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Please join KPFA Radio when we welcome iconoclastic media personality Greg Palast for a very special screening of his brand new film, Vigilante: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman. This live, in-person event will be hosted by KPFA’s Dennis Bernstein.
Greg Palast and his investigations team bust the most brazen, racist attack on voting rights yet – engineered by Georgia’s Brian Kemp to ensure victory in his rematch with Stacey Abrams. You’ll meet Kemp’s army of vigilante vote challengers. One dresses up like Old-West vigilante Doc Holliday with loaded six-gun, one of a posse of right-wing operatives who have challenged over a quarter million voters.
And there’s the hidden story of Brian Kemp, scion of the family that was the first to bring captive Africans to Georgia.
It’s not a story of Democrat versus Republican, but history versus smothered truth.
especially young women, taking to the streets across Iran in the face of police tear gas, batons and bullets. This rebellion was sparked when Iran’s “morality police” killed Mahsa Amini in custody. Her “crime”? Her hair was not completely covered by her hijab, the mandatory headscarf. The fury of young women burning their hijabs in bonfires in the streets has touched people everywhere women are oppressed – that is, the entire world.
Come see Persepolis. This is the first of a series of events we will do on Iran. This 2007 film presents a vivid picture of a young girl growing up in Iran. Through her story and that of her family, you see what it feels like inside the Islamic Republic, and see what is behind today’s massive rejection of the regime. Stay for a discussion.
Midwestern Marx comes to Northern California!
Midwestern Marx, a Marxist educational Institute originally organized in the midwestern United States, considers the working class to be at the heart of the revolutionary struggle in the US, and as such are dedicated to eliminating the divide between Socialists and the US working class. They publish the Journal of American Socialist Studies, books and articles on the struggle for socialism in the US, have a website at midwesternmarx.com, and a YouTube channel MidwesternMarx that offers video interviews, discussions on theory, political analysis, and live shows to over twenty-five thousand subscribers.
SPECIAL FORMAT WITH TWO SEPARATE 30 MINUTE PRESENTATIONS
1, The Comprehensive Crisis in the U.S.
and the Revolutionary Way Forward
In line with the tradition of Marxism-Leninism, this presentation argues that the elements constitutive of objectively revolutionary conditions are all present in the U.S.; what is missing for a successful revolutionary movement is the subjective factor. The presenter will argue that the purity fetish which predominates the outlook of modern American communism has presented a fundamental fetter for the development of the subjective factor in the American working masses; the development of a consistent dialectical materialist worldview, it will be argued, is the precondition for the advancement of the subjective conditions.
Speaker Bio:
Carlos L. Garrido is a Cuban American PhD student and instructor in philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (with an M.A. in philosophy from the same institution). His research focuses include Marxism, Hegel, early 19th century American socialism, and socialism with Chinese characteristics. He is an editor in Midwestern Marx Institute for Marxist Theory and Political Analysis and in the Journal of American Socialist Studies. His popular writings have appeared in dozens of socialist magazines in various languages. As a political analyst with a focus on Latin America (esp. Cuba), he has appeared in dozens of radio and video interviews around the world. He also edited and introduced Marxism and the Dialectical Materialist Worldview: An Anthology of Classical Marxist Texts on Dialectical Materialism (Midwestern Marx Publishing Press, 2022).
2. The Crisis of American Healthcare Post-Covid-19.
This presentation will provide an analysis of how corporate investors used the pandemic to maximize their profits and how the U.S. left missed a chance to critique these predatory practices. An argument will be made towards a class centered analysis of American healthcare and its place in the struggle for socialism in the U.S.
Speaker Bio:
Edward Liger Smith is an American Political Scientist and specialist in anti-imperialist and socialist projects, especially Venezuela and China. He also has research interests in the role southern slavery played in the development of American and European capitalism. He is currently a graduate student, assistant, and wrestling coach at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.
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The Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation invites the community to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the statue's installation and the 56th anniversary of the Black Panther Party. There will be music, food, vendors, and guest speakers.
10/23/22 noon to 3pm:https://t.co/KG9Kn53cya pic.twitter.com/sPMjfFGbOj— RasCeylon (@RasCeylon) October 9, 2022
Maybe you’ve been getting our emails for months or years but never come to a DSA event. Maybe you’re a veteran leftist with decades of battles under your belt. Maybe you’re a new member ready to take the next step and get organized.
Wherever you’re coming from, we want to hang out with you!
🌹 Hear what we’re currently working on
💪 Get more involved in critical fights right here in the East Bay
🥨 Eat some snacks
Right now, we’re grappling with a conservative attack on our reproductive rights, a looming climate catastrophe, and a Democratic establishment unwilling to fight for working people. But at the same time, Amazon and Starbucks workers are building power in their workplaces.
There’s never been a more pressing time to make the jump from socialist to *organized* socialist. And that starts with meeting your comrades and taking action. Plus, it’ll be fun, we promise. Join us!
