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SF Frontlines Peace & Antiwar Calendar

Issue #2 10/01/01

 

This is the second issue of the San Francisco Frontlines Peace and Antiwar Calendar. We will try to include every coalition and committee meeting, every teach-in and speak-out, every mass demonstration and letter writing campaign. It represents our humble contribution to building the broadest possible anti-war movement by ensuring that all of our readers are resources for anyone who wants to lend their shoulders to the tasks at hand. All dates subject to change. We will update the info as we go, but call (415) 452-9992 for more information.

To send information for actions, conferences, meetings and to receive the Peace and Antiwar Calendar, send e-mail to: Progress.

 

AT THE FIRST SIGN OF WAR

 

 

Tuesday, October 2nd

Senator Dianne Feinstein attacks
Civil Liberties!

Protest this attack against foreign students.
Tuesday, October 2nd
5 p.m. at
Dianne Feinstein's office
One Post Street, Suite 2450
San Francisco
(at Post and Market, near Montgomery
Street BART station)

 

Feinstein wants to introduce a bill that would ban all new visas for international students for 6 months! This would affect over 100,000 students. Feinstein is also proposing to impose a “tracking” system to force those in the country to report periodically to the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.

Call Dianne Feinstein's office to express your opposition: (415) 393-0707 or directly to her legislative staff: Camille Camacho and Lavita Strickland: (202) 224-3841.

Thursday, October 4

 

General Meeting of the

SF TOWN HALL COMMITTEE AGAINST WAR AND HATE

 

Proposed Agenda:

 

Educational: Immigrant Rights Under attack (20 minutes)

Organization of upcoming events:

SF Town Hall Teach-In – October 7

Immigrant Pride Day 2001 – October 13

Mass Demo and Rally Against War and Hate – October 20

Brief Committee Reports

 

 

Saturday, October 6

 

Immigrant Pride Day 2001

VOLUNTEERS’ MEETING AND ORIENTATION

 

People urgently needed for security, outreach, tabling.

 

Come and help spread the word about the campaign for No Scapegoating of Arabs and Muslims! Defend Immigrant Rights! No to Feinstein’s Attacks against Foreign Students! Amnesty for ALL Undocumented Immigrants!

 

Meeting Place: Instituto Familiar de La Raza, 2919 Mission Street (Between 25^th and 26^th Streets) – San Francisco

 

Saturday, October 6 – 4 PM

For more information: (415) 452-9992

Or progress@...

 

 

Sunday, October 7

 

TEACH-IN

 

The Town Hall Committee to Stop War and Hate presents:

 

The Case Against the War: What the Media Doesn't Tell You

 

This educational forum will feature a series of speakers, with ample

time for questions and answers between each one.

 

Sunday, October 7th, 4:30pm at Mission High School Auditorium 3750 18th at Dolores in San Francisco, four blocks from 16th Street BART

 

Speakers:

_ Alexander Cockburn, commentator for Counterpunch,

on the history of the U.S. in the region

_ Tania Farzana, Director of DYAAR Afghan Children

Center

_ Eyad Kishawi, American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC-SF) _ Representative from the 911 Solidarity Committee _ Christian Parenti, Journalist, on threats to civil liberties _ Joel Beinin, Professor of Middle Eastern History at Stanford, on the geopolitics of the region _ Special Musical Guest: Utah Phillips

 

 

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13

IMMIGRANT PRIDE DAY 2001

Defend Arab and Muslims against Scapegoating!

Amnesty for ALL Undocumented Immigrants!

 

March: 12 Noon – 24^th and Mission to Dolores Park

Rally and Music Festival / Booths: 1:30 PM – Dolores Park

 

For Information, Volunteer or Endorsement:

progress@...

(415) 452-9992

 

Participant / Endorsing Organizations: Organized by Movimiento por los Derechos de los Inmigrantes – Immigrant Rights Movement (MDI); sponsored by the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA), the SF Immigrant Rights Commission and the Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights (NCCIR), and officially endorsed by the Labor Immigrant Organizing Network (LION), a coalition of Labor Councils and unions interested in organizing immigrants to defend their rights in the workplace. Other endorsers of this action include: Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights; Vietnamese Residents Association; Organizing Institute, AFL-CIO; New Mission News Newspaper; Socialist Alternative; Progressive Left; Instituto Familiar de La Raza; Centro Laboral de La Raza; HERE, Local 2; Pilipinos for Affirmative Action; CARECEN; Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts; W.O.M.A.N, Inc.; Community United Against Violence; Asian Women Shelter; SF Frontlines Newspaper, Mujeres Unidas y Activas; Danza Xitlalli; Danza Azteca Mixcoatl Anahuac; National Lawyers Guild; Rainforest Action Network; La Raza Information Center; Arriba Juntos; San Francisco Women Against Rape; Filipino Task Force on AIDS; Asian Law Caucus; International Wages for Housework Campaign; City College of San Francisco - Mission Campus; Aguilas; Mission Agenda; Horizons Unlimited; La Casa de los Jóvenes; Latino Behavioral Health Planning Committee; International Longshore and Warehouse Union, NCDC; Queer Latino/a Arts Organization; Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere; Concordia Seminar; Office & Professional Employees Local 3; SF Labor Council; Tom Ammiano, President, Board of Supervisors; Matt Gonzalez, Supervisor; UC Berkeley Coalition Against War, and others.

 

ADVANCE CALENDAR:

 

Saturday, October 20

 

11 AM

MASS MARCH AND RALLY AGAINST WAR AND HATE

PLACE TO BE ANNOUNCED

 

November 10 and 11th, 2001

 

CALIFORNIA ANTIWAR STUDENT CONFERENCE

West Coast Conference for Campus-based Antiwar Coalitions

WHERE:  UC Berkeley

 

California Schools Against War is sponsoring this conference, as well as the

UC Berkeley Stop the War Coalition.  California Schools Against War was formed

on September 29th at a multi-campus meeting at UC Berkeley, attended by

antiwar coalitions and activists from 20+ campuses all throughout the state. 

