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![10/25 |
UC Students walk off campus! Part of
national day of action
—excerpt from SF Gate
“mainstream local news outlet
Hundreds of students at University of California, Berkeley participated in a
walkout Wednesday afternoon in support of Palestine and calling for an
end to American support for Israel. Led by several student organizations...
the walkout was part of a larger national day of student demonstrations.
Protesting students, many who had walked out of their classes, called for
an end to what they describe as retaliatory bombing earlier this month, as
well as the occupation which students at the rally called "systemized
genocide" and complicity on the part of many American politicians,
companies, and weapons manufacturers. The groups involved titled the
rally "Walk Out Against Genocide, Settler-Colonialism and the Siege on
Gaza.” A lecturer in the Ethnic Studies...spoke at the event in support of
the students rallying. "We really have to show the utmost support and
respect for students that are doing organizing under the most extreme
conditions, being targeted not only from external forces but also their own
professors," they said... Students from other campuses also attended,
such as a student at UC Irvine. “Palestinians for decades have been
dealing with all sorts of human rights abuses on behalf of the Israeli
government," the Irvine student said. "They've been subjected to
bombings that have wiped out thousands of their civilians. It's a human
rights issue for me.”
Excerpt from the SF Chronicle:
“Wednesday’s rally was [not combative], though there was a
brief scuffle when several pro-Palestinian protesters tried to
take an Israeli flag from one student, and one alleged hit the
student in the head with a metal water bottle. The protesters
said the student was waving the flag in their faces, yet the
Zionist student told police the attack was unprovoked.”](newsreel-2-imposed-color 47.png)
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Youth take streets for a bike ride in
dedication to Juan Diego Bernal; murdered
by Sheriff & CHP, followed by community
vigil
Aug 5, 2023 (report from mainstream news)
https://www.instagram.com/justiceforjuandiego/
ASHLAND/HAY WARD
Family and friends of Juan
Diego Bernal Yuriar, a
young man murdered in
his car by police in &
Ashland held a bike ride to §
raise conciseness and §
“demand justice for the
tragic police killing" in the
East Bay. Juan Diego was
murdered in the early
hours on July 3rd
by California Highway Patrol and Alameda County Sheriff's
deputies and officers. He was 20 years old. The family has since
demanded the release of bodycam footage on the night of his death.
This was a demand of the bike ride, as it took the roads up for an hour
through Hayward. Juan Diego’s family says he was unarmed and had
just returned from watching fireworks with his friends. The event
started at 2 p.m. at the Heritage Plaza in Hayward and concluded
with a vigil on 163rd Avenue in San Leandro, where people prayed,
ate, and gathered in his memorial.
8/11 |
March to Stop Cop Campus
forces city to cancel “ground breaking” ceremony
excerpt from
Is California’s ‘Cop Campus’
the Next Cop City Fight?
article in mainstream media
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The city of San Pablo, California, has approximately 30,000 residents and a city
budget of $66.4 million. The city’s new proposed police training center is expected
to cost $43.6 million. On Saturday, protesters plan to march in opposition to the
San Pablo Police Department Headquarters and Regional Training Center. The
project, dubbed “Cop Campus” by critics, is a proposed 42,000 square-foot
development, complete with a virtual reality simulator and 20-lane gun range.
Though city officials lauded the development as “the largest public works project
the city has undertaken in its history,’ opponents began mobilizing against the
facility this summer, the Bay City News Foundation first reported. That “Stop Cop
Campus” movement comes alongside a ‘Stop Cop City” movement in Georgia,
where a proposed $90-million police training facility has attracted large protests.
San Pablo already has a relatively new police training center. In addition to police
headquarters, the city opened a police training facility in 2019. That facility serves
San Pablo’s 59 police officers and 31 civilian employees, as well as officers from
other cities, the Bay City News Foundation reported. But by October 2021, the city
was already looking for its next training center. That month, the city announced
plans to build a new facility that would include a shooting range, simulator rooms, a
“drone technology center,” and fitness area. The estimated cost, at the time, was
“$30 to $35 million (depending on bid climate).” Since then, the projected budget
has ballooned, with the city funneling in new reserve cash after funding shortfalls. In
January, the city gave the project a $5.4 million cash infusion to make up for one
such funding gap, followed by another $5 million in February.
The city is funding the rest of the project with “lease payments on city owned
assets,” according to Bay City and $4.4 million from the COVID-era American
Rescue Act. City officials have noted the potential to train police from outside San
Pablo at the new facility, possibly attracting business to other San Pablo
establishments. ‘Once constructed, the City hopes to maximize the versatility of
this new law enforcement facility to serve the residents of San Pablo and to
provide a regional training center for other local law enforcement agencies,” a city
bulletin reads.““Such engagement with other agencies is expected to yield local
economic spillover to local businesses and to contribute to the City’s economic
tax base for years to come.” But the price tag has drawn criticism from area
activists, who have questioned whether the money might be better spent
elsewhere.
“What would you like $42M of tax payer money go to??” wrote one Bay Area
Instagram account, which uploaded footage from a Stop Cop Campus protest last
month. “Maybe school improvements, housing or programs?” Some of those
activists took their movement offline with a protest at the facility's planned
groundbreaking on Aug. 10.The city called off the groundbreaking ceremony due to
“operational concerns and logistics,” and might never officially reschedule it,
the Bay City News Foundation reported. More of these protest marches are
promised to come. Stop Cop Campus activists have tied their cause to the ongoing
Stop Cop City protests in Atlanta, Georgia, where a proposed police training
facility in a city forest has drawn criticism for its cost, its potential environmental
impact, and its implications for over-policing in Atlanta.“The fight against Cop
Campus is one of the several movements spurred by the struggle to stop building
‘Cop City; a proposed 85-acre, $90,000,000 police training compound, including a
large film soundstage for Blackhall Studios, in the Weelaunee Forest of Atlanta,
Georgia that has been ongoing since activists first learned about the projects in
April 2021,” activists with the Stop Cop Campus movement wrote in a statement
ahead of their August protest.
People are saying the most powerful way activists can support the movement to
end police expansion in Atlanta is to stop it here in San Pablo. Furthermore, one of
the more powerful ways you can help the movement against policing in your own
local area is by plugging in to a struggle against a proposed training facility near you.
WITH HAZARDOUS
MATERIALS IN:
CALDECOTT TUNNEL
International Week of Solidarity With Anarchist Prisoners:
A Message From Occupied Ohlone/Miwok Territory
On August 21 2023, approximately 20 people gathered in San Francisco to write letters in
solidarity with imprisoned revolutionaries, liberationists, insurrectionists, and anti-colonial
warriors facing state repression around the globe. In commemoration of both BLACK
AUGUST and INTERNATIONAL WEEK OF SOLIDARITY WITH ANARCHIST PRISONERS,
people came together to read zines, share food, stories, and discuss the cases of numerous
anarchist prisoners.
