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Join us 5pm Friday Jan. 25 at 24th & Mission to say NO to the U.S.-orchestrated coup in Venezuela #HandsOffVenezuela
Event page: https://t.co/KOWQOM5kmZ@answercoalition @MLNow @SFGate @Indybay @elteco @CubaVenezCte pic.twitter.com/KMo3aVV0MS— ANSWER Coalition-SF (@sfANSWER) January 24, 2019
This Saturday he so-called “Walk for Life” – which should be called the March for Female Enslavement & Forced Motherhood – will organize tens of thousands to march down Market Street to demand the end of the right to abortion for women.
We call for everyone to join with Refuse Fascism to oppose the “Walk for Life,” to stand up to the anti-abortionists, and to raise the demand that the Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! These people march every year – this year, the stakes are very high. We are two years into the Trump/Pence regime, which has packed the federal courts, including the Supreme Court, with anti-abortion judges, along with everything else it has done to attack women, enforce white supremacy, attack immigrants and refugees, assault the environment, and more. We refuse to accept a fascist America!
We also call for all Handmaids to come forward and join us in opposing the “walk for life” – to make the visual statement that if we do not stand up, the nightmare world of brutal and extreme subjugation of women so powerfully captured in the novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” and the recent TV show will become reality. To join the ranks of ‘Handmaids,’ contact afong [at] jps.net or contact Refuse Fascism via Facebook Messenger.
Kamala Harris for President has chosen Oakland for her initial Campaign Launch Rally on January 27, 12:00pm.
What are you going to do, Oakland, when Kamala Harris sets up shop in our town to push her phony “progressive prosecutor” schtick? Her campaign slogan at this point is “Kamala Harris for the People,” but we know she is anything but a candidate for the people, all of the people, those who lost their homes to predatory banks, for instance. She claims to be “tough, principled, fearless,” but we know none of that is true. She’s certainly not tough on the wealthy and powerful. She’s just another ambitious corpocrat trying to pretend she’s further to the left than she’s ever actually been.
She’s pitching herself as “a lifelong public safety and civil rights leader” and it’s time we stand up to say, “hell no.” Jailing people of color does not equal public safety and prosecutors violating defendants’ rights is not civil rights. Among the early staff members she has chosen include her sister Maya Harris, who was a senior adviser to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign. We don’t need any more establishment democrats, and definitely not in prosecutor’s clothing.
Her main campaign headquarters will be in Baltimore, but her West Coast operations will be run out of Oakland. Let’s literally run her out of Oakland by not letting her peddle her lies here unchallenged. She doesn’t get to claim her record has been “taking on the Wall Street Banks for middle-class homeowners” without being mocked in public.
This is not a listing for an organized protest at the campaign kick-off rally, but a call for concerned citizens and organizations to make plans to resist her campaign, starting at the very first event. Bare minimum, show up on January 27 with signs and literature to let Kamala stans know how unacceptable this cop is as a presidential candidate. Let her followers on social media know the truth when she spews lies.
When you see photographs of Harris laughing, remember she’s laughing at you, especially if you fall for her liberal claptrap.
Learn more:
A thread on Kamala Harris’s terrible record on criminal justice
https://twitter.com/Copmala/status/1085688776381419520
Kamala Harris: can a ‘top cop’ win over progressives in 2020?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/19/kamala-harris-2020-election-top-cop-prosecutor
Say NO to the CPUC! The California Public Utilities Commission has scheduled a surprise emergency hearing to allow PG&E to pursue debtor-in-possession financing.
Please come to the CPUC Auditorium at 505 Van Ness to speak against giving PG&E a $6 billion bailout and allowing it to duck its debts from last year’s Camp Fire.
The first item is to determine an emergency situation under which the normal 10-day agenda notice can be waived according to Gov’t Code 11125.5(b). The second and third items grant exemptions from PUC Code sections to allow PG&E to do this.
Videocast is at http://www.adminmonitor.com/ca/cpuc/
The Oakland School Board has just scheduled a special meeting (less than 72 hours notice) for 6pm on Monday with only one item on the agenda, a final vote in the closure of ROOTS Middle School. The school board can not be allowed to displace our students and families from their neighborhood school. We are asking everyone to help, even if you don’t live in Oakland.
1. Please email the Oakland School Board and ask them to keep ROOTS open and demand that any “redesign” of the school can not displace any of the current students.
Aimee.eng [at] ousd.org
Jody.london [at] ousd.org
Jumoke.hintonhodge [at] ousd.org
Gary.yee [at] ousd.org
Shanthi.gonzales [at] ousd.org
Roseann.torres [at] ousd.org
James.harris [at] ousd.org
2. Please sign and share the community petition. We want people outside of Oakland to also sign. There are already over 2700 signatures and we want to show maximum support when it’s submitted to the school board on Monday.
https://www.change.org/p/keeppublicschoolsopen-gmail-com-keep-our-neighborhood-public-schools-open-f805c663-e4b0-49d6-8837-bc1863c4a0ee?recruiter=926411481&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition
3. Attend Monday’s 6pm school board meeting at La Escuelita 1050 2nd Ave. The ROOTS closure is the only item on the agenda. You can also submit an Ecomment on the school board website: https://ousd.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx
4. We need legal help and advice. If the school board votes to close ROOTS we will be filing an injunction and we’ll need some help and guidance.
