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TESSA ROUVEROL CALLEJO  Senior Program Officer, Power   I came to the San Francisco Foundation in 1996, to play a lead role in the FAITHS Program having worked as a community organizer and nonprofit executive director for close to 20 years. Since then, I’ve seen the foundation’s tremendous and unique capacity to bring people together across many different sectors and identities to strategically tackle issues of economic and racial inequity impacting low-income communities of color. https://sff.org/team-members/tessa-rouverol-callejo/

POSTS BY TESSA ROUVEROL CALLEJO    https://sff.org/author/tessa-rouverol-callejo/

The Callejo-Correa Family Tree: A Diasporic Legacy Tessa Rouverol Callejo, granddaughter of Sandalio, is a community leader that works with the The San Francisco Foundation to defend the rights of immigrants. Her sister Alicia is an academic with a specialization in oral history and folklore. She has won several national and international awards for her work. She is currently studying in England for a PhD in Creative Writing.  https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/centrovoices/chronicles/callejo-correa-family-tree-diasporic-legacy

On the Right Side of History – Standing with our Muslim Neighbors Tessa Rouverol Callejo from The San Francisco Foundation highlights the significance of continuing partnerships forged with Bay Area organizations through work done by the Civic Engagement Fund for AMEMSA (Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian) Communities http://sff.org/on-the-right-side-of-history-standing-with-our-muslim-neighbors/

2013-05-14 The Bay Area Muslim Study    https://issuu.com/burbfabulous/docs/ispu_report_bay_area_study_web

2020-06-10 Bay Area Undocumented Cash Relief Network  This webinar was presented on June 10, 2020,  and shared key takeaways from the landscape scan and included a conversation with leaders in the field.  The Presenters    Karina Moreno, Consultant to ReWork the Bay,  Omar Carrera, CEO of Canal Alliance,  Kevin Douglas,   Director of National Programs at Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR),  Tessa Rouverol Callejo, Senior Program Officer, San Francisco Foundation https://reworkthebay.org/resource/   bay-area-undocumented-cash-relief-network/

2015-03-09 Seize the Moment: Immigration Relief and Bay Area Communities  https://ncg.org/events/seize-moment-immigration-relief-and-bay-area-communities

2013-05-00 The Bay Area Muslim Study:  Establishing Identity and Community  https://www.scu.edu/media/college-of-arts-and-sciences/political-science/academic-documents/ISPU-Report_Bay-Area-Study_WEB.pdf

Laura Magnani  Laura Magnani is Assistant Regional Director for AFSC’s West Region, and has been working on criminal justice issues since the 1970s. She served as the lobbyist for the Friends Committee on Legislation in Sacramento, California, working on a broad range of issues including equal rights, housing, criminal justice, and militarism. Her work with AFSC began in 1989, where she has continued her healing justice work.

Laura is author of America’s First Penitentiary:  A Two Hundred Year Old Failure, (1990) and co-author, along with Harmon Ray, of Beyond Prisons:  A New Interfaith Paradigm for Our Failed Prison System, (2006). Written as part of her work with AFSC, Beyond Prisons is a comprehensive analysis of the racial, social and economic underpinnings of the criminal justice system. She also authored the 2008 report Buried Alive: Long-term Isolation in California’s Youth and Adult Prisons.  https://www.afsc.org/media-kit/bios/laura-magnani

Laura Magnani Benefit for AFSC  In September of this year, Laura Magnani will retire from her work for the American Friends Service Committee’s Healing Justice program.