We hope to have over 100 campuses from all across the West Coast attend the

November 10 and 11th conference.  To be informed of updates and further

information about the conference, contact StopTheWarConference@...

 

 

Help us to make this Calendar the best possible.  Send complete information of your event to: Frontlines

 

 

 

SF Frontlines Peace & Antiwar Calendar

Issue #2 10/01/01

 

This is the second issue of the San Francisco Frontlines Peace and Antiwar Calendar. We will try to include every coalition and committee meeting, every teach-in and speak-out, every mass demonstration and letter writing campaign. It represents our humble contribution to building the broadest possible anti-war movement by ensuring that all of our readers are resources for anyone who wants to lend their shoulders to the tasks at hand. All dates subject to change. We will update the info as we go, but call (415) 452-9992 for more information.

To send information for actions, conferences, meetings and to receive the Peace and Antiwar Calendar, send e-mail to: Progress.

 

AT THE FIRST SIGN OF WAR

 

 

Tuesday, October 2nd

Senator Dianne Feinstein attacks
Civil Liberties!

Protest this attack against foreign students.
Tuesday, October 2nd
5 p.m. at
Dianne Feinstein's office
One Post Street, Suite 2450
San Francisco
(at Post and Market, near Montgomery
Street BART station)

 

Feinstein wants to introduce a bill that would ban all new visas for international students for 6 months! This would affect over 100,000 students. Feinstein is also proposing to impose a “tracking” system to force those in the country to report periodically to the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.

Call Dianne Feinstein's office to express your opposition: (415) 393-0707 or directly to her legislative staff: Camille Camacho and Lavita Strickland: (202) 224-3841.

Thursday, October 4

 

General Meeting of the

SF TOWN HALL COMMITTEE AGAINST WAR AND HATE

 

Proposed Agenda:

 

Educational: Immigrant Rights Under attack (20 minutes)

Organization of upcoming events:

SF Town Hall Teach-In – October 7

Immigrant Pride Day 2001 – October 13

Mass Demo and Rally Against War and Hate – October 20

Brief Committee Reports

 

 

Saturday, October 6

 

Immigrant Pride Day 2001

VOLUNTEERS’ MEETING AND ORIENTATION

 

People urgently needed for security, outreach, tabling.

 

Come and help spread the word about the campaign for No Scapegoating of Arabs and Muslims! Defend Immigrant Rights! No to Feinstein’s Attacks against Foreign Students! Amnesty for ALL Undocumented Immigrants!

 

Meeting Place: Instituto Familiar de La Raza, 2919 Mission Street (Between 25^th and 26^th Streets) – San Francisco

 

Saturday, October 6 – 4 PM

For more information: (415) 452-9992

Or progress@...

 

 

Sunday, October 7

 

TEACH-IN

 

The Town Hall Committee to Stop War and Hate presents:

 

The Case Against the War: What the Media Doesn't Tell You

 

This educational forum will feature a series of speakers, with ample

time for questions and answers between each one.

 

Sunday, October 7th, 4:30pm at Mission High School Auditorium 3750 18th at Dolores in San Francisco, four blocks from 16th Street BART

 

Speakers:

_ Alexander Cockburn, commentator for Counterpunch,

on the history of the U.S. in the region

_ Tania Farzana, Director of DYAAR Afghan Children

Center

_ Eyad Kishawi, American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC-SF) _ Representative from the 911 Solidarity Committee _ Christian Parenti, Journalist, on threats to civil liberties _ Joel Beinin, Professor of Middle Eastern History at Stanford, on the geopolitics of the region _ Special Musical Guest: Utah Phillips

 

 

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13

IMMIGRANT PRIDE DAY 2001

Defend Arab and Muslims against Scapegoating!

Amnesty for ALL Undocumented Immigrants!

 

March: 12 Noon – 24^th and Mission to Dolores Park

Rally and Music Festival / Booths: 1:30 PM – Dolores Park

 

For Information, Volunteer or Endorsement:

progress@...

(415) 452-9992

 

Participant / Endorsing Organizations: Organized by Movimiento por los Derechos de los Inmigrantes – Immigrant Rights Movement (MDI); sponsored by the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA), the SF Immigrant Rights Commission and the Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights (NCCIR), and officially endorsed by the Labor Immigrant Organizing Network (LION), a coalition of Labor Councils and unions interested in organizing immigrants to defend their rights in the workplace. Other endorsers of this action include: Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights; Vietnamese Residents Association; Organizing Institute, AFL-CIO; New Mission News Newspaper; Socialist Alternative; Progressive Left; Instituto Familiar de La Raza; Centro Laboral de La Raza; HERE, Local 2; Pilipinos for Affirmative Action; CARECEN; Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts; W.O.M.A.N, Inc.; Community United Against Violence; Asian Women Shelter; SF Frontlines Newspaper, Mujeres Unidas y Activas; Danza Xitlalli; Danza Azteca Mixcoatl Anahuac; National Lawyers Guild; Rainforest Action Network; La Raza Information Center; Arriba Juntos; San Francisco Women Against Rape; Filipino Task Force on AIDS; Asian Law Caucus; International Wages for Housework Campaign; City College of San Francisco - Mission Campus; Aguilas; Mission Agenda; Horizons Unlimited; La Casa de los Jóvenes; Latino Behavioral Health Planning Committee; International Longshore and Warehouse Union, NCDC; Queer Latino/a Arts Organization; Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere; Concordia Seminar; Office & Professional Employees Local 3; SF Labor Council; Tom Ammiano, President, Board of Supervisors; Matt Gonzalez, Supervisor; UC Berkeley Coalition Against War, and others.

 

ADVANCE CALENDAR:

 

Saturday, October 20

 

11 AM

MASS MARCH AND RALLY AGAINST WAR AND HATE

PLACE TO BE ANNOUNCED

 

November 10 and 11th, 2001

 

CALIFORNIA ANTIWAR STUDENT CONFERENCE

West Coast Conference for Campus-based Antiwar Coalitions

WHERE:  UC Berkeley

 

California Schools Against War is sponsoring this conference, as well as the

UC Berkeley Stop the War Coalition.  California Schools Against War was formed

on September 29th at a multi-campus meeting at UC Berkeley, attended by

antiwar coalitions and activists from 20+ campuses all throughout the state. 

