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Jun
30
Fri
Demo against SFPD police brutality @ Mission Police Station
Jun 30 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

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Jul
7
Fri
Stand with the mothers of murdered children and family members
Jul 7 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Come stand with the mothers of murdered children and family members this and every Friday to pressure District Atty George Gascon to charge killer SFPD cops with murder who executed Mario Woods, Jessica Nelson, Luis Gongora Pat, Alex Nieto, and all the rest.

Bring signs! STOP POLICE MURDER! We have signs that say “Mario Woods is our Son”, and signs for each one murdered.

Please find the box of signs and “Say Their Names” for the Media.

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Jul
11
Tue
#FeedThePeople Oakland City Council @ Oscar Grant Plaza, City Hall, Council Chambers
Jul 11 @ 5:30 pm – 10:00 pm

July 11 we head to city hall and demand land so we can create villages.

We created an effective, immediate, humane and dignified solution that addressed the housing and homeless state of emergency. we cant wait for the city’s slow, money driven bureaucratic process. folks need homes and services NOW! not 5 years from now. the monies and programs the city is FINALLY putting towards low income and no income housing won’t house folks immediately.

but #TheVillage can house folks NOW until the city has secured permanent #HomesForAll.

There are 6,000 folks without homes in oakland. that number will continue to grow unless the city acts like we are in a state of emergency and allows the community to enact our creative and effective solution.

Our displaced residents on the streets want land to build a village for folks in recovery. we want land for a harm reduction village. we want land for a village for families with children and homeless youth. we want land for a lgbtq village. we want land for a village of elders. we want land for a village for women.

please share far and wide.

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Jul
14
Fri
Stand with the mothers of murdered children and family members
Jul 14 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Come stand with the mothers of murdered children and family members this and every Friday to pressure District Atty George Gascon to charge killer SFPD cops with murder who executed Mario Woods, Jessica Nelson, Luis Gongora Pat, Alex Nieto, and all the rest.

Bring signs! STOP POLICE MURDER! We have signs that say “Mario Woods is our Son”, and signs for each one murdered.

Please find the box of signs and “Say Their Names” for the Media.

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Jul
15
Sat
Protest The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! Rally & March @ UN Plaza
Jul 15 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

July 15th Nationwide Protests – Rally at UN Plaza then March to the Mission

To all who agonize and rage at what’s being done to the people, protest and demand:

THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME MUST GO! In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America!

Only the people acting together in the streets and public square can force this demand before the world. Should we fail to do so, the future and values we aspire to could be brutally cut short by the actions of the Trump/Pence regime.

The Trump/Pence government has been step by step criminalizing dissent and bludgeoning the truth with worse to come. Stripping away basic rights and the rule of law is at the core of fascism. Group after group is demonized and targeted along a trajectory leading to real horrors. We must not let this be normalized. History has shown that fascism must be stopped before it becomes too late.

July 15th must be a day when every person, every group –religious, community, service, political organization – all who feel the tremendous threat to humanity posed by the Trump/Pence regime – stand together showing the world that people here are determined that this regime must go …not in two years or four, but now.

On July 15, with conviction and courage, overcoming fear and uncertainty, we will act together to resist and say NO!… Not for ourselves alone, but in the name of humanity.

Contact Refuse Fascism to volunteer or to make your organization a partner or co-sponsor of July 15th.
Get involved: 510-253-5551 norcal [at] refusefascism.org
Endorse/signup Facebook.com/RefuseFascismBayArea
Refuse Fascism 917-407-1286; info [at] refusefascism.org http://www.refusefascism.org
Price: Free

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Jul
21
Fri
Stand with the mothers of murdered children and family members
Jul 21 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Come stand with the mothers of murdered children and family members this and every Friday to pressure District Atty George Gascon to charge killer SFPD cops with murder who executed Mario Woods, Jessica Nelson, Luis Gongora Pat, Alex Nieto, and all the rest.

Bring signs! STOP POLICE MURDER! We have signs that say “Mario Woods is our Son”, and signs for each one murdered.

Please find the box of signs and “Say Their Names” for the Media.

63351
Jul
26
Wed
Transgender Military Ban: Emergency Protest @ Harvey Milk Plaza
Jul 26 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Hours after President Donald Trump’s call to ban transgender people from the military made national headlines, San Francisco resident Rachel Rognerud, 28, created a call to action that is gaining steam.

The protest is set for 6 p.m. at Harvey Milk Plaza, at Market and Castro streets, and already more than 1,000 people have pledged to attend.

“My uncle is trans, and when I saw Trump’s tweet this morning it made me very angry,” Rognerud told the San Francisco Examiner…

 

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Jul
28
Fri
Stand with the mothers of murdered children and family members
Jul 28 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Come stand with the mothers of murdered children and family members this and every Friday to pressure District Atty George Gascon to charge killer SFPD cops with murder who executed Mario Woods, Jessica Nelson, Luis Gongora Pat, Alex Nieto, and all the rest.

Bring signs! STOP POLICE MURDER! We have signs that say “Mario Woods is our Son”, and signs for each one murdered.