Over the 30 years of her AFSC work on prison reform, including two books, countless articles, numerous art shows and a zillion actions later, Laura has been a participant in extraordinary transformations. The problem of incarceration has become more widely recognized, and reform has started. The movement’s leadership has passed to formerly incarcerated people. Laura has been a tireless advocate, a facilitator, and strategic organizer. She will be missed, but she has mentored many young people who are equipped to continue the struggle. Our hope is to raise $20,000 in Laura’s honor to boost the AFSC’s Healing Justice campaign.   https://westernfriend.org/laura-magnani-benefit-afsc

2020-02-11 The four California prisoner class representatives call for solidarity and change – Laura Magnani    https://sfbayview.com/2020/02/the-four-california-prisoner-class-representatives-call-for-solidarity-and-change/

2008-05-00 Buried alive: Long-term isolation in California youth and adult prisons – author Laura Magnani  this report details the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s over-use and misuse of isolation units, with six recommendations for change.  https://www.afsc.org/document/buried-alive-long-term-isolation-california-youth-and-adult-prisons

1990-01-01 America’s First Penitentiary: a 200 Year Old Failure  https://www.amazon.com/Americas-First-Penitentiary-Year-Failure/dp/B000ZSWR30

Beyond prisons: A new interfaith paradigm for our failed prison system – Laura Magnani    https://www.afsc.org/resource/beyond-prisons-new-interfaith-paradigm-our-failed-prison-system

2014-09-01 Love in the Belly of the Beast  The first time I visited a prisoner, I was in my early 20s and working for the Friends Committee on Legislation of California in Sacramento. When we told the prisoner that two of us wanted to visit, he distanced himself from the idea as much as possible: “I know you are really busy. You shouldn’t really take the time. I’ll understand if you can’t make it.”  https://www.friendsjournal.org/love-belly-beast/

2020-06-30 A Panel on Moving Forward: Visions of the Future   https://www.fgcquaker.org/events/panel-moving-forward-visions-future

2013-07-30 Accompaniment: An experiment in healing justice  https://www.afsc.org/friends/accompaniment-experiment-healing-justice

Major Gifts Officer at Maryknoll Lay Missioners, Event Organizer at KPFA Radio 94.1 FM  https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-preston-98ba2320

2020-02-10 Consider Lent a time for action, advocacy  Ken Preston, community engagement manager for CRS in several Western dioceses, including Oakland, said the advocacy efforts involved “lifting our voice up to our elected representatives on these issues that are near and dear to our hearts.”  http://www.catholicvoiceoakland.org/2020/02-10/inthisissue12.htm

KEN PRESTON  As Community Engagement Manager, Ken manages our relationships with our partners in the dioceses of Santa Rosa, San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, Stockton and Monterey in Northern California, as well as the Diocese of Honolulu in Hawaii, and Reno in Nevada. Ken takes the lead in Advocacy efforts, University Partnerships, and Capacity-Building efforts with our parish and diocesan partners throughout the West Region.  https://www.crs.org/dd-west/ken-preston

2003-06-03 Consequences of the Iraqi War part 1  Panelist #6 – Lynn has worked the Fellowship of Reconciliation in Nicaragua, Gaza, Israel and Iraq. She return to Iraq during the war with Iraqi Peace Team.  Lynn shares her experience as a Peace Team Member in Iraq and the people she met there from around the world.   https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/06/03/16161071.php

2003-05-28 CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR IN IRAQ, BOTH HERE AND ABROAD. Wednesday May 28th, 6-9 pm New College Theater, 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco What are the consequences of the war for people in Iraq and in our local communities? How are movements here and abroad struggling to build solidarity and confront the reality of war and empire? This panel brings together activists involved in local social struggles in various regional contexts — from Pakistani and Kurdish activists facing the crisis in the Middle East to local and international peace and justice workers addressing the impact of the war on people of color here and abroad, the assualt on the rights of Arabs and Muslims in the US, Native American views on forced relocation then and now, and more. Join us for an evening of discussion, poetry and dance. Speakers and Performers include: Marley Shebala-journalist for Navajo Times; Soraya Serajeddini-Kurdish human rights activist; Lynn McMichaels-Iraqi Peace Team; Silvia Sweidan-Jordanian activist; Phil Hutchings-co-founder of Institute for Multi-Racial Justice & member of Black Radical Congress; Zulfiqar Ahmad-Senior Program Officer for South Asia at the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development; Representative from War Tax Resistars; Poetry by Jasmine Manning – Ojibwe from Ontario; Poetry by Caligraphy of Thought. Sponsored by the East Bay Coalition to End Sanction in Iraq and New College’s Center for Education and Social Action. Refreshments. Donation $10-15 sliding scale – no one turned away for lack of funds. For information call Yvette: 415-285-9564  https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/20303.php