Invite all your union friends and the socialism-curious! Look for us at Snow Park!
Our next decolonization learning group @omnicommons this Sunday at 4pm! Join us on a discussion about Imperialism. As always, newcomers are welcome and we will have an online call for those who cannot make it in person. DM us for the link! *Masks are required* pic.twitter.com/ReQEa8mnMe
— Community Liberation Programs (@comlibprograms) October 21, 2022
The London Revolution 1640-1643 refutes the attacks of revisionist historians who would write the concept of revolution out of history. A defense and restatement of the Marxist view of the English Revolution and Civil War. Chronicles England’s history through the revolution in 1641 – 1642, which toppled the feudal political system, and its aftermath. It explores how London’s growing capitalist economy fundamentally conflicted with its decaying feudal society, causing tensions and dislocations that affected all classes in the early modern period. In contrast with most other works, this book posits that the fundamental driving force of the revolution was the militant Puritan movement supported by the class of petty-bourgeois artisan craftworkers instead of the moderate gentry in the House of Commons.
Our speaker, Michael Sturza, is a life-long socialist political activist. A native New Yorker who grew up in Brooklyn, he learned about radical politics from his father who had been active in the labor movement of the 1930s. In 1966, at the age of 14, he attended his first mass anti-Vietnam War rally with other students from his high school. In college, while actively involved in working class struggles, he studied Marxism, and, in 1974, graduated cum laude from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
In the following decades, while continuing to study Marxism and the history of labor and liberation movements, he remained a labor activist with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). Sturza continues to live, study, and write in New York City. Since his retirement in 2014, he has traveled a good deal, including a nine-week trip to London, York, Edinburgh, and Dublin. Among the places he enjoyed visiting were the Cromwell Museum in Huntingdon, and the National Civil War Centre in Newark. The trip reinforced his belief in the social nature of the English Revolution. It was revisionist historians’ attempts to excise the class basis of the English Revolution and Civil War that led him to the studies detailed in his work.
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Watch a 30-minute film segment followed by a panel discussion with Plague at the Golden Gate’s director and producer.
Plague at the Golden Gate is available for viewing on PBS now. The full film is available with Chinese and Spanish subtitles. You’re encouraged to see the full film before coming to this event.
More than 100 years before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world and set off a wave of fear and anti-Asian sentiment, an outbreak of bubonic plague in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1900 unleashed a similar furor. It was the first time in history that civilization’s most feared disease-the infamous Black Death-made it to North America. Two doctors-vastly different in temperament, training and experience-used different methods to lead the seemingly impossible battle to contain the disease before it could engulf the country. In addition to overwhelming medical challenges, they faced unexpected opposition from business leaders, politicians and even the president of the United States. Fueling the resistance would be a potent blend of political expediency, ignorance, greed, racism and deep-rooted distrust of not only federal authority but science itself. Scapegoated as the source of the disease early on, the Chinese community fought back against unjust, discriminatory treatment. The gripping story of the desperate race against time to save San Francisco and the nation from the deadly disease, Plague at the Golden Gate is based in part on David K. Randall’s critically acclaimed book, Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America From the Bubonic Plague.
Li-Shin Yu is a New York-based filmmaker and director of Plague at the Golden Gate for PBS’s acclaimed series American Experience. Yu co-directed The Chinese Exclusion Act also for American Experience. James Q. Chan is an Emmy-nominated producer and director based in San Francisco. Recent producing credits include Plague at the Golden Gate and Chinatown Rising.
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TOMORROW at 5:30: Join us for our free Annual Membership Meeting & Celebration at Nido’s Backyard in Oakland!
We’ll enjoy food and drinks and celebrate with our outgoing Executive Director Gloria.
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— East Bay Housing Organizations (@EBHO_Housing) November 1, 2022
Relevant Agenda Items:
3. Federal Task Force Transparency Ordinance – OPD – Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), US Marshals Services (USMS), Alcohol Tobacco Firearms (ATF)
a. Review and take possible action on the proposed memoranda of understanding (MOU)
4. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – OFD – Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland (MACRO)
a. Review and take possible action on the proposed use policy and impact statement for review and approval to enter into a contract with Julota software from Touchphrase Development, LLC
BlkAuthor Boulevard: A Bay Area Black Book Fair!
A book fair with some of the world’s best visual, spoken word and performance artists, poets, live theater and a piano concert by Paradise, president of the International Black Writers & Artists, introducing a new genre of music to the world called, Patanisian Jazz – using only the black keys and, inspired by Thelonious Monk, Sun Ra, John and Alice Coltarne, playing the piano like a whole orchestra of instruments! Free! Donations appreciated to help pay the artists and venue. CashApp $paradisethepoet
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The Biden Administration has now launched a full-blown economic war on China. The U.S. hegemon sees a rising China as its main rival and wants to stop China’s rise. For its part, China is expanding its political and economic influence worldwide. Both countries put economic growth ahead of environmental concerns. The conflict may soon come to a head over Taiwan’s future. Is this the making of a catastrophic world war? Is environmental degradation the greater danger? Please join us on November 5 for a discussion of this new cold war.
