An introduction to the global struggle for Socialism.
Redwood Gardens
Join Diablo Rising Tide and many allies at PG&E corporate headquarters to #ReclaimOurPower and start a wave of action that continues through the winter. There will be speakers, programming, and more! Accessible and kid-friendly.
The action will demand that PG&E:
1. GIVE BACK ALL SHAREHOLDER PROFITS UNTIL PG&E CAN SAFELY PROVIDE POWER. STOP PROFITING OFF PEOPLE’S LIVES.
PG&E has paid out billions in shareholder dividends to predatory investors, while people are dying due to PG&E’s negligence. PG&E has failed to upgrade infrastructure for the stresses we face amidst climate change. Their equipment failures start fires that burn down cities, displace whole communities, and poison the air we breathe across entire regions. PG&E dodges accountability by continuing to seek executive bonuses amidst bankruptcy, shutting down power instead of repairing their equipment, and spending thousands on an exclusive retreat the day before the largest shutoffs.
2. INVEST IN VULNERABLE PEOPLE’S BASIC POWER NEEDS. STOP PUTTING PEOPLE AT RISK.
Disabled people have died in the shut offs — even one loss is too many. Ten more years of blackouts are unacceptable because blackouts kill disabled people and harm Black and Brown, working class and poor communities. #NoBodyIsDisposable! PG&E must invest in: solar-powered batteries to power the equipment of every medical baseline customer during power outages; HEPA air filters for chronically ill people, elders, and children in areas impacted by fire smoke; groceries for people who live paycheck to paycheck; alternative lodging for people whose homes depend on power to survive; compensation for small businesses who experienced losses during the shutoffs; and payouts to victims of PG&E-caused fires.
3. TURN PG&E OVER TO THE PEOPLE.
PG&E has a well documented history of criminal negligence of its infrastructure, which has caused fires, death, and destruction. Now, PG&E has claimed that it will take ten years to fix California’s grid — that means 10 more years of rolling black outs with the public footing the bill. This is unacceptable and will consistently put so many lives at risk. We won’t let PG&E continue with their negligence. A public takeover of the grid will allow for the needs of the public, rather than shareholders, to be the priority. By switching to a publicly owned grid, California can create a more democratized, decentralized, and sustainable power grid for all. #CleanPowerToThePeople
Oakland youth call for a gathering at Oscar Grant plaza to create a community “Resilient Village”.
This action is youth led and cohosted by YVA, Mycelium Youth Network, Planting Justice and others.
Nobody Is Above the Law. That’s why we’re calling on Congress to Impeach & Remove Donald Trump.
The night before the House of Representatives takes a somber vote to impeach Trump, we’ll head to every congressional office and public square to declare that Nobody Is Above the Law as representatives finalize their positions and senators look on.
Join this historic nationwide mobilization on the eve of Trump’s impeachment vote: RSVP for an event near you or sign up to host one. Events will be visible, family-friendly, public gatherings to demonstrate to our lawmakers that their constituents are behind them to defend the Constitution—and that Trump has left them no alternative to uphold their oath of office but to support impeachment and removal.
Join Critical Resistance to help us send solidarity postcards to imprisoned people!
Every year in the wintertime, Critical Resistance sends a note of solidarity, hope, and encouragement to all of the 7,500+ subscribers of The Abolitionist newspaper that are currently locked up in jails, detention centers, and prisons.
Come by to write a personalized note of solidarity.
The art for this postcard was done by Eduardo Sarmiento, a political prisoner in the Philippines. Thanks to SELDA, an organization of political prisoners and former political detainees in the Philippines, who provided the artwork.
Justice for Jamaica Hampton!
SFPD has scheduled a 'town hall' where they will try to justify last week's shooting. Be there to demand answers for their violence. We won't tolerate the continued brutalization of the people of our city!
An Injury to One is an Injury to All! pic.twitter.com/vpSoqUSEIS
— DSA San Francisco (@DSA_SF) December 14, 2019
Join the Local Clean Energy Alliance, the Sierra Club, and others to tell East Bay Community Energy not to buy nuclear power. On December 18, East Bay Community Energy (EBCE) will consider a proposal to contract for “carbon free” energy, which would be 30% large hydroelectric and 70% nuclear..
Now there is no nuclear in East Bay Community Energy’s power mix, and many community members and organizations who advocated for community choice explicitly intended to have a “nuclear free” program. As evidenced by the 2025 decommissioning of Diablo Canyon (the last nuclear plant in CA), nuclear is on the way out. This process has been hastened by nuclear plant accidents, failing designs, cost and the operational time lag in new plants, not to mention the unsolvable hazardous waste problem.
The Local Clean Energy Alliance says neither large hydro nor nuclear is community- or environmentally friendly — check out the Principles of Environmental Justice.
