John Fisher, son of the late Donald Fisher (of The Gap and related corporate wealth), personifies the connections between these two struggles.  Not only is Fisher (the younger), principal owner of the A’s, pushing for the gentrification grab at the Howard Terminal, but he is a major force in the push for charter schools. not only in Oakland, but nationally, through the Kipp Schools network.

Given the continuing struggles on both fronts, with the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) / Oakland Police Department (OPD) repressive actions at the Parker Liberation School this week, and more protest about the Howard Terminal project, despite the votes of the city council, it is important to revisit these critical issues and the broader corporate politics involved.

Jack Gerson is a retired Oakland teacher who writes on and analyzes  issues related to education, politics, public health and the pandemic.  Before retiring, he was on the executive board and bargaining team of the Oakland teachers union (OEA).  Among other things, he helped organize OEA’s campaign to bail out schools not banks and end foreclosures, and the Occupy Oakland education committee’s 18 day occupation of Lakeview Elementary in 2012 to protest school closures.

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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Please plan to stay all day. Bring hats, water, lunch, chair or blanket. There preps are an opportunity to lean into the long history of nonviolent direct action, working with affinity groups and Consensus Process decision-making, jail solidarity inside and outside of jail, with plenty of practice in role playing. Contact: weddress777@gmail.com

Our speaker will be Professor Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History at the University of Houston has published dozens of books.  Hear his presentation on his latest:  “The Counter-Revolution of 1836:  Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of U.S. Fascism,” 2022, which has implications for California and Indigenous History–and the prospects for a unique form of fascism.

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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JOIN US FOR AN EXCITING WEBINAR ON CHEVRON v MONTEREY COUNTY, the case pending before the California Supreme Court that will determine the right of our cities and counties to regulate fossil fuel production.

Meet the Protect Monterey organizers whose successful ballot initiative to ban drilling and fracking in their county was challenged by Chevron and its army of oil industry bullies, and overturned by reactionary California Superior Court judges.

Hear from the one of the attorneys who will arguing before the state Supreme Court to defend the century-old right of local governments to ban or restrict oil and gas.

LEARN HOW THE OUTCOME OF THIS CASE WILL IMPACT FOSSIL FUEL REGULATION THROUGHOUT THE STATE – and here in the Bay Area!

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Organized debtors just won big. And we’re not stopping til all the debt is ALL gone.

After months of dragging his feet, Biden has finally announced his plan of debt cancellation: up to $10,000 for borrowers with incomes under $125,000 a year and up to $20,000 of cancellation for Pell grant recipients.

We know this is far from what justice demands – to close the raccial wealth gap, to unchain generations of indebted families, to actually have a reparative higher education policy. We know the road ahead is long, with much much more work to do.

But right, now we’re celebrating. Organized debtors forced Biden – who has sided with banks over debtors his entire career – to administer debt cancelation for working-class communities. This is a testament to the power of a union of debtors banding together to exercise political and financial power.

If you came to a debtors’ assembly, this is your win. If you invited a friend to come to the action with you, if you made a sign, if you signed a petition, if you talked to a colleague about your debt, if you wore your debt to work, if you wrote an op-ed, if you pledged to strike, this is your win.

Please join our Jubilee Hour tomorrow, 7:30-8:30PM EST. We will gather to take a moment to bask in how far we’ve come, and point out the horizons we’re still marching towards. Biden didn’t do this — WE did.

Also be sure not to miss the awesome “Freedom Dreams” documentary that dropped yesterday about Black women’s leadership in the fight for debt cancellation.

AND ONE FINAL THING  – it has taken us ten yearss to get $10K of student debt canceled. Can you throw in $10 bucks so the next round of cancellation doesn’t take quite so long?

A debt-free future is on its way. We’re never going back again —

The Debt Collective

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Lessons From The 2022 National Protest In Ecuador. is hosted by the DSA International Committee.

For 18 days in June 2022, the people of Ecuador, led by the indigenous and poorest, fought austerity to a halt. Tens of thousands barricaded highways, paralyzed the capital and much of the nation. Eight people were killed and hundreds injured by police.

Led by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie), poor and working people won major economic and political concessions, and other demands are in negotiation.

Top leaders of this “Paro Nacional” and grassroots organizers from the indigenous communities will explain how they did it and what happens next.

Dear friends,

We are inviting you and your family, co-workers, cultural and community
members, and activists to enjoy the 2022 CompArte: The Emiliano Zapata
Community Festival.

The Chiapas Support Committee in partnership with the Peralta Hacienda
Historical Park is organizing CompArte [2]: The Emiliano Zapata
Community Festival at Peralta on Saturday, August 27, 2022, from
12:00-4:00 pm.

We invite you to enjoy an afternoon of music, poetry, art, tamales,
aguas frescas, good food, and community!

