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On January 30, students and workers across the Bay Area walked out in solidarity with the national day of action. Leon Kunstenaar reports, "The messages went out 'Fuera ICE, ICE Out. Shut Everything Down!', 'No Work!' Cities throughout the nation responded and San Francisco was no exception. Seventy five percent of students in the city's high schools went out. A student carried a sign that read, 'We are skipping our lessons to teach YOU one.'"

With the Temporary Protection Status granted to 350,000 Haitians set to expire on February 3, a hearing was held the day prior, in US District Court in Washington, DC, to halt an action by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to end the program. During the Washington court proceeding, human rights advocates in San Francisco rallied outside the US Immigration Court to denounce the administration’s enforcement agenda and demand sweeping policy changes.

On January 30, students and workers across the Bay Area walked out and met at Dolores Park in San Francisco and Fruitvale Plaza in Oakland. Arab Resource and Organizing Center wrote, "We support the call from Minnesota-based Somali and other student organizations... join the national day of action to say ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE! Now is the decisive moment. The Minnesota General Strike has opened a historic opening."

The fascist military occupation of the Twin Cities, and communities throughout Minnesota, was opposed with a general strike on January 23 endorsed by a large and diverse coalition of organizations, including the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO. Rallies in solidarity with the general strike in Minneapolis were organized in various cities, including San Francisco, Oakland, Palo Alto, Los Angeles and New York.

Update 1/22/26: "Sinister Sounds and Neck Of The Woods have taken action and removed Bezaliel from the show. None of the other bands have any issues."
Some Metal Dude reports that, "On January 24, there will be a black metal show at Neck Of The Woods featuring Bezaliel, an 'occult black metal' band that may not seem like Nazis on the surface, but they still have acted in an extremely problematic way."

On January 20, Women’s March coordinated a day of action which declared, "We will walk out of work, school, and commerce because a Free America begins the moment we stop cooperating with fascism. One year into Trump’s second regime, we face an escalating fascist threat: ICE raids on our communities, troops occupying our cities, families torn apart, attacks on our trans siblings, mass surveillance, and terror used to keep us silent."

On December 16, over 100 people from Bay Area faith communities shut down ICE’s San Francisco Field Office at 630 Sansome Street, chaining themselves across the two main entrances to stop ICE from kidnapping community members at their immigration check-ins. 630 Sansome also serves as ICE’s regional headquarters. Between Jan. 20 and June 26, 2,123 people were kidnapped by ICE in what they call the San Francisco "Area of Responsibility."

On December 20, the San Francisco Regional Tibetan Youth Congress held a demonstration in front of the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco over illegal gold-mining operations in Sershul, Eastern Tibet, and the subsequent arrests of more than 80 innocent Tibetans in the region. According to reports, the gold-mining operations were being undertaken in Serkhok, a traditional grazing site in the region.

Activists assembled in Alta Plaza Park, San Francisco's billionaire epicenter, on November 15 for a rally and march to demand, "housing, healthcare, and food for all," from the ultra-wealthy. During the rally, Socialists and Communists set up literature tables, and people distributed kits containing a whistle and ICE reporting instructions. The first stop on the march was David Sacks' mansion, then it was on to Larry Ellison's.