URGENT: Tell the City Again: No New Jails OR Jail-like Facilities in SF!
Come to the Final Meeting of the SF Jail Replacement Project Work Group
Friday, October 28, 2-5 PM, 25 Van Ness, Room 610
A huge grouping of community groups, service providers, and justice activists stopped a new SF jail last spring, but there’s a danger the City may try again.
Last spring, the City set up the “Work Group to Re-envision the Jail Replacement Project” to decide what to do, or build, or plan INSTEAD of a new jail. At Friday’s meeting they will vote on proposed alternatives to present to the Supervisors.
The Workgroup had been considering alternatives to to jail construction and is proposing some strong and viable community based solutions, including more housing and reentry services. But now the list of proposals includes building a smaller jail, renovating jail cells, and a locked mental facility, in spite of overwhelming public and workgroup opinion against jail facilities. See list of proposals at http://tinyurl.com/zk395r9
We defeated the proposed jail last year; we can’t let the Mayor and Sheriff turn this around! Please come and speak out. We need everyone’s voice.
The No New SF Coalition has an 8-Step Plan for a jail-free San Francisco, based on open user-led facilities, community investment in housing and services, separating services from law enforcement, equitable access to care for all, bail and bond reform, pathways to permanent housing, and immediate closure of 850 Bryant. See http://tinyurl.com/jqurr7j The Coalition’s longer and more detailed report, Build Justice, Not Jails, is available at http://tinyurl.com/h7w2rmg.
Read more about Friday’s action at http://tinyurl.com/hb3w9yz .
Militarized police are gearing up to clear out the camps and arrest the water protectors who are defending their rivers and land – including Sioux sacred sites and burial grounds – against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Over 100 tribes have come together to fight back against this corporate encroachment.
We will protest at the Wells Fargo building, one of a long list of banks responsible for funding the pipeline companies to the tune of $467 million.
Capitalist expansion and the corporate drive for profit have caused untold suffering for native people throughout US history, and recent police aggression reveal once again who’s side the state is on. Join us to protest this government action carried out for big business.
Native speakers have been invited.
SOLIDARITY with STANDING ROCK!
FIGHT CORPORATE GREED!
EVICT THE REAL TRESPASSER: BIG OIL!
GREEN JOBS NOW!!
Hosted by Bay Area Socialist Alternative. In September SA helped raise $1600 and many supplies that we delivered to the Sioux camp.
The once free-spirited city of San Francisco is now a “Company Town,” a playground for tech moguls of the “sharing economy.” Airbnb is the biggest hotel. Uber privatizes transit. And now these companies want political power as well. Meanwhile, middle class and ethnic communities are driven out by skyrocketing rents and evictions–sparking a grassroots backlash that challenges the oligarchy of tech. Is this the future of cities around the world? The feature-length documentary, “Company Town,” is the story of an intense election campaign to determine the fate of the city at the epicenter of the digital revolution.
Produced and directed by Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow. Edited by Manuel Tsingaris. With Aaron Peskin, Julie Christensen, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, Ron Conway,Brian Chesky, Joe “Fitz” Rodriguez, Jeffrey Kwong, Sunny Angulo, Shaw San Liu, Gordon Chin, Lina Chen. David Campos, Patrick Hannon, Chris Lehane David Talbot & Willie Brown. USA. 2016. 77 mins.
Former Panthers Melvin Dickson and Aunti Frances will be hosting a celebration and “stone soup” meal with other food justice activists and community members from the east bay, who will share their experiences and their stories.
Speakers (so far) include:
Van, Qilombo Oakland
Sita Bhaumik (and others), The People’s Kitchen Collective
Doria Robinson, Urban Tilth
Jocelyn Golden, Manna from Heaven
Aunti Frances, Self-Help Hunger Program
Joy Moore, local food activist
Kristyn Leach, farmer at Namu Farm
We will break bread together and celebrate with live music, dancing and fresh and organic fruits and veggies from the market.
Yes on 61, in partnership with California Nurses Association, presents Your Money or Your Life: A Free Documentary Screening & Panel.
Join nurses, veterans, seniors, and community leaders as they sneak preview a new documentary film –featuring BERNIE SANDERS– about pharmaceutical greed and discuss the groundbreaking changes Proposition 61 will bring for many Californians who are struggling to afford their medications. Film trailer: https://youtu.be/
Panel will include:
– Martha Kuhl, RN, CNA Secretary-Treasurer
– Jesse Brooks, AHF Patient Advocate
– Other distinguished speakers, including Veterans & Seniors, TBA
Light snacks & beverages will be served.
