Ken Hammond is professor of East Asian and global history at New Mexico State Unive rsity. He holds a PhD in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University. He lived in Beijing from 1982-1987, and has taught and travelled in China many times over the ensuing years. From 2007 until 2017 he was co-director of the Confucius Institute at New Mexico State. He has written numerous books and articles on early modern Chinese intellectual and cultural history, and is most recently the author of China’s Revolution and the Quest for a Socialist Future.

The talk will explore China’s efforts to achieve the stated objective of building an “ecological civilization” as part of the global struggle with climate change and planetary warming. I will discuss China’s achievements in alternative energy development and carbon emissions and the country’s commitments to meaningful environmental goals. I will also consider the problems facing the leaders and the people of China as they pursue these goals, including the efforts of the U.S. government to slow or stall China’s economic development, the questions surrounding population trends, and the balancing of raising material living standards while striving to reduce fossil fuel use, especially coal.

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Ken Hammond is professor of East Asian and global history at New Mexico State University. He holds a PhD in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University. He lived in Beijing from 1982-1987, and has taught and travelled in China many times over the ensuing years. From 2007 until 2017 he was co-director of the Confucius Institute at New Mexico State. He has written numerous books and articles on early modern Chinese intellectual and cultural history, and is most recently the author of China’s Revolution and the Quest for a Socialist Future.

The talk will explore China’s efforts to achieve the stated objective of building an “ecological civilization” as part of the global struggle with climate change and planetary warming. I will discuss China’s achievements in alternative energy development and carbon emissions and the country’s commitments to meaningful environmental goals. I will also consider the problems facing the leaders and the people of China as they pursue these goals, including the efforts of the U.S. government to slow or stall China’s economic development, the questions surrounding population trends, and the balancing of raising material living standards while striving to reduce fossil fuel use, especially coal

Green Sundays are a series of free public programs & discussions on topics “du jour” sponsored by the Green Party of Alameda County and held on the 2nd Sunday of each month. The monthly business meeting of the County Council of the Green Party follows at 7:00 pm, after a 30-minute break. Council meetings are open to anyone who is interested.

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 STUDENT & COMMUNITY PANEL
Presented by: Hong Seng Campaign, Grad Students for Justice in
Palestine, People’s Park Berkeley, & Blackstone Divestment Campaign

Where is our tuition money going?
Learn about the UC’s unethical investments
and what WE can do about it.

The University of California, Berkeley is admired worldwide as a bastion of innovatiion and a hub for progressive thought. Far less known are the university’s roots in plunder, warfare, and the promotion of white supremacy. As Tony Platt shows in his latest book, The Scandal of Cal, these original sins sit at the center of UC Berkeley’s history.

Tony Platt is the author of thirteen books dealing with issues of inequality, power, and justice in American history. Platt, a longtime activist, is currently a Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at Cal Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Law & Society.

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Our Zoom room will be opened up as usual at 10:15 am for anyone to join and discuss technical matters, catch up with each other, say Hi, etc.. The program (and recording) will begin at 10:30 am and will end at 12:30pm.

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Have you ever wondered how socialists should engage with elections? With the threat of Trump back in office in 2024 and a Democratic Party insistent on sacrificing Palestinian lives even if it means losing the presidency, the question has never been more urgent.

This Night School is a 101- and 201-level dive into the way socialists approach running for office and governing, which we call class-struggle elections. It’s geared toward new members and old heads alike. Bring a coworker, a mentee, or a friend! We’ll be joined by NYC DSA’s Zohran Mamdani from the New York State Assembly, plus EBDSA-endorsed Oakland School Board member Valarie Bachelor, who will talk about how they use their offices to build movements.

We encourage everyone to do the readings, but everyone is welcome regardless of whether they’ve done the readings.

