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As of 1/18/21, Newsom and CDCR are responsible for murdering 175 incarcerated people since the beginning of the pandemic. Join us in holding Newsom accountable and DEMAND MASS RELEASES NOW!

Mass incarceration in California created the ideal conditions for a predictable and preventable mass outbreak of COVID-19 in state prisons. Currently, every California State Prison is responding to a wave of active cases of COVID-19. Recent major surges occurred at Ironwood State Prison, California Men’s Colony, Central California Women’s Facility, and CTF Soledad. …

Giant Book Sale (New & Used) and a wild variety of mainly Classical sheet music to Benefit the Revolution Tour

Friday- Sunday, Jan. 29-31 from 1-5 pm

Come early for the best selection

RSVP to action@sunflower-alliance.org to get the Zoom link.

We’re looking forward to getting together with you for our regular meeting. We’ll discuss the latest developments in the campaigns we’re participating in: responding to refinery biodiesel plans, the fight to keep new oil and gas wells out of eastern Contra Costa County and ban new fossil fuel development; campaigns against coal exports in Richmond and Oakland; pushing the Air District to reduce refinery pollution; just transition; regional climate planning; and more—plus most important, check in with each other.

We need your participation and your voice!

Ending the climate crisis requires a rapid transition away from fossil fuels. How can we create a more ecological, equitable, and healthy economy beyond fossil fuel dependence? Join us this Sunday for a special presentation.

Last year Richmond banned coal exports. Today it’s leading the state on strategies to get fossil fuel polluters to clean up after themselves. Richmond Environmental justice advocates Floy Andrews, Eli Moore, and city council member Eduardo Martinez are developing a framework to implement two far-reaching Just Transition initiatives.

What would refinery decommissioning mean for Richmond and other communities like it? How� can bonding mechanisms prevent refineries and other polluters from walking away from their messes after accidents or shut-downs?

Come with questions and join this important conversation!

Alternative Political Parties: a local approach

The Oakland Greens present the January 2021 Virtual Townhall:
Alternative Political Parties: a local approach
These Happen on the Last Sundays of the month, from January through October

From third parties to alternative political parties, how to break the two party system. The Oakland Greens Virtual Townhalls are designed to hear your ideas & thoughts. At this event we want to listen to you, not talk at you. Join us in ZOOM Sunday January 31, room opens at 5:45 PM PST, discussion at 6:15 PM PST, with unique topics & unique discussions. These are donation only events and as always NO ONE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS.

Find tickets @ https://www.eventbrite.com/o/the-oakland-greens-30818034656  or:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-oakland-greens-present-alternative-party-virtual-town-hall-vote-local-tickets-126696501647

Join us to win power for:
Free Public Transit
Greatly expanded service, accessibility, and schedule
Protection of union workers and expansion of union jobs
Social equity to overcome transportation discrimination
Conversion of Public Transit to Zero Emissions vehicles

RSVP here for Zoom link.

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In alliance with the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) we organized the October 23, 2010 labor and community rally for Justice for Oscar Grant. On that day the ILWU shut down the Bay Area ports in solidarity. Our mission is to educate, organize and mobilize people against police and state repression. Sisters and brothers! The Oscar Grant Committee invites you to join us in this vital struggle.

We meet on the 1^st Monday of each month
You can join our discussion list by sending a blank (doesn’t even need a subject) email to

oscargrantcommittee-subscribe@lists.riseup.net

RSVP if you and your organization can attend.

Join communities of color, youth, immigrants, workers and union members to shape a People’s Climate Justice and Just Recovery Platform for San Francisco.  We need a plan to recover from the pandemic that will transform our city and set an example of what is possible for other cities around the country.

While San Francisco has adopted a series of ambitious climate goals, including all renewable energy by 2030 and net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, we must ensure that these plans serve the needs of our communities.

As global climate chaos meets our local crisis of wealth disparity, the city is slated to release an updated Climate Action Plan in the coming year. Now is an ideal time to push an immigrant, communities of color and worker-led climate justice, just recovery and just transition agenda in San Francisco.

The goals of this gathering are to bring together workers and community members to learn about climate justice and give feedback, so that we can co-create a vision for a Green New Deal in San Francisco. Please bring any and all of your members who want to learn more about climate justice and share ideas about what a just, green, economy can look like!

Conveners include PODER, Jobs with Justice San Francisco, Bayview Advocates, the Public Bank Coalition, United Educators of San Francisco, American Federation of Teachers 2121, SEIU United Services Workers West, SEIU 1021, SOMCAM, SF Rising, IFPTE Local 21, Reclaim Our Power: Utility Justice Campaign, Youth vs. Apocalypse, unions, environmental organizations and allies.

