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On Saturday, March 14, we’re coming together for a Mass Training to prepare to shut it down on May Day: No Work. No School. No Shopping.
This is bigger than organizing towards a single day of action. This is about building a mass non-cooperation movement to confront fascism and defend our communities.
We are watching an authoritarian project consolidate power in real time. Billionaire oligarchs hoarding wealth. Corporations collaborating with repression. Immigrants targeted. Dissent criminalized. Rights and public goods stripped. This is how fascism advances: by dividing working people, concentrating power, and normalizing cruelty.
But history teaches us something else: fascism is not inevitable. It is defeated when ordinary people come together and refuse to comply.
Mass non-cooperation looks like working people withholding our dollars and our labor.
It looks like students walking out.
It looks like knowing your rights to call out sick if you fear retaliation for striking.
It looks like communities standing together so tightly that attacks on one of us are met with collective resistance from all of us.
And it requires practice. Preparation. Strategy. Skills. Courage. Coordination for mass power to reach mass disruption.
That’s why we’re inviting you to join us on Saturday, March 14th, from 9-3 pm at Mission High School in San Francisco for the Bay Resistance Mass Noncooperation Training. We’ll cover:
- How to build mass participation for May Day
- How to take on corporations enabling ICE, including Palantir, Home Depot, and Target
- Skills to strengthen campaigns, escalate actions, and expand our organizing
- How to organize your neighbors to stand together against ICE attacks
- How to build a united, sustained movement capable of stopping these attacks for good
This May Day, we will demonstrate our collective power against the greed of billionaires and the politicians they bankroll who are waging wars on working people. But that kind of power doesn’t appear overnight. We build it together.
Whether you’ve been to several Bay Resistance trainings or this would be your first, this is the next step. If you’re experienced, come deepen your skills and help scale this movement. If you’re new, this is your entry point.
Come build the muscle we need for sustained mass action to defend our communities, defend elections, and defend each other. RSVP HERE
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite. All are welcome!
For our April, 2026 meeting we will be reading and discussing the first three chapters of The Pacific Circuit, by Alex Madrigal (Amazon) (MacMillan). For our May meeting we will finish the book.
Alexis Madrigal reveals how understanding Oakland explains the modern world.
In The Pacific Circuit, the award-winning journalist Alexis Madrigal sculpts an intricate tableau of the city of Oakland that is at once a groundbreaking big-idea book, a deeply researched work of social and political history, and a vivid rendering of the defining themes of the twenty-first century.
Oakland’s stories encompass everything from Silicon Valley’s prominence and the ramifications of a compulsively digital future to the underestimated costs of technological innovation on local communities―all personified in this changing landscape by the city’s lifelong inhabitants.
The Pacific Circuit holds a magnifying glass to the legacies etched by generations of systemic segregation and the ceaseless march of technological advancement. These are not just abstract concepts; they are embedded in the very fabric of Oakland and its people, from dockworkers and community organizers to real estate developers and businesspeople chasing the highest possible profits. Madrigal delves into city hall politics, traces the intertwining arcs of venture capital and hedge funds, and offers unprecedented insight into Silicon Valley’s genesis and growth, all against the backdrop of Oakland―a city vibrating with untold stories and unexplored connections that can, when read carefully, reveal exactly how our markets and our world really function.
Strike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Our first book was Doughnut Economics, and our most recent books were A Paradise Built in Hell, What’s Left – 3 Paths Through the Planetary Crisis, The Age of Insecurity and Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals. For the rest of our reading list see here.