Please find the box of signs and “Say Their Names” for the Media.

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Aug
9
Wed
March for Nuclear Abolition & Global Survival @ Livermore Lab
Aug 9 @ 7:45 am – 12:00 pm

Rally, march & direct action to commemorate the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the place where new US nuclear weapons are still being developed today.

8 am rally with speakers: Daniel Ellsberg (legendary activist and leaker of the Pentagon Papers), Marylia Kelley (executive director of Tri-Valley Cares), and a Hibakusha (Japanese atomic bomb survivor). With wonderful music by Emma’s Revolution. Together, solemnly we will commemorate the nightmarish effects of nuclear weapons–from uranium mining to testing use–on the people of Japan, the Marshall Island, and the First Nations–and all the people living near nuclear facilities across the country and around the world. We will recommit ourselves to efforts to abolish these indiscriminate weapons of mass destruction Please bring a large photograph of a loved one. As always, we act in the spirit of nonviolence.

At 9:00 am we will march to the gates of Livermore Lab, where we will join in an Obon dance, (Japanese folk dance). Following the dance those who choose will peaceably risk arrest.

For those who wish, camping the night before is available at Lake Del Valle. Contact scott [at] trivalleycares.org to RSVP.

All ages welcome!

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Aug
12
Sat
Charlottesville: We Got Your Back – Bay Area United Against White Supremacy @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Aug 12 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Facebook event.

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Aug
13
Sun
Immigration Vigil at the West County Detention Center @ West County Detention Center
Aug 13 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Come stand up for immigrants, refugees and the marginalized folks ensnared by the criminal injustice system who are inside the Bay Area’s regional ICE detention center / Contra Costa’s county’s jail—and show your support for their visiting loved ones too. It’s our responsibility to fight the right wing’s racist, xenophobic, anti-Muslim, ableist, transphobic, homophobic, misogynist ramp up of authoritarian policing, detention and deportation practices—if not now, when?

FEATURING:
Rabbi Dev Nolly and members of Kehilla Community Synagogue
Bend the Arc Bay Area Resistance (Co-organizer)
Occupella
and more TBA…

Let Our People Go is a youth-and-elder-friendly action that opposes the detentions/deportations and mass incarceration with activist debriefs, music, art, stories and representation from different faith communities (including faithful and faithless humanists). Accessible site, easy parking, bathrooms available closeby in the visitors waiting room.

LET OUR PEOPLE GO was initiated by members of the Kehilla Immigration Committee on the 2nd Sunday of every month, modeled on the 1st Saturday vigils held by our partners at Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity. Many of us, especially caregivers, can’t get to evening meetings or attend long weekend events and marches, but we want to show up and we want to get youth involved in this struggle. This one-hour protest is a way for more families with tweens/teens—especially those with citizenship privileges—to stand up for our peoples and bring more attention to this immoral site of internment right in our community.

Send us your ideas via letourpeoplego@kehillasynagogue.org.

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Refuse Fascism Rally – SF @ 24th St BART
Aug 13 @ 2:00 pm – 2:15 pm

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Aug
14
Mon
Immigration Support Rally for Mendoza Family @ Highland Hospital
Aug 14 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

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Aug
15
Tue
Emergency Protest “No New War on Korea!” @ Powell St. BART
Aug 15 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

President Trump has threatened the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) with “fire and fury like the world has never seen” – a new nuclear war aimed at annihilating the DPRK. We must say NO to a devastating new war in Korea!

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Aug
16
Wed
Protest Sheriff’s racist tweet scandal! Show up for immigrants! @ Alameda County Sheriff's Office
Aug 16 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Are you outraged that the Alameda County Sheriff’s Dept. is retweeting white supremacists?

Are you angry that Sheriff Ahern and other sheriffs want to keep deporting our loved ones? (The CA State Sheriffs Association is trying to bully Gov Brown into further weakening SB 54, the “Sanctuary” bill that would push back on Trump’s deportation machine!)

Then join us tomorrow to say NO to white supremacy and racism!

You probably already heard that on Sunday night, the Alameda County Sheriff’s official twitter account retweeted infamous white supremacist Richard Spencer.

The department’s claiming this is an “accident,” but in fact it’s part of a long pattern of racist attitudes and practices at the department.

This same deputy, Sargeant Kelly, made headlines defending the arrest of a fruit vendor a few months ago, saying: “If you don’t enforce this type of selling, it will begin to look like a Third World fruit market.”

And Sheriff Ahern himself signed a letter endorsing white nationalist Jeff Sessions’ nomination as Attorney General. And he’s also said he can identify undocumented immigrants based on “language, luggage, and clothing.”

We cannot remain silent.

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Aug
24
Thu
Handmaids’ Resistance San Francisco @ Hall of (In)Justice
Aug 24 @ 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

oin us outside the San Francisco Hall of Justice as we protest anti-abortion advocates David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt.

In 2015, David and Sandra released edited footage claiming that Planned Parenthood was selling fetal tissue for profit. These claims were later proven to be completely false. The videos were nothing more than an attempt to slander Planned Parenthood, incite violence against abortion providers, and make abortion inaccessible. David and Sandra are currently being charged with 15 felony counts.

