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The Part played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man, by Frederick Engels @ Online
Mar 12 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library

The Part played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man, by Frederick Engels

In 1876, Engels complained about “that idealistic world outlook which, especially since the fall of the world of antiquity, has dominated men’s minds. It still rules them to such a degree that even the most materialistic natural scientists of the Darwinian school are still unable to form any clear idea of the origin of man, because under this ideological influence they do not recognise the part that has been played therein by labour.” This situation remains true today, nearly a century and a half later, as prominent bourgeois institutions entertain us with vivid videos of the latest fossil finds in Africa and elsewhere without ever mentioning the role of labor in the lives of the people who left these remains.

This talk, by Professor Eugene E Ruyle, will discuss Engels contribution noting that the spectacular fossil finds since Engels’ death of the twentieth century have confirmed Engels brilliant insight that: “First comes labour, after it, and then side by side with it, articulate speech – these were the two most essential stimuli under the influence of which the brain of the ape gradually changed into that of man, which for all its similarity to the former is far larger and more perfect.” Ruyle will also discuss why bourgeois anthropology has neglected the work of Marx and Engels, in spite of their obvious importance.

Our speaker, Eugene E Ruyle, is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Cal State Long Beach, a working class university. He earned his PhD in 1971 and has published numerous articles, including “Labor, People, Culture: A Labor Theory of Human Origins” Yearbook of Physical Anthropology Vol 20, 1976. <https://home.csulb.edu/~eruyle/published/ruyle_labor_29_.pdf> The article by Engels is available on the Marx-Engels Internet archive <https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1876/part-played-labour/index.htm>

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Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Mar 12 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

NOTE: During the Plague Year of 2020 GA will be held every week or two on Zoom. To find out the exact time a date get on the Occupy Oakland email list my sending an email to:

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The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall. If for some reason the amphitheater is being used otherwise and/or OGP itself is inaccessible, we will meet at Kaiser Park, right next to the statues, on 19th St. between San Pablo and Telegraph. If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 4:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland. (Note: we tend to meet at 3:00 PM during the cooler months from November to early March after Daylights Savings Time.)

On every ‘last Sunday’ we meet a little earlier at 3 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome.

OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over six years, since October 2011! Our General Assembly is a participatory gathering of Oakland community members and beyond, where everyone who shows up is treated equally. Our Assembly and the process we have collectively cultivated strives to reach agreement while building community.

At the GA committees, caucuses, and loosely associated groups whose representatives come voluntarily report on past and future actions, with discussion. We encourage everyone participating in the Occupy Oakland GA to be part of at least one associated group, but it is by no means a requirement. If you like, just come and hear all the organizing being done! Occupy Oakland encourages political activity that is decentralized and welcomes diverse voices and actions into the movement.

General Assembly Standard Agenda

Welcome & Introductions
Reports from Committees, Caucuses, & Independent Organizations
Announcements
(Optional) Discussion Topic

Occupy Oakland activities and contact info for some Bay Area Groups with past or present Occupy Oakland members.

Occupy Oakland Web Committee: (web@occupyoakland.org)
Strike Debt Bay Area : strikedebtbayarea.tumblr.com
Berkeley Post Office Defenders:http://berkeleypostofficedefenders.wordpress.com/
Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice:https://www.facebook.com/ABC4JUSTICE
Oakland Privacy Working Group:https://oaklandprivacy.wordpress.com
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity: prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
Bay Area AntiRepression: antirepression@occupyoakland.org
Biblioteca Popular: http://tinyurl.com/mdlzshy
Interfaith Tent: www.facebook.com/InterfaithTent
Port Truckers Solidarity: oaklandporttruckers.wordpress.com
Bay Area Intifada: bayareaintifada.wordpress.com
Transport Workers Solidarity: www.transportworkers.org
Fresh Juice Party (aka Chalkupy) freshjuiceparty.com/chalkupy-gallery
Sudo Room: https://sudoroom.org
Omni Collective: https://omnicommons.org/
First They Came for the Homeless: https://www.facebook.com/pages/First-they-came-for-the-homeless/253882908111999
Sunflower Alliance: http://www.sunflower-alliance.org/
Bay Area Public School: http://thepublicschool.org/bay-area

San Francisco based groups:
Occupy Bay Area United: www.obau.org
Occupy Forum: (see OBAU above)
San Francisco Projection Department: http://tinyurl.com/kpvb3rv

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What Can we Learn from Nicaragua?  Eyewitness Report! @ Online
Mar 12 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

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What Can we Learn from Nicaragua?  Eyewitness Report!
Panel Discussion with delegates on the Alliance for Global Justice trip to Nicaragua in January titled “Women in Nicaragua – Power & Protagonism.”  Did you know that Nicaragua is a world leader in gender equality?  In a historically macho culture, find out how this, and so much more, was achieved by Sandinistas since 2006.