We hope to have over 100 campuses from all across the West Coast attend the

November 10 and 11th conference.  To be informed of updates and further

information about the conference, contact StopTheWarConference@...

 

 

Help us to make this Calendar the best possible.  Send complete information of your event to: Frontlines

 

 

N.Ky. raid a bum steer

 

By Patrick Crowley
The Cincinnati Enquirer

        BURLINGTON — Federal authorities made a case of mistaken identity when they rounded up about 25 North African immigrants during a Sept. 21 sweep through three Boone County apartment complexes.

        The FBI was following up on a tip — now thought to be erroneous — that some of the Sept. 11 hijackers had been living in Northern Kentucky.

        It is believed that none of the immigrants detained — all identified by authorities as Muslims from Mauritania, an Islamic nation in Northwest Africa — is still being held by federal officials, although a local investigation by the Boone County Sheriff's office is continuing.

        Ed Boldt, a spokesman in the FBI's Cincinnati office, said that when groups of federal agents rounded up the immigrants, they believed at least some were connected to the plane hijackings and terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.

        “Our belief was that at least one or as many as three of the hijackers may have resided in Northern Kentucky over the last nine months,” Mr. Boldt said.

        That notion was at least partially based on witnesses who viewed photographs of the hijackers and then told authorities they had possibly seen some or all of the men in apartment complexes in Florence and Burlington and in businesses in the area.

        “But after executing search warrants and interviewing many, many folks in the (Boone County) neighborhoods, we are convinced and satisfied that initial photograph identifications, while made in good faith, were mistaken,”' Mr. Boldt said.

        All but four of those detained and questioned were released the same night they were rounded up.

        Those four were held for a number of days by the Immigration and Naturalization Service in southern Indiana near Louisville, said Rusty O'Brien, a Louisville attorney whose firm represented some of the men.

        None of the men was charged with any crime, and he said Tuesday that he thought all had been released.

        Mr. O'Brien also said the men were being detained because of possible immigration violations and not because of the terrorist attacks.

       

 

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LAST CALL TO ENDORSE ! ANSWER ASAP!

More than Ever: We Are Going Ahead with Our Event.

Please, Notice the Changes Incorporated into our Call.

 

Immigrant Pride Day 2001

Saturday, October 13, 12 noon – 5 pm

DEMONSTRATION FOR PAPERS FOR ALL

For a Full, Immediate, No-Strings-Attached Amnesty

Stop the Attacks against Immigrants,

Particularly Middle Eastern and Muslim Immigrants!

March – Rally – Arts and Music Festival – Speakers

 

Join us to march and rally during the Immigrant Pride Day 2001.

Organized by Movimiento por los Derechos de los Inmigrantes – Immigrant Rights Movement (MDI)

Sponsored by the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA), the SF Immigrant Rights Commission, the Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights (NCCIR), Labor Immigrant Organizing Network (LION), Instituto Familiar de la Raza, Socialist Alternative and the Latino Behavioral Health Planning Committee.

Endorsed by the Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights; American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee; San Francisco Labor Council; Vietnamese Residents Association; Progressive Left; Instituto Laboral de La Raza; HERE, Local 2; Pilipinos for Affirmative Action; CARECEN; Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts; W.O.M.A.N, Inc.; Community United Against Violence; Asian Women Shelter; SF Frontlines Newspaper, Mujeres Unidas y Activas; Danza Xitlalli; Danza Azteca Mixcoatl Anahuac; National Lawyers Guild; Rainforest Action Network; La Raza Information Center; Arriba Juntos, San Francisco Women Against Rape; Filipino Task Force on AIDS;  Asian Law Caucus; International Wages for Housework Campaign; City College of San Francisco - Mission Campus; Aguilas; Mission Agenda; Horizons Unlimited; La Casa de los Jóvenes; International Longshore and Warehouse Union NCDN; Children of Lesbian and Gays Everywhere; Queer Latino/a Arts Organization; Concordia Seminar; Office and Professional Employees Local 3; Global Exchange; New Mission News Newspaper; St. John’s Educational Thresholds Center; Jim Lazarus; Tom Ammiano, President of the SF Board of Supervisors; Matt Gonzalez, SF Board of Supervisors; AFL-CIO Organizing Institute; Chris Daly, SF Board of Supervisors; SF Town Hall Committee Against War and Hate; Legal Services for Children; Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the S.F. Bay Area; African People’s Solidarity Committee; Food First; CISPES; and others.

 

Dear Friends

Nearly everyone on Earth watched the horrific, heinous, criminal acts of terror against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Thousands of people were murdered in cold blood, including hundreds, probably thousands of immigrants, hundreds of them undocumented workers.

The media, however, rather than concentrating on those who committed the crimes, began a campaign falsely suggesting that immigration laws and immigrants were the main social conduit of terrorism.  This is a dangerous slander against millions who work, pay taxes and contribute to American society every day. Immigrants are not terrorists. More restrictions, Scapegoating and repressive measures will not stop criminals, will only criminalize innocents.  Every country and every immigrant organization in the US denounced and condemned these acts of madness.

Immigrants are once again the focus of harassment, intimidation, threats. The US government has already passed more laws targeting their rights. The INS are now aggressively harassing immigrants from every country and carrying out aimless raids against immigrant communities in the name of “fighting terrorism.”

This year’s Immigrant Pride Day celebration had a very special meaning for activists in the movement for immigrants’ rights. After five years of campaigning internationally for an unconditional amnesty for all undocumented workers and their families in the US, thousands of individuals and organizations now firmly endorse the call. The AFL-CIO has incorporated this demand into its program. There were more and more demonstrations throughout the country demanding the amnesty. A national network was formed. US President George W. Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox were talking about some form of limited legalization for Mexican residents, and the Democrats were asking for a similar program benefiting all undocumented workers in the US.

