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Film: Ana Falastini @ New Parkway Theater

Jan 12 @ 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm

Ana Falastini (Arabic for I am Palestinian), takes audiences through a journey introducing the Palestinian diaspora community in Vancouver, Canada. The film series features interviews with three generations of displaced Palestinians, telling their stories of resistance. It is composed of six episodes, with each episode diving into how the characters use aspects of the Palestinian culture to stay connected to their heritage and roots.

Brought to you by Healthcare Workers for Palestine and the Palestinian Feminist Collective, this event will fundraise for Prosthetics for Palestine.

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Green Sunday: Rising Up Green, as Empire Falls Down @ Online

Jan 12 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Jill Stein is a Harvard-educated doctor, a pioneering environmental health advocate, and an organizer for people, planet, and peace. She was the Green Party’s Presidential candidate in 2024, as well as in 2012 and 2016. She has helped win victories in campaign finance reform, racially-just redistricting, and the clean-up of incinerators, coal plants, and other toxic threats.

Jill has received several awards for health and environmental protection, including Clean Water Action’s “Not in Anyone’s Backyard” Award, the “Children’s Health Hero” Award, and the Toxic Action Center’s Citizen Award. She also served on the board of directors for Physicians for Social Responsibility.

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

Join Zoom Meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88083342274

Meeting ID: 880 8334 2274

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Digital Rights and the New Administration @ Online

Jan 16 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

EFFecting Change Livestream Series:
Digital Rights & the New Administration

January 16

What direction will your digital rights take under Trump and the 119th Congress? Find out about the topics EFF is watching and the effect they might have on you. Join our panel of experts as they discuss surveillance, age verification, and consumer privacy. Learn how you can advocate for your digital rights and the resources available to you. Following the discussion, our panelists will be answering your questions. Participate in the live Q&A

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Ceasefire Today, Liberation Tomorrow @ San Francisco Federal Building

Jan 16 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

After 465 days of genocide, Palestinians in Gaza have shown the world that they will continue to rise until liberation. We know that this ceasefire is not enough, but an essential step on the path to liberation. We stand with Palestinians in Gaza, demand accountability for Zionist and imperialist war criminals and all their accomplices, and recommit ourselves to the struggle and the long road ahead.

Bring Palestinian flags, kuffiyehs, and your voices. We’ll see you in the streets.

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From AROC’s Ceasefire statement:
This is also a moment to intensify our organizing. As this movement grows, it continues to face relentless attacks from right-wing forces and state repression. These efforts aim to delegitimize and suppress calls for Palestinian liberation, and all voices for justice. We must remain vigilant and defend our movement from these threats, ensuring it remains a powerful force for change in the face of adversity.We must continue to mobilize, speak out, and pressure decision-makers to follow the lead of the majority of people in the US and across the world who support Palestinian freedom. As we mark this ceasefire, it is time to redouble our efforts with clear demands:

Ensure the ceasefire remains permanent.
Demand that Israel withdraw its military from Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and all occupied lands.
Guarantee unrestricted aid and reconstruction for Gaza.
Hold Israel accountable for its crimes against humanity.

After 16 long months of organizing, protesting, and grieving. This ceasefire grants us all an opportunity to pause and reflect on how far we’ve come, and how much further we still have to go. The fight continues for a world free of war, fascism, racism, colonialism, and exploitation. Despite the horrors inflicted upon us, we will continue to fight for it. And we will win.

For full statement, see: https://www.araborganizing.org/page/ceasefire-in-gaza/

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Love Is Our Armor: A Music-Filled Fundraiser for the Anti Police-Terror Project @ BAM House

Jan 16 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Join Cat Brooks this week for an evening of light and love, our concert fundraiser, Love Is Our Armor: A Music-Filled Fundraiser for the Anti Police-Terror Project, to kick off our 11th Annual Reclaim MLK March and Week of Action.

Love Is Our Armor: A Music-Filled Fundraiser for the Anti Police-Terror Project

PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS HERE TODAY!

Cat Brooks will be hosting and we will convene at BAM House, a “Black culture driven space dedicated to the growth, cultivation, and sustaining of Black livity, (good strong life)”. I am so grateful to be joined by movement musicians Jenn Johns and Luv Phenomena, as well as my journalist and activist comrade Davey D who will join me for a conversation about this current political moment.

As we do every year at this time, we will recommit ourselves to embodying the radical legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in our work, communities and daily lives. Of course this year we know that our continued resistance and fortitude is so needed, as we face down increasing fascism, state violence and ongoing genocides.

Join us for powerful movement music, drinks, food, highlights of our current work, and a look ahead to what’s next for APTP as part of interconnected movements for justice and the world King dreamed of!

COVID protocols and access information: We encourage people to test at home before attending and will have some tests and KN95 masks on hand at the door. Please stay home if you are experiencing symptoms of illness so as to protect our community. We will also have HEPA filters in the space at BAM House. BAM House is wheelchair accessible and the bathroom is also accessible.

