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Join CNA as we go door to door to talk to residents about SB 562, the bill that would establish a single payer, Medicare-for-All health care system in California.
Suds, Snacks, & Socialism at the Starry Plough
Women, War, Peace, and Socialism
International Women’s Day has become a corporate-led exercise in identity politics, but this wasn’t always the case. International Working Women’s Day was started by socialist women with a working class agenda. After a brief presentation on the origins of IWD, we will turn to our speakers, Cindy Sheehan, PFP candidate for Vice President (2012) and Ann Garrison, KPFA reporter and antiwar activist, to discuss the role of women in resisting war, making peace, and fighting for liberation.
FREE! (Please buy food & drink at the Pub.) FREE!
This is part of our on-going Socialist Forum Series on the first Saturday of every month. Doors open at 2 pm and the program will start promptly at 2:30 pm. The forum will end by 4:30 pm, but folks can stay and talk as long as you like. Speaker’s affiliations are listed for identification only. The opinions expressed do not reflect the official views of the Peace and Freedom Party.
For information, contact Gene: 510-332-3865 email: cuyleruyle [at] mac.com
The Peace and Freedom Party, born from the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s, is committed to socialism, democracy, ecology, feminism, racial equality, and internationalism.
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org
NARRATIVE
About International Working Women’s Day, the Russian Revolution, and Socialism
Although International Women’s Day has morphed into a corporate-led exercise in identity politics, this was not always the case. International Working Women’s Day was organized by socialist women with a working class, socialist agenda. As Clara Zetkin (1857-1933), the Founder of International Working Women’s Day, noted in 1896. “The liberation struggle of the proletarian woman cannot be similar to the struggle that the bourgeois woman wages against the male of her class. On the contrary, it must be a joint struggle with the male of her class against the entire class of capitalists.”
Her close comrade, Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952) one of twelve members of the Bolshevik Central Committee who led the October Revolution, wrote in 1920: “This is not a special day for women alone. The 8th of March is a historic and memorable day for the workers and peasants, for all the Russian workers and for the workers of the whole world. On this day in 1917 the women of Petrograd raised the torch of proletarian revolution and set the world on fire. After the experience of the Russian October revolution, it is clear to every working woman in France, in England and in other countries that only the dictatorship of the working class, only the power of the soviets can guarantee complete and absolute equality,” Kollontai’s close comrade, Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), also understood that: “the success of a revolution depends on the participation of women. No party or revolution in the world has ever dreamed of striking so deep at the roots of the oppression and inequality of women as the Soviet revolution is doing.”
However, it was difficult to implement the Bolshevik’s radical program for women’s liberation with the poverty and ruin created by years of war, imperialist intervention, and Civil War. But as the Soviet Union industrialized, large numbers of women entered the labor force, many in good paying industrial jobs. The Bolsheviks encouraged women’s employment and education with vocational and professional training. And they created a massive system of day care institutions and workers’ dining halls.
The Soviet Union industrialized more rapidly than any other nation in history, before or after. The costs of industrialization were great, but the costs of not industrializing would have been even greater. Soviet women played an important role in the Antifascist war of 1941-45, both as workers and as soldiers.
Some 800,000 Soviet women volunteered to fight alongside men, many in combat roles. Among them was Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916-1974) listed as the third deadliest sniper of all time, male or female. Her 309 confirmed kills is nearly twice that Chris Kyle, who made millions with his best-selling book, American Sniper, The big difference was not numbers, however, but why they fought. Kyle was a sniper for U.S. imperialism, killing Iraqis in their homeland. On the other hand, Pavlichenko only killed Nazis who were invading her home. When asked how many men she had killed, Pavlichenko replied: “Not men. Fascists. Every Nazi who remains alive will kill women, children and old folks. Dead Nazis are harmless. Therefore, if I kill a Nazi, I am saving lives.” After the defeat of Fascism, Pavlichenko, who had a Masters Degree in History, worked as a researcher for the Soviet Navel Academy and enjoyed the benefits of all Soviet women, including full equality under the Soviet constitution, along with guaranteed employment and free health care and education for herself and her children-rights still only dreams for American women.
