BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//198.199.98.90//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Occupy Oakland X-WR-CALDESC:#OccupyOakland X-FROM-URL:https://occupyoakland.org X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RDATE:20271107T020000 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RDATE:20270314T020000 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-78315@occupyoakland.org DTSTAMP:20260815T065140Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Event\,Meeting CONTACT:strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com DESCRIPTION:Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.  All are welcome!\nFor our September\, 2025 meeting we will be reading Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals: Cooperative Alternativ es Beyond Markets and States. (Amazon) (Pluto).\n\nElinor Ostrom was both a groundbreaking thinker and one of the foremost economists of our age. Th e first and only woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics\, her revoluti onary theorizing of the commons opened the way for non-capitalist economic alternatives on a massive scale. And yet\, astonishingly\, most modern ra dicals know little about her.\n \nElinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals fixes that injustice\, revealing the indispensability of her work on green poli tics\, alternative economics\, and radical democracy. Derek Wall’s analysi s of her theses addresses some of the common misconceptions of her work an d reveals her strong commitment to a radical ideological framework. This h elpful guide will engage scholars and activists across a range of discipli nes\, including political economy\, political science\, and ecology\, as w ell as those keen to implement her work in practice. As activists continue to reject traditional models of centralized power\, Ostrom’s theories wil l become even more crucial in creating economies that exist beyond markets and states.\nStrike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group dis cussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Previous readings ha ve included (in chronological order) Doughnut Economics\, Limits\, Banking on the People\, Capital and Its Discontents\, How to Be an Anti-Capitalis t in the 21st Century\, The Deficit Myth\,  Revenge Capitalism\, the Edge of Chaos blog symposium \, Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Polit ics of the Commons\, The Optimist’s Telescope\, Mission Economy: A Moonsho t Guide to Changing Capitalism\, Exploring Degrowth\, The Origin of Wealth \, Mine!\, The Dawn of Everything  A History of the World in Seven Cheap T hings\, Beyond Money\, Less is More\,  Cannibal Capitalism\,  Debt\, the F irst 5000 Years \, Poverty\, By America\, End Times\, Jackson Rising Redux \, The Feminist Subversion of the Economy\, How Infrastructure Works\, In side the Systems that Shape our World\, Wealth Supremacy\, The Persuaders\ ,  The Path to a Livable Future\, Solidarity\,  Mutual Aid\, Breaking Toge ther\, Making Sense of Chaos \, TechnoFeudalism\, and Stellar.\n82 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250906T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250906T183000 LOCATION:Online SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals : Cooperative Alternatives Beyond Markets and States URL:https://occupyoakland.org/event/strike-debt-bay-area-book-group-elinor- ostroms-rules-for-radicals-cooperative-alternatives-beyond-markets-and-sta tes/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-WP-IMAGES-URL:thumbnail\;/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/radicals.jpg\;213\;3 39\,medium\;/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/radicals.jpg\;213\;339\,large\;/wp -content/uploads/2025/08/radicals.jpg\;213\;339\,full\;/wp-content/uploads /2025/08/radicals.jpg\;213\;339 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n

Email strike. debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.  All are welcome!

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For our September\, 2025 meeting we will be reading < em>Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals: Cooperative Alternatives Beyond Mar kets and States. (Amazon) (Pluto).

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Elinor Ostrom was both a groundbreaking think er and one of the foremost economists of our age. The first and only woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics\, her revolutionary theorizing of th e commons opened the way for non-capitalist economic alternatives on a mas sive scale. And yet\, astonishingly\, most modern radicals know little abo ut her.
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\nElin or Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals fixes that injustice\, revealing the indispensability of her work on green politics\, alternative economics\, and radical democracy. Derek Wall’s analysis of her theses addresses some of the common misconceptions of her work and reveals her strong commitment to a radical ideological framework. This helpful guide will engage schola rs and activists across a range of disciplines\, including political econo my\, political science\, and ecology\, as well as those keen to implement her work in practice. As activists continue to reject traditional models o f centralized power\, Ostrom’s theories will become even more crucial in c reating economies that exist beyond markets and states.

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Strik e Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included (in chr onological order) Doughnut Economic s\, Limits\, < a href='https://ellenbrown.com/2019/05/25/new-book-banking-on-the-people-d emocratizing-money-in-the-digital-age/'>Banking on the People\, Capital and Its Discontents\, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century\, T he 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 Degro wth\, The Origin of Wealth\, Mine!\, < a href='https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Everything-New-History-Humanity/dp/037 4157359/ref=sr_1_1'>The Dawn of Everything  A History of the Wor ld 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\, Wealth Supremacy\, The Persuaders\,  The Path to a Livable Future\, Solidarity\,  Mutual Aid\, Breaking Together\, Making Sense of Chaos \, TechnoFeudalism\, and Stellar.

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