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Many people work at nonprofits for the same reason they become socialists – they see the ills of the world and want to have a hand in changing them. Join us for this EBDSA Night School exploring the relationship between the fight for socialism and nonprofits. We’ll look at the limits of philanthropy and enacting change through nonprofits, and explore what it means to build working-class power to fight capitalism.

Readings
https://midwestsocialist.com/2019/07/29/non-profits-in-the-coming-struggle/

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/08/peter-singer-charity-effective-altruism/

Audio
Not for Profit? The Nonprofit Industrial Complex

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For years, Indigenous communities and allies have been opposing the construction of the Line 3 pipeline, which would transport nearly one million barrels of dirty tar sands oil – every single day. Enbridge Energy, the company building the pipeline, has a terrible environmental track record, and this pipeline would violate several treaties with indigenous communities.

Indigenous-led water protectors and allies in Minnesota are taking action every day to stop the construction of Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline – confronting bulldozers, decision-makers, and the politicians that are putting profit before people. Pipelines take billions of dollars to build – and banks like JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citibank, Bank of America, TD Ameritrade, Union Bank – as well as insurers like Liberty Mutual – are bankrolling Line 3.

As part of a Global Day of Action May 7th – we’ll be mobilizing in San Francisco’s Financial District to send a clear message to the banks and investors that they must #DefundLine3.

Join us at 10am at the corner of Sansome and Market (E-trade Plaza) as we work to Stop the Money Pipeline. We’ll have plenty of art and signs for people to carry, but feel free to bring any signage that reflects the message of the day– Defund Line 3!

Community safety is always a priority, and we ask everyone in attendance to adhere to the public health guidelines that have been circulated. Please:

Wear a mask at all times
Practice social distancing
Use & bring hand sanitizer
Stay home if you feel sick, or if you have been exposed to anyone with COVID or that is quarantining

You can also RSVP here if you’d rather not let FB know even more about your life than they already do: https://actionnetwork.org/events/san-francisco-defundline3-day-of-action

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYofuupqzkuG9Brivb8TOR7gnoLtjVEUhFZ

The Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) first responders training draws upon over ten years of experience of investigating incidents of police terror and providing support to impacted families. The training will cover the history, structure, and organizing model of APTP, the principles of our work, conducting independent peoples’ investigations, introduction to the APTP model of supporting those impacted by police terror, and an overview of our jail support program.

Independent Investigations: This part focuses on conducting independent people’s investigations including considerations on how to build your team, security and Know Your Rights considerations, required skills and infrastructure, preparation, identifying witnesses, trauma-informed interviewing, cultural humility, collecting evidence, and documenting investigations. We will use case studies from our investigations in Oakland, and provide time for knowledge and skill sharing, and discussion.

CopWatching: In the great tradition of our Oakland’s Pathers, Brown Berets, and other radical grassroots community groups, we need to Police the Police! Learn how to observe and document police harassment in our communities, advocate for someone under arrest, and deescalate police intervention.

Family Support: This part will cover the principles of our work with families impacted by state terror, the introduction to our trauma-informed family support model, an overview of typical challenges and current needs faced by the families. Family support is on-going relationship building, long term advocacy and partnership with families impacted by police terror as they seek justice, navigate the legal system, cope with trauma, and create community with other impacted families.

Jail Support: Jail Support Training will cover the structure and procedures of our program providing community care and support for people released from Alameda County Jail (Santa Rita).

We will share materials including our confidentiality agreement, investigation form, flyer, and a training manual.

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: May 15, 2021 01:00-06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Register in advance for this meeting:
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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

The Oakland budget is currently being negotiated in City Hall and we have until June 30th to make sure elected officials support defunding the police and refunding of services, housing, education, arts, mental health services, and other programs that enhance Black lives and Oakland’s working class communities.

No experience is necessary! Making calls is easy, and there will be zoom training before you start. This is a great event for anyone whether you’re new to political campaigns or a seasoned organizer! Phone banking is also a great activity you can do from the safety of your home, during COVID!

RSVP here to join the virtual phone bank at 6 pm. You will need a camera and microphone on your computer, as well as a phone or headset to make the calls. Instructions will be provided once you join!

Attend an action at the Air District (BAAQMD) Headquarters, stand with community youth and organizations, and tell the Board members we need them to vote the right way —on June 2nd, the next day—to protect community health from the ravages of particulate matter pollution.  We cannot afford to lose this intergenerational fight for environmental justice.  Our lungs just cannot afford it.

You can RSVP for the June 1st action on Facebook (or here if you don’t have Facebook).

And don’t forget to sign the petition!

The Air District must protect community health and truly bring “a healthy breathing environment for every Bay Area resident,” in the words of its mission statement.

The next day on June 2nd, the Bay Area Air District will be voting on whether to take strong regulatory action against Chevron and PBF refineries and force the facilities to make dramatic pollution cuts.  After seeing the stark health impact data and hearing from community members like you, the Advisory Council of the Air District recommended that BAAQMD take “maximum feasible action within its authority to reduce emissions from [particulate matter] sources, prioritizing the most impacted areas.”  However, Big Oil and its allies are lobbying aggressively against the cat cracker Rule 6-5, distorting facts and making false claims.

