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Right now the most vulnerable individuals are being exploited on a massive scale and it will only get worse if we don’t take action now. But can we as average citizens really make a difference to help them? The answer is YES. In Direct Action Everywhere’s workshop, you will learn the history of social movements, the ground-breaking new research that shows the power of ordinary people, and the bold plan to nonviolently abolish the most harmful industry on earth that kills billions of animals every year.
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84012361059
Meeting ID: 840 1236 1059

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Now more than ever we need to be prepared to mobilize safely in the streets and creatively escalate our campaigns. Learn the basics of Direct Action, from planning and roles to safety and gear. This 4-hour training is spread across 2 days. No experience needed, but there will be plenty to keep intermediate direct action people engaged. Offered by the EBDSA Direct Action Working Group.

Register for zoom here! Register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Now more than ever we need to be prepared to mobilize safely in the streets and creatively escalate our campaigns. Learn the basics of Direct Action, from planning and roles to safety and gear. This 4-hour training is spread across 2 days. No experience needed, but there will be plenty to keep intermediate direct action people engaged. Offered by the EBDSA Direct Action Working Group.

Register for zoom here! Register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Facebook will play a key role in enabling–or preventing–disinformation about the election results from disrupting our democracy. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
Millions of people throughout the US will take to the streets on Wednesday, November 4th if Donald Trump refuses to concede after losing the presidential election or claims victory before all the votes are counted. Facebook will play a key role in enabling–or preventing–disinformation about the election results from disrupting our democracy.

That’s why the Protest Facebook coalition has organized a November 4^th Protect the Results protest outside of Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park to insist that Facebook stop misinformation from candidates, campaigns, and others who declare victory on Facebook before the final election results are in.

This will be a short, visual action during which we’ll display a human billboard that says TRUTH MATTERS.

We are holding the event at 4 PM so that participants have time to join other local Protect the Results actions that start later in the evening. We hope this protest won’t be necessary, but we’ll be ready in case it is.

Please register for the event so we can provide you with any last-minute updates.

This event, which is among the more than 400 Protect the Results events scheduled across the country, is sponsored by the Protest Facebook coalition, which is co-led by San Francisco Bay Area pro-democracy and media accountability organizations Media Alliance and Global Exchange. Learn more at www.protestfacebook.org.

Can’t get to Menlo Park? You can still Protect the Results. Cyber voter suppression poses a major threat to voter access, which is why we need grassroots power to provide voter support and to disrupt disinformation.

Submit all the misinformation and disinformation that you find as tips at https://reportdisinfo.org/
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Our work is done on behalf of our members. All the time. Pandemic or no pandemic.,

Become a member of Media Alliance or renew. Low-income annual memberships are $35, standard memberships are $60, supporting memberships are $120, and anchor memberships are $300. Other amounts welcome. You can set up monthly recurring debits for $5, $10 or $25 monthly.
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In 2018 the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released an alarming report, stating that the world needed to steeply cut its carbon emissions and make radical changes in order to limit the planet’s temperature from rising to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. If that goal wasn’t met, the report predicted a horrifying increase in suffering for almost all life and ecological collapses.

In America, this report was met on the political Left by sustained calls for the abolition of capitalist exploitation of people and the planet. The rationale was that capitalism’s imperative for endless economic growth required massive amounts of energy, the vast majority of which is still produced through fossil fuels. Some of the specific responses were reinvigorated support for anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist struggles by Indigenous peoples, surges in attendance at climate strikes, and great support for proposals like the Green New Deal by elected officials.

East Bay DSA will explore this theme in a Socialist Night School mini-series, co-organized with our Green New Deal Committee. These three events will explore what it means to be an ecosocialist, the Red Deal and Indigenous struggle, and how to fight for a Green New Deal after Bernie.

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In this final Night School in our mini-series, we’ll attempt to answer a perennial question in our prior sessions: “How do we actually win a Green New Deal, especially after Bernie’s loss?” We’ve dedicated this time to making a space for us to attempt an answer.

Our readings offer an array of ways to understand a Green New Deal and strategies and tactics we might employ, to supplement our own ideas. And we’re joined by Thea Riofrancos, whose experience and expertise has already proved invaluable by way of her books, and who will speak with us about the continuing struggle to win a Green New Deal and our planet.

Thea Riofrancos is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Providence College, a member of DSA Ecosocialist’s working group Steering Committee, and co-author of A Planet to Win and Resource Radicals.

Readings:

Socialism or Barbarism — the fight continues!

“It’s Eco-Socialism or Death”: An Interview With Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson

JUST TRANSITION: A Framework for Change

Embrace Feminist Wisdom for a Green New Deal!

