It’s time to demand that banks stop funding the climate crisis. As part of the #DefundLine3 Global Day of Action, join us in downtown San Francisco for Guerrilla Movies and Art Action on Friday, August 13th from 7pm – 10pm.
Bring chairs, blankets, and people power as we host a guerrilla movie screening and art action at Wells Fargo’s headquarters to help stop the Line 3 pipeline.
7:00pm – Non-Violent Direct Action training – (around the cornner at 555 California Street.)
8:30pm – Guerrilla Movie screening about the Line 3 resistancee movement
Followed by: Creative art action (details will be shared on the ground)
This Friday, August 13th, activists from around the country will demand banks stop funding the Line 3 pipeline, and all other fossil fuel projects.
Corporate greenwashing is climate denial ― it must stop, and you can help.
Click here to say you will attend: https://actionnetwork.org/events/defundline-3-sf-bay-area/
Join XRSF Bay Area and partners: 350 Bay Area, Climate Health Now, Code Pink Golden Gate Chapter, Diablo Rising Tide, Oil and Gas Network, Sunrise Movement Bay Area, 1,000 Grandmothers for Future Generations SF, and Silicon Valley Climate Action Now.
Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library
THE STRUGGLE FOR IDEOLOGICAL HEGEMONY: THE ROLE OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS (AND THE MEDIA): The Case of Purdue University
Harry Targ, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Purdue University, Blogger at Diary of a Heartland Radical, co-chair of CCDS, and author of books and articles on international relations, Cuba, and the labor movement.
The attacks on “critical race theory” are part of an assault by sectors of the capitalist class who seek to shape who and what is taught in educational systems. This talk will address ideological struggles, the claim that the “ruling ideas are the ideas of the ruling class,” and will concentrate on the transformation of higher education. Targ will describe particularly the example of Purdue University, the land grant public university in Indiana.
For background: https://heartlandradical.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-contradictions-facing-21st-century.html
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TUESDAY, AUG 17: Join us for "Fighting for Freedom From the Inside: Celebrating the Advocacy of Jailhouse Lawyers," a riveting celebration of the legacy of jailhouse lawyers, who fight for freedom from inside the prison-industrial complex. Info & RSVP at https://t.co/NfW09cxRun pic.twitter.com/WX6WVP5GLx
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Join CODEPINK and friends at Nancy Pelosi’s house to do an “Emergency Intervention” for Pelosi, and a Bake Sale for the Women and Children of Afghanistan.
Our intervention is an attempt to help Speaker Pelosi with her apparent addiction to funding war and weapons manufacturers instead of the needs of her constituents, the country and the world. As Speaker and a leader of the Democrats, she has the power to decide what the federal budget will fund. Over half of the budget goes to the military. Militarism is literally killing the planet. We need the money she gives the Pentagon, Lockheed, Boeing, Raytheon, etc. for healthcare for all, green jobs, education, affordable housing and so many other things that will support our people and the planet. We don’t understand why Pelosi prioritizes the military over the people. Is she addicted to war? We need to do an emergency intervention immediately to prevent further loss of life and destruction of the planet.
Bake Sale for Afghanistan
The bake sale will feature homemade organic apple pie and cupcakes. We’ve spent trillions on the tragic war in Afghanistan. Maybe we can raise some $ for the people who having been living with the terror of drone strikes and U.S. military occupation for 20 years.
At 4pm, after our action, we are invited to join the Sunrise Movement, Extinction Rebellion and others in painting a street mural at Delores Park in SF to ask Pelosi to support a Green New Deal.
What: #SealtheDeal Mural Action
Join our ally Sunrise Bay Area on a national day of action as thousands of people call on their Members of Congress to seal the deal and pass the biggest and boldest climate and care infrastructure bill in history. We can fund climate solutions, grow the care economy, fight inequality, and create green jobs. We will be painting a large mural at Dolores Park, � sending a message to Speaker Pelosi that we demand bold action now!
Covid-19 Protocol: This event will be outdoors. However, with the Delta Variant cases on the rise, we are asking participants to wear masks and practice social distancing. Please stay home if you are feeling il
RSVP here: https://smvmt.us/sba-sealthedeal
Join the Sunrise Movement and the California Green New Deal Coalition on this national day of action, as thousands of people call on members of Congress to #SealtheDeal: pass the biggest and boldest climate and care infrastructure bill in history.
We have to keep up the pressure so Speaker Pelosi and our other Democratic Party representatives won’t compromise away the measures we so desperately need. We must fund climate solutions, grow the care economy, fight inequality, and create green jobs.
