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For July, 2022 we’re reading The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth,
by The Red Nation, Amazon, Common Notions.

All are welcome!

When the Red Nation released their call for a Red Deal, it generated coverage in places from Teen Vogue to Jacobin to the New Republic, was endorsed by the DSA, and has galvanized organizing and action. Now, in response to popular demand, the Red Nation expands their original statement filling in the histories and ideas that formed it and forwarding an even more powerful case for the actions it demands. 

One-part visionary platform, one-part practical toolkit, the Red Deal is a platform that encompasses everyone, including non-Indigenous comrades and relatives who live on Indigenous land. We—Indigenous, Black and people of color, women and trans folks, migrants, and working people—did not create this disaster, but we have inherited it. We have barely a decade to turn back the tide of climate disaster. It is time to reclaim the life and destiny that has been stolen from us and rise up together to confront this challenge and build a world where all life can thrive. Only mass movements can do what the moment demands. Politicians may or may not follow–it is up to them–but we will design, build, and lead this movement with or without them.

The Red Deal is a call for action beyond the scope of the US colonial state. It’s a program for Indigenous liberation, life, and land—an affirmation that colonialism and capitalism must be overturned for this planet to be habitable for human and other-than-human relatives to live dignified lives. The Red Deal is not a response to the Green New Deal, or a “bargain” with the elite and powerful. It’s a deal with the humble people of the earth; a pact that we shall strive for peace and justice and a declaration that movements for justice must come from below and to the left. 

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 and A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things.

NOTE: DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOUND OUR CONTROL, VLADIMIR KOZIN WILL NOT BE WITH US. WE ARE SUBSTITUING ANOTHER PROGRAM COVERING THE SAME MATERIAL, AS FOLLOWS:

Jul 17, 2022. 9:45am-11:30am Pacific

…with its “Special Military Operation?

In his presentation Dr. Kozin will provide his background and military studies experience. He will cover why Putin is not authoritarian. He will give a brief description of Russia’s legal system, especially when it comes to the military. And he will explain why the measure Russia took in Ukraine had to be a military action as opposed to a diplomatic one.

Dr. Vladimir Kozin is a member of the Russian Academy of Military Sciences, a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Vice President of the Russian National Institute for Global Security Research, leading Expert for the Center for Military-Political Studies at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Ph.D, and Senior Researcher. He is the founder of the Analytical Agency “Strategic Stability,” a Russian NGO that deals with arms control. He is the author of 18 monographs on arms control and strategic stability, and he has been issuing reports almost on a daily basis on Russia’s special military operation since it began.

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Our Zoom room will be opened up early thiis week at 9:45 for anyone to join and discuss technical matters, catch up with each other, say Hi, etc.. The program (and recording) will begin as close to 10:00 am as possible and will end at 11:30, but the Waiting Room may remain open later for informal discussion.

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Time: Jul 17, 2022 09:45 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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The people who produced Hoodwinked in the Hothouse, a key report exposing corporate-based false solutions to the climate crisis, host the fourth in their series of webinars, Greenwashing Disaster Capital.

Speakers will explain how corporate interests are hijacking critical climate action around the world by co-opting key concepts, frameworks and language from our movements.

The organizers write:

“Traditional ecological knowledge concepts like biomimicry, strategy frameworks like a just transition, and even popular narratives like building a regenerative economy have been co-opted in recent years by big NGOs, philanthropists and academic institutions to advance neoliberal schemes like pollution trading at policy arenas like the UNFCCC.

“Scores of universities, government agencies, corporations, NGOs and funders are engaged in this widespread greenwashing pandemic  – serving a colonial extractivist agenda that awards $trillions in subsidies to polluting corporations, creating structural barriers to the advancement of proven strategies and real solutions that our communities and the planet really need.”

Speakers:

Dipti Bhatnagar, Friends of the Earth
Leonardo Figueroa Helland, The New School
Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network
Nnimmo Bassey, Health of Mother Earth Foundation
Silvia Ribeiro, ETC Group
The Hoodwinked Collaborative

THIS FRIDAY! pic.twitter.com/d6CH8CsqpL

— Parker For The People (@saveparker510) July 19, 2022

🚌🚎🚊 DSA SF is proud to launch our priority resolution Free Muni Full Service. Join us at Dolores Park on 7/23 at noon to learn what a socialist transit system could be, how to get involved, and what transit justice in SF looks like today. 🌹 Register: https://t.co/oD4hU2VuqS pic.twitter.com/9Fiob7HkjX

— DSA San Francisco (@DSA_SF) July 7, 2022

Foraging Peace Tour at Omni Commons !

Stay Together Vegan Pop Up !

Make sure to come out and support we have Plant-based/alkaline food, merch, and art!

Panel starts at 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM Live Concert will start after the panel !#omnicommons#vegan #food #party pic.twitter.com/ezKMjHwViM

— Omni Commons (@omnicommons) July 19, 2022

Come hang with friendly neighborhood socialists! Enjoy a cold pint and some good food, and help us plan local projects to advance our shared socialist values.

