SD Community Event Calendar

Join the WP4BL Action Team for this introduction to a direct action webinar; Protest 101: How to Show Up as a White Anti-Racist Ally.

This 90 minute webinar is for white people who are interested in learning more about best practices for street-based protest that include: showing up with a purpose, maintaining safety, protest roles, your rights, and the best ways we have learned about how to show up in solidarity with Black Lives Matter - Los Angeles. Our presentation will include opportunities for folks to get specific questions answered.

Register here

Organizer: @athena_cenea

Saturday 10/3 we will be coming together to amplify the voices of our BIPOC brothers and sisters who live, work and play in Pacific Beach. We will march through the streets of pb. *If you are a BIPOC who would like to share your experiences in pacific beach please dm me. Mark your calendars. More information to come so stay tuned.

Organizers: @runforbreonna and @rideforbreonna
Run for Breonna and @rideforbreonna will kick off October on Saturday 10/3 at the downtown location at 8th and B st. (in the public plaza next to Achilles Coffee) at 8am‬.

We ask that everyone wear blue and purple, Breonna’s favorite colors.

Breonna loved babies, so we’re collaborating with Miracle Babies and holding a diaper drive. More to come on types of diapers to donate.

Link in instagram bio soon for volunteering, donations, parking, and t-shirt sales. [https://www.instagram.com/runforbreonna/]

We are hoping everyone from all 11 Run for Breonna San Diego locations (past and present participants) can attend this day.

Organizers: @blacklivesyogaThis Saturday @ 9am We’re meeting at the corner of civic center and mission at the fountain, we’re marching and we’re doing Yoga for #BREONNATAYLOR and raising the vibrations of our Liberation movement

Organizers: @oursisterskeepermovement
This is a veteran led and civilian backed event, and we need YOUR help. This is part of a nationwide movement by service members (past and present) to bring awareness to sexual harassment/assault in the military. We need your voice to amplify ours, and help us get the I am Vanessa Guillen Act of 2020 passed into law. Please share this event and then come and add your voice to ours! ⁠
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Unfortunately, Vanessa Guillen and LaVena Johnson cannot be here to tell us their story. However, they have inspired many service members to tell their own.⁠
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This protest is for our brothers and sisters in arms who have suffered, and who continue to suffer.⁠
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Please help us bring national attention to the cases of Vanessa Guillen, LaVena Johnson, Thae Ohu and the millions of MST survivors and non-survivors who have yet to see justice served.⁠

Organizers: Caravan for Justice

This is a vehicle-only mobile protest. We will meet at the south end of the Albertson's Parking lot located at 9530 Winter Gardens Blvd, Lakeside, CA (look for balloons).
We will decorate cars and get set up until 3:00, at which time we will caravan into Lakeside to show our support for #BlackLivesMatter!

Please use your hazard lights and fill up your gas tank. Honk your horn and make some noise!!

Organizers: Community Led

Join us for a Marching Vigil to remember & honor the life of Jonathan Price and the countless others we continue to lose to state violence.

Please wear black, brings signs, flowers, water, snacks and wear a mask.

For Questions: DM @indigo.ky (IG)

Organizers: PSL - San Diego

On Thursday, September 17, police agencies in the Denver area arrested anti-racist organizers in a coordinated assault. Those arrested included leaders in the struggle demanding justice for Elijah McClain, who was brutally murdered by the Aurora Police Department. They are facing multiple felony charges and years in prison in an obvious frame-up aimed at stopping the movement for justice for Elijah McClain.

Russell Ruch was arrested while in a parking lot at a Home Depot. An hour later, five police cars surrounded and arrested Lillian House while she was driving. In the afternoon, S.W.A.T. teams arrived at Joel Northam’s home and arrested him. Eliza Lucero was also arrested.