Erica Caines is a co-coordinator of The Black Alliance For Peace – Haití/Americas Team. Caines, a member of the Black working-class centered Ujima People’s Progress Party in Maryland, founded the African children’s book gifting initiative, Liberation Through Reading, in 2017. She is also co-editor of the African revolutionary blog, Hood Communist. For Green Sunday, she particularly looks forward to speaking about the connections between imperialism in the US and in Nicaragua. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Jennifer Sullivan is a lifelong feminist activist and currently serves as an International Committee and National Committee delegate for the Green Party of Florida.  She served four years as the FL state co-chair and is treasurer for the GP-US National Women’s Caucus.  Born in the Chicago area, her political life began at age 15 reading/studying Ramparts magazine.  She Dem-Exited after the 1972 presidential campaign. Independent until 1996, she joined the Green Party and helped found the Hernando County Green Party.  She hosted a broadcast TV show in Tampa called On the Table With the Green Party and has produced several radio programs including hosting a debate show called The Fairness Doctrine on Tampa’s WMNF.  Sullivan has traveled deep into many countries, not tourist areas, on four continents.

Phoebe Thomas Sorgen is a Green Party of Alameda County Councilor, California Co-ordinating Committee member, CA representative to the GP National and International Committees, and GP-US representative to the Global Green Network. She will attend the Global Greens Congress in Korea in June. (If you want to attend, at your own expense, contact her.)  She was Outstanding Woman of Berkeley 2005 for work as a Peace and Justice Commissioner including writing Resolutions adopted by the city to end corporate personhood, stop CAFTA, and support Haiti, Burma, Iraq, Iran, and democracy in the US.  She was a 2015 Tom Paine Courageous Spirit awardee and chairs the Berkeley Fellowship of UU’s Social Justice Committee. She traveled extensively while at the Université de Paris for six years, and since. Because she speaks Italian, she manages to communicate with Spanish speakers.

Delegation written report: https://afgj.salsalabs.org/reportjan23?wvpId=3b43e68b-92fb-431b-b75f-6268ae8dcb1f

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Mar
13
Mon
Ban New Gas Heat and Water Heaters in Bay Area?
Mar 13 all-day

Following the many Bay Area cities that have voted to ban gas in new buildings, along with recent revelations about how fossil gas harms both the climate and human health, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District is considering a new rule that would ban the sale of new gas furnaces and water heaters within about eight years.

At the same time the California Air Resources Board is developing a similar rule, with a deadline of 2030.

The hazards of fossil gas have been getting a lot of publicity lately, after the December 2022 release of a study reporting that almost 13 percent of childhood asthma is attributable to gas stoves. Burning natural gas causes the release of health-harming nitrogen oxides and particulate matter. In addition fossil gas equipment — from the well to where it’s burned — inevitably leaks methane, a greenhouse gas with 80 times the climate impact of carbon dioxide in the first 20 years after it’s released.

The Air District rule would not ban gas stoves, but would ban most new gas water heaters (in new construction and replacements in homes) after 2027, gas furnaces after 2029, and large gas water heaters (in apartments and commercial buildings) after 2031.

While this rule would have great benefits for the climate and health, it’s controversial. Opponents charge it would put a big financial burden on many households that could not afford it. A report prepared for the Air District Board meeting February 15 outlines state and federal funding “available for retrofitting low-income homes with cleaner appliances.”

The board is scheduled to vote on this rule in its March 15 meeting. You can let them know your thoughts on this important topic by emailing your representative on the Air District board.

Click here to find out who your representative is.

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Thoughtful Biometrics Workshop @ Online
Mar 13 – Mar 17 all-day

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What are the concerns? 
Biometrics and AI are widely used and there are many questions about their ethically and socially appropriate uses.

Questions addressed include:

  • How do they work?
  • How are they being used?
  • What are the dangers of their use?
  • What are appropriate, even good uses?
  • What is the Context, and what are the challenges?
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Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room
Mar 13 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

OTU’s Mission

The Oakland Tenants Union is an organization of housing activists dedicated to protecting tenant rights and interests. OTU does this by working directly with tenants in their struggle with landlords, impacting legislation and public policy about housing, community education, and working with other organizations committed to furthering renters’ rights. The Oakland Tenants Union is open to anyone who shares our core values and who believes that tenants themselves have the primary responsibility to work on their own behalf.

