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Help build the March 21 national day of action demanding that banks stop funding climate disaster. Third Act and others have called this event to highlight the Banking on Our Future campaign: a national effort to pressure the Big 4 Banks—Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, and Wells Fargo—to stop financing the climate crisis.
Participants pledge that they will close their accounts and credit cards with these banks if they don’t shift to clean, renewable investments.
Wells Fargo, headquartered here, is one of the biggest fossil fuel investors worldwide. Join weekly actions at Bay Area Wells Fargo bank branches to educate customers about this campaign and build momentum for the March 21 day of action.
WHEN
Every Friday until March 21
WHERE
Check here to find the times and locations of upcoming Friday Wells Fargo visits.
Helpful, detailed information on how to move your money here.
https://t.co/FQYTHaNbc5 things are getting fun during our Monday night women coding nights at the SudoRoom – new flyer and a cool learning mapping project of all the languages spoken in Oakland using Jupiter pic.twitter.com/pUvHtP1sRa
— Sudo Room (@sudoroom) February 12, 2023
Supreme Court
Feb 28th
8AMJOIN US: https://t.co/HF4gPx4ai2 pic.twitter.com/PXRsxUxXXv
— The Debt Collective 🟥 (@StrikeDebt) February 16, 2023
Just days after kneeling for Tyre Nichols, SF DA Brooke Jenkins announced that she will drop the historic charges against SFPD officer Chris Samayoa in the murder of Keita “Icky” O’Neil.
Join families terrorized by police violence this Wednesday morning to demand justice! pic.twitter.com/bWdtDnVoe8
— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) February 27, 2023
ICYMI: The judge in Wednesday's hearing delayed the DA's dismissal of charges. In other words, she's giving Attorney General Rob Bonta one week to take up the case since DA Jenkins doesn't want to.
Join the rally to Monday to call on AG Rob Bonta to take on this important case! pic.twitter.com/WOwElYVVGA
— San Francisco Rising (@SF_Rising) March 3, 2023
https://t.co/FQYTHaNbc5 things are getting fun during our Monday night women coding nights at the SudoRoom – new flyer and a cool learning mapping project of all the languages spoken in Oakland using Jupiter pic.twitter.com/pUvHtP1sRa
— Sudo Room (@sudoroom) February 12, 2023
This week Zionist settler mobs protected by Israeli Occupation Forces stormed the occupied village of Huwara, surrounded it and attempted to burn it to the ground. Israeli human rights group @btselem and many others have called the settler attacks a “pogrom” to describe the attacks on the village. Pogrom is a Russian word meaning “to wreak havoc” and typically describes the violence by Russians against Jewish people, particularly officially-mandated slaughter.
Many are blaming the new Israeli government as the cause of the unimaginable violence Palestinians, but the origin of these atrocities is not the Israeli government but Zionism. This isn’t a “loss of control” this is exactly what Israeli control looks like. The settlers carry out the attack, the military secures it, the politicians back it. It’s a synergy.
#HandsOffHuwara #HandsOffPalestine #HuwaraResists #FreePalestine #SF #BayArea 🇵🇸✌🏽🇵🇸
We continue our weekly actions at Wells Fargo locations in San Francisco to – tell the truth about the bank’s funding of the fossil fuel industry to customers and passers-by. Join us on Friday to hold signs and pass out flyers.
Let’s keep up the pressure! Join us this Friday, March 10! Click here to RSVP.
Join us at 11am TODAY to say #Enough to violence in #Oakland. 34th and Peralta. Be there! pic.twitter.com/lyBL6YrHpB
— S.A.V.E. Center for Community Change & Empowerment (@SAVEOakland) March 11, 2023
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?
We had a STRONG weekend kicking fash out of spaces they don’t belong
They got their shit rocked at the Capitol
They never got near or did anything during drag queen story time
And now it’s time to show them hate deserves no platform in Davis!! (Tmmr March 14th) @UCDavis_COC pic.twitter.com/9TK8nHl1EP
— Rage and Compassion (@NoMercyForPigs) March 13, 2023
All Out Saturday, March 18, 12 Noon
In San FranciscoCoinciding with the 20th anniversary weekend of the criminal U.S.-invasion of Iraq, we mobilize to demand:
Abolish NATOEnd U.S. militarism and sanctionsFund peoples needs, not the war machineNo war with ChinaEnd 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
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 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, 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.
