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Speaker: Raj Sahai
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/
Meeting ID: 873 8882 4824
Passcode: 042428
• +1 646 931 3860 US
• +1 669 444 9171 US
The Nation State in South Asia in the Era of Capitalist Decline
South Asian nation states were formed at the end of WWII, when Colonial Imperialism was given a body blow by the war. Britain, France and other European colonial capitalist states were badly weakened. Socialism was in ascendency, but US capitalism was also advancing. Today capitalism is in decline and is in its rottenest stage in the G-7 countries. The impact of it in South Asia will be examined, keeping in view the short military conflict between India and Pakistan.
Raj Sahai is a retired engineer and has been a researcher and activist with the Institute of Critical Study of Society, which he joined in 2006. He is a US citizen, an immigrant from India, he has lived in Illinois and California since 1966.
With Jonathan Reischl and Bill Shields
A light breakfast will be offered at 9am and the program will begin at 9:30am.
| The final Forum of the 2024-2025 year is also the kickoff event for San Francisco LaborFest 2025. Bill Shields will introduce our subject and main presenter, Jonathan Reischl. Jonathan will then discuss resistance to the MAGA attack on federal government workers and services from his perspective as an Enforcement Attorney at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and a member of the National Treasury Employees Union, Local 335.
Jonathan and Bill will also discuss the Federal Unionist Network (FUN) fightback against Trump’s attempt to destroy all federal unions. Many federal employees and service recipients are people of color, and there is a strong racial justice component to this resistance. Jonathan Reischl has worked at the CFPB since 2015 and lives in San Francisco with his partner and daughter. Bill Shields is Chair Emeritus of Labor and Community Studies at City College of San Francisco and Director of the Workers Voices Storytelling Project. You can also attend via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/96934465087?pwd=R7voICnycAZuWXPjdGlrMnhn6NbEMg.1 Phone in at +1 669 900 6833, Meeting ID: 969 3446 5087 |
Donation: $20 (to pay instructors, fund supplies for the group, and cover other costs – but – there’s no pressure to pay)
Take This Workshop form trained and experienced Street Medics, and join our team that will be attending large protests very soon – ready to help any activists injured or hurt.
We Are CA Teach In: What’s really happening in LA?
Virtual Teach in Tuesday, June 24th, 6:30-8:30PM
The Trump administration has launched an unprecedented and unlawful invasion. Armed militarized federal agents are disappearing our neighbors from job sites, schools, and neighborhoods. Families are terrified.
But through the fear, something powerful is happening: Angelenos are rising. Together. We’ve seen faith leaders kneeling in prayer in front of federal troops. Teachers, small business owners, and neighbors taking to the streets in peaceful resistance. From South LA to the San Fernando Valley, from Boyle Heights to Pasadena, neighbors are showing up for each other.
This virtual session will prepare us for the road ahead by training-up on who’s pulling the strings behind the scenes and how we take action together:
- Know Your Rights info – how to spread power not panic
- Expose the real villains – the billionaires and bullies profiting off our people and future
- A plan for nonviolent resistance to keep ICE out of our communities and to push back on the MAGA murder budget
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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.