This positive process was abruptly terminated by the terrorist attacks on September 11.  Immigrants, particularly those from the Middle East, are again scapegoat for the right wing and the media.  More than ever, we call upon all community, labor, political organizations and elected officials to support this year’s Immigrant Pride Day and call for Amnesty to counter the wave of reaction and attacks against immigrants and revive the hopes that the situation of millions of immigrant workers will be stabilized by granting them papers.  We should not let the present political climate drive millions of people underground.

We invite you and your organization to be part of Immigrant Pride Day 2001, and continue supporting this transcendental struggle of immigrant workers. This year, we will start with a rally at 24^th Street and Mission in San Francisco and continue with a march to Dolores Park, where a political, cultural, community celebration will take place, including speakers, musicians, art exhibitions, ethnic dances, political, labor and community tables, and children’s activities.

We ask you to endorse this event (see form attached) and make a contribution towards the cost of organizing.

Help us make a success of this event. Please send your endorsement and your economic contribution ASAP. Your support and participation is essential.

Send the completed form and your check to: Immigrant Pride Day, 3311 Mission Street, Suite 135, San Francisco, California 94110 (see form attached).

 

In struggle,

Berta Hernández

Immigrant Pride Day 2001 Organizing Committee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

_________________________________________

Movimiento por los Derechos de los Inmigrantes (MDI)

3311 Mission Street Suite 135 - San Francisco, CA 94110 – (415) 452-999

Email: progress@... - FAX: Attn. Berta Hernandez: (415) 647-3662

 

Immigrant Pride Day 2001

Saturday, October 13, 12 noon – 5 pm

ENDORSEMENT FORM

 

[ ] Yes I / We endorse San Francisco Immigrant Pride Day 2001

 

Saturday, October 13, 2001 March and Rally

 

NAME OF THE ORGANIZATION: _________________________________________

 

NAME OF THE CONTACT PERSON: _______________________________________

 

ADDRESS: _____________________________________________________________

 

______________________________________________________________

 

PHONE: _________________________ FAX:_______________

 

E-MAIL: _______________________________

 

[ ] YES, INCLUDE THE NAME OF MY ORGANIZATION AS ENDORSER OF IMMIGRANT PRIDE DAY 2001.

 

[ ] Yes, I sponsor San Francisco Immigrant Pride Day 2001, please accept my contribution of $500.00.: This guarantees that you and your organization’s name will be PROMINENTLY featured in our literature, announced from the stage at the event, and will have a table at the event.

 

[ ] Yes, I endorse San Francisco Immigrant Pride Day 2001, please accept my contribution of $300.00.: This guarantees that you and your organization’s name will be featured in our literature and will have a table at the event.

 

[ ] Yes, I support San Francisco Immigrant Pride Day 2001, please accept my contribution of $100.00: This guarantees you and your organization will have a table at the event.

 

[ ] Please find enclosed a check, money order for $ __________ to support Immigrant Pride Day 2001

 

[ ] Yes, I / we would like to participate as a volunteer(s).

Please make check or money order payable to Immigrant Pride Day 2001

_______________________________________________

Movimiento por los Derechos de los Inmigrantes (MDI)

3311 Mission Street Suite 135 - San Francisco, CA 94110 – (415) 452-9992

Email: progres@...  - FAX: Attn. Berta Hernandez: (415) 647-3662

 

Dear readers:

 

Some problems with the computer system and the software that produces this bulletin caused that recipients of messages received messages cross-posted from other lists and servers. This list receives about 100 different messages a day, many of unrelated nature and many which are just cross-postings from other lists. But it is our policy to maintain it as a low traffic list, unless warranted by critical events and focused at this time on a couple central issues.  Problem fixed.  Won’t happen again. We installed a better filter and selection software to make the automated responses and postings more accurate. We also cleaned up the list of subscriptions from other lists that interfere with our traffic.  Apologies to all.

 

Frontlines Staff

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Condit [mailto:tomcondit@...]
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 12:29 PM
To: Recipient list suppressed
Subject: First move by new Geheimatstaatspolizei

 

From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood@...>

 

Office of Homeland Security forces three websites offline

 

<http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/30/1859212>

 

Three Political Websites Downed After Government "Homeland Security" Threat

 

iraradio.com, the web site which archives all Radio Free Eireann

broadcasts, has been taken down because the web service provider was

threatened with seizure of their assets if they continued to host

"terrorist" radio programs. Travis E. Towle, the Founder and CEO of Cosmic

Entertainment Company, which put up IRARADIO.COM, was told bytheir internet

service provider, Hypervine, that they had been "strongly advised" to

takethe web site down.

 

A Hypervine representative read Mr. Towle a statement that, under an

Executive Order recently signed by President Bush, the newly created Office

of Homeland Security can seize all assets "without any notice and/or any

real un-reasonable evidence of any company or person that helps, supports,

or does anything that can be called or labeled terrorism or is found to be

connected to terrorism in any way or means possible." Hypervine is a

subsidiary of the New York based Skynet.

 

These threats have also caused Cosmic Entertainment to close the web sites

archiving two other WBAI radio programs, "Our Americas" and "Grandpa Al

Lewis Live." "Our Americas," hosted by Mario Murillo, is an acclaimed news

magazine covering Latin America. "Grandpa Al Lewis Live" features

commentary by the actor and political activist who starred in "The

Munsters" and "Car 54 Where Are You."

 

Radio Free Eireann, which broadcasts Saturday afternoons at 1:30 p.m. on

WBAI 99.5 FM has covered the conflict in Northern Ireland for over twenty

years. Guests have included Bernadette Sands, the sister of IRA hunger

striker Bobby Sands; Rauri O'Bradaigh, the President of Republican Sinn

Fein; Sinn Fein chief negotiator MartinMcGuinness and Irish Prime Minister

Bertie Ahern.

