General Strike SF: in Honor of the Frisco Five in San Francisco

GENERAL STRIKE SF: IN HONOR OF THE FRISCO FIVE

General Strike SF: in Honor of the Frisco Five 

Date Monday May 09 

Time 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM 

Location Details 

San Francisco City Hall 
1 Dr Carlton B Goodlett Pl 
San Francisco, CA 94102 

Event Type Protest 

Organizer/Author #Frisco500 

With all your love, share and share far and wide: 

General Strike, San Francisco, Monday, May 9, 2016 

We, the people, invite you to join us for an unprecedented historical moment: a general strike of San Francisco this Monday, May 9, 2016. In honor of the Frisco Five Hunger Strikers and against SFPD killings of our brothers, we urge you to strike from work and school and to boycott any corporate restaurant eating and purchasing. 

The time is ripe, and your action is needed now. Because of the Mayor’s unwillingness to fire corrupt police chief Suhr, the Frisco Five have been forced to prolong their hunger strike and have now all been hospitalized. It is time for all of us to action with honor, courage, and sacrifice for those who no longer have a voice, like Alex Nieto, Amilcar Perez Lopez, Mario Woods, and Luis Gongora Pat, all unlawfully killed by SFPD. 

Instead of going to work or school, join us to peacefully picket in front of San Francisco City Hall starting at 8:00 a.m. Striking for a righteous cause is nothing new. Gandhi led the Swadeshi movement for Indian self-sufficiency. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks helped lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott against segregation. For farmworkers’ rights, Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and the United Farm Workers held strikes against grapes and Safeway stores. Striking is a successful strategy that all of us can contribute to for the sake of justice. 

Wear red and black in honor of our fallen brother Alex Nieto. 

General Strike, San Francisco, Monday, May 9, 2016