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This 90 minute workshop will equally emphasize factual evidence on hydrogen from Professor David Cebon, and strategic communications advice from a global communications group’s hydrogen specialist, to help provide the wider climate community with an understanding of hydrogen, topline key messages, and tools to navigate this complex topic.

As natural gas has increasingly become a politically divisive topic on the global stage, many of the world’s economies are desperately looking for ways to speed up the energy transition.  Oil and gas companies have reciprocated by latching on to the “hydrogen economy” as an exit route for their business in an environment where they are under pressure to evolve.

Through intensive political lobbying, hydrogen has shot to the forefront of the climate debate in the past few years.  Politicians are now touting hydrogen as a central piece needed to unlock the energy transition, allowing oil and gas companies a seat at decision-making tables and a silver bullet tactic to buffer out their net-zero plans.

But while hydrogen as a silver bullet solution to natural gas sounds alluring, what does the evidence actually tell us about its role in the energy transition? And how can we best organize as a global climate community to strategically communicate about this complicated subject?

AGENDA:

• Introductions and objectives of the session
• What is hydrogen?
• What role can (and should) hydrogen play in the energy transition?
• Why is hydrogen strategically important in the global energy transition, and what is the current media narrative?
• How can we, as climate activists, communicate about hydrogen?
• Opportunities, threats, and things to watch
• Breakout questions and group discussion

SPEAKERS:

• Professor David Cebon, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Cambridge, England
• Kaliana French, Senior Strategic Communications Associate, Hydrogen, the Global Strategic Communications Council.

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Join us for a talk from EFF staff technologist Will Greenberg on Fog Data Science� a data broker which has been selling raw location data about individual people to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies.

You can get a head start on the topic by checking out our blog series on the topic here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/inside-fog-data-science-secretive-company-selling-mass-surveillance-local-police

A few weeks after Vallejo PD shot 55 rounds at Willie McCoy, his niece was pulled over by VPD, dragged out of the car, tased & arrested, by 2 of the cops who murdered Willie. There were no charges filed against her. On 2/9 we gather to remember Willie & renew calls for justice. pic.twitter.com/U8O5uaazEa

— Melissa Nold, Esq. (@savage_esquire) February 4, 2023

moderated by Dr. Maya Soetoro

Join us to learn from Medea Benjamin who will describe her work to stop wars and activism in the United States, Palestine, Yemen, Afghanistan, Cuba, North Korea and Iran. She will also share how college students can participate in these issues.

About Medea Benjamin

Medea Benjamin is an internationally recognized peace and human rights activist. She is the co-founder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK: Women For Peace. Both organizations have trained dozens of interns in challenging the US government’s war propensity and have enabled young activists to work in conflict areas to gain a better understanding of the effects of U.S. government policies including economic war through the use of sanctions. Medea is the author of 10 books including books on Drones, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Her latest book is “War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless War.”

About Dr. Maya Soetoro

Dr. Maya Soetoro is the Graduate Chair at the Matsunaga Institute for Peace at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She was previously the Director of the Matsunaga Institute where, in addition to leading outreach and development initiatives, she also taught Leadership for Social Change, History of Peace Movements, Peace Education, and Conflict Management for Educators. Maya also serves as a consultant to the Obama Foundation, working closely with their international team to develop programming in the Pacific-Asia region.

Sponsor: Matsunaga Institute for Peace, Veterans For Peace-Hawaii Chapter, and Hawaii Peace and Justice

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Join the South Berkeley Legacy Project at its Neighborhood History Walking Tour for #BlackHistoryMonth, led by Tina Jones Williams!

Saturday, February 11
10 am – 12 pm

RSVP: 510-821-0821 or zach@twcmih.org pic.twitter.com/fFqiPmzWE0

— Terry Taplin🚰🏳️‍🌈🥑🌹🚲🚍✍️🏾 (@TaplinTerry) February 6, 2023

Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.

For our February meeting we are reading Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet and What We Can Do About It (Verso, Amazon) by Nancy Fraser.

A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone who wants to stop it from devouring our world.

Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life–guzzling wealth from nature and racialized populations, sucking up our ability to care for each other, and gutting the practice of politics. In this tightly argued and urgent volume, leading Marxist feminist theorist Nancy Fraser charts the voracious appetite of capital, tracking it from crisis point to crisis point, from ecological devastation to the collapse of democracy, from racial violence to the devaluing of care work. These crisis points all come to a head in Covid-19, which Fraser argues can help us envision the resistance we need to end the feeding frenzy.

What we need, she argues, is a wide-ranging socialist movement that can recognize the rapaciousness of capital—and starve it to death.

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, and Less is More.

Marxism and Problems of Linguistics.

