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May
29
Fri
Free Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar López Rivera
May 29 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Oscar López RiveraSupport the struggle for the self-determination and independence of the Puerto Rican people

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Join us

in calling for the release of
OSCAR LOPEZ RIVERA
Friday, May 29, 2015
Market & Powell St., SF
5:00 P.M. until 7:00 P.M.

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The San Francisco Support Committee for the unconditional release of Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar López Rivera, calls all political, civic, religious, labor unions and the community in general to join us to demand his freedom.

Oscar López Rivera has spent thirty four years of his life imprisoned due to his unbending commitment for the independence and self-determination of our Puerto Rican nation.

Petitions from all over the globe supporting his unconditional release have been sent to the President of the United States from Nobel Prize Laureates such as Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu from South Africa, and Carlos Esquivel from Argentina to name a few.

The current Governor of Puerto Rico, Alejandro Garcia Padilla, as well as countless Puerto Rican artists and celebrities, and U.S. Congressional representatives, such as Luis Gutiérrez, José Serrano and Nydia Velázquez, have also made their voices heard in support of his immediate and unconditional release.

Add your voice!

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For more info,
please call (510) 290-2312, or (510) 823-8262

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Partial list of endorsers:

Jack Heyman, Chairman Transport Workers Solidarity Committee*
Steve Zeltzer, United Public Workers for Action*
Howard Keylor, ILWU Local 10* (Retired Member)
ANSWER Coalition
Freedom Socialist Party
Radical Women
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* For identification purposes only

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Nov
10
Tue
Fight for $15 – National Day of Action – Oakland @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheatre
Nov 10 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

We’re standing together on November 10 to say, “We need a raise!” People across the country will be standing up with fast-food workers and all 64 million underpaid workers making less than $15, because it’s time for $15 for all workers. Together we’re turning the tide in favor of working people and our families. And we’ll need everyone’s help — including yours — to make this a reality.

RSVP here to receive email updates: http://fightfor15.org/s-petition/november-10-rsvp/

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We’ll call on corporate CEO’s to raise pay and respect our right to form unions without retaliation. Andf we’ll call on our elected representatives to stop letting the wealthy and powerful write the rules in their favor.

Together we can work to end racism and oppression, create a path to citizenship for immigrants, and fight for wages that strengthen our communities.

 

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Jun
29
Wed
Protest the Deforestation and Poisoning of the East Bay Hills by UC Berkeley @ UC Berkeley (Southside Entrance)
Jun 29 @ 12:00 pm

Protest the Deforestation and Poisoning

of the East Bay Hills by UC Berkeley

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Wednesday, June 29, 2016 – 12 Noon
UC Berkeley (Southside Entrance)
Bancroft Way and Telegraph Ave
Berkeley, California

map of targeted east bay forests

(Black areas: Targeted East Bay forests –  From: FEMA EBH EIS)

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STOP THE DEFORESTATION AND
POISONING OF THE EAST BAY HILLS!

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UC Berkeley, the East Bay Regional Park District, the City of Oakland, and others, with funding from FEMA and other public moneys, plan to kill over 450,000 healthy trees in the East Bay hills, some over a hundred years old, on over 2,000 acres of public lands from Point Richmond to Castro Valley.
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The destruction has already started, and is expected to escalate as early as August, the end of the official nesting season, unless we stop it.
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Millions of animals will die from the loss of homes and food and the devastation left by bulldozers, chainsaws, and poison, and the air quality and climate in the Bay Area will suffer. Large amounts of herbicides are planned to be applied over a 10-year period, including Roundup (glyphosate, Monsanto), Garlon (triclopyr, Dow), and Stalker (imazapyr, BASF).
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These pesticides have been shown to cause serious health problems in both humans and animals, as well as complex negative ecological impacts on forest organisms. They persist in the soil, and have found their way into watersheds and ground water. Roundup has been banned in many countries because of its toxicity, and the World Health Organization recently classified glyphosate as a 2A probable carcinogen. The poison would affect everyone who uses the parks, and wash into the bay from the creeks. Do we need more cancer and chronic illness?
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When asked for public comment about one of the most important parts of cities — our parks and open space — of the 13,000 people who responded, 90% opposed the plans. Since then, over 65,000 have signed a petition demanding the projects be stopped. Why is the will of the people being ignored?
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Under the guise of fire safety, the agencies involved plan to kill moisture-rich forests that precipitate over 10 inches of water from fog drip in the midst of drought.  According to FEMA, the goal is to transform much of the East Bay parks landscape into “grassland with islands of shrubs”, but this will increase fire danger by creating a highly flammable environment where fires can spread quickly, driven by winds unimpeded by tall trees. Our once beautiful parks will be barren and desolate, and when the rains start, the landslides will come.
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These destructive actions are driven in large part by the ideology that the eucalyptus, acacia, and Monterey pines are non-native plants, that are harmful to native ecosystems. Conservation biologist David Theodoropoulos thoroughly debunked this ideology at a recent event in Berkeley, viewable online at youtube.com/watch?v=n1i3RP7eDFc
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Eucalyptus are the preferred nesting site for eagles, hawks, and large owls, and preferred resting site for migrating Monarch butterflies. They also feed hummingbirds, bees, and other pollinators. Monterey pines create incredible animal and plant diversity. A survey of 173 ornithologists reported that 47% of birds eat from non-native plants.
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In spite of the myths, eucalyptus are actually less flammable than native bay laurels. Firefighter David Maloney, appointed to the Oakland-Berkeley Mayors’ Firestorm Task Force to investigate the causes of the 1991 Hills Fire and make recommendations to prevent its recurrence, said:
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“The Task Force Report concluded that the spread of the fire was mostly due to the radiant heat generated by burning houses… The spread of the fire was not due primarily to burning trees — eucalyptus or any other species.”

