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Sun

The Comprehensive Crisis in the U.S. and the Revolutionary Way Forward @ Online

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Nov 20 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

In line with the tradition of Marxism-Leninism, this presentation argues that the elements constitutive of objectively revolutionary conditions are all present in the U.S.; what is missing for a successful revolutionary movement is the subjective factor. The presenter will argue that the purity fetish which predominates the outlook of modern American communism has presented a fundamental fetter for the development of the subjective factor in the American working masses; the development of a consistent dialectical materialist worldview, it will be argued, is the precondition for the advancement of the subjective conditions.

Speaker Bio:

Carlos L. Garrido is a Cuban American PhD student and instructor in philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (with an M.A. in philosophy from the same institution). His research focuses include Marxism, Hegel, early 19th century American socialism, and socialism with Chinese characteristics. He is an editor in Midwestern Marx Institute for Marxist Theory and Political Analysis and in the Journal of American Socialist Studies. His popular writings have appeared in dozens of socialist magazines in various languages. As a political analyst with a focus on Latin America (esp. Cuba), he has appeared in dozens of radio and video interviews around the world. He also edited and introduced Marxism and the Dialectical Materialist Worldview: An Anthology of Classical Marxist Texts on Dialectical Materialism (Midwestern Marx Publishing Press, 2022).

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21

Mon

Shut Down UC! @ UC Berkeley

Nov 21 all-day

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24

Thu

Thanksgiving Day Celebration – Free Dinner

Nov 24 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

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@ Online

Nov 27 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

SPECIAL SESSION JUST ADDED
The Biggest Academic Workers Strike in California History!

A huge, unprecedented strike of academic workers started on November 14th, hitting all ten University of California campuses like a ton of bricks. The 48,000 striking workers perform the majority of the teaching and research at UC, yet the pay and benefits for these workers, members of the United Auto Workers union, is way too low especially for high-cost-of-living areas like Berkeley, California.

The UC Regents, who run the university and represent the most powerful business interests in the state, have so far refused to bargain over wages.

Come to an special session of Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library to hear the latest about this historic academic workers strike.

Speaker: Dave Welsh is a writer, musician, retired letter carrier, Labor Council delegate, member of Veterans For Peace, and lifelong fighter for people’s power. Whether it was the civil rights movement in Mississippi, support for the Black Panther Party, solidarity with the grassroots movement in Haiti, or breaking the blockade of Cuba at the border with the Pastors for Peace caravans, or holding down Oscar Grant Plaza with Occupy Oakland or the ongoing fight to jail killer cops � he’s been a part of it.

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28

Mon

Support Windfall Profit Tax on Big Oil @ Chevron Gas Station

Nov 28 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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

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29

Tue

Free Covid Testing @ Allan Temple Baptist Church

Nov 29 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

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30

Wed

Free Covid Testing @ Allan Temple Baptist Church

Nov 30 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

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1

Thu

Free Covid Testing @ Allan Temple Baptist Church

Dec 1 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

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Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission @ Online

Dec 1 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85817209915

Agenda Packet: https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/Privacy-Commission-Agenda-Packet-12-1-22.pdf

4. Federal Task Force Transparency Ordinance: OPD – US Marshals Services (USMS), Alcohol Tobacco Firearms (ATF)
a. Review and take possible action on the draft memoranda of understanding with federal partners (MOU)

5. Surveillance Technology Ordinance: DOT – Mobile Parking Payment Proposal
a. Informational Report by CSU Law Clinic – no action will be taken at this meeting

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Medea Benjamin, The War in Ukraine; Making Sense of a Senseless War @ Hillside Club

Dec 1 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Tickets are still available for Medea’s KPFA event at the Hillside Club Thursday evening. KPFA just added a number of “student/financially challenged” tickets, available at this Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/medea-benjamin-war-in-ukraine-making-sense-of-a-senseless-conflict-tickets-462001277257

I cannot recommend strongly enough attending the event. As you likely know, Medea is an expert– knowledgeable, straightforward, correct and convincing about the war in Ukraine and what we in the U.S. need to do to end it. If you’re concerned about the conflict, and fearful as many are about the consequences of it continuing and escalating, please consider coming on Thursday night both to hear Medea and ask questions. Mickey Huff, the terrific host of Project Censored on KPFA and professor at Diablo Valley College is hosting the discussion with Medea. We love Mickey.

