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Fandom + Piracy @ Online

Mar 4 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Online Event Location: https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Q6jDS6rLRCemB8Jws8WbKA

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Pirates who threaten to invert power relations through appropriating things less tangible than ships and bodies have become a growing concern for the managers of twenty-first-century economic globalization. Appropriating, modifying, and sharing a range of less concrete but equally crucial objects, intellectual property “robbers” today traffic in images, music, and software. Although business analysts regard this as a novel problem, supposedly precipitated by the unprecedented importance of “knowledge” as a force of economic production, historians of science and law tell stories of intellectual property theft that predate the current IPR discourse by two centuries. Anti-piracy discourses now frequently intersect with anti-terrorist security discourses, where both pirates and terrorists function as threats to free markets and civilized nations. Clearly, even while it participates in a long history, the current discourse of piracy is specific to our present historical and economic moment and illuminates particular characteristics of the emerging forms of global informational capitalism.

What forms of globalized citizenship and personhood are being shaped via the emerging legal discourses of intellectual property, on both sides of the struggle for access to new forms of information? In Studies in Unauthorized Reproduction: The Pirate Function and Postcolonialism, I read the 21st-century debate over “sharing,” “openness,” and “freedom” in software, music, and film not as an entirely unique and unprecedented moment, but rather, via a genealogical understanding of its legal, cultural, and political-economic conditions of enunciation.

Interlocutors:

Yairamaren Maldonado, Ph.D candidate in Hispanic Languages & Literatures at University of California, Berkeley.

Lou Silhol-Macher, Ph.D candidate in German at University of California, Berkeley.

Jaclyn Zhou, Ph.D student in Theater, Dance and Performance Studies at University of California, Berkeley.

Hosted by Abigail De Kosnik, Associate Professor in the Berkeley Center for New Media and the department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies at University of California, Berkeley.

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Mar

5

Fri

“Call Center Blues”: Cruelity of Deportation Film and Q&A w/ Director Geeta Gandbhir @ Online

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Mar 5 @ 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Watch film for FREE here: https://vimeo.com/505335690

Register for Q&A w/ director at 3 PM PT here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/call-center-blues-live-qa-with-the-director

This year at the 93rd Academy Awards there’s only one film that focuses on immigration:

“Call Center Blues”. Directed by an immigrant woman filmmaker, Geeta Gandbhir,

it depicts deportees grappling with loss, love and the rebuilding of their lives and community in Tijuana, Mexico.

Many times, the stories of those who’ve been detained or deported are framed in a negative way to scare the public. This leads to policies that abandon much of our immigrant community and prevent policies that would otherwise protect people or reunite families.

The film “Call Center Blues” shows an honest portrayal of life after deportation and the cruelty of the deportation force without ever showing ICE’s side of the story, and it is one that is particularly important and must be heard — both at the Oscars and by President Biden and Congress.

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People’s Park Day of Civic Love @ People's Park

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Mar 5 @ 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Join us for a day of Civic Love at People’s Park on Friday, March 5, 2021!

A community film screening including:

“Homeless First” by Anka Karewicz and Travis Schirmer
“Reimagining the City, as our own” by Irene Gustafson
“Makers of History” by Ryan Stopera
“Quarantine Diary” by Yesica Prado

Bring a mask, a friend, and a blanket!

Full Daily Schedule

General Assembly meeting begins at 3PM!

3PM- Food Not Bombs lunch
3:30PM- General Meeting
4:30-5:30PM- Team Build
- Take a walk for love
- 36 Questions of Civic Love by National Public Housing Museum
- 5:30PM- Dinner Cookout
7:15PM- Panel Discussion

Presented by: Liberated Lens Collective, People’s Park Committee, SF Urban Film Fest

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Mar

6

Sat

California Progressive Alliance 3rd Annual Convention @ Online

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Mar 6 all-day

California Progressive Alliance 3rd Annual Convention

RSVP link

Save the Date, March 6th, and RSVP now for California Progressive Alliances 3rd Annual Convention: Acknowledge, Analyze and Act; Paving the Way for Progressive Change!

Join California Progressive Alliance members and organizers from around the state, country and world as we pave the way for real progressive change in 2021! Gather, build community and organize together!