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For more details, visit these websites:

SaveEastBayHills.org
MillionTrees.me
HillsConservationNetwork.org
EastBayPesticideAlert.org/wpad.html
TreeSpiritProject.com/sfbayclearcut
BAPD.org/trees.html

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Get in touch, and get involved:

Coalition to Defend East Bay Forests
Contact: defendeastbayforests@riseup.net
Alerts: lists.riseup.net/www/info/eastbayforests-info
Info: facebook.com/CoalitiontoDefendEastBayForests

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No Clearcuts, No Pesticides

Defend East Bay Forests!

 

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Sep
29
Thu
BANNERS FOR HAITI ELECTION HAITI RISES HANDS OFF HAITI I80 BERKELEY @ I80 FREE WAY BIKE PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE BERKELEY
Sep 29 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Hold large banners for freeway traffic to see this is a legal demonstration

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Oct
17
Mon
Return Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca to Her Classroom! Stop Interrogations and Harassment of Students! @ Martin Luther King Jr Middle School
Oct 17 @ 8:00 am – 8:30 am

Return Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca to Her Classroom! Stop Interrogations and Harassment of Students!




Rally in front of King Middle School

Monday, October 17, 2016


8-8:30 am

1781 Rose St. (at Grant), Berkeley, California

(rally with signs and banners, and distribute flyers before school starts)




Also:

 
Protest and Speak-Out at School Board Meeting
Wednesday, October 19, 2016


6:30pm Rally outside
2020 Bonar Street (at University), Berkeley California

7:30pm Speak out inside (fill out speakers cards before)
1231 Addison Street (around the corner from 2020 Bonar)




Anti-fascist activist and teacher Yvette Felarca continues to be prevented from returning to her classroom at Martin Luther King Jr Middle School after being placed on administrative leave.

After she helped stop a neo-Nazi recruitment rally in Sacramento this summer, and was stabbed in the process, terror threats were made against Ms. Felarca and the school if she’s not fired, and instead of defending the entire community, including Ms. Felarca, the school district is capitulating to the neo-Nazis’ demands by removing her from her job.


The school district also took some of her wages back out of her bank account. Both current and former students continue to be pulled out of class and interrogated about her, now with parental notification, but the nature of the ‘interviews’ are being misrepresented.

At the last school board meeting students from all grade levels – elementary, middle, and high school, parents, fellow teachers from Berkeley and Oakland, and a diverse range of community members rallied 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. Video of the rally and school board meeting can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdwuri1LFYI




Voice your solidarity with Yvette Felarca, and demand that she be reinstated immediately, repaid her full wages, and the harassment of her and her students be stopped: boardofed@berkeley.net, Superintendent@berkeley.net

 

 

Defend Yvette Felarca!


Non-sectarian defense of all anti-fascists!


An injury to one is an injury to all!





For more information:


Press conference with Yvette Felarca and her lawyer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHhVxvNt3vY


Details 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/


   

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Oct
19
Wed
Return Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca to Her Classroom! Stop Interrogations and Harassment of Students! @ Berkeley Unified School District
Oct 19 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Return Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca to Her Classroom! Stop Interrogations and Harassment of Students!




 
Protest and Speak-Out at School Board Meeting
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
 
6:30pm Rally outside
2020 Bonar Street (at University), Berkeley California
 
7:30pm Speak out inside (fill out speakers cards before)
1231 Addison Street (around the corner from 2020 Bonar)




Anti-fascist activist and teacher Yvette Felarca continues to be prevented from returning to her classroom at Martin Luther King Jr Middle School after being placed on administrative leave.

After she helped stop a neo-Nazi recruitment rally in Sacramento this summer, and was stabbed in the process, terror threats were made against Ms. Felarca and the school if she’s not fired, and instead of defending the entire community, including Ms. Felarca, the school district is capitulating to the neo-Nazis’ demands by removing her from her job.


The school district also took some of her wages back out of her bank account. Both current and former students continue to be pulled out of class and interrogated about her, now with parental notification, but the nature of the ‘interviews’ are being misrepresented.

At the last school board meeting students from all grade levels – elementary, middle, and high school, parents, fellow teachers from Berkeley and Oakland, and a diverse range of community members rallied 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. Video of the rally and school board meeting can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdwuri1LFYI




Voice your solidarity with Yvette Felarca, and demand that she be reinstated immediately, repaid her full wages, and the harassment of her and her students be stopped: boardofed@berkeley.net, Superintendent@berkeley.net

 

 

Defend Yvette Felarca!