Let’s show them that the State of California will not tolerate anti-choice propaganda and that we stand with Planned Parenthood. Under the Trump regime we cannot afford to be silent when it comes to women’s rights.

Feel free to make your own sign and bring a friend. Handmaid costumes can be provided but please make sure to RSVP so that we know how many to provide.

Please register at:
https://act.weareultraviolet.org/event/handmaids_resist_events/1788

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Aug
26
Sat
Anti-Racist Rally, San Francisco
Aug 26 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Please join us at the Anti-Racist rally to be held in opposition to the White Supremacists that are organizing a racist rally at Chrissy Fields in San Francisco.

There is a call to assemble in the morning, followed by a march to Chrissy Field at 10:00am.

PLEASE CHECK BACK HERE TO MAKE SURE WE HAVEN’T CHANGED THE MEETING POINT.

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Join Longshore Workers to Shut Down the Fascists
Aug 26 @ 10:00 am
SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 10 AM
Assemble on Scott St. in Marina Green
Racists Want Charlottesville Terror Here – It’s Up to Us to Stop It!
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LONGSHORE WORKERS: 
SHUT DOWN THE FASCISTS!
We, longshore workers, support the call to action for our union to take the lead for the working class, to stop a deadly threat to the rights and the lives of us all. 
This weekend, fascist groups plan to stage rallies that threaten to repeat the racist terror of Charlottesville in the Bay Area. We’ve shut down the port against racism, war and police repression. Longshore workers have got the power, and we will not allow labor-hating white supremacists to bring their lynch mob terror here.
On Saturday, August 26 at 10AM, we will assemble on Scott St. in Marina Green (between Fort Mason and Crissy Field) and march to stop the fascist provocation at Crissy Field. We’re calling on all ILWU members, other unions and supporters to be there. Stop these racist killers from killing again. If not now, when? If not here, where? We have the power. Let’s use it!
On August 26, the fascist group that calls itself “Patriot Prayer” plans to hold a rally on Crissy Field. On August 27, several fascist groups plan a rally in Berkeley. What this means was shown in Portland on May 26: a Nazi who attended a “Patriot Prayer” rally the previous month killed two men for standing up against his racist threats to two young women. On June 4, members of 14 unions in Portland mobilized in the struggle to stop the fascists drawn by “Patriot Prayer.”
Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12 showed again that the fascists are not about “free speech.” The rally by Nazis, KKK and other white supremacists led directly to the murder of Heather Heyer and injuries to dozens of courageous anti-racist counter-protesters. Some of the same Nazis plan to come to the Bay Area this weekend. Meanwhile, Trump obscenely praises “good” fascists and “beautiful” statues of bloody Confede­rate slave masters. 
And now the fascists want to bring their race-terror here? We say: Hell no! Who do these fascist creeps think they’re messing with? SF is a union town. Let’s bring out the whole Bay Area labor movement, with defenders of African American, Asian, Latino, gay, lesbian, women’s and immigrant rights, to stop the fascists
To do this, we must rely on our own power as workers – not phony “friend of labor” politicians of both bosses’ parties. Their pleas for Trump’s Department of the Interior to deny a permit for Crissy Field are a diversion. Any bans, especially in a port city, could be used against workers fighting for their rights. But as the Portland Painters said in a solidarity message, when we use our “power as workers to take action against the fascists on August 26th, that will be a call to action of workers and oppressed people throughout this country.”
Now’s the time to stand up for all that ILWU has fought for, as opponents of racism and oppression. We can’t let these racists and fascists keep on killing. Enough is enough. Let’s join together in unity and in strength to put our union resolution into action. On August 26, 
DON’T WORK! SHUT THE PORT DOWN AND THE FASCISTS TOO!
 Anthony Leviege #9576                               Jack Heyman #8780 (ret.)
Longshore Workers to Stop the Fascists
August 21, 2017
 
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Update: At the planning meeting on Aug. 22, union sisters and brothers highlighted the threat to African American and all union members posed by the hanging nooses and vile racist slurs that have repeatedly appeared at SSA terminal. Make no mistake: this racist filth is a threat of lynching. It’s exactly the kind of thing the Klan, Nazis and other fascist/racist terror groups use. We have to stop it with the power of our union. This is and must be closely connected to the mobilization this Saturday, Aug. 26 to stop the fascists.
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REMEMBER: We are assembling SATURDAY, AUG. 26, 10 AM, on
SCOTT ST. IN MARINA GREEN BETWEEN FORT MASON & CRISSY FIELD.
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Oct
4
Wed
No Tasers in San Francisco!! – Postponed @ San Francisco City Hall, Room 400
Oct 4 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Tasers are on the agenda for the police commission meeting. They may be voting at this meeting and will have a public hearing on the subject!

Show up, speak out, and let’s shut down tasers for SFPD.

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Oct
19
Thu
Rally for Justice – Sacramento. #BlackLivesMatter #BrownLivesMatter #MarchForJustice
Oct 19 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

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