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Right now, we’re grappling with a conservative attack on our reproductive rights, a looming climate catastrophe, and a Democratic establishment unwilling to fight for working people. But at the same time, Amazon and Starbucks workers are building power in their workplaces.

There’s never been a more pressing time to make the jump from socialist to *organized* socialist. And that starts with meeting your comrades and taking action. Plus, it’ll be fun, we promise. Join us!

Invite all your union friends and the socialism-curious! Look for us at Snow Park!

Our next decolonization learning group @omnicommons this Sunday at 4pm! Join us on a discussion about Imperialism. As always, newcomers are welcome and we will have an online call for those who cannot make it in person. DM us for the link! *Masks are required* pic.twitter.com/ReQEa8mnMe

— Community Liberation Programs (@comlibprograms) October 21, 2022

After more than four decades, 14 000 days, spent far away from his family, the case of Mumia ABU-JAMAL will be heard in the Philadelphia, PA Court of Common Pleas. The same court system that had sentenced him to die by lethal injection, then to death by incarceration. The evidence that has now come to light — but was long kept in the dark by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office — should enable his release !

Free Mumia Abu-Jamal is the cry heard around the world for 40 years. It will reverberate in Philadelphia on Oct. 19. Here in the Bay Area we are calling for freedom for Mumia. Please join us.

Fossil fuel companies not only pollute national and state elections, they are polluting local races as well, like the Oakland mayor’s race. Five candidates for mayor have signed a pledge opposing a coal export terminal in Oakland. But one candidate, Ignacio de la Fuente, who is on record supporting the terminal, has accepted a staggering $600,000 from the coal terminal developers.

Join 350 East Bay along with No Coal in Oakland, Youth vs. Apocalypse, the Sierra Club, West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, Baykeeper, and more allies to expose this outrageous attempt to buy the Oakland mayor’s race. Come to the rally and press conference to oppose toxic pollution of our local election.

Speakers: Ms. Margaret Gordon, No Coal in Oakland and West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project; Igor Tregub, Sierra Club; Julia Dowell, SF Baykeeper; Georgia Wallace, Marlay’ja, Youth vs. Apocalypse; and representatives from 350 Bay Area, Communities for a Better Environment, and Service Employees International Union, Local 1021

For clean air and clean elections,

Your 350 East Bay Team

PS You’re also invited to the Climate & Public Health Summit on November 18th.

PPS Our monthly 350 East Bay meeting is happening Saturday, November 19th at 10:30am on zoom. RSVP here to join us to talk about what SF and Bay Area activists are working on now.

The London Revolution 1640-1643 refutes the attacks of revisionist historians who would write the concept of revolution out of history. A defense and restatement of the Marxist view of the English Revolution and Civil War. Chronicles England’s history through the revolution in 1641 – 1642, which toppled the feudal political system, and its aftermath. It explores how London’s growing capitalist economy fundamentally conflicted with its decaying feudal society, causing tensions and dislocations that affected all classes in the early modern period. In contrast with most other works, this book posits that the fundamental driving force of the revolution was the militant Puritan movement supported by the class of petty-bourgeois artisan craftworkers instead of the moderate gentry in the House of Commons.

Our speaker, Michael Sturza, is a life-long socialist political activist. A native New Yorker who grew up in Brooklyn, he learned about radical politics from his father who had been active in the labor movement of the 1930s. In 1966, at the age of 14, he attended his first mass anti-Vietnam War rally with other students from his high school. In college, while actively involved in working class struggles, he studied Marxism, and, in 1974, graduated cum laude from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

In the following decades, while continuing to study Marxism and the history of labor and liberation movements, he remained a labor activist with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the  American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). Sturza continues to live, study, and write in New York City. Since his retirement in 2014, he has traveled a good deal, including a nine-week trip to London, York, Edinburgh, and Dublin. Among the places he enjoyed visiting were the Cromwell Museum in Huntingdon, and the National Civil War Centre in Newark. The trip reinforced his belief in the social nature of the English Revolution. It was revisionist historians’ attempts to excise the class basis of the English Revolution and Civil War that led him to the studies detailed in his work.

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Watch a 30-minute film segment followed by a panel discussion with Plague at the Golden Gate’s director and producer.

Plague at the Golden Gate is available for viewing on PBS now. The full film is available with Chinese and Spanish subtitles. You’re encouraged to see the full film before coming to this event.