Readings:

Class-Struggle Politicians Are Organizers First, Legislators Second, by Jack McShane, 2019 – https://socialistcall.com/2019/08/01/class-struggle-politicians-dsa-elections/

How a Grassroots Movement is Building Political Power: Notes From Richmond, California, by Mike Parker, 2020 – https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/11/26/how-a-grassroots-movement-is-building-political-power-notes-from-richmond-california/

Mike Parker on Political Action, 2021 – https://socialistcall.com/2022/01/20/mike-parker-electoral-strategy/

Palestine, labour activism and the US presidential elections, by Neal Meyer, 2024 – https://links.org.au/palestine-labour-activism-and-us-presidential-elections-interview-neal-meyer-bread-roses-dsa

Here’s an opportunity to join climate activists converging on the state legislature to promote bills to tackle the climate crisis.

Following the California Climate Policy Summit March 19, Environment California will lead a day when people can meet directly with legislators and their staff to show them that climate is a top priority for voters in the state and push them to do everything they can to get climate bills passed.

After a brief “Lobbying 101” training, the group will walk from the Sheraton Grand Sacramento Hotel over to the state capitol to begin meetings with legislators and their staff. Lunch will be provided at noon.

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Join us for a lively and informative discussion at the ROE V WADE: PROTECTING ABORTION RIGHTS PANEL event.

Our panelists, Liberty Crochet Mural Artists, TEACH (Training in Early Abortion for Comprehensive Healthcare) and other activists/practitioners will delve into the history, current status, and future of abortion rights in the US. Get ready to hear diverse perspectives and engage in thought-provoking conversations.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn and connect with others who are passionate about this important issue.

PANELISTS:

Flor Hunt (TEACH)

Kathryn Vercillo (Liberty Crochet Mural)

Ujjayini Sikha (WOMEN RISING Artist)

Tisha Kenny (Artist, activist and health care practitioner)

Dr. Cynthia Farner (OB/GYN)

More info: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roe-v-wade-protecting-abortion-rights-panel-tickets-859205295167

THIS FRIDAY – PACK THE COURT! 🖤🔥

Please join us this Friday, March 22 at 2pm to show solidarity in the fight for #Justice4StevenTaylor ! We will be in Department 8, at 1225 Fallon St.

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— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) March 21, 2024

This Friday, March 22nd from 3-7pm we are excited to do a soft launch of The People’s Clinic!

The People’s Clinic is an abolitionist wellness and recovery center for people impacted by state/police violence and frontline organizers taking action against genocide.

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— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) March 21, 2024

Start this weekend off with a distinguished and lively group of activists for disability rights. This is the fifth in a series of special gatherings co-hosted by the One Payer States group.

The event will focus on what the disability community needs from a single-payer system and how single-payer health care can benefit an important part of our population,

Register here for the Zoom link.

The summit features:

• Keynote speaker Rep. Debbie Dingell (MI-6), co-chair of both the Medicare for All and Bipartisan Disabilities caucuses in Congress

• Facilitator Patricia Chadwick, co-founder of the Disability Social History Project

• Special guests including disability, medical, indigenous, and youth activists

Health Care for All – California

Speaker: Basudev Nag Chowdhury, People’s Brigade, India

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Neoliberalism began in the last quarter of the 20th century, when the accumulated capital in the G-7 was allowed to penetrate much of the world that had closed its doors to foreign capital: Eastern Europe, Russia, China, Vietnam. India, Africa and Latin America.  These are the countries which together today have the vast majority of the global low wage working class in numbers. Yet, only after a decade and a half, the economic crisis returned in 2008. It was then postponed by a huge expansion of credit. But as is evident by new wars and tensions rising between major powers of the world, the economic crisis of capitalism has not been overcome. Yet, there is no mass movement of workers as yet on the horizon against capitalism even when a majority of the world’s workers today are unable to make ends meet.