What: Stop Dirty Banks Day of Action
Join us for an action at Wells Fargo Corporate Headquarters in downtown San Francisco to demand that big banks stop funding climate change through their investment in the fossil fuel industry.
Over the past year, thousands of people have taken the pledge to close accounts, cut up credit cards, and boycott Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, and Wells Fargo if they don’t move their investments out of fossil fuels. On 3.21.23, we will gather to show the strength of our movement!
This event is organized by partners in the Bay Area Climate Finance Hub, including Third Act SF Bay Area, Oil and Gas Action Network, 1000 Grandmothers, Stop the Money Pipeline, XRSFBay, and others.
More info about the campaign organized by Third Act can be found here. RSVP and stay tuned for info about a local action in San Francisco on the morning of March 21st.
Tomorrow & every Friday on the corner of 6th & Bryant.. Join the mommas even if it’s for 5 minutes or the full hour.. Or drive by & honk your horn in solidarity.. 1pm to 2pm.. Mothers on the march against police terrorism.. ✊🏽 pic.twitter.com/wRDngzGEmt
— QUIP (@EQUIPTO) March 23, 2023
Mother On the March
Join us on the sidewalk in front of the Israeli Consulate with signs, flags, banners and chalking to demand an end to the horror inflicted on Palestinians by the Zionist Israeli government.
FREE PALESTINE!
BOYCOTT, DIVEST AND SANCTION ISRAEL!
BOYCOTT BIRTHRIGHT!
THERE ARE NO “CHOSEN PEOPLE”
Thanks to the Mayor of Barcelona for endorsing BDS!
Tomorrow & every Friday on the corner of 6th & Bryant.. Join the mommas even if it’s for 5 minutes or the full hour.. Or drive by & honk your horn in solidarity.. 1pm to 2pm.. Mothers on the march against police terrorism.. ✊🏽 pic.twitter.com/wRDngzGEmt
— QUIP (@EQUIPTO) March 23, 2023
On March 31, 2023, Judge Lucretia Clemons of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas denied political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal’s legal appeal. Judge Clemons’ decision ludicrously claims that newly discovered evidence proving that key witnesses at Mumia’s trial were paid by (or received favours from) the District Attorney in exchange for their false testimony was “not material” to showing that the trial was unfair!
Mumia Abu-Jamal is innocent and should never have spent a day in jail. This decision shows that Mumia will never receive justice in the capitalist courts. Only mass demonstrations can win his release. Join us at a rally calling to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!
Mumia is Innocent! Free Mumia Now!
Tomorrow & every Friday on the corner of 6th & Bryant.. Join the mommas even if it’s for 5 minutes or the full hour.. Or drive by & honk your horn in solidarity.. 1pm to 2pm.. Mothers on the march against police terrorism.. ✊🏽 pic.twitter.com/wRDngzGEmt
— QUIP (@EQUIPTO) March 23, 2023
Bringing together union members, labor activists, and local officers, a Troublemakers School is an incredible space for networking, building solidarity, and sharing successes, strategy, and inspiration. It’s a real shot in the arm for newbies and seasoned activists alike.
You will be inspired. Hear speakers from the front lines of recent struggles.
You will learn new skills. The one-day conference features interactive workshops, panels and meetings, ranging from crucial basic skills like helping your colleagues beat apathy to advanced topics like winning first contracts and running for union office.
Registration (scroll down to bottom): https://labornotes.org/events/2023/bay-area-troublemakers-school
Workshops will include:
- Beating Apathy
- Turning an Issue into a Campaign
- Opening Bargaining
- Climate Justice and Labor
- Strikes!
- New Organizing
- Race and Labor
- …and more!
Workshops and schedule subject to change! Detailed program to come.
Registration fee (covers event registration and lunch):
$40 – Regular registration
$15 – Hardship rate registration (choose if you need)
Childcare will be provided. Complete the form that you will receive in an email after you register in order to sign-up for childcare.
Labor Notes is committed to making this event safe for all, including those who are medically vulnerable. Therefore, we strongly encourage masking. Masks will be provided for attendees.
If possible, take a rapid test before you attend. As well, if you are not feeling well, please stay home.
Questions? Ideas? Want to get involved? Email Barbara barbara@labornotes.org