At the end of the night, a small group of comrades dropped a banner over the 101 freeway in
San Francisco, declaring solidarity from the Bay Area with anarchist prisoners everywhere.
We encourage others to please take action this week; whether in the form of writing a letter
or dropping a banner - “Every sincere effort is as special as every human life.”
Love to all imprisoned anarchists! In the U.S. gulags, we send love to: Bill Dunne. Xinachtli.
Eric King. Jennifer Rose. Jessica Reznicek. Michael Kimble. Sean Swain. Sofia Johnson.
Hybachi Lemar. Marius Mason. Oso Blanco. Victor Puertas and all other anarchists
struggling from within the belly of the empire.
Beyond occupied Turtle Island, we send our love to: Francisco Solar and Monica Caballero.
Aldo Hernandez Valdés. Giannis Michailidis. Jorge “Yorch” Esquivel, Thanos Xatziagkelou
and Georgia Voulgaris. Alfredo Cospito. Fotis Daskalas. And all others fighting internationally
against the state in all forms.
FREE ALL imprisoned land defenders and water protectors. FREE ALL prisoners of the
George Floyd uprisings. FREE ALL prisoners of the Black Intifada and Ferguson uprisings.
FREE THEM ALL
Love to the comrades Krystal and Peppy, their community and loved ones.
Love to our fallen comrades. Vengeance for Tortuguita and every anarchist lost to the state.
Knife to the throat of fascism—nothing but hate for 12
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9/1 WALGREENS REDECORATED;
BANKO FOREVER
by Against the Tred Ass Toolbag
newsitems/2023, 1/4 18.phy
“At the Walgreens where Banko Brown
was murdered; we glued every single
lock shut and painted the entire
storefront with his name.”
‘The militant momentum generated by collective outrage at the murder of
Banko Brown had been successfully co-opted and quelled—not directly by the
state, but by one of its most powerful co-conspirators: liberal counter-
insurgency. Instead of riots, we got Pride parties, political parties, and non-
profit fundraisers; in place of radical action, we saw protests at City Hall with
members of the pro-police political aristocracy on the mic as well as liberal
demands to “jail killer cops” and furnish video of the murder that we did not
need to see in order to know that what was done to Banko demands of us
nothing less than to fight back with everything we have.
As has been the case with struggles locally and abroad for
and militant comrades committed to challenging the insidiousness of
neoliberalism have repeatedly been targeted and betrayed by NGOs/non-
. and libers in n radicals’ Clothing ow ho, although adepra at
activism, DElfication, respectability, veaponized ‘identities, sllyship/
accomplice politics, privilege theory, cultural essentialism, appeals to
representational “leadership,” etc., often driven by outright cowardice.
‘There is an alternative to investing ourselves in realms that are inherently
hostile to our fiery hunger for liberation.
Within this widespread context of intensified state repression, the growing
fascist right, and hyper-insidious liberal counter-insurgency, we call for serious
anti-state comrades, anarchist and communist, to turn toward each other.
Pivot away from a strategy that coalitions with liberal left activists, towards one
of strengthening our existing underground networks.
Center collective development of coherent analysis that shores up our defenses
from the liberal creep into our circles, whether that creep looks like anti-
oppression politics locally, or choosing sides in geopolitical wars between
capitalist states internationally.
Grow our capacities for clandestine action, and for defending what we have
built. Nurture our abilities for caring for and loving each other. The road
ahead will not be easy, and we have many enemies.
A recent clandestine communique from comrades fighting Cop City declared
that, under these current conditions, guerrilla struggle is the way forward.
We call for comrades locally to get active and reignite the fire of insurrectionary
vengeance for Banko in our realm; the streets.
For starters, there are hundreds of Walgreens locations. Pick one, or pick a
few.
We look forward to hearing about your adventures, and to meeting under
moonlight.
For Banko. For our revolutionary ancestors and revolutionary generations to
come. For Anarchy. For communism. For the attack!
9/4 ~ WALGREENS REDECORATED; BANKO FOREVER
Another day, another dollar's worth of corporate profit the Walgreens brass will have to spend to trying to
scrub away the blood tattooed across their hands.
It's us again. Protected by the Frisco fog, we hit another 3 Walgreens locations as humble acts of vengeance
for Banko Brown, paying homage to the spirit reanimated through our collective refusal to let him be
erased.
While those in power collude to daily reproduce the horrors of the news cycle, spinning their hamster
wheel of misfortune to make us forget, we reject their invitation. We will not let Banko's name be swept
under the rug.
We stand by everything we said in our first communique. We welcome all principled anti-state comrades,
anarchist and communist, who also feel engulfed by the same tender, raging insurrectionary sea to join us
in escalation: of our care and gentleness with each other; of our collaboration and unity; of our defending
and tending to what we have built over years of struggle; of our attacks against our enemies; and of our
looking away from liberal left spaces that use, betray and discard us. They need us. We do not need them.
Our deepest solidarities to all comrades experiencing similar counter-insurgencies in struggles throughout
San Francisco, Oakland, Atlanta, and everywhere else, whether the radlibs show up in parties, coalitions, non-
profits, or committees; whether they are visible or invisible; whether they are dressed honestly or in radical
costume.
Banko forever. Tucan forever. Tortuguita forever. For all our revolutionary ancestors and future revolutionary
generations. For anarchy. For communism. For the attack.
We'll be back with a(n ongoing) vengeance. We'll see you soon. Until then: be gay, do crime, & have each
other's backs.
Love and rage that rings through eternity
- BRB // Banko Revenge Brigade // Be Right Back
o7| Walgreens Night Sabotage 4 Banko
//www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/09/07/1885881
iAvenge Banko!
Walgreens killed Banko Brown over snacks.
The deglazing of 2 Walgreens storefronts is claimed by
NightDawgz Tending Towards the Wild. We are in solidarity
with every vandal, booster, and fellow deglaziers targeting
Walgreens regardless of your species. Banko Lives!
9/12 Anti-Landlord Housing Defense,
Tenants Hit the Streets
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On Tuesday, September 12th, TANC mobilized more than 100
tenants to disrupt Berkeley landlords’ obscene celebration of
eviction.
With less than a day’s notice, our members rallied with banners and signs
outside Freehouse Pub, where the Berkeley Property Owners Association
hoped to celebrate the end of local pandemic-era eviction restrictions. We
later carried into the party a cake decorated with the words, “Hey landlords!
Get a real job!” and chanted, among other things, “Eat the cake.” As widely
reported, BPOA members were quick to anger, attacking tenants
unprovoked. We stand with our members who were assaulted by landlords,
just as we stand with any tenant facing eviction.
We are not surprised by BPOA's behavior. The landlords’ cocktail party
was a celebration of the violent process of eviction. This is why we
intervened.
“As a Bay Area-wide tenant union building power through tenant
organizing, we are preparing for a long-haul fight. If you have issues with
your landlord, join the union and organize with your neighbors!