We’ve got some incredible breakout sessions planned-

Solidarity Economy- Putting People and the Planet over Profit! Transforming our Economy to work for the People.
Single Payer: Everybody In. Nobody Out! Build on the Feb 6th CalCare actions and learn about next steps to winning a just healthcare system for all.
Environmental Justice- Protecting the Commons from Industry Exploitation
Electoral Reform- How do we get corporate influence out of our political system and build a truly democratic system that is Of the People, By the People and For the People.
Mutual Aid- How people are stepping up and communities are coming together in the face of a failed response to the Covid crisis.
Housing Justice- Take a deep dive into the broken housing system and see what can be done to fix it.
Repeal NAFTA 2.0 – Ending Exploitation of Workers. End Forced Migration and Deportations.
Criminal Justice- Transforming the District Attorney’s office.

Speakers and details to come! RSVP today!

Follow updates at californiaprogressivealliance.org

The link to join will be emailed to you March 5th!

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Bay Area Kshama Sawant Solidarity Rally and Fundraiser @ Online

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Mar 6 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

RSVP: http://tiny.one/KshamaZoomRally

𝐁𝐀𝐘 𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐀 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐒𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐘
𝐉𝐎𝐈𝐍 𝐔𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐃𝐄𝐅𝐄𝐍𝐃 𝐊𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐌𝐀 𝐒𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐄 𝐅𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃 𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐏𝐓!
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𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗞𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗮 𝗦𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀:
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Local Speakers and Endorsers include:
-𝑶𝒂𝒌𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒍 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕 Nikki Fortunato Bas
-𝑶𝒂𝒌𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒍 𝑴𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 Carroll Fife
-𝑶𝒂𝒌𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒍 𝑩𝒐𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑫𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓 Mike Hutchinson
-𝑶𝑬𝑨 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑨𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒂 𝑳𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒓 𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒍 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕 Keith Brown

Event Co-hosted by Socialist Alternative and East Bay DSA

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With Biden in office and right wing extremists storming the Capitol, socialists and progressives know that our work is far from over. Working people need to stand together in solidarity against the right-wing attempt to silence Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and the Black Lives Matter movement with a recall campaign! The recall campaign, if successful, would overturn last year’s re-election and push a working-class representative out of office. Most importantly, the recall effort is an attempt to undermine Seattle’s social movements, which have won major victories against big business.

The right wing and big business are furious about the Defund Seattle Police campaign, our movement’s historic Amazon Tax victory, our renters rights victories, $15/hr minimum wage, and how Kshama has used her city council office to fight relentlessly for working people and the oppressed.

Seattle was the first major city to win a $15 minimum wage, which emboldened the national movement for $15. Like the Bay Area, Seattle faces a massive housing crisis and Kshama provides bold leadership in the movement for rent control and renters rights, and against predatory, ultra-rich landlords.

In the height of the pandemic, ordinary people are facing deep inequality, unaffordable housing and evictions, economic crisis, police violence, and climate crisis. This is why now, more than ever, we need independent socialist politicians like Kshama who are fighting fiercely for the interests of working people.

We must go all out in Seattle, the Bay Area, and around the country to defend Kshama’s seat, the movement she represents, and the world we deserve!

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Town Hall on Face Surveillance @ Online

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Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Online Event Location: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/legislative-town-hall-on-face-surveillance-zoom-tinyurlcomencodezoom-tickets-142984134395

Encode Justice (encodejustice.org) is a grassroots, youth-led group working to advance civil rights and equity in artificial intelligence. Join us for a legislative town hall on facial recognition technology

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“Flint: Who Can you Trust?” Film & Discussion: Impact of Flint Water Crisis on Poor & POC @ Online

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Mar 6 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm

SCREENING: “Flint: Who Can you Trust”

Info & RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/flint-who-can-you-trust-watch-party-tickets-138489853881

Filmed over 5 years and long after the story was front page news, “Flint: Who Can You Trust?” is full of new twists and turns. Journalist/filmmaker Anthony Baxter goes beyond the headlines in Flint, Michigan, where a government poisoned its own citizens’ water supply, to show the complete breakdown of authority, public trust and faith in the truth itself.

“Flint” is a powerful investigation of the breathtaking scope of toxic pseudo-science, celebrity activism, and official negligence. The film reveals the devastating impact on poor people and people of color, which make up the majority of the residents in Flint, as they continue to seek justice and clean water.

Featuring Marc Ruffalo and narrated by Alec Baldwin. Produced by Richard Phinney and Sabrina Schmidt Gordon.

Anthony Baxter, Director/2020/119 min/Social Justice, Water, People & Cultures, Health

POST VIEWING DISCUSSION

After the screening, stay connected to discuss the film with:

–Anthony Baxter, Director, “Flint: Who Can You Trust?”

