Panelists:

Bob Mandel, founding member of the ILWU Militant Caucus; OEA Executive
Board (ret.) co-founder, Adult School Teachers United

Tom Riley, co-founder, with Howard Keylor, of the External Tendency of the
iSt / Bolshevik Tendency

Mary Jane Galviso, lifelong Marxist, Communist and comrade of Howard
Keylor; founding member, Filipino Farmers Cooperative and its parent
organization, the Rural Communities Resource Center

Howard Keylor was a long-time communist militant in International
Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10. A veteran of the Battle of Okinawa, he
made the motion in Local 10 for the 11 day strike of the Nedlloyd Kimberley in 1984
against South African apartheid. For twelve years, Howard was elected to the
Executive Board of Local 10 on an open class struggle program which described
the government as the “executive committee of the capitalists” and the class
collaborationist labor leadership as its tool.

The Howard Keylor Conference Room at the DSA offices is named in his
memory. To dedicate the conference room, Howard’s comrades present a panel on
his work, beginning with Howard quitting college to support Filipino agricultural
workers in the Stockton asparagus strike in 1948, the bi-coastal ILA/ILWU boycott
of Chilean cargo against Pinochet in 1974, to the three community pickets against
Zim ships for Palestine in 2014, and more.

Link to event:
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To learn more about Howard’s life:
http://bit.ly/42953VH

Audio and video about Howard:
https://linktr.ee/howardkeylor

Most immigrants come to this country to escape violence and persecution and to work to support their families. While Trump is virulent in his threats against them, politicians of both capitalist parties spew the rhetoric and advocate various policies including detention and deportation to ban immigrants, even while they and their allies benefit from their labor.

Join our speakers who will present a picture of what may be coming from the Trump administration and how we can resist.

David Bacon � photojournalist, author of Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants

Marisa Almor � community organizer, East Bay Sanctuary Covenant

Jesus Moctezuma � educator, organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation

*Organizations listed for identification purposes only.

Speaker: Roger D. Harris

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Forecasts are favorable for Venezuela’s quarter-century-old Bolivarian Revolution. Initiated by Hugo Chávez and seamlessly carried forward by Nicolás Maduro, it is threatened by an increasingly aggressive Yankee hegemon. Venezuela’s regional role will be pivotal with key left-leaning presidents in Brazil and Colombia up for reelection in the next two years.

Our speaker, Roger D. Harris, accompanied the January 10 presidential election in Venezuela and the concurrent antifascist conference. He will report back on what happened there as well as on Washington’s campaign to delegitimize the country’s Bolivarian Revolution with the ultimate aim of regime change.

Roger is on the executive committee of the US Peace Council. He is active with the anti-imperialist human rights group Task Force on the Americas, the SanctionsKill Campaign against unilateral coercive measures, is a founding member of the Venezuela Solidarity Network, and is on the secretariat of the US Peace Council. He is also on the ICSS program committee.

Some of the recent articles by or co-authored by Roger on Venezuela and Latin America:

• Maduro Assumes a Third Term: Prospects and Problematics for Venezuela https://orinocotribune.com/venezuelan-president-maduro-assumes-a-third-term-prospects-and-problematics/
• Whether Biden or Trump, US’s Latin American Policy Will Still Be Contemptible https://www.pressenza.com/2025/01/whether-biden-or-trump-uss-latin-american-policy-will-still-be-contemptible-migration-drugs-and-tariffs/
• US Media Promotes Military Intervention in Venezuela https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/28/us-media-promotes-military-intervention-in-venezuela/
• US-backed Venezuelan Opposition Never Tried to Win the Presidency https://dissidentvoice.org/2024/11/us-backed-venezuelan-opposition-never-tried-to-win-the-presidency/
• What Venezuelans Think about their Presidential Election https://popularresistance.org/what-venezuelans-think-about-their-presidential-election/
• How the US Could Have Won the Venezuelan Election https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/08/26/how-the-us-could-have-won-the-venezuelan-election/

Join us in this critical fight and secure your spot at our upcoming town hall by RSVPing now.

Fighting Trump’s First Attacks

AJ Hikes, ACLU Deputy Executive Director for Strategy & Culture, will be the moderator, joined by a panel of the ACLU’s leadership team:

• Anthony D. Romero, ACLU Executive Director
• Cecillia Wang, ACLU National Legal Director
• John Gilbert, ACLU National Organizing Director
• Naureen Shah, ACLU Deputy Director of Government Affairs, Equality Division
• Chase Strangio, ACLU LGBTQ & HIV Rights Project Co-Director

They will provide key insights into the ACLU’s response to the Trump administration, from litigation to advocacy and grassroots organizing, as well as the crucial role states and cities have to play in protecting our freedoms. Importantly, more than just a briefing, the town hall will be a space for community and solidarity as we work to defend our democracy and advance the fight for justice and equality.