CompArte Festival & Solidarity

CompArte was started in 2016 [3] by the Zapatistas (EZLN, Ejército
Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, Zapatista Army of National
Liberation) in Mexico to bring together the best of our communities’ and
movements’ art, music, poetry, stories, dance, and other cultural work
for social justice, Indigenous autonomy and liberation and in solidarity
with the Zapatistas.

The Chiapas Support Committee took up the call and has held CompArte
every year since 2016 both in-person and online during the pandemic
sheltering-in-place. This year CompArte is back in the open air at
Peralta Hacienda Park in Oakland!

CompArte 2022 is a call and a festival:
Por la vida | For life:
Contra todas las guerras | Against all wars

CompArte 2022 will bring together artists, poets, musicians, painters,
cultural workers, and the community to express solidarity with the
Zapatistas and enjoy an afternoon filled with joy and community!

Our city, our region, our state, the U.S. and the world are on the cusp
of struggles that are rocking the foundations of the capitalist system.
Through CompArte and other spaces, you are invited to dream and walk
together, to weave the world where all worlds fit, and together raise
our voices and our songs to demand peace and justice across the U.S. and
the world.

Our CompArte 2022 is dedicated to the defense of all life and against
all capitalist wars and depravations. The gathering will begin with
Danzantes making a movement-offering to the four directions, recognizing
that we are on Ohlone land. We will have tamales & aguas frescas, son
jarocho, barrio and revolutionary poets, portable mural art, live
painting, and other activities.

Program: CompArte 2022 will include the son jarocho group AntiFaSon [4],
with anti-fascist _sones_, Oakland poets, music, a DJ, arts & crafts
vendors, tasty tamales, and other good food and deep community.

Join us to celebrate the movements and struggles for justice, peace &
solidarity with the Zapatistas and Indigenous people, everywhere with
words of resistance, tenderness and community in movements for
liberation and self-determination.

Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library

LEPAIO: Labor Education Project on the AFL-CIO International Operations.

The AFL-CIO has since its existence been involved in taking money from the CIA and other government agencies for international operations around the world  It has supported coups in Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Indonesia, Ukraine, and attempted coups in Venezuela, Cuba. It now operates in over 60 countries without real transparency and reports to the membership of the AFL-CIO members. Most workers in the AFL-CIO do not know about this history or the fact that the AFL-CIO “Solidarity Center” gets $75 million a year from the National Endowment for Democracy which is directly from the US government.

This panel of Professor Kim Scipes and labor journalist Steve Zeltzer are members of the newly formed organization Labor Education Project On AFL-CIO International Operations LEPAIO.

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Our speakers, Steve Zeltzer and Kim Scipes, are labor activists.

Background: Reckoning with the AFL-CIO’s Imperialist History. https://jacobin.com/2020/01/afl-cio-cold-war-imperialism-solidarit

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— Parker For The People (@saveparker510) August 29, 2022

Most folks think that last week Biden canceled student debt. But the truth is that last week, Biden announced a cancellation plan that most people will have to APPLY for before their debts are canceled. All that Biden’s pledge has yielded so far is crashed government website and promises from the Dept of Ed that they are “working” on the application that the whole cancellation program rests on. Pretty great system.

Still. Some relief is coming, even if it’s going to be a set of hoops to jump through to get it.

There’s still a lot of missing information, but we want to make sure to share the most up-to-date information we’ve seen so far: https://forgivemystudentdebt.org/faq/. This website is the best guide that that currently exists to explain the Who, What and How of Biden’s limited cancellation. Please take a look.

One thing we DO know is that private student loans are NOT included in Biden’s cancellation plan. Even though the paperwork on these loans is signed by a different creditor (a private company, instead of the federal government), they’re still unjust loans that are just as crushing as federal loans. That’s why we’re having our first PRIVATE STUDENT DEBTORS’ ASSEMBLY on Sept. 20 at 7:30PM EST. Sign-up here.

Finally, we’re having our first welcome meeting tonight for the 50 OVER 50 STRIKE **tonight** at 7:30PM ET / 4:30PM PT. You can register to join the call here (you’ll receive a Zoom link by email after you RSVP.) � The 50/50 Strike is a pop-out from our broader student debt strike, designed specifically for student debtors over age 50 who are committed to striking payments when they turn back on.

The tables ‘bout to turn,

The Debt Collective: a debtors’ union fighting to cancel debts and defend millions of households. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. You can send us a letter at: Debt Collective, PO Box 285, Canton, NY 13617.

Oakland, Friday 7pm. Documentary on 1985 bombing by Philadelphia PD which killed 11 people, including 5 children, destroyed 61 homes, displaced 250+ Black residents. Explore history of radical Black resistance against militarized domestic state repression. pic.twitter.com/LDnsQnLJQn

— Tristen Schmidt (@TristenSchmidt) September 1, 2022

We will address  the relationship between the class struggle at home and anti-impeeriism abroad. Speaker(s) TBA

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