Jun 06, 2003 · Peace Activist Lynn McMichaels will show slides and talk about her recent trip to Iraq at 7:30 p.m. at St. Joseph the Worker Church, 1640 Addison St. Berkeley Path Wanderers leads a Boundary Walk. Meet at the Reservoir, Grizzly Peak and Spruce St. at 10 a.m. 526-8001.   https://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2003-06-06/full_text

2019-04-16 East Bay Community Bands Together To Protect, Maintain ‘Lafayette Crosses’  In many ways, the Lafayette Crosses are an accidental memorial. In 2006, a handful of peace activists began putting up crosses on the hillside across from Lafayette BART as a protest against the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Lynn MacMichael was one of them.  “I just came down the block with a hammer and a shovel and we started digging,” said MacMichael.

Over the years, as casualties multiplied so did the crosses. At first it split the town, with many feeling the display was disrespectful to the military but then, slowly, the feeling changed. People began adding names and photos of lost loved ones to the crosses, and what started as a protest became a place of honor.  “I think it’s a way to honor people,” said MacMichael, “and calling it a graveyard is a little too narrow. I think it’s broader than that.”

While it cannot control what happens to the property, the group says it is committed to maintaining the memorial for however long it may be there.  https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/04/16/community-protect-maintain-lafayette-crosses/

2009-12-09 Lynn MacMichael Gaza Lecture https://archive.org/details/LynnMacmichaelGazaLecture1292009

 2013-03-19 Wars end, but crosses on Lafayette hill stay put Bob Hanson and Lynn MacMichael, who help tend the hill of crosses, walk on the slope.   https://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2013/03/19/wars-end-but-crosses-on-lafayette-hill-stay-put/

The Crosses of Lafayette On a hillside in this northern California town lies a field of crosses, one for every American soldier killed in our occupation of Iraq. This slide show is set to the passionate song “Memorial Day” written and performed by Laura Zucker of Lafayette (www.laurazucker.com/). The compilation of photos put to music is by Ko Blix of Berkeley, California (http://gallery.me.com/kofotofactory). With photo contributions by Chris Donton, Lynn MacMichaels and others. Uploaded by Daniel ben Avram (www.DanielbenAvram.com/). “Memorial Day” copyright © 2010 by Laura Zucker; “Crosses of Lafayette” iMovie copyright © 2011 by Brian Blix.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoLhLv5NGC4

Crosses of Lafayette  http://www.peacehost.net/Crosses/home.htm

2013-03-18  Lafayette crosses pay tribute to war dead  A sign at the top of the hill that tallies the dead is updated every month. Organizers used to erect a new cross for each new casualty, but they ran out of room years ago at about 4,000. Now they just put up a few new ones when they can, and rely on the sign to represent accuracy. As of Monday, it read 6,702.

‘So many’  Lynn MacMichael stared up at the number last week and fought back tears.  “So many, and still we have to put up new ones,” said the 72-year-old retired humanities teacher, who helps tend the display. “Some people call this a protest site, but that’s not what I see.  “For me, it is a memorial. When I see this hill, I think of the people who served and died overseas while we’re here driving our big cars and living our lives like normal.”  https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Lafayette-crosses-pay-tribute-to-war-dead-4365146.php

Kevin Fagan Reporter  https://www.sfchronicle.com/author/kevin-fagan/

Kevin Fagan SF Chronicle Articles  https://www.bing.com/search?q=kevin+fagan+reporter&refig=d69febe6f03f4b1da211d5267be0c08a&first=1&FORM=PERE