RSVP right now to receive a link to the virtual event and to submit your questions in advance.

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A second Trump administration will push U.S. policy in the Middle East in a very dangerous direction. Already, Trump has thrown his weight behind the most extremist elements in Israel while effectively renouncing international legal precedence, embracing Arab dictatorships, and making the U.S. very much of an outlier even among our pro-Western allies. However, the Biden administration pursued many of these dangerous policies as well. As a result, supporters of Palestinian rights–and proponents of human rights and international law in general–must be willing to challenge the leadership of both political parties in the coming months and years.

Dr. Stephen Zunes is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, where he served as founding director of the program in Middle Eastern Studies. Recognized as one the country’s leading scholars of U.S. Middle East policy and of strategic nonviolent action, Zunes has served as a senior policy analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus project of the Institute for Policy Studies, an associate editor of Peace Review, and a contributing editor of Tikkun.

He is also the principal editor of “Nonviolent Social Movements” (1999), author of the highly acclaimed “Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism” (2003) and co-author (with Jacob Mundy) of “Western Sahara: War, Nationalism and Conflict Irresolution” (second revised expanded edition, 2022.)

Zunes was the recipient of the 2015 Dean’s Scholar Award from USF’s College of Arts and Sciences and, in 2002, he won recognition from the Peace and Justice Studies Association as their first Peace Scholar of the Year. He is also a frequent contributor to periodicals and major daily newspapers on four continents and has also served as a consultant and board member for a number of peace and human rights organizations in both the United States and overseas.

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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Debtors of the world, unite!

Alone, our debts are a burden. Together they give us power. When we share our experiences of debt and economic pressure with each other, we begin to see our collective power to change the systems that exploit us. Everyone is welcome to participate in this debtors assembly, whether or not you are currently debt-burdened.

This is a 100 Days to Build Debtor Power event. Over the first 100 days of the new presidential administration, we’re embarking – together – on an intensive campaign of organizing trainings, political education, and debtors assemblies to build our solidarity AND prepare us with the skills we’ll need in the months & years ahead.

Register

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

For our January, 2025 meeting we will be reading the first seven chapters Making Sense of Chaos by by J. Doyne Farmer (Yale University Press, Amazon). For our February meeting, we will be finishing the book.

We live in an age of increasing complexity—an era of accelerating technology and global interconnection that holds more promise, and more peril, than any other time in human history. The fossil fuels that have powered global wealth creation now threaten to destroy the world they helped build. Automation and digitization promise prosperity for some, unemployment for others. Financial crises fuel growing inequality, polarization, and the retreat of democracy. At heart, all these problems are rooted in the economy, yet the guidance provided by economic models has often failed.
 
Many books have been written about J. Doyne Farmer and his work, but this is the first in his own words. It presents a manifesto for how to do economics better. In this tale of science and ideas, Farmer fuses his profound knowledge and expertise with stories from his life to explain how we can bring a scientific revolution to bear on the economic conundrums facing society.
 
Using big data and ever more powerful computers, we are now able for the first time to apply complex systems science to economic activity, building realistic models of the global economy. The resulting simulations and the emergent behavior we observe form the cornerstone of the science of complexity economics, allowing us to test ideas and make significantly better economic predictions—to better address the hard problems facing the world.

Strike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included (in chronological order) 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, Less is More,  Cannibal Capitalism,  Debt, the First 5000 Years , Poverty, By America, End Times, Jackson Rising Redux , The Feminist Subversion of the Economy, How Infrastructure Works, Inside the Systems that Shape our World, Wealth Supremacy, The Persuaders,  The Path to a Livable Future, Solidarity,  Mutual Aid and Breaking Together.

Speaker: Dan Kovalik

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Our speaker, international human rights advocate and lawyer Dan Kovalik just returned from Syria, once a beautiful country and the cradle of civilization. He visited so that we could speak out for people there who can’t speak out because they fear violent repression. Dan will report back on the current situation in light of historical developments. The new de facto government was in large part brought to power by the US and other foreign entities and does not have a mandate or right to rule. Multiculturalism has been destroyed by the new government, putting many minorities at risk.