This event is free and open to the public.
https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/korea-law-center/mentoring-next-generation/
To volunteer, for details, and to suggest ideas for this protest, please contact World Can’t Wait to tell us how you want to help: sf [at] worldcantwait.net
Jeremy Corbyn was just re-elected leader of the Labour Party in the UK by a landslide. In the process of electing a socialist leader, Labour has become the largest and fastest-growing party in Europe. At the same time, the election has sparked a civil war in the party, as the majority of Members of Parliament are right-wing and aiming to oust Corbyn. How will this critical moment be resolved? Will working class people win back their party, or will the Blairites find a way to squash the movement?
Join Socialist Alternative and Socialist Students for a discussion on Corbyn, Labour, and how we can build a left-wing party for workers, young people, and the oppressed in the US.
Hear Richard Brown of the Black Panther Party and the SF8 share his perspectives on their historic struggle. Also listen to a presentation on the current crisis in Syria by Judy Greenspan.
Light refreshments will be served. The space is wheelchair accessible.
The once free-spirited city of San Francisco is now a “Company Town,” a playground for tech moguls of the “sharing economy.” Airbnb is the biggest hotel. Uber privatizes transit. And now these companies want political power as well. Meanwhile, middle class and ethnic communities are driven out by skyrocketing rents and evictions–sparking a grassroots backlash that challenges the oligarchy of tech. Is this the future of cities around the world? The feature-length documentary, “Company Town,” is the story of an intense election campaign to determine the fate of the city at the epicenter of the digital revolution.
Produced and directed by Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow. Edited by Manuel Tsingaris. With Aaron Peskin, Julie Christensen, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, Ron Conway,Brian Chesky, Joe “Fitz” Rodriguez, Jeffrey Kwong, Sunny Angulo, Shaw San Liu, Gordon Chin, Lina Chen. David Campos, Patrick Hannon, Chris Lehane David Talbot & Willie Brown. USA. 2016. 77 mins.
Come to this week’s Post Salon Community Assembly to participate in a community discussion about what we can do now and after the election to affect the city’s economic direction.
Some of the questions are:
Could City Departments have different policies, priorities and personnel?
How are department heads who make economic, workforce and planning decisions picked and what assumptions do they bring to the job?
What is the ethnic make-up of these decision-makers?
Could residents be more involved in making those decisions?
Is it necessary that the Planning Commission approve almost every major development that comes before it? Are those developments necessarily good for us?
*We walk together in public witness to unity in the community in the season of US elections.
* We reject all forms of Islamophobia, racism and religious prejudice
* We affirm the call from Standing Rock and over 100 tribes to protect Native people, land, water and sacred sites
* We call for the end of mass incarceration and the militarization of our streets, skies, schools and borders
* We celebrate multifaith unity in the community grounded in justice
LOCATION AND TIME
Starting time & location: 2 PM
Kehilla Synagogue 1300 Grand Avenue, Piedmont, CA
Ending time & location: 5 PM
Lighthouse Mosque 620 42nd St, Oakland, CA
The walk is 4 miles and takes about 2 1/2 hours with 2 ten minute stops along the way at Lake Merritt and Oscar Grant Plaza, proceeding on Telegraph Ave.
The day features faith based/ceremonial offerings including a youth offering and banner. The Walk is child and family friendly. Snacks provided at the end of the day. There will be a van accompanying walkers who need a ride part of the way.
The Walk for Justice is done in the spirit of pilgrimage
Please bring signs that reflect our message.
This screening is co-presented by the Berkeley FILM Foundation and features a post-film discussion.
An audience favorite at the 2015 Mill Valley Film Festival, this joy-filled portrait of septuagenarian Edythe Boone captures the Berkeley-based muralist as she oversees transformative community and student social justice art projects and grapples with the chokehold death of her nephew, Eric Garner whose final words – I Can’t Breathe – ignited a national outcry for racial justice. An intimate portrait of an extraordinary artist-activist, Edythe’s story shows not what it is to be Black or to lose a loved one, but what it is to be human.
Join us post screening for a Q & A with Mo Morris, filmmaker, Edythe Boone and Oscar Grant’s “Uncle Bobby” (Cephus) Johnson.
This court support event is due to the aggressive an unlawful arrest of 7 protesters who were speaking out on the killing of Colby Friday shot in the Back By Officer David Wells.
3 of the 7 arrested where juvenile females – 1 was attacted with a baton . Stockton police chief Eric Jones Refuses To release body camera footage to exonerate his officers of any wrong doing . What is he hiding from the public?
