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Jun
15
Tue
David & Margaret Talbot: By the Light of Burning Dreams @ Online
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Jun 15 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents a unique Zoom Event:

David & Margaret Talbot

By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Second American Revolution

Hosted by Greg Bridges

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New York Times bestselling author David Talbot and New Yorker journalist Margaret Talbot illuminate “America’s second revolutionary generation” in this gripping history of one of the most dynamic eras of the twentieth century— brought to life through seven radical episodes that offer urgent lessons for today.

The political landscape of the 1960’s and ‘70’s was probably the most tumultuous in this country’s history: the fight for civil rights, women’s liberation, Black Power, and the struggle to end the Vietnam War. In many ways, this second American revolution was a belated fulfillment of the betrayed promises of the first — working to extend the full protections of the Bill of Rights to non-white, non-male, non-elite Americans excluded by the nation’s founders.

Based on exclusive interviews, original documents, and archival research, By the Light of Burning Dreams explores critical moments in the lives of a diverse cast of iconoclastic

leaders of the twentieth century radical movement: Bobby Seale and the Black Panthers; Heather Booth and the Jane Collective, the first underground feminist abortion clinic, Vietnam peace activists Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda, Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and the United Farm Workers; Craig Rodwell and the gay pride movement; Dennis Banks, Madonna Thunder Hawk, Russel Means and the warriors of Wounded Knee; and John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s politics of stardom. Margaret and David Talbot reveal the dramatic epiphanies that galvanized these modern revolutionaries and created unexpected connections and alliances between individual movements across race, class and gender divides.

DAVID TALBOT is the New York Times bestselling author of The Devil’s Chessboard, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years, Season of the Witch, and most recently, Between Heaven and Hell.

MARGARET TALBOT has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2004. She is the recipient of Whiting Award and New America Foundation Fellowship, and the author of The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth Century.

GREG BRIDGES is a radio dj who can be heard over KCSM and KPFA, where he has a weekly show and is a contributor to KPFA’s Hip Hop and social affairs show HardKnock Radio. Greg has written for various publications including Jazz Now Magazine and Bayshore Magazine.

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Jun
16
Wed
CARE NOT COPS Noise Demo @ New City Hall
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Jun 16 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

We are gathering every Wednesday at noon on the steps of City Hall to demand a community budget that prioritizes CARE Not Cops!

The City Manager is proposing a budget that INCREASES funding for the Berkeley Police from last year! This is despite the city’s supposed commitment to “reimagine public safety” and decrease funding to the police.

In advance of the final budget vote on June 29, we are gathering EVERY WEDNESDAY AT NOON on the steps of City Hall to make them hear us and demand a community budget that prioritizes CARE NOT COPS!

We cannot continue with business as usual. According to the City Audit, BPD stopped Black people at a significantly higher rate than their representation in the Berkeley population (34 percent compared to 8 percent). The data also shows that less than 1% of all calls for service were for violent crimes and that 55% of calls to Berkeley Police came in on their “non-emergency” line. BPD failed to even capture data on how many calls involved unhoused people or those with mental health issues.

We need to hold the City Council to their promise to reimagine public safety. We must divert our city funds to alternatives that: (1) are completely independent from the police, (2) are accountable to our most impacted community members, (3) don’t respond only during crises and then leave, and (4) are transparent to the public.

Join us and make noise on the steps of City Hall! Bring your pots, pans, noisemakers. We’ll have speakers and open mic. Tell Berkeley why this is important for everyone’s safety.

This event is wheelchair accessible.

For more info on the Care Not Cops campaign and our Five Demands for the Specialized Care Unit (SCU), go to: berkeleycopwatch.org/care-not-cops

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A Conversation with Angela Davis @ Online
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Jun 16 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
“An activist. An author. A scholar. An abolitionist. A legend.”—TIME

Join a live conversation with activist and scholar Angela Davis, who has been deeply involved in our nation’s quest for social justice for decades. The Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz has also taught at UC Berkeley, UCLA, the Claremont Colleges, Stanford, and other universities. The author of nine books, most recently, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement, has lectured around the world and will be joined by Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro, Dean’s Professor and Chair of Political Science and International Relations at USC.

In the early seventies, Davis spent eighteen months in jail and on trial after being placed on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted List.” She has continued to examine the social problems associated with incarceration and the criminalization of communities most affected by poverty and racial discrimination. Davis will address numerous issues related to race, gender, and a 21st century abolitionist movement that envisions a world without prisons.