The East Bay Community Energy board agenda is expected to be available here December 14 and the board is expected to make a decision on December 18. Please join in telling EBCE to reject nuclear energy
More info here
join PBS Blackside documentary
filmmaker Aleta Alston Toure’, who has been staying with Canticle Farm for two
months. Aleta is a Mother, Filmmaker, Healer and Social Change
organizer/strategist that is presently helping to build the Parable of
the Sower Intentional Community Cooperative. Aleta will be joined by
local Bay Area members Kazu Haga, East Point Peace Academy and with
Lousie Dunlap, Undoing the Silence: Six tools for Social Change Writing,
as they screen and discuss the culminating 20 years since the
“Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage Walk” which started May 30,
1998 where they were peace walkers on the 20 mile a day journey to
retrace slavery through America, The Caribbean, South America and
Africa.
Come hear about how this journey came together through the PBS Episode
6: Rise Up and Call Their Names.
Rise Up and Call Their Names, which chronicles a two-year interfaith,
multiracial, multiethnic pilgrimage from Massachusetts to Africa�by
way of Florida and the Caribbean�undertaken to heal the wounds of
slavery.
But is religious belief alone enough to hold the pilgrimage together?
Rise Up and Call Their Names follows 60 people who joined the Interfaith
Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage on a physical and spiritual voyage.
They walked from Massachusetts to Florida, then made their way to the
Caribbean and ultimately to Africa. Their purpose was to encourage
whites to join the conversation about slavery and to pray to heal the
societal racial rift.
Along the way, they visited the Masjid Khalifah Mosque (part of Imam
Wallace Mohammed’s Muslim American Society) and the Federation of
Southern Cooperatives, which works with black farmers struggling to hold
onto their land in Alabama. After months of difficult travel and deep
soul-searching, the pilgrims reach Africa with a stronger sense of
identity and purpose.
Further information:
https://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/about/episode_6.html
https://middlepassagereunion.wordpress.com/about/
https://newenglandpeacepagoda.org/
See how the Parable of the Sower Intentional Community Cooperative and
the Canticle Farms Community are utilizing spiritual upliftment and
liberation as a way to bring housing and “Beloved Communities” together.
The Residents of the West Oakland Wood st Homeless Community have been continually harrassed and threatened by the City of Oakland and the real estate developer, Game Changer LLC. Over a hundred homeless people have informally settled on Wood st in West Oakland, as the developer looks to make a profit, residents are being threatened with eviction. Residents have been fighting this eviciton for over a year.
Residents are planning to deliver a letter to an Oakland politician, demanding an end to this harrassment and that no homeless community be removed without adequate housing alternatives being made available.
BASTA! WE CAN SAVE CHELSEA MANNING AND
JULIAN ASSANGE FROM TORTURE/DEATH
Please join our weekly vigils.
We can help you start your own. Also sign up for our emails and alerts at: https://bayaction2freeassange.org
and watch the INCREDABLE “SHOWTIMES”doc. “XYChelsea free @ https://archive.org/details/XYChelsea
The Main Stream Media (MSM) is so full of lies, it’s got the masses confused!!
There are only a few places we can get the truth.Chelsea and Julian were two
of the most important WHISTLE BLOWERS to tell the truth about USA’s
illegal, immoral WARS. USA is one of the largest TERRORIST countries in
history, killing, wounding, and forcing emigration on millions (did you know
there are 65 million migrants?) all over the world!!
Saving Chelsea and Julian is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!! To the
Working class and it’s Allies.They told us the truth about the wars! And all the
NEW MacArthyism (phony Russia Gate conspiracy led by the New York Times)
is blaming Julian for being a puppet of Russia. So much of all our issues stem
from the honesty of Chelsea and Julian!! That’s why the RULING CLASS
imprisoned them and want’s them DEAD.
Please write letters to Chelsea (only hand written and no post cards or
pictures, or anything written on the outside of the letter) Write to:
Chelsea Elizabeth Manning,
William Truesdale Adult Detention Center,
2001 Mill Road, Alexandria Va. 22314.
Also write to julian @ writejulian.com
Web sites and twitter feeds – @xychelsea,@defendassange, andwikileaks.org –
– Real News Network – “Federal judge continues Chelsea Manning’s
confinement and $1000/day fine” https://youtub.be/qjywz_U_x1c – The
–Jimmy Dore Show – “Chelsea Manning jailed again for protecting
journalism” https://youtu.be/bTqVNKXZYAY (89,000 hits)
– Chelsea Manning 2min “Abolish ICE”https://youtu.be/R7qpQGGQqa8
—Orion song”WE will keep fightin everyday even though our tears won’t go
away!” https://youtu.be/T5-3db8GDFY
— Chelsea’s scathing 7 page letter to the judge about the history of
the SECRET GRAND JURIES: –
Have you ever wanted to build a socialist utopia out of gingerbread houses? Want to learn more about what East Bay DSA is doing around housing? Wondering what exactly is “social housing?” Join the East Bay DSA Housing Committee for a fun evening of making gingerbread houses and socializing with comrades. We’re also assembling hygiene kits including donated items like soaps, socks, and toothpaste. This is open to the general public – So that’s you! And your friends. And your friend’s friends. And your cousin’s cousin. Oh, and kids are welcome, too!
