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A specter is haunting the Bay Area – the specter of communist unionism. Join East Bay DSA’s Labor Committee for our Spooky Socialist Social, the second in-person committee-sponsored social of 2021 on Tuesday, October 26th, between 6 pm and 9 pm at Eli’s Mile High Club in Oakland!

Come meet members of the committee, friends of the committee, fellow travelers, DSA members, and the socialism and unionism curious! We’ll have announcements on upcoming committee events to share, organizers on committee projects to chat with if you’re curious to plug into labor organizing but don’t know where to start, and members of unions throughout the Bay Area to discuss workplace politics and power with. Feel free to bring your union shirt, pin, DSA garb – comradely costumes are also encouraged.

Food and beverages will be available for purchase at Eli’s. Spooky Socialist Social will be hosted in the backyard patio of the bar. Eli’s requires all patrons to wear a mask and bring a vaccination card and will check for both at the door. Please bring both in order to attend.

Accessible by BART with the nearest stop at MacArthur BART and a 7-minute walk away.

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The Berkeley Anarchist Study Group (aka BASTARD: Berkeley Anarchist Students [of] Attack, Revolt, & Destruction) is one of the longest running (if not the longest running) anarchist reading groups in North America. We meet every Tuesday night from 7:30-9:30pm PST (note the new time!) at The Long Haul (3124 Shattuck Ave in Berkeley).

New participants are always encouraged to stop by regardless of your familiarity with anarchist ideas or practices. We warmly welcome newcomers and encourage them to make the group their own in the same manner we all do. To this effect, we endeavor to cultivate a convivial and gregarious atmosphere where everyone can contribute in whatever ways and to whatever degree they each desire. We do not, however, incorporate fixed practices aimed at creating an artificial “safe space” or prioritize the voices of certain participants as a way of ostensibly bringing about contrived parity amongst ourselves. We have no membership, no responsibilities, and no codes of behavior. In lieu of spurious standards for relating to each other, we look to every participant to find a balance between making their voice heard and hearing those of the rest of the group, between disagreeing passionately with each other and accepting our divergences without necessarily needing to resolve them. In summary, we eschew inflexible precepts for interaction and instead embrace spontaneous and honest dialogue, while leaving it up to each individual to make their voice heard and utilize the group as they see fit.

The study group organizes an annual gathering called the BASTARD Conference. This DIY event consists of informal, autodidactic presentations on anarchy and anarchists, presented by participants in the study group along with friends, guests, and accomplices from around the world.

In addition, this group has acted as a launching point for many texts, projects, and actions in its three decades of existence. Many attendees have been and continue to be integrally involved in projects which have left enduring impacts on international anarchist milieus over the years.

We pick readings for the coming week at the end of each session, after which they will be posted here. If you have a text you’d like to suggest, come pitch it to the group, but please be ready to kick off the following week’s conversation by introducing & sharing your reasons for choosing it.

If any of this sparks your interest or curiosity, then come join us every Tuesday evening from 7:30-9:30pm at The Long Haul (3124 Shattuck Ave in Berkeley). Email birdsoffire [at] riseup [dot] net with any questions. We hope to see you soon!

Walk expropriating and igniting!
Always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses
and smoking trunks of old things.

For the annihilation of all authority!
For the refusal of all submission!
Toward the beautiful idea of anarchy!

Registration is OPEN for our 25th Anniversary Celebration – Oct 27th! Michelle Alexander, author of @thenewjimcrow will be in conversation with Xochitl Larios, of @CURYJ, and @aliciagarza Co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter and Principal of @blackfutureslab. https://t.co/2RC0vPlwDO pic.twitter.com/iUtUzRTGKc

— Ella Baker Center (@ellabakercenter) September 27, 2021

Celebrate our 25th Anniversary With Alicia Garza, Co-Founder of Black Lives Matter ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

After Trayvon Martin’s brutal murder by police in 2013, Alicia Garza was the first to say the words that would later become the largest demonstration for racial justice in history: Black Lives Matter. Join Alicia Garza and other brilliant organizers at Ella Baker Center’s 25th Anniversary Celebration on October 27th at 6pm PST to discuss how you can continue to redefine safety.

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Wednesday, October 27th, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. PST
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You have the opportunity to hear from powerhouse movement leaders:

• Michelle Alexander, who shifted the narrative about incarceration when she published The New Jim Crow in 2010.
• Alicia Garza, who activated millions of people all over the world to fight against police violence when she co-founded Black Lives Matter.
• Xochtil Larios, who is transforming the youth justice system right here in Alameda County.

