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The Oakland budget is currently being negotiated in City Hall and we have until June 30th to make sure elected officials support defunding the police and refunding of services, housing, education, arts, mental health services, and other programs that enhance Black lives and Oakland’s working class communities.
No experience is necessary! Making calls is easy, and there will be zoom training before you start. This is a great event for anyone whether you’re new to political campaigns or a seasoned organizer! Phone banking is also a great activity you can do from the safety of your home, during COVID!
RSVP here to join the virtual phone bank at 6 pm. You will need a camera and microphone on your computer, as well as a phone or headset to make the calls. Instructions will be provided once you join!
Attend an action at the Air District (BAAQMD) Headquarters, stand with community youth and organizations, and tell the Board members we need them to vote the right way —on June 2nd, the next day—to protect community health from the ravages of particulate matter pollution. We cannot afford to lose this intergenerational fight for environmental justice. Our lungs just cannot afford it.
You can RSVP for the June 1st action on Facebook (or here if you don’t have Facebook).
And don’t forget to sign the petition!
The Air District must protect community health and truly bring “a healthy breathing environment for every Bay Area resident,” in the words of its mission statement.
The next day on June 2nd, the Bay Area Air District will be voting on whether to take strong regulatory action against Chevron and PBF refineries and force the facilities to make dramatic pollution cuts. After seeing the stark health impact data and hearing from community members like you, the Advisory Council of the Air District recommended that BAAQMD take “maximum feasible action within its authority to reduce emissions from [particulate matter] sources, prioritizing the most impacted areas.” However, Big Oil and its allies are lobbying aggressively against the cat cracker Rule 6-5, distorting facts and making false claims.
YOUTH ACTION
WHEN
Tuesday, June 1, 10AM –
WHERE
|10 min. from the BART Embarcadero
VIRTUAL AIR DISTRICT HEARING & FINAL VOTE – RSVP HERE FOR JUNE 1ST, 6 PM GROUP PRACTICE SESSION & TO RECEIVE TALKING POINTS
The NLG – San Francisco Bay Area will be hosting a Digital Security Training for young people to cover these areas of online safety:
- How young people are being watched by the government
- (surveillance)
- How the government uses this information
- How to keep yourselves and others safe while at protests, while texting and while using social media
- What apps you can use to stay safer
If you are interested in joining or have inquiries, please contact: savannah@nlgsf.org
The Oakland budget is currently being negotiated in City Hall and we have until June 30th to make sure elected officials support defunding the police and refunding of services, housing, education, arts, mental health services, and other programs that enhance Black lives and Oakland’s working class communities.
No experience is necessary! Making calls is easy, and there will be zoom training before you start. This is a great event for anyone whether you’re new to political campaigns or a seasoned organizer! Phone banking is also a great activity you can do from the safety of your home, during COVID!
RSVP here to join the virtual phone bank at 6 pm. You will need a camera and microphone on your computer, as well as a phone or headset to make the calls. Instructions will be provided once you join!
ZIM is Here! Mobilize at 6:00am – at The Port of Oakland #BLOCKTHEBOAT (from Adrienne Fong) https://t.co/O9kVJirgCz pic.twitter.com/I05HkbRy2d
— OccupySF.net (@BathtubBulletin) June 4, 2021
Our mobilization is working! We're current picketing 6 different gate entrances with over 600 people, and workers are not crossing the pickets. The message is clear: profiteering from Israeli apartheid is not welcome in the Bay Area #BlocktheBoat #BDS #FreePalestine pic.twitter.com/cUxFDNarJs
— AROC #BlocktheBoat (@AROCBayArea) June 4, 2021
#BlockTheBoat ACTION #2: Everyone mobilize this afternoon to Middle Harbor Shoreline Park @ Port of #Oakland 4pm or earlier. Israeli owned ZIM Cargo Vessel "Volans" will attempt to offload/onload cargo. No War Criminal Apartheid Zionist economic interest allowed in our town! #BDS pic.twitter.com/327BYQXOWc
— Free Palestine (@domainawareness) June 4, 2021
Event by San Francisco Projection Department
Facebook Event: https://fb.me/e/4t46Ou4lV
Join us for one hour:
GUERRILLA PROJECTIONS: SF Projection Dept will project Defund Line 3 art on Chase Bank.
POP-UP ART SHOW: Outdoor gallery opening gala exhibit of Defund Line 3 art by 11 artists featured in the Defund Line 3 Poster Art Newspaper.
STREET MURAL: Help paint a street mural with non-toxic clay and tempera paint.
MUSIC: songs by 1000 Grandmothers and other special guests.
POSTER ART DISTRO: Come pick up some poster art to put up, display or make signs with; Can we work together to plaster the Bay Area this week with beautiful art images of resistance to Line 3?
What: Rally at Sen. Feinstein’s offices
On July 15th, Sunrise Movement is leading a protest to put the heat on Sen. Feinstein for her inaction on the climate crisis. Californians will come together to rally outside Feinsten’s offices at three different locations. Can you join the rally in downtown San Francisco to demand a bold and equity-based Civilian Climate Corps?
Organizers from Extinction Rebellion SF Bay are collaborating with Sunrise to help fill roles for the action. If you’d like to get involved with planning or support in any way, please email our Direct Action working group: dawg@xrsfbay.org.
America is at a crossroads.
Six months have passed since the failed attack on our nation and our democracy on January 6th. Since that day, anti-voter laws have been passed in states all over the country and the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent rulings have made clear that it will not act to protect the sacred right to vote. This summer, Congressional districts risk being redrawn in a way that will allow politicians to choose their voters – rather than the voters fairly choosing who represents them.
We have reached an inflection point in which we must force our elected officials to act now or risk losing the very foundation of our republic.