Berkeley Copwatch would like to invite you to get involved in the movement to abolish policing, defend human rights, stand up for the rights of Black people, Indigenous people, Unhoused people, and all the marginalized members of our community. Since 1990, Berkeley Copwatch has taken a stand against police brutality, injustice, and the overreaching arm of authoritarian capitalism. Stand with us now and refuse to be abused! There are so many different ways to get involved in Copwatch (writing, art, activism, data entry), and no experience is necessary.

Meeting ID: 819 0627 1400

Passcode: assata

Let Us Know You’re Coming

Every day on Facebook, Donald Trump lies with impunity about the outcome of the 2020 elections. His posts, including recent ones claiming, “I won the election,” and calling the election fake, rigged, and a hoax, have been shared literally hundreds of thousands of times.

By providing a megaphone for these lies to be spread and amplified with minimal correction, Facebook and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, have undermined our social fabric for profit.

Please join us outside of Mark Zuckerberg’s house in San Francisco on Saturday to say we’ve had it.

Since Election Day, our rejected, soon-to-be ex-President and his enablers have been swamping Facebook with lies and conspiracy theories about his defeat in the election. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has only made half-hearted and anemic efforts to slow the onslaught.

Changes to Facebook’s algorithm could have been made long ago to stop it from amplifying posts that contain disinformation about both the election and coronavirus. Instead, these posts have generated billions of views – putting the public’s health and democratic rights at rissk. That’s why it’s high time San Francisco took his name off of our general hospital,”

Sponsored by Global Exchange, Media Alliance, Protest Facebook Coalition, CodePink Golden Gate, SumofUS, Diablo Rising Tide, Indivisible SF Peninsula and CA-14, Raging Grannies Action League, MediaJustice, Resistance SF, SF Green Party and others.

NOTE: During this event, we will wear masks, practice social distancing, and respect SF public health rules re COVID19..

Can’t come? You can help us and sign the petition: Demand Facebook and Twitter end the spread of dangerous election disinformation immediately.

“If Trump is the criminal, then Mitch McConnell is the get-away driver. With McConnell and Trump’s other enablers, it’s about lust for power and greed, but also fear of what the nation is becoming. We need a massive turnout in Georgia now to put McConnell in the backseat.”
-Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II

The #PoorPeoplesCampaign protest livestream returns on November 23 at 11:30 AM PT
(2:30 PM ET), with a special Moral Monday Car Caravan Protest on McConnell!
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SACRAMENTO CAR CARAVAN PROTEST

Monday, November 23rd. Email to join and receive exact time & directions

Join the California Poor People’s Campaign’s Car Caravan on November 23rd in Sacramento to demand an immediate and just stimulus package, and to support voter turnout in Georgia for the runoff senate election!

Inspired by the powerful Moral Monday Caravans organized by the Kentucky and Washington DC Poor People’s Campaign, states across the nation are taking the fight to their Senators’ offices with caravans and a massive call-in campaign to all US Senators demanding they stop McConnell’s Meanness, Misery and Mayhem now!

We need just and full policies at the state and federal levels that remembers the loss of our loved ones, our jobs, and our housing. In the richest country ever to exist we deserve more than crumbs, we need a stimulus package that ensures poor and low-income people survive the pandemic.

We are not of those who shrink back and we won’t be silent because everybody has
a right to live!

To participate please e-mail us to receive directions: california [at] poorpeoplescampaign.org

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SAFETY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

NOTE: Mask & Social Distancing Required

If you have the following symptoms, please DO NOT participate in person. Even if you test negative for COVID-19 but have these symptoms, please refrain from in-person actions:
–Fever
–Shortness of breath
–Cough
–Headache
–Loss of smell or taste

CDC: Older adults and people who have severe underlying medical conditions like heart or lung disease or diabetes seem to be at higher risk for developing serious complications from COVID-19 illness.

CDC COVID-19 link: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/index.html
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VIRTUAL PROTEST LIVESTREAM & DIGITAL ACTION

Monday, November 23 @ 11:30 AM – 1 PM PT

Poor People’s Campaign livestream here:

https://www.facebook.com/anewppc/
or
https://vote.poorpeoplescampaign.org/

Digital protest actions on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell here:

https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/moral-monday-mcconnell/

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CALL TO ACTION

Flood the phones of Majority Leader McConnell to demand a full and just relief package.
Call and demand passage of the HEROES Act now!

PPC special phone calling link (esp. for those outside of Kentucky):

https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/moral-monday-mcconnell

The system will call your phone and patch you through.

PLEASE HAVE YOUR PHONE READY.

OR

317 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510

ph: (202) 224-2541

fax*: (202) 224-2499

general switch board: (202) 224-3121

*Anyone can send a faxed letter from any state. No need to be in Kentucky.