Women’s struggle for equality and socialism continues, even under the harshest conditions. We are also dedicating today’s program to a young Palestinian woman who just spent her 17th birthday in an Israeli prison. Ahed Tamimi, born Jan 30, 2001, was indicted by an Israeli military court after a video showing her slapping an Israeli soldier went viral. The incident occurred in the occupied West Bank after Israeli troops shot Tamimi’s 14-year-old cousin in the head with a rubber-coated steel bullet and fired tear gas canisters into her family’s home. Witnesses report that the soldier actually slapped the 16-year-old girl first, causing her to slap back. Nevertheless, according to Democracy Now, Jan 2, 2018, Israeli prosecutors are keeping Tamimi in jail while she awaits trial and a possible 10 year sentence. Who believes she will receive a fair trial?
Free Ahed Tamimi, End the Occupation
“The fight for net neutrality: an update & what we in SF can do to protect and promote equal access to the internet”
Trump’s FCC has taken steps to do away with net neutrality, which would undermine equal access to the internet in our country. But the fight is far from over. We will get an update from two outstanding Bay Area leaders and activists about the attack on net neutrality; why net neutrality is so crucial for our democracy and must be defended; and what we can do in San Francisco to protect it at all levels of government.
Speakers:
Tracy Rosenberg is the executive director of Media Alliance. She organizes and advocates for a free, accountable and accessible media system; monitors the mainstream media for accuracy and fair representation; and has facilitated the training of many groups in effective communications. She is published in newspapers and blogs around the country. She serves on the board of the Alliance for Community Media (Western Region), on the steering committee of the Media Action Grassroots Network and co-coordinates Oakland Privacy.
Katherine Trendacosta is a Policy Analyst at the Electronic Frontier foundation, focusing on intellectual property, net neutrality, fair use, free speech online, and intermediary liability. With a background as a writer and editor of science fiction and science, she got her JD at USC Gould School of Law, doing work with the USC Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic. She has major responsibility for Net Neutrality activism at EFF.
A fundraising party to celebrate, learn about, and support the work of Initiate Justice and their campaign to restore voting rights to people who are incarcerated or on parole in California. The party will include homemade appetizers, beverages, and a silent auction of artwork by incarcerated artists and others. Space is limited, please RSVP.
SURJ Bay Area and Panorama Framing are jointly sponsoring this event to raise awareness about and funding for the current campaign, organized by Initiate Justice, to restore voting rights in California for people who are incarcerated. The Voting Restoration and Democracy Act of 2018 would, if passed in November, remove the restrictions that prevent people in prison or on parole in California from voting. Representatives from Initiate Justice will join us to give a presentation and answer questions.
Denial of voting rights to currently and formerly incarcerated people has a long and sordid history in the US as part of the effort to maintain white supremacy by preventing Black and Brown people from gaining political power. There are approximately 162,000-180,000 people in California who cannot vote simply because they are in prison or on parole. A vastly disproportionate number of these folks are people of color, given the inequities in our prison industrial complex.
Most other developed countries, and 2 states in the U.S. (Maine and Vermont), do not remove people’s right to vote when they are sent to prison. Restoration of the fundamental right to vote has been shown to lower the risk of recidivism, promoting public safety as well as upholding principles of democracy and universal suffrage. For more info: https://
We invite you to join us in supporting this historic challenge to white supremacy as we work together to knock down one of the pillars of systemic racial injustice in California.
Accessibility Information
Ground floor storefront space for the event is accessible from the sidewalk without steps. A large bathroom on ground floor (all genders). Food will include vegan, vegetarian, and GF choices and both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. Likely will be standing room only (except for wheelchairs or people needing a chair). We encourage guests to avoid using scented products. Questions can be directed to jkgrether@gmail.com.
Join us this–and every Monday for an hour of singing in front of the old Oaks Theater at the top of Solano Avenue, Berkeley. Demonstrators have kept this rally going for over six years with their “Tax the Rich” and other timely signs and good spirits. We provide music; songbooks available. Come for a song, come for an hour.
As many of you know and can see, Oakland has been facing skyrocketing rates of homelessness, with the counts in our community increasing dramatically in recent years. We now have around 3,000 people unhoused in our community, and it is vital that we take significant action to expand solutions, and the funding for them, in our community. This situation is causing widespread suffering, as people are living in difficult situations in underpasses and sidewalks, often without access to water, bathrooms, and more. This endangers the entire community, both those with and without homes, and creates a potential for expanding blight and spread of disease.
Please join us for a community discussion around homeless solutions.
We will hear about a range of solutions, including use of “tiny homes” and shipping container conversion homes, tenant assistance and rapid rehousing, partnering with faith-based organizations and other community groups, and encouraging effective use of vacant properties.
