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A memorial plaque commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot was installed in San Francisco at 12pm on Thursday, June 22nd, at the corner of Turk and Taylor Streets. The 1966 riot in the Tenderloin was the first known instance of transgender resistance to police harassment in the U.S. National and local community activists present will include Reverend Cecil Williams of Glide Memorial Church, author/activists Leslie Feinberg and Jamison Green, Mara Keisling of the National Center for Transgender Equality, and representatives of the SF Mayor’s Office, Human Rights Commission, and Police Commission. Photos | Video

On June 10, protesters gathered on Market St. in San Francisco to protest Apple's use of Digital Rights Management, the restrictions placed by Apple on music purchased at iTunes. Photos & Video

SF Supervisor Chris Daly has introduced a resolution before the Supervisors' Land Use Committee to ask the UA Plumbers Local 38 Pension Trust Fund, which owns the Civic Center Hotel, to promptly proceed with a seismic retrofit. The building does not have the city-mandated seismic retrofit for unreinforced masonry buildings. The Land Use Committee will be meeting in San Francisco City Hall on Wednesday, June 21st at 1:00pm. Tenants and their supporters will explain why low-income housing is important to the City and why these units should not be lost.

Shanti Sellz and Daniel Strauss, college students in Tucson, Arizona, are facing up to 15 years in prison on felony charges for the volunteer work they did last summer to help undocumented immigrants in the Arizona desert. Their trial is set to begin in August. Sellz and Strauss are in the Bay Area this week to build support for their defense campaign. They will speak on Tuesday, June 20th, at the Friends' AFSC Hall in SF, 65 Ninth St. (between Mission and Market Streets).

On Monday, June 19th, as part of Juneteenth commemorations, the anniversary of the declaration of the end of slavery of Africans in the US, a rally in the Bayview District demanded amnesty for all immigrants.

On Saturday, June 10th, San Francisco will participate in the International Weekend of Resistance Against the Green Scare, along with some 40 other cities worldwide (List). These events will show solidarity and support for those facing charges and harassment in the recent wave of repression against Eco and Animal Rights activists. Organizers of the San Francisco event also aim to contextualize the Green Scare amidst the historic and on-going government oppression and harassment faced by people of color here and abroad, particularly in their struggles for liberation.

The San Francisco event will take place on Saturday at Station 40 (3030 B 16th Street @ Mission, San Francisco). Doors will open at 1:30pm, with the show at 2:00pm sharp. All donations will benefit political prisoners. The event will feature bands such as Acts of Sedition and Myth of Progress, speakers such as Black Panther and Grand Jury Resister Richard Brown, and free vegan food. More details

Read more on Police and Prisons News Page | Free Jeff 'Free' Luers! | Resist Grand Juries | California Anarchist Prisoner Solidarity | Portland Indymedia Story

San Francisco Pride will be held during the weekend of June 23rd through 25th. SF Mayor Gavin Newsom will kick off pride week with a rainbow flag raising and pride reception at City Hall on Monday, June 19th at 5:40pm. The Trans March will be held on Friday, June 23rd. The event will begin at 3:00pm with speakers and performers in Dolores Park, at 19th Street and Dolores. The march will leave at 7:00pm.

This year's SF Dyke March is entitled "SF Dyke March Two Thousand and Sex." It will be held on Saturday, June 24th in Dolores Park, with speakers and perfomers preceding the 7pm march through the Mission District and to the Castro for a celebration in the street.

Hundreds of thousands of people will throng the streets of San Francisco on Saturday and Sunday. The SF Pride Celebration will be held in Civic Center on Saturday from noon until 6pm, and on Sunday from noon until 7:00pm. This free event will include performances on community stages, including the Trans Stage, Two Spirit Gathering Space and Homo Hip Hop, the Asian and Pacific Islander Stage, Nectar Women's Stage, Soul of Pride African American Stage, Latin stage, and others. There will be gathering spaces for kids, elders, and deaf/hard of hearing folks.
The centerpiece of SF Pride is the Pride March down Market Street. It will begin on Sunday at 10:30am at Market and Beale Streets, and will end at Civic Center. There will be hundreds of contingents, led by Dykes on Bikes.

Pride celebrations are held in many other locations, as well. Read more on Indybay's LGBTQI/Queer News Page

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