Non-sectarian defense of all anti-fascists!


An injury to one is an injury to all!





For more information:


Press conference with Yvette Felarca and her lawyer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHhVxvNt3vY


Details 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/


      

61839
Nov
7
Mon
Protest Extreme Rent and Fee Hikes at Trailer Haven, and all around San Leandro @ San Leandro City Hall
Nov 7 @ 6:00 pm

Rally to Protest Against Extreme Rent and Fee Hikes at Trailer Haven, and all around San Leandro

Monday 11/7/16


6 pm in front of City Hall (835 East 14th St.) to tell our stories.
Bring signs, and since they have not been listening, bring pots to
make some joyful noise!

 

7 pm City Council meeting
5:30 Trailer Haven residents can meet at Space 24. We’ll be carpooling

 


Let’s remind them we’re people, families, we have beloved pets, we have neighbors who are too ill to be able to join us, and others who would become homeless if this is not stopped. We own our homes; yet, we are held ransom to a group of corporate investors that sees us only as a means to their quick wealth. Not only have the new owners made dramatic rent hikes, but our home values have dropped overnight $10,000 for each $100 raise in rent/fees, according to the Golden State Manufactured Owners League. The greed we’re seeing here, of over 30% hikes in rent and fees, has to be stopped but no City, County, State, or Federal politician has agreed to help. Not one. Our City Council Member Deborah Cox has NEVER responded since a first letter 7/25. To top it off, since a month ago we’re having sewer backups and overflows on the West side of the park because of the owners not paying to have the needed work to clean out the pipes correctly. Then, when a water pipe burst 1-1/2 weeks after we got the rent hike letter, the pipe was not replaced; only a band-aid job was done. WE DESERVE BETTER!

 

Info: Max Ventura 510-895-2312

 

Please help get the word out. And if you come fragrance-free you’ll be helping to make this event more accessible to more people. Thank you!

61894
Nov
10
Thu
TRUMP PROTEST RALLY @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Nov 10 @ 5:00 pm – 11:45 pm

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Apr
22
Sat
Berkeley March for Science @ Sproul Plaza
Apr 22 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Today’s political environment bears witness to unprecedented attacks on truth, science, and our planet. This Earth Day, April 22nd, we march to affirm that:

– public funding for scientific research is a social good
– climate change is real
– environmental abuses are human rights abuses
– scientific truths are not subject to political manipulation
– scientists MUST engage with government to support these truths

Bring your lab coats! Bring your rally signs! We gather together to defend our planet and our institutions through civic engagement and sustained political action at local, state, and federal levels.

RESIST!

Please note: This event is in the evening, so it will be possible to support both this march and other marches for science in San Francisco or Sacramento, or to participate in UC Berkeley’s Cal Day. We support ALL efforts to promote Earth rights and science literacy on this important day, and we want all to have the opportunity to fully participate!

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Apr
30
Sun
Justice For Angel Ramos @ South Vallejo Community Center
Apr 30 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

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Jun
17
Sat
Rally Against Injustice: Rally For Philando Castille @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Jun 17 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

 

The Bay Area refuses to accept the final verdict for the officer who shot and killed our son, Philando Castile, on July 6, 2016. Join us to voice our intolerance for this injustice on Saturday June 17th.

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BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING, SHARE THIS EVENT NOW! 🚨

The Bay Area refuses to accept the final verdict made by the jury members in Minnesota this past week. The officer who shot and killed Philando Castile, while his wife and daughter were present, IS GUILTY.

There is no debate, and there is no justification for murdering an innocent man. Oakland wishes to stand in solidarity with Philando’s family, and we wish to voice our intolerance for police terror NOW. There is no time to wait–the system has and continues to fail black folks in Amerikkka.

RALLY: 6:00 PM
MARCH: 7:30 PM

Bring signs, drums, any materials to make your voice heard. THE BAY AREA STANDS WITH PHILANDO CASTILE AND HIS FAMILY. WE WILL FIGHT AND DEMAND JUSTICE FOR BLACK LIVES.

#BLACKLIVESMATTER

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Jun
19
Mon
Living Graveyard Protest @ Oakland Federal Building
Jun 19 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Living Graveyard (monthly protest)

Covered with sheets to represent the dead of wars, people lie down on the city sidewalk in front of the Federal Building, This is legal, non-violent witness.  People stop, look and think. (Bring your own sheet)

Iraqi Deaths 2,973,613
U.S. Deaths 4,520   Coalition 4,841

Syrian Deaths, unknown
 
Afghan Deaths 30,000+
U.S. Deaths in Afghanistan 2,399  Coalition 3,535

Pakistani Deaths over 1,000 from drone attacks

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63283
Jun
28
Wed
Demand Promised Jobs for the Formerly Incarcerated @ Alameda County Board of Supervisors
Jun 28 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

63319
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.

63351
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.

63332
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.

63351
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

63344
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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