Presented by USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative. Co-sponsored by the Center for Black Cultural and Student Affairs, the Black Student Assembly, the Student Assembly for Gender Empowerment, and Brothers Breaking Bread.

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CA Public Banking Act Review @ Online
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Jun 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

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WANT A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF PUBLIC BANKING? @ Online
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Jun 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm


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Dear Friends and Public Banking Allies,

We’d like to invite you to our next Public Banking 101 session, an educational series hosted by the Friends of the Public Bank East Bay exploring public banking in the context of our ongoing efforts to create a public bank in the East Bay.

Our speaker will be Sylvia Chi, co-author of the landmark 2019 California Public Banking Act (AB 857) and former policy director for the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN).

Sylvia will give an overview of AB857 and how it frames what the public bank can be, the steps we need to take to create one, and the latest regulatory updates from the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation. We’ll also be addressing questions like:

  • How can a public bank serve the specific needs of East Bay communities?
  • How can we build a bank that reflects our values and priorities?
  • How do we ensure it’s truly public, governed by the people we aim to serve?

And, of course, we’ll address your questions. We hope you’ll join us for an insightful conversation as we move towards making public banking a reality in the East Bay.


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Jun
17
Thu
California Doughnut Economics Coalition Book Group – All We Can Save @ Online
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Jun 17 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Are you hungry for deeper dialogue about the climate crisis and building community around solutions? We are too.

A group of us at California Doughnut Economics Coalition are reading All We Can Save — it’s a book club! The book club helps us build on our doughnut economics foundation, further connect the (social & ecological) dots, and think more like a 21st-century economist. We want to extend the invite to all.

About Book Club: A unique opportunity to read and share some information and inspirational conversation on important issues. The book club is an unbiased and safe forum that opens our minds to ideas and information for a more in-depth look at our world, our community, and hopefully ourselves.

  • Date/Time: third Thursday of each month
  • Time: 6-7 PM PST
  • Register for event and Zoom link will be provided.
  • This Month’s Book: All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis. All We Can Save is a national bestseller. Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward.

Each month, we will discuss essays from each section:

  • 4/15: Begin
  • 5/20: Part 1 – Root
  • 6/17: Part 2 – Advocate & Part 3 – Reframe
  • 7/15: Part 4 – Reshape & Part 5 – Persist
  • 8/19: Part 6 – Feel & Part 7 – Nourish
  • 9/16: Part 8 – Rise & Onward
  • 10/21: TBD

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How it relates to Doughnut Economics: The book club helps us to further connect the dots and think more like a 21st-century economist.

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Jun
21
Mon
Berkeley Copwatch – New Member Mondays
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Jun 21 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

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Jun
22
Tue
Support Not Sweeps! Rally at CalTrans District 4 Headquarters @ CalTrans District 4 HQ
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Jun 22 @ 2:00 pm – 7:00 pm
UNHOUSED residents and liveaboard mariners of the Bay Area and the state of California are converging on CalTrans HQ to demand District 4 director Dina El-Tawansy to CEASE AND DESIST from displacing people living on CalTrans land and people living anchored out on Richardson Bay.

Join us to resist evictions at a RALLY on CalTrans District 4 HQ doorstep – 6/22 @ 2 PM. Speakers and musicians will elevate the voices of the unhoused at a press conference honoring WHY people should be allowed to REMAIN IN PLACE or be offered REASONABLE, PERMANENT housing. Hosted by a statewide coalition of CalTrans and public land and water based curbside communities, encampments and anchorages, including Wood St People’s Collective, Wood St Commons, Cob On Wood, Camp Cormorant, Where Do We Go Berkeley, Poor News Network/Homefulness, Marin County Homeless Union, Camp Compassion, SacSoup, Sacramento Homeless Union, Essential Food and Medicine, and Artists Building Communities.

Encampments around the BioRegion have come together to resist eviction by CalTrans, the largest landholder in the state of California and the most brutal landlord. ‘Sweeps’ of more than 200+ unhoused residents are planned by July 1st around the Bay Area with NO ADEQUATE OFFER OF HOUSING, promising to funnel Oakland and Berkeley residents into out of sight, out of mind Safe RV Lots that have faced heavy criticism.

As the City of Oakland’s Safe RV Lot on Wood St is set to open with capacity to host 40 functional, registered RVs as a justification for moving forward on sweeps around Oakland and Berkeley, residents say WE WON’T GO into out-of-sight-out-of-mind, inaccessible and unreasonable temporary housing. Even CDC officials guidelines as of June 7th, 2021, state: “If individual housing options are not available, allow people who are living unsheltered or in encampments to remain where they are.” These RV lots often do not provide space for adequate social distancing measures, do not allow cooking on site, have a curfew, and do not allow visitors or even children of residents to stay overnight.