 

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The Peace & Freedom Party needs to raise its registration to 86,212 to get

back on the California ballot.

http://www.peaceandfreedom.org

The Peace & Antiwar Calendar is posted at:

 

http://www.sf-frontlines.com/Contact/antiwar/antiwar2/antiwar2.html

 

SAN FRANCISCO, TODAY : EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO WAR

 

The attacks against Afghanistan has started.  Today, British and US forces started bombing defense positions, airports and antiaircraft batteries in Kandahar, Kabul and half a dozen other cities in the country.  This is supposed to be followed up by successive waves of attacks today and tomorrow.

 

We call upon all peace-antiwar activists to mobilize today to the 4PM Teach-in at Mission High School, located on 18^th Street and Dolores (just across Dolores Park)  - organized by the SF Town Hall Committee Against War and Hate - and, if necessary, we could march from there to Market and Powell at 5 PM.  Bring banners and signs. There are many hundreds of people already planning to go to the Teach in today.  We need to maximize that participation and invite all participants to demonstrate their opposition to the war.

 

If you need directions or more info, call: (415)452-9992

 

 

 

COME TO MISSION HIGH SCHOOL TODAY AT 4 PM

The SF Town Hall Committee Against War and Hate will be meeting there.

 

MASS MEETING, FOLLOWED IF AGREED BY THOSE PRESENT, BY DEMONSTRATION

 

STOP THE BOMBING AGAINST AFGHANISTAN!

 

NO SCAPEGOATING AGAINST ARABS AND MUSLIMS!

 

IMMIGRANTS ARE NOT TERRORISTS!

 

BRING BANNERS, SIGNS

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STOP THE BOMBING! HAND OFF THE AFGHANI PEOPLE AND IMMIGRANTS!

Not Scapegoating and racism!

 

The Peace and Antiwar movement, immigrant rights and labor activists, are called upon to spring into action today.

 

COME TO A MASS MEETING, FOLLOWED BY AN EMERGENCY RESPONSE

 

Mission High School – 18^th Street @ Dolores – 4 PM

Just across the street from Dolores Park

 

The SF Committee Against War and Hate and all the organizations and individuals supporting/endorsing/participating will be there.

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

 

The Progressive Left slate of candidates for the SF Elections are recalling all campaign activities organized for today, Sunday, October 7 AT URGE ALL ITS SUPPORTERS, VOLUNTEERS AND STAFF to attend the mass meeting and the emergency responses against the bombing of Afghanistan and demanding No War, No Scapegoating of Arabs and Muslims and in Defense of Our Civil Liberties.

 

The Mass Meeting will take place TODA, at Mission High School, at 4 PM – 18^th and Dolores

 

We will also participate in any demonstration or emergency response.

 

The Progressive Left is inviting ALL other candidates running for office to do likewise, suspend their campaigning today and participate of the planned actions to save lives.

 

Sincerely,

 

Progressive Left

 

Carlos Petroni, candidate for SF City Treasurer

Abel Mouton, candidate for the MUD Board, Ward 5

Linda Perez, candidate for the MUD Board, Ward 4

Chris Finn, candidate for the MUD Board, Ward 1

 

 

RALLY AND WALK OUT AGAINST WAR AND RACISM

 

Organized by the UC Berkeley Coalition Against the War

 

MONDAY, October 8

AT NOON

SPROUL PLAZE

UC BERKELEY

 

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After the successful 1,600-strong  Teach-in and the 5,000 demonstration last Sunday, the SF Town Hall Committee is building in solidarity for October 13 - at  12 noon - demonstration in support of Arabs, Muslims and ALL immigrants – 24^th and Mission to Dolores Park and the MASS DEMONSTRATION AGAINST WAR AND RACISM ON OCTOBER 20.

 

COME TO THE SF TOWN HALL MEETING TO LEARN HOW YOU CAN HELP

 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11

7 PM

601 DOLORES

 

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Send info about your meeting, demo, and activity to: progress@...

www.sf.frontlines.com

 

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AFL-CIO ENDORSES OCTOBER 13 MARCH/RALLY FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS

Demo Calls for Defending Arabs and Muslims Against Scapegoating and for Immediate Amnesty for Undocumented Immigrants

 

Joining dozens of local unions, the SF Labor Council and the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute, the AFL-CIO endorsed today the October 13 march and rally in San Francisco against scapegoating of immigrants and people of color.  The event, organized by the Immigrant Rights Movement (MDI) and dozens of community, Labor and political groups is the first mass action in response to the wave of hate crimes, harassment and profiling of immigrants that developed after the heinous terrorist attacks on 9/11.

 

Most antiwar and peace coalitions in San Francisco and Berkeley endorsed the action as well.

 

March: Noon – 24^th and Mission – San Francisco

Followed by Rally at Dolores Park – Speakers and Music Festival

 

Organizers recommend contingents to bring banners and signs.  Sugggested (not mandatory, of course) slogans (Spanish and English and if you can, in Chinese:

 

Stop Scapegoating of Arabs and Muslims!

 

Defendamos a los Arabes y Musulmanes!

 

Stop Attacks Against Immigrants!

 

 No a los Ataques Contra Inmigrantes!

 

Papers for All!

 

Papeles para Todos!

 

Amnesty NOW!

 

Anmistia YA!

 

And anything else you can think of.  Of course, slogans for peace are also very welcome.

 

For all of you who need a leaflet in Chinese to outreach for the Immigrant Pride Day March/Rally on October 13.

 

For all of you who were looking for a good article on Islamic Fundamentalism, here is one.  It is attached as a Rich Text Format, to make it easy to download  with any system.

FYI:

 

The media is saying that we had between 800-1,200 people at the march we organized together with the MDI yesterday for Immigrant Rights and against scapegoating and the war.  This estimate, however, for the first time when comes to the media - is inaccurate and sympathetic.  We probably had 800 people TOTAL between the first rally – at 24^th and Mission Street – the march AND the rally at the end at Dolores Park.  But at the march itself we only mobilized a little more than 400 people.

 

The overwhelming majority of the march was working class and Latinos (about 70% or more of the march and the initial rally).  Over 300 of those who came organized for the rallies and the march were brought directly by the direct work of the branch and the loosely connected network around the MDI. Most of them part of our structural work in the Mission District.  The rest of the organizations at the second rally brought about 120 people and set 35 tables with literature – mostly unions and community organizations - plus other people who showed up at the Dolores Park but did not participate in the march.  From the first rally at 24^th and Mission about 80 people did not march.