Your support has helped us build a culture of care for 25 years, and we will not stop until our vision is realized. We hope you will join us.

📢 Reject the Babu Settlement! 📢

Come learn more about the Babu v. Ahern lawsuit and settlement, how it will impact mental health care in Alameda County jails, and what we can do to fight it.

✍️Register for the Teach In happening next week here:https://t.co/CKZBIT2ade pic.twitter.com/3gbGTZyzZS

— NLG San Francisco Bay Area (@nlgsf) October 21, 2021

Throughout autumn, members of East Bay DSA’s Branches Working Group are organizing ** socials** so you can connect with comrades and local DSA work in your own cities and neighborhoods!

Calling on residents of Berkeley, Albany, Emeryville, and beyond! Join us on Saturday, October 30 at 2-5 PM for a social potluck at Live Oak Park in Berkeley. Bring family, comrades, and prospective East Bay DSA members!

We’ll share some info about local East Bay DSA work, as well as the Branches Working Group — but mostly it’s an opportunity to hang out and meet other DSA members in your city.

This social is outdoors, and masks are required.

Please RSVP at this link

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

For September, 2021 we’re reading the first two sections of “The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society.” by Eric D. Beinhocker. (e.g. Amazon, Powell’s, possibly available in libraries.

For October, we’ll be finishing the book.

Over 6.4 billion people participate in a $36.5 trillion global economy, designed and overseen by no one. How did this marvel of self-organized complexity evolve? How is wealth created within this system? And how can wealth be increased for the benefit of individuals, businesses, and society? In The Origin of Wealth, Eric D. Beinhocker argues that modern science provides a radical perspective on these age-old questions, with far-reaching implications. According to Beinhocker, wealth creation is the product of a simple but profoundly powerful evolutionary formula: differentiate, select, and amplify. In this view, the economy is a “complex adaptive system” in which physical technologies, social technologies, and business designs continuously interact to create novel products, new ideas, and increasing wealth… A landmark book that shatters conventional economic theory, The Origin of Wealth will rewire our thinking about how we came to be here– 

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, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, and Exploring Degrowth.

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The Berkeley Anarchist Study Group (aka BASTARD: Berkeley Anarchist Students [of] Attack, Revolt, & Destruction) is one of the longest running (if not the longest running) anarchist reading groups in North America. We meet every Tuesday night from 7:30-9:30pm PST (note the new time!) at The Long Haul (3124 Shattuck Ave in Berkeley).

New participants are always encouraged to stop by regardless of your familiarity with anarchist ideas or practices. We warmly welcome newcomers and encourage them to make the group their own in the same manner we all do. To this effect, we endeavor to cultivate a convivial and gregarious atmosphere where everyone can contribute in whatever ways and to whatever degree they each desire. We do not, however, incorporate fixed practices aimed at creating an artificial “safe space” or prioritize the voices of certain participants as a way of ostensibly bringing about contrived parity amongst ourselves. We have no membership, no responsibilities, and no codes of behavior. In lieu of spurious standards for relating to each other, we look to every participant to find a balance between making their voice heard and hearing those of the rest of the group, between disagreeing passionately with each other and accepting our divergences without necessarily needing to resolve them. In summary, we eschew inflexible precepts for interaction and instead embrace spontaneous and honest dialogue, while leaving it up to each individual to make their voice heard and utilize the group as they see fit.

The study group organizes an annual gathering called the BASTARD Conference. This DIY event consists of informal, autodidactic presentations on anarchy and anarchists, presented by participants in the study group along with friends, guests, and accomplices from around the world.

In addition, this group has acted as a launching point for many texts, projects, and actions in its three decades of existence. Many attendees have been and continue to be integrally involved in projects which have left enduring impacts on international anarchist milieus over the years.

We pick readings for the coming week at the end of each session, after which they will be posted here. If you have a text you’d like to suggest, come pitch it to the group, but please be ready to kick off the following week’s conversation by introducing & sharing your reasons for choosing it.

If any of this sparks your interest or curiosity, then come join us every Tuesday evening from 7:30-9:30pm at The Long Haul (3124 Shattuck Ave in Berkeley). Email birdsoffire [at] riseup [dot] net with any questions. We hope to see you soon!