David Wells admitted to not having his camera on that day. Also attacted was a 8 year old who was identified as Colby Friday’s Daughters.. please invite an share . Stockton Ca is Ground Zero
JOIN CODEPINK, WORLD CAN’T WAIT, OCCUPYSF Action Council and others at the huge PEACE banner
Theme this week is: “REFUGEES…”
Feel free to bring your own signage, photos, flyers, …Additional signs and flyers provided.
Stand (or sit) with us and the huge PEACE banner.
6:30pm Rally outside
7:30pm Speak out inside (fill out speakers cards before)
Anti-fascist activist and teacher Yvette Felarca has been removed from her classroom at Martin Luther King Jr Middle School in Berkeley, California, for helping stop a neo-Nazi recruitment rally on the steps of the state capitol in Sacramento this summer.
After Ms. Felarca was stabbed and beaten by the fascists, terror threats were made against her and the school if she’s not fired. Instead of defending the entire community, including Ms. Felarca, the school district is capitulating to the neo-Nazis’ demands by taking disciplinary measures against her and removing her from her job.
Prior to being put on administrative leave on September 21 the school district reached back into her bank account after depositing her wages, and took them back out, suddenly challenging previously approved sick days and leaves already taken.
Since then, both current and former students have been pulled out of class and interrogated about her, without their parents’ informed consent, targeting immigrant and limited english speaking families in particular.
Ms. Felarca has been teaching ELD (English as a Second Language) and Humanities at King Middle School for a decade. She is a member of the Executive Board of her union, the Berkeley Federation of Teachers (BFT), and is a founding member of the Equal Opportunity Now/By Any Means Necessary (EON/BAMN) Caucus, an organization working on civil rights issues.
The actions against Ms. Felarca are directly counter to the Berkeley school district’s historic embrace of the fight against racism and fascism. Three district schools are named after civil rights leaders – Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr, and Malcolm X, and Berkeley was one of the very first school districts to voluntarily desegregate.
Students from all grade levels – elementary, middle, and high school, as well as parents, fellow teachers from Berkeley and Oakland, and a diverse range of community members have been rallying in defense of Ms. Felarca. Please join us in speaking out:
Come to the school board on November 2, write to the board members, and encourage your unions, collectives, and congregations to write letters and resolutions in solidarity with Yvette Felarca.
Demand that she be reinstated immediately, repaid her full wages, and the harassment of her and her students be stopped!
Write to: boardofed@berkeley.net, Superintendent@berkeley.net,
CC: yvette.felarca@ueaa.net
An injury to one is an injury to all!
More Details and Background:
Grievance of Yvette Felarca: https://occupyoakland.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Grievance-of-Yvette-Felarca1.pdf
Press conference with Yvette Felarca and her lawyer, September 28: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHhVxvNt3vY
September 21 school board meeting, public comments by Yvette Felarca, her students who demonstrated how she helped empower them, parents who praised her teaching style and expressed concern about recent racist activities in the schools, fellow workers who wondered about the implications of the district’s actions for other teachers, and community members who told personal stories about fascism in their own lives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg2giLt6Fu4
October 5 rally outside the school board meeting, and public comments inside by more students, parents, teachers, and community members speaking in defense of Ms. Felarca. When board members refused to disclose their personal positions on whether she should continue to teach, and instead scurried off into a second, unagendized “closed session”, the community held its own meeting in the board room, with many more speaking out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdwuri1LFYI
October 19 school board meeting, more public comments in defense of Ms. Felarca, including a description of an interrogation by a student, remote participation from a former student who called in from Mexico City, and a standing ovation from one of the student representatives on the board: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az4GFkzEfSo
Report of what happened in Sacramento, and the neo-Nazis involved: http://antifasac.weebly.com/home/blood-in-the-valley-why-people-put-their-lives-on-the-line-to-run-nazis-out-of-sacramento
More about the fascist organizers of the Sacramento rally: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/06/27/violent-clashes-erupt-sacramento-between-white-nationalists-and-antifascists
Details about neo-Nazis converging in Berkeley prior to their attempted rally in Sacramento: https://itsgoingdown.org/big-nazis-on-campus/
Article about racist events at Berkeley High School over the last couple of years, including racist pages in the yearbook which had to be recalled, a noose hanging from a tree, and a terror threat citing the KKK on a school computer, which resulted in a walkout by the majority of students: http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/11/04/racist-threats-posted-on-berkeley-high-library-computer/
Come stand with the mothers of murdered children and family members from 12:00 – 2:00 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.