 

Contribution to the activity from the left was almost non-existent.  About 15 independent activists from the SF Town Hall Committee came and participated with us. About 15 came from the UC Berkeley’s coalition, mostly brought by our comrades there.  The Workers World Party sent a team with a banner of about 7 people.  The ISO had about 5 people, mostly selling their paper.  Most of the other members of the ISO were in an electoral meeting and activity organized by MUD coalition and the Green Party. (For what we heard About 30 people participated in that meeting and activity.)

 

The rallies and the march were generally well received by those thousands who saw it during the march.  Immediately after arriving to the Park where we had music and speakers, people took refugee under the trees – was unusually hot – or behind the stages from where they ventured to the tables and the children activities’ area and listened to the speakers.  The heat wave dissolved the crowd who did not leave but split in little groups throughout a big area, in the shades.

 

We had speakers from the SF Labor Council, other unions, a declaration read by the SF Board of Supervisors condemning scapegoating and racism and supporting the event and few politicians who spoke against the war and in favor of immigrant rights and the anti-terrorist law. We also had our own speakers, a representative of the UC Berkeley coalition against the war and a representative of the Workers Coalition of Umacali that are organizing a national boycott of Taco Bell to pressure them to recognize their union.

 

Both the banners of the organization and the MDI presided over all the events.  We think is positive that this happened because it is the first time that publicly, many of these speakers addressed the present situation.  We also have a limited, but good coverage from the media as I said before, even generous.  Channel 14 and 48 showed the demo, the mariachis and the people marching very enthusiastically and had a cautious, non critical report of the event.  KPFA radio interviewed a couple of us and reported the march as the first step after September 11 to re-build the movement among immigrants.  Also KGO radio and Channels 5 and 7 transmitted parts of the march and small segments of our speeches.

 

In preparation of the march and as part of our outreach, we canvassed almost 3,000 houses in the District and put up around 300 posters in businesses.  We also heavily leafleted Antiwar coalitions meetings, antiwar activities and distributed some leaflets and posters in both UC Berkeley and SF City College.  We also distributed some leaflets at a recent antiwar demonstration and at a Nader rally.  In total, more than 15,000 leaflets were distributed.  In some cases, we combined these leafleting activities with our electoral material.

 

Some comrades were disappointed at the turnout. But while we don’t consider it a great turnout, there are other elements to be considered that have an extraordinary importance.  To build for the demo we counted not only on the branch but with a group of about 40 other people who are very closely working with us.  The demonstration, different from most of the antiwar demos so far, was overwhelmingly working class and Latino and we were able to make around 60 new contacts, some of them very good ones.  We  also brought  to the event - with the help of MDI people – more than 200 additional contacts, people we know and we are in contact from before and they came as a direct, person to person work we did with them in preparation of the march.  This was done in an environment in which the immigrant and Latino community is afraid and is looking at the new anti-terrorist laws as directly aimed at them.  Many in the community see the effects of September 11 as a direct defeat against their campaign for the amnesty which is true.

 

While there are lots of sympathies in this Working Class neighborhood (Mission) for our antiwar and pro-immigrant positions, that was not translated into people taking the step to demonstrate on the streets massively.  We did have numerous gestures of support during the march.  This is typical of the present period, in which workers and ethnic minorities and immigrants are suffering the brunt of the Bush’s offensive.  But the fact that we have this event and the composition of it, opens us the road to fight in the antiwar movement for an orientation towards the working class and the oppressed.

 

The left and the antiwar coalitions, while endorsing, did nothing to mobilize their forces to support immigrants and most of the left groups openly boycotted the march.  Some of them organized other events (Green Party, ISO, Global Exchange, other Latino organization that work with the Day Laborers, etc) which were all sparsely attended, with the largest counting no more than three dozen people.  We think that there is lots of competition with us that moves these left groups to boycott marches like this, but that the fundamental political issue at hand is that they don’t see the need to connect the movement with the working class and people of color and immigrants, even if they formally say they do.  We invited speakers from the left in order to guarantee their participation and some of them accepted and ended up not showing up.

 

In spite of all that, the march was very spirited, the chanting of slogans very enthusiastic and everyone liked the Mariachis playing and marching in front of the demonstration and the big banners we carried.

 

We are now preparing for the two demonstrations against the war organized for October 20 and October 27.  We are also combining that work with the preparation of open branch meetings to invite all our most recent contacts, expose them to our program, method and try to recruit some of them. Sometimes in November we will also organize our annual Branch conference.  Somehow, we are also struggling to combine these activities for the November 6, Elections that had dropped on the sidelines because the general political situation and the fact that the media doesn’t even mention that is one…

 

Comradely,

 

 

 

FYI:

 

The media is saying that we had between 800-1,200 people at the march we organized together with the MDI yesterday for Immigrant Rights and against scapegoating and the war.  This estimate, however, for the first time when comes to the media - is inaccurate and sympathetic.  We probably had 800 people TOTAL between the first rally – at 24^th and Mission Street – the march AND the rally at the end at Dolores Park.  But at the march itself we only mobilized a little more than 400 people.

 

The overwhelming majority of the march was working class and Latinos (about 70% or more of the march and the initial rally).  Over 300 of those who came organized for the rallies and the march were brought directly by the direct work of the branch and the loosely connected network around the MDI. Most of them part of our structural work in the Mission District.  The rest of the organizations at the second rally brought about 120 people and set 35 tables with literature – mostly unions and community organizations - plus other people who showed up at the Dolores Park but did not participate in the march.  From the first rally at 24^th and Mission about 80 people did not march.

 

Contribution to the activity from the left was almost non-existent.  About 15 independent activists from the SF Town Hall Committee came and participated with us. About 15 came from the UC Berkeley’s coalition, mostly brought by our comrades there.  The Workers World Party sent a team with a banner of about 7 people.  The ISO had about 5 people, mostly selling their paper.  Most of the other members of the ISO were in an electoral meeting and activity organized by MUD coalition and the Green Party. (For what we heard About 30 people participated in that meeting and activity.)