Please help us save ROOTS and send a message to the school board that we will not accept the continued closure and displacement of our neighborhood public schools. Thanks.
#NoCutsNoClosures
#EraseTheBoard
#FailureByDesign
#WeChoose
Here’s the link to the presentation: https://ousd.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=6991988&GUID=580873AF-48BE-4507-BF01-6E0C7CDBEF1D
And the resolution: https://ousd.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=6991989&GUID=EF8774C2-43AA-418C-B2C7-3AAE5B440C7A
On January 22nd, supporters of People’s Park marched down Telegraph Avenue to Sproul Plaza to protest the University’s overwhelming police response to the protest defending the trees. This peaceful protest was interrupted by a reckless driver who pushed up on the protesters and struck a sleeping homeless man as he fled the scene. Police have refused to release the identity of the driver or respond to this blatant attack on the poor people of Berkeley.
We need your help! The Cambodian American community is under attack by ICE. ICE is scheduling check-ins for Cambodian Americans with deportation orders on March 13th at the San Francisco ICE building. WE NEED TO PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY FROM DEPORTATION. We are hosting a rally in support of impacted folks and their families who have check-ins that day. We need folks to:
– Support folks with check-ins by showing up and letting them know there is a community that supports, loves, and will fight for them
– Support impacted folks’ families the day of check-ins to let them know we are there for them
– Show up in numbers to let ICE know they cannot tear our families apart
This event is in conjunction, and in solidarity with the Stand up to Trump in court, in the streets, and beyond happening on the same day. Link provided below.
https://www.facebook.com/events/290015418339666/
This Valentine’s Day, we’re turning up the pressure on Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase in San Francisco. Will you join us? Click here to RSVP.
- What: Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase: Break up with private prisons or we’ll break up with you (Rally and petition delivery)
Sixty percent of the immigrants the Trump administration locked up are being held in private prisons built by companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group. Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase finance billions of dollars of their debt. All these banks need to do is stop providing loans to these companies and the private prisons they run would not be able to function.
Now is the time to use our power as customers and consumers to force these banks to act. Join us to make our demands clear to Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase on Valentine’s Day.
If Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase don’t take action to help end the criminalization and detainment of Black and Brown communities, we will by pledging and encouraging others to break up with them and switch to banks that actually respect our communities.
Click the link below to RSVP for the action in San Francisco this Thursday.
https://www.facebook.com/events/395765747898393/
On Valentine’s Day, join Mujeres Unidas y Activas, La Colectiva de Mujeres, MomsRising, Bay Resistance, Candide Group, Hand in Hand, the national FamiliesBelongTogether Coalition and others to ask WellsFargo and JPMorgan Chase To Break Up with Private Prisons and Immigration Detention Centers!
While professing respect for human rights, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase continue to fund GEO Group and CoreCivic; the biggest operators of private prisons and immigrant detention centers. Let’s tell Jamie Dimon (Chase) and Timothy Sloan (Wells) that we’re not afraid to align our money with our values. If Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase don’t take action, we will — by pledging to, and/or encouraging others to, break up with Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase and switch to banks that actually respect our communities instead!
Can’t come on the 14th at noon, but want to take action- join a bank branch action near you on the 14, 15, or 15th by signing up here: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/show-love-this-valentines-day
Oakland’s First** Human Banner: “NO WALL!”
This protest is planned in response to President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency. Join in to protect the rule of law and our Constitution. On this Presidents Day holiday, stand to demand that our president respect the separation of powers.
City-wide rally at 11:30 a.m at Oscar Grant Plaza.
Oakland teachers are the lowest paid teachers in Alameda County.
Every year, 1-in-5 teachers leave the district, and on top of high teacher turnover, students are already under resourced with only one academic counselor per 600 students, and only 21 nurses for all 37,000 students.
Oakland teachers and our students deserve better! Sign up for a shift at the picket line!
What: Join a picket line near you!
When: Thursday, February 21 — Morning shift: 6:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.; Afternoon shift: 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.;
Where: There will be picket lines at ALL 86 school sites. Check out this map to see a list of priority schools. The city-wide rally will be at Oakland City Hall.
Teachers on strike are demanding smaller class sizes, more student support, no more school closures, and a living wage.
If you can’t support at the picket line, but still want to get involved, check out this list of other ways to help.
Join the International Action Center and Spring Action Coalition for a day of action against US intervention in Venezuela.
We will hold a rally at 14th and Broadway in Oakland to protest the Trump administration’s support for the coup against the Maduro government, and the long history of sanctions and threats against the Venezuelan people.
We demand an end to hostile actions against Venezuela!
If you’re coming from Oakland and either need a ride or have space in your car, please meet us at 12:15 at the APTP office at 1201 Martin Luther King Jr Way.