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Climate, Colonialism, and Rights for Humans & Nature @ Online

Jan 17 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

The Bay Area Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force will present its first Virtual Summit of the year on the topic “Climate, Colonialism, and the Rights of Humans and Nature.”

More info and registration here.

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The People’s Clinic @ The People's House

Jan 17 @ 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Kicking off MLK Week with The People’s Clinic!
Healing space for impacted families & the West Oakland community.

1/17/24 | 🕒 3–7 PM | The People’s House

👉 Book: https://t.co/88WZhUZh8X

Walk-ins welcome! KN95 masks & COVID testing on-site. pic.twitter.com/Iiyagd4psE

— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) January 11, 2025

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Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Making Sense of Chaos @ Online

Jan 18 @ 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 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 Cap italism, 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.

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Sunday Morning Marxist Forum: Compatible Left in Service of Imperialism @ Online

Jan 19 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Speaker: Stansfield Smith

To Join Zoom Meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89531900427?pwd=mXg1rSZe3ONl4pfWlALW4ornc32Eez.1

The CIA helped to build and subsidize a “compatible left” in the 1940-1960s to help counter the Communist bloc and associated organizations. This anti-communist compatible left still exists today, giving backhanded defense of US imperialism’s endless wars. They harshly criticize the same nations the US seeks to overthrow and cover up US covert operations and economic warfare against these countries; e.g., Qaddafi’s Libya, Assad’s Syria, Iran, Chavistas in Venezuela, Sandinistas in Nicaragua. They condemn Russia or China (or both) as imperialistic, while painting Trump as a fascist and the Democrats as preferable. In short, their politics aligns with the national security police state propaganda against its perceived enemies.

The compatible left is also closely involved in pushing the issue of “identity” as equal to or even more important than class. But we can work with the compatible left. Some compatible leftists take progressive positions in opposing the blockade on Cuba, gender issues, condemning Israeli mass murder and the Democratic Party hierarchy, and in defending the increasing labor union struggles.

Our speaker, Stansfield Smith, is a member of Chicago ALBA Solidarity. He is a long time anti-war activist and has opposed US interference over the years in Latin America. He produces AFGJ’s Venezuela & ALBA Weekly News and the online newsletter for the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition. His website is ChicagoALBASolidarity.org.

Stansfield Smith has written:

“Compatible Left Joins Imperialism in Celebrating Defeat of Syria,” https://libya360.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/compatible-left-joins-imperialism-in-celebrating-defeat-of-syria/
“The Function of the Compatible Left Seen in Its Attacks on the Venezuelan Revolution,” https://orinocotribune.com/the-function-of-the-compatible-left-seen-in-its-attacks-on-the-venezuelan-revolution/
“US National Security State Censoring Anti-Imperialists to Control ‘Compatible Left,” https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/07/02/censorship-anti-imperialists-compatible-left/
“Anti-Imperialism in the US Today: What It Is and Is Not,” https://orinocotribune.com/anti-imperialism-in-the-us-today-what-it-is-and-is-not/

Also see this YouTube by Ben Norton, “How the CIA supports a ‘compatible left’ to aid US imperialism,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1sJ2uZ4aaQ&t=474s

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March to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy @ Oscar Grant Plaza

Jan 20 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

A great way to spend Inauguration Day — in community with other progressives at the 11th annual March to Reclaim Martin Luther King’s Radical Legacy, demanding “freedom from white supremacy, war, genocide, colonialism, extractivism, and imperialism.”

The event is hosted by Oakland’s Anti Police-Terror Project , which writes:

“Are you enraged because of the deepening facism and police state in this country? Disgusted and heart sick by the ongoing genocide in Palestine? Appalled at the attacks against our unhoused neighbors?

“Oakland will not concede to fascism. We knew no matter the outcome of this election, this system was never meant to serve the people: WE take care of US.”

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Learn about the CA Office of Health Care Affordability @ Online

Jan 23 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

The Office of Health Care Affordability, (OHCA), is a relatively new office tucked inside one department of California’s Health and Human Services Agency. Its three stated aims are to “slow spending growth, promote high value, and assess market consolidation”.

Doctors James G. Kahn, moderator, and Ana Malinow, presenter, are both single-payer advocates. Along with participating panelists, they will share information about the office and the actions it has taken so far and share their views about how it might impact healthcare in the state.

Until we shift to a single payer system, it looks like this office will be a focal point for proposing reductions in healthcare spending and changes in provider payment models. It will also study the effects that market consolidation is having on our healthcare.

Here is the event flyer. Click register to attend.

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NIBlnPaATMeaVeCa3D8DEg

To get some background and more out of the forum, you can acquaint yourself with the part of the bill SB 184 – Health that created OHCA in 2022. Scroll down to Section 19, and begin with part 127500.5. This section describes existing healthcare problems and needs along with the intentions and structure of the office.