Monthly Meetings

The Oakland Tenants Union meets regularly at 7:00 pm on the second Monday evening of each month. Our monthly meetings are held in the Community Room of the Madison Park Apartments, 100 – 9th Street (at Oak Street, across from the Lake Merritt BART Station). To enter, gently knock on the window of the room to the right of the main entrance to the building. At the meetings, first we focus on general issues affecting renters city-wide and then second we offer advice to renters regarding their individual concerns.

If you have an issue, a question, or need advice about a tenant/landlord issue, please call us at (510) 704-5276. Leave a message with your name and phone number and someone will get back to you.

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Mar
14
Tue
Ban Ring – Coalition Campaign meeting @ Online
Mar 14 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

For years, anti-surveillance, civil rights, and racial justice groups have been sounding the alarm about the dangers posed by Amazon Ring-police partnerships. Collectively, we’ve successfully petitioned members of Congress to investigate these surveillance partnerships, garnered widespread media attention, and published studies exposing the harms. Despite all the negative attention and backlash, over 2,000 police departments continue to partner with Amazon Ring to surveil communities.

In an effort to end these partnerships for good, the Athena Surveillance Table is launching a campaign to pass local ordinances to effectively ban these partnerships (even in cities without partnerships).

The Surveillance Table is holding its first Ban Ring Coalition Campaign meeting on Thursday, March 23rd from 1-3pm EST. We’re hoping you can attend.

Click here to RSVP.

At the meeting, we’ll talk about the ordinance, the recent changes to how these partnerships work, share the ordinance campaign toolkit, and discuss ways we can work together to lead campaigns and/or support local efforts to ban Ring-police partnerships.

A little background on Amazon Ring-police partnerships: Ring cameras surveil millions, from children playing in the park to people visiting health clinics to protesters exercising their First Amendment rights. Alongside the massive growth of this private network of cameras, the tech giant is aggressively expanding their police partnerships. Amazon’s doorbell, floodlight, mailbox, and dash cameras record and collect data on our whereabouts, our homes, and our communities. This massive surveillance dragnet poses an existential Orwellian threat to the daily lives of the public at large and to our democracy�but for Black and brown communities Amazon Ring technology puts their lives in immediate danger.

Join us on March 23rd to take part in developing a shared plan to ban these dangerous partnerships. Click here to register.

Should you need any additional information or have any questions please email me.

In solidarity,

Ayele B. Hunt
Campaigns Director
Fight for the Future

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No Fascists in Davis! @ Credit Union Center, UC Davis
Mar 14 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

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Mar
15
Wed
Support Historic BAAQMD Clean Air Rule
Mar 15 @ 8:30 am – 9:30 am

 

Rally in advance of hearing:  8:30 AM.  Wear Blue! RSVP here.

BAAQMD Board of Directors Hearing:  9 AM – 5 PM

 And online—see this page for link

The danger of burning fossil fuels in our own homes is no joke.  Our everyday, domestic gas-powered building appliances actually cause hundreds of deaths each year in the Bay Area, with total health impacts of $890 million.  They also account for a quarter of our regional carbon emissions.  By exercising its legal authority to regulate NOx—the collective emission of carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides—which these appliances produce, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) wants to further its mission to save lives and clean Bay Area air.

Please join us on March 15 in advocating for a zero-NOx appliance standard!

Following the many Bay Area cities that have voted to ban gas in new buildings, along with recent revelations about how fossil gas harms the climate and human health, BAAQMD is proposing new, trailblazing rulemaking that would ban the sale of new gas furnaces and water heaters within about eight years.  Read the laudatory LA Times editorial about this—”Bay Area making climate change history by phasing out sales of gas furnaces and water heaters”—here.

While this rule would have great benefits for the climate and health, it’s also controversial.  Large numbers of opponents are expected to be bused in to the all-day hearing on March 15.

For this reason, supporters are strongly urged to give in-person commentary at the hearing, if possible.  You can also send in comments in advance to your Air District representative.  (Find your rep on the Board of Directors here.  Look for your city and county.)

The hazards of fossil gas have been getting a lot of publicity after the December 2022 release of a study reporting that almost 13 percent of childhood asthma is attributable to gas stoves.  Burning natural gas causes the release of health-harming nitrogen oxides and particulate matter.  And fossil gas equipment—from the well to where it’s burned—inevitably leaks methane, a greenhouse gas with 80 times the climate impact of carbon dioxide in the first 20 years after it’s released.

The proposed Air District rule would not ban gas stoves but would ban most new gas water heaters (in new construction and replacements in homes) after 2027, gas furnaces after 2029, and large gas water heaters (in apartments and commercial buildings) after 2031.