The Bay Area’s double crises of extreme rent profiteering and
homelessness come from the landlords’ business model. Landlords are
structurally invested in skyrocketing rents, extracting money from working-
class people under threat of eviction. Real-estate capital's unchecked profits
have corroded the Bay Area’s culture and life. It must be stopped.
We reject the notion that landlords have a right to a return on their
investment. Rents should be immediately rolled back regardless of how this
impacts landlords’ balance sheets. Tenants deserve a high quality of life,
dignity in our housing, and a life free from landlord exploitation and
harassment.
By disrupting the Berkeley landlord group's cruel party, we have proved
that tenants aren’t passive. Tenants will fight back! We call on tenants
across the Bay Area to join the tenant union. We will beat back the forces of
gentrification together. The union makes us strong!”
Evictions Spike As Politicians Lift ‘Moratorium’
COVID cases are ramping up in the East Bay this summer, yet the
pandemic-era eviction restrictions misleadingly known as the “moratorium”
are ending all across Alameda County.
These restrictions started during the mass tenant militancy of 2020,
dramatically changing our organizing terrain, including the viability of the
rent strike. To stabilize tenant-landlord relations, politicians then
implemented the massive landlord bailout known as “rent relief.”
While the restrictions lasted longer in the East Bay than most of the
country, politicians are now bending to the will of landlords and actively
facilitating the resumption of mass eviction.
After county restrictions lapsed, evictions skyrocketed to more than
500 in May, followed by more than 700 in June — more than twice the
monthly average pre-pandemic. Now, with restrictions ending in Oakland
and Berkeley, the number is expected to continue climbing.
What this means is landlords and landlord lawyers and landlord
associations are preparing their legal notices and scary letters in the hopes
of pressuring tenants to self-evict. A little rights knowledge goes a long way
for tenants facing these threats. While it is important to respond promptly
and formally to initial notices, know that eviction is a long legal process.
Don’t move, fight! If you think you’re facing eviction, talk rights and
organizing with your Local.
9/15 - 9/17
Everywhere Anti-Transgender "Feminists" Gathered in
S.F. Was Met with Queer and Trans Liberation Action
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/09/25/18859184.ph,
Women's Declaration International (WDI), an organization of transgender-hating
women, held a conference in San Francisco the weekend of September 16. Their
mission is to attack what they call "gender ideology" and they align with ultra-
conservative groups including Christian nationalists and Republican politicians to
enshrine bigotry into law and otherwise further marginalize transgender folks.
Activists for reproductive justice and LGBTQ+ rights rose up in opposition with
several rounds of protests and counter-protests.
On the first full day of the WDI conference, transgender-supporting groups raised
a ruckus with a speakout and rally in front of the Hilton Hotel on Kearny. Following
that demo, a second group of protesters took Kearny, blocking it for several hours.
SFPD arrested one protester after the Hilton sign was vandalized and briefly broke
out their riot gear. Later that night, the front doors of a WDI-friendly art gallery near
the Hilton was treated to a coat of red paint with the words "NO TERFS ON OUR
TURF." On September 18, the TERFs staged a small protest in front of SF city hall
and were outnumbered by trans rights counter-protesters.
Taking a Stand Against the Transphobic TERF
Conference in SF / Part 2: Direct Alction Street Party
by IndyBay
The transphobic hate group Women's Declaration International (WDI) held a
conference in San Francisco from Friday, September 15 through Sunday, September
17, 2023. The TERFs were met with several rounds of protests and counter-protests,
trans rights activists aptly calling them out as fascists in sheep's clothing. This post
includes photos and video from the second protest on Saturday, September 16.
In a good example of the separation of protest tactics by time and/or space (see St.
Paul Principles), there were actually two separate demonstrations held in front the the
Hilton San Francisco on Kearny. The first began at noon and featured a picket line and
several speakers addressing transgender rights and transphobia. The second, at 2pm,
was a direct action street party that took over the intersection of Kearny and
Washington.
As the first protest was wrapping up, masked anti-fascists set up their own sound
system and moved into Kearny Street, blocking traffic. It quickly became a street party
with music and dancing.
About 45 minutes into the demo, things got tense quickly when a number of police ran
in and chased a protester through the crowd after someone hit the main Hilton sign
with a hammer a few times. One protester was tackled and arrested. Cops dragged
and walked the person a full two blocks away before a cruiser raced up to remove
them. It took a line of nearly ten cops to keep back maybe 20 or 30 protesters who.
followed the arrestee and arresting cops through the streets.
Worth noting that two men who protesters identified as Proud Boys were seen leaving
the Hilton. One was wearing their signature black and yellow. The crowd yelled, "Go
home, nazis," as they walked away. There was a 1-2pm TERF panel on the supposed
“Debate Over Working with the Right," and those two were seen leaving the hotel
around 3pm.
The Proud Boys expressed hostility toward the trans rights protesters on their way
out, so it's highly unlikely they were rando SF tourists, because not one of the other
regular hotel guests did so. The TERFs explicitly said their conference was "women
only," so why were two white nationalist men there? Checking out the right-wing
panel? Speaking at it? Generally connecting with Kara Dansky and other allies?
Perhaps they were providing security for Meghan Murphy and Mary Lou Singleton,
two of the "working with the right" panelists, as right-wing men have previously in
Austin and elsewhere.
The third phase of anti-TERF resistance, at some point between Saturday evening and
Sunday morning, was the defacing of a nearby gallery calling itself Acceleration
Space, which was hosting a transphobic fake-feminist show timed to open during the
WDI conference. Ridiculously, those featured in the show fashion themselves as
rebels, "a group of heretical & outspoken artists unbowed by demands to adhere the
orthodoxy of the day," as if transphobia is a novel or bold concept. Ever the aggrieved
victims as they wage their war on trans folks, Kara Dansky promoted the gallery as.
“an art space dedicated to exhibiting the work of cancelled female artists." Pity the
bigots.
WDI promoted the show on their FAQ page and even scheduled it as an official
conference event on Saturday evening. It's unknown whether the show will actually
continue to run through October 16 as announced. The location is a "secret" and
viewings are invite-only, because these TURDs (er, TERFs) know their hateful ways are
worthy of scorn. Effectively, for TERFs, “accelerating the women's liberation
movement" means pulling it hard right and aligning with genocidal accelerationists.
REPORT: San Francisco Hits The Streets
To Oppose Far-Right Anti-Trans Conference
hups://itsgoingdown.org/san-francisco-hits-the-streets-to-oppose-far-right-anti-trans-conference/
On Saturday, September 16th, over 100 antifascists, feminists, and
pro-LGBTQ+ demonstrators hit the streets of San Francisco outside
of a Hilton Hotel to oppose a much smaller anti-trans conference
organized by the Women’s Declaration International (WDI), a
collection of “radical feminists” who have embraced far-Right anti-
trans conspiracy theories and push for attacks on the LGBT+
community.
