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THE OAKLAND GREENS invite you to the January 2026 FREE Dinner & a Movie Community Discussion Night, featuring Civil War (2024).
Dinner begins at 6:30 PM
Movie starts at 7:00 PM
These free community events are hosted in partnership with It’s Your Move Games,
Civil War is a 2024 dystopian action thriller written and directed by Alex Garland, starring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Sonoya Mizuno, and Nick Offerman. Set during a civil war across the United States between a despotic federal government and secessionist movements, the film follows a group of war journalists traveling from New York City to Washington, D.C., to interview the President before rebel forces reach the capital.
This screening is part of The Oakland Greens 2026 Free Dinner & a Movie Discussion Series and will be followed by a community discussion.
Walk-ins welcome.
More information: www.theoaklandgreens.org
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We are devastated by the ICE murders, ICE violence, and the separation of over 3,000 families in Minnesota. In solidarity with Minnesota, and to protect our own community, we are organizing in the Bay to build a mass movement to stop these attacks once and for all.
As all eyes turn to the Bay for the Super Bowl in Santa Clara next week, we recognize this is a critical moment to bolster our community preparedness and reject MAGA’s white nationalist visions. On Thursday, January 29th, from 5:30-6:30 pm, join us for a Mass Call to Stand with Minnesota and Prepare for the Super Bowl.
RSVP here.
The heightened national spotlight, combined with escalating threats against our immigrant communities, demands that we strengthen our rapid response networks and expand neighborhood foot patrols. We will use this moment not just for visibility, but to build tangible, lasting power. The world is watching, let’s show them what organized, community-led safety truly looks like.
Spanish-speaking and immigrant communities are a vital part of the Bay Area’s cultural heartbeat. Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show, performed entirely in Spanish, is a declaration of unity and cultural resistance amidst escalating ICE attacks.
While Bay Bunny performs, we will march outside and stand up for our communities. Join the call to learn how to take action leading up to the Super Bowl against corporate colluders with ICE and how to join street patrols to defend your neighbors.
On Saturday, January 31st, from 12-1:30 pm or Monday, February 2nd, from 6-7:30 pm, sign up to become a trained legal observer with the Santa Clara County Rapid Response Network.
Kristi Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Security, has made threats against the Bay Area in response to Bad Bunny’s selection for the Super Bowl halftime show. Across the Bay Area, communities are staying vigilant and getting prepared. We must respond with power, not panic.
Join us. Get ready,
Bay Resistance
Speaker: Dr. Sharat G. Lin
To Join Zoom Meeting
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Passcode: 042428
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The conflict and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza has overshadowed developments in the West Bank. Yet the situations in the two occupied territories are inextricably linked to the convulsions of Israeli politics, the shifts in global geopolitics, and additionally manifested in the West Bank in the actions of the Israeli settler movement fully supported by the Israeli State. We take a look at how this has been impacting Palestinians on the ground, and their resistance to it.
Dr. Sharat G. Lin is a political economist with the San Jose Peace & Justice Center, Human Agenda, and the Initiative for Equality. He writes and lectures on the Middle East and labor migration, and has been involved in the region for decades ever since he attended medical school at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. He lived through the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War, the Gulf oil boom, and the start of the Arab Spring.
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite. All are welcome!
For our February, 2026 meeting we will be reading and discussing the first three chapters of A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit (Amazon) (Alibris). For our March meeting we will finish the book.
The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides. A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster’s grief and disruption and considers their implications for everyday life. It points to a new vision of what society could become-one that is less authoritarian and fearful, more collaborative and local.
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 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.