This includes a proposal to pass a Ballot Measure to tax vacant properties, and dedicate the revenue to homeless solutions. By taxing vacant properties, this will help encourage people to put those properties back into use, thus, increasing the housing supply. Yhe money raised by the Measure would create a dedicated funding stream to support real homeless solutions, by ensuring they have a funding source that doesn’t have to be fought over each year. Funding would include sanitation and services, rapid rehousing, alternative housing structure solutions, navigation centers, and more.
See a recent article in The Nation describing inspiring local actions in various cities, which includes discussion of our proposed vacant property tax:
https://www.thenation.com/article/progressive-change-is-rocking-one-of-the-most-unlikely-places-in-philadelphia-the-das-office/
Also, you can read a submitted report for the Vacant Property Tax, and attached additional articles about the vacant property taxes in other cities, online at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D4ROx9q8MqLECdZA8B3KDU9Lg9Upc81Q/view
In addition, legislation is being brought forward to encourage and authorize the use of innovative solutions, including small homes and RVs, to be allowed on church lots and in partnership with other groups. A few months ago, during the north bay fires, some nearby communities lost thousands of housing units in one night. As a result, they quickly passed laws allowing use of innovative, rapid, and low-cost housing solutions, including RVs and trailers. While our housing crisis was not primarily caused by fire, it is no less of a crisis. We too should be embracing a range of strategies to help.
Seethe title/request for homeless Alternatives/tiny homes on community lots here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qv3_qA4ssY1bLCt76IbEfIyHetmzZmJZ/view
Join us to defend our immigrant communities!
STOP DEPORTATIONS!
DEFEND DACA!
PROTECT TPS!
March 5 is the initial expiration date for DACA that the Trump administration has set. Because of community organizing and legal advocacy, the date has been suspended. As the White House continues to threaten our immigrant communities, DACA is still in jeopardy, and many TPS holders’ lives hang in the balance.
Join us on March 5: We, the community, will continue to love and protect each other.
We will be hosting another mail night to respond to the increasing amount of correspondence we’ve been receiving from people in prisons and jails across the Country. We are getting lots of questions about prior ballot initiatives, advocacy support, requests for pen pals, responses from letter sent during previous letter writing nights, and the Ella Baker Center’s work at large. Dinner with vegetarian options will be provided. Please RSVP to emily@ellabakercenter.org.
Join us for the Bay Area premier of the new short film “Transforming California from Red to Blue: How Community Organizing Changed the Political Landscape”
The film documents the success of social movements in California in creating a more progressive political atmosphere in the state, pushing for policies and legislation that challenged dog whistle politics, xenophobia and structural racialization. Through interviews with key movement leaders and historical footage, the 10-minute video documents an important chapter in the California story. Following the film, a panel of activists will discuss the video and the significance of the gains made, as well as the challenges ahead.
Free. Wheel chair accessible. Food and drink will be provided
The Internet Archive presents the first ever Military Powerpoint Karaoke: a night of “Powerpoint Karaoke” using presentations in the Military Industrial Powerpoint Complex collection at archive.org that were thoughtfully extracted during the Internet Archive’s most recent end-of-term web crawl. The event will take place on Tuesday, March 6th at 7:30pm at our headquarters in San Francisco. The show will be preceded by a reception at 6:30 pm, when doors will also open.
Also known as “Battle Decks,” Powerpoint Karaoke is an improvisational and art event where audience members give a presentation using a set of Powerpoint slides that they’ve never seen before. There are three rules: 1) The presenter cannot see the slides before presenting; 2) The presenter delivers each slide in succession without skipping slides or going back; and 3) The presentation ends when all slides are presented, or after 5 minutes (whichever comes first). We’re thrilled to have Rick Prelinger, creator of Lost Landscapes and Prelinger Archive, and Avery Trufelman of 99% Invisible, joining us to deliver headlining Powerpoint decks. The rest of the presentations will be delivered by you — the audience members who sign up.
This event will use, as its source material, a curated collection of the Internet Archive’s Military Industrial Powerpoint Complex, a special project for the Internet Archive’s 20th Anniversary in which IA staff extracted all the Powerpoint files openly available from the government’s “.mil” web domain. This collection contains over 57,000 Powerpoint decks, each charged with material that ranges from the violent to the banal, featuring attack modes, leadership styles, harness types, and modes for requesting vacation days from the US Military. As a whole, this collection forms a unique snapshot into our government’s Military Industrial Complex.
This event is organized by artists/archivists Liat Berdugo and Charlie Macquarie in partnership with the Internet Archive.