Our speaker is Yusuf Gürsey who is originally from Istanbul, Turkey and currently lives in New Haven, CT. He is a member of the CPUSA, as well as a member of the US Peace Council in Connecticut and a member of the Steering Committee of the Center for Marxist Education centered in Cambridge, MA. After retiring from being an associate professor of physics in Turkey, he studied graduate level linguistics online at the Virtual Linguistics Campus broadcast from the University of Marburg in Germany. He is an independent researcher, translator and interpreter. His fields of interest in linguistics are historical linguistics (specializing in Turkic and Semitic languages), phonology and socio-linguistics. He is also currently engaged in research in the study of calendars and the history of Middle Eastern peoples, the medieval period and the history of modern Leftist movements.

The current talk will concentrate Joseph Stalin’s “Marxism and Problems of Linguistics” and the language policies of socialist states and some other leftist movements.

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Learn about a plan to destroy California forest land and increase pollution—here and overseas—by producing “biomass,” a false climate solution that does more harm than good.

The plan is to produce wood pellets to burn in for energy that’s supposedly “renewable,” because trees absorb carbon dioxide when they grow back—disregarding the fact that the CO2 from burning wood is all released immediately, while it takes many decades for a new tree to absorb that much. We don’t have that time!

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Natylie Baldwin is the author of The View from Moscow: Understanding Russia and U.S.-Russia Relations and co-author of Ukraine: ZBIG’s Grand Chessboard & How the West Was Checkmated.  She traveled throughout western Russia in 2015 and 2017 and interviewed a cross-section of Russians.  Her writing has appeared in various publications including The Grayzone, Consortium News, RT, The Globe Post, Antiwar.com, and OpEd News.  Her websites are:  https://natyliesbaldwin.com/  and:  https://natyliesb.medium.com/

Baldwin will discuss Ukraine’s history and how it relates to contemporary political and cultural divisions in the country.  She will also provide insight on how NATO expansion and other post-Cold War actions by the US-led West looked from Moscow’s perspective, which led to Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine last February.

Save the Date for Next Month’s Green Sunday – March 12 Report from Nicaragua
Panel Discussion: Phoebe Thomas Sorgen, Erica Caines, and Jennifer Sullivan were part of the Alliance for Global Justice delegation to Nicaragua in January titled “Women in Nicaragua – Power and Protagonism.”  Did you know that Nicaragua is a world leader in gender equality?

Erica Caines is Co-Coordinator of Black Alliance for Peace – Haiti/Americas Team. Jennifer Sullivan, who is on the Green Parrty International Committee with Phoebe, joins us from Florida.  She is treasurer for the GP National Women’s Caucus.  Phoebe is the GP-US representative to the Global Green Network.
Sneak preview: https://afgj.salsalabs.org/reportjan23?wvpId=3b43e68b-92fb-431b-b75f-6268ae8dcb1f

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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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

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— Coalition for Police Accountability (@oakcopoversight) February 7, 2023

Oakland Greens 4th annual virtual townhall:
Green Party politics:  What are best practices for growing the 

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Our 4th annual alternative political parties event:  What are best practices to overgrow for a new system? The Oakland Greens have long voiced that a best practice might be using rallies as candidate recruitment. We think the current system is running exactly as planned and we need a completely new system. What are your ideas?

Virtual doors open att 6 PM (with the best pre-show music diversity!)  The discussion begins at 6:30 PM PST on ZOOM:

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Turkiye (the new and improved name replacing Turkey) is in a nosedive toward a total collapse.  This is an expected route of all neo-colonial countries dependent on imperialism.

A new section of capitalists is using the NATO Gladio criminals to implement a narco-state to keep the economy alive in Turkiye.  Privatization and marketization of every aspect of life have come to a total failure. Unprecedented Corruption at every level, bribery, theft, eco-destruction, gang rule, and the rise of deadly attacks, especially on women, shows the limits of a market economy in a dependent, neo-colonial country.

Turkiye is in dire need of funds to make it to the next day.  Each day passing in Turkiye is funded and provided by its Muslim, fascist regional countries while imperialism sucks the life out of people every day.  Workers and the people pay for these “favors” with hunger, misery, and working below slave wages.  In the new world with its budding multi-polar centers, Erdogan is trying to find a new ally in Russia.  However, its loyalty to NATO and western imperialism poses unsurpassable challenges.

We will discuss whether Turkiye has any chance of survival by following the 100 years of the capitalist route.  The tasks and obligations of the left before and after the May-June elections will shed a light on everyday living in the country.

Journalist Mehmet Bayram recently returned from a long trip to Turkey.

Yusuf Gürsey is originally from Istanbul, Turkey and is currently living in New Haven, CT. He is a member of the CPUSA, as well as a member of the US Peace Council in Connecticut, and a member of the Steering Committee of the Center for Marxist Education centered in Cambridge, MA.

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Tomorrow (2/19) from 4-6pm we will be continuing our reading group of Frantz Fanon’s “The Wretched of the Earth” at the Omni Commons. So far we have finished the first two chapters and we will be discussing Chapter 5 and we will pick up on reading Chapter 3 together. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/8mpzFTaUSs

— Community Liberation Programs (@comlibprograms) February 18, 2023