Participants will be painting a large mural at Dolores Park, sending a message to Speaker Pelosi that we demand bold action now!
Are you hungry for deeper dialogue about the climate crisis and building community around solutions? We are too.
A group of us at California Doughnut Economics Coalition are reading All We Can Save — it’s a book club! The book club helps us build on our doughnut economics foundation, further connect the (social & ecological) dots, and think more like a 21st-century economist. We want to extend the invite to all.
About Book Club: A unique opportunity to read and share some information and inspirational conversation on important issues. The book club is an unbiased and safe forum that opens our minds to ideas and information for a more in-depth look at our world, our community, and hopefully ourselves.
Each month, we will discuss essays from each section:
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How it relates to Doughnut Economics: The book club helps us to further connect the dots and think more like a 21st-century economist.
Do you want to learn more about the Green New Deal? Do you want to help your community create a resilient response to climate change? We’re happy to offer an event focused on the Green New Deal and how it impacts us all. Our free, virtual conversation will explore the dangers of climate change and how legislation like this will help.
The workshop is presented by Grandmothers for a Green New Deal, a group of elder women working to educate us all about the GND and getting climate solutions enacted on a local, state and federal level.
Register here
Our current gas-car-based transportation system accounts for about half our greenhouse gas emissions and worsens all our inequities. Join experts and activists to hear about ways to strengthen transit, make it easy to walk or bike, and replace gas cars with EVs everyone can afford.
Picture a privileged person ensconced in a costly car that glides between privileged destinations, passing GHGs and toxins over the homes of the less advantaged, who drive clunkers or line up for buses that cost too much and too often don’t arrive. And join the discussion about how to change that picture!
This is the third installment in the second series of summits on United Actions for an Environmentally Just and Regenerative Future, hosted by the Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Forcel
Schedule for this summit:
9: Land acknowledgement/welcome Cheryl Davila & Amos White, CEMTF
9:15: Assemblymember Phil Ting: How can we accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles?
9:30: Dan Sperling, Director of Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis and member of California Air Resources Board
9:45- 10:45: Panel: Encouraging Transit, Walking, Biking
* Facilitator: Yusra Arub, UC Berkeley Urban Studies student
* Speakers:
* Chirag Rabari–Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Plan Bay Area Implementation Team
* Jovanka Beckles–AC Transit Board member
* Jenn Guitart–California Bicycle Coalition
* Peter Miller–San Francisco Taxi Workers Alliance, AFL-CIO
10:45 – 11:45: Panel: Electrification of Transportation
* Facilitator: Elena Engel, 350 Bay Area Transportation Team
* Speakers:
* Carleen Cullen–Drive Clean Bay Area
* Lily Cohen–No New Gas Campaign
* Brian Beveridge–West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project
* [speaker on EV charging TBD]
11:45 – 12:00: Toolkit for Transportation Actions by Cities/Counties
* Jack Lucero Fleck, CEMTF steering committee & 350 Bay Area Transportation Team
Closing remarks–Cheryl Davila
Each viewing will include approximately one hour of documentary screening plus discussion or some words from folks involved in the creation of the documentary.
We would love to see you there!
August 20 – Double Feature night of films: “Homeless First” and “Couper Was Here”
September 3 – “Quarantine Diary”, “Cob On Wood”, “Shelter in Displacement”, “Humanity Scale of
Oakland! TODAY from 12-4pm, celebrate Black August with @togetherABC, @LSPC_ & @AllofUsorNone at a community BBQ supporting the Oakland Rejects Slavery / Abolish Bondage Collectively campaign! At Lil' Bobby Hutton Park in West Oakland – more info at https://t.co/9mrnq5Uecy. pic.twitter.com/EPTju6yrNu
— Ella Baker Center (@ellabakercenter) August 21, 2021
Assuming it is open, we will be meeting in-person at our old haunt, the OMNI, and, as an experiment, with a Zoom live link for those who can’t be there physically. Check back here a few days before the event to insure the availability of the OMNI, otherwise we will meet again solely online.
Due to the exponential growth of Delta COVID in Alameda County we will still be meeting online in July. The August meeting may be held dually online and at the OMNI Commons.
Stay tuned!
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com for up-to-date status and the online invite.
Our current topic is degrowth. Our book is Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide, by Liegey and Nelson, available from its publisher Pluto Press and elsewhere, including Amazon. We will be reading the first half of the book this month, constituting the first three chapters, through page 85 of the paper back edition, and the second half of the book for our August meeting.