This forum is hosted by The Movement to End the Privatization of Medicare.

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Peace Gathering with Presentations by 14 Activist Groups @ Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists

Jan 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Join us for a Peace Gathering.

This event, sponsored by the Humanist Mutual Aid Network (Hank Pellissier), will feature networking tables and presentations by 14 activist groups, an honor ceremony, Chilean & Aymara music, live texting actions, and a CodePink bake sale benefiting Prosthetics for Palestine.

Participating groups include CodePink, Veterans for Peace, Mount Diablo Peace & Justice Center, Berkeley Banner Drop, Nor Cal Sabeel, Prosthetics for Palestine, Taxpayers Against Genocide, Berkeley Network for Palestine, RACCOON, People’s Arms Embargo, Women in Black, Albany El Cerrito for Palestine, Divest Bay Area, and Doctors Against Genocide.

Admission is free, with a suggested donation of $5. Tickets are available at the door or through Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/peace-gathering-tickets-1129756826079?aff=oddtdtcreator. Proceeds will support Myanmar refugees.

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Film Screening: “The Zone of Interest” @ It’s Your Move Games & Hobbies

Jan 26 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

The Zone of Interest is a 2023 historical drama film written and directed by Jonathan Glazer, co-produced among the United Kingdom, the United States, and Poland. Loosely based on the 2014 novel by Martin Amis, the film focuses on the life of German Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig, who live with their family in a home in the “Zone of Interest” next to the German concentration camp.

Join the Oakland Greens for this free community event: dinner starts at 6:30 PM PST and movie promptly at 7 PM PST.

The Oakland Greens Free Dinner & a Movie Discussion Series is a community event that runs January—October. Get in-persxn tickets and information thru: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/the-oakland-greens-30818034656 or: https://www.facebook.com/oaklandgreens or just show up, walk-ins welcome. These community engagement events are held the last Sunday of the month January thru October. All Oakland Greens events are held in community partnership with It’s Your Move Games & Hobbies 4920 TELEGRAPH AVE, SUITE B OAKLAND.

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Express your green ideas and “like” us on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/greenpartyofalamedacounty/

Participation and/or donations appreciated! https://acgreens.wordpress.com/donate/
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CLASS STRUGGLE UNIONISM IN THE ILWU AND BEYOND – PANEL DISCUSSION @ East Bay DSA Offices

Jan 29 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

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:
bit.ly/3Chw5zC

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

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

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The War on Immigrants, and How We Fight Back @ Starry Plough

Feb 1 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Suds, Snacks, and Socialism
at the Starry Plough

The War on Immigrants,
and How We Fight Back

Please register in advance at
https://bit.ly/SSS_WarOnImmigrants
to receive your personal link to participate in this event online

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.

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>

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Maduro Assumes a Third Term – Prospects and Problematics for Venezuela @ Online

Feb 2 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Speaker: Roger D. Harris

To Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85175860127?pwd=bfZRQOSMuhX9Pfm4qhPMOZMrmE9Ohm.1

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/

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ACLU Town Hall: Fighting Trump’s First Attacks @ Online

Feb 4 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

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

ACLU Town Hall:

Fighting Trump’s First Attacks

RSVP

The town hall will focus on the ACLU’s response to the Trump administration’s very first actions in office, including attempts to end birthright citizenship, shut down the southern border to asylum seekers, ban health care for transgender youth, and dismantle the core principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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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U.S. Middle East Policy Under Trump: How it Will Differ (and How it Won’t) from Biden @ Online

Feb 9 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88083342274

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.

Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88083342274

Meeting ID: 880 8334 2274
Dial by your location
+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)

Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/k39IUnw59

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100 Days: Debtors’ Assembly @ Online

Feb 12 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm

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.

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Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Making Sense of Chaos @ Online

Feb 15 @ 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 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 Cap italism, 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.

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January – February 2025 Jan – Feb 2025

About OccupyOakland.org

This website was created in the fall of 2011. Most of it is now moribund, but the Occupy Oakland Calendar, which lists activist events in the East Bay (and occasionally elsewhere) is still maintained, the Search facility works to find earlier posts and keep OO’s history alive, and articles are occasionally still posted to the front page.

The Occupy Oakland General Assembly met in-person weekly (with a rare skip) since October 10th, 2011 up until the pandemic, at which point we went to bi-weekly Zoom meetings. We do checkins, go over the activist events of the past meeting interval, and have general discussions on politics and revolution.

For many years, until the pandemic, we put on a Feed the People event monthly at Oscar Grant Plaza, where all were welcome to come and partake of a freshly cooked, savory meal, before our GA.

If you would like to participate while the pandemic is still amidst, send an email to occupyoakland-request@lists.riseup.net. Check the calendar or this text to see if we have resumed in-person meetings.