On Thursday, March 7th, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is having an “exploratory” hearing into the City’s cold weather policy. The Government of the City of San Francisco has endlessly harassed folks with nowhere to go. The San Francisco Police Department has confiscated peoples tents in the rain, arrested people for creating shelter and not offering more than a temporary stay in a shelter or a cot.
The People of San Francisco and the Bay Area must come together to resist these attacks on working people. Join activists from other Bay Area cities in this action against the attack on the poor and learn about local struggles and ways we can work together to fight back.
This event is sponsored by: The United Front Against Displacement, Democratic Socialists of America: San Francisco chapter, POOR Magazine, and the Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance
National Security Advisor John Bolton is reading from the same script, declaring a “troika of tyranny” in Latin America (like George W. Bush’s “axis of evil”) as a precursor for regime change first in Venezuela, and then Cuba and Nicaragua. Trump officials are openly talking about seizing Venezuela’s vast oil reserves — the largest in the world.
It is time to stand up and with a clear voice say NO to the newest example of the “Monroe Doctrine,” which the U.S. government has used for over two centuries to repeatedly invade Latin America and Caribbean, control its politics and extract its resources.
The White House aims to overthrow the government of President Nicolás Maduro and replace him with Juan Guaidó. Guaidó is a U.S.-trained operative who was unknown to the vast majority of Venezuelans before he proclaimed him-self president — at Vice President Mike Pence’s urging. Although Guaidó has the backing of Trump, the CIA, and the Republican and Democratic Party leaderships alike, huge numbers of Venezuelans have marched to reject this coup and defend their independence.
The San Francisco action will be held in conjunction with the National March on Washington on March 16.
Initial Signers of the National March:
ANSWER Coalition • CodePink • Black Alliance for Peace • Veterans for Peace • Alliance for Global Justice Popular Resistance • Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee • Haïti Liberté International Support Haiti Network • Popular Education Project • Abby Martin, journalist, The Empire Files • Dr. Jill Stein, 2016 Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jared Ball, Prof. of Communication Studies, Morgan State Univ., imixwhatilike • Medea Benjamin, CodePink • Cindy Sheehan, Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox • Berthony Dupont, Director, Haïti Liberté • Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, constitutional rights attorney • Max Blumenthal, journalist • Ajamu Baraka, National Organizer, Black Alliance for Peace • Mike Prysner, Iraq War veteran, producer, The Empire files • Dr. George Ciccariello-Maher, author • Dr. Anthony Monteiro, Saturday Free School • Dr. Jodi Dean, Prof. of Political Science, Hobart & William Smith Colleges • Gloria La Riva, National Coordinator, Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee • Kim Ives, journalist • Anoa Changa, host, The Way With Anoa • Dan Cohen, journalist and filmmaker • Chuck Kaufman, National Co-Coordinator, Alliance for Global Justice • Eugene Puryear, Stop Police Terror Project • Jeanette Charles and Lucas Koerner, Venezuela Analysis • Margaret Flowers, Co-Coordinator, Popular Resistance • Kevin Zeese, Co-Coordinator, Popular Resistance • Dan Kovalik, author and human rights lawyer • Mahdi Bray, National Director, American Muslim Alliance (AMA)
FIRE TERRENCE MERCADAL!
FIRE JARED ROBINET!
TAKE THEM OFF OF OUR STREETS NOW!!
THERE WILL BE NO PEACE TILL THERE IS JUSTICE!!
COME WHEN YOU GET OFF WORK
COME IF YOU AINT GOT NO JOB
COME WHEN YOU GET OUT OF CLASS
OR SKIP WORK AND SCHOOL TO FIGHT FOR JUSTICE
JUST BRING YA A$$!
Meet us at the police station at 3pm!!
JUSTICE FOR STEPHON CLARK!
Hosted by Black Lives Matter Sacramento
March 15th, Global Climate Strike For Future! Call to the youth of the world.
In 2015, our governments committed in Paris to protecting our future by providing a safe pathway well below 2C with Social and Climate Justice..
Three years have passed, and our future looks bleaker than ever!
The greedy guess that 3C warming is ok. Climate scientists have evidence that even 2C will cause massive starvation, drought, fire tornados, floods, wars and death.
All because today’s adults do not care about tomorrow. They are stealing our future right in front of our eyes!
The adults are not mature enough to tell it how it is, even this they leave to us children!
And why should we be studying for a future that soon may be no more, when no one is doing anything to save that future? And what is the point of learning facts when the most important facts clearly means nothing to our society?
What use is education when our governments are not listening to the educated?
Today we use 100 million barrels of oil every single day. There are no politics to change that. There are no rules to keep that oil in the ground.
We can’t save the world by playing by the rules. Because the rules have to be changed.
Greta Thunberg has inspired us, by striking every Friday in front of her Swedish parliament.
Since August, 2018, many thousands of students, have been striking in front of 300 parliaments and town halls in over 30 countries worldwide.
And now on March 15, we will all create a Deep strike together! To show the Climate Crisis is a Crisis! Join Us!