Dan Kovalik has written extensively on international human rights and US foreign policy. He has lectured throughout the world on these subjects and frequently appears on RT. He is the author of books exposing the machinations of US imperialism in Nicaragua, Venezuela, Iran, and Russia, and most recently Palestine/Israel. Other books include a progressive case against cancel culture and how the US violates international law. He teaches international human rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.  He graduated from Columbia University School of Law. He then served as in-house counsel for the United Steelworkers, AFL-CIO (USW) until 2019.

• See this video made on his return to the US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC2L-R3yXI0
• Here is an earlier interview: https://www.mintpressnews.com/dan-kovalik-on-elections-rebuilding-and-the-ongoing-proxy-war-in-syria/277524/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
• Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZBgjZLW8lI

Invite Link

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At 18 years of age, Theodore Hall was the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, hired as a junior at Harvard and put to work at Los Alamos in 1944. Assigned the job of testing and refining the complex implosion system for the plutonium bomb, Hall was described as “amazingly brilliant” by his superiors on the project, many of whom were Nobel Prize winners. But what Hall’s colleagues didn’t know was that the teenaged Hall was also the youngest spy taken on by the Soviet Union in search of secrets to the atomic bomb. Spy With No Country tells the gripping story of a brilliant scientist whose information about the plutonium bomb, including detailed drawings and measurements, proved to be integral to the Soviet’s development of nuclear capabilities.

In the dying days of World War II, defeat of the Third Reich became a matter of when, not if. Tensions between wartime allies America and the Soviet Union began to rise, and things only got hotter when the United States refused to share information on its nuclear program. This groundbreaking book paints a nuanced picture of a young man acting on what he thought was best for the world.

Neither a Communist nor a Soviet sympathizer, Hall worked to ensure that America did not monopolize the science behind the atomic bomb, which he felt may have apocalyptic consequences. Instead, by providing the Soviets with the secrets of the bomb, and thereby initiating “mutual assured destruction,” Hall may have actually saved the world as we know it. But his contributions to the Soviets certainly did not go unnoticed. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover opened an investigation into Hall, which was escalated when it was discovered that Hall’s brother Edward was a rising star of the Air Force, leading the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Featuring in-depth research from recently declassified FBI documents, first-hand journals, and personal interviews, investigative journalist Dave Lindorff uncovers the story of the atomic spy who gave secrets away, and got away with it, too.

Dave Lindorff is an American investigative reporter, filmmaker, a columnist for CounterPunch and a contributor to Tarbell.org, The Nation, FAIR and Salon.com.

Lindorff graduated from Wesleyan University in 1972 with a BA in Chinese language. He then received an MS in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1975. A two-time Fulbright Scholar (Shanghai, 1991–92 and Taiwan, 2004), he was also a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University in 1978–79.

In 2019, he was a winner of an “Izzy” for “Outstanding Independent Journalism” awarded by the Park Center for Independent Media.

He is also founding editor of the collectively run journalism news site ThisCantBeHappening!, along with six other journalists: John Grant, Jess Guh, Alfredo Lopez, Ron Ridenour, and Linn Washington, Jr., political cartoonist Dave Kiphuft and resident poet Gary Lindorff. The news site, since its founding in June 2010, has won seven Project Censored awards for its coverage and was labeled a “threat” in a memo TCBH! obtained through a FOIA filing with the Department of Homeland Security,

A former bureau chief covering Los Angeles County government for the Los Angeles Daily News, and a reporter-producer for PBS station KCET in Los Angeles and its Emmy-winning investigative news program “28-Tonight,” Lindorff was also a founder and editor of the weekly Los Angeles Vanguard newspaper (as was TCBH member Ridenour), established in 1976, where he won the Grand Prize of the Los Angeles Press Club for his reporting as well as an award for Best Article in a Weekly.

Lindorff also worked at the Minneapolis Tribune, the Santa Monica Evening Outlook and The Middletown Press in Connecticut, which was his first professional journalism job.

He is the author of five books, the most recent being Spy for No Country: The Story of Ted Hall, the Teenage Atomic Spy Who May Have Saved the World. His previous books include: The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office, written with attorney Barbara Olshansky of the Center for Constitutional Rights, as well as Killing Time: An Investigation into the Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal.

He is co-producer along with Mark Mitten of A Compassionate Spy,^[a feature-length documentary film directed by two-time Academy Award-nominee Steve James, about the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, 18-year-old Theodore (Ted) Hall, hired at Los Alamos to work on the implosion system for the plutonium bomb used in the Trinity Test on July 16, 1945, and a month later on Nagasaki. This movie is available from AMAZON.

