama Lisa (@LisTeague) May 7, 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