One of the best days of the year at the New Parkway is our birthday: yummy cake, a bunch of friends, singing, good cheer, and of course lots of great movies. We’re so happy to be turning seven and hope that you’ll help us ring in our adolescence in two weeks time.
Here’s what we have in store:
$1 Movies All Day Long! It used to be that the movie prices on our birthday were the same as our age, but $7 tickets just aren’t that special, and we want everything about our birthday to be marvelous!
Great Movie Choices! Whether you like old or now, feature or documentary, family-friendly or dark, we’ve got something for everyone. Here’s the line-up:
12:15pm ABOMINABLE 🎫
12:40pm GREMLINS 🎫
2:40pm ELF 🎫
3:15pm IT�S A WONDERFUL LIFE 🎫
5:05pm FANTASTIC FUNGI 🎫
6:10pm THE LIGHTHOUSE 🎫
7:15pm HONEY BOY 🎫
8:45pm TBA
9:30pm TBA
You can have your cake and eat it too! We’ll have a homemade cake for each and every movie so everyone who wants some will get at least a nibble.
Nine lucky winners! At each and every show on the 22nd, there will be one guest who will take home a 2020 Annual Pass for basically unlimited movies for an entire year. So come see a $1 show for the chance to win hundreds of 2020 free shows!
And we’ve got some other surprises for you as well. Check the schedule and mark your calendar for the 22nd. And happy birthday to all of us!
THE NEW PARKWAY THEATER is a community-centered cinema and pub located in Oakland’s Uptown district. Sit back and relax in our cozy couches while watching our new releases, cult classics, and fabulous special programming. Enjoy delicious food and local beer and wine on tap delivered right to your theater seat, all at affordable prices! See you at the New Parkway!
Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library
On the eve of one of the holiest festivals of the Christian calendar we take a materialist and dialectical look at this influential religious denomination. Our topic will be introduced by ICSS member Richard Fallenbaum.
So that is why we are asking you to join our Christmas Eve Press Conference 👇
Tomorrow 12/24 @ 10AM
2928 Magnolia St, Oakland
— Moms 4 Housing (@moms4housing) December 24, 2019
URGENT – @moms4housing eviction hearing date has been expedited by the courts and will now be Thursday, 12/26.
Show up to the Hayward Hall of Justice at 8:30AM
24405 AMADOR ST. Hayward, CA 94544 https://t.co/LdRfdCgDFy
— Coalition on Homelessness (@TheCoalitionSF) December 25, 2019
Five years ago, the Bay Area achieved one of the most successful BDS victories against apartheid Israel in US history! In 2014 we stopped the Israeli-owned ZIM shipping line from docking at the Port of Oakland for 3 consecutive months, and it hasn’t returned since!
Join us to celebrate the historic and decisive Block the Boat victory as a major contribution to all movements for social and economic justice!
Music, food, drinks and speakers from the Block the Boat coalition.
Lisa Savage is a hard-hitting teacher-organizer-grandmother who’s been spearheading the “Conversion” campaign at Maine’s Bath Iron Works to convert it to supply green energy and transportation, rather than billion-dollar destroyer warships that drain our budget, worsen climate change, and don’t make us safer. She’s running in a high-profile Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) contest to challenge vulnerable Trump ally Senator Susan Collins in Maine.
Lisa’s race will also showcase RCV as the real solution to the “spoiler” hysteria used across the nation to shut down Green voices. By lifting up the real solution to “spoiler” panic, Lisa’s race will strengthen the RCV momentum that’s well underway across the nation.
Please join us at a reception on Thursday evening to meet Lisa and to support her US Senate campaign which Jill Stein recently called, “the most hopeful race on the 2020 horizon”. If you’re not able to attend on Thursday, you can still support Lisa at: LisaForMaine.org
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With gracious donations and coordination from nonprofit Peninsula Food Runners, The East Oakland Collective has embarked on distributing 400 lbs of gourmet food from Silicon Valley to those in need in Oakland.
For more info and schedule, visit our volunteer webpage.
V for Vendetta is a 2005 dystopian political thriller film directed by James McTeigue and written by the Wachowskis based on the 1988 DC/Vertigo Comics limited series of the same name by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. Set in an alternate future where a Nordic supremacist and neo-fascist totalitarian regime has subjugated the United Kingdom, the film centers on V (portrayed by Hugo Weaving), an anarchist and masked freedom fighter who attempts to ignite a revolution through elaborate terrorist acts, while Natalie Portman plays Evey, a young, working-class woman caught up in V’s mission and Stephen Rea portrays a detective leading a desperate quest to stop V.
V for Vendetta has been seen by many political groups as an allegory of oppression by government; libertarians and anarchists have used it to promote their beliefs.
David Lloyd stated: “The Guy Fawkes mask has now become a common brand and a convenient placard to use in protest against tyranny – and I’m happy with people using it, it seems quite unique, an icon of popular culture being used this way.”
After movie discussion led by Sake One of KPFA’s “Oooh, They Mad” program!
This topic was suggested by ICSS member Karen Steward who will provide an introduction to this fascinating book.