–Nathalie Baptiste, Washington DC-based Reporter & Columnist, Mother Jones Magazine

–Moderator: Alejandro Bodipo-Memba, Founder & CEO, OVP Management Consulting
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ONE EARTH FILM FESTIVAL 10th ANNIVERSARY: March 5–14, 2021

Join in the film festival here: https://www.oneearthfilmfest.org/films-by-date

This film is part of the One Earth Film Festival, a virtual festival of documentaries on climate and the environment. Nearly all offerings are FREE.

If you love movies and you care about your health, your community and our magnificent planet we call home, then join us for the 10th anniversary season of the One Earth Film Festival,
March 5–14, 2021.

Learn solutions and actions addressing climate, environmental justice, conservation, waste and more. Watch online from the comfort of your own home, and participate in filmmaker and expert Q&As. Be moved. Be amazed. Be ready to create change.

Most film watch parties are free (suggested $8 donation). Advance registration is highly recommended.
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Mar

7

Sun

Capitalist & Ecological Crises & Socialism @ Online

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Mar 7 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Capitalist & Ecological Crises & Socialism

Check here for Zoom info near to date

Forest fires in California, thawing of ice in the arctic, Glacier melting in The Himalayas, floods and bitter cold in Texas; and the Covid pandemic are all tied to the global warming from cumulative effects of capitalist commodity production over the past 200 years. Air pollution in much of world has worsened. Since the collapse of the USSR in 1991, and China taking the role of a biggest commodity producer for the world; other than tiny Cuba, there is no model of development that does not contribute to worsening of the ecological crisis all over the world. Class differentiation is leading to right-wing populism, threatening social peace in many countries. The internal contradictions of capital are extreme. To survive, capitalism requires even more exploitation of natural resources and human beings of the world, witness the farmers fighting capitalist predation laws in India. Result of all this is more pollution of air, sea and land on a scale that is undermining the very basis of healthy human existence on earth. Can the alienated individualism and consumerist way of life created by late stage capitalism be ended by a new socialist revolution? Can a new socialism build a healthy materially adequate society for all human beings which lives in balance with Nature?
Our Spesker, ICSS Member Raj Sahai will explore ideas and invite discussion with the participants, in a work in-progress.

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Not A Nation of Immigrants @ Online

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Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Online Event Location: https://zoom.us/j/2200241232?pwd=aCt1dWI0OGxUdUxjeUJ5K0xSY09uUT09

Many Americans, regardless of party affiliation, whether in political debates or discussions about immigration, proudly state that we are a nation of immigrants. In this bold new book, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz asserts this ideology is harmful and dishonest because it serves to mask and diminish the US’s history of genocide, white supremacy, slavery, and structural inequality, all of which we still grapple with today.

While some of us are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, others are descendants of those who were here since time immemorial and others are descendants of those who were kidnapped and forced here against their will. This acclaimed author suggests that we need to stop believing and perpetuating this simplistic and a historical idea and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma in a tenant farming family. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than 4 decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. Dunbar-Ortiz is the winner of the 2017 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize, and is the author or editor of many books, including An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, a recipient of the 2015 American Book Award. She lives in San Francisco. Not A Nation of Immigrants is scheduled to be released in August 2021 by Beacon Press.

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Movie Series: “Who Is The International Working Class Today?” @ Online

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Mar 7 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

March 7th Event

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There are many discussions today about the nature of the working class and their capacity to fight for their own interests. Usually, we look at history to learn about the workers’ movement, but what potential exists in the modern international working class? What does a modern workers’ struggle really look like? What recent examples are there of workers organizing against the conditions they face and exerting their power? Join us in this movie series as we explore these questions by looking at workers’ struggles that happened in our lifetime.

Worker’s Republic

For six days in December of 2008 during the financial collapse, laid-off Chicago factory workers took over their closing workplace, declaring they would not leave until the owners and creditors agreed to pay them the severance they were promised. Republic’s credit line had been cut off by Bank of America, despite receiving billions of dollars in federal bank bailout money.
Succeed or fail, these 260 workers decided, “If I don’t fight, I know I’ll lose. If I do fight, at least I stand a chance of winning.”
Workers Republic shows how everyday people may be the most qualified to forge a better world. And in the struggle to save their jobs they were a beacon of hope and optimism for others to look to.

Friendly reminder this is a series occurring every two weeks

Where: Please join us at 6pm for a brief presentation and to watch via shared screen, and look for zoom and movie link upon RSVP if you prefer to watch on your own. Discussion will start at 7pm

March 21st event:

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There are many discussions today about the nature of the working class and their capacity to fight for their own interests. Usually, we look at history to learn about the workers’ movement, but what potential exists in the modern international working class? What does a modern workers’ struggle really look like? What recent examples are there of workers organizing against the conditions they face and exerting their power? Join us in this movie series as we explore these questions by looking at workers’ struggles that happened in our lifetime.

