The resolution calls on the governor and state legislature to support Senate Bill 332, which would commission a study to explore transitioning away from PG&E and other investor-owned utilities, to a not-for-profit utility that would put people and the planet before profits.
This bill is supported by a broad coalition of organizations, including Sunflower Alliance. It would create a path for getting rid of PG&E’s excessive profiteering and dangerous practices — overcharging and endangering us — and replace it with a nonprofit organization
You can read details about the bill here
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Free Park & Indoor Shows with some RSVP & Ticketed Venues – Live music 30 minutes prior to show
Free Park & Indoor Shows with some RSVP & Ticketed Venues – Live music 30 minutes prior to show
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
“No bank has bent to the knee to Trump as dramatically as Wells Fargo,
RSVP here
THIS ACTION IS PART OF “STOP BILLIONAIRES SUMMER, an eight-week campaign focused on mass action, civil disobedience, and movement-building targeting the billionaire and corporate elites fueling the crises we’re living through.”
“From Elon Musk’s techno-fascist empire to fossil fuel financiers and real estate tycoons, we’re coming for the billionaires who are attacking our communities and stealing our future. And we’re organizing to win.”
From mid-July to September, actions will especially target the tech oligarchy and other billionaire backers of fossil fuel and Trump’s programs.
Organizers describe how previous actions have demonstrated the power of prolonged, disruptive protest. In last summer’s Summer of Heat on Wall Street, more than 5,000 people converged on New York to disrupt the financial backers of fossil fuels, with a special focus on blockading Citibank, a key investor.
The following December, Citi announced a major improvement in its climate policies, promising to step down fossil fuel investments more quickly than any other bank’s plans.
You can sign up on this Stop Billionaires Summer Interest Form https://actionnetwork.org/forms/stop-billionaires-summer to stay informed about what’s happening and how you can participate.
Join Stop Billionaires Summer and fight back against the rising threats to democracy, our climate, and our communities.
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
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 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, 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, Breaking Together, Making Sense of Chaos and TechnoFeudalism.