The leadership of the organization, including Kara Dansky and
Lierre Keith, are also members of the Women’s Liberation Front
(WOLF), itself a front for Deep Green Resistance, which has long
been ejected from left-wing and anarchist spaces due to their open
transphobia. These groups have moved to work directly with the
far-Right; from attending right-wing conferences, engaging with
neo-fascists like Tucker Carlson, to standing shoulder to shoulder
with groups like the Proud Boys, the WDI has built a reactionary
coalition aimed at attacking the lives and rights of trans people.
The WDI conference even featured a panel on “working with the
right.”
Worth noting that two men who protesters identified as #ProudBoys
were seen leaving the Hilton. One was wearing the signature black
and yellow. The crowd yelled, "Go home, nazis," as they walked
away. There was a 1-2pm #TERF panel on working with the right,
and those two were seen leaving about 3pm.
For a deeper dive, check out our podcast on this subject. As we
noted last year:
These alliances are creating a growing cross-over in the streets, as we
saw with the violent clashes in Los Angeles last summer, when both
TERFs and far-Right activists organized protests outside of a local spa,
following a flurry of anti-trans conspiracy theories. Moreover, some
TERF groups such as WoLF, or Women’s Liberation Front, have also
become involved in pushing for anti-trans legislation and even working
to elect Republicans. Members of DGR and by extension WoLF, have
gone on to make connections with the far-Right and white nationalists.
Derrick Jensen and Lierre Keith have been guests and been interviewed
on a variety of far-Right publications and livestreams. These include the
white nationalist website, Counter-Currents, the white nationalist Keith
Woods, who works directly with Richard Spencer, and both Jensen and
Keith have appeared on a far-Right YouTube channel along with Keith
Preston, known for speaking at white nationalist conferences. One key
link in this crossover has been Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, who also goes
by “Posie Parker,” a long-time member of WoLF, and also a British anti-
trans activist. Parker, along with Lierre Keith, played a leading roll in
putting together the recent anti-trans ‘Let Women Speak’ rallies. Parker
has also built extensive links with the far-Right, praising activists like
Tommy Robinson, appearing on livestreams with white nationalists, and
taking photos with Proud Boys. As anti-trans hatred continues to be a
rallying cry for the far-Right, we should be on guard for elements on the
Left who are attempting to make common cause with fascists, far-Right
political parties, and white supremacists.
Action against the WDI conference began with a call-in
campaign to put pressure on the Hilton Hotel to call off the
event. Although this campaign was ultimately unsuccessful, it
helped build support for demonstrations, which mobilized over
100 people into the streets around the hotel, blocking off
intersections, and leading to one arrest.
The next night, according to a
communique posted to Indybay, an anti-
trans art show organized by the WDI
was vandalized.
TERF SHOW VANDALIZED:
TRANS AUTONOMY FOREVER
On the second night of the transphobic Women's Declaration
International convention in San Francisco, as the TERFs hid in the
Hilton Hotel behind police lines, we vandalized the location of
their scheduled art show down the block. When we left, the
gallery windows were painted blood-red with a message for
Lierre Keith, Kara Dansky, and their dusty-ass TERFlings: "NO
TERFS ON OUR TURF! @"
While journalists and liberals are fond of promulgating the notion
that San Francisco's long history of trans resistance makes the city
some sort of sanctuary for trans people, we know that this
resistance has been and continues to be a direct response to total
assault on trans life. With the help of her cronies and benefactors,
Mayor London Breed has continued the work of her political
predecessors by making basic survival for poor trans people a
daily gauntlet. Multi-billion-dollar grifts have attempted to
conceal San Francisco's trans-antagonism through corporate Pride
campaigns and co-opted queer landmarks; a Trans Cultural
District that funnels money to private condo developers while
homeless trans people outside are violently harassed by Twitter
fascists and police; and diversified trans police departments and
legislators who order and carry out the murders of trans people.
Local trans capitalists eager to advance their individual careers on the
backs and bodies of other trans people have reached deep into the
tired-ass DEI tool bag to leverage representation, respectability, and
visibility in their favor. Bolstered by their liberal supporters,
opportunists like Honey Mahogany, Aria Sa'id, and Jackie Thornhill
pedestalize themselves as model trans citizens. Their prominence is
weaponized to serve the dual purposes of 1) indemnifying city
leadership against blatantly accurate claims of transphobia; and 2)
producing respectable, law-loving token trans people against whom
to measure the specter of the poor lawless trans person and with
whom to attack any three-dimensional trans people who are less
compliant.
In Frisco and beyond, a rancid fermenting barf bag full of political
parties, Democratic clubs, and non-profits consistently co-opt
political momentum. These parasitic organizations simultaneously
transform protests and counter-protests into platforms for
assimilationist demands and operate as the liberal creep that
infiltrates radical spaces and metabolizes potential insurgency.
This weekend's high-profile TERF conference has mobilized people to
show up to counter the transphobes—but it's not only explicit
transphobia that calls for direct antagonism; it is thinly veiled,
insidious, ever-present transphobic formations as well.
To those waging war on our autonomy, and to their collaborators:
watch your backs.
frisco queers for anarchy, for communism, for the attack
- BRB // Be Right Back
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S.F. Hits The Streets to
Oppose Far-Right Anti-Trans
Conference (continued)
hups://itsgoingdown.org/san-francisco-hits-the-streets-to-oppose-far-right-anti-trans-conference/
September 17th, the following day, a group of around a
dozen WDI conference attendees held a small “action,”
which amounted to them standing in front of San
Francisco City Hall with banners that called for trans
women not to be held in women’s prisons. The group
was vastly outnumbered and shouted down again by
pro-feminist and pro-LGBTQ+ counter protesters.
Indybay.org reported on social media, “That’s all folks.
The TERFs piled into two U-Hauls and fled. The anti-
TERF resistance celebrates.”
This is the second attempt by WDI to hold a
demonstration in the bay area. In December of 2022,
the group held a small rally in Oakland, California, only
to be disrupted and shut down by a group of
antifascists.
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Moceees 3
Abolitionists spend summer
nights at Santa Rita Jail Support
Promoting a Culture of Community Care,
Resisting the Bay Area Police State
For several years, abolitionists in the East Bay have done jail support at
Santa Rita jail weekly, in the evenings mostly. This consistent work of
jail support has remained autonomous from any collusion with the non-
profit industrial complex, grifters, or jailers. Out in Dublin, at jail support,
people show up to pass out pizza, cigarettes, clothing, chips, soda,
coffee, tea, candy, charging phones, and sometimes give rides, to
ensure there is a presence of community care and material solidarity
outside to receive people immediately upon release. This is to promote
a culture and way of being that jailers and incarceration cannot provide.
A defining feature of imprisonment is deprivation. Jail experience
means someone was removed from their life-world and held in captivity.