Coming for A Visit

Undocumented migrants win the battle to get their papers. A historic strike filmed from within.Paris, 2009. More than 6000 undocumented migrants (sans-papiers) go on strike to demand their legalization. These are restaurant, construction, and janitorial workers who pay taxes and are all exploited by staffing companies who refuse to help them get their papers!
Coming for a Visit, shows the hard day-to-day work of organizing, the challenges of dealing with unions, and the key role that revolutionaries can play. Oh, and did we say these workers won?! This is an inspiring movie with lessons to learn.

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Mar

8

Mon

The Thoughtful Biometrics Workshop @ Online

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Mar 8 all-day

Biometrics technology is being used in a wide range of contexts and there in this range of existing and potential uses, there are many questions about the ethical and socially good uses.

Our vision for the convene a range of constituencies whose work touches on biometrics and use in the real world.

Biometrics Community
Researchers and scientist who is looking for new ideas to work on
Identity Community
Commercial Users of systems
Regulators and policy makers
Cybersecurity Professionals
Privacy Professionals
Humanitarian Groups
Police Accountability Groups
Citizen Watchdog Groups
Students and Researchers

We hope that the conversations catalyzed at the event are starting points for ongoing work in fora that touch on biometrics issues.

This event is a 3 day virtual virtual event.

It is on Monday, Wednesday and Friday the second week of March 2021.

Each day will begin at 9am PST to 1pm PST / Noon EST to 5 EST.

We ask you to as best you can fully commit to being at the event for the full time. The event is co-created by the participants and is meant to support in-depth dialogue and interaction to fully explore Thoughtful Biometrics as a community.

Each morning of the event all the attendees will gather together and co-create the agenda for the day – you can read more about the format below.

We are considering questions such as:

How do biometrics work?
How are biometrics being used?
What are the dangers of using biometrics?
What are the appropriate and even good uses of biometrics?

Our society is complex. The systems within it are complex and built by networks of professionals each with their own deep technical expertise.

One of the challenges we face now is that these professionals are so deep in their own fields they rarely talk to those in neighboring communities who are technologies all come together in these systems.

We note that there are discussions happening between these professionals but usually within companies and small groups bubbles that have never been open or include more individuals in an open and transparent discussion.

Our hope is this event creates more cross-pollination and exploration of the technologies along with the social and policy implications of them. We invite discussion about tangible risks/threat models and all levels from the micro to the macro systems.

We want to expand the conversation, inclusive to support “hearing” the voices at the edges.

We welcome the participation of people who ask serious questions about these systems.

We also want to invite those active in the industry who want to respond in a meaningful way to thoughtful criticism. Our vision for the conference is inspired by our ongoing participation in

This conference is not to “sell” biometrics products like the Connect:ID Conference or K(n)ow Identity Conference by OWI.

We have several starting axioms for this event:

Biometrics are a technology that is being used and will not be vanishing.

There are a range of uses for these technologies that can be good and can be bad.

We value discernment about the application of biometrics technology.

About the Format

Our inspiration for this event comes from the Internet Identity Workshop, an event that uses the Open Space Technology to co-create the agenda live the day of the event. There are no keynotes or panels, it’s all about exploring the topic with professional peers from a range of industries. We are curating videos that people who are attending can watch ahead of time to get up to speed about some of the technologies and topics of interest but the format at the event is discussion driven and about peer learning. We do know great people who will be there and it is the attendees who have a passion for learning and contributing to the event that make it the success it is.

The Conveners

Asem Othman, Biometric Scientist

Jack “John Callahan” Software architect and developer

Kaliya Young “Identity Woman” – Digital Identity Expert

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BREAK IN: 50 YEARS AFTER THE EVENT THAT EXPOSED COINTELPRO @ Online

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Mar 8 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Online Event Location: https://www.rightsanddissent.org/live/break-in-50-years/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=8766b1b0-1fd6-4879-a5a5-84d954152ff5

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On March 8, 1971, a group of anti-war activists calling themselves the Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI broke into the FBI’s Media, Pennsylvania office. They sought to gather definitive proof that the FBI was undermining social movements and waging war on domestic dissent. The documents they liberated changed the course of U.S. history, as some of them featured the cryptic words “COINTELPRO.”