Walk expropriating and igniting!
Always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses
and smoking trunks of old things.

For the annihilation of all authority!
For the refusal of all submission!
Toward the beautiful idea of anarchy!

In this session, we’ll examine the expansion of and resistance against both remote and in-person worker surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Spying on workers is nothing new in American history, but the rise of remote work has led to unprecedented use of invasive employee monitoring software, such as facial recognition, keystroke tracking, and remote cameras and microphones.

Joined by labor advocates Ryan Gerety and Strea Sanchez (United For Respect) and Frank Kearl (Make The Road NY), we’ll discuss these remote technologies alongside the enduring surveillance of workers in retail, restaurants, warehouses, and other in-person spaces. What’s new, what’s business as usual, and what can we do to uplift worker-led movements to resist surveillance?

Moderated by S.T.O.P.’s Albert Fox Cahn.

Panelists:

Ryan Gerety is a researcher at United For Respect and works with organizers and grassroots organizations to understand and respond to the technological acceleration of structural inequality.

Strea Sanchez is an organizer at United for Respect, and formerly was a warehouse worker at Amazon for two years.

Frank Kearl is a Staff Attorney at Make The Road NY. Based in Staten Island, NY, his legal work focuses on labor rights, including advocacy on behalf of Amazon warehouse workers.

📢 Reject the Babu Settlement! 📢

Come learn more about the Babu v. Ahern lawsuit and settlement, how it will impact mental health care in Alameda County jails, and what we can do to fight it.

✍️Register for the Teach In happening next week here:https://t.co/CKZBIT2ade pic.twitter.com/3gbGTZyzZS

— NLG San Francisco Bay Area (@nlgsf) October 21, 2021

📢 Reject the Babu Settlement! 📢

Come learn more about the Babu v. Ahern lawsuit and settlement, how it will impact mental health care in Alameda County jails, and what we can do to fight it.

✍️Register for the Teach In happening next week here:https://t.co/CKZBIT2ade pic.twitter.com/3gbGTZyzZS

— NLG San Francisco Bay Area (@nlgsf) October 21, 2021

Join Occupy Wall Street activists as they reflect on the 10 years since OWS and comment on how OWS has influenced their current work.

Friday November 12, 5:00-6:00 PM EST

Occupy Wall Street activists, Nelini Stamp, Jillian Johnson, and Manissa M. Maharawal, are joined in conversation by moderator Astra Taylor to discuss their experiences in the Occupy Wall Street movement. In reflecting on the ten years since OWS, the panelists will share how participating in Occupy informs their current work in organizing, activism, media, and politics.

This Tamiment event is generously sponsored by the Kurz Family Foundation and aims to honor the legacies of Herbert Kurz and Frederic Ewen – two outspoken advocates for academic freedom, civil liberties, civil rights, and democracy. The Ewen Forum is a discursive space to create a community of scholars, generate dialogue, promote research, and bring the public into greater awareness of the issues that were central to the life and work of Kurz and Ewen.

This event will be presented in Zoom. Live closed captioning will be available.

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Astra Taylor, Debt Collective collaborator, documentarian, writer, and musician.

Nelini Stamp, National Organizing Director at the Working Families Party.

Jillian Johnson, Mayor Pro Tempore of Durham, North Carolina.

Manissa M. Maharawal, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at American University, collective member of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project.

Suds, Snacks, and Socialism…BYO 

The Glasgow Climate Summit – What the Sierra Club Won’t Tell You

Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021, 2:30 – 4:30 pm

Please register in advance at

https://bit.ly/Glasgow_SSS_211113 

to receive your personal link for this event.

Although no one in the climate justice movement expects much from the global climate summit in Glasgow, it does provide a platform for activity and discussion. There will be an alternative summit and demonstrations around the world on November 6th. Join the speakers at this forum, who will report on the actions and discussions about the state of the climate justice movement and particularly on the growing eco-socialist wing of the movement.

Anne Petermann – Executive Director of the Global Justice Ecology Project

John Foran – professor of sociology at UC Santa Barbara, involved with several programs including Environmental Studies

Phil Gasper –teaches philosophy at Madison College in Wisconsin and has been an environmental activist for over 40 years

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

*Organizations listed for identification purposes only.

For more information email <info@sudssnackssocialism.org>

FLYER PDF:

https://occupyoakland.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Suds-Forum-Flyer-2021-11.pdf

FREE comedy show and fundraiser for Kshama TOMORROW!

