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On Saturday, May 14th, a self proclaimed white supremacist drove 200 miles to the predominantly Black town of Buffalo, NY and shot 13 people. 10 died. As Black people in this country continue to experience anti-Blackness via violent white supremacy in the streets and by the state – we must continue to hold, heal, love, fight for and defend one another. Join APTP and allies for a vigil, healing circle and prayers.

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Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the the online invite.

For May, 2022 we’re reading the first four chapters of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things. A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, And the Future of the Planet, by Raj Patel and Jason W Moore. UC Press, Amazon

For June, 2022, we’ll be finishing the above book.

All are welcome!

“Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today’s planetary emergencies.

Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism, indigenous struggles, slave revolts, and other rebellions and uprisings, Patel and Moore demonstrate that throughout history, crises have always prompted fresh strategies to make the world cheap and safe for capitalism. At a time of crisis in all seven cheap things, innovative and systemic thinking is urgently required. This book proposes a radical new way of understanding—and reclaiming—the planet in the turbulent twenty-first century.”

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! and The Dawn of Everything.

Our speaker, Bedabrata Pain, has been making the documentary on farm crisis – both in the US and India, as well as being on the ground of the historic Indian farm movement that forced the right-wing strongman prime minister Narendra Modi to retreat for the first time in his political life, cannot but make one wonder about what must be done differently in our political engagement. After summarizing the Indian movement and the American farm experience, the talk will dwell on the lessons of the farm movement in India and market reforms in both countries. And in doing so, it will try to assess the role played by the left.

The left in India is woefully silent on this movement and has not even summarized the significance of the movement, let alone learn anything from it. The left in US today remains fairly unconcerned about the enduring farm crisis in the country. But should it remain aloof from it?

Is there a problem with the “center-of-attention” of the left worldwide? Has it got side-tracked into politics of disinformation and politics of diversion? Has it become more or less a side-show for liberalism? Is it getting so caught up with electoral politics that it is failing to set a new agenda and a different direction for the working people?

This talk is to raise questions what we need to do or do differently to seize the initiative in today’s world.

Bedabrata Pain is a film maker based in Los Angeles. He will analyze what happened in India in the past 2 years of farmers’ movement and also describe the crisis small farmers face in the US. There are common elements to both the farm crises in India and the United States.

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Like the Warriors, Empty Homes Tax is on the final home stretch, join our signature gathering mobilization this Sunday at noon on Stanyan and Haight— followed by a celebratory BBQ in Dahlia Dell at 2PM!! Hope to see you there ☀️ https://t.co/DqEOmfFqmx pic.twitter.com/83NoKJ9x3S

— DSA San Francisco (@DSA_SF) May 18, 2022

TONIGHT, join us at the press conference –https://t.co/kjyhOA0hlI pic.twitter.com/iZIyk0WrO4

— Cheryl Davila (@CherylKDavila) May 24, 2022

Special discussion of the Healthy CA for All Commission report

Join Commissioner Carmen Comsti; health policy expert James G. Kahn; and Michael Lighty, president of the Healthy California Now coalition.

Click here to register and receive meeting information.

Co-sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-CA and Health Care for All

This healthcare advisory commission–led by the state’s top healthcare official with voting members appointed by the goveronor (8) and legislature (4)–recently wrapped up two years of study on the potential for creating a universal healthcare system using “unified financing”. (The term was not defined in clearcut terms, though single payer advocates interpret it to mean single payer financing, i.e., one entity collecting all monies and paying all bills.)

Read the final report. And tune in to hear panelists compare notes on the 106-page report and where it fits in to the ongoing push for single payer.

We need all allies on deck to join us for a rally next Wednesday at 12pm on the steps of City Hall as we urge @LondonBreed & BOS to prioritize the necessary & needed funding to get CART implemented!
Bring a sign (we will have some extras), a friend, & your voices!#getCARTrolling pic.twitter.com/8dslIQ4s1f

— Compassionate Alternative Response Team – SF (@CART_SF) May 20, 2022

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If you need it, we can also give you a PDF copy of the book after you register!

— The Debt Collective 🟥 (@StrikeDebt) May 10, 2022

From ⁦@moms4housing;
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"Join us this Saturday – Moms 4 Housing will speak; Carroll Fife will share her plan to end homelessness in Oakland, and our friends at Care 4 Community will help you organize your neighbors to support this fight!" pic.twitter.com/LOjPjBeOp6

— marincountyconfidential (@marindatanow) May 27, 2022

Exciting as hell. Parents, teachers and supporters are planning to occupy Parker Elementary in protest of the OUSD closure. I think this came close to succeeding at Lakeview ten years ago, but in today's climate, I am predicting more parent/student participation. pic.twitter.com/9FBLxPO63t

— Trash Night Heron (@hyphy_republic) May 20, 2022

Tia Wou, Fab 5 Freddy, Amir Soltani, and Stefan Forbes invite you a special one-night screening and Q&A at the Presidio Theatre in San Francisco on May 28th at 7pm.

HOLD YOUR FIRE is a gritty 1970’s New York thriller about the longest hostage siege in NYPD history, like French Connection or Dog Day Afternoon, examined from deeply conflicting perspectives.

We’re relying on our friends to share this trailer, and with it Dr. Harvey Schlossberg’s message of conflict de-escalation, radical empathy and deep listening across the racial, cultural, and religious divides in our country. America must learn to “hold our fire” – in fact, our fragile democracy may depend on it.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams just released a video endorsing our campaign: Every police officer in America needs conflict de-escalation training.
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HOLD YOUR FIRE

PREMIERE: TORONTO INT’L FILM FESTIVAL
WINNER, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS BETTER ANGELS AWARD
METROPOLIS GRAND JURY PRIZE WINNER, DOC NYC
SCREENINGS: NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER, CRITIC’S CHOICE AWARDS, PALM SPRINGS FF, BLACK MOVIE HALL OF FAME

Stefan and Fab 5 Freddy on Fox

As the imperialist warmongering by the US, NATO and the EU against Russia has recently escalated into a proxy war in Ukraine, a revolutionary party, “The Revolutionary Workers’ Party” (DIP, Devrimci İşçi Partisi in Turkish), has taken an unflinching anti-imperialist stance that distinguished it from most organizations and groupings on the Left. In this session, we will discuss the role of Turkey as a NATO ally in this war, and the strategy revolutionaries in the NATO countries should take towards the war. We will talk about Turkey’s involvement not only in Ukraine as a NATO country but also its involvement in Syria, Iraq, and contradictorily, its relationship with Russia in the context of imperialism

Our speaker is Burak Sayın, a militant member of The Revolutionary Workers’ Party (DIP)
For more info, see our webpage, icssmarx.org

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— The Debt Collective 🟥 (@StrikeDebt) May 10, 2022