Opponents charge it would put a big financial burden on many households that could not afford it.  However, a report prepared for the Air District Board meeting on February 15 outlines the state and federal funding “available for retrofitting low-income homes with cleaner appliances,” and staff have intentionally built in a long lead time of four to eight years for each of the rule components.   Implementation will be conditional.  Two years prior to compliance dates staff will report on market readiness and equity considerations, and adjust accordingly.  And during the rulemaking process, there were be multiple opportunities for public engagement.

To learn more and for help with preparing comments:

Here’s a sample comment from 350 Bay Area:

Dear __________,

As your constituent, I urge you to support our Air District’s proposed changes to rules 9-4 and 9-6 requiring only zero NOx water heaters, furnaces, and large commercial water heaters be sold and installed by 2027, 2029, 2031 respectively, as well as the introduction of an ultra-low NOx standard to Rule 9-4 for furnaces starting in 2024.  We urgently need these rule changes to improve air quality and public health in the near term, and to mitigate the impacts of climate change over the long run.

The risk raised in the EIR regarding potentially insufficient grid capacity (to support a transition to electric water heaters and furnaces) can be mitigated by the adoption of increasingly efficient electric appliances, incentives to increase residential battery storage, and other policy measures that will be necessary, regardless of these rules changes, if we are to meet our municipal, regional and state electrification targets and reach zero net GHG emissions by 2040, if not earlier.

The risk of increased noise associated with some electric alternatives is already being addressed with the introduction of new technologies and products that generate far less noise than their older counterparts.  This transition can be accelerated via carefully crafted regulations and incentives designed to favor noise reduction in electric appliances.

These two concerns should not be allowed to outweigh the considerably greater risks to public health and the planet from natural gas-powered equipment. 

I urge the BAAQMD Board to certify the EIR and adopt these proposed rule changes as quickly as possible. 

Thank you,
[Your name, city, and zip]

 

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STOP THE SFPD GIVEAWAY! @ Online
Mar 15 @ 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

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Solidarity with Stop Cop City @ GI Partners
Mar 15 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

What: Tour Cop City’s Backers in SF’s Financial District

San Francisco is home to several of Cop City’s primary funders, financial partners, and general contract managers. We know exactly who is profiting from this police playground and it’s time we paid them a visit. Join us for a gathering and tour of Cop City’s backers in the Financial District.

From the Bay Area to Atlanta, STOP COP CITY

Email dawg@xrsfbay.org for more info.

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Reading Group: Ecology of Fear @ Freehouse
Mar 15 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

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Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ online
Mar 15 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Please email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to get up-to-date location information or obtain Zoom meeting access info.

Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police militarization and ICE, and to advocate for surveillance regulation around the Bay and nationwide.

op-logo.2.1We fight against spy drones, facial recognition, tracking equipment, police body camera secrecy, anti-transparency laws and requirements for “backdoors” to cellphones; we oppose “pre-crime” and “thought-crime,” —  to list just a few invasions of our privacy by all levels of Government, and attempts to hide what government officials, employees and agencies are doing.

We draft and push for privacy legislation for City Councils, at the County level, and in Sacramento. We advocate in op-eds and in the streets. We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and believe no one is illegal.

Check out some of what we worked on in 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019.

Oakland Privacy originally came together in 2013 to fight against the Domain Awareness Center, Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub. OP was instrumental in stopping the DAC from becoming a city-wide spying network.  We helped fight and helped win the fight against Urban Shield.

Our major projects currently include local legislation to regulate state surveillance (we got the strongest surveillance regulation ordinance in the country passed in Oakland!), supporting and opposing state legislation as appropriate, battling mass surveillance in the form of facial recognition and other analytics, mass aerial surveillance, ubiquitous license plate readers, and pushing back against ICE.

On September 12th, 2019 we were presented with a Barlow Award by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for our work, and on March 16th, 2021 s James Madison Freedom of Information Award by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists.

If you are interested in joining the Oakland Privacy email listserv, coming to a meeting, or have questions, send an email to:

contact@oaklandprivacy.org


Check out our website: http://oaklandprivacy.org/

Follow us on twitter: @oaklandprivacy

 

“WATCHING YOU WATCHING US”

Oakland Privacy works regionally to defend the right to privacy and enhance public transparency and oversight regarding the use of surveillance techniques and equipment.  Oakland Privacy drove the passage of surveillance regulation and transparency ordinances in Oakland and Berkeley and is kicking off new processes in various municipalities around the Bay.  To help slow down the encroaching police and surveillance state all over the Bay Area, join us at the Omni.