“A sense of urgency pervades global environmentalism, and the degrowth movement is bursting into the mainstream. As climate catastrophe looms closer, people are eager to learn what degrowth is about, and whether we can save the planet by changing how we live. This book is an introduction to the movement. As politicians and corporations obsess over growth objectives, the degrowth movement demands that we must slow down the economy by transforming our economies, our politics and our cultures to live within the Earth’s limits. This book navigates the practice and strategies of the movement, looking at its strengths and weaknesses. Covering horizontal democracy, local economies and the reduction of work, it shows us why degrowth is a compelling and realistic project.”
Strike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included Doughnut Economics, Limits, Banking on the People, Capital 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 Telescope, and Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism.
Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library
A Good question – which we hope to help answer with some serious analysis and information in the following upcoming activity
PLEASE JOIN US for what will be an excellent panel discussion on the dangers and opportunities Cuba is now facing in today’s world
This online activity will include:
Gloria La Riva – ANSWER Coalition co-founder, member of the SF Bay Area Cuba-Venezuela Committee, and recent visitor to Cuba
Cheryl LaBash – co-chair of the National Network on Cuba.
Pablo Menendez – North American musician/composer and resident of Havana, Cuba since 1966.
This event will be moderated by long-time Cuba solidarity activist Tony Ryan.
At the program’s end, there will be sufficient time for Q & A and comments.
Please share this announcement with your friends and contacts.
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Amongst ourselves we often talk over the lack of accountability within our community “family business”, which like the country seems to be only getting worse. The premise is that the identifying label of Polyamory brings an patriarchal hierarchy image to mind. Also that misogyny is not the only deep dive that needs to be addressed. Racism, One penis policy translating into a heterosexual norm that is actually a negative.
Join us at this donation based event with our normal cast and special guests. Interactive deep dives on deep topics.
We are really reaching outside the comfort zone box.
Why are POC not represented in the BDSM/Kink community?
Is there acceptance of the LGBTQ community within the Polyamory community?
How does racism/sexism effect all of these communities? We want to hear your ideas. The Oakland Greens Virtual Townhalls are designed to hear your ideas & thoughts. At these events we want to listen to you, not talk at you. Join us in ZOOM Sunday August 29 room opens at 5:45 PM PST, discussion at 6:15 PM PST, with unique topics & unique discussions.
These are donation only events and as always
NO ONE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS.
In partnership with Freedom Archives, the NLG-SFBA will host a series of outdoor film screenings and discussions on Saturday, August 28 and Saturday, September 11. Topics will include COINTELPRO, the life of George Jackson, the Attica uprising, and “We Know Our Rights,” a multimedia toolkit produced by the chapter for people dealing with law enforcement.
These events commemorate the 50th anniversary of George Jackson’s assassination in San Quentin State Prison, the 50th anniversary of the Attica Uprising, and the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and ongoing resistance against state targetting in the wake of 9/11.
Tickets for both in-person and virtual attendance will be available. The panels, guided discussions, and films will be livestreamed. While we are optimistic about hosting this event outdoors and in-person, we are prepared to fully transition this event as virtual-only in case of circumstances beyond our control.
Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library
Is the US Global Empire Actually in Decline?
It is almost taken for granted, if not an article of faith, in the progressive milieu that the US empire is in decline. Does this hold up or is it comfort food for the frustrated hoping for the revolution? In the 40-year period between 1917 and 1959, socialist revolutions occurred in Russia, China, Korea, Vietnam, eleven countries across Eastern Europe, and Cuba. Yet during this era, thought to be a period of US ascendency, the US had to confront the former world Communist bloc, its associated parties in capitalist countries, and Third World national liberation movements. Now, in the period of alleged US decline, it has been socialist revolution that experiences catastrophic defeats.
In the last 30 years, the US and its subordinates have not only blocked successful revolutions but have overturned socialism in most of the former Communist sphere. The socialist countries that continue have all had to backtrack. True, China is an economic powerhouse today, with the US empire unable thwart its continued rise. Yet the US imperial system still maintains decisive economic, political, and ideological hegemony, backed by tremendous military muscle. It can still impose crippling sanctions and blockades on most any country, and the world can do little in response. The US media still shapes how most people view contemporary events. What would a world look like if the US lost the ability to be world cop?
Our speaker, Stan Smith, will explore these questions based on a manuscript that he and Roger Harris have been researching, followed by a Q&A in which both will participate.
Stan Smith last spoke at the Marxist Library in November on “How the US Dominates the World Economy.” His writings include: Inadequacy of Modern Monetary Theory and the Power of the US Dollar in the World Economy and Why the US Can Keep Increasing its Debt and not Suffer Inflation. Roger Harris on the Library’s program committee.
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