The presentation will briefly explain the definition of Neoliberalism as the current capitalist era of ‘Temporal mode of production’ (speculative futures trading of stocks); against conventional economists, Marxists, who describe Neoliberalism as a set of policies. The presentation will then focus on explaining the significant change in class-correlation (capitalists vs. petit bourgeoisie, better paid workers and proletarians) on the basis of Marx’s fundamental theory and the origin of the cyclic crises of this new-age capitalism. We will compare our analyses against two major recent theoretical contributions: one by Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik, and the other by Yanis Varoufakis. We will further explain the origin of right-wing opportunism pervaded through the majority of the existing Communist Parties. Finally, we will briefly discuss the nature of new-age fascism and the tactics that should be adopted by the Left forces.

Our speaker, Basudev Nag Chowdhury, is a young activist, organizer and agitator and an organic intellectual. He is a physicist by education. He is a leader in a new Marxist-Leninist Communist Party based in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, called ‘The Workers’ Brigade’, which he among others helped form in the past few years, after the CPI-Marxist was routed from West Bengal by Trinamool Congress, a bourgeois political party, led by a fiery orator, Mamta Banerjee. The Workers’ Brigade has organized the Bidi workers in West Bengal state in tobacco and in other industries. (NOTE:    Bidi is a rolled tobacco leaf, smoked by very low wage majority women workers � i.e. proletarians)

Basudev Nag Chowdhury is writing a new book, still in progress, titled: ‘Neoliberalism, the stage of Irresolvable Contradictions of Capitalism’. He lives and works in Kolkata, India.

Ready to advance climate and health justice in Berkeley? A grassroots community and worker coalition is organizing to get two exciting ballot measures on the Berkeley ballot in 2024!

Join us for a signature gathering launch and training. We will meet in the middle of the Park across from the flag poll. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided! If you can’t make it this weekend, stay tuned for a subsequent kick-off announcement for next weekend.
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Berkeley Large Buildings Fossil Fuel Emissions Tax

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Please let us know if you are part of an organization that would like to endorse these measures, and whether you wish to donate to the signature gathering effort. We intend to rely mostly on volunteer signature gathering, but may also need some paid signature gatherers to qualify by the May 9 deadline.
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Healthy Buildings Berkeley Coalition

In partnership with the Wellstone Club:  a viewing of Abortion and Women’s Rights 1970. This film serves as a powerful reminder of the conditionsand demands that inspired the movement for abortion rights fifty years ago, and speaks to the need for safe, legal abortion and the broader fight for reproductive justice today.

• Abortion and Women’s Rights 1970
  • Directed by Catha Maslow, Jane Pincus, Mary Summers, and Karen Weinstein
• Sunday, March 24 at 7:00 PM
• On Zoom
• Introductions by Kate Harrison and Karen Weinstein

Karen Weinstein made this film with three other activists over 50 years ago and would have hoped that it would be irrelevant today. But it isn’t. They made this film when most of the legislators were male, and there were few women’s voices being heard. They wanted those voices to be heard.

ACLU NorCal is pleased to partner with Colmena Consulting to offer From Awareness to Action, a three-hour workshop designed especially for you, our donor community.

You’re aware of racial inequity. You know what inclusion is. You consider yourself anti-racist. But you’re wondering: Now what? What else can I actually do, day-to-day and over the long-term, to make a concrete change?

From Awareness to Action is an interactive, virtual workshop that takes you through a unique process to arrive upon tangible steps – designed for you by you – to make the most of everything you can give to this work.

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Colmena Consulting is a radical consulting cooperative of change-makers with systematically marginalized identities and social justice values, seeking to create change through new models of work.

Awareness to Action is a workshop they’ve fine-tuned, especially for ACLU NorCal supporters. It helps translate political beliefs into personal actions. The focus of this workshop is not ACLU NorCal’s racial justice program or work. It’s about you.

Accessibility is important to us. Live captioning will be provided, and we welcome other accommodation requests. Please use the RSVP form to share any accommodation requests or email us at events@aclunc.org.

Space in this workshop is limited and will likely fill up. To learn more and claim your spot, register today. RSVPs will be accepted until the workshop is full or 3/21.

Mark your calendars, we hope to see you there!

ACLU of Northern California