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A Mass March and Rally will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 27th, 2006, the 40th anniversary of the 1966 Hunters Point Uprising. People will gather at 3:30pm at Third St. & Williams, and will march to a rally at Third & Palou. On Sept. 27th, 1966, Matthew Johnson, aged 16, was fatally shot in the back by SFPD, and the people rose up in rage – only to be put down by National Guard troops and tanks called in by City Hall. This week, the people of Bayview Hunters Point will demand that City Hall reinstate the referendum petition to stop the redevelopment land grab in Bayview Hunters Point.

On Saturday, September 23rd, BACORR, the Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights, hosted a meeting in the Women's Building in San Francisco. Several Bay Area activists, including Linci Comy, the Executive Director of the Women's Choice Clinic, speak about the current climate and what is at stake in the battle for reproductive justice. During the meeting, the group discussed proposed upcoming activities, such as a protest against the "Life Chain" in San Francisco on October 1st.

On Sept. 21, about 100 protesters in San Francisco marked the 34th Anniversary of martial law in the Philippines and the murder of Filipinos. Photos. Earlier in the day activists dropped banners over freeways and street overpasses. Photos. Since Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo came to power under martial law, at least 752 Filipinos have been murdered in politically motivated killings while 184 have gone missing.

On the evening of Friday, September 15, 2006, members of the Filipino/ American Coalition for Environmental Solidarity (FACES) and Women for Genuine Security (WGS) lay in symbolic protest around the Dewey statue in downtown San Francisco. The silent protest was held in response to the brutal rape by US Marines of Nicole, a 22-year-old Filipina woman, at the former Subic Naval Base in Olongapo, Philippines on November 1st, 2005. Currently, the Marines face trial in the Philippines.

On the eve of his return to federal prison, a benefit for Josh Wolf was held Sept. 21st at Blue Cube in SF. Speakers included filmmaker Kevin Epps and independent journalist Sarah Olson, who spoke of their own run-ins with grand jury investigations targeting the media, as well as Bruce Brugmann, Chris Daly, and Ross Mirkarimi. Josh had been ordered this week to turn himself in to the Dublin Correctional Facility by 1pm on Wednesday. At a Sept. 20th press conference at the gates of the prison in Dublin, Josh announced that he was given a two-day reprieve and will return to prison on Friday. With the civil contempt charge against him re-affirmed by the court, Josh is being returned to jail pending a hearing before the entire 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Rainforest Action Network, Greenpeace and Amazon watch held a protest at 8am on Monday, September 18th to demand corporate responsibility from Wells Fargo, Kimberly Clark, Monsanto, and ConocoPhillips. Representatives of these companies, as well as some 200 other CEO's, were meeting at an Investors Conference at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in San Francisco. Robbin Hood made a surprise appearance at the Investors Conference, calling for distribution of wealth. Photos

On Saturday, September 16th, the anniversary of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon, over 40 Bay Area activists staged a "die-in" at the Ferry Building in San Francisco to highlight the fact that US tax money has been used to fund the attacks on and killings of civilians in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq. Photos