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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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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.

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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.

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

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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

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

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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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Relevant Agenda Items:

5. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – DVP – Apricot 360 database
a. Review and take possible action on Impact Report and proposed Use Policy
6. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Annual Reports (Automated License Plate Readers, Cell-Site Simulator,   Biometric Crime Lab, Forensic Logic/Coplink, GPS Tag Tracker, ShotSpotter, Live Stream Camera, Mobile Fingerprint ID,   Unmanned Aerial Vehicles/Drones)
a. Review and take possible action on the annual reports
7. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – DOT – Mobile Parking Payment System
a. Review and take possible action on Impact Report and proposed Use Policy

Screening of a documentary film about the occupation of churches by sex workers in 1975 in France which International Sex Workers day commemorates. Readings from Prostitutes Our Life which documents powerful words from sex workers on strike then. Connecting that historic action with present day organizing against violence, poverty, racist enforcement of the prostitution laws and discussion.

Today marks 2 years since Sean Monterrosa was murdered by Vallejo PD. Tonight there is a candlelight vigil @Justice4Sean – 1050 Redwood St. Vallejo, CA @ 7PM. Sending so much love to the Monterrosa’s from out east. ¡#SeanMonterrosa, presente! ❤️🕊 pic.twitter.com/fnig4qmDu0

— Talia (טליה) Moore (@tal_moore) June 2, 2022

“I’ll do a concert from my living room, livestreamed on Twitch and other platforms (just click the link when the time comes and I’ll appear), archived afterwards.”

Get the latest information on a new study that maps the future pattern of sea level rise in the coastal US,  flood risks to coastal wetlands, and where conservation efforts could help.

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Climate Central will present scientific, policy, and other experts discussing the findings of their new report, their implications, and strategies for enhancing wetlands. Journalists who have covered the topic will also speak.

This workshop will include embargoed information from a peer-reviewed paper scheduled for publication on June 8. Media representatives are invited to submit questions during live Q&A, but will be asked to honor the embargo.

Speakers:

• Benjamin Strauss, CEO and Chief Scientist, Climate Central
• Kelly Van Baalen, Project Manager, Climate Central
• Siddharth Narayan, Assistant Professor, Integrated Coastal Programs, East Carolina University
• Hilary Stevens, Coastal Resilience Manager, Restore America’s Estuaries
• Mary-Carson Stiff, Policy Director, Wetlands Watch
• Tiffany Turner, Director of Climate Solutions, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership
• Halle Parker, Environment Reporter, New Orleans Public Radio

You may submit questions via chat at any time during the workshop, or email your questions directly to Dan Rizza at sealevel@climatecentral.org

This webinar is the sixth in The Climate Center’s Investing in Climate Action for Jobs, Health, and Equity webinar series.

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

This webinar is the sixth in The Climate Center’s Investing in Climate Action for Jobs, Health, and Equity webinar series.

This Thursday, Oakland Councilperson Carroll Fife will be going live in conversation with the Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland (MACRO) Program as well as Jame Burch from the Anti-Police Terror Project. They will talk about where the program is currently at and the state of public safety overall in Oakland.

To watch, go to the Facebook, Twitter or YouTube page on Thursday June 9th at 6:30pm.

You can read more about MACRO here.

US sanctions are not new and have been applied by the US in both recent history (Venezuela, Iran) and well prior (Japan 1937-45, Latin America, Africa). However, the scope & magnitude of US sanctions against Russia today represent a quantitative, as well as qualitative, higher stage and escalation of sanctions as a tool of US imperialism. The presentation will describe what’s in the US six packages of sanctions announced to date, distinguish between financial sanctions from goods & trade sanctions and individuals’ sanctions, and estimate their current stage of implementation of each. How US capitalists are enormously benefiting from the Russian sanctions. Thereafter, the discussion focuses on what’s been the impact of sanctions on Russia’s economy to date, as well as the growing consequence for Europe, US, and emerging markets economies – in terms of inflation, recession, and growing global financial marrkets’ fragility and potential instability. The presentation concludes with an assessment of the contradictions of sanctions for US imperialism and why sanctions on Russia represent a de facto declaration of economic war on Russia by the US as US imperialism comes under increasing challenge in the 21st century, becomes more aggressive in decline, and seeks to restore its prior hegemony, first in Europe and soon therefore in Asia.

Dr. Jack Rasmus, Ph.D Political Economy, teaches economics at St. Mary’s College in California. He is the author and producer of the various nonfiction and fictional works, including the books The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US Economic Policy From Reagan to Bush, Clarity Press, October 2019; Alexander Hamilton & The Origins of the Fed, Lexington books, March 2019; Central Bankers at the End of Their Ropes: Monetary Policy and the Coming Depression, Clarity Press, August 2018; Looting Greece: A New Financial Imperialism Emerges, Clarity Press, Sept. 2016.

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Save the date for a discussion with California climate justice leaders about the growing movement to oppose the weak and inadequate draft climate plan proposed by the California Air Resources Board. Learn how we can join the push for a plan that would rapidly phase out fossil fuels and bring justice to frontline communities.

The CARB draft plan

• Doesn’t shut down any of the gas power plants that currently pollute our neighborhoods; keeps all fossil fuel gas plants operating
• Builds many new polluting power plants
• Plans for excessive greenhouse gas emissions (30 MMT ) from the electric sector every year through 2050, never reaching zero emissions
• Relies extensively on unproven technologies (Carbon Capture and Sequestration [CCS] in addition to direct air capture) instead of renewable energy
• Would not achieve carbon neutrality until 2045.

More information and a petition demanding a better plan here

We will hear from Francis Yang of the Sierra Club and the coalition that has been campaigning for a stronger plan. More speakers to be announced.