El-Tawansy is also a commissioner on the Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), and has supported crushing of boat homes anchored in the bay are having their homes destroyed: tinyurl.com/SFChronicleSausalito.

We are calling on state, local, city, county officials and the public health department to protect our unhoused communities – provide SUPPORT and STOP THE SWEEPS! Local health officers may take any measures to ensure the safety and protection of public health – sweeps and displacement are a CRISIS. See Section 8558 of the Government Code.

This coalition has drafted an open letter to the governor that can be accessed at tinyurl.com/DearGovNewsom to demand an end to this inhumane treatment for encampments around the state. We are asking organizational partners to endorse this letter and demanding a direct meeting with Governor Newsom himself.

Camp Compassion, Novato: Jason Sarris, +1 (415) 879-6507
Richardson Bay Anchorage (Anchor Out Community): Arthur Bruce (707) 774-4815
Marin County Homeless Union: Robbie Powelson (415)847-7500
Sacramento Homeless Union: Crystal Sanchez

#SupportNotSweeps #StopTheSweeps #HousingIsAHumanRight #ServicesNotSweeps #BasicHumanDignity #ClearTrashNotCommunities #NoMoreDeathintheStreets

For more event information: http://tinyurl.com/DearGovNewsom
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Lake Merritt Vigil for Peace @ Lake Merrit Pergola
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Jun 22 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

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Jun
23
Wed
CARE NOT COPS Noise Demo @ New City Hall
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Jun 23 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

We are gathering every Wednesday at noon on the steps of City Hall to demand a community budget that prioritizes CARE Not Cops!

The City Manager is proposing a budget that INCREASES funding for the Berkeley Police from last year! This is despite the city’s supposed commitment to “reimagine public safety” and decrease funding to the police.

In advance of the final budget vote on June 29, we are gathering EVERY WEDNESDAY AT NOON on the steps of City Hall to make them hear us and demand a community budget that prioritizes CARE NOT COPS!

We cannot continue with business as usual. According to the City Audit, BPD stopped Black people at a significantly higher rate than their representation in the Berkeley population (34 percent compared to 8 percent). The data also shows that less than 1% of all calls for service were for violent crimes and that 55% of calls to Berkeley Police came in on their “non-emergency” line. BPD failed to even capture data on how many calls involved unhoused people or those with mental health issues.

We need to hold the City Council to their promise to reimagine public safety. We must divert our city funds to alternatives that: (1) are completely independent from the police, (2) are accountable to our most impacted community members, (3) don’t respond only during crises and then leave, and (4) are transparent to the public.

Join us and make noise on the steps of City Hall! Bring your pots, pans, noisemakers. We’ll have speakers and open mic. Tell Berkeley why this is important for everyone’s safety.

This event is wheelchair accessible.

For more info on the Care Not Cops campaign and our Five Demands for the Specialized Care Unit (SCU), go to: berkeleycopwatch.org/care-not-cops

Share the flyer! Share on social media: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter!

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Know Your Rights for Oakland Tenants @ Online
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Jun 23 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

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Jun
25
Fri
Improving Oversight and Transparency in US Small Arms Trade
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Jun 25 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am

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Jun
26
Sat
Assange defense event @ Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California
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Jun 26 all-day

This is the initial information we have re. this event, hosted by the Bay Area Freedom for Julian  Assange Committee, and Assangedefense.org.

What: Speakers include Julian Assange’s father and brother, John and Gabriel Shipton, plus Alice Walker and Dan Ellsberg.
Noam Chomsky will speak via Zoom as will Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Initial co-sponsor list: Courage Foundation (Assangedefense.org)  Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal  National Lawyers Guild, Bay Area   Black Alliance for Peace  CodCode Pink, Golden Gate and nationally  United National Antiwar Coalition  International Action Center  Syria Solidarity Network Peninsula Peace and Justice Center   Social Justice Committee, Unitarian Universalist Church, Berkeley  Peace and Freedom Party  Green Party of California  U.S. Peace Council  Socialist Action

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Tell Libby Schaaf: Housing is a Human Right! @ Safeway, then walk to Libby's house
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Jun 26 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Even during a global pandemic, our elected leaders keep throwing tenants under the bus. We demand: No more evictions! Cancel the rent! Decommodify housing! Housing is a human right!
Please wear a mask!
Contact us at 415-968-6090 for accessibility info.
Sponsored by: JDW Tenants Union, SMC Tenants Council, People’s Tenants Union, Madison Park Tenants Council, and PSL Bay Area – Cancel the Rents.
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Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Mission Economy – A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism @ Online
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Jun 26 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

We still meet via Zoom.
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com for the invite.