MERCHANTS OF DOUBT, co-presented by the Citizens’ Climate Lobby.
A documentary that looks at pundits-for-hire who present themselves as scientific authorities as they speak about topics like toxic chemicals, pharmaceuticals and climate change.
We’re at an important crossroads on how law enforcement agencies and courts are using big data and new technologies. Will they be used to reduce incarceration rates or to exacerbate unjust, biased enforcement patterns in policing? This is the moment to ask hard questions about how these systems are developed, and what kinds of checks are in place to ensure they meet high ethical standards.
We’ll explore the challenges and opportunities of these new systems and offer ideas on ways forward with a distinguished panel of experts in law, policing, and big data. This forum is part of Impact Justice’s Impact:Ideas series of occasional conversations, book discussions and panels designed to provoke fresh ideas about the future of our criminal justice system. The panel will feature:
- George Gascón, the District Attorney for the City and County of San Francisco. Prior to his appointment in 2011, Gascon served as Chief of the San Francisco Police Department. During his tenure as DA, Gascón has implemented a series of reforms and initiatives focused on bringing more data-driven solutions to preventing crime and recidivism. Most recently, he has led efforts to reduce the role of money in pre-trial decision-making, increasing the use of risk assessments and diversion programs in San Francisco bail and sentencing decisions.
- Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, a professor of law at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law and a nationally-recognized expert on the use of big data systems in policing. His new book, The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement, examines how surveillance technology and predictive analytics shape modern policing.
- Christy Lopez, a distinguished visitor at Georgetown Law School and former Deputy Chief in the Special Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. While at DOJ, Professor Lopez led the team that investigated the Ferguson Police Department as well as investigations of many other law enforcement agencies, including the Chicago Police Department and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. She also served as a federal court monitor of the Oakland Police Department.
- Antoinette Davis (moderator), Director of Impact Justice’s Research and Action Center. She is an expert in research, analysis, and evaluation, particularly around criminal and juvenile justice system reform. Her work is centered on finding strength-based solutions to complex systemic and social issues. She is currently leading several multi-site, mixed method research projects and has authored research reports on such topics as youth incarceration and the harmful effects of adult incarceration on girls.
Please join us! Light refreshments will be served.
“Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America”Advance tickets: $12: 800-838-3006, Books Inc/Berkeley, Pegasus Books (3 sites), Moe’s, Walden Pond Bookstore, Mrs. Dalloway’s. East Bay Books, $15 door, KPFA benefit, wheelchair access, more info: kpfa.org/events
Born and raised in Norway, now living in Brooklyn, Vegas Tenold is an award-winning journalist. For years he has covered the far right in America, as well as human rights in Russia, conflict in central Africa and the Middle East, and national security in the United States. A graduate of Columbia University’s School of Journalism, he has published work in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, New Republic, and Al Jazeera America.
Six years ago, when Tenold began reporting from the inner circle of three American white Nationalist groups-the KKK, the National Socialist Movement, and the Traditionalist Workers Party-he found himself deep in the midst of small, disorganized groups operating well outside the mainstream, and often covertly. But as the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville made clear, all that has changed. Everything You Love Will Burn is a startling inside look at these newly empowered movements, from their violent conventions to their backroom meetings with Republican operatives.
Tenold introduces us to neo-Nazis in Brooklyn, a millennial Klanswoman in Tennessee, and a rising star in the far right movement nicknamed “the Little Fuhrer,” who sent Tenold a text on election night gloating, “Everything you love will burn.” Alternately frightening and fascinating, Everything You Love Will Burn shows us the onrushing future of hatred in America.
Kevin Cartwright has been a radio producer, media trainer and music programmer for Pacifica Radio station KPFA-FM since 1994.
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/320…
March 8th Call-in & Email Supervisors
Stop Urban Shield for Good!
This is a pivotal moment in the Stop Urban Shield campaign. Get READY! This month we will mobilize to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors vote to defund Urban Shield and put an end to Sheriff Ahern’s racist policing program and weapons expo.
No money ($1.5 million), No Program.
On Tuesday, February 27th you and the Stop Urban Shield coalition helped the Alameda County Board of Supervisors understand and challenge a major report given to them by the Urban Shield Task Force. A report meant to help them decide on the continuation of Urban Shield. 3 of the 5 Supervisors (Keith Carson, Wilma Chan, and Richard Valle) actually challenged Sheriff Ahern on the impacts of militarized policing. They named racial profiling, trigger-happy cops, and called ICE terrorists in the wake of the Bay Area ICE Raids.