2007-08-31   Nuremberg Actions’ Brian Willson celebrates 20 years of resistance  https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Nuremberg-Actions-Brian-Willson-celebrates-20-2543525.php

1997-08-31 BACK IN ACTION / The protest at the Concord Naval Weapons Station, 10 years ago tomorrow, changed his life irrevocably. Today, Brian Willson is standing strong again.  https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/BACK-IN-ACTION-The-protest-at-the-Concord-Naval-2829200.php

1997-06-10 Tending the Flame /Weapons protesters in Concord have faded to a faithful few[MEK1]   https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Tending-the-Flame-Weapons-protesters-in-Concord-2836977.php

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Sept 1, 1987 – Sept 1, 2007: After 20 Years, Remembering, Reflecting and Recommitment https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/08/30/18444912.php

Cynthia Johnson, Social Justice Committee Vice Chair of BFUU and director of the Hal Carlstad Social Justice Committee

Cynthia was Hal Carlstad’s partner.

Left to right Cynthia Jean Johnson, Vic Sadot, Gene Herman, Carol Ann Amour, and Gail Penso. The photo on the wall above Gene is Hal Carlstad, the late-legendary activist.

The Hal Carlstad Social Justice Center will have a two-year celebration on Sunday, June 8, 2009 at 1 p.m. in the Fireside Room after the Second Sunday potluck. We really have something to celebrate as we grow in our collaborative efforts with Fukushima Response, Transition Berkeley and others. We remain open Monday through Friday from 1:30 to 5 p.m. with great support from our wonderful office staff as well as IT support from Ole and Abbott.

New members of the SJC have also really made our ongoing film and speaker series shine. Cynthia Papermaster brings us Ann Wright, who will speak on the Pivot to Asia on Sunday, March 2. She also brings us a great film on preserving our privacy and internet freedom, Terms and Conditions May Apply (see the calendar). Elana Levy on the Speakers and Film Committee last month shared a profound screening of the film Rosa Luxembourg and brought us wonderful speakers on the rights of nature. In April we’re hosting Kathy Kelly of Voices for Creative Non-Violence and in May we’ll welcome Richmond Mayor Gayle MacLauglin.

Upcoming films include Project Censored in April, and American Revolution: Beyond Capitalism and State Socialism in May. We will also screen documentaries by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuzick on the National Security State in the coming months. Recently, the SJC provided a home for participants in the Longest Walk 4: the Return to Alcatraz, a 3,000-mile walk to support indigenous rights. On a deeper level we are in solidarity with the spirits of our ancestors for the present and for the future generations. We are so grateful to be a part of the larger Fellowship and to work in collaboration with our New School friends and hear those next-generation voices every day. https://www.bfuu.org/images/stories/newsletters/bfuucommunicatorMarch2014.pdf

2003-03-25 WAR ON IRAQ: The Home Front / War protesters put jobs on hold / Some say conscience leaves no choice  Sherry Larsen-Beville, 60, didn’t have to quit her job as head ticket- seller at the Oakland Coliseum to rally against the war. She and her husband, Frank Beville, 66, decided when they married 28 years ago that she would take part-time work so the family could devote time to peace and justice.

It wasn’t easy because the couple raised nine children, and Beville held one job as an electrician and another as chaplain at the Oakland County Jail.  Though he is now retired and the kids are grown up, it still isn’t easy. Neuropathy and a hip injury make walking painful for Beville. But he and Larsen-Beville were on the streets Monday, wearing black in recognition of the funereal theme adopted by some protesters.  “It gets down to whether we believe the rhetoric of the Bush administration,  and I have to say no,” Beville said. “Besides, a pre-emptive strike is just not the American way.”https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/WAR-ON-IRAQ-The-Home-Front-War-protesters-put-2660519.php  