 

The rallies and the march were generally well received by those thousands who saw it during the march.  Immediately after arriving to the Park where we had music and speakers, people took refugee under the trees – was unusually hot – or behind the stages from where they ventured to the tables and the children activities’ area and listened to the speakers.  The heat wave dissolved the crowd who did not leave but split in little groups throughout a big area, in the shades.

 

We had speakers from the SF Labor Council, other unions, a declaration read by the SF Board of Supervisors condemning scapegoating and racism and supporting the event and few politicians who spoke against the war and in favor of immigrant rights and the anti-terrorist law. We also had our own speakers, a representative of the UC Berkeley coalition against the war and a representative of the Workers Coalition of Umacali that are organizing a national boycott of Taco Bell to pressure them to recognize their union.

 

Both the banners of the organization and the MDI presided over all the events.  We think is positive that this happened because it is the first time that publicly, many of these speakers addressed the present situation.  We also have a limited, but good coverage from the media as I said before, even generous.  Channel 14 and 48 showed the demo, the mariachis and the people marching very enthusiastically and had a cautious, non critical report of the event.  KPFA radio interviewed a couple of us and reported the march as the first step after September 11 to re-build the movement among immigrants.  Also KGO radio and Channels 5 and 7 transmitted parts of the march and small segments of our speeches.

 

In preparation of the march and as part of our outreach, we canvassed almost 3,000 houses in the District and put up around 300 posters in businesses.  We also heavily leafleted Antiwar coalitions meetings, antiwar activities and distributed some leaflets and posters in both UC Berkeley and SF City College.  We also distributed some leaflets at a recent antiwar demonstration and at a Nader rally.  In total, more than 15,000 leaflets were distributed.  In some cases, we combined these leafleting activities with our electoral material.

 

Some comrades were disappointed at the turnout. But while we don’t consider it a great turnout, there are other elements to be considered that have an extraordinary importance.  To build for the demo we counted not only on the branch but with a group of about 40 other people who are very closely working with us.  The demonstration, different from most of the antiwar demos so far, was overwhelmingly working class and Latino and we were able to make around 60 new contacts, some of them very good ones.  We  also brought  to the event - with the help of MDI people – more than 200 additional contacts, people we know and we are in contact from before and they came as a direct, person to person work we did with them in preparation of the march.  This was done in an environment in which the immigrant and Latino community is afraid and is looking at the new anti-terrorist laws as directly aimed at them.  Many in the community see the effects of September 11 as a direct defeat against their campaign for the amnesty which is true.

 

While there are lots of sympathies in this Working Class neighborhood (Mission) for our antiwar and pro-immigrant positions, that was not translated into people taking the step to demonstrate on the streets massively.  We did have numerous gestures of support during the march.  This is typical of the present period, in which workers and ethnic minorities and immigrants are suffering the brunt of the Bush’s offensive.  But the fact that we have this event and the composition of it, opens us the road to fight in the antiwar movement for an orientation towards the working class and the oppressed.

 

The left and the antiwar coalitions, while endorsing, did nothing to mobilize their forces to support immigrants and most of the left groups openly boycotted the march.  Some of them organized other events (Green Party, ISO, Global Exchange, other Latino organization that work with the Day Laborers, etc) which were all sparsely attended, with the largest counting no more than three dozen people.  We think that there is lots of competition with us that moves these left groups to boycott marches like this, but that the fundamental political issue at hand is that they don’t see the need to connect the movement with the working class and people of color and immigrants, even if they formally say they do.  We invited speakers from the left in order to guarantee their participation and some of them accepted and ended up not showing up.

 

In spite of all that, the march was very spirited, the chanting of slogans very enthusiastic and everyone liked the Mariachis playing and marching in front of the demonstration and the big banners we carried.

 

We are now preparing for the two demonstrations against the war organized for October 20 and October 27.  We are also combining that work with the preparation of open branch meetings to invite all our most recent contacts, expose them to our program, method and try to recruit some of them. Sometimes in November we will also organize our annual Branch conference.  Somehow, we are also struggling to combine these activities for the November 6, Elections that had dropped on the sidelines because the general political situation and the fact that the media doesn’t even mention that is one…

 

Comradely,

 

 

 

Sorry, I forgot to sign the report. Please, make sure to clarify that this is on a personal capacity.  Arturo

 

FYI:

 

The media is saying that we had between 800-1,200 people at the march we organized together with the MDI yesterday for Immigrant Rights and against scapegoating and the war.  This estimate, however, for the first time when comes to the media - is inaccurate and sympathetic.  We probably had 800 people TOTAL between the first rally – at 24^th and Mission Street – the march AND the rally at the end at Dolores Park.  But at the march itself we only mobilized a little more than 400 people.

 

The overwhelming majority of the march was working class and Latinos (about 70% or more of the march and the initial rally).  Over 300 of those who came organized for the rallies and the march were brought directly by the direct work of the branch and the loosely connected network around the MDI. Most of them part of our structural work in the Mission District.  The rest of the organizations at the second rally brought about 120 people and set 35 tables with literature – mostly unions and community organizations - plus other people who showed up at the Dolores Park but did not participate in the march.  From the first rally at 24^th and Mission about 80 people did not march.

 

Contribution to the activity from the left was almost non-existent.  About 15 independent activists from the SF Town Hall Committee came and participated with us. About 15 came from the UC Berkeley’s coalition, mostly brought by our comrades there.  The Workers World Party sent a team with a banner of about 7 people.  The ISO had about 5 people, mostly selling their paper.  Most of the other members of the ISO were in an electoral meeting and activity organized by MUD coalition and the Green Party. (For what we heard About 30 people participated in that meeting and activity.)