Interpretation is available.

While Berkeleyans took to the streets demanding an end to police terror nationally, BPD has continued to target, harass, and violently attack Black men.

CW: This event will discuss and may show video of police violence against Black people. pic.twitter.com/jHJdyTaeFn

— Berkeley Copwatch (@Copwatch411) January 21, 2021

Zoom link: http://bit.ly/behindthe_mask

Meeting ID: 894 1304 1160

Passcode: justie

Join us   for a Jail Support Training to show up & show love for folks getting released from Santa Rita Jail.

Shifts are currently every day of the week 7:30p-12a. We hope to have folks out there as often as possible!

To take on a shift, you’d form a crew with one or two other people (who you already come into contact with in your day-to-day life) to drive out to Santa Rita Jail (5325 Broder Blvd, Dublin, CA).

If you’re interested in taking on a shift, please join our Zoom training on Wed Feb 3rd at 7pm! Here’s the link to join the training: bit.ly/3iQ6PST

If you can’t make this training but are interested in forming a crew and doing a shift, let us know so we can set up a training for another time!

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DSA: Join the Green New Deal committee for a virtual mask assembly party! The COVID-19 pandemic is intensifying with hundreds of thousands of deaths likely over the coming months, and the U.S. continues to experience PPE shortages, especially of high-grade face masks. The failures of the capitalist system are devastating clear. But with mutual aid, we can take the safety and wellbeing of our community into our own hands, while developing relationships across the East Bay and building our own organizational power.

We will be assembling hundreds of no-sew, submicron “N85” masks for distribution with community partners. All we need is your help!

This is a great event for new members to attend. Training and materials are delivered to your door (!), no experience necessary. During the build, we’ll hang out on a online call together to talk about mutual aid, socialism, and whatever else you’d like to!

Please RSVP at the link below several days before the build so we provide materials via a touchless kit drop-off at your door! We request that attendees commit to both the January 27 and February 3 mask builds.

Celebrating the Music and Art of Oakland four “must see events” on Thursdays, February 4, 11, 18, 25 2021 from 11-12pm. Presentations and performances by Street Spirit, Youth Spirit Art Work and others. Hosted by St. Mary’s Center Senior Advocates for Hope and Justice.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85704068720?pwd=QXJ3T05sUURtL0JIYzk5eEpnSDJDUT09

Zoom Meeting ID 857 0496 8720
Passcode 472245

RSVP to jcastillo@stmaryscenter.org

We’ll meet via Zoom.
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com for the invite.

For our February meeting we’ll be reading Part I of
Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons

by Silvia Federici.

For our March meeting we’ll be reading the rest of the book, pp 78-196

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 and the Edge of Chaos blog symposium.

Join us – all are welcome!

If you are interested in joining us, please email Yi Shepard.
Links to the draft agenda and draft December meeting notes.

We hope this finds you well.  These are hard times that remind us daily of the need for healthcare reform in California and the U.S. Efficiency, cost, equity, quality and the comprehensive nature of healthcare could all be improved with a well-planned single-payer system.

Educating community members and our legislators about all aspects of single payer healthcare continues to be one of our objectives.  To help in this regard we have recently heightened our use of social media and are considering a postcard-writing campaign. But our main activity right now is the gathering of signatures for a petition to Governor Newsom, asking him to seek allowances and existing funding from the federal government for California to proceed with a single payer system, if state legislation is passed.

Please help us by forwarding this petition to anyone you know who might be interested, including local groups. We’d like all petitions signatures by February 27th, if possible.

As a show of support for single-payer health care in California, National Nurses United has organized a Car Caravan to be held Saturday, February 6th at 1:00 pm. The starting point is the Oakland Coliseum.  You can get a map and more information here.

Online Event Location:  https://actionnetwork.org/events/dsa4usps-the-postal-service-and-the-green-new-deal/ 

DSA4USPS will explore the postal service’s potential within the Green New Deal. With its fleet of carriers who operate on foot, the US postal service is a very green federal agency, and plenty of people are organizing to make it, and its foreign counterparts, even more so.

Join Stephen Quirke, rank-and-file member of the National Association of Letter Carriers and DSA; Julee Sanderson, 1st national VP of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers; David Yao, VP of the Seattle area Postal Workers’ Union; and Gustavo G. from the DSA Green New Deal Campaign committee as they discuss the importance of greening infrastructure writ large, and how postal services specifically can join and forward the cause. This webinar will be moderated by Claire R., a member of New Orleans DSA.