All four are members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Also arrested were Terrance Roberts, co-founder of the Frontline Party for Revolutionary Action, and others may have also been arrested.
Those arrested included leaders who led massive peaceful demonstrations demanding justice for the brutal murder of Elijah McClain. They now face multiple ludicrous felony charges and prison time, which is a clear attempt at stopping the movement for justice. This is a major political attack on @pslweb, and that the charges were brought by the District Attorney who was the subject of many Denver protests demonstrates a flagrant conflict of interest. We have the power of the people on our side. We will stand up and fight back!

Join us for a solidarity rally at 3:00 PM at the City Heights Performance Annex.

Please go to pslweb.org/ to donate and sign the petition to demand #DropTheChargesCO !

People of faith are positioned in this moment with a moral imperative to push for both the immediate needs of people most impacted to be met (#DefundPolice), and also to push our own transformative long-term demands for an abolitionist future (Invest in Communities). This includes doing the transformative work within our own congregations and spiritual communities to stop calling police and build alternatives that invest in collective well-being.

In that spirit, SURJ-Faith has created the “Community Safety for All: Congregational Action Toolkit” for white faith/spiritual leaders and congregations to examine our relationship to policing and police violence, and to #DefundPolice within our own congregational contexts.

Join SURJ-Faith Coordinator Rev. Anne Dunlap and guests to learn more about the imperative for congregations to stop calling police and invest in alternatives that build truly safer, more just, and more compassionate communities!

Organizers: San Diegans for Justice and Thee Sacred Souls

REGISTER HERE: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/workingforjustice
Donate any amount to attend
Suggested Donation: $25
Join us at 5:30 PM on Wednesday, October 14th as we gather to celebrate some of the amazing activism happening here in San Diego with a Performance from up and coming San Diego band Thee Sacred Souls.
Local Activists and movement leaders will be highlighting the Intersections of Labor and Racial Justice. Yes on Measure B!
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez
Progressive Labor Alliance
San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council
American Federation of Teachers Guild, Local 1931
ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties
About Thee Sacred Souls:
Alex Garcia and Sal Samano (formerly of Fake Tides) began cutting bedroom demos of rhythm tracks together in 2019. Both multi-instrumentals, Alex migrated from the guitar to the drums, while Sal learned bass. The duo used Instagram to recruit City Heights singer Josh Lane, a former Sacramento music student who relocated to San Diego in 2017, to form soul-inspired trio Thee Sacred Souls (their name a partial nod to Chicano rock heroes Thee Midniters).
Read more: https://www.sandiegoreader.com/bands/thee-sacred-souls/ 

Organizers: Asian Solidarity Collective
Register: bit.ly/ascUnProptheProps

Organizers: Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans - PANA

Learn about ways to vote and recommendations for key state propositions and local measures.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, voting will look a little different this year. Do you have a plan for how to vote? Confused about what's on the 2020 Ballot? Californians have 12 propositions and multiple local measures depending on where you live on the ballot this year. Join the Islamic Center of San Diego and PANA to learn more about what's at stake in this Election and answer your questions about the ballot!
Tune in by registering here https://www.panasd.org/election-townhall 

Yes on Prop 16 Rally

Organizers: borderlandsequity

Join the Borderlands Coalition this Friday, October 16th at 6pm PST to learn more about Women Who Run for Public Office here in San Diego.

Organizers: North County 4 Racial Justice

Supply Drive! Thank you to everyone who made last week such a success. We are continuing our efforts to put supplies in the hands of those that need them. Engaging and communicating with our community last week has led us to this week's action. Check out the slides for details, we need hygiene and life supplies!

Organizers: @uhurusolidarity

Meet-up at 12 at 1600 Pacific Hwy. The march will end with a rally at the Balboa Park, corner of 6th & Laurel.

“March for Reparations to African People” on October 17, 2020 is a national day of political action coordinated by the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, the reparations organization of white people formed by and working under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party.

