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Jul
15
Tue
US War on Media and Free Speech – Webinar @ Online
Jul 15 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
As the Trump administration seeks to implement its domestic and foreign policies, it has launched an aggressive campaign to suppress critics in the media and quash public dissent. Congress and the courts have been reluctant to challenge these repressive moves that undermine the liberties guaranteed by the U.S. constitution. Join us for a panel discussion by peace activists examining the disturbing institutional and social impacts of this war on the media and free speech.
You Must Pre-Register for the Webinar HERE or click on the link below
Panelists:Haig Hovaness is a peace activist in New York with a professional background in information technology. He is the Co-Chair of GPAX. He has written and made presentations on a variety of defense-related foreign policy and media issues. Haig will be the moderator for this webinar.

Alison Weir is an American activist and writer known for her interest in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. She is the founder and executive director of the nonprofit organization If Americans Knew (IAK), president of the Council for the National Interest (CNI), and author of Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel. She is known as a Middle East expert and critic of U.S. media bias in coverage of Middle East events.

Philip Giraldi is an American columnist, commentator and security consultant. He is the Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a role he has held since 2010. He was previously employed as an intelligence officer for the CIA, before transitioning to private consulting. Giraldi is a founding member and current member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.

Noura Khouri is a diaspora Palestinian currently residing in California. She has worked for the past two decades as a human rights activist, campaign strategist and a community organizer. Noura lived for 2 years each in Palestine and Egypt, where she witnessed the devastating impacts of US foreign policy on the region.  She currently serves on the National Committee of Al-Awda Palestine Right to Return.

Brittany Vesey is member of the Green Party of Missouri where she participates in local activities supporting minorities in Kansas City. She is committed to opposing U.S. involvement in genocide and violations of international law in Gaza and in other troubled regions of the world.

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Jul
16
Wed
San Francisco Mime Troupe @ Outdoors in front of the Edoff Memorial Bandstand
Jul 16 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

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2025 – 66TH SUMMER SEASON!

LIVE MUSIC 30 MINUTES PRIOR TO THE SHOW!

 Free Park & Indoor Shows with some RSVP & Ticketed Venues – Live music 30 minutes prior to show

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Jul
17
Thu
San Francisco Mime Troupe @ Outdoors in front of the Edoff Memorial Bandstand
Jul 17 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

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2025 – 66TH SUMMER SEASON!

LIVE MUSIC 30 MINUTES PRIOR TO THE SHOW!

 Free Park & Indoor Shows with some RSVP & Ticketed Venues – Live music 30 minutes prior to show

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Jul
18
Fri
Webinar on Climate Preparedness
Jul 18 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Join the Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force for the next event in their sixth virtual summit series: Climate, Readiness, Solidarity, & Rights for All.

This session will focus on Climate and Preparedness.

Save the date and stay tuned for details.

Online. Register here

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Jul
20
Sun
AFL-CIO: It’s Time to End Its Government-funded Foreign Operations @ Online
Jul 20 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Speaker: Kim Scipes

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The AFL and then the AFL-CIO have had an imperialist foreign policy program where they have operated in other countries around the world for over 100 years, beginning in the late 1890s.  They have never given an honest report of these operations to their members that can be independently verified.  Activists and scholars have discovered they have supported military coups that overthrew democratically elected governments, supported dictators, and right-wing labor movements operating against progressive ones, etc.  In ALL cases, with the arguable exception of their work in Poland in the 1980s, these have only hurt workers, their families, and destroyed their unions.

These operations have received over 90 percent of their funding from the US Government, reaching approximately $1 BILLION just since 1983!  Again, unreported to members.

From his own perspective—not progressive—Donald Trump has cut off funding to US AID (Agency for International Development) and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), each major funders of AFL-CIO foreign operations.

It is time for US trade unionists to recognize the interconnection between failure of domestic operations and offensive operations overseas, and work to force the AFL-CIO to end all US Government-funded operations overseas.

Kim Scipes is a former factory worker, a printer, who later returned to academia and taught at Purdue University Northwest in Westville, Indiana from 2004-2022.  Among other things, he’s worked to build global labor solidarity since 1983.  He has concentrated his studies mostly on the KMU Labor Center of the Philippines, and the AFL-CIO’s foreign operations. Altogether, he’s published four books, with another one in press, and over 280 articles and book reviews in the US and 11 different countries. His website can be accessed for free at https://www.pnw.edu/personal-faculty-pages/kim-scipes-ph-d/publications.

 

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Jul
31
Thu
Planning for Refinery Closures that Benefit Workers, Communities, and the Environment @ Online
Jul 31 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Valero Refinery, Benicia

In the Bay Area, the Valero refinery in Benecia has announced that it’s going to close in 2026 — and other refineries seem to be on the brink. Refineries pollute local communities and add to the climate crisis. But closing them suddenly leaves their workers without jobs, their communities without a major source of tax revenue — and their toxic legacy in the environment.

Join The Climate Center in a webinar on Planning for Refinery Closures that Benefit Workers, Communities, and the Environment.

Speakers
Connie Cho, Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Steve Young, Mayor of Benicia
Josh Anijar, executive director, Contra Costa Labor Councill;l
Theresa Keates, special advisor to the vice-chair of the California Energy Commission

More info and register here

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Aug
2
Sat
Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: “Stellar: A world beyond limits, and how to get there.” @ Online
Aug 2 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

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

For our July, 2025 meeting we will be reading the first two sections (approximately 115 pages) of Stellar, A World Beyond Limits and How to Get There (Amazon), (Goodreads) For our August meeting, we will finish the book.

A bold re-examination of the past, present, and future of humanity, Stellar challenges conventional thinking and offers a vision of hope and optimism – a necessary antidote to the fear and despair that define our times.

Stellar uncovers the root causes of today’s biggest challenges, from war and economic instability to inequality and environmental collapse. It reveals why solutions to these issues are little more than band-aids, why our political and economic structures are failing, and how to unlock humanity’s full potential.

Stellar reimagines what’s possible – a world that gives rather than takes from both people and planet. A Stellar World where today’s pressing issues simply dissolve, where humanity can thrive, free from fear, scarcity, and despair.

This book will transform how you see the world, and your place in it.

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 EconomicsLimitsBanking on the PeopleCapital 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 TelescopeMission 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 FutureSolidarity,  Mutual Aid, Breaking Together, Making Sense of Chaos and TechnoFeudalism.

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