On March 8, 2021 – the 50th anniversary of the break-in – join Defending Rights & Dissent for a panel featuring:

Bonnie Raines, one of the burglars who liberated the FBI documents in 1971;
Betty Medsger, the journalist who helped expose COINTELPRO and author of The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI;
Johanna Hamilton, director of 1971, the film about the break-in
Paul Coates, founder and director of Black Classic Press and former member of the Baltimore Black Panthers;
Michael German, a fellow with the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty & National Security Program, author of Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Democracy, and former FBI agent.

The panel will be moderated by Chip Gibbons. Chip is Defending Rights & Dissent’s Policy Director, hosted the Still Spying podcast, and is working on a book that through a retelling of the history of the FBI explores the relationship between domestic political surveillance and the emergence of the US national security state.

With COINTELPRO, the FBI went beyond spying on dissent, engaging in a series of illegal covert actions to stifle the domestic exercise of First Amendment rights. Decades later it remains a shocking abuse of power that has become synonymous with repression of domestic political dissent. The panelists will recount the history of the break-in, explore the legacy of COINTELPRO, and discuss what has and hasn’t changed with the current FBI.

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Public Banking Successes in California and Grassroots Organizing @ Online

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Mar 8 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Register in advance (click here)

with David Cobb and Debbie Notkin

The AFJM Communications and Website Committee is pleased to welcome David and Debbie to share about their legislative successes as it pertains to Public Banking in California. Although PBI and AFJM have very different approaches to democratize the money system, we are natural allies and we can learn from each other, especially around effective public education strategies and grassroots organizing. There will be a short 30 min. presentation, and then most of the time will be for open discussion.

Public Banking is one way to democratize economic decisions, and the movement is growing across the country. California is at the cutting edge of this effort. AB 857 passed last year, which allows for the creation of 10 local/regional public banks. This legislative session AB310 is being introduced, which would create a statewide Public Bank for California.

The CA Public Banking Alliance has been the driving force behind this movement. They will share details about public banking generally, and what they have learned in the process of building a grassroots movement and successfully engaging in the legislative process.

About the Speakers:

David Cobb is a “people’s lawyer” who has sued corporate polluters, lobbied elected officials, run for political office himself, and been arrested for non-violent civil disobedience. He ran for Attorney General in Texas, pledging to use the office to revoke the charters of corporations that violate the law. He was the Green Party nominee for President in 2004, and managed the Jill Stein Presidential campaign in 2016. He is active with the CA Public Banking Alliance, and Cooperation Humboldt.

Debbie Notkin is Chair of the Board of Directors of Public Bank East Bay, and is an active member of Strike Debt Bay Area (SDBA). She was one of two people who led SDBA’s successful effort to erase $1.6 million in unpaid medical debt for East Bay residents in 2019, following in the footsteps of the national Rolling Jubilee. She believes that economic justice work is a comparatively clean way for white people to advance racial justice. She was a founding member of science fiction’s James Tiptree Jr. Award (now the Otherwise Award) for works of science fiction and fantasy that explore and expand gender, and was deeply involved for many years with WisCon, the world’s first feminist science fiction convention. She blogs regularly (yes, still!) on a wide variety of body image and political topics with Laurie Toby Edison at www.laurietobyedison.com/body-impolitic-blog.

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Mar

10

Wed

The Thoughtful Biometrics Workshop @ Online

Tickets

Mar 10 all-day

Biometrics technology is being used in a wide range of contexts and there in this range of existing and potential uses, there are many questions about the ethical and socially good uses.

Our vision for the convene a range of constituencies whose work touches on biometrics and use in the real world.

Biometrics Community
Researchers and scientist who is looking for new ideas to work on
Identity Community
Commercial Users of systems
Regulators and policy makers
Cybersecurity Professionals
Privacy Professionals
Humanitarian Groups
Police Accountability Groups
Citizen Watchdog Groups
Students and Researchers

We hope that the conversations catalyzed at the event are starting points for ongoing work in fora that touch on biometrics issues.

This event is a 3 day virtual virtual event.

It is on Monday, Wednesday and Friday the second week of March 2021.

Each day will begin at 9am PST to 1pm PST / Noon EST to 5 EST.

We ask you to as best you can fully commit to being at the event for the full time. The event is co-created by the participants and is meant to support in-depth dialogue and interaction to fully explore Thoughtful Biometrics as a community.

Each morning of the event all the attendees will gather together and co-create the agenda for the day – you can read more about the format below.

We are considering questions such as:

How do biometrics work?
How are biometrics being used?
What are the dangers of using biometrics?
What are the appropriate and even good uses of biometrics?