For our May meeting we’ll be reading Part I and Part II of

Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism by Marianna Mazzucato

For our June meeting we will be finishing the book.

Capitalism is in crisis. The rich have gotten richer—the 1 percent, those with more than $1 million, own 44 percent of the world’s wealth—while climate change is transforming—and in some cases wiping out—life on the planet. We are plagued by crises threatening our lives, and this situation is unsustainable. But how do we fix these problems decades in the making?

Mission Economy looks at the grand challenges facing us in a radically new way. Global warming, pollution, dementia, obesity, gun violence, mobility—these environmental, health, and social dilemmas are huge, complex, and have no simple solutions. Mariana Mazzucato argues we need to think bigger and mobilize our resources in a way that is as bold as inspirational as the moon landing—this time to the most ‘wicked’ social problems of our time.. We can only begin to find answers if we fundamentally restructure capitalism to make it inclusive, sustainable, and driven by innovation that tackles concrete problems from the digital divide, to health pandemics, to our polluted cities. That means changing government tools and culture, creating new markers of corporate governance, and ensuring that corporations, society, and the government coalesce to share a common goal.

We did it to go to the moon. We can do it again to fix our problems and improve the lives of every one of us. We simply can no longer afford not to.

Mariana Mazzucato, PhD, is a professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London, where she is the founding director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose. She has written, edited, or co-authored numerous books, articles, and papers on policy, capitalism, economics, and innovation, including The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths and The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy.

She advises policy makers worldwide and is currently a member of the South African Presidential Economic Advisory Council, the Scottish Government’s Council of Economic Advisors; the UN’s Committee for Development Policy, and the OECD’s Secretary General’s Advisory Group on a New Growth Narrative. She is also a Special Advisor to the Italian Prime Minister, and a Special Advisor for the EC Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation

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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,, and The Optimist’s Telescope.

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Jun
29
Tue
Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy @ Online
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Jun 29 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

  https://www.crowdcast.io/e/annesebbaattheodysseybookshop/register 

Join us on Crowdcast on June 29 at 7 PM for a Conversation with Anne Sebba, author of Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy. Joining us in conversation is Robby Meeropol from the Rosenberg Fund for Children.

Questions about joining an online event? Email events@odysseybks.com for more info.

About the Book

In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple with two young sons, were led separately from their prison cells on Death Row and electrocuted moments apart. Both had been convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union, despite the fact that the US government was aware that the evidence against Ethel was shaky at best and based on the perjury of her own brother.

This book is the first to focus on one half of that couple for more than thirty years, and much new evidence has surfaced since then. Ethel was a bright girl who might have fulfilled her personal dream of becoming an opera singer, but instead found herself struggling with the social mores of the 1950’s. She longed to be a good wife and perfect mother, while battling the political paranoia of the McCarthy era, anti-Semitism, misogyny, and a mother who never valued her. Because of her profound love for and loyalty to her husband, she refused to incriminate him, despite government pressure on her to do so. Instead, she courageously faced the death penalty for a crime she hadn’t committed, orphaning her children.

Seventy years after her trial, this is the first time Ethel’s story has been told with the full use of the dramatic and tragic prison letters she exchanged with her husband, her lawyer and her psychotherapist over a three-year period, two of them in solitary confinement. Hers is the resonant story of what happens when a government motivated by fear tramples on the rights of its citizens.

About the Author

Anne Sebba is the award winning biographer, historian and author of eleven books. In 2016 Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940’s, optioned for a TV multi part series, was the winner of the 2016 Franco- British Society book prize. Previously Anne wrote That Woman, a biography of Wallis Simpson and the scandal of the 1936 abdication crisis based on her discovery of a secret cache of letters. A former Reuters Foreign Correspondent, Anne is a broadcaster and regularly appears on television talking about her books, mostly biographies of women including Jennie Churchill, Mother Teresa and Laura Ashley. She is a former chair of Britain’s 10,000 strong Society of Authors and lecturer who gives talks to a variety of audiences in the US and UK as well as on cruises and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. Her latest book is Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy published in the UK and US in 2021.

Robert Meeropol is the younger son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. In 1953, when he was six years old, the United States Government executed his parents for “conspiring to steal the secret of the atomic bomb.”