Jail support, however, is people showing out to oppose—directly—state
abandonment, domestic warfare, and carceral-police terror. Jail support
can be organized autonomously, by anyone, at any jail, in any county—
not just where people are already doing it.
peace,
an anonymous
admirer and spectator
o30| Bay Area Mobilizes Against
“Cop Campus” in San Pablo
https://itsgoingdown.org/bay-area-takes-to-the-streets-against-cop-
campus-in-san-pablo-ca/
On Saturday Sept. 30, over 200 people came together in San
Pablo, California to oppose the building of Cop Campus,
a large-scale regional police training facility that will bring a 20
lane gun range, a surveillance drone center, virtual reality
conflict simulators, and a K-9 training center to the most
policed city in the Bay Area. Cop Campus promises to further
increase surveillance and police violence in San Pablo and
throughout the Bay Area. Cop Campus, like Cop City in
Atlanta, is another example of the multiplying horrors of tech-
fueled police state expansion. Down with Cop Campus and its
world.
Stop Cop Campus Coalition
Protests Planned Police Facility
in San Pablo
by IndyBay
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/10/09/18859460.php
The city of San Pablo is a small town in the northern East Bay that loves its police and
borrowing lots of money to build itself shiny new things. The Stop Cop Campus
Coalition intends to prevent a planned new police facility from being constructed,
arguing such huge amounts of money would be better spent meeting the needs of city
residents rather than policing them.
In 2015, San Pablo borrowed over $15 million to finance capital improvement projects
and property acquisitions, including a library facility and upgrades to City Hall.
Libraries are good. In 2018, the city borrowed over $15 million in order to construct an
entirely new City Hall for itself. In 2022, San Pablo went even bigger by borrowing over
$30 million, earmarking another $10 million from general fund reserves, and dedicating
millions in federal COVID relief funds to pay for a grand new police headquarters and
training facility. In total, the planned police facility is currently expected to cost more
than $43 million, not including the interest payments on the borrowed money the city
must pay over the next three decades.
San Pablo is a town of just over thirty thousand residents. According to US Census
data, it is considerably younger, less "white," more Latino, more foreign-born, and
lower income than nearby cities and census-designated places. Fortunately, San
Pablo is the site of the Lytton Casino, which more than doubles what its annual
budget would be otherwise, even with a local sales tax. Unfortunately, San Pablo
chooses to spend the largest bulk of their budget on policing and is willing to take on
decades of debt on behalf of their police department, claiming that the new facility will
improve cop morale, make the city safer, and somehow attract new private business.
On August 10, a protest was held on what was scheduled to be the ground breaking
day for the new police building, but the city got cold feet and cancelled their own
event. No groundbreaking has been scheduled since, and activists are hoping it never
happens. On September 30, another protest was held which was large enough to
march down the middle of San Pablo Avenue from Kennedy Plaza to the site of the
proposed "Cop Campus." More photos from that demonstration are below.
Here's what the Stop Cop Campus Coalition has to say about the facility, in
English y en Espajfiol.....
March Against Cop Campus!
We take to the streets in protest of the City of San
Pablo's plan for a large-scale Regional Police Training
Facility and police headquarters. We know its construction
would only continue the pattern of police violence against
Black and Brown communities.
Their "Cop Campus" would house tools of harm and
surveillance such as a 20 lane gun range, a K-9 training
facility, a simulator room, and a drone tech center. It
would include a "mental health crisis deployment office,"
but such services are more effective when they are not
housed with police. And for all of this, San Pablo tax-
payers will be paying a price tag of $43.6 million for
decades to come.
Colonial theft is ongoing. This remains unceded Ohlone
land. The project manager, mack5, chose a lot that borders
Wildcat Creek — where threatened species like salmon and
California red-legged frog can still be found.
Boosting militarization while reducing community healthcare
is not what this community wants. San Pablo residents
continually rank education and jobs as their highest
concerns. In 2021, polled residents placed enhancing
"public safety" as their lowest priority. Instead of
enhancing the quality of public education, the City
proposes to build a center of violence and harm on a lot
that is literally sandwiched by 3 schools! This is a slap
in the face of youth and those who care about their
education.
Like most jurisdictions in the US, San Pablo police have a
track record of violence and escalation, including against
youth. For example, in 2020, SPPD was sued for the choking
of an unarmed 19-year-old who was kneeling at the time he
was detained. In 2017, San Pablo's police commander was
arrested for domestic violence. Even as recently as Sept 8,
San Pablo police were called to check on a man exhibiting
symptoms of schizophrenia. The man did not want to interact
with police, and after trying to evade them was tased, shot
with bean bag rounds, and eventually shot in the leg with a
live round. Police are not care workers, they are violence
workers. Community crisis centers belong in the community,
without proximity to all the escalation and harm that
police cause — not in a Cop Campus!
To those who would say retraining is all that police need,
we only need to point to the history. Look at the case of
Derrick Sanderlin in San José. Sanderlin is a Black man who
actually trained police officers to "improve community
relationships." After three years of working with the
police department, as Sanderlin was attempting to
deescalate a conflict during a protest, he was shot by a
cop colleague with a rubber bullet in the groin. As a
result, he can no longer have children.
Using violence to enforce order is the backbone of
policing. No investment in "trainings" will ever change
that. Despite demands to defund the police that have
reverberated across the country, American lawmakers
continue to push forward an agenda of increasing police
militarization. Similar police training centers are planned
in Baltimore for $330 million and in Atlanta for $90
million. The Atlanta project has seen fierce resistance and
inspiring opposition for the past three years
The struggle against police violence is not new. We are
part of long legacy of resistance. We take inspiration from
the Black Panthers, who took the streets of North Richmond
in 1967 protesting the murder of unarmed Denzil Dowell; to
the uprising in Oakland after the police murder of Oscar
Grant; and to the broad George Floyd Rebellion, among many
others.
We know that our collective organizing power can stop Cop
Campus from being built. The campaign to Stop Urban Shield
shows us it is possible. Urban Shield was a police training
conference in Oakland that brought together cops from
around the country and world to train in military tactics
for years. Through dedicated community resistance, Urban
Shield was brought to an end in 2018. When we fight against
police violence together, we can win!
The privileged and misguided will look to policing to
protect them from a world that is on fire from rising
temperatures and capitalist and racist inequalities. But
police enforce the very roots of the problem. Their
"solutions" are predicated upon the continued disastrous
project of American colonialism, imperialism and prison
industrial complex. They are predicated upon the continued
harassment, murder and imprisonment of people who they deem
disposable — which are the indigenous, of color, poor,
houseless, disabled, "crazy," transgender, queer or other
marginalized people.
Policing tries to lock up the dispossessed and those of us
who resist this miserable system. It does not heal or solve
conflict. But we know that we are strong together. We could
create community-run hospitals and free health-care, not a
shooting range. We could have free childcare and safe
schools, not 43.6 million dollars of debt.