Richard Smith � A foundiing member of System Change Not Climate Change; author of Green Capitalism: the God that Failed, and China’s Engine of Ecological Collapse
Laurence Shoup � Author off Wall Street’s Think Tank: The Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics
Richard Tan � A criminal defense and civil rights attorney; his offices are in Oakland
*Organizations listed for identification purposes only
This event is sponsored by the Oakland Greens, Bay Area System Change Not Climate Change, and the Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party.
For more information email <info@sudssnackssocialism.org>
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Pleading with arsonists to put out the fire they’ve ignited is what it is like to turn to the UN Security Council, OAS, and United States government to “stabilize” the crisis in Haiti.
Haiti has been under US/ UN occupation for more than 18 years, ever since the US-backed coup d’état in 2004 against the democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. This occupation has perpetrated gross human rights abuses including rape and other forms of sexual abuse. The occupation has brought cholera to Haiti and has systematically destroyed Haiti’s institutions while increasing hunger and misery.
Courageously facing police and paramilitary attacks, the population of Haiti has taken to the streets in ever-growing numbers, demanding their basic human rights and democracy, along with an end to corruption and to the plunder of public resources. They demand an end to US/UN occupation and an end to the right-wing Haitian Tét Kale Party (PHTK) regime headed by Ariel Henry.
They are demanding a transitional government of public safety (Sali Piblik) to create a foundation for free and fair elections and a return to democratic rule. They are demanding an end to IMF-imposed austerity, soaring prices of basic necessities, and declining real wages. They are demanding that their tax money be invested in education, healthcare, sanitation, clean drinking water, and support for Haiti’s peasant farmers who have been the backbone of local food production.
Our speaker is Pierre Labossiere, a longtime activist and a leading member of the Haiti Action Committee ( action.haiti@gmail.com; website www.haitisolidarity.net) and a supporter of Haiti’s popular movement and the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund.
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Join us for a virtual community gathering where we will be responding to letters we receive from people inside prisons and jails in California and across the country. We will be sending in our newsletter, legal resources, parole preparation packets, reentry help, and answers to people’s questions. There will be an “Intro” room for new folks, a problem solving room, and a “Special Issue” room too! You can also plug into our Calls to Action before/after Mail Night this month.
Come celebrate the 105th anniversary of the October Revolution (which was in November) with East Bay DSA’s Labor Committee and Social Housing Committee on November 10th, between 7:00pm and 10:00 pm at Eli’s Mile High Club in Oakland. pic.twitter.com/LjrRpI63Ou
— East Bay DSA 🌹 (@DSAEastBay) November 4, 2022
make a wish we doing a fundraiser and my wish is to raise enough money for the Omni so we can own it.
we have amazing local performers, artists, poets coming together to share gratitude and peace
Tickets Here!
Music by :
Isaiah Mostafa
Honey Gold Music
Guerilla Pump
QEAZYE
Ewock
TY 6
There are so many special ways to plug in at the Omni Commons! We core working groups and special projects that need volunteer energy all the time!
*Building Working group : repairs and maintain physical building!
*Finance Working group : supports the money flow
*Fundraising Working group : organizes events, outreach for donations! *Event Working group : organizes events, classes, workshops for the community!
Learn More
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the the online invite.
For October, 2022 we’re re-reading the first four chapters of Doughnut Economics – 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist, by Kate Raworth. Order it via her website here. For November, we will be re-reading the remaining chapters.
‘Humanity’s 21st century challenge is to meet the needs of all within the means of the planet. In other words, to ensure that no one falls short on life’s essentials (from food and housing to healthcare and political voice), while ensuring that collectively we do not overshoot our pressure on Earth’s life-supporting systems, on which we fundamentally depend – such as a stable climate, fertile soils, and a protective ozone layer. The Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries is a playfully serious approach to framing that challenge, and it acts as a compass for human progress this century.
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, and Beyond Money.
Description: Professor Aleksandr Dugin of Russia has a wide sweep in scholarship, from Philosophy, Sociology to Geopolitics. He is 60 years of age. He has written 60 books. His book ‘The Fourth Political Theory’ has been translated into English by Michael Millerman, a Canadian, with a Ph.D. in Philosophy. Dugin is an “idealist” conservative philosopher. He is a follower of Martin Heideggar.
Liberalism, according to Dugin, is the theory of Capitalism, which has defeated its two challengers in the 20th century: Communism on the Left and Fascism on the Right. These cannot now pose an effective challenge to it, according to Dugin. Further, he claims that Liberalism has turned into “Postliberalism” after 1991, and it is totalitarian. So, a fourth political theory is needed to save humanity.
Raj Sahai will summarize Dugin’s ideas and his political theory and offer an analysis and offer a Marxist critique. Raj is a Marxist and a long time activist against capitalism and its wars. He is a member of the planning committee of ICSS.
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