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Reposting this call from undergrads in support of the strike. Monday 11/21, shut down the UC! A day of autonomous blockades and occupations on all 10 UC campuses. #StrikeMeansStrike #BlockadeTheUC pic.twitter.com/LktyaBeeUJ
— UC Davis #CopsOffCampus (@UCDavis_COC) November 19, 2022
Oil companies are exploiting a global crisis to jack up prices at the gas pump and rake in massive profits while driving a cost of living crisis for Californians. They blame California’s environmental protections, but we know it’s polluter greed sending prices sky high, plain and simple.
This Monday will be a day of action (organized by Last Chance Alliance) across the state to enact a windfall profits cap proposal that will be voted in the CA legislature in the week of December 5th. In the Bay Area, activists will gather at the Chevron station at 5500 Telegraph Avenue in Oakland at 4:00pm to encourage Governor Newsom’s support of the tax and to shift the narrative around gas prices to one that frames big oil greed as the problem.
If you’re free, come join us at 4pm on Monday to hold signs and make our voices heard. Support the action on social media with hashtags
#PolluterGreed #TheyProfitWePay and #PollutersPayUp and tag @LastChance_CA, @CAGovernor and @GavinNewsom.
No Dirty Deal: Make the Call
In September, activists stood up to Senator Manchin and Senator Schumer and defeated a dirty side deal that would undermine one of our bedrock environmental laws, fast-track fossil fuels, and sacrifice fence-line communities Unfortunately, during the final weeks of this Congress, lawmakers are now poised to revive the dirty deal. Can you take a few minutes to call your congressperson to say this dirty deal has go to die?
Call 917-791-2257 to be connected to your member of Congress.
Suggested script:
“Hi, my name is ____, & I’m from ____. I’m deeply concerned about the Energy Independence and Security Act and any legislation that would fast-track fossil fuel projects and undermine the public’s ability to give input on new energy projects. As your constituent I’m calling to demand that you publicly oppose this dirty deal and do all you can to stop it from being attached to must-pass legislation and passing!”
With Love and Rage and Action,
Extinction Rebellion SF Bay Area
https://www.xrsfbay.org
Calling out volunteers!✨
Mutual aid request Link in the bio!
Omni Commons is opening their facilities to support those in need of safe dry shelter. We need volunteers to support the infrastructure of the building!
The shelter will open FRIDAY 1/6at 6pm til WEDNESDAY 1/11 noon. pic.twitter.com/pv82f5hdYl— Omni Commons (@omnicommons) January 5, 2023
Help end racial profiling in San Francisco!
We have exciting news to start the year: the San Francisco Police Commission will be voting to limit racially based traffic stops and consent searches on Wednesday, January 11, at 5:30 PM. San Francisco has a tremendous opportunity to advance anti-racist policy, and you have a part to play.
Can you please support in any or all of the following ways?
- Submit an organizational letter of support by COB on Tuesday, January 10. As endorsers of this campaign, a letter from your organization is urgently needed before the vote.
- Attend the press conference at City Hall on Wednesday, January 11, at 10:00 AM,� to rally for the vote with the Coalition to End Biased Stops and supporting community leaders.
- Give public comment the evening of Wednesday, January 11: sign up here. To help with your public comment, here is an action guide with talking points, call-in information, template email, call script, and a social media toolkit. An associated flyer is attached for you to post and distribute.
- Share this email with your allies, organizations, and coalition partners. Urge them to act. To ensure we are able to get an effective policy passed by the Police Commission, we need as much broad community support as possible.
Thank you for taking action!
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Tell the San Francisco Police Commissioners to approve DG0 9.07. and end pretext stops now! Meeting time: 5:30 p.m. Jan. 11. Location: Police Commission at City Hall. 1 Dr Carlton B. Goodlett Place, room 400.
— ACLU of Northern CA (@ACLU_NorCal) January 9, 2023
The Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force presents:
CEMTF 3RD Virtual Summit Series: CLIMATE & the ECONOMY
Which Green Matters Most?
9:00 – 9:20 AM
Land Acknowledgement
Corrina Gould, Tribal Chair, Confederated Villages of Lisjan & Co Director Sogorea Te Land Trust
Welcome
Cheryl Davila, Chair CEMTF & Former Councilmember
Speakers & Co-Speaker
9:20 – 10:00 AM
Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder Code Pink
10:00 – 10:30 AM
“The Doughnut that’s good for CA”
Franziska Raedeker & Anne Sheridan, California Doughnut Economics Coalition
10:30 – 11:00 AM
Public Banks, A Tool for building pathways to a just and sustainable future
Gayle McLaughlin, Councilmember, City of Richmond
Public Banks, A Piece of the Sustainability Jigsaw Puzzle
Debbie Notkin, Chair, Friends of the Public Bank East Bay
5 minute Break
11:05 – 11:50 AM
Zero Food Waste–
Tara McNerney & Pete Pearson, World Wildlife Fund
David Hott, Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen
Cara Morgan, Branch Chief, Local Assistance and Market Development, CalRecycle, State of California
11:50 AM – Noon
Announcements & Closing
Cheryl Davila
CEMTF.org/ @CEMTF1/ https://www.facebook.com/ClimateEmergencyMobilizationTaskForce/
January 20th marks the 2 year anniversary of President Biden’s inauguration, and the halfway point for his current administration. It also marks the birthday of an extraordinary activist and pillar of the national fossil fuel resistance movement, Joye Braun, who we sadly lost in November. Joye was instrumental in fighting and ending devastating fossil fuel projects such as Keystone XL – we are also celebrating the two year anniiversary of its death – and the Dakota Access Pipeline.