July 23, 2022, 6:00pm – 8:30pm ⁰
Mare Island Coal Shed Brewery 850 Nimitz Ave, Vallejo, CA, 94592 pic.twitter.com/zfJZK2Gzhj

— East Bay DSA 🌹 (@DSAEastBay) July 11, 2022

Jul 24, 2022. 10:30am-12t:30pm Pacific

On Feb 4, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with China’s President Xi Jinping at the opening of the Winter Olympics in Beijing  They released a 5000-word document, “Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on the International Relations Entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable Development.” This document expresses the views of two of the world’s largest nuclear powers, both permanent members of the UN Security Council. As such, it merits full discussion. ICSS members Gene Ruyle and Raj Sahai will lead our discussion.

The document can be read at: http://en.kremlin.ru/supplement/5770

Another view, “Ukraine Communists’ View of the War in their Country and How to End Ir,” By Stephen Gowans, may be found at: https://gowans.blog

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 as close to 10:30 am as possible and will end at 12:30, but the Waiting Room may remain open later for informal discussion.

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Meeting ID: 259 108 2607
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‼️Monday, 7/25 @ 10am‼️

SFPD's plan to hijack private cameras is going back to the SF Rules Committee. SFPD has been caught using surveillance illegally to spy on activists, protestors & regular people.

Call in, speak out: 415-655-0001 / ID: 2495 080 3849 # #/ *3 to get in line pic.twitter.com/a2AUUwghp9

— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) July 24, 2022

As of right now, Biden is still planning to turn on federal student debt payments on September 1, 2022. That’s forty-eight days from now. The payment pause, if you need a reminder, is a Trump-initiated policy from March 2020, which Biden has continued to warm-up and serve to the American people. Meanwhile, we’re still waiting on Biden’s big promise to cancel student debt. Here at the Debt Collective, we’re not holding our breath: we’re organizing.

That’s why we’re getting ready to go on a debt strike – withholding payments for money we never should havve had to borrow in the first place.

As prices reach record highs and wages fall to record lows, turning on student loan payments is nothing but a cruel blow to working people, struggling to make ends meet. Millions will not be able to pay, and may risk falling into default. We can’t pay – and we won’t pay. <

Debt strikes are not a joke and we don’t broach calls to go on debt strike lightly. For many people, there are safe ways to get to $0 monthly payments, therefore refusing to pay into an unjust system.

This is why we are having a DEBT STRIKE INFO SESSION on Tuesday, July 26 at 7:30PM EST to discuss options for safely striking. Whether you are strike-ready or strike-curious, join this session to know what options are on the table for you to fight back against the creditocracy.

We’re not in debt because we live beyond our means; we’re in debt because we’ve been denied the means to live.

In other words, we didn’t start the fire.

See you Tuesday.

XOXO,

The Debt Collective

We are hosting a mass call on Reproductive Justice and are excited to learn with and from organizers involved in the struggle around abortion access and beyond. We hope you'll join us on zoom on Wednesday 7/27 from 8-9:30pm EST. Register here: https://t.co/YcusL2D6OQ pic.twitter.com/TuR7ffkmp9

— DSA National Abolition Working Group (@DsaAbolition) July 13, 2022

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This webinar from The Climate Center will explain how climate-smart agricultural practices can sequester significant amounts of carbon while also improving soil health, increasing water retention in the soil, and making the land more drought-resilient and productive. They’ll also talk about what investments are necessary to support farmers in changing to these practices.

Speakers:

Patricia Hickey, Managing Director at the Carbon Cycle Institute

Albert Straus,  founder and CEO of Straus Family Creamery

Baani Behniwal, The Climate Center’s Natural Sequestration Initiative Manager.

While adopting these practices is essential and important, beware of suggestions that they can be financed by selling “credits’ to emitters of greenhouse gases. Such carbon market schemes do not reduce the rate of GHG emissions and serve as an excuse for polluters to continue climate destruction.

Come out this coming Thursday, July 28th at 10:30am to 1515 Clay Street to demand a halt to Phoeun You’s deportation.

California might be a sanctuary state, but we continue to transfer refugees and immigrants to ICE AFTER they have served time. This is not justice. #ICEOUTOFCA pic.twitter.com/wjyH3q7JD2

— Sheng Thao 盛桃 (@ShengForOakland) July 24, 2022

Join this Friday 7/29/22 action to protest a Trump-era program continued by the Biden administration that increases privatization of Medicare and threatens continuity of care for seniors while enriching private companies with taxpayer dollars. The program, the Direct Contracting Entity program, soon to morph into another called ACO-REACH, shifts traditional Medicare patients into privately managed plans without their consent.

This conversation will explore how this betrayal occurred and focus on the lessons for today, especially for women, students, and indigenous people in our hemisphere.

Featuring:
Stephen Durham,
Co-author of “On the nature of the Nicaraguan State” and coordinator of Freedom Socialist Party’s work with the Committee for Revolutionary International Regroupment

To benefit the $100,000 Freedom Socialist Fund Drive; donations requested

Sponsored by Freedom Socialist Party
For more information, visit socialism.com, call 206-722-2453, or email SeattleFSP@socialism.com.

We are so excited to announce
"Black Future Parade" !!!

It's a Black Future Parade themed event featuring Black artists, poets, chefs and guest speakers who are coming together to put Afrofuturism into practice !

Omni Commons
4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland
Sunday July 31st 12-8 pm pic.twitter.com/2J2c6IKYnY

— Omni Commons (@omnicommons) July 18, 2022