ALSO CALL OR EMAIL YOUR SENATORS & REP:

Tell your senators you support them to keep fighting for the HEROES Act which remains stuck on McConnell’s desk, and that you protest McConnell’s Meanness, Misery and Mayhem!

Senator Kamala Harris: https://www.harris.senate.gov/contact

Senator Dianne Feinstein: https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact

Find your Congress House member here: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
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WHY: COVID Pandemic Relief is Needed Now!

The HEROES Act was passed by the House of Representatives back in May, but Majority Leader McConnell has not allowed the bill to be taken up by the Senate.

The HEROES Act would grant a second round of $1200 stimulus checks including to noncitizens/immigrants who file yearly income taxes, extends the $600 weekly unemployment enhancement benefit through January 2021, has an eviction moratorium & emergency rent payment assistance, and allocates funds for safe, secure voting during COVID as well as US Postal Service funds.

Then, the House passed the separate Delivering for America Act to at least protect and fully fund the USPS in time for the November election. That legislation was completely stalled by McConnell, as well.

Instead, McConnell and GOP Senators back the Senate HEALS Act which does not extend the federal moratorium on evictions, has inadequate housing relief, would cut the unemployment enhancement down to $200, allocates enormous sums for the military, and has ZERO provisions for safe voting or the US Postal service.

Under Mitch McConnell’s leadership, Senate Republicans have proposed a bill that will leave citizens and states with fewer protections and funds. However, no second stimulus relief package has been passed so far.

We’re excited to announce Community Dialogs, a public education program offering events on topics related to mass incarceration and higher education. Events will feature guest speakers including students, our local community, and national experts; film and book discussion groups featuring Mount Tamalpais College faculty; and online workshops free of charge.

The first event is scheduled for Tuesday, December 1, 6:30pm-7:45pm, and will feature the premiere screening of With This Knowledge, a short documentary series following two former students on their reentry journey. Film subjects Sumit Lal and Sajad Shakoor, and filmmaker R.J. Lozada will discuss the film, facilitated by Aly Tamboura. Please RSVP for this free virtual event here.

We hope to see you there!

With warm regards,
Mount Tamalpais College

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Berkeley Copwatch:

YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO FILM
An introduction to your constitutional rights as they pertain to filming the police.

The training will cover:
I.    Introduction and Principles of Copwatching
II.   Legal Rights and how they play into filming the police
III.  Three Types of Stops, Violations, and Police Misconduct
IV.  Copwatching Techniques
V.   How to Film
VI.  How Can You Fight Back

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In the face of multiple crises – COVID-19, massive unemployment, climate chaos, systemic racism – DSA chapters around the country are rising up with #FightForOurLives. The Biden administration will pursue austerity unless we unite and pressure them to help the multi-racial working class instead.

Join us on December 12 as we raise 5 key demands for federal action:

✔️ A Federal Jobs Guarantee Act
✔️ The Health Care Emergency Guarantee Act
✔️ The Protect the Right to Organize Act
✔️ The #ClimatePresident Action Plan
✔️ Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad

We’ll convene at the Oakland Federal Building (1301 Clay St.) starting at noon to rally for the programs we urgently need and deserve. We will wear masks and practice physical distancing.

Bring banners, picket signs, noisemakers, musical instruments, and high spirits, because now’s the time to #FightForOurLives!

California passed the Racial Justice Act…now what? Join the community teach-in on Tuesday, Dec. 15th to learn more about this new law and how we can use it to fight racism in the court system! To register: https://t.co/8Eg5QQxcBM pic.twitter.com/QZ1h65ZOMF

— Ella Baker Center (@ellabakercenter) December 9, 2020

Do you want to learn effective techniques to intervene in an unjust world?
Do you want to plan effective and powerful direct actions?

East Bay DSA’s Direct Action Working Group is excited to continue our Direct Action Training series this weekend! The training will take place on Zoom from 10 am-12 pm on Saturday and Sunday. Attending both days is highly recommended. This training will cover the same ground as the previous Direct Action training which was very well received.

As racist violence, unemployment, evictions, and climate chaos keep increasing, we need to expand our capacity to leverage our collective power. This training series will introduce creative ways to escalate ongoing campaigns, participate in mass uprisings, and keep each other safe in our confrontations with capital and the state.

The training is 4 hours spread across two days. Please attend both days.

Direct Action Part 1: Sat Dec 19 (10 am-noon)
•History and examples of Direct Action
•Action Team roles, action design
•De-Escalation
•Affinity Groups & Decision-Making
•The Police

Direct Action Part 2: Sun Dec 20 (10amnoon)
•Gear/equipment
•Messaging
•Security Culture
•Basic First Aid

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqdeqhqjkuEt0GhjejXGHpkw-AyFwtvcnf

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.