We need gardens and wild habitat, accountable and resilient
relationships, healthy families and communities of care —
not a military of police forces.
The systems of domination will never be dismantled without
a fight! No Cop campus!
Marcha en contra el campus policial!
Estamos en las calles para protestar en contra del plan de
la ciudad de San Pablo para construir un Centro Regional de
Entrenamiento policial y un enorme Cuartel General de
policia. Sabemos que su construccién sélo continuara el
esquema de violencia policial en contra de las comunidades
negras y racializadas.
Su "Cop Campus" albergara herramientas de dafio y vigilancia
como un campo de tiro de 20 carriles, una instalacién de
entrenamiento de perros (K-9), una sala de simuladores y un
centro de tecnologia de aviones no tripulados. Incluiria
una "oficina de despliegue de crisis de salud mental", pero
estos servicios son més eficaces cuando nose alojan con la
policia. Y por todo esto, les contribuyentes de San Pablo
pagaran un precio de 43,6 millones de délares durante
décadas.
El robo de colonial continia. Estamos en tierra Ohlone no
cedida. El gestor del proyecto, mack5, eligié una parcela
que bordea con Wildcat Creek, donde ain se pueden encontrar
especies amenazadas como el salmén y la rana de patas rojas
de California.
La comunidad no necesita més militarizacién cuando se esta
reduciendo la salud ptblica. La educacién y el empleo son
las preocupaciones principales de les habitantes de San
Pablo. En 2021, les residentes encuestades dijeron que
mejorar la "seguridad piblica" es su prioridad m&s baja
ign lugar de mejorar la calidad de la educaci6n ptblica, la
Ciudad propane construir un centro de violencia y dafio en
un tote que esta literalmente rodeado por 3 escuelas! Esto
es una bofetada en la cara de les jévenes y de aquelles que
se preocupan por su educacién.
Como la mayoria de las jurisdicciones en los EE.UU., la
policia de San Pablo tiene una historia de violencia y
escalacion, incluso contra les jévenes. Por ejemplo, en
2020, SPPD fue demandado por asfixiar a un joven desarmando
de 19 afios que estaba arrodillado en el momenta en el que
fue detenido. En 2017, el comandante de la policia de San
Pablo fue arrest&do por violencia domestica. Y¥
recientemente, el 8 de septiembre, la policia de San Pablo
fue llamada para controlar a un hombre que mostraba
sintomas de esquizofrenia. El hombre no queria interactuar
con la policia, y después de tratar de evadirlos fue
electrocutado, le dispararon con balsas de frijoles, y
finalmente le dispararon en la pierna con una bala real. La
policia no es un agente de ayuda, sino un agente de
violencia. Los centros comunitarios de crisis deben estar
en la comunidad, sin la proximidad de toda la escalacién y
el dafio que causa la policia, ino en un campus policial
A los que dicen que lo anico que necesita la policia es
reeducacién, sélo hay que recordarles de la historia. Miren
el caso de Derrick Sanderlin en San José. Sanderlin es un
hombre negro queen realidad entrené a oficiales de policia
para "mejorar las relaciones con ta comunidad". Después de
tres afios de trabajar con el departamento de policia,
mientras Sanderlin intentaba bajar la tension en un
conflicto durante una protesta, un compaiiero policia le
dispar6 con una bala de goma en la ingle. Como
consecuencia, ya no puede tener hijos.
Utilizar la violencia para imponer el orden es la columna
vertebral de la labor policial. Ningun investimento en
"entrenamiento" cambiara eso. A pesar de las demandas de
desfinanciacién de la policia que han resonado en todo el
pais, les legisladores estadounidenses siguen impulsando
una agenda de creciente militarizaci6én policial. Ya ésta
previsto que van a construir centros de formaci6n policial
en Baltimore, por 330 millones de délares, y en Atlanta,
por 90 millones. El proyecto de Atlanta ha sido objeto de
una feroz resistencia y una inspirada oposicién durante los
Gltimos tres afios.
La lucha contra la violencia policial no es nueva. Formamos
parte de un largo legado de resistencia. Nos inspiramos en
les Panteras Negras, que tomaron las calles de North
Richmond en 1967 en protesta del asesinato de Denzil
Dowell, que iba desarmado; en el levantamiento de Oakland
tras el asesinato policial de Oscar Grant; y en la amplia
Rebelién de George Floyd, entre muchos otres.
Sabemos que nuestro poder colectivo ce organizacién puede
parar la construction del Cop Campus. La campafia para
detener Urban Shield nos demuestra que es posible. Urban
Shield fue una conferencia de entrenamiento policial en
Oakland que reuni6 a policias de todo el pais y del mundo
para entrenarse en tacticas militares durante ajios. Gracias
a la dedicada resistencia de la comunidad, Urban Shield
llegé a su fin en 2018. Cuando luchamos juntes contra la
violencia policial, ipodemos ganar!
Les privilegiades y les desacertades mirar4n a la policia
para que les proteja de un mundo que arde por el aumento de
las temperaturas y las desigualdades capitalistas y
racistas. Pero la policia es la que aplican las mismas
raices del problema. Sus "soluciones" se basan en la
continuacién del desastroso proyecto del colonialismo
estadounidense, el imperialismo y la expansién del complejo
industrial penitenciario. Normalizan el acoso, el asesinato
y el encarcelamiento continuos de las personas que dicen
que son desechables, que son les indigenas, les de color,
les pobres, les sin techo, les discapacitados, les "locos",
les transexuales, es queer u otras personas marginalizadas
La policia intenta encerrar a les desposeides ya quienes
nos resistimos a este sistema miserable. No curan ni
resuelven los, conflictos. Pero sabemos que juntas somos
fuertes. Podriamos crear hospitales comunitarios y salud
piblica gratuita, noun campo de tiro. Podriamos tener
guarderias gratuitas y escuelas seguras, no 43,6 millones
de délares de deuda.
Necesitamos jardines y habitats silvestres, relaciones
responsables y resistentes, familias sanas y comunidades de
apoyo, no un ejército de fuerzas policiales.
Sabemos que los sistemas de dominacién nunca serdn
desmantelados sin la lucha. iNo al Campo policial!
WO WYO CAMNOIS
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The Second March
Against Cop Campus
a report-back from participants
reader's note: the stop cop campus collective did not organize the demo or author this piece
On Saturday Sept. 30, over 200 people came together in San Pablo, California to
oppose the building Cop Campus, a large-scale regional police training facility that will
bring a 20 lane gun range, a surveillance drone center, virtual reality conflict
simulators, and a K-9 training center to the most policed city in the Bay Area. Cop
Campus promises to further increase surveillance and police violence in San Pablo
and throughout the Bay Area. Cop Campus, like Cop City in Atlanta, is another
example of the multiplying horrors of tech-fueled police state expansion. Down with
Cop Campus and its world.