Oakstop, 1721 Broadway in Oakland
Tickets are free, but space is limited: less than 20 spots left! Please make sure to reserve your tickets in advance if you would like to attend!

RSVP here!

Featuring comedian, writer, and union organizer Nato Green as our headliner, alongside fellow comics FC Sierra and Marcus Williams, as well as speeches by Janani Ramachandran and more!
The Kshama Solidarity Campaign is being supported across the country. Here in the Bay Area, these local leaders are proud to endorse it and fight against the recall:

• Oakland City Council Member Carroll Fife
• Oakland School Board Director Mike Hutchinson
• OEA and Alameda Labor Council President Keith Brown
• UAW 2865
• Broke Ass Stuart
• Janani Ramachandran
• Gayle Mclaughlin, Richmond Progressive Alliance

This event will help provide the necessary resources to fund the efforts being made to prevent the right wing from successfully recalling Kshama. Come join us for an evening of speeches from working class fighters from around the Bay Area, and let’s defend Kshama and the socialist movement in Seattle.

An injury to one is an injury to all!
(Please note: must provide proof of vaccination or negative COVID-19 test. Masks required.)
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This talk will include the plans by the nuclear industry to establish nuclear-rockets to Mars and nuclear-powered mining colonies on the planetary bodies. Included will be a review of US attempts to destroy the United Nations Outer Space and Moon Treaties as Obama in 2015 signed a new law giving US corporations the ‘right’ to make land claims for mining the sky in violation of those treaties. This will result in moving the war system into space as other nations will not allow the US to act as the ‘Master of Space’..

Our speaker will be Bruce Cagnon, Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space.

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We Intend to start the presentation as close to 10:30 am as possible, but the Zoom room will be opened up, as usual, at 10:15 for anyone to join and discuss technical matters, catch up with each other, say Hi, etc.. The program (and recording) will end at 12:30, but the Waiting Room will remain open until about 1 pm for informal discussion.

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ICSS is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: ICSS Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library November 14 2021
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Our program today has two speakers, Aidan Hill and Patricia St.Onge.  Aidan will talk about the struggle to defend Peoples Park in Berkeley.  Patricia St.Onge has been active for many years in the struggles of Native Americans over land.  These struggles are attempts to undo some of the crimes done by settlers to dispossess Native Americans from their ancestral lands.  What unites these two speakers are serious questions about land itself.  The context of this Green Sunday is the question of who “owns” the land and who should get to decide how land should be used.

Patricia St. Onge (Haudenosaunee and Quebecoise, adopted Cheyenne River Lakota) is a grandmother and mom. She’s also the founder of Seven Generations Consulting and Coaching, offering individual and group/team coaching, primarily with members of social justice organizations. She is the lead author of Embracing Cultural Competency: A Roadmap for Nonprofit Capacity Builders. She is Assistant Adjunct Professor at Mills College, Department of Race, Gender and Sexuality Studies.  At Mills, she is also the Elder in Residence.
A long time activist, she is a member of the 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations.  She was appointed by the Sogorea Te Land Trust to be a director of the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative, based in Oakland.  Patricia is part of a growing community in East Oakland called Nafsi ya Jamii (The Soul Community), an Education/Spiritual Center and urban farm.

Aidan Hill (they/them) is a queer/trans political activist in the Bay Area living on the intersection of multiple identities. They are a former Vice-Chair of the City of Berkeley Homeless Commission, a Green Party Electoral Candidate and a UC Berkeley student stewarding People’s Park in Xučyun, Turtle Island. Aidan is committed to highlighting the disparity of power among marginalized groups and actively contribute to the social, cultural and political movements during their lifetime. Aidan has formerly been employed by the Riverside City College’s Political Science department to teach Model United Nations where they won dozens of awards in New York, Rome, and Seoul, South Korea. Aidan traveled the state organizing press conferences to save the Bag Ban with the assistance of the California Public Interest Research Group at UC Berkeley (founded by Ralph Nader).

November 14th, 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm  Via Zoom: please see access info below

Green Sundays are a series of free public programs & discussions on topics “du jour” sponsored by the Green Party of Alameda County and held on the 2nd Sunday of each month. The monthly business meeting of the County Council of the Green Party follows at 7:00 pm, after a 30-minute break. Council meetings are open to anyone who is interested.

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