But there is hope for us to stop this undercurrent of corruption and rebuild American democracy so that the freedom to vote is protected, billionaires don’t control our political systems, and our representatives actually respond to we the people.
To do this, we must pass the For the People Act, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, and D.C. Statehood – and we can’t let anything, including the Jim Crow filibuster, stand in our way!
Join us for The Good Trouble Vigils for Democracy on July 17 – the one year mark of the passing of Rep.John Lewis – as we carry on his legacy by hosting candlelight vigils nationwide to demand that Congress act to protect our freedom to vote and rebuild our democracy.
We must and will win this Fight!
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.
Make calls together on Zoom to get killer cops off our streets!
Today at noon we’re making calls together on Zoom to get killer cops off our streets! Grab your lunch and join our SB2 Lunch POWER Hour.
While police officers continue to harm our community members without any accountability, California is only 1 out of 4 states that has no law to decertify cops that put our communities in danger.
Join us, Michelle and Ashley Monterrosa (sisters of Sean Monterrosa, who was killed by Vallejo PD in the wake of the George Floyd uprisings), and the Let Us Live coalition to demand change from Bay Area legislators!
WHAT: SB2 Lunch Power Hour
WHEN: Friday, August 20, 2021 from 12 to 1 p.m.
WHERE: Zoom : bit.ly/sb2powerhour0820
Register to join us!
Police officers engaging in anti-Black racism and abuse of their power creates unsafe communities. California has an obligation to ensure their badges are PERMANENTLY taken away when they commit serious misconduct, removing them from our streets and ensuring they can do no more harm.
Share this to get the word out. We want to get these dangerous cops off of our streets ASAP!
In solidarity,
Anti Police-Terror Project
Anti Police-Terror Project is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color. We support families surviving police terror in their fight for justice, documenting police abuses and connecting impacted families and community members with resources, legal referrals, and opportunities for healing.
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.
Register
This fire season we’ve seen the largest known wildfire ever in California, bringing the climate crisis literally to our front doors. This is not an isolated event. Climate scientists have been warning that extreme weather would be coming if we continued to burn fossil fuels, and yet, because of capitalism, we’ve only seen the use of those fuels skyrocket. In the past month reports about this crisis have come out with dire warnings, letting us know that tipping points that mean an unavoidable cascade of the irreversible climate crisis, are approaching rapidly if they haven’t had already been reached. All of this means that our task is enormous and urgent. Climate change is a direct result of the capitalist system, and we will not be able to address the climate crisis without getting rid of it altogether.
Join the East Bay DSA Political Education Committee and Green New Deal Committee as we look at why capitalism is incapable of addressing the climate crisis, and why the fight for socialism is our only way out.
Join Zoom Meeting
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Reading List
Part 1: THE CURRENT CLIMATE CRISIS
(very brief articles about the current state of the climate crisis)
‘Nobody’s Safe’: 10 Takeaways from New International Climate Change Report
Climate crisis: Scientists spot warning signs of Gulf Stream collapse: Article from The Guardian
Part 2: CAPITALISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE
(Don’t mourn organize! These are the main readings, start with the first one, or chose whichever you would prefer!)
What it Will Take: Ch.27 Beyond Capitalism by Carol Dansereau
A good place to start: a general introduction to why socialism is the only answer to the climate crisis
Introduction and First Chapter of Red Green Revolution by Victor Wallis
A deeper dive into the concepts of ecosocialism
Part 3: ON THE GREEN NEW DEAL
Climate Change Is Class Struggle by Matt Huber
A review of On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein that highlights the need for class struggle in the fight for the Green New Deal
2021 DSA Convention: Decade of the Green New Deal: Planetary Crisis and Socialist Power
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfYwKCKZvC270piELHNDhnJ5zaxQ1-SoVcIlGihiAZF1f53gQ/viewform
The Struggle for People’s Park is a 2-unit student-led class offered to UC Berkeley Students during the Fall 2021 semester under the Democratic Education at Cal (DeCal) program.
You may apply by clicking the “take my class” button above.
Note: Grading will be based on a pass/fail framework depending on the participation and development designs regarding People’s Park.
For more information and updates, please contact our student facilitator, Aidan Hill at hillae@berkeley.edu
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfYwKCKZvC270piELHNDhnJ5zaxQ1-SoVcIlGihiAZF1f53gQ/viewform
The Struggle for People’s Park is a 2-unit student-led class offered to UC Berkeley Students during the Fall 2021 semester under the Democratic Education at Cal (DeCal) program.
You may apply by clicking the “take my class” button above.
Note: Grading will be based on a pass/fail framework depending on the participation and development designs regarding People’s Park.
For more information and updates, please contact our student facilitator, Aidan Hill at hillae@berkeley.edu
Progressive Law Day is a free half-day conference, historically organized and led by law student members of the National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, and open to law students, legal workers, lawyers, activists, and anyone interested in learning about radical lawyering and legal work.
Progressive Law Day 2021 will be held in partnership with UC Hastings College of the Law, on the Hastings campus at 200 McAllister Ave in San Francisco. Lunch will be provided for all attendees. Registration is open for both in-person and virtual attendance for all workshops and panels. While we’re optimistic about hosting this event in-person for the fall, we are prepared to fully transition this event to virtual-only in the event of circumstances beyond our control.
YOU GOTTA TAKE THIS CLASS!
Copwatch Presents: the Copwatch DeCal Class on Community-based AccountabilityMondays 5-6:30pm. Open to all.
Registration and more info: https://t.co/LdbC7tEcUeThis class includes opportunities for direct field monitoring of police on duty. pic.twitter.com/gyi5Wr2KWC
— Berkeley Copwatch (@Copwatch411) September 1, 2021