More than 100 years before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world and set off a wave of fear and anti-Asian sentiment, an outbreak of bubonic plague in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1900 unleashed a similar furor. It was the first time in history that civilization’s most feared disease-the infamous Black Death-made it to North America. Two doctors-vastly different in temperament, training and experience-used different methods to lead the seemingly impossible battle to contain the disease before it could engulf the country. In addition to overwhelming medical challenges, they faced unexpected opposition from business leaders, politicians and even the president of the United States. Fueling the resistance would be a potent blend of political expediency, ignorance, greed, racism and deep-rooted distrust of not only federal authority but science itself. Scapegoated as the source of the disease early on, the Chinese community fought back against unjust, discriminatory treatment. The gripping story of the desperate race against time to save San Francisco and the nation from the deadly disease, Plague at the Golden Gate is based in part on David K. Randall’s critically acclaimed book, Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America From the Bubonic Plague.

Li-Shin Yu is a New York-based filmmaker and director of Plague at the Golden Gate for PBS’s acclaimed series American Experience. Yu co-directed The Chinese Exclusion Act also for American Experience. James Q. Chan is an Emmy-nominated producer and director based in San Francisco. Recent producing credits include Plague at the Golden Gate and Chinatown Rising.

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Tomorrow, Wednesday Nov 2nd, attend the Renters Rising Rally & Ballot Party from 5-6pm at the Lake Merritt Amphitheater! pic.twitter.com/YhscFWLCCK

— Oakland Tenants Union #CancelRent (@OAKTenantsUnion) November 1, 2022

TOMORROW at 5:30: Join us for our free Annual Membership Meeting & Celebration at Nido’s Backyard in Oakland!

We’ll enjoy food and drinks and celebrate with our outgoing Executive Director Gloria.

RSVP today: https://t.co/ko18ofuzFk pic.twitter.com/y8crMfsP9j

— East Bay Housing Organizations (@EBHO_Housing) November 1, 2022

Relevant Agenda Items:

3. Federal Task Force Transparency Ordinance – OPD – Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), US Marshals Services (USMS), Alcohol Tobacco Firearms (ATF)
a. Review and take possible action on the proposed memoranda of understanding (MOU)

4. Surveillance Technology Ordinance – OFD – Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland (MACRO)
a. Review and take possible action on the proposed use policy and impact statement for review and approval to enter into a contract with Julota software from Touchphrase Development, LLC

BlkAuthor Boulevard: A Bay Area Black Book Fair!

Please register in advance at:
https://bit.ly/US_China__ColdWar
to receive your personal link for this event

The Biden Administration has now launched a full-blown economic war on China. The U.S. hegemon sees a rising China as its main rival and wants to stop China’s rise. For its part, China is expanding its political and economic influence worldwide. Both countries put economic growth ahead of environmental concerns. The conflict may soon come to a head over Taiwan’s future. Is this the making of a catastrophic world war? Is environmental degradation the greater danger? Please join us on November 5 for a discussion of this new cold war.

Richard Smith � A foundiing member of System Change Not Climate Change; author of Green Capitalism: the God that Failed, and China’s Engine of Ecological Collapse

Laurence Shoup � Author off Wall Street’s Think Tank: The Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics

Richard Tan � A criminal defense and civil rights attorney; his offices are in Oakland

*Organizations listed for identification purposes only

This event is sponsored by the Oakland Greens, Bay Area System Change Not Climate Change, and the Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party.

For more information email <info@sudssnackssocialism.org>

https://acgreens.wordpress.com/
Express your green ideas and “like” us on Facebook:
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Pleading with arsonists to put out the fire they’ve ignited is what it is like to turn to the UN Security Council, OAS, and United States government to “stabilize” the crisis in Haiti.

Haiti has been under US/ UN occupation for more than 18 years, ever since the US-backed coup d’état in 2004 against the democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. This occupation has perpetrated gross human rights abuses including rape and other forms of sexual abuse. The occupation has brought cholera to Haiti and has systematically destroyed Haiti’s institutions while increasing hunger and misery.

Courageously facing police and paramilitary attacks, the population of Haiti has taken to the streets in ever-growing numbers, demanding their basic human rights and democracy, along with an end to corruption and to the plunder of public resources. They demand an end to US/UN occupation and an end to the right-wing Haitian Tét Kale Party (PHTK) regime headed by Ariel Henry.

They are demanding a transitional government of public safety (Sali Piblik) to create a foundation for free and fair elections and a return to democratic rule. They are demanding an end to IMF-imposed austerity, soaring prices of basic necessities, and declining real wages. They are demanding that their tax money be invested in education, healthcare, sanitation, clean drinking water, and support for Haiti’s peasant farmers who have been the backbone of local food production.

