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Nov
30
Sun
Hikers for Palestine: Walking in Solidarity with Gaza’s Orphans @ Seabreeze Parking Lot
Nov 30 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Starting point - Seabreeze Parking Lot, 598 University Ave, Berkeley, CA
Organizer/Author:
Hikers for Palestine

Join Hikers for Palestine on Sunday, November 30, 2025, at 1pm for an easy and restorative walk along the San Francisco Bay Trail. We’ll meet at the Seabreeze parking lot at the entrance to the Berkeley Marina (598 University Ave) and walk to the Albany Bulb. The route is a flat, approximately 4-mile out-and-back trail with a mix of paved and unpaved sections. Once we reach the Albany Bulb, we’ll explore its network of rugged, unmaintained dirt paths. This reclaimed landfill has become a unique outdoor art space, filled with shoreline trails, found-object sculptures, colorful murals, and sweeping Bay views. With time for walking, wandering, and enjoying the artwork, the outing will take about 2.5 to 3 hours at a relaxed pace.

Our purpose is to bring visibility to the Palestinian cause in public spaces while nourishing our spirits through community and nature. Bring your keffiyehs, flags, and other symbols of Palestinian solidarity, as well as water, snacks, sunblock, layers, and comfortable walking shoes.

We are suggesting a $5–$20 donation to support the HEAL Palestine Orphan Program, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds. In Gaza, thousands of children have lost parents, homes, and their sense of safety. HEAL Palestine has identified 70 orphaned and sole-survivor children in urgent need of long-term, comprehensive support. Their Orphan Program provides these children with stability, education, emotional care, and essential resources to help rebuild their lives. We will be collecting donations via Venmo or cash to contribute a collective lump-sum donation.

Learn more at: https://www.healpalestine.org/heal-palestine-orphan-program/

We look forward to walking together in solidarity and community.

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Dec
3
Wed
Film: SEX WORK: IT’S JUST A JOB @ New Parkway Theater
Dec 3 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

 

An ensemble of sex workers tells the story of their efforts to abolish the discriminatory laws that criminalize them. SEX WORK: It’s Just a Job takes viewers on a journey of why they entered sex work, their experiences with the criminal justice system, and why they became involved with the Decrim movement. The film challenges how sex work is viewed morally, culturally, and legally and shows that criminalization and rescue models fail to treat sex workers as human beings with dignity and political and personal agency. At the heart of the film are deep questions about policing and human rights in America.

Wed: 7:00 (Tickets available at door)

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Dec
6
Sat
The Fightback Against the Attack on Immigrants @ Starry Plough
Dec 6 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Suds, Snacks, and Socialism
at the Starry Plough

The Fightback Against
                    the Attack on Immigrants

Doors open at 1:30 p.m.

Please register in advance at
https://bit.ly/SSS_Immigrants
to receive your personal link to participate in this event online

While Trump sends masked goon squads to kidnap innocent workers, people are exercising true solidarity to defend them. Our speakers will talk about recent defense actions and how we can continue to organize and participate in these efforts.

Manuel De Paz – Political/Community Organizer, East Bay Sanctuary Covenant

[TBA] – Bay Area Labor for Palestine, OEA Rapid Response Network

Constanza – Party for Socialism and Liberation, organizer with the We Fight Back Coalition in Oakland

*Organizations listed for identification purposes only.

Please help us celebrate our return to the Starry Plough by ordering food and/or drinks.
Please arrive early to place your order so that you do not miss any of the presentations.
An open discussion will follow the presentations.
We will be accepting donations which will be divided among the sponsoring organizations.

This event is sponsored by the Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party,
the Alameda County Green Party and Bay Area System Change Not Climate Change.

For more information email <info@sudssnackssocialism.org>

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Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: What’s Left – 3 Paths Through the Planetary Crisis @ Online
Dec 6 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

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

For our December, 2025 meeting we will be reading and discussing the first two chapters of What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis by Malcolm Harris (Amazon) (Hatchette).  For our January meeting we will finish the book.

A vital guide for collective political action against the climate apocalypse, from bestselling progressive intellectual Malcolm Harris—“a brilliant thinker and writer capable of making the intricacies of economic conditions supremely readable” (Vulture).

Climate change is the unifying crisis of our time. But the scale of the problem can be paralyzing, especially when corporations are actively staving off changes that could save the planet but which might threaten their bottom lines. To quote Greta Thunberg, despite very clear science and very real devastation, the adults at the table are still saying “blah blah blah.” Something has to change—but what, and how?

In What’s Left, Malcolm Harris cuts through the noise and gets real about our remaining options for saving the world. Just as humans have caused climate change, we hold the power to avert a climate apocalypse, but that will only happen through collective political action. Harris outlines the three strategies—progressive, socialist, and revolutionary—that have any chance of succeeding, while also revealing that none of them can succeed on their own. What’s Left shows how we must combine them into a single pathway: a meta-strategy, one that will ensure we can move forward together rather than squabbling over potential solutions while the world burns.

Vital and transformative, What’s Left confirms Malcolm Harris as next-generation David Graeber or Mike Davis—a historian-activist who shows us where we stand and how we got here, while also blazing a path toward a brighter future.

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 The Age of Insecurity and Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals”. For the rest of our reading list see here.

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Dec
7
Sun
The Alabama Solution – Screening @ Via registration
Dec 7 @ 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm

you’re invited to our exclusive screening: The Alabama Solution, an HBO Documentary on Sunday, December 7 at 12:30 P.M. PT, followed by a Q&A with special guests! Space is limited so register below while you still can:

REGISTER

Join the Ella Baker Center for a free community screening of The Alabama Solution, a powerful new documentary exposing the violence and corruption inside America’s most dangerous prison system.

Shot with contraband cell phones and first-hand testimony from those living inside, this film offers a rare, unfiltered view of America’s carceral crisis that resonates far beyond the South.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with special guests. Register for this exciting event today: bit.ly/AlSolcreening.

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The Alabama Solution, an HBO Documentary – Special Screening @ Two Pitchers Brewing Company
Dec 7 @ 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm

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