We are showing up, along with People vs. Fossil Fuel groups across the country, to demand that Biden exercise his power to Stop Fossil Fuel Projects and Declare a Climate Emergency. Our local climate fights show why. We’ve continued to see flaring at the Martinez Refinery just in this last month, health and pollution concerns from the Chevron Richmond Refinery, and countless instances of our frontline communities facing harsh impacts from poor air quality, toxic substances, and limited resources. The climate emergency is already here – we need Biden to step up and do something about it.
Join us at the SF Federal Building on Jan. 20th from 11am-1pm for a rally with speakers and art, as we demand that President Biden:
- Declare a Climate Emergency
- Stop All Fossil Fuel Projects
- Honor Indigenous & Human Rights.
Rally in front of the Grand Lake Theater, Oakland
Saturday, January 21: 10 AM – 12 PM
Victory to the people of Ukraine, Iran, Myanmar, Syria, Belarus & India!
What’s on the horizon for 2023?
- Mark your calendars for the State of the Debtors’ Union General Assembly on January 25, 8PM EST. We’ll highlight some accomplishments from the preceding year, and take stock for the year ahead. Hope to see you there.
If you’re interested in getting involved in our family support work, we have a training opportunity with our first responders committee who work directly with impacted families day in and day out.
This training draws on over 10 years of experience of investigating incidents of police terror and providing support to impacted families. We’ll give an overview of APTP’s history, organizing, and trauma-informed family support model. We’ll discuss typical challenges faced by families as well as the needs we seek to address.
https://t.co/FQYTHaNbc5 things are getting fun during our Monday night women coding nights at the SudoRoom – new flyer and a cool learning mapping project of all the languages spoken in Oakland using Jupiter pic.twitter.com/pUvHtP1sRa
— Sudo Room (@sudoroom) February 12, 2023
https://t.co/FQYTHaNbc5 things are getting fun during our Monday night women coding nights at the SudoRoom – new flyer and a cool learning mapping project of all the languages spoken in Oakland using Jupiter pic.twitter.com/pUvHtP1sRa
— Sudo Room (@sudoroom) February 12, 2023
Supreme Court
Feb 28th
8AMJOIN US: https://t.co/HF4gPx4ai2 pic.twitter.com/PXRsxUxXXv
— The Debt Collective 🟥 (@StrikeDebt) February 16, 2023
https://t.co/FQYTHaNbc5 things are getting fun during our Monday night women coding nights at the SudoRoom – new flyer and a cool learning mapping project of all the languages spoken in Oakland using Jupiter pic.twitter.com/pUvHtP1sRa
— Sudo Room (@sudoroom) February 12, 2023
What are the concerns?
Biometrics and AI are widely used and there are many questions about their ethically and socially appropriate uses.
Questions addressed include:
- How do they work?
- How are they being used?
- What are the dangers of their use?
- What are appropriate, even good uses?
- What is the Context, and what are the challenges?
We had a STRONG weekend kicking fash out of spaces they don’t belong
They got their shit rocked at the Capitol
They never got near or did anything during drag queen story time
And now it’s time to show them hate deserves no platform in Davis!! (Tmmr March 14th) @UCDavis_COC pic.twitter.com/9TK8nHl1EP
— Rage and Compassion (@NoMercyForPigs) March 13, 2023
Today: Tell the BOS Budget Committee to stop the utterly unnecessary $29.6 million budget supplemental for cops. Toolkit here: https://t.co/Ynd7KCeU2v pic.twitter.com/y953WfxGkh
— SRO Martha Stewart (@Wagnerian) March 15, 2023
What: Tour Cop City’s Backers in SF’s Financial District
San Francisco is home to several of Cop City’s primary funders, financial partners, and general contract managers. We know exactly who is profiting from this police playground and it’s time we paid them a visit. Join us for a gathering and tour of Cop City’s backers in the Financial District.
From the Bay Area to Atlanta, STOP COP CITY
Email dawg@xrsfbay.org for more info.
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.
For our March, April and May meetings we are reading Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber (Warwick, Amazon).
For our March meeting we’ll be reading the first five chapters.
For the April meeting we are reading chapters 6 through 9.
For our May meeting will are reading the remainder of the book.
Before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors—which lives on in full force to this day.
So says anthropologist David Graeber in a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Renaissance Italy to Imperial China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption”) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong.
We are still fighting these battles today.
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!, The Dawn of Everything A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Beyond Money, Less is More, and Cannibal Capitalism.