Our speaker is Pierre Labossiere, a longtime activist and a leading member of the Haiti Action Committee ( action.haiti@gmail.com; website www.haitisolidarity.net) and a supporter of Haiti’s popular movement and the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund.

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Where: Meet at � Embarcadero Plaza, San Francisco

Youth Vs. Apocalypse is hosting a Bay Area Action in San Francisco as part of the Global Climate Strike on November 10, 2022. This is the youth’s response to failed negotiations and 27 years of delay on substantial climate action by world leaders. The gathering will demonstrate that youth leaders CAN can hep us be the change we want to see in the world, regardless of the outcomes of the negotiations at COP27.

We are coming together to confront the systems that sacrifice our lives for a profit, including climate-destroying fossil fuel companies and those who profit from and promote militarism and war. Youth are gathering to show that they are not disposable and that young people and the planet must be protected from all forms of violence. Adult allies are invited to attend and march behind the youth leaders.

RSVP to elliot@ellabakercenter.org for Zoom link

Join us for a virtual community gathering where we will be responding to letters we receive from people inside prisons and jails in California and across the country. We will be sending in our newsletter, legal resources, parole preparation packets, reentry help, and answers to people’s questions. There will be an “Intro” room for new folks, a problem solving room, and a “Special Issue” room too! You can also plug into our Calls to Action before/after Mail Night this month.

Come celebrate the 105th anniversary of the October Revolution (which was in November) with East Bay DSA’s Labor Committee and Social Housing Committee on November 10th, between 7:00pm and 10:00 pm at Eli’s Mile High Club in Oakland. pic.twitter.com/LjrRpI63Ou

— East Bay DSA 🌹 (@DSAEastBay) November 4, 2022

 make a wish we doing a fundraiser and my wish is to raise enough money for the Omni so we can own it.

we have amazing local performers, artists, poets coming together to share gratitude and peace
Tickets Here!

Music by :

Isaiah Mostafa

Honey Gold Music

Guerilla Pump

QEAZYE

Ewock

TY 6

There are so many special ways to plug in at the Omni Commons! We core working groups and special projects that need volunteer energy all the time!

*Building Working group : repairs and maintain physical building!
*Finance Working group : supports the money flow
*Fundraising Working group : organizes events, outreach for donations! *Event Working group : organizes events, classes, workshops for the community!
Learn More

Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the the online invite.

For October, 2022 we’re re-reading the first four chapters of  Doughnut Economics – 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist, by Kate Raworth.  Order it via her website here.  For November, we will be re-reading the remaining chapters.

‘Humanity’s 21st century challenge is to meet the needs of all within the means of the planet. In other words, to ensure that no one falls short on life’s essentials (from food and housing to healthcare and political voice), while ensuring that collectively we do not overshoot our pressure on Earth’s life-supporting systems, on which we fundamentally depend – such as a stable climate, fertile soils, and a protective ozone layer. The Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries is a playfully serious approach to framing that challenge, and it acts as a compass for human progress this century.

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, 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, and Beyond Money.

Description: Professor Aleksandr Dugin of Russia has a wide sweep in scholarship, from Philosophy, Sociology to Geopolitics. He is 60 years of age. He has written 60 books. His book ‘The Fourth Political Theory’ has been translated into English by Michael Millerman, a Canadian, with a Ph.D. in Philosophy. Dugin is an “idealist” conservative philosopher. He is a follower of Martin Heideggar.

Liberalism, according to Dugin, is the theory of Capitalism, which has defeated its two challengers in the 20th century: Communism on the Left and Fascism on the Right. These cannot now pose an effective challenge to it, according to Dugin. Further, he claims that Liberalism has turned into “Postliberalism” after 1991, and it is totalitarian. So, a fourth political theory is needed to save humanity.
Raj Sahai will summarize Dugin’s ideas and his political theory and offer an analysis and offer a Marxist critique. Raj is a Marxist and a long time activist against capitalism and its wars. He is a member of the planning committee of ICSS.

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Our Zoom room will be opened up as usual at 10:15 am for anyone to join and discuss technical matters, catch up with each other, say Hi, etc.. The program (and recording) will begin as close to 10:30 am as possible and will end at 12:30, but the Waiting Room may remain open later for informal discussion.

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Come join @comlibprograms this Sunday November 13th at 4pm for @neighborprogram’s screening of “The Living Legacy of the Black Panther Party.” We will have a Q&A, poetry and music as well! pic.twitter.com/NSfgxKpaXA

— Omni Commons (@omnicommons) November 10, 2022