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The Berkeley Council continues to shut out the residents of Berkeley City council members have consistently ignored the voice of the people in favor of powerful, well-resourced special interest groups — developers and foreign lobby groups who drown out community concerns. How much more can we tolerate?
Hundreds of Berkeley residents show up, speak up, and stand up at city council meetings… And still the council votes against the will of the people. Whether it’s the unpopular upzoning ordinance they’re trying to ram through without community input, or other major decisions — the pattern is the same: SPECIAL INTERESTS WIN! TENANTS, HOME OWNERS, & SMALL BUSINESSES GET IGNORED!
ELECTIONS ARE COMING — Districts 1, 4, 7, and 8 next year. It’s time to take back our city council, reignite Berkeley’s identity as a champion of the underserved and a beacon of human rights,
JOIN US TO STRATEGIZE Sunday, December 14, 2025 East Bay Community Space, 507 55th St, Oakland, CA 94609 2:30 PM Hosted by: Berkeley Network for Palestine Come together. Speak out. Organize. The future of Berkeley belongs to its residents — not special interests.
WE’RE TURNING 13 ON DECEMBER 22ND!
We’re finally a teenager! While many restaurants don’t make it to three years and many theaters around us have closed, we’re still kicking and we want you to kick it with us on December 22nd! Our birthday is one of our favorite days of the year, chock full of outstanding movies, cake, singing, and wonderful freebies. And this year, we’ll again have live music in our lobby! So definitely something for everyone and we really hope you’ll join us on our big day!
Here’s what we have in store…
•$1 Movies All Day Long! We’ve got eight movies, each for only one dollar! Come for one or more!
•Great Movie Choices! Whether you like old or new, artsy or goofy, family-friendly or dramatic, we’ve got something for everyone. Here’s the line-up for the day:
12:00pm THE LIBRARIANS 
12:30pm IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
2:00pm LIVE JAZZ IN THE LOBBY, FEATURING FULL HOUSE (until 4:30pm)
2:25pm ELF
3:25pm RENTAL FAMILY
4:50pm WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY
6:00pm SENTIMENTAL VALUE
7:30pm SPEED MEETING (free on the Mezzanine)
8:00pm KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR
9:00pm BUGONIA
•You can have your cake and eat it too! We’ll have a homemade cake for each and every movie so everyone who wants some will get at least a nibble.
•Eight lucky winners! At each and every show on the 22nd, there will be one guest who will take home a 2026 Annual Pass for basically unlimited movies for an entire year. So come see a $1 show for the chance to win hundreds of 2026 free shows!
And we’ve got some other surprises for you as well. Mark your calendar for the 22nd. And happy birthday to all of us!
THE NEW PARKWAY THEATER is a community-centered cinema and pub located in Oakland’s Uptown district. Sit back and relax in our cozy couches while watching our new releases, cult classics, and fabulous special programming. Enjoy delicious food and local beer and wine on tap delivered right to your theater seat, all at affordable prices! See you at the New Parkway!
Book Talk: The Public Domain
By Internet Archive
Overview
Are We at a Tipping Point in World History?
Group Discussion
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Group Discussion
As we look back over the past year, it is hard to avoid the sense that we are living on the edge of world-changing events.
We have entered a historic turning point in the global balance of forces. Such shifts often unfold slowly, until a sudden break makes the change unmistakable. Today, the world’s geopolitical alignment is tipping away from the old order and toward a new one.
This transformation began after 1991, when the collapse of the Soviet bloc ended the bipolar world and ushered in a brief period of U.S. dominance. But over the past three decades—especially in the new millennium—China, much of Asia, Latin America, and Russia have risen in power, producing an increasingly multipolar world that is challenging American hegemony.
Bring your ideas, comments, and questions for our last session of the year on this timely and critically important topic!
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite. All are welcome!
For our December, 2025 meeting we will be reading and discussing the first two chapters of What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis by Malcolm Harris (Amazon) (Hatchette). For our January meeting we will finish the book.
A vital guide for collective political action against the climate apocalypse, from bestselling progressive intellectual Malcolm Harris—“a brilliant thinker and writer capable of making the intricacies of economic conditions supremely readable” (Vulture).
Climate change is the unifying crisis of our time. But the scale of the problem can be paralyzing, especially when corporations are actively staving off changes that could save the planet but which might threaten their bottom lines. To quote Greta Thunberg, despite very clear science and very real devastation, the adults at the table are still saying “blah blah blah.” Something has to change—but what, and how?
In What’s Left, Malcolm Harris cuts through the noise and gets real about our remaining options for saving the world. Just as humans have caused climate change, we hold the power to avert a climate apocalypse, but that will only happen through collective political action. Harris outlines the three strategies—progressive, socialist, and revolutionary—that have any chance of succeeding, while also revealing that none of them can succeed on their own. What’s Left shows how we must combine them into a single pathway: a meta-strategy, one that will ensure we can move forward together rather than squabbling over potential solutions while the world burns.
Vital and transformative, What’s Left confirms Malcolm Harris as next-generation David Graeber or Mike Davis—a historian-activist who shows us where we stand and how we got here, while also blazing a path toward a brighter future.
Strike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Our first book was Doughnut Economics, and our most recent books were The Age of Insecurity and Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals”. For the rest of our reading list see here.