Take To the Streets
“Presidents Day"
Monday, FEB 17
NO! In the Name of Humanity,
We REFUSE To Accept a Fascist America!

Now Is the Time: Stand Up, Resist, Protest
To STOP Trump’s MAGA Fascism

Find/host a protest
>> https://t.co/0rw9jIsiZp#NotMyPresidentsDay #RefuseFascism pic.twitter.com/h0lrXasLWi

— Refuse Fascism (@RefuseFascism) February 13, 2025

The bellicose foreign policy of the U.S. continues to fuel instability and war worldwide in misguided efforts to attain global hegemony. In Europe, the Mideast, and the Pacific, U.S. covert and overt actions are undermining political stability and endangering peace. The webinar will explain how this process works, review the historic record, and address the dangers posed by continuation of covert and overt U.S. actions that harm other nations and threaten our own national security.

You must pre-register for the webinar HERE or click on the link below
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Panelists:

Matthew Hoh has been a Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy since 2010. In 2009, Matthew resigned in protest from his post in Afghanistan with the State Department over the American escalation of the war. He advocates a foreign policy centered on diplomacy, human rights, and international cooperation, rather than militarism. He is a disabled veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps who served in Iraq.

Dr. Jill Stein was the Green Party candidate for President in 2024, 2016, and 2012. Jill advocates for cutting military spending, ending U.S. interventionist wars, and closing overseas military bases. She supports replacing militarism with diplomacy, promoting international cooperation, and respecting international law. Her approach prioritizes addressing the root causes of conflict, such as poverty, climate change, and inequality, and redirecting resources toward global humanitarian aid and development.

Daniel Kovalik, a human rights lawyer and author, is a strong critic of U.S. interventionist foreign policies. He opposes regime change operations, economic sanctions, and military interventions, arguing that these tactics often violate international law and worsen conditions in affected countries. Kovalik emphasizes the importance of respecting national sovereignty and addressing global issues like poverty and inequality through cooperation rather than coercion.

The webinar moderators will be Madelyn Hoffman, a Co-Chair of GPAX, and Noura Khouri of the Green Party of California.

Madelyn Hoffman is an environmentalist and peace activist. Madelyn served as the director of New Jersey Peace Action from 2000 to 2018 and has been a prominent figure in the Green Party, running as their candidate for U.S. Senate in 2018 and 2020, and for Governor of New Jersey in 1997 and 2021.

Noura Khouri is a U.S. born Palestinian human rights activist and community organizer based in Oakland, California. Over the past two decades, Noura has dedicated herself to advocating for Palestinian rights, serving as a campaign strategist and organizer. She has lived and worked in occupied Palestine and Egypt, gaining firsthand experience in the role and impact of US foreign policy on the region.

On February 19th, federal workers and supporters are gathering to say NO to Elon Musk’s push to gut federal services and impose mass layoffs.
Join us at La Peña Cultural Center for a quick photo op to support this push back against the coup!
There will be singing!
We’ll gather at 2:30–take and share some photos of all of us with our signs. Make your own or just show up! We’ll be done before 3 PM.

Our demands:

• NO cuts to vital services
• NO mass layoffs: respect union workers’ contracts
• END the funding freeze

Join federal workers, unions, and community members rallying for a Save Our Services day of action!

Wear red, white, and/or blue. Bring signs about how your community benefits from federal services. This is a family-friendly events. All are welcome.

This event is a part of the 100 Days of Debtor Organizing and in particular is for those a part of the Debt Collective’s 50 Over 50. This call is open to anyone and will serve as a training to supporting student debtors in your community with information on the current avenues to debt cancellation. We will be sharing how we hosted events in local communities to educate and support folks on these methods of debt cancellation. This is through existing programs such as Total and Permanent Disability Discharge, Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and Income Driven Repayment cancellation. As well, we provide tips in how to have debtor organizing conversation.

Join us on zoom on Feb 19th at 8pm ET, you can register here.

Doors open at 1:30 p.m.

https://bit.ly/SSS_ClimateCatastrophes
to receive your personal link to participate in this event online

The L.A. fires are a recent instance of the many disasters related to climate change that are occurring around the world. These include more frequent and harsher droughts, increasing flooding events, and more intense and destructive storms like hurricanes and tornadoes. Capitalist players, like the monopolistic fossil fuel and utilities corporations, are exacerbating this crisis.