 

The rallies and the march were generally well received by those thousands who saw it during the march.  Immediately after arriving to the Park where we had music and speakers, people took refugee under the trees – was unusually hot – or behind the stages from where they ventured to the tables and the children activities’ area and listened to the speakers.  The heat wave dissolved the crowd who did not leave but split in little groups throughout a big area, in the shades.

 

We had speakers from the SF Labor Council, other unions, a declaration read by the SF Board of Supervisors condemning scapegoating and racism and supporting the event and few politicians who spoke against the war and in favor of immigrant rights and the anti-terrorist law. We also had our own speakers, a representative of the UC Berkeley coalition against the war and a representative of the Workers Coalition of Umacali that are organizing a national boycott of Taco Bell to pressure them to recognize their union.

 

Both the banners of the organization and the MDI presided over all the events.  We think is positive that this happened because it is the first time that publicly, many of these speakers addressed the present situation.  We also have a limited, but good coverage from the media as I said before, even generous.  Channel 14 and 48 showed the demo, the mariachis and the people marching very enthusiastically and had a cautious, non critical report of the event.  KPFA radio interviewed a couple of us and reported the march as the first step after September 11 to re-build the movement among immigrants.  Also KGO radio and Channels 5 and 7 transmitted parts of the march and small segments of our speeches.

 

In preparation of the march and as part of our outreach, we canvassed almost 3,000 houses in the District and put up around 300 posters in businesses.  We also heavily leafleted Antiwar coalitions meetings, antiwar activities and distributed some leaflets and posters in both UC Berkeley and SF City College.  We also distributed some leaflets at a recent antiwar demonstration and at a Nader rally.  In total, more than 15,000 leaflets were distributed.  In some cases, we combined these leafleting activities with our electoral material.

 

Some comrades were disappointed at the turnout. But while we don’t consider it a great turnout, there are other elements to be considered that have an extraordinary importance.  To build for the demo we counted not only on the branch but with a group of about 40 other people who are very closely working with us.  The demonstration, different from most of the antiwar demos so far, was overwhelmingly working class and Latino and we were able to make around 60 new contacts, some of them very good ones.  We  also brought  to the event - with the help of MDI people – more than 200 additional contacts, people we know and we are in contact from before and they came as a direct, person to person work we did with them in preparation of the march.  This was done in an environment in which the immigrant and Latino community is afraid and is looking at the new anti-terrorist laws as directly aimed at them.  Many in the community see the effects of September 11 as a direct defeat against their campaign for the amnesty which is true.

 

While there are lots of sympathies in this Working Class neighborhood (Mission) for our antiwar and pro-immigrant positions, that was not translated into people taking the step to demonstrate on the streets massively.  We did have numerous gestures of support during the march.  This is typical of the present period, in which workers and ethnic minorities and immigrants are suffering the brunt of the Bush’s offensive.  But the fact that we have this event and the composition of it, opens us the road to fight in the antiwar movement for an orientation towards the working class and the oppressed.

 

The left and the antiwar coalitions, while endorsing, did nothing to mobilize their forces to support immigrants and most of the left groups openly boycotted the march.  Some of them organized other events (Green Party, ISO, Global Exchange, other Latino organization that work with the Day Laborers, etc) which were all sparsely attended, with the largest counting no more than three dozen people.  We think that there is lots of competition with us that moves these left groups to boycott marches like this, but that the fundamental political issue at hand is that they don’t see the need to connect the movement with the working class and people of color and immigrants, even if they formally say they do.  We invited speakers from the left in order to guarantee their participation and some of them accepted and ended up not showing up.

 

In spite of all that, the march was very spirited, the chanting of slogans very enthusiastic and everyone liked the Mariachis playing and marching in front of the demonstration and the big banners we carried.

 

We are now preparing for the two demonstrations against the war organized for October 20 and October 27.  We are also combining that work with the preparation of open branch meetings to invite all our most recent contacts, expose them to our program, method and try to recruit some of them. Sometimes in November we will also organize our annual Branch conference.  Somehow, we are also struggling to combine these activities for the November 6, Elections that had dropped on the sidelines because the general political situation and the fact that the media doesn’t even mention that is one…

 

 

Arturo Diaz

Progressive Left

 

 

 

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RESOLUTION FROM THE SF BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AGAINST SCAPEGOATING

AND IN SUPPORT OF IMMIGRANTS

By Frontlines Staff

 

The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco issued a Resolution proclaiming October 13 as Immigrant Pride Day and stating that “supports the work of the Immigrant Rights Movement (MDI) to ensure that the San Francisco is a place where immigrants and their families are recognized for their human values and contributions.”

 

The Resolution, presented at the march and rally organized by the Immigrant Rights Movement and endorsed by 70 other labor, community and political organizations by Supervisor Leland Yee was accepted by MDI coordinators Berta Hernández and Carlos Petroni on behalf of the organizers of the events.

 

The Resolution of the SF Board of Supervisors also states that “the Board of Supervisors, as a matter of policy, has condemned discrimination, Scapegoating, and biased profiling of Arabs, Muslims and other immigrants by those who would like to use the heinous and criminal terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 to pursue their own anti-immigrant agenda … immigrants are entitled to the right to work and live without fear and be able to access all social services, education, health care and economic opportunities …”

 

Around 900 people, most of them immigrants, particularly Latinos from the Mission District, participated in two rallies and a march throughout the working class district last Saturday as part of the celebrations for Immigrant Pride Day. Their demands of the event were Stop Scapegoating of Arabs and Muslims! Stop the Attacks against immigrants! And For a full amnesty for all undocumented immigrants!

 

This is the first public demonstration organized by immigrants and workers anywhere in the country confronting the new wave of anti-immigrant rhetoric and harassment and physical attacks against people of color since the terrorist attacks of September 11 and the start of the war declared by President Bush. The speakers at the rallies also explained why the war was not in the best interests of immigrants and people of color in the US and how Bush war drive was brought home by the anti-terrorist laws and a renew strategy against immigrants.

 

Among the sponsors of the action were the SF Labor Council, the Instituto Familiar de La Raza, Socialist Alternative, Vietnamese Residents Association and many others.  The national AFL-CIO sent a message of support as well.