This is a call to the white population to march for reparations as a stance of principled solidarity with the black community and their righteous struggle for Black Power, political and economic power over their own lives and resources.
March for Reparations is itself an act of reparations, functioning as a major fundraiser for the economic programs of the African People’s Socialist Party, including the Black Power Blueprint.

You can sign-up to donate and hold your own fundraiser at UhuruSolidarity.org/March

Organizers: @Rideforbreonna (IG)

On Sundays we #RideforBreonna and on Saturdays we @runforbreonna.
(Check out IG page for more details)

We are still here. Doing nothing is not an option. They want us to forget and we can’t. There are still action steps to do (link in bio).

10/11: 8am: Dark Horse Coffee @ 3260 Adams Ave
10/18: 9am : Teralta Park Joining Pedal for Justice
10/25: 8am: Dark Horse Coffee @ 3260 Adams Ave
11/1 : 4:30am : 414 N Coast Hwy. Encinitas : 50 Mile Race for Race

Register here
While for many individuals, medical settings are a place where they go for support around their health – particularly during times of health crisis, for transgender and non-binary people, medical settings are often highly triggering and even sometimes traumatizing. 

Studies have shown that 50% of transgender and non-binary patients have to provide on the spot “Trans 101” education for their providers in order to receive appropriate medical care, 28% of transgender and non-binary individuals postpone care due to experiences of discrimination in medical settings, and 19% of transgender and non-binary patients have been refused medical care because they are transgender (Grant, et al, 2015). 
Want to make sure that your offices, providers, and staff are creating a safe, unbiased place where transgender and non-binary people can access affirming care? 

During this session, we will briefly review critical language, barriers to accessing care, and strategies to help support and affirm transgender patients. This webinar provides strategies from removing barriers throughout the care process–from making the appointment to follow-up care.

Organizers: @blm_temecula (IG)

In our biggest push to show this community far we’ve come, @blm_temecula is calling on every group who represents BLM to join us in our community gathering, Project Unity. We have seen the massive 1000+ gathering at Reagan Sports park, we saw their signs and flags and stickers. We aren’t going to let them decide who represents this community. Please Share, please DM if interested in helping with organizing the event. 

Organizers:@ibpeoplesalliance & @caravanforjusticesd (IG)

Sunday Oct 18th we are partnering with @ibpeoplesalliance to host our first Caravan + Chalk Drawing protest!

We'll caravan thru IB and then head to the pier to draw BLM slogans on the sidewalk (with masks and distancing, of course).

Organizers: Pueblo Sin Fronteras

DEFEND ASYLUM!!
(San Diego Action)

Date: October 21, 2020
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Venue: PedWest (San Ysidro)

Protest organized by human rights groups together with migrants who seek asylum and are stuck in Tijuana due to the US and Mexican governments' anti-migrant policies.

Please use black shirts and incorporate yellow bandanas!

**We will take COVID-19 precautionary measures. Use of face masks and social distancing is mandatory**

Organizer: Eric Angelo Morrison-Smith

#BorrowedKnowledge is about building community & collective learning.

For our next set of discussions, we will be discussing the intersections of #ClimateJustice & #racialjustice

Resources will be sent out this Thursday. You can sign up using the link in my bio. Also, shout out to @amina626 for supporting and sharing your expertise. Hope y’all will consider joining!

Thank you for those who provided insights and resources.

Sign up here: bit.ly/BorrowKnowledge

First Discussion: October 22nd @ 6pm
Second Discussion: October 25 @ 10am

Register : https://sdsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__EuiuL79SuSNhq39FTbyEA

The Department of Sociology is holding this event in support of the Black Lives Matter Movement coinciding with the 25th Annual National Day of Protests Against Police Brutality (O22). Our guest panelists are activists and dedicated members of the community that work diligently in advocating for solutions to systemic racism in our communities of San Diego.

Abolish special anti-robbery squad and end police brutality in Nigeria once and for All!

Friday, October 23 5pm
Convention Center : 111 West Harbor Drive, San Diego (Stolen Kumeyaay Land)