The people who spoke, rallied, and marched against Cop Campus represented a wide
diversity of identities and political tendencies. The crowd included people living near
the proposed police playground in San Pablo and Richmond, to the broader Bay Area,
to comrades from cities around California. The rally was translated into Spanish and
ASL in real-time for participants, and many access accommodations were made for
folks with disabilities. There were medics and National Lawyers Guild legal observers
present to respond to and document any militant response from the San Pablo police.
Speakers represented a range of positionalities from local Indigenous struggles to a
report on Atlanta's Stop Cop City organizing. While speakers were setting up, a
counter protester with a sign, megaphone and friend filming began to heckle and talk
over the crowd from across Brookside Dr. After only a minute or so 15-20 people from
two different crews left the rally to move to confront them. The counter protester's
sign was stolen as they fled up San Pablo and retreated behind marked and
unmarked police vehicles that had driven up to protect them.
Upon returning to the plaza one of the people who had moved to confront that person
got on the mic and made heated comments pressuring a common liberal and
unagreed-upon talking point that white people should have placed themselves in front
of POC to protect them. The divisive interjection broke the coalition's point of unity
regarding internal critique. The next speaker, a latinx organizer of the event, addressed
the comments directly, noting the importance of multiracial solidarity in struggle. That
POC going to a street protest want white people to fight the common oppressor
alongside them as accomplices, not from some line of protection in front. That as
organizers, we value the agency of all to fight for their liberation autonomously.
Tensions were high after the speech, but were ultimately deescalated.
While we may know that white folks, mostly femmes, absolutely participated in
confronting this counter-protestor, we also agree that white people always need to be
working towards stepping up their game. That said, we know that the relationships
between identity, life experience, material reality and folks' ability to participate in
direct action or confrontation are complex and multi-faceted, and we encourage and
support people in making those choices for themselves in an anti-authoritative
manner. Ultimately, we needed to ensure that only one or two people were not
capable of stopping or disrupting our larger rally - thanks to the people who made
sure that that was indeed the case.
After the speeches everyone took the streets blocking two lanes of traffic on busy San
Pablo Ave with music and chanting. Throughout the march, protesters handed out
bilingual fliers to folks in San Pablo with information about Cop Campus and our
resistance. When the crowd reached the site there was more chanting, colored
smoke, a short speech about Cop Campus, and then spontaneously fences around
the construction site were torn down. The city's informational sign about the project
was corrected to read, "Expected completion date: NEVER!!!" The crowd was
energetic, full of warmth and rage.
The crowd then slowly made its way back to Kennedy Plaza. People in the rear of the
march stepped up to deal with aggravated drivers on several occasions and
eventually the march was able to fully reenter the plaza and safely disperse. The
police of San Pablo kept their distance from the march, only blocking traffic relatively
far back from the rear of the march which ended up benefiting the demo, as traffic
was an issue. At the time of this reportback, there are no known arrests related to this
march.
In the days since, there has been push-back and criticism as is to be expected with
an event of this size and gravity. No action is beyond criticism and we take people's
feedback seriously, however some of these criticisms are out right false, and this
misinformation damages cross-racial solidarity. We want to address two bits of
misinformation first. First, ‘organizers of the march are all white,’ and second the
assertion that ‘no local outreach was done before this march.’
In fact we are a multi-racial group of organizers who brought together a diverse mix of
speakers and demonstrators, to claim otherwise is false and invisibilizes people of
color. Also in fact many people in the coalition did extensive bilingual outreach in San
Pablo prior to the march, putting in 30+ hours of work over numerous days. Many of
the families and businesses in San Pablo we spoke with did not know Cop Campus
was being built and folks were shocked to hear the $43 million price-tag (even people
who expressed support for the police). During the march itself, we handed out
hundreds of bilingual flyers and talked with many locals about this struggle, and this
outreach work has been carried forward by many people in the weeks since. To assert
this outreach did not/ is not happening is again objectively untrue, and this
misinformation serves the agenda of the cops by de-legitimizing or erasing solid
community organizing.
There has been criticism that people of color were put at risk by the removal of the
fence and the events that took place at the proposed site of Cop Campus. We hear
the criticism that direct action which does not abide by the law can put people of
color at risk, and we know cops arrest/harass/kill people of color horrifically
disproportionally. This debate over protest tactics is strategic and political. We did not
organize the taking down of the fences, and we don't agree with people who peace
police protests. This criticism assumes that compliance with the law creates safety,
we believe history shows otherwise. This criticism assumes people of color are
passive bystanders, who are neither engaged in direct action nor capable of exiting a
situation that exceeds their risk tolerance. We believe a diversity of tactics is built into
the coalition for a reason and is absolutely essential to defeat this cop surveillance
and murder training center. If others want to see a different kind of protest, we whole-
heartedly hope that they too will take it upon themselves to do so, and many of us will
be there too.
In our organizing, we took great care to explicitly state that we could not guarantee a
safe space, and we organized the march to be as accessible as possible for people
who chose to participate. At every step we put thought and intention into how to invite
people who wanted to show their rage, while also bringing mass attention to a 43
million dollar police militarization building project that has been largely hidden from the
public. There is always room for improvement; this struggle to Stop Cop Campus is in
it's early phases. While this action was organized on a tight timeline, we are looking
forward now and will continue to grow. Our goals for this action were to inform the
local community and broader public about Cop Campus, mobilize a march sharing
diverse perspectives on this struggle, grow the movement and offer opportunities to
participate, and we think the action succeeded in its goals unequivocally.
To all who thirst for impactful collective action against police militarization: join us!
Let's work in solidarity to Stop Cop Campus. Let's abide by the points of unity, which
state "we are building a decentralized movement where every participant is
empowered to take the actions they feel are necessary to Stop Cop Campus. We
respect a diversity of strategies and tactics, and encourage both autonomous and
collective action to build a diverse and resilient movement" and that we will share
principled criticism internally rather than taking assumptions to press and social
media. It is not the breaking down of the fence that surrounds Cop Campus that will
break this movement, but pushing misinformation, de-legitimizing solid community
organizing, and policing each other's tactics that will. We are stronger together, we
can stop this project!
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10/10 Windows Smashed at Military
Recruiters' Office in Daly City
by some anarchists
https:/A ndybay.org/newsitems/2023/10/10/18859482,php
On Indigenous People's Night, we smashed all
nine windows at the military recruiters' office
in so-called Daly City, California (Ramaytush
Ohlone territory).
We dedicate this action to Jennifer "Ganda"
Laude, a Filipina woman who was murdered by
transphobic U.S. Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton
on October 11, 2014. We acted in response to a
call by Filipino/a/x comrades asking anarchists
in the United States to memorialize Ganda and
attack U.S. imperialism. We know that this one
action alone is not enough, but we hope that it
encourages other anarchists to attack in
Ganda's name as well. For comrades in the
Northeast who have the skills to do the
research, Pemberton grew up in New Bedford,
Massachusetts and may have returned there after
he was pardoned by Duterte in 2020.