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WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION  Secretary  Sherry Larsen-Beville is a longtime peace and social justice activist. She became active in the early 1980’s when she took nonviolence training for planned actions at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab. To this day she continues to be involved and is usually seen at the gates of Livermore Lab on Good Friday and during the Hiroshima/Nagasaki days. In the 1980s and early 1990s Ms. Larsen-Beville was very involved with The Sanctuary Movement, Office on Accompaniment, Ecumenical Peace Institute, The Pledge of Resistance and other organizations working toward a peaceful resolution to the conflicts in Central America. In December 1984 she joined La Marcha for La Paz in Centro America, and in 1993 participated in Mir Sada, a march for peace to Sarajevo. During the 1980s and 1990s Ms. Larsen-Beville helped organize and accompany several delegations to El Salvador. One of her favorite trips was the Atomic Mirror Pilgrimage to Japan in 1995 to commemorate the 50 year anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In 1997 Ms. Larsen-Beville and her late husband Frank moved to downtown Oakland where she joined the First Unitarian Church of Oakland. The church was a member congregation of the Oakland Coalition of Congregations (OCC). Ms. Larsen-Beville dedicated much of her free time to the work of the church, mostly through OCC both as an officer and an activist. When Ms. Larsen-Beville and Frank married they already had 7 children between them and together had 2 daughters. She has 7 grandchildren. For personal enjoyment Ms. Larsen-Beville enjoys spending time with her family and friends, going to movies and playing duplicate bridge.  http://www.wslfweb.org/aboutwslf.htm

HIROSHIMA DAY ACTION: AUGUST 6TH, 2019  Jul 16, 2019 · For more information, contact Marylia Kelley at marylia@earthlink.net 925.443.7148 or Sherry Larsen-Beville at slb1942@yahoo.com 510.686.0871 Share this: Twitter   https://sanjosepeace.org/hiroshima-day-action-august-6th-2019/

Green Island News: February 2002  For more information contact Sherry Larsen-Beville: 510-663-8065 Vigil Commemorating Hiroshima and Nagasaki Days Tuesday, August 6th Livermore, CA Contact the sponsors listed below for more information about location and time. Livermore Conversion Project: 510-663-806560 Western States Legal Foundation: 510-839-5877 Tri-Valley CARES: 925-443-7148  http://www.cagreens.org/alameda/city/news/newsletter.html

“Planted By the Waters” – Winter / Spring, 2004  Earl Johnson died on June 30 of last year. He was 73. Earl was a leader in the peace and justice movement for many years. As Sherry Larsen-Beville wrote, he was a an anti-nuclear activist extraordinaire. He was often at the Nevada Test Site for the August actions. If anyone complained how hot is was, he said, “It was hotter in Hiroshima.” He was at the Livermore Labs on every possible occasion. He served as EPI’s board president, a fountain of spiritual and organizational resources. Besides everything else, he was a poet. His favorite form was the Haiku.  Earl Johnson, ¡presente! http://www.peacehost.net/EPI-Calc/planted-8-spring_04.htm

Greg was arrested 3 times in November 1990.

Greg sued the CIA for mental stress and his case went all the way to Supreme Court where he lost?

Greg wrote an article “The relative Legality of Murder” in the December 1990 NA Newsletter. https://www.keepandshare.com/doc29/110327/btl-1990-12-1991-01-pdf-961k?dn=y&dnad=y

Nuremberg Actions at Concord 1987-88 With Greg—Mr. Getty it went on and on and on, and as you saw at the conclusion all they had to do was pick him up and carry him off. He was not fighting back. We are committed to the principles of nonviolence, and I would also like to submit in evidence the Covenant of Nonviolence -Nuremberg Actions Concord.  https://www.san.beck.org/Nuremberg-Concord1988.html

2007-08-31   Nuremberg Actions’ Brian Willson celebrates 20 years of resistance  https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Nuremberg-Actions-Brian-Willson-celebrates-20-2543525.php

1997-06-10 Tending the Flame /Weapons protesters in Concord have faded to a faithful few[MEK1]   https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Tending-the-Flame-Weapons-protesters-in-Concord-2836977.php

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