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Dear Climate Activists and Activists to Be,
Have you been thinking about getting involved with climate action but not sure how to start? Or are you hoping to start or rebuild a local chapter and need some help?
Register Here for the April 27 Open House!
Celebrate the close of Earth Week with activists from across the US and learn about Extinction Rebellion, XRUS, and upcoming local actions and events. Representatives from active chapters will be there to welcome new activists from their area and share advice about starting or rebuilding a chapter.
If you are already a member of a chapter, you are warmly invited to attend as well and help us welcome new activists to XRUS and to nearby chapters. You are also, of course, invited to attend our next All-Chapter Gathering on Saturday, May 18, focused on LNG and hydrogen pipelines. More details to come soon!
Register Here for the May 18 All-Chapter Gathering!
If you are not sure which to attend, contact us at xrus_chapter_engagement@unitedrebellion.com, and tell us about your situation, needs, and questions!
We look forward to seeing you at the April 27 Open House and/or the May 18 All-Chapter Gathering!
Sunday 4/28: Berkeley Copwatch Community Cookout https://t.co/koohMPouBy
— Indybay (@Indybay) April 23, 2024
May 3rd nationwide online and in select theaters in NYC, DC, LA, SF, Portland, Seattle, Boston. Come out and see us for in-person Q&A’s after the screenings with Stephanie Kelton, myself, other film protagonists and very special guests, TBA!
Check out our exclusive announcement with Deadline! We are partnering with Giant Pictures and Kanopy for educational distribution where we will be available to Universities for classrooms and public libraries nationwide!
And watch and share our NEW Official Trailer!
We are also honored to have a special NYC premiere screening at IFC Theater with DOC NYC Selects on April 16th at 7pm. Be the first to see the film, with Stephanie Kelton and myself in attendance for Q&A: Get your tickets here!
Or watch from the comfort of your home on VOD wherever you rent movies – AppleTV, Amazon, Google Play, Vudu, YouTube�
We�’ve had an amazing international screening tour so far in Australia, Greece, UK, Germany, Switzerland and Spain. From small towns in Northern England, to engaged and enthusiastic students at SOAS University and in Berlin, to Greek citizens with so much first hand experience of privatization and public austerity, it’s very rewarding to meet the people who have been waiting a long time for this story to be told. Some highlight photos below.
If you want to host an in person screening in your area or at your University let us know here, as we are still working on international distribution.
This Friday, March 22nd from 3-7pm we are excited to do a soft launch of The People’s Clinic!
The People’s Clinic is an abolitionist wellness and recovery center for people impacted by state/police violence and frontline organizers taking action against genocide.
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— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) March 21, 2024
This Friday, March 22nd from 3-7pm we are excited to do a soft launch of The People’s Clinic!
The People’s Clinic is an abolitionist wellness and recovery center for people impacted by state/police violence and frontline organizers taking action against genocide.
(1/3) pic.twitter.com/aN3uXvzkrf
— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) March 21, 2024
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.
For our May meeting we will be reading by (Amazon, Penguin)
An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy—from disinformation fighters to a leader of Black Lives Matter to Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and more—by the best-selling author of Winners Take All and award-winning former New York Times columnist
“Anand Giridharadas shows the way we get real progressive change in America—by refusing to write others off, building more welcoming movements, and rededicating ourselves to the work of changing minds.” —Robert B. Reich, best-selling author of The System
The lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people’s minds in order to change things. But America is suffering a crisis of faith in persuasion that is putting its democracy and the planet itself at risk. Americans increasingly write one another off instead of seeking to win one another over. Debates are framed in moralistic terms, with enemies battling the righteous. Movements for justice build barriers to entry, instead of on-ramps. Political parties focus on mobilizing the faithful rather than wooing the skeptical. And leaders who seek to forge coalitions are labeled sellouts.
In The Persuaders, Anand Giridharadas takes us inside these movements and battles, seeking out the dissenters who continue to champion persuasion in an age of polarization. We meet a leader of Black Lives Matter; a trailblazer in the feminist resistance to Trumpism; white parents at a seminar on raising adopted children of color; Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; a team of door knockers with an uncanny formula for changing minds on immigration; an ex-cult member turned QAnon deprogrammer; and, hovering menacingly offstage, Russian operatives clandestinely stoking Americans’ fatalism about one another.
As the book’s subjects grapple with how to call out threats and injustices while calling in those who don’t agree with them but just might one day, they point a way to healing, and changing, a fracturing country.
Strike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included (in chronological order) Doughnut Economics, Limits, Banking on the People, Capital and Its Discontents, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century, The Deficit Myth, Revenge Capitalism, the Edge of Chaos blog symposium , Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons, The Optimist’s Telescope, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, Exploring Degrowth, The Origin of Wealth, Mine!, The Dawn of Everything A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Beyond Money, Less is More, Cannibal Capitalism, Debt, the First 5000 Years , Poverty, By America, End Times, Jackson Rising Redux , The Feminist Subversion of the Economy, How Infrastructure Works, Inside the Systems that Shape our World, and Wealth Supremacy.