But, they’re scared by the Sheriff’s fear-driven campaign, and they aren’t swayed yet. We want to thank them for taking the threats to their communities seriously and for listening to their constituents. They need to know they aren’t alone in making a huge decision about emergency preparedness for their district. They need to know the people want life-affirming emergency preparedness, and that we’re with them.
Two Ways You Can Act:
1) Email or Call Supervisors Carson, Chan and Valle (see email and phone script) by Monday, March 12th.
2) Prepare to mobilize To Alameda County Board of Supervisors, 1221 Oak Street, Oakland, CA. The meeting can happen as early as next week so it is important to make calls and be on the lookout for action alerts.
This is an important moment. The Supervisors are expressing rising mistrust and anger with the Sheriff. Let’s use this moment to channel their anger into a REAL WIN. You’ve been with us a long time. Let’s STOP URBAN SHIELD.
Email & Phone Script – Please email or call the following Supervisors:
Keith Carson: phone: (510) 272-6695 or email: amy.shrago@acgov
Wilma Chan: phone: 510.272.6693 or email: jeanette.dong@acgov.org
Richard Valle: phone: 510.272.6692 or email: christopher.miley@acgov.org
Hi, my name is ____ and I am a member of the Stop Urban Shield Coalition.
[If you are a resident or worker in the Supervisors District, please name that as well. For example: I am a resident of Supervisor Chan’s district. Or Supervisor Carson represents me. I work in Supervisor Valle’s district.]
I am calling/emailing to thank Supervisor [fill in the their name] for their rigorous examination of the Urban Shield Task Force report and Sheriff Ahern’s role in sponsoring racist training programs for emergency responders. As a resident of Alameda County, I am encouraged to see Supervisor [fill in their name] and others taking the impact of militarized policing on our communities and their constituents seriously.
You work everyday for a safer Alameda County. You already know Sheriff Ahern’s connections with ICE and the recent ICE raids, his support of racial profiling, and Urban Shiled (the program that builds up all of this) do not keep our communities safer. I am asking you to defund Urban Shield when it comes up for vote this month, whether it’s Tuesday March 13th or later. You have a chance to stand for life-affirming emergency preparedness in our county, and I am with you. Thank you.
Catherine Crump & Andrew Guthrie Ferguson
This event will feature a conversation between scholars interested in issues related to surveillance, policing, and civil liberties. In his talk, The Rise of Big Data Policing, Andrew Guthrie Ferguson will focus on how cutting-edge technology is changing how the police do their jobs, and why it is more important than ever that citizens understand the far-reaching consequences of big data surveillance as a law enforcement tool. He will reveal how these new technologies – viewed as race-neutral and objective – have been eagerly adopted by police departments hoping to distance themselves from claims of racial bias and unconstitutional practices. Yet behind the data are real people, and difficult questions remain about racial discrimination and the potential to distort constitutional protections.
In her presentation, Surveillance Policy Making By Procurement, Catherine Crump will discuss ways in which federal funding for surveillance equipment disrupts local accountability mechanisms that typically regulate policing. These federal funding programs generally are designed to prevent terrorism but in reality are overwhelmingly used for routine law enforcement purposes. The talk will discuss in detail the structural and institutional features that lead local law enforcement agencies to adopt surveillance technology that is out of step with community norms, and will review the ways in which some local communities have passed laws in an attempt to address this issue systematically.
A light lunch is included for attendees who RSVP in advance.
WOMEN’S STRIKE RALLY: International Women’s Day of Action in the East Bay
Sponsors: International Women’s Strike Bay Area & Bay Area Reproductive Justice
As part of the International Women’s Strike movement, in the East Bay we call for:
* 24 hours of action on March 8th
*12pm/ lunch-time : Local Speak-Out/ Strike Action @ our local workplaces, schools, and neighborhoods to make our presence visible, wearing red, and being vocal about women and LGBTQI, immigrant and people of color rights, as well as those with disabilities
* 4.30pm to 6pm: REGIONAL RALLIES–Oscar Grant Plaza in Oakland
Last Year on March 8th, women of every kind, marched, stopped works, and took over the street in fifty different countries across the world. March 8th, 2018 is coming and things have gotten worse for us a women in this country.
We will go on strike against gender violence—against the men who commit violence and against the system that protects them. Racialized gender violence is international, as must be the campaign against it. US imperialism, militarism and settler colonialism foster misogyny throughout the world.