YOUTH ACTION

WHEN

Tuesday, June 1, 10AM –

WHERE

|10 min. from the BART Embarcadero

VIRTUAL AIR DISTRICT HEARING & FINAL VOTE – RSVP HERE FOR JUNE 1ST, 6 PM GROUP PRACTICE SESSION & TO RECEIVE TALKING POINTS

The NLG – San Francisco Bay Area will be hosting a Digital Security Training for young people to cover these areas of online safety:

• How young people are being watched by the government
• (surveillance)
• How the government uses this information
• How to keep yourselves and others safe while at protests, while texting and while using social media
• What apps you can use to stay safer

If you are interested in joining or have inquiries, please contact: savannah@nlgsf.org

The Oakland budget is currently being negotiated in City Hall and we have until June 30th to make sure elected officials support defunding the police and refunding of services, housing, education, arts, mental health services, and other programs that enhance Black lives and Oakland’s working class communities.

No experience is necessary! Making calls is easy, and there will be zoom training before you start. This is a great event for anyone whether you’re new to political campaigns or a seasoned organizer! Phone banking is also a great activity you can do from the safety of your home, during COVID!

RSVP here to join the virtual phone bank at 6 pm. You will need a camera and microphone on your computer, as well as a phone or headset to make the calls. Instructions will be provided once you join!

ZIM is Here! Mobilize at 6:00am – at The Port of Oakland #BLOCKTHEBOAT (from Adrienne Fong) https://t.co/O9kVJirgCz pic.twitter.com/I05HkbRy2d

— OccupySF.net (@BathtubBulletin) June 4, 2021

Our mobilization is working! We're current picketing 6 different gate entrances with over 600 people, and workers are not crossing the pickets. The message is clear: profiteering from Israeli apartheid is not welcome in the Bay Area #BlocktheBoat #BDS #FreePalestine pic.twitter.com/cUxFDNarJs

— AROC #BlocktheBoat (@AROCBayArea) June 4, 2021

#BlockTheBoat ACTION #2: Everyone mobilize this afternoon to Middle Harbor Shoreline Park @ Port of #Oakland 4pm or earlier. Israeli owned ZIM Cargo Vessel "Volans" will attempt to offload/onload cargo. No War Criminal Apartheid Zionist economic interest allowed in our town! #BDS pic.twitter.com/327BYQXOWc

— Free Palestine (@domainawareness) June 4, 2021

Event by San Francisco Projection Department
Facebook Event: https://fb.me/e/4t46Ou4lV

Join us for one hour:
GUERRILLA PROJECTIONS: SF Projection Dept will project Defund Line 3 art on Chase Bank.

POP-UP ART SHOW: Outdoor gallery opening gala exhibit of Defund Line 3 art by 11 artists featured in the Defund Line 3 Poster Art Newspaper.

STREET MURAL: Help paint a street mural with non-toxic clay and tempera paint.

MUSIC: songs by 1000 Grandmothers and other special guests.

POSTER ART DISTRO: Come pick up some poster art to put up, display or make signs with; Can we work together to plaster the Bay Area this week with beautiful art images of resistance to Line 3?

What: Rally at Sen. Feinstein’s offices

On July 15th, Sunrise Movement is leading a protest to put the heat on Sen. Feinstein for her inaction on the climate crisis. Californians will come together to rally outside Feinsten’s offices at three different locations. Can you join the rally in downtown San Francisco to demand a bold and equity-based Civilian Climate Corps?

Organizers from Extinction Rebellion SF Bay are collaborating with Sunrise to help fill roles for the action. If you’d like to get involved with planning or support in any way, please email our Direct Action working group: dawg@xrsfbay.org.

America is at a crossroads.

Six months have passed since the failed attack on our nation and our democracy on January 6th. Since that day, anti-voter laws have been passed in states all over the country and the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent rulings have made clear that it will not act to protect the sacred right to vote. This summer, Congressional districts risk being redrawn in a way that will allow politicians to choose their voters – rather than the voters fairly choosing who represents them.

We have reached an inflection point in which we must force our elected officials to act now or risk losing the very foundation of our republic.

But there is hope for us to stop this undercurrent of corruption and rebuild American democracy so that the freedom to vote is protected, billionaires don’t control our political systems, and our representatives actually respond to we the people.

To do this, we must pass the For the People Act, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, and D.C. Statehood – and we can’t let anything, including the Jim Crow filibuster, stand in our way!

Join us for The Good Trouble Vigils for Democracy on July 17 – the one year mark of the passing of Rep.John Lewis – as we carry on his legacy by hosting candlelight vigils nationwide to demand that Congress act to protect our freedom to vote and rebuild our democracy.

We must and will win this Fight!

Assuming it is open, we will be meeting in-person at our old haunt, the OMNI, and, as an experiment, with a Zoom live link for those who can’t be there physically.  Check back here a few days before the event to insure the availability of the OMNI, otherwise we will meet again solely online.

Due to the exponential growth of Delta COVID in Alameda County we will still be meeting online in July.  The August meeting may be held dually online and at the OMNI Commons.
Stay tuned!

Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com for up-to-date status and the online invite.

Our current topic is degrowth. Our book is Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide, by Liegey and Nelson, available from its publisher Pluto Press and elsewhere, including Amazon.  We will be reading the first half of the book this month, constituting the first three chapters, through page 85 of the paper back edition, and the second half of the book for our August meeting.

“A sense of urgency pervades global environmentalism, and the degrowth movement is bursting into the mainstream. As climate catastrophe looms closer, people are eager to learn what degrowth is about, and whether we can save the planet by changing how we live. This book is an introduction to the movement. As politicians and corporations obsess over growth objectives, the degrowth movement demands that we must slow down the economy by transforming our economies, our politics and our cultures to live within the Earth’s limits. This book navigates the practice and strategies of the movement, looking at its strengths and weaknesses. Covering horizontal democracy, local economies and the reduction of work, it shows us why degrowth is a compelling and realistic project.”

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, and Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism.

Make calls together on Zoom to get killer cops off our streets!