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

For our October, 2025 meeting we will be reading and discussing the first three chapters of The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart (The CBC Massey Lectures) by Astra Taylor (Amazon) (Anansi).  For our November meeting we will finish the book.

Finalist, 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction
Finalist, 2024 Writers’ Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

These days, everyone feels insecure. We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed. The status quo isn’t working for anyone, even those who appear to have it all. What is going on?

In this urgent cultural diagnosis, author and activist Astra Taylor exposes how seemingly disparate crises―rising inequality and declining mental health, the ecological emergency, and the threat of authoritarianism―originate from a social order built on insecurity. From home ownership and education to the wellness industry and policing, many of the institutions and systems that promise to make us more secure actually undermine us.

Mixing social critique, memoir, history, political analysis, and philosophy, this genre-bending book rethinks both insecurity and security from the ground up. By facing our existential insecurity and embracing our vulnerability, Taylor argues, we can begin to develop more caring, inclusive, and sustainable forms of security to help us better weather the challenges ahead. The Age of Insecurity will transform how you understand yourself and society―while illuminating a path toward meaningful change.

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 book was Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals”. For the rest of our reading list see here.

 
Sunday Morning Marxist Forum

Speaker: Raj Sahai

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How Should Conscious Workers View Class Struggle in the 21st Century?

In his book in Italian language, published in 2013, its English translation published in May 2025, Titled: Class Struggle: A Political and Philosophical History; Italian Marxist Philosopher Dominico Losurdo argued that Class Struggle is much more than Workers against Capitalists, it encompasses National, Petit Bourgeois and Gender Struggles. Failure to grasp this, leads one to a version of Populism. Main points of his arguments will be summarized by presenter Raj Sahai. A Discussion with those present in the session will follow.

Raj Sahai has been a member of ICSS since 2007. An engineer by education and practice, he has participated in mass actions in support of workers rights and against imperialist wars starting 1968. He lives in Berkeley, California.

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ICSS Sunday Morning Marxist Forum
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Oakland, CA 94609

Every day in the United States the stakes of our work are getting clearer: We must push back against authoritarianism and oligarchy for democracy and a livable planet.  Those who profit off of the destruction of people and the planet are attempting to further consolidate their power and are threatening so much that we hold dear.

Maybe you have been fighting back.  And maybe you still want more skills and more friends in this fight.

Join this webinar to connect, build skills, and learn more about what organizers across the country are doing in Organizing Under Authoritarianism: How Fossil Fuels and Finance Fuel the Regime 

You’ll hear from speakers from Freedom Trainers, who have trained hundreds of thousands in noncooperation strategies, and Americans for Financial Reform, who have been fighting for years for an economy that works for all of us.  They will be joined by Public Citizen, who has been fighting, suing, and organizing against the Trump regime.

This will be the first of a four-part series of workshops the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) team is hosting over the next few months.  These activists come from justice work all across the climate and financial reform movement.

Register here to join Organizing Under Authoritarianism: How Fossil Fuels and Finance Fuel the Regime

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1. Call to Order, determination of quorum

2. Open Forum/Public Comment on Non-Agenda matters

3. Action Items:

a. Annual Reports 1. CrimeTracer Forensic Logic 2024 (OPD) 2. Illegal Dumping Surveillance Camera Annual Report (OPW)

b. Use Policies 1. Surveillance Technology Use Policy for Illegal Dumping Cameras (OPW)

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This coming Friday, November 7^th, the California State Lands Commission will take historic action to fully decommission offshore oil and gas infrastructure before the end of its productive life!

This sets a bold and exciting example of how to effectively respond to the climate crisis and hold oil corporations responsible for paying to clean up their mess.

Before the State Lands hearing, all are invited to attend a “retirement party” for oil platform Esther.  After over 60 years of oil spill risks, this decrepit and dangerous platform off Seal Beach in Orange County will finally be brought down.  This leaves just two remaining offshore platforms.  Let’s celebrate a new chapter!  We’ll have cupcakes, karaoke, a “well wishes” guest book to share your message for Esther, and more!

RSVP HERE.

WHERE: We’ll be set up to the left of the main entrance near Mishka Dog Boutique (in the Ferry Building).

WHEN: Friday, November 7^th

• 9am: Retirement party
• 10am: Hearing begins, stick around for testimony if you’d like!

WHAT TO BRING: Any marine-life themed materials, stop offshore drilling signs.

Hosted by the Center for Biological Diversity, Oil & Gas Action Network, 350 Bay Area, and Sunflower Alliance.

There will also be an informal evening celebration at 5pm at 7th West in Oakland. Let’s celebrate the great election results and some other big wins in our battle against Big Oil, including:

 the cities of Richmond and Oakland passing resolutions supporting the Make Polluters Pay Climate Superfund,
  Santa Barbara county voting to phase out oil drilling, and denying the transfer of a pipeline permit from Exxon to Sable, which would restart 3 offshore rigs and a pipeline that have sat idle for ten years since the disastrous oil spill,
  renewable energy outpacing fossil fuel development globally, and at lower cost,
 and more!

Feel free to invite friends!

Speaker: Pierre Labossiere, with an introduction by Marilyn Langlois

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Our guest, Pierre Labossiere, will provide an update on the current situation in Haiti. He will explain who the players are and debunk media narratives about the nature of so-called “gangs” in Haiti that have been covertly supported by imperialist and outside forces tied to the “Core Group” and their Haitian collaborators. The self-appointed “Core Group,” with representatives from the US, France, Canada, Brazil, Germany, Spain, EU and OAS, is de facto governing Haiti at present.

Pierre Labossiere is Co-Founder of the Haiti Action Committee (HAC) and the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund (HERF) established in the Bay Area in 1991 and 2004 respectively. Working with Haiti’s grassroots movement that is engaged in the struggle for justice and democracy, HAC and HERF provide information regarding conditions on the ground, assist refugees and support community-based initiatives and institutions working for the liberation and the rebuilding of Haiti.

Marilyn Langlois is a long time Haiti solidarity activist who has been with the Haiti Action Committee for over 20 years and has traveled to Haiti 4 times. She is also on the Board of the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund, and brings the voice of Haiti to the Board of Taskforce on the Americas.

NOTE: Our past programs have been recorded, and placed on YouTube. For a listing of our past programs, see the “Icss Marxist” channel on YouTube, and at icssmarx.org.

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