Eleanor and I went out to Rossmoor in Walnut Creek today for Medea’s book event, sponsored by the Friends of the Diablo Valley Peace and Justice Center. They expected maybe 20 people; instead there were at least 90 people and more chairs had to be brought in. So many people bought books and contributed for Medea’s travel expenses. The presentation was riveting, followed by a great discussion. Very worthwhile for thinking about and hearing about the path to peace in Ukraine.

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The Howard Zinn Book Fair Presents: For Anti-Fascist Futures @ Medicine for Nightmares

Dec 1 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

PANEL DISCUSSION WITH
FOR ANTI-FASCIST FUTURES
CONTRIBUTORS

Attendees are asked to please wear a mask while inside the bookstore.

Elspeth Iralu, Dian Million, Nicole Nguyen, Yazan Zahzah, Alyosha Goldstein

Explores the significance of fascism for understanding authoritarianism today and centers anti-imperialist movements of Black, Indigenous, and colonized peoples.

We must, as For Antifascist Futures urges, take antifascism as a major imperative of movements for social change. But we must not limit our analysis or historical understanding of the rise of the right-wing authoritarianism in our times by rooting it in mid-twentieth century Europe. Instead we turn to a collection of powerful BIPOC voices who offer a range of anticolonial, Indigenous, and Black Radical traditions to think with.

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4

Sun

Racism, Anti-Communism and the CPUSA’s Struggle Against Both in U.S. History @ Online

Dec 4 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

“Every Liberal is a Socialist. Every Socialist is a Communist. Every Communist is Moscow’s Spy.” So went a poster used in an anti-May Day “Loyalty Day” march in the high cold war period after WWII.

But anti-Communism went far beyond traditional conservative and reactionary groups and became the foundation of a “cold war consensus” for U.S. domestic and foreign policy in the post WWII period. In my presentation I will examine the relationship between color racism as the model for anti-radicalism at home and in U.S. imperialism abroad, and the role of the Communist Party USA in its struggle against both.

Our speker, Norman Markowitz, was born in 1943 and grew up in the South Bronx in a poor predominantly Jewish neighborhood that became a poorer predominantly Puerto Rican neighborhood. He developed an interest in socialism as a teenager, given the conditions in which he and his friends and neighbors lived.

He attended the then free tuition City College of New York (1962-1966) and the University of Michigan on a “National Defense Act” Fellowship and received his PhD in 1970. He taught history at Northern Illinois University (1969-1971) and at Rutgers University/New Brunswick (1971-present).

His doctoral dissertation, The Rise and Fall of the Peoples Century: Henry A. Wallace and American Liberalism, 1941-1948 was published as a book in 1973. He has written numerous articles for various print and internet publications, scholarly journals, encyclopedia, and Marxist and Communist publications and websites on topics which include the history of the Communist movement in the U.S. and its activists, and the role of anti-Communism in U.S. history.

He served on the editorial board of Political Affairs, the theoretical journal of the CPUSA for many years and is currently a member of the International Department of the CPUSA.

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AIDS Day Block Party @ Verdese Carter Park

Dec 4 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

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6

Tue

Free Covid Testing @ Allan Temple Baptist Church

Dec 6 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

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UC and Railroad Worker Solidarity Rally @ Upper Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley

Dec 6 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

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7

Wed

Building a Resilient and Equitable Grid @ Online

Dec 7 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 pm

Online. Register here

Retiring fossil fuels means we’ll need more and more electricity—so it’s crucial that the electric grid be not only clean, but reliable and just. Join The Climate Center for Building a Resilient and Equitable Grid for the Future, the second in their series, Envisioning a Climate-Safe California: Stories and Solutions.

The webinar will lay out a vision for the future of California’s electricity system and highlight the people and organizations working to create it. It will explore the role of local governments, Community Choice Agencies (CCAs), and others in helping to plan for the use of clean, distributed energy in a way that maximizes benefits to the community and provides reliable, affordable electricity for all.

Speakers:

Jesse Hernandez, urban sociologist
Alexandra McGee, director of strategic initiatives, MCE
Lorenzo Kristov, energy systems consultant

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Free Covid Testing @ Allan Temple Baptist Church

Dec 7 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

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8

Thu

Free Covid Testing @ Allan Temple Baptist Church

Dec 8 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

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Bill of Rights Day – ACLU of Northern California @ Online