For over 50 years he has been a progressive activist, author and public speaker. In the 1970’s he and his brother, Michael, successfully sued the FBI and CIA to force the release of 300,000 previously secret documents about their parents. He earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, graduated law school in 1985, and was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar.

In 1990, after leaving private practice, Robert founded the Rosenberg Fund for Children and served as its Executive Director until he retired from that position when his daughter took over the Fund’s leadership in 2013. Robert remains on the RFC’s Board of Directors.

he RFC is a public foundation that provides for the educational and emotional needs of children in this country whose parents have been harassed, injured, jailed, lost jobs or died in the course of their progressive activities. The Fund also supports youth who have been targeted for their own activism. In its history, the RFC has awarded $8 million in grants to benefit thousands of children and youth in this country.

Robert’s memoir, AN EXECUTION IN THE FAMILY, was published by St. Martin’s Press on the 50th anniversary of his parents’ executions. The book details his odyssey from Rosenberg son to political activist and founder of the Rosenberg Fund for Children. His blog, Still Out on a Limb, is at robertmeeropol.com/blog.

In 2016 – in the wake of overwhelming new evidence showing that the U.S. government knew Ethel was not a spy and executed her anyway – Robert and his brother Michael Meeropol, launched a nationwide petition campaign asking President Obama to exonerate their mother. The effort garnered 60,000 petition signers, and generated extensive and favorable coverage by many of the most respected and far-reaching media outlets around the U.S. and internationally.
The exoneration campaign succeeded in dramatically moving the needle on the public’s understanding of how the government wronged Ethel, and why, and educated the public about the dangers of unchecked government power, especially in times of heightened concern about national security.

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Defunding Fear: A Conversation with Author Zach Norris and Hanif Fazal @ Online
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Jun 29 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Thursday, June 29th, 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

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How do we make critical, collective commitments for change in this country? What does “defund the police” mean in context to historical injustices and reckoning? What can we each be doing today to make our communities safe, equitable and inclusive?

Join the Center for Equity and inclusion for a free, virtual event of dialogue and reflection with our Executive Director Zach Norris and Center for Equity and Inclusion’s Co-Founder Hanif Fazal. Both well-known leaders in racial justice and transformational change, Zach and Hanif will explore themes in Zach’s recent book, Defund Fear: Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and Punishment.

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DSA Night School: Palestine and Socialism @ Online
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Jun 29 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Join us to learn about the Palestinian struggle for justice and why it’s important for our organizing. Our guest speaker will be Professor Rabab Abdulhadi from SFSU who is a leading voice on Palestinian Liberation.

 

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Social Guarantee Launch @ Online
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Jul 1 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Social Guarantee Launch Event

Come and join us on Thursday 1st July as we discuss why we need a Social Guarantee!

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The Social Guarantee enshrines every person’s right to life’s essentials: education, health and social care, a decent home, childcare, nutritious food, clean air and water, energy, transport and access to the internet. For this to happen, all people must have access to collectively provided services that meet their needs, as well as to a fair living income.

Speakers

  • Ann Pettifor – Award winning economist and author of The Case for The Green New Deal
  • Kate Raworth – Renegade economist and creator of Doughnut Economics
  • Georgia Gould – Leader of Camden Council
  • Chaitanya Kumar – Head of Environment and Green Transition at the New Economics Foundation

Chair

  • Maeve Cohen – The Social Guarantee

We’d absolutely love to hear from you! Come to the event to ask questions of this incredible panel. For any enquiries contact info@socialguarantee.org

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Harry Bridges: A Man and His Union @ Online
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Jul 1 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

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LaborFest 2021 opens its 28th annual festival on July 1, 2021 with the most important video on the life and struggle of ILWU founder, Harry Bridges. Directed by Berry Minnott, Harry Bridges, A Man and His Union (1992; 59 minutes), chronicles the life of one of America’s most important and dedicated left-wing labor leaders.

In 1934, Bridges appealed to union members to break from the corrupt mob-controlled ILA and launched a groundbreaking strike in San Francisco. Victory led to the start of the International Longshoremen and Warehouseman Union (ILWU) in 1937.

The democratic structure of the ILWU allowed the rank and file to have not only a voice but also control of their union. That democratic structure and their politics was one of the reasons the US government tried to deport Bridges five times. The ILUW was one of only two unions that survived the anti-communist witch-hunts in the 40’s and 50’s and it continues to put principles and their membership’s first.

A panel discussion will follow the video presentation.

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