Tell Governor Newsom:  The recall is over but the fight for Climate Justice is not!

Join climate, environment, and public health advocates to start the clock on Governor Newsom’s post-recall climate justice agenda with a demonstration on the steps of the Capitol Building in Sacramento.

As the public health cost of California’s rapidly worsening wildfire season mounts, the countdown to COP26 represents a new urgency for Governor Newsom to take action and end our state’s biggest contribution to greenhouse gas emissions: fossil fuel extraction.

Come to Sacramento to call on Governor Newsom to STOP issuing new fossil fuel permits, DROP existing production through a just transition, and ROLL out 2,500-f00t health and safety setbacks.

Sponsored by Last Chance Alliance, Food & Water Watch-California, Center for Biological Diversity, Oil and Gas Action Network, and allies including 350 Sacramento, 350 Bay Area, Fossil Free CA, and more.

RSVP on Facebook here, or on the Action Network page here.

Emergency Press Conference WEDNESDAY September 29 at 12pm (noon)PT.
Location: Intersection of 8th St. & Harrison, St. Berkeley, Ca.
Spread the word! Show up & show support for residents!#StopTheSweeps #NoMorePovertyTows #StopTheWarOnThePoor #HousingIsAHumanRight pic.twitter.com/8vIC7Iwlrd

— Berkeley Copwatch (@Copwatch411) September 29, 2021

The fossil fuel industry is successfully promoting a huge increase in the production of single-use plastics, adding GHG and toxic pollution at every step.

This webinar will explore how this strategy is increasing fossil-fuel production and worsening the climate crisis.

Judith Enck, President of Beyond Plastics and former Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will discuss the nexus between plastic production and climate change, including the immense environmental justice impacts.

Graham Forbes, Global Project Leader of the Plastic-Free Future campaign at Greenpeace, will discuss Greenpeace USA’s new report, The Climate Emergency Unpacked: How Consumer Goods Companies are Fueling Big Oil’s Plastic Expansion.

Register here.

Three weeks ago, getting an abortion in Texas became almost virtually impossible as Senate Bill 8 passed – making it illegal to get an abortion after 5 or 6 weeks no matter the circumstance. The US Supreme Court denied an emergency stay on this bill, and instead allowed it to go into effect immediately. With their upcoming ruling on the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization case, this lack of action represents a willingness of the court to appease right-wing bigots. With attacks on abortion rights poised to increase as the Supreme Court fails to defend them, and restrictive legislation spreading to other states, we need to act now to block these efforts to restrict abortion rights further – and beyond that, we need to demand that the right to safe, legal abortion be granted for everyone under federal law.

Joe Biden has pledged multiple times to make Roe v Wade, in his words, the “law of the land”. The Democrats have control of both the Presidency and Congress. As right-wing attacks spread, there is no excuse not to act immediately to make abortion legal on a national level; however, they have shown absolutely no willingness to act. It took a mass movement to earn abortion rights in the first place. It will take a mass movement now to defend them.

We will be at the women’s march in San Francisco Oct 2, demanding mass action to defend and extend reproductive rights. The march starts at 11am at Grove St. and Hyde St. in San Francisco – see you there!

Socialist Alternative Bay Area will also be holding a virtual public meeting the day after the event to discuss what our next steps in the fight should be, more information to come!

Saturday 10/2: Women's March Sacramento: Mobilize & Defend Reproductive Rightshttps://t.co/xxxQJLPVAu

— Indybay (@Indybay) September 18, 2021

WHY WE ARE MOBILIZING

https://www.womensmarchsac.com/october-2021-event-info

Abortion has never been fully accessible, but we are at the risk of losing our reproductive freedom completely. The call to action is clear, and urgent. The relentless attacks from Texas to Mississippi are ramping up quickly.

Anti-choice extremists have a deep desire to return to a time when there was more clear and effective domination and control over queer and trans folks, women, and people of color; they want to revive those old values and societal norms to the point of re-acceptance. The authoritarian agenda of reproductive control is fueled by misogyny and racism – and we must challenge it, together.

We have this opportunity to invite all the people that know us and love us into this important movement and work united as we build something better for our families and communities. As a small powerful group tries to come for our human rights over and over again, we’ll never let go of our vision of reproductive justice; for unfettered abortion access and everything we need to support and grow our families to thrive and live healthy lives.

This is your fight. This is our fight. This impacts all of us. Rise up on October 2!

SAFETY DURING COVID

For pandemic safety, masks that cover the nose and mouth are required at all times when near people outside your household. Extra masks will be available in the First Aid and Information Tents.

Disclaimer: Please always keep 6 feet of social distance from any person who is not in your household and wear a face mask to cover your nose and mouth.

Saturday 10/2: Women's March Sacramento: Mobilize & Defend Reproductive Rightshttps://t.co/xxxQJLPVAu

— Indybay (@Indybay) September 18, 2021

Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library

Over the past three decades, environmentalism has emerged as a consistent area of work and organizing in the Communist Party of Canada. In general, this mirrors the development of a large body of scientific analysis that has highlighted environmental destruction as an issue of mass public concern and, presently, as an existential crisis. This is an area of political work that has seen a tremendous change in terms of the science around it and how Communist Party policy has developed in line with that.

Our speaker, Dave McKee, has been a political activist for over 30 years with experience in the labour movement, the peace movement, the anti-poverty movement and international solidarity. Presently, Dave is a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Canada and editor of People’s Voice, Canada’s leading socialist publication.

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TOMORROW! Join us at 9:30 AM at City hall for a press conference and rally to get #Justice4JonathanCortez!!! Jonathan should still be with his family today. A father of 3 & youngest of all his siblings, he was 31 when he was murdered by the FBI in Oakland on September, 13 2021.

Register here: https://bit.ly/3o9gAjD

Five tenants at Raj Properties apartments in Oakland are facing eviction.
Among them is a dear friend and elder Momii,�  a longtime Japantown activist and a current activist on housing and poor people’s issues.�  Momii and family (who have lived at the property for 26 years) and 4 other tenants are facing imminent eviction from their home in Oakland.

Protest aimed at the abusive landlord who is trying to evict 5 tenants in the midst of a pandemic

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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!

Join us for our virtual member meeting, Wed Oct 6 at 6pm! We have an amazing panel and presentation exploring the power of District Attorneys, as well as how to organize to hold them accountable! Register at bit.ly/EBCOctMeeting.