Our speakers are socialists who are involved in fighting this threat to humanity and the natural world. They will share their perspectives on the crisis and the movements organizing for both short-term and systemic change.

Ted Franklin – organizer/legal consultant, No Coal in Oakland campaign; member, DSA Green New Deal caucus; member, coordinating committee of the national System Change, Not Climate Change coalition

Scott Brown – electrical engineer; organizer, Party for Socialism and Liberation; organizer, Reclaim Our Power Coalition, fighting to replace PG&E with a statewide people’s utility in California

*Organizations listed for identification purposes only.

Please help us celebrate our return to the Starry Plough by ordering food and/or drinks.
Please arrive early to place your order so that you do not miss any of the presentations.
An open discussion will follow the presentations.
We will be accepting donations which will be divided among the sponsoring organizations.

This event is sponsored by the Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party,
the Alameda County Green Party and Bay Area System Change Not Climate Change.

For more information email <info@sudssnackssocialism.org>

Speaker: John Perry

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Latin America Resists Trump � Deportations, Drugs, and Economic Waarfare

The main difference between Donald Trump and his predecessors is that the current CEO of the empire better exposes naked imperialism. With an ever more aggressive and virulent projection of hegemony, the Yankees view problems such as migration and drug trafficking as simply coming from the south, ignoring some of the underlying made-in-the-USA causes.

To reverse that narrative, our speaker will provide a view from the south and how resistance is building in Latin America and the Caribbean.  Nicaragua-based John Perry is a naturalized citizen and a supporter of the Sandinista Revolution. He is a journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, Grayzone, FAIR, and many other publications.

For background, see:

• Migration, Drugs, and Tariffs: Whether Biden or Trump, US’s Latin American Policy Will Still Be Contemptible. https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/03/migration-drugs-and-tariffs-whether-biden-or-trump-uss-latin-american-policy-will-still-be-contemptible/
• CAFTA treaty and Prospect of New US Sanctions Against Nicaragua. https://www.nicasolidarity.com/10222024-nica-breaks-relations-israel-statement-to-europe-conference/the-cafta-treaty-and-the-prospect-of-new-us-sanctions-against-nicaragua?rq=cafta
• Panama Tries Compromise; US Says It’s Not Enough. https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/03/panama-tries-compromise-us-says-its-not-enough/
• Development banker says US knew of plot to oust him over Nicaragua loans. https://thegrayzone.com/2025/01/22/development-banker-us-plot-nicaragua-loans/

Members of the public can view the meeting live on KTOP or on the City’s website at
https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/ktop-tv-10.

Relevant Agenda:

4. Federal Task Force Ordinance – OPD – Annual Reports: Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA); Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF); Secret Service; United States Marshall Service (USMS);
Federal Bureau of Investigation Violent Crimes – Safe Streets (FBI); Federal Bureau of Investigation
Child Exploitation (FBI)

5. Privacy Advisory Commission – Annual Election of Chair/Vice-Chair
a. Vote on nominee(s) for chair and vice-chair positions

As we suspected, the number of arrests of individuals under some form of ICE surveillance (via formal check-ins with ICE and/or through the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program/ISAP) has significantly increased since the start of the Trump Administration. CJE has connected with dozens of groups across the country about how these arrests have been carried out and have identified a few patterns that ICE appears to be following – most notably the use of ruse tactics to trick people and then arrest them. We are continuing to track these arrests so please reach out directly if you have information that would help our efforts.

We’ve updated the resource we released back in January “When ICE is Watching: Know Your Fight, Protect Your People”, which provides information to people under ICE surveillance about the risks for arrest and detention, with the information that we’ve been able to collect so far about these arrests. The resource is now available in English, Spanish, French, Wolof, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Hindi, Arabic, Cebuano, Farsi, and Pashto. You can find the folder with all the resources here: https://bit.ly/knowyourfight. Please continue to share it widely!

Additionally, if your organization is working with people under any kind of ICE surveillance we want to invite you to join us for a community conversation on Friday, March 7th at 9:30am PT/12:30pm ET. At this meeting, we will briefly review the resource, discuss how these arrests have been conducted, and any connections that might exist between them. We want groups to discuss what they’re witnessing and how they’re supporting community members under ICE surveillance. You must register here to participate.

If you can’t make the meeting, but want to be in touch with us, please fill out this link.

California State Capitol – West Side Mall
1010 L. St.

REGISTER HERE FOR SACRAMENTO