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APTP General Meeting @ Online
Mar 15 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

The Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational organization that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color.

APTP hosts its general meetings on the 3rd Wednesday of every month; since Covid we have been meeting online. If you want to learn more about our work and figure out other ways to plug in, you can join our next general meeting this Wednesday at 7pm. Register to join us!

Where: Online. Register to join us
Accessibility: ASL and Live Closed Captioning available.

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Mar
16
Thu
Labor Organizingh 101 @ Online or In Person
Mar 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

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The World Premiere of ‘Tasha’ @ Z Below Theater
Mar 16 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

‘Tasha is a one woman show exploring the in-custody murder of Natasha McKenna at the hands of law enforcement in Farifax, Virginia in 2015. The play, written by artist and activist Cat Brooks, directed by Oakland’s Poet Laureate Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, and performed by acclaimed actor Jeunée Simon, explores her life and murder from the point of view of several characters, including Natasha herself. “Natasha started talking so loudly I had to get up and write what she was saying,” Brooks said of the script’s genesis in 2015.

Trigger warning: This show contains graphic images and language depicting the murder of a young Black woman at the hands of police. A non-shooting, replica firearm will be used onstage and will be pointed at the audience. It is a non-working, prop gun. It will be accompanied by the sounds of gunshots and screaming.

Thanks to the support of Anti Police-Terror Project and Mental Health First Oakland, Healing Services by Nekia Wright and Hadiza Mohammed are available for select performances. Healers will be in the lobby during the performance and in the theatre after the show to support anyone who feels the need for healing after experiencing the images and themes explored in this show.

The healers are available to talk to anyone about feelings that come up and help manage emotions to help you process this experience so you can go back out into the world.

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Mar
17
Fri
Climate, Equity, and Race: United Actions @ Online
Mar 17 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Join the Bay Area Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force for the last in their third series of summit meetings, Climate, Equity, and Race, UNITED ACTIONS for an Environmentally Just and Regenerative Future.

Online. Register here

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The World Premiere of ‘Tasha’ @ Z Below Theater
Mar 17 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

‘Tasha is a one woman show exploring the in-custody murder of Natasha McKenna at the hands of law enforcement in Farifax, Virginia in 2015. The play, written by artist and activist Cat Brooks, directed by Oakland’s Poet Laureate Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, and performed by acclaimed actor Jeunée Simon, explores her life and murder from the point of view of several characters, including Natasha herself. “Natasha started talking so loudly I had to get up and write what she was saying,” Brooks said of the script’s genesis in 2015.

Trigger warning: This show contains graphic images and language depicting the murder of a young Black woman at the hands of police. A non-shooting, replica firearm will be used onstage and will be pointed at the audience. It is a non-working, prop gun. It will be accompanied by the sounds of gunshots and screaming.

Thanks to the support of Anti Police-Terror Project and Mental Health First Oakland, Healing Services by Nekia Wright and Hadiza Mohammed are available for select performances. Healers will be in the lobby during the performance and in the theatre after the show to support anyone who feels the need for healing after experiencing the images and themes explored in this show.

The healers are available to talk to anyone about feelings that come up and help manage emotions to help you process this experience so you can go back out into the world.

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Mar
18
Sat
 Not One More Penny For War in Ukraine! @ 24th St. Bart Station
Mar 18 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

All Out Saturday, March 18, 12 Noon
In San Francisco

Coinciding with the 20th anniversary weekend of the criminal U.S.-invasion of Iraq, we mobilize to demand:

Abolish NATO
End U.S. militarism and sanctions
Fund peoples needs, not the war machine
No war with China
End U.S. aid to racist apartheid Israel. Fight racism, LGBTQI discrimination, racistt deportations, and bigotry at home. U.S. hands off Haiti. End AFRICOM. No to Syria sanctions. No to nuclear war. No to climate catastrophe. Free Mumia!Free Julian. Free Leonard

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Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Debt, by David Graeber @ Online
Mar 18 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

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

For our March, April and May meetings we are reading Debt: The First 5000 Years  by David Graeber (Warwick, Amazon).

For  our March meeting we’ll be reading the first five chapters.
For  the  April  meeting  we  are  reading  chapters  6 through  9.
For our May meeting will are reading the remainder of the book.

Before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors—which lives on in full force to this day.

So says anthropologist David Graeber in a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Renaissance Italy to Imperial China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption”) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong.

We are still fighting these battles today.

Strike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included Doughnut EconomicsLimitsBanking on the PeopleCapital 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 TelescopeMission 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, and Cannibal Capitalism.

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