The #METOO, #USTOO, #TIMESUP campaigns made visible the gender violence that haunts women’s everyday lives. We do not willingly keep our mouths shut. We are forced into a racist, sexist power structure by capitalism.
The recently passed “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” guts exemptions that benefit low-wage workers, the vast majority of whom are women. Corporations got a hefty tax break, from 35% down to 21%, while plans are afoot to savage Medicaid and Medicare—two programs that support the elderly and the poor, the sick and the disabled, family planning and children—and hence women, who do most of the care work. . .
Trump has announced that welfare reform is his next target which is bound to further impoverish single mother families. Already in the US, women and our children are 70% of the poor. The work of mothers producing and reproducing all of society is not valued and we are not counted as workers, but as charity cases.
On March 8th, we will speak out against violent and abusive systems of power and privilege that deny women and all vulnerable others, the possibility of health, dignity and a safe life.
We call on local unions, both elected officials and rank and file workers, as well as labor councils to actively engage with this re-emerging independent, non-corporate, and grassroots women’s movement, for we believe our unions and working class women have been and should continue to be at the center of this struggle.
https://www.womenstrikeus.org/event/east-bay-international-womens-day-of-action/
https://www.womenstrikeus.org
This meeting will include a discussion of the proposed Enabling Legislation for Measure LL which will provide details on the structure and operations of the Police Commission, the Inspector General and the Community Police Review Agency (CPRA).
The Coalition’s suggested edits to the Ordinance will be discussed. Of particular importance is our insistence that there be legal counsel for both the Agency and the Commission that is not part of the City Attorney’s office in order to protect the independence of the process. We encourage the community to come out and echo this point.
August 9, 2014, in the wake of the brutal
police shooting of Michael Brown the
people of Ferguson, Missouri rose up.
Like Montgomery, Ala. 60 years before
gave birth to the Civil Rights Movement
and the prominence of Martin Luther King,
the defiance of the people in Ferguson,
gave birth to a new wave of struggle.
The Black Lives Matter movement
emerged and with it a new clarion call to
struggle for justice.
Speaker:
Kimberly Jade Norwood
Henry H. Oberschelp professor of law;
Professor of African & African American studies;
Author of Ferguson’s Fault Lines: The
Quake that Rocked the Nation and
Color Matters: Skin Tone Bias and the
Myth of Post Racial America will provide us with a
personal discussion on the quest for racial justice post Ferguson.
Film:
Whose Streets: How the Killing of 18 Year Old Michal Brown Inspired a Community to Fight
Back — A People’s Documentary. Director Sabaah Folyan and Damon Douglas take an
unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising following the shooting of unarmed Michael Brown.
Whose Streets? is a powerful battle cry from a generation fighting not only for their Civil
Rights but for the right to live! The film aims to show how people stood together, resisted
together, and fought together in the name of love and justice for black people not only in their
city but around the world similar to the Civil Rights Movement.
♥♥ ADOLFO DELGADO ♥♥
“JESUS”
19 years old
Killed by SFPD on March 6th
Capp Street & 21st Street
Where Adolfo was killed by the SFPD
San Francisco
Note: This gathering is Youth-led and with permission of Adolfo’s Family.
All are welcome
“I don’t want to be deported!”
Adolfo Delgado “Jesus” was 19 years old when he was killed in a trunk by a barrage of 30 bullets fired by the SFPD on Tuesday, March 6, 2018.
On March 7th, friends and community members spoke of Adolfo, how he helped others and helped his Mother. Their words were powerful. The vigil and march were powerful and youth-led.
On Friday, March 9th, a Community Vigil has been called, All are welcomed, it is asked that people respect and follow the lead of the YOUTH, who are friends of Adolfo and members of the community.
It is also asked that all respect the family and lift them up in prayers. Please respect them and do not contact them.
From: Adriana C.
“Another thing learned last night…Gascon is charging the young man driving the car for manslaughter, not the cops. Because of a “you made me shoot him argument” that the cops are using. I don’t know who this young man is but we need to have his back too.”
Article from Mission Local:
19-year-old police shooting victim came to the U.S. as a child and grew up and worked in SF’s Mission (March 8, 2018)
On Saturday, March 10, join us as we kick off the campaign in the Bay Area for the Affordable Housing Act — a proposed ballot initiative that that will give our cities and counties the power to adopt rent control necessary to address the state’s housing affordability crisis by repealing the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act.
This Kick Off Event will be the first of many! Come learn more about repealing Costa-Hawkins and then we’ll hit the streets to gather signatures for the Affordable Housing Act!