We extend our solidarity to all anti-colonial
struggles around the world. Solidarity to
Palestinians resisting Zionist settler-
colonialism! Solidarity to Haitians resisting
yet another U.N. intervention! Solidarity to
Weelaunee forest defenders! Death to America!
10/18
Climate Activists Call for Escalation in the
Fight for the Future: Three Detained at Climate
Protest for Crossing Beale Air Force Base Gate
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/1 0/31/18859989.php
On the evening of October 18, climate activists
associated with the group Occupy Beale set up an
occupation camp outside of the gate of Beale Air Force
Base in Yuba County, California, with banners and signs
being put along the side of the road, and on parked cars.
Despite floodlights and several CHP visits, the activists
held the camp and sang songs long into the night.
At sunrise on October 19, youth climate activists gave a
speech decrying the imperialist military-industrial
complex, which is responsible for countless ecological
atrocities, energy consumption, and carbon emissions.
The speech first started with a youth activist giving a
statement of solidarity with the people of Palestine and
saying that the climate crisis can only be won when
everyone is free, including the people of Palestine.
Another youth activist called out Beale Air Force Base
commander Geoffery Church for his empty promises
about "listening to the community" and wanting to make
a base that works on "community values." The youth
activist declared the entire US military an imperialist
machine that destroys the environment and is inherently
antithetical to community values.
A call went out for an immediate escalation in the fight for
the future. Four activists, banners in hand, then marched
across the demarcation line at the Schneider gate of
Beale Air Force Base. Military police attempted to forcibly
remove the activists from the base by aggressively
shoving and pushing them back towards the line. Three
were detained and marched into the gate building, where
they were held for over an hour. Outside of the gate, eight
other climate activists renewed the blockade in front of
the now-closed gate and held the line until those
detained were released. Two were charged with
trespassing.
10/18| K-12 Students walk out of schools
across the Bay!
3,000 K-12 students are estimated to have walked out of schools around
the Bay Area calling for Palestinian liberation, an end to apartheid and
racism.
10/19| S.F. Federal Building painted red
during Palestine solidarity demo
10/25 |
UC Students walk off campus! Part of
national day of action
—excerpt from SF Gate
“mainstream local news outlet
Hundreds of students at University of California, Berkeley participated in a
walkout Wednesday afternoon in support of Palestine and calling for an
end to American support for Israel. Led by several student organizations...
the walkout was part of a larger national day of student demonstrations.
Protesting students, many who had walked out of their classes, called for
an end to what they describe as retaliatory bombing earlier this month, as
well as the occupation which students at the rally called "systemized
genocide" and complicity on the part of many American politicians,
companies, and weapons manufacturers. The groups involved titled the
rally "Walk Out Against Genocide, Settler-Colonialism and the Siege on
Gaza.” A lecturer in the Ethnic Studies...spoke at the event in support of
the students rallying. "We really have to show the utmost support and
respect for students that are doing organizing under the most extreme
conditions, being targeted not only from external forces but also their own
professors," they said... Students from other campuses also attended,
such as a student at UC Irvine. “Palestinians for decades have been
dealing with all sorts of human rights abuses on behalf of the Israeli
government," the Irvine student said. "They've been subjected to
bombings that have wiped out thousands of their civilians. It's a human
rights issue for me.”
Excerpt from the SF Chronicle:
“Wednesday’s rally was [not combative], though there was a
brief scuffle when several pro-Palestinian protesters tried to
take an Israeli flag from one student, and one alleged hit the
student in the head with a metal water bottle. The protesters
said the student was waving the flag in their faces, yet the
Zionist student told police the attack was unprovoked.”
10/28
Massive S.F. March in
solidarity with Palestine
March takes Highway 101, approaches Bay Bridge
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Freedom for Palestine!
As so-called “israel” escalates its genocidal warfare upon
Palestinians in historically unprecedented ways, people all over the
world are gathering en masse, demanding not only a ceasfire, but
an end to both genocide and the settler-colonial project that is
zionism. Despite there being some of the largest anti- war
demonstrations in the past two decades, the US government and
other western nations have fully committed to aiding “israel” in its
genocide, contributing billions of dollars, giving weapons and
bombs, and moving two aircraft carriers into the region. Not to
mention the 24/7 news stream demonizing Palestinians and paving
the way to justify the massacres in Gaza and the West Bank. The US
government has made it clear they do not care about public opinion.
We want to celebrate some of the actions that have attempted to
escalate the pressure against the forces that are aiding in the
genocide of the Palestinian people.
**In Philadelphia, at the All Out for Gaza demo, two Septa Transit Police
vehicles had their tires punctured along the route of the march. “Police
are an occupying force in any form and are the enforcers of settler-
colonialism."
**In Philadelphia, a military recruitment office was attacked with paint.
“This wasn’t done to only send a message to imperialists, consider it an
attempt to warm passerby chilled by the cold logic of genocide."
**In San Francisco, the Federal Building and multiple banks that help
fund the apartheid state of “israel” were painted during
demonstrations.
**In central North Carolina, a Navy Officers Office was vandalized. The
windows were smashed and “Free Palestine” was written on the
building. “The US war machine is and always will be one of the main
roadblocks to freedom all over the world."
**In western North Carolina, a Cat/Caterpillar bulldozer was set on fire.
Caterpillar company is responsible for many decades of apartheid
enforcing, extreme land destruction and the displacement of many
Palestinians, and is now aiding the genocide.
In Cambridge, Massachussetts, the offices of the Israeli weapons
manufacturer, Elbit, was the target of anti-war activists. Over three
separate incidents, people locked the site down, smashed windows and
entrance key cards, and splashed paint all over the building. “Gaza
resists" and “Elbit arms genocide” were painted. These actions shut
down work and directly slowed the ability for the “israeli” occupation
forces to have weapons.
**In London, the BBC offices were covered in red paint to protest the
explicit bias in reporting on the war in Gaza.
** In Daly City, California, a military recruitment office had its windows
smashed.
((Call recent events listed as of 10/30/23 )))
But who knows what tomorrow had in store?
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The struggle for Palestinian liberation will not be won alone
in Palestine. It is up to the rest of the world to resist as well.
We are not free until we are all free.
Abolish war, abolish settler-colonialism, abolish
capitalism, abolish prisons, abolish nation-states.
Solidarity with all those who are resisting white
supremacist settler aggression, by any means
necessary. What does true solidarity look like from
Within the heart of Empire itself
10/29
Direct Action against
financial district Walgreens
claimed by
Deglaziers, Boosters & Vandals Union Local 1312.
Deglaziers, Boosters
& Vandal Union
Local 1312
Now hiring at all Walgreens locations!
The Deglaziers, Boosters & Vandals Union Local 1312
stands in solidarity with the city wide campaign against
Walgreens and takes claim to activating the potential
energy stored in the glass at this Walgreens. We are
now hiring for all positions at
all Walgreens across the city.